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> Even on HN you can still see claims that USA is a "free" country where anyone can say anything about the government, without consequences.

The first amendment applies to public spaces. Not private conferences which are invite-only. You're on an anti-U.S. tear in this discussion but lack understanding of the basics.

For the same reason I can't show up at your office and start handing out religious materials and/or pornography (take your pick) to everyone showing up for work and claim it's a free speech issue and my right to do so.

As someone else pointed out below, this exact argument was used to ban apps lacking "correct" moderation from the app stores a few years ago.

I'm a bit confused.

The first three posts you linked were all upvoted, one sits at +10.

In absence of an official scoring rubric, how is one to know what will or won't make you upset if the feedback differs?

As few have already pointed out, an AI hallucination...

Quick, to the top of HN!

Toyota engineers equally puzzled their doors fly off when you reverse through a toll booth with them open.

This submission should be studied by people holding clipboards. It needs a follow-up:

"How I made it to the top of HN with zero content beyond a catchy title"

It further proves the key to getting your stuff on HN is not to post interesting content, it's to post something that sounds interesting.

Sounds like a great use case for serving plain HTTP over cloudflare tunnel. Why terminate TLS when you don't have to?

Interesting this keeps moving up the front page when the site is inaccessible because it's hosted on a baked potato.

This isn't 'Nam, there are rules.

If your ballot shows up a year later does it deserve to be counted? No, it doesn't.

You seem to be taking the position of the end of Trading Places, screaming "turn those machines back on!"

You set a deadline. Everything past the deadline is discarded. California allows for an 8-day buffer, which is artificial.

Lobby to mail the ballots 8 days earlier if that would make you happy.

Because every time basic fraud prevention measures are brought up, everyone acts all cutesy saying show me proof it's ever happened as if the world is somehow honest by default when it comes to elections.

Do you leave your servers wide open with all ports exposed? Do you ask "prove to me we've been owned before" when you're told to put a firewall in place?

I wouldn't want to disenfranchise people sending ICMP traffic my way.

The disenfranchisement bit is such a tired, worn out trope.

They mail them a month ahead of time.

Developing countries where people struggle with food and sanitation have this figured out and California rightfully deserves to be mocked by them.

Voting is for adults and we don't need to cripple the system to cater to people so irresponsible they can't drop a piece of paper in a box on time. If that's too hard you don't deserve to vote or there is something more nefarious at play.

Because if they find out your registration was fraudulent a day later, how are they supposed to dig your anonymous ballot out from the barrel?

It's for the same reason most insurance policies have a waiting period. To prevent the most low-hanging fruit of fraud.

I've actually seen this happen in big cities where they have same-day popup registration tents in the middle of skid row, signing up random homeless people who don't even have stable addresses. No verification, nothing, we'll worry about that later here take a ballot. I'm sure everything was on the up-and-up there.

Whenever the obvious drawbacks of mail-in voting are brought to light, the massive cope machine comes out in full force.

Many of the flaws are self-imposed. The requirement for ballots to merely be postmarked by election day is insane. If my credit card bill is due on June 5, it's due on the 5th, not postmarked by. I will pay penalties if it arrives past that date.

If you have the privilege of voting by mail then be an adult and mail it promptly so it arrives by election day when all ballots should be counted. Ballots arriving after should be summarily rejected.

California also allows same-day registration, another insane innovation ripe for irregularities.

A compromise would be vote-from-home but dropoff-in-person (where ID is checked). I would argue most states allow ample time for early voting, sometimes weeks ahead of time, allowing just about anybody to fit it into their schedule to vote in person. The arguments for default vote by mail (barring some verified hardship) simply don't hold up enough to offset the potential negatives.

Yeah GPS is not the people's airwaves it is operated by the US Space Force, I suggest you read up on your history.

Why would I steal a link from someone who submitted a story first and take credit? I know it's normal behavior in tech to stab everyone in the back but...

They're not flying to Mars in a 30 year old Russian rust bucket so

Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413273

He's a twonk and Britain is essentially a police state at this point. The American Revolutionary War was fought over far less than what is going on right now.

Solar is reliable.

60% of the time it works every time.

What kind of person parks on a hill without setting the parking brake?

Here's a non-smug, non-flamebait source:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/climate/trump-coal-plants...

The video looks more like the gear was intentionally retracted.

I bet you would blame the automotive engineers too after reversing your car through the garage door.

It's not so amazing when you realize the Neo is an iPad's innards with a keyboard glued to it. $250 for a keyboard and a hinge.

This is the same company that for years dragged their feet on the iPad Mini because Steve thought you would need "sandpaper to shave down your fingertips".

This is all political bluster.

When the industry has moved to designing things wholly dependent on specific AWS features and similar products, they don't have much choice. I never said this was a good thing, but it's reality.

One of the benefits of cloud computing is to provide global availability.

Just like how the manufacturing world has an inseparable dependency on SAP, a German company.

> promoting a paid service or product

There was a thread yesterday doing exactly this with over 450 points.

When I pointed it out, my comment was immediately downvoted to the bottom of the thread.

This place has a weird, almost cult-like, definition of what it loves and hates.

This looks like a stealth advertisement for their CT scanning business. There is nothing educational of value for the general public here.

The only reason you would do this is for competitive analysis and I assure you the other car companies have already analyzed these parts.

A picture would be nice and avoid a lengthy game of Hacker News Charades.

Thunderbolt docks being absolute dogshit is universal across the market, it's not limited to one manufacturer.

Apple doesn't have this problem because they don't even make docks they're so problematic. Enjoy dongles, Mac users.

Modern docks usually run their own internal OS and require frequent reboots to even attempt to appear stable.

The worst part is most use docks to get Ethernet, but docks nearly universally use low quality USB Ethernet controllers internally (vs PCI) making the whole exercise rather pointless.

> Whatever they all do, they can never, ever match the quality of Apple!

It's a pretty low bar to meet.

Every Mac I've owned has had a hardware failure. Keyboard (x3). Dead trackpad. Display backlight. Logic board. LCD failure. Multiple drive failures. One Apple TV that shit the bed. Many within warranty, some not.

Apple's warranty service is pretty good, but to gloat about "quality"... it's more like when Sonny Corleone throws money at the guy's feet after he smashes his camera.

The difference here is with a win-win-win approach, we all win.

> The main problem the US has is food. As a Spaniard myself, every time I go to the US it is really hard for me to eat well. Good quality food is extremely expensive and inconvenient

What inherently prevents you from cooking a tortilla or baking bread in the US vs Spain? Do frying pans and ovens work differently? Has the US outlawed paella?