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mambruon Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

I agree with that, my point is that the Ukrainians had the technical capabilities to seize control. And they chose not exercise that option. Besides, why did only Russia, of the 15 post-Soviet states have to retain control over all the stockpile?

The answer is probably because the alternative was too scary for the west. Better to keep dealing just with Moscow.

mambruon Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Not the same situation. Soviet nukes were soviet, with good chunks of them buit in Ukraine.

See for instance where that was built: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)

Also, Chernobyl.

mambruon Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Twizy

Available in Europe since 10 yrs ago. Not a rare sight, but not super-popular either.

Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_Ami_(electric)

mambruon Denmark starting to ban Google products

Do enlighten us

mambruon Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns (2021)

Surprised this had not been posted before.

mambruon Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryozka_(Russian_retail_store...

mambruon Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here

:'D You can do better than that!

mambruon Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station

Original site from the photographer, includes video: https://www.dmitrykokh.com/places#/chukotka/

mambruon Without parental leave I might be dead

That's the case in Spain since 2021. Both parents get 19 weeks paid leave.

mambruon El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

Why are remittances so expensive if this is so simple? Maybe you are missing something here?

The function of lightning and the Bitcoin base layer is settlement and clearing, those 2 things are non-trivial.

Then there is also the legal aspect, which cannot be detached from those.

mambruon Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

[citation needed]

mambruon Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library

I think Nouveau would be in better shape with a bit of collaboration from NVIDIA.

About libcu++, you guys would not be doing it if it weren't a differentiator thanks to Universal Memory. All that is OK until GPUs become a strategic topic for governments, then you may be regarded as monopolistic.

Painting it as 'OSS frienly' or 'open' or 'standards compliant', when code written like that is likely to remain NVIDIA-only for many years seems intentionally deceiving.

Also, there is an industry standard that uses standard C++ (Sycl), that you refuse to participate in or implement.

mambruon A new design ship in the Philippines is partly powered by wave energy

Probably this[1] is the same boat? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Trimaran_(Philippine_sh...

mambruon Microsoft admits being 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/39...

mambruon Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia A100 GPU

>Intel and PGI have clang forks compiling CUDA to multi-threaded and vectorized x86-64 using OpenMP.

Where are these forks?

mambruon EU beckons Indian tech talent

In Netherlands that is probably subsidized.

mambruon Firefox has lots of room to improve if it wants to beat Chrome

Skype web works if you switch user agent

mambruon Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket

Including durin42 himself ;)