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New comment by DonnyV in "How does the economy work at all if all are laid-off and human jobs disappear?"

DonnyV — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:15:37 +0000

It doesn't, these companies are building their own little kingdoms and robot armies. They don't care about the economy when they can control everything.

New comment by DonnyV in "The end of responsive images"

DonnyV — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:24:20 +0000

I can't believe this doesn't mention Image Seam Carving. Surprise this was never built into browsers.

https://trekhleb.dev/js-image-carver/

New comment by DonnyV in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

DonnyV — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:19:59 +0000

This is a nice story and how it played out is great for Switzerland. But the ways listed on how to fix it, wouldn't work in the US. See companies in the US have already worked around what worked for Switzerland.

The different levels of governments in the US are corrupt. Sometimes from town all the way up to Federal. Actually its definitely completly corrupt at the Federal level. A politician or Judge has already been bought to make sure a case like the Swisscom lost. Would never happen here.

So before we have any progress in really any industry in the US. We need to desperately clean house with our politicians, attorney generals and judges.

New comment by DonnyV in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

DonnyV — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:58:55 +0000

The stock market is a very large Ponzi scheme. 401Ks are indexed Ponzi schemes. Once the ultra wealthy can disconnect their wealth from any one country, using crypto tokens. The stock market and 401Ks will probably crash. You usually want to do this on a generation that has no real voting block. So it will probably happen when GenX starts retiring.

New comment by DonnyV in "Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?"

DonnyV — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:06:10 +0000

Again this is different in a Capitalists society vs a Socialist one.

In a Capitalists society everyone is pitted against each other trying to out compete the other at whatever the cost. Safety in this environment is thought of at the end after a lot of suffering because one group has to win it all. Damages can externalized.

In a Socialist society we build basic rules and we compete within them. Thinking of safety as we build something and refining those rules as we build it because at the end, we are all affected by it and get to benefit from it.

New comment by DonnyV in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

DonnyV — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:34:01 +0000

I think this isn't about guns but more about seeing and controlling what people are printing. Guns is just the excuse to monitor.

"Hey I see your printing a replacement part for you washer. Well that is a patent part and you will need to pay to print that."

New comment by DonnyV in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

DonnyV — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:35:43 +0000

I think the reason tech didn't help productivity until the late 90s is pretty obvious. The internet was missing. Computers needed the internet to make them useful to everyone. So the question should be.

What is Ai missing that will make it useful to everyone?

New comment by DonnyV in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

DonnyV — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:57:49 +0000

The 2 biggest contributors to climate change are ...

- US Military

- Cargo Ships

You fix those 2 things and like 60% of pollution goes away.

New comment by DonnyV in "Google secures EU antitrust approval for Israeli company Wiz"

DonnyV — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:10:12 +0000

After everything that we know Israel has been doing. I don't feel comfortable letting an Israeli company access to internal Google Services.

Google secures EU antitrust approval for Israeli company Wiz

DonnyV — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:08:52 +0000

Article URL: https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-european-organizations-oppose-google-wiz-deal-1001533517

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961799

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by DonnyV in "Bunny Database"

DonnyV — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:41:45 +0000

You left out the part where they realized they couldn't ship S3 compatibility without rebuilding their storage service. So they have decided to rebuild their storage service. Not really a small project. So I can see how its taking longer. At least they were transparent about it.

Is this the Year of Linux paid Apps?

DonnyV — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:04:51 +0000

It seems Microsoft has finally pissed off enough people. Especially with this recent news of giving away BitLocker keys. That people are jumping to Linux for Desktop. I'm currently looking at Linux tools that can replace my Windows tools. e.g. Google Drive syncing

I think this might grow the paid apps market for Linux. Windows users don't have a problem paying for something if we don't have to manage it and deal with drivers.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782825

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by DonnyV in "EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators"

DonnyV — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:52:28 +0000

Love the music. Is the music original or is there an artist attached?

New comment by DonnyV in "[dead]"

DonnyV — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:00:21 +0000

"Rust is self-hosting: To build a new rustc, you need an existing rustc binary (usually the previous stable release). This creates a chain of trust that goes back to the very first bootstrap (historically from OCaml, but modern versions rely on prior Rust binaries).

If any link in that historical chain was ever compromised the backdoor can live on indefinitely.

Unlike C/C++ (which has diverse independent compilers like GCC, Clang, MSVC), Rust has essentially one production compiler (rustc). This makes diverse double-compilation (DDC), the main defense, much harder. DDC involves compiling the compiler source with multiple independent compilers and checking that the outputs match (proving the binary corresponds to the source). With only one mature compiler, you can't easily cross-verify.

There have been public demonstrations of exactly this kind of attack working on Rust (e.g., Manish Goregaokar's "Reflections on Rusting Trust" in 2016."

https://x.com/lmilsfsd/status/2011920950070046787

New comment by DonnyV in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

DonnyV — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:19:04 +0000

Citizens United legalized bribery. Now the politicians could make real money by ignoring the public.

New comment by DonnyV in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

DonnyV — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:01:11 +0000

Its almost like we should just publicly fund it from the tax people already pay.

New comment by DonnyV in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

DonnyV — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:58:49 +0000

I see you guys are working on supporting the postgis extension. This would be HUGE!!! The gis community would be all over this.

If anyone wants to help out who has compiled the postgis extension and is familiar with WASM. You can help out here. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/807

New comment by DonnyV in "Border Patrol is monitoring drivers, detaining those with 'suspicious' patterns"

DonnyV — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:51:09 +0000

Government has a massive network of cameras, drones and facial recognition devices. You basically can't walk anywhere in Michigan without getting your face scanned. https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/atlas

New comment by DonnyV in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

DonnyV — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 03:31:45 +0000

No Vue, is just JavaScript. React is JSX.

New comment by DonnyV in "Amazon Demands Perplexity Stop AI Agent from Making Purchases"

DonnyV — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:38:23 +0000

You never want to lose direct contact with your customers. Having someone insert themselves between you and the customer is a recipe for disaster.