What happened is that you can get a set of 5 custom PCBs for about $2. The quality is much higher and you don't have to deal with nasty chemicals. I'll never manually etch a board ever again if I can help it.
Honestly this sounds so outlandish that it makes me skeptical of the whole thing. They didn't stop after the first guy died? Or the tenth? Guy #11 just looked at the pile of corpses and was like, hell yeah I'm gonna try…
DRAM prices have been highly cyclical for a long time. They'll come down again.
If you extrapolate that to the logical conclusion, in the future will we buy software at all? Maybe your computer will just build whatever you need, whenever you need it.
Your health insurance or employer may already offer a similar program. Mine does. I get up to $500 added to my HSA every year if I hit step count goals on their app. That said, looking around my office, I don't think…
This would be a massive undertaking that would require rebuilding the majority of the city, and face steep opposition from people who like living in the suburbs.
>None of what we've seen in the past few years is new tech. Well that's just wrong. Reasoning models are new and very powerful. LLMs can complete open-ended tasks that require many complex steps. We're just beginning.…
Why would you expect immediate ROI? It took decades for previous technologies to be fully integrated into existing businesses. The internet has been around for nearly 50 years and businesses are still adapting to it.…
If you are in this situation, you should see a physical therapist. Exercise is even more important if you have a disability, because your muscles will atrophy from disuse and cause even greater disability. E.g. if you…
Somewhere between 70 and 90% of Kalshi event contracts are sports betting. This is obviously gambling. Much of the remainder is silly stuff like 'how many times will Elon Musk tweet this week' with no predictive value.…
TL;DR: prompt injection is still an unsolved problem, and as a result you must carefully silo any untrusted data.
>You can see this for example in the absurd discrepancy between paper and physical crude prices. This was a temporary discrepancy that has gone away now that physical prices have fallen. This means the future traders…
Because it tells people something they desperately want to be true: AI will not take their jobs and CEOs will regret trying to do so.
We lack the technology to detect this size of asteroid with enough time to do anything about it. Luckily, the majority of the earth's surface is unpopulated. Most of these rocks hit the ocean or Siberia and cause few or…
No they don't. It's more of an issue for long-exposure galaxies and nebula. And asteroids are an extremely rare threat in the first place. It's literally a once-in-a-million-years kind of event.
>the constant threat of big enough objects showing up on a collision course with earth I don't really think this is a serious risk. This is a once-in-a-million-years kind of event. Also, asteroid detection is not…
This is a tradeoff we have to make with infrastructure and development in general. How do you balance human needs with pristine nature? Do we put up long-distance power lines and wind farms even though they ruin the…
Man, I am so tired of the cynicism around here. Anytime you do something interesting or useful someone accuses you of trying to build the apocalypse.
Yeah, it's kinda silly to block development on a patch of ground forever because someone fought over it two centuries ago.
Also not true. The factory worker is paid more than the worker making widgets by hand. GDP per capita has a strong correlation with average wages. The more productive your economy, the more money the average person…
Most people in my generation didn't know the fundamentals of computing either. That's why I get paid the big bucks to make computers work for them.
There are 50 million consumers with paid ChatGPT subscriptions as of Feb 2026. This is already significantly greater than the number of paid subscribers to search engines. AFAIK that's just Kagi, and they only have…
Most consumers are willingly using AI. But they're using the free versions. ChatGPT is the #1 most popular app on the app store, with nearly a billion weekly active users.
I'm not surprised. 404 Media are anti-big tech and anti-AI activists. They are not shy about their agenda and do not claim to be unbiased.
On the contrary, your time becomes more valuable the more tasks you automate, as your productivity per unit of time goes up. The time of a factory worker who runs machines producing 200000 widgets per hour is far more…
What happened is that you can get a set of 5 custom PCBs for about $2. The quality is much higher and you don't have to deal with nasty chemicals. I'll never manually etch a board ever again if I can help it.
Honestly this sounds so outlandish that it makes me skeptical of the whole thing. They didn't stop after the first guy died? Or the tenth? Guy #11 just looked at the pile of corpses and was like, hell yeah I'm gonna try…
DRAM prices have been highly cyclical for a long time. They'll come down again.
If you extrapolate that to the logical conclusion, in the future will we buy software at all? Maybe your computer will just build whatever you need, whenever you need it.
Your health insurance or employer may already offer a similar program. Mine does. I get up to $500 added to my HSA every year if I hit step count goals on their app. That said, looking around my office, I don't think…
This would be a massive undertaking that would require rebuilding the majority of the city, and face steep opposition from people who like living in the suburbs.
>None of what we've seen in the past few years is new tech. Well that's just wrong. Reasoning models are new and very powerful. LLMs can complete open-ended tasks that require many complex steps. We're just beginning.…
Why would you expect immediate ROI? It took decades for previous technologies to be fully integrated into existing businesses. The internet has been around for nearly 50 years and businesses are still adapting to it.…
If you are in this situation, you should see a physical therapist. Exercise is even more important if you have a disability, because your muscles will atrophy from disuse and cause even greater disability. E.g. if you…
Somewhere between 70 and 90% of Kalshi event contracts are sports betting. This is obviously gambling. Much of the remainder is silly stuff like 'how many times will Elon Musk tweet this week' with no predictive value.…
TL;DR: prompt injection is still an unsolved problem, and as a result you must carefully silo any untrusted data.
>You can see this for example in the absurd discrepancy between paper and physical crude prices. This was a temporary discrepancy that has gone away now that physical prices have fallen. This means the future traders…
Because it tells people something they desperately want to be true: AI will not take their jobs and CEOs will regret trying to do so.
We lack the technology to detect this size of asteroid with enough time to do anything about it. Luckily, the majority of the earth's surface is unpopulated. Most of these rocks hit the ocean or Siberia and cause few or…
No they don't. It's more of an issue for long-exposure galaxies and nebula. And asteroids are an extremely rare threat in the first place. It's literally a once-in-a-million-years kind of event.
>the constant threat of big enough objects showing up on a collision course with earth I don't really think this is a serious risk. This is a once-in-a-million-years kind of event. Also, asteroid detection is not…
This is a tradeoff we have to make with infrastructure and development in general. How do you balance human needs with pristine nature? Do we put up long-distance power lines and wind farms even though they ruin the…
Man, I am so tired of the cynicism around here. Anytime you do something interesting or useful someone accuses you of trying to build the apocalypse.
Yeah, it's kinda silly to block development on a patch of ground forever because someone fought over it two centuries ago.
Also not true. The factory worker is paid more than the worker making widgets by hand. GDP per capita has a strong correlation with average wages. The more productive your economy, the more money the average person…
Most people in my generation didn't know the fundamentals of computing either. That's why I get paid the big bucks to make computers work for them.
There are 50 million consumers with paid ChatGPT subscriptions as of Feb 2026. This is already significantly greater than the number of paid subscribers to search engines. AFAIK that's just Kagi, and they only have…
Most consumers are willingly using AI. But they're using the free versions. ChatGPT is the #1 most popular app on the app store, with nearly a billion weekly active users.
I'm not surprised. 404 Media are anti-big tech and anti-AI activists. They are not shy about their agenda and do not claim to be unbiased.
On the contrary, your time becomes more valuable the more tasks you automate, as your productivity per unit of time goes up. The time of a factory worker who runs machines producing 200000 widgets per hour is far more…