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This was apparently a Linde installation custom built for TSMC in Arizona.[1] Nitrogen, oxygen, and argon are extracted from air on-site and purified. That's Linde's primary business; liquefying and distilling air. This isn't some little local company or a company operating outsi

I believe that training a system to understand the electrical signals that define a movement is significantly different from a system that understands thought.I work in neurotech, I don't believe that the electrical signals of the brain define thought or memory.When humans unders

Post — “Ask HN: Can you write a limerick?”Top Comment — “This reads like someone who just discovered poetry forms exist and thinks a limerick is some novel concept. The real challenge isn't writing one—any undergraduate can follow the AABBA scheme—it's understanding why meter and

2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=367987742022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=307341372018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=174139112015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90935452014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8399461 I used to daily drive this

One of my students recently came to me with an interesting dilemma. His sister had written (without AI tools) an essay for another class, and her teacher told her that an "AI detection tool" had classified it as having been written by AI with "100% confidence". He was going to gi

I think your devices should have government-mandated backdoors if and only if you are a public servant. I don't understand why private citizens are held to higher standards of conduct than politicians and cops. Remember when they arrested Pavel Durov? I don't buy their official r

Is it safe to assume, then, that Google and Apple already have backdoors in their operating systems as likely requested by many governments around the world (not least of which the one from their home country)?Or is GrapheneOS the only one built securely enough to need to be lean

Absolutely wild that this isn't bigger news. This should be the front page of every major news network. Unfortunately, it requires 3 clicks ("account" -> "join date" -> "about account") to get the required information.It should be visible on the post itself: where it was posted f

ProTip: use PNPM, not NPM. PNPM 10.x shutdown a lot of these attack vectors.1. Does not default to running post-install scripts (must manually approve each)2. Let's you set a min age for new releases before pnpm install will pull them in - e.g. 4 days - so publishers have time

FROM https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/bom-website-approved-... "... "The $96.5 million that we're talking about was not just the front end of the website, the tip of the iceberg that the public sees, but the back end, which sees data flowing from tens of thousands of pieces