The user experience is sluggish and looks/feels dated. Under the hood, the code and tech stack is old. Options like sigma (and many others like it) look, feel and perform like up to date tech
Nothing tempts me so strongly to give up and leave a site than needing to use a magic link to get in.
Sometimes it takes minutes. I have, on more than one occasion, given up on buying a product because of this. It's actually insane to me how much effort sites put into preventing users from using them.
I get it, most people are idiots with completely non-existent security hygiene, but man does it suck being punished because of just how low the common denominator is here.
> humanity is presently in the process of evolving beyond nation-states
No, it isn't. This is some Curtis Yarvin BS.
> So, any solution that truly addresses the _original_ funding disaster must be future-compatible with an internet in which we've overcome the burden of nation-states.
What does this even mean? How do you envision a "future-compatible" CVE database? And what does it have to do with nation states?
It's insanely naive to have thought a second Trump admin would not be worse in every possible way. Did you pay attention at all to what was going on with SCOTUS? Project 2025?
Saying "there wasn't any evidence" is borderline bot-speak. Anybody who thought Trump 2.0 was going to be like the first round was simply not paying attention at all and anybody telling others it wasn't going to be like the first admin is either a Russian troll, the mainstream media, or just plain irresponsibly ignorant.
"Nobody could have foreseen this" is about the dumbest take I think I've seen so far.
I didn't claim any of those things were specific to Project 2025.
We've known about RFK Jr all along so yes, if somebody is surprised by the secretary of health being anti-vax, that somebody is irresponsibly ignorant. If that somebody also claims that nobody could have foreseen this, or that prior to him being picked they were fond of reassuring people that "there's no way it'll be that bad"... yeah I'd 100% associate that with the type of behavior becoming of a Russian troll.
I find it really weird and cringey that you're bringing up ego. I don't feel like I'm smarter than everybody else, nor am I claiming to be, nor do I see how any of my comments could even be construed as such. To say this is about me thinking I'm smarter than everybody else is to imply that I'm relishing in the fact that I "foresaw what others couldn't", which is just... an insanely idiotic thing to say. I'm not a sociopath. And for what it's worth, I know plenty of people who also saw this coming.
To be clear, it's a tragedy that so many people were ignorant of what a second Trump admin would be capable of, but that's not really the point I'm trying to make; I am specifically taking issue with your insistence that it was somehow impossible for anybody else to foresee this.
> I find it really weird and cringey that you're bringing up ego. I don't feel like I'm smarter than everybody else, nor am I claiming to be, nor do I see how any of my comments could even be construed as such.
Then you should re-read your comment. Calling people "insanely naive"? "Bot-speak"? The "dumbest take"? "Irresponsibly ignorant"?
And you really think you're not trying to portray yourself as smarter than everyone else who didn't see this coming?
Your comments are insulting, provocative, in bad faith, and do not belong on HN.
I was trying to make a reasoned point that no, most reasonable smart people didn't expect the Trump administration to be anything like what it is now. I don't know of anyone who predicted this. Your claims to the contrary are simply rewriting history. You're calling people ignorant, when you seem to be the one with the faulty memory.
I hope you can learn a little humility. Good luck to you.
Just keep in mind there are a thousand people right behind you who would be ecstatic to be able to work on this "nightmare" in order to earn a paycheck.
