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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Musk doesn't "have" a Trillion, he has the leverage

Tell HN: Musk doesn't "have" a Trillion, he has the leverage 4 by ggm | 1 comments on Hacker News. I wish a competent economist could blog that Musk (and the other uber rich) don't have liquid cash to pile up on their yacht the way the graphics imply. Even the act of selling his stake in tesla and X and spacex would alter the value of the holdings, alter the tax income for some nation state, the act of printing the money would in turn demand time and effort, shipping the money would incur costs. Having the effective influence over investment disposition of $1T is amazing but it isn't actually the same thing qualitatively as "one trillion dollars" nor is it just a quantitative function over "1 million dollars". Because it's 1/30th of the entire US economy (around $30t) and so materially alters 3% of the value of the US working capital, and a little over 1% of the entire US stock market at $75t) In order to have the money he'd create a...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks?

Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks? 3 by akashwadhwani35 | 0 comments on Hacker News. One workflow I like: collecting high-quality research papers on a topic, uploading them to Claude, and turning it into a temporary expert on that domain.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die?

Ask HN: Would you want to know when and how you die? 3 by JohnDSDev | 4 comments on Hacker News. If you had a time machine, and the only thing you could use it for was to go see yourself in the future die would you use it or not? Why or why not?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling?

Ask HN: How do you stay at the bleeding edge of AI tooling? 2 by otekengineering | 7 comments on Hacker News. HN is great, especially compared to reddit (unless i'm missing the best subreddits?), but even here there's comments from people who don't know how to ride a bike pontificating about how useless/dangerous/etc bikes are and telling me how important it is not to forget how to run. where's the forum for bicycle enthusiasts? there's undoubtedly a lot of good harnesses and tooling squirreled away on self-hosted git repos, and that's the crowd i want to chew the fat with examples of the type of perspective i'm looking for in a social network to parasocially stalk, https://ift.tt/qvbOGsd https://ift.tt/AyTwax8
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you remember when you gained consciousness? What was it like?

Ask HN: Do you remember when you gained consciousness? What was it like? 5 by kelseyfrog | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you adapting technical interviews in this agentic era?

Ask HN: How are you adapting technical interviews in this agentic era? 3 by jcgr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"?

Newer macOS runs slower on Intel (undeniably) – on purpose or "accident"? 5 by srevenant | 6 comments on Hacker News. FIRST: if you feel the urge to say "get a PC" or "try linux" please don't. This is about apple/mac/macos hardware. suggestions to linux or other things isn't helpful. I have a macbook pro, 32G ram, lightning fast nvme drive. There is NO REASON to upgrade the hardware. I've followed the upgrade path to their latest (Tahoe) and they announced this is the last. But it has become UNBEARABLY slow and painful for some operations. Most notably screen sharing drives it into the ground. I've tried all sorts of things from os settings to whatever--short of redoing the heat paste on the CPU itself. I even installed Fedora on a generation before mine without the security chip (the first gen touch bar). Fedora was /lightning/ fast. (I even re-installed fresh from Tahoe, no difference). It is undeniable: Apple has made the newer MacOS ...
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