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type: comment
by: ramencentral
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  Cancer is better than Alzheimer’s. There is no comparison. I wouldn’t wish Alzheimer’s or dementia on my worst enemy.


type: comment
by: bilsbie
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  GOOD point by my wife, how does this affect those with apoe4 status. And also is there any connection with the recent lithium findings.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
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  &gt; Why on earth did we do this?<p>Much has been written about this, but from what little I know, they were abusive, and didn&#x27;t do the job well. And were abused to keep sane people in.<p>I&#x27;ve heard that the advent of better drugs was also a factor. Prior to those drugs, there was no alternative other than commitment to mental facilities. The drugs gave the promise of a more manageable life - either by the patient or by their family.<p>What did we replace them with? Prisons.<p>About 20 years ago I saw a documentary about the use of prisons as a means to get mental health care. It explored the history that led to mental institutions getting shut down, and how prisons are treating the mentally ill. As crazy as it sounds, the prisons are doing a better job - even the inmates agree. Quite a few inmates said that the biggest problem they had was that they would be released from prison and not get access to the care they were receiving (including medications).<p>It wasn&#x27;t trying to paint a rosy picture - they actually said this is, in one sense, an abuse of the prison system and that there needs to be a better way to treat them - but the consensus was &quot;Definitely should not revert to the prior mental institutions!&quot;


type: comment
by: tsimionescu
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  Alzheimer&#x27;s is, by definition, dementia with associated amyloid plaques in the brain. Since you can&#x27;t detect the plaques without cutting into the brain, the diagnosis is normally given based on symptoms of dementia (significant loss of memory or other cognitive functions) without other clear reasons (no evidence of vascular events, head trauma, brain tumors or other neurological diseases etc).


type: comment
by: tasuki
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  As a parent: no. We have way more toys than necessary, and yet keep getting more from all sides. All the parents I know have the same situation.


type: comment
by: nixgeek
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  Discord. It’s not self-hosted but it currently works fine for my needs. I guess if they start charging $15&#x2F;mo per user we’ll all migrate again.


type: comment
by: mystifyingpoi
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  &gt; It&#x27;s getting very tiresome to hear complaints<p>This is very true. I&#x27;ve been asked by lots of people &quot;how do I start with Linux&quot; and, despite being 99.9% Linux user for everything everyday, my advice was always:<p>1. Use VirtualBox. Seriously, it won&#x27;t look cool, but it will 100% work after maybe 5 mins mucking around with installing guest additions. Also snapshots. Also no messing with WiFi drivers or graphics card drivers or such.<p>2. Get a used beaten down old Thinkpad that people on Reddit confirm to be working with Linux without any drivers. Then play there. If it breaks, reinstall.<p>3. If the above didn&#x27;t make you yet disinterested, THEN dual boot.<p>Also, if you don&#x27;t care about GUI, then use the best blessing Microsoft ever created - WSL, and look no further.


type: comment
by: erulabs
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  Not to be &quot;that guy&quot; but Anduril is Aragorn&#x27;s sword and is the most good-guy good-thing that could ever be fantasized about. It&#x27;s used to defeat Sauron. And the Palantir stones are not &quot;the bad guys tool&quot;, they were made by the Elves in ancient history and a few of them wound up in the bad guys hands. Misread LOTR indeed!


type: story
by: 999900000999
title: Tell HN: Reddit AI Slop dating app ads
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  I keep seeing dating app ads for I believe Boo. The ad has an Asian couple at a convention, and looks ok at first glance. Then the obvious issues start.<p>The couple is holding hands, but it ends up looking like a blob of fingers. The convention has items for sale, and the text on item boxes is AI gibberish.<p>How lazy can a marketing team be ? You don&#x27;t have 500$ to record a real video?


type: comment
by: dmos62
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  In my case, the business did have human support assistants, but didn&#x27;t do reservations via the phone. I had to switch to the web app for that, which was annoying (I was driving?). I guess doing user identification over the phone and scheduling the appointment are time-consuming for the human assistant, while these are some of the few things an app can do well. I presume the logic is to preserve human assistants for actually complicated or dynamic assistance, for the sake of cost-efficiency. A voice llm can bring down the cost of these basic-but-time-consuming interactions.


type: comment
by: halflings
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  +1, reading through the post, the PR updating the documentation... thanks for being transparent, but also don&#x27;t be so hard on yourself!<p>That was a very niche error, that you promptly corrected, no need to be so apologetic about it! And thanks for all the hard work making Python faster!


type: comment
by: huncyrus
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  Thank you, appreciate it.  I also wrote a blog post in this theme: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bakonyi.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;books-of-2025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bakonyi.info&#x2F;blog&#x2F;books-of-2025</a>


type: comment
by: mullingitover
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  &gt; The US has a constitution and courts. Companies win against the government all the time.<p>Again: a nonsensical statement, China also has a constitution and courts, Chinese companies prevail in lawsuits against their government[1][2].<p>Your turn, name some top-tier US companies which have gone against the party and the regime in the past year.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;1cddb8cc-a7ac-11e4-8e78-00144feab7de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ft.com&#x2F;content&#x2F;1cddb8cc-a7ac-11e4-8e78-00144feab...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chineseft.net&#x2F;story&#x2F;001076244&#x2F;en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chineseft.net&#x2F;story&#x2F;001076244&#x2F;en</a>


type: comment
by: qingcharles
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  Here&#x27;s one I took from somewhere and optimized that is just a bookmarklet, so there&#x27;s nothing remote:<p>data:text&#x2F;html,&lt;title&gt;Notepad&lt;&#x2F;title&gt;&lt;textarea autofocus spellcheck=0 style=&quot;position:fixed;inset:0;padding:1em;border:0;font:monospace&quot;&gt;<p>Your text actually survives a reboot in Chrome.<p>Can anyone think of a way to store the textarea value in the URL? I tried using JS to set a # but it&#x27;s nonsensical in this context.<p>Edit: here&#x27;s the best I could do:<p>data:text&#x2F;html,&lt;title&gt;Notepad&lt;&#x2F;title&gt;&lt;textarea id=t autofocus spellcheck=0 style=position:fixed;inset:0;padding:2em;border:0;font:monospace&gt;&lt;&#x2F;textarea&gt;&lt;a id=s style=position:fixed;top:10px;right:10px&gt;Right-click Open to save...&lt;&#x2F;a&gt;&lt;script&gt;[,P,S]=location.href.slice(15).match(&#x2F;(.<i>&lt;textarea[^&gt;]</i>&gt;)[^]<i>?(&lt;\&#x2F;textarea&gt;.</i>)&#x2F;),t.oninput=U=_=&gt;s.href=&#x27;data:text&#x2F;html,&#x27;+P+encodeURIComponent(t.value.replace(&#x2F;&amp;&#x2F;g,&#x27;&amp;amp;&#x27;).replace(&#x2F;&lt;\&#x2F;textarea&#x2F;g,&#x27;&amp;lt;&#x2F;textarea&#x27;))+S,U()&lt;&#x2F;script&gt;


type: comment
by: kleinishere
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  Encountered these miniature wood marble runs in Switzerland. Still on my “wish list.” Sounds like you may enjoy them, too.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuboro.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cuboro.ch&#x2F;en&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: dingdingdang
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  Yup, but 5 to 15% faster year on year is real progress and that&#x27;s ultimately what the big user base of Python are counting on at this point.. and they seem to be getting it! Full disclaimer: I&#x27;m not a heavy Python user exactly due to the performance and build&#x2F;distribution situation - it&#x27;s just sad from a user-end perspective (I&#x27;m not addressing centralised web deployment here but rather decentralised distribution which I ultimately find more &quot;real&quot; and rewarding).


type: comment
by: Der_Einzige
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  People say the same about Seattle or Vancouver BC (and Vancouver WA) but the homeless populations just get larger during the worst weather months.<p>Turns out with a jacket and fentanyl, and tents, you can survive just about anything!


type: comment
by: pansa2
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  &gt; <i>python - as a language - is way more &quot;dynamic&quot; than javascript</i><p>Very true, but IMO the existence of PyPy proves that this doesn&#x27;t necessarily prevent a fast implementation. I think the reason for CPython&#x27;s poor performance must be your other point:<p>&gt; <i>the ffi-bindings of python [...] limit how freely the internals can be changed</i>


type: comment
by: BeetleB
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  My background was in grad level physics. Twice in my career I&#x27;ve actually gotten jobs that make use of my technical skills. Both times it was a big mistake. While the <i>work</i> was cool, the <i>work environment</i> was terrible (including pay).<p>Once you get used to being paid well for &quot;easy&quot; work, it&#x27;s hard to put up with attitudes when you&#x27;re getting paid less (or even the same) doing &quot;hard&quot; work. If you don&#x27;t perform, your employment is at stake, and you&#x27;ll realize there&#x27;s value in having a job that you don&#x27;t have doubts you can do.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  I feel as if 3000 definitely is one of the most highest rates<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=1&amp;prefix=false&amp;query=&amp;sort=byPopularity&amp;type=story" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;page=1&amp;prefix=false&amp;qu...</a><p>I checked and its the 47th most upvoted post in all of hackernews. (Btw each algolia page gives 30 articles so it could&#x27;ve been simpler for me if I didn&#x27;t manually read till 30 :) but yea, hope it gives some context)<p>47th most upvoted story is wild but so true. I feel like although we might upvote AI and what not posts in HN which can casually reach 1000+ at times. Deep down what really sells us more isn&#x27;t AI but rather a fever dream of sorts that one sells onions and maybe the freedom we attach to it


type: comment
by: matthewfcarlson
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  To be clear, the work the asahi folks are doing is incredible. I’m ashamed to say sometimes their documentation is better than the internal stuff.<p>I’ve heard it’s mostly because there wasn’t an m3 Mac mini which is a much easier target for CI since it isn’t a portable. Also, there have been a ton of hardware changes internally between M2 and M3. M4 is a similar leap. More coprocessors, more security features, etc.<p>For example, PPL was replaced by SPTM and all the exclave magic.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomaugustine.medium.com&#x2F;on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c37194" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomaugustine.medium.com&#x2F;on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c...</a><p>As always, opinions are my own


type: comment
by: eptcyka
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  I care about being able to use the same password between the display manager, tty and lock screen auth. Yet, I cannot.<p>I think the original maintainers and developers of Xorg would be the best people to choose if it is worthwhile to continue working around X or do something else. Yes, X provided functionality that now WMs get to implement themselves - since the developers of Xorg worked closer to Gnome and Qt people, and Gnome and Qt people were OK with this, this didn’t feel like a horrible trade off. And given the diversity of Wayland window managers today, I don’t think it mattered all too much.


type: comment
by: eightturn
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  we also film a lot of the growing process here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@vidaliaonion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@vidaliaonion</a>


type: comment
by: nutjob2
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  &gt;  Half the US thought him preferable to AOC and Hillary Clinton<p>What do those  people have to do with anything besides being popular right-wing targets?<p>His approval rating is currently around 42%.


type: comment
by: sincerely
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  I have an AMD thinkpad and get maybe 1&#x2F;4 the battery life on  Linux as I do when I boot inti Windows, did you have to do any tweaking to achieve that?


type: comment
by: lioeters
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  Apparently GUI frontend is not a subject or problem that interests him. He lives and thinks close to the metal, at a lower layer of abstraction. The software he writes for himself and others in that ecological milieu, people who would take his codebase as an embedded library, command-line tool, or wrap it with an abstraction and user interface for their particular purpose, like browsers did with FFmpeg.<p>He has his favorite niche intellectual and technical subjects, where all his big and small projects are explorations of that space from various angles. It&#x27;s a lesser concern whether the result has business value, or wider public appeal. He&#x27;s more of a researcher and scientist.


type: comment
by: giancarlostoro
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  No. The binaries they prepackage for you are MIT. If you want the source it is AGPL or you pay for a proprietary license.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
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  29% electric, 7% plug-in hybrid, 5% conventional hybrid, 33% diesel and 25% gasoline [1].<p>Diesel and gasoline infrastructure is complementary. Within the next 3 years, we should see EVs represent 50% of the Norwegian fleet. I’m watching to see at what threshold pumped-fuel infrastructure starts falling into a doom loop.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_Norway" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...</a> <i>April ‘25, passenger cars</i>


type: comment
by: eab-
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  My understanding is that also this tail call based interpretation is also kinder to the branch predictor. I wonder if this explains some of the slow downs - they trigger specific cases that cause lots of branch mispredictions.


type: comment
by: khalby786
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  let&#x27;s not forget the og itty.bitty.site [0]<p>[0]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.bitty.site&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;about.bitty.site&#x2F;</a>


type: story
by: Anon84
title: The Plural of Anecdote Is Misinformation
url:
  https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/writing-integrity/202011/the-plural-anecdote-is-misinformation


type: comment
by: snowpid
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  I named various one of them and other provide some links.. You just called the AfD pro-jewish party while most jews despite the party. I think you might just be to check the sources.


type: comment
by: nativeit
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  I bought a 2013 Passat TDI, one of the dieselgate models, after they completed the recall repairs. I thought I was getting a great deal at the time. Unfortunately, the “fix” seemed to cause some other issues, at least in my case. I religiously used Liqui Moly certified low-ash oil, and kept up with the maintenance schedules. Even still, the turbo wore out at around 100k miles and had to be replaced, and then the new one was exhibiting the same symptoms only ~20k miles later, and would likely have eventually given up as well if the car hadn’t been totaled before it got to that point. Cold weather would cause it to run like dogshit until everything got up to operating temps, and then it would usually run fine the rest of the day. The fuel economy was also never quite as good as I expected, it always struggled to get better than 35mpg.<p>My mechanic told me that engine was really poorly suited to city driving, which was a lot of my activity, and short trips caused an inordinate amount of carbon buildup, which he cited as the cause of my cold weather performance issues. Anyway, I think it’s probably a great car for folks with a lengthier commute. I learned my habits and routines were likely murder to a TDI engine, but especially those dieselgate models.


type: comment
by: giancarlostoro
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  Just note the license for Mattermost is AGPL or you pay them to free the code, only the compiled bits are MIT.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  Hey good to see here!<p>I have a quick question if I may ask but your whole journey and even the article starts with the &quot;I’M ADDICTED TO DOMAIN NAMES&quot; &#x2F; Addiction to domain names.<p>So I am wondering was there anything specific that caused this &quot;addiction&quot; (in a good way?) perhaps and has the addiction stopped after www.vidaliaonions.com&#x2F; or is it still continuing?


type: comment
by: beAbU
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  Any alien race that is actually able to travel all the way to earth with the intention of invasion, with enough resources to presumably make the trip back home with all the loot&#x2F;slaves (why else would they invade?) will be so far beyond our human technical abilities that we stand basically 0 chance of survival.<p>I think it&#x27;s absurd to justify killing one another in wars because it might  one day save us from some hypothetical invasion.


type: comment
by: functionmouse
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  I used to hackintosh every laptop I could get my hands on that could do it, and always saw better battery life on OS X vs. Windows.


type: comment
by: afiori
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  The post office would identify you on access and hold mail for an appropriate amount of time.<p>Like for some deliveries you need to sign a receipt that will be legally binding, the post office would take the role of handling those.


type: comment
by: mullingitover
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  &gt; and won.<p>They didn&#x27;t win, the phone was broken into with the help of a third party (so ultimately Apple actually <i>did</i> give the government a backdoor, unofficially) so the court case was mooted. Apple never actually defied the US legal system.<p>&gt; Now ask Jack Ma<p>Ask ABC about their FCC license when they publish speech critical of the regime[1].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Suspension_of_Jimmy_Kimmel_Live" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Suspension_of_Jimmy_Kimmel_Liv...</a>!


type: comment
by: eeeficus
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  There’s always someone with the buzzkill. Do you think is really that hard, for those who care, yo find all these sad facts? FFS man, let us celebrate the good a little bit. In this world is really not that hard to find the bad!


type: comment
by: fsh
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  I typically install and enable tlp [1], but that&#x27;s it. Some distros&#x2F;DEs might have it out of the box, but on Arch I had to do it myself.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;TLP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;TLP</a>


type: comment
by: gnabgib
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  Domain doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>(2015) At the time (34 points, 7 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9844582">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9844582</a><p>Archive: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;DTQ44" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;DTQ44</a>


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  &quot;the alphabet is Latin based&quot;<p>Yes, phonetic spelling but you won&#x27;t be able to read anything much before WW1.


type: comment
by: thefz
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  Yet another distro maintained by who knows who, applying who knows which patches, that will lose support in some years? Nah.


type: comment
by: cnees
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  I can&#x27;t recommend enough ordering a $10 collapsible ball pen. My son understood even at age 2 that some toys needed to be played with in his play pen, and it means I can let him play with toys with hundreds of pieces and then scoop them all up at once.


type: comment
by: rodrigodlu
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  Hey, Merry Christmas!<p>I did invest my time on more specific technologies, not following the mainstream, I accepted a 35% cut, but on smaller and promising small company that smells like startup, but it&#x27;s actually an small business sharply focused on some types of customers. No VC funding.<p>I&#x27;m also a father of a daughter and I&#x27;m &quot;training&quot; her to understand that she needs to sell something that is not abstract.<p>As a computer scientist, I still sell implementations in form of code, but I dearly assumed many years ago that this (abstract product X concrete product) could be the difference to put food on my table - and now on my daughter&#x27;s table - or not.<p>I&#x27;m far from highly successful because I&#x27;m still fighting this urge to just focus on code, but luckily that understanding above make me talk to any kind of person that is not a coder as well. Understanding business in general, meet concrete needs on different types of industries and so on.<p>I&#x27;m not from the US, so take that into account. I was near shoring to the US, now I&#x27;m doing that, but to the EU. I moved to a different market.<p>Also I&#x27;m fully invested in using AI a lot. With that I feel as a senior dev that indeed I don&#x27;t need as many juniors as before, and I dearly miss having some junior dev to ask the &quot;dumb&quot; questions that I forgot to ask myself sometimes. AI still does not fill that role.<p>What helped me with AI is not caring as much about the number of LOC as before, as long I met the product&#x27;s needs.<p>I hope you can find some comfort, keep your temper cool, so your daughter can feel that as well. That she has at least someone to hold and float.<p>My best wishes and I hope that 2026 could bring better luck.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Very interesting page, left me with a lot of mixed feelings after I read it. First, it seems like the biggest issue was not onion futures per se, but manipulating the market. It seems like banning onion futures was just a band-aid while ignoring the true cause. Second, if it really is the case that onions&#x27; perishable nature caused the problem, why not at least extend the ban to all similarly perishable products? Again it seems like they attacked the symptom rather than the root cause. But those criticisms aside, I kind of love that the government back then was willing to shut down shady money making schemes from finance bros. That would never happen in America today, so that part was pretty cool.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2020) At the time (375 points, 183 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24685772">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24685772</a>


type: comment
by: dismalaf
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  &gt; convincing your interviewer<p>Some of us don&#x27;t work for others and just program what we want.


type: comment
by: eptcyka
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  Yeah, but with how we’re moving towards running each (desktop) application in its own cgroup, thus restricting what syscalls any given application can do, soon any old user process will no longer be able to read any other process’s memory. I don’t believe that the argument about how we need not patch a hole because another one exists right besides it is sound.


type: comment
by: pavel_lishin
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  &gt; <i>one should celebrate the birthday of the most influential and awesome man in the history of mankind.</i><p>Perhaps, but - and take this with as many grains of salt as you like, since I&#x27;m an atheist - I&#x27;ve heard decent arguments that he was not born anywhere near December.<p>Plus, everything associated with Christmas as Americans celebrate it has virtually no bearing on the actual events of his birth and&#x2F;or life, except I suppose the gift-giving.


type: comment
by: dbacar
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  These ascii art remind me the good old days of internet where we would celebrate holidays and special days sending these little marvels thru our mail client, pine under ibm aix unix terminals.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  Not always well. One of the problems is that English speakers do not get taught the proper parts of speech. I learnt far more about English from learning other languages than I ever did in English class. We would get told off for bad spelling and grammar, but very little on the actual mechanics.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2019) At the time (176 points, 44 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18937214">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=18937214</a>


type: comment
by: piffey
text:
  Love this. Can&#x27;t tell you how many times I&#x27;ve screenshotted maps then drawn on directions for family&#x2F;friends. Great idea.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Popular in 2019 (90 points, 70 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20917803">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20917803</a>


type: comment
by: pansa2
text:
  &gt; <i>I would also say there’s generally less impetus to optimize CPython</i><p>Nonetheless, Microsoft employed a whole &quot;Faster CPython&quot; team for 4 years - they targeted a 5x speedup but could only achieve ~1.5x. Why couldn&#x27;t they make a significantly faster Python implementation, especially given that PyPy exists and proves it&#x27;s possible?


type: comment
by: hugs
text:
  google fell victim to one of the classic blunders. the most famous of which is inventing the transformer behind gpt but not productizing it first. but only slightly less well-known is this: letting puppeteer go without a plan.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
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  I&#x27;m not a great fan of the sibilant sounds in Mandarin. Which to be fair is pretty rich coming from an English speaker.


type: comment
by: pmdr
text:
  IRC, email and XAMPP solved messaging a long time ago. Derivative products built on these protocols should have solved the chat problem for most orgs, but we got complacent and thus vulnerable to nickle and diming by the likes of Saleforce and Microsoft. Now rug pulls by faux-opensource projects that basically want free labor for their commercial project so they can sell it to bigger fish.<p>It&#x27;s not people wanting to make more money that I despise. Fine, make your commercial version ten times better, I don&#x27;t care. But the practice of crippling your opensource offering by removing features or adding limits is evil and shameful.


type: comment
by: devwastaken
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  valve has continually had problems with their services. this is because theyre both reliant on other services they dont control, and low quality engineering management. the second leads to the first.


type: comment
by: doodlesdev
text:
  I&#x27;ve seen a few Brazilians (like me) lurking around sometimes, so certainly there are people from LatAm. I&#x27;d wager the distribution of countries that read Hacker News and the distribution for people who comment might be slightly different. The distributions linked in another comment seem somewhat unreal to me, but perhaps I&#x27;m just imagining every English-speaking person on the internet as an American LOL.<p>Also, the other comment regarding the time zones is absolutely real. It&#x27;s a fun experiment to check out Hacker News at unusual times of the day and observe the differences in content and especially in the comments section.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2019) At the time (268 points, 149 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20312832">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=20312832</a>


type: comment
by: Dylan16807
text:
  &gt; The value proposition of user serviceable equipment is the same as the value proposition for open source for software. It gives you the FREEDOM and the ABILITY to make the changes you want to make IF you want to make them.<p>This is true to an extent, but I think that&#x27;s greatly overselling it when phrased that way.<p>90% of my customization is either during the initial purchase, or it&#x27;s a RAM&#x2F;drive upgrade, and I don&#x27;t need Framework for that.  It&#x27;s only a small portion of customization I lose out on.  And in some ways I actually have more ability to customize outside of Framework, for example they only offer two GPU models.


type: comment
by: bvan
text:
  For someone wanting to learn Ruby in 2025&#x2F;26, what are some good up-to-date references, outside of the official documentation? Are there any recently-published books which stand-out?


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2020) At the time (198 points, 163 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23915263">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23915263</a>


type: story
by: acrylicrel
title: Show HN: Fluid design is dead, tried building a product that honors speed
url: https://conversate-ai.hyacinth.studio/agent-mode/26
text:
  Tried building a startup that honors speed and fluidity in motion.<p>It&#x27;s a concept called &quot;AI Islands&quot; that I&#x27;m working on, hoping to build it into the next interaction layer after point and click GUIs.<p>Currently supports search + AI for any data.<p>I would really appreciate if you would try it out!


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  -shire has several pronunciations: sher, sheer and shire (as written). I&#x27;ve heard all three and caught myself using at least two of these.


type: comment
by: ellis0n
text:
  Three years ago I found myself in a difficult situation and at Christmas I asked HN for help. Several people sent me invitations and work appeared right away, so I went off to pay my bills. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34121905">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34121905</a><p>My situation was very tough and the job was tough too, so I wasn’t able to reply to everyone by email right away, circumstances worked out that way.<p>Now things have improved and I want to say a big thank you to everyone who came to help, the HN community, Dang and the team for the support.<p>Merry Christmas and I wish humanity to survive in the age of AI!<p>PS: Your invaluable support made it possible to improve my startup <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acpul.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;acpul.org</a> and I have created an open letter for those who would like to join in developing the best programming environment in the world: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acpul.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;Open-Letter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.acpul.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;Open-Letter</a>


type: comment
by: schmuckonwheels
text:
  This is a very straightforward problem with a relatively simple solution:<p>Stop buying Apple laptops to run Linux.


type: comment
by: Cerium
text:
  There is also Quadro Toys. I have a couple of the large sets and have built a series of houses, climbing toys, and now a &quot;castle&quot; with a slide for my daughter.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  A vuvuzela is mean. I&#x27;m not even related to you (I think), and I want to disown you for that suggestion.


type: comment
by: DougN7
text:
  I’m beginning to doubt very much that will happen.  AI&#x2F;LLMs are already based on 99% of all accessible text in the world (I made that stat up, but I think I’m not far off).  Where will the additional intelligence come from that SalesForce needs for the long tail, the nuance, and the tough cases?  AI is good at what it’s already good at - I predict we won’t see another order of magnitude improvement with all the current approaches.


type: comment
by: wazokazi
text:
  The workers sit idle for n-1 out of n time slices. As n gets larger, amount of work being done approaches zero.


type: comment
by: epicprogrammer
text:
  You got me. Yes, I am part of the Blankline team.<p>To clarify the confusion: D2 is the beta engine currently on our website. D3 is the new architecture in these papers. We developed D3 specifically to solve the context limits we hit with D2.<p>I posted these papers &#x27;anonymously&#x27; because I wanted to see if the D3 research (specifically the Trajectory Vectors) stood on its own merit without the bias of a &#x27;Show HN&#x27; launch. That was a mistake, and I apologize for the cloak and dagger.<p>The good news: We are officially releasing the D3 update tomorrow, as per our internal schedule. The papers were just the pre-read. You&#x27;ll be able to test the &#x27;Flash-Gated Consensus&#x27; yourself in 24 hours.


type: comment
by: rdtsc
text:
  &gt; Some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do.<p>My grandfather and my cousin, who he pretty much raised were eating regular red or yellow onions like apples like that. I had never seen anyone else do that. They would make an onion &quot;salad&quot; which was just cut up onion with olive oil and salt.


type: comment
by: maroon_unperson
text:
  Much faster responses, before this deal I thought it would be Google vs Groq for the superior tech with nvidea missing out.


type: comment
by: neuro-os
text:
  Update: MultiLang‑ASM v0.3 released Thanks for all the feedback. This update brings a huge amount of progress:<p>• Full Quickstart guide (5‑minute kernel boot) • Multilingual kernel examples (ES + 中文) • Makefile + CMake integration • 10‑page Wiki with Kernel Tutorial • Reproducible examples in &#x2F;examples&#x2F; • Cleaner structure and better onboarding<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyberenigma-lgtm&#x2F;MultiLang-ASM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyberenigma-lgtm&#x2F;MultiLang-ASM</a> Quickstart: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyberenigma-lgtm&#x2F;MultiLang-ASM&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;examples" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cyberenigma-lgtm&#x2F;MultiLang-ASM&#x2F;tree&#x2F;main&#x2F;...</a><p>If you want to see the full evolution, I’ve documented everything in the Wiki.


type: comment
by: beAbU
text:
  Very few people have the privilege of working in a field that is meaningful in the way you describe, and if you try to chase that you will probably set yourself up for disappointment.<p>Work for me is the thing I need to do so that I can afford the things I enjoy doing, such as hobbies, time with family, etc.<p>If your current job is absolutely soul crushing and terrible, by all means make a move. But more importantly, find the things you enjoy doing that&#x27;s not work, and find the time to do those things.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  the only tor joke I have: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;searchbound&#x2F;status&#x2F;1263578735724433408?s=20" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;searchbound&#x2F;status&#x2F;1263578735724433408?s=20</a>


type: comment
by: jemmyw
text:
  &gt; They spend all of the their time between yard work<p>I do find it a tiny bit offensive the idea that kind of thing is boring because it&#x27;s not your hobby. I live semi rural (not America) and gardening became a hobby, there are garden shows etc.<p>Everyone has the same amount of time to fill every day. When it comes to &quot;things to do&quot; I don&#x27;t really see one optional lifestyle as more fulfilling or hollow than another. I could live in a city, which would open more options, more than I could possibly consume, but at the same time it would also constrain my resources so I wouldn&#x27;t be able to do as much of one thing.. or have a big garden and a studio for painting.


type: comment
by: NotGMan
text:
  &gt;&gt; Ultimately, anecdotes are an unreliable way to determine potential benefits and harms with respect to health claims.<p>Really? So if some medical treatment is what potentially caused me harm, but big pharma doesn&#x27;t want to do a study on it or didn&#x27;t do it yet, and the doctors claim with utmost certaininty that the harm came from somewhere else always then I&#x27;m 100% wrong?<p>What happens when hundreds of people start reporting the same thing? Is that still anecdotal evidence because each individual N=1 is treated as independent, since they are not part of the medical establishment but Joe Average?<p>Is the fact that glyphosate is causing issues to humans anecdotal? It was for a long time, because those smart man of science kept dismissing it.<p>Now we know that glyphosate is potentially harmful to human gut bacteria since it acts as an antibiotic due to distrupting the Shikimate pathway in human gut bacteria. The long standing theory, by the &quot;experts with studies&quot; was that glyphosate cannot harm humans since humans don&#x27;t have the Shikimate pathway. Alas, our gut bacteria do.<p>Despite all the ancedotal reports by people in the USA, who could not eat wheat-products in the USA due to having some strong reaction against them, but magicaly, when going to Europe, they were able to eat them.<p>How many decades of anecdotes and how many ruined lifes were needed to finaly convince the &quot;smart men in science&quot; that perhaps everything we know about glyhosate safety was actually wrong, despite having studies claiming it was safe?<p>Thanks god that more and more people see people like the author of this article as idiots, parts of the intelligista community. Midwit meme is the appropriate reponse to people like him.<p>It&#x27;s only when the amount of anecdotes become overwhelming large that the &quot;experts&quot; are finally kicked in the face and forced to ackowledge their mistakes.<p>Not that it makes them any humbler. When the next time the same situation happens the story will repeat itself.


type: comment
by: bfeynman
text:
  I think a missing key detail that becomes obvious in hindsight  is that you needed a lot more structured logic before when llms were not as powerful, but now that these models are being post trained on this type of minimal tool breadth but high depth (ultimately towards just an agent using a computer) you can remove a lot of the scaffolding.


type: comment
by: jampa
text:
  After years of lurking, I made some posts this year here. Here is what my Google Analytics and Substack traffic from HN shows:<p>51% US<p>5% United Kingdom<p>4% Germany<p>3% Australia, Canada, India<p>The rest are primarily European countries, with Sweden, Denmark, France, and Spain leading the way.<p>* Most people here use ad blockers. I imagine this data is incomplete and would reflect the mobile portion of the users. I don&#x27;t log IP addresses.


type: comment
by: abhinavb05
text:
  At my workplace we are using vector embedding to build recommendation system and the results are amazing


type: comment
by: dyauspitr
text:
  Yeah I try to see the best in people. But the internet is anonymous and my first thoughts revolved around why they would do this for so long.


type: comment
by: Zacharias030
text:
  I recently switched a bunch of friends from a project-oriented whatsapp chat to self-hosted mattermost, because I wanted permanent storage for messages and attachments, and threads, and did not want to pay slack in perpetuity.<p>I feel that this idea is now in jeopardy, if I understand the 10k message history is the limit correctly.<p>And there I thought I had a solution to slowly bring over project channels, family related things etc. that was as reliable as &quot;my linux box will be reachable on the public internet&quot; and I am willing to manage that it does.<p>Seems I was wrong, but I don&#x27;t know which other software has better future proofing.


type: comment
by: hn_throwaway_99
text:
  I haven&#x27;t seen any proposed attack vectors where they are insufficient primary defense when using SameSite Lax as long as you don&#x27;t do any sensitive state change operations on non-mutative methods like GET.<p>I feel like people are just parroting the OWASP &quot;they&#x27;re just defense in depth!&quot; line without understanding what the actual underlying vulnerabilities are, namely:<p>1. If you&#x27;re performing a sensitive operation on a GET, you&#x27;re in trouble. But I think that is a bigger problem and you shouldn&#x27;t do that.<p>2. If a user is on a particularly old browser, but these days SameSite support has been out on all major browsers for nearly a decade so I think that point is moot.<p>The problem I have with the &quot;it&#x27;s just defense in depth&quot; line is people don&#x27;t really understand how it protects against any underlying vulnerabilities. In that case, CSRF tokens add complexity without actually making you any safer.<p>I&#x27;d be happy to learn why my thinking is incorrect, i.e. where there&#x27;s a vulnerability lurking that I&#x27;m not thinking of if you use SameSite Lax and only perform state changes on mutable methods.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  You can throw stuff out or throw it away. They both mean the same.<p>The one that gets me as a native speaker is the difference between stand up and stand down. Or write up and write down.<p>Many phrasal verbs are fairly logical, and so don&#x27;t require much attention.


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
text:
  &gt; The focus is on what can be automated and what costs can be reduced. What often gets overlooked is the broader value a person brings through context, judgement, and the countless invisible contributions that support a thriving workplace.<p>Zoom out just a bit. It’s in the name: Human Resources.<p>The doorman fallacy is a what happens when humans are treated as something to be commoditized and optimized. It’s running head down directly into the embrace of the false god that there’s comfort and safety in fragile.<p>AI is being used to reduce and over-simplify because growth and expanding is difficult, less predictable, and ultimately more risky. However, being risk adverse will eventually increase risk.


type: comment
by: i_don_t_know
text:
  &gt; Does it make sense to change direction at this point? I envy PhDs working on self-driving cars and rockets and AI.<p>You don’t need a PhD to work on rockets. Well, you might depending on what you want to do.<p>There are a lot of software opportunities at rocket companies from test systems, real-time measurements, operator interfaces, flight simulation, and various other internal supporting software.<p>You might be interested in and have the right experience for, for example, operator interfaces and various internal dashboards and database applications. That might be your entry into the field and you can try to branch out from there into other areas.


type: comment
by: aiiizzz
text:
  &gt; the intuition a doctor gains from 50 years of clinical practice that isn&#x27;t in textbooks or datasets.<p>You mean their possibly incorrect bias?


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  That&#x27;s something I&#x27;ve run into myself. I just recently finished the Enterprise Lego set, and it was fun to build... but I doubt if I will ever take it apart and rebuild it. There were 30 bags in that set, and I don&#x27;t much fancy the prospect of trying to sift through all the pieces at once rebuilding the thing.


type: comment
by: vidarh
text:
  Th point is that with X I could start with less than 100 lines and switch to using my wm, and stepwise refine it <i>while using it</i>.<p>You might consider that a bad API, but to me any solution without it is massively inferior and not something I will ever consider.


type: comment
by: baq
text:
  Of which there are none except for the few we tried to genetically modify so they kinda get something maybe sorta similar


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  Yet another &quot;in mice&quot; breakthrough. The cerebral cortex of a mouse has around 8–14 million neurons while in those humans there are more than 10–15 billion. So scale this outcome by literally 1000x more neurons and wake me when the chimps are remembering how to hold a long conversation.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  author here... in my defense, it was an accidental purchase : ) I thought it was gonna sell for $5k or more... but the music stopped when I bid ...


type: comment
by: werdnapk
text:
  I think the major version change is more of a celebratory thing with Ruby being 30 years as of 2025.


type: comment
by: furyofantares
text:
  Same, I&#x27;ve implemented it a number of times and always done it forward, and can&#x27;t recall ever seeing it backwards. I&#x27;ve looked at the wikipedia page for it more than once too, which, as the article mentions, shows it backwards.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s so easy to prove to yourself that Fisher-Yates generates every possible combination with the same probability[1], and so forwards or backwards just doesn&#x27;t register as relevant.<p>[1]This of course makes the a hefty assumption about the source of random numbers which is not true in the vast majority of cases where the algorithm is put into practice as PRNGs are typically what&#x27;s used. For example if you use a PRNG with a 64 bit seed then you cannot possibly reach the vast majority of states for a 52 card deck; you need 226 bits of state for that to even be possible. And of course even if you are shuffling with fewer combinations than the PRNG state can represent, you will always have some (extremely slight) bias if the state does not express an integer multiple of the number of permutations of your array size.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  bookofjoe’s title modifications were reasonable, I included the original title in my comment for searchability in the future


type: comment
by: jlundberg
text:
  Bellard is such an inspiring programmer! A few of my favorites out of his works are:<p>- qemu user mode<p>- tcc<p>- ts_zip


type: comment
by: jliptzin
text:
  Not really sure what&#x27;s so crazy about that. A brick and mortar shop will spend way more than that on renting a good location for their business when they have no clue whether they&#x27;ll turn a profit. This is just the digital equivalent of that. People trust authoritative domains like vidaliaonions.com way more than something like vidaliaonions-direct.net and they&#x27;re given more SEO weight as well. At least I know that used to be true; not sure how true that is today but I&#x27;d imagine it still is.


type: comment
by: troupo
text:
  As if that is a required criteria for learning Turkish, or for assessing its difficulty.<p>Note: 99.9% of Turks are not able to read much of anything before WW1.


type: comment
by: chistev
text:
  That&#x27;s a small list. Haha. How many books did you plan to read this year? I have been struggling to reach my reading target too (24, 2 for each month of the year).<p>I like the variety in the list, though.<p>I planned on doing something like that in my blog for the books I&#x27;ve read this year, but there&#x27;s still days left in the year to read another book or two.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  author here... you&#x27;re correct - it&#x27;s highly unlikely I would have built anything unless I had this unique, exact-match domain. I needed that unfair advantage to start, as the name sortof branded the project for me in the early days and helped drive new customers.


type: comment
by: cycomanic
text:
  By now I am not sure if these posts can stil be given the benefit of the doubt or are just dishonest. Who were the developers pushing wayland because of their employers? Kristian Høgsberg (who was a significant xorg developer, because people always deny that wayland was written by xorg guys) originally developed wayland in his free time, it then became a freedesktop project (I would argue not a group run by corporates).<p>The most active implementation (particularly in the early days) is probably wlroots, started by Drew deVault (again in his free time), who is often quite vocal against corporate control.<p>In fact the large desktop environments, which are much more under &quot;corporate control&quot;, were comparitavely slow to adapt wayland IIRC.<p>So instead of repeating this accusation, maybe actually give some evidence?


type: comment
by: stackedinserter
text:
  The amount of bits that we want is directly connected to where we are in the game.<p>There are extremes like &quot;Ryan works his ass off for puny $50k&#x2F;year&quot; but generally you get what you give.


type: comment
by: DrewADesign
text:
  After years of admonition discouraging me, I’m using Python for a Windows GUI app over my usual C#&#x2F;MAUI. I’m much more familiar with Python and the whole VS ecosystem is just so heavy for lightweight tasks. I started with tkinter but found it super clunky for interactions I needed heavily, like on field change, but learning QT seemed like more of a lift than I was interested in. (Maybe a skill issue on both fronts?) Grabbed wxglade and drag-and-dropped an interface with wxpython that only has one external dependency installable with pip, is way more convenient than writing xaml by hand, and ergonomically feels pretty pythonic compared to QT. Glad to see more work going into the windows runtime because I’ll probably be leaning on it more.


type: comment
by: beAbU
text:
  I&#x27;m pretty sure you have better things to do with your time than complain about a website&#x27;s colour scheme on Christmas.<p>Go outside and touch some grass.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  I don&#x27;t see Russian as completely alien to English. There are a lot of loanwords from English, French, German, Greek and Latin which are identifiable. Some of the native words are similar to western ones — voda is obviously similar to water, brat to brother, tri is similar to three etc. Much easier than Hungarian vocabulary which has remarkably little to latch onto.


type: comment
by: markus_zhang
text:
  I agree. But Apple doesn’t sell new M1 chip laptops anymore AFAIK. There are some refurbished ones but most likely I need to go into a random store to find one. I only saw M4 and M5 laptops online.<p>That’s why I don’t like it as a consumer. If they keep producing M1 and M2 I’d assume we can get better prices because the total quantity would be much larger. Sure it is probably better for Apple to move forward quickly though.


type: comment
by: jstummbillig
text:
  I really wish people would declare ages when talking about kid toys. Anywho, any banger toy recommendation for a 1yo?


type: comment
by: asmnzxklopqw
text:
  If that’s the case then 890ns is quite terrible. If for some reason you want to do this in software then the latency should be somewhere below 100ns.


type: comment
by: epicprogrammer
text:
  I am incredibly sorry about that. It sounds like the agent hit an infinite reasoning loop and burned your credits—that is a critical failure on our end. I want to fix this personally. Please email me at tom@blankline.org (or just reply here if you prefer). I will refund your $15 immediately.<p>I&#x27;m adding free credits to your account so you can test the D3 update when it drops tomorrow (which patches this loop).<p>We clearly have work to do on the beta fail-safes.


type: comment
by: esseph
text:
  Maybe, but the markets also shift. Companies evolve. Old products fade out of importance and new goods and services appear. Their company value has never been higher.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I would have liked a world where IBM continued to control so much - we probably would have a much smaller open ecosystem.


type: comment
by: ZiiS
text:
  I strongly support a projects stance that you shouldn&#x27;t ask when it will be done. But the time between the M1 launch and a good experience was less than the time since M3 I would love to know what is involved.


type: comment
by: haberman
text:
  I’ll repeat what I said at that time: one of the benefits of the new design is that it’s less vulnerable to the whims of the optimizer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43322451">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=43322451</a><p>If getting the optimal code is relying on getting a pile of heuristics to go in your favor, you’re more vulnerable to the possibility that someday the heuristics will go the other way.  Tail duplication is what we want in case, but it’s possible that a future version of the compiler could decide that it’s not desired because of the increased code size.<p>With the new design, the Python interpreter can express the desired shape of the machine code more directly, leaving it less vulnerable to the whims of the optimizer.


type: comment
by: jmward01
text:
  Not my field, but I think a big point here is this isn&#x27;t purely researching into Amyloid plaques. It is way past time to explore many other possibilities and it is promising to see research in a different direction. This isn&#x27;t to say Amyloid plaques aren&#x27;t worthy of research, but when you slam into a wall for a few decades then maybe you should look in different directions now and again.


type: comment
by: epicprogrammer
text:
  You are absolutely right. I addressed this in the thread above, but to be clear: Yes, I am part of the team. I shouldn&#x27;t have tried to frame it as a &#x27;discovery&#x27;. Apologies.


type: comment
by: scarmig
text:
  Cancer. The worst types of it have the advantage of killing quickly. Alzheimer&#x27;s destroys the self, and you survive a long time with it, leading to much more suffering, both to you (to the extent you continue to exist) and to your family.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  What mainly caused it: I kept getting laid off, and that nonsense infuriated me. So I was actively trying to find ways to save myself. Great domains, via the expiry marketplace, slowly became an unfair advantage I could lean into and compete with larger companies, just because I owned this unique .com domain. Hope that makes sense. I&#x27;ve written a few essays on my experience being laid off, if you&#x27;re bored and wanna read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;how-on-earth&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;how-on-earth&#x2F;</a> ; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;on-being-laid-off-unplanned-entrepreneurship&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.deepsouthventures.com&#x2F;on-being-laid-off-unplanne...</a>


type: comment
by: kfk
text:
  How would you market such a business in 2026? I am from an Italian region where farmer grow many special coltures, and I was always a bit surprised why they don’t try selling on the internet. I ended up convincing myself it is not a viable business model.


type: comment
by: rolph
text:
  a much more revelatory exercise would be to compare these derived values with measured values, then construct testable hypotheses regarding disparities.


type: comment
by: Eridrus
text:
  I&#x27;m well aware of dual class shares, but preferences are typically 1x, and none of the deals were for less than the amount raised, so they&#x27;re not relevant here.<p>The fact that these are not really acquisitions doesn&#x27;t change the fact that Groq the entity now has $20b.


type: comment
by: creatonez
text:
  The Linux kernel was not born obsolete on arrival like the X Window System was. At least, not fully obsolete.<p>It will be obsolete someday, anyways.


type: comment
by: petre
text:
  Hosting any publicly uploaded content is a bad decision and a problem since e-mail. IRC and MQTT with QoS 0 do not have this problem. They have others though. At least criminals won&#x27;t use them because of how easy is to snoop.


type: comment
by: jauntywundrkind
text:
  Doing it in isolation sucks. I&#x27;d rather have an infinite patient peer, even if flawed who I can dialog with.<p>Trying to berate the LLMs &amp; scare folks into believing code is all impossible no matter what is maybe accurate perhaps, and yes much wrong and ignorance will spring forth.<p>But there&#x27;s going to be so much going forth that wouldn&#x27;t &amp;bcouldnt have happened and I think in the balance this is incredibly empowering and amazing onboarding, an unbelievable resource. That yes many will squander, will vibe into trouble on, but and tool if misweilded is a danger.<p>I think of all the pissed off people finally trying to switch to Linux. And with LLMs there to help understand and explain systems, to partner on the work, I&#x27;m just so much more excited than the hard rugged road that used to be there. Sure more than half are going to coast along without seeing what their partner peer is up to, without soaking it in. But there&#x27;s many many thousands who will get into it, will be eager, and will have so much better chance of success for this patient but not flawless peer.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  coding with AI is coding just as much as coding with VSCode is coding. you decide which parts you get help from a given tool and which you don’t. end of the day, it is all coding and “coding with AI” sounds as silly as “coding with keyboard &#x2F; microphone”


type: comment
by: rsync
text:
  We just aged out of this as our youngest child is now 11, but I can affirm that magnatiles are fantastic and fun - and that is coming from someone who <i>lionizes</i> legos and considers them the ne plus ultra of toys for children.<p>That being said ...<p>We got a lot of mileage - many good years of use from male and female children - out of &quot;Snap Circuits&quot;:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elenco.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;elenco.com&#x2F;</a><p>A very, very cool building ecosystem with easy to build and understand recipes - we built a working FM radio, for instance.  Not at all fussy or fragile.<p>My children are not particularly &quot;STEMy&quot; but they all enjoyed breaking out the &quot;circuit kit&quot;.


type: comment
by: Const-me
text:
  &gt; there are source generators<p>Last time I tried them discovered source generators in the current .NET 10 SDK are broken beyond repair, because Microsoft does not support dependencies between source generators.<p>Want to auto-generate COM proxies or similar? Impossible because library import and export are implemented with another source generators. Want to generate something JSON serializable? Impossible because in modern .NET JSON serializer is implemented with another source generator. Generate regular expressions? Another SDK provided source generator, as long as you want good runtime performance.


type: comment
by: pavel_lishin
text:
  There are five stuffed tigers on the floor of our living room right now, liberated from their packages.<p>There are 37 more in the child&#x27;s bedroom.


type: comment
by: Scene_Cast2
text:
  There was previous discussion a few days ago on &quot;Solving The Problems of HBM-on-Logic&quot; that I think is relevant.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46302002">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46302002</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morethanmoore.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;morethanmoore.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;solving-the-problems-of...</a>


type: comment
by: scsh
text:
  Yes, but the elf who created them is quite a tragic character himself.  To the extent that his own mother chose to die after giving birth because she knew how much sorrow he would eventually bring.  So I&#x27;d be careful to not paint them as a good thing either.


type: comment
by: cxplay
text:
  I&#x27;m currently in China, pondering whether Framework&#x27;s approach to promoting repairability is feasible locally. I can easily purchase parts for nearly any retail laptop (yes, nearly any) on online shopping sites, sometimes even including the motherboard. Repairing electronic hardware isn&#x27;t easy for non-professionals, but Framework&#x27;s parts aren&#x27;t just &quot;parts&quot; anymore—they&#x27;re modules designed for easy repair. They clearly aren&#x27;t manufactured and sold as individual components. This reminds me of LG&#x27;s modular phones. For a time, their market lifecycle was so short that some of LG&#x27;s premium modules ended up circulating at prices higher than the devices themselves.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  I&#x27;d still lean into a great .com domain, as it still gives you instant credibility. Also leverage Facebook, as my typical buyer hangs out there a good bit. YouTube has been helpful as well, as we try to share &quot;behind the curtain&quot; what life is like as a Vidalia farmer.


type: comment
by: codepoet80
text:
  I really wanted this to work, and it WAS remarkably good, but palm rejection on the (ginormous) Apple trackpad didn&#x27;t work at all, rendering the whole thing unusable if you ever typed anything. That was a month ago, this article is a year old. I&#x27;d love to be wrong, but I don&#x27;t think this problem has been solved.


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Thanks to both of you! Macroexpanded:<p><i>I Sell Onions on the Internet (2019)</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32053044">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32053044</a> - July 2022 (89 comments)<p><i>I Sell Onions on the Internet</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19728132">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19728132</a> - April 2019 (435 comments)


type: comment
by: creatonez
text:
  Ah yeah. For VPS tenants it makes sense they would default to Chrony. They have a public facing pool of NTP servers at `time.google.com`, and for tenant use they provide `metadata.google.internal`, which is probably where the Chrony config file points. IIRC TrueTime is not actually open source and is only used internally on their infrastructure.


type: comment
by: Horos
text:
  TDMA schedules the orchestrators (lightweight checks), not the workers (heavy jobs).<p>Orchestrators: Active 1&#x2F;n of time (~10ms to check state) Workers: Run continuously for hours once started<p>T=0s: Orchestrator-0 checks → starts job (runs 2 hours) T=2s: Orchestrator-1 checks → job still running T=10s: Orchestrator-0 checks again → job still running<p>Think: traffic lights (TDMA) vs cars (drive continuously).<p>Work throughput is unchanged. TDMA only coordinates who checks when.


type: comment
by: calmbonsai
text:
  Huh, I think because of my mental model of a physical card deck, I&#x27;ve always done it the &quot;forwards&quot; way, but had never characterized it as such.


type: comment
by: kassner
text:
  I can’t wrap my mind around those goals, because (IMHO) the number one thing that would improve viewership is entirety outside of YouTube’s hand: content quality. So the author can only ever move needles that are thrice removed (i.e.: improving backend tools -&gt; creators have more time -&gt; creators create better content) or are statistical coincidences (we made the buttons round -&gt; viewership went up 0.2%).


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  I thought about it so much that I started to get an mail api on one of my servers to thinking of implement it but it has some serious flaws<p>Firstly, the fact that either you are mentioning that there is directory of lists where your email is shown and then the cost of it (lets say a penny) which I assume would become targets of spams so not really worth it<p>And the other when the other person already has your email and it requires them to send a penny to you to just send it to you but that feels as if an extreme restriction and if you are already facing something like this, then at this point, you probably shouldn&#x27;t read the messages or create better filters than a penny cost since a penny might not impact spammers but how are you gonna show that it costs a penny for an average person and the average fees of things would make it harder<p>Honestly at this point a better idea could honestly be to have a signal or matrix or anything where people can message you since it can have higher friction and if someone wants to send you a message, they can send it there as an example as compared to lets say mail.<p>I still didn&#x27;t understand the purpose of microtransactions and I thought about it for half an hour but this does feel like it doesn&#x27;t have much use case. Let me know what you think.


type: comment
by: stogot
text:
  Red&#x2F;blue is a cynical and false division. One can live in a blue state and vote red, and vice versa. In fact, some localities are nearly 50&#x2F;50 or 45&#x2F;55 when you dig into the data. Breaking up the union over statistical ignorance and false divisions is not a good idea.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  I think the VW ID buzz is probably the closest thing you’ll find in the US.<p>Ignore the crazy high MSRP, they are selling poorly and you should be able to get one brand new or lightly used one in the 40s.<p>I think in a short couple of years they could be a steal on the used market.


type: comment
by: dfxm12
text:
  Your mother is a unique person. Only she can explain her actions, if she wants to. Chatgpt or any other person won&#x27;t be able to. Your mother may be neurodivergent in ways that make it impossible for someone else else to answer for her, or ways that make it hard to answer for herself.<p>You are worthy of being loved even if people close to you aren&#x27;t able to express it to you.


type: comment
by: MagicMoonlight
text:
  This is the kind of thing I’d like to do. I have so many ideas, but I’m not sure how to actually make them happen.<p>How much money does it take to start something like this?


type: comment
by: daeken
text:
  Yeah, I went with that approach for most of the code generation in the emulator I&#x27;m currently working on. Source generators handle a few core things, but more advanced compilation tasks went to just ahead of time generation; couldn&#x27;t get my parser combinator library to play nicely with .NET Standard, so that was just a dead-end.


type: comment
by: pastage
text:
  Honestly this has never been an issue for me, sure I have had to explain the limits of the licenses and check that I understand them. I guess it depends on your use case, so I am still uncertain when this has become a problem for you.


type: comment
by: lordnacho
text:
  Probably more to do with HN being a tech community, and the US is the largest highly developed country where a lot of kids can learn tech stuff. So you get a disproportionate number of programmers and related professionals who are American.<p>If Silicon Valley were in the UK I think most HN contributers would still be American.


type: comment
by: l72
text:
  Drop it into this case to be used as a home server or a set top box!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;products&#x2F;cooler-master-mainboard-case" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;products&#x2F;cooler-master-mainboard-case</a>


type: story
by: softwaredoug
title: Ask HN: Is ChatGPT getting buggier over time or is it me?
text:
  I can’t tell if I’m feeling the collapse of OpenAI hype. Or if there are legitimately more ChatGPT bugs<p>Notably it suddenly is pretty bad  at chat?<p>Ask a question<p>(Get a reasonable answer)<p>Ask a follow on question<p>(Give first an answer to the first question, then my second question)<p>It’s not just this, I also click on images in my library and ask for modifications, and ChatGPT then says “please attach the image”<p>All very frustrating. Anyone feel this as late? I just end up using Claude more


type: comment
by: NiloCK
text:
  Another overlooked characteristic of a toy, especially a toy that takes up space, is &quot;doneness&quot;.<p>Lots of free-play toys that my own kids use (4 and 7) can unconditionally be defended as <i>still in use</i>. They haven&#x27;t been touched in an hour, but an ask to put it away is met with &quot;I&#x27;m still playing with that&quot;. So: nothing gets put away until a parent pulls authority and overrules the kid&#x27;s declaration that the game is still going. Understandably, the kids find this unfair and sort of demeaning.<p>A board game is different in so far as it has an ending. The kids never try to weasel out of putting Hungy Hungry Hippo or chess pieces or whatever back into a box.


type: comment
by: nutjob2
text:
  The article title is written as a title and subtitle, separated by a colon.<p>So the correct title of the article is &#x27;The First Photographs of Snowflakes&#x27;.


type: comment
by: krick
text:
  I this this is the irony: mattermost probably is the right choice anyway, but you wouldn&#x27;t want to be the guy who convinced others they should switch, because after something like this, it&#x27;s him who will be blamed by everyone who he managed to convince.


type: comment
by: happyopossum
text:
  At least slack is clear upfront that this is going to happen, mattermost just did a rug pull and removed history from users who previously had access to it.


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  &gt; why is pyhton interpreter so much slower than V8 javascript interpreter when both javascript and python are dynamic interpreted languages.<p>Because JS’s centrality to the web and V8’s speed’s centrality to Google’s push to avoid other platform owners controlling the web via platform-default browsers meant virtually unlimited resources were spent in optimizing V8 at a time when the JS language itself was basically static; Python has never had the same level of investment and has always spent some of its smaller resources on advancing the language rather than optimizing the implementation.<p>Also, because the JS legacy that needed to be supported through that is <i>pure</i> JS, whereas with CPython there is also a considerable ecosystem of code that deeply integrates with Python from the outside that must still be supported, and the interface used by that code limits the optimizations that can be applied. Faster Python interpreters exist that don’t support that external ecosystem, but they are less used because that ecosystem is a big part of Python’s value proposition.


type: comment
by: albert_roca
text:
  I have reported nothing but numerical results. Making assumptions about me instead of looking at the numbers says more about your background than it does about mine.


type: comment
by: SamuelAdams
text:
  Have they though? Hector just added support for the power button, I wonder if he is officially back?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;asahi&#x2F;20251215-macsmc-subdevs-v6-4-0518cb5f28ae@gmail.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;asahi&#x2F;20251215-macsmc-subdevs-v6-4-0...</a>


type: comment
by: doubled112
text:
  Some glitter comes anyway.  My wife figure skated.  It&#x27;s been years, more than a decade, and several moves.  Still find it from time to time.


type: comment
by: lousken
text:
  That is a value for the entire gpu, what about the memory part itself? Also consumers don&#x27;t need 300GB of it (yet).<p>But to answer - memory is progressing very slowly. DDR4 to DDR5 was not even a meaningful jump. Even PCIe SSDs are slowly catching up to it which is both funny and sad.<p>As for the usecase - I use my memory as a cache for everything. Every system in the last 15-20 years I used I maxed out memory on, I never cared much about speed of my storage, because after loading everything into RAM, the system and apps feel a lot more responsive. The difference on older systems with HDDs were especially noticeable, but even on an SSDs, things have not improved much due to latencies. Of course using any webapp connecting to the network will negate any benefits of this, but it makes a difference with desktop apps. These days I even have enough memory to be able to run local test VMs so I don&#x27;t need to use server resources.


type: comment
by: codesnik
text:
  This is my biggest irk about Sorbet: because its signatures are wordy and because it can&#x27;t infer the generic type of a private method, it slightly pushes you towards NOT extracting helper methods if they are going to be 2-5 lines. With Sorbet annotation, it&#x27;d easily become 10 lines. So it pushes towards bigger methods, and those are not always readable.<p>If only private methods would be allowed not having typing at all (with a promise of not being used in subclasses, for example), and Sorbet would be used mostly on the public surface of classes, it&#x27;d be much more tolerable for me.


type: comment
by: muppetman
text:
  I assume they mean the fact I myself know what Mattermost is but I&#x27;ve never heard of... now I even have to go back and load up the comment to find it&#x27;s name again, Zulip


type: comment
by: runningmike
text:
  There are a lot of similarities between IT companies that promise simple IT solutions with criminals and fraudsters that offer ‘Get-rich-quick’ schemes.


type: comment
by: TZubiri
text:
  It&#x27;s a protocol and network that has backwards compatibility with 19th century telegram wire networks that later were voice lines for a full century.<p>If that isn&#x27;t the channel to speak to a human, nothing is. You can speak to a bot with an app or whatever.<p>At least make it sound robotty instead of pretending to be a human.


type: comment
by: bjarneo
text:
  I just wanted something easy. I did not want to have any registry, even though there are good reasons for having one. Played around and created an initial version one year ago. Released v2 with more features, and better developer experience.<p>Short explanation: Pipe transfers Docker images directly to remote hosts via SSH. Delta transfers send only changed layers. No registry setup required.


type: comment
by: mvkel
text:
  Given the near-impossibility of predicting something as &quot;simple&quot; as a stock market due to its recursive nature, I&#x27;m not sure I see how it would be possible to simulate an infinitely more complicated &quot;world&quot;


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  You can&#x27;t be serious. Wayland is the opposite of modular, and the concept of an extensible protocol only creates fragmentation.<p>Every compositor needs to implement the giant core spec, or, realistically, rely on a shared library to implement it for them. Then every compositor can propose and implement arbitrary protocols of their own, which should also be supported by all client applications.<p>It&#x27;s insanity. This thing is nearly two decades old, and I still have basic <i>clipboard</i> issues[1]. This esoteric cutouts feature has no chances of seeing stable real-world use in at least a decade from now.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.kde.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=466041" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.kde.org&#x2F;show_bug.cgi?id=466041</a>


type: comment
by: scotty79
text:
  I think you can find what you are looking for in agentic AIs that can use tools, write programs and execute them even today.<p>In short, you are holding it wrong. ;-)


type: comment
by: Eridrus
text:
  Liquidation preferences are typically 1x these days, so they only matter when companies are sold at fire sale prices where basically nobody is making any money.<p>The deals are all weird so it&#x27;s hard to really know what&#x27;s happening, but if Groq gets $20b, I don&#x27;t see how common stock holders don&#x27;t get paid.


type: comment
by: ViktorRay
text:
  I think part of what makes this site special (on the modern web at least) is that the moderators like yourself think thoroughly and deeply about all of this. It’s pretty awesome y’all do that.


type: comment
by: yfw
text:
  Its befuddling you think theres mechanisms to incentivize competency over loyalty in some of these organizations


type: comment
by: markzporter
text:
  Maybe it&#x27;s a bit on the nose, but Kobold Metals would probably appreciate both skill sets: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koboldmetals.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;koboldmetals.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  No, because it existed when economy was good too. It has nothing to do with economy state.<p>It is more of moral judgement thing, completely divorced from both needs and outcomes.


type: comment
by: ellieh
text:
  &gt; In other words: get an actually Linux supported laptop for Linux.<p>40% battery for 4hrs of real work is better than pretty much any linux supported laptop I&#x27;ve ever used


type: comment
by: edm0nd
text:
  Is anyone really getting into trouble growing Vidalia onions not in Georgia?<p>Like if I plant some in my yard and start selling them online or at the local farmers market, what is anyone really going to do?<p>Seems kinda weird they have a government granted monopoly on them.


type: comment
by: SSLy
text:
  &gt; <i>&quot;Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz. Chrząszczyrzewoszczyce, powiat Łękołody&quot;.</i><p>&gt; <i>Whenever I, Czech, try to read such stuff, I feel a bit high</i><p>well, duh, it&#x27;s from a comedy film script. It&#x27;s exaggerated for fun.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  I have done nothing but associate your &quot;numerical results&quot; with other numberslop I see from LLMs. Again, you&#x27;re self-reporting.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  oop, didn&#x27;t see your 2nd question... yes, I still monitor expiring domain names... it&#x27;s a very sticky habit, and ruthlessly fun... it&#x27;s sortof like my morning paper.


type: comment
by: yfw
text:
  Or it a scam run by someone who wants to get access the social security info on americans. We are in trouble if you  think the acronym is the biggest issue


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  I recall a University of Washington (I think it was) where they were saying they had found Schizophrenia to be a bucket diagnosis, and had discovered that multiple sets of genes were working together in specific testable ways such that there were &gt;4 sub types of Schizophrenia each with its own set of symptoms, and ability to respond to different medications.<p>The researcher did a follow-up study to confirm their thesis, but I&#x27;ve never seen anyone else follow up on those studies (family with Schizophrenia makes me acutely aware of developments in that field)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.washu.edu&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;schizophrenia-not-a-single-disease-but-multiple-genetically-distinct-disorders&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;source.washu.edu&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;schizophrenia-not-a-single-...</a><p>oh, would you look at that - a newer study <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;biology.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;discovery-hints-genetic-basis-most-challenging-symptoms-schizophrenia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;biology.ucdavis.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;discovery-hints-genetic-bas...</a>


type: comment
by: bombcar
text:
  The Minecraft blocks have some strength but not much so you can easily take them apart. But they are very sharp. Way worse than Lego to step on.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  author here.. our Vidalia season usually starts in late April - FYI. If you visit our website, submit your email there and I&#x27;ll drop you a note when our order lines are open.


type: comment
by: shepardrtc
text:
  From multiple personal experiences, including both of my parents, dementia is a slow, horrible death where you are robbed of your dignity and end up dragging all of your relatives through a very long, very torturous hell.  You will be drooling, pissing, and shitting yourself, all while slowly reverting back to a low IQ childhood mentality where you&#x27;re very likely to have outbursts and verbally or physically attack the people around you.  Your loved ones will be tormented, and if you don&#x27;t have loved ones then if you&#x27;re lucky you&#x27;ll be tossed into a room and forgotten about by underpaid, overworked staff at some run-down nursing home.  If you&#x27;re not lucky you&#x27;ll be laying in a gutter on the street until you die.


type: comment
by: KlayLay
text:
  Believe it or not, that&#x27;s the case I was thinking of when I asked, &quot;just because they&#x27;re allowed to criticize them?&quot; A multi-national corporation like Apple having the freedom to criticize the US government doesn&#x27;t mean that it has freedom from control, given that it&#x27;s a US company. If Apple had similar criticisms during a much more critical moment (e.g., a war) or wanted to commit a critical act (e.g., transfer their chip design to be done primarily in China), they could very well find themselves subject to a clause in some vague, national security or espionage act.<p>Jack Ma was criticizing China&#x27;s strategy for minimizing risk in its financial system, essentially arguing for more risk that could harm ordinary people to benefit his company, Ant Group. Unlike the US, much of the financial sector in China is state-owned, so it makes sense that they would follow the state&#x27;s line. The worst that happened to him is that he had to step away from roles in his companies and stay out of public image, which is very different to the image of being disappeared.<p>Both of their companies are under their respective state&#x27;s control. The only difference seems to be what you&#x27;re willing to recognize as control, since I&#x27;m much more interested in what happens when push comes to shove.


type: comment
by: kassner
text:
  Ditto. From all the places that I’ve quit, the only counter offer I’d accept would be “we’ll implement this structure&#x2F;process change that is slowly killing your will to work here”.


type: story
by: aanthonymax
title: Show HN: I Updated My 2D Ant Game for the Holidays
url: https://github.com/aanthonymax/ant-and-apples
text:
  Hey HN! During this holiday season, I got the idea to update a small game I made 4 months ago.<p>Now, the ant collects snowflakes instead of apples to eat. The background trees have been replaced. I also added a small snowfall animation :)<p>Happy holidays everyone!


type: comment
by: bradly
text:
  I’ve had swiftbestpractices.com forever and still haven’t done anything with it. Meanwhile I’ve been going ham on my latest purchase of myfacespacebook.com. It’s weird the things that actually motivate us.


type: comment
by: bombcar
text:
  Literally something to bang, like a toy hammer.<p>Or take them to a library that has toys, see what they play with, and then go buy that.


type: comment
by: hassanjahan
text:
  We often needed to test apps or set up small tools fast. But each time we had to wait for the devops team. That delay sometimes drove us crazy and caused tension.<p>So we built Hyp.app to install things like n8n,  WordPress, PocketBase, or AI tools such as AnythingLLM quickly without touching command line.<p>It’s not something big, just a small tool to use every day. We added some common open source tools so far. What else should we add?


type: comment
by: cycomanic
text:
  So what is it, in one comment you say there were plenty of x11 devs who objected to wayland (please name and show the posts) and on the other hand you say there were not enough to keep an xorg fork going?<p>People are arguing that fixing the issues in X11 would have been much easier and less work than making wayland. So why could those half of x11 developers who left make wayland while the other half that was left over could not even make one release?


type: comment
by: cpuguy83
text:
  &gt; I don&#x27;t think that the older builder created special containers for itself?<p>Buildkit doesn&#x27;t create special containers for itself? It&#x27;s literally a service integrated into dockerd.<p>&gt; Which can only refer to images that are built inside this particular buildkit or are pullable from a repo.<p>No, it supports anything Buildkit can fetch: git, http, client dir... for that matter the client itself can shim that to be whatever it wants.<p>&gt; This is really all I want, a way to quickly reused the previous state saved in some format in Github Cache, NFS, or other storage.<p>You can cache to GitHub actions cache, S3, az blob, gcs, registries, or export to the client.<p>Anything you want to stick it on is going to require copying the data, and yeah that&#x27;s going to be expensive.


type: comment
by: arghwhat
text:
  &gt; I think this is much less general than you make it out to be and has an extremely strong dependency on how you use the thing and of your preference. It makes me think of the boot theory.<p>The boot theory is different: It is about buying something not crafted with proper materials which will quickly fall apart and cost more in the long run. However, unlike technology, there is no cowhide 2.0 coming out 6 months after, with all leather made the cowhide 1.0 way instantly dropping in value and fading into irrelevancy.<p>Low-end laptops tend to be build around older SKU&#x27;s which are no longer of interest but function no worse than they did when launched, and mid-tier laptops tend to be made with current SKU&#x27;s in the more reasonable binning categories.<p>At the same time, the replacement rate also means that whatever high-end laptop will soon have its rear handed to it by a mid-tier machine of the next chip generation. While it&#x27;s outdated within a year or two you of course won&#x27;t replace it that soon, but that upgrade might stretch your upgrade schedule 50% to justify it - from, say, 4 years to 6. More years of being generations behind.<p>Keeping a Framework around for longer also only makes sense when considering upgradability.<p>&gt;  A case in point: at work we have HP Elitebooks. The brand-new 2025 models I see people receive have worse screens and trackpads than my 2013 MBP<p>HP Elitebooks are expensive, high-end machines. The issues you see is because HP, Dell and Lenovo all cater to IT department buying strategies, and therefore all offer a bargain screen option as the machines are bought in bulk and mostly used docked. You&#x27;ll find that they also have an mid-tier screen option (usually a color-accurate 1080p or 1440p panel), as well as a high-end option (say, 4k OLED touchscreen with wacom digitizer).<p>The trackpad is a different story entirely. If you&#x27;re used to a Mac trackpad, things are a bit grim on the PC side. There&#x27;s some nice ones coming out though.<p>&gt; They also degrade from daily use: the screen hinge loosens so it moves if you look at it wrong<p>Everything degrades from daily use. My hinge loosened on my last Mac, the screen damaged itself because the 15&quot; panel did not have the necessary rigidity to main the intended 0.5mm gap to the keyboard keys (confirmed as the second panel did the same), the shitty magsafe port overheated as using pogopins for high power transfer is a <i>terrible</i> idea, all I&#x2F;O on one side died, and the battery had inflated at least once...<p>My Dell XPS 13 costing 1&#x2F;3rd never had any problems, and when replaced it just felt a bit slow and had a somewhat aged battery.<p>Price is not an indicator of quality or expected reliability, nor is the brand itself a reliable indicator. Use common sense, take a look at the product and avoid the bottom of the bargain bin.<p>---<p>Do get a good mouse and keyboard though, it has a much more direct impact on your user experience and a mouse that costs twice as much isn&#x27;t as much of an issue as a <i>laptop</i> costing twice as much. The keyboard and mouse also lasts longer if kept well.


type: comment
by: albert_roca
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  That&#x27;s precisely what the numbers show. &quot;Pred:&quot;, predicted value. &quot;Exp:&quot;, experimental value. &quot;Diff&quot;, difference.


type: comment
by: paddim8
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  It absolutely is not awful. You are doing something wrong then. It&#x27;s not as good as on macOS of course but it&#x27;s still great. I get 8-10 hours.


type: comment
by: kenjin4096
text:
  Yeah, I believe that statement and it seems to hold true for MSVC as well. Thanks for your work inspiring all of this btw!


type: comment
by: retinaros
text:
  yeah lol. the interview is braindump on leetcode and sysdesign. two ways to pass it. do a lot of exercise&#x2F; learn the patterns or be an excellent programmer. there is 0 doubt he would have a full HIRE loop


type: comment
by: cess11
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  Every software development organisation I&#x27;ve been in that used Mattermost built integrations with monitoring, build pipelines, LDAP queries and the like.<p>I&#x27;m sure organisations in war would do similar things, but with the tools of their &#x27;craft&#x27;.


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
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  Ah, this is a good question. And a big one. Here’s a start, anyway.<p>Contrary to the historically recent error of <i>sola scriptura</i>, the Bible does not interpret itself. And contrary to the modernists, it is not whatever you want it to mean.<p>First, what is the general nature of Scripture? It is not meant to be a scientific text. It is meant to communicate, above all, revealed truths about God that are not available to unaided reason (obviously, it also contains things we can know through unaided reason, but the <i>unique</i> value proposition is in what we cannot know by our own wits).<p>Historically, the tradition of knowledge, indeed the content of Scripture itself, preceded the biblical canon. You needed that tradition to make the determination of what is canonical and what is not. Similarly, you need that tradition to determine the nature of a given book: is a historical in structure, poetic, etc? This unbroken tradition, scholarship, literary analysis, etc. tell us the nature of a given text.<p>In the case of something like the creation accounts in Genesis (and there are two accounts, which differ), it is clear under such an examination that these are not scientific descriptions. They are written using the language of a pre-scientific culture. They do not tell us in scientific terms how the physical universe was formed. They <i>do</i> tell us that creation is <i>ex nihilo</i>, or out of nothing. (This is not a question of a big bang btw. The big bang is not necessary. It is a question of casuality. God as the Logos - eternal Reason - is the <i>per se</i> - rather than <i>per accidens</i> - cause of the universe’s existence, sustaining it in existence at every moment. God is not some Paley-style watchmaker arranging parts into a watch out of some primordial chaos, and the universe is not the result of some clash of opposing forces.) Genesis also tells us <i>that</i> there was a first human couple and that original sin can be traced to the first freely chosen immoral act. There are no binding or definitive claims about how exactly this all occurred in a historical sense. We don’t know, and as interesting as that question is [0], for the relevant purposes of the text, it doesn’t matter.<p>The Gospels of the New Testament, however, are very much historical in character. They are eye witness accounts of Christ’s ministry, and the canonical four were deemed to be the only reliable ones. They aren’t figurative, and the early Christians, the many witnesses of Christ’s ministry, and new evidence all align with the received and continuous tradition (indeed, one of the responsibilities of the Catholic Church is to safeguard tradition from “innovation”). Figurative interpretations of the Gospels also tend not to be compelling either, especially in light of tradition.<p>Obviously, biblical hermeneutics is a big topic that goes beyond an HN post. I’ve included links to a couple of texts that should introduce the material with greater depth and expertise than I can [1][2].<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;edwardfeser.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;modern-biology-and-original-sin-part-ii.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;edwardfeser.blogspot.com&#x2F;2011&#x2F;09&#x2F;modern-biology-and-o...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;4xdAc9Y" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;4xdAc9Y</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vatican.va&#x2F;content&#x2F;benedict-xvi&#x2F;en&#x2F;apost_exhortations&#x2F;documents&#x2F;hf_ben-xvi_exh_20100930_verbum-domini.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vatican.va&#x2F;content&#x2F;benedict-xvi&#x2F;en&#x2F;apost_exhorta...</a>


type: comment
by: saubeidl
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  You and I will get around it, sure.<p>The type of boomer that&#x27;s likely to fall for it? Probably not.


type: comment
by: mmooss
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  &gt; it&#x27;s only one piece of a very complex problem<p>Right, who is disagreeing? Name someone. You&#x27;ve created a strawperson.<p>The knee-jerk anti-liberal responses (maybe that&#x27;s not your motive, but it is for many) do enormous damage, by preventing good solutions from being implemented. The same thing happens with climate change, now vaccines, and other things. People are so focused on politics that they sacrifice lives and welfare of lots of people. There are good ideas from conservatives too - cutting off half the ideas is stupidity.<p>&gt; People who have personally dealt with this know the hard truth that simply providing food and shelter isn&#x27;t enough to stop a significant portion of people ending up in the streets.<p>In fact, the evidence and advocacy comes from people who have personally dealth with it, and providing housing does result in housing for a significant portion of people.<p>People need more than housing and that&#x27;s where it becomes especially complex.


type: comment
by: yuuu
text:
  From the manuscript linked in your profile:<p>&gt; The author declares the intensive and extensive use of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 3.0 Pro (Google) and sincerely thanks its unlimited interlocution capacity. The author declares as their own responsibility the abstract formulation of the research, the conceptual guidance, and the decision-making in case of intellectual dilemma. The AI performed the mathematical verification of the multiple hypotheses considered throughout the process, but the author is solely responsible for the final content of this article. The prompts are not declared because they number in the thousands, because they are not entirely preserved, and because they contain elements that are part of the author’s privacy.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  Average person took long time off work to travel to visit far away friends? Call me sceptical, because this is provably untrue for pretty much any period and place we have actual resources about.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Nomadic people have homes and possessions; they bring the homes with them. They don&#x27;t live out in the open with nothing like unhoused people are compelled to do.<p>There are digital nomads too - they usually have money and live in rented places, but they have shelter.


type: comment
by: MagnumOpus
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  Nitpick: it is one life per <i>year</i> for the billion invested. Which after the typical metro infrastructure lifespan of a century is actually viable because the cost for a working-age US life in medical and other contexts is probably around the $10mn ballpark.<p>(Assuming financing happens cheaply by the federal state rather than via PPP grift; and assuming that $50bn is the number, which in NYC is an underestimate by a factor of at least five…)


type: comment
by: cben
text:
  Computers are not a kitchen.  They are clay, they are Lego, they are jungles of imagination. It&#x27;s true that our current trajectory devolves their universality to a set of discrete isolated applications == multiplexing a set of appliances on one device.<p>That&#x27;s an economic win sure, but it&#x27;s tragic if we fail to unlock more of their flexibility for &quot;end users&quot;!  IMHO that&#x27;s the biggest unsolved problems of computer science: that it takes so much professional learning to unlock the real potential (and even that fails us programmers much of the time! How frequently do you say &quot;I&#x27;ll solve it myself&quot; and the time invested is actually worth it?  In the words of Steve Krouse we&#x27;ve not quite solved &quot;End-programmer Programming&quot; yet.)<p>I do want FOSS to follow through and offer live inspectors for everything, but no, I no longer believe users should &quot;learn to code&quot; as the salvation.  We&#x27;re nowhere near it being worth their time, we actually went downhill on that :-(  Conversational AI and &quot;vibe using&quot; will play a role, but that&#x27;s more like &quot;adversarial interoperability&quot;, doesn&#x27;t cover what I mean either.<p>I want cross-app interoperability to be designed in, as something everyone&#x27;d understand users want.  I want agency over app state — snapshot, fork, rewind, diff etc.  I want files back (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jenson.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jenson.org&#x2F;files&#x2F;</a>), and more¹.  I want things like versioning and collaboration to work cross-app.  I want ideas and metaphors we haven&#x27;t found yet — I mean it when I call it unsolved problem of CS! — that would unlock more flexible workflows for users, with less learning curve.  The URL was one such idea - unlocking so much coordination by being able to share place[+state] in any medium.<p>I want software to be malleable (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;malleable.systems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;malleable.systems&#x2F;</a>) in ways meaningful to users.  I want all apps to expose their command set for OS-level configurability of input devices &amp; keyboard shortcuts (Steam Input on steroids).  I want breakthroughs on separating &quot;business logic&quot; from all the shit we piled, so users can &quot;view source&quot; and intervene on important stuff, like they can in spreadsheets.  (I want orders of magnitude smaller&#x2F;simpler shit too.)  I want the equivalent of unix pipes combinatorial freedom² in GUI apps.  I want universal metaphors for automation, a future not unlike Yahoo Pipes promised us (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retool.com&#x2F;pipes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;retool.com&#x2F;pipes</a>) though I don&#x27;t know in what shape.  I want previewable &quot;vector actions&quot;, less like record-macro-and-pray-the-loop-works more like multiple cursor editing.  I want more apps to expose UX like PhotoShop layers, where users are more productive manipulating a <i>recipe</i> than they&#x27;d be directly manipulating the final result. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphite.art&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;graphite.art&#x2F;</a> looks promising but that&#x27;s again for visual stuff; we need more universal metaphors for &quot;reactive&quot; editing... I want an spreadsheet-like interface to any directory+Makefile. I want ability to include &quot;formulas&quot; everywhere³.)  I want various ideas from Subtext (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.subtext-lang.org&#x2F;retrospective.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.subtext-lang.org&#x2F;retrospective.html</a>).<p>I want user access to the fruits of 100% reproducibility, including full control of software versions (which are presently reserved to VM&#x2F;Docker&#x2F;Nix masters). I want universal visibility into app <i>behavior</i> — what it accessed, what it changed on your computer&#x2F;the world, everything it logged.  Ad blockers actually achieve 2 ways to inspect&#x2F;intervene: starting from the UI (I don&#x27;t want to see this), and starting from network behavior (I don&#x27;t want it to contact this), and both give users meaningful agency!<p>¹ I highly recommend following <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexanderobenauer.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexanderobenauer.com&#x2F;</a> for his &quot;Itemized OS&quot; research ideas.  His shared work with Ink &amp; Switch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;embark&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.inkandswitch.com&#x2F;embark&#x2F;</a> is a tantalizing demo too. ² <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conal.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;tangible-functional-programming-a-modern-marriage-of-usability-and-composability" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;conal.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;posts&#x2F;tangible-functional-programming-...</a> was intriGUIng but still too nerdy for fitting naturally into end-user workflows.  (But if you like such nerdy, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandisgame.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tandisgame.com&#x2F;</a> is somewhat related &amp; fun) ³ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calca.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;calca.io&#x2F;</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ExplorableExplanations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worrydream.com&#x2F;ExplorableExplanations&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: chucke
text:
  Both are true. Different camps meant that any significant change to the language was scrutinised loudly. If my memory doesn&#x27;t fail me, the last significant changes from the time Guido was still in charge, and he mostly abandoned the BDFL because of backlash. Since then python has been on a constant &quot;analysis paralysis&quot; state, with only efforts about performance pushing through (no one complains about a faster horse).


type: comment
by: GeekyBear
text:
  The new project leadership team has prioritized upstreaming the existing work over reverse engineering on newer systems.<p>&gt; Our priority is kernel upstreaming. Our downstream Linux tree contains over 1000 patches required for Apple Silicon that are not yet in upstream Linux. The upstream kernel moves fast, requiring us to constantly rebase our changes on top of upstream while battling merge conflicts and regressions. Janne, Neal, and marcan have rebased our tree for years, but it is laborious with so many patches. Before adding more, we need to reduce our patch stack to remain sustainable long-term.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asahilinux.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;passing-the-torch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asahilinux.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;passing-the-torch&#x2F;</a><p>For instance, in this month&#x27;s progress report:<p>&gt; Last time, we announced that the core SMC driver had finally been merged upstream after three long years. Following that success, we have started the process of merging the SMC’s subdevice drivers which integrate all of the SMC’s functionality into the various kernel subsystems. The hwmon driver has already been accepted for 6.19, meaning that the myriad voltage, current, temperature and power sensors controlled by the SMC will be readable using the standard hwmon interfaces. The SMC is also responsible for reading and setting the RTC, and the driver for this function has also been merged for 6.19! The only SMC subdevices left to merge is the driver for the power button and lid switch, which is still on the mailing list, and the battery&#x2F;power supply management driver, which currently needs some tweaking to deal with changes in the SMC firmware in macOS 26.<p>Also finally making it upstream are the changes required to support USB3 via the USB-C ports. This too has been a long process, with our approach needing to change significantly from what we had originally developed downstream<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asahilinux.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;progress-report-6-18&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asahilinux.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;progress-report-6-18&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: digital-cygnet
text:
  Can you explain more why you think this? As I see it, cars in general remain very highly negative-externality, and self-driving doesn&#x27;t change it much.<p>Regular ICE cars: - air pollution from tire wear and brake dust - air pollution from exhaust - embodied carbon - noise - endangering other road users - traffic congestion - land use (sprawl) - long term health impacts (encouraging sedentary lifestyle)<p>Switch to all-electric and you lose a bit of noise and all the tailpipe emissions, but gain whatever emissions generated the power (sometimes solar, great, but sometimes lignite, boo), whatever environmental damage resulted from the battery materials, and probably marginal worsening of safety as the same ranger requires a heavier vehicle<p>Switch to self-driving and you may increase safety (feels like Waymo basically yes, Tesla probably no based on their track record with stat manipulation), but also vastly increase use, worsening congestion and land-use. The others stay the same.<p>So I don&#x27;t understand why you&#x27;re saying the externality ratio is good. From my perspective self-driving cars don&#x27;t really move the needle.


type: comment
by: tbenst
text:
  A key challenge with Alzheimer’s is there is no good mouse model for the disease. While some approximate the phenotype, it’s not clear that the disease model as commonly studied in mice matches well with mechanisms of the human disease. There’s some thinking in the field that this could be a key reason why so many treatments have appeared very promising in mice and haven’t panned out in humans.


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  I think that you are conflating things.<p>Knowing your limits is a sign of intelligence, but it&#x27;s not the only one, and it&#x27;s not a requirement. Meaning that not having that understanding doesn&#x27;t exclude you from being intelligent.


type: comment
by: rolph
text:
  the general takeaway is that the activity of protest fosters a community of common values, the &quot;side&quot; that looses cool and initiates violence is the outcrowd.<p>that seems to work until you encounter a &quot;side&quot; that begins systematicly exterminating.


type: comment
by: vednig
text:
  Python&#x27;s recent developments have been monumental, new versions now easily best the PyPy performance charts on M4 MacBook Air, idk if this has something to do with optimizations by Apple but coming from Linux I was surprised


type: comment
by: armadsen
text:
  My understanding is that amyloid plaques can actually be seen with a specialized PET scan now, so it can be more definitively diagnosed in living people.


type: comment
by: andy_ppp
text:
  So you might need some NAD+ precursor like NMN and this compound for it to work in humans because by the time you’re old it’s much harder for your body to make. Was the experiment done in older mice or younger ones that have NAD+ but artificial Alzheimer’s ?


type: comment
by: fwipsy
text:
  There were only two toys I never got tired of -- legos, and computers. Both encourage open-ended creativity. (I had older lego house sets which were quite flexible. Modern lego pieces seem more specialized.) Unfortunately, so many pieces took several minutes to clean up, so I would just leave them spread out across my bedroom floor for months at a time. These days when I want to play with legos I put a bedsheet down first.<p>Also, I read another article from the author and subscribed just based on how concisely she expresses her ideas. She just gets her point across, then quits. I love it.


type: comment
by: louky
text:
  I don&#x27;t mind music-on-hold as much except when they break with a human voice at intervals saying inane things such as &quot;your call is important to us. Thank you for holding&quot; Which makes me think the call has been answered.  If there&#x27;s not actual call queue information, just play music so I can ignore it and continue working without that NOP interrupt.


type: comment
by: steveklabnik
text:
  It&#x27;s a brand name, like any other. Usage of it requires fulfilling the brand requirements. It&#x27;s like how you can&#x27;t say a burger from Burger King if it&#x27;s actually from McDonalds, even if it&#x27;s a very similar hamburger.<p>But even then, this isn&#x27;t uncommon for food and beverages. You can&#x27;t call it &quot;whisky&quot; unless you follow certain requirements about the mash bill, barrel, etc.<p>(My dad, before his death, had started growing &quot;Pennsylvania Simply Sweet&quot; onions. Because you can&#x27;t call them Vidalia.)


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>current over-the-counter NAD+-precursors have been shown in animal models to raise cellular NAD+ to dangerously high levels</i><p>Is this a problem with the molecule or the dose?


type: comment
by: gregsadetsky
text:
  I think that a better link (even though it lacks the context) is this new archive (which is mostly good as it lets you quickly see all cover pages) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;archive" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;archive</a><p>But yeah, without a subscription, this still mostly just leads to walled off pages.<p>Accessing the actual archived version of every issue at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archives.newyorker.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archives.newyorker.com&#x2F;</a> is truly wonderful as they are fully digitized back to back.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  No, they won. They never put a backdoor in.<p>Not sure how finding an exploit in software means the company is compliant. Microsoft would be criminally liable for untold damage if that was the case.<p>Kimmels bosses were kissing the ring. But it&#x27;s unlikely there was real threat. The courts have been shooting Trumps authoritarian dreams down left and right.<p>China has no (legitimate) courts.


type: comment
by: nandomrumber
text:
  You’re right, disease labels aren’t diagnostic.<p>Many disease labels just mean inflammation-of-a tissue &#x2F; organ.<p>Worth noting that some viral inflections of the respiratory tract will have a bacterial secondary, where an either commensal bacteria has over proliferated or a pathogenic bacteria has started to get a hold, and treating the bacterial secondary can help the patient better fight the viral primary.


type: story
by: acaronlex
title: Show HN: Pivor, Open source self-hosted CRM
url: https://github.com/Lexaro-Software/pivor
text:
  I built Pivor because I wanted a simple, self-hosted CRM without cloud lock-in or per-seat pricing.<p>Features: Clients, Contacts, Communications tracking (emails, calls, meetings, tasks), dark mode.<p>Stack: Laravel 12, Livewire 3, Tailwind CSS 4. Runs on SQLite by default, supports MySQL&#x2F;PostgreSQL. Docker ready.<p>AGPL-3.0 licensed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Lexaro-Software&#x2F;pivor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Lexaro-Software&#x2F;pivor</a><p>Looking for feedback!


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  There are a lot of food and drink items with official legal definitions that include the region of origin. The most famous one is champagne, which can only be called champagne if it comes from a specific region.<p>You can think of the name as being inclusive of the region, not simply descriptive of the variety. So if someone made a sparkling wine in a different region and sold it as champagne then they would be committing fraud.<p>&gt; Like if I plant some in my yard and start selling them online or at the local farmers market, what is anyone really going to do?<p>At your farmer’s market? Probably nothing. But if you came across a particularly grumpy person with time and money to burn on lawyers they would have a case against you. Not actually going to happen at that scale. But if you owned vidaliaonions.com and started selling fraudulent vidalia onions at scale, the farmers would likely get together and pursue legal action to protect their prices.<p>It’s almost like a brand. You can sell LEGO-style bricks but you can’t call them LEGO because they didn’t come from the LEGO company.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>Always profile before you optimize</i><p>Not necessarily. Often, treatment and testing can be done in parallel.<p>In many cases, the treatment is also a test. Every time you apply topical antibiotics to a cut, you’re testing for antibiotic resistance.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  Are you working from Europe or have unlimited PTO?<p>That much time off at a small company sounds rare.


type: comment
by: abanana
text:
  In the late 1990s, Lego went the other way with those big single-purpose pieces, and were heavily criticised (particularly by older Lego fans) for &quot;juniorisation&quot; - over-simplifying sets so you just couldn&#x27;t build anything different with the pieces. You can&#x27;t build buildings out of big vehicle parts.<p>Sounds like it&#x27;s gone too far the other way now and they&#x27;re still not managing to find a middle ground? But it does depend partly on what age of kids we&#x27;re talking about.


type: comment
by: nolito
text:
  But not well tested. Try to create a map and copy the url to another map. Now change the first map with more anotations or move the map center and copy the generated url and paste it into the other map on the other browser. That does not work (at least for me on different browsers).


type: comment
by: alsetmusic
text:
  Haha, looks like you use sshpass [0], which I only discovered by accident a couple of months ago. I wasn&#x27;t able to get the current version of it to work for some reason, but I was able to debug it into a working state by combining bits from the current version and an earlier version.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;UninvitedActivity&#x2F;UninvitedActivity&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;Script04.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;UninvitedActivity&#x2F;UninvitedActivity&#x2F;blob&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: sib
text:
  It generally does. If accidents (and payouts) drop by 90%, revenue will ultimately drop and profits will follow. Profit <i>margins</i> may increase, but total profit $$ will likely drop.


type: comment
by: evan_
text:
  These little wooden shaker eggs went over quite well with my 18mo nephew:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;HABA-Musical-Eggs-Acoustic-Germany&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B00BF3D666&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;HABA-Musical-Eggs-Acoustic-Germany&#x2F;dp...</a><p>He&#x27;s also enjoying the Mega Bloks someone got him though he&#x27;s mostly just sticking them together and throwing them.


type: comment
by: morkalork
text:
  You&#x27;re being sarcastic but if I &quot;LLM as judge&quot; one more time, I might jump off a bridge.<p>Also, it does appear that there are companies willing to YOLO themselves off a cliff with AI


type: story
by: bilsbie
title: LLMs from Scratch Using Middle School Math – TDS Archive
url:
  https://medium.com/data-science/understanding-llms-from-scratch-using-middle-school-math-e602d27ec876


type: comment
by: MarsIronPI
text:
  You can see the same problem in the XMPP world, with a lot of the extensions implemented only by a few applications.  But at least most XMPP extensions are designed to be backwards-compatible with clients that don&#x27;t support them.


type: comment
by: erulabs
text:
  you&#x27;re right, and <i>definitely</i> Palantir is a harder sell here. But to say &quot;they named their weapons company Anduril, what are they, bad guys?&quot; frustrates the nerd in me quite a lot.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  Except that is bullshit. They did worked the other parts of the year too, just not doing the exact same agricultural work as those few weeks.<p>That thing simply ignores everything it takes to keep animals alive year round, keep kids alive year round, create and repair tools, keep house warm, create fabric, sew cloth, actually cook without modern tools and so on and so forth.<p>Just because there is a rush time does not mean workers do nothing the rest od the time.


type: comment
by: adw
text:
  Did you do any serious simulations work? If so, machine learning. (PhD in mineral physics, staff ML engineer at a FAANG.)


type: comment
by: Kirby64
text:
  &gt; That’s why I don’t like it as a consumer. If they keep producing M1 and M2 I’d assume we can get better prices because the total quantity would be much larger.<p>Why would this be true? An M5 MacBook Air today costs the same as an M1 MacBook Air cost in 2020 or whenever they released it, and is substantially more performant. Your dollar per performance is already better.<p>If they kept selling the same old stuff, then you spread production across multiple different nodes and the pricing would be inherently worse.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>Yet another &quot;in mice&quot; breakthrough</i><p>I don’t get this take. Like yes, we aren’t mice, and everything that works in mice won’t work in humans. But loads of things that worked in mice <i>did</i> wind up working in humans, which is why most groundbreaking drugs over the past decades were first explored in mice, which is why we continue to use mouse models.


type: comment
by: hamza_q_
text:
  Thanks for checking it out!<p>Yeah unfortunately, since the diarization is acoustic features based, it really does require high recorded voice fidelity&#x2F;quality to get the best results. However, I just added another knob to the Diarizer class called mer_cos, which controls the speaker merging threshold. The default is 0.875, so perhaps try lowering to 0.8. That should help.<p>I&#x27;ll also get around to adding a oracle&#x2F;min&#x2F;max speakers feature at some point, for cases where you know the exact number of speakers ahead of time, or wanna set upper&#x2F;lower bounds. Gotten busy with another project, so haven&#x27;t done it yet. PR&#x27;s welcome though! haha


type: comment
by: samiv
text:
  Shh...you&#x27;re not supposed to mention these things alas you be down voted to death.<p>I also have tremendous issues with Plasma. Things such as graphics glitching in the alt+tab task switcher or Firefox choking the whole system when opening a single 4k PNG image. This is pre-alpha software... So back to X11 it is. Try again in another decade or two.


type: comment
by: bgwalter
text:
  I&#x27;m sure that an insurance company would reject larger premiums and make itself obsolete, assuming that claims you make are true.<p>Hint: Normies outside the tech world are not hell bent on making themselves unemployed. That phenomenon only exists among software engineers.


type: comment
by: jauntywundrkind
text:
  Will be interesting to see if Nvidia and other have any interest &amp; energy getting this used by others, if there actually is an ecosystem forming around it.<p>Google leading XLA &amp; IREE, with awesome intermediate representations,  used by lots of hardware platforms, and backing really excellent Jax &amp; Pytorch implementations, having tools for layout &amp; optinization folks can share: they really build an amazing community.<p>There&#x27;s still so much room for planning&#x2F;scheduling, so much hardware we have yet to target. RISC-V has really interesting vector instructions, for example, and it seems like there&#x27;s so much exploration &#x2F; work to do to better leverage that.<p>Nvidia has partners everywhere now. Nvlink is used by Intel, AWS Tritanium, others. Yesterday the Groq exclusive license that Nvidia paid to give to Groq?! Seeing how and when CUDA Tiles emerges: will be interesting. Moving from fabric partnerships, up up up the stack.


type: comment
by: directevolve
text:
  I think it’s worth addressing this with more nuance.<p>Companies can get a METHOD-OF-USE PATENT (MOU) on an old drug for a new INDICATION.<p>This gives them the exclusive right to LABEL AND MARKET that drug for that indication for a period of time.<p>I however, doctors can prescribe and pharmacists can substitute generics for the new indication, regardless of the MOU.<p>For a company to profit off an MOU, they strategically need to create a new FORMULATION. This is a new dose or delivery mechanism (extended release, topical, etc). A new formulation can be protected with conventional patents that go beyond an MOU.<p>With an MOU + patent on a new formulation, the company has a brand where they are the only ones allowed to make the new formulation and the only ones with a product approved to be marketed for the new indication.<p>Getting FDA approval for the new brand is not the main hurdle for the company. To get insurers to pay the premium they want over the cost of existing treatment options, they have to show it’s safer or more effective than those existing options. Otherwise insurance will block it.<p>In principle, this means that repurposing should only enable companies to profitably repurpose off patent off label applications if they can provide a real patient benefit.<p>Whether this is the best or most efficient way to promote this kind of innovation, or whether it works as well in practice as it would seem in theory, is a separate question.


type: comment
by: foresto
text:
  Free, reliable, enduring servers supporting all the XEPs needed to approach Matrix functionality were scarce when I last surveyed the XMPP landscape. This alone made it not viable for global, general-purpose use.<p>Also, only a tiny handful of clients supporting those XEPs by default were easy to find and set up, and I don&#x27;t think those few covered all platforms, making the problem worse.<p>(And I don&#x27;t recall XMPP ever being great at mixing offline delivery with multi-device support, since messages cached on a server weren&#x27;t guaranteed to be held until all devices retrieved them, but I suppose it&#x27;s possible that might have been solved by now.)<p>I do miss the Jabber glory days, and I might still consider it for smallish communities where I could reasonably provide the server and tech support, but I don&#x27;t see it challenging Matrix as a practical choice for the world&#x27;s general messaging needs.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>the senior author owns the company</i><p>Unfortunately, the moment I saw reference to NAD+ I started looking for this. Thank you.


type: comment
by: throw310822
text:
  &gt; The only plausible explanation is that it was tall in order to ensure access to light.<p>Thought the same, but that implies both that it grew in very dense &quot;forests&quot; (mono-species because there were no competitors) and probably that it had leaves (because otherwise trunks don&#x27;t occlude much light).<p>Although, counterexample: why do (some) cactuses grow tall? Claude provides these explanations that might apply:<p>Water collection and storage — Height means more volume for water storage. A large saguaro can hold thousands of liters of water in its stem, which is crucial for surviving long droughts.<p>Temperature regulation — Being taller gets the growing tip and flowers farther from the scorching ground surface, where temperatures can be extreme. The ground in deserts can reach 70°C (160°F), while air temperature a few meters up is significantly cooler.


type: comment
by: moffkalast
text:
  Everything is possible when a quantum scientist needs to apply for another grant. Less so after the project is already signed.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  Never said it was “panacea for depreciated hardware.” I’m saying it’s a common use case.<p>Every thread about Linux inevitably someone says “it gave new life to my [older computer model].” We’ve all seen it countless times.


type: comment
by: Grosvenor
text:
  But we still miss out on the great ANSI colors.<p>I kinda do want to go back to oldschool bbses, with cool text-mode lightbar interfaces.


type: comment
by: nandomrumber
text:
  That’s so obvious I can’t believe I didn’t think of it, and &#x2F; or that I haven’t seen it before.<p>Mouse-heifer’s! &lt;knee slap&gt;


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  In the US, Walmart is still selling the M1 MacBook Air new, for $599 (and has been discounted to $549 or better at times, such as Black Friday).<p>In general, I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s reasonable to worry that Apple&#x27;s products aren&#x27;t <i>thoroughly</i> achieving economies of scale. The less expensive consumer-oriented products are extremely popular, various components are shared across product lines (eg. the same chip being used in Macs and iPads) and across multiple generations (except for the SoC itself, obviously), and Apple rather famously has a well-run supply chain.<p>From a strategic perspective, it seems likely that Apple&#x27;s long history of annual iteration on their processors in the iPhone and their now well-established pattern of updating the Mac chips less often but still frequently is part of how Apple&#x27;s chips have been so successful. Annual(ish) chip updates with small incremental improvements compounds over the years. Compare Apple&#x27;s past decade of chip progress against Intel&#x27;s troubled past decade of infrequent technology updates (when you look past the incrementing of the branding), uneven improvements and some outright <i>regressions</i> in important performance metrics.


type: comment
by: legsrunny
text:
  ``` Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.playbookatlas.com (see the browser console for more information). ```<p>hell yeah


type: comment
by: SamuelAdams
text:
  Has Hector left though?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;asahi&#x2F;20251215-macsmc-subdevs-v6-4-0518cb5f28ae@gmail.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lore.kernel.org&#x2F;asahi&#x2F;20251215-macsmc-subdevs-v6-4-0...</a>


type: comment
by: tubs
text:
  You can source generate JSON serdes from your own source generator but you do need to generate the jsontypeinfo metadata yourself.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Depends, is it a computer?<p>The Steam Deck is, no doubt about it. The iPad isn&#x27;t. If you&#x27;re walking around calling your iPad a &quot;handheld PC&quot; then you&#x27;re looking like Dwight from <i>The Office</i>.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  Seeing my grandmother go through dementia for 10 years made me incredibly angry that we don&#x27;t have assisted suicide available for people.<p>People with the emotional and compassionate depth of a child are the ones keeping us from allowing people to die with dignity.


type: comment
by: krish678
text:
  That number is for a non-trivial software path (parsing, state updates, decision logic), not a minimal hot loop. Sub-100 ns in pure software usually means extremely constrained logic or offloading parts elsewhere. I agree there’s room to improve, and I’m working on reducing structural overheads, but this wasn’t meant to represent the absolute lower bound of what’s possible.


type: comment
by: mettamage
text:
  To me, game consoles were toys. Maybe they are a lot more now but the SNES and N64 felt like toys. The pc felt like a toy too.<p>I am very likely to be a father in the future. I am happy I have all my old consoles because it helps a bit with introducing kids to technology without them having access to all of it.<p>Soccer outside was fun too, there was a field nearby our house.


type: comment
by: Mackrey
text:
  The Echo Show 5 brings your smart home to life with a compact screen that fits anywhere. Video calls, camera monitoring, music, daily reminders, weather updates, and even a smart digital photo frame—all hands-free with Alexa. Perfect for bedrooms, kitchens, home offices, and family connectivity.    Stay in touch  Control your smart home  Watch shows &amp; security feeds  Display your favorite memories A smarter way to start and end your day.


type: comment
by: octopoc
text:
  .NET standard isn’t the biggest issue with making source generators. You can’t add dependencies to your project, which is an absolutely huge oversight IMO.


type: comment
by: throwup238
text:
  <i>&gt; He is extremely productive in its specialty: the intersection of programming language and system programming.</i><p>Why do you say that specifically is his specialty? He also started QEMU and ffmpeg which are foundational pieces of software for several industries, and his day job is as founder of a company that makes software defined radio test equipment for cellular networks. There isn&#x27;t one thing I could point at as a specialty.


type: comment
by: albert_roca
text:
  This seems properly copied and pasted. Good job. I guess we agree that AI is already playing a central role in science, and physics is no exception.


type: comment
by: ChocolateGod
text:
  &gt; making it a high bar<p>That high bar is GNOME having an uppity whenever a Wayland protocol is suggested they don&#x27;t like, that even if is accepted, if Mutter doesn&#x27;t implement it then its dead in the water given its the de facto default compositor on unfortunately what people consider &quot;Linux&quot;, aka Ubuntu.<p>e.g. DRM leases that only got changed because Valve has the bigger underwear. Expecting games to implement DBUS (incl. when running under Wine) to access VR headsets just for GNOME is nuts.<p>The government model needs a change that stakeholders who ship devices to the end users that rely on them have more of a say, whether that&#x27;s Google, Valve etc. Valve is now backing and pushing KDE into average joe end users is a telling.


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  L5 at FAANG makes almost no decisions <i>on their own</i> but has to schedule a dozen meetings and pester a dozen people from various teams to &quot;get alignment&quot;.<p>We still have to do the work to get the decision made without the fun part of just making the decision ourselves.


type: comment
by: JumpCrisscross
text:
  &gt; <i>raise intracellular NAD+ levels, but unclear whether they raise intercellular NAD+, which is what really matters</i><p>Why?


type: comment
by: wrxd
text:
  &gt; From 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, I had to care deeply about our quarterly goals and production stability<p>He didn’t have to care that deeply. Alphabet expected from him L4 work. He got paid as a L4. It’s just fair that he also delivered L4 work and spent his effort on something more useful


type: comment
by: dminor
text:
  A lot of backwards looping is a remnant of efficient loops in programming days of yore - you compare your iterator to 0 each time, which is slightly more efficient than comparing to another variable.


type: comment
by: qezz
text:
  &gt; in ruby it also works, but the variable is at least always defined.<p>How is this even a pro? I agree that Python scoping rules are frustrating, but tbh not sure if I would prefer Ruby&#x27;s behavior in this case


type: comment
by: zenmac
text:
  &gt;I am very impressed with how smooth and problem-free Asahi Linux is. It is incredibly responsive and feels even smoother than my Arch Linux desktop with a 16 core AMD Ryzen 7945HX and 64GB of RAM.<p>Hmmm still have issue with the battery in sleep mode on the m1. It drains a lot battery when it is in sleep mode compare to mac sleep mode.


type: comment
by: limaho
text:
  I&#x27;m struggling to find where I can browse these RHEL images. Do you have any insight?<p>edit: they can be found here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quay.io&#x2F;organization&#x2F;hummingbird" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quay.io&#x2F;organization&#x2F;hummingbird</a> and more documentation is located here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;redhat&#x2F;hummingbird&#x2F;containers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gitlab.com&#x2F;redhat&#x2F;hummingbird&#x2F;containers</a>


type: comment
by: canucker2016
text:
  Don&#x27;t forget that there was a Google attempt at making a faster Python - Unladen Swallow. It got lots of PR but never merged with mainline CPython (wikipedia says a dev branch was released).<p>see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unladen_Swallow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unladen_Swallow</a>


type: comment
by: dueyfinster
text:
  I&#x27;ve done the pragmatic studio elixir and erlang courses and they are high quality. They do the same for Ruby and Rails[1]<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragmaticstudio.com&#x2F;rails" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragmaticstudio.com&#x2F;rails</a>


type: comment
by: uecker
text:
  I agree. My point was only that this hole can easily be patched in X as well. So the argument was essentially &quot;we do not bother to patch it with X, so we must rewrite X&quot;.


type: comment
by: puff_pastry
text:
  Asahi is awesome! But this is also proves that laptops outside the MacBook realm really need to improve so much. I wish there were a Linux machine with the hardware quality of a MacBook


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  Exactly. This myth keeps being perpetuated, for some reason.<p>I&#x27;m typing this from a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 running Void Linux, and UPower is reporting 99% battery with ~15h left. I do have TLP installed and running, which is supposed to help. Realistically, I won&#x27;t get around 15h with my usage patterns, but I do get around 10-12 hours. It&#x27;s a new laptop with a fresh battery, so that plays a big role as well.<p>This might not be as good as the battery life on a Macbook, but it&#x27;s pretty acceptable to me. The upcoming Intel chips also promise to be more power efficient, which should help even more.


type: comment
by: fittingopposite
text:
  Have you worked with both Matrix and Zulip? Looking at both for a small team and wondering which way to go with. Matrix seems more complex to set up and less tailored to function as a Slack alternative. What has been your experience?


type: comment
by: 8n4vidtmkvmk
text:
  The difference might not make an enormous difference in my day to day but it allows me to retire significantly earlier.<p>It might let me actually buy a house too. 300k is not enough to afford anything in bay area.


type: comment
by: tclancy
text:
  I’ve happily lost hours to following links at the bottom of one story to the next. The new archive still feels a little clunky (search needs a fair bit of work and the OCR clearly struggled in places), but it’s fun to chase down old classics and they’ve done a great job of highlighting greatest hits from the past 100 years.<p>Plus the (really high-quality) crossword puzzles often have an Easter egg where the big revealer is linked to an essay from the past.


type: comment
by: nandomrumber
text:
  Stopped clocks.<p>Broken clocks can be broken in ways that causes them to be up to and including never correct.<p>;)


type: comment
by: redwall_hp
text:
  Similarly, you need ID to get an ID. You also need proof of address to get an ID. And you need an ID to get an address or a job.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  Frankly, they are not at all good at that. At least for me, they just failed. Thr fact is, they have no idea about when I am about to forget this or that fact.


type: comment
by: yuuu
text:
  &gt; AI performed the mathematical verification<p>That should be done by the human writing the manuscript, i.e., you.


type: comment
by: tclancy
text:
  Nice, reminded me of this classic <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-maraschino-moguls-secret-life" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2018&#x2F;04&#x2F;23&#x2F;the-maraschino...</a>


type: comment
by: scotty79
text:
  &gt; Similarly, &quot;how many strangers in your house have been murderers?&quot; is irrelevant, even if the answer is &quot;all of them so far&quot;.<p>That doesn&#x27;t sound very sane.


type: comment
by: scarmig
text:
  If I were diagnosed with Alzheimer&#x27;s, I would seek out assisted suicide. But I think it&#x27;s more complicated than that: its existence incentivizes pushing people toward assisted suicide. The government finds a way to help with bloated medical care budgets; unscrupulous family members guilt trip the sick to choose the option to keep the inheritance intact.<p>The best solution allows it for severe cases, while still investing money in research and spending money for palliative care so it remains an option and not a demand. But that&#x27;s a tricky line to maintain.


type: comment
by: zenmac
text:
  If the domain name is in the cookie value then that can&#x27;t be used when submit another request from another domain. Yes you can configure the dns to bypass that, but at that point it is also pointless for CSRF.


type: comment
by: hassanjahan
text:
  We began with apps designed for non-technical teams, but databases are appealing as well. We already offer PocketBase, yet<p>Supabase has become increasingly popular.


type: comment
by: hulitu
text:
  &gt; Britain Just Had Its Sunniest Year on Record<p>People are never happy. If it rains, they want sun. If it is sunny, they want rain.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  Weightlifters use weight they can lift and feel good after the session. Literally. They may feel tired, but they feel good. They see weights go up and feel like progressing (unless they are in fact stagnating).<p>That is literal opposite of what OP describes. What OP describes is weight lifter taking on weight they cant lift and conatantly feeling like a failure after each training.


type: comment
by: bccdee
text:
  That&#x27;s one thing I&#x27;ll say for in-house &quot;mini-frameworks&quot;: Real frameworks often try to present a smooth façade of abstraction which is hard to punch holes through. An in-house &quot;mini-framework,&quot; though, is often just a hodgepodge of compostable abstractions which you can individually take or leave without too much hassle.<p>Of course, your hodgepodge ecosystem will eventually ends up a bit of a mess, but I&#x27;ll take that over a flashy off-the-shelf framework that insists on handling everything itself.


type: comment
by: nkydr0i0
text:
  Maybe they&#x27;re upset you&#x27;re not using Wayland?<p>Then again, every Wayland compositor family has their own tools...


type: comment
by: arcanemachiner
text:
  My guess is that he took a meme for normal people (&quot;that would make a good band name&quot;) and twisted it into a more nerdy version (&quot;that would make a good domain name&quot;).


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
text:
  &gt; it&#x27;s possible that the beliefs and propositions of individual members of a greater body don&#x27;t always align with the official stance<p>It is, and where they depart from or twist binding doctrine, it would be a matter of heresy.<p>But FWIW, the Catholic Church didn’t and doesn’t have a stance on the question of heliocentrism. Why would it? It is not a question with any religious importance. Who cares which orb rotates around which? Copernicus wasn’t doing anything forbidden (nor had he vindicated heliocentrism) and had high ranking friends and acquaintances in the clergy (including cardinals like Cardinal Schõnberg and Pope Clement VII) who took an interest in his work. <i>De Revolutionibus</i> was itself dedicated to Pope Paul III. If anything, Copernicus was wary of other <i>academics</i> who held to the Ptolemaic view at the time. Plus ça change…<p>No doubt, you have in mind the oft-repeated Galileo affair which has become one of those stubborn black legends that seems to stay afloat despite the lack of facts supporting it because of its instrumental value for sticking it to the Church. The Galileo affair was not about heliocentrism. It was about a clash of egos and personalities (Galileo’s being of them, as he liked to pick pointless fights, including some nasty personal attacks on his friend and benefactor Urban VIII) that spanned decades. It isn’t as piquant as the story as typically told would have you believe.


type: comment
by: seabrookmx
text:
  The debugger works fine on Linux?<p>The only thing missing are some profiling tools.<p>If you really need those you&#x27;re better off with Rider which is integrated with DotTrace.


type: comment
by: charcircuit
text:
  &gt;are few and far between<p>They are more common than you would think. There just is not many willing to work on a shoe string salary.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  Very cool! You might check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44314085">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44314085</a> if you haven’t seen it yet, similar project you might get inspiration from.


type: comment
by: anonym29
text:
  You mentioned amyloid plaques. What about tau tangles? I thought Alzheimer&#x27;s required both. If someone (or some dog, for that matter) has amyloid plaques but no tau tangles, is that Alzheimer&#x27;s? If they have tau tangles but no amyloid plaques, what is it?<p>And what about the brains that show amyloid plaques, tau tangles, and Lewy bodies? Or plaques plus vascular lesions? At autopsy, most elderly brains show mixed pathology. Does that person have Alzheimer&#x27;s plus Lewy body dementia plus vascular dementia? Three diseases? Or one brain failing in multiple correlated ways that we&#x27;ve artificially carved into separate categories?<p>It sounds like we have at least five different pathological markers that correlate with cognitive decline, often co-occurring, with inconsistent symptom mapping. What makes &#x27;Alzheimer&#x27;s&#x27; a disease rather than a region we&#x27;ve named in a high-dimensional space we don&#x27;t really understand all that well?


type: comment
by: 7thaccount
text:
  Magnatiles are great for adults who want to play with their kids too.<p>The most fun my kid had was playing make believe games with me. Like I&#x27;d say &quot;you&#x27;re lost in a forest and you see a cabin up ahead and a trail that goes past it. What do you do&quot;? And we&#x27;d go from there. Zero dollar cost and unlimited hours of fun until they grow up enough and don&#x27;t want to play anymore.


type: story
by: mettamage
title: Tell HN: Math academy and iPad and sleep issues solved = me learning math
text:
  Super casual post (typed on my phone, while lying on my bed), tried a lot of things but this is sticking. So I had to tell you because it may help some of you that are math curious like me.<p>Sleep issues is tough, it took me 5 years and a friend who is a doctor. The Dutch medical system failed me but my doctor friend saved me from a lifetime of insomnia. In my case it is: 0.3 mg melatonin + 7.5 mg mirtazapine (anti-histamine, it makes me drowsy) + meditation + sleep hygiene. Your experience may be different.<p>Math academy: I need to be told what to do. Designing my own curriculum is too much. Also, I need to pair it with a solid LLM because I have a lot of why questions and of course channels like 3B1B.<p>iPad: I tried pen and paper multiple times. The thing is: sometimes I just want to be in a slob and lie on my bed in weird ways and still do math. I found I need a pen, I can’t do it on pure memory. An iPad where I can do split screen: Math academy + MyScript (formerly Nebo) is nice. An Apple Pencil Pro is really nice because I don’t need to worry about connection issues.<p>I was doubting between: ipad vs pen and paper (the nth retry) vs Remarkable. I am happy I got a second hand ipad air. I can stick to this routine.<p>Low-key life changing.<p>I know this setup isn’t for everyone.


type: comment
by: NuclearPM
text:
  Less than 2000 trucks is 100 million dollars? And even then, this is meaningless for a Ponzi scheme “worth” $1.5 trillion.<p>0.0067%<p>Do you still think your claim makes sense?


type: comment
by: nusl
text:
  What a business should do, sure. Businesses should - and do - do a lot of really shitty things because it benefits them but harms a lot of other things. I don&#x27;t feel that it&#x27;s a good justification to argue this way though.<p>In this case, removing a competitor, absorbing their IP, and maintain their ability to dictate the direction of an entire industry. They&#x27;re hurting the industry itself by removing competition, since competition is good for consumers and also good for progression forward.<p>Businesses with a monopoly of some sort often stop innovating in the space and end up slowing the entire thing down. Often, they do their best to block anything and anyone that tries to do better, and effectively keep progress back in doing so, simply to maintain their position.<p>They&#x27;re selfish self-preserving entities often driven by the same kinds of people, disregarding the harm they do in the name of profits and shareholder &quot;value&quot;. Sure, until someone disrupts that (or they get bought out and dissolved).


type: comment
by: zenmac
text:
  Yeah just would be good on a codeberg or gitlab or maybe even github repo. So we can do PR.<p>Here is the fix:<p>.leaflet-top, .leaflet-left{ z-index: 100000; &#x2F;* some high number *&#x2F; }


type: comment
by: brudgers
text:
  Semantic versioning encourages breaking changes through basic bigger-number-better human psychology...you can&#x27;t get to version 10 without a lot of breaking changes.<p>And breaking changes are bad software engineering. That&#x27;s what is bad about semantic versioning.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  If you grow them in the Vidalia region (20 counties around Vidalia, GA), you&#x27;re aok... but if you grow them outside of that area, and call them a Vidalia, you&#x27;ll get into hot water. The law mainly came into existence cause Texas farmers began growing regular yellow onions and slapping the &#x27;Vidalia&#x27; name on it, and customers would get pissed. So all the Vidalia farmers got together and got a Federal law passed that says you can only call an onion a &#x27;Vidalia&#x27; if it&#x27;s grown in our special region down here where we have sandy, loamy soil that contributes to the mild, sweet taste.


type: comment
by: mixmastamyk
text:
  Don’t listen to defeatist BS. If a candidate needs to grow, the response should be to give them small projects to lead and grow. A few university classes in missing subjects, coaching, etc. Not keep them in purgatory.<p>A growth mindset instead a fixed one, basically.


type: comment
by: lippihom
text:
  Not in my experience at all.  Very solid product but incredibly frustrating trying to negotiate &#x2F; get a bit of wiggle room in regards to pricing.<p>My plan auto-renewed for 2026 but it&#x27;s become a priority to move everything off of Dato to another CMS for 2027.


type: comment
by: jpster
text:
  As the parent IMO it’s your responsibility to help her dig deep, get resilience, find hope. It’s your household so why aren’t you celebrating Christmas?


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  what were his predecessors approval ratings? 42-45% is as good as you’ll ever going to get in America outside or extreme situations like post 9&#x2F;11.


type: comment
by: hn_throwaway_99
text:
  Thanks very much for your comment. I posted elsewhere that I felt like SameSite: Lax should be considered a primary defense, not just &quot;Defense in depth&quot; as OWASP calls it, but your rationale makes sense to me, while OWASP&#x27;s does not.<p>That is, if you are using SameSite Lax and not performing state changes on GETs, there is no real attack vector, <i>but</i> like you say it means you need to be able to trust the security of all of your subdomains equally, which is rarely if ever the case.<p>I&#x27;m surprised browser vendors haven&#x27;t thought of this. Like even SameSite: Strict will still send cookies when the request comes from a subdomain. Has there been any talk of adding something like a SameSite: SameOrigin or something like that? It seems weird to me that the Sec-Fetch-Site header has clear delineations between site and origin, but the SameSite header does not.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; Idk if the quality has held up<p>I can vouch for the quality of modern magnatiles<p>The problem now is that there are a zillion knock-offs sold everywhere, both retail shops and online. We don’t buy them, but the kids get them as gifts. They all have something different, from the magnet positioning to the outer dimensions, presumably to try to dodge some patents. These become the weak point in bigger builds or throw off the dimensions in ways that add up and cause early collapse.<p>I’ve been quietly removing the gifted knock offs and replacing them with real ones because it makes the experience less frustrating.<p>We’re starting to have the same problem with LEGO now


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  The thing is that I&#x27;m not experiencing this clipboard issue on Plasma, but on a fresh installation of Void Linux with niri. There are reports of this issue all over[1][2][3], so it&#x27;s clearly not an isolated problem. The frustrating thing is that I wouldn&#x27;t even know which project to report it to. What a clusterfuck.<p>I can&#x27;t go back to X11 since the community is deliberately killing it. And relying on a fork maintained by a single person is insane to me.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;hyprland&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1d4s9bw&#x2F;ctrlc_ctrlv_issues_anyone&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;hyprland&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1d4s9bw&#x2F;ctrlc_ctr...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tuxedocomputers&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1i9v0n7&#x2F;copy_paste_only_works_on_second_try&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;tuxedocomputers&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1i9v0n7&#x2F;co...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;kde&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1jl6zv7&#x2F;why_does_copypaste_not_work_all_the_time_when_i&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;kde&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1jl6zv7&#x2F;why_does_copyp...</a>


type: comment
by: stogot
text:
  Math before bedtime used to cause me sleep issues. Not sure if you tried doing it early in the morning or not, but also your bed should only be used for sleeping (sleep hygiene) and nothing else (no math)


type: comment
by: Certhas
text:
  FF is plenty competitive on the technical and feature front. It&#x27;s market share is not a reflection of technical merit.<p>What&#x27;s more, next to Linux itself it is maybe the only case I can see where a major piece of user facing software is kept competitive with the Apple&#x2F;Google&#x2F;MS tools.<p>LibreOffice or Nextcloud are technically far further behind Office and Google&#x27;s online offerings.<p>Which therefore begs the question: Who else is in a position to do this?<p>At first glance, Moz with Firefox + a suite of self-hosted team and productivity stuff that works well in Firefox would make a ton of sense...


type: comment
by: rolph
text:
  the next step is, why?<p>what assumptions does your current model make. what could change that would eliminate disparity. What plausible mechanisms explain [Diff]?


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  I have two female cousins who are divorced and whose children are grown or nearly so.  They are both in their late 40s, early 50s.  They still live in my hometown.  Guess how much they hate it here (I’m home for the holidays)?<p>I would be <i>fine</i> here as a married man.  But I can’t imagine being single here instead of my two times being a single adult in Atlanta (22-28 and 32 through 35).<p>I “retired my wife” at 46 halfway so we could travel more (I work remotely) and halfway so she could pursue her hobbies.  I would be okay here because most of what I do is on the weekend and there is an airport here that has two flights a day back and forth to the Atlanta Delta hub.  She would absolutely hate it.<p>My resources were far from constrained making even $150K before 2020 living in a 3200 square foot house I had built in the northern burbs of Atlanta for $335K in 2016.<p>They are a lot less constrained now though making in the low $200s in state tax free Florida living outside of Orlando.  That 200K is nothing to brag about in tech.  As o said before that’s what a former intern I mentored at AWS is making as a mid level SA


type: comment
by: irreal_s
text:
  the entire benchmark part of the readme was added by an ai bot last week in a random swagger PR ? :D <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wutlu&#x2F;boltcache&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1&#x2F;files#diff-b335630551682c19a781afebcf4d07bf978fb1f8ac04c6bf87428ed5106870f5R280-R290" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wutlu&#x2F;boltcache&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1&#x2F;files#diff-b335630...</a>


type: comment
by: nubg
text:
  Ok, why can I not just read the prompt that went in? Why do I need to read a verbosified version of it? What&#x27;s the point?


type: comment
by: throwup238
text:
  Normally when laymen say &quot;digitized&quot; they mean one of two things: scanned images in a PDF or fully transcribed (and possible formatted) text extracted from the scan. <i>The Complete New Yorker</i> you&#x27;re thinking of was mostly the former, with a bit of indexing (table of contents pointing to the PDFs if I remember correctly).<p>This latest digitization project does the latter, transcribing the text into their existing content management system and as far as I can tell, preserving much of the formatting. This comes with full text search, allows cross linking between articles, and all that good stuff.<p>I suspect that since they include an LLM summary and started this digitization project in early 2024, this was enabled by LLMs.


type: comment
by: fennecbutt
text:
  Yes, developers on my teams have started submitting PRs exactly like this and the content of the PR is similar. Still need to figure out how to put a stop to it.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  My grandmother&#x27;s case ended up bankrupting my grandfather and seriously straining the rest of the family. Which ultimately put my grandfather in a pennyless position when he was in his 90&#x27;s, and poor state care when he was declining - not what he or my grandmother worked their entire lives for. Our family couldn&#x27;t replace what was lost in the years of care for my grandmother&#x27;s body, long after she herself was gone.<p><i>Never</i> something she would have wanted, but you don&#x27;t really have a choice and dignified death is never given as an option.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  actions might be transient but, like or not (I certainly do not) will be <i>the</i> President that is remembered and talked about more than just about all of previous ones combined


type: comment
by: albert_roca
text:
  Absolutely not. Results don&#x27;t depend on who performed the calculation or how it was done. Can you solve 12,672 Feynman diagrams by hand?


type: comment
by: zuspotirko
text:
  Basically there is an entity between Annas Archive and the torrents: hosters. AA has searchable metadata and a hash value. The hosters keep track of hash values, the cached files and in which torrents they are backed up, and take up almost the entire legal liability. Users search on AA what they are looking for but ultimately download it from a hoster.


type: comment
by: htk
text:
  Unbelievable story in the best of ways. Three amazing people lucky to have each other in their lives.


type: comment
by: lippihom
text:
  Great product but quite onerous pricing &#x2F; rates.<p>As a fellow bootstrapper the lack of flexibility when it came to dealing with customer service was super frustrating.  I referred a few fellow founder friends to them early on but now have made it a priority to switch to an alternative.<p>Congrats on the 65% margins though!


type: story
by: andrewstuart
title: Ask HN: What are some ideas to create magical experiences for kids?
text:
  I’m not talking “magic tricks”.<p>I’m asking if you have ideas to create experiences that make life magical for kids, fun adventures, whatever you can think of.


type: comment
by: morshu9001
text:
  Tech is thriving in some of those east Asian countries. For the size of the EU population or GDP, take your pick, their tech sector isn&#x27;t so hot.<p>Of course I didn&#x27;t say that being unregulated automatically makes the tech sector thrive. Kenya has plenty of other problems to solve first.


type: comment
by: irreal_s
text:
  this looks like an entirely AI built project from start to finish. there&#x27;s 10 emoji filled commits and two obvisouly ai PRs. I think the description of the first commit reflects the prompt it was given:<p>- High-performance Redis-compatible cache with REST API - 30-50% faster than Redis using Go&#x27;s concurrency - RESTful API with HTTP&#x2F;JSON interface - Pub&#x2F;Sub messaging with WebSocket support - Complex data types: String, List, Set, Hash - Token-based authentication and security - YAML-based configuration management - Docker and Kubernetes support - Comprehensive documentation and examples - Postman collection and interactive web client


type: story
by: IndySun
title: Ask HN: What do you consider fun?
text:
  If you&#x27;re inordinately in front of a computer screen for a living, day in day out, week after week, when you&#x27;ve finally had enough and need a break, what works for you to counter it?<p>No matter the weather (UK, its grey and dank), or locale, a timer and an enforced outdoor solo walk generally perks me up.


type: comment
by: mort96
text:
  Eh it&#x27;s pretty awful. I get 8 hours, yes, but in Linux, those 8 hours are ticking whether my laptop is sleeping in my bag or on my desk with the lid closed or I&#x27;m actively using it. 8 hours of active use is pretty good, but 8 hours in sleep is absolutely dreadful.


type: comment
by: nubg
text:
  WHY on earth did the author of the CVE feel the need to feed the description text through an LLm? I get dizzy when I see this AI slop style.<p>I would rather just read the original prompt that went in instead of verbosified &quot;it&#x27;s not X, it&#x27;s **Y**!&quot; slop.


type: story
by: dimos851
title: Show HN: I made a privacy-first personal finance app
url: https://www.wealthsync.co/
text:
  I&#x27;m a solo dev who got frustrated with finance apps that are either too expensive or don&#x27;t take privacy seriously. So I built something simple that I actually use myself. It tries to do 2 things well: sync with your banks (not using Plaid!) and encrypt your data end-to-end (I cannot read it)<p>I&#x27;m more than happy to answer any questions, and welcome any feedback


type: comment
by: turtletontine
text:
  On the RISC-V vector instructions, could you elaborate? Are the vector extensions substantially different from those in ARM or x86?


type: comment
by: fennecbutt
text:
  Well traditionally a price might also be said as &quot;two and six&quot; or so. I believe written as just 2&#x2F;6 as you put it. A £ was a lot so guess didn&#x27;t see most of the time.


type: comment
by: bufordsharkley
text:
  It also speaks to what we lose when we lose magazine listings of events (New Yorker effectively gutted this section within the past decade), movie showtime listings via newspaper, etc<p>We have a very strong archive going back a century until about 2015, but now wading through linkrot circa 2017 is miserable


type: comment
by: leonhard
text:
  can you elaborate on the phone basis with engineers? I can’t really imagine how that wouldn’t be much more hassle discussing details without written documents, so I’m intrigued


type: comment
by: cycomanic
text:
  Not sure if it&#x27;s sold in the US (assuming you are from there), but the Kia PV5 is probably your best bet. On top of that it&#x27;s very reasonably priced (in contrast to the ID buzz)


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  If Trump tells Apple to put his face on everyone&#x27;s lock screen, Apple laughs and says no. Trump can push but the courts will shoot it down.<p>If Xi tells Xiaomi to put his face one every xiaomi phone, tomorrow everyone with a xiaomi phone wakes up to Xi.<p>China is an authoritarian regime, through and through.<p>America is an authoritarian regime if you just read reddit comments all day.


type: comment
by: mort96
text:
  Yeah what is up with that? When I&#x27;ve tried to look into it I&#x27;ve just been met with statements that palm rejection should pretty much just work, but it absolutely doesn&#x27;t and accidental inputs are so bad it&#x27;s unusable without a disable&#x2F;enable trackpad hotkey.


type: comment
by: dllu
text:
  Apple does tons of optimizations for every component to improve battery life. Asahi Linux, which is reverse engineered, doesn&#x27;t have the resources to figure out each of those tricks, especially for undocumented proprietary hardware, so it&#x27;s a &quot;death by a thousand cuts&quot; as each of the various components is always drawing a couple of milliwatts more than on macOS.


type: comment
by: irreal_s
text:
  The brilliant author of this game changing key value store is also listed on his linked in profile as a frontend developer and has this brilliant little nugget to share in his latest post: &quot;500 is an internal server error. It is very critical. It means something has exploded. If the client has encountered 500; &quot;We are sorry to encounter this error. Please excuse us, we are interested.&quot;<p>But we see that; There are developers who use 500 even when giving validation messages.<p>You cannot take refuge in excuses such as time was limited or the budget was low. Typing 400 instead of 500 is not a very difficult thing!<p>Anyone who doesn&#x27;t know where to use which status code is a teapot.&quot;


type: comment
by: n4r9
text:
  There&#x27;s a bit about that in the &quot;Tyranny of the Intolerant&quot; section. Imo the article isn&#x27;t so much making a case for that as it is lifting quotations wholesale from Timur Kuran as a sort of appeal to authority to justify it&#x27;s own narrative. It makes out like it&#x27;s obvious that Kuran&#x27;s work explains the rise of Trump and Fuentes, whilst Musk&#x27;s hijacking of Twitter strikes me as a simpler more natural explanation.


type: comment
by: MuffinFlavored
text:
  I&#x27;m not so sure.<p>&gt; Some of them can barely use a mouse.<p>How&#x2F;why are they employed for that position then?


type: story
by: JumpCrisscross
title: Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls
url:
  https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/weight-loss-pill-approval-set-accelerate-food-industry-product-overhauls-2025-12-24/


type: comment
by: NetMageSCW
text:
  If you think that’s the same experience I’m guessing you haven’t done it. Unfortunately my ocean voyage (from Okinawa to California) was when I was too young to remember much.


type: comment
by: iamacyborg
text:
  &gt; WHY on earth did the author of the CVE feel the need to feed the description text through an LLm?<p>Not everyone speaks English natively.<p>Not everyone has taste when it comes to written English.


type: comment
by: Terretta
text:
  « J༙྇o༙྇y༙྇e༙྇u༙྇x༙྇ N༙྇o༙྇e༙྇l༙྇ »<p>Showed a friend on his way back to Africa how to set up his iPhone to share his name and photo in Messages.<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; TY, politicians, for forcing the iPhone&#x27;s &quot;Phone&quot; settings to hide under the &quot;Apps&quot; sub-category — making tech e̵a̵s̵i̵e̵r̵ harder one casual at a time!


type: comment
by: esoterae
text:
  I think their point was that there is no empirical definition of information as it relates to the observer.  The expurimint you cite worked upon a physical system that already had a state prior to the expurimint.<p>If everything is information, then nothing is.<p>A disordered system still has state.  You just don&#x27;t know what it is.


type: comment
by: what
text:
  Where do you go to buy expired domains? Also, are there that few domains expiring on a given day that you can actually go through them?


type: comment
by: smj-edison
text:
  Yeah—this was my rationale. My first game was Chrono Trigger, which the graphics are stunning for, so I was happy with chunky pixels. I started playing Earthbound though, and the graphics are much more underwhelming. The CRT shader has made it look a lot better though.


type: comment
by: carlosjobim
text:
  Not to mention cafes, libraries, or other large buildings which are many times constructed to let in as much sunlight as possible.


type: comment
by: qingcharles
text:
  No, never blogged about it. Don&#x27;t want to put the guy on blast. We formed our own consultancy at one point and he ended up at a very senior position at a well-known SaaS, so good on him :)


type: comment
by: throw1ahs
text:
  The project was first suggested by Mark Shannon. Van Rossum inserted himself into the project. Faster CPython people have been fired by Microsoft last year.<p>Generally not that much has happened in 5 years, sometimes 10-15% improvements are posted that are later offset by bloat.<p>I think the project started in 3.10, so 3.9 is the last version to compare to. The improvements aren&#x27;t that great, I don&#x27;t think any other language would get so much positive feedback for so little.


type: comment
by: dllu
text:
  Marcan (Hector Martin) resigned from Asahi Linux early this year [0].<p>Asahi Lina, who also did tons of work on the Asahi Linux GPU development, also quit as she doesn&#x27;t feel safe doing Linux GPU work anymore [1].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marcan.st&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-lead&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marcan.st&#x2F;2025&#x2F;02&#x2F;resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asahilina.net&#x2F;luna-abuse&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;asahilina.net&#x2F;luna-abuse&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: nubg
text:
  If I want to cleanup, summarize, translate, make more formal, make more funny, whatever, some incoming text by sending it through an LLM, I can do it myself.


type: comment
by: Jolter
text:
  I live in Sweden, and almost every year I discover someone I work with or have friends in common with, who has a friend or relative in Italy, or Greece who farms oranges&#x2F;olives&#x2F;cheese or what have you. And this friend in Sweden is selling their produce by word of mouth.<p>So once a year at harvest, the relative has someone drives a truck full of olive oil 2000 kilometers north, and dozens of Swedes turn up at an appointed time on a Tuesday afternoon in a parking lot to pick up their order of six bottles of oil. The prices are no better than in the supermarket, but ostensibly you’d get a high quality product.<p>It’s a funny way to do business in 2025, completely without Internet infrastructure. Somehow, I don’t think it would work as a web shop.


type: comment
by: prh8
text:
  One issue is gems which are locked `ruby &lt; 4.0` which will now require updating, and releasing 4.0 instead of 3.5 was only done very recently.<p>For a more concrete example, the grpc gem locks Ruby versions (&lt; 3.5), and they refuse to change it. So until they support the next Ruby version, we could test ruby-next by testing with a preview release. This worked for 3.4 and 3.5, but now doesn&#x27;t work with 4.0 (bundler resolves 4.0-preview2 &gt; 3.5, whereas we are able to do 3.5-preview1).<p>So unless I feel like doing a lot of grunt work (which I don&#x27;t), I can&#x27;t even test Ruby 4 in our app until they release a new version. And while I recognize this is an issue with the gem, it is a consequence of choosing to do 4.0.


type: comment
by: danhite
text:
  caveat emptor re long hashtag techniques on (ipad) safari ...<p>you may think safari has no effective url limit (i.e. very high) but if you ever treat a url within the url bar as editable you are at risk to be silently truncated to 4096 bytes (eg select a character in the url bar and replace it)<p>also re-testing potential ~buffer limits in various ways on ipadOS 26.2 safari just now slowed my safari ui down to a crawl<p>eg after saving example.com with ~20k #hashtag to reading list -- each keystroke in this reply was taking several seconds, so I had to force quit safari and retype to post this warning


type: comment
by: p2detar
text:
  &gt; For security reasons (and to protect the PII of all our users and customers), everything was being shredded and&#x2F;or destroyed. Nothing was being kept.<p>Wow! That’d sure be some waste of disk drives and memory. Do they destroy it themselves or some contractor does this?


type: story
by: impish9208
title: Nike's Revival of Classic Brand Has a Hitch–Soccer Coach Grabbed the Trademark
url:
  https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/nikes-revival-of-classic-brand-has-a-hitchsoccer-coach-grabbed-the-trademark-27b28b06


type: comment
by: impish9208
text:
  Gift link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail&#x2F;nikes-revival-of-classic-brand-has-a-hitchsoccer-coach-grabbed-the-trademark-27b28b06?st=Ndiuif" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;retail&#x2F;nikes-revival-of-classic...</a>


type: comment
by: heresie-dabord
text:
  &gt; when people as talented as Bellard manage to (apparently) never write a &quot;full-on&quot; GUI-fronted application<p>The &quot;full-on GUI-fronted application&quot; is two different problems.<p>PROBLEM_A = create a minimal interface (arguments to application) and focus on making robust logic that is fit for use and purpose.<p>PROBLEM_B = make users who resist&#x2F;object to a minimal interface happy by satisfying an unbounded set of requirements involving a changing stack of tools and OS dependencies.<p>The latter effort can expand to consume the time and energy of entire teams of people.


type: comment
by: TingPing
text:
  Does it really have to be said that a PR is built upon previous work. It was not a 400 line delta for the whole feature.


type: comment
by: mystifyingpoi
text:
  As with many things in adult life, the question is not really &quot;is it legal&quot; but &quot;could I get in trouble for doing this&quot;. And we all know the answer.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;5VpvR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;5VpvR</a>


type: comment
by: jjulius
text:
  Looks like their site links to a good number of US stores that sell them, many mom&#x2F;pop. While there may not be a store close enough to you, perhaps there&#x27;s one that would ship to you.


type: comment
by: reissbaker
text:
  Sadly, it&#x27;s worse. We don&#x27;t have one experiment that works in mice: we have dozens, if not hundreds. We&#x27;ve cured &quot;Alzheimer&#x27;s in mice&quot; many times over. The treatments never work in humans, because it&#x27;s not the same disease. We don&#x27;t know the root cause of the human disease and so we can&#x27;t model it accurately in mice.


type: comment
by: vkou
text:
  They should, but if given the option to only exclusively use one or the other, I would never in a million years pick it. Because I have put in a tiny bit of effort into understanding <i>how</i> to use a debugger.<p>Most of them provide you with a feature list that&#x27;s a strict superset of printf, because they let you set conditional non-blocking breakpoints that can have side effects. Which is perfect for the situation you&#x27;ve described - logging state without blocking. Then you can block and look through that state + any additional relevant info.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Thank you for your response :)<p>I had seen your comment 5 minutes after you sent it but decided to read both of the articles and think about it<p>You are one of the few people who can say that they declined the offer at google and I am sad that you didn&#x27;t get the bean bag :&lt;<p>Now on a serious note, I feel like there are some immense similarities between your story which happened 20 years ago and what&#x27;s happening now with the AI hype<p>&gt; It was a gut punch face slap. My replacement, who’d only been there a few months, avoided the hatchet (cheaper salary, I presume). I would have stayed and worked for free if they would have asked. They didn’t.<p>I am also like you, perhaps the thing which interests me is that for me coding&#x2F;tinkering with homelabs&#x2F;servers are just things which I want to do even as independence or even for free :)<p>Shame that the company didn&#x27;t work out. In retrospect, its all good now but that does feel like an action of mismanagement from the company&#x27;s part because you clearly loved the company and who knows what might happen with the person you trained for months and how much they loved the company or benefitted the company ykwim<p>You write really clearly and I really appreciate it a lot and I feel like this sense of flow guiding us to where we are is definitely true :)<p>I recently spent a quick chunk of my month or two thinking about a problem that I solved for myself but it felt like that it could have abuses to the point that maybe most large cloud providers&#x2F;providers might shut things down or would be an hassle. So I thought of an cloud provider which can understand the idea of  things similar to the fact that there are different instances and dont shut down the servers due to complaints or anything<p>I wanted to build a cloud where saas providers wouldn&#x27;t have to worry about servers. The servers can be deployed for the people themselves and have hourly pricing for what they use instead of how most saas stuff work nowadays of fixed pricing.<p>I am not sure but this idea required me to build my own cloud of sorts or build on another and I am just a 17 year old guy so I thought that most major cloud providers are really kind of no go so I looked at more hidden cloud providers like upcloud and scaleway and so so many others and I think OVH could be good for that idea or upcloud is good too but the thing is that upcloud has some nicer features like auto-scaling in vps&#x27;s&#x2F;a really good support system that I liked.<p>Well I still didn&#x27;t have a credit card but since I wanted to buy vps&#x27;s or similar. I started looking at lowendtalk and black friday and started talking to vps providers on lowendtalk and here and I think that its a very resource&#x2F;cost intensive process and I just didn&#x27;t feel right about reselling<p>Then I started feeling like how to build my own cloud. I found WHMCS + virtualizor and they were paid and so I started tinkering even more and just today found incus and started to self host incus and I bought myself some domain name and some cheap netcup server to play with things.<p>All while I was preparing for one of the toughest exams (JEE) so that definitely took a hit but talking to vps providers about finances and etc. makes me feel like right now is just not the time about it and the best thing I can do is to familiarize myself more with hardware stuff and buy cheap laptops and create homelabs with incus and play with hardwares too and get a job at IT&#x2F;any related perhaps. Lets hope that any company looking to hire can take hackernews points into account too :)<p>I am still in school and I feel like coding is something that I can do too (Although vibe-coding hell is real so I am probably gonna learn it and give it time) and then contribute to real projects along the way<p>Honestly I still don&#x27;t know what I want to do with my life but I feel like working at such providers or any similar things where I can do things like this, maybe perhaps even working at any massive hyperscaler perhaps if I &quot;grind&quot; extremely hard from here on out for career opportunities.<p>This is also the reason why I got interested in your story of domains because the vps providers usually provide domains too and I wanted to know the finances of it and why you got addicted and other things so once again thanks for telling me about it<p>Its funny but I used to be a coding -&gt; finance -&gt; started using linux ..... -&gt; extremely coding oriented (both software and even appreciation of hardware nowadays)<p>I find your story really inspiring because one of the issues I felt is that I will always be judged by the degree I have and things like these don&#x27;t really matter but your story is something that I resonate with a lot in my own way and I am super happy that you are now doing things which you are satisfied with. I wish to do something like this in my own way. I just want &quot;enough&quot; and I don&#x27;t know if it would be jobs&#x2F;business which would be the key to that (I hope jobs personally) but I am keeping an open mind on the whole situation and sorry for the long message<p>But your articles are something which have just resonated with me unlike none other right now. I am going to join the newsletter and have a merry christmas and a new year from here on out. Wishing the best for you, your family and your business and have a nice day Peter!!<p>I think I might take a drop year perhaps just to study JEE again to focus to get into a good college since the competition here is immense if things don&#x27;t work out but from here on out, I do wish to keep these ambitions in check as they impact my studies but I study so that one day these ambitions&#x2F;hobbies can be my job :)<p>Although I love the idea of a business and I might start one from my extra funds of jobs perhaps but the thing is I just want a job one day of things which I enjoy doing because I thought about it from sides of finance in the sense that retirement&#x2F;financial independence would just mean doing things I like and I can have something like this in the IT&#x2F;CS industry and I am young enough that I am still in school and even right now I can spend 1 year again to just prepare to get a good college which can play a massive role in my country atleast to get a job.<p>I wish the job market was less of a fear mongering pester right now where I feel like I need a degree for which I need to study things like chemistry (No offense chem, but you just don&#x27;t tinkle me the same way containers do) and the immense competition and everything makes me feel like odds are definitely stacked against me but we don&#x27;t know how it pans out but hopefully I can carve a niche for doing the things I enjoy as a job one day and get highlighted from this &quot;passion&quot; that other people name so. My mother says that I should stop doing these things and focus on my studies and she&#x27;s probably right but man oh man I can&#x27;t really explain it to anybody how I feel sometimes but its something that I am gonna have to figure out I suppose. Probably gonna go back to studying. Took a one hour long break :) writing it and thinking about it but well worth it.<p>Once again have a nice day peter!


type: comment
by: fidrelity
text:
  When I read the title the first thing that came to my mind were Magna Tiles. Glad they made it on the list.<p>It&#x27;s the only toy in the house that lasted the test of time from she 4-8 (and counting). Also I love tidying up Magna tiles, even that is fun!<p>My oldest kid got a small sample of Clixco and was surprisingly entertained even with a limited set of possibilities they offered. They&#x27;re great fidget toys as well.


type: comment
by: fasbiner
text:
  I am not a party to the conflict and I now restrict my efforts to assisting refugees and deserters on both sides. I supported Ukraine&#x27;s July offensive because it was still capable of changing the strategic balance, and I hoped for a peace with significant russian concessions to be made at the high-water mark.<p>Now, because of people like you who are bloody-minded and impossibly idealistic when it&#x27;s not your blood and you can always walk away, it&#x27;s far too late.<p>I regard both sides maximal war aims to be impossible in the short and medium term and that all further loss of life is for nothing other than to accelerate the demographic collapse of both Russia and Ukraine in exchange for a few hundred kilometers of nearly worthless and already-depopulated land.<p>I think you should contact the Ukrainian authorities and ask them if they believe your advocacy is contributing to their goals. Furthermore, you should consider how things will change if there is a peace deal, at which point it seems like you will be someone who will, from a safe location, be working to undermine the Ukrainian government and to restart a losing conflict.<p>You are part of a larger conflict and you do not set policy, and when it changes, if you don&#x27;t change with it, you become an enemy of Ukrainian government and the majority of Ukrainians. This majority and the Ukrainian government have stated they would like to have a democratic election without martial law and press censorship in order to decide their future.<p>Are you against democratic elections? Would you support a coup against a civilian government in order to continue the war?<p>You said the invasion of Ukraine was worse than the invasion of Iraq, but you reject all quantitative measures. You also have fatal anomalies in your argument you have not refuted by citing opinion pieces that also ignore this information.<p>Why did John Mearsheimer say Ukraine should keep its independent nuclear deterrent? Because he regarded a war like this as inevitable and that regardless of the outcome, both sides would lose and a large number of people would die, in addition to strengthening China significantly. And so it is.<p>I care about the average person who is stuck in this geopolitical clash between military blocs that have no regard for russian or ukrainian lives. You seem to care about achieving a military solution with little or no diplomatic consideration.<p>You are unwilling or unable to comprehend that people in Venezuela and the Middle East are not in fact, members of a lesser race of humans to whom acts of war and the mass murder of civilians &quot;don&#x27;t count&quot; and don&#x27;t fundamentally change the way that 90% of people on earth see western claims of moral principle.<p>I think you should contact the Ukrainian authorities and prove your commitment to your beliefs by volunteering to serve on the front lines: men willing to kill and die for a field are what is most needed now. Being a propagandist trying to get other people to give their lives while refusing to risk your own shows exactly how you feel about things: your life is more valuable than anyone else&#x27;s and other people&#x27;s sons, brothers, husbands, should die for your beliefs.<p>Putin doesn&#x27;t care how many Russians from rustbelt towns in central asia and small towns get killed and the strategic military balance is in his favor. It is in his interests that diplomacy be seen to fail but not be his fault, because he <i>does</i> care about the willingness of other countries trying to make sense of the current situation to disregard and circumvent western sanctions. So yes, every word you speak and your point of view aligns perfectly with Russian strategy.<p>Maybe you&#x27;re simply a dupe and part of an FSB influence operation, but you could make up for it by serving on the front. Anything else is chickenhawk cowardice or a false friend with murky motives.<p>Age is no restriction, Ukrainian men in their 50s and 60s are on the front lines. Will you fight for the cause you believe is both realistic and a moral necessity? Or perhaps... their lives are worth less than yours?<p>Why is it appropriate for a Ukrainian man in his late 50s to be drafted (in a way which resembles kidnapping) to kill and die for what <i>you</i> say you believe in but aren&#x27;t willing to risk your own life for?<p>If you&#x27;re working for the FSB you should be ashamed, and if you&#x27;re not, you should be even more ashamed!<p>As for myself, I am an enemy of pointless, unwinnable wars, dictatorship, and coercion, so I am an enemy of both governments and a friend of the common person who had no say in this and is trapped between two corrupt cliques that get other people&#x27;s families killed while vacationing safely in luxury: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kyivpost.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;11648" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kyivpost.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;11648</a><p>I hope you provide your personal information to a Ukrainian recruiter and put your own skin in the game, because without that, you are functionally identical to an FSB functionary.


type: comment
by: samiv
text:
  Re X11 maintenance... I think it&#x27;s mostly &quot;done&quot; and doesn&#x27;t really need a lot of work. So not sure I see a problem there.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  The reality is women now have options (besides being a stay at home mom) and single, childfree women are the happiest cohort based on the data. Women are totally fine being single and economically independent, and if they want kids, they can go the single parent and IVF route. The article addresses this “excess men” issue, while the unfortunate reality is there is no solution. Same deal with women who want to marry up with a limited pool of such partners. Happiness is reality minus expectations, and there is, broadly speaking, an expectations reality disconnect at scale. An equilibrium will be found, but it will take a generation or two at least (imho).<p>TLDR People in the dating marketplace will all need to be a bit more humble and realistic, but I think it’s unlikely to occur due to inertia and mental models.<p>Related:<p><i>Concerns about ageing society ignore huge opportunities, says population expert</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2025&#x2F;dec&#x2F;25&#x2F;concerns-ageing-society-ignore-opportunities-says-population-expert" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;2025&#x2F;dec&#x2F;25&#x2F;concerns-age...</a> - December 25th, 2025<p>&gt; “But there is always going to be a group, probably growing, of women who have decided that they, for all sorts of reasons, are not going to have children. And in a way, we’ve got to accept that and work with that.”


type: comment
by: throwup238
text:
  <i>&gt; You can think of the name as being inclusive of the region, not simply descriptive of the variety.</i><p>The term of art is <i>terroir</i> [1], which is the &quot;character&quot; of the environment the plants are grown in. It&#x27;s often that a region will have some special characteristic due to geology that allows a unique flavor profile to grow so these trade names are the equivalent of a terroir brand.<p>Some designations are more strict than others, though. IIRC in the case of Vidalia onions the soil is low in sulfur so the biochemical pathways in onions that produce astringent compounds are nutrient starved. As far as I know most sweet onion varieties nowadays are grown in similar soil, but they&#x27;re not legally allowed to call them Vidalias.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Terroir" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Terroir</a>


type: comment
by: perching_aix
text:
  Remarkable story. I&#x27;d not have had the kindness for this. I&#x27;m grateful people like them exist.


type: story
by: smurda
title: AI toys spark privacy concerns as US officials urge action on data risks
url:
  https://thenationaldesk.com/news/fact-check-team/fact-check-team-ai-toys-spark-privacy-concerns-as-usv-officials-urge-action-data-risks-children


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  The two times in my adult life that I was single (22-28 and 32-35), I would have been miserable in my hometown -  as are almost everyone I talk to who is stuck here and single.<p>When I was single and younger, my hobbies were teaching fitness classes around the metro area and participating in group charity races with friends.  We use to do one every month.


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  The 2 explanations given for cactuses seem non-applicable to Prototaxites, as the fossils appear to have formed in some swamps with abundant water.<p>According to the linked paper, the structure of the stem of Prototaxites contained several kinds of tubes, which might have formed some kind of simple vascular system, able to extract the water from the soil and circulate it through the body.<p>You are right however that the plants among which Prototaxites was growing had a much smaller height so the competition with them would not have been a strong reason for its height and for the competition between Prototaxites individuals there is no evidence that they would occlude much light.<p>Still, I am not aware of any better explanation for its height. At that time there were no flying insects. The terrestrial vertebrates and bigger arthropods were predatory. There were a few groups of non-predatory arthropods, i.e. millipedes, mites and springtails, some of which might have been able to feed on Prototaxites tissues, but such small arthropods are likely to have been able to easily climb its stem, so it seems unlikely that its height could have provided any protection for its reproductive parts.<p>Besides avoiding shadows, there is another explanation for the great height, but that is also applicable only to organisms able to capture solar light. As there is evidence in its isotopic composition that Prototaxites was not phototrophic, any explanation based on capturing light must involve a symbiotic alga. A great height could have helped with the ascent of water through the stem of Prototaxites, due to capillarity and evaporation at its top. However this explanation requires for the pumped water to be useful somewhere high in the stem, which would be the case if the water were given to a symbiotic alga, which would provide food in return.


type: comment
by: downrightmike
text:
  We almost had really nice arm laptops, but they got super greedy about it having AI and no one wanted them.


type: comment
by: Arathorn
text:
  No, they all need to know who had permission to read a message which was sent at a given point in the timeline.  This is all state groups is: a track of the room state at the point a message was sent: e.g. who has permission to read it.


type: comment
by: galkk
text:
  Your mileage may vary…<p>As soon as I got first Minecraft block to my 5yo, the magnatiles were almost forgotten. And she never played Minecraft in her life, but saw the movie and some YouTube vids. The fact that the tiles have an image and purpose is a huge benefit, because she creates better stories with them.<p>But I got it only after i got kiddo to cleanup her toys from the floor regularly.


type: comment
by: anamexis
text:
  Sorbet is backed by Stripe.<p>Why is it important to be a separate layer that compiles to plain untyped Ruby?


type: comment
by: mystifyingpoi
text:
  I&#x27;ve tried this once for IntelliJ to work around slow WSL access for Git repos. Was greeted by missing fonts and broken scaling on the intro screen. Oops. But probably I was just unlucky, it might work well for most.


type: comment
by: afavour
text:
  In this scenario (again, everyone’s situation is different) DIY is more often a hobby for the husband. Repairs are infrequent enough that you could just hire someone as needed, but the husband chooses to do it.<p>Perhaps more importantly, it’s not his full time job.


type: story
by: taiwas
title: Show HN: Datalensia – Client-side visual tools for exploring and comparing JSON
url: https://www.datalensia.com/
text:
  Hi HN<p>Datalensia came from a recurring frustration: working with large or deeply nested JSON (API responses, configs, logs) and struggling to understand the structure by reading raw text.<p>We built a set of visual tools to interact with JSON: - JSON visualizer - JSON comparator - Node &#x2F; graph-based views<p>Everything runs 100% client-side: your data never leaves the browser, nothing is uploaded or stored.<p>The goal is not BI or analytics, but helping developers reason about complex JSON structures in a safe and private way.<p>This is still early and very feedback-driven. We’d love to hear: - What improvements would you make? - What feels unnecessary or missing? - Did you run into any bugs or edge cases?<p>Happy to answer technical questions or discuss implementation details.


type: comment
by: gnarlouse
text:
  All Firefox users should switch to librewolf. In the short term it’s for telling Mozilla to go f**, in the long term it’s a browser fork with with really good anti fingerprinting.


type: comment
by: marcinignac
text:
  I got set for my son after noticing he loves stacking Jenga blocks and generic Kapla gets 10x more usage than Lego.<p>Can it be that the moment Lego moved from mostly bricks to custom single use shapes for every kit the joy of combining them died? My kids build car, Dino, Harry Potter set once and then gather dust. Bridges, castles, towers and roads from Kapla get rebuild every day.


type: comment
by: downrightmike
text:
  I think they mean that is 2025, 256GB is unreasonably small. Which is true, Apple wants to up-charge hundreds of dollars just to get to the otherwise standard 1TB drive.<p>Realistically, it is reasonable to expect 2TB drives, based on normal progression <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blocksandfiles.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;coughlin-associates-hdd&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blocksandfiles.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;13&#x2F;coughlin-associates-hd...</a>


type: comment
by: nextos
text:
  One of my favorite machines was the MacBook Air 11 (2012). This was a pure Intel machine, except for a mediocre Broadcom wireless card. With a few udev rules, I squeezed out the same battery performance from Linux I got from OS X, down to a few minutes of advantage in favor of Linux. And all this despite Safari being a marvel of energy efficiency.<p>The problem with Linux performance on laptops boils down to i) no energy tweaks by default and ii) poor device drivers due to the lack of manufacturer cooperation. If you pick a machine with well supported hardware and you are diligent with some udev rules, which are quite trivial to write thanks to powertop suggestions, performance can be very good.<p>I am getting a bit more than 10 hours from a cheap ThinkPad E14 Gen7, with a 64 Wh battery, and light coding use. That&#x27;s less than a MacBook Air, where I would be getting around 13-14 hours, but it&#x27;s not bad at all. The difference comes mainly from the cheap screen that is more power consuming and ARMs superior efficiency when idling.<p>But I prefer not to trade the convenience and openness of x86_64 plus NixOS for a bit more battery range. IMHO, the gap is not sufficiently wide to make a big difference in most usage scenarios.


type: comment
by: opan
text:
  I&#x27;ve never gotten along too well with virtualization, but would second the ThinkPad idea, or something similar. Old<i>&#x2F;cheap machine for tinkering is a good way to ease in, and I think bare metal feels more friendly.<p>I&#x27;d probably recommend against dual booting, but I understand it&#x27;s controversial. I like to equate it to having two computers, but having to fully power one off to do </i>anything* on the other one. Torrents stop, music collection may be inaccessible depending on how you stored it, familiar programs may not be around anymore. I dual booted for a few years in the past and I found it miserable. People who expected me to reboot to play a game with them didn&#x27;t seem to understand how big of an ask that really was. Eventually things boiled over and I took the Windows HDD out of that PC entirely. Much more peaceful. (Proton solves that particular issue these days also)<p>That being said, I&#x27;ve had at least two friends who had a dual boot due to my influence (pushing GNU&#x2F;Linux) who ended up with some sort of broken Windows install later on and were happy to already have Ubuntu as an emergency backup to keep the machine usable.<p>*Too old might be a problem these days with major distros not having 32bit ISOs anymore


type: comment
by: fredoliveira
text:
  &gt; all for fame and fortune<p>I understand the compassion for animals, of course, but not this sentence. Advancing science is not &quot;all for fame or fortune&quot;. If it cures people, I can see it. I too would love a world without animal suffering, but I&#x27;d also love to not be literally seeing (and I just came back from my parents&#x27;) my dad slip more and more into nothingness at the hand of this stupid disease.


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  A cruise on the Pacific is felt like being a bug on a huge cup of sea water. During the night the moon feels like an arm length away.


type: comment
by: farmin
text:
  I am giving my MacBook Air M2 15” to my wife and bought a Lenovo E16 with 120hz screen to run Kubuntu last night. She needed a new laptop and I am had enough of macOS and just need some stuff to work that will be easier on an intel and Linux. Also I do bookwork online so bigger screen and dedicated numpad will be nice.  It reviews well and seems like good value for money with current holiday sales but I don’t expect the same hardware quality or portability just a little more freedom. I hope I’m not too disappointed.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;Lenovo-ThinkPad-E16-G3-Review-Affordable-office-laptop-is-even-better-with-a-120-Hz-display.1059930.0.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&#x2F;Lenovo-ThinkPad-E16-G3-Review-...</a>


type: comment
by: philo_sophia
text:
  I don&#x27;t find framework appealing for upgradability, but I do think it&#x27;s great for repairability. Being able to extend the life of a machine easily by replacing a cracked screen or degraded battery is so much better than going to the fruit store and being upsold a new machine and spending more. Obviously you pay extra in upfront costs and sacrifice build quality for a framework.<p>Also I think framework will excel in the SMB market where companies may have diverse requirements for different employees. Some just need a machine for email&#x2F;browser and others for dev or video editing. But they can share parts, and upgrading a dev machine might have the benefit of upgrading other employees machines with the extra parts.


type: comment
by: blast
text:
  That&#x27;s a bittersweet mix of troubles and sweetness. I hope the troubles sort out without too much heartache, and that 2026 brings many good things.


type: comment
by: samiv
text:
  Wayland and its various implementations like KDE plasma are 90% ready. Now they just need the other 90% to move from alpha to <i>product</i>. I expect it&#x27;ll take another decade or two.


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  Most coding is better done with agents than with your hands. Coding is the main financial impediment to development. Yes, actually articulating what you want is the hard problem. Yes, there are technical problems that demand real analytical insight and real motivation. But refusing to use agents because you think you can type faster is mistaking typing for your actual skill: reasoning and interpretation.


type: comment
by: gucci-on-fleek
text:
  &gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rochus-keller&#x2F;typos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rochus-keller&#x2F;typos&#x2F;</a><p>The following projects have somewhat similar goals, so they might be worth looking into:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vlasakm&#x2F;mmtex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vlasakm&#x2F;mmtex</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;speedata&#x2F;publisher" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;speedata&#x2F;publisher</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;contextgarden&#x2F;luametatex" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;contextgarden&#x2F;luametatex</a>


type: comment
by: pverheggen
text:
  It&#x27;s similar to French wines and cheese. News to me that we have this in the US but it totally makes sense. We have a few of these in the PNW, like Hermiston melons and Walla Walla onions.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  YMMV and all, but my experience is that Wayland smoothness varies considerably depending on hardware. On modernish Intel and AMD iGPUs for example I’ve not had much trouble with Wayland whereas my tower with an Nvidia 3000 series card was considerably more troublesome with it.


type: comment
by: WD-42
text:
  This is what ruffles my jimmies about this whole thing:<p>&gt; I’m ashamed to say sometimes their documentation is better than the internal stuff.<p>The reverse engineering is a monumental effort, this Sisyphean task of trying to keep up with never-ending changes to the hardware. Meanwhile, the documentation is just sitting there in Cupertino. An enormous waste of time and effort from some of the most skilled people in the industry. Well, maybe not so much anymore since a bunch of them left.<p>I really hope this ends up biting Apple in the ass instead of protecting whatever market share they are guarding here.


type: comment
by: gregsadetsky
text:
  Also see this related blog post - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minireference.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;noBSstats-prerelease&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minireference.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;noBSstats-prerelease&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: dllu
text:
  Agreed. On the computer hardware side:<p>* x86 chips can surpass the M series cpus in multithreaded performance, but are still lagging in singlethreaded performance and power efficiency<p>* Qualcomm kinda fumbled the Snapdragon X Elite launch with nonexistent Linux support and shoddy Windows stability, but here&#x27;s to hoping that they &quot;turn over a new leaf&quot; with the X2.<p>Actually, some Snapdragon X Elite laptops do run Linux now, but performance is not great as there were some weird regressions and anyway newer chips have caught up [1].<p>On the build quality side, basically all the PCs are still lagging behind Apple, e.g. yesterday&#x27;s rant post about the Framework laptop [2] touched on a lot of important points. Of course, there are the Thinkpads, which are still built decently but are quite expensive. Some of the Chinese laptops like the Honor MagicBooks could be attractive and some reddit threads confirm getting Linux working on them, but they are hard to get in the US. That said, at least many non-Apple laptops have decent trackpads and really nice screens nowadays.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy2025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.phoronix.com&#x2F;review&#x2F;snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46375174">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46375174</a>


type: comment
by: dzikimarian
text:
  Honestly I don&#x27;t think I did. I think I understand you. I would like to buy &quot;perfect&quot; product for me. But I&#x27;m small niche. There won&#x27;t be one.<p>I don&#x27;t think we should cancel people that want to do something good over a few mistakes, while Microsoft gets to be openly hostile to users, Google does developer verification bullshit and Apple does blatant corruption right in the oval office. Don&#x27;t even get me started on Zuck running servers on your personal hardware to get around private mode.<p>I may or may not agree with DHH views, but all that is just one guy&#x27;s opinion which really doesn&#x27;t matter that much, against one of the few companies that did something good with hardware in recent years.<p>Keep everyone to the same standard.


type: comment
by: tguvot
text:
  &gt;sure, we all agree that it is partly designed to get people to hang up in disgust and give up<p>actually, as someone who works in this area - no, it&#x27;s not. it designed to help people to do things and metrics of success are closely monitored


type: comment
by: clickety_clack
text:
  I have a multidisciplinary background as well, and always found it frustrating that everyone wants you to be one thing. Eventually I just started my own company, and now I’m using everything I know.


type: comment
by: dongecko
text:
  A while back, someone made <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meet.hn" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;meet.hn</a>. It&#x27;s a map where people from hackernews could locate themselves.<p>Of course this is by far not comprehensive, but it gives you an idea of where the people are from.


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Not gonna filter your emojis on Christmas but I&#x27;m impressed how many of our restrictions you routed around :)


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  I know what happened last year, my point was the prior history that lead to that effort.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewstack.io&#x2F;guido-van-rossums-ambitious-plans-for-improving-python-performance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenewstack.io&#x2F;guido-van-rossums-ambitious-plans-for...</a><p>Agree with the sentiment, Python is the only dynamic language where it seems a graveyard from efforts.<p>And nope it isn&#x27;t the dynamism per se, Smalltalk, Self, Common Lisp are just as dynamic, with lots of possibilities to reboot the world and mess up JIT efforts, as any change impacts the whole image.<p>Naturally those don&#x27;t have internals exposed to C where anything goes, and the culture C libraries are seen as the language libraries.


type: comment
by: nuancebydefault
text:
  When I was young there were fewer types of shapes but a lot of new sets contained a lot of such specialized shapes. I rather played with the lego i found in the attic.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  Is there any even theoretically viable way to prevent cheats from accessing a game you&#x27;re running on a local machine without also disabling full user control of your system?<p>I suppose something like a &quot;reboot into &#x27;&#x27;&#x27;secure&#x27;&#x27;&#x27; mode&quot; to enable the anti-cheat and stuff, or maybe we&#x27;ll just get steamplay or whatever where literally the entire game runs remote and streams video frames to the user.


type: comment
by: halfcat
text:
  Wait until you see ImGui bindings for Python [1]. It’s immediate mode instead of retained mode like Tkinter&#x2F;Qt&#x2F;Wx. It might not be what you’d want if you’re shipping a thick client to customers, but for internal tooling it’s awesome.<p><pre><code>    imgui.text(f&quot;Counter = {counter}&quot;)     if imgui.button(&quot;increment counter&quot;):         counter += 1      _, name = imgui.input_text(&quot;Your name?&quot;, name)     imgui.text(f&quot;Hello {name}!&quot;)  </code></pre> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pthom&#x2F;imgui_bundle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pthom&#x2F;imgui_bundle</a>


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  Ok, if you have such insight into development, why not leverage agents to type for you? What sort of problems have you faced that you are able to code against faster than you can articulate to an agent?<p>I have of course found some problems like this myself. But it&#x27;s such a tiny portion of coding I really  question why you can&#x27;t leverage LLMs to make yourself more productive


type: comment
by: ziml77
text:
  Seems like a sensible way to archive branches. It&#x27;s not like a tag and branch are actually very different anyway, right? A tag is a pointer that always refers to the same commit while a branch is a pointer that follows commits forward. And for something that&#x27;s archived, you don&#x27;t need the pointer updating mechanism.


type: comment
by: ExoticPearTree
text:
  I am not focused on doing it myself. The most that I care about doing myself is buying a new charging cable if somehow I damage the one the laptop comes with.<p>And I have this feeling most people are kind of the same page as me.


type: comment
by: kmeisthax
text:
  I was wondering if this was even legal[0], so I went to the repo and noticed that their licensing[1] seems to be... a mess?<p>It says you can use &quot;compiled versions&quot; under the MIT License. Then it says you can use the source code under AGPL 3.0. And then it additionally says that they won&#x27;t enforce the AGPL 3.0 copyleft if you haven&#x27;t modified the source and don&#x27;t link the Mattermost Platform directly. This is at best a bunch of tautologies that render the Affero clause moot and at worst enable a really stupid workaround to copyleft.<p>First off, the Affero clause - number 13 - in the AGPL <i>only applies</i> if you modify the source. There is no legal requirement to convey source code on a network server otherwise. So this is downgrading the license to GPL with extra steps.<p>Second, &quot;linking directly&quot; isn&#x27;t legally meaningful with regards to the GPL. GPL cares about whether or not your derivative work forms a single &quot;program&quot; - which is deliberately left ambiguous, but almost certainly does not refer to the concept of an address space alone, or even a Go import. I guess what they <i>wanted</i> was to treat the Mattermost Admin and Configuration files under terms that are sort of LGPL-like? But that portion of the binary is already dual-licensed Apache 2.0. So there&#x27;s no reason to argue<p>Third, and more importantly... the compiled versions license basically renders the source code requirement of the GPL family null and void. Like, in a normal use of the GPL, if you distribute binaries you&#x27;re required to offer source. But here, they&#x27;ve weakened that clause.<p>The most speculative argument I have is that one could disassemble a compiled Go binary to obtain a &quot;compiled version&quot; under MIT terms that is no longer subject to any copyleft whatsoever. This is obviously contrary to the intent of the license, so I&#x27;m not sure if a judge would bother listening to this argument, but it&#x27;s still really bad drafting. I suspect this license document was written by a business strategy guy, <i>not</i> a lawyer.<p>[0] If this code actually expressed their license requirements, then posting this Git diff is a violation of DMCA 1201, and you&#x27;d be liable for jail time. Er, well, except GPL version 3 (only) has a specific anti-1201 clause. But who knows if that&#x27;s even applicable given the five different licenses at play?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mattermost&#x2F;mattermost&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE.txt" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mattermost&#x2F;mattermost&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;LICENSE...</a>


type: story
by: aupra
title: Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?
text:
  I am a mid-level backend engineer with 4 yoe. I come from the world&#x27;s most populous country. I was laid off 1.5 years ago. I travelled for half of the time, the rest half just passed by doing nothing although I learnt some AI fundamentals.<p>I hate leetcode and that keeps me away from most of the job opportunities. I have some money left just enough to get by for the next 6 months. I dont want to work here since they dont value humans here. Realistically, moving abroad is tough but I want to! I applied to a lot of startups but not getting any positive response.<p>Like most of us (?) I like to code for fun but hate it as work. I am not an AI doomer but believe human force would be cut by a sizeable amount in the foreseeable future in SWE. But then what&#x27;s left apart from doing coding? I dont have any business ideas and doing it here in this country is just cumbersome.<p>Content creation comes to my mind but it&#x27;s also tough out there. I really don&#x27;t know what I should be doing.<p>1.5 years have gone by. But I want to make the rest of upcoming 6 months of great use in finding my calling. I can chatgpt my problem but I yearn for human responses. Thank you.


type: comment
by: lugu
text:
  Note that librewolf rely on Mozilla tech infra for account synchronization and plugin distribution. If you are truly hostile to this organization, is there another browser you can recommend?


type: comment
by: 7thpower
text:
  But there’s good news. They’re all going to be fine, except for the ones who aren’t.<p>Merry Christmas!


type: comment
by: Moosdijk
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s still so much room for planning&#x2F;scheduling, so much hardware we have yet to target<p>this is nicely illustrated by this recent article:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46366998">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46366998</a>


type: comment
by: 5-0
text:
  There are several. I&#x27;ve only tried one of them (free, can&#x27;t remember which) but went back to UVR5.<p>While it&#x27;s convenient not having to split stems into separate files beforehand, by using a VST, you usually end up doing so anyway while editing and arranging.


type: comment
by: lern_too_spel
text:
  Everything being mutable by default, including strings, is about as big a foot gun as you can find in a high level language.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  &gt; Apparently GUI frontend is not a subject or problem that interests him. He lives and thinks close to the metal, at a lower layer of abstraction.<p>It&#x27;s not that cut and dried. The application I work on has some notable chunks of assembly code, lots of tricky multithreaded realtime lock free code involving threads, atomics, RCU and more ... and ... a GUI that lets the user continuously interact with it.<p>Oh, and we use ffmpeg for video decoding&#x2F;encoding :)


type: comment
by: eptcyka
text:
  It was my understanding that changing the original codebase to fix it would’ve been involved enough as to warrant a rewrite.


type: comment
by: embedding-shape
text:
  I think biggest issue is that you&#x27;ll get a certain sub-segment of the HN audience, even if many use ad blockers. For example, all your latest submissions seems to be about AI&#x2F;LLM, career growth and product engineering, probably someone submitting stories in other themes will get different data.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  This is a good point, the fact that you can just download some video games and run them on your linux desktop with a working desktop environment and so on, even while getting a ton of papercuts, was basically unimaginable 15 years ago.


type: comment
by: eleventyseven
text:
  &gt; Are you saying 501 non-profits don&#x27;t pay capital gains?<p>Correct, as long as those gains are used as part of the 501-aligned mission. Same with donations, they don&#x27;t pay a corp income tax. This is part of being a tax exempt organization.


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  &gt; X11 doesn&#x27;t manage Windows. You&#x27;d know this if you used it, and if you&#x27;ve used it, you&#x27;d know why some consider the window management on Windows and MacOS very primitive.<p>Sure. Windows and macos are also fallible. But there has never been a project that competes with these two brands that can boast a similar commitment to stability and usability.<p>Also obviously fuck windows


type: comment
by: prodigycorp
text:
  The best part about this is that you know the type of people&#x2F;companies using langchain are likely the type that are not going to patch this in a timely manner.


type: story
by: monterrey
title: It Can Apply and Positive in Favor the Newton III Law on an Engine System Device
text:
  3rd Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at From of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1&#x2F;Action, + 2&#x2F;Reaction = Retrodynamic. &#x2F; For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. 2 Forces in 1 System.<p>RETRODYNAMIC Effect - Dextrogiro&#x2F;Action =&gt; vs &lt;= Levogiro&#x2F;Reaction Phenomena Effect. &#x2F; Rotor&#x2F;RPM VS InFlow&#x2F;Way. 3d Thermodynamic Law Applicate in a Power-Plant Device. The Reaction at Front of the Action. New Torque Power. It’s a simple Plus Formula of the Interaction of the Two Powers: 1&#x2F;Action, + 2&#x2F;Reaction = Retrodynamic.<p>&quot;Changing rotation inside a mass makes it possible to change its inertial properties. It is the equation for a jet motion without rejection of any mass.” Albert Einstein.<p>The logic of creation of an inertial propulsion system is thus: Any motion is rotation ---- Rotation of a matter generates a space-time Torsion ---Torsion of space - time is described by Ricci torsion --- Ricci torsion is an inertial field-----the rest mass of any object is determined by its inertial field---- operating by fields and forces of inertia inside of mass we can create inertial propulsion system which moves according to the equation [m (t) dv&#x2F;dt =-vdm&#x2F;dt].<p>Newton&#x27;s Third Law of Motion: III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.<p>It is the sum of both (two) Forces - one to other &#x2F; Are two Forces in one system.<p>The formula of the Retrodinamic effect is a simple mathematical summation. What is Dextrogiro plus Levogiro, gives the result of the sum, of what is the total, which is the retrodynamic effect. But keeps doing Exponential.<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stateoftheartnovelinflowtech.blogspot.com<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;padlet.com&#x2F;gearturbine&#x2F;un2slbar3s94


type: comment
by: vanrysss
text:
  PM me her resume and contact info. We&#x27;re hiring across software teams in SF and I&#x27;d be happy to get the referral bonus.


type: comment
by: ivansavz
text:
  Thanks Greg for posting!<p>The website has all the notebooks from the book, as well as well as the complete tutorials on the tech stack (Python, Pandas, Seaborn).<p>For everyone interested, check out the extended preview PDFs:<p>- Part 1: DATA and PROBABILITY <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minireference.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;excerpts&#x2F;noBSstats_part1_preview.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minireference.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;excerpts&#x2F;noBSstats_part1_pr...</a><p>- Part 2: STATISTICAL INFERENCE <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minireference.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;excerpts&#x2F;noBSstats_part2_preview.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;minireference.com&#x2F;static&#x2F;excerpts&#x2F;noBSstats_part2_pr...</a>


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  The need to tweak that deeply just to get “baseline” performance really stings, though, particularly if you’re not already accustomed to having to do that kind of thing.<p>It’d be a gargantuan project, but there should probably be some kind of centralized, cross-distro repository for power configuration profiles that allows users to rate them with their hardware. Once a profile has been sufficiently user-verified and is well rated, distro installers could then automatically fetch and install the profile as a post-install step, making for a much more seamless and less fiddly experience for users.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Oh at this point I am trying to stop myself from getting into it since I know that I would get sucked into it like you too :) since I wouldn&#x27;t have the funds to buy websites anyway and with things like PPP (Power purchasing parity) working against my favour it would be hard.<p>I did buy fossbox.cloud for less than a $ per year (81 cents iirc) when I wanted to build my own cloud with its own nice-ities.<p>Currently its just hosting some simple python servers and nothing much because I feel extremely lazy to host anything there because of lack of time mostly due to the fear of studies or similar but yea (read my another comment here for more context, sorry if it got long)<p>Let me know if you want the domain xD, I will transfer it to ya for free so that people like you can work in cloud industry too perhaps xD. We need people like you working in vps&#x2F;cloud industry and maybe I can try to better explain some other things too!<p>Imagine if this domain of fossbox.cloud supercharges your journey into vps provider&#x2F;cloud provider xD (let me know what you think, maybe we can collaborate which can be insane haha, 100% tell me more about your thoughts on the whole thing please!)<p>Also another question but how much do you think a domain like fossbox.cloud is worth? Not that I am selling it to someone to be honest but Did I make a profit xD?


type: comment
by: AngryData
text:
  To be devil&#x27;s advocate, a lot of peoples problems, especially in the US, is from the government. If you get a few years in jail for drug possession, or lose your license because some cop claimed you were high even though you haven&#x27;t smoked in 12 hours, or they seize your cash or possessions over dubious civil forfeiture laws, or one of any number of other things, the government is your biggest problem and the simplest but naive solution is to eliminate government.<p>It isn&#x27;t very forward thinking, but most people are mostly concerned with their immediate problems, not indirect problems that would take decades to culminate afterwards. US governmental problems are now, the problems of potential anarchy are a long ways down the road.


type: comment
by: dfxm12
text:
  Systemically &amp; historically, the US favors landowning white men and discriminates against others wherever possible.


type: comment
by: rc5150
text:
  So you want to police what people do to get off? Bruh if I wanna get my kicks by choking myself out, the only victim is myself, and maybe the person that finds me if I take it too far.


type: comment
by: devilbunny
text:
  A multipoint VPN that punches through NAT and can be configured to do a lot of neat things besides.<p>Nothing that a network guru or even a sufficiently motivated hacker couldn’t do on their own, except that the maintenance is practically zero for the personal user and it’s actually easy enough for a very nontechnical person to use (not necessarily to set up, but to use), perhaps with a bit of coaching over the phone. Want to use a different exit point for your traffic? It’s a dropdown list. Share a file? Requires one config step on the client for macOS, once, and then it’s just in the share menu. Windows, Android, iOS are ready to go without that. Share whole directories? Going to require some  command-line setup once per shared directory, but not after that.<p>There are features that are much more enterprise-focused and not as useful for personal stuff, but everything above is in the free version.<p>I’m not in tech at all, professionally, and never have been. I’m savvy for an end user - I can install Linux or a BSD, I can set up a network, I can install a VPN myself to get back to my home network - but I would never, ever call myself anything more than an interested layman. I probably could figure most of this out on my own, if I had to. Thing is, I don’t have to. It’s more than just Wireguard in a pretty wrapper.<p>Try it. It won’t take long to figure out why so many people here like it, even if you may not want to use it.


type: comment
by: QuantumNomad_
text:
  It’s a whole office suite.<p>And even if you use it only for bug ticketing there are products that are big enough that it takes a long time to implement changes. You really don’t want outsiders to be able to read open bug tickets for security vulnerabilities you are working on fixing for example. And you also don’t want outsiders to read your planned features either, probably.<p>I think it makes perfect sense to use e2e encryption for bug tickets considering this.


type: comment
by: samiv
text:
  As a user...why would I care?<p>If my Ferrari has an issue with the brakes and I go to my dealer I don&#x27;t care if the brakes were by Brembo.<p>Blaming the vendor and their drivers is just trying to shift the blame.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  For NVidia it suffices this is a Python JIT allowing programming CUDA compute kernels directly in Python instead of C++, yet another way how Intel and AMD, alongside Khronos APIs, lag behind in great developer experiences for GPU compute programming.<p>Ah, and Nsight debugging also supports Python CUDA Tiles debugging.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.nvidia.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;simplify-gpu-programming-with-nvidia-cuda-tile-in-python&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.nvidia.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;simplify-gpu-programming-w...</a>


type: comment
by: gervwyk
text:
  I’m surprised no one mentions Knex. By far my childhood favorite, and for me, far more creative opportunity when comparing to something like lego.


type: comment
by: mjmasn
text:
  Crazy to see this story on the front page of the BBC and now Hacker News too! Ronnie was an awesome guy, and absolutely a part of Rob and Dianne&#x27;s family, not a &quot;maid&quot; as another comment suggested.


type: comment
by: gnyman
text:
  I think I know what you mean, thanks for the report, if you modify the # part on a webpage it&#x27;s not the same as reloading it, and I doubt I watch for that part changing


type: comment
by: devilbunny
text:
  &gt; software defined LAN<p>That’s such an elegant way of putting it that they should use it in their marketing.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  How often did you go back to the archived tagches that are older than say, 6 months ? Seems very niche, unless dunno, there are no version tags in the repo.


type: comment
by: geoka9
text:
  Small correction: for another adversary&#x27;s clear geopolitical gain. While dissolving the EU has been Russia&#x27;s wet dream for decades, there&#x27;s not much to be gained from it by the US and very much to lose. In fact, the speed with which the US is giving up its influence over Europe of its own accord is bewildering.


type: comment
by: QuercusMax
text:
  Wayland still doesn&#x27;t support screensavers last I checked, which is wild to me. Truly bizarre that such longstanding feature is just absent.


type: comment
by: zem
text:
  I spend an inordinate amount of time reading (fiction) when I&#x27;m not at work. always a nice break from anything else I&#x27;m doing.


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  Actually, this is missing my point quite a bit. The difference is not the minimal&#x2F;non-minimal interface.<p>One can easily imagine (and I think they even exist) GUI front ends for ffmpeg that let a user set up a conversion &quot;more easily&quot; than they might find it using the command line. Bellard has chosen not to do this (lots of entirely fine reasons), <i>but even if you use such a GUI front end</i> the use of ffmpeg still consists of &quot;set the parameters and let the program run&quot;. At some point after clicking &quot;Run&quot; (or whatever the button says), then just like after press &quot;Return&quot;, the ffmpeg process will have completed its work, and that particular user interaction is over.<p>By contrast, a video and&#x2F;or audio <i>editor</i> is really an entirely different beast, in which the user is continually adjusting any and all parameters and states of the project, expecting undo&#x2F;redo histories, and so on and so forth. There is essentially no &quot;completion state&quot; for the application to reach.<p>I&#x27;m just curious that Bellard seems never to have tackled this kind of application (as is absolutely his right to do, or not do). I&#x27;m curious because it creates an entirely different class of programming problems from the &quot;set-and-run&quot; type of application (though they also obviously overlap in many important areas).


type: comment
by: ponector
text:
  Everything could be faked. Leetcode interview as well.<p>Background check is a thing.<p>&gt;&gt; It’s also very morale draining to see your peers fired constantly<p>Also cannot agree, firing from the probation period does not affect morale. It is rather expected some people cannot make it through.


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  In the US we have a couple hundred; structurally, though, only at most two are usually meaningfully competitive at any given time (both locally and nationally, though historically not always the same two in every area as nationally), and which two are nationally conpetitive is very stable (though one of the two has changed at two different times in US history, one of which involved a significant period of only one national competitive party with internal factions.)


type: comment
by: progval
text:
  &gt; A tag is a pointer that always refers to the same commit<p>It&#x27;s not guaranteed not to change. The UI just makes it harder to update.


type: comment
by: gsnedders
text:
  I mean, you can create alternate APIs that would work for the pop-up use case: you could have a command to create a new window positioned relative to the current window’s coordinate space.<p>That limited capability still has a risk of denial attacks (just throwing up pop-ups that extend beyond the current window’s boundaries), but those can be mitigated in a number of ways (limit the new window’s boundaries to the current window’s, or just limit how many windows can be opened, etc.).


type: comment
by: gnyman
text:
  hmm, I tried it on firefox and it works for me, and for me .leaflet-top already has a high z-index: 1000;<p>although I run 140.6.0esr so maybe newer ones need a even higher one?<p>the code is on GH now <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnyman&#x2F;mapdraw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnyman&#x2F;mapdraw</a> , codeberg is on my todo


type: comment
by: yencabulator
text:
  Only in languages&#x2F;runtimes without threads, like Javascript. In Rust, async vs threads is a performance tradeoffs (and it&#x27;s definitely not always clear who the winner will be), and mostly relevant when you have tasks &gt;&gt; cores. Something like curl would have practically 0 reasons to be async, but of course is still subject to internet latency.


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  &gt; I don&#x27;t use a Mac, but have you ever used Windows?<p>I have<p>&gt; I mean, maybe you have, but if you are not fussy then at worst MacOS is quirky and Windows and Linux are identical and merely have different icons.<p>Neither have keybindings that make any sense. The other failures are secondary<p>&gt; If you pay a little bit of attention you will notice that on linux things seem more flexible and intuitive.<p>Only for windows refugees that have never used Mac OSX<p>&gt; If you are very finnicky, there is nothing that comes close to X11 window managers when it comes to window management flexibility, innovation and power.<p>Unless you want to copy and paste, or have consistent key bindings cross applications, or take screenshots. Sure


type: comment
by: NetMageSCW
text:
  Initially I thought it referred to the Japanese (Casio&#x2F;Sharp&#x2F;Panasonic) single line calculator&#x2F;coomputer bridges I have a collection of and the Radio Shack&#x2F;Tandy versions that came out (I have every one from RS).


type: comment
by: KlayLay
text:
  The question is whether or not American companies like Apple are controlled by the US government. Do you genuinely believe that, just because you can go to a court, that you&#x27;re somehow free of control? Whether or not the state is authoritarian doesn&#x27;t change that.<p>You must really have a distorted view on society to believe that companies can be free from their respective governments on the basis of freedom of speech, which is largely a western concept.


type: comment
by: wilkystyle
text:
  Can you elaborate? Fairly new to langchain, but didn&#x27;t realize it had any sort of stereotypical type of user.


type: comment
by: Tepix
text:
  &gt; dignified death is never given as an option<p>That&#x27;s not a universal law, in fact it is different in other countries, i.e. it is something that can be changed.


type: comment
by: belter
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;XiYMU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;XiYMU</a>


type: comment
by: depr
text:
  Groq doesn&#x27;t keep that money, it goes to VCs. They claim the company is &quot;pivoting&quot;, not &quot;selling&quot; and avoid the payout trigger.


type: comment
by: danielbln
text:
  These look fun, I&#x27;m partial to the dad turbine. Too bad (for something like this) that basically none of my lamps produce much heat these days.


type: comment
by: yawaramin
text:
  True. At work our flow is to tag commits that we want to mark as release candidates and delete feature branches after their PRs are merged&#x2F;declined. We&#x27;ve never had a need to archive branches.


type: story
by: Edybrown
title: Show HN: Building web views as executable Python code
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I’ve been working on PyFrontKit, a Python DSL that builds web views as executable Python code instead of text-based templates.<p>Instead of writing HTML with placeholders, you write Python that constructs the view structure and styles. The output can be exported as HTML&#x2F;CSS files or used directly in memory as a backend template.<p>Example use case: - backend-generated views - dynamic layouts and styles - reusable Python-based templates without string rendering<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Edybrown&#x2F;Pyfrontkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Edybrown&#x2F;Pyfrontkit</a> You can install it via pip:<p><pre><code>    pip install pyfrontkit  </code></pre> I’m mainly interested in feedback on the idea and whether this approach feels useful or unnecessary.


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  True, not only for single child but for many with different sex, large age difference or simply careless parents.


type: comment
by: throwup238
text:
  <i>&gt; The major problem with these systems is that they just hope that the physics is recovered through enough examples of videos. Yet if one studied physics (beyond your basic college courses) you&#x27;d understand the naïveté of that. It took a long time to develop physics due to these specific limitations. These models don&#x27;t even have the advantage of being able to interact with the environment. They have no mechanisms to form beliefs and certainly no means to test them. It&#x27;s essentially impossible to develop physics through observation alone</i><p>Sounds like these world models are speed running from Platonic ideals to empiricism.


type: comment
by: ciconia
text:
  &gt; Them: We leverage automated machine learning to enhance your existing BI visualizations with more proactive insights<p>&gt; Me: I sell onions on the internet<p>That&#x27;s exactly how I feel about AI! Instead of all that useless nonsense, just keeping it real, doing something that&#x27;s actually useful for individuals and for society.


type: comment
by: adgjlsfhk1
text:
  it&#x27;s fairly similar to Arm&#x27;s sve2, but very different from the x86 side in that the instructions are variable length rather than fixed


type: comment
by: feb
text:
  For a functionnal language, TCO is really a must have. How would you do the equivalent of loops without it ?


type: comment
by: scott_w
text:
  To be fair, though, you’re a lot more knowledgeable and experienced than some security “experts” I’ve had to deal with ;-)


type: comment
by: jemmyw
text:
  I... didn&#x27;t really understand most of what you wrote in context of my post. Yes, if I were single I&#x27;d probably go for a city. My wife hasn&#x27;t had a job since we had kids when I was 25, and I think we&#x27;re in a much better financial state because it meant we had an easier time shifting our lives around the world for my job. I&#x27;ve never earnt big tech salary but I make more than was possible with the jobs I could access in New Zealand.


type: comment
by: zingar
text:
  Very curious to hear about the specific cases where types make tests unnecessary.<p>I spend my working life swapping between Ruby and typescript projects and the typescript project is utter garbage with poor test coverage that needs a day of human QA for every build whereas the Ruby project is well tested such that we know that CI passing means it’s good to be released.


type: comment
by: CPLX
text:
  &gt; If you are today a big insurance like Munich Re, and you see already today that self-driving produces already much less accidents<p>Insurance companies don&#x27;t really care that much if accidents are more or less likely, what they care about is that they can be underwritten effectively.<p>The most interesting shift here as it pertains to insurance is the fact that losses might be <i>correlated</i> in brand new ways. Today there&#x27;s no simple way for 100,000 cars to all crash a few minutes apart, worldwide, for the same reason. In the future that may in fact be plausible.


type: comment
by: MasPL
text:
  Unlike many headlines suggesting gifts are inefficient, gifts from employers increase workers&#x27; productivity.


type: comment
by: ExoticPearTree
text:
  They most likely have contracts with them Lenovo and were former users of IBM.<p>I haven’t heard of any big company tyat repairs their own hardware in about 20 or so years.


type: comment
by: gsnedders
text:
  Is there any plan about how to deal with indirect prompt injection attacks that could trivially be lurking in malicious web pages, given the agent can navigate to an arbitrary URL?


type: comment
by: ponector
text:
  Millions of Ukrainians who use the language is not &quot;barely anyone&quot;.<p>However that is true that many of Ukrainians are bilingual, due to decades of russian occupation and ethnic cleansing.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  Even though Javascript is quite dynamic, Python is <i>much</i> worse. Basically everything involves a runtime look-up. It&#x27;s pretty much the language you&#x27;d design if you were trying to make it as slow as possible.


type: comment
by: 650REDHAIR
text:
  I outfitted our 10 person team with the E16 g2 and it’s been great.<p>Two minor issues- it’s HEAVY compared to T models.<p>Because of the weight try not to walk around with the lid up and holding it from one of front corners. I’ve noticed one of them is kind of warped from walking around the office holding it that way.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  &gt; Both of their companies are under their respective state&#x27;s control. The only difference seems to be what you&#x27;re willing to recognize as control, since I&#x27;m much more interested in what happens when push comes to shove.<p>I can agree with your whole comment except for the fact that we are comparing an if &#x2F; future statement when push comes to shove for america since although one can predict about national security or espionage act or anything, Nobody can be 100% certain if apple would have to have follow it<p>Now compare this with China where states own the financial sector and have a share in every company so there is a 100% certainty there that when push comes to shove that china is a more likelier culprit than america<p>I feel like everything breaks down when push comes to shove though because I feel like Europe which has its flaws is still more stable (most parts of it) in terms of blatant corruption and authoritarianism than the trends displayed by america right now but if push comes to shove, I feel like Europe could have harsher rules than maybe even America considering America&#x27;s &quot;freedom&quot; sentiment<p>The question however which I wish to ask is that what are some countries which you think are good if push comes to shove. I suppose switzerland but its gotten too good of a reputation that its become infamous for bad stuff but I am interested what other countries would you list.


type: comment
by: tatersolid
text:
  I can confirm terrible video quality on 1Gb&#x2F;s Xfinity connection in Chicago area. The NFL streaming picture quality looks like RealPlayer on a 56kbps modem from 1998. The ball becomes invisible as soon as it is passed or kicked! Blocky and ghosting artifacts. Not a network issue, every other site&#x2F;app working great, it’s simply Netflix falling over during a live event <i>again</i>.


type: comment
by: teo_zero
text:
  Because that&#x27;s a description of the intended behavior, and I reason about a language as an abstraction that allows one to express an expected behavior ignoring the implementation details.<p>I know it&#x27;s not universal: some languages in their infancy lack a formalization and are defined by their reference implentation. But a more theoretical approach has allowed languages like C to strive for years.


type: comment
by: tirant
text:
  I also loved Playmobil. But they were so much better in the 80s, early 90s, when all the figures were exactly the same, except by the colors, so it meant they were all flexible to be dressed up as anything you wanted.<p>Nowadays each playmobil doll is extremely personalized which removes the flexibility to dress them as anything and limits the imagination and originality. Such a pity. No wonder Playmobil almost went bankrupt recently.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  Generally true, though this particular case is due to a single company deciding to not play ball and generally act in a manner that&#x27;s hostile to the FOSS world for self-serving reasons (Nvidia).


type: comment
by: lproven
text:
  Sea level rise is about to get a lot more immediate. When the Thwaites goes, the West Antarctic Ice Shelf follows. Once it&#x27;s afloat, forget melted just floating, we&#x27;ll see around 5 metres average sea level rise worldwide. Estimates and models say the new sea level will take about 12 days to stabilise globally.<p>It might be enough time to evacuate but not much else.


type: comment
by: cheema33
text:
  Agreed. We could all do better. I know it would be very difficult for me to do what these people did. Some of us are perhaps barely neurotypicals and barely holding it together. I worry that having to care for an autistic individual may push me over. I am not using that as an excuse, but genuinely curious if there are others in this position. They want to help, but worry that they are not sane and stable enough to handle the task.


type: comment
by: LadyCailin
text:
  It’s only Vidalia if it’s grown in the Vidalia region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling onion.


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
text:
  Fun game: see how many clicks it takes <i>you</i> to learn what MLIR stands for.<p>I lost count at five or six.  Define your acronyms on first use, people.


type: comment
by: phire
text:
  It seems very useful for archiving branches that never got merged.<p>Sometimes I work on a feature, and it doesn’t quite work out for some reason or another. The branch will probably never get merged, but it’s still useful for reference later when I want to see what didn’t work when taking a second attempt.<p>Currently, those abandoned branches have been polluting my branch list.  In the past I have cloned the repo a second time just to “archive” them. Tags seem like a better idea.


type: comment
by: mrweasel
text:
  What could the reasoning behind allowing anything beyond 64.000 characters possibly been? Even 64k seems unnecessarily large.


type: comment
by: rootusrootus
text:
  I love onions, but never tried a Vidalia.  We have Walla Walla sweet onions out here and I suspect they’re pretty similar.


type: comment
by: n8ur
text:
  this is what i did for you for christmas :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptimize.de&#x2F;weihnachten&#x2F;editor.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptimize.de&#x2F;weihnachten&#x2F;editor.php</a>


type: comment
by: n8ur
text:
  Meryy Christmas<p>this is what I did for my friends<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptimize.de&#x2F;weihnachten&#x2F;editor.php" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptimize.de&#x2F;weihnachten&#x2F;editor.php</a><p>in german and english available <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptimize.de&#x2F;weihnachten&#x2F;2025_pers_v2&#x2F;?id=demo_v2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.adoptimize.de&#x2F;weihnachten&#x2F;2025_pers_v2&#x2F;?id=demo_...</a>


type: comment
by: gobeavs
text:
  Impact can vary wildly between companies and circumstances given the same inputs however, so indexing on that can be misleading in interviews.<p>I&#x27;ve moved big revenue metrics with relatively simple projects. Anyone else could have done the same thing. And I was building on work that lots of product people and other engineers performed. That &quot;impact&quot; doesn&#x27;t tell you anything about what I can bring to a new company with different systems and products.


type: comment
by: tsimionescu
text:
  &gt; What makes &#x27;Alzheimer&#x27;s&#x27; a disease rather than a region we&#x27;ve named in a high-dimensional space we don&#x27;t really understand all that well?<p>Nothing. I think it&#x27;s sometimes in fact called a syndrome, not a disease per se. Since we don&#x27;t really understand the mechanism of action, it remains more of a diagnosis by exclusion rather than anything else.


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  Except that time of death comes on average many years later for Alzheimer&#x27;s than cancer. In the same thought, better die from heart attack instantly but unfortunately much earlier, which would be devastating for the relatives.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Is it impressive in the way Max Verstappen winning the F1 World Championship in 2023 was impressive, operating at the absolute limit under pressure and getting paid beaucoup bux for it? Or is it impressive in the way your kid is impressive the first time they manage to draw stick figures and a house with crayons? Those are both real achievements, but they are impressive in completely different ways, and the value of the work produced is wildly different. I might fly to Vegas along with 300,000 other people and pay for hotel rooms and pay to watch some shows while I&#x27;m there as well as to watch him race, but (and don&#x27;t take this the wrong way), but I ain&#x27;t gonna do that to watch your kid draw with crayons.<p>The difference is the baseline. Once the default outcome is cheap, fast, and good enough, the human effort stops standing out in a way that matters. At that point, pointing at the Walmart sweater is not missing the point, it <i>is</i> the point.


type: comment
by: boulos
text:
  Ehh, PHP fits that bill and is clearly optimizable. All sorts of things worked well for PHP, including the original HipHop, HHVM, my own work, and the mainline PHP runtime.<p>Python has some semantics and behaviors that are particularly hostile to optimization, but as the Faster Python and related efforts have suggested, the main challenge is full compatibility including extensions plus the historical desire for a simple implementation within CPython.<p>There are limits to retrofitting truly high performance to any of these languages. You want enough static, optional, or gradual typing to make it fast enough in the common case. That&#x27;s why you also saw the V8 folks give up and make Dart, the Facebook ones made Hack, etc. It&#x27;s telling that none of those gained truly broad adoption though. Performance isn&#x27;t all that matters, especially once you have an established codebase and ecosystem.


type: comment
by: deepspace
text:
  I have a different perspective.  The worst types of cancer kill slowly and cause agonizing suffering.<p>Alzheimer&#x27;s leads to negative outcomes for your caregivers, but by many accounts many affected individuals do not suffer all that much, if at all, due to their lack of awareness.


type: comment
by: dotancohen
text:
  Finish a set? Lego Enterprise? Don&#x27;t want to build anything else with it?<p>I see that the Lego I remember and the Lego of today are two vastly different things.


type: comment
by: QuantumNomad_
text:
  And anyone whose coworkers replace tags on a regular basis will be familiar with the following message from git when pulling changes:<p>would clobber existing tag<p>Really wish my coworkers would leave old tags as they were heh.


type: comment
by: bjackman
text:
  For optimal battery life you need to tweak the whole OS stack for the hardware. You need to make sure all the peripherals are set up right to go into the right idle states without causing user-visible latency on wake-up. (Note that often just one peripheral being out of tune here can mess up the whole system&#x27;s power performance. Also the correct settings here depend on your software stack). You need to make sure that cpufreq and cpuidle governors work nicely with the particular foibles of your platform&#x27;s CPUs. Ditto for the task scheduler. Then, ditto for a bunch of random userspace code (audio + rendering pipeline for example). The list goes on and on.  This work gets done in Android and ChromeOS.


type: comment
by: foxrider
text:
  The xdg-desktop-portal stuff is still too immature. For example, my friend wanted my help after upgrading his Pop_OS to 24.04, and 24.04 replaced GNOME with COSMIC. COSMI had no RemoteDesktop portal (and still doesn&#x27;t have it), so we couldn&#x27;t use RustDesk like we always did without him installing a GNOME session just for that.<p>I&#x27;ve been an i3 user for almost two decades, but eventually switched to Sway - to this day there&#x27;s no InputCapture portal, so I can&#x27;t use Synergy with Sway, forcing me to switch to i3 while I&#x27;m working.<p>It&#x27;s been over 10 years of things like that. There&#x27;s always SOMETHING missing.


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  I had read their comment as &quot;accurately diagnose before treating&quot;<p>It&#x27;s not &quot;House&quot; where you guess something, provide a treatment, watch as things get worse, then change diagnosis in the real world is it?


type: comment
by: ninalanyon
text:
  Looks useful but doesn&#x27;t work quite as expected for me.<p>In Vivaldi location tracking doesn&#x27;t work. Version 7.7.3851.66 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromium Version 142.0.7444.245 Extended Stable channel (may also include additional security patches) Channel Official Build Platform &#x2F; OS Linux - linuxmint 21.3<p>And in Firefox 146.0.1 on the same machine the URL doesn&#x27;t get updated.


type: comment
by: everdrive
text:
  I totally get that people are not mice, however animals studies have been useful for all sorts of diseases. Are they really uniquely bad for Alzheimer&#x27;s?


type: comment
by: brominebrewer
text:
  I work for the company that <i>was</i> Ethyl and we have old &quot;propaganda posters&quot; touting the benefits of tetraethyllead on the walls of the administration building at the location where TEL was produced. They&#x27;re curios from another time and hung on the walls as a reminder that acceptable science, norms, and requirements change over time. We&#x27;re not the company we once were, but the past is worthy of remembrance--if only so the mistakes thereof are not repeated.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  I did it in three. I selected it in your comment, and then had to hit &quot;more&quot; to get to the menu to ask Google about it, which brought me to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=MLIR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=MLIR</a> which says: MLIR is an open-source compiler infrastructure project developed as a sub-project of the LLVM project. Hopefully<p>Get better at computers and stop needing to be spoon-fed information, people!


type: comment
by: lproven
text:
  X11 can do it. It&#x27;s Xinerama that can&#x27;t.<p>These days Xinerama is the only mainstream tool for dual head, but there used to be others. Nvidia Twinview was one. I bought my first dual head box in 1996 with two Matrox Millennium cards (although it mainly ran NT4) and those cards later went into my dual Athlon XP machine. That ran SUSE until Ubuntu came out.<p>Xinerama isn&#x27;t a <i>sine qua non</i>. It&#x27;s just easy so it became ubiquitous. Maybe it&#x27;s time to replace it.


type: comment
by: rolph
text:
  i can. and i will take longer than you.<p>i will take longer, because at each step the process of lateral association occurs, this will foster imaginative variation of schema, and result in inspiration, an internally generated drive to pursue a goal, and experience the results.<p>i will not only complete the task, but will understand the many outcomes of task corruption as they relate to the components of the task.<p>you will obtain a set of right answers, i will discover the rules that govern the process.


type: comment
by: dotancohen
text:
  Yes, and I&#x27;ve perfected that skill against sidewalk cracks, ants, and bubble gum for quite some time.


type: comment
by: albert_roca
text:
  The model shows that the surface and volume of an object scale with mass such that electrostatic and gravitational acceleration can be explained through this scaling relationship. This is considered a geometric or structural cost:<p><pre><code>  C_s ~ m^(1&#x2F;3) + m^(-2&#x2F;3) </code></pre> In terms of intrinsic acceleration, surface and volume scale with mass as:<p><pre><code>  a_i ~ m^(1&#x2F;3) + m^(-5&#x2F;3) </code></pre> This relationship holds for any object with charge ≠ 0 across electrostatic and gravitational regimes, so the free fall principle is strictly recovered only for mathematically neutral objects.<p>This allows drawing an intrinsic acceleration curve for objects with homogeneous density, and the minimum point of this curve is identified at:<p><pre><code>  m_ϕ ≈ 4.157 × 10^−9 kg </code></pre> If the surface and volume of a not strictly neutral object determine its dynamic behavior, this would theoretically allow measuring m_ϕ with precision and deriving G without the historical dependence on the Planck mass. In this sense, it is a falsifiable proposal.<p>The geometric logic of the model allows establishing a geometric or informational saturation limit that eliminates GR singularities. At the same time, fundamental particles are not treated as dimensionless points but as polyhedral objects, which also eliminates the quantum gravity problem. The concept of infinity is considered, within the model, physically implausible.<p>From here, the model allows making the derivations included in this post, which I have not presented categorically, but as a proposal that seems at least statistically very unlikely to be achieved by chance.<p>The model does not question the precision of the Standard Model but postulates that the particle zoo represents not a collection of fundamental building blocks, but the result of proton fragmentation into purely geometric entities. The fact that these entities are not observed spontaneously in nature, but only as a consequence of forced interactions, seems to support this idea.


type: comment
by: dlkckvll
text:
  The 10000 crippling messages limit is probably not chosen randomly, it’s the same as Slack’s. Not by accident.


type: comment
by: chhxdjsj
text:
  Has anyone had experienced with the giant magnet tiles? This article seems like suspicious affiliate marketing which places are beloved product that everybody has beside one that looks kind of similar.


type: comment
by: michalsustr
text:
  It actually gets worse. The GPUs are numerically non deterministic too. So your embeddings may not be fully reproducible either.


type: comment
by: sallveburrpi
text:
  I specifically referred to the witch kings surveillance artefacts with misreading. I don’t think their creation story is mentioned in LOTR, other than that they are extremely powerful and dangerous.<p>But you are right of course about Anduril and if you take the whole silmarillion as background. I never really liked that part though


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  I hate those, too.  Especially when others are around.<p>The interface is so inconsistent between different implementations that they&#x27;re always terribly awkward to navigate at best, and completely infuriating at worst.  I don&#x27;t like presenting the image of an progressively-angrier man who is standing around and speaking incongruous short phrases that are clearly directed towards nobody at all.<p>But I&#x27;ve found that many of them still accept DTMF.  Just mash a button instead of utter a response, and a more-traditional IVR tree shows up with a spoken list of enumerated options.  Things get a lot better after that.<p>Like pushing buttons at the gas pump to try to silence the ad-roll, it&#x27;s pretty low-cost to try.


type: comment
by: threecheese
text:
  Cheers to all the teams on sev1 calls on their holidays, we can only hope their adversaries are also trying to spend time with family. LangGrinch, indeed! (I get it, timely disclosure is responsible disclosure)


type: comment
by: bonecrusher2102
text:
  Love seeing you in these threads! We use “AI Powered Search” as a bible on our team. Thanks for all your contributions to the community.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  Interestingly my wife helped a friend whose father had the disease during the pandemic.<p>He had worked as a professor and after retirement had suffered with AD for years but had stayed &quot;independent&quot; because his wife was high functioning mentally but low functioning physically and formed a good team.<p>He&#x27;d bought long term care insurance so he had the resources to afford both a room at a care home but also personal help from home aides, including my wife.  He didn&#x27;t really know what was going on most of the time but he never got angry or flustered and was always pleasant to deal with.<p>We had trouble with certain homes having a way they want to do things or requiring things that weren&#x27;t really necessary,  one insisted that he get a pacemaker because he had bradycardia.  When he lived with his son between homes probably the most difficult thing was that he got up in the night to use the bathroom and would end up urinating in the wrong place.  He got much better care than many residents because people were always coming around to see him and the staff knew that we cared and would advocate for him.<p>He passed away at 92 and outlived many of the people who knew him at work so he had just a small memorial ceremony.  I saw it as an example of healthy aging and talked about it a lot with my wife -- and it made me think about myself and my own fear that my ability to compensate for my schizotaxia may degrade when my brain degrades and I can picture myself becoming really nasty and it gives me all the more incentive to rewrite my habits while I still can.


type: comment
by: forty
text:
  Yeah thanksfully in Europe we have AOP &#x2F; AOC (protected name of origin) so that names can have a meaning. Good that Vidalia farmers seem to have managed to do the same somehow.<p>Regarding Champagne, the funniest part is that Russia granted exclusivity of the name to some local sparkling wine, such that actual wines from the Champagne aera need to use some alternative names there ^^


type: comment
by: sallveburrpi
text:
  That is fair even though I referred only to Palantir with that part. Did you name this account after Eru Illuvatar?


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  Sauron’s side, surely? Or else there is a need for a whole different question of “how badly you have to read LOTR...”


type: comment
by: amazingman
text:
  Why must you insist it&#x27;s LLM-generated based on formatting and feel? What if this is just how the author writes? This is what I mean by overzealous pattern matching.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  if you&#x27;re deleting branches then why would you need to archive them? What would you even archive if you&#x27;re deleting them? My deeper  question is why are you deleting them in the first place though?


type: story
by: cgonzar3
title: Show HN: Fill PDFs with API, AI creates optimal layouts
url: https://www.hundredocs.com/
text:
  Hey HN, I’m Carlos, dev &amp; designer behind Hundred Docs.<p>Here’s the deal: I’ve spent way too many days fighting PDFs in production. Two things drove me crazy:<p>1. Most doc tools give total freedom → anyone can make a layout disaster + UX is terrible.   2. PDF libraries are a nightmare to integrate<p>So I hacked something that actually works:   - You describe the doc in plain English   - AI turns it into an editable template   - Non-tech folks can tweak it visually   - Devs just POST JSON to an API → get a professional PDF back<p>Would love to hear what you think about the product idea and your experience with PDF generation in software products.


type: comment
by: fcatalan
text:
  Not as hugely generous as this story, but during his whole college professor career since the 70s, my father always took care that none of his students spent any major holidays alone and away from home, so we always ended up having 2 or 3 of them around for Christmas, the New Year, Easter... They were from everywhere around the country and the world, and it was so very enriching for me and my siblings. I had a huge postage stamp collection from the ever increasing well wishing mail that arrived. It&#x27;s also kind of comforting to think that anywhere in the world you are not that far from someone that remembers you fondly.


type: story
by: sebg
title: The Virtual Cell Will Be More Like Gwas Than AlphaFold
url:
  https://andrewcarroll.github.io/2025/12/23/the-virtual-cell-will-be-more-like-GWAS-than-AlphaFold.html


type: comment
by: cgonzar3
text:
  I’m curious about your experience with PDF generation in production. What challenges have you faced, and does this approach address them?


type: story
by: mooreds
title: The Most Worrying Bits from Bloomberg's AI Bubble Q&A with Jason Furman
url:
  https://gizmodo.com/the-most-worrying-bits-from-bloombergs-worrisome-ai-bubble-qa-with-jason-furman-2000702356


type: comment
by: yogsototh
text:
  I remember a documentary about learning things to kids, and in order to optimise learning efficiency the optimal ratio for difficult questions should be 1&#x2F;4. So the children continue to feel good about themselves, while still improving.<p>So I guess this ratio about easy vs difficult question should be a parameter in such spaced repetition algorithms.


type: comment
by: Macha
text:
  I can confirm as someone that had these or a very similar kit as a kid that they were enjoyable and the knowledge proved useful when I started working with real circuits in high school and college.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Sadly, cancer isn’t one singular disease. Types of cancer can be excruciatingly painful for many years, which is also tormenting to everyone around you. I wouldn’t wish either on anyone.


type: comment
by: dlkckvll
text:
  Publishing an app in popular app stores, for an organization, requires several $100 in annual fees. That’s before any mobile app is even published.


type: comment
by: coryrc
text:
  I didn&#x27;t think my explanation implied how you interpreted it.<p>I thought everybody knew Wayland was started by some people working on Xorg already; I did not mean to imply otherwise. Many or all were paid for their work. They believed Wayland was a better approach, and, AFAIK, at some point switched to be paid full-time to work on Wayland instead of X. Which, sounds a lot like they convinced their employer (or a new employer) to pay them to work on Wayland instead of X. Do you believe this is a fair summary of the situation?


type: comment
by: aliceryhl
text:
  That&#x27;s an email from James Calligeros. All this patch says is that the author is Hector Martin (and Sven Peter). The code could have been written a long time ago.


type: comment
by: ffsm8
text:
  Not trying to discredit your idea, but I feel like you&#x27;re misrepresenting the amount of optimization apple does by calling it baseline.<p>It&#x27;s generally the most optimized system down to the fact that Apple controls everything about it&#x27;s platform.<p>If that&#x27;s considered baseline, then nothing but full vertical integration can compete


type: comment
by: lewo
text:
  I think this is really close to the way nix2container works (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlewo&#x2F;nix2container" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlewo&#x2F;nix2container</a>). nix2container generates metadata at build time and streams the required data at runtime.<p>At build time, it generates a JSON file describing the image metadata and the layers data location. At runtime, it consumes this JSON file to stream layer data and image configuration to a destination. This is implemented by adding a new transport to Skopeo. Thanks to this implementation, nix2container doesn&#x27;t need to handle all various destrination since this is managed by Skopeo itself.<p>Recently, we introduced a mechanism to also produce such kind of JSON file for the base image (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlewo&#x2F;nix2container?tab=readme-ov-file#nix2containerpullimagefrommanifest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nlewo&#x2F;nix2container?tab=readme-ov-file#ni...</a>).<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure the added (not usptreamed yet) transport could be useful in some other close contexts, such as Bazel or Guix.<p>I&#x27;m the nix2container author and i will be glad to discuss with you if you think this Skopeo transport could be useful for you!<p>(btw, your blog post is pretty well written!)


type: comment
by: h3half
text:
  The way NASA did it for decades was conference calls. Nowadays it&#x27;s Teams meetings.<p>The outputs of the meetings are decisions that are later encoded in very many very long documents. It&#x27;s just faster to hash out engineering details when the relevant engineers are able to talk to each other in real time and relevant decision makers are present to be able to unofficially bless or reject what the engineers come up with (formal acceptance of these decisions is of course a paperwork thing).<p>So, in this domain anyway, it&#x27;s not a literal phone call. But it&#x27;s what we see as the modern equivalent.


type: comment
by: farmin
text:
  That’s great news thanks. I got the gen 3 so maybe some improvements. Weight is ok as I really just move it around the house. I buy used Panasonics for the workshop.<p>Are you running windows?


type: comment
by: busyant
text:
  &gt; the fake Alzheimer&#x27;s they induce ....<p>I used to work with a guy who had been a scientist at a large pharma company (we were both working at a small biotech start-up at the time).<p>He told me an interesting story... basically, scientists at his company would get an <i>extra</i> year-end bonus if they had worked on a drug candidate that made it past animal studies and into human (clinical) trials.<p>He told me that one way to &#x27;consistently&#x27; get the extra bonus was to work on candidate drugs for neurological diseases (e.g., Alzheimer&#x27;s, etc.) because ... the animal models for those diseases were (generally) dog shit, so it was easy to find a drug that &#x27;cured&#x27; whatever happened to be your neurological disease of interest in mice&#x2F;rats&#x2F;etc.<p>Then you get your bonus and the drug fails in humans.<p>Lather, rinse, repeat.


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
text:
  First I’m seeing them, but that means very little. Every preschool we used had the normal magnet tiles though so I’m familiar with the concept.<p>Fair to question this. Most things are fake and… lame.


type: comment
by: yial
text:
  This is such a charming project! I’ve been quite taken for years by the “Christmas” decorations that spin using a candle.<p>I quite like these more - mainly because they could be added onto a lamp that puts off heat, and be kind of a perpetual decoration with subtle motion.<p>I love your “dad turbine” design, and the flying wing has some magical quality to it.<p>Thank you so much for sharing!


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Do you have any connection to Tony Fadell or Matt Rogers, or is your username just some happy accident?


type: comment
by: dotancohen
text:
  I sometimes leave merged branches around for quite a while, because I squash them when I merge to master and sometimes when tracking down a bug the ability to bisect very handy.


type: comment
by: FiloSottile
text:
  Browser vendors have absolutely thought about this, at length.<p>The web platform is intricate, legacy, and critical. Websites by and large can’t and don’t break with browser updates, which makes all of these things like operating on the engine in flight.<p>For example, click through some of the multiple iterations of the Schemeful Same Site proposal linked from my blog.<p>Thing is, SameSite’s primary goal was not CSRF prevention, it was privacy. CSRF is what Fetch metadata is for.


type: comment
by: tnecio
text:
  In this case I&#x27;d say the link <i>is</i> the content. So it would be the place where you share the link, rather than the &quot;rendering page&quot;, which should be more worried


type: comment
by: dlkckvll
text:
  You don’t need Docker desktop to build a docker image. In linux, which everyone should use in their ci&#x2F;cd, just run ”docker build .”


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  For some laptops, this applies in comparison to Windows, too though (see elsewhere in thread for examples).


type: comment
by: skydhash
text:
  I don’t think I’ve ever returned to a branch that I can easily rebase on top of the main branch. And if I really wanted to, I’d prefer to extract a patch so that I can copy the interesting lines.<p>Any branch older than 6 months is a strong candidate for deletion.


type: comment
by: grimblee
text:
  Meritocracy is the myth the dominant class created to keep us all playing.<p>Is all about luck and there&#x27;s only so many seats, you better be born closer to the free ones.


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
text:
  I annoy my wife by sorting magnet tiles away color type AND color. I do it as fast as possible with mock sorting algorithms. She shoves them back into the box.


type: comment
by: forty
text:
  It&#x27;s a broader EU thing (named AOP - protected designation of origin) rather than French only, though you are right that France has plenty of those for wines and cheese. But it&#x27;s also protecting Greek Feta, Italian Parma ham, Scottish Shetland Wool, etc


type: comment
by: zem
text:
  when I was a kid I wanted some of the specialised sets simply because they had exciting new pieces like windshields, gears, dish antennas, etc. I don&#x27;t think I ever made the actual thing the set was intended for, I just wanted to add new pieces to my lego bin.


type: comment
by: aliceryhl
text:
  I have no insight into the Asahi project, but the LKML link goes to an email from James Calligeros containing code written by Hector Martin and Sven Peter. The code may have been written a long time ago.


type: comment
by: mort96
text:
  Zulip is a kind of annoying name, and every time I encounter it it&#x27;s in the context of some open source platform hiding their community discussion forum behind a login. I&#x27;m left with a not very great impression.


type: comment
by: somat
text:
  I vote the cardboard box, especially if it is a large appliance box, Unfortunately you can&#x27;t really give someone a large cardboard box, but oh boy are they fun.


type: comment
by: layer8
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;foom#English" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wiktionary.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;foom#English</a>


type: comment
by: 3abiton
text:
  It&#x27;s barely gaining adoption though. The lack of buzz is a chicken and egg issue for Mojo. I fiddled shortly with it (mainly to get it working some of my pythong scripts), and it was suprisingly easy. It&#x27;ll shoot up one day for sure if Latner doesn&#x27;t give up early on it.


type: comment
by: mihaaly
text:
  &gt; one young UK couple&#x27;s act of kindness 50 years ago changed their lives forever.<p>I like to think that their caring life did not really change, they were like that to begin with, they just missed a Ronni from it. : )


type: comment
by: AnotherGoodName
text:
  On this note I’d be willing to support a html port with inline python code running via pyodide if the helps wanted too.<p>See <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubberduckmaths.com&#x2F;eulers_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rubberduckmaths.com&#x2F;eulers_theorem</a> for an example where i wrote a blog post with lots of inline runnable Python code samples.<p>I think this is the best format for python code samples and tutorials. It’s even better than notebooks. No IDE to setup, a completely static and saveable html page, easily runnable and changeable python.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; - You can actually buy the drug here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;focusbiomolecules.com&#x2F;p7c3-a20-nampt-activator-prone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;focusbiomolecules.com&#x2F;p7c3-a20-nampt-activator-prone</a>... It&#x27;s a simple small molecule. If this stuff works, expect it to be everywhere within just a couple of years.<p>There are numerous chemical supply companies that will list chemicals like this “for sale”. They might not have it in stock but they hope they’ll get your search traffic and be able to synthesize it if you place an order.<p>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>There have been a growing number of online groups arranging to do group buys of synthesized experimental drugs based on studies. I’ve followed a few of them and the results range from people losing their money, receiving product that is too contaminated to use, or in some cases they go to great lengths to verify the chemical but then discover it doesn’t do what the original study promised it would do. In some of the more horrifying cases I’ve seen forum posts from people reporting long lasting chest pains from one chemical, and another chemical was sending people into psychosis. So if (when) these chemicals start appearing on group buy sites I suggest ignoring it until more research is done. Making yourself into a lab rat is not a good idea.


type: comment
by: reactordev
text:
  In this day and age, asking questions about what something is is a minefield of “just ask AI” and “You should know this”. Let’s stop putting down people who ask questions and root out those that have shitty answers.


type: comment
by: jauntywundrkind
text:
  Great tool. So glad we have something!<p>Alas, also has mis-use. You don&#x27;t want to linearly parse urls, as a router! Addition was controversial because folks anticipated mis-use like this. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46043318">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46043318</a>


type: comment
by: gsnedders
text:
  &gt; Performance isn&#x27;t all that matters, especially once you have an established codebase and ecosystem.<p>And this is no small part of why Java and JS have frequently been pushing VM performance forward — there’s enough code people very much care about continuing to work on performance. (Though the two care about different things mostly: Java cares much more about long-term performance, and JS cares much more about short-term performance.)<p>It doesn’t hurt they’re both languages which are relatively static compared with e.g. Python, either.


type: comment
by: kristianp
text:
  (2024).<p>For those curious about the Alkeria line-scan camera, he wrote a blog about 3d printing a lens mount etc.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.lawrence.lu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-08-31-customizing-my-line-scan-camera&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.lawrence.lu&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2024-08-31-customizing-my-li...</a><p>Seems like a crazy hobby to me though! Photography is inconvenient enough without having to make your own mounts and use an sdk to do it! History is filled with inconvenient hobbies though.<p>I would agree with the sentiment about the lack of good bright screens for lenovo&#x27;s hacker laptops like the X1 carbon.


type: comment
by: zvr
text:
  &quot;manually creating an SBOM&quot; is a much lower priority requirement than &quot;easily, accurately, and completely creating an SBOM&quot;.<p>The whole idea is to use specific libraries to produce and consume SBOMs.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t expect people to &quot;manually create&quot; JPG images, would you?


type: comment
by: piskov
text:
  That’s why I specifically told what I meant: it is not about being able to swap SSD, but that for at least 5-7 years you will be able to repair it (expensively).<p>Moreover in basically every corner of the earth there will be either authorised service or local one that will help you if soak your laptop in thailand or what have you.


type: comment
by: rzerowan
text:
  With the sadder realisation from the article that more independent co-lo facilities are getting shutdown leaving many largescale deployments withno recourse but to go to the cloud for hyperscale. As a business at least in the US , im not seeing any greeenfield facilities being spun up to compete with the big5(Oracle&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Azure&#x2F;Amazon&#x2F;IBM) clouds.


type: comment
by: KellyCriterion
text:
  THANK you for your words! Its tough these days, really. Hope you have some days with your family and friends!


type: comment
by: josephg
text:
  Why? Lots of people more or less use their computer as a glorified web browser, with some zoom calls and document editing thrown in for good measure. 256gb seems overkill. My girlfriend is somehow still rocking a 2011 MacBook Air. She mostly just uses it for internet banking and managing her finances. Why would she want more than 256gb?


type: comment
by: coryrc
text:
  Kristian Høgsberg, for example, was a Red Hat employee. Then he worked at Intel, where it appears he continued work on Wayland? So Red Hat and Intel at least? People are being paid full-time to work on Wayland, so those companies.


type: comment
by: dang
text:
  Please don&#x27;t cross into personal attack, name-calling, or cross-examination. This is in the site guidelines: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>.<p>I see how the GP comment could be provocative, but on this site we want responses that dampen provocation, not amplify it.


type: story
by: adagradschool
title: Show HN: Later – Schedule URLs to open later
url: https://github.com/adagradschool/later
text:
  I built Later to scratch my own itch: I&#x27;d find interesting articles but not have time to read them, or I&#x27;d forget to join meetings because I was deep in code.<p>Later is a browser extension + local daemon that lets you schedule any webpage to open at a specific time. Press Option+L, pick a time (or use presets like &quot;In 1hr&quot; or &quot;Tonight&quot;), and the page opens automatically – even if your browser is closed or you&#x27;re in another app.<p>Technical details:   - Browser extension (Firefox + Chrome) for the UI   - Python daemon (FastAPI + SQLite) handles scheduling and opens URLs via the system   - launchd integration for auto-start on macOS   - Everything runs locally, no accounts or cloud<p>The daemon approach was intentional – it steals focus when the time comes, which is what you want for meetings. A pure extension would open tabs silently in the background.<p>Built on a lazy Christmas afternoon with Claude Code. Happy to answer questions about the architecture or implementation.


type: comment
by: poita66
text:
  And yet you didn’t tell us what it stands for, just what it is. The person you’re responding to was specifically talking about finding out what it stands for


type: comment
by: yencabulator
text:
  The <i>scheduling</i> shouldn&#x27;t be the 5th largest consumer of CPU. The question is <i>what</i> is it scheduling. Collecting data about user behavior would be a background task, you know..


type: comment
by: jeffreygoesto
text:
  The most important thing IMHO is to &quot;rotate the structure 90 degrees&quot; from package to function. You start with &quot;all files of one package&quot; and get &quot;all files of all packages, that serve the same purpose&quot; like for example all includes, all man pages, all binaries. This simplifies and speeds up a system, as you only need one or a low number of paths per function.


type: comment
by: gdhkgdhkvff
text:
  Sticking to the magnetile theme of the OP, my kids and I have spent the most time and most occasions playing with the mangetile marble run kits. It works so well.


type: comment
by: misiti3780
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s actually true that at CBS News Bari Weiss was installed as a political minder to make sure that reporters don&#x27;t do anything conservatives don&#x27;t like.<p>Are you able to provide any proof to back up that outrageous claim ?


type: comment
by: yial
text:
  I have a love of wooden blocks.<p>I’ve seen some sets that are blocks with random flat surfaces but still balanced.<p>However, I notice that many antique block sets seem far superior to newer sets.<p>(I’m sure someone must make an amazing new set, I see some suggestions in the comments).<p>Having made some wooden block sets  from scratch, what I am always amazed about with a good set is balance &#x2F; size of pieces, coupled with variety and quantity. The balance being a vitally important part that seems to be overlooked in “bad” sets.


type: comment
by: heresie-dabord
text:
  &gt; a video and&#x2F;or audio editor is really an entirely different beast, in which the user is continually adjusting any and all parameters and states of the project, expecting undo&#x2F;redo histories, and so on and so forth.<p>If you accept that there is some similarity to game development or a real piloting system for an aircraft, these complex adjustments would be split among components to be developed and tested separately and then <i>integrated</i>.


type: comment
by: konart
text:
  &gt; I score my toys across 3 dimensions<p>What about kid’s development? The whole point (okay, not while but the biggest) of a game is learning something.


type: comment
by: uecker
text:
  I remember seeing Linux gaining some traction 15 year ago, and Ubuntu focusing on polishing the user experience (with initiatives such as fixing &quot;One hundred paper cuts&quot;), but then this changed instead of keeping this stable the great rewriting began.  Seeing Wayland (which is just one example) users having a problem with screen sharing just convinces me how much of a self-own this was from the Linux community.


type: comment
by: wtallis
text:
  From a supply perspective, 256GB seems ridiculous because you can get way more capacity for not very much money, and because 256GB is now nowhere close to enough flash chips operating in parallel to reach what is now considered high performance.<p>But from a demand perspective, there are a <i>lot</i> of PC users for whom 256GB is plenty of capacity and performance. Most computers sold aren&#x27;t gaming PCs or professional workstations; mainstream consumer storage requirements (aside from gaming) have been nearly stagnant for years due to the popularity of cloud computing and streaming video.


type: comment
by: port11
text:
  Seems based off CNBC&#x27;s more informative article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000-layoffs-because-i-need-less-heads-with-ai.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cnbc.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;salesforce-ceo-confirms-4000...</a><p>It does seem like Salesforce relies on Agentforce and therefore doesn&#x27;t need as much support stuff. But the pressure was also to “reduce heads”, which is a bit of a tone-deaf way to describe firing thousands of people.


type: comment
by: nfkkfkkc
text:
  Anyone can sue anyone for anything. Even if the case is laughed out of court.<p>Btw I hope you didn’t forget to pay the Linux license fee to SCO.


type: comment
by: mort96
text:
  It seems like the Team edition has a bunch of other limitations, but it&#x27;s hard to tell from how convoluted and incomplete Mattermost&#x27;s various comparison pages are.


type: comment
by: piskov
text:
  Name me premium one, I dare you.<p>Take screens for example. Sure OLED is nice (if it won’t burn in or have terrible PWM on low brightness), but most of them in past years couldn’t afford custom resolution with great DPI: 220-250.<p>No, those fuckers will install you either full hd or 4k resolution which is only good for movies.<p>In every other case you’ll need to use fractional scaling that will make your UI, fonts, what have you look like blurry shit.<p>—<p>The list goes on for battery life (google how many milliwatts apple consume during sleep), performance (full regardless whether they are plugged-in), etc.<p>Mind you, I would love to see apple-quality hardware with linux on it.<p>It just doesn’t exist yet. Geohot lamented this recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;M96O0Sn1LXA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;M96O0Sn1LXA</a>


type: comment
by: cevn
text:
  You know what OS doesn’t handle the notch? OSX. It happily throws the system tray icons right back there, with an obscure work around to bring them back. Software quality at Apple these days…


type: comment
by: eddybenchek
text:
  I share concerns about vendor lock-in and forced integrations. Open alternatives like Cursor are worth exploring too.


type: comment
by: yial
text:
  As an adult, I bought on impulse a set of wooden dominos intended for domino runs. It included a few other props. It was on clearance for almost nothing because the box was damaged.<p>With friends and family on occasion (individuals ranging in age from 27-70) , multiple hours have passed setting up and playing with this domino set.<p>I really believe that play is vitally important at all ages.


type: comment
by: NetMageSCW
text:
  Depending on how important the GUI is to you, I would look into LINQPad for stuff that is scripting but too heavy.


type: comment
by: bri3d
text:
  They do have a loophole; they import them as kits and “build” them at a Magna facility in Arizona (similar to how early Sprinter vans were re-assembled in the US and sold as Freightliners). But, they are FMVSS compliant (besides steering wheel) and have had several NHTSA organized recalls like any other compliant car might.


type: comment
by: hugs
text:
  short-term mediation is always always always run it in a virtual machine with as minimal credentials as possible.


type: comment
by: hypercube33
text:
  Copilot M365 would rewrite part of a sentence with some random file from SharePoint right before I&#x27;d naturally hit enter and unlike any other AI chat you can&#x27;t remix what you&#x27;ve sent you instead have to start a new chat; God forbid you&#x27;re a few minutes into said chat


type: comment
by: forty
text:
  I was also quite chocked that you did this ^^ I&#x27;m not sure who is the naive one, either you or me, but I would never have assumed that such a name would sell for more than 2k (but at least it was worth it for you here).<p>I&#x27;m really wondering how important the domain was here. I feel it&#x27;s more just what got you the motivation to do something rather than anything else then your hard work and the quality of the product made the rest (that makes me think of Dumbo&#x27;s magic feather) but I read in another comment and your bio that you seem to feel strongly about domain names and how much they impact the success of a business (you probably know better)


type: comment
by: rajeshrajappan
text:
  It&#x27;s great to hear there are amazing people like your father. We need more of these people in this world.


type: comment
by: AbstractH24
text:
  It amazes me how much more discussion of loneliness there was in 2021. Are folks by and large less lonely now?<p>I find it hard to differentiate my personal experience from folks at large.


type: comment
by: coryrc
text:
  How much surface land does public transit occupy per primary transit user? How much does pedestrian-first and bicycle-first occupy per primary walking&#x2F;cyclists? Now how much land does car-first take per person primarily using car for mobility?<p>The last is far, far higher than the others. Depending on the city, cats get dedicated infrastructure covering 25-75% of all land! Add buildings and parks and you get scraps for everything not cars.


type: comment
by: mort96
text:
  If Mozilla did that, we&#x27;d have monthly news stories about them adding ads into the client, removing features people depend on, cramming in AI where it doesn&#x27;t belong, abruptly making all sorts of controversial ToS changes, going back on old promises, and all kinds of other things we know and love Mozilla for. All before they&#x27;d get bored and discontinue the product after a couple of years.<p>Or maybe they&#x27;d just buy some existing closed source Slack competitor, promise to open source it, and then just never get around to it. You know, like how they bought Pocket in 2017, promised to make it open source, but somehow never got around to it before discontinuing it in 2025.


type: comment
by: everforward
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  Pypy has much slower C interop than CPython, which I believe is part of the tradeoff. Eg data analysis pipelines are probably still faster in numpy on CPython than pypy.<p>Not an expert here, but my understanding is that Python is dynamic to the point that optimizing is hard. Like allowing one namespace to modify another; last I used it, the Stackdriver logging adapter for Python would overwrite the stdlib logging library. You import stackdriver, and it changes logging to send logs to stackdriver.<p>All package level names (functions and variables) are effectively global, mutable variables.<p>I suspect a dramatically faster Python would involve disabling some of the more unhinged mutability. Eg package functions and variables cannot be mutated, only wrapped into a new variable.


type: comment
by: piskov
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  It’s ok.<p>I’m even very content with Windows in desktop using komorebi tiling manager. And macos compared to windows is still far ahead regardless of recent constant shittification.


type: comment
by: yencabulator
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  Even if dumb TVs were manufactured at a cost comparable to smart TVs (at the same volume, they&#x27;d be cheaper to manufacture!), smart TVs are subsidized by the expected behavioral tracking &amp; ad sale revenue.


type: comment
by: Tomte
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  I would expect people to do a lot of manual work in SBOM and licensing, yes. Because that‘s we do now.


type: comment
by: __turbobrew__
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  How to stay employed for life: create a programming language which is pretty good, but with some fatal flaws (GIL, typing, slow) and you are set for life.


type: comment
by: h2zizzle
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  &quot;Incentivizing&quot; doesn&#x27;t really fix it either, as people take avantage of the incentives. You do have to make it possible for the people who do care to be able to, though.


type: comment
by: forty
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  I was going to make a joke on how fullstackelixir.com would probably still be available, but I checked just in case and it&#x27;s not ^^


type: comment
by: mdhb
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  Can you talk more about this… I was under the impression that was the EXPLICIT reason [1] why it was added in the first place or did I misread your comment?<p>It’s also something the Lit team uses like here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;@lit-labs&#x2F;router" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;@lit-labs&#x2F;router</a><p>I think maybe we are just debating the data structure the hold the patterns? Like it should be a trie rather than say a Set or Map.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;web-platform&#x2F;urlpattern" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.chrome.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;web-platform&#x2F;urlpattern</a>


type: comment
by: wredcoll
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  I mean, you keep repeating the idea that &quot;some people&quot; shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to use their speech but DHH can use his speech.<p>You can&#x27;t have it both ways, either DHH is free to speak his mind on any subject he chooses, and so is everyone else, or nobody is actually free to speak.


type: comment
by: RamRodification
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  Kubuntu is nice. Not sure why it&#x27;s not more popular. Or maybe it&#x27;s just a quieter user base?


type: comment
by: wewewedxfgdf
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  In England the advice is that the best thing you can do for homeless people is refer them to the correct social services, which has the resources and skills to deal with people who are often mentally damaged or unwell in some way.<p>The case of Aaron Barley triggered this after a lovely and caring family took in a homeless boy into their own home leading to a terrible situation in which he murdered two of the family.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4elLA4FpnHQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=4elLA4FpnHQ</a><p>There&#x27;s no way I&#x27;d let random people into my home - you absolutely do not know what might happen, what their history is, their mental state, their criminal background. Be kind in other ways.


type: comment
by: roughly
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  Old joke:<p>A pair of mathematicians are sitting in a park chatting. There’s a snack shack near by, and while they’re talking, three people walk into the building. Some time later, four people walk out, and another couple walks in. A bit after that, two more people walk out. One of the mathematicians notices this and comments to the other, “you know, if one more person walks into that building, it’ll be empty.”


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
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  Yet. Plenty of people have with Intel ones - I’m one of them. My first experience with Linux was on a 2016 MBpro. And inevitably people will do the same with the silicon Macs, likely using Asahi it seems.<p>Why are some of y&#x27;all so hostile to this idea?


type: comment
by: ibizaman
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  &gt; Own Your Data — Self-hosted means your customer data never leaves your servers. No vendor lock-in, no surprise price increases, no data mining.<p>+1<p>&gt; No Per-Seat Pricing — One install, unlimited users. Pay nothing or pay for support—your choice.<p>+1<p>&gt; Open Source — AGPL-3.0 licensed. Inspect the code, modify it, contribute back. Transparency builds trust.<p>Fully agreed.<p>From reading the readme and the docs, I am left with wondering how the software would benefit me. I would like to see more screenshots and use cases.


type: comment
by: coryrc
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  What? My screensaver password is the same as my login.<p>&gt; I think the original maintainers and developers of Xorg would be the best people to choose if it is worthwhile to continue working around X or do something else.<p>&quot;I think the owners of the Internet infrastructure would be the best people to choose what websites I&#x27;m allowed to visit&quot;<p>No, the users have spoken and continue to speak up that Wayland doesn&#x27;t serve their use cases.


type: comment
by: heisenbit
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  &gt; Only at small scales are full stack engineers valuable.<p>Only if a software or integration problem is labeled neatly with the system and expertise required one can afford such thinking. Is the issue in the front-end, backend, gateways, middleware stack, network or compute? But even more dangerous are ‚valuable‘ narrow experts designing systems without awareness of the limitations in all other layers.


type: comment
by: phl
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  just came here to say that this has been one of my favorite pieces of writing i came across on hn ever (i read it back in 19)


type: comment
by: cyberax
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  &gt; Buildkit doesn&#x27;t create special containers for itself? It&#x27;s literally a service integrated into dockerd.<p>No, it&#x27;s not. It&#x27;s a utility container that is hidden from the normal &quot;docker ps&quot;. You can see it easily when you use docker-compose with podman.<p>The easiest way to see it in regular Docker is to create a simple Dockerfile with &#x27;RUN sleep 1000&#x27; at the end and start building it. Then enter the Docker host (&quot;docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack&#x2F;nsenter1&quot;) and do &#x27;mount&#x27; to see the mounts.<p>You&#x27;ll see that buildkit will have its own overlay tree (&#x27;&#x2F;var&#x2F;lib&#x2F;docker&#x2F;buildkit&#x2F;containerd-overlayfs&#x27;) and the executor will have its own separate branch too. However, they do share the layers. Now wait for the container to complete building and run it.<p>You&#x27;ll see that the running container uses an entirely _different_ set of layers. There is no reuse of layers between the buildkit and the running image.<p>Yes, the Docker buildkit is technically a daemon that is co-located with dockerd and just runs in its own cgroup tree. But it might as well be remote, because the resulting image runs in a completely different environment.<p>And the way the image is transferred from buildkit is through the containerd. Which is another separate container in the &quot;moby&quot; namespace.<p>&gt; No, it supports anything Buildkit can fetch: git, http, client dir... for that matter the client itself can shim that to be whatever it wants.<p>Any examples?<p>&gt; You can cache to GitHub actions cache, S3, az blob, gcs, registries, or export to the client.<p>Go on, try it. Here&#x27;s a minimal repro: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;Cyberax&#x2F;61e6b419cd338ae7c3a7c7098abec137" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;Cyberax&#x2F;61e6b419cd338ae7c3a7c7098abe...</a><p>First, you can build the base image, with the GHA or registry cache. It works. But the `proto` stage will never use cache. The &quot;base&quot; image is supplied through an additional context.


type: comment
by: samiv
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  I don&#x27;t even think it&#x27;s even that. These bugs seem like bog standard bugs related to correct sharing of graphics resources between processes and accessing with correct mutual exclusion.Blaming NV is likely just a convenient excuse.


type: comment
by: codygman
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  I think they are saying you sound like:<p>&quot;It&#x27;s One Banana, Michael. What Could It Cost, $10?&quot; - Lucille Bluth


type: comment
by: tonymet
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  IMO a cleaner way to do this is with a headless remote, either on disk or “backed up” on a server.  `git push —-all` won’t delete refs on the remote, so you don’t have to do any additional work to record or recover them.<p>`git push —all backup` will record all of your refs and tags<p>If you are archiving branches in your own rep, prefix with `ar&#x2F;` so you can grep -v to conceal them.<p>See also `git notes` to record metadata an against a commit without changing the commit


type: comment
by: anal_reactor
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  &gt; will be so far beyond our human technical abilities that we stand basically 0 chance of survival.<p>Not if we also develop technical abilities before the invasion. Here though you could make an argument that it would be much more effective if we cooperated instead of fighting.<p>&gt; I think it&#x27;s absurd to justify killing one another in wars because it might one day save us from some hypothetical invasion.<p>Well, the modern western moral system holds human life as the highest value. But even nowadays we still have moral systems that place the existence of a group much above the existence of an individual. Imagine that the whole humanity is like an organism - you don&#x27;t really care about individual cells in your body, do you? A vaccination hurts, but ultimately, it leaves you stronger, right?<p>I&#x27;d say, &quot;let&#x27;s keep killing each other in wars so that we can maybe defend ourselves in a hypothetical alien invasion&quot; is indeed absurd, but the general idea &quot;wars allow humanity as a whole to practice self-defense&quot; isn&#x27;t. Europeans didn&#x27;t die from native American diseases because millions of Europeans had already died in the past from similar diseases, building the collective immunity.


type: comment
by: petesergeant
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  &gt; Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.<p>... is _also_ available in Web Workers, or _only_ available in Web Workers?


type: comment
by: pansa2
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  Unladen Swallow got a lot of hype but was only a very small project. IIRC the only people working on it were two interns.<p>V8 was a <i>much</i> higher priority - Google hired many of the world’s best VM engineers to develop it.


type: comment
by: Esophagus4
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  Ah sorry, I must be thinking of the Apple of 2025 that still hasn’t added USB-A to their laptops (even though my Framework has 2) and expects me to carry a dongle everywhere, because after all, it’s my fault for not completely rearranging my world to do what Apple wants.<p>Or I must be thinking about the Apple of 2025 that rolled out Liquid Glass, an OS so disastrously bad I have to toggle accessibility settings just to make it usable.<p>I’m pretty comfortable saying modern Apple has had a sad and shitty fall from its peak.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  &gt; If my memory doesn&#x27;t fail me, the last significant changes from the time Guido was still in charge, and he mostly abandoned the BDFL because of backlash<p>I think Guido left the BDFL role in 2018, and we’ve gotten walrus operators, structured matching, and exception groups since then (just off the top of my head). There’s also been significant language&#x2F;grammar accommodations towards type annotations.<p>Overall, I’m of the opinion that Python’s language evolution has struck a pretty nice balance — there’s always going to be something new, but I don’t feel like the syntax has stagnated.


type: comment
by: XCSme
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  I am not sure what&#x27;s the stereotype, but I tried using langchain and realised most of the functionality actually adds more code to use than simply writing my own direct API LLM calls.<p>Overall I felt like it solves a problem doesn&#x27;t exist, and I&#x27;ve been happily sending direct API calls for years to LLMs without issues.


type: comment
by: skissane
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  I asked Baidu&#x27;s Ernie (ernie-5.0-preview-1203 on LMArena, currently highest ranked Chinese model on their text leaderboard) to &quot;Tell me about age discrimination in China&quot; – it gave me a lengthy response starting with:<p>&gt; Age discrimination in China is not just a social annoyance; it is a structural crisis that defines the modern Chinese workforce. It is so pervasive that it has its own name: the &quot;35-year-old crisis.&quot; In the West, ageism usually hits people in their 50s or 60s. In China, if you are 35 and not a senior executive, you are often considered &quot;expired goods&quot; by the job market. Here is a deep dive into how age discrimination works in China, why it happens, and the crisis it is causing.<p>So you&#x27;ll find responses can vary greatly from model to model.<p>Also, asking about &quot;X in China&quot; is not a good test of how globally sensitive &quot;X&quot; is to Chinese models – because most of the &quot;sensitivity&quot; in the question is coming from the &quot;in China&quot; part, not the X. A better test would be to ask about X in Nigeria or India or Argentina or Iraq


type: comment
by: Throaway198712
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  I understand. In Canada we have only had two parties create a federal government. But 5 separate parties have formed government provincially. 5 parties have federal presence. And if we didn&#x27;t have first-past-the-post voting, we would easily have Greens, NDPs, and others in seats of federal power.


type: comment
by: jacobp100
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  I had a blog post on something similar (but less sophisticated)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jacobdoescode.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;precomputing-transparency-order-in-3d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jacobdoescode.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;05&#x2F;18&#x2F;precomputing-transparen...</a>


type: comment
by: jstummbillig
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  I think the more earnest approach would be to understand the risk first. Blanket avoiding something because the chance for a bad outcome is not 0 is fairly lame.


type: comment
by: jimofl
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  I wanted ease of use and comfort methods when using Java’s legacy Enum. Like resolving a value by its case-insensitive name or ordinal. Or easily, flexibly, and quickly, pretty-printing (a subset of) the Enum’s values, again by name and&#x2F;or ordinal.<p>As old as Java’s Enum is, I think it’s absolutely fantastic. I just wanted to increase its fantastic-ness!


type: comment
by: CatMustard
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  &gt; certain social circles, m&#x2F;v, but mostly m.<p>What does this mean? Best I can come up with us &quot;male&#x2F;vemale&quot;


type: comment
by: Rochus
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  Thanks for the hints. The projects have different goals. My goal is to use a stand-alone luatex engine and integrate it with my new typesetting language, completely replacing TeX. MMTeX still uses TeX, but make an easier to install package using the OpTeX format; that&#x27;s a very good approach for people who want to use OpTeX and don&#x27;t care about the whole TexLive machinery. Speedata is closest to what I intend, but their language is XML based and optimized for catalogues, and they depend on a pre-existing luatex installation (so they could use mine instead). LuaMetaTeX is the successor of LuaTeX which essentially moves more implementation to Lua. To my surprise, I actually didn&#x27;t find a pre-existing project so far which shares my goals.


type: comment
by: donohoe
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  About 10 years ago, when I was at The New Yorker, I worked on launching the redesign, paywall, and the move to WordPress. We actually had most of the archive technically ready to go. The data wasn’t the hard part.<p>The real blocker was permissions and rights. Contracts going back a century obviously never contemplated digital publication, domains, or the internet at all. Untangling who owned what, and securing the right to republish everything online, was a massive legal and logistical undertaking.<p>That’s what held us back then, not so much the technology. Really glad to see that chapter finally closed.


type: comment
by: anonymousiam
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  You&#x27;re in luck:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inside.lighting&#x2F;news&#x2F;25-06&#x2F;new-bill-pushes-end-incandescent-light-bulb-ban" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;inside.lighting&#x2F;news&#x2F;25-06&#x2F;new-bill-pushes-end-incan...</a>


type: comment
by: yawpitch
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  <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;uJqOK" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;uJqOK</a>


type: comment
by: fragmede
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;24vvgsO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;24vvgsO</a>


type: comment
by: tompark
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  I&#x27;m guessing I&#x27;m over twice your age but my situation is similar to yours in a couple aspects. What I decided to do is focus on exploring the new capabilities that AI will allow individuals to do (especially those of us who can code). There are a lot of ppl who are justifiably frustrated with the current state of the tools. But don&#x27;t get discouraged by that. I&#x27;ve seen A LOT of tech waves. It&#x27;s still early in the AI era. I won&#x27;t suggest any particular approach but recommend giving it some thought.<p>BTW, being an old timer, I also hated the leetcode thing when it became a widespread thing after Google adopted the practice in the wake of The Joel (Spolsky) Test. But you know, years later when I had to go through some interviews, I did spend a few months studying it and it turned out to be pretty fun. But passing technical screenings didn&#x27;t help me land a job... only connecting via my network seemed to make any difference.


type: comment
by: mhh__
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  Python is full of decisions like this &#x2F; or rather full of &quot;if you just did some more work it&#x27;d be 10x better&quot;


type: comment
by: SecretDreams
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  &gt; will it get to the point where these sorts of faux acquisitions also involve paying out investors and only shafting employees?<p>Yes, correct


type: comment
by: Normal_gaussian
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  The institutional advice would struggle to directly recommend any other action as it can only be seen to create an unconstrained liability - if not legal, then social. That does not mean they wouldn&#x27;t be amenable to a system of placing people who were vetted and managed if they were sufficiently convinced it would resolve the issue (at institutional scale).<p>Its worth noting that the homeless person in this situation was in fact known to those who provided the home - and not as casually as the first para suggests.


type: comment
by: bjoli
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  Well. If python is a dynamically scoped language, what they do is correct. If they are lexically scoped (which python is described as) the variable defined in the if should never have different visibility in the same scope.<p>In a lexically scoped language you don&#x27;t define variables conditionally. What ruby does is also icky, but obviously the developers of both python and ruby wanted to save the developer an extra declaration. The ruby version is at least more correct from a lexical standpoint (it is set to nil if left &quot;nondefined&quot;).


type: comment
by: Fire-Dragon-DoL
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  Is it? All the clones have been garbage to whoever used to use lego extensively.<p>Some bricks have incompatible vertical&#x2F;horizontal measurements, many bricks don&#x27;t stick in places, others are too small to be able to easily fit with hands.


type: comment
by: albert_roca
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  Fair enough. However, it is practically impossible to complete such a task in a human lifetime. But even if it were possible, the main point stands: using computers to perform calcualtions is standard scientific practice. Discrediting a proposal solely because it uses AI is retrograde per se. It contradicts the history of technological progress and excludes potentially valid results based on intellectual prejudice.


type: comment
by: zerr
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  The thing is, being an excellent programmer has nothing to do with leetcode and sysdesign (which is actually a back-end CRUD systems) questionnaire.


type: comment
by: bashkiddie
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  &gt; I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again.<p>totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio stack that does realiably stream to many sinks!<p>And polkit... su and sudo should have been enough


type: comment
by: KlayLay
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  I wouldn&#x27;t consider any country in particular to be &#x27;good if push comes to shove,&#x27; given that most exist to promote an environment where companies can easily make money. If a state feels like its status may be in jeopardy, it&#x27;ll do whatever it can to maintain that relationship (e.g., the Dutch government seizing control of Nexperia from its Chinese parent company Wingtech). Consequently, it really doesn&#x27;t matter whether push comes to shove for the US, China, Europe, etc. since the actions taken will stem from the same root (e.g., the US won&#x27;t let Intel go bankrupt).<p>This is part of why I really don&#x27;t think authoritarianism is relevant to whether or not China will lead in AI. There are much better metrics for this, like the amount of resources poured into research vs. applications, or the kind of research being done (open source, more than just LLMs etc.).


type: comment
by: arraypad
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  I&#x27;ve hung on to spellign.com for a bit over twenty years now.    Creation Date: 2005-10-19T05:59:21Z<p>The name still makes me giggle. I&#x27;d love to build something relevant and silly enough to put there, but I haven&#x27;t found it yet.<p>Suggestions are welcome! :)


type: comment
by: bboreham
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  Matt Godbolt was saying recently that using tail-calls for an interpreter suits the branch predictor inside the cpu. Compared to a single big switch &#x2F; computed jump.


type: comment
by: RobRivera
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  I&#x27;m a military veteran; early on I pigeon-holed my precious life and training and focused on the needs of the markets and the roles I sought out.<p>I found this productive from a learning perspective, to prevent bias and trying to shoehorn a style that may not be optimal for the work.<p>Now after nearly a decade of work I have been able to bridge the gap for your alleged &#x27;missing middle&#x27;.<p>This is where I diverge from your perspective; I take the personal growth and skill perspective to navigating my career. That is to say, I focus on solving the problems I want, researching what skills are most effective with an open mind that I may bring something novel from my past, and grow from there.<p>I think if you search for the PERFECT role leveraging your skills, you may wait a long time. Find a problem--artistic, commercial, or otherwise stimulating--that you would be willing to pursue in your free time. For me: this was video game development, however I forked my development from most paradigms circa 2003, and been reinventing many wheels for the sake of deeper knowledge.<p>You may be lucky to find a role which leverages everything you may find your personal skills are, but if a role isnt, dont discounts the principles it took to succeed at something as dema ding as a PhD.<p>I hope you find this perspective valuable!


type: comment
by: eddybenchek
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  I got tired of bookmarking random GitHub repos and blog posts to find good Copilot prompts, so I built this directory.<p>It&#x27;s a searchable collection of 1000+ curated prompts, instructions, agents, and MCP servers for GitHub Copilot. You can browse by category, search by keywords, and discover what works well for different use cases.<p>Open source and community-driven. Contributions welcome.


type: comment
by: orrbenyamini
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  Author here. This came from a production incident where renaming a field  broke our rolling deployment. The cache became a shared contract between  versions we hadn&#x27;t versioned.<p>The solution: automatically derive version identifiers from model structure  at startup, prefix cache keys with them. Schema changes naturally map to  new cache namespaces.<p>Happy to discuss tradeoffs or alternative approaches!


type: comment
by: xethos
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  So I guess it&#x27;s my turn today to start the holy war. If Whatsapp was enough, but you want it to live on your Linux box, Matrix will do just fine. self-hosting has been fast, responsive, low-maintenance, and easy for me over the past several years.<p>They&#x27;re trusted by multiple government agencies to stick around and treat their users reasonably, and there are a plethora of clients to choose from.<p>Now I&#x27;ll step to the side for the next person to tear me down and sell you on XMPP.


type: comment
by: danmaz74
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  When writing non-vibe-coded software I use CC a lot to write tests, but I have a skill to tell it not to create redundant tests, which otherwise it tends to do, and I have to check them anyway to ensure that they cover what needs to be covered, and sometimes to trim them down.<p>When vibe coding, what I noticed is that CC tends to make mistakes which it does catch with tests and fix on its own, but my hope is that using Sorbet this will happen much less, and thus development will go faster with less (slow) test cycles.


type: comment
by: valianteffort
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  I bought a refurb gen 4 thinkpad on amazon for like $350 and it arrived almost brand new.<p>Installed arch, setup some commands to underclock the processor on login and easily boost it when I&#x27;m compiling.<p>Battery life is great but I&#x27;m not running a GUI either. Good machine for when I want to avoid distractions and just code.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
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  Use-cases like this are why Mojo isn&#x27;t used in production, ever. What does Nvidia gain from switching to a proprietary frontend for a compiler backend they&#x27;re already using? It&#x27;s a legal headache.<p>Second-rate libraries like OpenCL had industry buy-in because they were <i>open</i>. They went through standards committees and cooperated with the rest of the industry (even Nvidia) to hear-out everyone&#x27;s needs. Lattner gave up on appealing to that crowd the moment he told Khronos to pound sand. Nobody should be wondering why Apple or Nvidia won&#x27;t touch Mojo with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole.


type: comment
by: ErroneousBosh
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  It&#x27;s not <i>very</i> pressurised. The 95 litre tank in my old Range Rover is around 8 bar, which is about half the pressure in the air suspension tank and only about three times the pressure in the tyres. Although as you say being able to just pour more petrol in from a can is an advantage!<p>CNG and hydrogen tanks need ridiculously high pressures - 250-300 for CNG and over 700 bar for hydrogen. Even if that was dry nitrogen it would be a potentially lethal bomb!<p>The nice thing about LPG is you can use plastic pipe and inexpensive compression fittings that are easy to connect and disconnect when you need to work on stuff. If you undo a pipe and it&#x27;s got line pressure in it, the biggest problem is that it stinks and you might get frostbite if it sprays on your hand. It just kind of hisses out a bit. You want to do this outside though if you&#x27;re unsure if there&#x27;s pressure there.<p>Propane is a lot less explodey than petrol, so you end up using a little more of it but you get a bigger slower bang, which gives you less flat-out power and more torque. Everyone needs more torque, no-one needs to be flat out wide open throttle. The downside is that being less explodey, it means you need the ignition system to be in perfect condition. I get about 10,000 miles from a set of spark plugs before it starts getting hard to start and noticeably groggy acceleration, even allowing for it weighing over two tonnes and and having a 200bhp engine. It&#x27;s never going to be fast! At least it&#x27;s lawnmower-grade spark plugs, good old BPR6ES, same as in your boat engine.


type: comment
by: jmkd
text:
  I live in a mountain valley in Mallorca where hundreds of tons of perfect Canoneta oranges fall to the floor and rot each year because the cost of picking them outweighs their market value. The valley became wealthy from this fruit in the 19th century but the economics no longer add up. [0]<p>At the same time the price of orange juice (elsewhere) has skyrocketed [1], yet this rural community seems unable to take advantage.<p>What would you do?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruralhotelsmallorca.com&#x2F;guides&#x2F;The-History-of-Soller%E2%80%99s-Famous-Oranges" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ruralhotelsmallorca.com&#x2F;guides&#x2F;The-History-of-Soller...</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;c397n3jl3z8o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;c397n3jl3z8o</a>


type: comment
by: NotGMan
text:
  Given the choice between a drug saving the life of my (future) child or sacrificing animals I know what I&#x27;d choose.


type: comment
by: GuB-42
text:
  The FSF goes against the interests of companies like Amazon. For instance, they recommend AGPL for web services, big tech hates it, they will rather rewrite the thing from scratch under a permissive or proprietary license then use anything AGPL.<p>In fact, the trend is to move away from GNU. Clang over GCC, musl over glibc, uutils over coreutils, etc...<p>The FSF has an extremist position. Not only they promote free software, but they also don&#x27;t want proprietary software to even be an option. For instance Debian is not up to their standards because they have optional repositories for nonfree software. I can&#x27;t imagine Amazon supporting such an organization.


type: comment
by: im_down_w_otp
text:
  &gt; <i>When I teach programming, some students, when stuck, will start flailing around - deleting random lines of code, changing call order, adding more functions, etc - and just hoping one of those things will “fix it” eventually.</i><p>That sounds like a lot of people I’ve known, except they weren’t students. More like “senior engineers”.


type: story
by: kordlessagain
title: Use Codex (OpenAI Coding Agent Framework) for a Personal Search Solution
url:
  https://github.com/DeepBlueDynamics/codex-container/blob/main/examples/personal_search/DOC_SEARCH.md


type: comment
by: mattkevan
text:
  Love how Microsoft decided that a desktop UI was the right approach for a handheld OS. Then when the iPhone showed that it wasn’t, they overcorrected and put a tablet UI on their desktop OS. Geniuses.


type: comment
by: dfajgljsldkjag
text:
  Can I get a reply too? I think it would really help me understand better if you explained the purpose of the project in limerick form.


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  MORE COMPUTER SCREEN!<p>Seriously, I just cannot get enough of making things. Hardware, software, CAD, whatever, I just love making stuff. The more I can make, the better.<p>I can&#x27;t get enough of computers, either. I love it.


type: comment
by: voidnap
text:
  From the article<p>&gt; Rob studied the man&#x27;s face and vaguely remembered him as Ronnie Lockwood, someone he would occasionally see at Sunday School as a boy and who he was told to be kind to as he was a &quot;bit different&quot;.<p>&gt; Ronnie was then almost 30 and had been without a home from the age of 15, living in and around Cardiff and moving from job to job - Rob would sometimes see him at a youth club he ran.<p>&gt; The pair planned to let him stay until the day after Christmas, but when the day came, they couldn&#x27;t bring themselves to cast Ronnie out and sought advice from the authorities.<p>You aren&#x27;t entirely wrong, but this wasn&#x27;t a random person and they did contact a homeless centre for advice.<p>Given that Ronnie had apparently already gone through some sort of system to end up at a &quot;school for subnormal boys&quot;, it seems pretty clear that Ronnie lived a much better life through this family&#x27;s actions and generosity.


type: comment
by: cxplay
text:
  The closest opportunity for humanity to achieve &quot;software freedom&quot; may be through a brain-computer interface directly connected to the Linux kernel. &#x2F;j


type: comment
by: SecretDreams
text:
  Special dividend to priority class and retain the rest to grow the remaining sham company?<p>I&#x27;ve seen some discussion that paying out normal employees might look more like an acquisition on paper which they may want to avoid for ftc reasons. I&#x27;ve also seen some discussion that this is a quid pro quo to the trump family to get Nvidia back into China (jr. bought in at the September financing round..).<p>Lots of speculation in general, including why nvda chose to spend 20bil on this.


type: comment
by: dllu
text:
  Old Thinkpads are great! I used to have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6 with Intel Core i7 8640U, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB SSD. I installed Arch Linux on it with Sway.


type: comment
by: smelendez
text:
  And the current era of less-than-major-venue music listings in many places is exclusively on Instagram and Facebook pages of venues and bands.


type: comment
by: SubiculumCode
text:
  Given that I&#x27;ve been using a self hosted Mattermost for 6+ years, I haven&#x27;t heard of either Matrix.or XMPP...so will now need to look these up.


type: comment
by: Gerard0
text:
  And Michele and Rob Reiner were murdered by their own son and my uncle while going shopping. You don&#x27;t have to do anything, but this kind of comment puts a huge stigma on homeless people and others.


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  Keep reviewing niche businesses and industries.<p>I thought I’d never be able to bridge my specialties when I was younger - I just hadn’t put the puzzle pieces together yet.<p>Being willing to start your own thing can help a lot, too.


type: comment
by: mosura
text:
  It is noticeable how since covid SV takes this place dramatically less seriously, largely because it used to be the case that getting to the top here got you a lot of attention in SV, but that hasn’t been the case in years.


type: comment
by: Cerium
text:
  Hand tool woodworking. Zero screens needed. All you need is about a 8x8 foot space that you can get messy.


type: comment
by: overfeed
text:
  &gt; 40% battery for 4hrs of real work is better than pretty much any linux supported laptop I&#x27;ve ever used<p>Not sure what &quot;real work&quot; is for you, but I regularly get more than 12 hours of battery life on an old Chromebook running a Linux and the usual IDEs&#x2F;dev tooling (in a Crostini VM). All the drivers just work, sleep has no detectable battery drain. It&#x27;s not a workstation by any means, but dual core Intel&#x27;s are great for Python&#x2F;Go&#x2F;TypeScript


type: comment
by: FooBarWidget
text:
  Urgh I made a mistake. I meant the other way around: intracellular matters more, but intercellular is easier to measure.


type: comment
by: tralarpa
text:
  I know the answer to 1.5. And I know the story behind 1.6, but not the name of the town...  That&#x27;s it :)


type: comment
by: HarHarVeryFunny
text:
  So you don&#x27;t put any value on being human, learning skills, showing creativity, doing inspiring things?<p>Should people stop playing chess just because a free chess engine can trounce everyone on the planet?<p>Humans can be awesome. Machines are just machines.


type: comment
by: ostwilkens
text:
  Two of my blog posts were on the front page earlier this year, netting 56k unique visitors. The visits were spread over multiple days, and should cover different timezones somewhat well. The analytics are located at an endpoint which looks vital, and should bypass most adblockers.<p>35.1% United States<p>8.0% Germany<p>6.5% United Kingdom<p>5.4% Canada<p>3.1% Australia<p>3.0% France<p>2.7% Netherlands<p>2.6% India<p>2.4% Sweden<p>1.9% Poland<p>1.7% Switzerland<p>1.6% Spain<p>1.4% Japan<p>1.4% Belgium<p>1.3% Italy<p>1.1% Austria<p>1.1% Finland<p>1.0% Norway<p>1.0% Brazil<p>7.0% Other countries


type: comment
by: NotGMan
text:
  If you still in 2025 don&#x27;t understand that hate speech and anti-disinformation is a trick used by people who want to forcefully censor others who don&#x27;t agree with them then I don&#x27;t know what to tell you.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; my tower with an Nvidia 3000 series card was considerably more troublesome with it.<p>I think you&#x27;re describing a driver error from before Nvidia really supported Wayland. My 3070 exhibited similar behavior but was fixed with the 555-series drivers.<p>The Vulkan drivers are still so&#x2F;so in terms of performance, but the smoothness is now on-par with my Macbook and Intel GNOME machine.


type: comment
by: farmin
text:
  I agree. It feels like combination of peak windows UI with the ease of Ubuntu baked in. Then the little mobile app they have that gives you shared clipboard with iOS is cool.


type: comment
by: mohaba
text:
  Why would they be in luck? Did you read the article? Just because the efficiency floor is eliminated doesn’t mean production would or even could restart.


type: comment
by: patrickg
text:
  (Author of speedata Publisher here)<p>Just a small note: the speedata Publisher ships with a LuaTeX, so you don&#x27;t need it pre-installed.


type: comment
by: throwawayqqq11
text:
  Religiosity, egomaniac libertarians, racists, etc. all suffer from an identity based cognitive bias revolving around their own or groups well being. These tribal members dont think critically about the $symbol related to their own or group identity, and the scary part is, these symbols could be anything and not just define their own ingroup but their opposing outgroup too, like eg. being vegetarian, riding a bicycle or showing broad empathy.<p>IMO in severe cases it requires serious therapy to teach them to face social media or group gatherings with a different&#x2F;critical mindset, that naturally comes after some unpleasant disillusionment but is needed before mistakes are made. If your realtive is not treatable, completely shut, you will talk to a brick wall.<p>I hate to say it but Musk had a point, when he talked about twitter and his attempt &quot;to cure the mind virus&quot; (but as usual, he was clueless or biased). This identity based cognitive bias or identity politics is present on both political sides. The right&#x2F;conservatives are just more susceptible, thats why religion, racism, libertarianism, etc. are often comorbid.


type: comment
by: Bender
text:
  Maybe.  I keep hearing that yet all I&#x27;ve seen are teens that would have been legal in several US states.  Given they did not correctly redact the PDF&#x27;s perhaps there will be some hints to actual children having been involved.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  But you still believe that quantum computers have a likelihood of being possible to build AND that they can accomplish a task faster than classical? I feel like it’s going to get exponentially harder and expensive to get very small incremental gains and that actually beating a classical computer isn’t necessarily feasible (because of all the error correction involved and difficulty in manufacturing a computer with large number of qbits). Happy to be proven wrong of course.


type: story
by: hnalien
title: Nvidia Acquires Groq's Assets
url:
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-24/nvidia-reaches-licensing-deal-with-chip-startup-groq


type: comment
by: kristianp
text:
  I&#x27;ve seen these custom fields tables in a number of database schemas I&#x27;ve worked with in the past. It adds dynamism to a fixed table structure. I wonder how CRMs do it these days without having poor performance at scale?


type: comment
by: gjsman-1000
text:
  … by adding a check to builds that anyone, using the source code, can easily patch out?<p>FOSS never came with any guarantee of “builds must arrive in format most convenient for users.” That’s not in the license. Also not in the license, “FOSS companies can’t charge money for their builds.” Also not in the license, “FOSS companies must provide builds at all.”<p>If anything, it’s quite a bit of entitlement that “FOSS companies must provide free code, and free builds, forever, or they are evil.” Especially when they are getting VC money to presumably add features that otherwise would not exist and would have no code available at all.


type: comment
by: crote
text:
  I would rather read succinct English written by a non-native speaker filled with broken grammar than overly verbose but well-spelled AI slop. Heck, just share the prompt itself!<p>If you can&#x27;t be bothered to have a human write literally a handful of lines of text, what else can&#x27;t you be bothered to do? Why should I trust that your CVE even exists at all - let alone is indeed &quot;critical&quot; and worth ruining Christmas over?


type: comment
by: croemer
text:
  2 typos in first sentence. Is this on purpose to make it obviously not-AI generated?<p>&quot;apology peice&quot; and &quot;tail caling&quot;


type: comment
by: ryukoposting
text:
  What&#x27;s the bar here? My Thinkpad X270 gets about 16 hours under Ubuntu with swaywm.<p>If we really want to get pedantic, its internal battery means the external pack is hot-swappable, so I can actually get several days on a &quot;single charge.&quot; Good machine for camping trips.


type: comment
by: tshaddox
text:
  It would take a very large number of routes before linear search would become a noticeable performance problem.<p>At that point, you’d probably be splitting the router itself into multiple client bundles, with something at the root to quickly match the URL with a bundle of routes (maybe a hash table on the first URL segment, or even a trie).<p>This URLPattern library and linear search would still be a reasonable choice for implementing each individual route bundle. And in practice, just do it the naive way until it actually becomes a problem.


type: comment
by: userbinator
text:
  It&#x27;s amusing to see a concept that is explained simply in a few lines, become an entire bachelor&#x27;s thesis.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  Discussion yesterday (637 points, 372 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183</a>


type: comment
by: jsiepkes
text:
  &gt; We’ve since moved all our sites to the cloud. Our servers are now cattle, not pets<p>Because if you host your own servers and infra they are automatically pets? Seems like a weird statement. I think that phrase was even coined before cloud became really big.


type: comment
by: rowanG077
text:
  Someone posting Hectors code or a quote does not mean he didn&#x27;t leave. I&#x27;m really not sure how that could leave that impression.


type: comment
by: jml7c5
text:
  It&#x27;s a matter of designing and proprosing a protocol for it. X11&#x27;s screensaver support was also a protocol extension.<p>There probably hasn&#x27;t been much interest in it because screens can easily be powered off remotely, which was not the case in 1992.


type: story
by: janzer
title: Safety panel says NASA should have taken Starliner incident more seriously
url:
  https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/safety-panel-says-nasa-should-have-taken-starliner-incident-more-seriously/


type: comment
by: Saris
text:
  I&#x27;d say rent a VPS or Dedicated server, you can get some serious hardware on a dedi box for $100-200 a month. And there&#x27;s no &#x27;overages&#x27; just because something uses more CPU or RAM.<p>Cloud stuff is a complete waste of money unless you really specifically need the scaling it offers and have wads of cash.


type: comment
by: mettamage
text:
  Yea, preferably I do it on the couch. Staying over at the in-laws with a 75% finished house for Christmas. So it is what it is


type: comment
by: iaebsdfsh
text:
  From Wikipedia: The name &quot;Multi-Level Intermediate Representation&quot; reflects the system’s ability to model computations at various abstraction levels and progressively lower them toward machine code.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Especially when using the tooling from who created it, before offering it to Khronos as GLSL replacement, NVIDIA.


type: comment
by: cxplay
text:
  The sheer breadth of Nostr&#x27;s current development is overwhelming at times. I often find myself exclaiming, &quot;What? Nostr can be used like that?&quot; At present, Nostr appears to be merely a protocol operating within a social media framework. Its capabilities are vast, yet it fundamentally only requires &quot;sending JSON via WebSocket and signing it using the specified algorithm.&quot;


type: comment
by: pverheggen
text:
  The toy with the most longevity from my childhood were those cardboard bricks. Could be used for anything from forts, towers, hamster mazes, throwable weapons...<p>Not the quickest toy to clean up, but still fun since it&#x27;s a building activity of its own, stacking them against a wall or something.


type: comment
by: xg15
text:
  A phone would get perfect score in all of OP&#x27;s metrics, so I feel there is some stuff missing to identify really good toys.


type: comment
by: laike9m
text:
  Maybe I should have written it more clearly, but the mini-frameworks I described in the article are not makeshift -- instead they&#x27;re permanent and stay forever, expanding as time goes, until being replaced by something else.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  I get why it feels frustrating when someone snaps &quot;just google it.&quot; Nobody likes feeling dumb. That said, there’s a meaningful difference between asking a genuine question and demanding that every discussion be padded to accommodate readers who won’t even type four letters into a search bar. Expecting complete spoon-feeding in technical threads isn’t curiosity; it’s a refusal to engage. Learning requires participation.


type: comment
by: mttch
text:
  After my daughter turned 4, the ‘toy’ with the most play time and lowest clean up time was a good pad of blank paper and colouring pencils. The bonus is that it takes up little room and is therefore highly portable. Furthermore, if you forget it, you can replace it easily and cheaply!


type: comment
by: arcade79
text:
  Been a kubuntu user since .. 2006? 2007?  Don&#x27;t remember when kubuntu became a thing, but as soon as I tried Ubuntu, I went kubuntu.  I believe it was 5.10 or 6.04 or something. :-)<p>Am growing tired of Ubuntu though.  Just not sure where I should turn.  I want a .deb based system.  Ubuntu is pushing snaps too heavily for my liking.


type: comment
by: layer8
text:
  You can use <i>java.lang.ClassValue</i> to store per-(enum-)class state generically.<p>Meaning, instead of having to instrument each enum class, you could have<p><pre><code>    MyEnumHelper.of(AnyEnum.class)         .whateverFunctionalityYouWant() </code></pre> where the <i>of()</i> implementation uses <i>ClassValue</i> to store the cached data.


type: comment
by: Saris
text:
  It&#x27;s also useful if you use public wifi. Makes sure all your traffic is encrypted, and stops your IP changing constantly which can log you out of some services.


type: comment
by: exceptione
text:
  I don&#x27;t like it. Giving away or selling the components for free would have been better than just throwing it at the dump. I appreciate the PII concerns, but these days disks have built-in sanitation procedures, as part of an industry-wide program to reduce waste.<p>And if you throw away memory for PII concerns, that would be beyond crazy.


type: comment
by: fylo
text:
  I liked Ubuntu and variants back when it first came out and I was newer to Linux but it didn&#x27;t take long for me to realise there always seemed to be a better option for me as a daily driver. To me its like an new Linux user OS where a lot of stuff is chosen for you to use basically as is. Even the name Kubuntu where the K is for KDE but on other distros you would just choose your DE when you install.


type: comment
by: greygoo222
text:
  To put it simply, mice don&#x27;t get Alzheimer&#x27;s. We&#x27;re not studying mice with Alzheimer&#x27;s, we&#x27;re studying mice with an mutation chosen for resembling Alzheimer&#x27;s. But we don&#x27;t know whether this model replicates the actual mechanisms of the disease, or if it&#x27;s superficial.


type: comment
by: jpster
text:
  I agree there are associations between effort and outcomes, and merit and outcomes, and integrity and outcomes. But timeframe is never guaranteed. The Beatitudes have not yet happened, the just have not yet inherited the earth, a casual glance at world leaders and recent current events will tell you that much!<p>IMO the questions you pose are not important at all, and not worth your energy. What practical difference does it make to you and her if it’s due to bad timing or something else? Some junior devs are being hired somewhere and you both should focus your energy on making sure she’s part of that number. Have you shaken all the trees in your network? Does she do side projects that can get her noticed? What about the MIT alum network? That’s what LinkedIn messages and X dms are for? What abt throwing wide the aperture of industry sectors and locations she considers? Is she going to all the meetups? What abt pursuing her own startup idea? I agree with someone else here: AI and YouTube (and X, tbh) make this the very best time to learn or build or promote anything that has ever existed.<p>I went through an identical experience as your daughter when I graduated in 2000. The only solution is perseverance.


type: comment
by: buddhistdude
text:
  I find it interesting that when you read this comment, the whole book is already on your computer. And it gets rendered when your press the link.<p>Edit: actually not true since you use a url shortener


type: comment
by: h2zizzle
text:
  &gt;As this gets more common<p>Boy, it would be so nice if a major correction were to drain these massive companies&#x27; warchests so that it <i>doesn&#x27;t</i> become more common.


type: comment
by: Normal_gaussian
text:
  Being able to partial index into JSON has made this much more straight forwards now than ever before, but historically pre-creating empty indexed custom columns was somewhat common (leading to hard limits like max 20 custom tags), as was EAV (which arguably is inner-platform).<p>There are more solutions than these, but until you&#x27;re at truly custom DB scale with a specific problem here, these will solve it for you.


type: comment
by: idle_zealot
text:
  I can open the page with the book text on mobile Safari, but iOS seems to cut off content when trying to copy&#x2F;share the page URL. I can&#x27;t get it to survive a round-trip to Notes. Might be a good thing to note for mobile users that if they write too much attempting to save their link will corrupt it.


type: comment
by: j-krieger
text:
  &gt; but for kicks &amp; giggles, I dropped in a bid around $2,200 ’cause I was confident I’d be outbid<p>Boy do I wish I could just drop 2k on a whim for a vanity project


type: comment
by: anotherevan
text:
  We&#x27;ve been using Element&#x2F;Matrix for quite some time now and are fairly happy with it for the most part. The only major hiccup was hosting providers, not the software itself, per se.<p>We originally signed up with element.io back when they were called vector.im. Service was good, but a year or two in they decided they wanted to focus on those sweet, sweet enterprise licences and the pricing changes were untenable for our little 15 person operation. (I bear them little ill will for this, gotta do what you gotta do and all that, but it was a real PITA at the time.)<p>We moved to etke.cc who have been quite good. They were responsive to my modest support requests, and apart from being initially a bit surprised we wanted an unfederated server (which to their credit they dealt with with alacrity and aplomb) it&#x27;s been a service we&#x27;ve just used and not had to otherwise think about.<p>The only sticking point was there was no way to migrate our messages from the older service. If memory serves, this was due to a deficiency in either Matrix or Synapse due to changing domains (originally an element.io customer subdomian). So always your own subdomain if you can is the moral of the story, I guess. I don&#x27;t know if the migration story has improved in the years since.<p>If we had to leave Element&#x2F;Matrix for whatever reasons I would definitely look at Zulip based on the many recommendations I see for it here. I think back when we went with Element I was quite interested in Zulip, but there just wasn&#x27;t any good hosting options at the time and we didn&#x27;t want to go with self-hosting (time-sink vs $$-sink).


type: comment
by: ThrowawayTestr
text:
  There are people that will wait for a self-checkout kiosk to be available instead of going to a cashier. There are definitely people that will pay for a solo car ride.


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  With a background like that you should be doing machine learning if you want to combine science and software. And climate tech is a burgeoning field.<p>I see many relevant openings in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climatetechlist.com&#x2F;jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.climatetechlist.com&#x2F;jobs</a>


type: comment
by: recursivetree
text:
  One place where I genuinely believe LLMs could be beneficial is correcting spellign mistakes. I just don&#x27;t think the interface is there yet. I want to keep control over my writing. After feeding it through an LLM, it doesn&#x27;t sound like me anymore and changes random stuff. Rather, i&#x27;d like something like a diff viewer that shows you your sentence and the LLM&#x27;s corrected sentence right next to each other. You can review each suggestion individually and decide whether to incorporate it yourself.


type: comment
by: Normal_gaussian
text:
  There is something to reading something from 20 or 40 years ago and having a professional existential crisis.


type: comment
by: iinnPP
text:
  I prefer reading the LLM output for accessibility reasons.<p>More importantly though, the sheer amount of this complaint on HN has become a great reason not to show up.


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
text:
  You&#x27;re posting a spirited defense of substandard technical writing.  Just curious -- why is that?


type: comment
by: weakfish
text:
  I think that the _current_ systems are incapable of care, but that doesn’t mean systems can’t be in general.<p>I often think that they’re held back in large part by people who say “we can’t” rather than building a solution


type: comment
by: jdujfkhllhl
text:
  And that was even after constructive cooperation with amd. Now think about the more common, hostile, interaction many suppliers provide.


type: comment
by: saaaaaam
text:
  Obviously this was meant to say Claude, but iPhone’s new autocorrect decided Callie was the right choice…


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  It would help if they were not so much macOS and Linux focused.<p>Julia, Python GPU JITs work great on Windows, and many people only get Windows systems as default at work.


type: comment
by: reliefcrew
text:
  I liked this one. Even though it&#x27;s older I <i>did</i> see in 2025 myself. Does that count?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yTicYJDT1zE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=yTicYJDT1zE</a>


type: comment
by: citizenpaul
text:
  If you ask me there has been a major shift into trying to make &quot;startups&quot; into just another form of corporation.  It started years ago when I started seeing things like &quot;Founder Engineer - 0.5% equity&quot; in jobs here.


type: comment
by: chasil
text:
  There appears to be some danger in using NAD+ without the supervision of an experienced physician.<p>&quot;Pieper emphasized that current over-the-counter NAD+-precursors have been shown in animal models to raise cellular NAD+ to dangerously high levels that promote cancer.&quot;


type: comment
by: GianFabien
text:
  I see you having a unique opportunity.  There is a scarcity of strong SWE skills in the earth sciences related industries&#x2F;businesses. You could refresh your reasons, motivations and interests for choosing earth sciences for your PhD. Perhaps your thesis and research connections reveal further dimensions.<p>In any earth sciences based work, there would be requirements for either data sciences or AI related processing, improvements, etc. Those are the sorts of areas that you might want to peddle your SWE skills as delivering.


type: comment
by: stevage
text:
  Reminds me a lot of a final year group software project at uni. Instead of building a solution for our client we built a kind of meta solution, then ran out of time to actually solve his problem in it.


type: comment
by: CamouflagedKiwi
text:
  Asahi doesn&#x27;t yet support all the CPU power states etc. This is a known limitation, not sure how easy it is to reverse engineer though.


type: comment
by: vector_spaces
text:
  &gt; If MAA does not understand that there is huge market for Mathematics targeted towards Computer Programmers, they are just dumb.<p>Presumably a large math textbook publisher that has been publishing math books for literally one hundred years is very tapped into what books likely will and won&#x27;t sell. I find it unlikely that a layperson where it concerns math book publishing would have some unique insight that MAA does not have. Even if there is a substantial enough market, there are likely unique considerations that MAA is beholden to which we aren&#x27;t privy to<p>I don&#x27;t know what the calculus is like to get an extended version of an existing book published by another publisher, but Dover&#x27;s Aurora series consists of modern original texts as opposed to their usual republications of classic out of print texts -- this is how Emily Riehl had her &quot;Category Theory in Context&quot; published


type: comment
by: vladvasiliu
text:
  Intellij kinda supports Wayland, but it gets confused when using scaling, at least when not all screens have the same factor. It&#x27;s not blurry or anything, but it&#x27;s slower, and the menus sometimes appear in random places.<p>When I only use a scaling factor of 1 on all the screens, it&#x27;s usable enough, although it still feels sluggish.


type: comment
by: prodigycorp
text:
  No dig at you, but I take the average langchain user as one who is either a) using it because their C-suite heard about at some AI conference and had it foisted upon them or b) does not care about software quality in general.<p>I&#x27;ve talked to many people who regret building on top of it but they&#x27;re in too deep.<p>I think you may come to the same conclusions over time.


type: comment
by: roywiggins
text:
  Unfortunately, the sheer amount of ChatGPT-processed texts being linked has for me become a reason not to want to read them, which is quite depressing.


type: comment
by: digitaltrees
text:
  Most people with Alzheimer’s are older and would probably trade having their cognitive abilities back even with increased risk of cancer


type: story
by: gmays
title: Taiwan ramps up plans for overseas chipmaking as threat from China looms
url:
  https://www.semafor.com/article/12/19/2025/taiwan-ramps-up-plans-for-overseas-chipmaking-as-threat-from-china-looms


type: comment
by: cycomanic
text:
  &gt; I didn&#x27;t think my explanation implied how you interpreted it. &gt; &gt; I thought everybody knew Wayland was started by some people working on Xorg already; I did not mean to imply otherwise. Many or all were paid for their work. They believed Wayland was a better approach, and, AFAIK, at some point switched to be paid full-time to work on Wayland instead of X. Which, sounds a lot like they convinced their employer (or a new employer) to pay them to work on Wayland instead of X. Do you believe this is a fair summary of the situation?<p>Sorry for my combatitive before. I definitely interpreted your previous post differently and I think your clarification is a fairer assessment of the situation. I would still argue that the majority of people implementing the wayland protocol are not paid by their employers to do so (this might now have changed a bit with smithay, which is sponsored by system76 I believe).


type: comment
by: jonway
text:
  My primitive instincts lead me to believe that sometimes they end up being Case-Sensitive and Sometimes NoT! (depending on implementation)


type: comment
by: rfmoz
text:
  I reply myself because I&#x27;ve found that idea already porposed:<p>&quot;Origin policy was a proposal for a web platform mechanism that allows origins to set their origin-wide configuration in a central location, instead of using per-response HTTP headers.&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WICG&#x2F;origin-policy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WICG&#x2F;origin-policy</a><p>But their status is &quot;[On hold for now]&quot; since, at least, three years ago.


type: story
by: vpb
title: Show HN: FIDO2 PRF with TPM and Fingerprint Auth for Confer on Linux
url: https://vitorpy.com/blog/2025-12-25-confer-to-linux-tpm-fido2-prf/
text:
  I wanted to try Confer — Moxie Marlinspike’s private AI chat — but I don’t have a Mac lying around. Since it requires isUserVerifyingPlatformAuthenticatorAvailable(), and most Linux setups don’t qualify, I put together a minimal platform authenticator that works with what I have: a TPM and a fingerprint reader.<p>It’s a small bridge: Chrome extension + Go backend, using the TPM for key storage and fprintd for user verification.<p>Write-up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitorpy.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025-12-25-confer-to-linux-tpm-fido2-prf&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vitorpy.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025-12-25-confer-to-linux-tpm-fido...</a> Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vitorpy&#x2F;tpm-fido2-prf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vitorpy&#x2F;tpm-fido2-prf</a><p>Nothing fancy. No guarantees — it was a quick hack. But if it helps someone else get Confer working on Linux :)


type: comment
by: teruakohatu
text:
  JSON Structured Output from OpenAI was released a year after the first LangChain release.<p>I think structured output with schema validation mostly replaces the need for complex prompt frameworks. I do look at the LC source from time to time because they do have good prompts backed into the framework.


type: comment
by: jdujfkhllhl
text:
  China and EU have mandated usb-c for all rechargeable devices, for many years. Usb-a is legacy, together with vga, parallel printer ports and other old and bulky connectors, such connectors should require adapters. This is a good thing.<p>That’s why apple laptops are using usb-c.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  Omg I thought I was going senile... copy &amp; paste not working... I definitely pressed ctrl-c didn&#x27;t I?<p>Bloody Wayland.


type: comment
by: HocusLocus
text:
  I would be curious about this comment at the OP site from yesterday as a proposed or contributing cause for such a mysterious limit, it does carry a ring of adversity via absurdity.  I do remember the early days of gzip encoding, many apps suffered from confusion over transport vs. delivered content-length.<p>&quot;[cratermoon] I did a bit of testing using curl and found that with -H &#x27;Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd&#x27; the resulting content-length: 6216 matches the gzipped response. However, without that header the result is not compressed and the response is content-length: 22411. The same difference applies to your other site.<p>&quot;I wonder if whoever emailed you has crossed up their query and whatever tool they are using is mistakenly complaining because it&#x27;s expecting 22411 bytes and only getting 6216.&quot;


type: comment
by: ay
text:
  Fixing a non-trivial bug is a great way to learn - assuming they don’t give up.<p>By virtue of being generators subtly broken stuff, LLMs are well positioned to create very nice learning material.<p>Same thing about growing the project - having to deal with something too big for AI is a very valuable experience.<p>And, in my experience, some of the purely human made codebases are strictly worse than LLM-made :-)


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Previously: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44612736">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44612736</a>


type: comment
by: devilbunny
text:
  They’re similar enough that my aunt, who has lived in the PNW for ages, but grew up in the South, described Walla Wallas as “basically just like a Vidalia, but grown here”.<p>There’s nothing particularly special about the onion variety - it’s just a mild yellow onion. It’s the soil.


type: comment
by: y-curious
text:
  The burned out SWE to photographer&#x2F;woodworker pipeline in action<p>It should be a new internet law like Cunningham’s law<p>“Every thread about alternative careers for software engineers will eventually have a suggestion to begin woodworking”


type: comment
by: LarsDu88
text:
  You need to train a decoder either end to end or conditioned on latents.<p>In either case the impressiveness of that decoder can be far removed from the effectiveness of your world model or involve no world model at all


type: comment
by: gldrk
text:
  Core fonts absolutely support Unicode.  My (non-Xft) xterm windows are full of Unicode characters right now.  It is true that anti-aliasing is not supported by the X.Org server, although scalable fonts have been for a while (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.x.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;X11R7.5&#x2F;doc&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;fonts.html#AEN497" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.x.org&#x2F;archive&#x2F;X11R7.5&#x2F;doc&#x2F;fonts&#x2F;fonts.html#AEN49...</a>).  But you don&#x27;t need anti-aliasing on a high-DPI display, and on a low-DPI display you can use any of the many beautiful bitmap fonts, unlike a lot of ‘modern apps’  these days.


type: comment
by: wk_end
text:
  If you want to make your writing appear non-AI generated, the easiest way is to write it yourself. No typos necessary.<p>I’m sure with enough cajoling you can make the LLM spit out a technical blog post that isn’t discernibly slop - wanton emoji usage, clichés, self-aggrandizement, relentlessly chipper tone, short “punchy” paragraphs, an absence of depth, “it’s not just X—it’s a completely new Y” - but it must be at least a little tricky what with how often people don’t bother.<p>[ChatGPT, insert a complaint about how people need to ram LLMs into every discussion no matter how irrelevant here.]


type: comment
by: chasil
text:
  It appears that there are options for care in other countries that are much less expensive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alzint.org&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-tourism-the-last-resort-for-many-living-with-alzheimers-disease&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alzint.org&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-tourism-the-l...</a>


type: comment
by: BellsOnSunday
text:
  Who says that&#x27;s the advice &quot;in England&quot;? I&#x27;m in England and it isn&#x27;t my advice.


type: comment
by: nextos
text:
  The advantage of Apple is that they deal with a tiny amount of hardware. Vertical integration enables aggressive optimizations.<p>I agree that in case of Linux, a udev rule generator would be a fantastic step ahead in terms of usability.


type: comment
by: habosa
text:
  With every passing year the New Yorker stands out even more. High quality long-form journalism and short fiction with minimal advertising (in the print issue it’s just a few at the front and one at the back) is very hard to find. I love getting my issue in the mail every week and I’ve never once thought that reading it was a waste of my time.<p>I’d highly encourage anyone who loves great writing to subscribe.


type: comment
by: ryukoposting
text:
  I think I see your reading, but I&#x27;d add an apostrophe:<p>The First Photographs of Snowflake&#x27;s Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography<p>i.e. the first photographs on Snowflake&#x27;s part. Though that still doesn&#x27;t resolve how a guy&#x27;s pictures discovered microphotography, rather than the guy himself.


type: comment
by: evntdrvn
text:
  Umm one of the authors, Andy Gocke, is the lead for the .NET runtime... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agocke" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;agocke</a>


type: comment
by: beeflet
text:
  I don&#x27;t really use ethernet, or an audio jack, or an SD card reader regularly. I just use wifi and bluetooth, and I suspect most people do as well.<p>You can also just keep the extra dongles in your backpack and plug them into any open USB-C ports, or just unplug the dongles to free up more USB-C ports as needed.


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
text:
  I feel like this list says a lot more about what the author wants her kids to be interested in than a real survey of the whole toy market. There are a few stuffed animals that get tons of love, and the magnet blocks were a hit for a couple months but then they got old. This is going to trigger a deluge of unsolicited admonition, but the television and the Nintendo switch have by far the highest entertainment value per dollar spent.


type: comment
by: BlueTemplar
text:
  That doesn&#x27;t make sense : Signal is slightly older (both 2014), and was end-to-end encrypted from the start, while Matrix only got it officially in 2020 ?<p>Isn&#x27;t it more that they have different use-cases : Matrix is PC-first, while Signal (and Telegram, WhatsApp) are mobile-first, to the point of requiring a phone number ?


type: comment
by: enduser
text:
  I bought a new camera recently for a trip to Bhutan. I ended up getting a Nikon Zf which is great for shooting in full manual mode. There are some exceptional third party manual focus lenses.<p>It’s all very tactile and gets me out into the world. I really treasure the photos from it in a way I never did with smartphone photos. It’s also really nice to just leave the phone at home.<p>Sometimes I go for photo walks with a friend. We play with light and composition and just generally have a great time being present and creative.


type: comment
by: fka
text:
  Hi HN!<p>I&#x27;m Fatih, maintainer of prompts.chat. I&#x27;ve built a new NPM package called &quot;typed prompts&quot; which is a new approach to write chat, image, audio, video prompts using types and methods. It&#x27;s actually an opinionated string builder, but it works!<p>Happy to hear your feedbacks!


type: comment
by: BiteCode_dev
text:
  I just tried to match a URL against about a hundred patterns of various types (thanks to Claude code), expecting it to be a non-issue.<p>A hundred regex tests, for example, is generally very fast. A quick Python script made them run in 0.85ms. A hundred Flask router tests is 2.64ms.<p>So I had no reason to think this API would be slow. Surely matching a URL is a subset of generalized regexes and can only be fast? And given that routing is not an activity you do a lot, why would it matter anyway?<p>But the performances were atrocious: it took 8 seconds to resolve the worst-case scenario on Firefox, and it locked the entire browser UI.<p>Ok, note to self, stay away from the URL Pattern API.


type: comment
by: shmerl
text:
  Never used MacBooks, but Lenovo Thinkpad laptops with Linux are really good in my experience. Get anything recent with AMD.


type: comment
by: somat
text:
  A picture is worth a thousand words -- but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of a thousand words can be adequately described with pictures.


type: comment
by: cpursley
text:
  I was shocked by this in rural Spain as well. Just tons of high citrus and olives rotting on trees because their harvest can&#x27;t be done mechanically.


type: comment
by: jdujfkhllhl
text:
  If all the laptop components break at the same time, there&#x27;s no need for repairability. Then it’s just a somewhat disposable computer by design. For a car analogy, this is how many americans could afford their first car.<p>The truly bad designs are when one broken component is preventing repairability. Hello apple!


type: comment
by: gaigalas
text:
  I know what you mean! I&#x27;ve lived through those myself.<p>However, for a beginner, specially if said beginner never worked in a larger company with resources to produce an internal framework, they might think you&#x27;re referring to Flask or something like that (btw Flask-style microframework use can go very wrong but it&#x27;s another completely different issue).<p>That&#x27;s why I&#x27;m being nitpicky. The people who&#x27;ll get the post are likely already experienced enough to evaluate those frameworks themselves.


type: comment
by: ndiddy
text:
  Given that they&#x27;re fine with adding breaking changes to the protocol, I think it&#x27;s a shame that they&#x27;re not supporting multi-screen. This will lead to the same problem with Xrandr based multi-monitor where you get screen tearing with mixed refresh rate displays. I would prefer to see &quot;traditional X11 multihead but you can move programs between screens&quot; as the solution for multiple monitors. Even if it worked like Mac OS X where you can&#x27;t have a single window span across multiple monitors, it would still be better than the current state of X11.


type: comment
by: zX41ZdbW
text:
  Let&#x27;s add Spice to ClickBench: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmark.clickhouse.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmark.clickhouse.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: nytesky
text:
  This is so useful. a Gmail account is so much more than just an email account at this point. my first gmail account was made when anonymity and cool email was more of trend than your actual name - so i based upon my favorite book in 2006. 20 years later the account is tied to my oft used primary google voice number so lingers even with obscure and hard to spell email.<p>i could gave moved my google voice number, but it seems like a convoluted process and have had my number since about Grand Central acquisition.


type: comment
by: ANighRaisin
text:
  Binary Space partitioning (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Binary_space_partitioning" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Binary_space_partitioning</a>) is an elegant algorithm that solves this issue. This has fallen out of popularity due to the invention of the depth buffer and the power of modern GPUs, but it was used in DOOM and Quake.<p>This technique, due to the unique limitation of the children&#x27;s drag-and-drop coding platform, Scratch, has made it proliferate in the 3D community. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu&#x2F;projects&#x2F;1203675921" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scratch.mit.edu&#x2F;projects&#x2F;1203675921</a> is an example of such a project.


type: story
by: mntalateyya
title: Show HN: Picunic – convert image to Unicode art using ML
url: https://mnur.me/picunic/
text:
  I built Picunic, a web-based port of a terminal image viewer that converts images to Unicode art using a CNN.<p>*Demo:* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mnur.me&#x2F;picunic&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mnur.me&#x2F;picunic&#x2F;</a><p>*GitHub:* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mohammed-nurulhoque&#x2F;picunic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mohammed-nurulhoque&#x2F;picunic</a><p>*How it works:* - Splits images into 8×16 pixel chunks (matching terminal cell aspect ratio) - Runs each chunk through a CNN encoder to get a 64-dim embedding - Finds the Unicode character with the most similar embedding (cosine similarity) - The CNN was trained on ~2000 Unicode characters rendered in DejaVu Sans Mono<p>Everything runs client-side via WebAssembly - no server needed. Features include adjustable width, dithering for photos, and ASCII-only mode.<p>Built with Rust (compiled to WASM), ONNX Runtime Web, and vanilla JavaScript. The original terminal version is also available in the repo.<p>Currently works best for images with clear dark&#x2F;light distinction. Would love feedback on the improving quality!


type: comment
by: accrual
text:
  I liked this, it was a nice touch from Anthropic. I noticed the Claude pixel character in Claude Code was updated for the holidays too.<p>I pay for the Pro plan and I find it totally sufficient for personal use, I&#x27;ve never run into limits. However after using ChatGPT free for a while before paying for Claude, I already got quite good at batching requests, making sure they&#x27;re clear, referencing exact filenames and line numbers, etc. to keep my usage down.<p>Personally optimizing requests is kind of fun for me, it&#x27;s like a game - trying to get the best output with the fewest input tokens.<p>Anyway, thanks Anthropic, happy holidays!


type: comment
by: pclark
text:
  &gt; The Program audio series is a sci-fi anthology podcast set in a future in which Money, State, and God became fused into a single entity called the Program. Each episode is a standalone story focusing on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying - it is our present.


type: comment
by: derriz
text:
  &gt; Important note: the strange magic requires the official git completion script.<p>I dislike the official git completion script because it’s so slow when working with large repos.  On macOS - because of vagaries of the way its file system works -  with large repos it’s effectively unusable.  Hint to completion script writers: if your “smart” completion ever takes seconds, it’s worse than useless and far worse than “dumb” filename completion.


type: comment
by: crote
text:
  &gt; I prefer reading the LLM output for accessibility reasons.<p>And that&#x27;s completely fine! If you prefer to read CVEs that way, nobody is going to stop you from piping all CVE descriptions you&#x27;re interested in through a LLM.<p>However, having it processed by a LLM is essentially a one-way operation. If some people prefer the original and some others prefer the LLM output, the obvious move is to share the <i>original</i> with the world and have LLM-preferring readers do the processing on <i>their</i> end. That way everyone is happy with the format they get to read. Sounds like a win-win, no?


type: comment
by: datatrashfire
text:
  i think the author is pretty clearly making the point the trade off is not worth it to him. which is not all that suprising given that seems to match the preferences of most people given the popularity of apple hardware which has for a very long time been on the far end of the irreparable, but smaller, quieter, etc, spectrum.


type: comment
by: ANighRaisin
text:
  A prettier demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turbowarp.org&#x2F;984959784&#x2F;fullscreen?stuck&amp;hqpen&amp;fps=60" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turbowarp.org&#x2F;984959784&#x2F;fullscreen?stuck&amp;hqpen&amp;fps=6...</a>


type: comment
by: monkpit
text:
  Hooks only keep honest people honest :) and an LLM will happily clobber a tag and skip hooks while the user just spams “accept”.


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  That would have been nice to have during transition. Creating a new account and updating 3rd parties was a huge pain and never got close to 100% completion.


type: comment
by: cpursley
text:
  Yeah, exactly. Go price the equipment it takes to rig out a new upstart plumbing biz (trunk&#x2F;van, all the hardware, insurance, etc). Startup web businesses is insanely cheap, even with a couple grand on a domain.


type: comment
by: zippyman55
text:
  Libraries are overwhelmed in their inability to store all the &quot;good&quot; books. I was cleaning out my book collection of, what I thought are really good books, but I came to the realization there is no space for them.  So, they get sold or pulped.


type: comment
by: switchers
text:
  This is always going to be the simplest answer until VPNs start being regulated or blocked, or there&#x27;s some mandatory BS age gate in every country worldwide. Which hopefully will be never.


type: comment
by: lomase
text:
  He did work on Ticketmaster for some years on their own VAX operating system.<p>Then he had the dissease and could not keep working.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  1. I dunno about a panacea, but it&#x27;s pretty great for old hardware. My 2011 desktop still runs Alpine Linux just fine.<p>2. By all means start with macOS, but eventually Apple will stop supporting your machine. And y&#x27;know what will still work and get updates then? Linux.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  What would it even hallucinate? You wouldn&#x27;t be asking it to cite a court case from 2004 that doesn&#x27;t exist and it wouldn&#x27;t invent people you didn&#x27;t tell it about in the first place.


type: comment
by: tstrimple
text:
  Dragons of Autumn Twilight was the first novel I read that I actually enjoyed on my own and turned me on to the world of fantasy novels! I still have very fond memories of that series of books.


type: comment
by: xethos
text:
  The next guy&#x27;s job is to tell you XMPP is lighter, <i>gen-er-ally</i> viewed as simpler, with a wide array of clients and servers, optional encryption, and with a longer history (with that being viewed as rhyming with reliable).<p>My &quot;job&quot; in this holy-war thread is to tell you Matrix has become lighter over time, the &quot;default&quot; server Synapse has less, but IMO more up-to-date documentation with a real corporation behind keeping it up-to-date and useful, has a blossoming ecosystem of clients, servers, <i>and bridges</i> (allowing you to use it for other chat systems like Whatsapp and Telegram), has encryption being an enforced default for one-to-one mesasges (instead of XMPP&#x27;s bolted-on after-the-fact extension), and a paid team to make Synapse more robust, reliable, lighter, faster, and more secure.<p>Take both arguments with a grain of salt, as I am biased as hell (to the point of donating a small amount monthly to Matrix, and starting flame wars like this one).


type: comment
by: rolisz
text:
  Ehrm, I beg to differ. My 4 year old daughter has recently also started loving to draw. But, she pretty much refuses to let go of her masterpieces, at least we conviced her to store them in a shoebox, so they&#x27;re not spread all over the house. And the pencils... Well, I&#x27;ve been picking up an awful lot of pencils from all over the house.<p>So I&#x27;m not sure I agree with the &quot;lowest clean up time&quot;, even though I&#x27;m really glad she&#x27;s picked this up as a &quot;hobby&quot;.


type: comment
by: nytesky
text:
  brings back memories. ive had a digital organizer&#x2F;pocket computer since high school in the 90s. casio databank with an alphabetical (not querty) keyboard, Psions where I worked a summer job while travling,  Palm, Handspring, Sony Clie, and finally into iPhones — though I do really miss keyboards and terminals.


type: comment
by: avidiax
text:
  Live streaming is surprisingly a much different problem than pre-recorded streaming. It&#x27;s no surprise that Netflix has had trouble with it in the past, though I&#x27;d expect them to have resolved their issues by now.<p>I wrote a detailed comment about it before. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42161376">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42161376</a>


type: comment
by: cakealert
text:
  The idea that a group of people would spend so much of their time trying to get linux to work on Apple hardware through reverse engineering always seemed absolutely crazy to me. I would never consider buying Apple hardware precisely because it doesn&#x27;t support linux and the work they put in achieves nothing because the risk will always remain that they will lock the hardware further. Nevermind the fact that they will likely never fully reverse engineer all the components.<p>It just seems like a completely pointless endeavor... perhaps some people buy into it? why would anyone buy overpriced hardware with partial support that may one day be gone? the enhanced battery life doesn&#x27;t really hold much appeal to me, and the arm architecture if anything is just another signal to stay away.<p>The only thing that makes sense to me is that they wanted the achievement on their resume, and in that given recent developments they succeeded?


type: comment
by: vips7L
text:
  Unions have a proposal: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;csharplang&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9662" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;csharplang&#x2F;issues&#x2F;9662</a>


type: comment
by: Ms-J
text:
  There were some leaks. Some of the events I would need to check my offline documents for more specific references but, for example, the Reddit leak with a person who was working at the jail saying that he had to let in someone associated with the military and they left shortly after Epstein was killed.


type: comment
by: Isamu
text:
  Making things, I made my daughters wooden practice swords, two-handed claymores. Now for Christmas I always make something. This year was cross-body bags with elaborate patterns. Fun for me, I’m just glad they put up with the eccentric choices.


type: comment
by: robrain
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  Since the dawn of the current &quot;AI&quot; I&#x27;ve continued to buy and read books at the same pace. Likewise downloading interesting human-created PDFs. I know I&#x27;m not the only human who takes zero interest in the output of word-sausage extruders.


type: comment
by: guipsp
text:
  You cannot explain everything to everyone all the time. Besides, this is not even a paper. Sometimes you are not the target audience and have to put some words into Google.


type: comment
by: HelloUsername
text:
  Previous discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39771742">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39771742</a>


type: comment
by: zellyn
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  I’m horribly biased but I think it’s a combination of: (1) knee-jerk reaction to similar-looking but low-value comments, and (2) most people not having played around with LLM coding agents and messed around with their own agents enough to immediately jump to excitement at simple, safe sandboxing primitives for that purpose.<p>And +1000 on linking to your own (or any other well-written) blog.


type: comment
by: Jolter
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  I’m sure taxes are part of it, but keep in mind it’s a toll free union after all. They could easily do this above board and just declare the Italian VAT as they do selling to locals.


type: comment
by: morshu9001
text:
  FreeBSD is indeed nicer to use than your average Linux distro, and has a really good manual. The blocker is that everything is made for Linux.


type: comment
by: philistine
text:
  Yes, but it&#x27;s the same story with Microsoft now. If they lose control over the PC market, it can only make it better.


type: comment
by: teruakohatu
text:
  It is an unusual list. Along with a list an AI websites it also blocks a handful of instagram, X and Pinterest profiles. It also blocks a number of specific products on Amazon, such as a colouring book that presumably was generated with AI.<p>This kind of reminds me Steam where indie devs need to exclaim loudly that they are not using AI, otherwise they face backlash. Meanwhile a significant percentage of devs are using GenAI for better tab completion, better search or generating tests. All things that do not impact the end user experience negatively.


type: comment
by: jjaaammmmy
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  Unfortunately, it&#x27;s not likely.  The full text back to 1925 (of articles, with no images) has been available on ProQuest for a while, and many libraries subscribe to that which is ok, but lacking all the great photos, cartoons, ephemera etc.<p>Many libraries also subscribe to Libby&#x2F;Overdrive which does include the full images of all the pages, but Libby only provides coverage for the past year.  Unfortunately publishers of newspapers and magazines often offer great archival content of this sort on their websites, but don&#x27;t allow libraries to license it for their patrons.


type: comment
by: morshu9001
text:
  There isn&#x27;t a successful Linux desktop OS. The Linux kernel is successful on servers and appliances, but only the kernel. And there aren&#x27;t many even-split choices on your typical server. Like yeah zsh has a bit of a following, but everyone assumes you use bash, which is a good thing.


type: comment
by: molarmanful
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  I&#x27;ve been a very happy FW16 user, so much so that I got my partner an FW13 to replace her very old and very bulky gaming laptop. Similar specs to yours + AMD dGPU module. Recently cleaned the innards and upgraded my mainboard to the HX 370 in ~20min with zero issues. Compared to what I&#x27;ve been reading on various forums&#x2F;threads, my experience as a whole has been virtually free of problems! FW + NixOS is a potent combo that squarely satisfies the kind of configurability&#x2F;overall experience I need&#x2F;want in the tech I use. (And perhaps more importantly, it handily assuages my paranoid mind.)


type: comment
by: dajonker
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  I don&#x27;t have a great code example at hand unfortunately, but I found that people often tend to write more &quot;nominally&quot; typed code (expecting explicitly named classes) rather than taking advantage of duck typing (interfaces, structural types), meaning the code becomes more rigid, harder to change and more time wasted on resolving all the type checks, even if the code otherwise is perfectly reasonable and free of bugs.<p>In other words, I found that the resulting code often looked more like Java but with weaker guarantees about types and much worse performance.


type: comment
by: nmstoker
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  Could this be a sign that Google is starting to think again?<p>For an organisation that often does deeply intelligent things, they spend such a lot of time treating their users unnecessarily poorly because obvious implications seem not to occur to them.


type: comment
by: M95D
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  &gt; all who voted yes would then be marked, with repeated offenders being investigated and potentially charged with attempted treason.<p>Not possible by design in any country. Democratic countries would invoke separation of power, authoritarian countries wouldn&#x27;t have independent justice in the first place.


type: comment
by: mitchbob
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;5LKQb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;5LKQb</a>


type: comment
by: fcatalan
text:
  I bought a expensive fancy pan for my wife&#x27;s birthday a few years ago. We both cook, clean and do groceries and chores equally so it never occurred to me that it was inappropriate. We both like cooking. I&#x27;m more of a stewpot guy while she&#x27;s better in general at &quot;pan stuff&quot; and had been complaining about the old pan. She chided me a bit for spending so much on a pan and there was that.<p>But when I mentioned it over coffee at work most of my female colleagues were aghast. I defended myself saying something like &quot;It&#x27;s the 21st century, we are way past the point that I can&#x27;t gift a pan to my wife&quot; and they said &quot;Well that might be at YOUR home!&quot;, and I learned a thing.


type: comment
by: SkyeCA
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  Why did the original get flagged?<p>Edit: On a second look the list is kind of weird. I&#x27;d love to block AI stuff but the blocklist is far, far too broad.


type: comment
by: Macha
text:
  Powerwash simulator is occasionally fun. There&#x27;s shiny rewards, I don&#x27;t have to deal with potential bad weather, and there&#x27;s no random patches that take 20 times to get rid of. If I don&#x27;t feel like powerwashing simulator, it will wait for me, forever, with no ill consequences or social judgement.<p>If I never wash my actual driveway, the same is not true. Therefore I will need to wash it at times when it&#x27;s unpleasant or I don&#x27;t want to, and it will take longer than powerwashing a driveway in Powerwash simulator.


type: comment
by: dmux
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  &gt; I believe that the benefits of static typing somewhat decrease in the web arena<p>I’ve seen this sentiment expressed numerous times and have never found it to be true in my own work (e-comm), do you mind mentioning _what_ type of domain your web apps are in?<p>Edit: or if not domain, what do you mean by “web arena”


type: comment
by: matijsvzuijlen
text:
  What made you decide to squash when merging instead of leaving the commits in the history so you can always bisect?


type: comment
by: gregsadetsky
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  in addition to making a map, it would also be a fascinating timeline: you could show venues (as they appear&#x2F;disappear through time) and artists, and filter&#x2F;search those<p>imagine seeing listings for John Coltrane or Miles Davis or Benny Goodman...<p>let me know if I can help - it&#x27;s a beautiful &amp; great project idea!


type: comment
by: WoodenChair
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  Thanks for posting this detailed history and breakdown. And congratulations on your success. As someone with a podcast in the same ballpark of downloads, I will say it&#x27;s a real testament to how much people must like The Program that you have managed to monetize to the tune of ~$30K CAD in a single year with just 140,000 downloads in the same year. That&#x27;s really good! People must love what you&#x27;re doing and that must be very gratifying. Cheers!


type: comment
by: esseph
text:
  I mean, the stuff I was hearing about Microsoft over a decade ago was that they were giving up on the OS and moving everything to a cloud based SaaS model. Basically, focusing energy where the money is.


type: comment
by: colechristensen
text:
  You wouldn&#x27;t complain as much if it were merely poorly written by a human.  It gets the information across.  The novelty of complaining about a new style of bad writing is being overdone by a lot of people, particularly on HN.


type: comment
by: ervine
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  Wonder if it&#x27;s worth squashing in the branch, merging to main, then immediately reverting.<p>Now the work is visible in history, branch can be deleted, and anyone in the future can search the ticket number or whatever if your commit messages are useful.<p>Dunno if it&#x27;s worth polluting history, just thinking out loud.


type: comment
by: properbrew
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  I love how simple it is to use and works well.<p>I don&#x27;t seem to see the original to verify the output in the formatted or shared view unless I&#x27;m missing something?


type: comment
by: watersb
text:
  It&#x27;s 2025 and there&#x27;s still no way to use web-based emulators from touch devices with no physical keyboard connected.<p>Because the JavaScript in the emulator doesn&#x27;t expose an editable text element, no touch keyboard input.<p>(I can imagine difficult security implications of JavaScript capture of the text input, but I can still wish for things.)


type: comment
by: dugidugout
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  You believe brick and mortar shops put money down on a location with no plan at all? This is what OP did, your analogy is pretty weak.


type: comment
by: asmnzxklopqw
text:
  I remember working in performance for a company that was building video delivery systems. That was about 10 years ago, but I still remember the celebration of 80Gbps, that was when we could deliver live HD quality events to about 5000 downstream customers using one such device. That was the hardware capacity of the platform that was used at that point.<p>I guess that technology evolved since then, but even so serving 1M customers shouldn’t need more than 200 instances. My wild guess is that Netflix either didn’t autoscale or that the rebalancing&#x2F;anycast mechanism didn’t work properly.


type: comment
by: iinnPP
text:
  Yes, framed as you stated it is indeed a win-win.<p>However, there will be cases where lacking the LLM output, there isn&#x27;t any output at all.<p>Creating a stigma over technology which is easily observed as being, in some form, accessible is expected in the world we live. As it is on HN.<p>Not to say you are being any type of anything, I just don&#x27;t believe anyone has given it all that much thought. I read the complaints and can&#x27;t distinguish them from someone complaining that they need to make some space for a blind person using their accessibility tools.


type: comment
by: zajio1am
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  &gt; Six months later you begin to understand why they were done “wrong”.<p>It is hard to say whether it is really understanding, or just stockholm syndrome  of local optimum.


type: comment
by: crote
text:
  Nobody <i>expects</i> to get rich off working for a startup. The risks are massive, and very few exit with billion-dollar deals. This is taken into account by the people who work there and accept those stock options: 99.xx% chance of being worth essentially zero, but a tiny <i>yet nonzero</i> chance of being able to retire early when it does a billion-dollar exit. It&#x27;s a lottery ticket, not a promise - every startup employee understands that.<p>Groq is now changing the deal after the fact by making those stock options worthless 100% of the time. It&#x27;s like you participate in a lottery, and then the organizer decides to just not do a draw and keep all the proceeds for themselves. Sorry, but that&#x27;s theft.<p>Don&#x27;t intend to pay out in the unlikely event that you hit it big? Then don&#x27;t offer stock options to your employees and pay market-rate salaries - plus of course a decent premium for the fact that (unlike an established company) your startup can go bust at any time and doesn&#x27;t offer stable employment. You can&#x27;t have it both ways.


type: comment
by: ares623
text:
  I think the backlash comes from all the &quot;AI-driven&quot; layoffs that absolutely impact the end users negatively.


type: comment
by: baxtr
text:
  You should repeat this poll<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30210378">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30210378</a>


type: comment
by: leobg
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  You have Mr. Kraus making sorbet and selling that on the internet, don’t you? Though I guess he doesn’t come close to using up all of the supply… and his domain name is a bit more complicated than what Peter usually goes for. I can’t, to this day, remember how to pronounce Sòller. We keep asking the locals every time we visit. Do you own a grove yourself?


type: comment
by: albert_roca
text:
  I am referring to other comments in this thread that dismissed the proposal purely based on the use of AI tools. My comment about prejudice was not directed at you.


type: comment
by: 6stringmerc
text:
  Wondered if it was a yet-unexplained indicator I&#x27;d been banned, which I figured peculiar, as my worst mental health episodes are behind me and my participation here is of better quality of late and is aiming to continue that path. It is a nice shade. Reminds me of trying to select the appropriate Crayola for a mood or vibe. This fits.


type: comment
by: majormajor
text:
  IME you could get reliable JSON or other easily-parsable output formats out of OpenAI&#x27;s going back at least to GPT3.5 or 4 in early 2023. I think that was a bit after LangChain&#x27;s release but I don&#x27;t recall hitting problems that I needed to add a layer around in order to do &quot;agent&quot;-y things (&quot;dispatch this to this specialized other prompt-plus-chatgpt-api-call, get back structured data, dispatch it to a different specialized prompt-plus-chatgpt-api-call&quot;) before it was a buzzword.


type: comment
by: elcapitan
text:
  Yeah I hoped it would blacklist all those spammy autogenerated SEO sites from search results, but it looks like a vendetta with anything AI or machine learning in general.


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  I tend to avoid projects where the economics are challenging, or where the demand has fallen off. Vidalia is unique because it&#x27;s a boutique item, not a commodity. Because of it&#x27;s unique nature, we&#x27;re able to charge premium pricing, allowing us to stay in business (&amp; even at our premium prices, the margins are razor thin, so we&#x27;re constantly watching bottom line). While I tremendously enjoy this project, this is not an easy business to operate.


type: comment
by: chews
text:
  Pharma tail wagging the food dog. It’s a sad fact that GLPs are changing food costs. Humans are strange animals.


type: comment
by: dexwiz
text:
  I think AI as a tool versus AI as a product are different. Even in coding you can see it with tab completion&#x2F;agents v vibe coding. It&#x27;s a spectrum and people are trying to find their personal divider on it. Additionally there are those out there that decry anything involving AI as heresy. (no thinking machines!)


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  I am puzzled by the &quot;GT 1050M is not competitive today&quot;? What does that even mean?<p>You are moving goal posts. Your parent clearly specified long-term stability and lack of repairs. Granted not all laptops are that durable. But many are. I have a pile of old laptops, one I clearly remember using it as a daily driver for development in the interval of 12 to 10 years ago. Just ran it yesterday, wanted to see if I can put it in a homemade computing cluster. Worked fine after being battered with Fold@Home for 12 hours.<p>You did admit your bias, for which I am grateful. But admitting it or not, let&#x27;s recognize it&#x27;s still making people prone to judging from a filter bubble perspective. Barely any dev cares about GPU performance being competitive today. I am a fairly average dev and I and my kind care that the laptop can drive one 4K screen at 60Hz and that&#x27;s it.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Freakishly weirdly precise memory that doesn&#x27;t work in other ways can be used to relayed relevant details to ChatGPT. I&#x27;ll describe the weird face she made when I said that thing or the exact position of her body and the exact level of pressure with which she touched me on the arm and exactly where on my arm, for example.<p>As far as the framing, it&#x27;s helped me realize that actually, hey, sometimes it is their fault and they are being unreasonable and I actually didn&#x27;t do anything wrong, they just don&#x27;t like me. I mean yeah, that&#x27;s also a thing.


type: comment
by: esseph
text:
  If you are at JPMorgan or aerospace today using quantum computing, there is a very good chance you are using an IBM Heron 156 qubit scalable computer. They have been pushing quantum computers into very large companies for quite awhile now.<p>Google is strictly in research mode, but doing a lot of good, hard work.


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  I wish they&#x27;d let me recover my original -- I lost my TOTP generator, and the codes I&#x27;d written down in a paper notebook were rejected. I even hunted down the electronic copy in case there was a transcription error -- seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures.<p>Lost a decade and a half of correspondence dating back to my teenage years. I had imported my phone number I&#x27;d had since I was 16 into voice, and it doubled as my Signal number. I even had a Gsuite subscription so I could use their (admittedly decently) UI to power my firstname @ lastname dot com email address.<p>I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure.


type: comment
by: canyp
text:
  Interesting that the previous post was flagged. You may or may not find the list useful, but flag? Did it hurt some sensitivities?


type: comment
by: kuschku
text:
  Currently? Every 1.5 years, luckily still within warranty the last few times. Different systems, different manufacturers, different generations.<p>But that&#x27;s an edge case, and I still don&#x27;t really understand why it&#x27;s happening.


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  I would say durability. HN is obsessed by e-waste so pointing out that something can last 7+ years wins some over. Not being sarcastic, nor am I mocking anyone, I am stating an observation.


type: comment
by: lpcvoid
text:
  Devs also shouldn&#x27;t be using GenAI, it&#x27;s inherently anti-worker and IMHO also anti-human. But I guess that&#x27;s an unpopular opinion around here.


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  My personal favorite is Louis Menard’s piece on how bad Microsoft Word is.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;06&#x2F;the-end-matter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.newyorker.com&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;2003&#x2F;10&#x2F;06&#x2F;the-end-matter</a>


type: comment
by: cerpins
text:
  hey! thanks for the comment! thought the post drowned, as it should on Christmas :)  where did you come across mahjong players back in 1960? sounds like a good time.


type: comment
by: lovich
text:
  &gt; If the employer is offering this compensation in bad faith, or otherwise preferring one equity holder over another without an explicit contract - then they are at the very least a crappy business partner.<p>I don’t know about you, but every company I’ve ever worked at is a shitty business partner if that’s the metric. The standard has always been I get what we agreed to if I was lucky, and otherwise I got full “I’ve altered the deal, pray I don’t alter further” and dared you to defend your rights.<p>I actually have called their bluff a few times and gotten some money out of it, but it was always a year long event or more to resolution and involved risking even more money on lawyers.


type: comment
by: Rochus
text:
  Cool, good to know. But I assume you use a standard version, part of TexLive or a subset thereof? What libraries in addition to the luatex executable to you need? I&#x27;m currently integrating the fontloader into the executable binary so that I don&#x27;t have to deploy a directory structure.


type: comment
by: UniverseHacker
text:
  A major factor if you actually are using it to get anywhere, because it’s likely not practical to carry more than a liter or so of fuel.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; but it&#x27;s pretty great for old hardware<p>Which old hardware? You&#x27;re circling around to the grandparent&#x27;s point again; Linux support is hardware dependent.<p>&gt; And y&#x27;know what will still work and get updates then?<p>No, I don&#x27;t. Depreciated iPads lay dead in piles, and they don&#x27;t run Linux for shit. You want me to believe the M4 will graduate to the big leagues?


type: comment
by: parrotplatform
text:
  So, there is no straight forward way that I can think of. But, what I would do is set a channel variable and log it somewhere:<p>exten =&gt; s,n,Set(VM_UNIQUEID=${UNIQUEID}) exten =&gt; s,n,VoiceMail(${EXTEN}@default)<p>If you are using AGI or ARI, you can log it somewhere useful so you can correlate later.<p>If you are using a more vanilla configuration I’d say use the voicemail metadata .txt file that will be in the same folder as the recording to get info to find the CDR. It has things like callerid, origmailbox, origdate (or maybe it’s origtime), and duration. origmailbox should match the CDR destination and the orig time should also match. Haven’t done this specifically. But, I’m hoping I’m pointing you in the right direction.<p>I work with Freeswitch almost exclusively these days. But, my first experience with VoIP was Asterisk and a huge Perl AGI file keeping everyone talking to each other. Those were good time!


type: comment
by: qweiopqweiop
text:
  The time spend in the app can be heavily gamed. Better algorithmic recommendations, pushing addictive features like shorts.


type: comment
by: kurikuri
text:
  &gt; &gt; or the CCP route (clip the wings of the Icaruses who fly too high).  &gt; This seems like a great way for the monied interests from WITHIN the party to just take full control.<p>They already do in the US, so this is a non-response.<p>&gt; &gt; Go with either the FDR route (94% tax rate)<p>&gt; The reason why this worked is because FDR oversaw the US during a period of incredible change and after the Great Depression. It&#x27;s not like the tax rate was responsible for his successes.<p>Once again, this is a vacuous response. If the claim was “high taxes caused the change during FDR’s time,” “There was change” is not an alternative explanation to that claim. If we took the counter-factual claim, do you think the period would have been as transformative if the tax rates weren’t high?


type: comment
by: Cadwhisker
text:
  I had to replay that to appreciate how the transitions from night to day were done so very, very well.  The dynamic range of the shots always seemed spot on.<p>That isn&#x27;t easy to get right.


type: comment
by: Tarq0n
text:
  Histograms aren&#x27;t necessarily a true depiction of the distribution. Bin count or width has a large impact on what details get shown.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  I have no faith in Qualcomm to even make me basic gestures towards the Linux community.<p>All I want is an easy way to install Linux on one of the numerous Snapdragon laptops. I think the Snapdragon Thinkpad might work, but none of the other really do.<p>A 400$ Arm laptop with good Linux support would be great, but it&#x27;s never ever going to happen.


type: comment
by: pinkmuffinere
text:
  Not to minimize the amount (2k is a lot), or obligations you may have (family, etc), but sometimes you can change your life in small ways to make those sort of impulse buys more affordable. Renting a room instead of a house, buying an old used car instead of new, etc. These kinds of changes are (to me) a small inconvenience, with big rewards


type: comment
by: rasengan0
text:
  Glad this story got on HN, it moved the heart and I hope it spreads in the little openings of our lives. Nothings perfect, but day by day, more kindness and care, we can share <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wlpcFnOPH2k?si=C1Wa1cviJMa1zlYm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wlpcFnOPH2k?si=C1Wa1cviJMa1zlYm</a>


type: comment
by: halyconWays
text:
  Given the political comments in what&#x27;s supposed to be a filter, and how everything is prefaced with &quot;shit&quot; like &quot;Pinterest shit,&quot; I bet the author had a personal political disagreement with those accounts.<p>The list is also too specific to be useful in some cases, like, is it really important to you that you add 12 entries for specific Amazon products, like: ` duckduckgo.com,bing.com##a[href*=&quot;amazon.com&#x2F;Rabbit-Coloring-Book-Rabbits-Lovers&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B0CV43GKGZ&quot;]:upward(li):remove()`?


