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America arguably offers the best healthcare in the world. If you can afford it.

The quality of care, technology, and expertise are top-tier for those with excellent insurance or deep pockets. But the system is neither free nor particularly efficient. For many, access is limited by cost, bureaucracy, and inequities. So yes, it is best care available, but not best care accessible.

So pirate sites cannot use CloudFlare. But isn’t that against their ToS?

Im just confused - can somebody explain me this?

Cool.

The first set of questions are logical and make some sense. But then there come questions asking you similar but with slightly different values.

And that’s when everything stops making sense.

Yes, startups are always a bit of a gamble, but this feels like a captain abandoning ship while it’s still full of sailors (many of whom have families depending on them).

This really is a whole new level of getting screwed.

The low level employees are screwed. Basically they lost their job. Not cool.

I’m honestly just surprised that the CEO and co-founder decided to walk away from the company and leave behind all these employees he was leading. Especially considering many of them probably joined for lower pay, hoping for a big upside.

Maybe there’s more to the story.

Could anyone explain the implications of this for Windsurf as a company? Are they going to close?

If we do not detect after glow does this mean that cosmic inflation did not happen?

I have a politically sensitive but potentially insightful question.

I live in San Francisco, where we have a desegregation busing policy. In practice, this means kids don’t attend their neighborhood schools. They’re assigned to schools across the city (Instead of investing in improving schools in underprivileged neighborhoods, we (voters) decided it is better (and cheaper) to bus those kids to schools in more affluent areas - but that is beside the point)

One theory I’ve heard is that this setup leads to less socializing (or “partying”) among teens, since their school friends often live far away. That raises an interesting question: To what extent does busing contribute to reduced peer interaction outside school?

Also, how common are these busing policies across the U.S. today? Is San Francisco an outlier, or is this a widespread approach?

Socially marginalized kids were partying too. The only difference was, we weren’t invited to the “cool” parties. These days, there’s definitely a lot less partying overall.

Not all parties were like that. Or at least I was never invited to those. We geeks stuck to LAN parties, got drunk, and played games. Since there were no girls around, we managed to avoid making any bad decisions :)

But we did party way more than kids today.

Two examples:

Example 1: The article claims that the affordable Nissan Versa Note cost $16,545 in 2019 and was discontinued. But not saying that this would be $21,168 in today’s dollars and they leave out an important detail: Nissan still sells the Versa in the US, just not the Note hatchback version. The current Nissan Versa starts at $17,190 according to Nissan’s own website: https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/cars/versa-sedan.html

That’s actually about 20% less expensive than the inflation-adjusted number from 2019.

Example 2: And then they claim that price increase is: 29.2% - just 3% more than inflation (but they did not want to mention total PCI). But even that number of 29.2% cannot be verified on BLS.gov nor fred.stlouisfed.org . I uploaded FRED and BLS data to chatgpt o3 and it says that new vehicle prices increased 22% from 2019 to 2025 - actually less then inflation:

2019: 146.220

2020: 149.091

2021: 166.653

2022: 176.463

2023: 178.269

2024: 177.552 fred.stlouisfed.org (slight dip from 2023)

2025: ~178.7 (May 2025)

Overall, from 2019 to mid-2025 the index increased from ~146 to ~179, amounting to about a 22% cumulative rise in new vehicle prices.

(https://www.bls.gov/cpi/data.htm - code CUUR0000SETA01).

And a few more:

- Volkswagen Jetta - starting at $22,495

- Volkswagen Taos - starting at $24,995

- Hyundai Kona - staring at $24,550

- Honda Civic - starting at $24,250

Please find a car which is missing. I was unable to find a single one.

And I also made the mistake with the list for 2025: there are 20 cars less than 25k in 2025.

See? You found problem with 2005 but you happily ignored that fact that I missed cars from 2025.

Why? Because it fits your world view. And that is how marketing works: you are convinced that cars are getting more expensive and no amount of data will change your view.

And posts on hubspot like this are paid by companies not making sub-$25k cars.

This does not match the KBB.com: https://www.kbb.com/toyota/corolla/2005/

I’m just saying that I 100% understand that you think it was “cheaper before” but there is no data to show that. I honestly feel the same. Toyota Corolla was 13k in 2000: https://www.kbb.com/toyota/corolla/2000 - 25 years ago.

The core of my argument is this: today’s news manipulates perception by playing on emotions, which ultimately distorts the truth.

This article isn’t overly political, which makes it easier for us to debate without resorting to calling each other Nazis or communists. But when it comes to politics, distortion of truth happens all the time.

Yes - it is not cheap now. But it was NEVER cheap (as implied in the comment).

> MSRP of Honda Accord went from $15k-$30k in 2005 to $30k-$40k in 2025.

> MSRP of one model is also not perfect, but it's another data point.

I do not know if this is true.

- Cheapest Honda Accord in 2005 was $17,510 (that is $28,895 in today's money) - https://www.kbb.com/honda/accord/2005/

- Cheapest Honda Accord in 2025 is $28,295 (https://automobiles.honda.com/accord-sedan).

So the price is really the same.

> less expensive, cars have been

> knocked off - the Rio,

> the Prius C, the Fiesta..

You are incorrect. Prius C in 2005 was $21,510 (not really "less expensive") and that is about $34,827.67 in 2025. (See: https://www.kbb.com/toyota/prius/2005/)

And in 2025 Prius starts from $28,350 (see: https://www.toyota.com/prius/)

So this narrative that there are no more cheap cars is incorrect.

Here is 2005 list:

- Chevrolet Aveo – Starting at $9,455

- Kia Rio – Starting at $10,570

- Hyundai Accent – Starting at $10,999

- Toyota Echo – Starting at $11,110

- Ford Focus ZX3 – Starting at $13,365

- Chevrolet Cavalier – Starting at $13,405

- Chrysler PT Cruiser – Starting at $13,995

- Dodge Neon SXT – Starting at $14,195

- Pontiac Sunfire – Starting at $14,200 see: https://www.kbb.com/pontiac/sunfire/2005

-Saturn Ion – Starting at $14,430 - see https://www.kbb.com/saturn/ion/2005

It is based on this links: https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/top-10/top-10-cars-under... This is article from 2005 (at least metadata says that). The prices are verified via kbb.com which has original MSRP for all used cars.

We can also say that the average cost of education has risen 141.0% over the last 20 year.

So I’m not saying that things are not expensive now: but not having cheap cars is not the reason for that. And that is what the article is saying.

This is a great example of how factually incorrect narratives - so long as they align with a preferred agenda (which is that things are not affordable any more) - it gets upvoted.

Reality check:

- In 2025, there are 12 new car models available under $25,000

- In 2005, there were around 10 new models under $15,000 (25k adjusted by inflation)

So the premise that “cars used to be much more affordable” is not true. This article is full of misleading or outdated information that distorts the real trend.

HN deserves better data-driven discussions.

Strange article based on incorrect information. My son and I are buying car and there are so many under 25k. In total there are 12 new models. Adjusted to inflation things did not change a lot in last 20 years (in 2005 there were 10 models less than 15k).

- 2025 Nissan Versa – Starting at $18,330

- 2025 Hyundai Venue – Starting at $21,395

- 2025 Kia Soul – Starting at $20,490

- 2025 Nissan Sentra – Starting at $21,590

- 2025 Nissan Kicks – Starting at $21,830

- 2025 Hyundai Elantra – Starting at $22,125 Ok - 2025 Kia K4 – Starting at $21,990

- 2025 Toyota Corolla – Starting at $22,325

- 2025 Chevrolet Trailblazer – Starting at $23,100

- 2025 Subaru Impreza – Starting at $23,495

- 2025 Buick Envista – Starting at $23,800

- 2025 Toyota Corolla Hybrid – Starting at $23,825

And they charge 80k for it?

Do you have any background on this company that I might’ve missed? Have they been featured or ranked in any reports or articles suggesting they’re a strong EV play?

I’m asking because I’ve been following the EV space pretty closely. Mainly from a business perspective and I’m genuinely curious how this one flew under my radar.

Please don’t take this as dismissive of your opinion; I’m just trying to learn and would really appreciate any additional info you can share.

Depends on the audience. You could write an article with the same facts but different subject and get a ton of clicks on Truth Social.

(Just to clarify: I’m speaking here from the perspective of a hacker or hustler. No politic or opinion on the actual subject.)

Amazon has ~ 70,000 delivery vehicles. USPS has 93 EV vehicles.

Oshkosh Corporation will get a new military contract :) No worries there.

Let’s be honest - Oshkosh Corporation is really strange choice for making EVs. Very strange choice.

Apparently, only 93 electric vehicles have been delivered. And the 3,000 originally expected. [1]

I suppose the headline could’ve been: “GOP tax bill compels USPS to sell its 93 delivery EVs”. But let’s be honest, that wouldn’t get many clicks nor be on the first page of HN.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/biden-usp...

You brought up something I’ve been thinking about too: the real issue is that YouTube has effectively become a monopoly. It’s the de facto standard for online video.

It makes me wonder: is there room for meaningful competition or an alternative platform? And if so, how could it be made sustainable? Are there any viable revenue models beyond ads and surveillance capitalism?

Why isn’t simply avoiding YouTube considered a viable solution?