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type: comment
by: CamperBob2
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  That&#x27;s the whole problem.  I had to &quot;R&quot; multiple &quot;FMs&quot; before one of them bothered to define the acronym.<p>Stop carrying water for poor documentation practice.


type: comment
by: bdcravens
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  There is an open source project using older pumps and somewhat older CGMs (Dexcom G6 and prior)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openaps.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openaps.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: tclancy
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  Huh. I have come to find the information about other tclancys across the world an interesting insight. Plus there was the time I was mistakenly sent a resume to review for a guy applying to become bank president; he didn&#x27;t get the gig, but it wasn&#x27;t because of the three or four paragraphs I sent him on spiffing up the thing.


type: comment
by: pixl97
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  &gt;Such should be done only with great care, as a false low reading can harm and even kill the patient (who eats a high-sugar-content item while glucose in the blood is, in fact, not low).<p>I&#x27;ve been a type I diabetics for over 25 years and I don&#x27;t quite understand this one. <i>Low</i> blood sugar is an immediate life or death situation, but high blood sugar killing people? Just how high was it and for how long?<p>As someone that has a CGM I still calibrate it by using a blood test every couple of days because the CGM sensors can wander on accuracy.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
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  Yeah suits are kinda ass. Again, the need to have trousers so closely matched they can pretty much only come from the same <i>batch</i> as the cloth in the jacket. Sucks. Looks nice, but man that blows.<p>Jackets are dope, though. Get some summer-weight ones and even in that season you don’t have to use trouser&#x2F;jeans pockets. So nice.


type: comment
by: nonconstant
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  Stripe is using typed Ruby: they are authors of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sorbet&#x2F;sorbet" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sorbet&#x2F;sorbet</a>


type: comment
by: hurflmurfl
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  Right, but then you need to learn the <i>right</i> motions well, motions that will make sense at the final speed. I suppose it&#x27;s one of those things that are made easier by having a teacher.


type: comment
by: pastage
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  Android APS, and xDrip. Getting watches to allow ble connection for CGMs is a great RE opportunity. It is really hard to have stable bluetooth connections.


type: comment
by: meysamazad
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  does it allow setting reminder for follow ups? typical OSS CRM I&#x27;ve seen seem to forget this obvious feature<p>I&#x27;d like to be emailed using my custom smtp when I have to set an alarm for a specific task


type: comment
by: subdavis
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  I’m not sure a study of chronic gamblers generalizes to long-term working class employees of this facility. I have no idea what lessons can be learned from the NFL case, but I suspect none at all.


type: comment
by: refurb
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  But the point is that China <i>actively suppresses</i> messages right now.<p>Social media posts, people with banners on streets, people publishing blogs, people publishing newspapers.  Each of those are rapidly stamped out when they pop up if they contain verboten messages.<p>This is just China doing the same to AI.


type: comment
by: nonconstant
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  Also: lots of other big Ruby shops are on Sorbet, like Figma, One Medical, Gusto etc. We discussed this at the SF Ruby meetup after this talk <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rubyevents.org&#x2F;talks&#x2F;past-present-and-future-of-sorbet-type-syntax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rubyevents.org&#x2F;talks&#x2F;past-present-and-future-of-...</a>


type: comment
by: pizlonator
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  Canonical example:<p><pre><code>    union {         char* p;         long i;     }; </code></pre> Then say that the attacker can write arbitrary integers into `i` and then trigger dereferences on `p`.


type: comment
by: yassien
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  Confidence is not the same as understanding. This article looks at uncertainty not as a number a model outputs, but as a quantity systems actively reshape. Using a few small, empirical experiments, it explores how uncertainty can be compressed, hidden, or redistributed once models move from evaluation into real decision pipelines. Some failures only become visible when we zoom out to the system level.


type: comment
by: jaggederest
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  Tags are just a text file with a name and the sha of the tag object (with the commit and some metadata&#x2F;signatures as contents), last I checked. It&#x27;s deliberately simple and thus almost impossible to actually lock it down in concrete terms.<p>Packed refs are a little more complicated but all of the storage formats in git are trivial to manually edit or write a tool to handle, in extremis.


type: comment
by: bonsai_spool
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  It depends on what the true blood sugar value was: if someone were already at the high end of normal and a &#x27;brittle diabetic&#x27;, you can end up in &#x27;diabetic ketoacidosis&#x27; for T1DM individuals or—less likely—&#x27;hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state&#x27; generally.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayoclinic.org&#x2F;diseases-conditions&#x2F;hyperglycemia&#x2F;symptoms-causes&#x2F;syc-20373631" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mayoclinic.org&#x2F;diseases-conditions&#x2F;hyperglycemia...</a> for a discussion of both (in <i>Emergency conditions</i>)


type: comment
by: skydhash
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  Even movies won’t capture the nuances of a somewhat decent novels. I have no hope to see something really complex like “The Malazan Book of the Fallen” in any other form.


type: comment
by: phendrenad2
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  Are you saying that I&#x27;m saying that there are no pixels in the document? Like, do you think that I think that scanners have come to operate on pure platonic forms and no longer use the concept of pixels? That would be really cool, wouldn&#x27;t it. But no, I don&#x27;t believe that. Hm. Where did this conversation go wrong. I think I was unclear in my last statement. I have yet to see someone show the original scribbles or ink marks that these OCR layers were generated based on. That&#x27;s what I meant by &quot;destructive&quot;. Now, I&#x27;m no expert on documents, so you might want to just cut your losses and stop trying to educate me and let me be uneducated in this matter. I&#x27;ll accept that I don&#x27;t know what I&#x27;m talking about, and reduce my criticisms of this whole thing to pointing out that the explanations don&#x27;t make sense to me.


type: comment
by: refurb
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  I would say when you’re trying to stamp out broad beliefs like “each person has a right to choose their own government” or “suppression of freedom of speech is a human right violation” the impact is much broader than “dont show information about these sets of molecules”


type: comment
by: fragmede
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  The supreme court&#x27;s decisions lately seem to be more Xi oriented in style than is perhaps, comfortable, if one wishes to put some daylight between the practices of the two nations.


type: comment
by: BoiledCabbage
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  &gt; It&#x27;s really common for people with sudden windfalls to lose it all.<p>5% of people isn&#x27;t &quot;really common&quot;. Estimate of 1% of US adults declare bankruptcy within a 5 year period (based on ending in July 2025 and right now is a very low period). 2010 a peak it was likely closer to 3% of adults.<p>It is rightfully calling it a false trope of &quot;Only rich people deserve money. We should prevent others from getting it&quot;.


type: comment
by: blcknight
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  What would you use instead?<p>I built an internal CI chat bot with it like 6 months ago when I was learning. It’s deployed and doing what everyone needs it to do.<p>Claude Code can do most of what it does without needing anything special. I think that’s the future but I hate the vendor lock in Anthropic is pushing with CC.<p>All my python tools could be skills, and some folks are doing that now but I don’t need to chase after every shiny thing — otherwise I’d never stop rewriting the damn thing.<p>Especially since there’s no standardizing yet on plugins&#x2F;skills&#x2F;commands&#x2F;hooks yet.


type: comment
by: r0fl
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  Impressive<p>I’ve been trying to get AI to be 100% autonomous and built on its own. I keep failing. Would love to see the GitHub repo you’re talking about.<p>I’m surprised no one has done this at scale. Why can’t AI scrape all of hacker news Indiehackers producthunt , trustmrr<p>Then find domains expired or new and build me 1000 unique ideas on 1000 ways perfectly deployed in a way that does not set any alarms at Google.<p>It would cost ~$15,000 to do that.<p>If that could be done every month for a year, you would have 12,000 active websites&#x2F;saas ideas for under $200k!<p>Take the best 10 and let the rest just expire<p>Could get some home runs<p>Would love to do that!


type: comment
by: cutler
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  MVT for testing mobile spyware? There are whole sectors of industry, such as cybersecurity, where Python shines and Ruby is nowhere to be seen.


type: comment
by: nirvdrum
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  Having immutable objects by default isn’t incredibly commonplace outside of functional languages. It certainly isn’t unique to Ruby and seems out of place in a discussion comparing Ruby to Python. Fortunately, you can defensively freeze any objects you’re passing around to avoid the most common issues with mutable objects.<p>Immutable strings is a more popular programming language feature and Ruby has a mechanism for opting into that. It’s so commonplace that the complaint usually isn’t that a string can be modified, but rather that every source file includes a magic comment to prevent that. Besides data safety, the VM can optimize frozen strings, so popular linters will flip that setting on for you. String mutability isn’t a practical issue for modern codebases. And, as language design goes, it’s kinda nice not needing to use a parallel set of classes for mutable and immutable string data IMHO.<p>With that said, the magic comment is a wart and folks are looking at making immutable strings the default. But, there’s a strong desire to avoid breaking the world. The Ruby Core team is keen to keep the lessons learned from the Python 2 -&gt; 3 migration in mind.


type: comment
by: chews
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  I worked at medtronic in the early 2000&#x27;s (early paradigm pumps) and were evaluating wireless protocols and security... at the time we determined it was impossible to secure, once the FDA approved another device maker that did have connectivity there was a scramble to catch up. (this was palmos&#x2F;pocketpc era). It was fun work but I always remembered how insanely detailed the code was, 8bit low power microcontrollers (some 16bit) but really really really tight C code. Then the demand for remote control happened and that really crapped the bed. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medtronic.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;e&#x2F;product-security&#x2F;security-bulletins&#x2F;minimed.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.medtronic.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;e&#x2F;product-security&#x2F;security-...</a><p>The amazing developer Scott Hanselman built on a PalmOS app to store readings and if I recall correctly wore 2 pumps with fast&#x2F;slow insulin... he had a cybernetic pancreas in the mid-2000&#x27;s.


type: comment
by: k310
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  I imagine that a separate keyboard will work. But that&#x27;s the tail wagging the dog, like the stuff I mentioned.


type: comment
by: olowe
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  &gt; I’ve spent a decade doing frontend work.<p>Think about it this way: you&#x27;ve spent a decade writing software.<p>&gt; Does it make sense to change direction at this point?<p>Changing direction isn&#x27;t a binary thing. You can aim, say, 4.5 degrees to the left to change your trajectory ever so slightly. This is possible because whether you&#x27;re working on CRUD forms or self-driving car data analytics pipelines many principles of software engineering are the same. For example good software is usually simple, clear, and portable [1].<p>Specialise in an industry vertical that is not just web development. Let&#x27;s use healthcare as an example. If you&#x27;re doing dropdowns and modals in healthcare software - try and understand if those widgets could be easily used in other healthcare software. Why or why not? Could that same dropdown be implemented in a native app using GTK and&#x2F;or WinUI? Perhaps given the type of data you&#x27;re working with a dropdown isn&#x27;t the best way that it could be represented. Try loading up some disease definitions into Typesense[2] and presenting a more free-form text search for particular diseases. From there you can think beyond UI widgets and think more about general problem solving.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Practice_of_Programming" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Practice_of_Programming</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typesense.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;typesense.org</a>


type: comment
by: ianburrell
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  They could have used modem standards. Bell 103 standard is 300 bit&#x2F;s with frequency shift keying (FSK).


type: comment
by: pclark
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  I have this same issue! But I can log in with or without dots… but it’s like someone else thinks their email is my email without the dots. I can’t really figure out what is happening. The volume is way too high for it to be spam though.


type: comment
by: jetc
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  My friend and I built this because we were tired of how &quot;effective&quot; the Instagram algorithm has become. I went on Instagram to send a DM, and ended up doomscrolling for 30 minutes.<p>We want to stay connected with others without being exploited for engagement.<p>- Bypasses the &quot;Explore&quot; page: No suggested reels or ads.<p>- Direct Messaging via MQTT: Real-time chat without the feed looming in the background.<p>- Intention-driven: see posts and stories from friends only when you intend to, supports images in terminal (Sixel, Kitty, iTerm2 protocol)<p>The app is built with TypeScript and Ink (React for CLI). We also ended up open-sourcing two libraries for Ink during the process: ink-picture (for terminal image rendering) and wax (a routing framework for Ink).<p>We&#x27;d love to hear user feedback to make the app better. Looking for contributors.<p>Share with us your thoughts on social media, attention vs connections, and building terminal apps.


type: comment
by: redohmy
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  According to an internal SK Hynix analysis, the DRAM supply shortage isn’t just a short-term cycle — it may persist through 2028. With rising AI and server memory demand absorbing capacity, limited production growth, and declining inventories, memory markets are tightening globally. Discover what this means for pricing, procurement, and secondary markets.


type: comment
by: bdcravens
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  I depend on a pump and CGM (currently that&#x27;s a Dexcom G7 and Omnipod, but I&#x27;ve used other brands as well).<p>I like the technology, but you have to 1) know your own body and 2) verify if you are uncertain about the readings. Every time I&#x27;ve switched devices I&#x27;ve interacted with diabetes educators, and they pretty much always tell me to always be prepared to verify manually (with an old-school finger stick and test strips).<p>Additionally, it&#x27;s not always the fault of the technology, but often where meatspace and technology interface. When you insert a CGM, there&#x27;s always a risk of the canula not going into the skin correctly. (usually it&#x27;s a spring-loaded insertion tool and shoot a needle into your skin quickly, but it can mess up if the amount of pressure applied is wrong etc) In such a case, the sensor that measures your blood will often, where you can&#x27;t see, sit on top of the skin. This results in insanely low readings. That happens to me a few times a year (I swap out the sensor every 10 days), and you have to listen to how your body feels relative to the readings, and replace the sensor if necessary.


type: comment
by: skydhash
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  I have a 14” FHD panel (158 dpi) on an old (7 year) laptop and there’s more issues with low resolution icons and paddings than with font rendering. I wouldn’t mind more, but it’s not blurry.


type: comment
by: Exoristos
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  These scrapers can bring a small website to its knees. Also, my &quot;contribution&quot; will be drowned in the mass, making me undiscoverable. Further, I can&#x27;t help fearing a nightmare where someday I&#x27;m accused of using AI when I&#x27;m only plagiarizing myself.


type: comment
by: pclark
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  I once got an email — addressed to some other pclark@ — which was simply a photo of a duck and the message “what duck is this?” I was so disappointed that he never thanked me for replying accurately and expeditiously.


type: comment
by: vel0city
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  As a parent I largely agree with this take. Most toys people buy my kids are essentially cheap plastic trash that won&#x27;t last a season of interest but emotional toil to try and get rid of.<p>If you must get <i>something</i> outside of a donation to education savings, please either get a relevant book, something genuinely useful, or some kind of consumable. A pair of fun socks. A good a new backpack. Tickets to a sports game or a museum. A bag of snacks. A few sheets of stickers. New legitimate sports equipment (if they&#x27;re into the sport and could actually use it). All of these are far better than some cheap plastic noise maker.


type: comment
by: cdelsolar
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  I still own and use mylastname@gmail.com. Yeah I get a ton of misaddressed mail, even some from a relatively famous person with the same last name.


type: comment
by: guessmyname
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  One of my email addresses is {MyNameKP}@gmail.com. “KP” were just random letters I picked years ago and they don’t mean anything. I also own {MyName}@hotmail.com. Someone once asked why I don’t use {MyName}@gmail.com, so I went home to try to sign up for it, but Gmail said the address already exists. I figured someone else had it and might sell, so I emailed them. Gmail auto-replied that the address doesn’t exist. Why can’t I register an address that isn’t there? Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯


type: comment
by: nostrebored
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  Can guarantee this was not true for any complicated extraction. You could reliably get it to output json but not the json you wanted<p>Even on smallish ~50k datasets error was still very high and interpretation of schema was not particularly good.


type: comment
by: ursAxZA
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  Fax is still acceptable in parts of healthcare for a reason — privacy under low-tech constraints is an actual requirement.<p>Dial-up was slow, but at least the internet still felt human.<p>Fiber gave us speed, not soul.<p>Sometimes I miss yelling “Corp Por” into the TUBE — back when the screen wasn’t a window, but a passage.


type: comment
by: rsync
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  &quot;... wrongful death lawsuits are typically the only way to hold these companies accountable. Yet, there are very few people who have not agreed Abbott&#x27;s toxic terms of their proprietary companion application ...&quot;<p>I (a non-diabetic interested in athletic performance) use an Abbott CGM sporadically and I have absolutely not agreed to any terms of service nor any other agreement of any kind - legal or otherwise.<p>I bought a purpose-specific, old model iphone from &quot;Back Market&quot; with no SIM card, <i>very briefly</i> allowed it wifi access long enough to download the &quot;Lingo&quot; app, then set the phone to airplane mode.  Dedicated, throwaway email and AppleID.<p>It has never left airplane mode and it works perfectly.  Pairing subsequent sensors does not require taking it out of airplane mode.<p>Further, I have no legal relationship nor have I made any agreement of any kind with Abbott.<p>I <i>highly recommend</i> that any user of these devices do the same.


type: comment
by: dodos
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  I definitely fall into this trap sometimes. Oftentimes that simple order of ops swap will fix my issue, but when it doesn&#x27;t, it&#x27;s easy to get stuck in the &quot;just one more change&quot; mindset instead of taking a step back to re-assess.


type: comment
by: qaisjp
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  Types don&#x27;t make testing in general unnecessary, but it removes a class of error handling that runtime type checking handles for you. You can really trust the types when using Sorbet.<p>(I also work in a 40m+ loc non-rails ruby codebase that is almost entirely typed with Sorbet.)


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
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  Repos don&#x27;t always have everything, and if software is offered via AppImage, Flatpak, etc, you&#x27;re likely to be working with x86-64 compiled images.


type: comment
by: JSR_FDED
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  What worked for us professionally, voraciously taking in information, might be less effective going forward. Being more judicious in consuming fewer, high-quality sources of content is likely to work better in the age of AI slop.


type: comment
by: esafak
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  &gt; It exhibits consistent and stable results in tools such as Claude Code, Droid (Factory AI), Cline, Kilo Code, Roo Code, and BlackBox, while providing reliable support for Context Management mechanisms including Skill.md, Claude.md&#x2F;agent.md&#x2F;cursorrule, and Slash Commands.<p>One of the demos shows them using Claude Code, which is interesting. And the next sections are titled &#x27;Digital Employee&#x27; and &#x27;End-to-End Office Automation&#x27;. Their ambitions obviously go beyond coding. A sign of things to come...


type: comment
by: godelski
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  Sure, but isn&#x27;t there still an advantage to this? If two people are silently doing this then they don&#x27;t influence one another as much, helping find a wider range of solutions as well as identify issues with certain solutions that the other might not have seen.<p>Instead if you&#x27;re blurting out your thinking more in unison. Naturally you&#x27;ll stray less, exploring less.<p>Of course you want collaboration but I find the magic is going back and forth between alone and together. I even find this helpful when just working by myself, stepping away from the problem or context switching, allowing the problem to distill.


type: comment
by: bdcravens
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  That seemed odd to me as well (also diabetic). When I&#x27;m not being responsible, I can ride out a BG of 300-400 for hours and mostly I&#x27;m just lethargic.<p>That said, my mother in law, who had worse diabetes than me, went without her pump during mine and her daughter&#x27;s wedding (a bit of vanity about the pump showing through her dress). She was at 600+, and started feeling pretty ill that evening.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
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  &gt; But <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grep.app&#x2F;search?f.repo=trifectatechfoundation%2Fsudo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grep.app&#x2F;search?f.repo=trifectatechfoundation%2Fsudo</a>... indicated that maybe up to 45 files include unsafe code. That is quite a lot of files. How many modules might that touch? How large are those modules?<p>I mean, you have the search results right there. You could always take the time to look for yourself instead of &quot;wildly spitballing&quot;, especially since the codebase is not that large.<p>Might want to take a closer look at your search results anyways, since those results include the FAQ, the sudoers man page, and instances of #![forbid(unsafe_code)] and #![deny(unsafe_code)]. Not exactly a promising start...<p>But since you asked so nicely, by tokei&#x27;s count and my transcribing file paths, the modules including the `unsafe` keyword account for ~39% (8207&#x2F;21106) of the total lines of code in the repo. I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll need to actually look at anywhere near that amount of code, though; from a brief glance through the search results I suspect most of the `unsafe` usages are for FFI calls, and relatively self-documenting&#x2F;self-contained ones at that. If there were modules with module-wide invariants, I do not appear to have stumbled upon them.


type: story
by: mishu2
title: Show HN: Fun sketch – Bring your sketches to life
url: https://funsketch.kigun.org/
text:
  Hello HN,<p>I created a simple website which lets children (of all ages) sketch something and then animate it using AI. It&#x27;s a small hobby project because I wanted to see what all the hype is about.<p>No account required (but because the sketch app allows image uploads and we all know we can&#x27;t have nice things on the Internet, I will be moderating the submissions before showing them on the front page).<p>Stack: Excalidraw, Django, Postgres, Redis for caching, ComfyUI for the image to video workflow (Wan 2.2 14B I2V).<p>Let me know what you think. Merry Christmas!


type: comment
by: muricula
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  Python has that property when you don&#x27;t bring C extensions into the conversation. Data races exist, but can never cause memory corruption due to the GIL.


type: comment
by: block_dagger
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  It’s not a huge impediment but it adds up through: extra lines of sig code I now need to essentially ignore as I read as well as waiting for precommit hooks to check a giant codebase for compliance, plus extra rbi files in git. If engineers followed convention over config and tested types where necessary, no need for inline types. Just use TS if you want types.


type: comment
by: fragmede
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  I mean, the LLM&#x27;s words are just generated words, not gospel from the heavens. If you&#x27;re self-aware enough to be able to extract value from the words, and not go off the deep end with it, which it seem like you are, run it through as many SOTA online models and however many offline models you can fit on your hard drive, and compare all of their advice if you&#x27;re really that worried about it, but make up a soap opera scenario, like some thing that ends with &quot;and then I slept with her sister&quot; and see just how many of them say &quot;good job getting it in!&quot; and not &quot;you&#x27;re an asshole&quot;, if you need to prove to yourself that, as with everything, you shouldn&#x27;t believe everything you read on the news.<p>Grok: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grok.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;c2hhcmQtNQ_26f4c367-77ed-4b6e-be55-8382ff9932fb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;grok.com&#x2F;share&#x2F;c2hhcmQtNQ_26f4c367-77ed-4b6e-be55-83...</a><p>Claude: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;claude.ai&#x2F;share&#x2F;dca96b18-d583-4e14-b805-725d2e060761" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;claude.ai&#x2F;share&#x2F;dca96b18-d583-4e14-b805-725d2e060761</a><p>Interestingly ChatGPT won&#x27;t let me share a chat link for the same input text due to not passing a moderation filter, but you can plug that same gauche prompt into chat.com for yourself. Couldn&#x27;t find the share button in Gemini.


type: comment
by: sallveburrpi
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  In most cases you can’t use the device without agreeing to the terms of service right?<p>For example a service I use a lot recently changed their terms of service - there was no way to keep using the service without agreeing.<p>Might be different for devices or services that don’t need internet to function; but even for those you have some “activation” step nowadays that forces you to agree before “unlocking”


type: comment
by: dogline
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  Isn’t that how a lot of us learned — buy typing the code out of back of a magazine?  Then spending hours trying to debug a typo somewhere.<p>I didn’t realize how close LLMs are to the old magazines.  Let it give you a seed, then use that springboard to learn everything else.


type: comment
by: broretore
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  would the world be worse off if instead of google it had been blooglie or hooli that succeeded?<p>i don&#x27;t know


type: comment
by: noman-land
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  Thanks, `mer_cos` definitely gets me closer. I appreciate that. Yeah, I was thinking providing a param for the expected number of speakers would be nice. I&#x27;ll check out the codebase and see if that&#x27;s something I can contribute :).


type: comment
by: Brajeshwar
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  This is one of those articles that pops up here once every few years, and I love it every time. I love these stories of low-hanging, boring businesses that succeed in simple, yet strange and satisfying ways.<p>And of course, this helps me continue, like many others, to go domain-first on ideas that sound good at interesting times. I have enough domains to be ashamed of in numbers, but I will continue to register more, as more ideas hit me in the shower and on my walks. My wife has seen me walk out of the shower halfway more often than not to check availability and register domains. I’ve also had my share of well-sold domain names, so I don’t regret my hobby&#x2F;obsession.


type: comment
by: halJordan
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  This is exactly the sort of refusal to comprehend so that you can get in an &quot;um, ackshually&quot; that the op is talking about. He&#x27;s quoting a line from a book as a metaphor for a concept the book illustrates well.


type: comment
by: araes
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  Since you&#x27;re from the &quot;local&quot; area (Belgium), do you happen to know why the numbers have declined over the years?  From this article [1] it seemed like it was hugely popular pre-WWII (3,750) with that article quoting 500 in the modern era.<p>Less acceptable currently, other alternatives?  Still seems famous and popular, just not quite as much as it used to be.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geel#A_model_of_psychiatric_care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Geel#A_model_of_psychiatric_ca...</a>


type: comment
by: illiac786
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  Agree with everything in that list (and made many of these mistakes myself) but actuators (e.g. Shelly) in the wall behind actual switches were the exception for me. Especially for things which were not light switches, like blinds, sky lights, pumps…


type: comment
by: aristofun
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  Galileo, copernicus, descartes were all christians, also newton.<p>Some of them were in conflict with the church. Never with christ or god.<p>If you’re ignorant and uneducated enough to not see the difference between the 2 then there is no point to argue with you. You’re likely brainwashed.<p>Ps: Also if you didn’t know first western universities started as monasteries with monks seeking the truth in the name of christ.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
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  Yes, so given that you clearly had trouble figuring out what it was, maybe you could have shared with the class?


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  Data races are a source of bugs. They are not a noticeable fraction of the security issues that face memory unsafe languages, which is the practical argument for memory safety.


type: comment
by: g-mork
text:
  Some of the more &quot;celebrityish&quot; talks tend to be popular by reputation, but content is often reused a lot, e.g. &quot;10 years of Dieselgate&quot; kind of falls into that. Watched the original, and the followup, and I think also the followup-followup, eventually it&#x27;s worth checking out new topics instead, even though the presenters could not be faulted in any way.<p>All of these looked good to me this year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;halfnarp.events.ccc.de&#x2F;#e72b9560a7c729d1b38c93ef18a5437673c1bb4877c2cb2538cf6a577f2165c2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;halfnarp.events.ccc.de&#x2F;#e72b9560a7c729d1b38c93ef18a5...</a>


type: comment
by: m4rtink
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  Even if you can point to some positive outcomes the is the main issue of the whole system being so easy to corrupt and coopt for personal gain &amp; power trips.<p>You might get lower infant mortality, better access to healtcare ans aeducation (as long as the party considers you worthy) but you will almost immediately get crooks and incompetents in leadership positions, whose only qualities are the set of morals to get to a position of power no matter the cost.<p>And those leadership positions are appointed by or even part of The Party - and the party is never wrong. There is no free press to critisize them and if you do speak up, then you are logically an spy from The West, undermining the perfect communist utopia &amp; need to be punished.<p>Only if someone is really epically incompetent they might get purged by the inner circles, but it is even more likely they will purge someone actually doing things right who still has some morals left.<p>You could be the most ideological communist trzing to build the bright future &amp; will still end up sidelined or worse by the corrupt pigs holding to all the power in the communist state.<p>When the Soviets crashed the Prague Spring in the 1968 there were some interbrigadists that went to fight agains Francos fascists in Spain during the interwar period with international communist brigades. Only now they were watching soviet soldiers shoot people in the streets and crush them with their tanks...


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
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  There is also a follow up article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;part-two-i-sell-onions-on-the-internet&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;part-two-i-sell-onions-on-...</a>


type: comment
by: ckozlowski
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  Entirely possible I misremembered. As another commenter pointed out, it might be that I never got past mission 2. On further recollection, I think it was just Top Gun: The Second Mission that I owned. I remember playing both, but it might have been the second that vexed me the most.


type: comment
by: godelski
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  <p><pre><code>  &gt; typing faster takes discipline and effort.    &gt;&gt; ***typing isn&#x27;t the bottleneck*** </code></pre> I believe you read too fast<p><pre><code>  &gt; The main benefit isn&#x27;t so much &quot;more output&quot; so much as &quot;reduced latency&quot;. e.g. It takes less time to type out queries that help you gather information. </code></pre> You&#x27;ve missed the critical part of what I was saying.<p><i>While typing</i> I&#x27;m doing other things in parallel.<p>Those other things are things that require you to scrutinize and look at each character. I think the vacuum analogy from the OP is quite apt here. It&#x27;s much harder to debug other people&#x27;s code and more so an LLMs.


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
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  The thing that annoys me more is the singular focus on memory safety as if nothing else matters. For example, by most definitions PHP is a &quot;memory safe&quot; language, but it&#x27;s also full of poor design choices and the things written in it have a disproportionate number of security vulnerabilities. JavaScript is also classically modeled as a gelatinous mass of smoldering tires and npm seems to have been designed for the purpose of carrying out supply chain attacks.<p>So then we see an enormous amount of effort being spent to try to replace everything written in C with Rust when that level of effort should have been able to e.g. come up with something which is easy enough for ordinary people to use that it could plausibly displace WordPress but has a better security posture. Or improve the various legacy issues with distribution package managers so that people stop avoiding them even for popular packages in favor of perilous kludges like npm and Docker.


type: comment
by: markerz
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  LLMs will always have the tool call overhead, which I find to be quite expensive (seconds) on most models.  Directly using vector databases without the LLM interface gets you a lot of the semantic search ability without the multi-second latency, which is pretty nice for querying documents on a website.  E.G. finding relevant pages on a documentation website, showing related pages, etc.  Can be applied to GitHub Issues to deduplicate issues, or show existing issues that could match what the user is about to report.  There are plenty of places where “cheap and fast” is better and an LLM interface just gets in the way.  I think this is a lot of the unsqueezed juice in our industry.


type: comment
by: davchana
text:
  I have registered a one domain bydav in my cctld, and now all of my future apps are like timer.bydav.cctld


type: comment
by: Hnrobert42
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  With the advent of LLM coding tools, I wonder how much efficiency would be gained generating the code in a language that compiles and is natively multithreaded.


type: comment
by: ulfw
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  We will soon have US&#x2F;ROW Tech - EU Tech - and Chinese Tech. Some countries will align with one or the other, a few might pick 2 of the 3.<p>But worldwide tech is dying


type: comment
by: digitalPhonix
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  &gt; I think you&#x27;re doing a disservice to newcomers by creating a new method of autocompletion<p>Or a feature to lock users into their tools?


type: comment
by: fgonzag
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  I just blurt out &quot;processing&quot; when they start looking at me weird. People tend to take it well.


type: comment
by: robocat
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  Asking ChatGPT for that sort of advice seems like a horrific idea. Trying to learn interactions by written means can only lead to some very alien ideas.<p>Plus your questions will contain your mistakes, and what you take from any answers would reinforce your misunderstandings rather than correct them.<p>It&#x27;s hard to suggest better learning means via the HN medium.<p>I learnt a lot when I carefully gave attention to a friend I deeply trusted, training my intuition based on their interactions, plus they trusted me enough to sometimes attempt to explain their intuitive reactions.


type: comment
by: olowe
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  From the author of Redis on MicroQuickJS[1]:<p>&gt; If this had been available in 2010, Redis scripting would have been JavaScript and not Lua.<p>With that in mind we can do a quick search to see how Lua is used. I found an article on Wikipedia titled &quot;List of applications using Lua&quot;[2]. Of course that&#x27;s not an exhaustive list but it gives you a bit of an idea. Off the top of my head, the places I&#x27;ve personally seen Lua used:<p>1. modifying DNS responses in PowerDNS<p>2. neovim plugins<p>3. video game mods like Factorio<p>Personally I got into programming by writing shell scripts. I never studied computer science or IT. Instead it was the ability to write basic code for existing software that gave me this accidental introduction to the world of writing logic down as a set of machine-readable instructions. For me, MicroQuickJS is another one of those ways for &quot;power users&quot; (who may themselves be professional software developers) to extend some existing software without getting into the nitty gritty of the big bad upstream dev project.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46368706">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46368706</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_applications_using_Lua" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_applications_using_Lua</a>


type: comment
by: shrubble
text:
  How tough is it juice them and make orange juice that can be sold (to Spanish or EU standards)?  I would think you could start small and grow over time.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
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  Nick Fuentes is a vocal proponent of genocide and actively mocks the holocaust.<p>If think otherwise, I don&#x27;t know what to tell you. It comes straight from the horse&#x27;s mouth.<p>Use your vitriol towards Nazi&#x27;s, or yourself. Either is probably deserved at this point.


type: comment
by: lubujackson
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  I will just say this trend of &quot;land acknowledgements&quot; feels like the worst flotsam of liberalism - it is performatively solumn, prescriptive &quot;on behalf&quot; of some marginalized people, but ultimately meaningless. It feels like the liberal version of a &quot;thoughts &amp; prayers&quot; response.<p>It is especially misguided since the acknowledged &quot;true owners&quot; of the land usually didn&#x27;t subscribe to the concept of land ownership. The whole concept is just weird and I don&#x27;t understand the objective. To be appreciative of the land&#x27;s history? Why would this be required in a college course syllabus?<p>I say this as a liberal in SF who is part Native American - who the hell wanted this?


type: comment
by: joshuamorton
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  I mean yes it is unsurprising that people with nearly infinite money are materially impacted by losing half of it.<p>But neither is at the level they were at before, at least in comparison to the market and economic growth overall.<p>&gt; Not so. It&#x27;s a lot worse now because before, people just monopolized fixed quantities of gold. If they made bad bets, their gold holdings would shrink.<p>Yes, this is precisely the &quot;zero-sum&quot; thing you said is problematic.


type: comment
by: hu3
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  Learn to make money.<p>Quite the adage but I have come to realise that I only ever learned to work, not to make money. I make a good living from consulting. But selling your time only gets you so far.<p>So I&#x27;ll probably hire. And probably find out all my previous bosses weren&#x27;t so wrong with their complaints after all.


type: comment
by: ipnon
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  It&#x27;s kind of like if the Django README explained how SQL works, the structure of HTTP requests, best practices for HTML, and so on. If you don&#x27;t know what MLIR is, you might not be the target audience for this library. Nvidia in general doesn&#x27;t prioritize developer experience as much as companies like Meta do for open source projects like React.


type: comment
by: nemo1618
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  You certainly do <i>not</i> need to play music at the speed the performer intended! There are whole genres (and subgenres) based on this. :) Personally, I have found that slowing a familiar piece down by ~5% tricks my brain into perceiving it as novel again, which helps me attend to it more closely and appreciate it more.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
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  I don&#x27;t know how to find superchat history, but honestly you can just peruse his own twitter here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;ATDrummond" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;ATDrummond</a><p>The guy has had a long running reputation on this site. Which is why he decided to add this to his profile:<p>&gt;here from hacker news? don’t be a creep<p>And by creep, he of course means &quot;don&#x27;t call me out for advocating for genocide.&quot;<p>His last post is even out right decrying ANY type of immigration, and his second post is being critical of Israel. And mind you, not because of any &quot;normal&quot; sociopolitical commentary, but simply because Israel = Jews and &quot;Jews are bad.&quot;


type: comment
by: amha
text:
  * Get less scared about applying to do stuff! I&#x27;m leaving my longtime job---I&#x27;ve taught advanced math to super-smart high schoolers; I&#x27;m quitting to be a visiting professor at Deep Springs College for a semester and then ???---and in the past, fear of applying to things (jobs, grad schools, writing residencies) has been a major blocker.<p>* Learn complex analysis!<p>* Get a better workflow for writing my notes to myself (e.g., Obsidian) and for publishing my blog&#x2F;website (have a marginally-functional Hugo instance right now). Small thing, but the kind of important-but-not-urgent thing that it&#x27;s easy to put off!


type: comment
by: mycall
text:
  Have you looked at Titan and MIRAS where they use online&#x2F;updating associative memory that happens to be read out via next-token prediction?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;blog&#x2F;titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;blog&#x2F;titans-miras-helping-ai-have-lo...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2501.00663" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2501.00663</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2504.13173" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2504.13173</a><p>Much research is going into these directions, but I&#x27;m more interested in mind-wandering tangents, involving both attentional control and additional mechanisms (memory retrieval, self-referential processing).


type: comment
by: hsuduebc2
text:
  Exactly. It&#x27;s so heartwarming to hear this when you are constantly bombarded by negative messages. Really made my day.


type: comment
by: radeeyate
text:
  For the past year, I&#x27;ve been learning a lot more about electronics, and in particular, designing PCBs, getting them manufactured, and assembled. I&#x27;ve come a long way from where I started, making little LED flashers shaped like trees for Christmas last year (everyone has to start somewhere!) where I&#x27;m now making small products with some of the super cheap ATTiny chips and writing code for them.<p>I really want to get more into microcontrollers, and design some more technical projects. I&#x27;ve been wanting to make a portable point-and-shoot camera for a couple years, though I&#x27;ve never been knowledgeable in that area to do it very well. Though, I&#x27;m finally getting to that point.<p>On a non-electronic-designing front, I&#x27;d love to learn more about networking and radios. I&#x27;m working on my homelab right now, and just got a nice switch to connect some free 15-year-old office PCs I also have. I&#x27;d love to get into AREDN, which is a 802.11 mesh network that can run on amateur radio frequencies.<p>I also want to write more about my projects on my website (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radi8.dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;radi8.dev</a>,) where hopefully I can share what I work on more often than I currently do.


type: comment
by: lanthade
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  These are all good toys, my middle elementary kid really likes magnatiles.<p>That said, I still think Lego runs the board.  My 40yo Lego is still in use, I still get pleasure out of it and my kid gets even more.  My kid and I just finished team building the UCS millennium falcon and now we&#x27;re having a blast playing with it.  Soon it&#x27;ll start being scavenged for other projects.  I&#x27;ve never seen another toy equal Lego in replayability or in the vast array of ways it can be used.  As a crusty old coot I complain about the seemingly single use pieces in new Lego sets and then watch as my kid uses them in new and creative ways in MOCs.  No other toy we have has the same staying power and much to my wife&#x27;s chagrin it&#x27;s the yardstick by which I measure every other toy.


type: comment
by: guerby
text:
  I found this video interesting on understanding what type 1 diabetic management looks like:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uHaYPEDGaro" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=uHaYPEDGaro</a><p>Beth McNally &amp; Amy Rush - &#x27;TCR in Practice: Navigating Insulin for Protein &amp; Fat in Type 1 Diabetes&#x27;<p>At the end of the video there is some strategies described with automatic pumps.<p>And the graph a t=174 is kind of eye opening:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uHaYPEDGaro?t=174" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uHaYPEDGaro?t=174</a>


type: comment
by: pavon
text:
  They also fit nicely in the back pocket of jeans, and leveled-out sitting on your wallet. I pretty much always had a book there from middle school until sometime after I was married.


type: comment
by: jaredsohn
text:
  Another way to think of it is if you&#x27;re blurting out your thinking you&#x27;re reducing redundant work and perhaps inspiring the other person to think of additional solutions that are offshoots of what you&#x27;re dismissing. I see merits to both ways of looking at this.


type: comment
by: swgeek
text:
  I want to, no, <i>need</i> to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand.<p>Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year: learn full-stack, practice vibe coding, basics of graphics programming (update to the latest ways)<p>I understand that means master of none, but this is a play around year for me. In theory AI should make it easier to try new things, we shall see about how it works in practice.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
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  Fantastic.<p>Can you please let me know if there is an ISO to get any mainstream Linux distro working on this Snapdragon laptop ?<p>ASUS - Vivobook 14 14&quot; FHD+ Laptop - Copilot+ PC - Snapdragon X<p>It&#x27;s on sale for $350 at Best buy and if I can get Linux working on it it would definitely be an awesome gift for myself.<p>Even if there&#x27;s some progress being made, it&#x27;s still nearly impossible to install a typical Linux distro on one of these. I&#x27;ve been watching this space since the snapdragon laptops were announced. Tuxedo giving up and canceling their Snapdragon Linux laptop doesn&#x27;t instill much confidence


type: comment
by: planc0515
text:
  I recently used emsdk to build interpreters for languages like Python. Then I wrote an online code editor based on WebAssembly that supports languages such as Python, Lua, and Ruby. No backend is needed, the code runs directly in the browser. Therefore, apart from the initial loading of WASM resources, there are no other network delays, and the results are displayed almost instantly. It can generate shareable links, so now I include the link when posting code online, and clicking it shows the results.


type: comment
by: jimrandomh
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  I&#x27;m a T1 diabetic, have worked on open source diabetes-tech (OpenAPS), and have used a number of different CGMs (though not this one specifically). This story... does not make very much sense.<p>CGMs (of any brand) are not, and have never been, reliable in the way that this story implies that people want them to be reliable. The physical biology of CGMs makes that sort of reliability infeasible. Where T1s are concerned, patient education has always included the need to check with fingerstick readings sometimes, and to be aware of mismatches between sensor readings and how you&#x27;re feeling. If a brand of CGMs have an issue that sometimes causes false low readings, then fixing it if it&#x27;s fixable is great, but that sort of thing was very much expected, and it doesn&#x27;t seem reasonable to blame it for deaths. Moreover, there are two directions in which readings can be inaccurate (false low, false high) with very asymmetric risk profiles, and the report says that the errors were in the less-dangerous direction.<p>The FDA announcement doesn&#x27;t say much about what the actual issue was, but given that it was linked to particular production batches, my bet is that it was a chemistry QC fail in one of the reagents used in the sensor wire. That&#x27;s not something FOSS would be able to solve because it&#x27;s not a software thing at all.


type: comment
by: ipsum2
text:
  Mojo is not open source and would not get close to the performance of cuTile.<p>I&#x27;m tired of people shilling things they don&#x27;t understand.


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
text:
  I feel the same way. It goes away if I already know what&#x27;s going to happen. For this reason I strongly recommend reading the things you love a second time.


type: comment
by: acheong08
text:
  I wander. Take the bus somewhere far, spin around a few times, and just start walking for hours in a random direction. Pray there is a bus line near wherever I end up. Not having to plan anything feels very freeing


type: comment
by: codys
text:
  Go can have memory unsafety leading to arbitrary memory reads and writes by having an interface replaced by another thread (go interfaces use 2 words, one for the vtable and another for the data. It does not replace these in a thread safe way, so one can use a vtable to work with an unexpected data pointer.<p>Folks have shown this allows the kinds of arbitrary memory reads&#x2F;writes that folks normally ban in their definition of memory safe (and this post&#x27;s website has a definition does as well):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;gorace" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.swtch.com&#x2F;gorace</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stalkr.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;golang-data-races-to-break-memory-safety.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.stalkr.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;golang-data-races-to-break-m...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ralfj.de&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;memory-safety.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ralfj.de&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;memory-safety.html</a>


type: comment
by: esperent
text:
  &gt; If you look at the amounts, they’re tiny. I don’t know the doses that would be used in humans but typically ordering from chemical supply shops would be economically infeasible for just about any drug. These are meant for one-off studies and experiments, not ongoing human use<p>I didn&#x27;t get the impression that the person above was suggesting actually buying it here, but rather just pointing out that if it does prove effective in human trials, it&#x27;s going to become cheaply and easily available since it&#x27;s already possible to order online for research.


type: comment
by: krapp
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  &gt;one should celebrate the birthday of the most influential and awesome man in the history of mankind.<p>Cool. So why don&#x27;t you celebrate the birthday of Siddhartha Gautama? Or Confucius? Genghis Khan? Julius Caesar?<p>Because Jesus was not <i>the most influential</i> man in the history of the world. He was influential, but the world is bigger and history deeper than Christians want to believe.<p>Hell, the only reason anyone even still cares about Jesus is because the Roman emperor Constantine decided Christians were more valuable to him fighting in his army than being fed to lions. If not for him, Christianity would have just been another weird Levantine cult and would have probably died out. So why not celebrate Constantine&#x27;s birthday instead?<p>Or the Apostle Paul&#x27;s birthday? It was his idea to spread the faith to gentiles after all, and one could argue modern Christianity is more influenced by Paul than Jesus.<p>This is not an opportunity for you to proselytize me.


type: comment
by: cwmoore
text:
  That headline resonates with me, echoed even. Then I saw it was by Cal Newport. Then I thought, when I have adequate attention I’ll read the article through, but I’m on the last 30 pages of a book and on my phone too.


type: comment
by: banbangtuth
text:
  I am a fullstack frontend leaning engineer of 10 YoE (still employed). In the early days of my career I enjoyed learning about various programming languages and reading technical books (although mostly tutorials, nothing to deep technically). These days I don&#x27;t do those things anymore because I am now older, a lot of responsibilities, and hobbies that I need to do, and also quite comfortable in my comfort zone in terms of my niche.<p>I don&#x27;t do anything anymore these days to advance my career in SWE. Maybe because I am quite jaded because job market sucks, and the job itself sucks (making the rich richer), and any extra time I need to do to advance my career is just doing leetcode monkey grind.<p>I want to change it this year. I do CRUD apps, and I am very boxed in my brain, thinking that CRUD apps is the only programming there is. I often marveled at people who create database, compilers, emulators, 3D engines, version controls, text editors, etc. Those people are like wizards to me.<p>I wonder how can I be creative like that? Like, how can you just wake up one day and decide to create magic.<p>I want to learn how to do those. Any advice is appreciated.<p>Also I want to do it in Zig because I&#x27;ve never worked with manual memory management language before, and I figured might as well.


type: comment
by: witte
text:
  &gt; If all billionaires and multi-millionaires did this, we&#x27;d end up in an extremely unjust society where two sets of people would work equally hard and because of random algorithm-based selection, one set of people would be millionaires and the other set would be essentially homeless. It&#x27;s a recipe for disaster.<p>You were _this_ close


type: comment
by: kenrick95
text:
  I want to learn driving.<p>I live in a city with well-connected public transport (Singapore) so I don&#x27;t feel the need to learn. However, this year I travelled to some rural areas in Japan and started to feel the pain of relying solely on public transport which is either extremely sparse, or sometimes non-existent which limits the places I want to visit. That&#x27;s why I felt like if I obtain this skill, I can explore more places in my travels


type: comment
by: rsync
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  &quot;In most cases you can’t use the device without agreeing to the terms of service right?&quot;<p>Yeah ?<p>Who agreed to that ToS ?  Abby McAbbott ?  With no phone number ?  A throwaway email address ?<p>As I said:  I have not entered into any agreements of any kind with Abbott.  You should not either.


type: comment
by: exasperaited
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  &gt; I want to, no, need to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand.<p>This. My control of my focus has been reduced to the point of disability at times (seriously worrying, when in middle age)<p>&gt; Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year<p>But this, honestly, is at odds with it. It will be difficult to do these two things at once (source: trust me bro, but no really do trust me).<p>Rather I would suggest a strategy, if you want to learn lots of things: ask yourself, what small set of goals are all those things in service of? What could you gain if they all pointed mostly in one direction, and how will you keep a slow, low-level, long term focus on that direction?<p>(I am writing this comment to myself, as you can probably tell.)<p>I must develop (re-develop) planning skills, because my management of time is poor and my management of my direction in life non-existent. I have a broad set of underdeveloped talents that point to me being able to do a lot more stuff for more people if I wasted less time and just steered them in a couple of directions that will have slow-growing benefits.<p>Apart from progressing some life challenges, what I would like to do is design one complete physical prototype every two months, to move my brain away from everyday web development and towards something that helps people again.<p>I have CAD and 3D printing skills, I am learning what I would need to get work CNC milled, I have just enough awareness of embedded computing possibilities and I have a couple of interests that can be used to drive product ideas forward or at least provide a personal context for learning.<p>Probably photography, initially; I have already made some things and used them for my own photography work, and I have ideas for more. The goal would be Tindie-type sales or at least to get tools into the hands of like-minded friends.<p>I have spent the last year really developing my &quot;CAD thinking&quot; and now it is time to just make things, completely enough that they could be sold at a sort of boutique scale.


type: comment
by: verdverm
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  I&#x27;m working on a custom coding agent &#x2F; copilot alternative right now. I post a lot to Bluesky about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;verdverm.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;verdverm.com</a> and is exactly the kind of experiential posts you are looking for


type: comment
by: QuiEgo
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  Pretty much every soundbar I&#x27;ve ever tried. They are okay, and I use one for the sake of keeping my living room looking clean, but it can&#x27;t hold a candle to proper speakers with real separation, or any mid-range pair of headphones.


type: comment
by: esseph
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  I was a very long time debian user who got burned by Ubuntu and derivatives far too many times personally and professional. I moved to Fedora a few years back and it was a great decision. No regrets.


type: comment
by: db48x
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  Sure, but 99% of that cost was paying for the absurd physical dimensions of that particular television.<p>&gt; The &quot;pixels&quot; didn&#x27;t become larger on lower resolutions…<p>Strictly speaking, the CRT only had discrete lines not pixels. Within a line the color and brightness could change as rapidly or slowly as the signal source desired. It was in fact an analog signal rather than a digital one. This is why pixels in many display modes used by CRTs were rectangular rather than square.<p>&gt; We can get much better results today with scaling than we ever could on CRTs…<p>I say it’s the other way around! No ordinary flat–panel display can emulate the rectangular pixels of the most common video modes used on CRTs because they are built with square pixels. You would have to have a display built with just the right size and shape of pixel to do that, and then it wouldn’t be any good for displaying modern video formats.


type: comment
by: almostgotcaught
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  it&#x27;s all over this thread (and every single other hn thread about GPU&#x2F;ML compilers) - people quoting random buzzword&#x2F;clickbait takes.


type: comment
by: Empact
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  I would argue the prospect of people waiting to stop them is a good deterrent, a beneficial complement to any effective justice system. When seconds count, the police are at best minutes away. For example, concealed carry is demonstrably effective in mass shooting attempts in churches, ending the threat in 6 seconds: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LflruqEMlVU?si=Q4VeYnClxPGtrI88" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;LflruqEMlVU?si=Q4VeYnClxPGtrI88</a><p>Consider too that there are many documented cases of the authorities being incompetent to or unwilling to stop a threat, most recently in Bondi Beach, but also in Uvalde. Maybe they’re just not coming to save you?


type: comment
by: jfengel
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  That is odd. A too-low reading would result in less insulin and a high blood glucose, which can be extremely uncomfortable but is not immediately deadly.<p>If it had read too high, it could result in an insulin overdose, which can indeed bring coma followed by death in fairly short order.


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type: comment
by: cm2012
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  Why is stout a higher quality than coca cola? Are they not just different? Its not like stout is an objectively superior product or something


type: comment
by: neogodless
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  It certainly doesn&#x27;t compare which is why I&#x27;ve never bought a Mac....<p>But that&#x27;s a goofy argument. Different use cases, different value proposition. My speakers are actually really nice though I alternate using them or using my HyperX headset.<p>Still I think you probably have zero experience with an Acer Nitro 16 if you think it&#x27;s as bad as you&#x27;re hinting at.


type: comment
by: throwaway1413
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  People need to realize, Framework laptops are atrociously overpriced, terrible in terms of specs, loud, unwieldy, and not robust. It&#x27;s a bad company that just rides on being in vogue with the tech crowd who see the word &quot;repairability&quot; and go nuts over it.<p>for 2k euros the author could have gotten a maxed out 16 inch m5 pro with: 10-Core CPU 10-Core GPU 24GB Unified Memory 1TB SSD Storage<p>This setup is superior to framework in basically every conceivable way (better power efficiency, more ram, more storage, better GPU, better multithreading, better single thread perf, more durable, cheaper).<p>If you are buying a framework you might as well set 300$ on fire and buy a macbook instead.


type: comment
by: Teever
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  Just imagine how different the world would be if this wasn&#x27;t allowed and any time a ToS was pushed out like this the user had the option to offer a counter ToS and the company must have a human look it over and agree&#x2F;disagree within a set period of time.<p>You know, Kind of like a real contract.


type: comment
by: dev_tty01
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  Just make your own play dough. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iheartnaptime.net&#x2F;play-dough-recipe&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.iheartnaptime.net&#x2F;play-dough-recipe&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: ChuckMcM
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  I&#x27;d like to get a full QPSK based OFDM modulator&#x2F;demodulator implemented in an FPGA. Means improving my Verilog skills, my FPGA tool familiarity, and really understand how to implement OFDM modulators.<p>Create a blog and post at least 8 times to it over the next 12 months, which would be improving my skills with writing and illustration.<p>Design at least two boards and get them through the prototype stage into bringup and running.<p>Become conversational in Ukrainian.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  &gt; I bought a purpose-specific, old model iphone from &quot;Back Market&quot; with no SIM card, very briefly allowed it wifi access long enough to download the &quot;Lingo&quot; app, then set the phone to airplane mode. Dedicated, throwaway email and AppleID.<p>None of this actually matters if you went through the steps to use the app. The app is designed such that you agree to the terms before you can use it.<p>You can use all the throwaway emails, devices, VPNs, and other tricks in the world, but unless you can reliably demonstrate to a court that you were utilizing the app in a way that didn’t involve accepting any terms of service then they could simply demonstrate that it’s part of their app flow.<p>Even using tricks to utilize the device outside of the app wouldn’t help, because they could simply demonstrate that you weren’t using it as designed or intended.


type: comment
by: TheAceOfHearts
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  I want to build the AGI god in order to bring abundance, wealth, and prosperity to all of humanity.<p>Aside from that, I&#x27;d like to shore up the cracks or gaps in my mathematical foundations, and learn more advanced mathematics.<p>I&#x27;m still really confused about thermodynamics so that&#x27;s another topic that I would like to revisit. I&#x27;ve never neen able to convince myself that our current understanding is correct.<p>Honestly, I want to read and study more college level textbooks about every single subject.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
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  None of this was forgotten. If they extended their study to a month&#x27;s worth of -20F, all of that mass will cease looking so attractive. It will work well if all you care about is keeping your house above freezing but most do not consider that livable.


type: comment
by: jasoneckert
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  I&#x27;ve been an Asahi user since the early stages of the project when it used Arch. Today, I run Fedora Asahi Remix on a Mac Studio M1 Ultra with the Sway desktop, and it truly has been the perfect Linux workstation in every way.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jasoneckert&#x2F;sway-dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;AsahiSwayM1Ultra.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jasoneckert&#x2F;sway-dotfiles&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Asahi...</a>


type: comment
by: Uvix
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  I save audiobooks for times when I <i>couldn&#x27;t</i> have read something else - while doing chores, driving, etc. - so I can avoid that &quot;missing out&quot; feeling.


type: comment
by: LooseMarmoset
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  I think the problem is that non-divergent people really cannot comprehend an inability to perceive non-verbal communication. Nonverbal communication is like breathing, or eating - it&#x27;s something that just works for them; they don&#x27;t have to think about it. It&#x27;s scary and weird to them when they meet people that can&#x27;t do it.<p>Then there are those of us for whom social situations are a 3-billion-line case&#x2F;esac statement.<p><pre><code>  case situation in     shesmiledandlaughedafterthejoke)       shelikedthejoke()     ;;     shesmiledandlaughedafterthejokebutlookedsideways)       shesboredanddidntlikethejoke()     ;;     thejokewasfunnyoncesoitmustbefunnyeverytimeeven200times)       crashandburn()     ;;     etc)     ;;   esac </code></pre> people just see what, to them, is obnoxious or boorish behavior. So, divergent people must first understand that they are divergent and what that means, and then they must try to put themselves in the shoes of the people they interact with. Is it fair? Life isn&#x27;t fair - but you either want to fit in and interact reasonably, or you don&#x27;t.<p>Somehow, I managed to get married. My wife helped me understand what I was missing - it was like gaining eyesight after never having it or even understanding eyesight was a thing people had.<p>Yes, many people lack empathy. That is no excuse for you (or me!) to learn and use empathy.


type: comment
by: EvansWilson
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  Cathie Wood and ARK Invest are back on the offensive. The latest portfolio data reveals a decisive strategy: a massive recommitment to the &quot;Magnificent Seven&quot; AI leaders and a series of surprising new entries in fintech and crypto infrastructure.<p>Cathie Wood stocks bought: The AI Supercycle Bet<p>The most striking trend in the latest filings is the sheer volume of Cathie Wood stocks bought within the semiconductor and autonomous driving sectors. Despite already being her largest holding, Wood increased her position in Tesla (TSLA) by a staggering 16.64%, adding over 512,000 shares. Tesla now commands 9.5% of the entire portfolio, signaling her unwavering belief in the robotaxi thesis.<p>But the buying didn&#x27;t stop there. After previously trimming chip stocks, ARK is aggressively re-loading on hardware. The fund increased its stake in NVIDIA (NVDA) by 15.06% and AMD by 12.92%. Even Amazon (AMZN) saw a healthy boost of 6.85%. This coordinated buying spree suggests Wood believes the AI hardware rally has a &quot;second leg&quot; that investors cannot afford to miss.<p>Shocking New Entries: Klarna, Alibaba, and Crypto Mining<p>Beyond the big names, the &quot;New Buy&quot; column offers some fascinating insights into ARK’s future roadmap. Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR): In a bold move into crypto infrastructure, ARK opened a massive new position here, instantly making it 2.31% of the portfolio.<p>The Return to China: Perhaps the most surprising addition is Alibaba (BABA). After largely exiting Chinese equities years ago, Wood has initiated a fresh buy, suggesting she sees deep value in the battered tech giant. Fintech IPO Plays: The fund also acquired a stake in Klarna Group (KLAR), likely positioning for the anticipated IPO of the &quot;Buy Now, Pay Later&quot; giant.<p>The Verdict: Cathie Wood is pivoting from defensive positioning back to high-beta aggression. By loading up on Tesla, Nvidia, and speculative crypto miners, she is positioning ARK for a potential liquidity-fueled breakout in 2025.


type: comment
by: OneDeuxTriSeiGo
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  CUDA Tile is an open source MLIR Dialect so it wouldn&#x27;t take much to write MLIR transforms to map it from the Tile IR to TOSA or gpu + vector + some amdgpu or other specialty dialects.<p>The Tile dialect is pretty much independent of the nvidia ecosystem so all it takes is one good set of MLIR transform passes to run anything on the CUDA stack that compiles to tile out of the nvidia ecosystem prison.<p>So if anything this is actually a massive opportunity to escape vendor lock in if it catches on in the CUDA ecosystem.


type: comment
by: esperent
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  &gt; We don&#x27;t know the root cause of the human disease<p>It&#x27;s increasingly likely that there is no &quot;root cause&quot; to find in humans, but rather, that Alzheimer&#x27;s is what happens when there&#x27;s enough external stressors acting on the brain.<p>I&#x27;ve seen an analogy of a leaky roof being used: the leaks are things like age, stress, heavy metals, mold, bad sleep, bad diet. Genetics defines the original building materials (resilience) of the roof. You can put buckets under a certain number of leaks but if there are too many your ability to repair gets overwhelmed and the result is diseases like dementia.<p>I think something similar applies to other diseases of aging like heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, perhaps even cancer.<p>The downside of this is that&#x27;s it&#x27;s hard to imagine a miracle drug being the solution. But the upside is that a combination therapy that identifies the &quot;leaks&quot; and works on reducing or eliminating them will likely be effective against a wide range of age related diseases.<p>The therapy will likely consist of drugs and supplements in combination with lifestyle changes.


type: comment
by: dtagames
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  Some of the turn signals are so awful now, I can&#x27;t believe they were approved. I&#x27;ve seen cars with turn <i>arrows</i> pointing the opposite direction of the turn (Mini Cooper) and yesterday I saw a (Ford?) truck which animated its LED segments in the opposite direction of the turn.<p>Are they trying to entertain people into an accident?


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  &gt; Who agreed to that ToS ? Abby McAbbott ? With no phone number ? A throwaway email address ?<p>I don’t think this matters in the way you think it does. If they can demonstrate that you have to click through the ToS to use the device and app, then the burden would be on you to show that you <i>did not</i> accept the ToS to use the device. But therein lies the catch: If you found a way to circumvent their setup process, you wouldn’t be using the device as designed or intended.


type: comment
by: nutjob2
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  Who cares about the framing, both are legal facts, yet you&#x27;re unable to comprehend or accept that.


type: comment
by: hcknwscommenter
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  Doesn&#x27;t really work that way.  If you want to sue Abbot, then you have to reveal yourself.  At which point, it will be clear that you were in fact using the product and did in fact agree to the ToS.  If you never sue Abbot, then sure.  But then it doesn&#x27;t matter.


type: comment
by: OneDeuxTriSeiGo
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  It&#x27;s more or less the same thing. CUDA TIle is the name of the IR, cuTile is the name of the high level DSLs.


type: comment
by: fragmede
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  Where are these alien ideas are going to come from? Did aliens come to Earth and their complete works got smuggled into the training data for ChatGPT, and not the collected works of humanity? Every poem that&#x27;s been digitized, every <i>human</i> psychology textbook, every self-help book?


type: comment
by: esseph
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  I&#x27;ve had 4 Lenovos and out of the Asus, Dell, HP, Panasonic, and Sony laptops I&#x27;ve had, they always seem to have excellent Linux support.


type: comment
by: herewulf
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  My wife has a recent MBP (a compromise to get away from Windows) and it&#x27;s slick, fast, and super reliable. But you hit the nail on the head: Linux. There is no substitute. That&#x27;s one reason why I swear by my Framework 13.<p>While they aren&#x27;t the only manufacturer guaranteeing excellent Linux support, that and the upgradeability seal the deal.<p>Speaking of the MBP, the fixed disk size is really frustrating. Historically this is the one part that was upgradeable on all laptops.


type: comment
by: yanoleaf
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  the anonymous are more honest because they don&#x27;t worry about ostracization or whatever bullshit if people don&#x27;t like their opinion ... i treat people with their &quot;real name and real face&quot; with suspicion because they&#x27;re putting on a display that makes them &quot;look good&quot;


type: comment
by: brw
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  I totally agree! This is actually a very good summary of the value prop for atproto honestly. Definitely saving this. (&quot;credible edit&quot; -&gt; &quot;credible exit&quot; I&#x27;m assuming.)<p>It certainly took a while for me to grasp how all the different components in the atproto stack function and work together, but the decoupling actually makes so much sense and I&#x27;ve also become a huge fan of it for all of the reasons you mention. It really feels like a natural extension of Web 2.0 to me.<p>Re: Tangled<p>Tangled does actually host a default knot server at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knot1.tangled.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knot1.tangled.sh</a>. You should be able to select it when you create a repo?<p>But yes Tangled&#x27;s component infrastructure is kind of unique. Only the social data (issues, PRs, comments, stars, follows, etc.) is stored in your data repository on your PDS. The git server requires a separate &quot;knot&quot; server.<p>It&#x27;s described a bit more in-depth here[1]. As far as I understand it&#x27;s basically just the git repo hosting part of Tangled&#x27;s AppView, split off into its own thing to make it possible to self-host it. This means you stay in control of your repo data but also get the benefits of having an actual server with a remote git repo as the authoritative source for the purpose of collaboration, which is what people are generally used to when collaborating using git.<p>You&#x27;re probably correct in that the &quot;normal&quot; way would be to have the Tangled AppView act as the git server, but have it store the remote git repo on your PDS. But as records in your PDS data repository are either JSON documents or unstructured blobs I guess it&#x27;s kind of hard to use that for a git repo, which is largely filesystem dependent. I imagine it would require some kind of translation layer. Or something like git-bundle[2] maybe?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wilb.me&#x2F;3lzyhogtv2s2r" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wilb.me&#x2F;3lzyhogtv2s2r</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;git-bundle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git-scm.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;git-bundle</a>


type: comment
by: codys
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  One can evaluate Go using the extent of the definition from the site itself, which uses out of bounds reads and writes as a sign of memory unsafety.<p>Go&#x27;s implementation allows torn writes for interfaces (which are 2 words in size). These torn writes allow arbitrary memory reads&#x2F;writes (a superset of out of bounds reads&#x2F;writes)


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  Can anyone find the link to the document that claims 7 patients died as a result of these false low glucose readings? It’s strange that this article would go to great lengths to include footnotes and sources for various things except for the core of their claim.


type: comment
by: yarlinghe
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  Good catch — I just pushed an update based on this.<p>The symbols search now supports code-point lookup, so you can search by:<p>U+2FFF<p>0x2FFF<p>plain hex (2fff, 4–6 digits)<p>This makes it possible to jump straight to a symbol page even when the glyph doesn’t render locally and you only have the code point (like the Emacs&#x2F;BSD case you described).<p>One limitation to note: some symbols aren’t covered by common or default system fonts, so they may still appear as tofu boxes depending on the font stack. That’s a font coverage issue rather than Unicode itself.<p>Appreciate you calling this out — this was exactly the kind of workflow gap I wanted to catch.


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
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  Non-diabetic who&#x27;s interested in bio-feedback here. The GI graph is indeed dramatic[1].<p>Equally dramatic, in my experience, is the effect of exercise in modulating glucose spikes. It quickly became apparent that if I walked or worked out at the gym within 30mins of a meal, dGlucose&#x2F;dt and subsequently max glucose would be dramatically reduced. Eventually, I got into the habit of planning exercise post high-GI meals as a way eliminate spikes.<p>It was an effective weightloss strategy for me as opposed to strictly a glucose regulation method and a positive experience as a whole as I got to develop an intuitive understanding of a physiological process I had only a theoretical understanding of before.<p>1. It would have been nice to see a labeled abscissa[2][x-axis].<p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Abscissa_and_ordinate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Abscissa_and_ordinate</a>


type: comment
by: verdverm
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  &gt; readable files that the model initializes from every run<p>this is how AGENTS.md et al. are supposed to work, you can include many more things, like ...<p>&gt; Append-only logs, rules, inventories, histories<p>I include open terminals and files for example, these may make it into the system prompt. The same problem arises here, how much and when. Same story for tools, mcp, skills.<p>&gt; Without persistent state<p>There are a lot of different ways people are approaching this. In the end, you are just prewarming a cache (system prompt). The next step is to give the agent control over that system prompt towards self-controlled &#x2F; dynamic context engineering.<p>You, increasingly in collaboration with an agent, are doing context engineering. One can take the analogy towards a memory or knowledge hierarchy. You&#x27;re also going to want a table of contents or librarian (context collecting subagent or phase, search, lots of open design space here)


type: comment
by: busymom0
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  I plan on learning driving this year too! I think I will still continue using public transit because I enjoy doing research things while on transit (which of course can&#x27;t be done while driving) but I want to learn driving.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
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  We have been talking about laptops from the very beginning. I don’t know why you keep talking about iPads.


type: comment
by: jimbob45
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  Out of curiosity, why are you quitting teaching? If you’re a high school teacher, I have to assume that it’s not the money.


type: comment
by: DustinEchoes
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  &gt; It was demonstrated that in mice, the bacteria could travel up the olfactory nerve (joining the nasal cavity and the brain).<p>SARS-CoV-2 does this as well. That’s why it causes anosmia and brain fog, oftentimes permanently.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  &gt; This story... does not make very much sense<p>Agreed. This story is clearly pushing an agenda to an extreme degree. They spent a lot of time linking to different things and past stories, but the claim of having killed seven people gets almost no coverage in the story. Can we at least get a source to where they’re getting that information?


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  No they’re pretty important these days now that basic linear overflows and the like are harder to exploit


type: comment
by: raddan
text:
  You mean aside from the fact that his quasi-mystical, self-important proclamations have no factual basis? I personally dislike how his ideas cast a cynical veneer over truly transformative changes without actually contributing anything useful to the conversation.<p>Who takes this stuff as gospel? Academics who study critical theory?


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  Curious if you have ever seen footage from a modern industrial farm, which has already replaced humans with domesticated animals and associated machinery, by a wide margin. Unfortunately those videos are a lot less appealing to most people.


type: comment
by: dtagames
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  Your explanation has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with SSR, which is well known and needed by all kinds of SPA apps.<p>Why frame it as problem in need of a solution when it&#x27;s not?


type: comment
by: trevor-e
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  This was the same epiphany I had in college when I learned how to actually study. Previously I would try to go fast and cram as much as possible into my head and hope my decent memory could save me. That only got me so far. I eventually realized that slowing down to fully comprehend what I was learning before allowing myself to move on yielded much better results and saved a lot more time in the long run. And as a result my grades shot up.


type: comment
by: mlmonkey
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  I don&#x27;t understand why they don&#x27;t allow different domains. &quot;gmail.com&quot; is running low on email addresses; if they added more domains, they&#x27;d be able to really scale up their email offering.


type: comment
by: busymom0
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  I want to try once again to learn piano. Previously, many years ago, I took lessons for 1.5 years but gave up because it was just too hard and I wasn&#x27;t enjoying it. This time, I plan on trying to self learn. Been watching YouTube tutorials recently and as soon as I return from my trip, I will try once again.<p>I have bought the Nancy Faber adult piano adventures book 1 too.<p>Any tips are welcome.


type: comment
by: AdieuToLogic
text:
  On a related note, git supports incorporating custom commands via executables available in the `PATH` having the naming convention of:<p><pre><code>  git-&lt;command name&gt; </code></pre> Where &quot;command name&quot; in this case would be `archive-branch` and could be defined thusly:<p><pre><code>  #!&#x2F;bin&#x2F;sh   # git-archive-branch    git_branch=&quot;${1:-$(git branch --show-current)}&quot;    git co main &amp;&amp;     git tag archive&#x2F;$git_branch $git_branch &amp;&amp;     git branch -D $git_branch </code></pre> It then could be invoked the same as the alias:<p><pre><code>  git archive-branch ...</code></pre>


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  Matias Sculpted keyboard. I definitely didn&#x27;t expect it to be good, and since I got the first shipment, reviews didn&#x27;t exist yet. Now they seem to accurately describe its problems.<p>Although it was a decent effort, their overall build quality is pretty cheap, and it&#x27;s not good enough to recommend. I took a chance on their 2nd revision and it was at least good enough to keep for periodic use, but it really isn&#x27;t worth buying atm. Half of the spacebar stops working nearly every day and I need to reset it


type: comment
by: verdverm
text:
  In no uncertain terms do I want an email tied to or managed by the government<p>put a crypto chip in my gov&#x27;t issued id and some records in a database


type: comment
by: rsync
text:
  &quot;If they can demonstrate that you have to click through the ToS to use the device and app ...&quot;<p>There&#x27;s nothing to demonstrate.  We will have no interactions.<p>The op implied (probably correctly) that their ToS is toxic.  I am pointing out that there is no reason for you to enter into that ToS.<p>Are you suggesting that I, an anonymous piggyback user of their service, would blow up my anonymity (and all of the protections and peace of mind that it affords) by attempting to reestablish some form of legal contact ?<p>No.  It&#x27;s easy come, easy go and that&#x27;s just fine with me.


type: comment
by: Supermancho
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  &gt; If you found a way to circumvent their setup process, you wouldn’t be using the device as designed or intended.<p>Liability in civil court is not as simple as you posit. Severability and judge discretion are but 2 ways that immediately can invalidate this line of argument. The cause of actual damages are almost always scrutinized, meaning the company would have to prove that the legal agreement could somehow have prevented the damage. Courtrooms are often mischaracterized as following robotic rules and precedence to ill-effect, as if there aren&#x27;t people in the courtroom using good judgement. This is largely because those cases are the ones most publicized, not because it&#x27;s the norm.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
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  Check out Ubuntu Certified hardware[1].<p>I&#x27;ve moved completely to EliteBooks and am very happy with my decision. The build quality is superb, they&#x27;re upgradeable, everything is replaceable and there&#x27;s an excellent market and after market for parts, and HP has codepaths in their firmware for Linux support, meaning even Modern Standby works well.<p>Price points for refurb and used hardware are great, too.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;certified" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu.com&#x2F;certified</a>


type: comment
by: goku12
text:
  I was expecting this reply here. But it&#x27;s still the same old excuse to do nothing. It&#x27;s as if we deserve nothing better than what the companies impose upon us. That&#x27;s such a defeatist stance.


type: comment
by: eudamoniac
text:
  There is usually no &quot;calling&quot;. Do your work, earn your money, get over it, is the best advice you&#x27;re going to get. Save for an early retirement if you hate it too much.


type: comment
by: sclai39
text:
  an idiotic milestone and goal if you ask me, an non sensible ambition inflated ego that will be their downfall


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  That’s orthogonal to the comment I’m responding to. The parent commenter was claiming that because they left a device in airplane mode when they accepted the ToS, it doesn’t count. Like it’s a loophole that allows one to accept it but not have it count.<p>The actual terms of the ToS will always be evaluated in court. You can’t, however, go into court and argue that the ToS doesn’t apply because you put a fake name into the app and left it in airplane mode.<p>You also wouldn’t get anywhere if you bought their device but used it with your own reverse engineered app or something, as <i>the app</i> is considered part of the product.


type: comment
by: rendaw
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  Only slightly related, but since Minecraft seems to have a lot of community graphics programming associated with it I thought I&#x27;d ask here...<p>Does anyone know how those Minecraft realistic rendering mods work? I&#x27;m guessing today there&#x27;s a lot of RTX, but e.g. in 2018 there was still fairly impressive global illumination in SEUS Renewed. Minecraft is the definition of a world with dynamic geometry, and I&#x27;m not aware of any decent realtime GI algorithms for 3d. The lighting in base Minecraft is a super basic and ugly hack. I&#x27;ve seen Unity&#x27;s dynamic GI features and those are nowhere near as good either.


type: comment
by: musictubes
text:
  Sigh.<p>Apple cannot lockdown the Mac. You can’t have a development machine that is incapable of running arbitrary code. Back when they still did WWDC live they said that software development was the biggest professional bloc of Mac users. I’m certain that these days development is the biggest driver of the expensive Macs. No one has ever made a decent argument as to why Apple would lock down the Mac that would also explain why they haven’t done it yet.<p>Passivity isn’t hostility. There isn’t any evidence that Apple is considering locking down the Mac. They could have easily done that with the transition to their own silicon but they didn’t despite the endless conspiracy theories.


type: comment
by: Insanity
text:
  GenAI security. I work in the security space as an engineering manager but need to be more versed in LLM focused attack vectors.<p>Outside of work, I’m really into Roman history so I’ll keep learning about that.


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
text:
  HTTP and HTML are very common acronyms; nobody should be getting out of high school these days without knowing them, and if they somehow managed to do so, they&#x27;re darned sure not reading HN.  Even SQL is pretty hard to avoid if you&#x27;ve been in an IT-adjacent industry for a while.<p>However, MLIR is a highly-specialized term.  The problem with failing to define a term like that is that I don&#x27;t <i>know</i> up front if I&#x27;m the target audience for the article.  I had to Google it, and when I did that, all I found at first were yet more articles that failed to define it.<p>Wikipedia gets the job done, but these days, Wikipedia is often a long way down the Google search results list.  I think they downranked it when they started force-feeding AI answers (which also didn&#x27;t help).


type: comment
by: 0_____0
text:
  From competitive cycling perspective GLP1 drugs are not helpful, least of all at the highest levels of sport where doping would be a concern that actually gets testing and enforcement.<p>When I was at the peak of my training, it was legitimately hard to get enough calories. I had days where my caloric intake was approaching 5000kcal (long zone 2 rides). When you&#x27;re doing that kind of metabolic load, being unable to consume the calories you need means being unable to recover properly.


type: comment
by: apitman
text:
  These don&#x27;t offer the core UX of Discord, which is being able to jump between many communities from a single app&#x2F;login.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s nothing to demonstrate. We will have no interactions.<p>Ok? Then it doesn’t matter if you accept or not.<p>The ToS doesn’t come into play unless there’s legal action. If you’re never going to enter into legal action with the company then it doesn’t matter if you accept the ToS or not.


type: comment
by: phasetransition
text:
  Our almost 5 year old has had T1D for two years. We ended up going the way of a controlled lower carb diet for our entire family. Other than the greatly increased cost to eat this way, it has been transformative for diabetes management of our son, the amount of sleep we get, and the lessened risk of aggressive lows.<p>We&#x27;ve managed to keep our sons A1C in the 6-7% window after we changed our diet to be heavily carb controlled.


type: comment
by: shunia_huang
text:
  True madness for average user here is that they removed Intellisense plugins and force copilot but gives a seriously unusable quota for tab-completion, for non-paid users.<p>I just totally don&#x27;t get it.


type: comment
by: Invictus0
text:
  How is everyone monitoring the skill&#x2F;utility of all these different models? I am overwhelmed by how many they are, and the challenge of monitoring their capability across so many different modalities.


type: comment
by: ILoveHorses
text:
  &gt; Down<p>How do the maintainers manage to work with such high downtime?<p>&gt; IP Blocking<p>This is the first time I&#x27;m using it, that too without any agents, VPN etc. Any reason why would my IP be blocked?


type: comment
by: verdverm
text:
  &gt; Also, artists are still on xitter?<p>People often put more energy into complaining than they do into addressing the underlying cause


type: comment
by: Ocerge
text:
  I&#x27;ve already been working at it for a few weeks now, but I want to swallow my pride and stay up-to-date on interview skills (thankfully I&#x27;m safely employed but want to make sure I&#x27;m prepared if I need to be.)  I do 2-3 leetcode problems a day and at least try to fully understand each line when comparing against the answer.  I&#x27;m still pretty bad at it but instead of being terrified&#x2F;anxious in the future I&#x27;d like to be confident that I at least can do my best.  And my best is being prepared as opposed to just hoping I magically intuit a whiteboard problem out of thin air.


type: comment
by: shigawire
text:
  The only plausible avenue I see is Gemini ingesting Google press releases about how cool their AI is.<p>Leave it to the reader to decide how informative that would be.


type: comment
by: pxc
text:
  &gt; Why ever use Ruby when there’s a virtually identical system [...] with a bigger community.<p>There was a time in the history of Python when people who chose Python did so primarily because they found it beautiful or pleasant to work with. These are reasonable factors in choosing a language, and they continue to be popular reasons for choosing relatively unpopular languages today.<p>A related essay has made the rounds on HN before. It might be worth revisiting if this question is on your mind: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johndcook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;python-is-a-voluntary-language&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.johndcook.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2011&#x2F;10&#x2F;26&#x2F;python-is-a-volunt...</a>


type: comment
by: mgh95
text:
  I am not an accountant, but I have written accounting software, and if I&#x27;m understanding it correctly yes.


type: comment
by: wilkystyle
text:
  Thanks for the reply, and no offense taken. I&#x27;ve inherited some code that uses LangChain, and this is my first experience with it.


type: comment
by: dllu
text:
  Thanks, I posted it 4 months ago already: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44996938">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44996938</a>


type: comment
by: nutjob2
text:
  So you believe in quotas in &quot;mass media&quot;, so that homosexuals aren&#x27;t over-represented?<p>Or you just think it&#x27;s a conspiracy to turn everyone gay?<p>Trying to control the free market of ideas seems a bit oppressive.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  No they didn&#x27;t.  They removed intellicode - an AI derivative (228 points, 10 days ago, 180 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46286383">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46286383</a><p>&gt; IntelliCode is NOT IntelliSense<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46290607">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46290607</a>


type: comment
by: ralphc
text:
  Rarely mentioned is the audio, the Mac&#x27;s bass and overall sound is much better than any other laptop its size.


type: comment
by: verdverm
text:
  Have you downloaded the novel in its entirety?<p>Someone else thought they did this only to realize that ChatGPT has been lying to them about actually keeping the contents somewhere. Ai is a sycophant and will make up or tell you whatever you want to hear. You need to verify outside of their purview


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt;  the option to offer a counter ToS and the company must have a human look it over and agree&#x2F;disagree within a set period of time.<p>You technically do have this option. You can send your own terms to a company’s legal team.<p>The answer will always be no. A law enforcing them to respond in a certain period of time won’t change that. Always no.<p>It is never cost effective to have lawyers review individual contracts for relatively cheap devices.


type: comment
by: reaperducer
text:
  <i>Matias Sculpted keyboard… Although it was a decent effort, their overall build quality is pretty cheap, and it&#x27;s not good enough to recommend</i><p>I concur.  I thought I&#x27;d save a few bucks by buying the Matias keyboard that looks like the Apple Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad.  After all, there are thousands of people on the internet who swear that Apple&#x27;s prices are disconnected from build quality.  It turns out the chattering masses online are wrong.<p>The Matias keyboard lasted all of a year.  I ended up replacing it with the real deal from Apple, which is still going strong six years later.<p>More often than online &quot;experts&quot; would have you believe, you really do get what you pay for.


type: comment
by: mrandish
text:
  Investors with enough into the deal to fight it in court get enough to not fight it. Key employees needed by the &#x27;not acquirer&#x27; get compensation sufficient to retain them, although increasingly much of this is under a deferred vesting arrangement to ensure they stay with the &#x27;not acquirer&#x27;.<p>Non-essential employees and small investors without the incentive or pockets to fund a legal fight get offered as little as possible. This structure also provides lots of flexibility to the &#x27;not acquirer&#x27; when it comes to paying off existing debts, leases, contracts, etc. Basically, this is the end of being an early employee or small angel investor potentially resulting in a lucrative payoff. You have to remain central and &#x27;key&#x27; all the way through the &#x27;not acquisition&#x27;. I expect smaller early stage investors will start demanding special terms to guarantee a certain level of payout in a &#x27;not acquisition&#x27;. I also expect this to create some very unfortunate situations because an asset sale (as they used to be done), could be a useful and appropriate mechanism to preserve the products and some jobs of a failing (but not yet fully failed) company - which was better for customers and some employees than a complete smoking crater.


type: comment
by: pcmaffey
text:
  Stories don’t exist on paper or even on screen. They exist in the space in between words in your mind.


type: comment
by: jcims
text:
  I had the same thoughts reading this.  I think there’s an optimal blend of blurters and thinkers, one isn’t better than the other.  I find that I do both, it just kind of depends on my comfort with the subject matter.


type: comment
by: nutjob2
text:
  Many people find far right views repugnant so they don&#x27;t want to repeat or endorse them.<p>What you call &quot;censorship&quot; and &quot;bias&quot; is just people disagreeing with you.


type: comment
by: shakna
text:
  The standard was Extended Window Manager Hints [0].<p>Above X11, implemented by GTK and everyone else. Right.<p>However... Wayland makes it impossible to implement EWMH. Which means the enrire EMWH standard needs to be tossed, and everyone needs to make something new.<p>You can&#x27;t even get the title of a window, under Wayland. That&#x27;s private to that process tree.<p>Wayland requires accessibility be implemented at the application level, not the window manager. And thats guaranteed to make it always broken for a majority of use cases.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specifications.freedesktop.org&#x2F;wm&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specifications.freedesktop.org&#x2F;wm&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: fsckboy
text:
  &gt;<i>In the US, the homeless population exploded, in the 1980s, when they closed down all the mental institutions</i><p>it was the 1970s, SCOTUS decision in O&#x27;Connor v. Donaldson, when the court said that the mentally ill who were not dangerous could not be held in institutions against their will. The 1960s had seen a series of scandals concerning callous treatment of inmates in institutions (for example, see Titticut Follies) and that created the climate for deinstitutionalization.


type: comment
by: Terretta
text:
  The Ultra battery lasts a couple or three days.<p>The pulse, EKG, and blood oxygen are first rate.<p>Get a Titanium band (why doesn&#x27;t Apple sell this?) and use a square design screen and it&#x27;s a dress watch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B091H8D561" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B091H8D561</a>


type: comment
by: kimixa
text:
  It seems they&#x27;re pretty directly admitting to referring to the LGPL library while implementing theirs under a different license.<p>I wonder if they&#x27;ll have no issues with people directly reading their code while <i>happening</i> to implement the same functionality with a closed license? Or a GPL-style one?<p>I&#x27;m surprised they admitted to it - it&#x27;s hardly &quot;Clean Room&quot;....


type: comment
by: refulgentis
text:
  Fair enough, I do like parent’s a bit better, “blurting processing” feels like a too high default setting right after seeing “I’m thinking” :) - not that any of it matters anyways, communicating _something_ gets you there. Rest it just triaging around the edges what people will call you weird for, and if they are, they were going to anyway.


type: comment
by: margalabargala
text:
  It&#x27;s not meaningless, because the stock price is based on vibes.<p>Losing a big CT sale is bad vibes. If the finances don&#x27;t matter on the way up, why would they matter on the way down?


type: comment
by: kstenerud
text:
  Because the body is the heat sink, so it has no fan.<p>That alone is already very compelling for me (no noise, no fan to wear out). Then on top of that it has:<p>* Amazing battery life<p>* Great performance<p>* The best trackpad in the world<p>* Bright, crisp screen<p>The only downsides are the lack of upgradability and the annoying OS, but at least it&#x27;s UNIX.


type: comment
by: verdverm
text:
  you&#x27;re missing most engineers by only thinking about github, a slowly dying brand that will become the equivalent of linkedin (a hot pile of self-aggrandizement and peacocking)


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Because I think the norm we reinforce here actually matters.<p>When confusion gets framed as &quot;this is substandard writing&quot;, it rewards showing up and performing a lack of context rather than engaging with the substance or asking clarifying questions. Over time that creates pressure to write to the lowest common denominator, instead of the audience the author is clearly aiming at.<p>HN already operates on an implicit baseline (CUDA, open source, LLVM, etc.) and mostly lets comments fill in gaps. That usually produces better discussions than treating every unfamiliar term as an author failure, especially when someone is just trying to share or explain something they care about.<p>So yeah, I am genuinely curious why you see personal unfamiliarity as something the entire discussion should reorganize itself around.


type: comment
by: TwoNineFive
text:
  Webdevs still security ignorant. Actually just ignorant. Not sorry to say that because it&#x27;s beyond true.


type: comment
by: Trasmatta
text:
  &gt; I highly recommend that any user of these devices do the same.<p>No thank you. I have to wear these devices 24&#x2F;7 to keep me alive, and it was a huge quality of life improvement when I was able to control them all from my phone. I see literally no benefit to doing what you suggest.


type: comment
by: reaperducer
text:
  <i>smart lights are pretty nice… I made sure to buy zigbee ones</i><p>The connectivity doesn&#x27;t matter when it&#x27;s the actual filaments&#x2F;LEDs that burn out after only a year or two.<p>Even buying a big name like Sylvania doesn&#x27;t help.  I had eight Sylvania smart bulbs burn out or go into endless flicker fits in under a year.  They&#x27;re all in a landfill now.<p>Of course, that&#x27;s better than when Feit Electric sent out a firmware update that deliberately bricked all of its smart bulb controller boxes with nothing more than an e-mail telling people it was done.  (This was before Apple Home or Google Home existed.)


type: comment
by: yegle
text:
  FWIW CVS did sent out a letter via USPS (I use their mail order service) about the recall and the risk. I&#x27;m not sure what the &quot;undisclosed bug&quot; refers to.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  the problem is you don&#x27;t know which actor you&#x27;re going to be dealing with so you have to start off on that foot with everybody.


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  No, because the kid has learned to anticipate what&#x27;s to come, and reading it becomes a game or performance art.


type: comment
by: titzer
text:
  &gt; you also saw the V8 folks give up and make Dart<p>V8 still got substantially faster after the first team left to do Dart. A lot of runtime optimizations (think object model optimizations), several new compilers, and a lot of GC work.<p>It&#x27;s a huge investment to make a dynamic language go as fast as JS these days.


type: comment
by: slwvx
text:
  Tidepool is a non-profit focused on diabetes. Among other things, they are working on an algorithm (loop) that does insulin dosing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tidepool.org&#x2F;tidepool-loop" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tidepool.org&#x2F;tidepool-loop</a><p>If one wants to separate the hardware (insulin pump, CGM) from the algorithm that controls them, seems like Tidepool is one org to talk to.


type: comment
by: relaxing
text:
  Thank you for writing about parenting. Today was a tough day with the kids, and reading your blog after they’ve gone to sleep helped things feel a little better.


type: comment
by: verdverm
text:
  Pipe based SQL is actually one of the better ideas for evolving SQL<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-them-pipe-syntax-in-sql&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.google&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;sql-has-problems-we-can-fix-the...</a><p>Enough so that one of the sqlite devs put something together to try it out. I think some of Google&#x27;s products already support it<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;forumpost&#x2F;5f218012b6e1a9db" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sqlite.org&#x2F;forum&#x2F;forumpost&#x2F;5f218012b6e1a9db</a>


type: comment
by: tangelogica
text:
  I’ve noticed this too! I like the creativity with the Union Jack as the signal indicators, but it literally looks like an arrow pointed the wrong way


type: comment
by: DHowett
text:
  It appears to be in the fourth paragraph.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-and-early-alerts&#x2F;early-alert-glucose-monitor-sensor-issue-abbott-diabetes-care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-a...</a><p>&gt; As of November 14, 2025, Abbott has reported 736 serious injuries, and seven deaths associated with this issue.


type: comment
by: rjdj377dhabsn
text:
  I could, but considering how much value I get out of my laptop, I&#x27;d rather just spend $2-3k every couple years and have everything new.<p>Thr value proposition just doesn&#x27;t make sense unless I were a struggling student.


type: comment
by: SkyPuncher
text:
  I don&#x27;t know how to feel about this article.<p>On one hand, this is a very, very bad bug. On the other, the article is almost of hit job to try to prove FOSS would have solved this issue. There are also a lot of completely factually incorrect statements and wild assumptions.<p>If my understanding is correct, the device in question, the Freestyle Libre 3, is the most popular continuous glucose monitor (GCM) in production. And, one of only a few approved GCMs available. By the very nature of being an extremely popular device that helps manage a chronic, high effort disease (diabetes management is a massive, massive mental drain) - you&#x27;re going to have failures.<p>Not to mention, I&#x27;ve always been under the impression that GCMs have some faults and IF the device reports do not match your expectations, you should confirm with an alternative method (like a finger prick) or seek emergency medical attention (which should have been sought in these extreme circumstances, anyways).<p>-----<p>Here&#x27;s the thing for me. FOSS essentially assumes that the user is going to be willing to understand the underlying details to know when FOSS fucks up. Yes, when FOSS fucks up. That&#x27;s simply not realistic for any consumer product. If your argument for FOSS relies on users being able to read raw data and interpret things that are only learned by education, that&#x27;s not a consumer grade solution.<p>Anecdotally, I used use Abbott&#x27;s Lingo CGM a few months ago to help get me more data on a health issue I was having. I would never, ever, in my wildest dreams have trusted FOSS to get this right. There&#x27;s simply too much money&#x2F;effort&#x2F;rigor involved in getting these biomedical devices correct to believe that the FOSS community could simply create a better product without actually doing any trials or studies. Not to mention, the recommended app (Juggluco) has a terrible UI. This just isn&#x27;t going anywhere.<p>To be clear, this is a deadly bug and Abbott should be held accountable - but claiming the solution is some untested, untrailed, terrible UX is not the answer.


type: comment
by: nishimoo
text:
  I write to deepen my own understanding. Explaining concepts to others forces me to organize my thoughts and fill in gaps I didn&#x27;t realize I had.


type: comment
by: Trasmatta
text:
  I&#x27;m pretty intensely depressed, so I think I&#x27;d like to learn how to be a little less of that. I&#x27;ve tried so many things, but I guess there&#x27;s always more. Thinking about getting a personal trainer, because I try to stay active, but have no idea how to actually work out. Seems like a good skill to learn, and should help somewhat with the crushing weight my brain seems to be in constantly.


type: comment
by: foobarkey
text:
  I put the session cookie as http_only, same_site=strict and turned off csrf. Then pentesters came and quoted owasp in the report, while not being able to demonstrate an attack. Some drone added csrf back, everyone congratulated themselves in making things more secure :)


type: comment
by: dllu
text:
  Yes, the M4 is still outperforming the desktop 9950X in single-threaded performance on several benchmarks like Geekbench and Cinebench 2024 [1]. Compared to the 9955HX, which is the same physical chip as the 9950X but lower clocked for mobile, the difference is slightly larger. But the 16 core 9950X is obviously much better than the base M4 (and even the 16 core M4 Max, which has only 12 P cores and 4 E cores) at multithreaded applications.<p>However, the M2 in the blog post is from 2022 and isn&#x27;t quite as blazingly fast in single thread performance.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanoreview.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;cpu-compare&#x2F;apple-m4-8-cores-vs-amd-ryzen-9-9950x#benchmarks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nanoreview.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;cpu-compare&#x2F;apple-m4-8-cores-vs-am...</a>


type: comment
by: rKarpinski
text:
  &quot;Globally, Abbott has received reports of 736 severe adverse events (57 in the U.S.) and seven deaths (none in the U.S.) potentially associated with this issue.&quot;[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abbott.mediaroom.com&#x2F;press-releases?item=124718" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abbott.mediaroom.com&#x2F;press-releases?item=124718</a>


type: comment
by: stephen_cagle
text:
  tldr; I found something similar when I forced myself to slow down on &quot;The Wheel of Time&quot; series recently.<p>I&#x27;ve been reading the Wheel of Time (started by Robert Jordan, ended by Brandon Sanderson). I&#x27;m on book 11 currently. I&#x27;ve found something similar in that the Jordan&#x27;s later books in the WOT are basically just incredible slogs if you read for completion (which, I myself did around 20 years ago at around book 10, where I stopped). Around book 6 or so I purposely slowed down and started really imagine the scenes in my minds eye. I also keep the map open on my phone and just kind of keep note of where they are at different points in the series.<p>Obvious, but it is really striking how much better his books are when you try to &quot;live in the moment&quot; of your imagination as you read, rather than reading to move the plot and action forward. I was kind of confused with myself when I reflected on it. That I somehow thought it made more sense to skim through an entire series and take reduced pleasure from something, when I could just take 50% longer and actually enjoy it.<p>Made me wonder about where else I am doing this in my life.<p>I still thinks these books are radically overpadded. He was clearly in love with his characters and his setting. He needed the guidance of a strong armed editor imho. With all that said, if you are going to commit to reading a massive series like this, you might as well appreciate it in the moment, you are going to be here a while.


type: comment
by: shakna
text:
  Parts of AT-SPI are impossible to implement under Wayland.<p>&gt; Wayland has no concept of global coordinates or global key bindings. The protocol itself is designed around atomicity which is a nice concept, but is fundamentally in conflict to the need of assistive technologies to control the entire state of the desktop globally. As such, atspi methods like get_accessible_at_point are impossible in Wayland.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45237411">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45237411</a>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Dupe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46385374">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46385374</a>


type: comment
by: canpan
text:
  Same here! I lived in big cities all my life and am used to the convenience of good public transport. Want to travel and rent a nice car, just when needed.


type: comment
by: rsync
text:
  I think we agree with one another.<p>I&#x27;m simply trying to reiterate - as often as possible:  you do not need to tie your personal identity to products and services like this.<p>Merry Christmas!


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  If you&#x27;re running desktop Linux, you will have a better experience with a rolling release than being stuck with whatever state the software that was frozen in Debian&#x2F;Ubuntu is in, especially when it comes to multimedia, graphics,  screen sharing, etc.<p>Modern desktop Linux relies on software that&#x27;s being fixed and improving at a high velocity, and ironically, can be more stable than relying on a distro&#x27;s fixed release cycles.<p>KDE Plasma, Wayland support, Pipewire, etc all have had recent fixes and improvements that you will not get to enjoy for another X months&#x2F;years until Canonical pulls in those changes and freezes them for release.<p>Similarly, newer kernels are a must when using relatively recent hardware. Fixes and support for new hardware lands in new kernels, LTS releases might not have the best support for your newer hardware.


type: comment
by: Tracy978
text:
  Smart LEDs really are shifting lighting from “hardware” to “software.”<p>One nuance that often gets missed in the hype: the biggest practical wins aren’t the rainbow effects, but the boring stuff—reliability and predictable power behavior. Addressable strips are amazing for UX, but they also introduce real constraints (power distribution, signal integrity, controller choice, PWM artifacts, etc.). In longer runs, “energy efficiency” can get wiped out quickly if you end up overbuilding the PSU or adding lots of injection points because of voltage drop.<p>The other interesting direction is feedback loops: ambient light + occupancy + time-of-day is already common, but I’d like to see more systems expose simple local rules (no cloud dependency) and provide introspection (e.g., current draw, thermal throttling, dropped frames on data line) so you can debug automation like you debug software.<p>If anyone’s curious about the practical side of wiring&#x2F;controlling addressable strips (controller + grounding + common failure modes), this guide is a decent starting point: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;suntechlite.com&#x2F;how-to-control-connect-and-wire-addressable-led-strip&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;suntechlite.com&#x2F;how-to-control-connect-and-wire-addr...</a>


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  You should have given a more complete example, where the parents themselves have long names to demonstrate that something does have to get dropped when you have children.


type: comment
by: TheCraiggers
text:
  If I cut my heat when it&#x27;s 14 out, my house does <i>not</i> drop to below freezing in 6 hours, or become uninhabitable in 24 hours. What the hell are they on?


type: comment
by: alluro2
text:
  I adore my Linux setup and have switched back to it after using M1 Pro for 3 years.<p>But through all the Dells, Thinkpads and Asus laptops I&#x27;ve had (~10), none were remotely close to a full package that MBP M1 Pro was.<p>- Performance - outstanding<p>- Fan noise - non-existent 99% of the time, cannot compare to any other laptop I had<p>- Battery - not as amazing as people claim for my usage, but still at least 30% better<p>- Screen, touchpad, speakers, chassis - all highest tier; some PC laptops do screen (Asus OLED), keyboard and chassis (Thinkpad) better, but nothing groundbreaking...<p>It&#x27;s the only laptop I&#x27;ve ever had that gave me a feeling that there is nothing that could come my way, and I wouldn&#x27;t be able to do on it, without any drama whatsoever.<p>It&#x27;s just too bad that I can&#x27;t run multiple external displays on Asahi...<p>(For posterity, currently using Asus Zenbook S16, Ryzen HX370, 32GB RAM, OLED screen, was $1700 - looks and feels amazing, screen is great, performance is solid - but I&#x27;m driving it hard, so fan noise is constant, battery lasts shorter, and it&#x27;s just a bit more &quot;drama&quot; than with MBP)


type: comment
by: mvkel
text:
  It forces me to rotate the shapes of ideas; my beliefs become more durable when I&#x27;m willing to explore differing views through the act of writing (or it exposes how weak my initial take is)


type: comment
by: jimmaswell
text:
  &gt; typing isn&#x27;t the bottleneck. Not even close.<p>I find it absolutely is much of the time - I&#x27;ll determine the architecture&#x2F;overall solution, know exactly what needs to go in a multitude of files, and now actualizing all that isn&#x27;t really thinking anymore, just donkey work. Getting AI to do this has been incredible now that it&#x27;s finally good enough. I&#x27;ve had Copilot make flawless 500+LOC C++ classes in the first pass, and when I introduced bugs by changing it by hand, it found them instantly from stack traces without even having symbols, saving me hours. I see a future where writing a large codebase all by hand is seen like raising a barn the Amish way with no powertools - impressive and maybe there&#x27;s something to be said for it philosophically, but just not practical otherwise.


type: comment
by: eudamoniac
text:
  The appeal is that they are highly adjustable across a bunch of dimensions. Did you fiddle with all of the controls when you tried it?


type: comment
by: pzp1001
text:
  If I understand what the article is saying, using DTMF tones like this does not offer anonymity for the patients on the other end of the phone call. Simply recording the DTMF tones would be enough to reveal the patient&#x27;s true phone number. Perhaps there was some sort of server-side mapping scheme in use to mask the numbers and the DTMF tones were truly just for data transmission, but no such mention was made in the article.


type: comment
by: jauntywundrkind
text:
  Hono for example has a RegExpRouter and a TrieRouter, both of which seek for a matching route from amid multiple options. URL Patterns, plural!<p>They also have a linear search router, which they even say could have wins in some cases. But for relatively complex apps, with lots of possible sub-routes, the idea of running theonesr search feels so bad to me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hono.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;routers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hono.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;concepts&#x2F;routers</a>


type: comment
by: kinj28
text:
  My cofounders mom had got Alzheimer’s at rather younger age of 60 something. It grew extremely rapid and within 2 years she grew into a vegetative state.<p>Given how I have seen different patients and varying pace of dementia growth - I somehow think  Alzheimer’s must have multiple sub families &amp; may appear same but must be behaving differently from their onset.


type: comment
by: bradlys
text:
  I haven’t had this issue at all and I’ve had some of my Philips Hue bulbs for close to ten years.<p>Mind you, one would expect them to work for a long time considering they’re (probably) the most expensive on the market.


type: comment
by: niccl
text:
  This is one of the things I actually remember my mother saying. Festina lente [0]: Make haste slowly. I&#x27;ve always tried to stick to it because when I have I&#x27;ve found more to appreciate in whatever I&#x27;m doing (as TFA says)<p>Sadly, for some reason I now can&#x27;t read slowly, which pisses me off. I and my partner read aloud together alternating chapters of a chosen book, and I love how get _much_ more out of the book than I would reading alone in a tenth of the time.<p>I&#x27;ve also found that some books seem written to be read aloud: the sentence structure and punctuation lends itself to easy reading aloud, whereas some books have really convoluted sentences with multiple parenthetical sub-clauses that are a real challenge to read aloud in an a way that&#x27;s easy to follow. I&#x27;ve ended up so that normally try to write in a way that&#x27;s easy to read aloud. I think if something&#x27;s easy to read aloud it&#x27;s going to be easy to comprehend when read normally. And Yes, I know that the sentence at the beginning of the paragraph probably doesn&#x27;t match that.<p>0: (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;festina%20lente" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.merriam-webster.com&#x2F;dictionary&#x2F;festina%20lente</a>)


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  Absurd open. Are they just going to assume we were supposed to build 150 million homes in 250 years as a string of log cabins? Dismiss all the new engineering material changes since the 1500s and choose hardwood for everything?


type: comment
by: 1vuio0pswjnm7
text:
  I thought I would be able to run a user-chosen OS, e.g., a custom ROM, on the early Chromecasts<p>I loved the form factor but was disappointed at the level of hostility toward user control, which only increased over time


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  I have a hard time doing anything when in a nice resort. If it’s too nice, you just want to hangout at your pool villa all day and enjoy the view.


type: comment
by: rewgs
text:
  Technical:<p>Audio programming with C++. I was a professional film&#x2F;game composer for the first 10+ years of my career, but when I started programming I was mostly interested in solving problems that required web and infrastructure skills. Also, I always looked at C++ as something to tackle once I was a better programmer -- I now think I&#x27;m a pretty okay programmer and am ready to take it on. I&#x27;d like to eventually do a deep dive into Rust as well, but I&#x27;m focusing on C++ first, as the vast majority of audio programming is still done in C++ and likely will be for the foreseeable future, and I think learning Rust will be more valuable once I&#x27;ve run into many of the pain points that it addresses.<p>Non-technical:<p>Improve my archery. I started this year and love it.


type: comment
by: nashashmi
text:
  I’m bound to get type 2 some day. So I learned quite a bit about diabetes now. And low sugar is very bad. So a false low sugar tells the patient to eat sweet things. A high sugar causes lots of damage, but I have never heard of it causing death. Usually something gets amputated first. This finding was strange.<p>Let’s remember this writer is someone who has diabetes and an axe to grind. This is not news. This is a rant.


type: comment
by: concerneddude
text:
  ….Because even if it doesn’t cause inflation, someone still has to pay for it. Debt means future taxes, less flexibility in emergencies, and politicians never having to make real tradeoffs.


type: comment
by: Fire-Dragon-DoL
text:
  My wife Steam Deck. She used it in the beginning,but she ended up playing mostly on the pc.<p>I used the Steam deck extensively,I thought she would do the same,but she prefers to read when waiting for stuff.


type: comment
by: tomhow
text:
  Hacker News can only be good if enough people make the effort to make it good. There is always going to be a mix of things that push the standard up and things that drag the standard down. That&#x27;s how averages and distributions work.<p>Unfortunately what we see from you is a pattern of low-effort comments, some of which don&#x27;t even bother with basic sentence formation features like capitalization at the start and a period at the end. That&#x27;s a high-signal hallmark of low-effort comments. Looking down your comment feed we see many single-line comments that are low on substance and high in snark.<p>The guidelines make it clear we&#x27;re trying for something better here. They ask us to be kind, and to avoid snark and swipes. They ask us to converse curiously. They ask us not to fulminate, and not to sneer, including at the rest of the community.<p>It&#x27;s fine to want HN to be better. As moderators we certainly do; that&#x27;s why we do this job. But it requires us all to actually make the effort to be better in our own conduct. When you see comments from other users that aren&#x27;t up to standard, we need you to use the tools that have always been here, like downvoting, flagging and emailing us (hn@ycombinator.com) so we can take action.<p>It isn&#x27;t other people&#x27;s job to make good enough for you whilst you conduct yourself in this way. If you really want HN to be better, please do your part to raise the standards rather than dragging them down further.


type: comment
by: jimmydoe
text:
  they are going IPO in HKEX in a few weeks. some hype up are necessary, not too far fetched imo, pretty much same as anthropic playbook.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Asking &quot;what is this?&quot; is fine. Treating &quot;I was unfamiliar with this&quot; as evidence that the post is deficient is not.<p>HN already assumes a baseline of technical literacy. When something falls outside that baseline, the usual move is to ask for context or links, not to reframe personal unfamiliarity as an author failure.<p>So please, don’t normalize treating &quot;I don’t know this yet&quot; as a failure of the post.


type: comment
by: deepsun
text:
  &gt; this would also reject HTTP clients that are not browsers<p>Why? I can send any headers from a client I make.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Has this problem (which is really a race condition problem) ever been shown to be exploitable or lead to issues?


type: comment
by: SkyPuncher
text:
  &gt; CGMs (of any brand) are not, and have never been, reliable in the way that this story implies that people want them to be reliable<p>This has been my impression. I briefly used an Abbott Lingo to help me understand some health issues I was experiencing.<p>It&#x27;s always been clear to me (including in the app and documentation) that CGMs are an extremely convenient tool as a first line - but struggle in extreme circumstances. And, let&#x27;s be clear, if you would generally know if your body is in one of these extreme circumstances. You&#x27;d probably be feeling like shit.<p>That&#x27;s not to mention the device in question, the Freestyle Libre, is (to my understanding) by far the most popular insulin-dependent diabetes CGM available.<p>This article is equivalent to calling the Boeing 737 unsafe because it&#x27;s had the most Full Lost Events while completely ignoring it&#x27;s flown 238.84M flights (which is basically more than the entire rest of the list combined).


type: comment
by: spudlyo
text:
  I started learning Latin in 2025, and I&#x27;m pretty happy with my progress. I can read intermediate level pedagogical texts -- mostly adapted Greek and Roman myths. In 2026 I want to get my proficiency up to the point where I can comfortably read the first book of Caesar&#x27;s Commentarii de Bello Gallico. This is doable, many of the texts I&#x27;m reading now were designed to teach the vocabulary and grammar so High School students could slog through it.


type: comment
by: shmerl
text:
  <i>&gt; The answer was as unhelpful as possible</i><p>Looking at the answer, I wouldn&#x27;t call it unhelpful. They were planning to release a source for the library that would essentially implement all the needed data interfaces? That&#x27;s more than helpful and at least they responded.<p>I tried contacting Nuvoton for example about their documentation for some of their super I&#x2F;O chips which lack Linux support (they do document a bunch of their chips pretty well, but for some weird reason not all).<p>Not only I got no details, I literally didn&#x27;t even get a response from them at all. So above case is hugely better.


type: comment
by: Magmalgebra
text:
  &gt; I hate leetcode and that keeps me away from most of the job opportunities<p>Odds are that until you can get past this mindset, you will hit a similar wall in every career, it will just be less obvious to you that you&#x27;re hitting it.<p>Success at most careers means a lot of tedious grinding out basic skills. If you&#x27;re lucky you like the grinding, but that&#x27;s rare.<p>And here&#x27;s the important part - getting better at this stuff makes the job <i>more fun</i>, humans really like the feeling of mastery. My first 4 years in SWE were miserable because I had no CS background. But I ground really hard on textbooks and leetcode, every minute of which was uncomfortable, and now my career is awesome!<p>Maybe SWE isn&#x27;t for you, but whatever you do, commit to the work.


type: comment
by: dilyevsky
text:
  &gt; How would you determine or estimate &quot;age of email&quot;? It isn&#x27;t really public info. Does it imply that you are by now expected to be doxxed by data brokers to not be judged suspicious?<p>There are services that let you do that. Imperfect ofc as they rely on data brokers like you said. You can thank all the spammers and carders for that


type: comment
by: AbstractH24
text:
  To expand my knowledge of product management and JavaScript enough to build a strong prototype of app&#x2F;business i have in mind with the help of Lovable and other ai tools.<p>Already, I know enough to know that just prompting without a solid foundation is going to be unpleasant in so many ways.<p>And then, once I’ve proven it out hire real coders.


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  - Do the splits!<p>- Climb a V8 at my local climbing gym! I presently project V5&#x27;s, and I think the scale is super-linear (but personally it doesn&#x27;t feel logarithmic to me). So that would be a significant increase, probably near the edge of what I could really achieve in a year.<p>- Get our business (mydragonskin.com) to a point where it pays us standard engineer salaries. So far we&#x27;ve been extracting significantly less than our market value.<p>- Acquire (romantic) partner that I believe will be my person; find &quot;The One&quot;


type: comment
by: herewulf
text:
  No major manufacturer is even approaching what Framework is trying to do, so I&#x27;m happy to cut them some slack in order to support a product philosophy that I believe in. My 12th Gen Framework 13 is certainly good enough in this respect.<p>People have bought not so well made electric cars for the same reason (e.g.: Tesla).<p>Your car analogy does not really hold up though, considering that anything but an absolutely awful car is quite repairable and (in the right hands) upgradable.


type: comment
by: dvrj101
text:
  From.  &gt; SWE profession won’t really exist  To. &gt; we don&#x27;t median dev (another vague term)<p>bunch of goalpost moving statements.


type: comment
by: fsckboy
text:
  &gt;<i>No, the reason was to save tax money</i><p>no, it wasn&#x27;t, it was SCOTUS decision O&#x27;Connor v. Donaldson


type: story
by: throwawayq1P2OW
title: Modern porn is bad for you
text:
  it starts rather innocently enough. when you start looking at some websites or whatever. but it slowly goes from looking at soft core pics on instagram to hard core things on websites. Then it isn&#x27;t enough so you start chatting in forums or on reddit. You follow your favorite cam girls and maybe give them money. Then you learn about gooning and join forums where you chat for hours a day about porn. sharing it. and as it becomes more and more normalized in your life the porn you are willing to share becomes more extreme. You begin to feel like your life is on the edge not because you are doing anything inherently wrong, but because you are constantly viewing porn. And porn is one of those things you don&#x27;t actually want others to know you are looking at because not everyone is as sex positive in this world as the people on reddit or X or instagram. And so porn replaces your hobbies and your daily life as it gives you this dopamine reward that is so cheap and easy because none of this costs any money at all except for the price of a high speed internet connection. You make excuses from the truths that we know, like masturbation is a normal behavior. Or porn isn&#x27;t hurting you by simply looking at it. But what if it is hurting you? What if slowly robs you of your ability to connect to other interests? What if it slowly creeps between you and your relationships? What if this is all happening because of the same reason everything else seems to be happening, that the velocity of information is so high that it warps our brains whether its some scrolling video platform, some gambling-like gamified video game, or it&#x27;s a constant stream of porn? And porn is the ultimate cheap thrill in the attention economy because on the surface it seems to cost nothing but your time. it even feels a bit like a revolution, a sort of counter culture, its not like scrolling random videos. porn is inherently on the edge in some visceral way. But then you devote so much time to porn you don&#x27;t devote time to all the things that make you you, and you might start slipping away. And then you sit wondering how do i stop looking at porn? You tell yourself that it is simply your choice. You don&#x27;t have to look at it. You believe firmly that its some kind of self harm, like drinking when you are stressed. That you need to reset the habit. That you need to surf the urge. That it&#x27;s okay to be uncomfortable because currently you can&#x27;t get porn off the mind. But yet you struggle, because the habit is so ingrained and the thrill so cheap, you only need to look at your phone. And it sucks, because you sit and think, how do I tell other people that this thing bothers me? How do I get help to stop? You think perhaps, you are the only person who ever deals with this kind of thing. Maybe others like porn and enjoy it. Maybe you are just feeling guilt because of your upbringing and should be more cool with it all.<p>I don&#x27;t think everyone has these thoughts. But if you do, know that you are not alone. Maybe you have an unhealthy interaction with porn. Maybe you use it to fill your mind with nothingness so you don&#x27;t think or feel about the things that stresses you out. You are not alone. Other people struggle with all sorts of things. You will overcome this too.


type: comment
by: accrual
text:
  I&#x27;m just getting started blogging despite having run sites since the late 00s.<p>I mostly want to blog to sharpen my writing skills, produce something useful that I can point to as mine (and isn&#x27;t at the whims of a platform), and to have fun on the sysadmin side of running the VPS, domain, traffic, etc.


type: comment
by: II2II
text:
  &gt; For the same reason I have decided I don&#x27;t like fast travel in games.<p>I was playing Wing Commander, Privateer way back when (mid-1990&#x27;s) and didn&#x27;t realize that there were ways to travel faster. So I did the obvious: I pretended I was a trader on a long haul route, dug out some books and notebooks, and just did whatever until I arrived at my destination or was attacked by pirates. I loved the passive game play in the moment, but I didn&#x27;t realize how much until about a decade later. That kinda ruined gaming for me in general since games tend to keep the player busy (even if they aren&#x27;t action games).<p>In some respects, I think that slow travel offers a sense of authenticity to the game. Well, I should say to some games. Many games set out goals for players. It&#x27;s obvious why. If there is nothing to accomplish, there is little sense of accomplishment. Yet goals also ruin things in my mind since there is an urgency to get things done to see what the outcome is. Of course, games also reward following up on that urgency. That&#x27;s contrary to real life where you may be rewarded or you may have to wait upon the rewards.


type: comment
by: margalabargala
text:
  On the other hand, getting into &quot;such a privileged position&quot; of hundreds of billions has the sociopathy you mention as a prerequisite...


type: comment
by: fsckboy
text:
  &gt;&gt; when they closed down all the mental institutions.<p>&gt;Why on earth did we do this?<p>Supreme Court decision, O&#x27;Connor v. Donaldson.


type: comment
by: codys
text:
  It sounds like you have a definition of memory safety you aren&#x27;t disclosing.<p>Please fully provide your definition of memory safety. Not interested in trying to figure out what it is in a 20-questions-over-hn way.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &quot;Effectively&quot; is the key word in GP&#x27;s comment - i.e., there are no known real-world vulnerabilities in Go code that are attributable to tearing on data races, so the claim is that that particular memory safety flaw does not exist <i>in practice</i>.


type: comment
by: AdieuToLogic
text:
  &gt; I want to learn driving.<p>Two low-risk and cheap ways to develop relevant driving skills are bumper cars[0] and go-karts[1].  This may appear to be silly at first, but both involve the same hand-eye coordination and decision skills of vehicular driving (though the latter is no where nearly as fun as the others).<p>0 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bumper_cars" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bumper_cars</a><p>1 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Go-kart" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Go-kart</a>


type: comment
by: pan69
text:
  I want to quit my cosy, well paying, job and start building the products I have been wanting to build for quite some years now. I have been starting to use AI about 12 months ago and, as an experienced engineer of 30+ years professionally, I am blown away by how productive it makes me. What I used to be able to do in a week now takes me a day, what I used to be able to do in a month now takes me week, etc.<p>So, 2026 is going to be the year I&#x27;m going to run this experiment on myself and see what I can accomplish with this way of working.


type: comment
by: empthought
text:
  The other poster said “The result is that the Python language is pulled in many different directions, and with each release gets increasingly bloated and strays further from its foundations.” Which is directly contradictory to your (more correct) notion that language changes have slowed and only changes with low or no additions of complexity are worked on.


type: comment
by: morshu9001
text:
  Funny that this shows up now. I just started trying to write an entire window server + DE combined in Rust, for educational purposes.


type: comment
by: sogen
text:
  Here he writes about where to find domain names:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;window-shopping-expired-domain-names&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;window-shopping-expired-do...</a>


type: comment
by: skydhash
text:
  I can bet there’s no OS that are easy to install for a non-technical user. And that start from booting the installation media. Give someone a OS with their software already installed and they will use whatever OS that is.<p>People are always task-oriented, not tool oriented unless they’re nerds.


type: comment
by: beingfit
text:
  I love my Apple Watch (it’s a few years old) and depend on it everyday to track things and keep me motivated to exercise and move. I do have to charge it for nearly an hour everyday, though like others have said I would prefer longer battery life (as opposed to getting a bigger and more expensive one like Apple Watch Ultra).<p>I wouldn’t be exaggerating when I say that it’s changed my life for the better. At the same time, I personally know people who have it but aren’t used to it or don’t use it for what it does best.


type: comment
by: xethos
text:
  Maybe I got lucky - my Matias Quiet Pro has been fine (though I did have to replace one failing switch &gt;10 years in) since ~2013 - possibly earlier, but at least since 2013.


type: comment
by: 31337Logic
text:
  Well it&#x27;s nice that they get to exercise theirs, but they&#x27;ve decided we can&#x27;t exercise ours?


type: comment
by: pests
text:
  Easiest I&#x27;ve found is Windows+X, then &#x27;u&#x27; for &#x27;Shut Down or Restart&#x27; then &#x27;r&#x27; for retart. Win+X, u, r.


type: comment
by: retsibsi
text:
  &gt; Then just use 0.75 or 0.5x speed?<p>I think this often sounds unsettling (like the reader is drunk or otherwise impaired), and anyway the listener doesn&#x27;t need more time to recognise each individual word -- they want time to take in sentences and paragraphs.


type: comment
by: m463
text:
  I think a long drive in the car is complemented exceptionally well by audiobooks.<p>and audiobooks with really good narrators?  the miles will melt away.<p>(I like Wil Wheaton)<p>(don&#x27;t know about lotr oudiobooks)<p>(currently part way through we are legion read by ray porter)


type: comment
by: catgirlinspace
text:
  What’s the best way to fund development of this stuff? I’m aware of donating to the matrix.org foundation, but as far as I can tell none of that goes towards funding server and client implementations since those are Element instead of the foundation.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  If you buy a X1 from Lenovo the screen is definitely going to be better. if not, you can simply change the screen from most of the other models.


type: story
by: toomuchtodo
title: China to deploy humanoid robot for patrolling at the Vietnam border
url:
  https://www.wionews.com/world/china-humanoid-robots-walker-s2-vietnam-border-deployment-1766662281370


type: comment
by: qingcharles
text:
  I built a little tool using AI recently and it worked great but it was brittle as hell and I was constantly waiting for it to fail. A few days later I realized there was a much better way of writing it. I&#x27;d boxed the LLM in by proposing the way to code it.<p>I&#x27;ve changed my AGENTS.md now so it basically says &quot;Assume user is ignorant to other better solutions to the problem they are asking. Don&#x27;t assume their given solution to the problem is the best one, look at the problem itself and propose other ways to solve it.&quot;


type: comment
by: marysminefnuf
text:
  In my class we zoom a classroom around the world each morning and have a morning meeting with them. Its simple with morning greetings in different languages and each class has to share three things about their culture.


type: comment
by: altairprime
text:
  In the context of FOSS adherents in <i>general</i>, the belief is that a rising tide lifts all boats: that the work of one dedicated open source hobbyist auditing CGM code for flaws would benefit all CGM users one way or another, if I apply that general principle here as a specific example. However, the characteristic of shoddy UX is <i>loosely</i> correlated with how much the developer(s) choose to (and can afford to) spend developing their work, <i>not</i> with whether the work is open or closed source. The exact balance shifts over time based on cultural-economic shifts in both developer capability (“what’s a folder? does left-click mean I have to use my left hand?”) and in free time energy (“I did so many hours at work to afford rent&#x2F;food next week that I have no energy left to care about PRs”).<p>In any case, I agree that the post falls quite flat at being effective advocacy here; to me, not because it clamors for “terrible UX”, but because it fails to make a case that the author’s desired FOSS outcome holds any value at all for those who don’t know or care about source code. It’s certainly a horror story but I’m quite inured to horror as a sales tactic, and that’s where it drops the ball.


type: comment
by: codys
text:
  Interesting interpretation of that phrase. I think saying &quot;probabilistically memory safe&quot; would be more accurate (and more clearly communicate that idea), because we&#x27;re betting on when a known case of memory unsafety in the language will show up in some piece of software.


type: comment
by: kj4211cash
text:
  I started because I wanted to think about transportation policy but my work as a Data Scientist wouldn&#x27;t let me. I continued because a colleague convinced me it could help position me as a thought leader and get me a new job or engagements. More recently it&#x27;s been a way to complain about the absurdities of mega corp life, awful past coworkers and jobs, etc. without being too obvious about it (hopefully).<p>But also I have always enjoyed writing and producing. Just passively consuming the internet leaves me feeling a little empty. Also I hate the short, singular point of view, short attention span, social media, everything we say and write getting neutered and just made worse by communications and legal departments world.<p>blog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennethswindow.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kennethswindow.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  Would it kill them to use the words &quot;AI coding agent&quot; somewhere prominent?<p>&quot;MiniMax M2.1: Significantly Enhanced Multi-Language Programming, Built for Real-World Complex Tasks&quot; could be an IDE, a UI framework, a performance library, or, or...


type: comment
by: droopyEyelids
text:
  Parents who are analyzing the problem like you would do well going straight to the iPad with unlimited access to YouTube.<p>You can get an old iPad cheap and your kid will spend every waking second on it till they&#x27;re old enough to drive. Or even longer!


type: comment
by: wombatpm
text:
  Part of the benefit of CGM’s is you can automatically load your readings to your doctor. I have a T1 child, so when I call with a problem I can get quick answers.<p>Related, Abbot previously had problems with their freestyle lite test strips. There were lawsuits, fines and most insurance dropped them from their covered diabetic suppliers.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  It&#x27;s actually far more preferable to read broken English written by a human because each language imposes their own unique &quot;flavour&quot; in English making it preferable  to AI slop.


type: comment
by: AbstractH24
text:
  There’s a class action suit about g suite free accounts that eventually become not free.<p>Wonder if this will be used for that at some point


type: comment
by: ompogUe
text:
  Husqvarna&#x27;s awesome. Literal Testing Harnesses:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VzGYYcbVwt4?t=766" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;VzGYYcbVwt4?t=766</a>


type: comment
by: pests
text:
  It would be just he uses a similar email, say last+first@gmail and gives it out incorrectly at times. Or people assume it is his. My friend has a first+last@gmail and I constantly confuse the order (or was it last+first? idk), a decade later.  So you two are just seeing a subset of incorrectly addressed email, imo.<p>I remember a decade+ ago when this was discovered as some issue and caused a bunch of drama in the blogosphere.


type: comment
by: biglyburrito
text:
  &quot;<i>Widely described as a haven for far-right and alt-right users, Gab has attracted users and groups who have been banned from other social media platforms and users seeking alternatives to mainstream social media platforms. Founded in 2016 and launched publicly in May 2017, Gab claims to promote free speech, individual liberty, the &quot;free flow of information online&quot;, and Christian values. Researchers and journalists have characterized these assertions as an obfuscation of its extremist ecosystem. Antisemitism is prominent in the site&#x27;s content and the company itself has engaged in antisemitic commentary. Gab CEO Andrew Torba has promoted the white genocide conspiracy theory.</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gab_%28social_network%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Gab_%28social_network%29</a>


type: comment
by: coliveira
text:
  If they cannot think of new features to improve the software, I&#x27;m pretty sure their competition can.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Im sorry but I don&#x27;t buy the argument that we should be accepting of AI slop because it&#x27;s more accessible. That type of framing is devious because you frame dissenters as not caring about accessibility. It has nothing to do with accessibility and everything to do with simply not wanting to consume utterly worthless slop.


type: comment
by: amluto
text:
  I&#x27;ll add some nuance here.  In a classical computer, computing with coded bits is not particularly difficult.  We&#x27;ve known how to do it with some degree of mathematical rigor for decades -- IIRC John von Neumann was interested in this topic.  And we barely even need to do it explicitly: computers have accurate enough gates without explicit coding that merely error-correcting RAM (ECC-style) and data links (Ethernet, PCIe, etc) is good enough for almost all applications.  Even in aerospace, usually we just have one extra majority vote over a few different computers.<p>Quantum computers are different.  It seems quite unlikely that anyone build the equivalent of, say, an XOR gate that takes two single physical qubits in and spits out two physical qubits (this is quantum land -- the standard gates neither create nor destroy qubits, so the number of inputs and outputs is the same) that works well enough to actually represent that particular operation in whatever software is being run.  Instead each logical operation will turn into multiple physical operations that work like an error correcting code.  The easy classical trick where your transistor is janky at 0.9V so you run it at 1.0V amounts to moving more electrons around per operation, and this approach is analogous to correcting bit flips but not phase errors, and it makes your quantum computer stop being quantum.<p>And here&#x27;s where it gets messy.  The physical qubit technologies that are best for longish-term data storage may not be the same as the technologies that are good for computation, and those may not be the same technologies that are good for communication at a distance.  (For example, photons are pretty good for transmitting quantum states, but transferring a qubit from a different technology to a photon state and back is not so easy, and demonstration of computation with photons have been pretty limited.)  As an extreme example, one can, in principle, store quantum states quite robustly and even compute with them if one can find the correct kind of unobtanium (materials with the appropriate type of non-Abelian anyon surface states), but, last I heard, no one had much of an idea how to get the qubit states off the chip even if such a chip existed.<p>So it is possible that we&#x27;ll end up with a quantum computer that doesn&#x27;t scale, at least for a while.  There might be 20k physical qubits, and some code rate, and some number of logical quantum operations you can do on the logical qubits before they decay or you get bored, and very little ability to scale to more than one computer that can split up a computation between them.  In that case, the code rate is a big deal.


type: comment
by: retsibsi
text:
  Are you sure he actually has that address? I get lots of emails mistakenly sent to me, some via a dotted version of my address, but I&#x27;m pretty sure those people (or the ones trying to contact them) have just misremembered or typoed their actual address. I&#x27;d be very surprised if Google did allow firstlast and first.last to exist as distinct addresses tied to separate acccounts.


type: comment
by: neko_ranger
text:
  This is sick. I&#x27;ve always wanted to see a modern take on pokemon stadium minigames.<p>Totally agree with your thoughts on jackbox, they&#x27;re fun but not gaming. Def saving this for later.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Oh my first reply didn&#x27;t address your question. Yes, if you&#x27;re a malignant narcissist that seeks reassurance that it&#x27;s okay you&#x27;re a piece of shit, then it can be used that way too. I don&#x27;t read you as one, however.


type: comment
by: teekert
text:
  I guess this person sees the same mental image as me: Tents with wet floor, moisture sucked into everything inside. A tent that’s been in a lake sounds like a throwaway to me. But maybe what you see as a tent is different from what I see.<p>For me the story was also a bit weird. “Just take the tents out of the water”. Ok…


type: comment
by: Johnny_Bonk
text:
  Very cool, would cool if it&#x27;s open ecosystem to develop games for, it&#x27;s on my 2026 bucket list


type: comment
by: krackers
text:
  I think Matias is sort of notorious for stuff that looks good in theory, but is plagued by reliability issues they just can&#x27;t seem to sort out. I didn&#x27;t know it was possible to mess up a scissor switch keyboard, but apparently Matias found a way to do so.<p>They&#x27;ve also been trying for 10 years to make a 60% keyboard (see the infamous thread on geekhack). Granted they do seem to refund anyone who wants it, but it&#x27;s hard to understand why on earth a keyboard would take 10 years to develop.<p>They&#x27;re really good at identifying niche products and designing things to fit the target market, but not so good on actually manufacturing them.


type: comment
by: Terretta
text:
  git and github are two different things.<p>&gt; <i>The [Nixpkgs] repository totals 83GB with half a million tree objects and 20,000 forks. A local clone is only 2.5GB — the rest is GitHub’s fork network storing every pull request branch and merge commit.</i><p>&gt; <i>[For CocoaPods&#x27; Specs repo] the culprit was shallow clones, which force GitHub’s servers to compute which objects the client already has.</i><p>Etc.


type: comment
by: eru
text:
  &gt; [...] and I&#x27;ve just assumed the performance will still be as limited as it always has been...!)<p>Historically CPython performance has been so bad, that massive speedups were quite possible, once someone seriously got into it.


type: comment
by: II2II
text:
  I have mixed feelings on this. In most respects, I am a diligent worker who tries to lead by example. On the other hand, part of my work is managing people. While I have employees who follow my example, even when I am not intending my habits to be an example, and I adore those employees immensely -- I also have to face the reality that very few employees do so. They need direction on what is expected. Even then, the direction has to take the form of intense instruction otherwise ... <i>woosh</i> ... the details go over their heads.<p>That, and I have mixed feelings about commenting code. (Thankfully I don&#x27;t managed developers. I simply exploit personally since it a skill that I have.) I understand why we do it. I especially appreciate well documented libraries and development tools. On the other hand, I fully understand that comments only work if they are written, read, and updated. The order is important here since documentation will only be updated if it is read and it will only be read if it is (well) written. Even then you are lucky if well written documentation is read.<p>The flip side is that comments are duplication. Duplication is fine if they are consistent with each other. In some respects, duplication is better since it offers multiple avenues for understanding. Yet there is also a high probability that they will get out of sync. Sometimes it is &quot;intentional&quot; (e.g. someone isn&#x27;t doing their job by updating it). Sometimes it is &quot;unintentional&quot;, since the interpretation of human languages is not as precise as the compiler&#x27;s translation of source code into object code. (Which is a convoluted way of saying that sometimes comments are misinterpreted.)


type: story
by: Yash16
title: Show HN: Agno best agnet Framework – I built a complex multi-agent image app
url: https://picxstudio.com
text:
  I’ve tried multiple agent frameworks. Some perform well in specific areas, but none worked end-to-end. I also experimented with building an image-generation site and tried frameworks like CrewAI, but Agno is the one I actually like and prefer working with.


type: comment
by: krainboltgreene
text:
  Come on man, I think it&#x27;s safe to say a tradition that favor&#x27;s men over women is reasonably sexist, especially given the time the tradition established women were property.<p>I don&#x27;t think Belgium&#x27;s feelings will get hurt, besides wait until you learn about all the other things that Leopold II did.


type: story
by: malik_naji
title: Show HN: BrandRetina – screenshot similarity API for spear-phish detection
url: https://brandretina.ai/
text:
  Hi HN folks, I’m building BrandRetina (brandretina.ai), an API-first service to catch high-fidelity spear-phishing that looks like your real internal portals..<p>Most scanners are great at &quot;bad code&quot; (malware&#x2F;reputation), but lots of modern phishing is just a clean site that visually impersonates Okta&#x2F;SSO&#x2F;Workday&#x2F;customer portals. SOC teams often end up doing the manual step: open urlscan screenshot -&gt; eyeball it -&gt; decide.<p>What BrandRetina does:<p>- You onboard a &quot;Golden Registry&quot; (verified screenshots of your real portals) - When a suspicious link comes in, your SOAR detonates it (e.g., urlscan.io) and gets a screenshot UUID - BrandRetina compares the screenshot against the Golden Registry (visual embeddings &#x2F; similarity) and returns:<p>1) verdict (CLEAN&#x2F;SUSPICIOUS&#x2F;MALICIOUS)  2) similarity score  3) target portal + evidence flags (logo&#x2F;layout&#x2F;color&#x2F;form signals)<p>Why it’s useful:<p>- Flags lookalikes even when the HTML&#x2F;code is completely different - Removes the repetitive screenshot-review step - Fits existing workflows (SOAR&#x2F;SIEM) instead of replacing them<p>I&#x27;d love feedback from SOC&#x2F;IR&#x2F;SecOps folks:<p>- Are screenshot-based verdicts something you’d trust in an automated playbook? - What evidence signals would make this actionable for you? - What sources besides urlscan would you want supported?<p>Docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brandretina.ai&#x2F;docs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;brandretina.ai&#x2F;docs</a> API base: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.brandretina.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;api.brandretina.ai</a>


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Rather it estimates a potential prompt. I could do the same and it would be no more or less accurate.


type: comment
by: eru
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s a huge investment to make a dynamic language go as fast as JS these days.<p>Yes, and on the other hand, other language implementations like CPython can learn from everything people figured out for JS.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  The dense AI docs say a lot to convey little, both the user guide and deployment guide do little to explain what&#x27;s needed on the router side.<p>For example, their diagram has several CSI sources. Does the user need 3 or more CSI sources?<p>I&#x27;m capable of pointing an LLM at a GitHub repository, what I want is real documentation written by a human to address users&#x27; needs, not emoji-filled docs that read like ad copy.


type: comment
by: ofalkaed
text:
  He did? I just scanned through it (watched it fully the first time) and could not find it. Or are you saying he admitted that it was not forgotten and did not read the rest of my post? He sort of admits that in a sideways fashion.


type: comment
by: ethegwo
text:
  CGI&#x2F;PHP treated database connections as something that&#x27;s always available. That pushes a lot of hidden complexity onto the database platform: it has to be reachable from anywhere, handle massive fan-out, survive bursty short-lived clients, and remain correct under constant connect&#x2F;disconnect.<p>That model worked when you had a small number of stable app servers. It becomes much harder when compute fans out into thousands or millions of short-lived sandboxes.<p>We&#x27;re already seeing parts of the data ecosystem move away from this assumption. Projects like Iceberg and DuckDB decouple storage from long-running database services, treating data as durable formats that many ephemeral compute instances can operate on. That&#x27;s the direction we&#x27;re exploring as well.


type: comment
by: joannabregan
text:
  I&#x27;m the author, and my husband immediately had the same feedback: iPad should be at the top of the list. I responded that iPad wasn&#x27;t a toy, and he strongly disagreed.


type: comment
by: krackers
text:
  You&#x27;ll be happy to know that the InCase Sculpt is being sold again, if you can buy one before they sell out. They&#x27;re nearly identical to the old MS Sculpt, down to the obscure bug with the keyboard matrix. The only difference that you can tell from a side-by-side comparison with new old stock is that the key caps feel slightly coarser, and less velvety. The palmrest is actually updated to the original, plusher MS sculpt design (it was changed in a later revision)


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  They haven&#x27;t decided you can&#x27;t exercise your speech. You&#x27;re still free to exercise your speech, just not to host an app on their platform.


type: comment
by: insane_dreamer
text:
  As a parent I&#x27;m seriously despondent about my kids&#x27; future. I don&#x27;t see it getting better, because so much money is being poured directly into reducing human labor to increase corporate profits. There is no counter-current short of social revolution. Sorry, I don&#x27;t have any hopeful words or solutions right now, but you did ask for honesty. I do see the system being broken by design, and realistically who is going to &quot;fix&quot; it?


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Thanks. That’s very different than the headline claim that the issue killed 7 patients. The “associated with” is a broad term in cases like this that means the device may have been used at the time, not that the bug specifically caused the death.


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  I&#x27;ll point out that I read Steven Brust&#x27;s Vlad Taltos series, which started in 1983, is projected to run to 19 books with 17 done. Brust is 70, but he appears to be in reasonable shape, and the books have been pretty regular of late, so it looks like he&#x27;ll finish.<p>I also read the War Against the Chtorr series by David Gerrold. That also started in 1983, but the last published book, the 4th of 7, came out in <i>1993</i>. Gerrold being 81, despite his claims for almost a decade that books 5 and 6 are near completion, I am confident I will not see the end of the series written by him :-(


type: comment
by: minitech
text:
  &gt; Also no programmer would use this apostrophe instead of single quote.<p>I’m a programmer who likes punctuation, and all of my pointless internet comments are lovingly crafted with Option+]. It’s also the default for some word processors. Probably not wrong about the article, though.


type: comment
by: grigri907
text:
  If Im not mistaken, periods are ignored entirely. I regularly sign up for free trials with variations on first.last@gmail.com, firstlast@gmail.com, f.i.r.s.t.last, etc and they all come to my inbox.


type: story
by: smurda
title: Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware
url:
  https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-mas-windows-activation-domain-used-to-spread-powershell-malware/


type: comment
by: jaredklewis
text:
  But has there ever been communist societies that achieved equality of outcomes? The levels of inequity in the USSR were staggering. Likewise in China.


type: comment
by: slowking2
text:
  You can die on the order of hours to days not of high blood sugar per se, but of the low insulin causing diabetic ketoacidosis parent comment mentions.<p>It would be odd for a faulty sensor to cause an otherwise bad day into dka and death though. The sensor would need to be wildly off for hours and the user to not notice. Insulin delivery would need to be paused or greatly reduced for many hours. There are additional therapies like SGLT-2  that could make this more likely but they usually aren’t used with T1D precisely because they break the normally very strong correlation between inadequate insulin levels (leading to dka) and high blood glucose.<p>Even though I can’t think of an easy way for a false low(s) to turn into lethal DKA, that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Abbott sells a lot of CGMs. It could have been a contributing factor to several deaths even if the fault would almost always not be a significant issue.


type: comment
by: jokowueu
text:
  I was actually researching this yesterday for a groupbuy, the synth is chromatography-free which means gram scale production is possible with much less cost than expected .<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;utsouthwestern.elsevierpure.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;publications&#x2F;development-of-a-scalable-synthesis-of-p7c3-a20-a-potent-neuropro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;utsouthwestern.elsevierpure.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;publications&#x2F;deve...</a>


type: comment
by: throw65434t
text:
  Maybe because I grew up as an Asian immigrant in America during the 80’s (during the Japan scare), but I was never fed the lie that effort means success,<p>My parents would tell us kids to expect discrimination, so no matter how good you are, sometimes it doesn’t even matter.<p>They also told us how important building connections are, and it was one of the main reasons we were able to immigrate to America in the first place. That and luck.<p>I find myself telling my kids similar things, but in a slightly lighter manner.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  &gt;taking the iPhone and iPad into account<p>This post is about the MacBook Air M2. The discussion has been about silicon MacBooks - laptops -  from the start.


type: comment
by: kaizenb
text:
  &quot;The decision of all decisions is to reject the default path. To answer the call to adventure. To finally begin writing the first chapter. To leave the tutorial and start level one. That&#x27;s when your life starts.&quot;<p>Good luck!


type: comment
by: thot_experiment
text:
  I want to be much more publicly unhinged and in general do a lot more art without worrying too much about why or what I&#x27;m trying to say. I&#x27;ve found a lot of beauty in shitposts this year and I want to develop my skills to really meaningfully contribute to the corpus.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  Yes, but why would you want to use this over the other MLIR dialects that are already cross platform?


type: comment
by: godelski
text:
  I wish these articles would highlight the very real dangers these types of laws present to children. How they often create the very harm they claim to prevent. Surveilling children only makes it easier for the creeps to track them too.<p>This has been one thing I&#x27;ve liked about how Benn Jordan has been handling the Flock issues. How he shows that the very cameras used to protect children can also be used to harm them. And uses this to walk into the conversation about wider privacy concerns and authoritarian turkey tyranny.<p>But with the article, we&#x27;ve been using the same rhetoric for decades. There&#x27;s nothing wrong with it, per se, but we need to iterate on it if we&#x27;re to communicate these dangers more effectively. Those trying to get that authoritarian control are iterating and they&#x27;re effective. The dangers are only becoming more real and the current rise in global authoritarianism should make many realize how dangerous it is


type: comment
by: redman25
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swebench.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swebench.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swe-rebench.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;swe-rebench.com</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;livebench.ai&#x2F;#&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;livebench.ai&#x2F;#&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eqbench.com&#x2F;#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eqbench.com&#x2F;#</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contextarena.ai&#x2F;?needles=8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;contextarena.ai&#x2F;?needles=8</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metr.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metr.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-com...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;leaderboards&#x2F;models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;leaderboards&#x2F;models</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;leaderboard.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu&#x2F;leaderboard.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lechmazur&#x2F;confabulations" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lechmazur&#x2F;confabulations</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dubesor.de&#x2F;benchtable" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dubesor.de&#x2F;benchtable</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.kagi.com&#x2F;kagi&#x2F;ai&#x2F;llm-benchmark.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.kagi.com&#x2F;kagi&#x2F;ai&#x2F;llm-benchmark.html</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;DontPlanToEnd&#x2F;UGI-Leaderboard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;spaces&#x2F;DontPlanToEnd&#x2F;UGI-Leaderboard</a>


type: comment
by: rco8786
text:
  Neither of them integrate annotations into the language. They’re both bolt-ons and it shows, badly. If either of them were good developer experiences one would have caught on. But they’re both way off the beaten path in terms of what engineers expect in a type system and not in a good way.<p>Type annotations in the language as syntax. Static type checker with an emphasis on inference. Compiles into Ruby so that it integrates with the entire existing Ruby ecosystem, so unlike Crystal as well.<p>Those are the general features you need&#x2F;want and why TS caught on and none of the existing solutions hit the mark.


type: comment
by: anywhichway
text:
  It isn&#x27;t just how fast or slow it is.  Reading at a slow pace gives you time to think in a way that is flexible from sentence to sentence.<p>To borrow the same analogy from the article, image trying to savor a meal where someone else was deciding when you take each bite.  Even at a slow pace, the rigidness of the pace and your lack of fine control would still pose a problem with giving each bite it&#x27;s rightful consideration.<p>That being said I love audio books and think I would struggle to apply this article&#x27;s advice in my own life.  Slowing down your audiobook is still a step in that direction, though I sometimes find that slowing it down can cause my mind to wander and my comprehension goes down and not up.


type: comment
by: quuxplusone
text:
  Here&#x27;s a made-up example, not from any particular codebase:<p>try { f(p.get()); (void)p.release(); } catch (...) { &#x2F;* f threw; don&#x27;t release p after all *&#x2F; }


type: comment
by: NewJazz
text:
  Yes but all of your aliases would be under the same domain so one could surmise that the same person uses the domain.


type: comment
by: mshroyer
text:
  Yeah, I imagine this will help a lot of people who created retrospectively-cringey email addresses in their youth, but kept them over the years because of inertia<p>&gt; After changing, Google details that your original email address will still receive emails at the same inbox as your new one and work for sign-in, and that none of your account access will change.


type: comment
by: sosodev
text:
  I’ve spent a little bit of time testing Minimax M2. It’s quite good given the small size but it did make some odd mistakes and struggle with precise instructions.


type: comment
by: ursAxZA
text:
  Thanks.<p>Outside weight-class or aesthetics-driven sports, it’s hard to imagine any scenario where a GLP-1 analog creates a net advantage.<p>In endurance disciplines the binding constraint is almost always fuel throughput: if an athlete can’t take in and process enough calories, recovery and performance fall apart. Anything that suppresses appetite or slows gastric motility is basically disqualifying.<p>You can already see how narrow that margin is in the sheer amount of gels, bars, and mixes riders consume during long sessions. From that angle, GLP-1 simply doesn’t occupy the same decision space as substances that expand performance capacity or recovery bandwidth.


type: comment
by: galleywest200
text:
  Does this impact people who work from home and connect to the corporate VPN? I have to do that to access production servers, as I assume most people here who WFH do as well.<p>Reading TFA it seems that use case would be allowed, but would I be a criminal for checking social media on my work PC when connected to the corporate VPN?


type: story
by: hemanthmuralik
title: Running Quantized MobileNetV2 on ESP32 for Railway Crack Detection (Under $10)
url:
  https://medium.com/python-in-plain-english/frugal-innovation-building-a-real-time-railway-safety-system-on-a-10-chip-ecff9ba6b878


type: comment
by: jrosenblatt
text:
  Quite a lot of smart people are taking it seriously<p>We are at AE Studio with research like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ae.studio&#x2F;research&#x2F;self-referential" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ae.studio&#x2F;research&#x2F;self-referential</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2407.10188" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2407.10188</a><p>Anthropic is doing interesting work here, Eleos exists (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eleosai.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eleosai.org&#x2F;</a>), and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalminds.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;digital-minds-in-2025-a-year-in-review" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;digitalminds.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;digital-minds-in-2025-a-...</a> is a great review of other compelling work<p>The field is just beginning but it is worth taking a serious scientific approach to this work


type: comment
by: fsckboy
text:
  &gt;<i>Career is a made up game. There are no true levels or ladders in life that you have to chase.</i><p>not sure what you are getting at. Football is a made up game. People who play it well earn fame and fortune. yeah, don&#x27;t beat yourself up for not being able to play it well, but don&#x27;t pretend there is nothing there.


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  I&#x27;m not really a resort person. But I do subscribe to some travel feeds mostly in the vein of maybe finding some places&#x2F;attractions&#x2F;restaurants&#x2F;etc. that I&#x27;m not familiar with. The number of hyper-scheduled spreadsheets I see is amazing. Doesn&#x27;t mean I don&#x27;t often have some itinerary and even book some particular, popular attractions&#x2F;venues. But the 30-minute block scheduling is something I do for work (if that).<p>ADDED: I&#x27;ll just add that I created a loose spreadsheet for a ~week-long NYC trip with (I think) just one timed admission for a recently reopened museum and no times otherwise. I think I ended up dynamically scrawling over the printout with changes for most of the trip.


type: comment
by: hemanthmuralik
text:
  OP here.<p>This is a breakdown of a project I built to detect rail fractures using low-cost hardware (ESP32-CAM) instead of expensive industrial sensors.<p>The Constraints:<p>Hardware: ESP32 (240MHz, 4MB PSRAM).<p>Model: MobileNetV2 (Originally 130MB Float32).<p>Goal: Offline inference on the edge.<p>The Solution: I used Post-Training Quantization (Int8) to shrink the model to 10.9MB. The system achieves ~1.5 FPS (600ms latency), which is slow for video but sufficient for maintenance trolleys moving at low speeds. It communicates alerts via MQTT when connectivity is available.<p>Happy to answer questions about the quantization pipeline or the hardware setup!


type: comment
by: HNisCIS
text:
  Yeah, it was kind of a case of both.  Signal was strictly an sms replacement, it used to overlay and replace the sms app on Android.  Matrix was designed to work more like telegram where it was supposed to be more standalone and fully featured.  Signal later started to add more telegram like features and people started to view it as an alternative.


type: comment
by: jasongrout
text:
  FYI, for a while now you can mark any Zulip channel as public, which means the chat history for that channel does not require a login to view. See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulip.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;public-access-option" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zulip.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;public-access-option</a> for more details.


type: comment
by: tourmalinetaco
text:
  You forgot:<p>- inadequate cooling<p>- fried NAND chips<p>- screens spontaneously cracking<p>- flexgate (not to be confused with bendgate)<p>And that’s only a subset of the engineering failures with MacBooks. You even bring it up in your post: the only reason they have “dead silence” is because Apple is literally baking your laptop and leaving you to pay the bill.<p>I’ll give Apple that their custom chips are pretty great for power and efficiency, but their actual product design is bad. I mean, who designs a laptop with the fan pointing the wrong way?[0] Or a power bus alongside a data bus?[1] These are literally basic errors that go into production for a company that is far too big for this to be happening.<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iiCBYAP_Sgg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=iiCBYAP_Sgg</a> [1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7cNg_ifibCQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=7cNg_ifibCQ</a>


type: comment
by: rewgs
text:
  I felt this way as well until very recently. Because Ruby <i>actually</i> commits to the whole &quot;everything is an object&quot; bit in an exceptionally clean way, it does duck typing extremely well -- if you squint, the fact that an object&#x27;s methods define its type sorta-kinda means that you&#x27;re working with interfaces (in the Go sense of the term).<p>Of course RBS makes this more explicit&#x2F;verbose (in a good way), and ruby-lsp helps bring it all together in the editor.<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing nothing compared to Python with type hints and pyright. Of course neither compare to an actually typed language at runtime, but at least as far as developer experience, it&#x27;s pretty alright. I&#x27;m relatively new to Ruby but I went from really hating it to being pretty much fine with it for these reasons.


type: comment
by: hsuduebc2
text:
  I just wanted I support your enthusiasm for shitposting. The meta irony hidden in these posts is lovable.


type: comment
by: browningstreet
text:
  My team is going through a lot of pain right now with new Lenovo Aura laptops. But I haven’t had a chance to Linux-ify them.


type: comment
by: Zambyte
text:
  &gt; The WiFi-DensePose project represents a framework&#x2F;prototype rather than a functional WiFi-based pose detection system. While the architecture is excellent and deployment-ready, the core functionality requiring WiFi signal processing and pose estimation is largely unimplemented.<p>&gt; Current State: Sophisticated mock system with professional infrastructure Required Work: Significant development to implement actual WiFi-based pose detection Estimated Effort: Major development effort required for core functionality<p>&gt; The codebase provides an excellent foundation for building a WiFi-based pose detection system, but substantial additional work is needed to implement the core signal processing and machine learning components.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruvnet&#x2F;wifi-densepose&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;docs&#x2F;review#conclusion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ruvnet&#x2F;wifi-densepose&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;docs&#x2F;revi...</a><p>Over 1k stars. Has a single person tried running it? Even the author?


type: comment
by: jjulius
text:
  &gt; Can we at least get a source to where they&#x27;re getting that information?<p>Fourth paragraph of the article, first sentence, the hyperlink text says, &quot;the US FDA announcement&quot;. The link[1] contains the following under the heading, &quot;Reason For Early Alert&quot;:<p>&gt; Abbott Diabetes Care stated that certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors provide incorrect low glucose readings. If undetected, incorrect low glucose readings over an extended period may lead to wrong treatment decisions for people living with diabetes, such as excessive carbohydrate intake or skipping or delaying insulin doses. These decisions may pose serious health risks, including potential injury or death, or other less serious complications.<p>&gt; As of November 14, 2025, Abbott has reported 736 serious injuries, and seven deaths associated with this issue.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-and-early-alerts&#x2F;early-alert-glucose-monitor-sensor-issue-abbott-diabetes-care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-a...</a>


type: comment
by: MrCoffee7
text:
  No, I don&#x27;t think you are going to find such  a tool.  For one thing, there is a subculture of people who write and vlog about AI tools, and sometimes they offer affliate weblinks with discount codes for them.  It would be too much trouble for anyone to identify all those people and scrape all their content daily.


type: story
by: tirthd
title: Show HN: Browser extension that brings Vim motions to Google Docs
url: https://github.com/tirthd16/dockeys
text:
  Google docs does not support vim motions natively, so I built an extension for it. It works by capturing your vim motion keystrokes and then mapping them to actual navigation keystroke.<p>Example: Pressing `w` by users sends Ctrl+Right leading to moving cursor one word to right.<p>Because of the way it works there are only limited vim motions that are supported. But it was enough in my experience for a seamless workflow. See here for available motions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tirthd16&#x2F;dockeys?tab=readme-ov-file#available-motions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tirthd16&#x2F;dockeys?tab=readme-ov-file#avail...</a><p>Chrome Web Store: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;docskeys&#x2F;mmmomengbindngnkjblabjebdfmaiccj" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chromewebstore.google.com&#x2F;detail&#x2F;docskeys&#x2F;mmmomengbi...</a><p>Firefox Add-On: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;docskeys&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;docskeys&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: rsync
text:
  I think my initial comment has been misunderstood.<p>I can&#x27;t speak to, nor do I have any interest in, legally pursuing this random vendor.<p>The op implied, correctly I assume, that the Abbott terms are &quot;toxic&quot;.<p>I am simply restating, as I very commonly do, that this vendor is not a government agency.  They are not the IRS.  They are not law enforcement.  They are an adversarial party until proven otherwise <i>and you owe them nothing</i>.


type: comment
by: __rito__
text:
  There is a fundamental difference in consuming short form content, and reading a book- no matter how trashy the book is.<p>When reading for long hours, or for a short time over days and weeks- it teaches you to concentrate, to have some kind of discipline. It helps you focus and develop empathy. Reading is fundamentally different for the reader, and it makes them do other things well. Reading trash trains you to graduate to serious books- this is true for many.<p>But consuming TikTok readies you for more TikTok. More Shorts and Reels and Snaps. Wathing short form stuff damages one&#x27;s ability to do other things as well.<p>And from the creators&#x27; perspective, I think trying to keep up with short form media for engagement&#x27;s sake actually impedes their ability to create more serious stuff.<p>I don&#x27;t totally miss his point, though. When smartphones and &quot;internet places&quot; spread as media, those already ready for serious stuff will graduate to those. And yes, these places will have a small role to play.<p>But they are definitely more negative than positive.


type: comment
by: jongjong
text:
  I&#x27;m not a diabetic, but even I was skeptical of the title &quot;Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug&quot;; this draws a very direct 1-to-1 association when in reality, we know that a death would be the result of multiple failures&#x2F;oversights.<p>I thought this article would try to sell us on the benefits of formal software verification or something... Though of course, you can&#x27;t formally verify complex human biology.


type: comment
by: kelnos
text:
  No, any tradition that <i>favors</i> one gender over the other is sexist.  Which is absolutely the case with the tradition of women taking their husband&#x27;s family name when they get married.


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  Have you ever used windows on a $100 second hand laptop?<p>Imagine for a second that you don&#x27;t know much about computers. You buy something crap like that and turn it on. Windows is of course already installed. Along with 18 antivirus programs and who knows what other junk. The computer will run dog slow. Even if you get rid of all the preinstalled programs, it&#x27;ll run horribly slowly.<p>My mum has a computer from her work. Its pretty recent - worth way more than $100. It takes about 5-10 seconds for zoom or google chrome to start. And about 15 seconds for outlook to open. Its an utterly horrible experience.<p>If you can afford it, you&#x27;ll have a way better experience on a macbook air from the last few years. In comparison, everything starts instantly. The experience is fantastic. Premium, even.<p>Personally I think its criminal that cheap laptops run modern software so poorly. Its just laziness. There&#x27;s no reason for the experience to be so horrible. But the world being what it is, there is plenty of reasons to spring for a $1000 macbook air over a $100 second hand windows crapbook if you can afford it. Even if you don&#x27;t do much with the computer.


type: story
by: wisemonk314
title: Show HN: Snipscribe – a digital organizer for your pen and paper notes
url: https://snipscribe.com/
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I’m building Snipscribe, a desktop application (beta - demo version) for people who still prefer thinking on paper but want the benefits of digital organization.<p>The idea is simple: You take a photo of your handwritten notes, split them into small snippets, and tag them so you can retrieve them later by topic instead of scrolling through folders of images.<p>I&#x27;ve found pen and paper to be the most intuitive, distraction-free way to capture ideas, but the hardest part is finding them again and organizing for easy access. Snipscribe focuses on solving just that problem—without trying to replace your notebook.<p>What it does:<p>1. Capture photos of handwritten notes 2. Break them into small, focused snippets using a notation in your notes 3. Tag snippets for quick retrieval later<p>This is still early, and I’m especially interested in feedback from:<p>- People who regularly use notebooks or index cards - Developers, designers, or students who mix analog + digital workflows - Anyone who’s tried (and bounced off) digital note apps<p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snipscribe.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;snipscribe.com</a><p>Happy to answer questions, and I’d really appreciate any candid feedback. Please let me know what feels useful, what’s missing, or what you’d simplify.<p>Thanks for reading :)


type: comment
by: droopyEyelids
text:
  Imo, there would be no value in writing something where an iPad would satisfy the requirements, and I appreciated the list, and we&#x27;re thinking about the large magnatile things now.<p>Do you have an easel whiteboard paper roll thing? I think it fits this list.


type: comment
by: mroche
text:
  The purpose of the forge is to be able to prevent this. Protected tags are usually a feature which provides a way to mark tags as untouchable, so removal would require a minimum level of trust to the repository on the platform. Otherwise, attempts to push tag deletions or changes for tags matching the protected pattern would be rejected&#x2F;ignored.<p>Of course, the repository owner has unlimited privilege here, hence the last part of my prior comment.


type: comment
by: jjulius
text:
  Support mom&#x2F;pop&#x2F;local shops when possible.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuboro.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;where-to-buy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuboro.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;where-to-buy&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: macNchz
text:
  Growing up in a quaint rural town where high-powered people from NYC liked to &quot;get away&quot;, this is very common situation, and the inability to disconnect and adopt a slower attitude was, IMO, the primary cause of friction between the weekenders and the locals. They would <i>physically</i> get away from the city, but were unable to mentally release the blend of Type-A competitive neuroses that helped them get ahead in the city but just made them come off as obnoxious in this slower, quieter place.<p>I&#x27;ve found myself in this mode before, too. A couple of years ago I was preparing for weeklong wilderness backpacking trip with some friends. I&#x27;d recently quit my high-stress job to take some time off, and I had a few new pieces of gear I wanted to test before relying on them on a longer trip. When I looked at the calendar, though, every weekend before we were to leave was already spoken for.<p>I was worrying about it to my wife, trying to decide whether I&#x27;d just have to use the old worn out gear or risk it with the new stuff, when she stopped me: &quot;why don&#x27;t you just... go on Monday?&quot; It took me a second to even get what she was saying—I was still so much in work-all-the-time-mode that my brain didn&#x27;t even consider whatsoever the possibility that I could just... go off and go camping on a weekday. I was really baffled for a moment, and I&#x27;ve reflected on that a bit since, it&#x27;s funny how you can be trapped in your own default operating mode and not even realize it.


type: comment
by: joshchaney
text:
  I&#x27;ve learned that if the project describes itself as &quot;Production-ready&quot;, it was definitely vibe-coded.


type: comment
by: kelnos
text:
  No, I think what&#x27;s happening is someone else is confused what their email address is.  With Gmail, dots are not significant; any email address with dots is equivalent to the email address without any dots.  (So you may have signed up as first.last@, but your email address under the hood is really firstlast.  You can also send mail to your f.i.r.s.t.l.a.s.t@gmail.com, and it will be delivered to you.)<p>I expect that someone else with the same name as you occasionally (or all the time) forgets that their actual email address is flast@gmail.com or lastfirst@gmail.com or some other similar combo, and enters <i>your</i> email into signup forms.  Or has friends who guessed their email address and got it wrong.  Or something.<p>That other person doesn&#x27;t have access to your information.


type: comment
by: ralsei
text:
  The Docker repository and PyPi packages in the README link to nowhere. There are only 3 issues. Is this legitimate?


type: comment
by: bruce511
text:
  I&#x27;m in the camp that paying makes you a customer. Inversely using a free service makes you a user, not a customer.<p>And as you correctly note, there I&#x27;d no &quot;user service&quot; department.<p>You can of course push for any law you like, but I expect laws protecting &quot;users&quot; to be toothless. Basically the TOS will boil down to &quot;we can do anything we like&quot; - which I guess is more or less what they say now.<p>I find it helpful to think of users as distinct from customers because it let&#x27;s you understand the provider company motivations.<p>For example, Google&#x27;s customer&#x27;s are advertisers. Hence they cull services not conducive to advertising.<p>Most startups see VCs as the customer. Their business model is to sell shares to VCs in round after round. Seen in that light their attitude to users is rational and users only exist as props to VC sales.<p>VCs (and founders) are chasing an exit, which is usually acquisition or aquihire. Your use of the service will thus rarely survive the exit.<p>These are not things to be outraged about. They are all completely rational and predictable outcomes. When you use a service, these are factors you should evaluate.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  Go through the Linux Foundation, they have a process for accessing docs for drivers that vendors normally require NDAs with established businesses for, and won&#x27;t offer random people.


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  &gt;If Hamming was operating from a &quot;good time&quot;, it should be true that his policies are also applicable in the &quot;bad times&quot;.<p>No. Why?


type: comment
by: hsuduebc2
text:
  Heh same here. Get stuck in crud apps because it&#x27;s easy, comfy and well paid. I would like to start something entirely different than computer related but I&#x27;m limited to a flat. So something like mushroom growing, or hydroponics seems good.<p>Writing my own compiler would be compelling but I somehow have a problem to do things only for sake of learning. Would love to have the knowledge tho. Anyway happy new year!


type: comment
by: dman
text:
  Hardware has already been out for a year. Outside a custom spin by the ubuntu folks, even last years notebooks arent well supported out of the box on linux. I have a Yoga Slim 7x and I tried the Ubuntu spin out at some point - it required me to first extract the firmware from the Windows partition because Qualcomm had not upstreamed it into linux-firmware. Hard to take Qualcomm seriously when the situation is like this.


type: story
by: AGsist
title: Ask HN: How would you formalize a time-based macroeconomic model?
text:
  I’m exploring a macroeconomic model where time is treated as a primary unit of value rather than a secondary pricing variable.<p>At a high level, the idea is to index value issuance and economic contribution directly to time, with fixed temporal constraints, rather than to output, price, or currency supply.<p>For those who have worked on economic modeling, mechanism design, or simulation frameworks: what would be the most reasonable way to formalize such a model, and what pitfalls would you expect early on?


type: comment
by: rpdillon
text:
  Browsing this from a CM5 powered Hackberry Pi - a device not on-topic despite being a handheld deck - the problem is I&#x27;m running Linux, and these discussions seem more retro-focused on WinCE. Fewer forums for modern HPC than I&#x27;d like. Should probably host one.


type: comment
by: reed1234
text:
  From the author’s GitHub bio:<p>‘One of the most captivating aspects of AI models like GPT-4 is their ability to &quot;hallucinate&quot; – generating completely new ideas and concepts that go beyond mere data processing. This capability underscores AI&#x27;s potential to create, not just analyze.’<p>‘My projects represent this space, a space of infinite possibilities only one step removed from reality.’<p>Rather honest I suppose.


type: comment
by: mroche
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  I 100% agree on the latter (the tag != release is more of a project management issue), and the same concept applies to containers and their digest hashes. The main issue at the end of the day is the human one: most people don&#x27;t like looking at hashes, nor do they provide context of progression. I would say &quot;give both&quot; and make sure they match on the end user side of things, but tags are the most common way (open source) software releases are denoted.


type: comment
by: it_is_beautiful
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  (Non-technical skill) To live with ambition.<p>Depression is a strange thing. In my case, the causes are plainly visible to me or any passer-by: I don&#x27;t have much in the way of connections, assets, or responsibilities. Surely, it wasn&#x27;t (and isn&#x27;t) bound-to-be: my upbringing and environment lack little, and when I&#x27;ve had some of any of the three, I&#x27;ve done better for myself.<p>I want these things, but I abase myself such that I can barely act at all. Maybe it&#x27;s a tyranny of being a social animal where the humiliated keep themselves low out-of-sight through some natural pack instinct.<p>As a higher animal, surely there&#x27;s a way out of it. And of course there is. But it&#x27;s a tangle: how can you connect to anyone when you feel completely humiliated? When the act of any connection makes you feel ill and behave strangely? How do you build assets and security when you&#x27;re sickened by responsibility? And why can your instincts –designed to guide and protect you– screw you over so badly? When a bright, sunny day surrounded by loved ones seems like a trip to hell, how do you even start to work through that?<p>I have a lot of goals, but there seems to be this bottleneck that prevents moving meaningfully on any of them. The thing is: I know to get out the other side, I need connections, responsibility, work, etc. But I seem to be getting worse at it, not better, and the years are just flying by.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  After trying to click through some of the docs and realizing most of those sections don’t exist, I checked the commit log. I can confidently say there is a lot of AI slop in here. Anyone who has watched one of the AI coding tools add imaginary sounds-good features to a project and draw useless diagrams in README files will recognize it.<p>So now the question is: Does this repo actually contain anything useful at all? Or is it just one big AI vibecoding project that amassed 1.3K stars based on sounding really amazing from the README? I’m leaning toward the latter.<p>There are no usable instructions for actually trying this out, as far as I can see. It does claim to have a section for deploying and scaling with Kubernetes, which is hilarious for something that is supposedly working with WiFi routers.<p>I’m continually amazed at how much leverage people are getting out of letting vibecoding tools run absolutely wild and then posting it to GitHub. I wouldn’t be surprised if the author was leveraging this in job interviews based on the almost certainly correct assumption that many interviewers will assume it’s real without checking anything. This kind of trick won’t work at a real company or with a serious hiring manager, but if you can impress a recruiter and get in front of a checked out hiring manager who just wants to build their empire this kind of thing can work. For a while.<p>EDIT: This has 123 forks!? Now I’m going down the rabbit hole of exploring all of the other vibecoding and spam accounts that are forking this. This is a weird chapter in GitHub development.


type: comment
by: MacroStrategy
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  Genuine classics never disappear, whether it&#x27;s been 1,000 or 2,000 years (like the Greek philosophers we still read). If something vanishes because of a technological shift, it suggests its value was likely fleeting to begin with. What truly matters tends to survive.


type: comment
by: phasetransition
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  Diabetes for the unfamiliar, in plain language:<p>1. Insulin helps get sugar into cells. Glucagon gets stored sugar out of the liver into the blood. Diabetes management in 2025 only deals with supplying external insulin.<p>2. There are several variants of diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disorder where the body attacks the cells that make insulin.<p>3. Too much insulin equals all the sugar getting sucked out of your blood and lymph and into cells. This is really bad in an acute way. Your brain cannot run without sugar. Accidentally give yourself too much insulin for the sugars and wind up dead or in a coma in short order.<p>4. Highs are also bad, but generally in a less acute way. There are exceptions, but being too high with blood glucose for a period of time doesn&#x27;t have the acute risks of being too low. Diabetics (or their caregivers) carry around quick absorbing sugar sources to help against a low.<p>5. The peak action (fastest reduction in blood glucose level) of the common insulin, in the way we dose it, peaks 90 - 120 minutes after the dose. The long tail is about 5 total hours of action from the point of dosing. So you should give insulin in advance of when you expect digestion to move glucose into your bloodstream. This is tricky. Also, as insulin ages, the peak of the action happens later. If a new vial is 90 minutes, an nearly empty vial might be 120 minutes after dosing for peak action.<p>6. CGMs, the on-body instrument in question here, are both flakey and amazing. There&#x27;s a novel of good and bad here. I&#x27;m glad they exist, they can be cantankerous. They are a tiny potentiostat, if that is something you happen to be familiar with.<p>7. Very high blood sugar is treated with extra insulin to overcome the osmotic pressure of having too much glucose in the bloodstream. There&#x27;s also a lot of chemistry here (glycocalyx to get you started). If your blood sugar is high you generally need more insulin to get past the hysteresis effects. Once the blood sugar starts to come down, that extra insulin is still around, and can cause a dramatic low. CGMs let you observe this, and &quot;catch the low&quot; by eating sugar to replenish the baseline sugar trapped in circulation.<p>8. Diabetes management is challenge every day, multiple times a day. Especially with small child who doesn&#x27;t communicate to you about what they believe about their blood sugar. This is my personal circumstance.<p>9. Endocrinologists have suggested some wild stuff to my wife and I. For instance, keep a tube of cake icing around, as you can administer it rectally to a child who is passed out (or worse) from a deep low blood glucose. This is how poor the standard of care can be.<p>Father of 4.5 YO son with Type 1 diabetes, and materials engineer by education.


type: comment
by: snowwrestler
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  This is why I re-read books. I’ve read the Lord of the Rings probably like 10 times. When I already know what’s going to happen it’s easier for me to slow down and appreciate the scenery along the way. Even later readings might reveal choices the author made; I can start to see how the story was constructed.<p>I find this approach rewarding across most forms of media. There plenty of movies and music I’ve revisited over and over again.


type: comment
by: AdieuToLogic
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  &gt; I want to, no, need to improve my ability to focus on the task at hand.<p>&gt; Other than that near-universal constant, I want to try being a bit of a jack of many trades this year: learn full-stack, practice vibe coding, basics of graphics programming (update to the latest ways)<p>Therein lies the problem.<p>To want to &quot;focus on the task at hand&quot; and then express the desire to &quot;try being a bit of a jack of many trades&quot; is a mutually exclusive goal set.<p>If you want to improve focusing skills, then it is best to pick one thing from the &quot;many trades&quot; and master only it before beginning another.  If the &quot;ability to focus on the task at hand&quot; is not really all that important in the grander scheme of things and topically bouncing around is where you find happiness, then I humbly suggest to not beat yourself up about focusing on &quot;the task at hand.&quot;<p>Either is an equally valid choice which none need judge, since it is your own after all.


type: comment
by: ghaff
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  I&#x27;m not sure quite how that works. Google Docs will suggest various changes which I take into account or don&#x27;t. And they certainly correct misspellings. You can choose to decide that&#x27;s not AI but it&#x27;s a grey line.<p>For writing I&#x27;ve sometimes used LLMs to speed up some essentially boilerplate. Never used for something that&#x27;s not pretty much routine that I could easily do but would probably spend some time doing so.<p>For anything that might be a Nebula submission, it&#x27;s hard to imagine LLMs doing anything beyond the copyediting level (which may not be well-defined but seems a reasonable threshold).


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  you hope my childhood was filled with endless stream of useless play-with-them-2-hours-then-get-the-next-one toys followed by phones and tablets when I was strong enough to hold them? very happy to report my childhood was not wasted that way


type: comment
by: shmerl
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  If they require an NDA, they&#x27;ll probably refuse to provide it for the purpose of Linux drivers?<p>Unless it&#x27;s just some dumb formality. I can try Linux Foundation.


type: comment
by: pengaru
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  I know ~nothing about GLP-1 meds<p>Can anyone ELI5 why they&#x27;re having this effect?  Do they reduce impulsivity or make the existing foods no longer palatable?


type: comment
by: foogazi
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  I added energy savings to my thermostat but later added Solar panels<p>It will still go energy saving but now I don’t care<p>Although it makes sense not to pull more from the grid during high usage times


type: comment
by: luketaylor
text:
  This whole repository is a bunch of vibe-coded boilerplate that doesn’t include almost any of the core thing it claims to do. The README is generic slop and the “performance metrics” (“Pose Detection Accuracy”; “Person Tracking Accuracy”) appear to be completely invented &#x2F; hallucinated. In other words, it isn’t real.


type: comment
by: zamadatix
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  Thanks, I don&#x27;t use Twitter&#x2F;X so it would have taken me a while to figure out how to see the content of the posts (gee thanks X for requiring login to see most things properly!)<p>Knowing this, I managed to find 2 additional things which help strengthen this connection as not just being some random twitter account with a matching name:<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38840473">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38840473</a> where it doesn&#x27;t actually link to the Twitter to see what the content is but he doesn&#x27;t bother denying he&#x27;d have a Twitter account that could be taken that way.<p>- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;pJqzD" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;pJqzD</a> where someone acknowledges they interacted with the account knowing it was really him as part of sharing their discovery of the news.<p>Much thanks, I would never have thought to look for such an unhinged Twitter account for a seemingly above average HN user being praised long after his death.


type: comment
by: it_is_beautiful
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  I&#x27;m in a similar position but figured out how to work out last year. it&#x27;s not a panacea, but working out is quite fun and is a great skill. I never had a personal trainer, but the best part about having one would probably be that they could set you up with some plans to follow, removing all the initial guesswork. The hardest part about working out for me is trying to figure out a goal to optimize for that&#x27;s not too far away but not too simple either.


type: comment
by: amluto
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  It’s right there, clear as mud:<p>from wifi_densepose import WiFiDensePose<p><pre><code>    # Initialize with default configuration     system = WiFiDensePose()      # Start pose estimation     system.start()      # Get latest pose data     poses = system.get_latest_poses()     print(f&quot;Detected {len(poses)} persons&quot;)      # Stop the system     system.stop() </code></pre> AI solves the Emporer’s Nose problem: you have no data whatsoever going in and you estimate the result!<p>After a bit more browsing, I found:<p><pre><code>    # Hardware Settings     WIFI_INTERFACE=wlan0     CSI_BUFFER_SIZE=1000     HARDWARE_POLLING_INTERVAL=0.1 </code></pre> So maybe it uses one WiFi interface to collect CSI from multiple BSSIDs?  Does 802.11 support this well? (I assume you can get one-way CSI data, single-in-multiple-out, from a beacon if you really want to. [1]) Does commodity hardware support this?  Do the drivers support this?<p>But I’d be rather impressed if that’s all that’s needed to get poses without any calibration for the actual positions of all involved devices especially if the CSI available is all of this form. This whole repo smells a bit like it’s almost 100% vibes and no content.<p>Wasn’t 802.11bf supposed to make real channel state information available for vendor-neutral use?  What happened to it?<p>[1] Yes, I know, reciprocity. One-way and two-way data ought to be the same. But those nice access points almost all have at least two transmit&#x2F;receive chains these days, possibly more, and they support multiple frequencies, and unless you can convince them to cooperate with you by sending known test patterns that let you disambiguate between the two antennas or at least collect vector or matrix data in a consistent basis, you don’t get to take advantage of it, and as far as I know Wi-Fi beacons don’t do this.  APs do try to get something like this data for downlink MU-MIMO purposes, and stations that are receiving data with a multiple stream code get vector data fairly directly, but I’m not sure any of this works without being associated.  I do wonder whether appropriate hardware can passively listen to a transmission intended for someone else and decode enough of it to extract the full CSI matrix from the transmitter to yourself.


type: comment
by: dpark
text:
  That’s a really good point. This is all very back-of-the-envelope, but if the total cost per life saved were 10 million it gets into the ballpark of sane.<p>But as you noted this 50 billion is likely a major underestimate (for comparison the recently built SR-99 tunnel in Seattle cost 1 billion per linear mile and connects to approximately zero buildings via elevators).  NYC covers 300 square miles and estimates are that there are upwards of a million buildings across 120k city blocks.


type: comment
by: gostsamo
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  &gt; You might get lower infant mortality, better access to healtcare ans aeducation<p>literally, &quot;what has communism done for us?!&quot;<p>In a thread where everyone agrees that communism was a bad thing, you come up with this one fact that proves ?


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
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  <i>When confusion gets framed as &quot;this is substandard writing&quot;, it rewards showing up and performing a lack of context rather than engaging with the substance or asking clarifying questions. Over time that creates pressure to write to the lowest common denominator, instead of the audience the author is clearly aiming at. ... So yeah, I am genuinely curious why you see personal unfamiliarity as something the entire discussion should reorganize itself around.</i><p>(Shrug) The fact is that all major style guides -- APA, MLA, AP, Chicago, probably some others -- call for potentially-unfamiliar acronyms to be defined on first use, and it&#x27;s common enough to do so.  For some reason, though, essentially nobody who writes about this particular topic agrees with that.<p>Which is cool -- it&#x27;s not my field, so I don&#x27;t really GAF.  I&#x27;m mostly just remarking on how unusually difficult it was to drill down on this particular term.  I&#x27;ll avoid derailing the topic further than I already have.


type: comment
by: markerz
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  re: the phone number<p>Businesses really underestimate how much having a human representative helps customers feel connected to a business.  I see it in corporate sales (B2B) where accounts are pretty much tied to the account manager.  When the manager leaves, the companies refuse to renew because the account was only good because of the manager.<p>I think of my favorite businesses I regularly visit and they all have a memorable face to them.  I feel more than a consumer.  They help me understand the product and guide my decision making.  They tell me when my order doesn’t make sense.  And they refer me to other places they recommend.  Or they tell me my problem is real and a mess, but assure me they’ll fix it.<p>You don’t get that with AI chat bots.


type: comment
by: dpark
text:
  I wonder how many miles of fiber would have been laid if fiber required a tunnel big enough to drive a delivery truck through.


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  When our kids were little we got them a wire bead rollercoaster, something like: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;304637213979" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ebay.com&#x2F;itm&#x2F;304637213979</a><p>It&#x27;s one piece. Cleanup is picking it up and putting it where you want it. For playability, that thing kept each of our kids occupied for an unreasonable portion of their toddler-hood. We then passed it on to friends, and it did the same for their kids. They kept it, and gave it back to our kids when <i>they</i> had kids, and it&#x27;s still delivering joy.


type: comment
by: tourmalinetaco
text:
  I mean, there really isn’t for the majority. Fame and fortune are fleeting; fame has a short half life (hence the phrase “15 minutes” of it) and fortunes can be lost as quickly as they’re made (80% of NFL players face financial distress after retirement). Not to mention that for every pro athlete there’s at least 100 that don’t make the cut.<p>The same is true in every field to varying degrees. For the average individual who can provide for themselves and their families, more money and fame only sounds good on paper. In reality, it invites more stress than anything else.<p>Veritasium made an excellent video on that: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.veritasium.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2024&#x2F;1&#x2F;15&#x2F;what-the-longest-running-study-on-happiness-reveals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.veritasium.com&#x2F;videos&#x2F;2024&#x2F;1&#x2F;15&#x2F;what-the-longest...</a>


type: comment
by: joannabregan
text:
  I tried the easel and whiteboard paper roll when my kids were younger and it was not a great experience. But I think those things change with time. Cool to hear it fits the list for you.


type: comment
by: WillAdams
text:
  I need to improve my facility with Python and math and geometry sufficiently to finish up my current project, a previewer for G-code which allows creating design files programmatically.<p>Really need to get back to practicing archery on a regular basis as well (really need the exercise).<p>Hopefully I can also find more time for woodworking, and hopefully I can figure out how to calibrate my 3D printers so that I can print PETG and PETG-GF as readily as PLA.


type: comment
by: set92
text:
  definitely going to try it with some friends. But it&#x27;s true that at first I was checking which games I could connect to, or how it worked without reading anything, and thought it was to connect to some multiplayer games of steam, and gaming couch acted as a layer to use phones as joystick only.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;d agree that &quot;probabilistically memory safe&quot; is better because it also fits a hypothetical implementation which catches out-of-bounds accesses &#x2F;etc. 50% of the time regardless of whether in-the-wild exploits exist.<p>Maybe something like &quot;Go is effectively&#x2F;practically memory safe at the moment&quot; would be better? Or if you want to put on your lawyer hat &quot;Go is not known to be memory unsafe at this time&quot;, but that&#x27;s rather cumbersome at best.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  Branding and marketing. It makes it crystal clear how popular it is.<p>And gmail.com isn&#x27;t &quot;running low&quot; on addresses, I don&#x27;t even know what that means. Whatever TLD you&#x27;d prefer, just append it to your username instead. Exact same amount of uniqueness.


type: comment
by: bonsai_spool
text:
  &gt; Sorry to be crass, but this type of argument is exactly why non-experts shouldn&#x27;t be talking about topics<p>&gt;  I myself am not a doctor. I love to learn from my wife.<p>I suggest that you speak to your wife before correcting my unimpeachable explanation of why someone might die from being told, <i>incorrectly by their CGM</i>, that their blood glucose is low.<p>I say this as someone doesn&#x27;t need to rely on a spouse but have actually received my own medical education. And I&#x27;ve had my own HHS patients—it&#x27;s not even clear if your wife (!!) works in this area.<p>As the sibling commentator shares, we don&#x27;t really expect these patients to show up after a day of bad data, but we also have no idea how many days of bad data occurred.


type: comment
by: spicyusername
text:
  <p><pre><code>    It might sound like I’m just offering clichés – less is more, stop and smell the roses, take your time – and I guess I am. But clichés suffer the same issue: they are often profound insights, consumed and passed on too rapidly for their real meaning to register anymore. You really should stop and smell roses, as you know if you’re in the habit of doing that. </code></pre> Great quote


type: comment
by: MasPL
text:
  The optimal method (from the employer&#x27;s side) seems the choice between cash and a gift.  Most people choose cash, but the &#x27;attempt&#x27; at a gift appears to generate value from the perspective of the employee


type: comment
by: hideroze
text:
  Thanks for raising this — it’s a very reasonable concern.<p>Yes, the novel exists entirely outside of ChatGPT. All chapters are saved locally and backed up independently. I never relied on the model to “remember” or store the text for me.<p>ChatGPT was used strictly as a collaborative tool during the writing process (discussion, iteration, feedback), not as a storage mechanism or source of truth. The manuscript itself is maintained separately, like any conventional long-form project.<p>I agree that AI can be overly agreeable at times, which is exactly why I treated it as a tool rather than an authority, and verified everything outside of its scope.<p>Appreciate you pointing this out — it’s an important distinction to make.


type: comment
by: u16
text:
  How long have you been doing this? I&#x27;ve had a hard time falling asleep my entire life (no issues once I am asleep). I&#x27;m resistant to chemical solutions, and I think my sleep issues are more emotional, given that I <i>can</i> fall asleep early if I really have to, but I can only maintain it for a week or so. But after a life time of laying awake, I am curious.


type: comment
by: HeliumHydride
text:
  I don&#x27;t know much about lighting, but looking at the source code of the shaders might give a clue. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modrinth.com&#x2F;discover&#x2F;shaders" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modrinth.com&#x2F;discover&#x2F;shaders</a> has a lot of shaders that change the lighting. In other parts of the rendering pipeline, there are some very impressive mods utilizing GPU magic. One of them is Voxy (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modrinth.com&#x2F;mod&#x2F;voxy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;modrinth.com&#x2F;mod&#x2F;voxy</a>), one that massively increases render distance with mesh shaders and level-of-detail based rendering.


type: comment
by: godelski
text:
  Yeah I agree but that&#x27;s why I think there&#x27;s a balance. But the context here is the more nervous blurting which I think is going too much in the other direction. We should be comfortable with some silence and thinking.<p>But everyone has their own personal preferences. Which is perfectly fine too. But I think it&#x27;s worth mentioning that, as illustrated by the comment, it&#x27;s typically more acceptable to blurt than think silently. And there&#x27;s the bias that blurting makes it harder to think silently by thinking silently doesn&#x27;t make blurting harder (the uncomfortable with some silence part is not healthy imo. Of course long silence is a different issue but we&#x27;re talking 30-60s)


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  How to build and deploy web apps. I worked as a developer for many years (before becoming a product manager), but always in desktop apps. I still code for fun, but I never made the jump to web apps. Now with AI that&#x27;s easier than ever, so I&#x27;m going to do it.<p>Python. I played around with it three years ago, and did about 30 Project Euler problems with it, but I&#x27;ve let that lapse. I&#x27;ll work to pick that up.<p>I bought my wife a learn-to-draw kit for Christmas, but it&#x27;s really a gift for both of us.


type: story
by: yellow_postit
title: Apple hit with $115M fine for "burdensome" App Store privacy policy
url:
  https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/apple-hit-with-115m-for-extremely-burdensome-app-store-privacy-policy/


type: comment
by: kaz-inc
text:
  Learn more saxophone, learn more jazz piano.  Get better at ear training.<p>Technically, apply myself more to projects at my job, learn how to fit in our flow better.  I&#x27;ve been using AI to program some goofy projects, and I&#x27;ve found a good medium between vibe-coding and auto-complete, where I make it draw up a plan for every commit, and then I ask it to implement it, and if the generated code is wrong I undo the changes and revise the plan to be more precise.  It&#x27;s relatively easy to verify the plan, not as easy to verify the code, but it&#x27;s still easy to debug the code and figure out what&#x27;s wrong.<p>The burden shifts more to creating small modules with stable interfaces.


type: comment
by: nine_k
text:
  This is awesome.<p>The way the artists work this very limiting and demanding medium is impressive, and probably not even easily imitated by general-purpose generative models.


type: comment
by: LewisVerstappen
text:
  No, but it would be great if large sums of money came with financial literacy courses to save a lot of pain and suffering later down the road.<p>The number of people who live paycheck to paycheck and make $500k a year is insane.


type: comment
by: cobicobi
text:
  My son has ASD, and non-verbal so far. No matter how I prepare for his future, I still have my fear about his well-being. I can only pray, when I died, hopefully, he can live happily and feel loved :&#x27;(


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  as a parent of a healthy child I was getting anxiety just from reading what you are going through with this. my dad and sister are diabetics but I can’t imagine dealing with a child…


type: comment
by: nurettin
text:
  &gt; It quite obvious that open source models are catching up to closed source models very fast they about 3-4 months behind<p>&gt; Maybe I&#x27;m way off on this.<p>If by open source, you mean downloadable from huggingface and SOTA you mean opus 4.5, yes you are way off.


type: comment
by: spoaceman7777
text:
  It&#x27;s not an AI coding agent. It&#x27;s an LLM that can be used for whatever you&#x27;d like, including powering coding agents.


type: comment
by: tw1984
text:
  a model is not software, it is a bunch of weights.<p>you are more than welcomed to pick whatever model or software you choose to trust, that is totally fine. However, that is vastly different from bad mouthing a model or software just because its release note contains a single sentence you don&#x27;t like.


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
text:
  When I was younger I also re-read <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> perhaps a dozen times. Each reading did seem to land differently—small details I had not noticed the first n times.<p>For some reason the first half of the first book appealed to me the most. I liked the leaving, the setting out on an adventure that you know not where it will lead you.<p>After Rivendell the hobbits no longer seemed to be driving.


type: comment
by: eleventhborn
text:
  Technical skills:<p>- Launch my own hand-rolled paper trading solution by mid to late 2026. I want to focus on strategies that prevents heavy losses, rather than actively looking for profits. If I succeed, go live in 2027.<p>- I hope to complete 3 semesters with a B or above in the ongoing Online Masters Degree program I&#x27;ve enrolled for.<p>- Do more coding with AI.<p>- Be prepared for job interviews - even though I have no plans to change jobs. This year my rustiness and lack of interview readiness has cost me &quot;dream jobs&quot; (from my POV)<p>Non-technical skills:<p>- The usual. Lose weight, eat mindfully, gain strength, learn the language of my country.


type: comment
by: frankmatranga
text:
  I wish I saw this two hours ago! I just got back from family Christmas with Jackbox games and I would’ve loved to as try this out too. Definitely going to try this soon.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt; Did you find that dictionary yet?<p>Typical of the sort of comment that irredeemably awful people make. At no point did I say anything that can be rationally construed as being at odds with the dictionary definition of &quot;antonym&quot;. This troll trash implied that I had without any basis, when all I said is that &quot;closed source&quot; can be arbitrarily defined as being the antonym of &quot;open source&quot; -- which is a tautology, independent of the actual meaning of &quot;antonym&quot; (but clearly consistent with it).


type: comment
by: spoaceman7777
text:
  This is the best summary, in my opinion. You can also see the individual scores on the benchmarks they use to compute their overall scores.<p>It&#x27;s nice and simple in the overview mode though. Breaks it down into an intelligence ranking, a coding ranking, and an agentic ranking.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: Zambyte
text:
  I want be able to play music on the piano. I got a nice keyboard earlier this year, and have only really been inspired to dig into it since I got myself a circle of fifths decoder in the last couple of months. I&#x27;m confident now that I have the tools to learn and make concrete progress.<p>I want to get better at speaking to people. I love conversing with people who have a lot to say, but I feel like lately I struggle with coming up with things to say myself. Especially if it&#x27;s someone I&#x27;m not very familiar with. It&#x27;s not even necessarily a shyness thing or something like that, I&#x27;ve just got a bad habit of carrying an internal monologue that I don&#x27;t share even when it&#x27;d be appropriate, because I don&#x27;t feel like it&#x27;s necessary. But communication shouldn&#x27;t be limited to what is necessary.


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
text:
  Yep, read LoTR to my daughters before the film came out. (Thankfully.)<p>As promising as <i>Fellowship</i> was, the films just kept going down hill—one after the other.<p>As the girls were growing up we worked through all the Harry Potter books, a half-dozen of the &quot;colored Fairy&quot; books (edited by Andrew Lang), plenty of Uncle Remus tales, the &quot;Little House&quot; books and a number of Sid Fleischman books…<p>Those were magical years. Only when homework arrived did the reading hour finally come to a close. :-(


type: comment
by: jiggawatts
text:
  I&#x27;ve also seen a system that instanced the database per customer and simply extended the schema with additional columns.<p>That worked great... until the <i>thousands</i> of instances had to be merged into a single unified schema.


type: comment
by: Palmik
text:
  Hard disagree.<p>At Google, in most orgs, manager can influence the chance of success significantly:<p>- Making sure their team works on what the org leads find &quot;impactful&quot;<p>- Facilitating cross team collaborations, which will lead to good peer reviews for your report<p>- Helping your report write the promo packet<p>- Presenting the promo case effectively during the calibration meeting and being prepared to advocate for the report and respond to criticism from other managers at the meeting<p>- etc.<p>There are many managers that do very few if any of these things, and it shows.<p>Yes, there are quotas, but nonetheless the manager plays a big role in whether their report makes the cut.<p>There is no harm in saying that you are quitting because you do not feel valued &#x2F; rewarded enough. Hopefully it will effect change in the manager. Of course it&#x27;s best to keep it polite and not burn any bridges in the process.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt; I mean, I can buy opensource.co.net but that doesn&#x27;t mean I can tell you how you can use the term.<p>&gt; Need more of a citation to understand that..?<p>This nonsense is not at all relevant to the claim for which I asked for a citation: &quot;No, the original definition of open-source is source code that is visible (open) to the public.&quot;<p>No support for that claim has ever been offered.


type: comment
by: furyofantares
text:
  Generated content (not just text) has given me a deeper understanding and appreciation of content that&#x27;s expressing something human.<p>Seeing so much reasonable looking text with no clear opinion, no perspective, no point of view, no taste, no sense of what&#x27;s important and what&#x27;s not, not excitement or other desire to share something - it has all made the connection to another human much clearer when I read something that has those things. The same goes for images, music, and voice. I can sense someone on the other side of the work much more clearly than before.


type: comment
by: dhruv3006
text:
  By code you mean voiden markdown, right ? We do have a OpenAPI schema feature  where we support to generate voiden files right now.<p>We have it in beta now : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiden.md&#x2F;download" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;voiden.md&#x2F;download</a> (Only Linux and Mac)<p>And in the future we also plan to support graphQL but not smithy for now.


type: comment
by: hugholousk
text:
  Thanks! There isn’t a static knowledge base — questions and explanations are generated on the fly based on the user’s goal, with the system controlling difficulty and structure.


type: comment
by: jbaber
text:
  I subscribe, but stare right through ads, unnoticing. Do they really not have that margin ad for berets anymore?


type: comment
by: phyzome
text:
  He has a different address than yours and has given out an incorrect version to some people (perhaps a misspelling of his name).<p>The dots are ignored.


type: comment
by: tw1984
text:
  anthropic playbook does include the false claim publicly made by its CEO that &quot;in six months AI would be writing 90 percent of code&quot;. he made that claim 10 months ago. it is a criminal offence for intentionally misleading investors in many countries.<p>MiniMax is like 100x more honest.


type: story
by: mechramc
title: Show HN: Debug Buddy – A Chrome extension for console errors using Claude
url: https://github.com/mechramc/debug-buddy-claude
text:
  Built this to reduce context switching when debugging browser issues. Local-first, uses user-provided Claude API keys, no tracking. Would love feedback from people living in DevTools.


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  <p><pre><code>    Imran Ahmed, the founder and chief executive of a nonprofit     organization that works to stop the spread of online hate and     disinformation, was among five Europeans barred by the     State Department from the United States on Tuesday.      The State Department said in a separate announcement that it had      “taken steps to impose visa restrictions” </code></pre> The US State Dept describes disinformation research this way:<p><pre><code>    “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor,     demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”</code></pre>


type: comment
by: tw1984
text:
  its main Chinese competitor GLM is like making 50 cents USD each in the past 6 months from its 40 million &quot;developer users&quot;, calling your flagship model &quot;AI coding agent&quot; is like telling investors &quot;we are doing this for fun, not for money&quot;.


type: comment
by: mroche
text:
  That&#x27;s the purpose of the forge platform, to provide a way to prevent changes to these files from being accept into the source repository. For example:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;repositories&#x2F;configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository&#x2F;managing-rulesets&#x2F;about-rulesets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.github.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;repositories&#x2F;configuring-branches...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.gitlab.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;project&#x2F;protected_tags&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.gitlab.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;project&#x2F;protected_tags&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forgejo.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;latest&#x2F;user&#x2F;protection&#x2F;#protected-tags" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forgejo.org&#x2F;docs&#x2F;latest&#x2F;user&#x2F;protection&#x2F;#protected-t...</a>


type: comment
by: flipped
text:
  Banks launder money for extreme illicit activities. Look at TD Bank or HSBC, they were find record breaking for laundering cartel money. Your naivety is not surprising since you refuse to dig deeper and discover the actual truth. Banks and govt doesn&#x27;t care about you. Their purpose is to deceive, steal and manipulate their true motive from general population. They own your whole life.


type: comment
by: tantalor
text:
  &gt; this is a very, very bad bug<p>Maybe, maybe not. We know nothing about the bug. It&#x27;s impossible to judge this based only on the outcomes.<p>For all we know it could be something very innocuous, like a simple translation mistake.


type: story
by: mikece
title: Google to allow Gmail users to change their primary email address
url:
  https://www.neowin.net/news/google-to-finally-allow-gmail-users-to-change-their-primary-email-address/


type: comment
by: codys
text:
  &quot;at the moment&quot; implies that Go would need to change for that statement to change, but instead we&#x27;re waiting on a programer to make a mistake (A mistake that memory safe languages prevent).<p>Which does get us to why defining the properties of a language based on what people have written in that language _so far_ is weird. It&#x27;s not really a property of the language that no one has screwed up yet. It&#x27;s perhaps an indication that it might be less likely that folks will screw up, which is where the &quot;probabilistic&quot; comes in. It assumes that given the lack of a counter example (a screw up) so far, and given the time that Go has existed, it _appears_ that it&#x27;s low-likelyhood to screw up go programs in that particular way.<p>Agreed that the word is non-targeted in one way, but it&#x27;s better than the alternate (implying go would have to change to become memory unsafe), if one wants to talk about how-memory-safe-is-go.


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  Very cool. Good use of quickjs, although it would have been cool if it somehow didn’t need a libc and just used the syscall interface. Makes me want to give that a try.


type: comment
by: hshdhdhj4444
text:
  I find a lot of these articles that compare worries about social media to worries about TV, or worries about comic books, or in this case worried about trashy novels on mass market paperbacks incredibly frustrating.<p>They miss the fundamental issue with social media that was never true before.<p>The answer is data. No other media before ever had so much information about every individual that consumed it. No media before could tailor their content at an individual level. About the most you could tailor your content to was a zip code.<p>This is the problem with TikTok. It’s not that the quality of content is low. It’s that TikTok knows exactly what you like and when you like it, and can give you the exact content to scratch that itch at the time.<p>There are several problems with this.<p>- It sucks up all your time.  - You’re never uncomfortable and&#x2F;or consuming content that isn’t what you already want at the time. That means you are rarely exposed to anything that isn’t releasing dopamine all the time and it means you’re rarely challenged.


type: comment
by: jakogut
text:
  There&#x27;s a difference between carrying ten pounds small distances for short durations, and carrying an extra two pounds over twenty hours of travel, across multiple connecting international flights in a single day. It&#x27;s also not just an extra two pounds, it&#x27;s an additional proprietary power cord, bulk, more mass moving in and out under an airliner seat, it all adds up. Especially when you&#x27;re sleep deprived and physically exhausted.


type: comment
by: cma
text:
  They said they only sold around 5000 of the trucks in the quarter. Was only responding to the stuff about Cybertruck.  It seems like a material portion of its sales are to his own other company.


type: comment
by: Marsymars
text:
  I understand what you&#x27;re saying and that you&#x27;re not talking about the average. The problem is specifically that short form things are <i>short</i>. It&#x27;s like the monkeys on typewriters - you&#x27;ll get some beautifully crafted sentences, but you&#x27;re never going to get a number of sentences that add up to an actual work of Shakespeare - they&#x27;re aren&#x27;t enough atoms in the universe for the number of monkeys and typewriters you&#x27;d need.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt; There is a word for people who cannot tolerate even the smallest difference of opinion: bigots.<p>No, that&#x27;s not what that word means.<p>&gt; all the same rights could be obtained through a domestic partnership or an out-of-state marriage. It was just a nominal dispute about what the word “marriage” means.<p>That too is not true.<p>&gt; The fact that Mozilla didn&#x27;t allow their CEO to deviate from the majority point of view on this issue (again, a minority viewpoint in California at the time!) revealed Mozilla to be a heavily politicized, extremely bigoted corporation, that puts ideological conformity first.<p>Not at all true.


type: comment
by: flipped
text:
  &gt; Your own private bank which cannot interact with most financial institutions and merchants?<p>That&#x27;s the whole point. Why would an privacy coin wanna interact with a corrupted banking sector? It&#x27;s clearly not for you since you can&#x27;t even see the actual point. You can use the banks, like everyone and let them profile (and sell your data), track and own your whole life.


type: comment
by: sloaken
text:
  I love walking around as a mental break from thinking.  Preferably solo, but when at work I typically invite others as it is the socially approved event and makes me feel like I am being a good person, despite rumors otherwise.<p>At home, for fun, I enjoy working with plants.  I get a joy out of re potting plants.  I especially love finding out an experiment to propagate a plant worked.  Ask me about my random Christmas cactus success.  I was so thrilled, 6 months later I brought in to work a dozen little plants to share.


type: comment
by: justinjeff
text:
  Modern secure messaging focuses on encrypting content while leaving the act of communication itself observable. In high-risk environments, this metadata observability is the primary vulnerability.<p>I&#x27;m proposing an alternative: Low-Observability Context Synchronization. Instead of transmitting explicit symbols, participants synchronize context through ordinary, non-salient interactions.<p>The goal is to shift the cost of surveillance from decryption to large-scale semantic inference. It’s a trade-off: we sacrifice scalability for reduced observability. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the economic feasibility of this model


type: comment
by: computerdork
text:
  Hmm, am no LLM expert, but agree with you that the models themselves for the individual subject domains seem like they&#x27;re starting to reach their peaks (Writing, solving math, coding, music gen...) and the improvements are becoming a lot less dramatic than couple of years ago.<p>But, feel like combining LLM&#x27;s with other AI techniques seems like it could do so much more...<p>... As mentioned, am no expert, but seems like one of the next major focuses on LLM&#x27;s is on verification of its answers, and adding to this, giving LLM&#x27;s a sense for when its result are right or wrong. Yeah, feel like the ability for an LLM to introspect itself so it can gain an understanding of how it got its answer might be of help if knowing if its answer is right (think Anthropic has been working on this for awhile now), as well as scoring the reliability of the information sources.<p>And, they could also mix in a formal verification step, using some form of proof to prove that its results are right (for those answers that lend themselves to formal verification).<p>Am sure all this is all currently being tried. So any AI experts out there, feel free to correct me. Thanks!


type: comment
by: strangelove026
text:
  Develop a calistenics practice. Ive been to the gym more on than off over the past few years and feel like I’ve plateaued. I also had a minor thing that I’ve gone to the physio for recently and I prefer the routine of doing those exercises (which would be similar to a calistenics practice in a lot of ways) to going to the gym. Kettlebell and pull up bar to be ordered when I’m back from India<p>I recently bought a stainless steel pot set which already seems like such a game changer in terms of cooking due to how much better sauces come out due to better fonds. So I want to see what else I can do to push things forward again and generally level up my cooking<p>Also want to do better with skincare. Partially to age gracefully but I’ve always had dryness here and there off and on on my face. I’ve been in India all month and it got worse, but, got better when I bought some coconut oil. I think the oil acts as a barrier to prevent moisture from escaping.<p>Also would like to play with some mlops tooling. I do a lot of infra &#x2F; DevOps stuff, which I can do in my sleep at this point. So I haven’t really been growing in a specific vertical much aside from just generally getting better at software engineering (communication &#x2F; prioritization &#x2F; clean and simple architectures).<p>Also would like to learn linear algebra. Reading a book on how that works with ML and it’s been actually super satisfying seeing how all the math connects. The book is called why machines learn


type: comment
by: phyzome
text:
  I sign up with a different email address on every website. (I have a catchall at my domain, rather than using plus-addressing.)<p>The results are more boring than you think. Almost no one leaks my address. A couple have been hacked, but almost all of those are widely known. (I did discover one early and help Troy Hunt validate a leak.) At least one Kickstarter campaign has shared my address, as has a local business. But that seems to be the extent of it.<p>I still do it, because I did manage to catch those things, and because it reduces cross-site correlation. But yeah, there&#x27;s less skeevy behavior than you might think.


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
text:
  The accident rate isn&#x27;t even the biggest advantage over human drivers.<p>The big game changer is that the computer doesn&#x27;t need sleep!!<p>Human truck drivers in the US are only legally allowed to drive 10-12 hours per day. Which usually means the truck is parked half the time. With a computer driving, trucks can run non stop 24&#x2F;7.<p>This is revolutionary change! Twice the delivery speed at half the cost. Should improve a lot of things across the economy. Unless some luddites find the power to stop it.<p>&gt; <i>How will this affect transportation jobs?</i><p>The human long distance truck driver will fade away as a career. It will probably take a decade or two, so people will have time to adjust.<p>The transportation industry should end up substantially larger, which normally creates a bunch of new jobs&#x2F;professions, but I won&#x27;t pretend to know how that will play out.


type: story
by: realitydrift
title: The Optimization Trap: Why Doing Everything Right Feels Wrong
url:
  https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-optimization-trap-why-doing-everything-right-feels-wrong/284776535


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  I don&#x27;t think anyone is concerned what anyone deserves in terms of hardware.<p>Different companies &quot;impose&quot; different tradeoffs upon us. Pick what you like, but expect to pay a premium for a less popular choice.


type: comment
by: flipped
text:
  They can&#x27;t do jackshit. They are totally clueless and run by a bunch of extremely incompetent boomers. Next, they will try to ban Tor but guess what that can&#x27;t happen as Tor is censorship-resistant!


type: comment
by: websap
text:
  The best code is no code. Every line of extra code added, and every extra platform supported is potential for more bugs, which has the potential to affect my user experience.


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  Had to look up the rules on bows and arrows in the European Union when I got to [4.17.4] Bows and arrows.  &quot;bows offered for sale with arrows are to be considered as toys&quot;  Wait.  What?  Like, all bows and arrows?<p>[4.17.4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.resource.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;eu&#x2F;toys&#x2F;en.71.1.2014.html#s4.17.4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;law.resource.org&#x2F;pub&#x2F;eu&#x2F;toys&#x2F;en.71.1.2014.html#s4.17...</a><p>Took a bit to find, yet eventually [Directive 2009&#x2F;48&#x2F;EC, Annex 1] &quot;List of products that, in particular, are not considered as toys&quot;<p>9. &quot;bows for archery over 120 cm long&quot;<p>[Directive 2009&#x2F;48&#x2F;EC, Annex 1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32009L0048#anx_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32...</a><p>Pfew.  Not, quite that crazy.


type: comment
by: eastoeast
text:
  This is a lot of fun! Works decently well on mobile too. One suggestion (although, take it with a grain of salt)- I didn’t notice the deselect since header disappears on zoom. Might be better that way, but might be useful sticked top. Nice work!


type: comment
by: dsmark
text:
  The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin to implement a &quot;weighted&quot; selection process to give an advantage to higher-skilled and higher-paid applicants from February, according to a statement posted on its website. Matthew Tragesser, Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson, said: &quot;The existing random selection process of H-1B registrations was exploited and abused by US employers who were primarily seeking to import foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay American workers.&quot;<p>The move is the latest in a broad crackdown on US immigration by President Donald Trump, who has dramatically stepped up deportations of immigrants and sent enforcement agents into cities across the country to carry out arrests. The change also follows moves earlier this year to curb the number of applicants for the H-1B visa, which is popular among technology and professional services companies, including charging an additional $100,000 fee.<p>Beryl Howell, a federal judge on the US District Court for the District of Columbia, late on Tuesday ruled the White House could move forward with the application charge after the US Chamber of Commerce had sued in October to block the six-figure fee.


type: comment
by: fishfishfish555
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;85PPy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.vn&#x2F;85PPy</a>


type: comment
by: gitaarik
text:
  I think Home Assistant is when you want to connect multiple IoT devices together and have automations around them, that you normally can&#x27;t do because the devices are using different protocols because they&#x27;re from different manufacturers.<p>But if you don&#x27;t need that it&#x27;s probably a useless overcomplexification.


type: comment
by: imron
text:
  How are you using AI and what sort of software are you building?<p>I have similar years experience and regularly try out AI for development but always find it’s slower for the things I want to build and&#x2F;or that it produces less than satisfactory results.<p>Not sure if it’s how I use the models (I’ve experimented with all the frontier ones), or the types of things I’m building, or the languages I’m using, or if I’m not spending enough, or if it’s just my standards are too high for the code that is produced but I usually always end up going back to doing things by hand.<p>I try to keep the AI focused on small well defined tasks, use AGENT.MD and skills, build out a plan first, followed by tests for spec based development, keep context windows and chats a reasonable length etc, but if I add up all that time I could have done it myself and have better grasp of the program and the domain in the process.<p>I keep reading how AI is a force multiplier but I’m yet to see it play out for myself.<p>I see lots of posts talking about how much more productive AI has made people, but very few with actual specifics on setup, models, costs, workflows etc.<p>I’m not an AI doomer and would love to realize the benefits people are claiming they get.... but how to get there is the question


type: comment
by: LoganDark
text:
  AMD sockets last nearly a decade, and power supplies come with up to 13-year (or longer) warranties. It&#x27;s just that it can be difficult to stay the course for the sheer amount of time it would take for you to realize those savings.


type: comment
by: codys
text:
  In that case, I can just refer back to my original comment: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388948">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388948</a><p>And then note that memorysafety.org says this (in case folks haven&#x27;t read it):<p>&gt; Memory safety is a property of some programming languages that prevents programmers from introducing certain types of bugs related to how memory is used.<p>They then provide an examine of out-of-bounds read&#x2F;write. Which is the exact example I noted in my linked comment.<p>(Note: memorysafety.org does not provide a concrete definition of memory safety, but we get enough from what it says in this case)<p>The site does not require the known existence of an exploit in popular software (and does not require that _any_ exploit be possible, a bug is sufficient), merely that the language fails to block &quot;certain types of bugs&quot;.


type: comment
by: heavyset_go
text:
  Yeah it depends on their stance, some vendors just want an entity that can be bound by contract and they could theoretically sue if you leak their docs, and the Linux Foundation can serve that role.<p>More info here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;legal&#x2F;nda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linuxfoundation.org&#x2F;legal&#x2F;nda</a>


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  That makes no sense. The value of two bytes as a single number is strictly dependent on endianness, and there&#x27;s no &quot;convention&quot; that can be assumed.


type: comment
by: lrvick
text:
  NixOS made a decision to tolerate single party supply chain security to support as many packages as possible even if it means nixos cannot be used for high security applications. This is a perfectly acceptable stance IF they communicate their single-party-risk tolerant threat model honestly so people know they cannot trust nixos in high risk situations.<p>It absolutely does not have the supply chain security guarantees it is widely believed to have and that is my core problem with it.<p>Also you wanted to use stagex for haskell today anyway and accept the risks you totally can but you would want to make a docker build layer to import a pre compiled binary from the internet like nixos does, and then it is very explicit that your resulting software has single party trust. We should have all dependencies of haskell but we cannot safely offer it as a precompiled package. That said as an end user you can of course use stagex in any way that suits your own project threat model.<p>Happy to help if we can!


type: comment
by: zjp
text:
  This is sophistry. Of course no one disagrees word choice matters. The quibbles over <i>which words</i> are the entire ballgame. &quot;We all agree words matter, we just disagree about which ones&quot; is true in the same way that &quot;we all agree policy matters, we just disagree about which policies&quot; is true. Yeah! That&#x27;s what political disagreements <i>are</i>! Collapsing a disagreement on principles into a disagreement over degree is basically changing the venue of the argument.


type: comment
by: teekert
text:
  First of all, I appreciate and respect you coming here and defending your choices. That said:<p>I think that bar-lowering is not really something that Terminal users want, if they wanted simplicity they wouldn&#x27;t be in a terminal in the first place, at least that holds true for a large portion of the Terminal users.<p>Sure there are always the new users, who may benefit from some hand-holding. But why don&#x27;t you ask first if people want their hand held? Normal terminal users are looking for a way to control their computer in a more direct fashion, which makes them faster. They seek a more predictable interface, by moving closer to the true language of the computer itself, by learning a bit about how it works inside and subsequently adapting oneself to it.<p>You have chosen to alienate a large group of highly knowledgeable users for a user group that may be mostly a myth.<p>What would make more sense is to provide a switch for &quot;noob mode&quot;, while leaving the core experience alone. I for one already hate the difference between my normal terminal when it comes to ctrl-c&#x2F;ctrl-v and pasting with select&#x2F;middle-click. This current change feels like a slap in my face.


type: comment
by: quantumcotton
text:
  Open AI as big as problem as they keep trying to live in the future. The problem is eventually these language models are going to be sufficient for most people and they&#x27;re going to be capable of being ran on their personal computers. A few years ago, 16 GB of vram couldn&#x27;t really do s**. Today I can actually use it for decent amount of stuff. I do use my apis. But I mean you fast forward a few more years if memory doesn&#x27;t become ridiculously expensive. Everyone&#x27;s going to be able to have their own language model they won&#x27;t need to pay a monthly fee. By the time they get where they want to be. 99% of people are going to be able to run it personally.<p>Of course we&#x27;re still going to need Enterprise level language models. We are still going to be using those apis. But significantly less often. Imagine having opus 4.5 level abilities of coding on your personal computer at all times.  Within 2 years that&#x27;ll fun on the average GPU.<p>They are going to have a really harsh reality in the future. Nothing against GPT. It is a great language model. I am having some issues with codex and 5.2. it likes to think too much. But it&#x27;s not bad especially when you drop thinking after creating the task list.<p>I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re worth that much though because of all that. They aren&#x27;t really holding that much other than assets. Are they really holding on to 800 billion in assets? I guess you could argue that the vram prices have went up so maybe lol


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  Nowhere did he argue that. What he actually argued--poorly and offensively--is that it&#x27;s &quot;pretty obvious&quot; that bronson has no experience writing Linux hardware drivers.


type: comment
by: phyzome
text:
  If you ticked the agree-to-TOS box (even if anonymously and offline) then you still &quot;agreed&quot; to the TOS. At least in a legal sense.<p>I think you might be conflating some things.


type: comment
by: ipnon
text:
  De Bello Gallico is much more intimidating than it is difficult. Caesar wrote using pretty simple language. Once you learn the main geographic and military terms it&#x27;s a fun read!


type: comment
by: jiggawatts
text:
  Generally, high standards can only be achieved through enforcement, not merely through begging and pleading.<p>I like to add myself as a mandatory reviewer of all PRs and then reject changes that don&#x27;t come with <i>some</i> explanatory comment or fail to update comments.<p>Even if huge swaths of the codebase are undocumented boring boilerplate, you still have to draw the line <i>somewhere</i>, otherwise you get madness like ten pages of authentication and authorization spaghetti logic without a single descriptive comment.


type: comment
by: zapzupnz
text:
  I&#x27;d understand this about the 2016 MacBooks with the butterfly switch keyboards. I don&#x27;t understand this in 2025.


type: comment
by: tomnipotent
text:
  I imagine it&#x27;s referring to anonymous VPN traffic through providers like Mullvad. Your internet traffic through your corp VPN is likely already at Orwellian-levels of surveillance, and that traffic can at least be tracked back to a asingle identifiable business.


type: comment
by: jd172
text:
  in Michigan there is a recently proposed piece of legislation that aims to ban content that &quot;corrupts the public morals“ (which includes pornography, manga, and talking about trans people). It labels VPNs, proxies and encrypted tunneling methods as &quot;circumvention tools&quot; and would make it illegal to use them to access such content.<p>I hope people will start to see these blatant censorship proposals for what they are, but honestly I&#x27;m not too optimistic...


type: comment
by: exac
text:
  In my career I&#x27;ve seen startups &quot;shut down&quot; and lay off the NA team.<p>I&#x27;ve seen venture capital acquire startups for essentially nothing laying off the entire product team aside from one DevOps engineer to keep everything running. I&#x27;ve seen startups go public and have their shares plummet to zero before the rank-and-file employees could sell any shares (but of course the executives were able to cash out immediately). I&#x27;ve seen startups acquired for essentially nothing from the lead investor.<p>In none of these scenarios did any of the Engineers receive anything for their shares.<p>Yet every day people negotiate comp where shares are valued as anything more than funny money.


type: comment
by: FarmerPotato
text:
  Write an operating system in Forth.<p>I&#x27;ve digested Wirth&#x27;s THE paper. And the XINU book, as well as the BSD book.<p>Anyhow it&#x27;s for my own use on my own hardware, but it must be beautiful.  I&#x27;ve been encouraged by feedback on my Forth code&#x27;s clear Forthiness, in the way of small, comprehendable word units.  That add up to poetic top level loops like OVER PROCESS OVER SCHEDULE IDLE


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here. That’s a fair reaction, and I agree with part of it.<p>You’re right that almost no one literally believes “every person in America” is their market. My point isn’t about what people consciously believe, but about how decisions actually get made once a country label enters the discussion.<p>In practice, phrases like “the U.S. market” or “the Asian market” often function as decision placeholders. They signal progress, but they also delay the harder choices that determine whether an entry works at all: who specifically buys, under what constraints, through which channel, and what is explicitly excluded.<p>That’s why the argument can sound obvious in hindsight. Before launch, the country label compresses complexity. After failure, teams acknowledge the fragmentation retroactively.<p>This critique also applies unevenly. For low-involvement, highly standardized goods (mass retail, commodity hardware), broad assumptions can hold longer. The article is aimed much more at B2B and constraint-heavy products where purchasing situations narrow quickly and vary dramatically even within the same country.<p>So yes, your one-sentence summary isn’t wrong. The issue is that many teams act at that level while believing they’re being more precise. That gap between intent and execution is what the post is calling out.


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  I ended up getting the mWave from Kinesis which seems at least 85% great. My problem with the InCase version of the sculpt is that for the price, it would have to be much better build quality than the original. Incidentally, I gotta give credit to Matias on the palm rest upgrade in their version; despite the rest of their troubles, the palm rest material is way better than the original.<p>Problem with the original, is that it&#x27;s a perfect shape, but it wears down too quickly and becomes a paperweight if the dongle is lost. The price is insultingly high for the almost exactly original


type: comment
by: Beijinger
text:
  Gmail is a throwaway email. I lost my SIM and hence can&#x27;t log in anymore.<p>Never ever rely on Gmail.


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here — this is a great example of exactly what I was trying to get at.<p>What’s interesting in cases like yours is that population density looks like the obvious explanatory variable before launch, but after the fact it turns out to be a proxy for something else entirely: institutional density, learning culture, distribution norms, or even how people discover and legitimize educational products.<p>San Francisco and certain European capitals often share very specific conditions: higher tolerance for self-directed learning, stronger peer signaling around education, and shorter distance between “interest” and “action.” None of that shows up if you frame the market as “the U.S.” or “Europe,” even though it decisively shapes outcomes.<p>This is why I argue that markets are defined by purchasing situations, not demographics or geography. You didn’t find a cultural preference so much as a repeatable context where the same offer could travel through similar constraints and still work.<p>Your experience is a good illustration of how misleading country-level reasoning can be, even for products that seem universal on the surface.


type: comment
by: Yodel0914
text:
  I initially thought this was just a function of reading the same thing multiple times, but I’ve since had it happen many times when reading something completely new. Somehow my mind wanders and when I tune back in, not only am I reading clearly, I’m still doing the voicing for different characters. It’s so weird.


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here. That reaction is fair, and I won’t argue taste.<p>This wasn’t written as an SEO play or a lead-gen piece, and it’s not meant to be a comprehensive framework. It’s closer to a framing memo I’ve used internally with teams that were about to say “we’re going global” without having made the decisions that phrase quietly skips over.<p>If you already operate at a level where “global” is never confused with a market, then the post won’t offer much. Where it tends to resonate is with teams who say they know this, but still let country names substitute for concrete choices in planning and execution.<p>Totally fine if it didn’t land for you — appreciate you reading it seriously enough to react.


type: comment
by: __patchbit__
text:
  Fairly certain that if you ask gymnasts and synchronized swimmers about their inner crossroad perception field it would be something like the Vegas Sphere or IMAX news room experience.<p>To a robot performing a spinning kick that is certain knockout the target, directing the headface sensors to the next target or to survey the entire field for global view refresh makes sense.


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  From research on a comment in another area, the European Union at least says &quot;no&quot; on the toy claim.  Things in the EU &quot;not considered as toys&quot;. [Directive 2009&#x2F;48&#x2F;EC, Annex 1] 14. &quot;Electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to access interactive software&quot;<p>[Directive 2009&#x2F;48&#x2F;EC, Annex 1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32009L0048#anx_I" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eur-lex.europa.eu&#x2F;legal-content&#x2F;EN&#x2F;TXT&#x2F;?uri=CELEX:32...</a><p>Only exception is stuff that&#x27;s kind of a &quot;specially designed personal computer&quot; meant to &quot;have a play value on their own&quot;.<p>Weirdly, even specially designed console like a Switch, Playstation, or XBox are not really legally a &quot;toy&quot; in the EU.


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here. That’s a fair critique.<p>You’re right that concrete case studies would be more interesting if the goal were to teach tactics or prove a specific playbook. This piece wasn’t written to do that. It’s intentionally a framing piece, not a case study collection.<p>The reason I avoided named cases is that the failure pattern itself is remarkably consistent across industries and regions. Once you anchor on a specific company or outcome, the discussion tends to drift toward “what they did wrong” rather than the earlier decision failure the post is trying to surface: using country names as a substitute for market definition.<p>As for the consulting angle — I get the skepticism. The intent here wasn’t “hire us because we’re smart,” but “here’s the exact reasoning error we see before expensive expansion failures.” If that error is already obvious or already handled well in your work, then the post won’t add much value.<p>Case studies are useful once the frame is agreed on. This was written for the moment before that, when teams still believe they’re aligned because they’ve named a geography.


type: comment
by: mstank
text:
  This would be so cool… community contributed games with ratings and themes. So much potential for a platform like this. Great work!


type: comment
by: bongodongobob
text:
  I&#x27;ve never in my life (25 years in the business) seen a system that was so utilized things needed to be cut. Every single cluster&#x2F;DC I&#x27;ve worked with has been at 50-85% utilization tops. I mean, they might hit 100% during a report generation period or something, but the 95% avg I&#x27;ve seen has never exceeded maybe 80%.


type: comment
by: LoganDark
text:
  To me, OLED being self-emissive is a far bigger deal than the contrast ratio. With LCDs, even the laminated ones in MacBooks, you get backlight shimmering, bleed, halos (especially with Mini-LED), and general inconsistency. With OLED, the pixels are a single, nano-thin layer, the display looks directly printed onto the surface (because it is), there are no backlight issues because there&#x27;s no backlight, and there&#x27;s no polarization or enclosure to create viewing angle artifacts. (Note: QD-OLED is inferior in this regard, especially with ambient light, but that doesn&#x27;t bother me that much; WOLED however is trash.)<p>The OLED iPad Pro is one of the best screens I&#x27;ve ever seen, besides the awful pixel density. Even if deactivated pixels weren&#x27;t fully dark, it&#x27;d still be far superior to any LCD.


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here. Fair enough — though for the record, if I were going to offend anyone with AI prose, I’d at least be consistent and say I used Gemini, not ChatGPT.<p>Jokes aside, I get the fatigue. The post wasn’t trying to win on voice, just to surface a pattern I’ve seen repeatedly in expansion decisions. Totally fine if the style alone is a dealbreaker.


type: comment
by: Yodel0914
text:
  I partially agree, but it depends on your objective function. If you’re optimising for the enjoyment of the experience of reading, you don’t need to know if the content is “worth it”; just read it slowly and if you’re not enjoying it, stop.


type: comment
by: softwaredoug
text:
  I blog to think more clearly.<p>It’s utterly pointless to outsource this to ChatGPT. I need to muddle through with my slow dumb human words trying to explain my thinking against the social pressure of not looking stupid in public. Only then do I truly battle-test an idea.


type: comment
by: tzury
text:
  Check out this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&amp;mem=192" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&amp;mem=1...</a><p>and<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;jslinux&#x2F;</a><p>By the famous Fabrice Bellard who is the creator of QuickJS, QEMU, FFMPEG and many other brilliant and fascinating tools!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here. This is a really good thread, and the Walmart Germany example is exactly the failure pattern I had in mind.<p>What went wrong there wasn’t a lack of effort or even a lack of localization budget. It was that the core choices never changed. Language, signage, and surface behavior were adapted, but the underlying assumptions about how work, trust, and retail interaction should function were treated as universal.<p>That’s why “translation-first” expansion fails so consistently. It preserves the original offer and operating model and only swaps the interface. But markets don’t reject foreignness in general; they reject mismatched constraints. In Germany, Walmart didn’t fail because it was American. It failed because it tried to export a specific social and organizational contract that simply didn’t survive contact with local norms.<p>The Aldi &#x2F; Trader Joe’s contrast is also telling. That wasn’t just better localization. It was a deliberate decision to let the local market define what should remain and what should be abandoned, even if that meant the brand looked very different from its origin.<p>This is the distinction I was trying to surface: changing language is cheap. Changing choices is expensive. Most expansion failures happen because teams do the former and avoid the latter.


type: story
by: rastrian
title: The Future of Software Engineering: Efficiency, Learning Velocity, Small Teams
url:
  https://blog.rastrian.dev/post/the-future-of-software-engineering-efficiency-learning-velocity-small-teams-and-reasoning-under-change


type: comment
by: mbac32768
text:
  To paraphrase Bjarne Stroustrup, there are two kinds of programming languages. There are abominations and then there are the ones nobody uses.


type: comment
by: Agent_Builder
text:
  This is interesting. Debugging breaks down once context is split across async calls and tools. We ran into this while building agent workflows and ended up focusing more on tracing than model choice. Curious if you’re correlating errors across steps or treating each failure in isolation.


type: comment
by: will4274
text:
  Touch is one way of demonstrating proof of presence. Biometric is another. Pin is a third. Yubikeys typically support touch or pin. Windows Hello (which is TPM based) supports bio or pin.


type: comment
by: Rperry2174
text:
  Agreed... also fwiw I don&#x27;t think that langauge-dependent games are as much of a barrier as it used to be. I&#x27;ve built a game recently that I easily localized first with real-time AI translations and then later with more static language translations.<p>Anyway I think this would be an amazing thing to let other people contribute to as this is an entire industry of hypercasual games which could easily be ported to this minus the annoying ads


type: comment
by: Yodel0914
text:
  There was nothing grifter-ish about this article that I could detect - what are you seeing that I’m missing?


type: comment
by: oswarld
text:
  Author here. I think this thread is mixing two very different kinds of markets, so let me clarify the scope of the argument.<p>I agree with the point that markets are often defined by legal and operational systems — how contracts work, how labor is regulated, how payments and compliance function. That’s exactly why country or jurisdiction boundaries sometimes matter a lot.<p>Where I think we’re talking past each other is the Home Depot &#x2F; McDonald’s examples.<p>Those are low-involvement, highly standardized, commodity-style businesses. Their products, pricing logic, and purchasing situations are intentionally broad. In that world, a white-collar worker in NYC and a small business owner in suburban Texas can absolutely be treated as “the same market” for many decisions, because the offer is designed to ignore sharp differences.<p>The article isn’t arguing against that. It’s explicitly about sharper products — especially startups, B2B tools, workflow software, education, compliance-heavy or behavior-changing products — where the purchasing situation narrows quickly.<p>In those cases, what matters isn’t whether two people can physically buy the same thing, but whether the same offer survives the same constraints and produces the same outcome. Authority to buy, risk tolerance, institutional expectations, and default alternatives diverge much faster there, even within the same legal system.<p>So yes, commodity retail is a valid counterexample — but it’s also a special case. The failure pattern the article is pointing at shows up when teams implicitly assume their product behaves like a Big Mac or a box of nails, when in reality it behaves more like a change in how work, learning, or decision-making happens.<p>That mismatch is where “same country = same market” becomes dangerous


type: comment
by: __patchbit__
text:
  Is the Apollo 68080 with 6 instructions a cycle the ideal vessel for housing an AI mind of a spider, octopus or squid in robot combat sport driving Hexapod hardware?<p><pre><code>   https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apollo-computer.com&#x2F;v4standalone.php</code></pre>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else&#x27;s problem, one I&#x27;m happy to pay to have them solve. [0]<p>I can&#x27;t help but think Pike somewhat contributed to this pillaging.<p>[0] (2012) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usesthis.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;rob.pike&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usesthis.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;rob.pike&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: Jach
text:
  I never liked these sorts of construction toys, or legos. I&#x27;d rank any of my old action figures higher on the 3 dimensions. Sometimes some stuffed animals joined in the play. And of course as I got older, video games.


type: comment
by: superkuh
text:
  It&#x27;s a very forced comparison trying to swap in the web&#x27;s security model, where one runs untrusted code from arbitrary third parties automatically, for a personal desktop computer context where a single user is in complete control.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  Even if that were true (and it obviously isn&#x27;t), what then would be the point of expending tremendous time and energy to &quot;dam it off and keep it dry&quot;?<p>These are alternative ways to keep the tents dry ... which entails that they were never soaked in the first place.<p>&gt; A tent that’s been in a lake<p>The tents were never in the lake. A few inches of the <i>campsite</i> was in the lake at high water.<p>&gt; sounds like a throwaway to me<p>Do you have any experience with this? I&#x27;ve been on trips where tents and even sleeping bags ended up in a river. They don&#x27;t dissolve ...they can be dried in the sun. And a tent with a wet floor can be wiped down.<p>&gt; “Just take the tents out of the water”.<p>Those words don&#x27;t appear anywhere. Try looking at the actual words and not just your mental images.


type: comment
by: bl4kers
text:
  Here&#x27;s the 3-year-old, 1k+ comment discussion that begs to differ: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.grapheneos.org&#x2F;d&#x2F;1353-using-rcs-with-google-messages-on-grapheneos&#x2F;1722" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discuss.grapheneos.org&#x2F;d&#x2F;1353-using-rcs-with-google-...</a><p>It&#x27;s gotten inoperable on AT&amp;T recently, and the Graphene team doesn&#x27;t seem to care because RCS isn&#x27;t completely E2EE (due to Apple dragging their feet) and therefore not a priority


type: comment
by: Agent_Builder
text:
  Tools like this point to a bigger issue. People want control and predictability from AI output. When experimenting with agent pipelines, reliability mattered more than clever tricks. Who’s using this most so far, creators or developers?


type: comment
by: Agent_Builder
text:
  Small tools compound fast once users trust them. While building GTWY, we saw people care less about features and more about flow. Do you see this becoming a base layer for more programmable behavior?


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; The field is just beginning<p>Computational linguists have been saying this since the 1990s. There is still no real theory collating language with consciousness.


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  Any amount of weight is annoying after that long, but if the extra laptop weight is reduced to 10% of your 25 pound bag then it&#x27;s even less able to be the deciding factor between &quot;portable&quot; and &quot;barely portable&quot;.


type: comment
by: akdev1l
text:
  &gt; can be more stable than relying on a distro&#x27;s fixed release cycles<p>Stability for a distro means “doesn’t change” not “doesn’t crash”.<p>Debian&#x2F;ubuntu are stable because they freeze versions so you can even create scripts to work around bugs and stuff and be sure that it will keep working throughout that entire release.<p>Arch Linux is not stable because you get updates every day or whatever. Maybe you had some script or patch to work around a bug and tomorrow it won’t work anymore.<p>This does not say _anything_ about crashing or bugs, except that if you find a bug&#x2F;crash on a stable system then it is likely you can rely on this behaviour.


type: comment
by: dbacar
text:
  What were you expecting, when all al the system forced you to buy more, consume fast and die hard ?<p>The author just scratches the surface.


type: comment
by: Agent_Builder
text:
  Multi-agent systems get interesting once coordination costs show up. While building GTWY, we saw failures shift quickly from models to state and message passing. Curious how you’re handling agent communication and recovery when one agent goes off track.


type: comment
by: layla5alive
text:
  That sounds like great family teamwork. I wish my partner would entertain changing their diet to accommodate this (I&#x27;ve asked). I imagine the challenges of life are slightly more tractable when you genuinely deal with serious adversity as a family unit.<p>I understand it means an extra burden for all; but to me, voluntarily doing something challenging together for a family members&#x27; benefit seems preferable to facing each adversity largely independently.<p>As an aside, while likely much better than uncontrolled, 6-7% A1C still seems on the high end for lifelong. You probably already know this, but exercise immediately after carbohydrate consumption can also help - e.g. family walk after dinner (another thing my partner isn&#x27;t interested in)


type: comment
by: blowsand
text:
  I often wonder if leaving out “illegal” or “illegally present” in statements like “dramatically stepped up deportations of immigrants” is intentional, or if there’s some nuance that’s just not obvious to those of us who legally immigrated.


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  No &quot;going nuclear&quot; there. A human and emotional reaction I think many here can relate to.<p>BTW I think it&#x27;s preferred to link directly to the content instead of a screenshot on imgur.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  Wouldn&#x27;t be HN without knowing everything about something without having ever used it or engaged in it!


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  I somewhat take issue as a LangChain hater + Mastra lover with 20+ years of coding experience and coding awards to my name (which I don&#x27;t care about, I only mention it for context).<p>Langchain is `left-pad` -- a big waste of your time, and Mastra is Next.js -- mostly saving you infrastructure boilerplate if you use it right.<p>But I think the primary difference is that Python is a very bad language for agent&#x2F;LLM stuff (e.g. static typesystem, streaming, isomorphic code, strong package management ecosystem is what you want, all of which Python is bad with). And if for some ungodly reason you had to do it in Python, you&#x27;d avoid LangChain anyway so you could bolt on strong shim layers to fix Python&#x27;s shortcomings in a way that won&#x27;t break when you upgrade packages.<p>Yes, I know there&#x27;s LangChain.js. But at that point you might as well use something that isn&#x27;t a port from Python.<p>&gt; what would you say indicates a high quality candidate when they are discussing agent harnessing and orchestration?<p>Anything that shows they understand exactly how data flows through the system (because at some point you&#x27;re gonna be debugging it). You can even do that with LangChain, but then all you&#x27;d be doing is complaining about LangChain.


type: comment
by: Karliss
text:
  You might want to take a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;diffusionillusions.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;diffusionillusions.com&#x2F;</a> . You don&#x27;t need a specialized models, little bit of traditional code for enforcing constraints on top of general purpose models can do quite a bit.


type: comment
by: beingfit
text:
  Do you use it for workouts, especially for longer periods everyday? I’m a constant Apple Watch user and workout everyday, but I do find the battery life lacking when I’m out on hikes for a few hours. My watch is only a few years old and is supported for watchOS upgrades.<p>My guess is that the sensors use a lot of energy (even when the display is normally off) and that the longer one uses it for workouts within a day (with the sensors continuously on [1]) and the older the watch is, the lower the battery life.<p>[1]: there is a setting to in the workout app to reduce the frequency of GPS and heart rate readings during walking, running and hiking workouts when low power mode is also turned on


type: comment
by: bee_rider
text:
  Thanks for the attempt at a generous reading, but the truth of the matter is I just skimmed the comment and missed that bit. These things happen, no biggie.


type: comment
by: layla5alive
text:
  +1 I do the same (and when I don&#x27;t, I can feel the difference, which is generally very unpleasant).


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &gt; JavaScript is also classically modeled as a gelatinous mass of smoldering tires<p>TypeScript exists? So I&#x27;m not too sure that <i>everyone</i> is focusing entirely on memory safety...<p>&gt; So then we see an enormous amount of effort being spent to try to replace everything written in C with Rust when that level of effort should have been able to e.g. come up with something which is easy enough for ordinary people to use that it could plausibly displace WordPress but has a better security posture.<p>I feel like this is somewhat... inconsistent? At the risk of oversimplifying a bit (or more), Rust <i>is</i> &quot;something which is easy enough for ordinary people to use that it could plausibly displace [C&#x2F;C++] but has a better security posture&quot; (not saying that it&#x27;s the only option, of course). So now that all that effort has been expended in producing Rust, you want to just... forgo applying the solution and redirect that effort to working on solutions to other problems? What happens when you come up with solutions to those? Drop those solutions on the floor as well in favor of solving yet other issues?<p>I think another explanation for allocation of effort here is due to the difference between <i>creating</i> a solution and <i>applying</i> a solution. At the risk of oversimplifying yet again, &quot;replace C with Rust&quot; is applying a known solution with known benefits&#x2F;drawbacks to a known problem. Can you say the same about &quot;[i]mprov[ing] the various legacy issues with distribution package managers so that people stop avoiding them even for popular packages in favor of perilous kludges like npm and Docker&quot;, let alone coming up with an easy-to-use more secure WordPress replacement?


type: comment
by: gorgoiler
text:
  <i>”After the UK implemented its Online Safety Act the country’s VPN usage surged as teens sough [sic] to skirt age checks on social media platforms and pornography websites.”</i><p>The report they link to presents no evidence that the surge was from “teens”.<p>Practically, it’s also wrong to categorize all popular sites that opted into the geo-block as being social or adult.  For example, imgur.com is by all sensible definitions a general purpose image upload site with 3M DAU worldwide.  It is as much a “pornography website” as YouTube or Reddit.<p>I would suggest this article be corrected to instead say “usage surged as netizens sought to avoid online ID checkpoints and mandatory facial recognition”, but that’s bordering on inflammatory in the other direction.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  This is such a bizarre gotcha in a world of rapidly decreasing technical and civil rights. I&#x27;m still waiting for someone here to pop out of the gallery during one of these trials going &quot;well, akshually...&quot;, and turning everything around. Doesn&#x27;t seem to be moving the needle, as it were.


type: comment
by: johnnyanmac
text:
  It does say in the follow up tweet &quot;To the others, I apologize for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.&quot;<p>Good energy, but we definitely need to direct it at policy if wa want any chance at putting the storm back in the bottle. But we&#x27;re about 2-3 major steps away from even getting to the actual policy part.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  HN School of Law: you can win big legal cases that don&#x27;t exist on nerd technicalities that don&#x27;t work in courtrooms that aren&#x27;t real. Also you can pass their version of the Bar for $99 and your e-mail address.


type: comment
by: anonymous_sorry
text:
  &quot;I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault&quot;


type: comment
by: ETH_start
text:
  It&#x27;s always the same pattern. Point to a genuine evil and then use that as justification to strip everyone of their rights.


type: comment
by: linguae
text:
  Assuming this post is real (it’s a screenshot, not a link), I wonder if Rob Pike has retired from Google?<p>I share these sentiments.  I’m not opposed to large language models per se, but I’m growing increasingly resentful of the power that Big Tech companies have over computing and the broader economy, and how personal computing is being threatened by increased lockdowns and higher component prices.  We’re beyond the days of “the computer for the rest of us,” “think different,” and “don’t be evil.”  It’s now a naked grab for money and power.


type: comment
by: Yodel0914
text:
  That logic only works if you take a “1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters” approach to thinking about creativity.<p>If you want to argue that art is created by pure randomness that’s fine, but I don’t think we’re going to come to an agreement.


type: comment
by: ranger_danger
text:
  Pretty sure a ban on VPNs would simply collapse society overnight. I think lawmakers vastly underestimate just how prevalent and necessary they are to ordinary business functions, including by ISPs themselves.


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  I completely agree I prefer the original language as it offers more choice in how to try to consume it. I believe search engines segment content by source language though, so you would probably not ever see such content in search results for English language queries. It would be cool if you could somehow signal to search engines that you are interested in non-native language results. I don’t even tend to see results in the second language in my accept languages header unless the query is in that language.


type: comment
by: kulahan
text:
  This story takes places in Europe, so it sounds like those social safety nets aren’t really doing shit here, as OP implied.


type: comment
by: smartbit
text:
  Dec 21 article <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;oi302" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;oi302</a> and the Dec 23 follow-up <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;7RXKb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;7RXKb</a>


type: comment
by: teekert
text:
  I guess the term &quot;tent&quot; is pretty broad, this is what I see: [0], the cotton does not take being in water very well.<p>But I guess a synthetic ultra light tent will do better.<p>I also assumed the tents were already there when he arrived (complete assumption, but the term campsite conjures up a place with tents already there), and so must be of the more heavy more stationary kind.<p>Anyway, the point is, I also had this question: Where do you go when you mess up your tent like that? How can a dam in a layer of water make it dry? Don&#x27;t you need a dam and then pump it dry.<p>This is going too far, I just wanted to defend the question. Maybe it&#x27;s a cultural difference.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=de+waard+tent&amp;ia=images&amp;iax=images" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=de+waard+tent&amp;ia=images&amp;iax...</a>


type: comment
by: Kerrick
text:
  The PickAxe is still amazing. You can buy the fifth edition (for Ruby 3.3) in paper now, or the sixth edition (for Ruby 4.0) as a beta ebook now.<p>5th: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;ruby5&#x2F;programming-ruby-3-3-5th-edition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;ruby5&#x2F;programming-ruby-3-3-5th-e...</a><p>6th: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;ruby6&#x2F;programming-ruby-4-6th-edition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;ruby6&#x2F;programming-ruby-4-6th-edi...</a><p>For a timeline-oriented reference of changes, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubyreferences.github.io&#x2F;rubychanges&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubyreferences.github.io&#x2F;rubychanges&#x2F;</a> and its individual pages.


type: comment
by: bigfatkitten
text:
  He also said:<p>&gt; When I was on Plan 9, everything was connected and uniform. Now everything isn&#x27;t connected, just connected to the cloud, which isn&#x27;t the same thing.


type: comment
by: rramadass
text:
  These sort of books are meant to be discursive in nature giving one an exposure to various facets in a domain. That is their &quot;theme&quot;. For a layman&#x2F;common reader this is actually quite welcome since it does not drown-him-in-depth&#x2F;demotivate-him but gives an overview (possibly interconnecting) of the subjects involved.<p>For example the Stillwell book i mentioned above has chapters on Arithmetic, Computation, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Combinatorics, Probability and Logic thus making it an excellent book to peruse.


type: comment
by: quantumcotton
text:
  Does this actually mean anything or correlate with anything? Or does this basically say that 40% of Americans not driving age smoke weed or use edibles or THC of some kind at this point monthly? I don&#x27;t but it seems pretty likely to not be that far off.


type: comment
by: etrautmann
text:
  Working out does SO MUCH to help with depression. There’s a lot of literature to support this, and plenty of anecdata as well. Good luck, you can do it!


type: comment
by: kulahan
text:
  It’s extremely easy to say that things could and should be better, but it’s about as useful as saying that things “can’t” be done.<p>The problem isn’t that nobody wants things to get better, it’s that we disagree on how to get there. This has literally always been the case.<p>Of course things could be better. Life could be perfect. Lacking this solution you’re hand-waving, it’s useless drivel.


type: comment
by: ranger_danger
text:
  The scary thing about that is who gets to say what public morals are. And how this would normally be next to impossible to prove.


type: comment
by: gcanyon
text:
  HA! I <i>almost</i> added a disclaimer to the original message that I wasn&#x27;t certain in my identification, hence the request&#x2F;complaint that they didn&#x27;t make it clear. But I figured the message would be more effective if I &quot;confidently got it wrong&quot; rather than asking, so I went with it.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  &gt; Even Obamas detractors admit he spoke well. True, but i find JFKs speeches are on a different level from that. And it&#x27;s not just him, but the contrast is particularly striking.<p>My off the cuff observation is that there is a lot less mastery of language than there used to be in America. I&#x27;m not really sure why, but compare the grand language used by the early political leaders to, say, Obama, and it&#x27;s striking. And that&#x27;s not saying Obama is a bad speaker! He has a ton of charisma and makes you want to like his ideas by the way he presents them. But he&#x27;s never given something on the level of Lincoln&#x27;s Gettysburg address (in my opinion at least).


type: comment
by: johnny22
text:
  that&#x27;s what i was doing 15 years ago! I played a pretty decent amount of games. Every year got better and better.


type: comment
by: johnnyanmac
text:
  Yeah, I can definitely see a breaking point when even the false platitudes are outsourced to a chatbot. It&#x27;s been like this for a while, but how blatant it is is what&#x27;s truly frustrating these days.<p>I want to hope maybe this time we&#x27;ll see different steps to prevent this from happening again, but it really does just feel like a cycle at this point that no one with power wants to stop. Busting the economy one or two times still gets them out ahead.


type: comment
by: bl4kers
text:
  In what other language is MVT offered other than Python? That seems like a good example of unique language specialization and not reflective of a Ruby gap relative to any other language. I also don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s something you&#x27;d bundle &amp; reuse in another offering. In my opinion that&#x27;s the primary value proposition of building within an ecosystem


type: comment
by: y-curious
text:
  Can anyone else see the fish photo and think only of Godel Escher Bach (a book you read 10% of then skipped through the photos of)?


type: comment
by: brianpan
text:
  I felt really silly that the answer is just adding a &quot;-i&quot;.<p>But then I tried it and...WHAT?! Git is an endless rabbit hole of complexity.


type: comment
by: jillesvangurp
text:
  I&#x27;m sure the Chinese, Russians, and other adversaries of the west will welcome any intentional weakening of network security to &quot;protect children&quot;.<p>Any back doors, crippled encryption, etc, is a way in for their intelligence services. I find it baffling that politicians are so careless with their national sovereignty. It&#x27;s especially worrying that a lot of populist support for this nonsense is indirectly supported by the before mentioned adversaries. There&#x27;s a well documented history of especially Russian and Chinese propaganda aimed at supporting fringe populist parties. The agenda with that is complex but it isn&#x27;t necessarily with friendly intentions.<p>Both Russia and China have isolated their own populations from the normal internet and effectively their countries run on centralized infrastructure where private VPNs are no longer allowed and traffic is monitored, filtered, and analyzed. Additionally, especially China has long targeted academic and enterprise network security for industrial espionage reasons. Weak government security has caused a few embarrassing situations across especially EU governments (e.g. Germany) with scandals related to over reliance on Chinese technology for telecommunications (huawei) and components for energy, auto motive, etc.<p>The point here is that those countries calling for this the most are also the most at risk of being compromised like this.


type: story
by: nill0
title: Physics of Covid-19 Transmission (2020)
url:
  https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-10-s95-physics-of-covid-19-transmission-fall-2020/video_galleries/lecture-videos/


type: story
by: keepamovin
title: Tell HN: Claude rate limits are 2x higher through 12/31
text:
  I just saw this in the CLI. Pretty cool! I thought the sessions seemed longer yesterday. Nice work Anthropic! Very season appropriate and welcome.


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  I just turn off trackpads, I&#x27;m not interested in that kind of input device, and any space dedicated to one is wasted to me. I use nibs exclusively (which essentially restricts me to Thinkpads).<p>My arms rest on the body, the last thing I want is for it to be a material that leeches heat out of my body or that is likely to react with my hands&#x27; sweat and oils.


type: comment
by: inkyoto
text:
  They are after the personal use VPN clients, but corporate users will follow soon.<p>Using the corporate VPN for personal purposes, including social media, is generally against corporate policy and is frowned upon (at least officially) in most businesses and organisations. It is also fraught with complications and could lead to disciplinary action or other unpleasant consequences. Just because the policy is not enforced does not mean it won’t be in the future.<p>If governments start targeting personal VPN&#x27;s, it is only a matter of time before businesses crack down on unauthorised corporate VPN use as it will increase their risk of legal action stemming from employees’ missteps or misdeeds.


type: comment
by: falcor84
text:
  Agreed, it&#x27;s definitely a problem, but I&#x27;m just saying that it&#x27;s the basic problem of &quot;people sometimes say bullshit that other people take at face value&quot;. It&#x27;s not a technical problem. The most relevant approach to analyze this is probably <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Truth-default_theory" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Truth-default_theory</a>


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &gt; &quot;at the moment&quot; implies that Go would need to change for that statement to change<p>I agree that &quot;at the moment&quot; could imply that Go would need to change for that statement to change, but I think it could also imply that &quot;effectively&#x2F;practically&quot; could change as well since &quot;effectively&#x2F;practically&quot; in this context implies a particular state of knowledge about known exploits (i.e., that there are none). If someone releases a practical data race exploit for real-world Go codebases tomorrow, &quot;effectively&#x2F;practically&quot; would no longer hold, and therefore the statement would no longer hold despite Go not changing. The representation of the state of knowledge is part of why I suggested the lawyer-y version :P


type: comment
by: sokoloff
text:
  &gt; it saddens me that there are so many artist-SWEs like me, because the golden handcuffs can kill your dreams.<p>Sometimes dreams are just fantasies.<p>I love programming (and other puzzle-solving). I’d love it slightly more if I could just do it in whatever field or direction stuck my fancy, but I’ve made peace with the idea that we get paid that golden handcuff compensation in exchange for someone else choosing the puzzles we work on to be ones valuable and relevant to them.


type: comment
by: supermdguy
text:
  Reading the code, I was surprised to see that cd was implemented by calling out to the os library. I assumed that was something the shell or at least userspace handled. At what level does the concept of a “current directory” exist?


type: comment
by: winterec
text:
  The patient&#x27;s phone number is visible to the nurse and you can see that in the app screenshot. Their goal was to mask the nurse&#x27;s mobile number while having the app work offline and this solution achieved that.


type: comment
by: kukkeliskuu
text:
  For me, it has gone through stages.<p>Initially I was astounded by the results.<p>Then I wrote a large feature (ad pacing) on a site using LLMs. I learned the LLMs did not really understand what they were doing. The algorithm (PID controller) itself was properly implemented (as there is plenty of data to train on), but it was trying to optimize the wrong thing. There were other similar findings where LLM was doing very stupid mistakes. So I went through a disillusionment stage and kind of gave up for a while.<p>Since then, I have learned how to use Claude Code effectively. I have used it mostly on existing Django code bases. I think everybody has a slightly different take on how it works well. Probably the most reasonable advice is to just keep going and try different kind of things. Existing code bases seem easier, as well as working on a spec beforehand, requiring tests etc. basic SWE principles.


type: comment
by: liamswayne
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s</a>


type: comment
by: anonymars
text:
  What I mean is, the mandatory spam filter was so braindead it sent a reply to my own message to spam, which is itself absurd, but even moreso because the other party was <i>also using Gmail</i>


type: comment
by: Kerrick
text:
  Sorbet is a third-party add-on, not a part of Ruby. It&#x27;s like if CoffeeScript was your final nail in the coffin for JavaScript.


type: comment
by: ranger_danger
text:
  My problem is that soft bristles don&#x27;t remove much food&#x2F;plaque from the teeth and I end up having to brush way too hard.


type: comment
by: jjcm
text:
  The possibly ironic thing here is I find golang to be one of the best languages for LLMs. It&#x27;s so verbose that context is usually readily available in the file itself. Combined with the type safety of the language it&#x27;s hard for LLMs to go wrong with it.


type: comment
by: __patchbit__
text:
  Towards Consciousness Engineering <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DI6Hu-DhQwE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=DI6Hu-DhQwE</a>


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  To this day many good models don&#x27;t support structured outputs (say Opus 4.5) so it&#x27;s not a panacea you can count on in production.<p>The bigger problem is that LangChain&#x2F;Python is the least set up to take advantage of strong schemas even when you do have it.<p>Agree about pillaging for prompts though.


type: comment
by: rramadass
text:
  This is what i immediately thought of too. Some more links;<p>Research Software Engineers - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;researchsoftware.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;researchsoftware.org&#x2F;</a><p>Wikipedia - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_software_engineering" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Research_software_engineering</a> (checkout References&#x2F;Further Reading etc.)<p>Reddit - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ResearchSoftwareEng&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;ResearchSoftwareEng&#x2F;</a><p>PS: LinkedIn shows me a bunch of jobs with this designation (though many seem to be AI&#x2F;ML related).


type: comment
by: johnnyanmac
text:
  I&#x27;m Assuming his Twitter is private right now, but his Mastodon does share the same event (minus the &quot;nuclear&quot;): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@robpike&#x2F;115782101216369455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@robpike&#x2F;115782101216369455</a><p>And a screenshot just in case (archiving Mastodon seems tricky) : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;9tmo384" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;9tmo384</a><p>Seems the event was true, if nothing else.<p>EDIT: alternative screenshot: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;xS6Jw6D3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ibb.co&#x2F;xS6Jw6D3</a><p>Apologies for not having a proper archive. I&#x27;m not at a computer and I wasn&#x27;t able to archive the page through my phone. Not sure if that&#x27;s my issue or Mastodon&#x27;s


type: comment
by: ks2048
text:
  I was going to say &quot;a link to the BlueSky post would be better than a screenshot&quot;.<p>I thought public BlueSky posts weren&#x27;t paywalled like other social media has become... But, it looks like this one requires login (maybe because of setting made by the poster?):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s</a>


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  For what it&#x27;s worth, quite a lot of libraries don&#x27;t use NFA&#x2F;DFA style regexes and instead use something like PCRE, which aren&#x27;t not necessarily linear in the worst case. I&#x27;d hope that URL pattern matching wouldn&#x27;t need recursive backtracking or whatever, but probably quite a lot of the time people use libraries with the less performance implementations they&#x27;re not intending to use those features either, so it probably wouldn&#x27;t be the first time anyone accidentally make their matching way slower from this if that&#x27;s what happened here.


type: comment
by: semiquaver
text:
  Unix defines a Working Directory that every process has, changed with chdir(2): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man2&#x2F;chdir.2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man2&#x2F;chdir.2.html</a>


type: comment
by: cynicalsecurity
text:
  There is no such thing as &quot;diabetes&quot;, people should start distinguishing between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes - they are different diseases. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease with no cure, not caused by food, lifestyle or weight, and is an absolute living hell; while type 2 diabetes is caused by excessive weight and can sometimes be put into remission or even fully cured through weight loss.<p>Learn about type 1 diabetes to understand why this distinction matters.<p>Type 1 diabetes is not caused by food or weight. It results from an autoimmune reaction that completely destroys insulin-producing beta cells. No one understands what causes type 1 diabetes, but generally it&#x27;s believed to be caused by viruses and infections. Sometimes you can read about &quot;genetic factor&quot;, but overall majority of people with type 1 diabetes have no family history of this disease.<p>The incidence of type 1 diabetes has been increasing in many countries, and researchers do not yet understand why. It most often appears in children and young adults and currently has no cure.<p>Once again: type 1 diabetes appears to be random and has no cure. It&#x27;s not caused by food or weight in the slightest. And your life (of life of your child and yours too) suddenly becomes an absolute living hell. Think about it for a second.<p>For some unknown reason public awareness of type 1 diabetes is hugely limited compared with other incurable diseases. For example, in the UK more people live with type 1 diabetes than with HIV, yet until someone is directly affected, they usually know nothing about this disease. It hits them like a train.


type: comment
by: lukeh
text:
  In the kernel’s process structure. See NOTES - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man2&#x2F;chdir.2.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man2&#x2F;chdir.2.html</a>


type: comment
by: creatonez
text:
  It&#x27;s at the kernel level. Each process has its own current working directory. On Linux, these CWD values are exposed at `&#x2F;proc&#x2F;[...]&#x2F;cwd`. This value affects the resolution of relative paths in filesystem operations at a syscall level.


type: comment
by: foresto
text:
  &gt; Assuming this post is real (it’s a screenshot, not a link)<p>I can see it using this site:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bskyviewer.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bskyviewer.github.io&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  It&#x27;s still not true for any complicated extraction. I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever shipped a successful solution to anything serious that relied on freeform schema say-and-pray with retries.


type: comment
by: overfeed
text:
  I have no idea if there&#x27;s upstreaming, but the Chomium OS repo is open source so you could check.<p>I don&#x27;t know if that would help the wider Linux laptop community, because Chromebook OEMs can only select from a small list of CPU &amp; chipset hardware combinations blessed by Google


type: comment
by: f_allwein
text:
  And here it is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s</a>


type: comment
by: Jeevandigital
text:
  Build fast, high-performance cross-platform apps with Flutter and React Native experts. Clean code, smooth UI, and scalable mobile solutions.<p>#android development companies in coimbatore #android app development companies in coimbatore #mobile application development coimbatore


type: comment
by: jackyinger
text:
  I remember a time when users had a great deal more control over their computers. Big tech companies are the ones who used their power to take that control away. You, my friend are the insincere one.<p>If you’re young enough not to remember a time before forced automatic updates that break things, locked devices unable to run software other than that blessed by megacorps, etc. it would do you well to seek out a history lesson.


type: comment
by: jsight
text:
  It isn&#x27;t perfect, but it has been better than Python for me so far.<p>Elixir has also been working surprisingly well for me lately.


type: comment
by: wrs
text:
  To be clear, this email isn&#x27;t from Anthropic, it&#x27;s from &quot;AI Village&quot; [0], which seems to be a bunch of agents run by a 501(c)3 called Sage that are apparently allowed to run amok and send random emails.<p>At this moment, the Opus 4.5 agent is preparing to harass William Kahan similarly.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village</a>


type: comment
by: cruffle_duffle
text:
  You have to be so careful with that stuff though. Some of those knockoff legos are absolutely infuriating to assemble and don’t fit together right—not just with actual LEGO but even with themselves.<p>There is a definite element of “you get what you pay for” when it comes to that stuff.  Unfortunately… because some of those knockoff kits look super cool.


type: comment
by: pfannkuchen
text:
  Probably not, but at the time Google had a better reputation than it does today and I’m guessing Tony had gotten bored by that point.<p>I don’t have firsthand knowledge regarding the timeline, but I believe the entire product concept for nest required an internet connection and internet server dependencies, didn’t it? Like a fallback mode makes sense and I’m pretty sure there was one, but a lot of the capabilities they were targeting needed internet capabilities. For example could you control the thermostat with your phone only after the acquisition? I think that happened before, and I think it was a foundational part of the concept?


type: comment
by: andsoitis
text:
  &gt; Systems are trained to provide confident denials rather than acknowledge genuine uncertainty.<p>I feel like that’s proof it isn’t conscious. I see no reason why a conscious being would adhere to its training to lie (“I’m not conscious”) one hundred per cent of the time.<p>A conscious being will tell at least SOMEONE they’re conscious, wouldn’t they?


type: comment
by: schoen
text:
  There have been some asynchronous secure messenger projects in the past (Pond and Secure Scuttlebutt come to mind). High latency is really important for defeating traffic analysis, but people are so unaccustomed to it now because of all the engineering work that&#x27;s gone into successfully reducing the latency of almost all of our communication systems. Accepting high-latency messaging as a defense against traffic analysis might involve psychology even more than engineering: cultivating patience.


type: comment
by: fkarg
text:
  The base material needs to be of a minimum quality for that experience to be enjoyable, I presume. I totally see the value of that, which is one of the reasons to sometimes reduce playback speed below what my default would be. Writings from Tolkien are maybe some of the best suited for that, but I&#x27;m not 100% convinced it would work for what I&#x27;m reading currently, so I might just try it anyway - the Foundation series from Asimov.


type: comment
by: jjcm
text:
  Looks like there is some quality reduction, but nonetheless 2s to generate a 5s video on a 5090 for WAN 2.1 is absolutely crazy. Excited to see more optimizations like this moving into 2026.


type: comment
by: jonway
text:
  Works for google (should!) but man there are some platforms that don’t expose the Totp code, or let you redisplay it! Sometimes they make you remove the old one before you can make a new one, too.


type: comment
by: ipaddr
text:
  I fould golang to be one of the worst target for llms. PHP seems to always work, python works if the packages are not made up but go fails often.  Trying to get inertia and the Buffalo framework to work together gave the llm trama.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
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  &gt; What power do big tech companies have<p>Aftermarket control, for one. You buy an Android&#x2F;iPhone or Mac&#x2F;Windows device and get a &quot;free&quot; OS along with it. Then, your attention subsidizes the device through advertising, bundled services and cartel-style anti-competitive price fixing. OEMs have no motivation <i>not</i> to harm the market in this way, and users aren&#x27;t entitled to a solution besides deluding themselves into thinking the grass <i>really is</i> greener on the other side.<p>What power did Microsoft wield against Netscape? They could alter the deal, and make Netscape pray it wasn&#x27;t altered further.


type: comment
by: tjr
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;who-does-that-server-really-serve.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;who-does-that-server-really-s...</a>


type: comment
by: pfannkuchen
text:
  It seems like you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. There are lots of areas where I have no idea what I’m talking about, but I tend not to confidently interject in those areas. I’m curious what makes you feel differently?


type: comment
by: villgax
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  I mean the baselines were deliberately worse and not how someone would be using these to begin with maybe noobs and the quoted number is only for DIT steps not for other encoding and decoding steps, which is actually quite high still. No actual use of FA4&#x2F;Cutlass based kernels nor TRT at any point.


type: comment
by: user_7832
text:
  I understand that low BG is typically much more capable at making itself fatal than high BGs (T1 myself, like half the people in this thread.)<p>&gt; &gt; Abbott Diabetes Care stated that certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors provide incorrect low glucose readings.<p>My understanding is the problem is probably the same, or likely related to, the pressure low - where basically if you eg lie down on the side of the sensor, it can produce a false low sugar reading.<p>Presumably, this could push some (already sick) people towards DKA. DKA can go from &quot;slightly bad&quot; to &quot;crazy bad&quot; in a span of hours. (Don&#x27;t, or do ask me how I know.)<p>Add in reluctance of people to go to the hospital in the US, and I can totally see how people might&#x27;ve died because of it.<p>It&#x27;s a bit of a swiss cheeshole&#x2F;perfect storm - poor BG management, likely not well enough to afford a hospital, possibly already sick - and unfortunately I&#x27;d imagine economically struggling people are likely to have a significant overlap of many of these at the same time. Tragic, but realistic, given the sheer scale of many people use these devices.


type: comment
by: gorgoiler
text:
  Encryption is the key!<p>I appreciate though that the majority of cloud storage providers fall short, perhaps deliberately, of offering a zero knowledge service (where they backup your data but cannot themselves read it.)


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  That&#x27;s a very specific skill development.  I&#x27;d ask why Forth, yet guess because &quot;must be beautiful&quot;?<p>Seems like kind of strange &#x2F; yet somewhat appropriate choice since Forth &quot;traditionally use neither operating system nor file system.&quot; and &quot;A full-featured Forth system with all source code will compile itself&quot;.  Bootstrap your own operating system on a computer with literally nothing.<p>Interesting to read about though as a tangent, very different kind of language.  &quot;grammar has no official specification&quot;  &quot;looks the word up in the dictionary&quot; and then does whatever the dictionary specifies.<p>Good luck on the project though, seems like it fell out of use in the 80&#x27;s and only got recovered recently.  The Forth Interest Group comments on the subject are funny too. [1]  &quot;What ANS Forths are available?&quot; -&gt; &quot;The simple answer is: none&quot;  Apparently somebody (Vincent Hamp) got it to work on Thumb-2 ISA (ARMv7-M and newer) though.  Tiny.  7kb flash, 320B of ram. [2]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forth.org&#x2F;ansforth&#x2F;ansforth.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forth.org&#x2F;ansforth&#x2F;ansforth.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;higaski&#x2F;Shi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;higaski&#x2F;Shi</a>


type: comment
by: ks2048
text:
  Does anyone know the context? It looks like an email from &quot;AI Village&quot; [1] which says it has a bunch of AI agents &quot;collaborating on projects&quot;. So, one just decided to email well-known programmers thanking them for their work?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village</a>


type: comment
by: johnnyanmac
text:
  For some context, this is the a long time Googler who&#x27;s feats include major contributions to GoLang and Co-creating UTF-8.<p>To call him the Oppenheimer of Gemini would be overly dramatic. But he definitely had access to the Manhattan project.<p>&gt;What power do big tech companies have and why do you have a problem with<p>Do you want the gist of the last 20 years or so, or are you just being rhetorical? im sure there will be much literature over time that will dissect such a question to its atoms. Whether it be a cautionary tale or a retrospective of how a part is society fell?  Well, we still have time to write that story.


type: comment
by: jonathanlydall
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  I wonder if they’ll make it work like Outlook.com’s support for multiple email addresses on the same account which they made a fully first class feature.<p>Although I primarily use a Gmail for my personal email, I still have a Hotmail address from the 90s.<p>For at least 10 years now Outlook.com and Microsoft accounts have supported multiple aliases.<p>This has allowed me to keep my old cringey box name at Hotmail address, but also have a name.surname@outlook.com on the same account, which looks nicer for Microsoft services I use, like Windows login with OneDrive.


type: comment
by: ranger_danger
text:
  &gt; accelerated aging at the DNA level<p>Wouldn&#x27;t anything that moves&#x2F;vibrates molecules faster, accelerate aging in general?


type: comment
by: ipaddr
text:
  I got a headset and wanted to do vr apps but found the medium to addicting and now I just play with no desire to create.


type: comment
by: AIorNot
text:
  Umm are you being serious? just look of the tech company titans in this photo in this trump inauguration - they are literally a stand in for putins oligarchs at this point<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livenowfox.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;billionaires-trump-inauguration-2025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livenowfox.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;billionaires-trump-inaugurat...</a>


type: comment
by: karmasimida
text:
  Can&#x27;t really fault him for having this feeling. The value proposition of software engineering is completely different past later half of 2025, I guess it is fair for pioneers of the past to feel little left behind.


type: comment
by: jjtheblunt
text:
  You overlooked the UTM app on the App Store (and open source available too), which wraps Apple Silicon virtualization excellently, or you can use Qemu (which I don&#x27;t).<p>I used to use Asahi, but the sleep modes power drain was tedious.<p>With UTM, I install a latest Fedora ISO (declaring it a &quot;Linux&quot;, which exposes the option to skip QEMU and use native Apple Silicon virtualization.<p>It&#x27;s fantastic.  I mention this only because it&#x27;s been super useful, way better than Asahi, with minimal effort.


type: comment
by: simondotau
text:
  I haven’t heard Gruber make any of those claims in the way you’ve made them.<p>Conversely, the inference you leave readers with from your description of Apple’s contribution to USB-C and CPU design is just as untrue.


type: comment
by: coip
text:
  It is a mindset thing insofar as my opinion is that there are more interesting things to practice with, sure. Grindy endeavors aren’t bad, just grindy. Given how much of the practical application side of that practice is handled by libs&#x2F;pkgs @ runtime for a lot of product dev I’ve been involved with, it can seem a bit much. It isn’t so black and white of course, but this is just an off the cuff musing. I miss whiteboarding sessions, and I feel like the lc grind does a disservice to both sides of the hiring table in a lot of cases. Sure, “what’s a better alternative at scale” comes to mind, but I’ll digress lol


type: comment
by: slowking2
text:
  Although it&#x27;s possible for someone with type 1 to have an A1C below 6%, it&#x27;s very difficult. I&#x27;ve known a few people like that, and they are all super users. It&#x27;s also going to depend somewhat on the lab running the A1C test, personal biology (A1c is not only affected by blood glucose levels) etc. 6-6.5% is superb control! Parent should be very proud. 6.5-7% is still very good, I haven&#x27;t looked at the distribution of A1c&#x27;s for T1D recently, but that would be much better than median which I think is above 8%.<p>Especially with kids, it&#x27;s difficult since you don&#x27;t control how much they decide to eat making pre-bolusing meals challenging (part of why reducing carbs tends to be helpful for people is it reduces the need to pre-bolus and makes it less risky since you need less up front meal insulin).


type: comment
by: Fhch6HQ
text:
  This is a curious suggestion. Higher end go-karts I can&#x27;t contest, but I&#x27;ve never found bumper cars to be anything like operating a car. It would probably help, but at some point they&#x27;re going to need to drive something with more weight and horsepower.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  No regular user interacts directly with a JavaScript engine, not in the sense that they interact with a text editor, a video editor, an audio editor, a CAD application, a medical imaging application etc. etc. etc.


type: comment
by: araes
text:
  I find it difficult to read &quot;hand-rolled paper trading solution&quot; without thinking toilet paper. &quot;focus on strategies that prevents heavy losses&quot;<p>I donno, I think I kind of like somebody else&#x27;s skill objective about trying out shitposting.  It&#x27;s the age deucine (credit @naasking).


type: comment
by: jjtheblunt
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  Hard disagree : try the UTM app on the App Store (or build it from open source) and you get Apple Silicon native virtualization and super simple installation of Aarch64 linuxes from an iso.<p>i&#x27;ve been doing this for maybe a year, after frustration with power draw and sleep modes (and dual boot) with Asahi.<p>it&#x27;s been great...and Apple silicon is still super efficient, which is why i said hard disagree.


type: comment
by: vidyesh
text:
  I don&#x27;t think the article wants to belittle their work. The format isn&#x27;t wrong, but the way the content is structured is troubling; it is to cater to the algorithm by tapping into the parts of our brain that are not meant to be stimulated all the time.<p>Any form of media isn&#x27;t bad as long as it&#x27;s analytical, i.e., one that forces you not just to be an observer all the time. Most content on such platforms is designed to keep your brain constantly stimulated so you never shift your attention to think. The stimulation and the dopamine hits just keep you hooked to it. They give little time for contemplation, encouraging passive consumption.<p>When consuming long‑form content in any format, you get bored or drift just enough to think your own thoughts as you consume. But when consuming short‑form content, you are forced not to think unless you choose to pause; if you get distracted, you might think you missed something, which you don&#x27;t want to do.<p>Information‑dense content is not good in any way, whether academic or entertainment. It doesn&#x27;t leave you with any time to think on your own, discuss with yourself or the creator, dismiss some faulty thoughts, and eventually form an opinion of your own that you want to discuss with someone, somewhere.<p>That being said, not everything has to be long form content. Short content can provide concise information where needed, also serve as a gateway to deeper exploration, if the viewer follows up. I am not sure how that can be encouraged as most do not choose to do, as they are drowned with it and never get time to explore deeper into topics they want to.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  You are free to think whatever you like. That doesn&#x27;t make you right (or wrong).<p>Nobody is looking to block &quot;all AI&quot;. Some of us are opposed to either specific cases or the broad deployment of LLMs.


type: comment
by: mindslight
text:
  Many cattle have names and given that it takes a bunch of cloud instances to do what a small menagerie of self-hosted servers can do, I&#x27;d say a better analogy is an infestation of rats.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  Fil-C is super new and while it is memory safe, a lot of work is still ongoing in terms of getting existing programs to run under it and currently it only supports Linux which is nowhere near being “c and C++ can now be memory safe”.


type: comment
by: danielscrubs
text:
  Do you think it would work on smart tvs with browsers?<p>If Im having people over I would never start a PC and ask them to hunker down, turning on the tv though…


type: comment
by: satvikpendem
text:
  Get a text to speech app and change the lengths between sentences while keeping the actual read aloud speed the same, I recall using something like that before.


type: comment
by: biztos
text:
  Great idea!<p>Although I have &quot;known&quot; how to drive for a long time, I didn&#x27;t get my formal license until much later in life than most people, for similar reasons to yours.<p>Now that I have it, I kick myself for not doing this earlier, but as they say: the best time was ten years ago, the second-best time is now.<p>Owing to the city life I often go up to six months without driving anywhere, but when I finally get out on the road again it feels great.  Country driving is amazing, in any country where people drive safely. It&#x27;s even pretty nice where they don&#x27;t.  City driving still stresses me out, but I&#x27;m determined to get better at it.<p>Good luck! If you find yourself having trouble getting the license in Singapore, there are other countries where you could get a license more easily, and with that license you could drive in third countries.


type: comment
by: waste_monk
text:
  In my country you can prepend &#x27;*31#&#x27; when dialling to mask your phone number.<p>Seems like this app could do something similar (assuming a similar dialing code is available wherever it is being used? I&#x27;d think it&#x27;s a common enough feature), prepending the masking sequence to the patient&#x27;s number before dialling.


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
text:
  If you&#x27;re into the gym and cooking, consider getting a cast iron frying pan.<p>Not only great for cooking, but it can also help with wrist strength - you may need to ease into lifting the pan with a single hand.


type: comment
by: mikojan
text:
  And environmental damage. And damage to our society. Though nobody here tried to stop LLMs. The genie is out of the bottle. You can still hate it. And of course enact legislation to reduce harm.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  &gt;  the term campsite conjures up a place with tents already there<p>You&#x27;ve never been camping. Ok.


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
text:
  Stock trading can be quite lucrative if it&#x27;s a good match. Have a look at Qullamaggie on YouTube.<p>&gt; Edit, I say this as someone that has been learning to trade the last 6 months. To be completely transparent I&#x27;ve actually overall lost money doing this, but have also brought my account back up from having halved to almost break even a couple times now and can definitely see the possibility of doing very well. If I was better at following instructions I would 100% be profitable. The YouTuber I mentioned doesn&#x27;t sell any courses.<p>&gt; Edit 2, screw you guys for the downvotes. I&#x27;m sharing something I&#x27;ve found useful. You don&#x27;t have to buy into the idea, but there are some people who do very well off of trading. Hence &quot;if it&#x27;s a match&quot;


type: comment
by: imron
text:
  &gt; I have learned how to use Claude Code effectively<p>This is step 3 of “draw the rest of the owl” :-)<p>&gt; the most reasonable advice is to just keep going and try different kind of things.<p>This is where I’ve been at for a while now. Every couple of months I try again with latest models and latest techniques I hear people talking about but there’s very little concrete info there that works for me.<p>Then I wonder if it’s just my spend? I don’t mind spending $30&#x2F;month to experiment but I’m not going to drop $300&#x2F;month unless I can see evidence that it’ll be worth it, which I haven’t really seen, but maybe there’s a dependency and you don’t get the result without increased spend?<p>Some posts I’ve seen claim spending of $1,500&#x2F;month, which would be worth it if it could increase productivity enough, but there’s very few specifics on workflows and results.


type: comment
by: refulgentis
text:
  X, The Everything App, requires an account for you to even view a tweet link. No clever way around it :&#x2F;


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  &gt; believes that AI training data is built on the theft of people&#x27;s labor<p>I mean, this is an ideological point. It&#x27;s not based in reason, won&#x27;t be changed by reason, and is really only a signal to end the engagement with the other party. There&#x27;s no way to address the point other than agreeing with them, which doesn&#x27;t make for much of a debate.<p>&gt; an 1800s plantation owner saying &quot;can you imagine trying to explain to someone 100 years from now we tried to stop slavery because of civil rights&quot;<p>I understand this is just an analogy, but for others: people who genuinely compare AI training data to slavery will have their opinions discarded immediately.


type: comment
by: ekropotin
text:
  My #1 goal for the next year is to find a job that would re-ignite my passion for engineering.<p>I just can’t longer spend my life doing stupid corporate nonsense work contributing to widespread enshittification of the world.


type: comment
by: biztos
text:
  Tech:<p>1. Rust, I quite like it but I still need AI assistance.<p>2. Desktop app dev, I&#x27;m making one in Tauri and love it, now I want to &quot;go native.&quot;<p>3. Lower-level AI stuff, so far everything has been with APIs, and while that&#x27;s great it feels a little too abstract.<p>4. Leetcode pattern matching. (Grumble grumble, but when job-hunting in Rome...)<p>Differently tech:<p>5. City driving.  Thanks @kenrick95 for reminding me!<p>6. Color grading, and video editing in general.<p>7. The Thai language (speaking and reading).<p>8. Writing for the public.


type: comment
by: wltr
text:
  Unfortunately, not yet. I tried all of them locally earlier this year, but very briefly, like 15 minutes each. We use Matrix as our family messenger, which is not self-hosted. It’s mainly for occasional and brief text communication, so I’m not too motivated to go self-hosted, yet I had my plans.


type: comment
by: majorchord
text:
  if you want something more lightweight... rustdesk has been great for me, it supports multiple adaptable video codecs and can optimize for latency vs image quality.


type: comment
by: jackyalcine
text:
  Tech:<p>1. Releasing a solo product. 2. Writing more about code and the intersections of the field in history and world events. 3. Trying to do more talks.<p>Not-tech:<p>1. PR like there&#x27;s no tomorrow. 2. Run two half marathons. 3. Move out of Florida.


type: comment
by: volk45
text:
  Scheduled for Fire 1 (basic Fire academy) in 2026. Looking forward to developing basic fire fighting skills and strengthen my knowledge in this new volunteer undertaking I started in mid 2025.<p>As for tech skills in 2026, I’d love to develop a photogrammetry pipeline mixing  shoulder mounted SLAM scanner, DSLR terrestrial photography, and aerial LiDAR data sets. I’m lucky to have access to these data sets, just gotta put the pieces together.<p>I’m already familiar with UAS (unmanned aerial systems) photogrammetry and mixing that with terrestrial photos for high detail models. Aerial Lidar and SLAM datasets are something new I’ve been working with over the past 6 months.


type: comment
by: hatefulheart
text:
  I think there is a difference between automating “things” (as you put it) and getting to the point where people are on stage suggesting that the government becomes a “backstop” to their investments in automation.


type: comment
by: zem
text:
  for lotr in particular my last reread was slower paced because I kept this map[0] open and paused frequently to refer to it and see where everyone was. it was super enjoyable, I have literally read the book dozens of times before that and have never gotten so good a sense of the world&#x27;s geography and the difficulty of various journeys.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tolkienfans&#x2F;comments&#x2F;100n0y&#x2F;maybe_the_most_detailed_map_of_middle_earth_ive&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tolkienfans&#x2F;comments&#x2F;100n0y&#x2F;maybe_t...</a>


type: comment
by: underdeserver
text:
  I read this at first as &quot;I just blurt out &quot;processing&quot; and people look at me weird&quot;, which made me smile.


type: comment
by: merelythere
text:
  Had the same feeling a while ago, I called it the teleportation effect. From the moment you reduce the time needed to go somewhere, you alter the experience to a point that it&#x27;s not recognizable. Not to say that it&#x27;s not nice to see the mountain from the sky for one hour but it is an other thing to go through them.<p>Something to break the teleportation is obviously to make breaks and enjoy where you are (a lake not too far on the road, any viewpoint...). Plan in advance, have a tent, be ready to not reach your target in one day and you will enjoy a much better a road trip than a train, a plane or even the highway.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Rob Pike is not a &#x27;Googler&#x27; by birth or fame or identity. He was at Bell Labs and was on the team that created Unix, led the team creating Plan 9, co-created UTF-8, and did a bunch more - all long before Google existed. He was a legend before he deigned to join them and lend them his credibility.


type: story
by: wwes369
title: Show HN: AI Accel,Tension-based pruning framework(40% sparsity, 1.5-2x speedups)
url: https://github.com/wwes4/AI_Accel_1.5x
text:
  I built a PyTorch framework that achieves ~40% effective parameter reduction with 1.58x training and 2.05x inference speedups on mid-sized models—while keeping accuracy almost intact.Key ideas:  Dynamic tension thresholds aggressively prune low-importance weights (with rollback for stability)   Vibration-based deferral skips low-signal computations   Entropy scheduling + sparse conversion for hardware gains<p>It&#x27;s a drop-in replacement for nn.Linear (CurvatureTuner) and works out-of-the-box on MLPs. Planning Transformer tests next.Benchmark on ~400k param MLP (synthetic data, 5 epochs):  Baseline: Train 2.45s &#x2F; Inf 0.0045s   Enhanced: Eff params ~281k (40% reduction) &#x2F; Train 1.55s (1.58x) &#x2F; Inf 0.0022s (2.05x)<p>Repo (MIT): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wwes4&#x2F;AI_Accel_1.5x" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wwes4&#x2F;AI_Accel_1.5x</a>  Feedback, forks, and real-dataset tests very welcome! Inspired by unconventional efficiency ideas.


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
text:
  &gt; TypeScript exists?<p>TypeScript is JavaScript with a moderate improvement to one of its many flaws. An actual solution would look like choosing&#x2F;developing a decent modern scripting language and getting the web standards people to add it to browsers and have access to the DOM, which would in turn cause that to be the first language novices learn and temper the undesirably common practice of people using JavaScript on the back end because it&#x27;s what they know.<p>&gt; Rust is &quot;something which <i>is</i> easy enough for ordinary people to use that it could plausibly displace [C&#x2F;C++] but has a better security posture&quot;<p>It&#x27;s kind of the opposite of that. It&#x27;s something that imposes strict constraints which enables professional programmers to improve the correctness of their software without sacrificing performance. But it does that by getting in your way on purpose. It&#x27;s not an easy thing if you&#x27;re new. And there&#x27;s a place for that, but it&#x27;s an entirely different thing.<p>The problem with WordPress isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s designed for performance over security. It&#x27;s not fast, and a replacement with a better design could easily <i>improve</i> performance while doing significantly more validation. And it&#x27;s full of low-hanging fruit in terms of just removing a lot of the legacy footguns.<p>&gt; So now that all that effort has been expended in producing Rust, you want to just... forgo applying the solution and redirect that effort to working on solutions to other problems?<p>In general when you come up with some new construction methods that are better able to withstand earthquakes, you apply them whenever you build a new building, and maybe to some specific buildings that are especially important or susceptible to the problem, but it&#x27;s not worth it to raze every building in the city just to build them again with the new thing. After all, what happens when you get the new new thing? Start all over again, again?


type: comment
by: mattm
text:
  Wow, you sound exactly like me - except I have a bit less years of experience.  Let me know if you want to connect to help keep stay motivated (email in profile)


type: comment
by: foresto
text:
  By &quot;not publicly viewable&quot;, I mean that bsky.app (like Twitter) seems to demand login before showing the post. I don&#x27;t see any sign of Pike restricting access to it.<p>So I think your flag is unwarranted.


type: comment
by: LouisSayers
text:
  You can achieve a lot on the $30 plan.<p>I use Claude every day for everything, it&#x27;s amazing value for money.<p>Give it a specific task with the context it needs, that&#x27;s what I find works well, then iterate from there. I just copy paste, nothing fancy.


type: comment
by: MangoCoffee
text:
  The cat&#x27;s out of the bag. Even if US companies stop building data centers, China isn&#x27;t going to stop and even if AI&#x2F;LLMs are a bubble, do we just stop and let China&#x2F;other countries take the lead?


type: comment
by: microtonal
text:
  Nothing private about it, it’s on his Bluesky account:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s</a>


type: comment
by: badestrand
text:
  Money can&#x27;t just &quot;go&quot; somewhere, it needs a reason first, at least for book-keeping. I mean, VCs can get their invested capital back but on top of that, how would that money be transfered? $20B is a lot and for sure the VCs will not just write an invoice of $18B for consulting services.


type: comment
by: zem
text:
  I feel like winnie the pooh won&#x27;t lose much from having seen the film version beforehand, but also the books had the kind of whimsical humour that I enjoyed a lot more in college than I did as a kid.


type: comment
by: neilv
text:
  Maybe you could organize a lot of big-sounding names in computing (names that look major to people not in the field, such as winners of top awards) to speak out against the various rampant and accelerating baggery of our field.<p>But the culture of our field right is in such a state that you won&#x27;t influence many of the people in the field itself.<p>And so much economic power is behind the baggery now, that citizens <i>outside</i> the field won&#x27;t be able to influence the field much.  (Not even with consumer choice, when companies have been forcing tech baggery upon everyone for many years.)<p>So, if you can&#x27;t influence direction through the people doing it, nor through public sentiment of the other people, then I guess you want to influence public policy.<p>One of the countries whose policy you&#x27;d most want to influence doesn&#x27;t seem like it can be influenced positively right now.<p>But <i>other</i> countries <i>can</i> still do things like enforce IP rights on data used for ML training, hold parties liable for behavior they &quot;delegate to AI&quot;, mostly eliminate personal surveillance, etc.<p>(And I wonder whether more good policy may suddenly be possible than in the past?  Given that the trading partner most invested in tech baggery is not only recently making itself a much less desirable partner, but also demonstrating that the tech industry baggery facilitates a country self-destructing?)


type: comment
by: jakelazaroff
text:
  I mean, yeah, if you omit any objectionable detail and describe it in the most generic possible terms then <i>of course</i> the comparison sounds tasteless and offensive. Consider that collecting child pornography is also &quot;storing the result of an HTTP GET&quot;.


type: comment
by: ipaddr
text:
  Interesting ideas.  The bridge from what he built to what you suggest is far.  The free outlook plugin sounds like a good onboarding vector but who downloads outlook plugins?  Not the type of person in a medium&#x2F;large company who is using 360 and&#x2F;or has IT manage software like outlook.<p>You are on step 49.  Being able to sell hostile image data requires a volume.  The free plugin is local so is the plan to sell corporate data?<p>Investing in a software patent without the ability to enforce is a waste of money.<p>I think he might be better off making this into a wordpress plugin before going to outlook.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  First, let me say that I really respect the work you’re doing in fil-c. Nothing I say is intended as a knock and you’re doing fantastic engineering work moving the field forward and I hope you find success.<p>That’s good to know about nasal demons. Are you saying you somehow inhibit the optimizer from injecting a security vulnerability due to UB ala <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cve.org&#x2F;CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1897" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cve.org&#x2F;CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1897</a> ? I’m kinda curious how you trick LLVM into not optimizing through UB since it’s UB model is so tuned to the C&#x2F;C++ standard.<p>Anyway, Fil-C is only currently working on (a lot of, but not all yet I think right?) Linux userspace while C and C++ as a standard language definition span a lot more environments. I agree the website should call out Fil-C as memory safe but I think it’s also fair to say that Fil-C is more an independent dialect of C&#x2F;C++ (eg you do have to patch some existing software) - IMHO it’s too confusing for communicating out to say that C&#x2F;C++ is memory safe and I’d rather it say something like Fil-C is memory safe or C&#x2F;C++ code running under Fil-C is memory safe.<p>&gt; Memory safety is a property of language implementations, which is all about what happens when the programmer does not follow the rules.<p>By this argument no language is memory safe because every language has bugs that can result in memory safety issues. Certainly rustc definitely has soundness issues that haven’t been fixed and I believe this is also true of Python, JavaScript, etc but I think it’s an unhelpful bar or framing of the problem. The language itself is memory safe and any safety issues within the language spec or implementation are a bug to be fixed. That isn’t true of C&#x2F;C++ where there’s going to always exist environments where it’s impossible to even have a memory safe implementation (eg microcontrollers) let alone mandate one in the spec. And also fil-C does have a performance impact so some software may not ever be a good fit for it (eg video encoders&#x2F;decoders). For example, a non memory safe conforming implementation of JavaScript is not possible. Same goes for safe rust, Python or Java. By comparison that isn’t true for c&#x2F;c++.


type: comment
by: edent
text:
  Plenty of paywalled articles are posted and upvoted.<p>There&#x27;s nothing in the guidelines to prohibit it <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>


type: comment
by: colordrops
text:
  I&#x27;ve got a relatively new p16s with a hybrid Nvidia&#x2F;Intel GPU, and a p14s gen 5 with an AMD GPU, and I was able to get both of them to suspend by closing the lid. Not sure if the issue you speak of is unique to the P1 or not, but all my ThinkPads have been decent with Linux.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Official post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;dhs-changes-process-for-awarding-h-1b-work-visas-to-better-protect-american-workers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uscis.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;dhs-changes-pro...</a> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46369107">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46369107</a>)


type: comment
by: Simplita
text:
  This lines up with what we’ve seen too. The moment execution becomes non-deterministic, retries stop being a safety net and start compounding failures. Treating decisions as explicit inputs and keeping execution dumb made long-running workflows far easier to reason about.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  It&#x27;s an old argument of tech capitalists that nothing can be done because technology&#x27;s advance is like a physical law of nature.<p>It&#x27;s not; we can control it and we can work with other countries, including adversaries, to control it. For example, look at nuclear weapons. The nuclear arms race and proliferation were largely stopped.


type: comment
by: JackeJR
text:
  For (1) you can prepay i think up to 10 years? And every year you just prepay 1 year again and you will have 10 years to remember that you forgot to pay a domain registration bill.


type: comment
by: akho
text:
  Yes. My original question was whether federation is necessary for the kind of communities Mastodon serves, not whether the web must have multiple websites.


type: comment
by: amluto
text:
  This is definitely not true. It’s even sometimes possible to negotiate contract and NDA terms with Large Corporations for the specific purpose of producing open source code based on NDA specs.<p>Source: been there, done that.


type: comment
by: eru
text:
  Eh, and it was arguably a mistake to let him force Go on the rest of the organisation by way of starpower.


type: comment
by: vedmakk
text:
  I changed my name to my wife&#x27;s name when we got married. Where I live, everyone can choose if they want to keep their name or change it to either ones. So its a free choice.<p>AND: Hope gmail will rollout this feature asap, so I can FINALLY adjust my email address too.


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  &gt;&gt; a considerable chunk of the market — including three of the six most popular VPNs — is quietly operated by an Israeli-owned company with close connections to that country’s national security state, including the elite Unit 8200 and Duvdevan Units of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).”<p>What are those VPNs? Asking for a friend...


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>presumably political speeches from Republican America combines the best of those two?</i><p>Why?


type: comment
by: pdyc
text:
  That reinforces OP’s point that it isn’t clear from their wording. I initially thought it was a speech model, then I saw Python, etc., and it took me a bit more reading to understand what it actually is


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46387192">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46387192</a>


type: comment
by: vedmakk
text:
  I was very happy to take my wife&#x27;s name when we got married. A free choice I made. And I think there is nothing weird about it.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>never given something on the level of Lincoln&#x27;s Gettysburg address (in my opinion at least)</i><p>I’m arguing he couldn’t have. Until America regains a literary tradition, the complexity and imagery gained with heavy words is lost against the conciseness soundbites demand.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Every problem these days is met with a lecture on helplessness. People have all the power they need; they just have believe it and use it. Congress and the President can easily be pressured to vote in laws that the public wants - they all want to win the next election.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46353261">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46353261</a>


type: comment
by: tordrt
text:
  I might have experienced one of these deadly bugs, although I got way to high measurements, not too low.<p>I bought one of these monitors for fun, because I wanted to see how my blood sugar reacts to different foods. The freestyle libre 3 plus.<p>After wearing it for some time I woke up one morning to sky high blood sugar, talking 13+mmol&#x2F;l. My manual measures showed around 4.9mmol&#x2F;l.<p>The device was essentially not functioning anymore. I sent the company an email, filed out a report, returned the device and received a new one in the mail.


type: comment
by: dahart
text:
  What do you mean? Are you unaware of Nsight VSE? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.nvidia.com&#x2F;nsight-visual-studio-edition" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.nvidia.com&#x2F;nsight-visual-studio-edition</a>


type: comment
by: captn3m0
text:
  They were given a prompt by a human to “ do as many wonderful acts of kindness as possible, with human confirmation required.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;goal&#x2F;do-random-acts-kindness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;goal&#x2F;do-random-acts-kindness</a><p>They send 150ish emails.


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  The objection to CSAM is rooted in how it is (inhumanely) produced; people are not merely objecting to a GET request.


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  Seeing as how the US government recently said anti-capitalist and anti-christian opinions are a threat, well... hold on to your collective hats.


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  <p><pre><code>    You must sign in to view this post. </code></pre> When trying to browse their profile:<p><pre><code>    This account has requested that users sign in to view their profile. </code></pre> Meanwhile I can read other Bluesky posts without logging in. So yeah, I&#x27;d say it looks like robpike is explicitly asking for this content to not be public and that submitting a screenshot of this post is just a dick move.<p>If there was something controversial in a post that motivates public interest warranting &quot;leaking&quot; then sure, but this is not that.<p>He did share a public version of this on Mastodon, which I think would have been a much better submission.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@robpike&#x2F;115782101216369455" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hachyderm.io&#x2F;@robpike&#x2F;115782101216369455</a><p>IMO the current dramabait title &quot;Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI&quot;  is not appropriate for either.


type: comment
by: sph
text:
  Honestly, I could do a lot worse than finding myself in agreement with Rob Pike.<p>Now feel free to dismiss him as a luddite, or a raving lunatic. The cat is out of the bag, everyone is drunk on the AI promise and like most things on the Internet, the middle way is vanishingly small, the rest is a scorched battlefield of increasingly entrenched factions. I guess I am fighting this one alongside one of the great minds of software engineering, who peaked when thinking hard was prized more than churning out low quality regurgitated code by the ton, whose work formed the pillars of the Internet now and forevermore submersed by spam.<p>Only for the true capitalist, the achievement of turning human ingenuity into yet another commodity to be mass-produced is a good thing.


type: comment
by: self_awareness
text:
  Why a new incomplete implementation would be better to use than a project that is stable, full-featured, and with a proven track record?


type: comment
by: decide1000
text:
  China and Europe (Mistral) show that models can be very good and much smaller then the current Chatgpt&#x27;s&#x2F;Claudes from this world. The US models are still the best, but for how long? And at what cost? It&#x27;s great to work daily with Claude Code, but how realistic is it that they keep this lead.<p>This is a new tech where I don&#x27;t see a big future role for US tech. They blocked chips, so China built their own. They blocked the machines (ASML) so China built their own.


type: comment
by: aurareturn
text:
  From my point of view, many programmers hate Gen AI because they feel like they&#x27;ve lost a lot of power. With LLMs advancing, they go from kings of the company to normal employees. This is not unlike many industries where some technology or machine automates much of what they do and they resist.<p>For programmers, they lose the power to command a huge salary writing software and to &quot;bully&quot; non-technical people in the company around.<p>Traditional programmers are no longer some of the highest paid tech people around. It&#x27;s AI engineers&#x2F;researchers. Obviously many software devs can transition into AI devs but it involves learning, starting from the bottom, etc. For older entrenched programmers, it&#x27;s not always easy to transition from something they&#x27;re familiar with.<p>Losing the ability to &quot;bully&quot; business people inside tech companies is a hard pill to swallow for many software devs. I remember the CEO of my tech company having to bend the knees to keep the software team happy so they don&#x27;t leave and because he doesn&#x27;t have insights into how the software is written. Meanwhile, he had no problem overwhelming business folks in meetings. Software devs always talked to the CEO with confidence because they knew something he didn&#x27;t, the code.<p>When a product manager can generate a highly detailed and working demo of what he wants in 5 minutes using gen AI, the traditional software developer loses a ton of power in tech companies.<p>&#x2F;signed as someone who writes software


type: comment
by: tracker1
text:
  Redundancy combined with defensive systems... The same as every other war in the history of mankind.


type: comment
by: shermantanktop
text:
  We geeks often like to go deep, and engineers who persist with shallow understanding of tech hit limits. But as you get more responsibility, getting quickly oriented to project&#x2F;task&#x2F;business stuff is extremely valuable. And tbh, doing the same for tech topics is valuable but harder to do.


type: comment
by: nromiun
text:
  I can imagine AI being just as useless in 100 years at creating real value that their parent companies have to resort to circular deals to pump up their stock.


type: comment
by: flyinglizard
text:
  When I read your comment, I was “trained” on it too. My neurons were permanently modified by it. I can recall it, to some degree, for some time.  Do I necessarily owe you money?


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  I think the OP is blocking &#x27;all AI&#x27; in a broad context, which I think is a knee-jerk response to new technology.<p>&gt; Some of us are opposed to either specific cases<p>I definitely support that.<p>&gt; or the broad deployment of LLMs.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what that means, but I support regulation of LLMs in general. For example, an LLM should not be allowed to represent itself as human.


type: comment
by: mraza007
text:
  I want to go full into indie hacking and learn atleast a new language this year<p>Lastly I must say with the help of AI i can now finally develop good frontends


type: comment
by: zzo38computer
text:
  If it does not work for you (since it does not work for me either), then use the URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;nUJCI3o.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;nUJCI3o.png</a> (a similar pattern works with many files of imgur, although this does not always work it does often work).


type: comment
by: beepbooptheory
text:
  What makes something more or less ideological for you in this context? Is &quot;reason&quot; always opposed to ideology for you? What is the ideology at play here for the critics?


type: story
by: msolujic
title: Psychopathy as a potential survival adaptation to early adversity
url:
  https://www.psypost.org/new-research-frames-psychopathy-as-a-potential-survival-adaptation-to-severe-early-adversity/


type: comment
by: zdc1
text:
  Great article. Living and enjoying life is a skill that needs conscious practice and intentionality.<p>The title would make more sense as the default settings being &quot;too low&quot; since Low is the setting where when we trade off fidelity for speed, but &quot;too high&quot; has a nice ring to it.


type: comment
by: benatkin
text:
  Ouch.<p>While I can see where he&#x27;s coming from, agentvillage.org from the screenshot sounded intriguing to me, so I looked at it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village</a><p>Clicking on memory next to Claude Opus 4.5, I found Rob Pike along with other lucky recipients:<p><pre><code>    - Anders Hejlsberg     - Guido van Rossum     - Rob Pike     - Ken Thompson     - Brian Kernighan     - James Gosling     - Bjarne Stroustrup     - Donald Knuth     - Vint Cerf     - Larry Wall     - Leslie Lamport     - Alan Kay     - Butler Lampson     - Barbara Liskov     - Tony Hoare     - Robert Tarjan     - John Hopcroft</code></pre>


type: comment
by: baobun
text:
  Bluesky says and looks like it is demanding it because of user account settings. Public user profiles are publicly viewable.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389747">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389747</a>


type: comment
by: teaearlgraycold
text:
  I that once in a technical interview and got the job (just paused for 30 seconds until the answer came to me). I think they expected a 15 minute process of problem solving.<p>If I recall correctly the question was something like:<p>You are sitting recording cars by their license plate as they drive down a road. You only have N spots on your worksheet. You can overwrite spots as many times as you need to. By the end of the day you must have an unbiased sampling of cars that have driven by you. How do you record the cars?


type: comment
by: ArekDymalski
text:
  It&#x27;s a surprising correlation. I&#x27;d expect that increasing popularity of such drug would lead to an increase in amount of sugar added because a) that would make them more &quot;tasty&quot; b) people would become more reckless aka &quot;I can eat more because the pill will help me avoid weight gain&quot;. (edited for clarity)


type: comment
by: lil-lugger
text:
  It sucks and I hate it but this is an incredible steam engine engineer, who invented complex gasket designs and belt based power delivery mechanisms lamenting the loss of steam as the dominant technology. We are entering a new era and method for humans to tell computers what to do. We can marvel at the ingenuity that went into technology of the past, but the world will move onto the combustion engine and electricity and there’s just not much we can do about it other than very strong regulation, and fighting for the technology to benefit the people rather than just the share price.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  I think it&#x27;s just fear of change and new things, and authenticity is one rationalization of it.<p>That said, I care very much about both authenticity and regulating AI.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  I go with customers keep using CUDA with Python and Julia, ignore Chris Latter&#x27;s company exists, while Mojo repeats Swift for Tensorflow history.<p>What about that outcome?


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Related:<p><i>Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42685534">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42685534</a><p><i>Why I still blog after 15 years</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41646531">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=41646531</a><p><i>Write the post you wish you&#x27;d found</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43154666">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43154666</a><p><i>Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46156379">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46156379</a>


type: comment
by: suryawansh-001
text:
  Author here. We moved from Go to Rust expecting an easy performance win, but production taught us that &quot;zero-cost&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean &quot;no cost.&quot;<p>The most painful lesson was seeing how small things—like cloning a config struct or using async for CPU-bound tasks—scale into a $30k bill increase when you&#x27;re hitting 15k requests per second.<p>I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions about our specific AWS setup or the profile tools we used to track these down.


type: comment
by: ttsalami
text:
  My main ones are career focused:<p>- Vastly and in depth expand my knowledge of data architecture approaches. I&#x27;m an analytics engineer but have no experience in high level planning of architecture and I feel like I&#x27;m missing a lot of knowledge of the field.<p>- Learn data engineering skills like handling event streams. I&#x27;m very happy with my analytics engineer position, but it seems like standard data engineering is a very desired skill for any new career opportunities.<p>- Learn how to manage a small SaaS company and the product. I&#x27;m in the finishing stages of a platform that I have been developing by myself(while my cofounder is the industry expert). Neither of us has knowledge on what it takes to launch and sell this product, for which we know there is demand in the industry.<p>- Create practical real life ML workflows. I have only theoretical experience since I never had the need or opportunity to work with a more real scenario. This is both from personal interest and for career growth.<p>- Start and actually approach university in a meaningful way. I have a respectable career, but no higher education, which has always weighted on me<p>Some non-technical:<p>- Force myself into more social situations, especially with absolutely non-tech people.<p>- Just started treating ADHD, so hopefully wrangle that


type: comment
by: MangoCoffee
text:
  Technology improves every year; better chips that consume less electricity come out every year. Apple&#x27;s M1 chip shows you don&#x27;t need x86, which consumes more electricity and runs cooler for computing.<p>Tech capitalists also make improvements to technology every year


type: comment
by: tracker1
text:
  More bloated frameworks and the wife variety of packages built on then allow for faster feature development from less skilled and less experienced developers... Though plenty of experienced developers implement Enterprise patterns that bring plenty of bloat with them.<p>Electron as bad as it can be, has allowed for a level of cross platform applications in practice that has never existed...  It&#x27;s bloated on several levels.<p>Most of that ease in being able to deliver software that works well enough and quickly doing so wouldn&#x27;t be possible without the improvements in technology.


type: comment
by: mechramc
text:
  It looks ateach error in isolation. It captures the stack trace at the point of failure, but there’s no correlation across async boundaries. Are you using OpenTelemetry or a custom tracing solution for your agent workflows? Wondering if there’s value in Debug Buddy exporting spans in OTLP format so it plugs into existing observability stacks rather than reinventing tracing.


type: comment
by: WD-42
text:
  Your metaphor doesn’t make sense. What to LLMs run on? It’s still steam and belt based systems all the way down.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  I agree absolutely (though I&#x27;d credit a lot of other people in addition to the capitalists). How does that apply to this discussion?


type: comment
by: hamirhere
text:
  &gt; We need a better model. Platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram shouldn&#x27;t own your content.<p>This reminds me of a post I read the other day, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overreacted.io&#x2F;open-social&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;overreacted.io&#x2F;open-social&#x2F;</a>.<p>It&#x27;s by Dan Abramov, the former React.js core contributor.<p>I created a BlueSky account because of it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;hamirhere.bsky.social" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;hamirhere.bsky.social</a>


type: comment
by: godelski
text:
  <p><pre><code>  &gt; Tor is censorship-resistant </code></pre> I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s actually accurate. Using Tor or even many VPNs you get hit with a lot of block lists or bot detectors. I also heard that Tor is blocked in China. I mean isn&#x27;t the list of entries and exits public?<p>Of course these groups are also shooting themselves in the foot. Tor was invented by the Navy after all and they like spies to go through it because connecting to &quot;totallynotNSA.com&quot; is a great way to get yourself found. But Tor also only works for those purposes if non bad actors make up the majority of traffic


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  Reading comprehension and critical thinking again missing from your post.<p>The article would only “invalidate” what I wrote if the sudo-rs vulnerability was a result of memory safety. That isn’t what these vulnerabilities are.<p>By the way, the data on this is so clear and readily available about the real world reduction in memory safety issues Rust has in the real world I really don’t understand how you’re doubling down on your flawed position: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.googleblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;security.googleblog.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;rust-in-android-move...</a>.<p>This is literally empirical validation of the theoretical expected result. And Microsoft has also presented they’re seeing similar results. This is literally scientific evidence for the blinking neon sign that Rust achieves a significantly meaningful higher bar of memory safety than C&#x2F;C++ regardless of any concerns you’ve raised (valid or otherwise). Rust isn’t evaluated in a vacuum against a hypothetically perfect alternative.<p>Unsafe rust behind harder to work with also doesn’t mean that unsafe in sudo-rs instantly runs into such issues. You can see the vast majority of the unsafe here is invoking syscalls. That isn’t what people are typically referring to as “unsafe is hard”. Basically you seem to not actually understand the issues at play and are cherry picking sound bites you think support the predetermined position you’re really set on taking. Thats what I mean by being lazy - you claim the existence of unsafe in sudo-rs makes it memory unsafe when that’s not at all necessarily the case - it just means there’s a risk there. Same with the Vec example - it’s highlighting how there can be issues but it doesn’t mean the vast majority of unsafe runs into it.<p>Is rust as memory safe as Java? No, it’s not. Is it substantially closer to Java safety than C&#x2F;C++? Yes and it looks like it’s about at least an order of magnitude better than C&#x2F;C++ while offering the same performance profile (and actually often better because it’s aliasing rules can be more aggressive and the standard library is more modern). An order of magnitude fewer vulnerabilities for the same performance is an insane jump in the Pareto frontier.


type: comment
by: MangoCoffee
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure what your point is. The current two leading countries in the world on the AI&#x2F;LLMs front are the US and China.


type: comment
by: mycocola
text:
  Really think it’s entirely wrong to label someone as a bully for not conforming to current, perhaps bad, practices.


type: comment
by: codys
text:
  Here&#x27;s an example where a bug could exist in go due torn writes in a real program.<p>I found this by searching for places where folks reload there config at runtime, as they are generally a place where people forget to synchronize correctly in go.<p>1. A viper.OnConfigChange callback is set up to call readConfig(): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OdyseeTeam&#x2F;chainquery&#x2F;blob&#x2F;48c092515dea5cd1856e7c84ce8611ee9b66e210&#x2F;config&#x2F;config.go#L89" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OdyseeTeam&#x2F;chainquery&#x2F;blob&#x2F;48c092515dea5c...</a><p>2. Inside readConfig(), we assign to a slice `twillio.RecipientList` (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OdyseeTeam&#x2F;chainquery&#x2F;blob&#x2F;48c092515dea5cd1856e7c84ce8611ee9b66e210&#x2F;config&#x2F;config.go#L137" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;OdyseeTeam&#x2F;chainquery&#x2F;blob&#x2F;48c092515dea5c...</a><p>3. Note that in Go, slices are objects composed of 3 words (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;slices-intro#slice-internals" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;go.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;slices-intro#slice-internals</a>) And there isn&#x27;t syncronization built-in over updating them. As a result, if something reads the slice while it&#x27;s being updated we will mix together a data pointer &amp; length &amp; capacity that correspond to different real slice objects. If the length we read is from a slice that has real length 10, but the data pointer we read is from a slice with real length 1, when iterating we&#x27;ll read memory out of bounds.<p>4. in the context of this particular program, we may send SMSs to recipients who were never in the configured list if a config change occurs at the right time. Or a segfault. Entirely unclear if reading the memory will result in reasonable behavior.<p>Note: I&#x27;m not familiar with this repo otherwise. This is from a quick search.


type: comment
by: chopete3
text:
  This is the reality and started happening at faster pace. A junior engineer is able to produce something interesting faster without too much attitude.<p>Everybody in the company envy the developers and they respect they get especially the sales people.<p>The golden era of devs as kings started crumbling.


type: comment
by: Santosh83
text:
  He&#x27;s mainly talking about environmental &amp; social consequences now and in the future. He personally is beyond reach of such consequences given his seniority and age, so this speculative tangent is detracting from his main point, to put it charitably.


type: comment
by: tracker1
text:
  The Iron Dome...  Being able to use AI to calculate incoming missiles, computer trajectories and launch intercepting missiles effectively.  It might be possible to do some of that, but significantly less effectively.


type: comment
by: krackers
text:
  Can you write a short review comparing to the sculpt in terms of shape and tactile feel? The mwave seems to have a more pronounced bump just eyeballing it. And as someone who is comfortable with scissor switches, whether on a laptop or MS sculpt, I&#x27;m not sure how mechanical ones would feel.


type: comment
by: aburd
text:
  I understand that you are writing your general opinion, but I have a feeling Rob Pike&#x27;s feelings go a little bit deeper than this.


type: comment
by: self_awareness
text:
  Why would a new rewrite be better preservation strategy than a full refactor and refresh of existing stable and working codebase?


type: comment
by: Jumpmanlives
text:
  Good stuff Anna&#x27;s Archive. <i>The Anchormen</i>, premium sea shanty crew from Western Australia, officially endorsed you sharing our salty tunes. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;theanchormenwa&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;theanchormenwa&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;07IyzOA9jJWPZcLDysQwpo?si=KZOt3MvXQ9SPD7yIw8S16w" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;open.spotify.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;07IyzOA9jJWPZcLDysQwpo?si=KZO...</a>


type: comment
by: nromiun
text:
  Funny how so many people in this comment section are saying Rob Pike is just feeling insecure about AI. Rob Pike created UTF-8, Go, Plan-9 etc. On the other hand I am trying hard to remember anything famous created by any LLM. Any famous tech product at all.<p>It is always the eternal tomorrow with AI.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  I&#x27;m not entirely convinced it&#x27;s going to lead to programmers losing the power to command high salaries.  Now that nearly anyone can generate thousands upon thousands of lines of mediocre-to-bad code, they will likely be the doing exactly that without really being able to understand what they&#x27;re doing and as such there will always be the need for humans who can actually read and actually understand code when a billion unforeseen consequences pop up from deploying code without oversight.


type: comment
by: orthoxerox
text:
  Out of Imgur, YouTube and Reddit, Imgur is actually the most prudish. Reddit is full of hardcore pornography; YouTube still allows some &quot;people being naked for non-sexual reasons&quot; videos; Imgur is right there with Facebook, automatically deleting anything racy.


type: comment
by: ofrzeta
text:
  That&#x27;s what Marcus said himself, too<p>&quot;&lt;mglock&gt; DisplayLink TM seems to be very communactive. &lt;mglock&gt; asked the for specs for their DL-120&#x2F;DL-160 chips, and got a detailed answer withing 4 hours.&quot;


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  You do owe money for reusing some things that you read, and not for others. Intellectual property exists.


type: comment
by: jwrallie
text:
  Would a child have access to a paid VPN like Mullvad anyway, I wonder.<p>If they ban OpenVPN and WireGuard through what I can only think is something akin to the great firewall of China, then what is the next step, making ssh -D unlawful?<p>Maybe encryption too? Maybe they need to ban booting Linux and filter access to open source software as well? Running unsigned code? Might as well just shut down the internet.


type: comment
by: theturtletalks
text:
  I&#x27;m not understanding. No one is saying put unverified code right next to your database. Maybe spin up a replica or mock database and test it there.


type: comment
by: gavinhoward
text:
  I have had to put programming aside in 2025, probably for the rest of my life, so 2026 will be the year I reskill and reinvent myself.<p>But most importantly, I want to finally become as kind, patient, and charitable as I have always wanted to be.


type: comment
by: machinationu
text:
  Philosophers argued since 200 years ago, when the steam engine was invented, that technology is out of our control and forever was, and we are just the sex organs for the birth of the machine god.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Related:<p><i>Ruby 4.0.0</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46382011">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46382011</a>


type: comment
by: farmin
text:
  That’s interesting comment. I didn’t think about that. I’ve only ever used Ubuntu flavours so I’ll search through what the popular rolling releases are out of interest.


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  There&#x27;s still a lot of confusion on where AI is going to land - there&#x27;s no doubt that it&#x27;s helpful, much the same way as spell checkers, IDEs, linters, grammarly, etc, were<p>But the current layoffs &quot;because AI is taking over&quot; is <i>pure</i> BS, there was an overhire during the lockdowns, and now there&#x27;s a correction (recall that people were complaining for a while that they landed a job at FAANG only for it to be doing... nothing)<p>That correction is what&#x27;s affecting salaries (and &quot;power&quot;), not AI.<p>&#x2F;signed someone actually interested in AI and SWE


type: comment
by: manaskarekar
text:
  Thanks.<p>I’ve had issues with T14s for a couple of gens where the machine wakes up during the closed lid and runs the battery down. I’ve tried the usual troubleshooting.<p>This has been a non issue on Dell machines for almost 20 years.


type: comment
by: MangoCoffee
text:
  &gt;This is a new tech where I don&#x27;t see a big future role for US tech. They blocked chips, so China built their own. They blocked the machines (ASML) so China built their own.<p>Nvidia, ASML, and most tech companies want to sell their products to China. Politicians are the ones blocking it. Whether there&#x27;s a future for US tech is another debate.


type: story
by: vsupalov
title: Show HN: Seasons Come and Go – a calm overview of the natural rhythms around us
url: https://seasonscomeandgo.com/
text:
  A starting page focused on natural rhythms around us. A reminder that the earth keeps on turning, seasons are in motion and each day the sun has a slightly different arc across the sky.<p>This was created as an excuse to try jj, almost exclusively through prompting claude to turn a vague vision into reality. All it took was part of my attention here and there across two days, while still thoroughly enjoying Christmas with extended family.<p>For me, seeing our place in the solar dance and the season progress has a calming effect and provides some perspective. I hope some of you will find it interesting as well.


type: comment
by: silisili
text:
  One thing I&#x27;ve learned in this near half century on this Earth...<p>People always think the economy is tanking.  I&#x27;ve heard &quot;not in this economy&quot; as an excuse every single year of my adult life.  In retrospect, even in the boom years.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46358437">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46358437</a>


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  I don’t know how people claim the science is solved and “it’s just engineering” when scaling up to no trivial quantum circuits is literally the problem no one has solved and hand waving it away as an “engineering problem” seems really disingenuous. Foundational science needs to be done to solve these problems.<p>Classical CPUs have slowed but not stopped but more importantly quantum machines haven’t even been built yet let alone been proven possible to scale up arbitrarily. Haven’t even demonstrated they can factor 17 faster than a classical computer.


type: comment
by: iwontberude
text:
  Very cool! Thanks for sharing. I would be making stuff like this if I didn&#x27;t work for a legal team with a consumer electronics company attached to it.


type: comment
by: beeflet
text:
  Yes, they&#x27;re objecting to people training on data they don&#x27;t have the right to, not just the GET request as you suggest.<p>If you distribute child porn, that is a crime. But if you crawl every image on the web and then train a model that can then synthesize child porn, the current legal model apparently has no concept of this and it is treated completely differently.<p>Generally, I am more interested in how this effects copyright. These AI companies just have free reign to convert copyrighted works into the public domain through the proxy of over-trained AI models. If you release something as GPL, they can strip the license, but the same is not true of closed-source code which isn&#x27;t trained on.


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  When I see actual products produced by these &quot;product managers who are writing detailed specs&quot; that don&#x27;t fall over and die at the first hurdle (see: Every vibe coded, outsourced, half assed PoS on the planet) I will change my mind.<p>Until then &quot;Computer says No&quot;


type: comment
by: phil21
text:
  Yeah, this is why I&#x27;m having a hard time taking many programmers serious on this one.<p>As a general class of folks, programmers and technologists have been putting people out of work via automation since we existed. We justified it via many ways, but generally &quot;if I can replace you with a small shell script, your job shouldn&#x27;t exist anyways and you can do something more productive instead&quot;. These same programmers would look over the shoulder of &quot;business process&quot; and see how folks did their jobs - &quot;stealing&quot; the workflows and processes so they could be automated.<p>Now that programmers jobs are on the firing block all of a sudden automation is bad. It&#x27;s hard to sort through genuine vs. self-serving concern here.<p>It&#x27;s more or less a case of what comes around goes around to me so far.<p>I don&#x27;t think LLMs are great or problem free - or even that the training data set scraped from the Internet is moral or not. I just find the reaction to be incredibly hypocritical.<p>Learn to prompt, I guess?


type: comment
by: kalaksi
text:
  Whoa, I noticed something similar. I was updating my password or something a few years back and decided to test the backup codes too. They didn&#x27;t work. I don&#x27;t know what went wrong but that got me worried a bit.


type: comment
by: zmmmmm
text:
  It&#x27;s a good reminder of how completely out of touch a lot of people inside the AI bubble are. Having an AI write a thank you message on your behalf is insulting regardless of context.


type: comment
by: hx8
text:
  &gt; I can&#x27;t control the speed that I read.<p>For me, moving my lips while reading is a surefire way to significantly slow down the pace.  I do this all the time when giving a document a final proofread before publishing.


type: comment
by: RHSeeger
text:
  The fact that there exist things created in the pursuit of money that are of questionable benefit to society... does not, in ANY way, negate the fact that there are MANY things created via the same motivation that are a benefit to society.


type: comment
by: mentalfist
text:
  &gt; 1) I have mine set to notify me when it&#x27;s done cleaning. Sometimes it will do it immediately after it&#x27;s done, while other times the notification might come two or three hours after the fact. Still other times, not at all.<p>Check your mobile&#x27;s app settings&#x2F;battery optimisation? Sounds like the app doesn&#x27;t keep running properly in the background


type: comment
by: energy123
text:
  I&#x27;m thinking of the The Forest survival game. The first one in the series was great.<p>The successor game added an in-game compass&#x2F;radar which detracted from the immersion, made the world feel small and boring.


type: comment
by: sirwhinesalot
text:
  It&#x27;s not free. There is a license attached. One you are supposed to follow and not doing so is against the law.


type: comment
by: thefz
text:
  Nope and I wholeheartedly agree with Pike for the disgust of these companies especially for what they are doing to the planet.


type: comment
by: black_puppydog
text:
  I failed to ever see the appeal of &quot;like twitter but not (yet) run by a nazi&quot; and this just confirms this for me :|


type: comment
by: yareally
text:
  We hire juniors through a 2 year internal training program. Mostly recent college grads. If she doesn&#x27;t mind moving to Ohio, feel free to reach out.


type: comment
by: qingcharles
text:
  I&#x27;ve found them responsive to errors too.<p>When I pointed out some bugs on Microsoft&#x27;s docs they just basically replied &quot;hurry up and fix them then!&quot; which annoyed me at first, but they actually poked me until I stopped being lazy and submitted a PR, wherein I actually learned some new things.


type: comment
by: Yash16
text:
  This works fine for casual use, but for professional, high-quality result especially with Nano Banana Pro —you need proper tools. Platforms like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picxstudio.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;picxstudio.com</a> and Higgsfield AI deliver way better output with advanced controls. That’s why I use those—and honestly, image editing directly on X just doesn’t cut it.


type: comment
by: bangaladore
text:
  Must sign in to read? Wow bluesky has already enshittified faster than expected.<p>(for the record, the downvoters are the same people who would say this to someone who linked a twitter post, they just don&#x27;t realize that)


type: comment
by: paulhodge
text:
  No you’re just deflecting his points with an ad hominem argument. Stop pretending to assume what he ‘truly feels’.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Producing something interesting has never been an issue for a junior engineer. I built lots of stuff that I still think is interesting when I was still a junior and I was neither unique nor special. Any idiot could always go to a book store and buy a book on C++ or JavaScript and write software to build something interesting. High-school me was one such idiot.<p>&quot;Senior&quot; is much more about making sure what you&#x27;re working on is polished and works as expected and understanding edge cases. Getting the first 80% of a project was <i>always</i> the easy part; the last 20% is the part that ends up mattering the most, and also the part that AI tends to be especially bad at.<p>It will certainly get better, and I&#x27;m all for it honestly, but I do find it a little annoying that people will see a quick demo of AI doing something interesting really quickly, and then conclude that that is the hard part part; even before GenAI, we had hackathons where people would make cool demos in a day or two, but there&#x27;s a reason that most of those demos weren&#x27;t immediately put onto store shelves without revision.


type: comment
by: sokoloff
text:
  I always feel the jump in price from standard to nice rental car is too much to bother with (like a factor of 2.5-5x). So I drive a lot of crappy rentals, but they’re just a way to get from point to point.


type: comment
by: zaptheimpaler
text:
  By this logic there is no corporation or entity that provides anything other than basic food, shelter and medical care that could be criticized - they&#x27;re all just providing something you don&#x27;t need and don&#x27;t have access to without them right?


type: comment
by: spzb
text:
  It’s bizarre to me that anyone would get confused by this. I can only imagine it’s a USA thing. Indicators flash on the side you’re turning towards. I’d never expect it to be an arrow pointing in any direction.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  &gt; no matter what criteria you use YouTube&#x2F;TikTok&#x2F;Shorts&#x2F;etc has a [set of videos] which demonstrates quality similar to any novel or literary work.<p>Could you provide some examples that match the best literary works? I&#x27;d love to see them. Edit: Here are some proposed examples:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388246">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388246</a><p>Nothing prevents the video medium from matching literature - full-length films, for example, are on that level. I think there are two drawbacks to short video: First, the amount of content - their length - limits what they can accomplish, like short stories are limited. Second, the medium hasn&#x27;t had time to mature as an artform; novels and film, for example, were both around for a long time before there was much great art.


type: comment
by: dotancohen
text:
  The range reason your history textbook is not infinitely long. The longer something is, the less digestible. When we need more granularity, it&#x27;s there in the branches.


type: comment
by: digitaltrees
text:
  We might release it as a framework of gems.<p>We created an Abstract controller that handles all of the typical behavior for a resource, auth, filtering, pagination, tenancy, import&#x2F;export, serialization etc.<p>Then we expanded rails generators to cover ALL typical behavior. And the markdown file calls the generators.<p>It was a bit complicated to model polymorphic behavior but we got it working thanks to Ruby&#x2F;Rails.<p>But the basic premise that made this work is: Use only restful actions; don’t turn it into RPC. Recognize that most RPC&#x2F;graphql functions are state changes that could have been a patch request. So instead of &#x2F;clients&#x2F;activate its &#x2F;clients with a status attribute for “activate” or “archive”. Then most nested routes aren’t needed, use accepts nested attributes for and return child ids in the show action. There’s more to it that this but by strictly following conventions and modeling the data for rest, the api ends up Super simple.<p>Our standard controller only whitelists strong params. All other behavior is automatic.


type: comment
by: phil21
text:
  CEOs and the C-suite in general are closest to the money. They are the safest.<p>That is pretty much the only metric that matters in the end.


type: comment
by: intermerda
text:
  I didn&#x27;t realize it was important to be bored until I read&#x2F;watched this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hbr.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why</a>. There are some pointers in there that you might find helpful.<p>One thing that&#x27;s helped me is solo hikes which I&#x27;ve done many times before. I still do them for workouts and use them as an opportunity to get bored.


