skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump won 49.x% of the vote.

But the US doesn’t have direct presidential elections. It has an archaic, anti-democratic system called the Electoral College, which grants land in Wyoming greater relative weight than people in Texas.
Continent is a mass of land, it can't have values. E.g. countries on the European continent include Turkey and Russia. European Union on the other hand explicitly declares shared values.
Honestly the way the EU pays countries to catch refugees leaving their shorelines headed to the EU, I'm not even sure the EU conforms to that statement...

Amazon makes their warehouse workers pee in bottles, much respect for dignity there. Oh wait I hear that happens in Non-EU Britain, so that's not a problem! /s
Around the holiday season they usually drop to around $1k

- Time your purchase

- get coupons

- get a corporate discount if you can

to get them at a sane price
The opposite. European values are closely tied to enlightenment and the republicanist ideas that came out of the French revolution.
> Reminder that discord is an app for kids.

Why is that?
What is happening in Gaza is a ethnic-cleansing and genocide. There is long chain of evidence from the words of of its highest-ranking civilian and military leaders all the way to mid-level commanders, rank-and-file and corroborated by evidence from the ground and ample video evidence and testimony. Trump literally called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza before posting this video.

The point of my original admittedly flippant post was - If it is okay to satirize the tremendous tragedy currently ongoing in Gaza, is it not okay to make a similar satire about a tragedy that took place 80 years ago? How would the world react. How would hollywood react? How would Solo Avital react ? From a cursory look, It seems he has worked with a few prominent names like Sarah Silverman, Lewis Black in hollywood. Is he going to be black-balled, cancelled by Hollywood for mocking the suffering and planned ethnic-cleansing of 2 million palestinians.
And also: what manages the Kubernetes cluster lifecycle in the cloud provider, or on bare metal?

There is life before (and beyond) Kubernetes.
Sorry, but how does that video (I'm quite familiar with it) explain your argument?

For that matter, what is your argument? You're being quite vague.
Whoever wrote this must really like taking pictures of electronics.
Very simple: Trump wants to be a dictator, so he sides with dictators.
I would argue to that not all US companies are the same. Both ethically and based on risk.

Tesla is directly supporting Elon, and IMO much worse than, say, Netflix. Also probably more risky, as Elon is probably more pilled that the CEO of Netflix and Google
Yes, I agree. Signal is inherently contrary to the statism en vogue in most European nations at this time, and why they have repeatedly affirmed that they would leave the EU rather than allow user surveillance should Chat Control 2.0 or 3.0 be passed (rather Orwellianly officially named the "Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation)".
I mean, Google exists: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/12/europeans-se...
The favorite russian playbook, framing people who support Ukraine's right to self defense in face of a genocidal invasion as warmongers.

EU security == Ukraine security.
Tariffs, threatening the sovereignty of its neighbours, etc.
RSS still exists, it's just hidden. Like you can just add any Youtube channel page to an RSS reader and get a feed for it - instead of visiting youtube's algorithm-generated front page.

I just a month ago started moving all my feeds to a self-hosted FreshRSS installation. It lets me create feeds from pages without RSS using XPath[0] or CSS selectors to pick the elements.

I also did a handful of Go applications that generate and/or modify existing feeds to be actually usable instead of just the title. I run those from cron daily and add the generated feeds to FreshRSS

And with FreshRSS I can filter out the "XXX (YC xx) is hiring" posts from HN feeds automatically :)

[0] https://danq.me/2022/09/27/freshrss-xpath/
I get why people might feel this impulse, but they should realize that it follows the same logic as tariffs. You do not gain by closing yourself off from the world. Having the choice among the best products in the world is prosperity. Whether you restrain yourself by choice or by force, it's the same zero-sum mindset. Free trade, with some exceptions for fledgling industries, is one of the rare cases that makes everyone better off. Unfortunately, even the simplest explanation [0] is a bit unintuitive, which may explain why trade restrictions are one of the few things popular among parts of the left and the right.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
> I think the web itself could have been the platform.

The web itself does not suggest new content.

People really want novelty. They want a feed of new and interesting stuff, without having to make too much curatorial effort of their own. So there's been generations of "link aggregator" sites: slashdot, k5, digg, reddit, HN itself. As well as that being a key part of twitter and now bluesky use. Providing a feed is also crucial to youtube and TikTok - the recommendation algorithm for TikTok is ultimately what got it "banned" in the US, and then unbanned when they agreed to change the propaganda to something more favourable to Trump.

I use bluesky, but I'm not really optimistic about it any more. It's doomed by the all-consuming US news cycle.
Worth noting that Europe is the only place where someone could have actually been a Nazi, historically speaking. Plenty of other countries managed to avoid both Nazism and sweeping free speech bans.

And let’s not forget — the actual consequences for genocide were delivered by the Americans, Brits, and Russians, not by internal bans or laws.
> They were just much more clever and effective about it...

I know. This is why I added an "(overt)" here.

> For some reason everyone decided that breaking up and weakening Europe is a majorly important goal.

People might not know it much, but Europe has some silent power about some very important aspects of this world. Removing this power will allow seeding of infighting and removal of tons of regulations in physical and digital realm, allowing much more "monies" for the rich.

Plus, Europe is leaving fossil based fuels faster than anyone else.

It's all about monies now. The rest can be (modern) peasants and merely survive. It doesn't matter as long as monies keep coming.

It's a fusion of Brave new World and 1984. Look at Australian politics. One prominent figure allegedly told that $2/day is enough for many people.
I guess that's joke - indeed, in the EU - Northern counties + flat lands + Spain[x] are monarchies where the monarchs have all but representation powers.
You can add Monaco (which is not an independent State), if you really wish.

Then there is France and the revolution in 1789 which (outside the US) is considered a big thing.

[x]: Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands; Norway's also a monarchy but not an EU member state.
I think an important distinction is whether you send money to those providers or not. Using free services with a strong adblocker is probably a net loss for them. And regarding streaming... the high seas are very welcoming ;-)

PS: Did you mean Mondelez? The only thing I ever bought on their list of brands[0] is 'Lu', but I will make sure I don't anymore ;-)

[0] https://www.mondelezinternational.com/our-brands/
Warning: these "fundamentals" will become obsolete faster than you can wrap your head around them.
I use this method too for programming problems I would normally procrastinate on and offload to subconscious thinking.

Actually writing out all thinking steps helps with ironing out some wrong steps in my reasoning or going in circles due to having limited working memory.

I started doing this more rigorously after seeing how reasoning based AI does reasoning, because it seemed like a useful thinking technique.

These reasoning AI models help me think on a meta level about my own thinking and shows me tools I can use to improve it.

Great to see that I’m not alone in this!
The Common Critique Against Simulated APIs (and Why It's Wrong)
Skype was also still popular among gamers when Discord was first available. That's what my friends and I switched to Discord from.

These days I refuse to use Discord for political reasons though.
But then you will know they are spying on you - they won't be able to do it secretly.
I agree project digits looks to be the better all-around option for AI researchers, but I still think the Mac is better for people building products with AI

Re memory speed, digits will be at 273GB/s while the Mac Studio is at 819GB/s

Not to mention the Mac has 6 120GB/s thunderbolt 5 ports and can easily be used for video editing, app development, etc.
Digital products only : https://european-alternatives.eu/
Why don't you allow OAuth / social login via Google, GitHub and yes, even Discord? Seems like it would make adoption much easier.
You don't see it, like the fish who does not see the water.
The game theory of strategic ambiguity explained with Seinfeld
Did you miss the news about AMD Halo Strix?

More than twice as fast as Nvidia 4090 for AI.

Launched last week.
Humor based on absurdism doesn't work well if you always do absurd things.
Spark-TTS: Text-2-Speech Model Single-Stream Decoupled Tokens [pdf]
You listened to Rogan and your takeaway was “kind human”?
This is useless, if you don't know what they're doing on their phones.

Fact checking the speaker? Playing candy crush? Who knows.
Why don't you come on my podcast to explain LLMs?
I would love it.

https://www.youtube.com/@CouchX-SoftwareTechexplain-k9v
IRC was simple and light. It went (and still does) under the radar for many. There are channels on IRC that are older than many people here. I'm still on the same channel with my school friends from class of 1999.

You could easily see who can see your messages, especially on smaller channels with no lurkers or unknown bots.

The only major problem with IRC was that it requires an active TCP connection at all times. So you either had to have your Windows machine with mIRC online all the time or have a shell with either ircII/irssi+screen or a bouncer.

Modern-ish solutions like IRCCloud kinda-sorta fix that.
Fun, but also kind of a dick move to apply bossware to more people; the phone is where the real politics happens.
> "what does Europe do for USA"

I hope nothing. We will try to annoy the US as much as possible.
All member states share the European Convention on Human Rights.
I will preface by saying I am not a Nebula expert, and it may have changed since I last looked.

Similarities:
- Fully open source, using CAs as strong identities (rather than relying on SSO from third parties), completely self-hosted (with 3rd party SaaS options), and providing scalable, performant overlay networking.

Differences:

- OpenZiti is focused on connecting services based on zero trust principles. In contrast, Nebula focuses on connecting machines – e.g., you can authorize only a single port without needing to set up ACLs or firewall rules.

- OpenZiti does not require inbound ports or hole punching, it builds outbound only connections via an overlay which looks sort of similar to DERP (but better with app specific encryption, routing, flow control, smart routing etc). This overlay also removes need for complex FW rules, ACLs, public DNS, L4 loadbalancers, etc.

- As alluded to above, truly private, zero trust DNS entries with unique naming – if you wanted to call your service "my.secret.service", you can do that; it does not force you to have a valid Top Level Domain.

- OpenZiti includes SDKs (along with appliance or host based tunnels) to bring overlay networking and zero trust principles directly into your application.

- FOSS Nebula does not include "provisioning new clients with identities", as this person pointed out in our public forum - https://openziti.discourse.group/t/using-openziti-in-distrib...
They have been trying to get to IPO for a while. 2 years ago they deleted a huge swathe of accounts to cause those people to create new ones to boost their growth stats and frankly having been caught up in it that was the push I needed to get off Discord. It caused a huge discontentment at the time as it wasn't clear if it was a bug or intentional but Discord didn't fix it.

They will do anything to get to a successful IPO including cooking the stats but they aren't there yet.
Please do this for congress!! It would be fascinating to see stats posted for each person, etc. BUT more interesting would be the response of the politicians. Will they use their devices less, or will the cameras be ordered turned off and the live stream halted?
There are no 'conventional'/old-fashioned monarchies in Europe (except, arguably, for Liechtenstein). Some European countries have monarchs, who are powerless figureheads; executive power rests with the government (even in most European republics, executive power rests with the government, not the president).
Nice initiative, but it is a bit naive to list Ray-Ban as an alternative to Oakley when they are both owned by (Italy-based) Luxottica.
I don't find it hilarious. It's just an observation that all those are AI related.

I never claimed that people "investigate" the links and kill them. But I do believe that if enough people get tired of a certain subject, they will flag such links without bothering to even click them.

Then again, you did assume that this was done automatically. I think I can be allowed to assume that it's just other users flagging stuff they don't like.
Same here. I have never unlocked the macbook successfully the 1st time around (for a good 10 years), I always get a "wrong password" and have to re-enter.

My initial guess is that the text edit control has "select all content" set initially, so when you enter the 1st character, it's selected, and when you enter the following characters they overwrite that, essentially chopping off the 1st letter of the password (which is then incorrect, obviously). Unbelievable that this was never fixed (especially with IT-managed laptops that lock themselves very quickly).
What is the most influential video game ever?
They definitely could introduce a shorter syntax like Rust did. And they discussed that, but apparently they were not happy with ideas so far, so it's postponed. May be some day.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104684
Show off your tech or products
Come on my podcast to talk about tech or about your products or services.

https://www.youtube.com/@CouchX-SoftwareTechexplain-k9v
Yeah. I feel great common ground with half of the American people, who share European values such as democracy, right to self defense and striving towards a sustainable future.

It's the other (republican) half which is in power every 4 years which makes cooperation on these issues almost impossible, and you can't just ignore the US every 4 years. We need independence, and the US needs to think about where they want to be as a nation in 20 years.
For me this is not about retaliation but about being self reliant.
Ungood. Whatever you think about the economics of letter delivery, or the advantages of all-digital - a good, old-fashioned postal service is an important part of a nation's social and trust networks.
Thank you; Mondelez
I'm sorry but this is apply to all government no??? not only US
It can also be disinformation by selectively editing out portions, so everything you see is authentic but the overall picture is not.
> it's an open invitation for abuse.

And I refuse to believe that the politicians behind that travesty don't know that.

Also, if you already go to prison for not handing over your decryption keys when asked, the one purpose left for a backdoor can only be criminal abuse.
this kind of surveillance is childish and a bit creepy too
Well, you are certainly living up to your handle here… do feel free to explain your plan for how nobody ever needs to worry about money ever again. And how everyone gets a studio apartment at least.
I am curious -- what is your concern about creating an account? Is it security? Privacy? The need to keep track of it?
So do chain-of-thoughts. The "come up with words to say" aka. selecting the best-fitting token to continue the sequence, is more-less exactly how my inner monologue feels. It sits at the boundary of the conscious and the unconscious, and from the point of view of my own introspection, the words just appear, complete with an emotional undertone of whether they "feel right" and how much.
This is as centralized as Discord right? No running your own server, should you choose to.
That's been the Republican MO since the 90's: break everything, then blame the Democrats for not cleaning up the mess fast enough. I always expected that behavior. What I never thought I'd live to see was watching the Republican Party of all people outright turn into a Russian fifth column.
I don't think they really need to. You can have the base model with the same specs, but let me configure it with a better display. I can currently spec up a Mac Mini without any problem.

The second option is to bring back the MacBook brand for entry level devices and use the Air brand for "Pro" devices that don't require active cooling.
No, if anything, all that stuff regular people are subjected to, must be now be used against people in power just to let them feel the weight of reality they have created. It is not that dissimilar to how Musk flights were tracked by a bot on Twitter not that long ago.

Is it a dick move? Sure, but I am tired of there being two set of rules for those with power and those without it.
If nuance is that hard to equip, then please do, but please be keenly aware that this is your own choice. No one will save you from your own actions.
But only in Python.
>Share of respondents who said Trump would be good or bad for their country..

No no, that is not what is being said here. To match with it, the poll should ask if they would like someone like Trump to be their leader, not if Trump in US would be bad for their country.
Europeans have hated Americans for a while. It’s about time we listen to Europeans and stop helping them with defense.
These people are elected and paid more than enough to pay attention. If they can’t be bothered doing their job, we’ll elect someone else who can.
Group mentality that picks and chooses who is "cool" and then bullies everyone else.
Nice, I really like it. The embedded elements like POSTS and RSVPs creates a nice shared space feel to it.

Also interesting to see that you chose WhatsApp for the RSVP element. Did you use Twilio for the integration and what was the level of effort needed?
Bob Lambert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lambert_(undercover_police... was one of the people responsible for the 'McLibel' leaflet that turned into the UK's longest running libel case.

These days it looks to me like Extinction Rebellion (XR) are being run by spies, since all their activities are so counter-productive in terms of making people hate environmentalism.
You have the third option of getting a USB processing unit, such as a Coral TPU.
> I know this could be said of any country at any time, but please don't conflate the current administration with the whole American people. [...] and I know I'm not alone in being perplexed by how he won the election.

The current administration didn't grow in a vacuum. It might not be the whole of the USA people, but a large enough fraction of the USA people supported the current administration, otherwise there would be no chance of it getting elected, even with all the brokenness of the USA electoral system. And the current administration still has a large enough support from the USA people, otherwise they could do nothing: the government is not some mechanical device which blindly follows the wishes of whoever is in command, it operates through people, and if all the people rejected the current administration, its orders would have no effect.
Well, if you’re the right sort of family. If you’re part of the out groups they will not hesitate to destroy family.
> The US Army sanctioned and actively endorsed the wholesale slaughter of bison herds.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#Government_inv...
LLM Flow Engineering 101 (1 hour workshop @ AIE SUMMIT NYC) [video]
Denmark is a member of the Universal Postal Union, which requires each member to deliver letters received from abroad. It's unclear who will now have that responsibility. When the new postal act went into effect last year, it opened up the market for domestic letter deliveries, but PostNord was still responsible for foreign (both in- and outbound) deliveries.

Edit: Found a note on their website:

> You can send letters to and from abroad with PostNord for the rest of the year. PostNord Denmark has been appointed by the Ministry of Transport to handle international mail until 31 December 2025. After that, it will be up to the Ministry of Transport to decide, e.g. through a tender, who will handle the task in the future.
Most European countries have proportional elections, at least for some levels of the government. Such elections give a pretty good idea of the popular support for various ideologies. On the average, parties that are broadly aligned with US Republicans get ~25% of the votes, though there is a lot of variation from country to country.
They publish instructions for self-hosting a server:

https://github.com/revoltchat/self-hosted
I know a woman who was raped by her father. The state is going to release him in a few years, so now her family lives in terror of that day. Where is the justice in that, and what does the rapist bastard being or or not being a ""rational economic actor"" have to do with any of it?
That’s the question that is easy to answer with a single document:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/char_2012/oj/eng
"Introduce algebra in primary school, and calculus much earlier"

algebra and calculus is college level century ago, we already bring it on HS level
in some part of the world (Asian country) we already learn it earlier than most of the world but that's not sustainable
We started a contribution towards that end: https://github.com/authifier/authifier/pull/63
Vibe coding the next best game
I am building Find Arcade from the last 2 days, a platform where AI-generated games can find their audience and creators can connect with players who appreciate their work.
What's working now:

Game discovery for players curious about AI-generated content
Submission system for developers to showcase their work

I am working on building a vibe coders community for gamers that shares, teaches, learns, and grows together. Human creativity is creating a whole new category of games - not AAA, not indie exactly, but something else entirely that deserves its own ecosystem.
If you're working on AI-assisted games, I'd love to feature your work. If you're interested in this space at all, I'd welcome your thoughts on what this platform needs to truly serve this emerging community.