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emilsedghon NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

> ... preventing a dedicated American enemy from getting nuclear weapons

It was called JCPOA but Israel didn't like it because it would've meant peace for the region. War _is_ the point for Israel at this point.

emilsedghon Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware

> The Qt framework acquired by Nokia, and mismanagement thereafter leading to the KDE Free Qt Foundation's origin.

KDE Free Qt Foundation predates the whole Nokia debacle and smartphones by more than a decade.

emilsedghon Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Maybe it will, but having a performance comparison will be very interesting nontheless.

emilsedghon Drawy, KDE's first infinite whiteboard app

I seriously miss Basket.

https://basket-notepads.github.io/

Anything similar for Mac?

emilsedghon Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers

I'd attribute it to 2008 financial collapse, and in general, the pressure put on the middle class that began a decade earlier.

And I genuinely believe blaming things on social media and news is just a diversion so we wouldn't look at the main issue.

emilsedghon Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal

Nuclear threat is incredibly real. Please call your congressmen.

emilsedghon Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat

Who cares about US vs. China. We're talking about jobs here and economy.

emilsedghon New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes

dang, you should consider this an existential threat to hn.

I hate myself for saying this, but HN should consider closing new registrations for a while until we figure out what to do with this.

emilsedghon An Update on Heroku

We had an enterprise account on Heroku. We invested a little in Dokku and moved to self host it as of a few months ago.

We now have a kubernetes (k3s) backed Dokku self hosted on Hetzner. Significantly cheaper but pretty robust.

Just saying that it's not literally, but you are right, most people wouldn't be interested in self hosting.

emilsedghon Claude Opus 4.6

It's not really a simple CLI tool though it's really interactive.

emilsedghon In Tehran

They are not. It's the eastern imperialists that are causing this. And if it's a choice between eastern imperialists (China and Russia) and western ones, it seems that Iranian people by far prefer the western ones.

For three main reasons.

1. Culturally Iranians are way more aligned with west.

2. Western imperialism results in more democracy. Not 100%, but not this bad.

3. Economically countries under west's influence do much better. Iran is extremely poor right now.

emilsedghon Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties

If it was about GDP it'd have "some" moral defense: That this leads to overall wealth growth of the population.

But it's not about GDP. It's about shareholder value which is absolutely not representative of the whole population.

Extreme greed is now part of US social contract, top to bottom, and has driven the whole society to madness sadly.

emilsedghon Code Is Clay

It's funny how it went from "everything needs to be strongly typed" and "even C++ isn't enough we need Rust for everything" to this...

A good chunk of our profession is just hype-followers at this point.

emilsedghon A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland

It was even taught in all schools in Iran!

emilsedghon MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces

I dont think people realize how important this is.

If one of the vendors manages to get their protocol to become the target platform (eg oai and app sdk), that is essentially their vendor lock in to become the next iOS/Android.

Private API’s or EEE strategies are gonna be something to keep an eye for and i wish regulators would step in to prevent them before its too late.

emilsedghon What if you don't need MCP at all?

Oh you're misunderstanding MCP here.

MCP was created so llm companies can have a plugin system. So instead of them being the API provider, they can become the platform that we build apps/plugins for, and they become the user interface to end consumers.

emilsedghon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)

Rechat | API Engineer, Front End Engineer | Remote

Rechat is the leading AI-powered operating platform for real estate brokers and agents. Think Shopify for real estate—a mobile-first super app with marketing automation, workflow management, and everything agents and brokers need to run their business in one place. We’re a small, sharp team building a big, sophisticated product without the usual corporate nonsense.

Why You’ll Like It Here:

  Remote-first with flexible hours

  Minimal meetings—we focus on real work

  No tech hype-chasing—we use the right tools, not the latest trends

  Flat team structure—no layers of bureaucracy

Who We’re Looking For:

  Senior Frontend Engineer (TypeScript, React) – Own the UI and craft intuitive experiences

  Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js, PostgreSQL) – Build and refine our robust, high-performance backend

If you thrive in small teams solving big technical challenges, reach out to emil+hn@rechat.com.

emilsedghon Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off

What was their vision for AI to begin with?

I totally understand what OpenAI and Google are trying to do with AI but I never understood Meta's angle.

What's Meta's AI product?

emilsedghon KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser

No but upgrading KDE is free. It also doesn't force new hardware requirements.

emilsedghon Apps SDK

I see a lot of negative comments here but to me, it was obvious this is where OAI should land.

They want to be the platform in which you tell what you want, and OAI does it for you. It's gonna connect to your inbox, calendar, payment methods, and you'll just ask it to do something and it will, using those apps.

This means OAI won't need ads. Just rev share.

emilsedghon [dead]

As a Jew I cannot be more ashamed.

The sad part is that these "Israel Supporters" don't realize they've destroyed Israel in the process.

For 2 reasons:

1. Most young Americans, in both parties, are sickened by this. Next generations of Americans are not gonna support Israel anymore and the US support for Israel is the only security Israel has. In 20 years Israel will be left alone between all the countries that they once had a chance to make peace with, but decided to wage war against.

2. Israel is gonna deteriorate and become another authoritarian regime like the rest of of the Middle East. The ultra orthodox population grows and it's simply not gonna be a democratic state anymore.

So yes, go ahead, commit a genocide/ethnic cleansing (whatever you name it) in the name of a country that you destroyed in the process.

I wish I wasn't their excuse for all this.

emilsedghon GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it

People on our circles are obsessed with model performance. OpenAI's lead is not there and hasn't been there for some time.

They do, however, have a major lead in terms of consumer adoption. To normal people who use llm's, ChatGPT is _the_ model.

This gives them a lot of opportunities. I don't know what's taking them so long to launch their own _real_ app store, but that's the game they are ahead of everyone else because of the consumer adoption.

emilsedghon Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat

Why do you even follow? Just stick to one that works well for you?

emilsedghon Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

Well, that's why REST api's exist. You don't expose your database to your clients. You put a layer like REST to help with authorization.

But everyone needs to have an MCP server now. So Supabase implements one, without that proper authorization layer which knows the business logic, and voila. It's exposed.

Code _is_ the security layer that sits between database and different systems.

emilsedghon Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules

They did. I skipped the fine but the real fine was insurance premium going up.

emilsedghon Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules

I was fined for using a phone a while back. Fine aside it had a very bad impact on my insurance prices.

emilsedghon U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

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emilsedghon Show HN: Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes

https://dokku.com/docs/deployment/schedulers/k3s/

This is a more featureful version.

emilsedghon Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's

I've heard this argument again but just because you can hail a Waymo through Uber doesn't mean Uber can continue as-is. In a world where Uber is just the app, Uber's margins would be extremely thin and it wouldn't justify the market price it has now.

Also, why would Waymo, in the long term, use Uber for this?

They have the car, the driver, the app/software. They are not gonna share a big chunk of the profit with Uber in long term. The current partnership is probably just a tactical thing for both, not a strategic one.

emilsedghon Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's

Why is Uber's price not affected by Waymo is a puzzle to me.

I use Waymo's all the time. There are still some quirks they need to figure out and polish the experience, but it really is happening and it appears that Uber's head is in the sands or I'm missing something here.