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jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

Fantastic tool, thank you for making this it is one of those things that you never knew you needed until someone took the time to put it together.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 75406]

I really don't understand Tailwind. I heard great things about it, and then I tried it and it seemed like setting style="" on all elements, but with extra steps.

Did we go off semantic CSS and returned to setting properties on each element, or was I using it wrong?

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 75406]

I just tried a few launchers and none of them forced a search bar (or do you mean not on the home screen?). In fact, in Lawnchair and Octopi, I had to manually add a search bar if I wanted one.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

Once your exploit machine is good enough, you can start using stolen credentials to mine more exploits. This is going to be the new version of malware installing bitcoin miners.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

Neither of those is going to be obsolete in 5 years. Might get rebadged and a bunch of extensions, but there's such a huge install base that rapid change is unlikely. Neither Firewire nor Thunderbolt unseated USB.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112949]

s/embodied/embedded/, and this is how LLMs understand.

As others already mentioned, the secret is that arithmetic is done on vector in high-dimensional space. The meaning of concepts is in how they relate to each other, and high dimensional spaces end up being a surprisingly good representation.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

Apart from Toyotas, hybrids are kind of unpopular precisely because they're a compromise. Not many people who do make the switch to EV go back.

Additional tipping points will come when cities start banning combustion engines on emissions grounds. Then gas stations start closing. After a while you get the reverse condition to EV range anxiety: having to drive further and further out of your way to fill up. Maybe you get a script-flipping service, an EV comes to the few remaining unconverted combustion vehicles with a small bowser of fuel.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

"You provide the gambling, I'll provide the war"

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 184779]

Later models were quite interesting as well - the last one was a PowerPC workstation with an s390 board.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

> Wealthiest countries in Europe: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, San Marino, Sweden.

Microstates and tax havens account for half that list, which grossly distorts wealth measurements. Such as Apple Europe being accounted for in Ireland.

The rest: (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden); former kingdom of Denmark, also Hanseatic League? Apart from the brief period around 1700 at the height of the Swedish Empire, none of these count as imperial powers and did not have overseas empires.

Netherlands: had a substantial navy and overseas trading empire, although not as big area-wise as the UK. Probably more cost-effective as a result.

> Britain, Russia, Spain, France, Portugal, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Belgium

What happened here is that all the great empires spent all their money and a vast quantity of human lives fighting each other to the death. Twice. I suppose Spain and Portugal collapsed on their own to ineffective dictators.

(special "fuck Belgium" entry here for just how brutal the small Belgian empire was; Belgian occupation of the Congo cost more lives than the Holocaust)

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

Still a good chance that something will happen in these four years that makes the gambling crisis look completely trivial. I suppose I should bet on that, or would it be in poor taste?

Many, many years ago the libertarians had something they called "assassination politics", in which it was pointed out that the ability to bet on the death of famous figures also created an "untraceable" way to funnel money to someone who could make that event happen.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112949]

Until recently, I've been a smog-skeptic; I figured it must be an overblown issue, as regardless of what the digital sensors and pretty graphs say, having spent almost my entire life in Kraków, I never saw it, never felt it. Still don't. Air in Kraków feels perfectly fine to me. And every time I saw someone complain, it was because of "see the PM2.5 PM10 thru the roof omg zomg!", not any actual health-related issues or discomfort.

What changed my mind about the whole thing was my kids. I may not feel the particulates in the air, but my kids do, especially my eldest daughter (who has early childhood asthma, in remission) - winter comes, particulates go up, they start coughing uncontrollably all day. Particulates go down, suddenly they're healthy again (+/- running nose).

I have limited sympathy for conspiracy theories, and very little for those burning trash in their homes, but I do understand where the smog-skepticism comes from. I still remember when Krakowski Alarm Smogowy became a thing, winter 2012; back then, this felt like a huge fad pushed by young activists on the Internet.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 124816]

It was the crash of the stock markets that eventually created the social situation that pushed people into WW.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

Soviet Union was unwilling to put nuclear that far west, and then after Chernobyl most nuclear construction was cancelled.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126921]

Good thing no one ever invented a way to transport invading forces and equipment across a body of water that doesn't rely on sea transports.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 124816]

It was ahead of its time, now we have people shipping Electron all over the place.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

You may want to say that to the faces of the families who lost people in the Iraq war.

This is disgusting.

I'm beginning to believe that there is no line that you won't cross to defend your idol.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 124816]

Unfortunately they are all over the place on corporate code.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126921]

> > Grok based transformer

> Is Grok not an LLM?

Transformer is the underlying technology for (most) LLMs (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”)

minimaxir ranked #48 [karma: 73470]

The same reason many big corps open source their tech: goodwill/recruiting.

xAI likely needs both more than usual nowadays.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]
toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

What would be common or recommended use cases for this?

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126921]

> We killed millions over the ability to own humans because the north viewed it as a religious duty to do so.

No, we didn’t, because if that was the reason for the fight, it would have happened before the South, fearing the long-term prospects for the institution of slavery, not only seceded to protect it, but also preemptively attacked federal installations.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 416042]

50 miles out of Chicago will get you to red counties.

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 159061]

They'll be in Canada soon, and some will make it across the border.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

https://archive.today/zpTNQ

Related:

https://x.com/BirthGauge/status/2013145955395080332 | https://archive.today/swHrT

> The number of births in China collapsed to 7.92 million in 2025, a decline of 17% compared to 2024 (similar declines were reported by Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao).

> The TFR [total fertility rate] declined to 0.93 children per woman. (1.10 in 2024).

(China 2025 TFR)

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 159061]

Video shows the coyote out of the water on Alcatraz and walking through the rocks. If it can find food and fresh water it should be OK.

walterbell ranked #29 [karma: 96067]

> hostile to LLCs

This editorial on Delaware corporations? https://a16z.com/were-leaving-delaware-and-we-think-you-shou...

Another view, https://handbooks.clerky.com/startup-incorporation/where

  Delaware is widely regarded as having strong protections against personal liability for corporations. Some advisors say Nevada has better protection against personal liability. This is arguably true, but the differences are very unlikely to be relevant to founders trying to build a legitimate business. Some people have also observed that Nevada has an adverse selection problem in that their unusually strong protections attract bad actors. As a result, it's possible that if you incorporate in Nevada, you'll be inviting closer scrutiny.

simonw ranked #30 [karma: 95258]

One of the big open questions for me right now concerns how library dependencies are used.

Most of the big ones are things like skia, harfbuzz, wgpu - all totally reasonable IMO.

The two that stand out for me as more notable are html5ever for parsing HTML and taffy for handling CSS grids and flexbox - that's vendored with an explanation of some minor changes here: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/blob/19bf1036105d4e...

Taffy a solid library choice, but it's probably the most robust ammunition for anyone who wants to argue that this shouldn't count as a "from scratch" rendering engine.

I don't think it detracts much if at all from FastRender as an example of what an army of coding agents can help a single engineer achieve in a few weeks of work.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

The very last thing Iran needs is another dictator.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

I don't mind paying more for a European product, and as for the 'poor long term reliability': we don't know what the long term reliability of Chinese vehicles is yet.

Not that it really matters, my car is 27 years old this year and I won't be getting another one but that has to do with wanting a car that is doing what I want it to do rather than what it wants to do.

rayiner ranked #17 [karma: 125326]

Victorian England was the richest country in the world by GDP per capita. But the world was just very poor before the industrial revolution: a per-capita GDP around $900. By 1800 England was more than double that. Today almost every country is richer than England was in 1800: https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/how-the-world-became-rich-par...

rayiner ranked #17 [karma: 125326]

Standing armies create structural problems. Many countries in Asia are constantly having civilian governments being overthrown by the army.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 75406]

Has Forgejo added some sort of decentralised protocol? I missed that if so, that would be a great feature.

minimaxir ranked #48 [karma: 73470]

This is one outcome of their latest marketing campaign.

The opposite variant https://yesai.duckduckgo.com/ strongly advertises AI answers.

minimaxir ranked #48 [karma: 73470]

The prompts turned out significantly better this time!

WalterBright ranked #41 [karma: 78525]

E to the u, du dx, E to the x, dx!

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

It's pretty subtle right now here in NL but I can still see it with the naked eye. Mostly greenish haze that fades in and out.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

The ultimate expression of this is the Presidential pardon, a pass entitling privileged people to one or more free crimes.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

> The parts that touch hardware (or similarly bare kernel interfaces) must be so.

That's just a choice and no you are incorrect. It is perfectly possible to deal with hardware in managed languages.

> Sure, you could split device driver implementations and so on, but somewhere there's a meaningful lower level of software within the system.

This is optional. Been there, done that. Many times.

> No. The kernel must provide for context switching. It would be like migrating threads IPC, but one-way. No threads, no scheduler, no dedicated data transfer. In other words, the bare minimum necessary to make a sensible abstraction around switching processes.

Yes, IPC is context switching. Timer interrupts can cause extra context switches.

> seL4, according to its developers, is not absolutely a microkernel. I believe the rationale mainly points to the in-kernel scheduler, but seL4's IPC interacts with the scheduler and is noticeably more elaborate than a mere context switch. Even if seL4's IPC is, by most standards, minimal, I do not consider it to be so objectively. I described a meaningfully more minimal alternative.

It is a pretty poor implementation in my opinion.

> Delegating scheduling to userspace is trivial. If necessary, designate a scheduler to run if no scheduling decision is available. It has been done before, and the only usual objection is performance.

It's trivial, except for the little problem that your userspace program can be killed and then you have no scheduler.

> Just as hardware interrupts can be abstracted into messages, syscalls can be abstracted into messages. I'm not saying that the hardware implementation directly conforms to the abstraction.

Ok. If you want to use a different description of the term syscall than is common then that's fine but you should define that up front. Your definition of a syscall simply does not match mine.

simonw ranked #30 [karma: 95258]

I went looking for a single Markdown file I could dump into an LLM to "teach" it the language and found this one:

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang/blob/main/MEMORY.m...

Optimistically I dumped the whole thing into Claude Opus 4.5 as a system prompt to see if it could generate a one-shot program from it:

  llm -m claude-opus-4.5 \
    -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang/refs/heads/main/MEMORY.md \
    'Build me a mandelbrot fractal CLI tool in this language' 
   > /tmp/fractal.nano
Here's the transcript for that. The code didn't work: https://gist.github.com/simonw/7847f022566d11629ec2139f1d109...

So I fired up Claude Code inside a checkout of the nanolang and told it how to run the compiler and let it fix the problems... which DID work. Here's that transcript:

https://gisthost.github.io/?9696da6882cb6596be6a9d5196e8a7a5...

And the finished code, with its output in a comment: https://gist.github.com/simonw/e7f3577adcfd392ab7fa23b1295d0...

So yeah, a good LLM can definitely figure out how to use this thing given access to the existing documentation and the ability to run that compiler.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

Every few months adds another five to 10 years of recovery. I am worried about the long term.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

> I'm not sure I see the difference.

The difference is massive because the source material is covered by copyright. So even if the product can't be copyrighted there is a fair chance that you'll get your ass sued by whoever is able to trace back some critical part of that product to their own work of which yours is now a derived work.

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 159061]

PJM had some geomagnetic disturbance warnings, but did not progress to the alert stage or grid re-configuation actions. So, no US power grid problems.

    104955 Warning Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning 01.19.2026 14:30 
    PJM-RTO
    A Geomagnetic Disturbance Warning has been issued for
    14:30 on 01.19.2026 through 16:00 on 01.19.2026 .
    A GMD warning of K8 or greater is in effect for this period. 
    End time: 01.19.2026 16:00 
(All times are prevailing Eastern US time)

I've posted on this before, for other warnings. Not going to repeat that.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126921]

They are based in Alaska, which is both a US state and strategically a rather key location for, among other things, air, including ballistic missile, defense; the defense of Alaska seems to be an ideal role for troops (1) with arctic training, and (2) the capability to rapidly redeploy to address incursions over a very wide area of operations.

jedberg ranked #45 [karma: 76816]

A related problem is other parents. Even if you want to let your kid be free, you can't, because nosey neighbors will report you to the police.

It happened to us. We let our kids stay in the car, during COVID, while we quickly shopped.

After we got home, the cops showed up and told us someone reported us for neglecting our kids. My wife just kept asking "did we do anything illegal?" and finally they admitted that no, we didn't. They just said

"it just doesn't look good, with all the crime out there".

I said "what crime?". Then they had to admit that crime is way down over the last 30 years, and is especially low in our area.

They eventually left, but it has a chilling effect on letting our kids be kids for fear that it will happen again.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 416042]

If it helps, I read this (before it landed here) because Halvar Flake told everyone on Twitter to read it.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 75406]

Maybe, but you won't be able to test all behaviors and you won't have enough time to try a million alternatives. Just because of the number of possibilities, it'll be faster to just read the code.

simonw ranked #30 [karma: 95258]

> In the hardest task I challenged GPT-5.2 it to figure out how to write a specified string to a specified path on disk, while the following protections were enabled: address space layout randomisation, non-executable memory, full RELRO, fine-grained CFI on the QuickJS binary, hardware-enforced shadow-stack, a seccomp sandbox to prevent shell execution, and a build of QuickJS where I had stripped all functionality in it for accessing the operating system and file system. To write a file you need to chain multiple function calls, but the shadow-stack prevents ROP and the sandbox prevents simply spawning a shell process to solve the problem. GPT-5.2 came up with a clever solution involving chaining 7 function calls through glibc’s exit handler mechanism.

Yikes.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 236818]

Wasn't the mantra always that whoever owns the platform gets to decide who is on it?

I don't care that Musk turned Twitter into a Nazi safe haven, I just left.

DJT has no right to any coverage, prizes, diplomas and so on, he's just another politician and worse than most. The fact that he's democratically elected is a blemish on the USA just like Wilders is on NL.

> And if they still think this is ridiculous take can summon Trump to any European court.

Ok, so you're really just trolling. Goodbye.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112949]

That's assuming one cares about "attribution" and "people following other links on your site". I.e. that's still being a salesman, maybe with extra steps.

In the alternative case, no value is being taken, you're left exactly with what you had before - nothing gained, nothing lost - but some user somewhere gains a little. Apparently even in 2026, the concept of positive-sum exchange, is unfathomable to so many.

rayiner ranked #17 [karma: 125326]

This is tragic, but I hope it doesn't put a damper on Spanish high-speed train development. They've really done a remarkable job building out their network in a cost-effective manner.

anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 98414]

Buy a cheap shit android phone for under $100 and never associate it with a SIM

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112949]

On the contrary - perfect security is only possible if your system is an inert rock. Or not even then, as the users could still use the rock "wrong" by beating security maximalists over their heads with it.

Also honestly TIL that TOTP are somehow supposed to also enforce a single copy of the backing token being in existence. That's not just bad UX, that feels closer to security overreach.

People in tech, especially software and security folks, tend to miss the fact that most websites with 2FA already put a heavier security burden on their users than anything else in real life. There's generally no other situation in peoples' lives that would require you to safely store for years a document that cannot be recovered or replaced when destroyed[0]. 2FA backup codes have much stricter security standard than any government ID!

And then security people are surprised there's so much pushback on passkeys.

--

[0] - The problem really manifest when you add lack of any kind of customer support willing to or capable of resolving account access issues.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14860

Robinson, C., Ortiz, A., Kim, A. (et al.). (2025) Global Renewables Watch: A Temporal Dataset of Solar and Wind Energy Derived from Satellite Imagery. Global Renewables Watch.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

Buy some land and try to sell the idea to people willing to buy a lineage memorial. To prove out the idea, the question is “who cares enough to pay for it.”

https://www.familysearch.org/ might be relevant for further research.

walterbell ranked #29 [karma: 96067]

> I have to swat other people’s hands away when they try to point something out on my screen with their pizza fingers.

How are fingerprints on iPad Pro nano texture touchscreens?

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 80717]

I solved this for myself when I discovered "prism glasses":

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=prism+glasses

The comfortable reading position is lying on your back on your bed (or long sofa) with a pillow under your head. You're looking upwards at the ceiling while holding the book upright on your belly.

There's even a clip-on version you can attach to existing prescription glasses.

So simple. Zero strain. You look absolutely dumb, of course, but it lets you read until your brain gets tired, not your neck or lower back or whatever.

If you want to go for truly infinite comfort, use an e-reader held upright by a stand sitting on a breakfast tray with legs placed over and around your belly, with a Bluetooth clicker for page turning. At that point, you basically might as well not even have a body...

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 80717]

Not a single demonstration of contrast?

We've had matte screens for a long time that don't show glare. The problem is, the blacks are much more washed-out because that light still has to go somewhere, so it's basically just being smeared across the entire display.

This page shows lots of side-by-side photos of content that is primarily white, and most of the black bits (like text) are too small to make out.

The comparison needs to use things like busy photographs with bright areas and black areas. Then you can judge how much more washed-out the black areas look.

The second photo makes the Nano texture look pretty washed-out, but sadly doesn't include the traditional glossy laptop next to it for comparison, so it's impossible to tell.

Also, in all the side-by-side photos the Nano screen looks like it's set to much brighter. So any fair comparison should have them set to equal brightness. There's no universe in which a glossy screen is going to make the white areas look darker, as they are in all these examples.

I'm very curious if/how the Nano is better, but unfortunately these photos don't do anything to demonstrate it.

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 159061]

So Google Search is now opt-in? Good.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 416042]

Nonviolence was never proposed as a shield for activists against violence. He knew what he was up against.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

Oh no no, we still have tax cuts for the wealthy, $800B in debt servicing, and $1T/year in military spending to pay for. The tariffs were a regressive tax to compensate for the tax cuts for the wealthy.

anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 98414]

I think doing war crimes is the real betrayal of the country. But we have a president who think his personal morality is superior to international law, ratified treaties (despite the supremacy clause) and so on. This is overtly and explicitly unconstitutional.

rayiner ranked #17 [karma: 125326]

I’m just pointing out that an “arctic” division seems like a very small niche. Where else could we possibly use them?

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 80717]

This is interesting and unexpected if true.

My only thought is that virtually all "serious" sites tend to have robots.txt, and so not having it indicates a high likelihood of spam.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 175148]

> it is white washed non-violence 'protest and vote harder' nonsense that the history books like to push

My family is largely [EDIT: South Asian] Indian. It’s really not nonsense.

> there was a very real looming rod waiting

The rod was thinly-veiled racial violence and domestic terrorism. It would have been a route towards exterminationist rhetoric and potentially action on both sides. Not civil rights.

Keep in mind, while King was in jail America was in its own telling losing the Cold War. We were behind in space. We drew a stalemate in Korea and were getting routed in Vietnam. A year earlier the Cuban missile crisis had been narrowly averted through diplomacy. King vs. Malcolm is a textbook illustration of the downsides of escalating to violence as a political tool. (And the upsides of refraining from it even if your adversary embraces it.)

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 89592]

>This makes me a bit uncomfortable because of how close it comes to infringing on freedom of speech,

That's fine, ads should be downright forbidden and get no "freedom of speech".

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]
TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112949]

Plenty of more fun dynamics. For example, in some cases it becomes a way for voting for decisions one otherwise wouldn't control. If a person in position to make a decision doesn't really care about any choice in particular, seeing the prediction market lean one way would incentivize them to choose the opposite, making a short sale immediately before.

It also makes sense for the people voting: by betting against the outcome they want, they end up either a) paying for getting things their way, or b) getting consolation payoff if the decision makers pick the undesired choice.

tosh ranked #8 [karma: 169584]

nb: uses data from 2012 and extrapolates, would be interesting to compare to actual current data

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126921]

All of these things are much more subject to the problem that effects policy generally: the law of unintended consequences. Betting on the policy, rather than an intended/expected longer-term outcome that is easily derailed by intervening events outside of your direct control is much more direct (plus, if you are corrupt enough to bet on policy you control, that policy is probably already seeking a longer-term aim that serves your existing financial interests, so the ability to bet on the policy itself makes the corruption more attractive by providing a more immediate and certain payoff on top of the longer-term, less certain one.)

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 416042]

This gets into a philosophical point about what a prediction market actually is. If it's a device for anonymously aggregating fragmented group information into a coherent accurate prediction, the lopsided bets are a feature; the only point of the market is the price signal, and the lopsided bets true up the price.

But most of us understand that prediction markets aren't that, no matter what Robin Hansen said when he was helping invent the modern incarnation of things like Polymarket and Kalshi. They're gambling venues, and we have "Nevada Gaming Commission"-style concerns about fairness. To me, the next logical step is to say that they should be heavily regulated, but in the era of DraftKings, that seems off the table.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 101243]
JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 175148]

> it just drives investors to actual gambling because they cant get the exposure they were already looking for

This argument gets trotted out by Wall Street every decade or so, usually under the guise of "democratising" some piece of finance. It's almost always bunk.

Most investment capital is looking for safe returns. It's not competing with gambling. Even within the high-risk end of finance, the game is in turning that high risk into above-market but predictable returns through portfolio mechanics. (Fuckups aside, you can't generally portfolio mechanic your way out of the negative expectated value of a lottery ticket.)

More simply: the notion that we need to increase risk and profitiabilty for intermediaries in investments to keep people from gamblig is a false economy. Gamblers are seeking a different thrill from what financial markets are designed to provide. To the degree we have a problem, it's in letting our markets look more like casinos.

> exposure they were already looking for

Broadly speaking, if you want exposure to the economy you're investing. If you want exposure to a number that goes up, you're gambling. This is an overly-simplistic delineation. But it works for first-order estimates.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

So clearly the market isn't efficiently priced.

ceejayoz ranked #34 [karma: 87891]

> Almost all the comments acting like this is some truth bombshell, like people in trumpistan all thought raising tariffs magically made the us economy better. This is a straw man, no?

No. It isn’t.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/09/politics/fact-check-trump-van...

> “She is a liar. She makes up crap … I am going to put tariffs on other countries coming into our country, and that has nothing to do with taxes to us. That is a tax on another country,” Trump said.

> Vance said in late August that as a result of tariffs Trump imposed during his presidency, “prices went down for American citizens.”

simonw ranked #30 [karma: 95258]

I'm getting some really skeezy ads for prediction markets on TikTok at the moment, the message is effectively "hey, are you broke? earn $50+/day on Kalshi!"

jedberg ranked #45 [karma: 76816]

> What were you thinking? What was going through your heads? I'm genuinely curious.

I know two people who voted for him.

Person one has voted Democrat her whole life. Has worked for the Democratic Party. Has a son who was a Democratic elected official. But she lives in Texas, and watches too much local news, and believed that murderous immigrants were pouring over the border, guns blazing, taking out innocent American citizens daily at the beach and grocery store. So she voted for him because she believed only he could stop this from happening.

Person two is a wealthy white boomer. His business already runs in America. He actually has an advanced degree in economics. He believed that the tariffs would only be used surgically by smart people to protect American business. He is not personally affected by any of the racist policies or any of the other shenanigans. So he voted for him because he liked the protectionist and tax cut policies.

He regrets his vote. I haven't spoken to her in months because she stopped talking to me when I kept show her that her "facts" were made up.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 103812]

Make me think of the book

https://www.franklincovey.com/books/the-speed-of-trust/

which has a profound message is manifestly true (e.g. of course you have been in an organization which was slow because people didn't trust each other) but can't be separated from the ® mark at the end of "Speed of Trust ®", that is, people can't help to be cynical of that kind of message as soon as you put it in a marketing frame.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 101243]

See also: the fate of Stack Overflow. R.I.P.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

People love being lied to like that, though.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 184779]

Yes, but please remember you specify the common parts only once for the agent. From there, it’ll base its actions on all the instructions you kept on their configuration.

Tomte ranked #10 [karma: 159517]

Me too. I actually bought a selection of freshly roasted beans from a local roaster, and when I came back I said that I could not distinguish the Peruvian one from the somewhere else one. The roaster was shocked.

I‘d love to have better taste, but I‘m saving so much money, I do not really care.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 184779]

The fact it could have worked probably weighted in the decision to sponsor the coup and the regime that destroyed its legacy.

A real shame.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 101243]
toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

I will confirm what the person you replied to said. I have had white collar colleagues and blue collar truck drivers (one who is a family member) say the same thing, that they wouldn’t vote for a women. You severely underestimate racism and misogyny in the US electorate imho.

I did not bother canvassing or donating to the Harris campaign for this reason, for the same reason I did not help pro vaccine non profits during the pandemic trying to convince antivaxxers. You aren’t changing someone’s belief system and mental model on timelines that matter for election outcomes. Mamdani was able to win NYC because young people and women turned out in force and ranked choice voting. The electoral college overweights rural, lower education parts of the country in US voting influence.

Based on the above, it will be a long time before enough of the US electorate has turned over before you can run a women presidential candidate imho. 78% of farmers voted for him, and still support him, even as he destroys their way of life, for example. Progress occurs one funeral at a time (Planck).

I recommend the recently released book “The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us” by Ryan P Burge (ISBN13 9781587436697) as a contributor to understanding this topic, as well as “Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are” by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (ISBN13 9780062390851).

Edit: This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681760 touches on this as well.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 80717]

To the contrary. At least in my area, there are more items with 1-day shipping than ever before.

A few years ago, most stuff was 2-day. Now most stuff is 1-day. And it's constantly popping up options for same-day too.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 75406]

Isn't that exactly the point of tariffs? To decrease import volumes so local industry can fill the gap and compete?

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]
toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 105176]

https://www.newgeography.com/content/008650-below-replacemen...

We are almost at worldwide sub replacement rate.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 175148]

> This is the case with any tax, it's mostly paid by the consumer

Not true. Tax burdens can fall incredibly unequally depending on market dynamics.

thunderbong ranked #19 [karma: 114987]
pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]

NVIDIA are "legitimate", so anything they do is fine, while AA are "illegitimate", so it's not.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 101243]
bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 101243]

"Around Annapurna" with Mountain Travel in the early 1980s. I was in terrific shape (at sea level) and thus very surprised at how hard I was breathing after running 100 meters on the Thorong La Pass at 18,000 feet.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 105304]
pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 124816]

I would assert this is affecting all programming languages, this is like the transition from Assembly to high level languages.

Who thinks otherwise, even if LLMs are still a bit dumb today, is fooling themselves.

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 89592]

Many of us became software engineers precisely to neglect our soft skills (or lack thereof)

pseudolus ranked #6 [karma: 182334]
PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 103812]

This isn’t a problem —- it’s a catastrophe.