Hacker News: nextstep

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

nextstep — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:52:53 +0000

Can confirm this guy is Swiss

Has arguably the best infrastructure and system in the world and will still find issue with it. A real Swiss hardly knows the horror show that is the rest of the non-Switzerland world.

yeah, fiber rollout is slow outside of the cities. It’s still better than 95% of the developed world. All perspective.

Minesweeper but It's the Strait of Hormuz

nextstep — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://sweepthestrait.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333028

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by nextstep in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

nextstep — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:28:06 +0000

This is very nice. When I use ffmpeg recently I usually ask an LLM first but it often takes a few tries to get the exact incantation right.

On a side note (I’m not a web developer), why would a command line tool like this be written and distributed using node.js? Seems like an unnecessary risk to use JavaScript for a basic (local) command line tool. Couldn’t this be written more simply in like Rust or something?

New comment by nextstep in "Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'"

nextstep — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:57:04 +0000

The US will try to avoid this by privatizing the Fed through stablecoins, but I predict this backfiring massively. Private creation of money will likely tank the world economy worse than 2008 and in the rubble a new order will form without the US at the center.

New comment by nextstep in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

nextstep — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:51:26 +0000

Europe will probably be the largest market where US EVs will try to compete with Chinese cars. BYD is already selling better spec’d models for less than this Rivian, and Xiaomi will enter the market late 2026.

I don’t see how Rivian can compete, either on price or features.

New comment by nextstep in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

nextstep — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:01:35 +0000

These companies are only surviving because of US protectionism. This tech is more expensive than then Chinese equivalent from 2-3 years ago (look at what Xiaomi or BYD released as their 2024 models).

These cars will not sell well outside of the US.

New comment by nextstep in "Show HN: WhatHappened – HN summaries, heatmaps, and contrarian picks"

nextstep — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:15:33 +0000

Israel used Palantir technologies in pager…

“ Contrarian View(highly upvoted) Many argued the attack was a highly targeted, lawful military operation against Hezbollah's command, achieving military goals with remarkably low civilian harm compared to conventional warfare.”

What a sad world we live in. This site really is a cesspool of American fascism, and the community is not doing enough to take a stance against that

New comment by nextstep in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

nextstep — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:53:31 +0000

I don’t think the US will ever enact a similar ban. The power to shape young minds is too great, even if these service also increase suicides in children to some degree.

The same algorithms that showed IDF war crimes compilations and turned a generation against Israel can be reshaped to push a different, right-wing narrative. The David Ellison’s of the world have too much power to allow regulation getting in the way of this.

New comment by nextstep in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

nextstep — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:42:29 +0000

It was flagged and enough people complained about censorship that is was resurrected with a pinned post from dang about how we should be civil

New comment by nextstep in "Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them"

nextstep — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:23:40 +0000

None of what the US is doing in Venezuela is new ground for the empire. Failed CIA coup plots, bribing Maduro’s pilots and allies in hopes of betrayal, even military action like bombing boats on shaky “national security” grounds— the US has been doing this sort of thing in Latin America (and much of the world) since the 50’s.

But this story has stayed in media because Trump is so brazen, declassifying CIA documents and speaking openly about these war crimes. That’s new for America. Usually these things are denied for a few decades, claims to the contrary are called “conspiracy theory”, before being admitted quietly, maybe mentioned in a back page of the NY Times.

So I’m skeptical that anyone from the US government could ever be held accountable for war crimes or violations of international law, but who knows. This does feel different.

New comment by nextstep in "Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed"

nextstep — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:11:48 +0000

For the sake of democracy and freedom of human expression, I hope that their software is a bloated, bureaucratic mess and can’t power the efficient dystopia which Alex Karp wants.

New comment by nextstep in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

nextstep — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:56:43 +0000

udev4096 is correct. Discoverability via your phone number is optional and opt-in.

New comment by nextstep in "I just want working RCS messaging"

nextstep — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:42:19 +0000

Just use Signal

Did Twitter censor the flotilla hashtag following the Israel attack? (2010)

nextstep — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:00:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2010/may/31/twitter-censoring-flotilla-questions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431185

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by nextstep in "Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers"

nextstep — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:59:56 +0000

Also reported on by NY Times and posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583068

but like most articles about Israeli hacking, US Big Tech involvement in the war, etc it was immediately flagged once it reached the front page.

I don’t know how much of this is moderators removing posts, or if there is a pro-Israel brigade that is censoring HN’s front page.

New comment by nextstep in "Starship will attempt a launch this Friday"

nextstep — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:16:20 +0000

Is there any update on the lawsuit from all the environmental damage from their last launch?

https://www.space.com/spacex-faa-seek-dismiss-starship-lawsu...

'Techno-Optimism' Is Not Something You Should Believe In

nextstep — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 05:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/10/techno-optimism-is-not-something-you-should-believe-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973051

Points: 66

# Comments: 41

New comment by nextstep in "Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord"

nextstep — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 05:19:01 +0000

Might have been around the time they stopped focusing on users and tried to embed themselves in the National security state. I guess around 2014 when Condoleezza Rice joined the board of directors.

New comment by nextstep in "Psytrance Guide"

nextstep — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 04:00:29 +0000

Interesting that this is on the front page of HN today. Tensions are running high in the psytrance subreddit this week. Psytrance is very popular among Israeli settlers, perhaps because many visit Goa after completing their military service.

New comment by nextstep in "the US Government Warned Ukraine Not to Attack NordStream 3 Months Before Attack"

nextstep — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:00:07 +0000

I don’t understand what the US gains by pushing this theory. It’s implausible (or maybe straight up impossible?) that a tiny sailing yacht could hold enough explosives for scuba divers to individually plant on the pipeline near Bornholm.

Why are US Intelligence services promoting this theory? It would mean they’ve been backing a country that violated the NATO joint aggression treaty.