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9935c101ab17a66··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
This is an intellectually dishonest and frankly completely inappropriate attempt to twist someone’s words. HN generally has good standards about acceptable comments and I’m surprised to see this here.
9935c101ab17a66··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
You shouldn’t complain about truisms (is the quoted text even a truism? It doesn’t seem obviously true) that lack proper justification beyond belief when your initial premise was “an elected leader is the most competent person for the job”.

Beyond the obvious differences between campaigning and actually leading effectively, there is the very obvious looming spectre of dictatorship. So many dictatorships in the our modern history have started off with promising leaders affecting real change. That is, until they decide they like power a bit too much and start dismantling the democratic machinery that they used to take power in the first place.

You also assert that term limits are bad because it doesn’t allow time for people to grow into the role and demonstrate expertise in it. To that I say: there are other ways to lead and grow and develop expertise than the most powerful political office in any country.

I mean, we have an obvious and irrefutable real life example of what can happen without term limits. Just look at the US senate, the house and the Supreme Court. All of the political bodies are or have been littered without of touch career politicians who spend all their time ensuring no one else can challenge them, enriching themselves and their top supporters.

9935c101ab17a66··on Tesla Roadster
Tesla are calling this downforce but downforce is defined as downward force generated by the aerodynamic features of a car, which does not describe their system. Presumedly their “suction” system will also create drag.
9935c101ab17a66··on What I self-host
The arrs have extensive and solid capabilities for filtering for the quality you want, but they don’t really offer the ability to manage multiple qualities for one specific item.

It’s also nice to have them separated because you can set up distinct plex libraries mapped to the sonarr and radarr 4K media directories. I don’t give everyone access to 4K content because no matter how many times I explain direct play, some people just seem to love transcoding to 720p. So I can limit 4K library access on plex and disable transcoding altogether for plex content.

I also don’t want every item I add in both 4K and 1080p.

9935c101ab17a66··on Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
I’m a huge StarCraft fan! Loved this write up.
9935c101ab17a66··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
They picked the route. HS2 wanted the train to travel at 400km which seems not to be motivated by practicality. The whole project has been managed abysmally in so many dimensions. Most of the route is covered tunnels.

As one of your citations points out, they could have just slowed down briefly.

Are 8500 environment consents a lot for a 140 mile incredibly fast rail system? How much work does each consent require? Could the planning process have started earlier and mitigated the need to get so many environmental consents? Have environmental requirements caused as much delay and consternation as residents along the route have?

9935c101ab17a66··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
Do you have any proof at all? It doesn’t read as obviously AI to me.
9935c101ab17a66··on Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
What's wrong with it? It put the helicopter at risk and was a deliberate act of provocation.

> Even the U.S. Navy ships fire warning flares at other vessels when they approach close.

Yes. A helicopter is not a vessel. These kind of monitoring exercises are common amongst both Russians and Americans when operating near each other or their territorial waters.

Russians frequently overfly American and NATO craft. Russia has also been committing acts of sabotage around the world, but more specifically has been cutting undersea communication cables, so they are absolutely worthy of scrutiny.

The Russian Ambassador to Denmark stated that Russia would “thoroughly investigate all the circumstances of the incident”. That's not exactly a hardline statement indicating Russia knows it was in the right.

9935c101ab17a66··on Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
A lot of these can be answered by checking the documentation: https://hister.org.

Others could be answered by examining the source code, as it is open source.

It's good etiquette to check existing documentation and resources before badgering OSS project teams with a lengthy list of questions.

9935c101ab17a66··on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
Which options? I’ve tried a few different configurations, including one with 64gb of ram, and all of them appear eligible for preorder.
9935c101ab17a66··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Are you a Canadian lawyer? I did some research and your statement doesn’t hold up.

CBSA policy does state you are obligated to provide your password if they are conducting a lawful device examination, however they cannot do it arbitrarily, and they must have a legal basis for searching the device.

> CBSA policy states that examinations of personal devices should not be conducted as a matter of routine; such searches may be conducted only if there are grounds or indications that “evidence of contraventions may be found on the digital device or media.”

Furthermore, Canadian courts have not yet definitively ruled on whether compelling password disclosure is constitutionally permissible.

This is very different than the US, where CBP can conduct a basic search without any individualized suspicion.

So, Canada and the US are definitely not the same, which seems to be the implied meaning behind your comment, and your explicit statement that CBSA has legal authority to search your phone is, at best, misleading.

I’m not a lawyer or a legal expert so I could be wrong, so feel free to correct me if you have Canadian legal experience.

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/airports-and-border...

9935c101ab17a66··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Any? As in one of them? Maybe. I think it’s incredibly unlikely though, and I think you’re making a huge and questionable leap. Boycotting a business isn’t normally a precursor to fascist dictatorship.
9935c101ab17a66··on Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Anecdotal evidence is not proof, and as I’ve seen two people in this thread saying the performance of their iPhone 13s improved after iOS 26, I don’t see how you could concretely attribute any of your issues to Liquid Glass specifically (especially since you say it has been resolved with 26.5 despite Liquid Glass still being present in the os).
9935c101ab17a66··on The One Dollar Counterfeiter
I don't think that the parent comment is making the case it's not a crime, but rather that it's not specifically counterfeiting. There comment reads as playfully snarky to me, since, when discussing counterfeit currency, we almost always take counterfeit to mean "to make a fraudulent replica of".

It's still fraud, and an attempt to deceive.

9935c101ab17a66··on Flighty Airports
Right, but the question was “how does this app make money?” And the app being ios/mac only isnt at all relevant to that question.
9935c101ab17a66··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
That article is hardly conclusive. It states the biggest reason for the unpopular response was a belief that the incidence of traffic accidents involving young children walking to school increased. It also states that wasn’t factually supported.

It also cites one opinion poll. And we have to keep in mind this happened FIFTY years ago.

I’m not even a permanent DST advocate. It’s just weird to me the link you shared does nothing to substantiate your position.

Update: my suspicions were correct — there was a public panic caused by parents groups that had no basis in fact:

> Considerable opposition to observing DST during the winter had come from school groups, such as the National School Boards Association, which expressed concern over darkness during the morning school commute.[47][48]

> When members of Congress introduced legislation to repeal the practice, they stated it jeopardized children's safety, citing the deaths of eight schoolchildren in Florida since DST had been enacted a few weeks prior

Ironically:

> A meta-analysis by Rutgers researchers found that permanent DST would eliminate 171 pedestrian fatalities (a 13% reduction) per year

9935c101ab17a66··on Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays
This is soooo cool! Thanks for sharing.
9935c101ab17a66··on US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
I replied to the parent comment with the info I found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274249

Tl;DR: yes, this was resolved in iOS 18.3.1

9935c101ab17a66··on US-backed Israeli company's spyware used to target European journalists
I don't have a full answer for you, but I found some more info in the CitizenLab report [^1] about the incidents.

(Small aside, but CitizenLab is excellent and such a valuable resource)

CitizenLab states the zero-click iMessage attack — CVE-2025-43200 - used as one of the vectors was fixed by Apple in iOS 18.3.1.

Apple has an "About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1" [^2] page, and it contains the following:

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Messages Available for: iPhone XS and later, iPad Pro 13-inch, iPad Pro 12.9-inch 3rd generation and later, iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation and later, iPad Air 3rd generation and later, iPad 7th generation and later, and iPad mini 5th generation and later

Impact: A logic issue existed when processing a maliciously crafted photo or video shared via an iCloud Link. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.

Description: This issue was addressed with improved checks.

CVE-2025-43200: Apple

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1: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of...

2: https://support.apple.com/en-us/122174

9935c101ab17a66··on Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
That doesn't change the fact that your point about internet always being available is not accurate at events with lots of people where networks may struggle or be overwhelmed, and there is a lot of interference. Not to mention, devices can have issues, there can be interference, etc.
9935c101ab17a66··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
This isn't an article about replacing all-knowing streaming service content recommendations, it's about finding a solution for playing local music files you own in a convenient way.
9935c101ab17a66··on Tesla recalls all cybertrucks for faulty accelerator pedals
“What they missed was the after action surveillance and analysis.”

So you agree with the parent, you just don’t think Tesla was “unprofessional”. You can split hairs all you want over what specific process or check or diagnostic or paperwork did or didn’t get done. It doesn’t change the outcome — shipping 4K super expensive cars to long suffering customers to only almost immediately have a serious safety recall? That’s unprofessional.

Tesla should have been going over these with a fine-tooth comb! This is the first iteration of an entirely new vehicle platform for the company, its first time working with steel for body panels, its first time* implementing steer by wire tech, etc etc. why isn’t every single one of these first few thousand heavily scrutinized? Insane.

9935c101ab17a66··on The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The author’s completely over the top reaction to the plausible and not especially weird titular statement gets old, quick.

Especially when they reveal that the network is using wifi antennas over a non-insignificant distance in an urban setting. Of course it’s the local wireless point to point bridge! The first thing you’d do is look down the line of sight for interference.

9935c101ab17a66··on ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
Can I ask why you’re concerned about the legitimacy of the kids reasoning for setting off fireworks? Like, if he was shot and killed on a holiday, it’s not his fault, but it’s perfectly reasonable to be shot and killed by a police officer when a opaque surveillance system reports gunshots on non-holidays?
9935c101ab17a66··on ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
I mean, yah, it makes sense the one they admitted was pertinent to the case? I don’t see how that context is meaningful.

I actually strongly disagree with you — the context doesn’t matter. We have a private quasi-law enforcement entity installing thousands of surveillance devices in American cities without any external oversight or knowledge of where they are installed. These surveillance devices that were pitched as tools to locate gun crimes all of a sudden record audio? And this quasi-law enforcement company with no oversight is storing that data and then furnishing it to the police?

We have no idea what’s recorded, we have no idea where these devices are, we have no idea who is listening to the recordings, we have no idea what access LEOs have to these recordings, we don’t know how they are stored, and we don’t know how long they are stored for. You’re seriously okay with a non-government entity operating like this?

9935c101ab17a66··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
From what I can find, the used OS of software developers is 61% windows, 46% Mac so this argument has no weight on the considerations the team should make Å— it’s essentially a toss up.

Even if it weren’t a toss up and significantly more devs used windows, deciding to target windows based solely on OS market share is one of the worst things a small dev team with finite resources could do. It’s just not a compelling argument at all.

9935c101ab17a66··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
It is, but barely (windows is @ 61%, macOS is at 46% based on the numbers I found). And even if we ignore that, number of potential users is far from the only factor you’d consider when choosing the first platform to target for a new project. And then, ignoring that as well, just because an OS has more potential users in total, that doesn’t mean it has more potential users of your editor.

There’s lots of reasons to not choose windows as a first release platform, and it being ‘the most common development platform’ isn’t a compelling one, especially for a small team with finite resources.

9935c101ab17a66··on Plastic bag bans work
Just leave them in your car? Most people drive to stores, especially in the US.

I also almost always have a backpack with me when I’m out and about, I just leave some cloth backpacks bags in it.

Realistically, how much stuff are you buying on trips to the store on a whim?

9935c101ab17a66··on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox
You’d be shocked at how many people (smart people included) are fooled by stupid ads and misleading website alerts and notifications. I used to do customer support for a large tech company, and people get sucked into giving up passwords or PII All. The. Time. by convincing ads. Some of these actors even deliberately style the ads to look like system alerts!

Yah, probably not a lot of HN users falling for it, but I was constantly surprised by the demographic. I’d regularly see smart, accomplished people get bamboozled by ads. It’s wild.

9935c101ab17a66··on Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)
I wasn’t talking about whether you were right or wrong. I was calling you out for being a dick and not contributing constructively to the discussion.

You’re talking past people, not taking the time to understand what they’re saying, and then being dismissive when they reply.

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