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by petcat 8mo ago
Sounds cool. Aside, I hate the fact that I read posts like these and just subconsciously start counting the em-dashes and the "it's not just [thing], it's [other thing]" phrasing. It makes me think it's just more A
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by petcat 8mo ago
> If a company shuts down should they open source their product so people can continue using it? The question is who is now responsible for the software? Who can the government compel to open source it? There is no more legal entity be
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by petcat 8mo ago
I strongly suspect that somebody with domain knowledge around Wi-Fi drivers and OS kernel drivers could prompt the llm to spit out a lot more robust code than this guy was able to. That's not a knock on him, he was just trying to see
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by petcat 8mo ago
The author specifically said that they did not read the code or even test the output very thoroughly. It was intentionally just a naive toy they wanted to play around with. Nothing to do with AI, or even the capabilities of AI. The person
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by petcat 8mo ago
What would the GPL have to do with this?
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by petcat 8mo ago
Gamer Rage has always been the worst political hill to die on.
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by petcat 8mo ago
I feel like ubiquitous hardware support in every OS is going to be a solved problem soon. We're very close to just being able to set an AI coding agent to brute-force a driver for anything. The hardware designer would have to go well
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by petcat 8mo ago
Surprised IBM and Oracle have not started on their own frontier models. Or maybe they have?
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by petcat 8mo ago
xLight is the promising new US competitor to Cymer. Lots of funding from the US CHIPS And Science Act. Founded by Dept. of Energy engineers who formerly worked on large-scale X-Ray systems and particle accelerators.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Yeah it's an interesting angle in the article. The EUV light source technology is completely designed, developed, and manufactured by Cymer in California, which is a US company that ASML acquired in 2013. If export control agreements
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by petcat 8mo ago
Is Rust still considered "new hotness"? I feel like the industry has long-since moved past that perceived "blocker". It seems like Rust is now just the default in all manner of critical systems.
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by petcat 8mo ago
The fab that Infineon is building is vastly smaller in scale, and their tech isn't really relevant to this discussion. For instance, it doesn't produce CPU/GPU microchips or DRAM. Also only 300mm wafer technology, which isn
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by petcat 8mo ago
Once again, where do you get your information from? The only thing that doesn't exist anymore is DOGE itself. https://wtop.com/government/2025/11/doge-quietly-disbands-8-...
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by petcat 8mo ago
Well first of all, the CHIPS Act was not "axed", it is federal law passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House and Senate. It would take a complete reversal of congress to repeal it and it's still very popula
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by petcat 8mo ago
??? Micron has DRAM megafabs in both Idaho and New York state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micron_Technology
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by petcat 8mo ago
Well apparently there are, because huge swaths of CDN PoP IPs are getting banned/blocked in Europe especially during La Liga matches. How are we explaining this?
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by petcat 8mo ago
No, they can't. It's why ISP -level blocks are non-existent in USA. And there's no "hosting provider" in this scenario assuming the person self-hosts on their own server.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Also because internet censorship and censorship in general has largely become normalized in Europe.
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by petcat 8mo ago
The difference is that content creator can put the video on their own website and that domain won't get blocked by my ISP. It might get seized later after some judicial review.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> not Spain as the government but LaLiga(a sports organization) abused its given powers and apparently demanded that ISPs block the site.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Domain seized. Not blocked by my ISP. It's a fundamentally different thing. In Europe, ISPs and CDNs just block websites willy-nilly at the request of La Liga, for instance. That doesn't happen in USA. It takes a court order and
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by petcat 8mo ago
I'm not aware of American ISPs and CDNs straight-up blocking websites. That is distinctly European-style censorship. American style censorship would be more like going through the courts to get an order to have the domains seized.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> forces the Dutch government to put export controls on some of their machines That's because the critical EUV light source technology is developed in California by a US-based subsidiary of ASML. The US and EU have mutual interest
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by petcat 8mo ago
Yep, absolutely true. ASML is a critical technology provider that both the US and EU are dependent on each other to maintain.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> Most people on HN talk about "The EU" like it's a singular borg entity with identical laws across the board, which it isn't. Certainly true, and similarly in the US. Every US state makes their own laws. Some state
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by petcat 8mo ago
That was the fastest Supreme Court ruling in UK history though... Similarly in the US, Watergate (Nixon impeachment) took only 16 days, and Bush v. Gore (contested election) took just 30 days to reach a Supreme Court judgement.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Any further action to end-around the Supreme Court decision and re-impose the tariffs will almost certainly require broad Congressional approval. And this is a very bad time to try to do that since nearly half of those seats are up for re-
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by petcat 8mo ago
The most technologically critical component of ASML's EUV lithography machines (the EUV light source) is designed, developed, and manufactured in California by Cymer.
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by petcat 8mo ago
I'm not aware of any standard of property ownership with regard to Mac OS, Windows or any other proprietary software. The end user is granted a license to use the software. That license can be revoked at any time for any reason.
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by petcat 8mo ago
Right, I'm aware of that. Which is why I don't know why you brought up tarriffs in a discussion about the "soft power" that US technology services impose.

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