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My Bluesky feed is wonderfully free of politics (except for today because of ... recent events). It's mostly tech and AI discourse

The BYD Shark, which is a PHEV ute, sold like hotcakes last year in Australia.

Polestar is owned by Geely, a Chinese company

Looking forward to free internet courtesy of the surveillance state

Even among people who mean "common" as in "frequent", they aren't necessarily talking about the same frequency. That's why online communication is tricky!

There's a Tom Scott video that points out that if you've already got a brain chip that filters out bad stuff, including the memory of you getting that brain chip, how would that be different…

The act passed federal parliament late 2024. It already existed in the state of South Australia before that.

This argument can be used to shut down anything that makes coding faster or easier. It's not a convincing argument to me.

The trick to gaming the algorithm here is to post interesting original content that software-focused people like to read Don't tell the mods!

I live in Australia and have been using Firefox for all my myGov needs without even thinking about it Which service do you have issues with?

Read the 2025 prediction thread for some perspective. (Hope you didn't stake your retirement on bitcoin hitting $200,000!)

The unique thing about estimates in software engineering is that if you do it right, projects should be impossible to estimate! Tasks that are easiest to estimate are tasks that are predictable, and r…

Arguably, base-10 counting vs base-12 counting is one such example

I can believe that this is a case of the Software Engineering team being effective in a way that the AI/ML team wasn't. Apple's internal culture is notoriously closed and secretive, not…

If this video is to believed, this is the result of internal Apple politics between the software engineering folks, and the AI folks, with the software engineering folks "winning" https:&#x…

Over here in Australia, the most expensive part of my kid's birth were the AUD$200 antenatal classes. The prenatal checkups, hospital stay, and postnatal midwife home visits were all covered by M…

I assume there doesn't need to be a purpose. Spam, even AI spam, is so cheap to do that you might as well just do it (if you were that kind of person)

You should see the kind of people we've given up our decision-making to

I was hoping to talk more about (Mainland) China being uniquely bad at exporting pop culture, especially when compared to the success of Hong Kong, and to a lesser extent, Taiwanese pop culture. The f…

Japan and Korea, yes. China, not really. Unless you want to include Hong Kong, but even then

Not sure if I'm being whooshed here, but a large chunk of those people are not from China. Michelle Yeoh is Malaysian Bruce Lee is American, baby A lot of the others are Hong Kong celebrities, fr…

I feel the same way about China tbh Like how many of you can name a Chinese movie or pop star or TV show?

This looks like the classic VC model: 1. Most AI ventures will fail 2. The ones that succeed will be incredibly large. Larger than anything we've seen before 3. No investor wants to be the schmuc…

Reminder that you can see last week's (or any day's) HN front page using the `past` link https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-11-16 …

Is it information asymmetry if I only read half the article?

This is a restating of an older idea that fancy restaurants aren't competing against other restaurants, they are competing against movie theatres. Because they are in the date entertainment marke…