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Let's hope they will still allow me to use Kagi to search for the product I want to buy.

The official Amazon search is so bad and deliberately pushes "promoted" or overly expensive products to the top that I would say it's only a matter of time until someone reverses the enshittification by building a 3rd party Amazon client. And it looks like that's precisely what Perplexity did here: They offer an agent that works for you, not for Amazon. And, predictably, Amazon hates it. It reduces their power to strong-arm brands into purchasing advertisements for their own product names.

„I trust you that you have proof-read this“ and then just merge. When production explodes, their name will be all over „git blame“.

„Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside“

Let me predict tomorrow’s headline: NVIDIA‘s revenue grows by yet another $1B, because Poolside just ordered $1B worth of NVIDIA AI accelerator cards.

Oh, wow. I'd like to already predict that this is going to become a talking point in the EU.

"Nicknames: Temu Obama" (and others)

"Heroes: Anyone who identifies as a radical leftist. Transnational gangs, illegal immigrants"

You want your allies and partners to be honorable and reliable. Allowing this content to remain on a presumably reputable government website long enough for people to talk about it, leaves a rather sour impression. *.gov was supposed to represent all of the American people.

And that "trumprx.gov" advertisement on the top just ticks off my fraud detector. But, apparently, it is a legit government project.

Yay to living in the EU! Since I would be allowed to get a full purchase-price refund if they'd try to pull this shit in the Europe, they limited the new "Cover-Screen-Widget" to only activate within the US.

I know, I know, I suffer daily from government overreach ;) But have you tried lobbying for your fellow humans?

Wow! So creativity! Oh my! What an example:

This AI-powered slop generation app will generate other AI-powered slop generation apps.

Really? For your "collaborative AI assistant to design, iterate, and scale full-stack applications" you couldn't think of any better use-case than wrapping a thin web UI around an existing API endpoint for AI image generation? And the "Make changes on the fly" iPad screenshot doesn't show any change being applied. That's seriously low-effort marketing.

2D Editor, Object-based, deploy to web, geared towards visual novels ... how is your "Play Maker" different from the existing "Game Maker"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_hqY-7rT0c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwlvT-L9vFg

Most new datacenters are powered with gas turbines (because utility grid connections are slow to deploy) and that'll surely affect everyone nearby.

„273 GB/sec memory bandwidth“

Really? Less RAM bw than an Epyc CPU? And 4x to 8x less than a consumer GPU?

How come this doesn’t massively limit LLM inference speeds?

Maybe we'll soon see another round of "piracy as a paid service", just like Napster and the beginnings of Spotify.

I find this topic in particular difficult to judge because it:

- very much represents the Hacker approach of taking things down and rebuilding them in a better way

- contains technically interesting methods to circumvent DRM, region-locking, and replace the built-in manufacturer's cloud

- uses Node.js + React, so a rather popular web stack, and is Open Source, so it represents a learning opportunity based on a real-world project

- it's a genuinely useful product for people who like home automation

On the other hand:

- the project self-describes as highly idealistic, anti-consumerism, anti-hypergrowth, all of which don't really go well with VC funding or VC-style start-ups

- the author clearly doesn't want HN to talk about him or his project

But I find it problematic to follow your suggestion in general, because I'm sure many companies that get grilled on HN don't appreciate it. And that jwz blog who just redirects to an insult with a picture of hairy balls also keeps getting discussed on HN. Similarly, I'm sure Elon Musk, for example, also doesn't appreciate all the hate he gets here on HN.

I feel a bit honoured that I got a response within 3 minutes …

But I also feel a bit weird because I was trying to support your way of running your community. So yeah, I was trying to do a balanced take on why Valetudo is good despite some people having a bad experience with the telegram channel.

Singapore is the closest melting pot that is both easy to reach for Chinese tourists and contains enough rich guys to make the trip worthwhile.

People seem to forget just how rural the Chinese countryside is. Just showing up as a western-looking guy in the right club in Singapore is enough to get marriage offers. I don’t think there’s any evil plan, just some truly desperate women trying to escape their future.

„plans to build“

So far, it’s just a dream that convinced some investors to part with their money.

I'm surprised that Google hasn't deactivated the link in the 24+ hours since that article went online.

I call bullshit on this: "The attacker is using a public blockchain - immutable, decentralized, impossible to take down - as their C2 server."

"There's no hosting provider to contact, no registrar to pressure, no infrastructure to shut down. The Solana blockchain just... exists. "

Yes, but you still need to connect to it. Blocking access to *.solana.com is enough to stop the trojan from accessing its 2nd stage.

"Connections to Solana RPC nodes look completely normal. Security tools won't flag it. "

Then your security tools are badly configured. Lots of crypto traffic should be treated as a red flag in almost any corporate environment.

"there's literally no way to take it down"

There is, you just have to accept that Solana goes down with it. Why is A-OK in a work environment.

I observe serious financial commitments towards walking away from US tech:

The EU is pumping money into what they call "digital sovereignty" left and right. Germany just cancelled their Microsoft subscriptions and replaced them with self-funded Open Source for Schleswig-Holstein, which is roughly 5% of all government employees. That's one hell of a trial run. Germany's "OpenDesk" and France’s "La Suite numérique" even made into the new "Franco-German Economic Agenda 2025", which self-describes as "bilateral coordination to full swing for a more sovereign Europe".

That also works purely on text and it's the trick I used in my German speech recognition engine ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12693 ).

"I'm studying at Oxford Univ" has basically no loss in meaning even though "University" was truncated to less than half its characters.

One of the largest robotics manufacturers in the world has recently had its ownership transferred from Germany to China. And there’s already multiple dark factories inside China which can produce smartphones without any light, because there’s no humans left in the building. So if you want to outcompete China on automation, you basically need to be the best in the world.

In-house will probably be cheaper.

As a mid-sized company, you care about IP protection. That means the price for China will need to include bilingual lawyers. Otherwise you might end up in the super awkward position that your mold gets copyrighted by the manufacturer inside China. That would then allow your contract manufacturer to prohibit other injection shops inside China from working with you.

My team has produced multiple molds for plastic injection moulding in the past. Yes, it took the CAD guy a month of training to get a feeling for draft angles and how well certain shapes will eject. And yes, you will spend some days waiting for CNC milling. But it’s neither particularly expensive nor particularly difficult.

I strongly believe that video exaggerates for effect. You can buy a CNC mill capable of cutting molds on Amazon. And you can rent Fusion 360 for a few dollars per day. And a low volume injection molding robot costs ~ $10k

That means any middle sized company could have this in-house if they wanted to.

You’re not wrong, but how should politics fix this? It’s easy to buy the machines and the software and the training for a tool die shop. But the actual production is still messy and dangerous and needs lots of electricity. And while the salary is not horrible, it’s also not good, because no matter what you do you compete on price with shops in Shenzhen. That means what you actually need to get this manufacturing back to the US is cheaper cost of living. Your US employees need to be able to afford a middle class lifestyle in the US while matching CN salary levels. If that doesn’t work, prospective employees will choose other jobs.

I find it VERY weird that there's no mention of https://hackaday.io/project/176931-hp-printer-cartridge-cont... which is a CUPS-based 2D inkjet printer using the exact same print head and open source software and CERN license open hardware.

Most likely, that's also precisely the reason why this product uses a very old HP print-head. (The one from HP DeskJet 1110, released December 2014.) Because that one has been reverse-engineered already: https://spritesmods.com/?art=magicbrush&page=3

Yeah, I can rent an A100 server for roughly the same price as what the electricity would cost me.

That is so cool :)

And it looks much safer than Amazon's approach of directly landing the heavy drone in your garden.

Probably that's just a side-effect of so many people leaving Windows 10 and 11 for Linux.

That would be perfect. Especially because Kagi could also return search results as JSON to the AI if they control both sides of the interaction.

By now, it's new and quite neat :)