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almosthere··on Banned in California
When you get unlimited health care, health care costs skyrocket and you end up with a broken system that no party wants to fix - and everyone ends up with NO health care. If we went back to paying cash to the doctor, people with jobs will be able to afford it. And for insane life threatening events, job insurance and other forms of umbrellas.
almosthere··on Banned in California
It's not black and white - do things smarter. But make jobs - top priority. We need jobs otherwise wealth concentrates.
almosthere··on Washington Post Losses Topped $100M in 2025
Was it because USAID wasn't buying 300 $500k subscriptions in 2025?
almosthere··on Hiring Engineers When AI Writes Our Code
personality should be favored
almosthere··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Troll farms hastily adding to their init prompts "don't use emdash when writing comments"
almosthere··on 100M-Row Challenge with PHP
skill issue being they only know php
almosthere··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Just about everything on NPR is I want this to be true, not this is true.
almosthere··on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guck4FoWQss
almosthere··on You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer
"ever" is the key word. Like driving, we as humans will cede control, at some point, to AI.
almosthere··on It's Official: The Cybertruck Is More Explosive Than the Ford Pinto
why include the las vegas one where he intentionally detonated it?
almosthere··on Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight
Are people going to start "disabling flock cameras" when they are integrated into police vehicles?
almosthere··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
That works until minor-removing-flag proxys start popping up.
almosthere··on Police are finding suspects based on searches as courts weigh privacy concerns
Makes sense to me.

(fake) Scenario:

Murdered: Jenny Waldorf

Only one person searched for this name daily for months before she died, then after she was killed but before we announced who the victim was, the searches stopped.

Ok HN user: Do you a) use the evidence b) don't use the evidence?

almosthere··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
I think this should work like OpenID connect but with just a true/false.

PS = pr0n site

AV = age verification site (conforming to age-1 spec and certified)

  PS: Send user to AV with generated token
  AV: Browser arrives with POST data from PS with generated token
  AV: AV specific flow to verify age - may capturing images/token in a database. May be instant or take days

  AV: Confirms age, provides link back to original PS
  PS: Requests AV/status response payload:

  {
    "age": 21,
    "status": "final"
  }

No other details need to be disclosed to PS.

I don't know if this is already the flow, but I suspect AV is sending name, address, etc... All stuff that isn't needed if AV is a certified vendor.

almosthere··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
It all depends on what you buy. Mostly the wealthy are buying things these days. Everyone else is buying US grown food.
almosthere··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
That's unfortunate - it was mostly a tax on the rich!
almosthere··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
Yeah, actually you do. What you think Ivy Leagues don't exist? (even though they're crap now because they DEI'd everything)
almosthere··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
They should have gone the voucher route many years ago - competition for the best schools.
almosthere··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
It is kind of crazy that a lot of those moves that are so massively successful is a social media and other actions to specifically destabilize the US. And it was only possible to do BECAUSE we're so open. In China you can't get past the firewall and you can't migrate there without being on watch lists and very easily removed in a way that would make ICE look like an Ice Cream parlor.
almosthere··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
No, this is probably an illegal CA law.

I'm a strong believer in 2a rights. However I think every type of weapon might require a license. So if you 3d print a gun that you would be allowed to own if you had already completed your background check, then you're gold.

If you end up 3d printing a nuclear bomb, the licensing requirements for that would be a billion times harder. (secure facilities, 24/7 guards, blood oath to the United States etc...)

almosthere··on Ask HN: Can we use AI to make a Hackers (1995) sequel starring the same cast?
If that world had a chip that could hack into anything and trigger nuclear war... then within a matter of another year that chip would exist again and again and again in many countries.

Everyone's dead. Sequel is pretty quick.

almosthere··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
That has nothing to do with how much they are putting in the air/water.
almosthere··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
Here you go:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/270499/co2-emissions-in-...

almosthere··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
I think many people are unwilling to accept "climate change" or "global warming" because of the following:

a) china is unwilling to do anything, and if that's the case, America shouldn't empty its pocket books on this issue.

b) this climate change alarmist stuff has caused a climate disaster in the US because all the migration to Electric Only is causing us to use generators all over the place, which is crazy. We should instead focus on making clean nuclear and expanding solar. PG&E (in CA) has decided to cancel this migration because CPUC (or whatever their called) is in Newsome's pocket who is in PG&Es pocket.

c) climate change extremists are unwilling to both hear yes it's happening and no we're not going to do anything about it, so the people responding are simply saying, no it's not happening.

almosthere··on Anthropic bans OAuth tokens (including Agent SDK) in 3P tools
Can any of these other tools somehow become "sub-agents"?
almosthere··on Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/01/migration-model-sust...
almosthere··on "Vendoring" is a vile anti-pattern (2014)
Its from 2014 so they can be somewhat excused but the proper answer is every dependency manager tool has since created the concept of a lock file so that builds are somewhat reproducible. We also got docker and CI/CD matured as well.
almosthere··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
I actually think the longer people stay online, the less trust the real society will have too. Online = Zero Trust. Real Life in America = Pretty Incredibly High Trust in 1990, 2025 = Crashing Trust in America
almosthere··on The PaaS Graveyard: Why Platforms Keep Dying and Developers Keep Migrating
Wasn't it obvious about 10 years ago when Docker started booming in popularity that PaaS was on it's way out? The only space left is K[38]S offerings at different price points and whatever neat add-ons makes sense (like a free registry)
almosthere··on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December
10 years from now

/v1/fetch/music

Thought for 0.000001 seconds: Hmmm, the user is asking for a list of music, it looks like that's in the the postgres database music_track.... (

All endpoints will just directly be to the LLM that has all the access control rules, etc.. No hacking will be possible. No more code it's just all ST:TNG computer from here on out.

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