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New comment by blondie9x in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

blondie9x — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:05:30 +0000

Does anyone know what was the actual illness the girl had? I see a T was supposed to be a C but what is that? What are the long term implications?

Silicon Valley Has Lost Its Biggest Advantage

blondie9x — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:19:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/data-center-ai-heavy-industry/687990/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967494

Points: 3

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New comment by blondie9x in "FCC approves test of space mirror to light night sky"

blondie9x — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:30:47 +0000

I think this company intentionally ignored discussing how battery storage has made solar energy a much more effective and viable solution.

New comment by blondie9x in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

blondie9x — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:42:02 +0000

Disclosure - Fireworks kindly gave me some free credit to experiment with GLM to help write this article.

Drying synthetic fabrics fills the air with microplastics

blondie9x — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.minimallysustained.com/blog/2026-06-26

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747936

Points: 1

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New comment by blondie9x in "Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall"

blondie9x — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:46:30 +0000

It's pretty insane. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ny-times-bombshell-d...

Remember how they were talking about Biden's son being on the Burisma board for or something? That was literally a corner of a peanut compared to the corruption we have now. MAGA? Is this great?

New comment by blondie9x in "The Overlooked Reason Europe Doesn't Have AC"

blondie9x — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:27:43 +0000

"But the disagreement ultimately has less to do with objective criteria—such as the effects of climate change in Europe, which is warming twice as fast as the global average—than subjective questions about what constitutes an acceptable level of physical suffering and sacrifice."

New comment by blondie9x in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

blondie9x — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:17:30 +0000

In a way does this study try to detract from the public backlash against datacenters?

Look at the author of the blog.

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/author/joshparker/

Is this NVIDIA lawyer trying to influence the public perception of datacenter for his company?

New comment by blondie9x in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

blondie9x — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:15:15 +0000

What are the best open source IDE alternatives to Cursor? There was Continue for a bit but Cursor bought it. Is Visual Code by itself the only open source IDE atm? My main gripe with Visual Code is it doesn't make it easy to use open weight models or non Copilot model APIs. Continue helped but its now part of Cursor.

As for coding in the terminal, we have Opencode, Claude Code, and Codex etc. They are all open source but only Opencode can route to open weight models. But non of these are really an IDE like Visual Code or Cursor.

Are we missing a really good open source IDE to use open weight models? It seems like we are.

New comment by blondie9x in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

blondie9x — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:07:47 +0000

Are we missing a really good open source IDE to use open weight models? It seems like we are.

New comment by blondie9x in "Human migration has surged since 2000 – these maps reveal where people are going"

blondie9x — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:37:51 +0000

The graphic seems vague and not particularly revealing.

New comment by blondie9x in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

blondie9x — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:30:55 +0000

Does anyone know if they have looked at how charging quickly impacts the longevity of the battery? Can the cells be damaged by the rapid increase in temperature and current?

The SAT Was Necessary After All

blondie9x — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:12:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/standardized-testing-math-gaps/687481/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468497

Points: 7

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New comment by blondie9x in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

blondie9x — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:07:43 +0000

Everyone watch out for other indices like CRSP US Total Market Index, which trade as the ETF VTI and mutual fund VTSAX.

There are countless other indices that are not well known to request seasoning time of these mega companies.

Shifting to S&P 500 seems prudent at the point. Besides S&P does anyone know which indices will be safe from these IPOs?

New comment by blondie9x in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

blondie9x — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:11:38 +0000

I think one thing the author overlooked in the solutions/hedging section is using open weight models. Enterprises need to be ready to use their own servers for inference and build pipelines to utilize non proprietary models when possible.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea) Visitor Pass Program

blondie9x — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.portseattle.org/page/sea-visitor-pass-program

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986045

Points: 1

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

blondie9x — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:50:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829486

Points: 303

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New comment by blondie9x in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

blondie9x — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:35:38 +0000

We all know the president and those close to him are making these bets. The question is are lawmakers willing to collectively take action to stop this practice?

A new wave of immunotherapy is eliminating cancers

blondie9x — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:20:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260410-how-a-new-wave-of-immunotherapy-is-eliminating-cancers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773164

Points: 6

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The Era of AI FOMO Is Upon Us

blondie9x — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:28:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/why-ai-is-making-people-feel-like-they-re-falling-behind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654602

Points: 3

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