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Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland

https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:261014-930-839530/
36•ilamont•38m ago•4 comments

AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234854/ai-agents-arent-going-rogue-frontier-labs-are-skipping-...
430•latexr•1h ago•175 comments

How the Military Will Hack the Election

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/how-the-military-will-hack-the-election
91•pavel_lishin•31m ago•21 comments

Better HTTP/1 connection reuse in Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/http-connection-reuse
101•allddd•2h ago•19 comments

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

https://typeof.net/Iosevka/
613•otobrglez•10h ago•256 comments

Submarine cable resilience

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/10/14/submarine-cable-resilience/
89•speckx•3h ago•23 comments

Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

https://startupfortune.com/banks-are-now-trying-to-offload-the-ai-data-center-debt-they-just-unde...
52•smartmic•42m ago•16 comments

Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent

https://github.com/bealesh/neckbeard
16•bealesh•1h ago•7 comments

Phloem: Git history grown like a slime mold

https://phloem.stemdeck.app/
8•thclpr•2d ago•0 comments

LittleJS is 2D and 3D now

https://frankforce.com/littlejs-is-2d-and-3d-now/
46•dmit•1d ago•8 comments

Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
158•jascha_eng•7h ago•44 comments

Container ship sinks in Strait of Hormuz as Iran steps up attacks

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/14/container-ship-sinks-strait-hormuz-as-iran-war-attacks.html
41•MilnerRoute•55m ago•12 comments

ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program

https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/
317•bhrlady•2h ago•139 comments

Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-auto-phone-number-verification-android-3723117/
149•Brajeshwar•2h ago•34 comments

Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

https://www.not-ship.com/how-amazon-pushes-up-prices-all-across-the-internet/
600•sighborg•9h ago•535 comments

Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/teslas-robotaxis-blow-through-school-zones-nhtsa-petition-alleges
69•speckx•2h ago•46 comments

Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents

https://github.com/graphicle-ai/graphicle
30•KarLexAI•4h ago•9 comments

America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it
34•speckx•1h ago•7 comments

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation
58•jadenlemmon•4h ago•24 comments

Show HN: Petal, open-source CoScreen/ScreenHero finally free

https://petal.live/
6•thedracle•52m ago•2 comments

The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)

https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2024-01-21-gold-bug.html
51•ripe•2d ago•12 comments

Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox

https://clova.email/
22•edpin2000•2h ago•15 comments

TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material

https://swedenherald.com/article/tv4-postpones-the-challenge-until-2027-after-technical-failure-e...
121•tobr•8h ago•68 comments

The Origin Story of Kid Pix

http://red-green-blue.com/kid-pix-the-early-years
159•MBCook•1d ago•35 comments

Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?

https://brooker.co.za:443/blog/2026/10/04/encoders.html
22•surprisetalk•4h ago•1 comments

Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/teaching-birds-lost-songs
31•speckx•5h ago•2 comments

Sound (2022)

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/
258•dverlaeckt80•3d ago•30 comments

Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256

https://dfarq.homeip.net/nvidias-first-gpu-geforce-256/
44•ibobev•7h ago•28 comments

Show HN: A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code

https://museumofages.org/w/vinci
82•micstradev•9h ago•33 comments

Do dentists know what they're doing?

https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/dentists
94•doitLP•2d ago•87 comments
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America Didn't Lose Its Rare Earth Industry. It Sold It

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/america-didn-t-lose-its-rare-earth-industry.-it-sold-it
30•speckx•1h ago

Comments

OgsyedIE•37m ago
The price signals drove the move away, it's quite simple. Energy, labor, pollution tolerance, legal costs and economies of scale said to go elsewhere.

Some said that these price signals only make sense if globalisation lasts forever, but their remarks were dismissed as depressing.

FuckButtons•25m ago
short term profit over long term thinking - because no one in the system is incentivized towards long term thinking. The counter balance should in theory sit within the remit of politics, but even senators can be bought and few are far sighted enough to realize the consequences of incremental deindustrialization.
bluGill•16m ago
Problem is nobody knows the future. XI didn't come into power until 2012 - until then China was moving slowly in the right direction (that is more open and free), so moves of those things there there seemed to encourage that. However XI has consolidated power and put a break on moving in the right direction and now we need to react.

I have no idea who will move what way in the future so I can only guess what we will regret in 10 years. However I must act on the world as I know it lest things get worse. (what makes things worse is open for debate)

geodel•10m ago
I don't think its Xi's doing vs Globalist looking only for signals which confirmed their views and ignored or outrightly rejected everything contrary.
bubbluppugus•34m ago
America didn't lose manufacturing jobs it sold them

The whole economy for 40-ish years now been built on finance engineering away labors grip on anything in the US

tehjoker•8m ago
It's pretty funny the lengths these guys will go to avoid nationalization, though to be honest, China is basically in the right here. USA is being aggressive, China is responding. The authors are resentful that America can't do anything it wants without pushback.
throw0101c•6m ago
See also National Helium Reserve, which was also sold:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve

It became a bit of a news item a few months ago:

> Ripple effects from the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to widen. There's yet another brewing shortage, this time in helium. While most people associate helium with balloons and funny voices, the element is used in a surprisingly wide variety of industrial settings, including semiconductor production, where its role in advanced lithography has been growing rapidly. But helium mining and exploration in North America has been practically non-existent for a variety of reasons. And while the US used to have a strategic helium reserve, the government started selling that down in the late 1990s. On this episode, we speak with Nicholas Snyder, the founder and CEO of North American Helium, which does helium mining in Canada. We discuss the properties of helium that make it so useful, as well as the difficulties of expanding global production and distribution.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjc6MgUY0BE

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/now-theres-a-helium-shortage-...

* https://podcasts.apple.com/pe/podcast/now-theres-a-helium-sh...