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Australian Government Establishes Office of AI

hulahoof — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:13:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-14/albanese-maps-out-ai-future-introducing-national-framework/106915094

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913584

Points: 4

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New comment by hulahoof in "World-First 'Super Alloy' Could Transform the Way Metals Are Made"

hulahoof — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:29:12 +0000

Buried in the article it sounds like the researchers consider it a Refractory High-Entropy Alloy (RHEAD)

New comment by hulahoof in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

hulahoof — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:34:29 +0000

Whatever happened to the deepmind union effort ?

New comment by hulahoof in "Identity verification on Claude"

hulahoof — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:05:36 +0000

If you haven’t already, check out omnigent for building workflows across multiple harnesses: https://omnigent.ai/

(Disclaimer: I work for Databricks, but do not work on omnigent - though I have submitted some QOL PRs as a community member)

New comment by hulahoof in "Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US Military"

hulahoof — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:55:24 +0000

Anyone from Deepmind able to comment on this move?

From the outside this seems like a big play - UK arm moving to block a US defence deal, first major unionisation of tech workers in the MAG7, employees that would be difficult to replace in the current AI race ..

Thought this would be front page!

New comment by hulahoof in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

hulahoof — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:55:52 +0000

left-pad was an npm issue

Iran's supreme leader reportedly killed in air strikes

hulahoof — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-01/iran-missiles-shake-gulf-states-after-us-israel-strike-tehran/106401498

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200965

Points: 5

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New comment by hulahoof in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

hulahoof — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 10:03:46 +0000

Looks like Maduro and his wife were captured https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1158304287678...

New comment by hulahoof in "Why I think Valve’s retiring the Steam Deck LCD"

hulahoof — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:33:21 +0000

I think they recently said they aren’t looking for a refresh for at least 2 years https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/valve-says-a-next-gen-steam...

New comment by hulahoof in "US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified"

hulahoof — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 04:26:27 +0000

Local news (Australia) is reporting this as extra pressure on Denmark relating to the rhetoric around Greenland

https://aapnews.aap.com.au/a/XVWrainrX

IBM nears $11B confluent deal

hulahoof — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:21:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-deal-confluent-wsj-reports-2025-12-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189370

Points: 2

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New comment by hulahoof in "Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants"

hulahoof — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:53:53 +0000

I’m not from the US so apologies if I miss something that seems obvious, but why should they have a higher standard instead of the same standard?

New comment by hulahoof in "Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control"

hulahoof — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:57:30 +0000

Sounds like what Hololens was designed to solve, more in the AR space than AI though

New comment by hulahoof in "LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab"

hulahoof — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 04:34:42 +0000

After you hit one of them, an 'undown' or 'unvote' button appears in front of the 'root' / 'parent' button

Databricks closes in on multibillion funding round at $55B to cash out employees

hulahoof — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/26/databricks-closes-in-on-multibillion-funding-round-at-55-billion-valuation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42249374

Points: 31

# Comments: 6

New comment by hulahoof in "Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator"

hulahoof — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:38:16 +0000

But when Airbnb created airflow, you could have said the same. It’s just later in its lifecycle.

New comment by hulahoof in "Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest"

hulahoof — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:25:46 +0000

Thanks exactly what I was after!

New comment by hulahoof in "Puzzle made by the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the university quest"

hulahoof — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:45:19 +0000

This article claims Assange is a likely organiser of Cicada 3301, this is not a theory I have heard before - does anyone have any resources that expand on this ?

New comment by hulahoof in "New minerals on the moon explaining the mystery of the lunar landscape"

hulahoof — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 01:18:54 +0000

https://archive.is/cMeHQ

New comment by hulahoof in "Should You Be Rinsing Your Plates Before Loading the Dishwasher?"

hulahoof — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 04:27:14 +0000

Always a point of contention between my partner and I, but I am firmly in the 'rinse-before-loading' camp.

Theres only so much the filter in a dishwasher can take before it clogs, and it is easier and a better clean to simply rinse the bulk off quickly then pop it in the dishwasher for a proper clean.

The article addresses this by saying just to scrape it off first, but I am convinced I get a better clean if the bulk of the sauce etc., is washed off too. Maybe I am imagining it.