frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

The $1,999 Liberty Phone Is Made in America. Its Creator Explains How

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/liberty-phone-purism-made-in-america-b4074c89
12•awongh•7mo ago

Comments

gnat•7mo ago
https://archive.is/2025.06.21-100511/https://www.wsj.com/tec...
superkuh•7mo ago
Simple. They claim it is despite the fact that it's not. If I learned anything from the smartereveryday attempt to make a simple mechanical product in the USA it's that the suppliers are going to lie and say $part is from the USA. It's not. But when the original project is itself a scam that's of little importance. The importance is not the thing, or the ideology, but the public perception. They need not have made any phone at all. Just announcing it would do.

It's a shame to see a real company like Purism get wound up in all this though.

romellem•7mo ago
Smarter Scrubber video, for those that aren't familiar:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY

financetechbro•7mo ago
Per some of the other comments. I’m not sure if Purism is much of a “real” company
romellem•7mo ago
Should say "Made in America*", since:

  Not all of its parts are U.S. made: Other components come from China and other Asian countries. [...]
  The screen and battery come from China and the rear-facing camera comes from South Korea.
Also, what is this bit at the end about tariffs?

  Tariffs likely won’t affect his costs at his current production rates
  because he ordered a large batch of parts when he started and still has
  them in supply at his facility. Weaver says that a long-term tariff on
  imported electronics could make the Liberty Phone’s manufacturing cost
  more competitive, since the cheap components would only see marginal
  increases, and more components are likely to be built in the U.S. soon.
They won't affect his costs because he has a huge stockpile? That's like when people said "I don't need the government to force me to get health insurance. My husband is a doctor."

Also "more components are likely to be built in the U.S. soon" - says who? How much is "likely," and how soon is "soon?" Lazy reporting at the end with practically no push back from the WSJ writer.

like_any_other•7mo ago
The mostly-made-in-US version costs them $650 to manufacture, and they sell it for $2000, while the made-in-China version costs them $550, and they sell it for $800 [1]. They inflate a $100 difference in cost to a $1200 difference in price. Chinese anti-on-shoring propaganda wouldn't be this blatant.

[1] https://www.404media.co/how-a-2-000-made-in-the-usa-liberty-... - search for "You can look at our concrete numbers."

saulpw•7mo ago
Purism is a scam company. I preordered their Librem phone in 2017 and waited YEARS for it to be ready. When I finally gave up and asked for a refund--which they had allowed per their original terms--I was told I had to wait until my spot came up in the shipping queue to receive it. When my spot came up a few more years later (!), they refused to refund it and instead offered me "store credit". They had scrubbed the original terms from their website (the Internet Archive had receipts though).

And this is completely beside the fact that the phone was actually unusable for day-to-day usage, for multiple reasons. I'm not sure if they ever fixed those issues on that phone, and now they're selling another overpriced piece of junk. No thanks, Purism the company cannot die fast enough.

yoshamano•7mo ago
I decided to receive my Librem 5 I ordered in August of 2019 and shipped in April 2023. From the reports by the people who received the first non-test batches of phones (the "Evergreen" batch), I knew this was never going to be a daily driver. Their software team just isn't up to the task of pounding a Linux system into the shape of what people expect from a cellphone. The type of person who is using this daily only needs phone and SMS, charges it most of the day (or carries extra batteries), and can contort the rest of their needs into a ten year old hardware platform with immature display support. So mine just sits in my drawer of curiosities.

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•2m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•7m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•9m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•12m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•26m ago•0 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•27m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•40m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•43m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•53m ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•56m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•56m ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•59m ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
3•throwaw12•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

https://github.com/AleatorAI/OMNI-BLAS
1•LowSpecEng•1h ago•1 comments

The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/the-ai-ready-software-developer-conclusion-same-game...
1•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
1•JasonHEIN•1h ago•0 comments

Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

https://github.com/antirez/voxtral.c
2•andreabat•1h ago•1 comments

I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
2•mgh2•1h ago•1 comments

U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/reported-employee-arrests
1•ludicrousdispla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a free UCP checker – see if AI agents can find your store

https://ucphub.ai/ucp-store-check/
2•vladeta•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: SVGV – A Real-Time Vector Video Format for Budget Hardware

https://github.com/thealidev/VectorVision-SVGV
1•thealidev•1h ago•0 comments

Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EbCb5A408
2•lifeisstillgood•1h ago•0 comments

Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

https://www.neowin.net/news/spotify-now-requires-premium-accounts-for-developer-mode-api-access/
2•bundie•1h ago•0 comments

When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

https://twitter.com/Math_files/status/2020017485815456224
1•keepamovin•1h ago•0 comments