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jayanmnon ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

We are making progress but it is slow. Current govt is more for headline management.

Govt do work as long as beneficiaries are good friends - tatas and adani for example. I cautiously optimistic

In India we have company that enable gig workers - maids, drivers, beauticians, fixing aircons etc. Company charges so much that people try to cut way from the aggregator. Instead a fixed number and vision to reduce that further would these companies much bigger.

jayanmnon A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

Our demand for perfectionism prevent any progress. I would consider shortening patent length that can help everyone. With all the improvements in the world we could afford shorter window.

jayanmnon AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

Enterprise account . We got - 3trillion and change

jayanmnon Is America becoming a gerontocracy?

> Wealth Accumulation: Older Americans hold a massive share of the nation's assets, often choosing to retain their wealth rather than pass it down early, largely due to the terrifyingly high costs of late-life healthcare.

So having good social security helps everyone. Unfortunately my country ( IN) does not prioritise that part.

jayanmnon How diamonds are made

https://np.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/s/lkNfafhwoa

The project is failure so far.

jayanmnon Nobody ever got fired for using a struct

Property1 to 20 or more is an example. There are better ways to do it but I have seen columns for storing ‘anything’

jayanmnon Turn Dependabot off

Our top management has zero interest in context. There is a chart , that must not have red items.

Security team cannot explain attach surface. In the end it is binary. Fix it or take the blame

jayanmnon How I estimate work

Agree. I feel people with less clarity about priorities of features waste too much time by asking accurate estimates

jayanmnon Cloudflare acquires Astro

VMware maintained spring framework for many years. It was good ( as a user)

jayanmnon Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash

China may take over the open source part. That is the only country with exposure to hardware, software and political might.

jayanmnon An off-grid, flat-packable washing machine

I could not find if the team makes design open

https://www.thewashingmachineproject.org/

That alone will be revolutionary.

jayanmnon Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight

I am worried about a software fix for what looks like hardware problem.

jayanmnon Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

> According to YASA, this is achieved without using exotic or expensive materials, so the design could actually be scalable once the demand kicks in.

That is ever more special

jayanmnon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

Half of India’s talent will be in US next day after H1B cap is removed. I will be first one to try

jayanmnon Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover

I am from India. Could you add local UPI based donation option at some point? Not everyone has card here.

jayanmnon Iran is using drones and apps to catch women who aren't wearing hijabs

Using most modern technology to enforce most regressive step. I am sure this will extended to go after dissidents

jayanmnon Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search

Could Apple join hands with Kagi search?

jayanmnon George Orwell Complete Works

..and so many advertisements.

Low quality effort.

jayanmnon Tell HN: (weirdly, it works now) DuckDuckGo is blocked by Indian govt

Which provider..?

Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..

jayanmnon Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars, Fault-Tolerant Design

>achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures.

complete region fail? How often does that happen?