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by Onavo | 2025-06-25 10:34:52+00:00
The first radios were spark gap transmitters (see Hertz's famous experiment). Though to be clear, Hertz's experiment was rather unconventional as the spark gap served as both the transmitting antenna (albeit a fairly noisy one) and also as a switch. Subsequent designs utilize the spark gap only as a high voltage switch. In modern tank circuits, this "switch" is replaced with a solid state transistor (or similar type of devices).

Modern plasma antennas are much more advanced than the traditional spark gaps.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_antenna
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-25 10:35:07+00:00
I guess it has been polarising but I have to be honest: I quite like it. Of course it's not Porsche or Audi styling, but I think it's clean and understated and quite functional. Some of the negative sentiment appears to draw parallels with Chinese brands. Perhaps that's true, but I don't dislike BYD styling.
by lynx97 | 2025-06-25 10:35:57+00:00
Can we please NOT autotranslate the web? I have yet to find a site where the quality of autotranslate does not make me stop using that site. I was already irritated when google started to show me de.wikipedia.org articles adespite me explicitly searching for the english article name. Then came Etsy, where the autotranslate quality was so bad I stopped using the site altogether.
Experience Making a 1-minute AI movie with my 7-year old daughter
by chris_sandor | 2025-06-25 10:35:58+00:00
My daughter Kate (7 years old) really loves Minecraft! Together, we used several generative AI models (Wan Video, Flux Kontext, and DeepSeek) to create a 1-minute animation based on only 1 input photo of her.

You can read my detailled description of how we made it here: https://drsandor.net/ai/minecraft/ or can directly watch the video on youtube: https://youtu.be/xl8nnnACrFo?si=29wB4dvoIH9JjiLF
by Gareth321 | 2025-06-25 10:38:59+00:00
There are a lot of very happy FSD users out there. Even two years ago, surveys showed an almost 2:1 ratio of satisfied to dissatisfied users. (https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-tesla-survey/autopil...) I have tried it and it does work remarkably well. It's not perfect, however, and I think some people expect that.
by darkwater | 2025-06-25 10:40:03+00:00
So, why is even HN getting a lot of those non-original sources, many times even behind a paywall, on the front page? The answer IMO is easy, and we should have learnt it after over 30 years of Internet and World Wide Web growth: because there is still added value in some journalism (true journalism, we might call it?). Even if they are publishing something from a common source. Who reads the original news might have a better understanding of the topic, might be a better, clearer writer, can add context that makes sense for their audience etc etc
by lukan | 2025-06-25 10:42:04+00:00
"I’m also tired of the endless claims that the tools are completely useless."

Who claimed that here?

I read a claim that Copilot is dumber than claude and ChatGPT and I tend to confirm this.

"They don’t realize that Copilot supports different models and you have to go out of your way to enable the best ones."

So possible that none of us who thinks that, went out of our way to find outy when there were working alternatives, but it would be still on Microsoft making it hard to make good use of their tool.
by daveoc64 | 2025-06-25 10:42:26+00:00
>I'd wish Fairphone offered partnership with GrapheneOS

The makers of GrapheneOS have indicated that Fairphone doesn't meet their security requirements:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114737139118874189

I think there are some fundamental flaws with how Fairphone operates, plus they don't seem to release security updates promptly.
by saiyaswanth1234 | 2025-06-25 10:42:37+00:00
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by jbverschoor | 2025-06-25 10:42:38+00:00
They're not if the infrastructure is there (and it is.. apple pay, google pay, paypal, even tokens... although that's a bit of a hurdle)

The issues are:

1) There still are no *MICRO* transactions. I can't pay 10ct.

2) I don't want my (payment) information scattered all over the place. I simply want to pay a small amount, and I want the payment provider to protect my privace/data.

I have paid for a subscription once just to read a single article. It took me two weeks of calling and other dark patterns to stop the subscription. I'll simply never do that again. period.

Most articles/information is entertainment disguised as something useful anyway.

The Spotify model only works for music somehow. If you mean a Netflix model, no thank you. I'm not going to support them into bullying the world into getting 5 subscriptions because the articles are scattered over services.
by djain23 | 2025-06-25 10:42:53+00:00
Speaking of, does anyone know of any concrete impacts of the EU AI Act? There was lots of chest-thumping on both sides of the Atlantic for different reasons when it happened.

Did model providers have to do a lot of work to comply? Beyond delayed launches of AI models / products, was there any other major hit? Did some potential AI companies not get started in the EU because of this?

There's only one major LLM provider in EU currently and that is Mistral. I wonder what's their compliance burden.
by quectophoton | 2025-06-25 10:43:56+00:00
Poe's law strikes again, I should have added "/s" at the end of my message.

If I had to rewrite my previous message in a less subtle way, it would be that companies are constantly contradicting themselves when giving any public "reason" for their actions, and I do not think employees' happiness (which fathomdeez focuses on) is anywhere close to their actual reason.
by Iolaum | 2025-06-25 10:46:24+00:00
Unfortunately there seems to be bad blood between the two :(

It would be good if Fairphone could make a product that meets GrapheneOS requirements, but they measure the tradeoffs between security, usability, and cost (to do hardware and software things) differently. Each team is free to make the choices they deem fit. If only the intersection of GrapheneOS and Fairphone users were bigger, market forces would push them towards a common vision.
by originalvichy | 2025-06-25 10:47:00+00:00
> Amodei argues the world is about to see the 21st century “compressed” into a few years as AI accelerates science drastically.

I have the same thought but from a more negative angle. A vast share of new information in the near future will be just a repeat of whatever data the LLMs were trained on.

There is a tiny sliver of LLM usage that will not be a transformation of existing data (e.g. make me a chart of this data, write me an essay) but rather ”help me create a new tool that will solve a novel problem”.

I believe that’s what the person interviewed is saying in their own words. It’s hard to imagine something other than a brute force hypothesis machine that starts brute forcing solutions, but it will not be as effective as we wish if we can’t figure out how to come up with hypothesis for everything.

None of what I’m saying is that insightful and I’m sure people have thought of this already.

I wonder if ever there will be a Hitchhiker’s style revelation that we have had all the answers for all of our problems already, but the main issue is just incentives. Curing most cancers is probably just a money question, as is solving climate change.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-25 10:47:09+00:00
There have always been two main things preventing this from happening.

The first is that you can't use credit cards for it because their fees are in the nature of "2.9% + $0.30" and it's the $0.30 that annihilates your ability to do $0.05 transactions.

And the second is that people don't like to associate their identity with every little thing they do, so anything that requires them to is friction and any friction on top of a $0.05 transaction is fatal, but then all the payment systems require that. This one's the crazy irony because the alternative to it is ads, and then people complain about the intrusiveness of that because it tries to track them anyway, whereas what we want is the ability to pay for something with a trivial amount of money instead of being tracked.
by atomic_cowprod | 2025-06-25 10:47:54+00:00
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-- SLMR/2 2.4b Origin: Sunnyside Acres -- (203) 555-1212 -- 1:342/76

Windows is not a virus, viruses DO something.
by exiguus | 2025-06-25 10:47:57+00:00
- postgress/pgvector and ollama in a jupyter notebooks[1] to search my documents/projects and other data

- Mistral as search engine and for natural language processing (mostly summaries of something)

- Co-Pilot, mostly as autocomplete and sometimes to ask questions or let it write tests or do refactoring

- AWS AI Services to create tasks, tickets and stories from templates in JIRA or YouTrack.

- Github/Co-Pilot and Gitlab/snyk for code review and security analysis in PRs

[1] basically https://github.com/roskakori/wolkenlose-ki-fuer-zu-hause/tre... and now i try also https://github.com/ggozad/haiku.rag
by spacecadet | 2025-06-25 10:49:00+00:00
Ive also invested some time in this space over the last several years. A group Im in took the approach of custom building agents for each CTF we approached. Our best so far was an agent participating in an AI CTF against current top injection/jailbreak and leakage defense techniques, the agent autonomously completed 22 of the 40 challenges and at one point held 8th place out of 380 teams. It eventually plateaued and slipped to 12th by the end.

The tooling and models are maturing quickly and there is definitely some value in autonomous security agents, both offensive and defensive- but also still requires alot of work, knowledge(my group is all ML people), skill, planning- if you want to approach anything more than bug bashing.

This recent paper from Dreadnode discusses a benchmark for this sort of challenge: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14682
by Disposal8433 | 2025-06-25 10:49:39+00:00
I don't think so. "Territoire Numérique Ouvert" seems to be a private project that would give tools to the "collectivités territoriales" (i.e. mayors and local people).

La Suite Numerique is a bunch of tools for a more global population. It's mostly for government workers I guess but it looks like anyone can use it. The most famous tool is Tchap (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)>) which is used by cops in France as a secure messaging platform.
Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”
by madinmo | 2025-06-25 10:49:56+00:00
Hi all,

I kept wasting time on social media, even though I’d promised myself I’d stay focused. Regular site blockers didn’t help.

I needed something that felt annoying enough to break the habit. That’s how the idea came up: make the blocker ask me to say something embarrassing out loud before it lets me back in. If I actually have to yell “I’m a loser” into my mic. Even better - the louder I screamed, the more time I’d get.

So I put together Scream to Unlock. It’s silly, but so far it’s done its job. My social feeds stay locked unless I really want them.

Extension link - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scream-to-unlock-ye...

Its open source and transparent - https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/scream-to-unlock. No data collection or tracking, Audio processing happens locally in your browser. No recordings saved or transmitted.
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-25 10:50:08+00:00
I sincerely appreciate it — and I would never downvote a reply like this. It's clear you’ve been around the block, and I respect the experience and nuance you're bringing to the discussion.

On the topic of Hetzner and account risks, I completely agree: this is not just a technical issue, and that's why we built a multi-cloud setup spanning Hetzner and OVH in Europe. The architecture was designed from the start to absorb a full platform-level outage or even a unilateral account closure. Recovery and failover have been tested specifically with these scenarios in mind — it's not a "we'll get to it later" plan, it's baked into the ops process now.

I’ve also engaged Hetzner directly about the reported shutdown incidents — here’s one of the public discussions where I raised this: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1lgs2ds/comment/mz...

What I got in a private follow-up from Hetzner support helped clarify a lot about those cases. Without disclosing anything sensitive, I’ll just say the response gave me more confidence that they are aware of these issues and are actively working to handle abuse complaints more responsibly. Of course, it doesn't mean the risk is zero — no provider offers that — but it did reduce my level of concern.

Regarding Cloudflare, I actually agree with your point: vendor contract structure and incentives matter. But that’s also why I find the AWS argument interesting. While it’s true that AWS is incentivized to keep accounts alive to keep billing, they also operate at a scale where mistakes (and opaque actions) still happen — especially with automated abuse handling. Cloudflare, for its part, has consistently been one of the most resilient providers in terms of DNS, global routing, and mitigation — at least in my experience and according to recent data. Neither platform is perfect, and both require backup plans when they become uncooperative or misaligned with your needs.

The broader point you make — about counterparty risk, legal ambiguity, and the illusions of control in tech stacks — is one I think deserves more attention in technical circles. You're absolutely right that these risks aren't visible in logs or Grafana dashboards, and can't always be solved by code. It's exactly why we're investing in process-level failovers, not just infrastructure ones.

Again, thank you for sharing your insights here. I don’t think we’re on opposite sides — I think we’re simply looking at the same risks through slightly different lenses of experience and mitigation.
by twiss | 2025-06-25 10:50:14+00:00
I'd be happiest if they'd provide a physical switch for the microphone and cameras. That way, you could have a private conversation and be sure you're not being recorded.

Turning off connectivity doesn't help as much to guarantee your privacy as the phone could theoretically be recording and then upload the recording later, when you turn it back on (if it was thoroughly compromised, which admittedly seems unlikely, but nevertheless it would be nice to have some guarantee that it's impossible).
by throw0101c | 2025-06-25 10:52:30+00:00
>>isis-online.org

> Heck of a name for a think tank.

Which was formed in 1993:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Science_and_Inte...

Kind of like how this LA hair salon was founded in 1995:

* https://www.yelp.ca/biz/isis-hair-salon-los-angeles

* https://www.isishairsalon.com

* https://www.instagram.com/isishairsalon/reels/
by AlecSchueler | 2025-06-25 10:53:05+00:00
> It had an advanced camera, a computing platform powered by artificial intelligence and a radio link,

How can you tell it's using AI from the debris?

> Moscow has pummeled Ukraine almost nightly with Iranian-designed drones throughout the course of the war, now in its fourth year...

> ...Other components in Russia’s drones often come from Russia, China and the West.

> Although Russia’s drones are based on an Iranian design, the majority are now made in Russia.

So why the sudden focus on Iranian components?
by rorylaitila | 2025-06-25 10:53:11+00:00
I take a lot of the reports with a grain of salt. But also, knowing how easily some people are hypnotized by what they perceive as superior intellects, it's totally conceivable. There is a segment of the population with a strong savior-following instinct.

Prior to, activating this population required a high IQ/EQ psychopath to collect followers, or schizophrenic's who believed they were talking to a superior being ('my leader talks directly to me via his writings').

Now however, people can self-hypnotize themselves into a kind of self-cult. It might be the most effective form of this phenomenon if it's highly attuned to the individuals own idiosyncratic interests.

In a typical cult, people fall into or out of the cult based on their internal alignment with the leader and failed enlightenment. But if everyone of these people can have their own highly tailored cult leader, it might be a very hard spell to break.
by grumpymuppet | 2025-06-25 10:54:04+00:00
At face value, I think I agree -- especially the format of the website being in a sort of hand-designed style.

"Assembly Theory" is a sort of applying (kolmogorov-esque) complexity theory to physics and other natural sciences. I don't know much else beyond that it's a "real thing".

So with that extra background, I give it a pass. I think it's an interesting idea at least.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-06-25 10:54:43+00:00
> However, I believe in some places if you stop paying rent long enough, then yes all your stuff now belongs to the landlord because they have the "key".

There is nothing analogous to this happening in this case though. The users aren't in default on any financial obligations.

> "the data they already have" means the data the user gave the company (no one is "giving" their files to their landlord) and that the company is in full possession of and now owns

You put your files in the landlord's building because you're leasing the apartment from them. You put your data on the provider's servers because you're leasing the service from them. How do they own this data? Did you assign the copyright to them? Does the judge's ability to order them to keep it depend on what the contract between you and the service says?
by pieds | 2025-06-25 10:54:48+00:00
In some ways, it is just more noticeable now. Because even countries like the US had a huge push for public infrastructure in the road network, state schools and energy when those things were both more and less important than now. Now urban housing, broad education and energy efficiency have become more important with changes in society and the economy. But there isn't the same public influence in those areas now.

That is, there were always estates, land, and business. And private education. Just that public investment created and enabled other opportunities. A massive road network enabled sprawl where additional housing could be constructed at a decent cost. Now the economy wants density for network effects, but there isn't a similar expansion in public transport. So urban housing has become very valuable.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-06-25 10:55:18+00:00
> I really need a good explanation for the assertion about corporate taxes, as it makes no real sense. Frankly, it sounds like corporate propaganda.

Corporations have many tax avoidance strategies available, and the incentives to activate them based on tax changes, so basically because capital is much freer to move than labour (in most places) one would see the effects suggested in the linked article.

That being said I'm sceptical of this research, does anyone have more detailed links to the simulations on which the analysis is based?
by throw0101c | 2025-06-25 10:55:56+00:00
> but technically this guy didn’t cross into the US yet since he hadn’t cleared customs and border control…

IANAL, but I don't think that's how it works: you're in US jurisdiction, and governed by US law (including the highest law of the Constitution), when you cross the twelve nautical mile control zone by plane (or boat).

* https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone

* https://www.aclu.org/documents/constitution-100-mile-border-...

> Rasul v. bush and Boumediene v. Bush guaranteed due process for prisoners of Guantanamo; In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, an 1898 decision, the Supreme Court birthright citizenship is stretched to people born to illegal immigrants; Plyer v. doe and Yik Wo v. Hopkins gave 14th equal protection clause; Padilla V. Kentucky gave the right to legal counsel; Bridges v. Wixon (1945): The Supreme Court ruled that a noncitizen could not be deported solely for political speech, affirming that the First Amendment applies to immigrants; United States v. Alvarez-Machain (1992): Acknowledged that noncitizens in U.S. custody still have constitutional rights.

* https://old.reddit.com/r/Askpolitics/comments/1jlfhss/who_do...
by rednafi | 2025-06-25 10:56:07+00:00
Sure, it depends on the type and maturity of the business, as well as the availability of local talent. I've worked at three companies that started out with Python and Django, then transitioned to other technologies as the business scaled. In those environments, there were two kinds of developers: those who quickly adapted and picked up new languages, and those who wanted to remain "Python devs." The latter group didn’t have a great time moving forward.

What I don't like about the "Python + Framework + Postgres" argument is that it often lacks context. This is a formidable combination for starting a business and finding PMF. But unless you've seen Python and Postgres completely break under 100k RPS and petabyte-scale data, it's hard to understand the limitations just from words. Python is fantastic, but it has its limits and there are cases where it absolutely doesn't work. This “single language everywhere” mindset is how we ended up with JavaScript on the backend and desktop.

Anyone can write Python, and with LLMs, there's not much of a moat around knowing a single language. There's also no reason not to familiarize yourself with others, since it broadens your perspective. Of course, some businesses scale quite well with Python or JavaScript. But my point isn't to abandon Python. It's to gain experience in other languages so that when people criticize Python’s build tools, you can genuinely empathize with those concerns. Otherwise, comments like “Python tooling is fine” from people who have mostly worked with only Python are hard to take seriously.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-25 10:57:11+00:00
> but a lot of news has no real value.

> stuff pulled off news wires.

"Stuff" – also known as news.

Keeping up with the news can mean the difference between life and death for you and your family. I remember when Mr Joe Biden was in the news warning against a Russian invasion of Ukraine. Those who listened could get themselves and their family to safety before the travel ban and the draft. Many of those who didn't are in a mass grave right now.

But yes, we need to try to choose our news consumption to those things which actually matter in our own lives. A train wreck or earthquake on the other side of the world is probably not in that category. Neither is internal foreign politics, if you're for example a European who knows everything about US primaries but doesn't know the name of the EU president...

> the typical news websites that replaced newspapers.

The typical news websites are the digital offering of traditional newspapers, aren't they?

Thank you for reading my comment on Hacker News ;)