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nextstep··on What happened to the Snowden archive
far-right lunatic? do you have a source for this or an example

I read his substack, he seems to be critical of the US security state and not inline with alt-right principles at all

nextstep··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
2025. He’s right, Tim Cook is a coward and no better than the rest of the oligarchs who kissed the ring and played the game.

But Anil also falls into this trap of believing the myth of Jobs over who he actually was. Steve Jobs was a Silicon Valley capitalist who took parts the hippie counterculture ethos and baked it into an image that sold well to consumers. He was not some revolutionary, he just successfully used the language of revolution to sell a better product than his competitors.

nextstep··on Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis
It’s capitalism. The market has determined that plastic in the ocean is the most efficient way to produce goods and services.
nextstep··on Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Airemin
nextstep··on Pixel Watch 5
Google had a town hall a few years ago. The Pixel Watch (4?) had just launched and supposedly fixed a bunch of bugs like apparently you could not reliably record a run with the previous generation without that app crashing and losing the workout. Someone in the audience asked about this, and the PM who responded was wearing an Apple Watch. Apparently everyone on that team at the meeting was wearing Apple Watches or a dumb watch

They know this product is garbage

nextstep··on The AI Apocalypse Is Here
>China has not known freedom for some time, but citizens of the United States have a long experience of it.

One of those American beliefs presented without evidence because it’s just so obviously true, but what the fuck does this even mean? Exactly how are Americans more free?

nextstep··on The Boeing 747 begins its final descent
America begins its final descent
nextstep··on Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore
too bad houses AREN’T for living in, but for speculating
nextstep··on Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
Western governments are so concerned when this happens to them (at arguably a tiny scale) compared to the “interventions” they’ve supported around the world for almost one hundred years.

Rules for thee and not for me. Sure, Canada isn’t the CIA, but they’ve been right there with the US from Iran to Ukraine.

nextstep··on Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o

there’s also a YouTube live stream that lets you go back

nextstep··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Blocking an event memorializing a shameful part of China’s history? that’s not great, but that’s really not the same thing
nextstep··on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
Do you have any sources for these claims about China?
nextstep··on Wikipedia doesn't need my cash
>> By my calculation, and further verification, that's around 17 months of running costs.

so if you’d like Wikipedia to be around two years should you donate?

nextstep··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
the leader of building earth-based datacenters lol

what are we even talking about

nextstep··on F-35 is built for the wrong war
Writers of history or historical fiction often wonder how did average people in militaristic, fascist societies from the past view their society? I think it’s obvious from the present-day US: they were amused. They were entertained by it. Human suffering, a necessary feature of such cultures, is trivialized by draping the death machine behind the veneer of fun, exciting game!
nextstep··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
Can confirm this guy is Swiss

Has arguably the best infrastructure and system in the world and will still find issue with it. A real Swiss hardly knows the horror show that is the rest of the non-Switzerland world.

yeah, fiber rollout is slow outside of the cities. It’s still better than 95% of the developed world. All perspective.

nextstep··on Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
This is very nice. When I use ffmpeg recently I usually ask an LLM first but it often takes a few tries to get the exact incantation right.

On a side note (I’m not a web developer), why would a command line tool like this be written and distributed using node.js? Seems like an unnecessary risk to use JavaScript for a basic (local) command line tool. Couldn’t this be written more simply in like Rust or something?

nextstep··on Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'
The US will try to avoid this by privatizing the Fed through stablecoins, but I predict this backfiring massively. Private creation of money will likely tank the world economy worse than 2008 and in the rubble a new order will form without the US at the center.
nextstep··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
Europe will probably be the largest market where US EVs will try to compete with Chinese cars. BYD is already selling better spec’d models for less than this Rivian, and Xiaomi will enter the market late 2026.

I don’t see how Rivian can compete, either on price or features.

nextstep··on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free
These companies are only surviving because of US protectionism. This tech is more expensive than then Chinese equivalent from 2-3 years ago (look at what Xiaomi or BYD released as their 2024 models).

These cars will not sell well outside of the US.

nextstep··on Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks
Israel used Palantir technologies in pager…

“ Contrarian View(highly upvoted) Many argued the attack was a highly targeted, lawful military operation against Hezbollah's command, achieving military goals with remarkably low civilian harm compared to conventional warfare.”

What a sad world we live in. This site really is a cesspool of American fascism, and the community is not doing enough to take a stance against that

nextstep··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
I don’t think the US will ever enact a similar ban. The power to shape young minds is too great, even if these service also increase suicides in children to some degree.

The same algorithms that showed IDF war crimes compilations and turned a generation against Israel can be reshaped to push a different, right-wing narrative. The David Ellison’s of the world have too much power to allow regulation getting in the way of this.

nextstep··on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon
It was flagged and enough people complained about censorship that is was resurrected with a pinned post from dang about how we should be civil
nextstep··on Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them
None of what the US is doing in Venezuela is new ground for the empire. Failed CIA coup plots, bribing Maduro’s pilots and allies in hopes of betrayal, even military action like bombing boats on shaky “national security” grounds— the US has been doing this sort of thing in Latin America (and much of the world) since the 50’s.

But this story has stayed in media because Trump is so brazen, declassifying CIA documents and speaking openly about these war crimes. That’s new for America. Usually these things are denied for a few decades, claims to the contrary are called “conspiracy theory”, before being admitted quietly, maybe mentioned in a back page of the NY Times.

So I’m skeptical that anyone from the US government could ever be held accountable for war crimes or violations of international law, but who knows. This does feel different.

nextstep··on Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed
For the sake of democracy and freedom of human expression, I hope that their software is a bloated, bureaucratic mess and can’t power the efficient dystopia which Alex Karp wants.
nextstep··on Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)
udev4096 is correct. Discoverability via your phone number is optional and opt-in.
nextstep··on I just want working RCS messaging
Just use Signal
nextstep··on Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers
Also reported on by NY Times and posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583068

but like most articles about Israeli hacking, US Big Tech involvement in the war, etc it was immediately flagged once it reached the front page.

I don’t know how much of this is moderators removing posts, or if there is a pro-Israel brigade that is censoring HN’s front page.

nextstep··on Starship will attempt a launch this Friday
Is there any update on the lawsuit from all the environmental damage from their last launch?

https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-seek-dismiss-starship-lawsu...

nextstep··on Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord
Might have been around the time they stopped focusing on users and tried to embed themselves in the National security state. I guess around 2014 when Condoleezza Rice joined the board of directors.
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