I've recently visited the southern US (Texas, Louisiana and such) and I was very surprised about the lack of honking. When I returned to Europe I've felt like in India.

I myself pretty much never honk. I understand honking makes sense on narrow bendy roads like in the mountains, where you need to alert the drivers behind the corner, but I don't see any other legitimate reasons to be honest.

> It's a small minority

Is it really a small minority? I have never worked on a project that didn't have commit messages that at least tried to be descriptive (sometimes people fail at it but its very different to an outright "changed stuff").

I don't remember any friend mentioning to me them encountering a work project where the messages were totally neglected either.

It obviously was listed when this was posted.

Most corporations have Microsoft already greenlisted as a vendor.

Making it possible to buy something from Anthropic might require tedious paperwork for many of them.

you can also get a service contract via MS quite easily/cheaply, which mightnot help you with hard problems but does solve the easy ones. example: in earlydays we bought OpenAI API directly and via Azure; when we needed account service we got it immediately from MS instead of waitlists from OpenAI.

Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

Next year they will introduce "hAIngouts" as an AI chat bot.

Ouch. Maybe "Google wAIve" for collaborative chats.

> Which is unusually simple. I would expect Google to use 10 more marketing names simultaneously without any logic to the product lines.

I think they were lucky this time that they landed a good name after only a few iterations that has since stuck.

Anyone remember Google Bard or LaMDA?

The r/Bard subreddit is still quite active for some reason. Reminds me of Google Glass.

I still like the name Bard

Didn't it start as Bard?

Well it depends on what you're talking about. The model names were originally called lambda, followed by palm and then finally gemini. The chatbot product was internally known as meena, launched as Bard, and then transitioned to Gemini once the Gemini model came out.

They’ve improved it since the initial launch when the service, model names and plan names all sounded similar and contradictory.

there is vertex ai, notebooklm, antigravity, nano banana, veo, lyria, the open models are gemma and gato

I found it super suspicious that this post has raised to the very top of the frontpage when it was posted.

Not sure if baseless accusations of vote manipulation are ok here though, so I didn't comment on it.

> If you want to actually be helpful, contribute to any of the 50 websites about the exact same concept that have been posted on HN over the last year.

The goal here is to earn on affiliate links.

NordVPN claims to operate under Panama jurisdiction (but is otherwise still based in Europe).

The specific reason why they want to operate under Panama law is that there's no mandatory data retention.

So it seems misguided to claim that purely-EU-based alternatives to NordVPN are 'safer' and 'more private' than Nord due to the location alone.

Their parent company, Nord Security, is based in the Netherlands.

And parent of that, Tesonet Global, is based in Lithuania

Yes, either you consider them based in EU (because they are) – then why are they on this list?

Or you consider them to be EU-Panama which to try to protect user privacy – then why are they on this list?

Everyday Astronaut's tracking was perfect.

You should always seek out the best. From watching lots of Everyday Astronaut streams over the years, I knew the stream would be the best live experience because they care about and focus on the production. NASA cares and focuses on the rocket, astronauts, mission. I'm fine with that.

I know several 30u30 people in my country's list and I highly doubt they paid for anything.