Hacker News: nextstep

New comment by nextstep in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

nextstep — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:35:25 +0000

2025. He’s right, Tim Cook is a coward and no better than the rest of the oligarchs who kissed the ring and played the game.

But Anil also falls into this trap of believing the myth of Jobs over who he actually was. Steve Jobs was a Silicon Valley capitalist who took parts the hippie counterculture ethos and baked it into an image that sold well to consumers. He was not some revolutionary, he just successfully used the language of revolution to sell a better product than his competitors.

New comment by nextstep in "Why the Ocean Cleanup hasn't solved the plastic pollution crisis"

nextstep — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:51:47 +0000

It’s capitalism. The market has determined that plastic in the ocean is the most efficient way to produce goods and services.

New comment by nextstep in "Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

nextstep — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:23:08 +0000

Airemin

New comment by nextstep in "Pixel Watch 5"

nextstep — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:20:43 +0000

Google had a town hall a few years ago. The Pixel Watch (4?) had just launched and supposedly fixed a bunch of bugs like apparently you could not reliably record a run with the previous generation without that app crashing and losing the workout. Someone in the audience asked about this, and the PM who responded was wearing an Apple Watch. Apparently everyone on that team at the meeting was wearing Apple Watches or a dumb watch

They know this product is garbage

New comment by nextstep in "The AI Apocalypse Is Here"

nextstep — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:48:11 +0000

>China has not known freedom for some time, but citizens of the United States have a long experience of it.

One of those American beliefs presented without evidence because it’s just so obviously true, but what the fuck does this even mean? Exactly how are Americans more free?

New comment by nextstep in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

nextstep — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:03:21 +0000

America begins its final descent

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.