Hacker News: nextstep

New comment by nextstep in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

nextstep — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:49:43 +0000

too bad houses AREN’T for living in, but for speculating

New comment by nextstep in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

nextstep — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:29:16 +0000

Western governments are so concerned when this happens to them (at arguably a tiny scale) compared to the “interventions” they’ve supported around the world for almost one hundred years.

Rules for thee and not for me. Sure, Canada isn’t the CIA, but they’ve been right there with the US from Iran to Ukraine.

New comment by nextstep in "Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream"

nextstep — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:20:23 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/live/hF8swzNR1-o

there’s also a YouTube live stream that lets you go back

Apple WWDC 2026

nextstep — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:14:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/event-stream/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448106

Points: 265

# Comments: 533

New comment by nextstep in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

nextstep — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:58:44 +0000

Blocking an event memorializing a shameful part of China’s history? that’s not great, but that’s really not the same thing

New comment by nextstep in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

nextstep — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:55:52 +0000

Do you have any sources for these claims about China?

New comment by nextstep in "Wikipedia doesn't need my cash"

nextstep — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:06:12 +0000

>> By my calculation, and further verification, that's around 17 months of running costs.

so if you’d like Wikipedia to be around two years should you donate?

Why Switzerland Needs a Population Cap and a Fiscal Shift Beyond Labour

nextstep — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:49:37 +0000

Article URL: https://rdellatorre.substack.com/p/beyond-the-demographic-leviathan-c7b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307162

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nextstep in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

nextstep — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:29:48 +0000

the leader of building earth-based datacenters lol

what are we even talking about

New comment by nextstep in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

nextstep — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:53:27 +0000

Writers of history or historical fiction often wonder how did average people in militaristic, fascist societies from the past view their society? I think it’s obvious from the present-day US: they were amused. They were entertained by it. Human suffering, a necessary feature of such cultures, is trivialized by draping the death machine behind the veneer of fun, exciting game!

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.