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The US government doesn't give a single damn about the Iranian people.

What does all this code do? What software are you writing?

Military academy boards have been purged and stacked with loyalists.

He's still a member of the board though.

They actively WANT the dystopian surveillance state.

Y Combinator's CEO promotes and praises them almost every day.

"End all American foreign interference" he says.

But this one guy can do all the foreign interference he wants, in America's name, as a treat.

"It's ideal" he says.

Better to have the foreign interference done directly by the President himself along with his family and cronies for personal gain.

>only like 3% of that program was spent on actual AID, like food and medicine for the third world, but most of it went to funding media, news and journalists across LatAm, Asia, Africa dn EE, that would push domestic support in those regions for US policies and be critical of US adversaries.

3%? There was a lot of waste with the program but surely, please give this at least 30 seconds of thought.

Garry Tan beating the drum as usual: https://x.com/garrytan/status/2022326673421771228

Thank you so much for making and maintaining this extension.

Know that you are truly appreciated by many.

The Spanish used it as justification for what they did to the Aztecs during their conquest in the 1500s.

How does space solve cooling?

It's much more difficult to cool things in space than on earth.

A study proposing that diet can affect the expression or severity of some autism-related behaviours is not the same thing as claiming “80% of what people consider autism is actually just the western diet's effect on normal brain chemistry."

Maybe people need to have facts told to them aggressively to get them in the habit of not assuming things.

The last year has been eye-opening for me as a HN reader. I've gleaned a lot of insight into the thought process of the soulless tech bro.

Thanks to the regulars on here, I now hear clearly when folks like Alex Karp, Peter Thiel or Lucky Palmer speak.

Their combination of intelligence + lack of empathy + arrogance will eat the world.

You cannot possibly be this naive. Are you doing a bit?

The problem with Discord is that I have to know exactly where stuff is for me to access it.

There is absolutely zero chance I find something interesting on Discord just by "browsing" Discord. I have to be in a community that already exists elsewhere to get the Discord server link or just accidentally stumble upon the server link somewhere other than Discord.

And If I do find an interesting Discord that is active, forget about seeing what people were talking about before.

All the interesting and or useful stuff posted on Discord is completely walled off and hidden away and might as well not exist after it was posted. I'm never going to find a Discord thread when browsing for something on the internet.

I genuinely think Discord is one of the more terrible things that has happened to the internet and the fact that it is replacing forums is a damn shame.

They simply stated that that is the alternative. They did not say that that is what should be done.

You're nowhere near the most cynical peron here if your first thought wasn't "how long till he gets pardoned"?

Pagani interiors look so plastic and tacky. Why do they make the interior of such beautiful, expensive cars look so cheap?

I had a similar experience trying out Gemini early this year where it would always say it couldn't do the thing I asked but could provide resources and/or walk me through doing the thing myself.

From the article:

>Silicon Valley’s militarization is in many ways a return to the region’s roots.

>Before the area was a tech epicenter, it was a bucolic land of fruit orchards. In the 1950s, the Defense Department began investing in tech companies in the region, aiming to compete with Russia’s technological advantages in the Cold War. That made the federal government the first major backer of Silicon Valley.

>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a division of the Department of Defense, later incubated technology — such as the internet — that became the basis for Silicon Valley’s largest companies. In 1998, the Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page received funding from Darpa and other government agencies to create Google.

The 3rd generation iPhone SE was released in 2022.

Thank you for teaching me a new word.

Prolixity - unnecessarily or tediously wordy

The FDA approved an average of 47 new drugs annually from 2015 to 2024.

A few notables.

Ekterly (sebetralstat) – Treats hereditary angioedema (approved July 3, 2025)

Zegfrovy (sunvozertinib) – For NSCLC with EGFR exon-20 insertion mutations (July 2, 2025)

Widaplik (amlodipine + indapamide + telmisartan) – Single-pill hypertension therapy (June 5, 2025)

Tryptyr (acoltremon ophthalmic) – First in class dry-eye treatment (May 28, 2025)

mNEXSPIKE – Next-gen Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (May 30, 2025)

Emrelis (telisotuzumab vedotin) – Lung cancer (NSCLC) targeted therapy (May 14, 2025)

Yutrepia (treprostinil inhalation) – For pulmonary arterial hypertension (May 23, 2025)

Brekiya (dihydroergotamine autoinjector) – Acute migraine and cluster headache therapy (May 14, 2025)

Gomekli, Journavx, Grafapex, Datroway – Novel agents in oncology and pain management (early 2025)

Opzelura (ruxolitinib cream) – For vitiligo and atopic dermatitis (2022–2023)

Cobenfy (KarXT) – New schizophrenia medication targeting cholinergic receptors (Sept 2024)

Tarlatamab (Imdelltra) – First in class BiTE immunotherapy for small-cell lung cancer (May 2024)

Pegcetacoplan (Empaveli/Syfovre) – First complement C3 inhibitor for PNH & geographic atrophy (May 2021)

Leniolisib (Joenja) – First treatment for APDS immune deficiency (March 2023)

Nedosiran (Rivfloza) – siRNA therapy for primary hyperoxaluria (Sept 2023)

Retifanlimab (Zynyz) – PD-1 antibody for Merkel cell carcinoma (March 2023)

Are you aware of any of these?

>was all the time you had to spend classifying each engineer's time spent as R&D or 'internal software'

> every year, me and my engineering lead counterparts would spend almost a day

This is quite funny. Not even a day, almost one.

There is now a notice on each and every US Embassy website visa home page that says:

Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.

Pick any at random to verify.

The idea that more diverse leadership leads to better outcomes doesn't mean women are incapable of wrongdoing. Nobody said women are perfect angels who can do no wrong. That's a strawman and you know it.

Be better, come on.

Isn't it YouTube that decides whether to serve pre-roll ads?