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Show HN: Free Client-Side String Utilities
stringutils.netlify.app is a free web tool offering client-side string utilities like Word Counter, Text Case Converter, SHA-256 Hash, AES Encryption, Random Key/Nonce Generation, and UUID Generator—all processed in the browser with no backend or data collection. Built with JavaScript and Web Crypto API. Feedback on usability, features, or performance improvements welcome.
The core complaint is by no means new, and the Trump/Musk "solution" is worse than the problem.
The US army and NATO where the first global cloud services
That's not even close to minimum wage!
Like all simple description it's wrong. It [electron] is a quanta of the electron field which is a fermion matter (spin 1/2, therefore is charged) subject to the Pauli Exclusion principle.

Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces mediated by photons which are its basic quanta and is Bosonic field (spin 1) and therefore are neutral.

The interaction of these two fields is depicted via Feynman diagrams.

Macroscopically observed Electrostatic field of a charged capacitor, is mediated by the superposition of virtual zero frequency (ν = 0) photons, which are off-shell and non-radiative. Field’s energy arises from the cumulative effect of infinite virtual photon exchanges. Whether virtual photons are "real" is debatable and confuses those who prefer intuition to computation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_particle
They launched S3 Storage a few weeks ago so I guess they are on their way.
> Imagine giving you car to strangers who will use it as a public trash can. You would need a hard societal change for people to respect other people's property.

Nothing that a bit of insurance cannot fix. But I do get your point.
The UK government just demanded Apple to disable Advanced Data Protection, globally, in order to backdoor the iPhone; and Apple has at least compiled with it for UK users; but no, for sure, its the US Clouds that are unsafe, not because of specific laws or executive orders, but just... vibes. "The vibes are off, we're done" get real.

Romania just annulled a democratic election because of supposed interference from Russia. Some would say that by doing so Russia won anyway, but democracy doesn't seem to be a priority for some European countries. But, sure: Its the United States that presents the greatest danger.
Correct, it's more like a bitmask.

Except if any of the bits are flipped you're f-d; especially so if your adversary is a nation.
Ukraine moved their governmental data into AWS in the start of war [1].

[1] https://d1.awsstatic.com/institute/AWS-Institute-Accelerate-...
Russia can do that, so can Europe.
That would require banning US services. As the European industry (held down by bureaucracy) does not stand a chance to build solutions that can compete.

It seems like this is not on the horizon yet. And in the times of AI, it would probably result in a huge productivity hit.
its not a end of world scenario until you get to superpower vs superpower even then the southern hemisphere would probably hold up fairly well if Russia and NATO went all out.
Maybe it's just me, but writing sqrt(2+2) instead of sqrt(2*2) or sqrt(2^2) was such an odd choice. It obfuscates the reason why 2=sqrt(2+2), and unnecessarily so.
This was added in the last 24 hours after a few tweets went viral showing Grok would name Musk and Trump if asked who the biggest spreaders were of disinfo on Twitter.
Hallucinations really seem real. They can be part of your life so much, in small ways or
not. You believe things, you are obsessed at times or all the time with finding the truth and it will seem epic. And you could be right. And wouldn’t it be wild if everyone who knew the truth was right, and everyone’s version of realities commingled in infinite multiverses and simulations and/or every religious, atheist, and agnostic view was correct and everything is scientifically spiritual not existing and existing maybe with darkness and light and love. (Sidenote: I’m Christian, pray, and believe God helps us.) With supervision and/or care, changing your diet, replacing or getting rid of meds/supplements/vitamins and things that could be influencing you, changing your environment, and letting go of all of that, even when it means you lose a lot of yourself in the process, could help you and help others who love you. It may take years. You’ll start to recognize paranoia, conspiracy, mystical truth and let it roll off, because it probably won’t fully go away. This is my reality now. And I still miss the meds.
I'm quite familiar with both, and Phoronix is much worse. Imagine the worst of flagged/downvoted HN comments, and even worse than that, but instead of being flagged/downvoted, they're just one more comment, which begets replies and further trolling, and gets treated as a fixture. "Oh, there's X again."
Show HN: H5tui – a terminal user interface for HDF5 files
Working with HDF5 files can be cumbersome, so I built an HDF5 TUI file explorer to streamline the process. Unlike other projects, it runs directly in the terminal and provides functionality for:

- quickly navigating the contents (using Vim keybindings or arrow keys)

- viewing datasets

- plotting 1D and 2D datasets straight in the terminal

- computing simple dataset statistics (e.g., max, min, mean)

You can try it out by installing it with pip. Let me know if it is missing any features that you would like.
You are falling into the trap of thinking that federal income tax levels are all that matters. When you account for
* Federal AND state income taxes
* Payroll taxes (SS & Medicare/Medicaid)
* Property taxes
* Sales taxes
* Car registration taxes
You realize that depending on income level, the level of taxation in the US is much higher than the typical numbers thrown about. I have seen estimates but couldn’t find them as almost every search ends up taking me to stories and research doing the exact same thing you mention: federal income tax rates only.
Fiber-optic drone flew past civilians and later hit UA Pickup truck in Sudzha
YACC for Vlang
That’s all true, but it works both ways. I’ve also been at a place that stuck to its plans rather than incorporating customer feedback and requests. You haven’t heard of it, and that’s why.

I guess my main point is that you have to always be making the right thing. Sometimes that changes, and you have to be ready to pivot quickly.
Current Events (Wikipedia)
There is an active effort currently to have the EU contribute towards funding https://freeourfeeds.com/ (to enable a distributed, global AT Proto network). Does the EU need the network to be home grown or have the valuation matter? I argue no, it is a utility, not a business to be captured and squeezed by investors or other potential controlling interests.

(as of this comment, Bluesky has ~32M users and counting)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43134383
Almost every EU company I worked with, migrated from Windows to Ubuntu at some point.
I'm in the process of moving my various google data onto Hetzner storage share[1]. It's a Nextcloud instance with 5TB of storage for $16/month. My wife and I each have a normal user, we can share stuff just as well as before, and we can install things like a simple Kanban app, sync to our Android phones, etc etc.

So far it's been great, I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
Like, of those, which provide managed services like storage (blob and smb), ampq message queue, databases in a fairly cohesive way and easily accessible from C#?

I just checked a handful but didn't see any.
The aforementioned thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43144421
I mean, Europe has spent 132bn, with 115bn more allocated. Bit more than the US (114bn).
https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-s...
I was a huge nerd for having a PDA in primary school. I still am surprised every time I step in public transport and see hundreds of heads bent down staring at tiny screens.
Uh.

That’s the “new game” I’m still meaning to start.

God time gets weird as you pass through middle age.
That’s two years out of date and the AWS announcements page is filled with IPv6 announcements.
Knitted Breadboard
One of the things my wife had when we met was a large collection of Vietnamese posters like these, which she framed and hung around the perimeter of our powder room. It’s so cool to see more of it.

I love some of the colour palettes. In particular, the green/orange or green/pink ones. They aren’t entirely unique on their own, but combined with the art style it feels very distinct.

My favourite is one of a woman with a basket of watermelons on her back. The colours are like an intense fiery orange with deep greens and almost blue tones on the melons. I really need to translate the messages on them.
GDP per capita is quite well correlated with happiness (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness). There’s reasonable concerns about microtargeting, but being able to afford expensive stuff solves quite a lot of the problems that make people unhappy.
They do talk about various bio luminesence, and I think it works for other birds, just not us.Lots of other animals can see wavelengths of light that are invisible.....to most of us, some rumors of edge case humans seeing into the ultra violet, so perhaps there ARE people seeing things that are there, but have always been treated like they are seeing things that are not there :)
smart ones would just shut up about it
I wouldn't say it like that, but it represents basic communist-style propaganda until the 80s where they replaced everything with half-naked ladies. It's still interesting from a historical point of view.
Well, how ironic we're in the same boat, it seems. Only I can't get hired because I'm 40 and have many years of experience and everyone seems to assume I'm either a snowflake or will cost them. Granted, I can only afford remote positions at the moment, but then I'm not asking for a lot of money either and I'm fairly easy going. I sure have my preferences, but they're few. What's really making it all unbearable is this leetcode and multiple-round-interviews are just exhausting and they don't lead anywhere, it seems. Nobody's even looking at your published open-source code (which is what I used to do first when I used to hire people). I don't really know if I'll ever work as a software-engineer ever again. Reduced to a hobby, I suppose.
Seriously, this is complete abuse of the flag tool, end of story.

I do hope megous's flags are ignored by HN and they're just wasting their time.

None of the things described are off-topic for HN. If you don't like them, don't read them. Flagging is not supposed to be for imposing your personal reading preferences on others. Wow.
Any type of "wrong think" on my account gets flagged these days, makes commenting on debates pointless. I said this about SpaceX vs Nasa and my comment got flagged:

"SpaceX has shown us that private enterprise is the way. Giant decades long projects are slow, stifled by bureaucracy, and less effective."

This was in a political post about Nasa gets their budget cut, a political position I support with the above rational.
They can fork phpbb. You didn’t really think these social networks are anything more than that?

We just need to see if phpbb can scale to a billion, and if not, why not.
Huh? Biden won the popular vote in 2020 and Obama in both 2008 and 2012. The only outlier was 2016. (edit: thanks for the clarification.)
And they certainly didn't develop the software themselves either.
I'm not going to dox myself, but it is pretty clear that unless YT is extremely inefficient (by Google standards), it's making money:

https://mannhowie.com/youtube-valuation

Think about it another way: Google would be only too happy to kill the site if it wasn't making money.
Regardless of any cloud:

I hope you have a proper backup strategy
The US government’s secrets are routinely held and processed by contractors. The prototypical government secret is something like the plans of an airplane designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
mrna, stable diffusion, extreme ultraviolet lithography, CRISPR, graphene isolation, ozempic... are the first that come to mind.
> For example, Damien Miller, who puts in a lot of time on OpenSSH, is employed by Google. Employing key contributors is how the industry supports OSS.

Yeah that's just confirmation bias. How often do we read about key open source libraries that are being maintained by one random dude in his free time, said dude's free time dries up, and suddenly everyone is in panic mode on how to get funding to him.

It'd be much nicer if every tech company above X amount of yearly revenue would be required to kick in 1.0% (0.1%? 2.5%?) of their profit into a foundation. That foundation then would put out bounties or contracts for open source project maintainers. The priority (= monetary value) of these would be decided on by a mix of community voting, open source expert panel, and commercial interest, split ⅓/⅓/⅓.
There are different threat models each of which demand a different approach to security. It's not a binary decision like you're talking about.

The US threat model has changed given the current regime. So it's appropriate to update your security practices
"4 years in the cloud space"

Hetzner has existed for a really long time, I'm not even sure what "cloud" means in your context.

Object storage and VMs is what made AWS "cloud" 15 years ago, so by that definition Hetzner only just became a cloud provider.
Yo, this shit could be a tight JavaScript app with a reactive frontend. Y’all geezers still fuckin’ with them shell commands? /s
As a third worlder, this is hilarious. I'm sorry but I can't help but laugh at the panic some people are manifesting over the US no longer being the world police and involving itself militarily in another continent.

I don't like Trump, I really don't, but I hope he continues with this. Sadly he probably won't do the same with Israel though.
You and your colleagues probably need to learn more about the CLOUD Act, because it has changed the rules you thought you were operating under.

A useful resource:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/cloud-act-and-transatlantic-tr...
The used to exist (e.g. Hyves, StudiVZ), but they are murdered by FAANG. However, there are still locally successful companies that could expand to the rest of Europe if US companies were dropped. E.g. just speaking of The Netherlands, Bol.com is much more popular than Amazon, Marktplaats is more popular than eBay (which is pretty much non-existent here) and owned by a Nordic company, etc., iDEAL is much more popular for payments than PayPal, Stripe, etc. (and works far better). Such companies can fill the void.

Microsoft will be tough to replace. There are good alternatives, but retraining personnel, etc. will take years. Google, I am not sure. Their cloud services are replaceable. Search may be tougher, but the quality of Google Search has become so bad that it's often easier to ask an LLM.
It's telling that you didn't even consider that the taxes would come from businesses. The businesses that created the majority of inflation by gouging consumers out and bleeding them dry every tiniest opportunity they legally could.
Is Eurostack's 'European Alternative' Too Guided by America's Vision?
I heard someone say this last week and they never went to prison.
Me too. I unflagged all of them
My point is to create more guides that people actually can use. AI is NOT the main point. The point is to try helping people find ways to use software.
Not everybody knows what an .iso file ist, not everybody who wants to use something does know how to start. That's the point.
Honestly, before I joined timescale I had the same impression. Since then I learned that a bunch of the improvements timescale brings (continuous aggregates, hybrid row/column storage and automatic partitioning) are much more widely useful than just IOT sensor data. There is definitely some room for improvement just in communication there.

Ajay already commented, that he's open to new ideas on how to frame timescale.
I for myself always thought of postgres as the best jack of all trades database. It's basically the best db if you don't 100% know what's the best choice yet. Timescale expands on that and enhances postgres's capabilities even further so that use-cases which would usually call for a second storage option (e.g. analytics, vector) end up working great with just postgres itself.

I'd personally love if we also had a full-text offering akin to paradedb/pg_search so noone would ever need to host elasticsearch again. But it also doesn't make sense to spread the valuable postgres expert resources too thin.
I just checked and every one of mine are by mistake. Small suggestion for @dang and the dev team but you could put the flag behind a `confirm(...)`, it would be an extra click but would prevent posts from being erroneously flagged.
No argument from me around copyright being too long.

My point was mainly saying the publishers are working hard to avoid their Napster moment, but missing that it wasn't only about 'free' music, but convenience. The harder publishers make it to use their content legally, the more people they will push to the pirate sites.
Seconding this, iirc at the time when Edward Snowden started leaking documents Barack Obama was president and I don't remember any effort from him to restrict USA's surveillance capabilities.
The entirety of what she did was record keeping. Palliative care is a broad term, but she did not (a) do any diagnosis, (b) prescribe or change any meds, or (c) treat me in any way. She was basically an extension of the case manager. Our most impactful meeting was when she recorded the names, phone numbers, and associations of my emergency contacts, which had already been done a few days prior. Had she never shown up at all, nothing about my stay or outcome would have changed.

I didn't pay $250 an hour. I paid a thousand an hour. You don't get to arbitrarily eliminate money because it didn't go directly to her. It still got paid.
The ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see
I was talking about Trump, who won the popular vote in 2024 (edit: The first Republican popular vote winner in 20 years), with 4 million less votes than Biden and 3 million votes more than Harris. If you think about it, the story is more about how badly the Democratic Party stumbled, than how well Trump performed.

The Democratic Party needs to accept that 6-7 million voters either switched sides or stayed home; and if they want to win again, they must change tactics accordingly.
“Imports did decline. Washing machine imports fell by about 33% the first year the tariffs were in effect and stayed below pre-tariff levels through 2022. During that time, Samsung began producing washing machines at a US factory in South Carolina, and LG opened a plant in Tennessee. Whirlpool also increased domestic production and hired more workers. All told, new domestic production may have accounted for between 1,700 and 2,000 new jobs.“

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/higher-prices-extra-jobs-less...

Prices went up in short term, but imports went down and jobs increased due to manufacturers bringing jobs to the United States. Seems like it worked.
Well there are two qualifiers there:

>unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

and

>If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic

Going off these, I would say "A deep dive into the IRS's legacy computer systems" is clearly fine, and the others could be considered questionable to varying degrees. I think it's fair to say that a news update should not automatically be considered an interesting new phenomenon because almost by definition all TV news will have some new element to it, and that is expressly labeled as "probably off-topic."
imagine being the engineer tasked with this... so embarrassing.
Two hours at the Autobahn is just 200-250km in what is effectively optimal conditions (steady driving over long distances). That number doesn't check out.

Most people drive significantly less than a full charge in a given day. Overnight or workplace charging solves like, 95% of car needs. And remember, it's not much of a problem if 5% or less of road cars need to still be (efficient) fossil fuel cars.

Battery advances should mainly be used to make cars lighter at decent range, not to give more range at same weight. Electric cars are too heavy in the current state, fixing that should come first.
That was true for Trump 1. This time round, things appear to have changed. The CEOs of these companies sitting front-row at the inauguration is the most visible sign of their newfound mutual love. MAGA have found out these companies will just bend to their ideological will in the interest of shareholder value and it shows.
If your "tech innovation" isn't capable of restricting child pornography and calls for terrorism and genocide maybe it's not 100% a loss for everyone else?
MAGA hates basically everything modern. What matters is if those companies bend the knee. And in 2025 they do.
I see your point, but I still don't think you can just say "If you want to get a job as a Go developer, you must know gRPC." Even more so for Kafka, I've only heard about it being popular in the Java world. You can't even say "If you want to get a job as a Java developer, you must know Spring." Nowadays, sane Java projects use https://vertx.io, it's just too good. I would argue that Spring is for legacy projects only.
They say taxes were higher at the top end, might be worth a shot
I think the biggest impediment here is binary thinking, which permeates a lot of this dialog

Sure, I agree with the article. Sure, the EU is way behind here in implementation, and the privacy stuff takes (IMHO) a bit of an absolutist position. But then we ask ourselves, how many people do actually turn down cookie banners (well I do, but still)

As a start, not even the US gov trusts their vendors, that's why there's FedRamp and such. It's a detailed procedural and deep certification.

Is it safe to have your stuff in a US cloud vendor? Well, which stuff? Is it safe to have it in a server under your desk? Probably less safe in the end

Which countries have actual specialists in securing data? (hey didn't the USDS just get shut down?) Which countries actually implement those security guidelines? (Or just general best practices?)

tl;dr: SNAFU
Article resonates with me but I think it's worth mentioning that it's not an either/or situation.

Nothing wrong with using XGBoost, CatBoost et al to quickly identify features that might be worth digging into even if your actual goal is to come up with a statistical model based on understanding the domain.
Mensa is sadly a combination of positive and negative selection. Positive: by IQ. Negative: by having nothing more important to do than become a Mensa member.

If instead you took random people on the street and gave them IQ tests, and invited those who passed the IQ 130 bar to a meetup, it would be much more interesting than a typical Mensa meetup.
It isn't uniform by any means but the US runs on a physically independent cloud, often in their own facilities, designed by the big cloud companies. When using the public cloud for unclassified work (e.g. working with outside vendors), the data is only allowed to reside in specific data centers that have been vetted by the government, not all US regions have the same authorization. For example, government data in an S3 bucket in the public cloud may only be accessed and processed within the same region, which can be annoying if your infrastructure is elsewhere.

The US is far ahead of most countries when it comes to government use of the cloud. Other developed countries often learn how to do it from the US but are less comfortable with the technical requirements, which slows down adoption.
It’s free for individuals and organizations that make less than $5 million in revenue. Seems fine and not weird to me?