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by benchly | 2026-01-02 10:41:38+00:00
Just to clarify, no, we cannot be involuntarily drafted because we are amateur radio operators. However, should we be drafted in time of need, our experience in radio does help direct the likely path we would end up taking.

You also bring up an interesting time in ham radio history that a lot of newer hams are largely unaware of; WWII. Amateur radio thrives on communication globally, so anyone from the US could talk to anyone from any other country. The need for restrictions of the bands became obvious in the years leading up to the US entering the war, with various countries that were once accessible by radio going dark. The US logically followed suit, but operators were still monitoring.

There's a great article on this time in amateur radio history here; https://bw.billl.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Radio-Histor...
by PoignardAzur | 2026-01-02 10:43:24+00:00
> I also very much doubt it was the Ukrainians in by themselves - as blowing up heavily reinforced pipes 80m under the water is a rather extreme task, but at least they would have had a reasonable motive.

I agree with the first part of your comment, but it baffles me that people keep claiming "Sending some divers from a small yacht plant a bomb underwater" would beyond the capabilities of the Ukrainian special forces.
by ben_w | 2026-01-02 10:43:33+00:00
> You then have massive hardware buildouts and improvements to stack + a ton of R&D + competition to squeeze the juice out of the current paradigm (there are 4 orders of magnitude of scaling left before we hit real bottlenecks)

This is a surprising claim. There's only 3 orders of magnitude between US data centre electricity consumption and worldwide primary energy (as in, not just electricity) production. Worldwide electricity supply is about 3/20ths of world primary energy, so without very rapid increases in electricity supply there's really only a little more than 2 orders of magnitude growth possible in compute.

Renewables are growing fast, but "fast" means "will approach 100% of current electricity demand by about 2032". Which trend is faster, growth of renewable electricity or growth of compute? Trick question, compute is always constrained by electricity supply, and renewable electricity is growing faster than anything else can right now.
by skywhopper | 2026-01-02 10:43:37+00:00
Yes. Even for casual users looking for help, it’s nice to know that the “issues” tab is just real issues and not random, duplicated complaints and questions. Especially on a project like this that attracts a lot of attention and is highly sensitive to the user’s very specific environment. Most issues are going to not be bugs, or even something the maintainers can work on directly. Instead of trying to cram everything into Issues, why not use the underutilized Discussions tool? Now the Issues list is much more useful as an active tracker of workable items, and as a historical reference of relatively deduped problems.
by stephenr | 2026-01-02 10:44:45+00:00
The Mac Studio has two of 6 TB/USB-C ports on the front, and has since inception.

So does the Mac Pro (well technically they're on the top now) and has on most models since the G5 PowerMac 20 years ago; The single model without front/top ports was replaced in 2019.

So does the Mac mini has two front facing ports now.

So your complaint is essentially about the extremely minimalist, consumer-oriented iMac, or maybe older Mac minis.

Ok. Don't buy an iMac or an old Mac mini then.
by robin_reala | 2026-01-02 10:45:12+00:00
Nothing particularly in The Castle, from my production of it. As this was not previously PD there wasn’t any Gutenberg (or other) transcription available, so I did my own from the OCR of the original scans. A large part of the feel of the work, to me at least, comes from the extreme sentence / paragraph lengths though.

We do have a default typography across all our works (the “Standard” in “Standard Ebooks” refers to a standard imprint; think Penguin) but we usually retain specific famous things where possible in a reflowable format. For example, the Mouse’s Tail in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,[1] or the letter in E. A. Poe’s “Thou Art the Man”.[2]

We don’t take on other languages, no. Our tooling[3] and style guides[4] are tailored specifically to English. Absolutely nothing stopping another project from forking the codebase (it’s GPL-3) and giving it a go.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lewis-carroll/alices-adven...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fict...

[3] https://github.com/standardebooks/tools

[4] https://standardebooks.org/manual/
by Mindwipe | 2026-01-02 10:46:08+00:00
No they aren't.

This is an internet myth pushed by certain sci-fi writers doing incompetent research.

Disney were certainly in favour of the US's most recent copyright extension, but the main driver of it was the need for the US to move to a similar period to the EU for international treaty reasons.

The EU had moved to Life+70 years as a model because it unified to the longest period in the block when it unified the copyright period across the entire EU, under the logic that no copyright owner should have their term reduced as a result.

The longest period in Europe was Germany, and Germany's long copyright period was the result of lobbying from local German publishers, nothing to do with American companies.

It's really a bit of US exceptionalism to think Disney had much to do with it.
Show HN: I built a minimal open-source CMS (FREE)
by rawraul | 2026-01-02 10:46:14+00:00
I built a minimal opensource CMS, I use it myself for my blog and for other SaaS.

l love blogging, and sometimes I post random thoughts on my blog.
The only thing is, I always did it with .md files, which is fine too

However, I was excited about the idea of using a CMS that was very minimal and avoiding the option of connecting something like WordPress or other big platforms.

Open source (if you want to fork it or contribute) and free to use (unless I see you have a million views haha).

Star the repo if you like it!
by maxbond | 2026-01-02 10:48:21+00:00
To be honest we've reached the end of my expertise but I think that would work. This thread from 2007 says it will work as long as you don't represent a foreign government.

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/ham-license-for-no...

Looking at the current form 605 it still doesn't seem to list any citizenship requirement, only that you do not represent a foreign government.

https://www.arrl.org/files/file/VEs/NCVEC_Form_605_July_2022...

I think the deciding factor would be whether you can convince the examiner the ID is legitimate.
by pvtmert | 2026-01-02 10:49:04+00:00
I meant to say modern-day influencer. Like instagram/tiktok like. All this "American-Dream" style things were promotional material with twisted reality. Movies showing luxury lifestyle of a "regular" American/US person.

Although per-person adjusted income is really high compared to many parts of the world, day-to-day lifestyle is hardly comparable to "Home Alone" or Wolf of Wall Street themes.

But yes, each era had prosperous countries trying to attract talent obviously. From Egypt to Persians then Rome and even Ottomans too. Later on France/Britain during industrialization.
by amiga386 | 2026-01-02 10:49:41+00:00
But the trouble is judges are human, and if the boss of your boss who could shut down your court and turf you out is loudly proclaiming "will nobody rid me of this troublesome Russian"... what lawful ruling will the judge find to appease their master?

The other thing that sprang to mind was the US interning their own citizens in camps. Would you be in favour of internment camps across Europe for all citizens with any Russian heritage, preemptively locking them up in case they might provide succor to The Enemy?
by armchairhacker | 2026-01-02 10:50:06+00:00
This undoubtedly exists at some level on the macro scale (servers average salary would be higher if they didn't get tips, or they'd be lower quality). Though maybe less where everyone gets paid near minimum wage and servers can't be paid less offset by tips.

But the micro scale? It would be easy to prove, because drivers can see their base pay and tip. OR the app could lie about the tip or merge it with base pay; then it would be slightly harder, but the driver could still prove by asking customers what they tip.
by tormeh | 2026-01-02 10:52:26+00:00
Have you tried getting meta about sports and video games? I don't care about sports, but I'll be interested if you talk to me about the business of sports clubs or the technicalities of stadiums. Video games have a lot going on around them: The lawsuits and general weirdness around how Disco Elysium was made is the stuff of several documentaries, for example.

Anecdotally, I'd say women are worse when it comes to interests. It's incredibly common that they just don't have any, which isn't the end of the world, oddly enough. There might be little to discuss, but drinking some wine, going to the movies or a gallery while having a pleasant conversation - these can be fine activities. Hard to turn it into a club, but on the other hand it's basically universal.
by yladiz | 2026-01-02 10:52:50+00:00
This is my feeling too. Nix is a relatively high time investment for a tool that tries to do everything, when you might not need or want everything and using the specific language’s tooling is more than sufficient and quicker. It takes a few minutes to install and do `uv sync`, or `nvm install`, or whatever, on a repository on a new computer, and it just works. Until Nix gets there, and I’m skeptical it will because of the “purist” mindset a lot of people in the community have, it’s hard to justify it.
by regularfry | 2026-01-02 10:53:27+00:00
It's self-fulfilling and nothing to do with the language. Companies want to reduce the number of technologies in their stacks, and Ruby always loses out to Python and Node in part because it's viewed as harder to hire for Ruby skills. So there's less demand, and that leads to fewer people learning it or getting exposed to it on the job.

You also get things thrown at Ruby like how monkey-patching makes it hard to develop at scale which I find unreasonable but is nevertheless part of the conversation.

None of this is really within the gift of Ruby itself to solve. It needs another project like Rails which is so good within its niche that it can't be ignored. Rails itself is tarnished.
by ben_w | 2026-01-02 10:53:32+00:00
To add to your point:

If the M stands for Meta, I would also like to note that as a user, I have been seeing increasingly poor UI, of the sort I'd expect from people committing code that wasn't properly checked before going live, as I would expect from vibe coding in the original sense of "blindly accept without review". Like, some posts have two copies of the sender's name in the same location on screen with slightly different fonts going out of sync with each other.

I can easily believe the metrics that all [MF]AANG bonuses are denominated in are going up, our profession has had jokes about engineers gaming those metrics even back when our comics were still printed in books: https://imgur.com/bug-free-programs-dilbert-classic-tyXXh1d
by masklinn | 2026-01-02 10:53:41+00:00
Sure, but on the whole I’d take getting FLAC directly over CDs. Not that I don’t have CDs, even deluxe editions with picture books and stuff, but I pretty much never get them out.

I can understand people preferring vinyls as physical artefacts, the full frame jackets of my father’s albums are gorgeous in a way that’s distinct from and superior to CD album art, even if the music bit is markedly inferior technically (although that technical inferiority has led to better musical end results in some cases, you can’t compress the shit out of a vinyl, then again hopefully that time is long on the past).
by hirako2000 | 2026-01-02 10:53:46+00:00
Banks make money on interest. Perhaps the principle itself is the issue, if it's legal to earn money on loans, no surprise a bank incentive is to make you take loan, and have you keep them for as long as it can.

Typically a mortgage does not allow over repayments. Why? It would get people in the nasty habit (from the perspective of the bank) to pay back a little more every month with the spare they've got.

Of course you can pay a fee to overpay.
by aebtebeten | 2026-01-02 10:53:57+00:00
Whatever GGP was referring to, I'm sure it'll all turn out OK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRVhWPignvU

Anime as escapist might mean that characters who read as exotically confrontational wrt japanese mores might read as exotically non-confrontational wrt to us mores? (compare https://eli.li/gundam-is-just-the-same-as-jane-austen-but-ha... ; to what extent does Asuka's personality in NGE reflect her ハーフ background?)

[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuka_Langley_Soryu#:~:text=%2... certainly reminds me of german confrontational drama; it's only missing a closing "or..." ]

PS. I think I've already asked you and Paul, but any more recs for relatively accessible chinese pop culture?

In maritime news, let's see where https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:72... is in a couple of weeks.
by breppp | 2026-01-02 10:54:24+00:00
As an outside onlooker I can see a lot in common.

Russians are essentially a european people and has a lot more in common with the EU than BRICS.

Also, both are headed full-throttle towards a demographic disaster so might as well do it together

And of course your comment about unelected officials acting irrationally that people cannot criticize surely reminds you of home
by trinix912 | 2026-01-02 10:54:59+00:00
IMO it still has poor discoverability, constant filtering between the triage status flags and non-flagged stuff, stuff that might not have been flagged by accident, reporters putting tags on issues themselves, issues can only be closed by non-admins rather than truly deleted, random people complaining about this or that on unrelated tickets...

It all stems from the fact that all issues are in this one large pool rather than there being a completely separate list with already vetted stuff that nobody else can write into.
by nairboon | 2026-01-02 10:56:42+00:00
That's a great project!

I have a hypothesis that we're getting closer to a cultural inflection point (maybe half a decade out). With every year, more important and very high-quality cultural artifacts enter the public domain, while at the same time, many low quality artefacts are produced (... AI slop). It'll be increasingly difficult to choose a good cultural artefict for consumption (e.g., which book to read next or which movie to watch). A very good indicator for quality is time and thus a useful filter.

In some years we could have the following: a netflix-like (legal variant of popcorntime) software system (p2p) that serves high-quality public domain movies, for those who like it, even with AI upscaling or post processing.

The same would also work for books, with this pipeline: Project Gutenberg -> Standard Ebooks. At the inflection point, there would be a steady stream of high-quality formats of high-quality content, enough to satisfy the demand of cultural consumption. You wouldn't need the latest book/movie anymore, except for interest in contemporary stuff.
by amrocha | 2026-01-02 10:57:19+00:00
Your opinion is valid, but irrelevant. The above comment said that you’re a minority and that they’ve never met a person irl that shares your opinion. I can say I’ve also never met anyone who shares that opinion.

Also of note is that I used to care a lot about sound quality, and owned very expensive wired IEMs until 2 years ago. I was annoyed when I switched to a phone without a jack, but now I’m used to it and don’t particularly miss it.
by phoe-krk | 2026-01-02 10:57:45+00:00
> Knowing how the Russians operate, they might decide to take the money back in skin.

>They do tend to be pretty vindictive.

I don't think it's any more risky for the Ukrainian military. They've already collectively been on Russia's wanted list for years and it's not like the country might get invaded by the Russian army any harder since it would have already happened long ago.
by usrusr | 2026-01-02 10:57:56+00:00
Putin had already stopped supplying gas through the pipelines, blowing them up did not change anything for him. But it absolutely did change the moves that would be available to any post-Putin government in Moscow. Blowing up the pipelines instantly de-funded any upcoming revolution. Add a "plausible culpability" mock attack by Ukrainians who likely actually believed that their handlers were on the Ukrainian side and not Russia to foster division in the west and you have a clear "why wouldn't Russia do it?" situation.
by Alconicon | 2026-01-02 10:57:59+00:00
Gaming should be a no brainer. Windows dual boot and license is cheap enough.

Windows for gaming, Ubuntu as desktop default, Arch Linux on Laptop, MacOS on the other Laptop.

Games are not the problem, but that one game i want to play on a saturday evening when i have time, is the problem. That one i haven't tried out yet.
by potato3732842 | 2026-01-02 10:58:42+00:00
Unfortunately yes. I wish it was that easy. That's why I said "jurisdiction with building code". Florida is free AF. They have pretty serious building code for anything people are expected to occupy because hurricanes. The mountain west is free, on paper, at a state level. But at a local level there's fucktons of jurisdictions that are basically run by carpetbaggers from California (if not in literal state of origin then spiritually) who make everything hard. The various offgrid cabin forums are absolutely chock full of horror stories about how those people run the place.
by altacc | 2026-01-02 10:59:51+00:00
Perhaps they meant digital download sales such as Bandcamp & Beatport and less so for iTunes, Amazon, etc... as there are still real revenues to be made from selling digital music. It all depends upon how many middlemen between purchaser and the artist but vinyl adds in unavoidable production costs, risks of unsold stock, etc... versus Bandcamp where there is little upfront cost, low risk and low transaction costs.
by ahartmetz | 2026-01-02 11:00:00+00:00
It keeps surprising me how many people don't care about some of the most popular games today. I mean I don't care about Battlefield or League of Legends neither, but in earlier decades of PC gaming, almost everyone had some of the most popular games. Doom, Half-Life (1 + 2) and such.

The games market today seems more similar to music in its fragmentation.
by reorder9695 | 2026-01-02 11:00:15+00:00
I would love it is my phone and laptop had hardware switches that were on the power or data lines for the camera and microphone, it's all well and good the software telling me the things aren't on but unless it's open source I can't verify that. With hardware switches someone could at least disassemble the device to ensure they were actually effective, and a software bug couldn't get around the fact that the microphone doesn't have power if the switch is open.
by WhyNotHugo | 2026-01-02 11:00:42+00:00
Personally, I find the distinction between “issues” and “discussions” annoying.

For one, it duplicates the efforts in checking for prior reports. I might try 5–6 sets of keywords, but now I have to do so for 2 separate trackers.

Tickets cannot be moved between trackers, so instead folks resort to duplicating it and moving discussions… which is entirely opaque if you’re following up via email: you won’t get any more notifications and your future replies are silently discarded.

As a maintainer, having two trackers per project never made sense to me, so I’ve disabled discussion everywhere.

This is mostly a criticism of how GitHub implemented this feature, not of the decision taken here.
by somenameforme | 2026-01-02 11:01:10+00:00
Ukraine had a standing army in the hundreds of thousands, numerous heavily fortified front cities, and a substantial chunk of highly motivated 'nationalists' without their armed forces. The rhetoric about Ukraine falling in 3-4 days came from Western sources, including the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The only time it surfaced in Russian propaganda was from television personalities who were obviously being boisterous and hyperbolic. [1] That the West would publicly release such 'enticing' rhetoric prior to the war itself is interesting.

The war also isn't a stalemate by any interpretation. Russian forces are making steady progress, most recently having entered into Pokrovosk [2]. But beyond that - war is rarely, if ever, a real stalemate when there are still large scale combat operations playing out. At that point it turns into a war of attrition where progress becomes extremely non-linear. Ukraine is having a severe manpower shortage, but they still have enough forces to competently hold their defensive lines. But at the point that their manpower gets stretched beyond that point, everything will collapse rapidly. In a way it's vaguely akin to a siege, except the resource under pressure tends to be manpower instead of e.g. food or water.

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/even-russian-propaganda-was-hesitan...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokrovsk_offensive
by mrtksn | 2026-01-02 11:01:13+00:00
Not all engineers but true, autistic 10x engineers are indeed special class of people as you can tell through observation of others(anecdotes and comedy build around the premise).

They almost always mean good, its just that they are easily manipulated by those who don't or they are incapable to understand the human impact when they are captivated by building an automated system. Sometimes they get agitated by all this when things don't pan out the way they modeled in their head and start seeking revenge, that's when they turn evil towards their enemies of choice but because they still don't have a clue they fail at that again but are able to cause a lot of drama and damage.

Elon could be a prime example.
by joe200 | 2026-01-02 11:01:52+00:00
You are comparing Fedora with Debian stable. Everyone who wants to have Debian stability (and ecosystem) with the most new upstream software should go for Debian Testing (and don't be fooled by the name "testing" !).
Debian Stable is for servers, Debian Testing is for desktops.
Just try Debian Testing
(and I used Slack, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian)
by chiefalchemist | 2026-01-02 11:01:56+00:00
Information so important to your health and the collective health that… it’s paywalled.

I understand it’s a business, but would allowing free access to occasional articles hurt Wired? As it is, this is clickbait.

Our fear shouldn’t be the flu, it should be the infrastructure that determines personal and collective health decisions. In other news… “Super Obesity” will kill more, just for reference.

Wired, you can suck it.
by mariodev__ | 2026-01-02 11:02:09+00:00
First of all, happy new year to everyone, hope this 2026 is as good or better than 2025 was.

I am making what I think could be a really nice and cool project, and chose Zig for it because I know it is the best language out there for making high quality software.

It will be a calendar app, think of Superhuman email app, but for calendar. 100% focused on speed and fast navigation.

You can watch a short video of the current state of it here: https://x.com/mariodev__/status/2007028805173698739

And here you have the repo: https://github.com/Mario-SO/cronos

Hope you like it

PS: A star in Github is super highly appreciated this will tell me that i am on the right track.