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New comment by pigeons in "Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land"

pigeons — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:40:21 +0000

The intent was to gift a park.

New comment by pigeons in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

pigeons — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:33:58 +0000

More than plenty of people (including me) would argue that Windows is an awful product, but a quite significant number of people (maybe even including me) would argue that its an outstanding product.

Police Tussle with Diabetes Experts at Ada Meeting

pigeons — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:13:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/121619

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432621

Points: 5

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New comment by pigeons in "Canada in Technical Recession"

pigeons — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:40:08 +0000

Do Canadian industries use a large percentage of petroleum products refined from Canadian oil or is it refined from blends produced in other areas of the world, such as the United States and the Middle East?

New comment by pigeons in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

pigeons — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:19:58 +0000

Its a different kind of rational though. There is a world leader who gets away with all kinds of obvious theft and bribery and grift and fraud and self-serving out in the open, but to reasonable people, he doesn't seem rational at all, despite getting away with everything.

New comment by pigeons in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

pigeons — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:57:58 +0000

need one with a trackpoint-like nipple

New comment by pigeons in "New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire"

pigeons — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:57:00 +0000

"All roads lead to Rome."

New comment by pigeons in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

pigeons — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:15:24 +0000

I hate this naming trend "One". Its very common and everytime I think, oh its an older one, the first one.

New comment by pigeons in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

pigeons — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:56:30 +0000

You can ban certain ways of using them, and enforce it and serve punishment for violation.

New comment by pigeons in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

pigeons — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:08:29 +0000

Happens to me every time the car rental place gives me a hybrid.

New comment by pigeons in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

pigeons — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:26:35 +0000

The server is only recently free, if indeed it is at all. I don't remember when or if that changed, because for most of its life it was definitely not free (open source).

New comment by pigeons in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

pigeons — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:36:01 +0000

I'd like to seem some reliable information on this, because it affects my parenting strategy, for one thing.

New comment by pigeons in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

pigeons — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:55:34 +0000

I also stop going to these places, and also not out of any deep principle, it just isn't something I want to waste my life doing, I'll go somewhere i can just ask for what i want to order.

New comment by pigeons in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

pigeons — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:33:41 +0000

I think people are too quick to dismiss the possibility that some technologies are just bad and harmful and we can't shrug off responsibility and say I'm just making a neutral technology and the people using it are the ones causing harm.

New comment by pigeons in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

pigeons — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:21:38 +0000

Full is literally the first word in the feature.

New comment by pigeons in "Brands got worse on purpose"

pigeons — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:58:47 +0000

That's what I thought too, then I bought a pair of Eddie Bauer (in the article) shoes from them and they completely fell apart in one day.

New comment by pigeons in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

pigeons — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:35:30 +0000

The effects of the tech giants encroachment of society and the stakes and gravity of the situation is so serious that some people think its important not to allow attempts to frame the struggle as Sisyphean to succeed.

New comment by pigeons in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

pigeons — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:12:21 +0000

There aren't a million better places to put efforts into. This is a good place to put effort into stopping because it isn't yet entrenched, and you stop the other negative effects besides just the pollution and water use, and you can build a coalition with the people against the other negative effects of AI.

New comment by pigeons in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

pigeons — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:53:12 +0000

Ask Jack Ma.

New comment by pigeons in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

pigeons — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:57:37 +0000

Are there inflation markers included?