<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: afavour</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=afavour</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:41:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=afavour" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afavour in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The current US administration would have likely been in favor of it. Long term it’s a bad idea but it wouldn’t be the first time we saw groups like this only thinking about the short term.</p>
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<p>As a New Yorker this doesn’t shock me too much. The level of “Mamdani is an anti-Semite” sentiment I saw online (Reddit particularly) felt truly hysterical. And wasn’t matched by any equivalent in the offline world.</p>
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<p>A very quick search yielded Dell selling 1080p laptops today:<p><a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/spd/dell-dc15250-laptop" rel="nofollow">https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-15-laptop/...</a><p>It is very, very common. Just not in the Mac world.</p>
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<p>One of the genius things about Swift is its interop with Objective C. Made the switch over considerably easier for developers. I’m not sure what that looks like in a Rust world.<p>Rust is also just a more complex language. I’m not convinced the benefits would have been worth it.</p>
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<p>Short answer is I don’t and it adversely affects my job satisfaction.<p>I’m quite sure I’ve left money on the table over the years as a result of my reluctance to manage and mentor junior developers. Disappointing that I’ve ended up managing junior AI developers who won’t even grow as a result of the time I’m putting into them.</p>
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<p>It’ll happen eventually, it’s an economic certainty. And when it finally does it probably won’t be <i>that</i> bad for the American consumer buying a car.<p>The real loss is the international trade and the effect that’ll have on the overall economy. Mexico and Canada will already be dominated by Chinese cars and it’ll be too late to compete.</p>
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<p>It's still present. JSON/JS parsing still has a delay. And in either case (as the author states) not everyone is using an iPhone over 5G. Heavy React apps are a miserable experience on low end Android phones, even when the connection is fast. I've seen JS/JSON parsing times in the multiple seconds.</p>
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<p>Eh, it was pretty terrible before the acquisition too...</p>
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<p>Not really, no. Astro requires you to opt a component in to client-side rendering, React (with its server components etc) require you to opt <i>out</i>. Defaults matter in scenarios like this and I'd bet the average developer of crappy websites would have a much faster site with Astro than React for that reason alone.</p>
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<p>I think the author is suggesting that Remix was the inspiration for the renaissance, not that it's necessarily the most popular method for doing so.<p>I'd be curious to see the stats on how often Next.js users lean into the server component model that makes the frontend fast. My anecdotal experience is that it's an afterthought for many. By comparison, Astro (as mentioned by the author) makes you think about this stuff upfront via opt-in rather than opt-out. It's a wonderful framework.</p>
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<p>I get that… but that’s basically a startup pitching competition. It’s not a hackathon.</p>
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<p>Most hackathons have been this way for a long time. I recall spending a weekend working out some really thorny data classification problem but got nowhere, all the winners had slick presentation slides and a 30 second code demo of a glorified CRUD app.</p>
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<p>> For OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, classifier-flagged traffic will be retained for up to 30 days for automated offline abuse detection.<p><a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-detection.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/abuse-d...</a></p>
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<p>The charitable read is that their restrictions for "safety" (i.e. what's separating Fable from Mythos) makes this inevitable. If you could just make your own Mythos it would circumvent the protection.<p>Which kinda just highlights how weird this situation is.</p>
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<p>To me that reads as an even greater reason <i>not</i> to delay it. If you knew the restrictions day one you’d be able to engineer the system to accommodate them. Waiting until post launch now means a massive amount of re-engineering.<p>I know it’s not quite as simple as that but I do think it shows Apple are more interested in blaming the EU than reducing the potential issues ahead of time.</p>
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<p>Apple said "hey, can we not comply with the law", the EU said no, so it didn't launch. Seems pretty straightforward to me.<p>I can see why Apple might want to request an 18 month exemption, there's clearly extra work required to comply with EU regulations. But on the other hand it also feels like a straightforward play for consumer sympathy: let them get used to using it every day for 18 months, then pressure the EU to let it continue or you rip the feature away and anger users (who you then point to the EU as the problem)<p>It's not as if Apple doesn't have the money to dedicate a team to matching the EU's requirements on a deadline. They just choose not to.</p>
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<p>> It's quite nice that the ipad mini does not have whatsapp or SMS plugged into it, so I can use it exclusively for reading books or playing music.<p>Eh, iOS has profiles that let you disable whatever apps you wish to. Better than a whole other piece of hardware, IMO</p>
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<p>> Why would they "normalize"?<p>Globalization? Look at manufacturing, it moved to a country where things are a lot more affordable. In a world where remote collaboration gets easier and easier and you're able to pay software engineers half the world away a lot less there's no way it wouldn't have an effect on the domestic market.</p>
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<p>Stock... in Stonehenge?<p>I think comparing a job like this purely on salary terms misses a lot. It's a prestige job that will be the highlight of someone's CV for the rest of their career. Not to mention 25-28 days vacation.<p>As someone that's lived both in the US and outside of it there's no denying US salaries are top of the game. But there are a lot of other factors that go into a person's life than salary alone. Long hours in US jobs are not rare at all. I expect folks at Stonehenge are out the door at 5pm sharp.</p>
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<p>> But still people invite these reptilians to their bedrooms through the TV.<p>You recognize that you're the outlier here... has it occurred to you that maybe your reaction is the unusual one, not everyone else's? There's literally a podcast called My Favorite Murder that has millions of subscribers. A lot of people go to live shows for it. They literally do invite people in flesh and blood to sit in front of them and talk about murders. It's not necessarily my kind of thing either but there's no doubt it's popular.</p>
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