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by nico 2y ago
Thank you for raising your voice. Especially when these necessary conversations are being so heavily suppressed here on HN
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by nico 2y ago
> U.S. Transfers First Guantánamo Detainee Under Trump, Who Vowed to Fill It (Published 2018) - https://archive.ph/gsO8I Seems like this has been some time in the making. Kind of terrifying
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by nico 2y ago
It's usually more effective to ask for a raise before committing to extra work, eg. you agree that you will do some extra work, and if you deliver within the next 30-60-90 days, then you will get a raise If you already started doing th
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by nico 2y ago
> He was given access to U.S. Agency for International Development systems and requested access to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services systems responsible for contracts, the Times reported Very alarming
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Revealed: The Gen-Z Doge Goon with Access to 'Top Secret' Federal System(thedailybeast.com)
11 points by nico 2y ago|1 comments
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by nico 2y ago
You are rationally correct. However, most people react very quickly, and it is very effective to say "teenager" or "25 year old" to mean "ridiculously inexperienced" for what is happening right now Yes, some te
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by nico 2y ago
> this feels a lot like "things people want to believe" more than "things that happened" Sure, and in the list of things that have happened, is them shuttering USAID ( https://www.usaid.gov ) over the weeken
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by nico 2y ago
> This isn't a coup, it's espionage That's just play on words at this time Clearly the federal government has been compromised by private citizens with unclear, or secret, affiliations to the president and his associates C
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by nico 2y ago
> building out More like consolidating and cementing. It had already been built out
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2.2B gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trump(cnn.com)
14 points by nico 2y ago|4 comments
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by nico 2y ago
So who is raising the prices? And why? Is the govt telling the egg companies to kill their chickens, or do something in particular that makes it harder for them to produce eggs? Or is it grocery stores preemptively raising prices assuming e
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by nico 2y ago
It seems like a US-only problem right now. Is it really about the bird flu?
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by nico 2y ago
This is missing a lot of stories Specifically, almost every story about what’s happening with the current govt have been taken down from the FP in the last 24-48hrs They could be getting automatically removed from the FP, however they are s
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by nico 2y ago
Here’s a method (and results): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923154 However, that only shows flagged posts, it doesn’t show posts that weren’t flagged but were taken off the front page (which today seems like it’s
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by nico 2y ago
It’s been wild to see the DOJ issue a formal legal threat, via X, at the request of Musk, within less then 24hrs By whatever power he’s determined himself to have, he’s declared a crime for people to publicly disclose the names of his aides
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by nico 2y ago
Answer: 61.8% I wonder what it is for the last 24hrs It seems like at least all of them have been removed from the front page
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by nico 2y ago
I wonder what’s going to happen after it becomes government-owned Ref: Trump orders creation of sovereign fund that could buy TikTok https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42921907
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by nico 2y ago
The first 2 results on Google: Bloomberg says the targets were journalists: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/whatsapp-... Al Jazeera points out the spyware was used by the Israeli company Pa
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by nico 2y ago
“Sent via X” is that a normal way for government officials to send correspondence?
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by nico 2y ago
And despite all the reporting from good tech sources, and the interest of the HN community, these news are being taken down from the homepage and heavily moderated
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by nico 2y ago
Is it mostly downhill from now on? Or will we see a good rebound somehow?
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by nico 2y ago
This is how it went down in Venezuela, very quickly, unfortunately
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by nico 2y ago
It isn’t really silent. There is a lot of discussion. But the posts keep getting removed from the front page You can still find the posts looking under New or using the search feature There was also a Poll asking if Elon-related content sho
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by nico 2y ago
Not just Elon. The CEOs of the most prominent tech companies had front row seats at the inauguration Clearly tech is now a lot more than just code, chips and networks
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by nico 2y ago
This is like crypto, or rewriting the whole code from scratch. Re-learning all the lessons
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by nico 2y ago
It would be cool if it could also do “LLM style” operations, like summarizing or extracting key points of the documents
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USAID website goes offline amid Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid(cnn.com)
11 points by nico 2y ago|0 comments
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by nico 2y ago
They might not be there for too long though https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42910099
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by nico 2y ago
This was 4th on the front page and all of a sudden it just disappeared What happened?
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by nico 2y ago
If this continues, it won’t be easy to track and revert 4 years of EOs. And it will be impossible to undo all the consequences

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