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The point of diluting the notion of truth into a meaningless concept - a process so loved by both Putin and Trump - is to make things such as kompromats have zero power.

Just imagine some photos and videos of Trump having sex with minors or even murdering someone emerge. Do you actually believe it will be damaging to him? “It’s fake, it’s AI, it’s our enemies trying to attack us”.


It was an absolutely fair question. Trump and Vance are saying let’s solve it with diplomacy. Zelenskyy provides facts confirming the impossibility of doing diplomacy in good faith. Agreements don’t have any value when history shows the other party not respecting the agreements. So, “what kind of diplomacy you mean?” is a fair question.

Vance’s answer “I mean the kind of diplomacy that would save your country” is a meaningless bullshit sentence.


He's trying to make the point that they can't talk peace without material guarantees of security from their allies as part of the deal, which guarantees are absent from the White House's agreement, because they just had an agreement without such guarantees shit all over by Putin, so it's, you know, kinda pointless to do that again. It's making concessions on paper for no guarantee of peace, with an adversary that's already broken a similar agreement, leading to this very conflict. Why make concessions with no guarantee of security in return, when there's zero reason to believe Russia will keep their word? He actually manages to get most of that explanation out, in between interruptions and non sequitur digs from the other two.

The difference between this and the more confrontational corrections of Trump's bullshit in similar situations recently, by Macron and Trudeau, is stark. Trump and Vance were primed to pounce.


The link shows data up to and including 2024. The biggest drop in sales in Europe had started in 2025.

Sure, it’s 1 month of 2025.

Maybe best to wait before we mourn or celebrate the death of Tesla?


The drop didn't begin until Elon's salute on Jan 20th, so only the last 1/3 of the month. February is going to show a much larger drop, possibly around 90%. Tesla board members are already selling their stock because they know it's going to crash hard when the February numbers come out.

You’re mistaking the internet world with the real world.

Most people I know don’t know anything about a Musk salute.

I’m going to predict that Tesla sales will see a small but insignificant dip in Q1.


Very cool concept! I wanted to make a similar thing a few years ago, but for a slightly different purpose: force myself to walk more. I built an iOS app called Geostreaks [1] with a simple mechanic: pick an outdoor location (for example, a nearby park) and “check in” there every day.

I couldn’t justify the yearly developer fee though, so the app has been removed from the App Store a few years later :(

1. https://appadvice.com/app/geostreaks/1482655198


Can you please open-source it?

Sure, why not, here it is: https://github.com/freetonik/geostreaks

Continuing to work on https://minifeed.net/ for the second year.

It’s a curated directory of personal blogs and a blog search engine. I started to build a simple RSS-reader for myself, just wanted a HN-like list of links. Slowly it grew, and now it has full-text search across tens of thousands of blog posts from 700+ blogs (adding new ones every day), related blogs and posts recommendations, lists, link blogs. Now I’m working on adding email newsletters, curated collections, and text-to-speech generation.


Author’s video about building this map is pretty interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC2VQ-oyDG0


There was a post about that exact idea a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43058285


Seems like there isn’t. But it’s weird, why not?


The audience and the posters are the content, not enough people want to start posting and commenting on a dead reddit clone to get it off the ground to entice more people


IIRC, Reddit created tons of fake users and posts early on to pretend to have a userbase.

Given the rise of competent sounding LLMs since that time, it should be easier than ever to replicate that strategy...


And also, there was less competition and a lot of lazy market leaders. Digg v3 facilitated reddit's rise in a week the same way that Skype's negligence and TeamSpeak's technical focus made is really easy for Discord to take over.

Those conditions don't really exist anymore.


I think user moderation is where the opening will be. Reddit as a whole is pretty heavy handed in banning anyone who says anything wrongthink, or worse, actively bans users who participate in subs they don't approve of.

You had Voat spin out but it had the same problem, with a vastly different opinion of what wrongthink was. It didn't last long.

I think the between that, the unpopular API changes, new Reddit that nobody asked for, and now paywalls, there is an opening. One challenge is that it's hard to actually make money from the idea, which I guess is why there haven't been a lot of entrants in the first place.


>Rumble instead YouTube

The front page of Rumble is full of American conservative and far-right content. The company behind Rumble hosts Truth Social. A weird way to "regain control over your privacy online".


Minifeed author here: I'm cautiously working on some popularity/quality sorting.


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