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US and Russia 'propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine'

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/us-russia-deal-west-bank-occupation-ukraine-wfvnt6v6f
1•saubeidl•2m ago•0 comments

Tiff pulls documentary on 2023 Hamas attack, citing footage rights issue

https://apnews.com/article/oct-7-documentary-toronto-film-festival-33ccd4bfd2c3883ffcd510e2fc2e697f
1•EvgeniyZh•3m ago•0 comments

Gabber: Build realtime AI apps that can see, hear, and speak

https://gabber.dev/
1•handfuloflight•7m ago•0 comments

Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c17n9k54qz2o
5•rdrd•8m ago•0 comments

Fortinet discloses critical bug with working exploit amid surge in brute force

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/fortinet_discloses_critical_bug/
2•penda•9m ago•0 comments

Google Play Crypto Wallet Rules: Unprecedented Impact on Digital Assets

https://bitcoinworld.co.in/google-play-crypto-wallet-rules/
2•wistleblowanon•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Multi-agent AI orchestration – lessons from a build log

2•danielepelleri•10m ago•0 comments

MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how apps provide context to LLMs

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro
1•doener•10m ago•0 comments

NY sues Zelle, says security lapses led to $1B consumer fraud losses

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/new-york-sues-zelle-says-security-lapses-led-1-billion-consumer-fraud-losses-2025-08-13/
2•ourmandave•11m ago•0 comments

Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water into Stratosphere (2022)

https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/
2•walterbell•13m ago•0 comments

The World's top AI researchers

https://www.metislist.com/
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

MCP servers can attack you before you ever use them

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/21/jumping-the-line-how-mcp-servers-can-attack-you-before-you-ever-use-them/
2•gtirloni•15m ago•0 comments

New downgrade attack can bypass FIDO auth in Microsoft Entra ID

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-downgrade-attack-can-bypass-fido-auth-in-microsoft-entra-id/
3•mikece•17m ago•0 comments

Google's next big rival – Visual search engines

https://www.griiids.com/
1•maxmartinezruts•19m ago•4 comments

Show HN: Gitego – Automatic Git identity switcher

https://github.com/bgreenwell/gitego
1•w108bmg•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PromptProof – CI gate for LLM outputs (schema/regex/cost; no API keys)

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/promptproof-eval
2•geminimir•24m ago•1 comments

Book Review: The Math Academy Way

https://ijfen.substack.com/p/book-review-the-math-academy-way
3•gmays•25m ago•0 comments

The Poison Within Patriotism

https://renfoc.us/posts/1755103186-the_poison_within_patriotism
4•rtrigoso•28m ago•2 comments

First bidirectional asymmetric frequency conversion in a single system

https://phys.org/news/2025-07-bidirectional-asymmetric-frequency-conversion.html
1•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: USDA-linked nutrition API from messy inputs (CLI/Python/REST)

https://nutrition.avocavo.app
1•acriftphase•28m ago•1 comments

Fuse is 95% cheaper and 10x faster than NFS

https://nilesh-agarwal.com/storage-in-cloud-for-llms-2/
4•agcat•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PhantomWall – open‑source prompt‑injection firewall and telemetry

https://github.com/phantomwallopen-sketch/phantomwall
1•phantomwall•30m ago•0 comments

Next slap in European Tech Sovereignty face?

https://www.reddit.com/r/MistralAI/s/cZhqy3NaF7
1•hek2sch•30m ago•0 comments

Yoke Kubernetes Package Manager

https://github.com/yokecd/yoke
1•gtirloni•30m ago•0 comments

Army developing new iterations of autonomous missile launcher

https://www.army.mil/article/287739/army_developing_new_iterations_of_autonomous_missile_launcher
2•Bender•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's GPT-5 looks less like AI evolution and more like cost cutting

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/gpt_5_cost_cutting/
1•rntn•32m ago•0 comments

Configuring GH Codespaces with UV/node + llm tool + free GPT4.1 w/$GITHUB_TOKEN

https://til.simonwillison.net/github/codespaces-devcontainers
2•indigodaddy•34m ago•0 comments

The AI boyfriend ticking time bomb

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-ai-boyfriend-ticking-time-bomb-a404028a5c2de843
4•tempodox•34m ago•0 comments

DeepKit Story: how $160M company killed EU trademark for a small OSS project

https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1mopzhz/160m_vcbacked_company_just_killed_my_eu_trademark/
15•molszanski•35m ago•5 comments

The Houthis want to punish Israel. Filipino seafarers are bearing the cost

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/10/houthi-ship-seafarers-red-sea-philippines-filipino-attack-filipinos-sailors/
4•myflash13•35m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

What Is America, and for Whom?

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-is-america-and-for-whom
6•nobody9999•1h ago

Comments

pcpolice_•1h ago
Reminder to express the right opinions, avoid WrongThink and deeply concerning points of view.
nobody9999•1h ago
While I realize that there are many folks from places other than the US here, it seems reasonable to discuss the historical and current factors influencing the place that drives the technology engine of the planet. For several reasons:

1. Understanding what underpins the fairly radical changes occurring in the US can assist folks trying to add/create value in the tech space in navigating those changes;

2. On a broader plane, frank discussions of what sort of world we aspire to live in can strongly impact important business and technical decisions made. Given the aggregate impact that (some? many?) users of this site have on the tech industry landscape, it seems a good idea to look up at the horizon every so often to see where we're heading, what that means for us as individuals and as a species and what, if any, "course corrections" might be indicated.

In submitting this, I didn't expect to change anyone's mind or encourage folks to metaphorically pound on one another. Rather, I submitted this to spark curious and intelligent discussion of current events that strongly impact the tech community.

Perhaps you'll join in doing so, perhaps even without a throwaway account. I hope so.

nis0s•1h ago
Which Christians, though? America formed precisely because of sectarian tensions and differences. The mindset which hunted the former Anglos to North American shores is that of supremacy and domination, and that mindset always seeks to create in-groups and out-groups because that is how its members understand the world and navigate in it, zero-sum games.

My point being that even if America becomes all Christian and all white, then it will simply start to separate its constituents between the right type of Christian, or the right type of white. All of history has evidence precisely of this behavior because the nature which drives that behavior is still present, and it always will be in one form or another. Maybe the packaging or the politics change, but any ideology based on domination, and supremacy of itself over others will always be subject to purity contests, in-groups/out-groups, and suppressing objective analysis or discourse.

That said, America doesn’t need to be multicultural in the sense that it adheres to or incorporates ideology that goes against its core philosophy laid out by the Founding Fathers. The vision of the Founders helped create a powerful machine for regional and global supremacy, and a lot of that was dependent on the healthy function of democratic institutions.

The problem is that a lot of American democratic institutions caved in to pressures to address global challenges, and some of those challenges may have been outside of their purview, or they took an incorrect approach to address the issues. It’s impossible to save people from themselves. It’s impossible to save bad culture from undoing a nation state, unless its regime is propped up by external pressures, in some way or another.

America is currently propped up by its productivity engine from the 90s and mid-augts, which is why other countries are putting up with tariffs to do business here. The myopic vision of the Christian, white nationalist is going to create something smaller and less effective, which is worrisome because America has alienated almost everyone all over the world.

In truth, all a country has are its people, factories and bombs. America doesn’t have factories to any appreciable degree, and if it loses its people, then all the bombs in its arsenal will not reduce the cumulative prowess of other nations. Some serious reflection needs to be done on the fact that this push-pull of Red/Blue has saved this country from its worst impulses up to now. I only wish that the illegal immigration was addressed sooner, and in a more humane manner.

iioapapala•47m ago
Stating that America has always had division and thus the degrees of division are irrelevant is quite the logical leap. Thankfully the author puts this up front so you can avoid most of the culture warring in the rest of the article.

Politics is the same as it always has been: to the victor go the spoils. There is no objective what or whom America is for.

ThrowMeAway1618•25m ago
>Thankfully the author puts this up front so you can avoid most of the culture warring in the rest of the article.

Is a comparison of world views or a discussion of the stated goals of various groups really "culture warring?"

>Politics is the same as it always has been: to the victor go the spoils. There is no objective what or whom America is for.

So in your view, the ends justify the means? Or am I missing something?

I take a different view, that politics is "the art of the possible."

As far as the "objective" as to what or whom America is/for, that's the entire point of the discussion/division/discord/violence that's defined the political landscape of the United States since before its founding(s)[0].

If discussing differences in world view is "culture warring" and not to your liking, what's the alternative? Civil War? Terrorism? Something else? Please do elucidate -- since that's why we're here. Isn't it?

Edit: Added link.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Founding

josefritzishere•19m ago
A white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies... no that sounds pretty terrible.