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Comment · 1 month ago
Why are some cyber attacks criminal and some not ?
Comment · 6 months ago
I am not sure what the site intends to do, but doesn’t spirit have eight billion in debt with about one billion in payments due immediately. The planes and other assets belong to the debt holders. Unless this site plans to raise a couple of billion, I don’t think they are buying any airline .
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Very funny to see HN hate on Microsoft and Google but then love a company where they cannot even run an app on their mobile platform without Apple's permission or only a certain number of VMs on the hardware they own .
Comment · 7 months ago
How are you getting that real time flight data from . Is there a free source for this ?
Comment · 7 months ago
I think saying that Oracle is a provider of database software is something that you hear from old technical folks who have not used Oracle since the 90s. In fact Oracle's revenue from database software is very tiny. Much of their revenue comes from enterprise and cloud software.

If you are a publicly traded company who needs to report audited financial results every quarter to shareholders, there are less than 10 ERP software in world for that and Oracle owns 5 of those - Fusion, PeopleSoft, Netsuite, JDE and EBS.

Also, in the last decade a big chunk of their revenue comes from cloud services where these enterprises move away from their physical hardware and onto the cloud. Here also, Oracle provides one of the most generous free limits compared to GCP, AWS and Azure. Also they provide some unique options that I have not seen in any other clouds like Bring Your Own License where you can keep running your old enterprise databases in the cloud with just paying for the compute .

Few years back they also bought out Cerner which was the largest EHR company at that time and it pushed their head count by 28000.

They grew their headcount massively during covid like any other software company and simultaneously took on too much debt to build datacenters.

But with rising cost of these capex builds, they are in consolidation mode and reducing headcounts just like other companies.

Comment · 7 months ago
Was that landing page written by Google India team !
Comment · 7 months ago
So like StumbleUpon
Comment · 7 months ago
Why are Linux operating system providers taking it upon themselves to comply with the California law especially if they are not selling anything. Since it is just a downloadable piece of software then it is up to California state to set up a firewall to protect themselves from such harmful software.

Let's say I am a generic linux developer who develops variants of Debian Linux while sitting in my basement in any part of the world.

If one country wants to ban my software because I don't ask for their age, then set up suitable protections for your citizens.

Don't force me to do that. I am not responsible for protecting your citizens.

That is like saying if Saudi wants your id to make sure only males can download operating systems, so now will I add another restriction.

At least China takes it upon themselves to ban sites that they deem harmful for their citizens rather than forcing devs.

Comment · 8 months ago
So they fired that author after the author had publicly apologized on Blue sky.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Very cool but also more interesting is using Perl for any newish project.

It is hard to find maintainers or developers knowing Perl nowadays. Especially in data science related projects as python has been the de-facto tool for that field for some time now.

Comment · 8 months ago
I think the real surprise is that hims was able to sell the drug without approval in the first place. I do not support gatekeeping drugs from generic makers but their supply chain should be inspected just like any body else. The fact that they were able to sell a drug for so long without approval shows that something is really broken in the process.
Comment · 9 months ago
How is the experience on the Corolla. How much can it do by itself?
Comment · 9 months ago
Bitlet.org ???

That way a show hn that pulled all NYC restaurant food items into a searchable list.

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