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I think the responses are very diverse throughout the region. Got example, in Karachi protestors gathered outside a consulate https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-protesters-attacked-us-c...

But inside Tehran (and in my neighborhood of D.C.) there have been celebrations https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-kha...

I think this is a good point, there is evidence (even with strict censorship controls in place) that people inside the country are celebrating https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-kha...
Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:23AM (#46873039)
Seems like the outage started a 4PM UTC https://statusgator.com/services/signal
Love that it is in NC! Though, I'm confused who this is for. Is it for genomics data scientists mainly or is it general compute (I would also compare with hetzner and the other clouds if you are going the general compute method). If genomics or data scientists is the main audience, is this going to grow to be more collab notebook plug and play? Very cool and wish you the best!
Re:What Is Going on with the Switch 2 Version of Star Wars Outlaws? on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:27PM (#45278789)
At the end of the article: > Update 9/1/2025 11:11 a.m. ET: 40-minutes of footage of Star Wars Outlaws running on Switch 2 in docked mode has seemingly leaked ahead of launch. What’s shown looks decent enough compared to what was described of the PAX West demo running in handheld mode

I appreciate it when publications include corrections at the end of their articles. Even though I don't own a Switch, I enjoyed the piece, and I believe the main point about running AAA games on hardware below the recommended specifications still holds true.

Re:Will Amazon S3 Vectors Kill Vector Databases–Or Save Them? on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:36PM (#45174337)
This may be because LanceDB is the most attractive with a price point of standard S3 storage ($0.023/GB vs $0.06/GB). I also like that Lancedb works with S3 compatible stores, such as Backblaze B2 which is even cheaper (~70% cheaper).
Re:SQL Needed Structure on Friday September 05, 2025 @07:25AM (#45137331)
This response comes across as unnecessarily toxic and quip-y, which is a shame because there's real substance here. The author clearly understands database design, referencing concepts like normal forms and Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF). Even if I don't agree with the conclusion, I have to respect anyone who takes the time to lay out their argument. Challenging ideas are what help our community grow.
Re:German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:26AM (#41320025)
That is not what the BBC link says (text copied below. including their weird British spelling of "recognisable"). It's seems much more light hearted and funny than what you are portraying.

> German Navy blasts out Darth Vader theme on Thames Londoners spotted this ship on the Thames near Tower Bridge, playing the iconic Imperial March theme from the Star Wars trilogies, otherwise recognisable as the Darth Vader music. But it wasn’t coming from a galaxy far, far away - it was a German Navy ship, in London for training and a supply stop. A spokesperson from the German Navy told the BBC the music had "no deeper message" and "the commander can choose the music freely".

Re:AWS Code Commit Ceased Onboarding New Customers on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:52AM (#41107827)
Are they shutting down CodeCatalyst as well? Or are they just forcing new customers over to CodeCatalyst? It’s weird (for Amazon) they recommend Github and Gitlab over an AWS alternative if they are shifting people over to CodeCatalyst
Re:Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes on Sunday June 02, 2024 @05:21PM (#40557285)
I've been playing with https://huggingface.co/microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten which has been pretty good so far. I want to take it and fine-tune on my own handwriting. For equations, I either use mathpix or just type them manually.
Re:Museum of Obsolete Objects on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:19PM (#39073030)
One question, how do I join? which exhibit will I be after?
Re:Show HN: Shuttle – Build Back Ends Fast on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:29AM (#37764141)
My brain read this as “Build Back, Ends Fast.”

I thought trends were changing so quickly I now miss them before I even know about them. Glad I still have a few years left of semi-keeping pace

Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:49AM (#36521149)
I completely agree with legislation via judicial branch being a bad idea. However, affirmative action isn't legislation. This is judicial review striking down policy (executive branch interpretation and implementation of legislation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action https://www.history.com/topics/us-government-and-politics/af...
Re:How Software Companies Die – Orson Scott Card on Sunday April 02, 2023 @10:33PM (#35417855)
Some of his later work may sound similar, but the original cited source is "Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995" as evidenced by https://homepages.uc.edu/~thomam/Articles/HowSoftwareCompani...
Re:Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:16AM (#34428623)
A good note for bitwarden is that it has a self hosting open source version, vaultwarden that is easy to switch to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden I see this as downside protection, as I can quickly migrate if I disagree with bitwarden's direction with minimal changes to my clients.

I do worry about VC pressure on Bitwarden for hypergrowth. However in my personal opinion, the benefits outweigh the cons (for now).

Threads like this bring out the most hate on HN. I wish I could automatically filter this crap out
a nice graphic of current US govt spending. https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function
Re:OS X-KVM: Run macOS on QEMU/KVM on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:57AM (#29432166)
can you share more information about getting iMessage to work? I thought you needed a hardware id or serial number to make it work
Re:Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:21PM (#26562835)
“Amazon Redshit Spectrum” Freudian slip?