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Corruption is polling near the top as an issue in the US midterm [1] when previously in the last election it was immigration followed by economics/inflation. Politicians are experts at ignoring the obvious issues until they get so out of hand it become impossible to ignore. Then they usually just campaign on it to get elected instead of prioritizing long term reforms.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-governme...

SpaceX got their last big sole source contract from NASA under Biden ? The grants were even earlier.

This article is about a phone hacking in 2017 when he was still a federal employee. Russia hacked his iPhone X around then.

Plus ironically all of the batteries and solar panels for the West's climate mission will be made in China who didn't deindustrialize, has far lower energy prices, and less aggressive local rules around things like air pollution that let them be manufactured at all.

Meanwhile they are also rapidly going green by adopting this tech domestically since it's highly price competitive due to their manufacturing investments. They also invested heavily in Nuclear (which the government there openly welcomed).

SpaceX has taken $20M state/local grants and about $100M for R&D on various NASA space programs. https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/space-explor...

That's over their entire lifespan. While they just made $4B in earnings in a single quarter in Q3 2026, probably $30B around in revenue for 2026... They've definitely paid far more than their subsidies back in taxes over the years.

The ground ones are usually called UGV (unmanned ground vehicles).

“Drone” is well associated with flying in common language. The headline (Ukraines claim) is accurate enough.

Great game. It took me way too long to figure out I could use keyboard to control the positioning instead of mouse.

I've noticed a number of your politically charged comments tend to rank highly on HN these days, jacquesm. So just to be clear, you are implying that this temporary account suspension is a plot by Mark Zuckerberg to suppress a major political group in the US and Meta is okaying this internally to gain preferential treatment from the US government?

I miss being able to dismiss right wing QAnon posters as just dumb American Facebook boomers.

Conspiracy posting is now sadly fully mainstream in multiple countries, especially (ironically for Meta) among the youth raised on social media, and it's exhausting reading it all them time.

When news is only consumed before any facts are established this is the end result...

According to Meta their account was deactivated "for just over 1 hour" before being restored https://about.fb.com/br/news/2026/10/a-meta-nao-esta-interfe...

The rest of the complaints are around exact term search/AI results which are notoriously inconsistent if you've ever done SEO/AEO. So not exactly the strongest evidence.

I'm not fan of Meta or their severe lack of transparency in moderation, but this stuff is so political it's basically impossible to debate on facts. Likewise Brazil's courts are notoriously political, notoriously pro-censorship of social media (including fining FB well before Trump for not deleting posts on gov demand), and your first link is a judge appointed by one of Lula's ex staff (Dilma Rousseff).

Strong claims need strong evidence. So the choices are between a) Some conjecture that a social media account was briefly taken down as part of a right-wing conspiracy by a major publicly traded US corporation OR b) yet another example in a long history of accounts being auto-flagged by overly-aggressive algorithms and then later being restored by a human moderator without proper transparency.

So your theory is Meta let some protest organize on their social media for years, then 90 minutes before one of their many protests start they'd take down a single page on only one of their platforms (Instagram), as a way to stop the protests from happening? Then Mark Zuckerberg told them to restore it within a short timeframe for plausible deniability?

> what do you think you're adding by repeating what the article said?

That auto-moderation of social media always has false positives like this? This was always a predictable outcome from aggressively moderating social media with algorithms. Humans only ever get involved after the fact (in this case after 90 minutes).

The only reason this is newsworthy is that the media could spin it as some sort of intentional move by humans at Meta, without evidence, because it happened to vaguely coincide with some event date. Otherwise this happens every single day if you search social media for "my account was suspended".

(for 90 minutes)

Which reminds me of this month's HN post about Lula's FB account getting taken down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864642 , which turned out to only be for a couple hours after some content post got auto-flagged, before being restored by Meta. But the HN thread was a long discussion about it being a conspiracy by the US government to conduct election interference in Brazil.

It was an "organized gang" who already had a police tracking GPS on their vehicle from another criminal investigation

> In addition to DNA, the investigators were also able to benefit from a happy combination of circumstances since “the burglars, after abandoning in the hinterland, near the ski resort of Gréolières, the stolen vehicle that was used for the breakage, took back theirs which was, possibly in the context of another case, equipped with a police beacon,” the lawyer told AFP. The police were thus able to track the car.

https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/le-principal-suspect-...

People have been saying that would happen for as long as Elon has led both companies at the same time. So not exactly a novel prediction.

I don't spend much time thinking about transit but I believe the dynamics of it will change dramatically when ever car is self-driving and whether western city governments finally allow the sort of building density and pace that is in demand.

I don't see much difference between a more affordable autonomous bus or van option vs a subway. The benefit will eventually be access to the tunnels more than the fact it's large and on a track. But in cities it's also incredibly expensive to build anything without a hundred stakeholders interfering so a large amount of new tunnels is probably DOA just like most high speed rail projects have been.

I like my Apple watch but Apple health app is pretty bad. It's just noisy and complicated. Withing's chart's in the app was good enough.

I'd probably prefer a second more fitness dedicated watch otherwise so that data integration was better.

A $100 scale isn't really that captive, especially if continuing to use it costs that much per year. There's no shortage of scales for tracking weight loss and the Apple health integration in my Withings is pretty useless from experience.

Yeah I was thinking it would suck for a passenger which is why it would only be useful for temporary bypass situations, since tunnels can clog up if cars fail. But that's a lot of engineering just for that one usecase. But I do except tunnels to become much more popular as cities become more dense and cars become automated.

Definitely not upside down, I was thinking of short inclines, possible as a sort of tunnel bypass. Assuming all the cars are networked for mechanical failures and the batteries can handle it. But that's only after the 5 minutes I spent considering the idea and mostly stolen from I Robot movie like most of Tesla's ideas.

The suction and air recovery part might be forward thinking for how we design roads or tunnels. They might not all need to be flat. Especially when autonomous.

I can’t do a tech demo of a simple software feature on zoom without at least one thing messing up. They launched a car off a ramp live and were honest from the beginning of the stream it might not work.

The last decade of social media has shown that humans care more about authenticity than perfection in presentations.

Other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112380

Standards are so low these days.

> If you are the average working joe who comes home from work and fires up the pc to play a game

My usecase was wanting to add a game to a wishlist

> It's not like i'm opening and closing steam 100, 50 or even 5 times a day.

I've opened Steam app about a thousand times and it's always felt like clunky dated software.

? I already addressed in my original comment that I wouldn't care if it was just a game launcher but the Stream app is more than that.

It opens to the store page for a reason, not to your library page.

I tested the latest Steam build on MacOS and it took 7 seconds to load on an M4 Max and I had to close a popup when it opened.

In the web world and 7-10 seconds for a pageload is forever. Same with mobile, if you tapped an app icon and it loaded that slow it would never be tolerated.

> A faster startup is certainly appreciated, but steam's 10 second cold launch time is hardly a big deal.

When I hear about a game on social media I often want to add it to a wishlist on Steam but I dread opening the app because I know it will take forever to open on MacOS.

I don't mind a game launcher taking time, but the store is a part of that which makes it annoying I avoid the native app for that reason.

Ah, I remember now that ParadeDB's pitch was doing hybrid search by using pgvector with keyword rankings from pg_search. Never got the chance to try it.

I'm curious how it compares to `pg_search` https://www.paradedb.com/blog/introducing-search