sgnelson

One question I have is did DOGE decisions have anything to do with this? Because I know they took knives to NIST.

I feel like the "democratization of technology" is on the back slide. For the longest time, we had more and more access to high end technology at very reasonable price points.

Now it feels like if you're not Facebook, Google, OpenAI, etc. etc. computation isn't for you.

I hope this is just a blip, but I think there is a trend over the past few years.

See: banality of evil

Definitely the sign of a stable, well run government.

And NASA is going to do this how? NASA is currently in the process of being gutted. Sure, there's a chance that they will be reconstituted in the future, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

See Dutch Disease:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

And of course it's flagged. Because the use of technology built from companies funded by VC has nothing to do with Hacker News and Ycombinator.

Dang and company are such a joke (yes, that's a direct violation of the rules, maybe it'll get their attention) for allowing these sorts of stories to be flagged.

The idea that this is only about "politics" or it's "controversial" and thus should be hidden from view is such a copout. These are the important stories that should absolutely be discussed in a place like this.

Save your breath in replying: "well, it might make people upset and we want to have nice conversations here." And whatever other platitudes arguing for censorship of obviously important topics that deal directly with the technology, companies and employess that frequent this site.

Well thank god it took a complex event like the modern politics around budgeting for the entire US government and broke it down into a 1 paragraph synopsis for you.

How would you ever know what was going on if it didn't? /s

"Learn to weld."

(Hint, it's not all it's cracked up to be either.)

This article (or rather the NBC article) has all the tell tales of an intentional leak, which this administration has used time after time. One thing Trump does know how to do well is play the media.

This is a not so subtle "warning" to Venezuela: "Do what we want or else..."

Like so many other cases of intentional leaks from the administration, it's likely meant as a deniable bluff. If someone criticizes the fact this militry planning is ongoing and it gets heat from Trump's own supporters, the adminstration can just blame it as "fake news anonymous sources." If Venzuela actually submits, then it's a win. If nothing at all happens, nothing lost.

When we talk about failure of the media, I believe part of that failure has become their own lack of introspection to see how they are being used by the administration. While it's been discussed time after time, there is still seemingly no solution, as competion for the next hot news story by up and coming journalists makes it all too easy to ignore that you're being used.

The interesting part isn't the statue, it's that it apparently was put up conforming to all regulations, but (again, apparently) the Park Services broke their own rules, removed it early, without proper notification to the persons who placed it, and damaged it (maybe somewhat intentionally from description given?).

The story is about the fact that the US government seems to have yet again removed politically protected speech because it was insulting to the current administration.

I'm sure the Free Speech Absolutists will speak up about this violation of the First Amendment any minute now....

crickets

My thing is this: You don't have to read it. You don't have to read the article and you don't have to read the comments. HN is just about the simplest aggregator website there is. Simply scroll down two lines and you're onto the next story.

But instead of ignoring it, there is very much a contingent of people on this website that would rather that no one discuss these controversial topics. Because you don't simply want to ignore it, you want others from seeing it. As afterall, there is the hide command, which you could also use.

But I (and I believe others) think that these sorts of discussions are important, and people around here want to discuss them. Not all "political" stories are the same. This isn't "politics," where we're talking about taxes, or which minor laws are being passed, who's winning in what political race. This is about the future of American Democracy being gutted before our very eyes.

But it's okay, you just go ahead and keep your eyes closed. I'm sure it'll all just go away because you want to ignore it.

"learn to code."

Watersheds don't follow political boundaries.

This country is so fucked. Thanks everyone who voted for trump. I truly hope your stock gains and lower taxes were worth it.

Well shit, we can really lower water bills by getting rid of all clean water regulations and simply stop water treatment.

Think of the cost savings!

I feel like robotaxis are just electric bikes and scooters of 2025. I very well could be wrong (I think I am) but that's the vibes I'm getting from the robotaxis industry right now.

This is interesting due to the tying of DPRK and PRC. It seems hard to say how much coordination there is between the two, but whatever it is, it appears to be greater than zero. While not necessarily surprising, I wonder if this public attribution will make it harder for the PRC to deny involvement with both the DPRK's efforts and their own.

lol.

For me that brings up two questions:

1) Will I (and others) be able to get a H100 (or similar) when the bubble pops, and would that lead to new innovations from the GPU poor?

2) Will China take the lead in AI as they are less "capitalistic" with the demands for outsized returns on their investment compared to US companies, and they may be more willing to continue to sink money into AI despite possible market returns?

>Isn't the rule of law a thing in the US?

Not so much these days...

Did someone say "Epstein"?

Wag the Dog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

There's a whole lot of fascy sympathizers on HN...

Those people are called cowards.

It's amazing how many discussions on HN are about "Company A is bad" instead of: "This behavior by the government is completely illegal or unethical and should not be occurring in a free society."

And as the very first comment points out, whether there is truth in the charge or not, now there are people saying "A is bad because I read it on the interwebs!" And regardless of where the investigation goes, there will be more comments talking about the good/bad of Wikipedia, and not the good/bad of the US government (or other governments as the case may be.) This is about the 10th post in the past week that suffers from this phonomenon (see the US buying part of Intel posts for an excellent example.)

HN commenters are very very good at missing the forest for the trees. Sometimes I wonder if it's intentional. Unfortunately, I think it often isn't.

I honestly can't believe this isn't satire.

This country is so fucked.

(And is this website ADA compliant?)

I think "fuck your whataboutism."

Everyone is talking about "bailouts" and "owning a company that the government funds."

This isn't about that at all. This is about the breakdown of the rule of law, a unitary executive bypassing all other branches of government and demanding a private enterprise give itself over to the government.

If you don't think there was an "or else" as part of this deal, you're largely mistaken. If you don't think that there will be other questionalbe demands placed on Intel in the future from this government, you are largely mistaken.

But y'all go ahead and can keep arguing over whether we should "get something back" from this deal. Because that's really going to maker ameraica graet agian.

Just going to throw this out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY

I do not fully endorse the message. However, there is very much some truth in there.