"In 2025, the UNGA adopted 15 resolutions on Israel and only eleven resolutions on the entire rest of the world, which includes one resolution each on North Korea, Iran, and Myanmar, as well as six against Russia and two against the United States, as detailed in the charts below."
Kicked out? Why wasn't he sent to prison? This is basically spying, right? I can imagine that if you do this kind of stuff in Russia you would rot in a prison cell (and, perhaps even worse).
It's so obvious that it's cringe. They have a product to sell so these kind of things are all part of a larger marketing campaign in preparation for their IPO.
Not only that... I would really have to see something tangible from a company that makes these kind of claims. ASML's technology is some of the most complex and advanced in the world and has it has taken decades to get there. Of course it is possible, but without something tangible to back up their claims, I think I will remain skeptical.
Also I'm sure there are university labs that can do similar things as ASML ... the bigger problem is doing it at scale in a repeatable way that can be sold as an actual product and also not infringing on ASML patents.
They are claiming 50 employees. I don't think that is anywhere near enough. I'd expect hundreds or even thousands of engineers are needed, and for every engineer there are a dozen of other support staff roles. ASML has 40,000 employees, but we can guess some are in other product areas (what I don't know). Let me know when they have had 10,000 employees for 5 years and I'll start believing it.
I so recommend reading this article. It will provide you insight into a world that, I imagine, the majority of readers are not familiar with: Python development in the financial/banking system.
This is definitely not the first time this article has appeared on HN's frontpage, but every time it does, I re-read the article because I find the approach to software that the author describes in the article to be fascinating. YMMV.
I developed Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/) which is based on the topic maps paradigm. It has been my workhorse (personal) knowledge management tool for years now.
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