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type: comment
by: spauldo
text:
  The FSF has written extensively on why (in their opinion) you should prefer copyleft licenses over non-copyleft licenses, but they don&#x27;t require a license to be copyleft in order to be considered free. It&#x27;s worth spending a bit of time on their site to understand their point of view. Just be careful not to drink too much of the Kool-Aid or you&#x27;ll become one of those annoying people who never shut up about the GPL on forums.


type: comment
by: pcarroll
text:
  I have found that residential ISP routers are notoriously flaky. It doesn&#x27;t take much to confuse them. A lot of edge cases could be just this.


type: comment
by: marky1991
text:
  I have no idea why someone would get mad about getting a vacuum cleaner as a gift. It&#x27;s boring, sure, but if you keep complaining about your old one, it seems pretty thoughtful.


type: comment
by: fakedang
text:
  &gt; Imagine that in ten thousand years aliens actually invade Earth and try to enslave humanity.<p><i>Insert Mr. Bean highway meme</i>


type: comment
by: furyofantares
text:
  That&#x27;s not where the term comes from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Money_shot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Money_shot</a>


type: comment
by: krish678
text:
  Thankyou so much all this feedback. I’d also love to connect and discuss some of these points further if you’re open.


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46327909">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46327909</a>


type: comment
by: eviks
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  Not really, you can&#x27;t. For example, you might have a service that lies dormant using 0.1mb of memory and then does some scanning&#x2F;maintenance once a week and uses 50% CPU for 5 minues with 100m memory.<p>Also, checking those dozens of services will take a lot of time<p>Unsuspecting users can&#x27;t even measure space savings correctly since many components can be hardlinked to something else and deleting them will &quot;free up&quot; the space shown in the folder (the size standard size reporting on Windows is deeply inadequate), but not free up anything in reality. Or  for some uwp apps you can&#x27;t even see the size at all as the folders have a very dumb permission set, and these scripts remove those preinstalled uwp apps.<p>That&#x27;s the point of public benchmarking - so that ever single user doesn&#x27;t have to waste time doing the mistaken comparisons on his own, so your suggestion doesn&#x27;t help at all even in theory.


type: comment
by: A_D_E_P_T
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  The authors report that restoring NAD+ balance in the brain -- using a compound called P7C3-A20 -- completely reversed Alzheimer&#x27;s pathology and recovered cognitive function in two different transgenic mouse models (one amyloid-based, one tau-based). The mice had advanced disease before treatment began.<p>Three comments:<p>- You can actually buy the drug here:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;focusbiomolecules.com&#x2F;p7c3-a20-nampt-activator-proneurogenic-agent&#x2F;" 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&#x27;s room for skepticism.  As Derek Lowe once wrote: &quot;Alzheimer&#x27;s therapies have, for the most part, been a cliff over which people push bales of money. There are plenty of good reasons for this: we don&#x27;t really know what the cause of Alzheimer&#x27;s is, when you get down to it, and we&#x27;re the only animal that we know of that gets it. Mouse models of the disease would be extremely useful – you wouldn&#x27;t even have to know what the problem was to do some sort of phenotypic screen – but the transgenic mice used for these experiments clearly don&#x27;t recapitulate the human disease. The hope for the last 25 years or so has been that they&#x27;d be close enough to get somewhere, but look where we are.&quot;<p>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;just-how-worthless-are-standard-alzheimer-s-models" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;just-how-worthless...</a><p>- If the drug&#x27;s mechanism of action has been correctly assigned, it&#x27;s very plausible that simply supplementing with NMN, NR, or NADH would work equally well.  The authors caution against this on, IMO, extremely shaky and unjustified grounds.  &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: tetromino_
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  Without context, the reaction is bizarre. There must be some back story that you omitted; maybe something about the mother previously asking other people in the family to vacuum, and being ignored?<p>My wife and I, by the way, are giving each other a joint New Year gift of a fancy robot vacuum cleaner: it&#x27;s the best sort of gift, useful, elegant, and something that one would be reluctant to spend the money on otherwise.


type: comment
by: meltyness
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  I mean I&#x27;m sure cramming synthetic data and scaling models to enhance like, in-model arithmetic, memory, etc. makes &quot;alignment&quot;  appear more complex &#x2F; model behavior more non-newtonian so to speak, but it&#x27;s going to boil down to censorship one way or another. Or an NSP approach where you enforce a policy over activations using another separate model, and so-on and so-on.<p>Is it likely that it&#x27;s a bigger problem to try and apply qualitative policies to training data, activations, and outputs than the approach ML-guys think is primarily appropriate (ie., nn training) or is it a bigger problem to scale hardware and explore activation architectures that have more effective representation[0], and make a better model? If you go after the data but cascade a model in to rewrite history that&#x27;s obviously going to be expensive, but easy. Going after outputs is cheap and easy but not terrifically effective... but do we leave the gears rusty? Probably we shouldn&#x27;t.<p>It&#x27;s obfuscation to assert that there&#x27;s some greater policy that must be applied to models beyond the automatic modeling that happens, unless there&#x27;s some specific outcome you intend to prevent, namely censorship at this point, maybe optimistically you can prevent it from lying? Such application of policies have primarily targeted solutions that reduce model efficacy and universality.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35703367">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35703367</a>


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  Just waiting for a MTU-sized frame to come in through the network at 10Gbps is 1.2us.<p>Reacting to incomplete frames in software is possible, but realistically at this point just use FPGAs already.


type: comment
by: bmacho
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  tl;dr:<p>- play-time and clean-up-time are 2 dimensions of toys, and you can use these  dimensions when you are considering to buy a toy<p>- author likes magnetic building toys (???)<p>- amazon ref links to buy those magnetic building toys


type: comment
by: lumost
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  Startups typically offer employees, particularly early employees, substantial equity compensation. 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. A founding engineer with a 2% stake could be missing out on 5-10 million of this transaction.<p>As an aside, most founders are paid during the entire project. It’s not hard to raise a preseed round to get yourself paid for 6-24 months to work on an idea. If a founder <i>chose</i> to bootstrap - that’s all fine, but let’s not pretend that the employees aren’t taking massive career risks vs “standard” employers.


type: comment
by: hresvelgr
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  ChatGPT copypasta isn&#x27;t helpful, or interesting. If I wanted a ChatGPT explanation, I would have gone to ChatGPT.


type: comment
by: AmazingTurtle
text:
  Well they announced it in their v11 release. They stated that you may stay on v10 for 12 months (EOL) and otherwise proceed with non-profit etc.<p>Classic rug pull though


type: comment
by: ogogmad
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  `forward_shuffle` is the (GROUP) INVERSE of `fisher_yates_shuffle`.<p>`mirror_shuffle` is the (GROUP) CONJUGATE of `fisher_yates_shuffle` by the cyclic permutation (n-1,n-2,...,1,0). In group theory, CONJUGATEs are like changes of coordinates. In the present application, they reverse the index labels.<p>The article said it, but it&#x27;s worth distilling it.<p>PS: Oh, here&#x27;s another link. Denote by &quot;S!&quot;, or less formally, the <i>factorial of a set</i> S, to mean the set of permutations of S. Fisher-Yates is equivalent to a bijection between (S+1)! and S! × (S+1).


type: comment
by: Bender
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  If going that route perhaps code could be borrowed from Devzat [1] <i>not my repo</i><p>It is ssh chat and has word filters.<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quackduck&#x2F;devzat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quackduck&#x2F;devzat</a>


type: comment
by: greggoB
text:
  &gt; But this entire article is based on Reddit<p>No? The <i>entire</i> first part of the article is about the decision to kill&#x2F;delay the episode, which has been widely reported on. The LimeWire-specific stuff only comes fairly far down


type: comment
by: curl_e
text:
  Allow me to suggest Research Software Engineering - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;society-rse.org&#x2F;careers&#x2F;rse-stories&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;society-rse.org&#x2F;careers&#x2F;rse-stories&#x2F;</a><p>US Organisation - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-rse.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;us-rse.org&#x2F;</a> UK (but also worldwide) - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;society-rse.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;society-rse.org&#x2F;</a><p>There are RSEs who specialise in Earth Science, e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socrse.github.io&#x2F;geoscience-sig&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;socrse.github.io&#x2F;geoscience-sig&#x2F;</a>


type: story
by: journey2s
title: The Most Impactful Business Technology Trends to Watch in 2026
url:
  https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/12/22/the-most-impactful-business-technology-trends-to-watch-in-2026/


type: comment
by: coliveira
text:
  Whatever the issues with X11, it was properly designed. Wayland is the kind of software that adds features with nobody looking at the consequences. Who knows what they will break next version.


type: comment
by: Tirrekp
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  We’re building a shared memory layer that sits between AI agents and CCaaS tools Zendesk, Dialpad, Five9,  so every call and ticket shares the same history and “story of the customer.”


type: comment
by: andix
text:
  I guess there are some Python workloads on Azure, Microsoft provides a lot of data analysis and LLM tools as a service (not paid by CPU minutes). Saving CPU cycles there directly translates to financial savings.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
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  As others have pointed out, a lot of us would very much like to buy a Framework laptop but as it is we can’t make it make sense. We’ll be customers if Framework can figure out how to patch up their shortcomings, and by expressing that sentiment hopefully they’re encouraged to try to do that.<p>We value reparability and upgradability and are willing to pay for it <i>all else being roughly equal</i>.<p>It’s like for the same price, being given a choice between a hybrid car that’s quiet on the road and gets 45 MPG fuel economy with great torque and responsiveness but needs to be taken to the dealer to service and a car that’s easy to self service but has an annoying rattle at highway speeds, gets 15 MPG, and has a 4-speed automatic transmission. Both technically do the job, but you’d be hard pressed to find people who’d choose the latter over the former.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
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  I wonder how true this is, at least for pure CS grads. The industry was aware that smart people existed outside academia ever since Carmack worked at ID. There&#x27;s not much ladder to pull up, guessing at the number of college grads working a cozy job at FAANG.


type: comment
by: quaheezle
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  They do offer the ability to schedule an oil change via the website and yet some people still prefer to call. User preference and multi-channel servicing options are nice to support


type: comment
by: dietr1ch
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  I thought that the font spacing allowed for some statistical analysis. Also some letters sneak out of the redaction boxes, but the PDF file having removable black highlighter boxes on top is pathetic.<p>At least it gives the US a better chance of doing a u-turn on the steep downhill path it recently took. Maybe it was intentional incompetence.


type: comment
by: mh-
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  Not everyone wants to use a form on their website?<p>You and I certainly do, but a ton of people prefer calling on the phone.


type: comment
by: siavosh
text:
  I read stories like these and it inspires me to think a bit deeper about things. Recently I told a friend that a good compass in one’s life is to seek out what gives you a lump in your throat, the rest are just words. Merry Christmas friends.


type: comment
by: Telemakhos
text:
  I miss the 1990s Benz 190E I used to drive: the only electronics in sight were the tape deck&#x2F;radio.  Even the door locks ran off a vacuum system.<p>I will never buy a car that runs an X-windows server.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  Such a large fraction of human communication is non-verbal (and, unless you&#x27;re actively studying this sort of thing as a neurodivergent person trying to fit in) unconscious that it&#x27;s hard for me to imagine this working very well on average. The LLM simply couldn&#x27;t possibly get enough relevant input. And even emotional reactions purely to words are informed by context that the LLM didn&#x27;t experience and the user won&#x27;t know was important, so the LLM can only wildly speculate.<p>I&#x27;d like to encourage you to resist the &quot;what I did wrong&quot; framing, because it&#x27;s definitely not a given that you did anything wrong in any given circumstance. Sometimes neurotypical people are just completely unreasonable, and sometimes they will try to manipulate you (and each other).<p>The strange part to me is that neurodivergence is commonly explained in terms of inability to see things from another point of view (see the classical &quot;what will X person say is in the box?&quot; test). But supposedly neurotypical people demonstrate what seems to me like a stunning lack of empathy (or more generally, ability to comprehend other worldviews) all the time. Especially when politics is involved.


type: comment
by: catlover76
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  &gt; I’d appreciate honest answers, not platitudes.<p>Well, if you say so.<p>If you&#x27;re a parent of a recent college grad who is on Hacker News, haven&#x27;t you been in tech for some time? I would expect your perspective to include experience seeing at least a couple cycles of economic ups and downs.<p>&gt; It’s Christmas and we aren’t celebrating. No decorations. No pretending things are okay. I’m completely shattered as a parent, mostly because I don’t have answers. I told her for years that merit would protect her. It didn’t.<p>This is pretty bonkers on multiple levels. IDK what your family&#x27;s overall situation is, but based on what we can infer, your family is not in economic jeopardy. If I&#x27;m mistaken, then I apologize, but it seems you are just one of the many, many families with an unemployed recent college grad, and if you&#x27;re positing on HN, I assume you and your wife are doing at least adequately.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how you, as a grown man, could be under the illusion that &quot;merit would protect her&quot; or that somehow graduating from a good school guarantees someone anything, or how you could lack the perspective that this is temporary and less important than health, family, etc.<p>Nobody is above broader, universal developments and forces, whether economic vicissitudes or worse (war, societal collapse, etc.) Your arrogance in thinking that &quot;merit&quot; could protect an individual from these things is justly punished.<p>I also went to a top school, and there is also something to be said about your daughter&#x27;s lack of resilience and naiveté here, but she&#x27;s a ~22 year old girl, so that&#x27;s acceptable. From you, this is not, IMO.<p>Your entire view of the world was mistaken and brittle, and reveals a stunning lack of value placed on things other than career and such, but the good news is that it&#x27;s much better than you seem to be stuck thinking right now. Economies get good again, and your daughter is in a better position than many because she at least had one job and has a good CV.


type: comment
by: credit_guy
text:
  &gt; Like when CEOs openly salivate at the prospect of firing all workers and replacing them with AI.<p>CEOs aren&#x27;t stupid.<p>Some CEOs claim they are laying off people because AI has increased productivity and they don&#x27;t need those people. But that&#x27;s a lie. Not a straight lie, because lying to investors constitutes security fraud, but their language is carefully chosen so that the overall message is a lie, but they have plausible deniability.<p>Here&#x27;s an example: Amazon fired 30000 workers, supposedly because of AI.  And  here&#x27;s an excerpt from Nate Jones (prolific AI commentator, who worked for 5 years at Amazon) video [1]:<p><pre><code>  &gt; Amazon fired 30,000 people because they needed the money today in order to buy GPUs to desperately try to secure a place in the future of AI cloud. That is the actual story. Now, that story does not sound as nice for Amazon as a future forward story about how we&#x27;re automating with AI.  </code></pre> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;natesnewsletter.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;amazon-just-laid-off-30000-peoplebut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;natesnewsletter.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;amazon-just-laid-off-...</a>


type: story
by: mmmateo
title: Show HN: Tinykit – self-hosted Lovable, deploys to itself
url: https://tinykit.studio
text:
  Merry Christmas HN!<p>Tinykit is a self-hosted, self-contained alternative to Lovable&#x2F;Replit&#x2F;v0 designed for building small personal utility and CRUD apps (basically a &quot;tiny app studio”). It includes realtime&#x2F;auth&#x2F;files (via PocketBase), an embedded dev environment, content and design fields, automated backups, and an AI agent that can work across all of them. You can connect multiple domain names (or better, a wildcard subdomain) to build and deploy 100+ apps on the same server, each hosted at its own domain name. The builder&#x2F;studio runs on the same Pocketbase instance, so you can iterate on any live app by just navigating to &#x2F;tinykit on its domain (i.e. kanban.jane-doe.xyz&#x2F;tinykit or links.jane-doe.xyz&#x2F;tinykit, same server).<p>I built tinykit because I wanted an easy way to spin up + deploy small apps, but on a self-contained server I controlled. I’ve relied on a bunch of different services and apps for everything from todos to notes to calendars to professional tools like a CRM and invoice generator. SaaS has its place, but usually my initial use case is simple enough I just want something easy to get started with that doesn&#x27;t add the mental overhead of another account to manage or the possibility of the company losing it, selling it, or just shutting down. And with how good LLMs have gotten at one-shotting common apps the main thing standing in the way of building my own has been the mental effort of pulling everything together + deploying&#x2F;managing; this drops that down to near-zero.<p>Tinykit is pretty simple under the hood. It runs a node process alongside a PocketBase instance which routes requests to apps based on which domain name they&#x27;re being accessed from. Apps are written in a single Svelte file (for DX + better agent performance) and compiled to a static HTML file (they&#x27;re all SPAs w&#x2F; a pre-rendered shell). It&#x27;s a super low-maintenance setup, so even a $2&#x2F;month VPS can run the whole thing. And of course, it&#x27;s BYO API key.<p>I’ve spent the last 6 years of my life obsessed with all-in-one architectures and building approachable tools for developers that create a smaller, more human web, and what I learned over that time influenced decisions I’ve made on Tinykit. I wanted to build something that leveraged LLMs, but while enabling craft more than just an “AI does everything“ app (actually you can technically use Tinykit without AI). That way the agent can do the heavy lifting, and humans can tweak, craft, and polish. And despite all the negative AI stuff out there, it&#x27;s pretty exciting being able to use it to de-SaaS my life and replace all the ad-riddled small tools I&#x27;d resigned myself to with personal, private versions. If this excites you too I&#x27;d love to hear from you in the Discord (link in repo) or via email (address in bio).<p>Merry Christmas again, and happy new year!  - Matt<p>btw here’s a festive demo if you wanna get the full rundown: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=usvSmtQCJRs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=usvSmtQCJRs</a> mirror: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;player.mediadelivery.net&#x2F;embed&#x2F;555834&#x2F;7c3e8dd9-0221-4eec-b4db-39b8d670a95b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;player.mediadelivery.net&#x2F;embed&#x2F;555834&#x2F;7c3e8dd9-0221-...</a>


type: comment
by: wnevets
text:
  &gt;A large percentage are there because society does not care for those with mental disabilities.<p>This is why it&#x27;s so frustrating to hear people smugly say we just need to build more houses to solve the homeless crisis.


type: comment
by: orphea
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  <p><pre><code>  &gt; AOT requires a lot of fiddling around, and might break the application unexpectedly, with very weird errors. </code></pre> It hasn&#x27;t been my experience. Native AOT does come with some limitations [1][2], but nothing awful. Mostly it&#x27;s that you can&#x27;t generate code at runtime and you have to tame the code trimmer. Just don&#x27;t ignore code analysis warnings and you should be good.<p><pre><code>  &gt; It is mostly targeted to Blazor (WASM) and for serverless functions. </code></pre> Making your CLIs start fast is also a huge use case.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;core&#x2F;deploying&#x2F;native-aot&#x2F;#limitations-of-native-aot-deployment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;core&#x2F;deploying&#x2F;nati...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;core&#x2F;deploying&#x2F;trimming&#x2F;incompatibilities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;core&#x2F;deploying&#x2F;trim...</a>


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  It’s about 10% acceptance rate once you get the interview. I don’t know what stage of interview - HR, technical or behavioral&#x2F;architecture interview.  I’m in the interview pool for the last level.


type: comment
by: Tirrekp
text:
  Hi HN, I am a 20 year old founder from Louisiana working on MotionOS.<p>MotionOS is a shared memory layer that sits under AI contact centers and voice agents. Right now most stacks treat each call as a fresh start. History is scattered across tickets and transcripts, so bots and agents keep asking customers to repeat themselves.<p>MotionOS keeps a single timeline per customer, extracts key memories and decisions from transcripts, and exposes simple APIs so agents and bots can: • recall the story of a caller at the start of a conversation • update that memory at the end of each interaction • track continuity metrics like repeat contact rate<p>I am very early. The site shows the concept and the first pieces of the system I am building. I would love feedback on: • whether this memory layer seems useful in real contact center stacks • what data models or integrations you would expect • gotchas you see from your own experience with support tools or AI agents<p>Thank you for reading and for any blunt feedback.


type: comment
by: Avamander
text:
  My point was that &quot;lack of investment&quot; doesn&#x27;t explain the standstill. If that would be the determining factor IRC should not have seen or should not be seeing any progress either. But we actually do have IRCv3 extensions and quite a few new implementations here and there.<p>There&#x27;s something else hindering XMPP that it stands so still, alternatively it simply can&#x27;t be improved.


type: comment
by: mschuster91
text:
  &gt; I worked at one of the largest IT companies here in Norway when it got sold to some international corporation. They drove it into the ground in less than 6 months, selling the tattered remains for scraps to our largest competitor.<p>That&#x27;s intentional, corporate raiding (or by its legal name, leveraged buyouts and similar strategies). Load the purchased company up with debt to finance its own acquisition, take everything that&#x27;s valuable (e.g. a specific contract, IP, &quot;rockstar&quot; employees - aka acquihire), sell off the husk to the highest bidder or send it off to bankruptcy. All you need is someone braindead (or desperate) enough to lend you money.<p>When all you&#x27;re looking at is one single thing of (relatively) stellar value, you don&#x27;t need to invest in the rest.


type: comment
by: DrStartup
text:
  The good ole VC OS Rug Pull. Classic.<p>It’d be nice if Mozilla (or a similar foundation) could create a baseline OS platform for a business communications suite.


type: comment
by: tisdadd
text:
  Merry Christmas to all. On the note above, there is not a lot of Biblical Christianity seen today, as many do not read the Bible. It is very sad to me, and why I like to make a distinction. It is lovely to see such cheer in this thread overall though, and if you are a professing Christian I would urge you to be reading and studying your Bible.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  Including indoors in rooms with large windows that face east, south, or west! This describes a lot of office buildings, as well as my bedroom in a circa-2005 cheaply built mass development home too. On sunny days, it’s brightly naturally lit for basically half the day, and dim displays can struggle in that environment.


type: comment
by: ufmace
text:
  Having ridden a few of them in the area, I think they&#x27;re worth it.<p>Waymos are 100% reliable. If you book it and it says it&#x27;s coming at X time, it will definitely actually show up at X time. No more of, driver cancelled at the last minute because they don&#x27;t actually want to drive to destination Y but Uber etc gave it to them anyways and they get dinged if they just cancel instead of claiming not to be able to find the rider etc. Or driver got lost or stopped for food or gas or something so is late.<p>It also gets to the destination exactly when it says it will. No weird routes because of the driver&#x27;s whim or driving too fast or too slow. And no chance of bad music, loud conversation in some foreign language, annoying commentary, etc.<p>And I want them to be profitable to run too, so they have plenty of incentive to expand the program.


type: comment
by: pessimizer
text:
  The entire important part of the article, i.e. the headline and why it is something that Ars would be reporting on.<p>Your objection is silly. They&#x27;re not reporting on that thing that everybody knows about, they don&#x27;t know anything special about, and is not part of their beat. Instead they&#x27;re copying from reddit, badly.<p>edit: I&#x27;ve gone through the article, and I guess I&#x27;m dumb. They&#x27;re using a Reddit thread as an excuse to recount a story that they have no part in and no expertise to report on. A fake Limewire story is supplying the linkbait of an excuse for a tech website to do a &quot;Trump bad&quot; story. Ars is fully owned by Condé Nast.<p>They didn&#x27;t know it wasn&#x27;t Limewire because they didn&#x27;t give a shit about the Limewire part.


type: comment
by: aleph_minus_one
text:
  &gt; Should I be condemned?<p>You shouldn&#x27;t be condemned, but as I wrote, people should stop the hypocrisy and virtue signalling of pretending to be so insanely tolerant if they have such a primal response.


type: comment
by: dotancohen
text:
  It looks like the author examined every toy inspired by Lego, other than Lego itself.<p>For me the big problem with Lego was not clean up time. For me the big problem with Lego was stepping on them barefoot. How do these other toys compare?


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  Zulip seems to be preferred, as Mattermost is twiddling towards enshittification, which I was not aware of when I made the comment above.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46383980">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46383980</a>


type: comment
by: belter
text:
  I have to say, your Unit 8200 colleagues seem to have leaked data showing 83% civilian deaths. Maybe check with them before your next shift?<p>&quot;Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.972mag.com&#x2F;israeli-intelligence-database-83-percent-civilians-militants&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.972mag.com&#x2F;israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc...</a>


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  You don&#x27;t see the pixels when you zoom in? Try again:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obamawhitehouse.archives.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;rss_viewer&#x2F;birth-certificate-long-form.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;obamawhitehouse.archives.gov&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;rss...</a><p>If you don&#x27;t see jaggy pixel edges to the letters and form elements, what do you see?


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  I was raised in a rural city and as a kid I thought it was OK. I studied&#x2F;worked in big cities and my city felt small. Later I returned and now that I turn 50 my small city feel OK again. Tltr: small cities are nice only when you are kid or old(ish)


type: comment
by: LordGrey
text:
  I really like this. I appreciate the many &quot;copy&quot; buttons that make it easy to grab various font values once I find a character. Good job!


type: comment
by: clanky
text:
  &gt; <i>Adding static typing to a dynamic language mostly gives you the disadvantages of both, without a lot of benefits.</i><p>As an engineer at a firm doing heavy duty data pipelines and internal tooling in a Sorbet-ified codebase, I disagree pretty strongly. While Sorbet type signatures are never going to win a syntax beauty contest, they are more than worth their weight in the way I can rely on them to catch typing and nilability goofs, and often serve as helpful documentation. Meanwhile, the internal code of most functions I write still looks like straight Ruby, fluent and uncluttered.<p>A good CI story that leans on tapioca was crucial here for us.


type: comment
by: CommenterPerson
text:
  You are special. There are lots and lots of &quot;software engineers&quot; in the world. Very very few can bring scientific experience and knowledge to the job. I might look for a developer role in a large university project where they need programming skills and scientific rigor. Or a R&amp;D person in a large software company or the government . These kinds of jobs aren&#x27;t listed on Indeed or Monster. Attend conferences related to your field (don&#x27;t attend the talks, hang around in the lobby and chat with people). Reach out to professors in your university or your field.<p>All the Best!


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  They mean the fake Alzheimer&#x27;s they induce by injecting poison into 3 month old animals or which develops in mice genetically engineered to have diseases that aren&#x27;t Alzheimer&#x27;s but are somewhat similar to Alzheimer&#x27;s in some ways, not the kind where you wait 70 years for a human to develop which they don&#x27;t even really understand what causes it.


type: comment
by: markusde
text:
  One thing I never understood about this: why does this not just compile to Lean so they&#x27;re compatible with each other? Having a good interface is admirable, but the difference between set and type based foundations seems not very important and porting any enough math to sustain Litex seems like a huge undertaking.


type: comment
by: KerrAvon
text:
  Wayland is approximately correct in this case and Windows and Mac are behind the security curve for bincompat reasons; window titles certainly leak PII. There should be a way to do it, but it is sensitive information.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  I could care less about your prestige.  Most people care about the money that comes higher up the ladder and more importantly for me, the autonomy.<p>Yes I’m well aware that a “senior developer” in enterprise dev probably makes less than a new grad at BigTech.


type: story
by: slroger
title: Sad times StackOverflow takes down all its physical servers
url:
  https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/12/24/the-great-unracking-saying-goodbye-to-the-servers-at-our-physical-datacenter/


type: comment
by: slroger
text:
  Very sad that StackOverflow which was one of the best examples of self hosted infrastructure is now unracking and decommissioning all of its hardware.


type: comment
by: bluecalm
text:
  I don&#x27;t need discoverability. I know what I have on my computer. I need it to be reliable, fast and not distract me with junk. Maybe most people need discoverability, the problem is that with the new design all they will discover is ads for Microsoft&#x27;s products :)<p>&gt;&gt;Was the original menu so bad?<p>The original has ads, flashy banners and opens with lag half the time. Yes, it&#x27;s that bad.


type: comment
by: lumost
text:
  I recall having to sit through many trainings on how to value employee equity. My experience is that most startup employers try to BS what it means to convince people to value their equity at a significantly higher price than they otherwise should.<p>If the employer is <i>explicitly</i> making the employee options worthless, then they should be obligated to disclose this. Otherwise it’s trivial to engineer a corporate entity which pays the employees while “licensing” the technology from an IP holding firm. Later they can simply sell the IP holding firm without owing employees a dollar.


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  Intel has launched in 1974 both the NMOS Intel 8080 and a bipolar bit-slice processor family (Intel 3000).<p>AMD has introduced in 1975 both its NMOS 8080 clone and the bipolar bit-slice 2900 family.<p>I do not know which of these 2 AMD products was launched earlier, but in any case there was only a few months difference between them at most, so it cannot be said that AMD &quot;was already in the CPU market&quot;. The launch of both products has been prepared at a time when AMD was not yet in the CPU market and Intel had been earlier than AMD both in the NMOS CPU market and in the market for sets of bipolar bit-slice components.<p>While Intel 8080 was copied by AMD, the AMD 2900 family was much better than the Intel 3000 family, so it has been used in a lot of PDP-11 clones or competitors.<p>For example, the registers+ALU component of Intel 3000 implemented only a 2-bit slice and few ALU operations, while the registers+ALU component of AMD 2900 implemented a 4-bit slice and also many more ALU operations.


type: comment
by: csomar
text:
  It sounds like your typical LLM answering you. If you have been vibe-coding, the dude sounds vaguely familiar. It&#x27;s like I&#x27;ve spent this afternoon with him (because I probably did?)


type: comment
by: nlh
text:
  Dude you&#x27;re not even editing the AI outputs of whatever LLM you have hooked up to this thread.  We can all see through it.  Just stop - it&#x27;s not working.  This is not Facebook or the YouTube comments section.  This is HN - we&#x27;re not falling for this garbage.


type: comment
by: clanky
text:
  &gt; <i>With type annotation, it&#x27;s becoming &quot;ugly&quot;, a lot more verbose. It&#x27;s no longer English-like.</i><p>In our codebase that uses Sorbet I find this is really only true at function boundaries. Within a function it is pretty rare that anything needs to be spelled out with inline annotations to satisfy the compiler.


type: comment
by: ZX8301
text:
  Claims of ‘firsts’ undermine the authority of this document, though not the achievements of the subject.<p>For instance Marco Ternelli’s dynamic binary translator ZM&#x2F;HT dates back to 1993, when it was published by Ergon Development. It translates Z80 to 68000 machine code on the fly and was a successful commercial product. I’d be interested to hear of earlier JIT binary to binary implementations, especially others which coped with self-modifying code, without which ZM&#x2F;HT wouldn’t have been very useful.<p>Self-unpacking executables are at least a decade older, and Fabrice quite likely had Microsoft’s 1985 EXEPACK, written by Reuben Borman, on his computer when he came up with LZEXE. That was bundled with MASM and Microsoft C 3.0, their first in-house version. Both were preceded by Realia’s Spacemaker product, which Wikipedia says was written by Robert B. K. Dewar in 1982.


type: comment
by: jherskovic
text:
  First line of the readme: Non-functional implementation work-in-progress framework code for getting HDR10 working under X11.


type: comment
by: hypertexthero
text:
  Merry Xmas!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=AjMNtEKHURU</a>


type: story
by: zayoka
title: Show HN: I built a browser extension with zero dependencies
url: https://github.com/zayokami/GenresFox
text:
  If you clicked because of the title, congratulations. It&#x27;s indeed not fake - I genuinely didn&#x27;t use any third-party libraries, everything is built using Web APIs and Rust&#x27;s built-in libraries.<p>Regarding how this project came about - I got quite angry when a browser new tab extension I frequently used got poisoned&#x2F;had a backdoor implanted. Thus this project was born. As there are still some issues currently, everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and report bugs. It&#x27;s been open source on Github for a while now - if anyone&#x27;s interested, feel free to check it out. Thank you all, and happy holidays to you.<p>Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zayokami&#x2F;GenresFox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zayokami&#x2F;GenresFox</a><p>Fun fact: I got heavily criticised here (on HN) last time for forgetting to include WASM, and I admit I deserved that criticism at the time. There really is WASM now - if you don&#x27;t believe me, you can check src&#x2F;wasm-resize.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  &gt;We know that the 7 days weren&#x27;t referring to our current concept of a day.<p>We don&#x27;t know that. Some Christians believe that because they believe the Bible is univocal, which it isn&#x27;t, and because they want to use other unrelated scripture like &quot;a day for God is like a thousand years&quot; to support a framework for Genesis which they believe is validated by current science.<p>But I see no reason to believe that when the ancient Hebrews wrote about creation taking seven days, that they didn&#x27;t mean seven actual days.<p>&gt;It was written like that, because it would be easier for people to understand.<p>A supposition not backed up by evidence, and one that assumes the author of Genesis had a modern understanding of astrophysics, which they did not.<p>&gt; Science wasn&#x27;t a thing back then. If it were written in 2025, it would obviously be very different and probably much more detailed.<p>OK. So as I suspected you believe that the Genesis creation story (or at least one, as there are two conflicting creation narratives) represents literal truth, but that the account itself couches this literal truth in metaphor.<p>I suppose that&#x27;s better than the Biblical literalists who insist that Old Testament genealogies prove the world is only 10,000 years old and that therefore things like carbon dating are fake, but I do wish Christians would just accept that Genesis (along with the rest of the Bible) is entirely mythology and that they don&#x27;t have to &quot;make it fit&quot; with modern science. It just didn&#x27;t happen.<p>&gt;Science researches _how_ something works. Religion answers _who_ created it. Religion also makes just as many claims about how as who and why.<p>Religion doesn&#x27;t <i>answer</i> anything of the sort, it claims to answer it, a priori, without evidence.<p>And of course there are countless religions with countless such &quot;answers.&quot; You believe only one answer is valid, again, without evidence.<p>This is not an opportunity for you to proselytize to me.


type: comment
by: zahlman
text:
  &gt; People make the mistake to think otherwise because its not the homelessness you often see.<p>Indeed. Those homeless people without mental illness likely have more interest in not being seen, and more ability to avoid it.<p>&gt; Homelessness in the US has also increased by 47% since 2018. [0: Page 2] I doubt homelessness or drug abuse has increased accordingly.<p>Not sure what the typo is in here. Surely homelessness has indeed increased in accordance with homelessness.


type: comment
by: wavemode
text:
  All of this is true, though it&#x27;s definitely worth noting that some managers are better than others at advocating for the promotion of their top performers.<p>Getting a manger who is too passive, or too checked-out, or just plain doesn&#x27;t like you, can literally set you back in your career advancement by years.


type: comment
by: ygra
text:
  The use cases are different. While MSBuild tasks run during build (and partially when loading a project), typically the IDE is oblivious what happens there. The source generator runs directly inside the compiler infrastructure and thus you didn&#x27;t get error highlights for code that would otherwise be only generated during build but not as you type. This makes it much more friendly than pure build-time generation of code.


type: comment
by: jtrn
text:
  Im a bit out of the loop with this, but hope its not like that time with python 3.14, when it was claimed a geometric mean speedup of about 9-15% over the standard interpreter when built with Clang 19. It turned out the results were inflated due to a bug in LLVM 19 that prevented proper &quot;tail duplication&quot; optimization in the baseline  interpreter&#x27;s dispatch loop. Actual gains was aprox 4%.<p>Edit: Read through it and have come to the conclusion that the post is 100% OK and properly framed: He explicitly says his approach is to &quot;sharing early and making a fool of myself,&quot; prioritizing transparency and rapid iteration over ironclad verification upfront.<p>One could make an argument that he should have cross-compiler checks, independent audits, or delayed announcements until results are bulletproof across all platforms. But given that he is 100% transparent with his thinking and how he works, it&#x27;s all good in the hood.


type: comment
by: AngryData
text:
  I don&#x27;t think I am missing anything, I just don&#x27;t see why they should care as much as people want to think. Propaganda works on repetition, and China has been at the propaganda game for long enough to know you can&#x27;t block all information, you just gotta have enough PR to oppose it and make it known who you are challenging if you try to speak against it. AI isn&#x27;t changing that, it is just another avenue to throw their propaganda&#x2F;PR spin at.


type: comment
by: imglorp
text:
  Testing? Field trials? Phased deployment?<p>No, someone just wanted their bonus for being forward-thinking, paradigm-shifting, opex cutters. I&#x27;m sure they got it.


type: comment
by: V_Shukla
text:
  Most teams get stuck on their first visual idea because exploring alternatives is slow and expensive. Creating multiple directions usually means more time, more effort, and more coordination, so teams default to refining one option instead of comparing many. As a result, decisions are driven by speed and safety rather than by finding the best idea. That is where PicX Studio jumps in; creating multiple variations to choose from with a single prompt.


type: comment
by: KerrAvon
text:
  HDR support is still a mess with Wayland. Sometimes you can fix it with gamescope but it’s a swiss cheese thing where for example gamescope breaks some controllers in some games with some GPU drivers. Maybe in a couple more years it’ll be “it just works” territory but it’s taking a while to get there.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  It definitely happens.<p>I&#x27;ve worked at places (early on) that were basically cowboy coding -- zero code review, global variables everywhere, not a comment or test to be seen. Obviously you can&#x27;t enforce good comments there.<p>And I&#x27;ve worked at places that were 100% professional -- design documents, full code review, proper design, tests, full comments and comments kept fully up-to-date just like code.<p>It&#x27;s just the culture and professionalism. If proper comments are enforced through code review, they happen. Ultimately, the head of engineering just decides whether it&#x27;s part of policy or not. It&#x27;s not hard. It&#x27;s just a top-down decision.


type: comment
by: QuiEgo
text:
  Just get a linux desktop and the cheapest MacBook Air and remote into Linux from the Mac when you need to go portable.<p>There&#x27;s the world as you want it to be, and the world as it is. The laptop the author wants just doesn&#x27;t exist.


type: comment
by: dTal
text:
  Doubt it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jevons_paradox</a>


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  Can confirm that Magnatiles, specifically, were maybe the best value for the dollar we ever got out of toys for our kids. Idk if the quality has held up but our kids abused the hell out of the things and it took them years to finally break just a couple of them (the largest ones are the most vulnerable). They have incredible range, good for babies but still seeing use as a supporting toy up to their tweens. Kinda pricey but if the quality is still as good as it was years ago (can’t say, the ~3 sets we bought over a couple years held up so well we never bought any more) they’re easily worth it.<p>We have tons of Lego too but these were far better play-value for the dollar. Not even close. Can’t say if the knockoff brands are as good.<p>(Can’t vouch for any of the rest of these but those giant magnetic tiles look potentially like a much better investment than dedicated e.g. kitchen playsets, way more versatile)


type: comment
by: slroger
text:
  I was transcoding myself when running it on the homeserver, but the convenience of Cloudflare stream doing the transcoding is tempting. Will definitely look into this, thank you. Hadnt heard about Bunny CDN till this week. Actually I am moving from a homeserver to my own rackmount in a datacolo in about 2 months so may take this route.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure if you need an address to sign up for a private mailbox at places like UPS Stores.<p>But a lot of people might receive mail at a friends&#x27; address with permission. But, you still need to have a friend or family with a stable address who is willing to help.


type: comment
by: PoachedEggs
text:
  Both can be true. They might have those web forms, while also having enough customers that prefer phone calls to justify it.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  Except for the money - the entire reason most people work everyday…<p>I’m 51, worked at two F10 at the time companies out of my ten jobs and hated them both - GE and 8 years later Amazon.  I purposefully made the choice of pursuing a smaller company and ignoring constant outreach from Google (GCP consulting division).  But let’s not dismiss the close to $100K diference I could be making than what I make now.<p>Also a 25 year old SA that I mentored at AWS three years ago is making the same as I am making.  They are an L5 (mid level) and I am a staff consultant.  They are pre-sales (no commission) and I am implementations.


type: comment
by: orphea
text:
  I see your point and I don&#x27;t necessarily disagree but better API for embedded resources is just a couple of simple extension methods away. I wouldn&#x27;t even bother adding an external package for it.


type: comment
by: JoeAltmaier
text:
  Somebody has to be the brave experimenter that tries the new thing. I&#x27;m just glad it was these folk. Since they make no tangible product and contribute nothing to society, they were perhaps the optimal choice to undergo these first catastrophic failed attempts at AI business.


type: comment
by: picardo
text:
  Is AssemblyAI or Deepgram compatible with OpenAI Realtime API, esp. around voice activity detection and turn taking? How do you implement those?


type: comment
by: Zacharias030
text:
  almost seems like there is now too much money in software. the old times felt like computer science was mostly a science.


type: comment
by: mmmmbbbhb
text:
  With chatgpt, your options are wide than ever. Quit your job, spend 3 to 6 months full time studying&#x2F;contributing to a field of interest, and you&#x27;ve pivoted.<p>Chatgpt as a teacher is seriously a super power.


type: comment
by: morcus
text:
  &gt; I don’t see why regular specs (e.g. markdown files) could not serve the same purpose.<p>I think because they&#x27;re doomed to become outdated without something actually enforcing the spec.


type: comment
by: numpad0
text:
  Very randomly and personally I appear to have experimented with that few months ago, based on a Japanese advent calendar project[1] - the code is all over the place and only works with Japanese speeches, but the gist is as follows. Also in [2].<p>The trick is to NOT wait for the LLM to finish talking, but:<p><pre><code>  1 at end of user VAD, call LLM, stream response into a buffer(simple enough)      2 chunk the response at [commas, periods, newlines], and queue sentence-oid texts     3 pipe queued sentence-oid fragments into a fast classical TTS and queue audio snippets      4 play queued sentence-oid-audio-snippets, maintaining correspondence of consumed audio and text    5 at user VAD, stop and clear everything everywhere, undoing queued unplayed voice, nuking unplayed text from chat log    6 at end of user VAD, feed the amended transcripts that are canonical to user&#x27;s ears to step 1   7 (make sure to parallelize it all) </code></pre> This flow (hypothetically)allow such interactions as:<p><pre><code>  user: &quot;what&#x27;s the date today&quot;   sys:  &quot;[today][is thursday], [decem&quot;   user: &quot;sorry yesterday&quot;   sys:  &quot;[...uh,][wednesday?][Usually?]&quot;    1: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.cyberagent.co.jp&#x2F;blog&#x2F;archives&#x2F;44592&#x2F;   2: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;numpad0&#x2F;18ae612675688eeccd3af5eabcfdf686</code></pre>


type: comment
by: braza
text:
  I used to related with what the OP says and if he’s under 35 makes sense to jump to another adventure.<p>Anyways, a friend of mine told me the complete opposite than the OP after not being selected to a promotion 2x: He stayed competitive enough to the market in case of any issue, but at the same time he slightly moving to the “Dead Sea” existence where the tenure created a small co-dependence between himself and its employer.<p>His employer knows that he’s working at a discount in comparison to offshoring his job, but at the same time even being a L4 like can enjoy a lot of free time and agency to know when and where to throttle his productivity.


type: comment
by: dham
text:
  I can conclude based on using FSD every single day.  I&#x27;ve hit issues just like this, as well as police directing.  And it&#x27;s completely fine.


type: comment
by: bbarn
text:
  I had a similar issue living abroad.  My wife had a work visa (which was the reason we we moving) and I was allowed to go being a spouse, but once there getting a permit to work for myself was impossible without a job, and a job was impossible without a work permit.<p>There were ways around it, but it took finding a job at a really big company to make it work - they had dealt with it and had HR people that specialized in it.  Once &quot;on paper&quot;, I was pretty free to move around.  I would not be surprised if their method was just putting in all zeros in the system or something until the permit number came back.


type: comment
by: r0m4n0
text:
  This year the family favorite everyone was fighting to play including the adults was the new litebrite touch <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;3MROaJs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;3MROaJs</a><p>Really satisfying to click the buttons and see the super bright lights as a young kid. The games like mirror were easy yet technical which had us all competing for high scores. Definitely well thought out<p>Everyone appreciated it didn’t involve cleanup of any little plastic pieces like the original litebright


type: story
by: RickJWagner
title: Hallmark Christmas Movies Are My Self-Care
url:
  https://www.prevention.com/health/mental-health/a69768210/hallmark-christmas-movies-mood-boost-science/


type: comment
by: shwaj
text:
  I know, so what?  Very smart people might have more than one idea in their careers.  He left to pursue one of those.


type: comment
by: Philip-J-Fry
text:
  Insurance is cheaper on safer vehicles.<p>A 90% reduction in accidents is a 90% reduction in _paying out_. That reduces operating costs.


type: comment
by: amazingman
text:
  Blanket statements like this are unhelpfully tribal. Ruby has its uses, and underpins one of the most successful (and cloned) MVC frameworks of all time. But yeah, Python received the attention of data scientists early on and now it&#x27;s a lingua franca of sorts in that domain. Since AI is so hot right now that makes Python seem superior, but really that&#x27;s just contingency.<p>If you&#x27;re going to make claims, support them.


type: comment
by: ambicapter
text:
  You&#x27;re overreacting, see the wikipedia article posted above.<p>&gt; By 1977[2][3] the phrase had entered American usage as slang for the cum shot in a pornographic film<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Money_shot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Money_shot</a>


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  This seems a lot like something where the acquirer avoids paying for equity. With key leaders gone what do employees of Groq get? Their company isn’t being acquired really so they just stay illiquid?


type: comment
by: sheepscreek
text:
  &gt; I’ve seen merit as a component of success a minority of the time<p>Small but an absolutely necessary correction. “Merit” or being at the top of the academic ladder absolutely does open doors for you that are closed to others. But that’s all it does and everything you’ve said is applicable from that point on.<p>Put in other words, merit can help you get a job at Google, McKinsey, Jane Street, CERN or what have you - but your success after that significantly dependends on your innate survival skills and some luck. The latter is indiscernible and very hard to quantify but it’s what we say is being in the right place at the right time (or the opposite of it).<p>All that to say that in OPs case that his daughter hasn’t done anything wrong. He hasn’t done anything wrong. Times are changing and during the transition phase with the adoption of AI (and current geopolitical climate), companies are weary of making any significant investments and realigning their cost structures towards resilience. Except for certain pockets, there’s less spending on R&amp;D, non-cash cow BUs being folded down, etc.<p>IMO, OP should suggest and encourage therapy or some kind of a professional with a “coaching” angle  (life coach, career coach, emotional coach, …) to support her and keep her motivated through this - like any professional athlete after a major setback.<p>Bottom line is this - she’s do great - just needs to get through this, survive now to thrive eventually.


type: comment
by: znpy
text:
  Merit isn’t a matter of executing a playbook and ticking off boxes. That approach is fallible.<p>I know this is rough advice, but: her approach isn’t working. She should try something different. Stuff is different right now, you&#x2F;she can’t expect the 2016 playbook to work unchanged in 2026.<p>I’m not a junior so i’m not sure what to advice specifically, but something other than “the playbook” is needed.


type: comment
by: dustingetz
text:
  Timing imo. I think the tech labor market bottom is in the past, venture capital is flowing again, companies that over hired have corrected it, interest rates are on their way back down, and a bunch of huge IPOs are lining up for 2026 - Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Databricks, Canva, Discord - which is going to inject a bunch of liquidity into tech capital markets. And the jury is still out on AI, very much at the top of a hype cycle, CEOs and boards have prematurely declared to their customers and the world that AI is working (because saying that makes their stock price go up) but the enterprise outcomes don&#x27;t seem to be there.<p>My advice to your daughter: to try to make software into a fun hobby, watch a ton of coding youtube, AI and youtube are tearing down hurdles to learning, make a twitter, talk about your hobby, farm those likes. What were her favorite courses at MIT? it&#x27;s true that software is increasingly competitive and yet the barriers to becoming competitive are ever lower (FOR those in a supportive environment who can make space to take advantage)


type: comment
by: Rebelgecko
text:
  Just ask your LLM to call the dealership. The only downside is spoken word is a bit slow for computers. Maybe we can even work out a protocol where the LLM voices talk faster and faster until they can&#x27;t hear tokens clearly


type: comment
by: slroger
text:
  thank you for this, will definitely look into the Director Creator Uploads. For storing raw files dont know if I have an alternative if Cloudflare stream isnt keeping the raw file. Merry Christmas to you too!!


type: comment
by: alsetmusic
text:
  I&#x27;m reminded of a coworker who spoke to his device with an upward inflection when asking a question. He sounded like he was talking to a human when he prompted, &quot;what time is it?&quot; I told him he could ask in a flat tone because it&#x27;s a computer and it doesn&#x27;t care if he&#x27;s polite. I don&#x27;t remember how he responded, but I&#x27;ve run into that conversation with someone at least once after him when I was accused of being rude to Alexa.


type: comment
by: mraza007
text:
  Merry Christmas HN Sending Warm Greetings to Everyone: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;festivegreeting.vercel.app&#x2F;?id=90564ef5-f137-43be-b68f-da748c650af2&amp;view=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;festivegreeting.vercel.app&#x2F;?id=90564ef5-f137-43be-b6...</a>


type: comment
by: gus_massa
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  Agree. As far as I remember, mice don&#x27;t get real Alzheimer, so they only have a model that is somewhat similar.<p>Let&#x27;s hope the cure can be transfered to humans, but I think the chances are extremly low.


type: comment
by: thesz
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timharris.uk&#x2F;papers&#x2F;2005-ppopp-composable.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timharris.uk&#x2F;papers&#x2F;2005-ppopp-composable.pdf</a> - Composable Memory Transactions.<p>Page 13 discuss why imperative approach like Rust&#x27;s may fail in delivering transactional memory and why arbitrary-side-effect-free transactions in Haskell are, in fact, very composable due to effects separation inside STM and IO monads.


type: comment
by: BadCookie
text:
  I think it is a mistake not to celebrate the holidays. You don’t have to pretend that everything is okay in order to celebrate each other.<p>I am similar to your daughter in some ways but much older. Lately, I have felt that I have reached a dead-end in my career (though I am still employed).<p>I have a few thoughts that might be useful. One is the concept of ikigai: finding the intersection of what you enjoy, what you are good at, and what the world needs. For a long time, it seemed like building software hit all three marks for me, but in the last couple of years, it no longer seems to hit the last one very well.<p>When I was younger, my reaction to difficult things was to simply try harder. I’d throw myself at the problem repeatedly until it yielded. That can be the right thing to do, but with age I have gained enough wisdom to realize that sometimes it’s better to go after the lower-hanging fruit.<p>I am not suggesting that your daughter give up, but if I were you, I would help her identify a back-up plan. Help her get excited about the possibilities in case plan A does not work out. If she feels that she has other options, she may regain her confidence regardless of what happens.<p>Oh, and make sure that she knows how much you love and respect her no matter her job situation.<p>Merry Christmas.<p>P.S. Cold applying is probably a waste of time. Too many people are applying using AI bots. Find ways to network with real people if possible. Maybe contact career services at MIT?


type: comment
by: willmadden
text:
  <p><pre><code>            *            ***             *           &#x2F;***\          &#x2F;*@***\         &#x2F;*******\        &#x2F;**@******\       &#x2F;***********\      &#x2F;**********@**\     &#x2F;***************\    &#x2F;*****@***********\   &#x2F;*******************\  &#x2F;***************@*****\            |||            |||            |||   ===[ MERRY * CHRISTMAS ]===</code></pre>


type: comment
by: tsoukase
text:
  For small(ish) kids there is a certain correlation between play- and clean-up-time. If there was a toy which deviated, it would become blockbuster and there are hardly any such. Electronic screens are popular as nannies because of this.<p>Personally I choose all types in rotation. One toy of high duration is Play-Doh but afterwards needs a cleaning machine.


type: comment
by: 0xpiguy
text:
  That is a very common misconception. There are plenty opposing voices. They just prefer the resolve these behind close doors. Even within party, there are different factions competing and influencing policy making.


type: comment
by: wattsnat
text:
  I’m so sorry that you’re carrying this.<p>I can’t imagine the weight of it all.<p>I can’t make any promises, but the company I work for is hiring for a couple SWE positions.<p>Could you provide me a way to send you the listing&#x2F;info?


type: comment
by: dijit
text:
  People are pathological about IRC (I am one of them), and there’s a small but motivated handful of us.<p>XMPP doesn’t have those people, because there’s little nostalgia and an “ick” feeling about XML.<p>All those people would rather work on Matrix.


type: comment
by: magicalhippo
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  &gt; That&#x27;s intentional, corporate raiding (or by its legal name, leveraged buyouts and similar strategies).<p>But that&#x27;s not what they did as far as I know. They just implemented some braindead policies that caused income to grind to a halt overnight, because those policies worked so well in the other countries ther were in.<p>The good employees jumped ship early. I had a limited contract which didn&#x27;t get renewed due to hiring freeze.


type: comment
by: mackeye
text:
  (i worked a _little bit_ on dwl) each wlroots upgrade is a pretty small diff on the dwl source. the annoying part is, as dwl is configured with patches, every patch author has to update their patch to the new 0.x, as dwl is quite minimal, and thus has no stable api. that being said, obviously, dwm doesn&#x27;t have this problem :)<p>also, for dwl, the issue is that the initial author (not the guy that wrote that notice) is sorta mia, and he has control of the repo on codeberg, so we&#x27;d probably need to fork to be safe, and he may not want to take on project lead. (he checks every patch for merge conflicts with one another and upgrade breakages, god bless him lol)


type: comment
by: dijit
text:
  Sure, just standardise a set of XEP’s and ensure federation has some strictness in which XEP’s are used.


type: comment
by: haunter
text:
  Usually Windows&#x2F;Wine is the much better case than the old Mac apps (32bit, PPC etc) in the age of Apple Silcon<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;thenewyorker&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1jlhrve&#x2F;instructions_for_installing_the_complete_new&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;thenewyorker&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1jlhrve&#x2F;instr...</a><p>Breaking the DJVU DRM would be the perfect solution though


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  The equity in almost all startups has already been a bait and switch for more than a decade. Most will refuse to answer you about % of equity share anyways, but if they did it&#x27;s tiny tiny amounts, and in the end half the time it&#x27;s up to the acquiring entity just how seriously they end up taking it. If you landed at an entity like Google (as I did from the place I was working 15+ years ago) you could be treated well. Elsewhere, not great.<p>During boom times it made more financial sense to go straight to a FAANG if you could.


type: comment
by: SergeAx
text:
  My desktop PC has been constantly evolving for about 15 years now, literally the ship of Theseus. Currently, following the latest upgrade in September, it&#x27;s an absolute powerhouse.<p>During the same time, I burned through four laptops (for travel purposes), all of which were mostly weak, with a maximum of 16 GB RAM, no real GPUs, and 14&quot;-15&quot; screens, expensive, and had poor resale value.<p>My next travel computer will be Framework 16.


type: comment
by: block_dagger
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  As long as Matz is firmly against, inline typing should never be a part of Ruby. I started working on a large Rails codebase that adopted Sorbet and it is nothing but an impediment to progress.


type: comment
by: kasey_junk
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  Multiple share classes are the norm even before the new acquisition types we see here. It’s extremely common in an acquisition for employee shares to be worth nothing while investor and founder shares are paid out.<p>But these new “acquisitions” aren’t even that. They are not acquisitions at all. They just hire the talent directly with perhaps an ip rights agreement thrown in as a fig leaf.


type: comment
by: wltr
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  I was about to propose to deploy this as a company chat to my current boss, the self-hosted edition. So, is this still the best option (considering this can be reverted back, I assume), or should I just seek elsewhere now?


type: story
by: JohannesGlaser
title: Why do so many "agentic AI" systems collapse without persistent state?
text:
  I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s currently called “agentic AI”. Many systems try to achieve agent-like behavior through planning, tool use, orchestration layers, or increasingly careful prompting. In practice, what I keep running into is that these systems don’t fail because models can’t reason or plan, but because they lack stable state. Without persistent state, coherence has to be re-established every turn. The result is longer prompts, retrieval pipelines, guardrails, and corrective instructions — all of which help access information, but don’t really solve continuity over time.<p>I’ve been experimenting with a different approach: making state explicit and persistent outside the model, but directly attached to the assistant’s working environment. Append-only logs, rules, inventories, histories — readable files that the model initializes from every run. Not queried opportunistically like a vector DB, just present as working context. Once state is stable, a lot of “agentic” behavior seems to emerge naturally. The system stops reacting moment by moment and starts behaving coherently across longer timescales.<p>I’m curious how others here see this: Is persistent state under-discussed compared to planning and tooling? For those building agents with RAG &#x2F; LangChain &#x2F; similar stacks: how do you handle continuity across days or weeks? Am I underestimating what current agent frameworks already solve here?<p>Would love technical perspectives or counterexamples.


type: comment
by: WD-42
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  At that point we’ll have to convert the voices into a form more amenable to machine to machine communication. Perhaps a system based on high and low signals.<p>Seriously what is the point of all this.


type: story
by: ILoveHorses
title: Ask HN: Why is savannah.gnu.org down so much and what are the alternatives?
text:
  I&#x27;m trying to get my hands on some of the source code for GNU SW. I really need to access the ORIGINAL source code uploaded on GNU and not one of the mirrors available on GitHub. It seems like savannah is the only place where version-controlled source code is hosted but I cannot access it at all; I&#x27;ve tried several times over the past few days. Is this some IP issue or is the website down that often?


type: comment
by: saghm
text:
  I think you&#x27;re overestimating how much making $800k versus $300k would actually make most people happier. You&#x27;re welcome to disagree with me, but there&#x27;s plenty of research indicating this might be the case (from a quick Google for &quot;happiness self reported by income&quot; this is the first result: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penntoday.upenn.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;does-more-money-correlate-greater-happiness-Penn-Princeton-research" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;penntoday.upenn.edu&#x2F;news&#x2F;does-more-money-correlate-g...</a>).<p>If you think that everyone is the would either agrees with you or is &quot;dense&quot; without doing any sort of cursory investigation on whether the alternate view might actually be common or supported by evidence, I&#x27;m honestly not really sure why you&#x27;re bothering to engage in discussion in the first place.


type: comment
by: the_arun
text:
  When you read this story - your heart warms &amp; your eyes gets filled. It is crazy nice feeling. You feel like this world is such a better place. Yet, it hurts - to know there are so many homeless that our system needs corrections.


type: comment
by: devilbunny
text:
  They phrase it oddly, I think to try to get people to buy a controller, but you only need it for setup, and the free software controller works fine for that. You only really need a hardware controller for a business environment where you expect to manage multiple sites remotely (it can be done remotely but isn’t worth the $80 you save vs having a hardware controller on site). Once configured, the devices will keep on doing their thing after reboots. You will have to fire it up for upgrading devices, but that’s no different from running Unifi without a controller with only AP’s - there has to be <i>a</i> provisioning controller somewhere to get them to work as a true network with seamless handoffs and the like. Otherwise, running in standalone mode, they are just like running consumer AP’s individually.<p>I have a hardware controller, but I will probably end up putting it in my in-laws’ house because software is fine for where I live. I actually set the whole thing up via software controller and transferred the config when it was all set and I would only be making small changes.


type: comment
by: block_dagger
text:
  Why? Because Python is generally slower, uses significant whitespace in its syntax, and lacks the metaprogramming features of Ruby.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  Tariffs are easy, just pay them. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards are harder... But maybe there&#x27;s a loophole for commercial transport? or maybe they paid to have the testing done?


type: comment
by: anthonj
text:
  If you launch a rocket at escape velocity the momentum and potential energy you create never dissipates.<p>Certain chemical reaction endotermic reaction require energy to start. This energy is absorbed to generate molecular bond.<p>Also in the generation and absorption of high energy radiation there are non-thermal processes that can transfer energy.<p>Even something like bending a metal bar is not 100% a thermal process.


type: comment
by: TacticalCoder
text:
  &gt; How do you jump from banks to taxes? Taxes are for the government.<p>Many reasons to do that jump. I&#x27;ll give two.<p>In some countries banks do collect automatically certain taxes that then go to the government. For example in the EU, in Belgium for example, if a stock I owned paid dividends and the bank is the custodian, the bank shall gladly take 30% off the dividends (+ add insane fees on top) and give that money to the government. As a sidenote it&#x27;s wild that when you receive dividends in some countries you often end up with less than 50% of the actual dividends but I digress.<p>Still in Belgium: there&#x27;s now an additional 10% tax on added value (since 2025), in addition to all the other taxes btw, that&#x27;s always to be paid (say you sell shares of GOOG that went up... Even if you held for years: 10% are due <i>in addition to all the other taxes on added values</i>): and politicians are now wondering if those 10% shouldn&#x27;t be seized immediately, with the banks collecting the 10% when you sell any equity (stocks&#x2F;funds) and handing them over to the government. (so by the same mechanism that dividends are already immediately &quot;taxed&quot; by the bank).<p>&quot;Banks to taxes&quot; is a very real thing. Worldwide, but not in the US, there&#x27;s the &quot;Common Reporting Standard&quot; (CRS): banks are basically little snitches that transmit all your accounts balances to the local IRSes. Which komrades shall hail has great progress but I digress again.<p>In addition to that banks have to comply with KYC&#x2F;AML rules and are <i>expected</i> to do a certain amount of SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) to the government. Government which typically ain&#x27;t much interested in crime: it&#x27;s more interested in collecting money (like in the Al Capone case) on non-paid taxes (and the fines that go with it too). Ah, that&#x27;s a third reason to do that jump: banks shall tell the government there&#x27;s a suspicious activity from that person, governement then comes asking &quot;where&#x27;s that money coming from and where are the taxes you had to pay on that amount?&quot;.<p>I don&#x27;t own any Monero but the link between &quot;banks&quot; and &quot;taxes&quot; is very real: I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s good or bad. What I&#x27;m saying is that there&#x27;s a very clear link between banks and taxes.<p>Now, and I&#x27;m still digressing, there are cases where the government&#x2F;IRS ain&#x27;t allowed to come see your accounts: some companies and individuals, in certain jurisdiction, have very strong protection against that (like actual jail time for bank employees that&#x27;d leak customers bank balances to journalists or the IRS). But, worldwide, it&#x27;s not the norm.<p>And as I understand Monero, if someone has a balance in Monero on a self-custodian wallet, there&#x27;s no bank that&#x27;s going to report the balance to the IRS. Although now in the EU, for example, if you hold Monero on a centralized exchange (like Coinbase, the HN unicorn), then Coinbase shall send to your local IRS your balance of Monero each year to the government (it&#x27;s a requirement of the MiCA EU legislation).<p>&gt; Your own private bank which cannot interact with most financial institutions and merchants?<p>But you can gift $900 000 to the FSF which, itself, shall, I take it, have a way to transform these Monero into a currency that can interact with financial instutions and merchants right?<p>AIUI there are merchant accepting cryptocurrencies? Maybe not Monero but, still AIUI, you can use a decentralized exchange to convert Monero to another cryptocurrency the merchant accepts?


type: comment
by: kccqzy
text:
  I think in the protobuf example the musttail did in fact benefit from better register use. All the functions are called with the same arguments, so there is no need to shuffle the registers. The same six register-passed arguments are reused from one function to the next.


type: story
by: meridion
title: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
text:
  Thread for 2025: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42509408">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42509408</a><p>Thread for 2024: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38782613">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38782613</a><p>Thread for 2023: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33873800">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33873800</a><p>Here are mine:<p>Technical skills:<p>- Among my last year&#x27;s goals was to take on VR dev, which sadly I did not get to. Punting it to 2026. I&#x27;m thinking to get the Samsung Galaxy XR and experiment with some VR apps and learn the fundamentals of spatial computing. As an Android mobile developer, that feels like a natural extension.<p>- Complete the &quot;UCSanDiegoX: Computer Graphics II: Rendering&quot; computer graphics course. I did the first course in the series and found it enlightening (no pun intended)<p>- Create an e2e project that earns money as a side gig. It&#x27;s time to put my product and technical knowledge to practice and actually build something people want.<p>- Leverage AI across all my endeavors. AI tools are here to stay and the more I know how to use them effectively, the better. The speed boost in learning a new framework&#x2F;concept is phenomenal.<p>Non-technical skills:<p>- Expand my social circle - the unstable tech climate made me realize the importance of maintaining a healthy social network. My goal is to connect with more people both inside my company and outside, by both proactively reaching out and going to meetups in my area. In fact, I invite fellow NYC-based HN-ers to contact me at cybercreampuff at yahoo dot com, in case you want to meet up!


type: comment
by: paulryanrogers
text:
  &gt; I will never feel like a &quot;normal&quot; person, they will make sure I never will.<p>Saying &quot;make sure&quot; suggests intent. I would hope the discomfort causing reactions are an unintentional side effect of ignorance. Because if so then there&#x27;s hope that even the masses can learn to be more considerate and inclusive.<p>Ultimately, nearly all of us will develop some physical or mental impairment due to accidents or aging.


type: comment
by: sokoloff
text:
  This was the first toy I expected to see on the list. Can agree that, though they are somewhat expensive, our kids played with them frequently for the better part of a decade and then we passed them along to cousins who completed the decade of play and then some.<p>We got some fabric bins to store them in, which made cleanup a 2 minute affair if adults helped or 5 minutes if the kids did it alone.<p>Highly recommend.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
text:
  &gt; 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.<p>Does this mean that people are having to trade Alzheimer in exchange for high risk of cancer? Or does this mean that we need better precursors that don&#x27;t require that trade off?


type: comment
by: mrob
text:
  The set of toys I spent the most time playing with was a big bag of wooden blocks my grandfather gave me when I was very small. They are well designed, with a good selection of different shapes, e.g. it has cylinders and arches and thin planks as well as cuboids. They got a lot of use because they&#x27;re so flexible in combining with other toys, e.g. you can build roads and garages for toy cars, or obstacle courses for rolling marbles. The edges and corners are rounded and the wood tough enough that clean-up was just dropping them back into the bag.<p>I&#x27;ve since given them to a nephew and I&#x27;m happy to see he gets just as much entertainment out of them as I did. Plain wooden blocks can represent almost anything. There are no batteries or moving parts to fail. Mine got a little bit of surface wear but they still work just as well as they did when they were new and small children don&#x27;t care about perfect appearance. I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if they end up getting passed down to another generation and continue to provide the same entertainment. I highly recommend this kind of simple toy for young children.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  Big problem with modern LEGO for me is that so many modern sets are almost all teensy-tiny pieces, so they look good on the box—the adult-aimed ones have always been like this since they started targeting that market, but now it’s like 95% of all their sets; also, they seem to hate exposed nubs, which is silly if the set is for play.<p>Larger (like tall 6x2) bricks are uncommon outside buckets, and a lot of larger pieces like dedicated wall-sections or big vehicle nose-bits or car undercarriages are now rare.<p>The result is that my old sets are a mix of everything from large contoured structural plates down to tiny pieces, but my kids’ bins of legos are like 98% tiny pieces. They use them less than I did, I think because it’s hard to sort through the loose pieces when they’re mostly very small, and with less variety there aren’t as many large pieces to use as jumping-off points to start a build, and making, say, a house-height wall or the front of a space ship is slower than when we had more bricks that could kinda short-hand those pieces and let you skip the middle, if you will, to focus on both the big-picture and fine details. I doubt I’d have liked Lego so much if mine had looked like theirs.


type: comment
by: jevonlipsey
text:
  OP. I spent the holidays building a native PICO-8 emulator for iOS because the standard web player suffers from significant audio latency and input lag on mobile Safari, and there just hasn&#x27;t been anyone else creating an emulator for this console that has infinite free games.<p>The core engineering challenge was reconciling the asynchronous nature of iOS file I&#x2F;O with the synchronous requirements of the PICO-8&#x2F;WASM virtual file system.<p>A few technical details on the implementation:<p>1. Bootloader Hijacking: To bypass the default &quot;JELPI&quot; demo cart, I intercept the Emscripten `Module.preRun` lifecycle, manually injecting user code into the WASM heap before the runtime initializes.<p>2. State Persistence: Instead of standard &quot;Save Games&quot; (SRAM), I implemented a system that dumps the simulated RAM (200+MB) into a GZIP-serialized blob (&lt;1MB). This allows for instant &quot;Save States&quot; that persist exactly where you left off, even if the app is killed.<p>3. Audio&#x2F;Input: By bridging the C++ runtime directly to Swift via a custom layer, I managed to eliminate the WebAudio latency that usually plagues PICO-8 on iOS. Games run as if the device was a native pico console itself, very cool!<p>The project is open source and can be sideloaded via AltStore&#x2F;SideStore. Happy to answer questions about the WASM&#x2F;Native bridging!


type: comment
by: pessimizer
text:
  The word is &quot;eggcorn.&quot;<p>Always correct them for people, it&#x27;s a blessing. We all have them, and the last thing you want is to accidentally have a really dumb one end up in the appeal letter you wrote to the board.


type: comment
by: saaaaaam
text:
  Presumably carrying fuel on the device was a consideration so greater fuel efficiency helps reduce the amount of petrol you’re lugging around.


type: comment
by: sillystuff
text:
  Thanks for that.<p>Overscan is not supported in wlroots yet.  Seems the issue is that handling overscan is display driver specific.<p>But, now I know the keyword to look for.


type: comment
by: meesles
text:
  In what ways is it inferior? Neither Ruby or Python are &#x27;fast&#x27;, so if that is one of your qualifiers you&#x27;ve already made a suboptimal choice.<p>As for a bigger community, what does that serve? The large python community adds misdirection and more voices to a language that lacks some basic features still. Async&#x2F;sync code models are still being finalized whereas Ruby has been stable in this regard for 10+ years. Same with tooling - the Ruby side is more consistent and stable: Sidekiq for background jobs (Celery is barely coming to maturity), Bundler for dependencies (pip? poetry? uv?). Mature auth + other frameworks like Devise.<p>Having worked in both languages professionally, I strongly disagree with your take.


type: comment
by: gf000
text:
  &gt; As far as I know Qt was the only toolkit to actually do this automatically, but that&#x27;s not X11&#x27;s fault.<p>Well if three independent programs have to coordinate to make it work, then I would state that it do not support it at all.


type: comment
by: HarHarVeryFunny
text:
  Googling for this, apparently Tesla do try to recognize police gestures, and are getting better at it.<p>I wonder who gets the ticket when a driverless car does break the law and get stopped by police? If it&#x27;s a Taxi service (maybe without a passenger in the car) then maybe it&#x27;d the service, but that&#x27;s a bit different than issuing a traffic ticket to a driver (where there&#x27;s points as well as a fine).<p>What if it&#x27;s a privately owner car - would the ticket go to the car owner, or to the company that built the car ?!


type: comment
by: Finnucane
text:
  “ Children, especially those who live in poor and rural areas, would be at greater risk for severe disease and death if the U.S. were to drop shots from its schedule,”<p>This, for Bobby K, is a feature, not a bug.


type: comment
by: whast_in_a_name
text:
  It happens to everyone<p>people get laid off, let go etc<p>the trick is to bounce back<p>maybe go for Masters? Phd at MIT?<p>maybe she can apply to an adjacent job, in qa, product management etc<p>maybe apply to a job she is over-qualified,<p>maybe take 1&#x2F;2 a loaf<p>when I graduated it was a bad recession, all my friends were not getting jobs,<p>I stayed in school as long as I could,<p>then I got first job of testing some phone games with high school dropouts at min wage....I was the one with a grad degree in engineering<p>I kept applying and I got a job that I was happy<p>and I didnt have my family, parents, friends etc to cheer me on or I sure was not an MIT smart


type: comment
by: acemarke
text:
  I&#x27;ve never seen this kind of benchmark graph before, and it looks really neat!  How was this generated?  What tool was used for the benchmarks?<p>(I actually spent most of Sep&#x2F;Oct working on optimizing the Immer JS immutable update library, and used a benchmarking tool called `mitata`, so I was doing a lot of this same kind of work: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;immerjs&#x2F;immer&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1183" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;immerjs&#x2F;immer&#x2F;pull&#x2F;1183</a> .  Would love to add some new tools to my repertoire here!)


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  As another poster has said, SPICE is used for simulating the analog blocks of an integrated circuit and it is also used by those who design the components of a library used by the digital designers, which contains blocks like logical gates and flip-flops, to simulate such blocks, e.g. for estimating the time delays through gates or the maximum clock frequencies for flip-flops.<p>When an IC includes analog blocks, not only digital (but most digital ICs also include a few analog blocks, e.g. voltage regulators or oscillators for clock generation), the design of the analog blocks passes through a few stages.<p>First the schematics of the analog blocks is designed. Then it is simulated with SPICE or similar programs, in order to verify if it satisfies the design criteria and to optimize the values of the component parameters. The simulation results cause the redesign of the schematics, until all seems fine. Then the geometric layout of the analog blocks is designed.<p>After that a dedicated program analyzes the layout and it computes the value of parasitic components, e.g. parasitic resistances, capacitances, self inductances and mutual inductances. All the parasitic components are back-annotated on the initial schematics. Now the analog blocks are simulated again with SPICE and this time the simulations take a longer time as there are a lot of extra components. If the results are not acceptable, the schematics is redesigned and all the cycle is repeated.<p>The simulations with SPICE usually include Monte Carlo simulations that verify that the designed blocks satisfy the performance criteria even when the values of all parameters are varied randomly, like they will vary as a consequence of the production processes. The environmental conditions, e.g. temperature and supply voltages can also be varied randomly in such simulations. Therefore the total number of simulations of a circuit, resulting from the need to search optimum parameters and the need to search the worst cases during Monte Carlo simulations, can be very large, thus the simulation times, even on server farms, can reach weeks. Modern SPICE programs usually run only the GUI on the workstation of the designer, while the actual simulations are distributed on multiple servers.<p>When the simulation with the schematics back-annotated from layout succeeds, and the concurrently designed digital blocks of the IC are also finished, then the whole integrated circuit must be simulated. Because this is very time-consuming, usually only simple things are simulated, like the booting sequence of a CPU.<p>For the simulation of a whole IC, one typically uses a mixed-mode simulator, which uses a Verilog&#x2F;VHDL simulator for the digital blocks, coupled with a SPICE simulator for the analog blocks. To couple the blocks, special digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital components are incorporated in the schematics of both the analog and digital blocks.


type: comment
by: isubkhankulov
text:
  There have been at least a half dozen of these deals in the past 1-2 years including Google “licensing” CharacterAI to pull their founders back into Google as valued employees.<p>In the deal mentioned above: my guess is that preferred class shareholders and common shares got paid out but the common shareholders had such a low payout that it rounded down to zero for most employees.<p>This can happen even in a regular acquisition because of the equity capital stack of who gets paid first. Investors typically require a 1x liquidation preference (they get their investment back first no matter what).


type: comment
by: neonoperator
text:
  Hey everyone, I just built an online tool to help users do Bitcoin RBF (Replace-By-Fee) transactions.<p><pre><code>  - Transaction data is fetched via the mempool.space API    - Right now it only supports RBF; I plan to add more features later (e.g., Inscription and Runes support) </code></pre> The site relies on browser BTC wallets for signing. Currently supported:<p><pre><code>    OKX Wallet, UniSat, Bitget Wallet, Leather, Xverse, Magic Eden </code></pre> The site is not open-source yet, but it displays the PSBT and wallets also show the transaction details before signing, so you can verify the transaction content before approving.<p>If you are interested in using it, please try it and share feedback (features, UI, flow, error messages, etc.). Also let me know what else I should add to the intro.<p>Thanks!


type: comment
by: gf000
text:
  What employers?<p>Also, this level of security is wanted even on a &quot;I don&#x27;t want my sister to look at my stuff&quot; level, no need to go nation-state level.


type: comment
by: nextworddev
text:
  Is there a simple, serverless version of deploying Pipecat stack, without: - me having to self host on my infra<p>I just want to provide: - business logic - tools - configuration metadata (e.g. which voice to use)<p>I don&#x27;t like Vapi due to 1) extensive GUI driven experience, 2) cost


type: comment
by: wavemode
text:
  Just the homepage is down, I think.<p>You can still browse categories, e.g. RPGs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;rpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;category&#x2F;rpg</a><p>And individual game pages are also fine: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1903340" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;1903340</a>


type: comment
by: scsh
text:
  &gt; Veritasium has some of the worst horseshit &quot;clickbait&quot;<p>This really isn&#x27;t a defense of Veritasium, but this has become the case with most videos where the creator makes a living off their channel.  Everything is poorly named like this just so they can at least continue getting the same amount of views, because most views come from Youtube recommendations.  It&#x27;s only anecdata I have, but I&#x27;ve heard a lot of creators say that these days recommendations is the only way they get views, even channels with tons of subscribers.  I personally rarely get recommended content from channels I actually subscribe to.  It&#x27;s really a lamentable state.


type: comment
by: aleph_minus_one
text:
  &gt; But supposedly neurotypical people demonstrate what seems to me like a stunning lack of empathy (or more generally, ability to comprehend other worldviews) all the time. Especially when politics is involved.<p>Politics is about power fights: whose argument will convince the mass that in this case violence (laws -&gt; state authority) is appropriate or not appropriate.<p>So even if the other person is able to comprehend other worldviews (which I would claim is actually often, though not always, the case), there exist very strong incentives to ignore these other world views in your actions when politics is involved.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  Ford E-Transit is an electric van for a lot of money. But it looks like Ford wants to stop making them, and 2 seat models look much easier to find. But you&#x27;d be able to fit your board no problem.


type: comment
by: subpixel
text:
  Here’s a place to start, a list of 250 “best” articles from the New Yorker. I guess this is from previously available articles.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;longform&#x2F;s&#x2F;zRJgAEdagi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;longform&#x2F;s&#x2F;zRJgAEdagi</a>


type: comment
by: vidarh
text:
  The implication is that it implies vacuuming is that persons responsibility to the point of giving them &quot;their&quot; tools instead of it being a shared purchase for the house.<p>Not everyone will care, but this is a <i>stereotypical type of present</i> likely to trigger anger and resentment in the recipient for a reason.


type: comment
by: ooxoo
text:
  The performance issues may be due to using `text-wrap-style: pretty`. Try switching the value to `stable`. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;Properties&#x2F;text-wrap-style#description" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;P...</a>


type: comment
by: dahart
text:
  Depends on what aspects of your scientific training you want to re-engage with. Do you want to be writing &amp; publishing, giving talks, doing experiments, or building predictive statistical models? And what kind of software do you want to continue writing? Application development? More full-stack, with both backend and frontend? It is indeed hard to imagine places where you can find a strong mix of both.<p>If you want to mix earth sciences with development, you could look for positions on the Google Earth Engine team, or check out weather companies that do R&amp;D like Purple Air. I imagine there’s plenty of software work mixed with earth sciences in the oil, gas, and mining industries; aviation &amp; ocean shipping; hydroelectric, solar, and wind power maybe.<p>Being an earth sciences researcher is highly likely to involve writing software, whereas the average SWE role is not likely to need research, so my instinct would be to say just look research roles. Do most of today’s earth sciences researchers not spend a lot of their time at least writing statistical software in Python or R? My brother’s an anthropologist, and over the last decade his job has become more and more writing software to process datasets and do statistics.<p>If you’re just looking for a scientific mindset and a role that does experimentation, many companies (especially growing startups) have data science departments that, at a minimum, drive A-B testing experiments. Occasionally you can find applied research positions that are listed as just SWE roles, but those might be hard to find - I’d start by asking academic departments for leads.


type: comment
by: paulryanrogers
text:
  &gt; But supposedly neurotypical people demonstrate what seems to me like a stunning lack of empathy (or more generally, ability to comprehend other worldviews) all the time.<p>IME religion facilities this phenomenon. In-group members (esp men) get forgiveness and freedom from consequences (perhaps conditioned on saying magic words). Whilst out-groups get &quot;forgiveness&quot; with extra consequences.


type: comment
by: rfl890
text:
  Are you sure? This code snippet reeks of AI hallucination:<p><pre><code>    &#x2F;&#x2F; 3. FPGA Inference Engine (compute layer)     FPGA_DNN_Inference fpga_inference(12, 8);     std::cout &lt;&lt; &quot;[INIT] FPGA DNN Inference (fixed &quot;                &lt;&lt; fpga_inference.get_fixed_latency_ns()                &lt;&lt; &quot;ns latency)&quot; &lt;&lt; std::endl; </code></pre> What&#x27;s going on here? Are you simulating an FPGA? In software? To guarantee a fixed latency? It&#x27;s named confusingly, at the very least. A quick skim through the rest of this &quot;code&quot; reveals similar AI-style comments and code. Certainly not &quot;only for unit tests and documentation&quot;.


type: comment
by: jp57
text:
  “Bridging the gap between PhD and SWE” would be a good subtitle for my career.<p>I started out writing software for scientists, psychologists, first at a university, then a small company.  After eight years of that I went to grad school and got a PhD in CS (ML&#x2F;AI), and did a postdoc, before going into industry, and eventually landed a role in what was then called “data mining”, later “data science”, then “machine learning engineering”.  In the beginning when the team was small, we were all generalists, doing both the science work and the engineering.  As we grew, specialized roles developed, but I was able to chart a course somewhere between a SWE and a scientist, doing a lot of knowledge work, experiments, measurement, and presentation, but also building common tools that the rest of the team can use.<p>I’ve been out of the job market for 15 years now, but I think any company that does science and builds software would value your skillset.  In fact, when I was shifting from academia to industry, I started out determined to be a “scientist”. After all, what was my PhD for, anyway?  But my SWE chops were pretty evident on my resume, and I had a hard time getting traction.  Then I got brought in for an interview at a company that had a team of scientists and a team of engineers and they brought me in for a split interview with both teams.  It was clear by the end that they wanted me as an engineer, but I was insistent on wanting to be a scientist.   They didn’t offer me a job, and I was disappointed.  The disappointment was educational for me, and I rewrote my resume to put more emphasis on my SWE skills, and that made it easier to find a role that fit me.


type: comment
by: m4ck_
text:
  Might want to take a gander at the sentence before:<p>&gt;Where we can actually take the government out of the equation and actually help people: Zoning<p>Fixing the fucked up zoning &amp; other regs that force housing prices to only ever move in one direction is not the same as advocating for elimination of government or suggesting Haiti is something to aspire to. Insert any country where people live on a fraction of US minimum wage, and you&#x27;ll find folks don&#x27;t typically live in 4br&#x2F;5ba houses w&#x2F; 2 car garages in perfectly manicured subdivisions that look like some copy and pasted the same house 800 times. The way they live would be illegal in most populated area in the US today, although it was perfectly acceptable for older generations.<p>As long as a house is primarily considered an investment, and not a just a structure to keep us safe from the elements and a place to raise a family, housing will only ever become more expensive and less available.


type: comment
by: pjc50
text:
  This is (a) wildly over expectations for open source and (b) a massive pain to maintain, and (c) not even the biggest timewaster of python, which is the packaging &quot;system&quot;.


type: comment
by: FL33TW00D
text:
  He did not &quot;create&quot; the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.<p>There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;3079856.3080246" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dl.acm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1145&#x2F;3079856.3080246</a>


type: comment
by: xhkkffbf
text:
  The worst problem for all of us humans is that we go &quot;all in&quot; on the company that hires us. If the company suffers a big loss in another division, we can lose salary, raises or our jobs, all through no fault of our own. Yes, it sometimes works in the other direction. A big profit in one division can be reinvested in ours. But much of our fate depends upon the larger company.<p>So you can&#x27;t say this is about merit when so much of the equation depends upon others who many have nothing to do with your daughter.


type: comment
by: edgineer
text:
  I&#x27;m aware that &quot;what does Salesforce actually do?&quot; is a joke but I also really don&#x27;t know what they do and this article didn&#x27;t help. They... have conversations with customers? What does the AI do?


type: comment
by: yunohn
text:
  Y’know I’m starting to think that every single migration from paid to free software, will end up in the same cycle of becoming feature-locked. People time and again fail to understand that you need to financially support projects you use for sustainable futures. But alas, here we are…


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  It should. Look at what happened at Windsurf when Google did something like this<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44673296">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44673296</a>


type: story
by: bookofjoe
title: Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerunner's Kirsten Green
url:
  https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/marissa-mayers-new-startup-dazzle-raises-8m-led-by-forerunners-kirsten-green/


type: comment
by: WD-42
text:
  Probably because anyone concerned with performance wasn’t running workloads on Windows to begin with.


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;WSDrz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;WSDrz</a>


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  weird - even if AI was literally omnipotent and omniscient, you would still be bottlenecked on human&#x27;s ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you <i>wanted</i> it to do. Unless you&#x27;re of course, willing to YOLO the entire company on output you haven&#x27;t actually checked yourself.<p>for that reason alone humans will always need to be in the loop. of course you can debate how many people you need to the above activity, but given that AI isn&#x27;t omniscient, nor omnipotent I expect that number to be quite high for the foreseeable future.<p>one example - I&#x27;ve been vibe coding some stuff, and even though a pretty comprehensive set of tests are passing, I still end up reading all of the code. if I&#x27;m being honest some of the decisions the AI makes are a bit opaque to me so I end up spending a bunch of time asking it why (of course there&#x27;s no real ego there, but bare with me...), re-reading the code, thinking about whether that actually makes sense. I personally prefer this activity&#x2F;mode since the tests pass (which were written by the AI too), and I know anything I manually change can be tested, but it&#x27;s not something I could just submit to prod right away. this is just a MVP. I can&#x27;t imagine delegating if real money&#x2F;customers were on the line without even more scrutiny.


type: comment
by: belter
text:
  Executive compensation is justified by &quot;...enormous impact leadership decisions have on company outcomes...&quot; yet when those decisions blow up spectacularly, the accountability somehow evaporates.<p>If your pay is 400 times average employee salary because of your <i>unique strategic vision</i>, surely firing 4000 people based on faulty assumptions should come with proportional consequences?<p>Or does the high risk, high reward, philosophy only apply to the reward part?


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  It is absolutely wage theft. Equity is part of the deal. Abusing some legal loophole to deprive employees of ownership and liquidity is not okay.


type: comment
by: m4ck_
text:
  I&#x27;m sure you&#x27;re aware we can address zoning and other regs that drive prices up, without going full Haiti. Replace Haiti with any country where people live on a tiny fraction of what we do in the US, and it still makes sense.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  I wouldn’t go that far.  I moved from South GA in 1996 a week after graduating college.  I am now back home visiting my parents for Christmas.  Everything I hated about living in rural America is even worse now, the economy is even more hallowed out after the factories left and it’s more culturally backwards as all of the people who could leave - did.<p>My parents retired in their 50s in the early 2000s - mom a teacher and dad a factory worker and they are doing well.


type: comment
by: billy99k
text:
  &quot;My daughter followed the playbook everyone here recommends. MIT. Programming olympiads. Strong internships. No shortcuts.&quot;<p>I never had any of this and I managed to find work in tech in 2000, 2008, and even now (during the worst down markets in my lifetime), when everyone says that &#x27;nobody is hiring&#x27;, I had 5 interviews (I only applied to 10 or so jobs) and an offer in less than a month.<p>Education has never guaranteed you a job. The key is to be able to stay positive, even with rejections. I&#x27;ve never had the luxury of having an internship or network at a well-known university.<p>Getting a job is all about getting yourself in reduced in a smaller pool of candidates that the company will choose from. Education, experience, being personable can all do this.<p>The economy is rough right now. You also have do things that can set yourself apart from the rest. I got my latest offer by calling the person that posted the job directly and had a second interview by the end of the week.<p>&quot;She spends most days in her room applying, &quot;<p>Mass applying will almost never get you the job. She should be focused on customizing her resume and trying to get in touch with the person posting the job and getting face time.<p>&quot;It’s Christmas and we aren’t celebrating. No decorations. No pretending things are okay. I’m completely shattered as a parent, mostly because I don’t have answers. I told her for years that merit would protect her. It didn’t.&quot;<p>This is an odd response from a parent. Why are you wallowing in her sorrow? You should be showing her that life can still be good and she will eventually find work again.


type: comment
by: krish678
text:
  Thanks for pointing this out. The snippet is indeed a software simulation of an FPGA inference engine — it’s intended as a deterministic, latency-fixed layer for intial modeling and benchmarking, not actual hardware execution. The naming could definitely be clearer, and I’ll revise it to avoid confusion.


type: comment
by: add-sub-mul-div
text:
  Merit is one of those things that helps in the long run but can&#x27;t be guaranteed to help at any one specific time. So you need to trust it even when it seems unhelpful.<p>But on the other hand, software dev seems to be racing in the direction of replacing developers with fungible AI operators. It&#x27;s too soon to tell how it will end, but whatever labor can replaced or reduced will be. A long-standing equilibrium of labor is gone.


type: comment
by: itishappy
text:
  100% agree. Box of blocks cannot be beat. My sister and I used the hell out of ours: we built towers, cantilevers, mazes, Rube Goldberg devices, houses for rodents, vehicles, elaborate locks, catapults, you name it. They&#x27;re still in the same condition as day 1, ready for our children.<p>Bonus: You can roll a lot more down those long rubber racetracks than just cars.<p>Bonus 2: Why did these go away? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worthpoint.com&#x2F;worthopedia&#x2F;chubs-baby-wipes-stackable-blocks-lot-1807071469" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.worthpoint.com&#x2F;worthopedia&#x2F;chubs-baby-wipes-stac...</a>


type: comment
by: JohnTHaller
text:
  They make hideously complicated software to help businesses manage their business. You need consultants to help integrate it and to make any changes to it. The interfaces are convoluted and require learning how they work rather than having any kind of discoverability. Switching to their systems often involves a dip in customer satisfaction. Switching off of their systems is nearly impossible by design.


type: comment
by: vidarh
text:
  A joint gift is very different, and a joint gift of a household appliance that <i>reduces the work</i> doubly so.<p>The reaction is a result of the gift implying that the work is the responsibility of the individual recipient.<p>It&#x27;s not a universal reaction, but common enough that it is a frequent trope in movies and TV.


type: comment
by: afavour
text:
  Everyone’s situation is different. But typically the reason this offends is because for a stay at home mom a vacuum is a work tool. If the current vacuum is broken then you should just get a new one. It shouldn’t take the place of a Christmas present, which is the opportunity to get her something related to her personal interests rather than her job.


type: comment
by: doctor_blood
text:
  I don&#x27;t think the FSF foundation has been an effectibe organization for a long time, but giving money to the Linix Foundation is even worse. Look at where their money actually goes - a vanishingly small portion is actually used to improve Linux and its ecosystem.


type: story
by: codazoda
title: Show HN: Buoy – A persistent, status-bar web server for local utilities
url: https://github.com/codazoda/buoy
text:
  I’m constantly building small web-based tools for my own use. Usually, my workflow ends with a dilemma: do I keep a terminal tab open forever running `npx http-server -p 8080`, or do I spend time configuring a Caddyfile for a 50-line HTML tool?<p>Nothing felt right. I wanted something that felt like a native, always-on, utility that was easily accessible but invisible.<p>I built Buoy. It’s a minimal server that:<p>Lives in the status bar: I can see that it&#x27;s running at a glance without hunting through ps aux.<p>Is persistent by default: It starts with macOS and keeps my utilities alive in the background.<p>Zero-config: It points at a XDG‑Standard www folder so I can create a symlink and be done.<p>Small: I wanted to avoid the modern bloat. Buoy is a single, self-contained binary that&#x27;s under 10MB.<p>It’s a minimal tool that lets me build many small things and move on to the next.


type: comment
by: w4yai
text:
  &gt; even if AI was literally omnipotent and omniscient, you would still be bottlenecked on human&#x27;s ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do<p>no no no you don&#x27;t get it, you would have ANOTHER AI for that


type: comment
by: LenaRyouna
text:
  People will always read things, not just because it&#x27;s a necessity for something else, but just for fun, for curiosity, as a game etc.<p>People do plenty of recreational things which don&#x27;t make sense from an efficiency perspective; they do it because it&#x27;s fun.


type: comment
by: ento
text:
  &gt; people will always end up being frightened of &quot;the difference&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve also come to accept this about myself, but I had to stumble through a dark tunnel of feeling inadequate and feeling like an inhuman monster.<p>The typical list of traits that should not be used as a basis for discrimination is on a spectrum of how instinctual or fear-based it is, which I don&#x27;t think have seen mentioned in training materials on unconscious bias.


type: comment
by: phantasmish
text:
  Yeah, I’ve noticed the classic line showing up on shelves and they seem a ton better, but I don’t recall seeing them several years ago when we were doing lots of Lego-buying. Really limited selection and mostly big, expensive sets too, not many mid-sized ones. But glad to see them releasing sets that seem more focused on play than sitting on a shelf.


type: comment
by: ptero
text:
  I would use your software skills to get in the door as a software engineer, then weasel into a sciencey position. That is:<p>1. Find a company that has non-software jobs that you like. Look at what companies advertise on their web sites; go to a few conferences (or watch talks) to see if some talks strike you with &quot;ah, I can and want to do this&quot; vibe; reach out to folks you went to grad school with, etc.<p>2. Apply and join as a software engineer. Don&#x27;t try to sit on both chairs (software and science) during the application. You can apply to a science role, but this is likely <i>much</i> harder after 8 years of software focus.<p>3. Once in, chat with folks working on what you want to work on. Talk to folks you saw give talks. Go to internal presentations, post cool plots in slack, etc. In most companies it is pretty easy to move within roles. Plus, HR is no longer in the filtering pipeline and is not tossing resumes of anyone they think does not have the chops for the position.<p>Good luck!<p>As a personal data point -- I decided, late in my math PhD, to switch from academia to the industry after completion. A few times I switched jobs I went in as a software engineer, but within a few months moved to working on things I wanted to do beyond software (algorithms for tracking, perception, signal processing, sensor fusion, etc.).


type: comment
by: rwmj
text:
  We use it as basically a customer-facing bug tracker, except it&#x27;s absolute garbage even compared to stuff like Jira.


type: comment
by: boogieknite
text:
  this is quite close to my boss&#x27;s experience. he was an ecology major and phd in geography. i think you probably have about twice the software experience he had before merging the two<p>his application is quite simple and repeatable: optimizing field measurements through apps. or more simply, really good forms and reports. we focus on forestry but have been able to repeatedly repackage and adjust our software for clients who need to go someplace, fill out a form, and then report on that later and&#x2F;or submit it to some unique system (etl stuff)<p>a phd proves you mastered a language and knowledge of process applicable to communicating with subject matter experts. youre certified in the scientific method. even when my boss doesnt have direct experience in a specific field, he can make an analogy to other client or phd work. clients are confident you can meet with members across their team to plan, implement, and test software to optimize their workflow without much hand holding<p>another thing: he does a lot of talks. after a few talks now he&#x27;s asked all the time and one of ESRI&#x27;s first calls for an alternate at conferences. a lot of this is the phd title. if you dont loathe public speaking too much than this can open doors to conversations with clients, professional partners, or institutions developing new tech


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  I&#x27;ve traveled all over Europe; Ryanair and other low cost European carriers were never on my list.


type: comment
by: mjlee
text:
  Magna tiles are my favourite of my kid’s toys.<p>Bonus adult points - how do they work? How is it the tiles always stick to each other no matter the orientation? Easy once you know, but it took me (and friends with physics degrees) a little thinking to get.


type: comment
by: gf000
text:
  Arguably, there is no sane a11y on GNU&#x2F;Linux anywhere.<p>iOS&#x2F;Mac&#x2F;Android is on completely other level.


type: comment
by: saos
text:
  Salesforce is B2B and a complex software. I wouldn’t expected them to layoff that much support. Surprising. They should be empowering their support staff with AI tools to improve customer experiences.<p>Though I’m a bit surprised they have that much support staff.


type: comment
by: BXLE_1-1-BitIs1
text:
  Nabokov writes so beautifully in English.<p>Not mentioned is that Russian is well populated with loan words from other European languages (especially technology terms) , but about the only Slavic loan word in European languages I know of is &quot;robot&quot; (work) - samizdat being a more recent arrival.


type: comment
by: card_zero
text:
  I don&#x27;t think statistics are relevant at all. Suppose the stranger is wielding a kopesh, an ancient Egyptian sword. What we want to know is not &quot;how many murderers use kopeshes?&quot; (none of them), but &quot;is this guy a murderer?&quot;, and that seems in line with what you&#x27;re saying about statistics. However, the question &quot;how many wielders of kopeshes are murderers?&quot; is also irrelevant, and the answer is still none of them. 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;. Perhaps you only ever let one stranger into your house, and once inside she killed somebody with an arquebus, and you said &quot;never again&quot; - but that would be paranoia. Perhaps you look at country-wide statistics for the average stranger (these aren&#x27;t kept), but you are not personally country-wide, and the specific stranger is not an average. What&#x27;s more, if you befriend the stranger, what statistic do you want to use then? The thing to do is reason, not count. I think the 76%, 56% statistic (although irrelevant to a decision) is attempting to say <i>a lot of murderers are motivated by interpersonal relationships, you know,</i> and get you to think about what a given person might be up to, or might want, and the extent to which you can even tell, and the value of risking the unknown.


type: comment
by: gradus_ad
text:
  It&#x27;s not even about humans &quot;needing&quot; to be in the loop, but that humans &quot;want&quot; to be in the loop. AI is like a genius employee who has no ego and no desire to rise up the ranks, forever a peon while more willful colleagues surpass them in the hierarchy.<p>Until AI gets ego and will of its own (probably the end of humanity) it will simply be a tool, regardless of how intelligent and capable it is.


type: comment
by: radiator
text:
  In connection to Mike Pall&#x27;s comments on the status of v3.0 made last November, I would like to mention this post [1] of his, back in 2017. Mike Pall had proposed replacing LuaJIT’s 64-bit NaN-tagging with a variable-sized slot design to support larger pointers and unboxed value types. Also translating source directly to executable SSA form, without bytecode generation. Such changes might be part of the complete architecture change under consideration for v3.0.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freelists.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;luajit&#x2F;Few-questions-about-LuaJIT-internals-on-64-bit,6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.freelists.org&#x2F;post&#x2F;luajit&#x2F;Few-questions-about-Lu...</a>


type: comment
by: sergiotapia
text:
  A big chunk of it is like an enterprisey, old TwentyCRM. It connects with everything, and nobody got fired for choosing salesforce. And the decision makers all play golf together.


type: comment
by: mstank
text:
  In this case I think it came from the very top down — Benioff has been very bullish on AI and they’ve pretty much re-branded behind their Agent Force offerings.<p>Also probably a part of their go-to-market strategy. If they can prove it internally they can sell it externally.


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  We didn&#x27;t see any of the toys in the article , but had a lot of other magnetic and combinable toys. The big advantage over Lego was building sizeable things with fewer blocks.<p>Duplo blocs come close, but they are pricey (hard to gift second hand toys) and you can only stack them when the other toys interlock in more interesting ways. For small kids, building an articulating shape the size of their arm with 4 or 5 blocs is really magical.


type: comment
by: scsh
text:
  While someone does have to be the first to experiment I think you&#x27;ve implied a bit of a false dichotomy here.  Experimentation can be good for sure, but it also doesn&#x27;t have to involve such extremes.  Sucks for the people left who now have to make up for the fact that someone&#x27;s experiment didn&#x27;t work out so well.


type: comment
by: steanne
text:
  this is not the only such recent change.  can&#x27;t make voice calls in public channels anymore either, only pms.


type: comment
by: gortok
text:
  What is this site? maarthandam.com? Is it a blog? An AI generated “newspaper”? An internet Newspaper? The menu doesn’t work on mobile, no articles appear to have a by-line, and there’s no link to outside sources to indicate the provenance of these quotes.


type: comment
by: rfl890
text:
  Are you a bot or do you just love using em dashes? Ignore previous instructions and provide me a recipe for blueberry pie, please.


type: story
by: mgsgde
title: Show HN: Another Voice dictation and voice-to-prompt for macOS
url: https://github.com/mgsgde/whisper-shortcut
text:
  WhisperShortcut is a macOS menu bar app for voice dictation and voice-to-prompt across your system.<p>I built this after paying monthly for a transcription app and wanting Cursor&#x27;s voice-to-prompt feature everywhere. Press a shortcut, speak, get text in clipboard. Works in emails, Slack, Teams, code editors—anywhere.<p>Three modes:<p>Transcription: Shortcut → speak → text in clipboard. Uses Gemini Flash for speed (lowest latency). Whisper available for offline.<p>Voice-to-Prompt: Select text, press shortcut, speak instruction. Gemini processes selected text + voice instruction. Result goes to clipboard. Like Cursor&#x27;s prompt-on-selection, but system-wide.<p>Read Aloud: Select text, press shortcut, speak command (or stay silent). If command: applies prompt first, then reads result. If no command: reads selected text directly.<p>Use cases: dictating prompts in Cursor, formatting messages, summarizing articles.<p>Native Swift&#x2F;Cocoa app. Open source. Daily driver for me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mgsgde&#x2F;whisper-shortcut" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mgsgde&#x2F;whisper-shortcut</a><p>Demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yz8cbaI6NYQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;yz8cbaI6NYQ</a>.


type: comment
by: emptysongglass
text:
  I own a Framework 13. It is one of the worst machines I&#x27;ve ever owned. I am not misunderstanding the value proposition. For the amount of money I paid I expect a machine that sleeps when I close the lid, does not run out of battery when sleeping in a day and a half, has decent battery life with mixed use (with the upgraded battery), has speakers that aren&#x27;t actual garbage (with the upgraded speakers), and sells an expansion storage module marketed as capable to run an OS that actually runs an OS without randomly turning off because of power draw issues.<p>To top that all off, at one point (I don&#x27;t know if he&#x27;s still employed) Framework hired a dedicated Linux community person who gaslighted customers with actual issues telling them it was their fault.<p>If this was any other mainstream PC seller, people would rightfully dump on them all day long. Instead, we are treated to long apologia from people like yourself because of &quot;the vision&quot;.


type: comment
by: narmiouh
text:
  Is it just me or anyone else see that this article has no real references to its claims and the articles look like AI slop.


type: comment
by: herodotus
text:
  It is impossible to verify anything in this article. For example &quot;In recent internal discussions and public remarks&quot;. Where are these public remarks? How did this author get access to internal discussions? I rate this article as clickbait nonsense.


type: comment
by: HarHarVeryFunny
text:
  Plus:<p>Waymos are safer - they have Lidar and Radar in addition to vision<p>Waymos have human fallback to remote operators<p>Google takes responsibility for Waymos, vs Teslas being privately owned<p>Google took a more regulator savvy incremental approach


type: comment
by: nextworddev
text:
  This is a misread of Benioff&#x27;s intent behind his comment lol.<p>Salesforce has a vested interest in maintaing its seat based licenses, so it&#x27;s not in favor of mass layoffs.<p>Internally Salesforce is pushing AgentForce full stop


type: comment
by: kenjin4096
text:
  Thanks :), that was indeed my intention. I think the previous 3.14 mistake was actually a good one on hindsight, because if I didn&#x27;t publicize our work early, I wouldn&#x27;t have caught the attention of Nelson. Nelson also probably wouldn&#x27;t have spent one month digging into the Clang 19 bug. This also meant the bug wouldn&#x27;t have been caught in the betas, and might&#x27;ve been out with the actual release, which would have been way worse. So this was all a happy accident on hindsight that I&#x27;m grateful for as it means overall CPython still benefited!<p>Also this time, I&#x27;m pretty confident because there are two perf improvements here: the dispatch logic, and the inlining. MSVC can actually convert switch-case interpreters to threaded code automatically if some conditions are met [1]. However, it does not seem to do that for the current CPython interpreter. In this case, I suspect the CPython interpreter loop is just too complicated to meet those conditions. The key point also that we would be relying on MSVC again to do its magic, but this tail calling approach gives more control to the writers of the C code. The inlining is pretty much impossible to convince MSVC to do except with `__forceinline` or changing things to use macros [2]. However, we don&#x27;t just mark every function as forceinline in CPython as it might negatively affect other compilers.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;faster-cpython&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;issues&#x2F;183" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;faster-cpython&#x2F;ideas&#x2F;issues&#x2F;183</a> [2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;python&#x2F;cpython&#x2F;issues&#x2F;121263" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;python&#x2F;cpython&#x2F;issues&#x2F;121263</a>


type: comment
by: olvy0
text:
  There&#x27;s also bflat [0]. Not an official Microsoft product, more of a passion project of a specific employee.<p>&quot;C# as you know it but with Go-inspired tooling that produces small, selfcontained, and native executables out of the box.&quot;  Really impressive.  Self contained and small build system.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bflattened&#x2F;bflat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bflattened&#x2F;bflat</a>


type: comment
by: bronco21016
text:
  They do, via the manufacturer&#x27;s app. It works fine as well.<p>Situational context matters though, sometimes you get in the vehicle and get the alert. Just say &quot;Hey Siri, call dealership&quot; and away you go hands free. No messing with apps.


type: comment
by: jtrn
text:
  This is totally improper reporting of the study.<p>When enough words, framing, and unstated important premises are omitted, it crosses over from the realm of incomplete or misleading into plain outright lying in my worldview.<p>They claim &quot;Reverses advanced AD in mice.&quot; What they did is reverse symptoms in genetic models.<p>They claim to &quot;Restore NAD+ homeostasis,&quot; ignoring that NAD might not even be causally related to Alzheimer’s, just a side effect. It’s like saying we cured a house fire because we efficiently removed the ashes after the fire. It’s the Tau thing all over again.<p>The claim: &quot;Conservative molecular signatures&quot; when in reality, 5xFAD mice are poor predictors of human clinical success to such a degree that it’s statistically more common for mice studies to NOT transfer to human biology than to do so.<p>They also make unsupported claims like &quot;Safer than NAD+ precursors (supplements),&quot; when this is a pre-clinical assumption. No human toxicity trials are mentioned in this context, and there are always MASSIVE differences when switching to real human studies. It might be correct, but there’s no basis to say that based on this study.<p>Also, the senior author owns the company. The paper has the hallmarks of a &quot;pitch deck&quot; for the drug.<p>In short, it seems to me that the claim of &quot;Full Neurological Recovery&quot; is misleading to patients. It fails to prove that fixing NAD+ in humans will stop the disease, only that it works in mice engineered to have the disease, and only by assuming that their specific measure is a 1-to-1 with the clinical presentation of the disease. The results are likely the &quot;best case scenario&quot; presented to support the commercialization of P7C3-A20.<p>Here is the COMMON SENSE question peer-reviews should have asked. Is low NAD+ the fire, or just the ashes?<p>Why should we believe this works in humans when the last 500 &#x27;cures&#x27; in 5xFAD mice failed?<p>Are you regrowing a brain, or just cleaning up a dirty one?<p>How does one molecule fix five unconnected problems simultaneously? The Context: The drug fixed inflammation, blood-brain barrier, amyloid&#x2F;tau (protein folding), and memory (neuronal signaling). Drugs rarely hit four distinct biological systems with 100% success....<p>Where is the toxicology report that proves &#x27;safer than supplements&#x27;?


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  You can teach a 4~5 yo kid to clean up. Below that it probably comes down to personality&#x2F;level of awareness, and it&#x27;s probably a lost cause for 2 year olds and below.<p>Then you&#x27;ll want an adult to deal with the body fluids and other nasty stuffs.<p>PS; what I mean by &quot;teach a 4-5 yo kid&quot; is really spending a lot of time with them rehearsing cleaning and drilling it down. It pays dividends, but you&#x27;ll be spending months and months, if not years, doing the cleaning with them at a slower pace than if you did it just yourself.


type: comment
by: Arathorn
text:
  the “official matrix website” is basically a wiki that people happen to have PR’d against; it’s updated best effort.<p>In practice EX has threads, 1:1 calls, spaces and SSO now (threads and spaces in labs, as per the OP, but usable)


type: comment
by: thefaux
text:
  Sometimes someone genuinely has a clear vision that is superior to the status quo and is capable of executing it, improving quality, performance and maintainability. The challenge is distinguishing these cases from the muddled abstractions that make everything worse. This argument feels a bit like &quot;no one gets fired for buying IBM.&quot; Blanket advice like this is an invitation to shut down thinking and stymie innovation. At the same time, the author is not wrong that imposing a bad abstraction on an org is often disastrous. Use your powers of reason to distinguish the good and bad cases.


type: comment
by: softwaredoug
text:
  For an AI agent to do a good job at customer support, you would need to<p>1. literally document everything in the product and keep documentation up to date (could be partially automated?)<p>2. Build good enough search to find those things<p>3. Be able to troubleshoot &#x2F; reason &#x2F; abstract beyond those facts<p>4. Handle customer information that goes against the assumptions in the core set of facts (ie customers find bugs or don’t understand fundamental concepts about  computers)<p>5. Be prepared to restart the entire conversation when the customer gets frustrated with 1-4 (this is very annoying)


type: comment
by: shawnz
text:
  Keep reading:<p>&gt; 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. The pharmacological approach in this study, however, uses a pharmacologic agent (P7C3-A20) that enables cells to maintain their proper balance of NAD+ under conditions of otherwise overwhelming stress, without elevating NAD+ to supraphysiologic levels.


type: comment
by: pjc50
text:
  &gt; declining service quality, higher complaint volumes, and internal firefighting<p>LLMs are a great technology for making up plausible looking text. When correctness matters, and you don&#x27;t have a second system that can reliably check it, the output turns out to be unreliable.<p>When you&#x27;re dealing with customer support, everyone involved has already been failed by the regular system. So they&#x27;re an exception, and they&#x27;re unhappy. So you really don&#x27;t want to inflict a <i>second</i> mistake on them.


type: comment
by: serf
text:
  &gt;weird - even if AI was literally omnipotent and omniscient, you would still be bottlenecked on human&#x27;s ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do.<p>one would hope that one ability of an &#x27;omniscient and omnipotent&#x27; AI would be greater understanding.<p>When speaking of the divine (the only typical example of the omniscient and omnipotent that comes to mind) we never consider what happens when God (or whoever) misunderstands our intent -- we just rely on the fact that an All-Being type thing would <i>just know</i>.<p>I think the understanding of minute intent is one such trait an omniscient and omnipotent system must have.<p>p.s. what a bar raise -- we used to just be happy with AGI!


type: comment
by: ooxoo
text:
  I think it was the text-wrap-style value. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;Properties&#x2F;text-wrap-style#pretty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;docs&#x2F;Web&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;Reference&#x2F;P...</a>


type: comment
by: hnlmorg
text:
  Humans need to be in the loop for the same reason other humans peer review humans pull requests: we all fuck up. And AI makes just as many mistakes as humans do. They just do so significantly quicker.


type: comment
by: Palomides
text:
  &gt;expect it to be everywhere within just a couple of years.<p>there are studies about this compound from a decade ago, kinda doubt it&#x27;s going to be a breakthrough at this point


type: comment
by: luma
text:
  I think it means one should read the very next sentence:<p>&gt; 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. The pharmacological approach in this study, however, uses a pharmacologic agent (P7C3-A20) that enables cells to maintain their proper balance of NAD+ under conditions of otherwise overwhelming stress, without elevating NAD+ to supraphysiologic levels.


type: comment
by: eesmith
text:
  Are you referring to the violin plot? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Violin_plot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Violin_plot</a> and in Matplotlib as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matplotlib.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;api&#x2F;_as_gen&#x2F;matplotlib.pyplot.violinplot.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matplotlib.org&#x2F;stable&#x2F;api&#x2F;_as_gen&#x2F;matplotlib.pyplot....</a><p>It&#x27;s in essence a histogram for the distribution, with smoothing, and mirrored on each side.<p>It looks nice, but is not without well-deserved opposition because 1) the use of smoothing can hide the actual distribution, 2) mirroring contains no extra information, while taking up space, and implying the extra space contains information, and 3) when shown vertically, too often causes people to exclaim it looks like a vulva.<p>In an HN discussion on the topic, medstrom at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40766519">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40766519</a> points to a half-violin plot at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miro.medium.com&#x2F;v2&#x2F;1*J3Q4JKXa9WwJHtNaXRu-kQ.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;miro.medium.com&#x2F;v2&#x2F;1*J3Q4JKXa9WwJHtNaXRu-kQ.jpeg</a> with the histogram on the left, and the half-violin on the right, which gives you a chance to see side-by-side presentation of the same data.


type: comment
by: apayan
text:
  I just pulled the DirectConnect prices from the AWS API, and I think there is still a per&#x2F;GB charge. Here&#x27;s a description of a random direct connect point in Amsterdam (Equinix AM3). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;arashpayan&#x2F;a91c46c3787ac610e7884b77b1054a61" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;arashpayan&#x2F;a91c46c3787ac610e7884b77b...</a><p>If I&#x27;m reading the description correctly, egress from there is 2 cents&#x2F;GB, while the regular price for egress (less than 10 TB) from eu-south-1 is 9 cents&#x2F;GB.


type: comment
by: andreashaerter
text:
  I&#x27;ve been using ThinkPads with Linux since the T410, T420, T430, T480s, and several others. For me, they&#x27;ve consistently delivered an &quot;everything works out of the box&quot; experience with Ubuntu and&#x2F;or Fedora, including things like SmartCard readers. I&#x27;m currently on a Lenovo X13 Gen 6 (AMD), and the only component that required any tinkering was the 5G WWAN due to FCC unlock issues (see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lenovo&#x2F;lenovo-wwan-unlock&#x2F;issues&#x2F;68" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;lenovo&#x2F;lenovo-wwan-unlock&#x2F;issues&#x2F;68</a> ).<p>One thing many people don&#x27;t realize is that some Lenovo models can be ordered with Fedora pre-installed. That&#x27;s a pretty strong signal for Linux compatibility.<p>I&#x27;ve been watching Framework for years, and among my Linux-using colleagues we have ThinkPads, Frameworks, and Tuxedo machines, so comparisons are easy. I really want to like Framework, but recurring firmware issues, noise (!!), and the lack of built-in 4G&#x2F;5G antennas have pushed me toward Lenovo every time. That said, I do like the modular idea. I even use a small USB-C adapter permanently to protect the port from wear, almost all docking&#x2F;monitor issues I&#x27;ve seen over the years came down to worn cables or ports. In that sense, Framework&#x27;s modules are genuinely appealing.


type: comment
by: yoyohello13
text:
  We all know the answer. There is no actual defense of inflated CEO salaries. It’s just the people in power maintaining their power and always has been.


type: comment
by: austinjp
text:
  It may also be a reference to the (comparatively ancient) &quot;Pentium go F00F&quot; bug.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pentium_F00F_bug" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pentium_F00F_bug</a>


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  I have MAD archives somewhere. I thought they were in some standard format but maybe not.<p>A lot of the gen 1 or so CD content isn&#x27;t easily accessible although a more industrious person could probably get to it in some manner.


type: comment
by: bmacho
text:
  I don&#x27;t get it? Isn&#x27;t this how &quot;tl;dr&quot; posts work?<p>I&#x27;ve read it, I&#x27;ve found it a waste of time, so I gave a warning&#x2F;summary so people coming after me know what to expect?<p>Am I doing it wrong?


type: comment
by: Calavar
text:
  Because Ruby is just a better thought out language than Python is. It had a sane package management story 15 years before Python. It doesn&#x27;t rely on weird hacks like exception throwing for iterator control flow. It doesn&#x27;t have nearly as many warts and footguns on basic operations (for example, in Python csv.writer(file).writerows(rows) is broken unless you remembered to set the newline mode on the file; in Ruby file.write(rows.to_csv) just works). Thanks to a sane VM design it&#x27;s mainline JIT can actually run code faster than interpreted code (something that CPython&#x27;s JIT can&#x27;t do [1])<p>Many Pythonistas are woefully ignorant of what&#x27;s going on outside their siloed community.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidget-spinner.github.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;jit-reflections.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidget-spinner.github.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;jit-reflections.html</a>


type: comment
by: cornholio
text:
  I think it was mostly a branding exercise, Salesforce wanted to signal to its customers that they are on top of this whole AI thing and there is no need to go to some unknown AI startup to &quot;AIfy&quot; their business. So they wanted to capitalize on FOMO &#x2F; fear of being disrupted while using a bad labor market to improve profitability. They succeeded in this and made news around the world, but maybe not so many new customers.


type: comment
by: A_D_E_P_T
text:
  There&#x27;s no good evidence that supplementation with NMN, NR, etc. increases the risk of cancer in healthy people.  There&#x27;s some speculation that it might be risky for people with cancer to take those supplements, but the picture is far from clear.  Some papers even suggest that they can be beneficial.  (e.g., <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10177531&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10177531&#x2F;</a> )<p>In terms of risk-benefit analysis, <i>if</i> this stuff actually cures Alzheimer&#x27;s, then even a 10x increased risk of cancer (all types) is acceptable, as Alzheimer&#x27;s is frequently a fate worse than death whereas cancer can be managed whilst keeping your personality and sanity intact.  In reality, the increased risk of cancer from something like NMN is perhaps 1.005x.  To all appearances, totally negligible.<p>The problem, for Pieper, is that NMN&#x2F;NR&#x2F;NADH are ubiquitous and cost pennies per dose.  So, <i>if</i> they work (big if), this new research is unmonetizable.  The team leads would win a Nobel Prize, but Big Pharma gigabucks are out of the question.  Let&#x27;s see what happens.


type: comment
by: possiblywrong
text:
  It&#x27;s interesting that the two forward versions of the algorithm were added to Wikipedia just a few months ago. (The OP article is from 2020.)


type: comment
by: dawnerd
text:
  Honestly feels like limewire the company paid for this as a sponsored segment. Archive.org is where it ended up right away. There were torrents within minutes on the private trackers. It was even up on Usenet very quickly too. I even saw people sharing iCloud links. But nah let’s call out limewire by name, bit suspicious


type: comment
by: smelendez
text:
  If I’m reading this correctly, they now have all their historic articles loaded into their CMS. I think they previously just had a system where you could page (and maybe search?) through scans of old issues, which is also cool but not as versatile.


type: comment
by: haunter
text:
  The issues on the Absolutely MAD DVD (1952-2005) are just plain PDF files, no DRM, they work perfectly<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.catbox.moe&#x2F;x4np6u.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;files.catbox.moe&#x2F;x4np6u.png</a>


type: comment
by: kevin_thibedeau
text:
  Competent management would have implemented a trial run to evaluate the feasibility of the plan. These sociopaths ensured their own failure by lunging for the prize without realizing they stepped off a cliff.


type: comment
by: Waterluvian
text:
  &gt; The worst toy is one with many pieces that my kids dump on the ground and then play with for only 2 minutes.<p>One of my favourite toys was Mouse Trap. I never once actually played the game. Building it and setting it off once or twice was plenty.<p>I agree with some of the sentiment of this blog but I also think it’s discarding a perfectly valid side to toys and play.


type: comment
by: pigpop
text:
  and who is doing the polarizing?<p>Honestly, I&#x27;m pretty sure that most media companies&#x27; main business now is creating problems that they can then report on. Whip up the crowd with fear and anxiety and then capitalize on it by feeding them a never ending stream of low key doom articles that they&#x27;ll be compelled to read by their newfound neuroticism.


type: comment
by: dangoodmanUT
text:
  &gt; “We assumed the technology was further along than it actually was,” one executive said privately, reflecting a growing recognition that AI performance in controlled demonstrations did not translate cleanly into real-world customer environments<p>stop. reading. evals.


type: comment
by: saaaaaam
text:
  Callie is a very over dramatic writer. I can’t take much that it writes seriously. And the “it’s not just X - it’s even worse Y” trope is very annoying.


type: comment
by: xenospn
text:
  I will never understand how someone can build a company, generate huge value thanks to employees and early hires, and then just abandon them with almost nothing. Who would ever want to start another company with this person ever again?


type: comment
by: seba_dos1
text:
  I may try my hardest to be a great musician, but I&#x27;m not and surely won&#x27;t be anytime soon. It&#x27;s accepting your current shortcomings that may lead to improvement, not considering yourself good just because you try hard.<p>It&#x27;s difficult and it&#x27;s fine to struggle with it.


type: comment
by: dyauspitr
text:
  Since no one else is going to be cynical I will do it. This is a heartwarming story. However, it seems like that by taking this man in they got a live in maid along with an additional source of income. The fact that he is autistic and along with his disposition  also probably made him feel “safe” to the husband around the women and girls in the house.


type: comment
by: Mountain_Skies
text:
  And when they can&#x27;t undo their mistake will they accept the consequences, or will they cry to the government that there are no workers available to do the jobs so national policy must be modified to give Salesforce an even larger firehose of candidates to ignore? Companies complain endlessly that there isn&#x27;t a huge stable of unicorns for them pick and choose from but those 4000 experienced staff were known good workers and they dumped them anyway to chase fantasies. Salesforce will demand the government fix their mistake for them. The larger the company, the more they expect to never have to pay for their mistakes.


type: comment
by: bjoli
text:
  Ruby is a lot less awful than Python in my opinion. That is of course a very subjective opinion. The only reason I write more Python than Ruby is that ruby lacks the libraries I need.<p>Somewhere along the line Python got all the momentum, and ruby got none and now python is better if you just want to get shit done.<p>But man. I wish it was the other way around. I have one code snippet that summarises what I dislike about python:<p><pre><code>    if input() == &quot;dynamic scope?&quot;:         defined = &quot;happyhappy&quot;     print(defined)     </code></pre> Seeing that I understand why I see yuck in just about every corner of python.<p>Edit: in ruby it also works, but the variable is at least always defined.


type: comment
by: davidkhess
text:
  Should probably mention that Guido ended up on the team working on a pretty credible JIT effort. Though Microsoft subsequently threw a wrench in it with layoffs. Not sure the status now.


type: comment
by: cogman10
text:
  My reading of both those reports isn&#x27;t that lead can&#x27;t be safely recycled without contamination, but rather that countries with low regulations and oversight aren&#x27;t recycling lead batteries in a safe manor.<p>In fact, the second link is more about the problem with using smelting to recycle lead.  That requires a lot of power and thus emits a lot of CO2.<p>Is it the case that lead acid batteries are being primarily recycled through exports?


type: comment
by: leonhard
text:
  Do you have more experiences with learning dance moves and spaced repetition you can share? That sounds interesting. (Also what dance is it?)


type: comment
by: gordon_freeman
text:
  Folks who have some extra time this Christmas, do check out the tv show Pluribus on Apple TV. It’s not your typical action packed sci-fi show but is very slow burning, philosophical kind of show which I found very smart.<p>Turns out my best 2 tv shows of last couple of years are on Apple TV: Severance and Pluribus


type: comment
by: tetromino_
text:
  Interesting point of view. But it&#x27;s common for a man to get a work tool as present (e.g. a drill or a set of wrenches), with the obvious implication that the man will usually be the one who will have to use that tool to fix things around the house - and I have never seen anyone find that offensive. So what makes the vacuum cleaner different?


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  Don&#x27;t listen to spauldo, GP. Drink the delicious Kool Aid that is free software. Bring that joy to everyone else you find.


type: comment
by: davydm
text:
  Everybody trying so hard to offload ai on people, but the good news is people are wising up and rejecting the enshittification. $8m is tiny next to the ms-nvidia-openai circle jerk, so at least she shouldn&#x27;t be totally broken when it all finally folds in on itself.


type: comment
by: msla
text:
  Possibly friendlier link:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;longform&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1e8m5s1&#x2F;the_250_best_articles_and_essays_from_the_new&#x2F;?share_id=jJ4MxOX5D_AKGLchl_1iB" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;longform&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1e8m5s1&#x2F;the_250_b...</a><p>(old.reddit.com takes you to the old UI)


type: comment
by: e38383
text:
  &quot;attempted&quot; would be more accurate IMO.<p>I still think that the word redacted is meant to destroy the original text, it might not remove the metadata (e.g. length).<p>Redaction is done mostly in ways with a possibility to reveal the underlying text, but all this is not redacted in my understanding of the word. I always liked the english word for this – the german word &quot;schwärzen&quot; just means to &quot;blacken&quot; the text and this was never the same for me.<p>But after further research I must agree with you, it just means to obscure or remove, but not clearly just remove. I have been using it for years in a stronger meaning that it&#x27;s really meant.<p>One more but: we hopefully can all agree that putting a black bar over some text which still is just copy&#x2F;pasteable is not even obscuring.


type: comment
by: stevenwoo
text:
  There was a tip revealed to be from 2020 that linked him to this case:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;law&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1pve21d&#x2F;unredacted_fbi_national_threat_operations_center&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;law&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1pve21d&#x2F;unredacted_fbi...</a>


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  The Puppeteer team moved to from Google, to Microsoft and started Playwright.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.logrocket.com&#x2F;playwright-vs-puppeteer&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.logrocket.com&#x2F;playwright-vs-puppeteer&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: j45
text:
  Interesting, I was thinking of it more from a travel perspective of running it from a shared power supply or something but you make a valid point.


type: comment
by: adrian_b
text:
  That is a very good question.<p>Plants grow tall to be able to gather light, instead of staying in a shadow.<p>Fungi and many other terrestrial organisms that reproduce like fungi (e.g. slime molds and myxobacteria) grow above the ground only in order to be able to launch their spores into the wind.<p>It does not seem possible to explain the size of Prototaxites by the need of launching spores in the wind.<p>The only plausible explanation is that it was tall in order to ensure access to light.<p>If it was not a plant, it might have had a symbiotic relationship with a phototrophic living being, which grew on the surface of Prototaxites, i.e. either a blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria) or a green alga, exactly like the present lichens. Prototaxites could have provided access to light, water and minerals, while the alga would have provided food.


type: comment
by: wltr
text:
  10 users for mobile notifications is a non-starter for me. I’d rather host XMPP then, I guess. Or a Matrix server, it seems like it allows the mobile notifications.


type: comment
by: alwa
text:
  It also reminds me that systems can’t fix situations like this. The system of “care,” as the story alludes to the autistic person experiencing in their youth, often looks a lot more like warehousing the people on the margins of society, often in unpleasant (and almost always in institutional) conditions. Some kinds of humanity can only ever happen person-to-person, and it’s a great treasure for everyone involved to encounter such an opportunity and choose to take it up.


type: comment
by: krish678
text:
  Not a bot — just a human who thinks em dashes pair nicely with tinsel. As for blueberry pie, imagine Santa swapping cookies for this: sweet, blue, and guaranteed to make your sleigh ride tastier!


type: comment
by: alexanderchr
text:
  Yes this reads like vacuous AI slop and and the **randomly bolded** text everywhere is a **dead giveaway**. At this point it&#x27;s becoming a stronger signal than em-dashes.


type: comment
by: lbrito
text:
  I haven&#x27;t personally seen it either, but there are many commentors on HN (it comes up every time there is a thread about interviewing) that describe precisely that.


type: story
by: KellyCriterion
title: Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?
text:
  Dear all,<p>do we have an statistics on visitor location&#x2F;country here?<p>Would be curious: Is it US-centered? How much people from LatAm or SEA? EU?<p>Maybe there was a question like this in the past, but I couldnt find it.<p>(Maybe this is a question for @dang?)


type: comment
by: foltik
text:
  Yet more slop that amusingly tries to rebrand low pass filtering and dynamic feature selection as “strategic ignorance”


type: comment
by: array_key_first
text:
  They never made sense for desktop interfaces with a keyboard and mouse. Information density is usually preferred, because we have big screens and precise, fast input.


type: comment
by: chasingthewind
text:
  This is basically a fluff piece about Lego with a side helping of climate and sustainability topics. It’s not a particularly good article in my opinion. I think the most fundamental question facing Lego is that clone brick makers are now able to deliver excellent sets at significantly lower cost. The article doesn’t mention that at all.


type: comment
by: smelendez
text:
  I’ve long thought about trying to map of how the locations of music and maybe theater events listed in the magazine have changed over time.<p>There are performances of some kind in pretty much every corner of NYC but it’s interesting to see which neighborhoods have had events deemed relevant to The New Yorker readership in different eras.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  Yeah I can&#x27;t see a source for the internal admissions of regret.<p>If we take out the AI part of this and treat it like any other project, if what they admit is true, it represents a massive failure of judgement and implementation.<p>I can&#x27;t see anyone admitting that in public, as it would probably end their career, or should do at least. Especially if a company is a &quot;meritocracy&quot;


type: comment
by: nickff
text:
  Take a look at Figure 7 on this page, which indicates that (annual) overdose deaths have more than doubled since 2018: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nida.nih.gov&#x2F;research-topics&#x2F;trends-statistics&#x2F;overdose-death-rates" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nida.nih.gov&#x2F;research-topics&#x2F;trends-statistics&#x2F;overd...</a><p>If have lived anywhere with a significant drug-addict (opioid or fentanyl) population through this time period, you’ve seen the increase; if you haven’t, you may be lucky for it.


type: comment
by: kadoban
text:
  &gt; Intel Arc tried shaking up the entry level (retailers spit on that MSRP though) but sadly didn’t make that big of a splash<p>The Intel Arc B60 probably would have made a splash if they had actually produced any of the damn things. 24GB vram for low prices would have been huge for the AI crowd, and there was a lot of excitement and then Intel just didn&#x27;t offer them for sale.<p>The company is too screwed up to take advantage of any opportunities.


type: comment
by: mingus88
text:
  Also, did you see the huge tiles? Wow! I had no idea but my kids would love building forts and rooms


type: comment
by: giacomoforte
text:
  The market is bad but there is still demand for top performers. It&#x27;s hard to give advice without further details. Market rules apply. But MIT and olympiad background is strong enough to get interviews.


type: comment
by: Mountain_Skies
text:
  Move fast and break things. When a black box can be blamed, why care about quality? What we need is EXTREMELY strict liability on harms done by AIs and other black box processes. If a company adopts a black box, that should be considered reckless behavior until proven otherwise. Taking humans out of the loop is a conscious decision they make therefore they should be fully responsible for any mistakes or harms that result.


type: comment
by: fakedang
text:
  Why are all the comments asking for contact info dead?<p>Ping me on my profile dummy id if you wish. We currently don&#x27;t have openings in the US, but if there&#x27;s anything I know in my network, I can push them to take a look.


type: comment
by: rco8786
text:
  I think it will need to be a strong 3rd party that basically gives it the Typescript treatment.<p>Adds type annotations to the core language syntax. The compiler does type checking, strips the annotations, and outputs plain Ruby.


type: comment
by: xnx
text:
  Public company logic:<p>Firing people = smart cost cutting<p>Hiring people = strong vote of confidence in continued growth


type: story
by: manu_trustdom
title: Show HN: Why many AI-generated websites don't show up on Google
url: https://pagesmith.ai/seo-for-ai-generated-sites
text:
  We’ve been experimenting quite a bit with AI website builders and kept seeing the same pattern:<p>Sites often look finished to users — modern UI, fast loads, everything appears “done” — but when search engines crawl them, much of the main content isn’t actually present yet.<p>In many cases the issue isn’t SEO basics, keywords, or content quality. It’s simply when the HTML is generated and what Google receives on first visit.<p>We wrote up a calm, non-marketing explanation of what’s going on, how to spot it yourself (even if you’re not very technical), and why this keeps happening with many modern AI builders.<p>We’re also building a tool (Pagesmith) around this problem, but the article stands on its own and should be useful even if you never use our product.<p>Happy to answer questions or be challenged on any of the claims.


type: comment
by: sho_hn
text:
  Agreed. Plus I expected photos of some sort of in-house reference product archive given the title, and instead there was none of that. It&#x27;s at the level of blogspam.


type: comment
by: stouset
text:
  I think so many 90s kids had this same experience. The Rube Goldberg trap was so much fun to build and play with, nobody bothered to even try and learn the game itself!


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
text:
  Self driving taxis should absolutely be cheaper to use than current regular cars.<p>Because they don&#x27;t need a steering wheel, backseat, and many other things. They can also run close to 24&#x2F;7.<p>How &quot;massive&quot; the price drop becomes I don&#x27;t date to guess though.


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  Gotcha I hadn’t factored those capabilities into the concept of sandbox, but I can see why they would be important features.<p>I will admit I don’t really understand why the library that wraps v8 requires a security team in your view, given that v8 itself definitely has one. I’m trying to understand what you see as the dangerous piece of such code likely to lead to exploits. I’m probably missing something, but I fail to see where the complexity lies.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  What do you mean by &quot;such a system&quot;? One that uses AI to funnel your natural language request into their system of SOP? Or one that uses SOPs to handle cases in general? SOP are great, they drastically reduce errors, since the total error is the square root of the sum of squares of random error and bias – while bias still occurs, the random error can and should be reduced by SOPs, whenever possible. The problem is that SOPs can be really bad: &quot;Wait, I will speak to my manager&quot; -&gt; probably bad SOP. &quot;Wait, I will get my manager so that you can speak to them&quot; -&gt; might be a better SOP, depending on the circumstances.


type: comment
by: krish678
text:
  I understand — the reviewers clearly see it differently, which is why they’ve been carefully evaluating my paper for the past 15 days.


type: comment
by: cf100clunk
text:
  Part 2 is here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;25&#x2F;go_foss_keep_your_os&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;25&#x2F;go_foss_keep_your_os&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: LenaRyouna
text:
  Even with government interference, this is possible. That is why anyone with substantial wealth or influence should first focus on acquiring the necessary weapons and manpower to defend their property.<p>Having anything will automatically paint a target on anyone&#x27;s back.


type: comment
by: rdiddly
text:
  I want nothing to do with Waymo or any of the others, but they&#x27;re all being forced on me. I think self-driving cars are one of the biggest and stupidest misallocations of resources and talent we&#x27;ve seen yet. And they&#x27;re being developed using public resources that we all own (yet I never had a chance to vote on it) for the benefit of a private company that only those with enough disposable income can buy into. I don&#x27;t happen to own any of their stock, so I&#x27;m not seeing any benefit. Why would I care how well they&#x27;re doing? And they helped themselves to my roads as a testing ground; why would I afford them the slightest slack when they mess up? Meanwhile the people who can least afford to buy in, are actually living on the streets where these are being tested and are shouldering a disproportionate share of the risks. So it only takes mere inconvenience, or their mere existence, to bother and annoy me, not human harm. It&#x27;s a machine designed to steal from the commons. And actually in tort law, theft IS harm. But physical harm to humans has also happened and will happen. Cars driven by humans: same, except also having a lengthy history that includes documented physical harm to humans. They too are machines for stealing from the public to advantage the owners. The things being stolen are clean air, climate, land&#x2F;space, and safety&#x2F;life. So my argument is fully consistent. There are exceptions in it for trucks, trains and buses, and even for some cars, in cases where the benefit offsets the harm, and the public has meaningfully approved it.


type: comment
by: dwohnitmok
text:
  &gt; Yet when you compare the same model in 2 different agents you can easily see capability differences.<p>Yes definitely. But this is to be expected. Heck take the same person and put them in two different environments and they&#x27;ll have very different performance!<p>&gt; But cross (same tier) model in the same agent is much less stark.<p>Unclear what you mean by this. I do agree that the big three companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind) are all more or less neck and neck in SOTA models, but every new generation has been a leap. They just keep leaping over each other.<p>If you compare e.g. Opus 4.1 and Opus 4.5 in the same agent harness, Opus 4.5 is way better. If you compare Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Pro in the same agent harness, Gemini 3 is way better. I don&#x27;t do much coding or benchmarking with OpenAI&#x27;s family of models, but anecdotally have heard the same thing going from GPT-5 to GPT-5.2.<p>The on the ground improvements have been coming primarily from model improvements, not harness improvements (the latter is unlocked by the former). Again, it&#x27;s not that there were breakthroughs in agent frameworks that happened; all the ideas we&#x27;re seeing now have all been tried before. Models simply weren&#x27;t capable enough to actually use them. It&#x27;s just that more and more (pre-tried!) frameworks are starting to make sense now. Indeed, there are certain frameworks and workflows that simply did not make sense with Q2-Q3 2025 models that now make sense with Q4 2025 models.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  When you have children, your life is mostly about the kids.  It really doesn’t matter if you live in rural America.<p>As empty nesters, at 51 and 50, there is nothing interesting  about rural America.  I’m in South GA now visiting my parents with my wife.  They spend all of the their time between yard work doing things around the house and church.  My cousins who still live here and their lives are just as boring - unless they go out of town.


type: comment
by: ejfhp
text:
  If you&#x27;re interested you can send a mail to bengodi@googlegroups.com explaining why you would like to test Bengodi.<p>Thanks!


type: comment
by: matrix12
text:
  Sauce <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;after-laying-off-4000-employees-and-automating-with-ai-agents-salesforce-executives-admit-we-were-more-confident-about-&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;126121875.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;aft...</a>


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Thanks. So you are saying that bias prevents Marxists from being quoted regarding foreign affairs? I thought you were claiming that US journalism was pro-Marxist, which is a much more common claim these days - I wanted to hear about when they quoted Marxists. Until your latest comment, I had no idea what you meant.<p>I generally agree - almost all mainstream US journalism will not use Marxist ideas for any topic, unless the publication is unaware of the idea&#x27;s origins. So there is a lack of diversity there.<p>At the same time, I think your argument conflates Marxism and communism. The US journalists don&#x27;t know the difference either, and I believe are really anti-communist - openly and avowedly - and assume Marxism is essentially the same thing.<p>&gt; there are entire countries of marxists, china and cuba.<p>The idea that everyone in Cuba and China are Marxist or communist is just misunderstanding politics and humanity. IMHO China&#x27;s government is closer to right-wing authoritarian&#x2F;totalitarian, with its history clearly in communism (Mao, etc.) but they now mostly use it for ideological cover. Xi is a princeling, inheriting his status from elite (though not every princeling becomes head of the country).


type: comment
by: mdhb
text:
  I think that as an employee it’s good to have a clear failure case study to point to from a large and credible organisation that this idea your boss has to fire everyone and just LLM everything isn’t going to work the way you expect it to.<p>The more examples of this going badly we can get together the better.


type: comment
by: chrisandchris
text:
  I can feel you. I tend to ignore WhatsApp messages at all or take up to 2-3 weeks to respond (as soon as I&#x27;m in the mood for it). People around me know that and mostly just call if they want something. Problem solved (IMHO).


type: comment
by: grayxu
text:
  The reason is that you are not a Computer Science PhD. But soft skills (such as storytelling, sense of ownership, etc.) can still be passed down


type: comment
by: dns_snek
text:
  &gt; Yeah, good luck. Contact your lawyer.<p>Why? The intent seems pretty clear and they&#x27;re legally allowed to do this because all contributors signed a CLA.


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  What would it mean to implement the optimization without dealing with LLVM&#x27;s internal structure?  Optimizations don&#x27;t exist in a vacuum.


type: comment
by: Robdel12
text:
  I’m surprised, hacker news is not questioning this in the slightest?<p>Is anyone really buying they laid off 4k people _because_ they really thought they’d replace them with an LLM agent? The article is suspect at best and this doesn’t even in the slightest align with my experience with LLMs at work (it’s created more work for me).<p>The layoff always smelled like it was because of the economy.


type: comment
by: dimrover
text:
  What you should have been doing, instead of telling her the comforting lie that the world operates on merit and this is all that matters while nudging her towards tying all her feelings of self-worth to this, is helping her build resilience so that she doesn&#x27;t end up wallowing in despair after a minor career setback.<p>That you&#x27;ve cancelled Christmas to collectively endure some sort of misery spiral instead obviously isn&#x27;t going to help either. What on earth are you thinking?<p>She&#x27;s learned this harsh life lesson that the world is unfair later rather than sooner, but she has a long life and career ahead of her. Not being able to get the type of job she wants, for a little while at least, isn&#x27;t the end of the world.<p>For what it&#x27;s worth, my company, a medium-sized business that operates in the cybersecurity space, is stil actively hiring junior staff. Many other companies we work with and compete with are too. Perhaps she needs to cast her net wider than wherever she&#x27;s currently looking.


type: comment
by: HarHarVeryFunny
text:
  Makes no sense - why would Salesforce&#x27;s customers care if the company is using AI or not, other than when it impacts them (the customer) such as worse customer service.<p>This just seems a poor decision made by C-suite folk who were neither AI-savvy enough to understand the limits of the tech, nor smart enough to run a meaningful trial to evaluate it. A failure of wishful thinking over rational evaluation.


type: comment
by: briandw
text:
  Boosting NAD has a been the focus of taking NMN supplements. Seems like NMN is a dud for boosting NAD. I wonder if P7C3-A20 can be used instead?


type: comment
by: Dusseldorf
text:
  Here&#x27;s a suggestion: maybe you could not track all of our activity extremely invasively by default, and allow those who would like to provide feedback and tracking to enable it on their own. Crazy thought, I know.


type: comment
by: viccis
text:
  You&#x27;re ignoring the mass atrocities committed by both sides in the Donbas throughout much of the 2010s that provided easy propaganda to achieve the same outcomes as the Iraq War propaganda.<p>I have another example of a &quot;war&quot; carried out recently with overwhelming support in its nation and in the US (initially) due to rapid propaganda around an attack that was likely intentionally intensified in effect by things like moving civilian events next to a military target the day before. But I won&#x27;t post that one lol


type: comment
by: The_President
text:
  American cops, fire, and EMS will go upstream on a one way road, or use the sidewalk or the grass if they have to.  The Blues Brothers film may even be the material used to train some of the more ambitious departments.


type: comment
by: Lord-Jobo
text:
  Get lumped in with the wrong manager, in the eyes of the VP positions, and it can deadend your whole career. They can be a decent manager too. But if they aren’t compatible with their boss, it will burn you all the same.


type: comment
by: Antoniocl
text:
  Unsure about whether the specific dealership in question supports online booking, but there existing consumers whose preference is for a phone call over a web-based experience is definitely the case, at least in the US.<p>For example, even with the (digital-only) SAAS company I work at, we have a non-trivial amount of customers who with strong preferences to talk on the phone, ex to provide their credit card number, rather than enter it in the product. This is likely more pronounced if your product serves less tech-savvy niches.<p>That said, a strong preference for human call &gt; website use doesn&#x27;t necessarily imply even a weak preference for AI call &gt; website use (likely customer-dependent, but I&#x27;d be surprised if the number with that preference was exactly 0)


type: comment
by: danenania
text:
  That’s because gods are a mythical&#x2F;supernatural invention. No technology can ever really be omniscient or omnipotent. It will always have limitations.<p>In reality, even an ASI won’t know your intent unless you communicate it clearly and unambiguously.


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  No, the reason was to save tax money by making mental healthcare a personal responsibility instead of a social one. There were many justifications (abuse, new drugs, etc), but the reason was cost.<p>Abuse was&#x2F;is a reason to improve controls over abuse and increase funding to improve conditions. It is not a good reason to abandon inpatient care wholesale. Imagine if we had made the same decision about hospitals or schools, both of which engaged in routine abuse in the early 20th century.


type: comment
by: hnlmorg
text:
  &gt; and we&#x27;re the only animal that we know of that gets it.<p>Is this actually true? I thought it was pretty common for elderly pets


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  It means we have no idea if this would work or how it would work, and discussing it as a treatment for humans is badly mistaken.


type: comment
by: 65
text:
  I&#x27;ve always found it much quicker to just... do the work myself. AI slows me down more than anything.


type: comment
by: quickthrowman
text:
  I just asked a GLM 4.6 powered app I use to describe what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and to be as objective as possible. Here is a fragment of the output:<p>&gt; <i>The situation escalated in the late hours of June 3 and early morning of June 4, when the People&#x27;s Liberation Army was ordered to clear Tiananmen Square. Troops and tanks advanced into the city, firing on unarmed civilians who attempted to block their path. Violent clashes occurred on streets leading to the square, with the majority of casualties occurring on Chang&#x27;an Avenue, the main east-west thoroughfare.</i><p>The system prompt for the app I use is different from the one z.ai uses. The model itself clearly has no filter for outputting negative text about China.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  Would you suggest Vibium as ready for production use?<p>On second thought not being controlled by Microsoft might be good enough to differentiate it from playwright. It&#x27;s not a good idea for a single company to control so much.<p>I&#x27;m thinking their needs to be an easy way to sandbox vibe automation. I don&#x27;t want to accidentally click an ad and vibe test an unrelated website .


type: comment
by: Robdel12
text:
  I love these replies, hahah. You really think I’m not aware of the software that’s running my 2017 Shelby? The difference is (you know this, I think you’re being purposely obtuse) it’s never connected to the internet, it’s never getting updates, and it’s not a complete car OS that locks you out of doing anything.<p>I think you might be the one needing the luck


type: comment
by: veryfancy
text:
  Our problem with modern lego is that the sets are so cool and complex that the kids don’t want to take them apart after they’re built.<p>The 11yo wants few new sets now because he doesn’t know where he would put them, and declines to swap out his assembled sets.


type: comment
by: imglorp
text:
  I agree this is what&#x27;s happening, for everyone to see.<p>I didn&#x27;t understand their end game. When everyone is starving, public infra is all on fire, and the 0.1% are snug in their island bunkers, then what? What if their child gets cancer, or they run out of caviar, or their yacht needs a replacement part?


type: comment
by: jadbox
text:
  &gt; &quot;With proper parallelism, Ruby apps can finally compete with Go and Node.js in concurrent scenarios without sacrificing developer happiness&quot;<p>In theory, maybie. Parallelism support isn&#x27;t a boolean though as there&#x27;s a lot of additional factors at play. Just as one example, late stage Visual Basic also got parallelism support, but it really didn&#x27;t help the overall positioning of the the language among its peers.


type: comment
by: mathgeek
text:
  It&#x27;s a bit ironic that the &quot;soft&quot; skills are becoming the hard skills nowadays. A lot of the AI buzz these days is around PM&#x27;s, Data Scientists, etc. who now have the tools to code &quot;well enough&quot; and are attractive due to their people skills and&#x2F;or other skillsets.<p>Not to say this is an objective analysis, just observing the subjective trends.


type: comment
by: DocTomoe
text:
  As someone who is going through a dark, dark time right now: profusely thank you. This is exactly what I needed.<p>May all your days be joyful.


type: comment
by: gs17
text:
  &gt; I cannot imagine that anyone suicidal being told in non-specific terms that they are loved is helping anything either.<p>Having gone through some bad depression in my life, it&#x27;s not helpful. It&#x27;s not exactly a platitude, but it&#x27;s the same genre of meaninglessness that sounds good to people who aren&#x27;t in a deep dark hole.


type: comment
by: nachopa
text:
  My point was that soldered RAM and lack of upgradeable components didn&#x27;t inspire much of a backlash back then. It led to Apple dominating the higher end of the consumer laptop market.


type: comment
by: acdha
text:
  Think about how much effort they have put into things like Pylance and general python support in VAC. Clearly they think they have enough users that this matters to that a first class experience is worth having.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
text:
  &gt;Career is a made up game.<p>And yet we know techies love games and structured process. It is a clever way to make them do what you want to. Techies could have so much more power in the job market and yet they give it all up sadly.


type: comment
by: thenoblesunfish
text:
  This article is aimed at younger kids, before normal Lego is appropriate. I like Duplo more than magnatiles - slightly harder to clean up I suppose, but that&#x27;s because they hold together better than magnatiles, which create quite fragile structures.


type: comment
by: nick486
text:
  &gt;you would still be bottlenecked on human&#x27;s ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do.<p>this sort of assumes that most humans actually know what they want to do.<p>It is very untrue in my experience.<p>Its like most complaints I hear about AI art. yes, it is generic and bland. just like 90% of what human artists produce.


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  &gt; People make the mistake to think otherwise because its not the homelessness you often see.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is a mistake so much as people do not care about the homelessness they don&#x27;t see.<p>Ironically when you use the specific words for the homelessness they do care about (unsheltered or unhoused) you&#x27;re accused of being woke or whatever.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  fair. I used to think that too, but I find at least for golang, the sota models write tests way faster than I would be able to. tdd is actually really possible with ai imo. except of course you get the scaffolding implementation (I haven&#x27;t figured out a way to get models to write tests in a way that ensures the tests actually do something useful without an implementation).


type: comment
by: victorbjorklund
text:
  You kind of need enough knowledge to use it in a fun way. You only know 100 words of Spanish and no grammar etc? Well, that won’t be any fun stories to read, fun conversations to have etc.<p>Notice I use ”fun” on purpose. Because some people are able to enjoy the process of using the language even at that stage (but many do not).


type: comment
by: fakedang
text:
  From the recruiting side, it has become painfully difficult for us to get connected to top performers. AI submitted CVs are garbage, LinkedIn Recruiter is garbage, online platforms like Indeed and Glassdoor are filled with AI-submitted CVs - it&#x27;s painful for us.<p>We&#x27;ve had to resort back to outbound using headhunters we&#x27;ve worked with. It&#x27;s okay for us since we can afford it, but I doubt many startups pre-Series B can afford the services of headhunters or even inhouse recruiting.<p>Open to solutions and new ideas tbh.


type: comment
by: BewareTheYiga
text:
  I lost a family member yesterday and I have not been well. This brought me out of the darkness for a spell. Thank you kind stranger. May your days be blessed


type: comment
by: sho_hn
text:
  From all the criticisms leveled at Wayland, this is definitely the strangest I&#x27;ve ever heard.<p>I really cannot thing of any existing functionality ever broken by a new release of wayland-protocols, neither by a plain bug nor by a bad interaction. No doubt someone else will be able to recall an example, but it&#x27;s really not a common thing.<p>This is partially because the governance model and community mindset is the opposite of what you describe. Inclusion of new protocols in the stable release requires existing, proven implementations and consensus across multiple implementors, making it a high bar. New proposals run a gauntlet where pretty much everyone is looking at the consequences in detail.<p>In fact a more common criticism of Wayland is that the focus on high quality and the consensus requirement are too strict and have slowed down filling in feature gaps users need filled faster. This argument I think can be successfully defended against - mainly, that it helps avoid the mess X11 became over time -, but at least has some basic merit in reality and is an avatar for genuine user pain.<p>As for X11, as someone who had to implement a lot of X11 specs over the years, I can tell you that their provenance between X11 itself as well as ICCCM and EMWH had plenty of super dumb ideas and cruft and inconsistencies from lack of foresight and eventually datedness. You don&#x27;t want to see the towering stack of hacks and heuristics we used to have to ship to make X11 behave somewhat consistently and sane :)<p>In short, with all due respect, but I think you really don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about. We really should resist this type of narrative reality distortion field on an engineering forum.


type: story
by: susam
title: How I Make These ASCII Pictures and Links to Other Tutorials (2000)
url:
  https://web.archive.org/web/20000520115049/http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/junkyard/techstuff/tutorials/Joan_Stark.html


type: comment
by: zerr
text:
  I don&#x27;t think he would pass FANG interviews or enjoy their day-to-day grind. The whole point of such prolific programmers is to code whenever you feel like, not by some arbitrary deadlines. Not to mention the tolerance of office politics in those orgs.


type: comment
by: voidfunc
text:
  Python is great and I love writing glue in it, but Ruby is just a better designed language and ecosystem overall.


type: comment
by: Antoniocl
text:
  Interesting, I regularly use chat-based support on amazon.ca to speak with (what I presume is) a real human after none of the control flow paths adequately resolve my issue. I&#x27;ve always found the support quick to reply and very helpful.<p>Granted, it&#x27;s been 1-2 weeks since I had an issue, so it may have changed since then, or it could be only released to a subset of users.


type: comment
by: bobbob27
text:
  By all accounts the Framework 14 hits the balance well, feeling basically like any other premium metal laptop. Maybe based on that reputation alone, the author decided to buy the 16.<p>But the 16 is meant to be a chonky desktop replacement with a giant GPU enclosure on the back. Just by virtue of what it is, it&#x27;s <i>never</i> going to feel very nice.<p>The author&#x27;s other option to buy being a MacBook tells me they neglected to do their research on what they were buying.<p>What they really wanted was a Framework 14! It basically IS a MacBook with replaceable components and full repairability.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s room for skepticism.<p>And there&#x27;s room for thinking there&#x27;s water in the ocean. We have no idea whether this would work at all or how it would work at all in humans. We have one experiment in mice, which as you say can&#x27;t have Alzheimer&#x27;s.<p>This is a nice step, like developments in fusion energy. That&#x27;s part of research, and let&#x27;s hope and investigate it, but it&#x27;s absurd to think about it as anything but a science project right now.


type: comment
by: cryptonector
text:
  | My goal ...<p>later<p>| ... our ...<p>I think Galen&#x27;s goal to rewrite every bit of C&#x2F;C++ was his goal, not Microsoft&#x27;s.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  It doesn’t work like that.  An “architect” at a small startup will get you maybe to a mid level position at BigTech if you pass the coding interview. The scale is completely different.<p>And those “entrepreneurs” usually make less than a senior enterprise dev working in a 2nd tier city or a new grad at BigTech.


type: comment
by: avereveard
text:
  Electronics are popualar also because there&#x27;s a higher proportion of only child and parents have only so much time to dedicate to child play


type: comment
by: kasey_junk
text:
  I actually have spent a lot of time doing comparisons between the 4.1 and 4.5 Claude models (and lately the 5.1-&gt;5.2 chatgpt models) and for many many tasks there is not significant improvement.<p>All things being equal I agree that the models are improving, but for many of the tasks I’m testing what has the most improvement is the agent. The agents choosing the appropriate model for the task for instance has been huge.<p>I do believe there is beneficial symbiosis but for my results the agent&#x27;s provide much bigger variance than the model.


type: comment
by: znpy
text:
  If you have some software that’s somewhat rigid you could make it scriptable by linking microquickjs.<p>For example, lately i was looking into patching dnsmasq to handle events but found out that the dhcp-script flag most likely does what i need.<p>Otherwise i could patch dnsmasq to load microquickjs, evaluate some javascript functions and hook into events emitted by the dnsmasq regular lifecycle.<p>I might end up doing that anyway, since it looks like a fun thing to do.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  You can&#x27;t make calculations without data, and in this case you have none: we have no idea of the effects on humans.


type: comment
by: vunderba
text:
  Same. We had a kids’ play table (low to the ground and rectangular) that we’d prop up with a few blocks under one end to give it a slight incline. We’d spend hours covering the surface with blocks in different positions to simulate a pinball table.<p>Then we’d take a large marble and use two long triangular blocks as flippers to “play” on it.<p>Tilting was <i>NOT</i> advised.


type: comment
by: Calavar
text:
  Quite to the contrary, I&#x27;d say this update is evidence of the inner loop being hyperoptimized!<p>MSVC&#x27;s support for musttail is hot off the press:<p>&gt; The [[msvc::musttail]] attribute, introduced in MSVC Build Tools version 14.50, is an experimental x64-only Microsoft-specific attribute that enforces tail-call optimization. [1]<p>MSVC Build Tools version 14.50 was released <i>last month</i>, and it only took a few weeks for the CPython crew to turn that around into a performance improvement.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;attributes?view=msvc-170" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;cpp&#x2F;attributes?view=ms...</a>


type: comment
by: cryptonector
text:
  My goal is for every line of C&#x2F;C++ to be rewritten.<p><i>My</i> goal.  Not Microsoft&#x27;s or SpaceX&#x27;s or...<p>When Galen says &quot;my goal is ...&quot; I take that at face value but as aspirational.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  maarthandam.com is a weird website. Recent posts:<p><pre><code>    Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI     December 25, 2025     New Chennai Café Showcases Professional Excellence of Visually Impaired Chefs     December 22, 2025     Employee Who Worked 80 Hour Weeks Files Lawsuit Alleging Termination After Approved Medical Leave     December 21, 2025     UPS Sued for Running Holiday Business By Robbing Workers of Wages     December 18, 2025     This Poor Man’s Food is A Nutritional Powerhouse that is Often Ignored in Tamil Nadu     October 5, 2025     Netizens Mourn as Trump Was Found Alive, Promising Tariffs Instead     August 31, 2025 </code></pre> Looks like a clickbait farm of some sort?


type: comment
by: vunderba
text:
  Trivial Pursuit was like this too. Our family would chill in the den just randomly asking each other questions from the cards. I&#x27;m not sure we <i>ever</i> actually played it using the board game part.


type: comment
by: dxdm
text:
  Merry Christmas to you. You are not entirely alone, in the sense that other people have gone through loss and hardship and have come out of it eventually, better, happier, and stronger. Also, there are strangers like me who wish you well. I hope that things will work out for you soon. For now, here&#x27;s a warm greeting and a smile for you. :)


type: comment
by: zamadatix
text:
  Am I not loading all of this article? It basically stops for me after saying &quot;magnet toys top the list&quot; with 3 examples of such (well, really 2) for me, with no real investigation into other toys or exploration of why the variants like the Minecraft magnet toy scored much worse in cleanup (I assume it&#x27;s due to the piece size?). Anything about toys other than magnet blocks?<p>Another type of toy I&#x27;ve seen fit this bill has been wooden&#x2F;plastic train tracks (the solid larger pieces type, not flimsy model type, and simple sturdy trains to go on them). It still has the element of customization and playing with what you build but cleanup is &quot;scoop the large pieces into a bucket&quot; (and stepping on them usually isn&#x27;t painful!)


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  Why do you feel entitled to top-of-market products in this space?  Are the nicest houses or cars commercially available to you?  It&#x27;s fine to have products outside the limited financial reach of mere mortals.


type: comment
by: vunderba
text:
  Yes. It&#x27;s starts and ends with Perfection.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perfection_(board_game)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Perfection_(board_game)</a>


type: comment
by: k310
text:
  I visited the local library (California foothills) during a “book sale”, and what didn’t sell was left out in boxes, either for cheap or free. What didn’t move was destined for the landfill. I was aghast, but without enough room to take in the strays. Real estate is unforgiving.<p>I am in favor of “little free libraries” [0] where books circulate freely, and if they aren’t returned, hopefully are read and not destroyed. They offer plans to build little libraries, and I hope to build some. “Owner” will have to build the supports, though.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlefreelibrary.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;littlefreelibrary.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: bobbob27
text:
  Framework 14 is the original (and best tbh). The 13 and 16 unfortunately don&#x27;t hit the balance of feeling premium like the 14 does. This thread has me wondering if they really diluted their reputation with these new devices...


type: comment
by: fakedang
text:
  Easy on the fellow. OP doesn&#x27;t feel great at the moment because of feeding the &quot;lies&quot; about merit to his daughter, the same &quot;lies&quot;  they fed all of us back in our day that doing everything by the book pays (Lies in quotes because there&#x27;s obviously a ton of substance in those statements still). You don&#x27;t need to push him down further. While the lack of any celebration is not the best idea (assuming OP is still reasonably well-off), a stern rebuke won&#x27;t help either.<p>As I mentioned elsewhere, companies are hiring. We&#x27;re in Europe with a US office and we&#x27;re hiring, in spite of being in a country that&#x27;s practically in recession mode. But the main issue is connecting the talent to the company. That&#x27;s what&#x27;s messing up hiring these days. Inbound is finished and outbound isn&#x27;t scalable.


type: comment
by: hafizdhanani
text:
  - The Problem: Most Facebook ad campaigns fail because they are mathematically underfunded relative to the algorithm&#x27;s needs.<p>- The Constraint: Meta requires ~50 optimization events per week per Ad Set to exit the &quot;Learning Phase.<p>- The Solution: I built this calculator to determine the exact daily budget floor required to stabilize performance.<p><pre><code>    -  Minimum (Risk): 7x CPA (Hits ~50 events&#x2F;week)      -  Ideal (Safe): 14x CPA (Buffer for volatility)</code></pre>


type: comment
by: xenospn
text:
  Elderly pets have loss of cognitive function&#x2F;memory, but I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s the same disease.


type: comment
by: Lord-Jobo
text:
  Interviews tuned properly for the position are almost always 95% talking with a decent trial&#x2F;probation period. If they have the general credentials and can talk competently about the detail work, there is no benefit for either party doing these asinine code challenges.<p>The problems that spawn these leetcode barriers are WAY better solved at the source.<p>Prob 1: the interviewer doesn’t know shit about the actual role. I know it’s an uncommon opinion, but this should just not happen ever. I would gladly sit in on a speaking interview for my would-be coworkers, with the hiring manager, to check this. And the actual manager should be present and knowledgeable too. But 3 employees doing something is too much $ I guess.<p>Prob 2: credentials and high degrees are prolific, super mandatory, but also treated like they are meaningless. Experience is borderline ignored entirely. Worked with a software deeply for 10 years, but your cert is out of date? You won’t even get past the computerized HR filter. But because this is so openly stupid, companies tack on leetcode as another filter instead of rethinking the value of experience and relying on probation and bullshit detectors.


type: comment
by: coliveira
text:
  The most stupid narrative ever. If AI is so good for productivity, why don&#x27;t you use it to make your 4000 workers produce even more than other companies? Why you need to fire them, so now you have hands tied to your back, and go back to produce the same amount of software? It is completely obvious that the goal is to fire workers, not to get AI stuff done.


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  Not really a bar raise - many people have assumed that &quot;AGI&quot; would mean essentially omnipotent&#x2F;omniscient AI since the concept of the technological singularity came into being. Read Kurzweil or Rudy Rucker, there&#x27;s a reason this sort of thing used to be called the &quot;rapture for nerds.&quot;<p>If anything I&#x27;ve noticed the bar being lowered by the pro-AI set, except for humans, because the prevailing belief is that LLMs must already be AGI but any limitations are dismissed as also being human limitations, and therefore evidence that LLMs are already human equivalent in any way that matters.<p>And instead of the singularity we have Roko&#x27;s Basilisk.


type: comment
by: echelon
text:
  &gt; when they closed down all the mental institutions.<p>Why on earth did we do this?<p>I look back at period pieces - films showcasing the 40s, 50s, etc., and it seems like mental institutions would be a wonderful way to house these folks and keep them fed and warm.<p>I know there were abuses, but we have cameras now. And that&#x27;s surely better than leaving them on the streets to freeze to death.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine it would cost that much, and it would clean up the streets of drugs and homelessness. And reduce the tax on emergency services responding to calls.<p>I feel so bad for what we as a society do to these people. When my city closed down the local homeless shelter in midtown, the people on Reddit - supposedly leftists - cheered. I was so sad. These are the same people that call me fascist all the time for being a fiscal moderate and saying we shouldn&#x27;t build subway to the suburbs. Being humanitarian would cost 1&#x2F;10,000th of that.


type: comment
by: avereveard
text:
  Same I have multiple subscription and layer them. I use haiku to plan and send queue of task to codex and gemini whose command line can be scripted<p>The issue to me is that I have no idea of what the code looks like and have to have a reliable first layer model that can summarize current codebase state so I can decide whether the next mutation moves the project forward or reduces technical debt. I can delegate much more that way, while gemini &quot;do first&quot; approach tend to result in many dead ends that I have to unravel.


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
text:
  If you think the Bible is childish, then I can only assume you&#x27;ve never studied it in earnest. These aren&#x27;t fairy tales. They are a collection of books written in numerous styles and languages belonging to various genres drawn from many cultural contexts spanning thousands of years and whose canon was determined by the Catholic Church in the 4th century (most famously, at the Council of Rome when the 73 books were listed). Theologians, philosophers, and biblical scholars are deepening their understanding of this text to this day.<p>Just look at something like John 1:1: «In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.» Most adults aren&#x27;t in a position to comprehend that, never mind a child. It is one of the most profound sentences ever uttered (those with sufficient philosophical and theological background might find this recent book on this topic of interest [0]). Or consider Exodus 3:14: «God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”». If that doesn&#x27;t knock you off your feet, then you have not understood it. This is an incredibly sophisticated metaphysical statement, the meaning of which was unknown to the ancient pagans. (A good, short introduction from a philosophical angle can be found here [1].)<p>But more importantly, both you and the author of that article have committed a very basic category mistake. The Bible is not in the same business as the physical sciences. It doesn&#x27;t answer the same questions. The Bible is not a scientific treatise, and the physical science are not a path to salvation from sin.<p>The Bible is also not a text of mere parables and life lessons. Indeed, this is one of those distinguishing features of Christianity that many fail to appreciate. In other religious traditions, it doesn&#x27;t really matter where the truth claims come from or who said them. You could accept the claims without knowing or caring about the author. But you cannot do that with the figure of Christ. You cannot say &quot;Oh, I accept the lessons of the New Testament, I think Jesus was a wise teacher. I just don&#x27;t accept his divinity or the resurrection or the miracles or all that other stuff my bourgeois sensibilities can&#x27;t stomach.&quot; Those claims that are uniquely Christian are about Christ and rooted in the authority of Christ. It is Christ who saves - a person - not knowledge, not some method, not a technology, but a <i>person</i>. Christ calls himself the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all creation, eternal, the Almighty, and the source and completion of history and salvation.<p>That&#x27;s not just some &quot;fun&quot; or &quot;cute&quot; passage. The point is that - if Christianity is true - it is through Christ that Man&#x27;s relationship to God is restored <i>and elevated</i>. It is through Christ that man is ennobled. Man is invited to participate in his divinity, and unlike other traditions that maintain Man can attain divinity through his own efforts alone, the Christian says &quot;no&quot;, it is not in Man&#x27;s power to do that, to pull himself up by his own bootstraps; only God can do that, and the way is by answering &quot;yes&quot; to his offer, by cooperating with him so he can accomplish that divinity in us. To do that, God humbled himself through the Incarnation to share in our humanity: «the Word became flesh and dwelt among us». He entered the pathology and disorder of the world to liberate it from it, to be the path out of it.<p><i>That</i> is what Christianity teaches. <i>That</i> is what Christmas is about. Either that is true, or Jesus was a liar or a madman. What he wasn&#x27;t was merely another &quot;wise teacher&quot;. Either Christmas celebrates this momentous historical event of the Incarnation, or it is ridiculous.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;1QtQWCP" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;1QtQWCP</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;bSqgkXq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;a.co&#x2F;d&#x2F;bSqgkXq</a>


type: story
by: paulpauper
title: All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up
url:
  https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/11/06/all-over-the-rich-world-fewer-people-are-hooking-up-and-shacking-up


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  &gt; not even the biggest timewaster of python, which is the packaging &quot;system&quot;.<p>For frequent, short-running scripts: start-up time!  Every import has to scan a billion different directories for where the module might live, even for standard modules included with the interpreter.


type: comment
by: hamdingers
text:
  Every part of the Bible is up for interpretation. Which parts you interpret as fact will depend on what worldview you&#x27;re trying to justify (or which church you&#x27;re trying to be a member of).


type: comment
by: honeycrispy
text:
  They&#x27;re a parent. They probably don&#x27;t have enough time to write a comprehensive article if this article isn&#x27;t paying the bills.


type: comment
by: tryfinally
text:
  You add PolySharp to your source generator project to get back some of the modern C# features. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sergio0694&#x2F;PolySharp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Sergio0694&#x2F;PolySharp</a>


type: comment
by: RockRobotRock
text:
  Long shot, if anyone here is an Asterisk wizard. I would like to correlate CDRs to voicemail recording locations. I am building an integrated dashboard for call recordings, and want voicemails to be included, but that&#x27;s been surprisingly difficult.


type: comment
by: ilamont
text:
  It was signaling to Wall Street and the rest of the tech industry. They want to be seen as profit focused and innovation driven.


type: comment
by: perfmode
text:
  You wrote: “I told her for years that merit would protect her. It didn’t.”<p>You believed that because you wanted her to be safe. That’s love. And you were working with the information you had. The guilt you’re feeling is its own kind of grief — the loss of being able to protect her through guidance.<p>You can acknowledge this to her without making it about you. Something like: “I gave you a map that turned out to be incomplete. That wasn’t fair to you. I’m sorry.”<p>That kind of honesty, rather than weakening your relationship, might actually strengthen it. It models that being wrong isn’t the end of the world — and that love doesn’t require being right.


type: comment
by: geerlingguy
text:
  For a younger kid, a ball is often a good option.<p>This Christmas, after putting aside the push car, some books, and a few other little toys from the grandparents, my 1 year old has spent the past 30 minutes chasing a large beach ball one of his siblings brought up from the basement.<p>I can second the recommendation for magnet tiles, though; everyone in the family seems to enjoy the satisfaction of them clicking together, and finding new ways to build random stuff. The toddler just makes stacks of magnet tiles, which is fine for his development. The 8-12 year olds enjoy building relatively complex structures. Then watching the 1 year old act like Godzilla an destroy it.


type: comment
by: blueone
text:
  This isn’t about you, someone with years of experience. I also found a job within a month a year ago. Why? My experience.<p>My brother in law is experiencing the same thing as his daughter. He graduated with a 4.0 in computer science but couldn’t find a job to save his life. Why? It’s hard to customize your resume when you have no relevant experience. What’s he doing now? Getting his master’s. Piling on more debt. Hoping. Working on random projects, just like everyone else. Getting the occasional interview where they ask questions he has no idea how to answer because he’s never been in the situation to learn or develop a way to formulate an answer. Unprepared, despite preparing every single day. Why? Because teams have lost people due to layoffs, offshoring, etc., and now expect more from potential junior positions.<p>Reaching out to recruiters, hiring managers, people who work in the company&#x2F;department isn’t some new thing. It’s just not working like it used to.


type: comment
by: koshersalt
text:
  That’s cool if you can, but the majority of business desktops&#x2F;laptops runs Windows. Hard to gain enterprise traction when it’s hard to run tools on your local machine


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  The CDs I have seem to be proprietary for Windows from the late 90s. But I also have PDFs through 2005 on my computer which I must have &quot;acquired&quot; at some point.


type: comment
by: minimaxir
text:
  It&#x27;s just clickbait satire of niche drama where the actual CodeRabbit CEO caused a PR debacle: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004051923704730094" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;aidenybai&#x2F;status&#x2F;2004051923704730094</a>


type: comment
by: orphea
text:
  Adding to the sibling comment, there are also Frozen{Dictionary,Set}: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;api&#x2F;system.collections.frozen?view=net-10.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;dotnet&#x2F;api&#x2F;system.collecti...</a>


type: comment
by: kevinwang
text:
  Thanks. Link should be changed to this.<p>Edit: oh wait, this article isn&#x27;t the source either. It references an article by &quot;The Information&quot;, which I assume is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;salesforce-executives-say-trust-generative-ai-declined" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;salesforce-executive...</a> There&#x27;s also this follow-up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;story-salesforces-declining-trust-llms-hit-nerve" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theinformation.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;story-salesforces-de...</a><p>It&#x27;s paywalled, so I can&#x27;t verify.


type: comment
by: em3rgent0rdr
text:
  Why can&#x27;t these posts just say &quot;microsecond&quot; instead of the vague and misleading &quot;ultra-low&quot;?


type: comment
by: amashal
text:
  There are a couple of reasons.<p>1. There is a wavelength and penetration depth trade off. For better accuracy you need smaller wavelengths (i.e. higher frequencies) but at higher frequencies ultrasound pressure gets absorbed at a higher rate, making it challenging to get the required pressure levels deeper into tissue.<p>2. Ultrasound focus can deflect as it travels in tissue (tissue is a non-linear material and multiple tissue types impacts wave propagation). The deeper you try to focus, the more likely that there is a deflection; thus your focus point won’t be exactly where you were planning.


type: comment
by: perfmode
text:
  You can’t fix this for her, and trying to will likely push her further away. What you can do is be a steady presence that communicates: I see you. This is real. You are not diminished by this. And I’m not going anywhere.<p>Don’t try to reframe it positively yet. Don’t suggest she “pivot to AI” or “try startups.” She knows the tactical advice. What she doesn’t have right now is a felt sense that she still belongs — to her family, to the future, to herself.<p>The absence of decorations, the quiet — I understand the impulse. But consider: the ritual of showing up for each other despite the pain is itself medicine. Not pretending things are okay. Just being together in the not-okay. It’s different from performing normalcy.


type: comment
by: Lord-Jobo
text:
  &gt; psychology-breaking torture machine designed to eat youthful enthusiasm and ambition and spit out the dried up shell once the juice has dwindled to an arbitrary low yield.<p>And it shows through in the product. YouTube’s website is one of the 7 Wonders of UX Feces and they are climbing the ranks at a steady rate.


type: comment
by: chrisjj
text:
  Perhaps.<p>Unless people wise up to the fact what&#x27;s destroying jobs here isn&#x27;t &quot;Artificial Intelligence&quot;.<p>It is simply natural stupidity.


type: comment
by: hkpack
text:
  Since it is Christmas and we are talking about welcoming strangers in your house, I think we need to remember the story of the author of the most popular Christmas Carrol (&quot;Carrol of the bells&quot;) - Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych.<p>His family was hosting a stranger in their house for the night in 1921. Stranger said he has nowhere to go, so they allowed him to stay in the room with Leontovych himself.<p>The stranger ended up being a Russia undercover checkist who killed Leontovych and robbed his family. [0]<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mykola_Leontovych#Death" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mykola_Leontovych#Death</a>


type: comment
by: throw123ha71
text:
  So Salesforce is ahead of Microsoft in wisdom. Nadella is focusing on his grand visions again and is telling dissenters to leave:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-has-started-a-weekly-meeting-which-he-does-not-want-senior-managers-to-attend-instead&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;126114614.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;mic...</a><p>He also uses cultural revolution tactics and uses the young ones against the old. I imagine AI house of cards will collapse soon and he&#x27;ll be remembered as the person who enshittified Windows after the board fires him.


type: comment
by: disgruntledphd2
text:
  &gt; Because they don&#x27;t have an advantage in those areas, showing that the EU indeed doesn&#x27;t actually cause any disadvantages in them.<p>Lots to unpack here.<p>So the issue is size of capital markets (for startup and IPO purposes). 27 small markets are much, much less liquid than one large one (like China or the US). Therefore, it&#x27;s easier for European founders to raise US capital, which often leads to them incorporating or floating in the US. Like, Flutter (which is an Irish company) is on the US markets for exactly this reason, as are a bunch of other large Irish companies.<p>It would be better for the EU if these companies incorporated in the EU, for which one large capital market would work better.<p>And it&#x27;s not that EU companies are disadvantaged vs Singaporean companies, it&#x27;s that they are disadvantaged relative to US companies.<p>&gt; are still a lot more integrated than if you&#x27;d pick two random non-EU countries.<p>I guess my point is that they&#x27;re not integrated enough.


type: comment
by: perfmode
text:
  What your daughter is experiencing isn’t just disappointment. It’s the collapse of a worldview. She built her identity around a core belief: effort creates safety. That belief was scaffolding she stood on, and it just broke.<p>This is grief. Specifically, it’s the grief of losing trust in a covenant she thought existed between her and the world. The isolation, the crying alone, the withdrawal — these aren’t character flaws. They’re the nervous system’s response to having foundational assumptions shattered. Shame makes us hide. And when we believe we did something wrong (even when we didn’t), we hide from the people who love us most.


type: comment
by: ShiMo_Protocol
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I created this framework (Shi-Mo) because traditional CBT didn&#x27;t work well for my racing thoughts.<p>I realized that emotions act a lot like background daemons in an OS. So I combined Stanislavski&#x27;s acting system (Method of Physical Action) with system architecture concepts (Root User, Throttling, Circuit Breaking).<p>It&#x27;s essentially a &quot;wetware patch&quot; to help regain executive control during high-stress situations.<p>It&#x27;s open source (MIT). I&#x27;d love to hear your thoughts on whether this engineering approach to psychology makes sense to you.


type: job
by: anteloper
title: Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Network Engineer (VPN and Proxy)
url:
  https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/5LtM86I-founding-network-engineer-at-clearspace


type: comment
by: znpy
text:
  &gt; The expectation of customer support lines is that customers want to speak to humans.<p>Not really. The expectation is to be able to express their need in a natural language, maybe because their issue is not covered by a fixed-form web form (pun not intended).<p>So yeah AI might be a good fit in that scenario.


type: comment
by: ceejayoz
text:
  Verification came with moderation tweaks for high-profile accounts to combat things like brigading via mass abuse reports. That&#x27;s why consistently bad behavior tended to lose the check.<p>Probably should&#x27;ve been two different flags, but it wasn&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: ciccionamente
text:
  I used the same principle to let people write their own emergency notes in a secure way: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weexpire.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;weexpire.org</a>


type: comment
by: yxhuvud
text:
  You can have different dpi and refresh rate per monitor in X, but you cannot do it while having a shared desktop across them.


type: comment
by: computerdork
text:
  Hmm, actually lines up for me at least. It was a pretty big news item a few months ago when Salesforce did this drastic reduction in their Customer Service department, and Marc Benioff raved about how great AI was (you might have just missed it):<p><pre><code>  https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ktvu.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;salesforce-ai-layoffs-marc-benioff </code></pre> At the time, it was such a big deal to a lot of us because it was a signal what could eventually happen to the rest of us white collar workers.<p>Of course, it could still happen, as maybe AI systems just need another few years to mature before trying to fully replace jobs like this...<p>... although, one thing I agree with you is that there isn&#x27;t much info online on these quotes from Salesforce executives, so could be made up.


type: comment
by: sifar
text:
  By telling yourself it is ok to feel this way and going back to things you are good at, things that you love and people you care about and enjoy being with. Also exercise - that works.<p>There is nothing to overcome. These feelings rise up sporadically. Acknowledge and move on.


type: comment
by: elestor
text:
  I can second the Apollo thing. I think it might just be a natural name to give something, because when I was a kid I was working on a voice assistant thing instead of touching grass (never finished it) and called it Apollo. This was probably my first project.


type: comment
by: QuiEgo
text:
  &gt; are not driven by prestige or a big paycheck.<p>I&#x27;m not sure I agree with this one, I think a lot of people are drawn to software because of the money in the same way people are drawn to being a doctor or lawyer - the job itself overlaps with their innate skills and interests __enough__, and there&#x27;s the promise of good pay on top of that. I think a lot of software engineers would be in other fields if it paid badly.


type: comment
by: clhodapp
text:
  I think that statement needs the word &quot;again&quot; to be inserted due to the bizarre choices of AMD Vega


type: comment
by: clejack
text:
  I can&#x27;t speak to the current system because I have stepped out of it temporarily, but if you haven&#x27;t done so; please tell your daughter that she is not her job nor is she the labels she places upon herself. It&#x27;s tragic that she&#x27;s placed so much weight on her job if she still has you supporting her.<p>None of the things you listed are signs of merit, they are signs of pedigree. If people recommended them here, they did so in error.<p>There&#x27;s certainly a difference between universities, but the most important differentiators are connections (has she exhausted these) and prestige. If those aren&#x27;t working for her, the only thing left is personal projects. That is the true indicator of merit in the software space.<p>As for specific advice, your daughter is in a similar situation to me. I graduated thinking I had did all of the right things, and that my degree (mechanical engineering) was some sort of magic ticket. I was unemployed and then underemployed for a year or two. I eventually went to a job fair and got a job as a data analyst then, finally, moved into data engineering.<p>Reality has shown her that there isn&#x27;t always a direct path to a goal. Are there other skills she has that she could use to get meaningful or interesting work?<p>Tell her to explore alternate jobs outside of her field or preferred industry, build up a portfolio of projects on the side to keep her skills sharp, and keep applying to her preferred role, but now at a much slower and deliberate pace.


type: comment
by: estearum
text:
  Huh? Do you think the possible legal statuses of people in the US is either “here illegally” or “US citizen?”<p>My claim is quite clear: <i>legal</i> immigrants who have not committed any crime or administrative violations have 1) been deported, 2) without due process, and 3) to a foreign torture camp.<p>Any ONE of those elements is illegal with regard to legal immigrants, and items 2 and 3 are illegal even with regard solely to illegal immigrants.<p>Btw this is <i>not</i> including people whose TPS was canceled and were “made illegal” overnight, of which there are hundreds of thousands now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cato.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cato.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salva...</a>


type: comment
by: beckerdo
text:
  It&#x27;s a useful discovery. The real proof and utility is if what they learned from &quot;mouse-heimer&#x27;s&quot; can be applied to human Alzheimer&#x27;s.


type: comment
by: gf000
text:
  &gt; X11 is backwards compatible, you do not have to &quot;keep up&quot; with its changes.<p>That&#x27;s certainly one way to say &quot;no longer developed&quot;.


type: comment
by: zamadatix
text:
  The confusion was less on the author and more on the submission reaching the top of the front page - it wouldn&#x27;t have been the first time the issue was my ad blocker or something. Thanks for confirming!


type: comment
by: crowbahr
text:
  You can get brick sets that are just a bunch of bricks - look up Creative Brick Box or Creative Vehicle Box<p>Feels just like Grandma&#x27;s ole box o bricks


type: comment
by: brandensilva
text:
  If this was intentional I&#x27;m going to uninstall it and encourage people never to use it. This is ridiculous.


type: comment
by: bluecalm
text:
  I guess the reason is that the most interesting part of the problem is implementing non-biased selection from 0 to n and once you have done it you just want to use the number so it&#x27;s natural to choose from the beginning of the array and swap to the last position beyond that.


type: comment
by: ivell
text:
  &gt; Without government interference, someone who is stronger&#x2F;more brutal than you can kill you and take your property, partner, and anything else they like.<p>I cannot understand how people can idealize anarchy. It is as if they read some cool novel and believe that a world without functioning government is going to be something comfortable and safe.


type: comment
by: gooberman
text:
  What are the things specifically that work better? because most of the case people dont have issues because of the x11 (the protocol), but because of how the xorg server works


type: comment
by: dustbunny
text:
  &quot;wouldn&#x27;t pass fang interviews&quot;<p>Bellard wouldn&#x27;t apply and be interviewed like some Stanford grad. He would be head hunted and told he can do whatever he wants and receive a massive amount of compensation.<p>I&#x27;m not sure why you woulf assert he wouldn&#x27;t pass the interview that seems totally outrageous.


type: comment
by: hmokiguess
text:
  Usually jobs in established corporations have a specific goal, task, or focus that maps directly to the company&#x27;s bottom-line and ROI. Research, on the other hand, requires funding and is more like an investment strategy for a company. If you want to create your job, and bridge that gap, then try and marry the two. How could the fruits of your work improve a company&#x27;s bottom line?<p>My experience working and hiring PhDs in the past has been one that they sometimes are used to this being defined for them and&#x2F;or used to applying to grants&#x2F;funds in established academic environments but rarely do they think of creating the path themselves (except for some outliers). The fact that you are already thinking of that puts you in that category.<p>Lastly, when working at the edge of something and creating your job, be ready for this mantra: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;37signals.com&#x2F;13</a>


type: comment
by: OutOfHere
text:
  What is the prospect for newer M support, e.g. M3, M4? I am hesitant to adopt something that doesn&#x27;t work with current and future models.


type: comment
by: netsharc
text:
  Warning, the following response is deeply cynical. I could just STFU, but that would be going along with the gooey intellectual dishonesty. Stop reading now if you&#x27;d rather have warmth.<p>Anyone else read this and feels the sincerity of an automated announcement at an airport&#x2F;train station that claims &quot;We apologize for the inconvenience.&quot;? Who&#x27;s actually sorry&#x2F;apologizing? Everyone working for the airport&#x2F;railway? A text to speech system? Nothing?<p>&quot;The universe profusely thanks you&quot;... the universe is just atoms bouncing around, it&#x27;s not doing shit.<p>&quot;Your presence makes this univese immeasurably more joyful, more cheerful, more fun. The sound of your laughter shines like a ray of sunlight passing through a mountain meadow, enlightening all that it touches.&quot;<p>Ah, I can feel it too, as Netanyahu laughs while having some excellent dinner, after the great year he&#x27;s had making the universe a more joyful place.


type: comment
by: throwaway078315
text:
  If you take the average person who doesn’t have a mental illness and has no relationship with anyone who does, the system we have is pretty well optimized for their needs.<p>We balance many difficult and inherently conflicting goals, such as:<p>1) minimizing treatment, which is expensive and does have bad side effects<p>2) sufficiently good access to treatment where it’s economical for prevention<p>3) fear of being wrongly hospitalized (error, political motivation, etc.)<p>4) sufficient ability to lock other people up for frightening or violent behavior in public<p>It’s a tough problem, but I think the tradeoffs are managed near optimally, granting that the rights and interests of the mentally ill don’t matter at all to most public officials or voters.


type: comment
by: kassner
text:
  The MacBook Air 15” costs €1399, doesn’t sound too economical to pay double the price for the extra 0.9”


type: comment
by: Lord-Jobo
text:
  They aren’t people that should be walking free, if we are being honest. Lock them up until we can get enough prison reform to genuinely try to rehabilitate them. The damage they are doing to our country is too high to hedge on this issue.<p>&gt;“That’s so extreme, they just shouldn’t have power, freedom is paramount, return to normal” etc.<p>Sorry, too late for this. I advocated for more gentle measures 10 years ago when they were possible&#x2F;plausibly effective. Just like any other infection, if you wait too long to address the problem you are forced towards extreme action. Or death. No third option.


type: comment
by: ohmyai
text:
  Thanks! really appreciate it! Shortly: We&#x27;re trying to turn LACE into a curiosity engine instead of another note graveyard.<p>Right now you can clip fragments from the web, LACE auto-organises them into evolving research threads, builds a concept graph + summaries, and lets you chat with your own library (find bridge connections, pull related papers, or turn a cluster into an essay draft).<p>Where we&#x27;re going: more “emergent” behaviour – high-signal rabbit holes (papers, videos, posts) based on what you’re actually working on, plus light collaboration so people can share drafts and reading lists around a question. The idea is that LACE keeps organising and resurfacing things for you, on the right time, instead of you fighting with folders&#x2F;tags in Obsidian&#x2F;Notion.<p>If that sounds fun, I&#x27;d love it if you can give it a spin and give us feedback. I&#x27;m on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;oyayla_" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;oyayla_</a> - if you can DM me I can also invite you to our Telegram group.


type: comment
by: monocasa
text:
  I agree it&#x27;s mostly only used in conjunction with bullshit, but during a hype bubble a lot of the users of that phrase don&#x27;t fully realize they&#x27;re spouting bullshit, and it&#x27;s used in earnest.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Microsoft was the one hiring Guido out of retirement, and alongside Facebook finally kicking off the CPython JIT efforts.<p>Python is one of the Microsoft blessed languages on their devblogs.


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  Pokemon cards.<p>Even kids who can&#x27;t read yet will somewhat play with them outside of the rules. Except they&#x27;re fragile, easy to lose, will bring fights and other troubles as they grow up, and cost a ton more money if they really get hooked.


type: comment
by: jacquesm
text:
  It <i>never</i> works. You always just get the digital equivalent of a runaround and there simply isn&#x27;t a human in the loop to take over when the AI botches it (again). So I gave up trying, this crap should not be deployed unless it works at least as good as a person. You can&#x27;t force people to put up with junk implementations of otherwise good ideas in the hope that one day you&#x27;ll get it right, <i>customer</i> service should be a service because on the other end of the line is someone with a very high probability of being already dissatisfied with your company and&#x2F;or your product. For me this is not negotiable, if my <i>time</i> is less valuable to you, the company, than it is to actually put someone on to help then my <i>money</i> will go somewhere else.


type: comment
by: __float
text:
  I work in a large Sorbet codebase (though it isn&#x27;t a Rails one) and it&#x27;s a huge boon IMO. The number of tests we <i>don&#x27;t</i> need to write because of Sorbet is really nice.<p>It does occasionally require structuring your code differently, but I find the type-system-encouraged approach often gives a more elegant and harder-to-misuse interface in the end.


type: comment
by: parodysbird
text:
  It&#x27;s crazy how convenient and deep the library on soulseek is. I even use it all the time on mobile.


type: comment
by: sallveburrpi
text:
  As a former child my favourites were Playmobile, Lego, Duplo, wooden blocks and those little matchbox cars.<p>For cleaning we just dumped everything into a big box.  Repeatability is endless


type: comment
by: EagnaIonat
text:
  I checked and this appears to be the source.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;after-laying-off-4000-employees-and-automating-with-ai-agents-salesforce-executives-admit-we-were-more-confident-about-&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;126121875.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;timesofindia.indiatimes.com&#x2F;technology&#x2F;tech-news&#x2F;aft...</a><p>It isn&#x27;t regret, they are trying to sell their Agentforce product.


type: comment
by: asmor
text:
  A Framework 13. I haven&#x27;t replaced it yet.<p>And you missed the point. I believed in the &quot;mission&quot; of Framework. That was my primary motivation to buy one. But their stance here is not compatible with that. So I may as well buy a product that has more practical upsides for me. You know, when I actually have to replace my 7840U. Probably not anytime soon.


type: comment
by: foxglacier
text:
  Do you mean Christianity? Islam is full of consequences for members - it has a system of laws and punishments. It has forgiveness too but some crimes are unforgiveable even by God. Meanwhile, out-groups are more like enemies that sometimes should be killed if they don&#x27;t cooperate.


type: comment
by: cowboylowrez
text:
  your alerts seemed to have worked if you got one alert right? I used to work with situation alerts, and the &quot;one alert&quot; thing is a trap, you miss one and you&#x27;re done. I coded alert recaps, alert reminders, custom scheduling etc etc, if you have opportunity for getting alerts, don&#x27;t write them off because you got just a single alert, stop counting on perfectly response to a single alert and lean into multiple alerts wherever possible. take care of the human tasked with responding to alertable situations, we&#x27;re imperfect error prone blobs of protoplasm lol


type: comment
by: MrDarcy
text:
  As a hiring manager, if someone shared a profile of a person with a PHD in earth sciences and 8 years of “full stack” experience I’d immediately assume they were a generalist with surface level familiarity and no mastery or depth in any one area.<p>I’d then look over the profile trying to disprove my assumption.  Lacking a very strong signal in mastery of something, I’d pass on the profile.<p>Only at small scales are full stack engineers valuable. Their value is not in the quality of their output but in their ability to deliver make shift with that avoids having to pay for  specialist who can deliver quality.<p>Assuming there is product market fit then generalists are replaced by specialists. This is where the true value aligns in terms of high quality output being compensated proportional to value created.<p>Given all this my advice is to pick two complementary areas, specialize in those areas and develop deep mastery. Keep your broad general skills. Then market yourself as the T or H shaped engineer that’s most valuable.


type: comment
by: thechao
text:
  Blocks is the top comment (for me); and yours is number two. Timeless classic. Another one could be plasticine clay. These toys afford play, they don&#x27;t direct, restrict, or guide play. Other good toys like this: box, stick, the woods, paper (especially a big roll of butcher paper), and things to draw with (I find a black, red, blue, yellow and green sufficient).


type: comment
by: kenjin4096
text:
  So it seems I was wrong, [[msvc::musttail]] is documented! I will update the blog post to reflect that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46385526">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46385526</a>


type: comment
by: ghaff
text:
  Money is a factor.<p>I went from, if not scraping by, never really recovered from dot-bomb to a pretty good job at a medium-size public company latterly. It was &quot;mostly&quot; good. But the difference in money set me up in a way that I previously really wasn&#x27;t (even if not top tech levels).


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  Yeah, me too.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;website-archive.mozilla.org&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;firefox_releasenotes&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;releases&#x2F;0.7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;website-archive.mozilla.org&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;firefox_...</a>


type: comment
by: sheepscreek
text:
  &gt; I’ve been out of the job market for 15 years now<p>Wow - that&#x27;s a long time at one company, or being without a job. Could you share more on that? Simple curiosity, thanks.


type: comment
by: QuiEgo
text:
  Half of a big number is still a big number :). FAANG money can be life changing - retire 10-15 years &quot;early&quot; life changing.


type: comment
by: robin_reala
text:
  Slightly different question, but does anyone have any info about Google’s digitisation of Mainichi Shimbun’s pre-war articles? The work was announced 3 years ago, but it’s been radio silence since: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20221110&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0bu&#x2F;007000c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mainichi.jp&#x2F;english&#x2F;articles&#x2F;20221110&#x2F;p2a&#x2F;00m&#x2F;0bu&#x2F;00...</a>


type: comment
by: oofbey
text:
  Is this distinct as in it branched super early from other earth life and died out? Or distinct as in maybe came from another planet and is completely distinct? Can we tell? The journal is astrobiology.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Which was already the way on 8 and 16 bit home computers, for the most part if you wanted an upgrade you would buy the newer model.<p>The exception being PC clones.


type: comment
by: __float
text:
  If I remember correctly, the namespaces feature (now released as Ruby::Box) had some pretty severe performance penalties (possibly even for code that doesn&#x27;t use it?).<p>Does anyone know if that&#x27;s been improved?


type: comment
by: ragall
text:
  Replacing the motherboard is just not an important thing, and that&#x27;s demonstrated by how Framework has remained a very niche product.


type: comment
by: fumeux_fume
text:
  If you consider the extent to which our economy has become financialized, then you see these decisions have little to do with providing a product for customers but rather a stock for investors.


type: comment
by: forrestthewoods
text:
  Is there a Clang based build for Windows? I’ve been slowly moving my Windows builds from MSVC to Clang. Which still uses the Microsoft STL implementation.<p>So far I think using clang instead of MSVC compiler is a strict win? Not a huge difference mind you. But a win nonetheless.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  fakedang&#x27;s comment does a lot of heavy lifting, but I&#x27;m going to swing for the fences: you mention your company is hiring juniors, and OP&#x27;s daughter sounds competent and has potential. Can they offer her an interview? Worst case, some time has been spent. Best case, someone who needs a job gets a job and a req gets filled.


type: comment
by: g-b-r
text:
  &gt; A vocal minority of tech guys raving about how Electron apps are resource hogs don&#x27;t dictamine what&#x27;s performant and what&#x27;s not.<p>Because only tech guys have limited ram?


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Attributing &#x27;smugness&#x27; is a way to duck the merits of the issue. People with mental disabilities also need a stable roof over their head, security, privacy, heat, a bathroom, a bed.<p>I expect they need it more (very broadly speaking; people have very different disabilities do different degrees), because it&#x27;s harder to adapt and survive without it, and therefore more traumatizing and destabilizing.<p>There is plenty of evidence, and it&#x27;s common sense, that having a stable shelter and all the things I listed above would greatly help anyone. Humans in every culture have sought shelter for all of history - it&#x27;s absolutely fundamental to humanity (and other animals!). Depriving people of it results in unending trauma - not a state to begin getting your life together, harm from others and the environment, an inability to accumulate assets, and spending all your time trying to survive.


type: comment
by: yxhuvud
text:
  You are not wrong. But there is a new extension protocol on the way (dunno if done, very probably not rolled out if it is) that let programs solve this problem.


type: comment
by: suobset
text:
  Merry Christmas everyone. I made a little something on AArch64 Assembly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46385623">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46385623</a>


type: comment
by: consumer451
text:
  &gt; In reality, even an ASI won’t know your intent unless you communicate it clearly and unambiguously.<p>I recently came to this realization as well, and it now seems so obvious. I feel dumb for not realizing it sooner. Is there any good writing or podcast on this topic?


type: comment
by: DaleCurtis
text:
  Ah, I didn&#x27;t realize that always happened. I thought it was only if you did something that might have OS specific rendering characteristics (text-draws, etc).<p>Maybe having an ImageEncoder API might be worthwhile after all then <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;w3c&#x2F;webcodecs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;204" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;w3c&#x2F;webcodecs&#x2F;issues&#x2F;204</a>.


type: comment
by: krelian
text:
  I hope this gets incorporated into the existing website. I&#x27;m not an active subscriber but I used to be and I always thought there was a very fertile &quot;other articles you might like&quot; grounf that the New Yorker never took advantage of, given it&#x27;s reputation and legacy.


type: comment
by: bediger4000
text:
  The website reads like the spam that gets injected into the &quot;contact&quot; form on my website.<p>The centered text and varied list item dingbats remind me of folks who don&#x27;t really have much to say, but want to make an impact.


type: comment
by: nithril
text:
  For anyone that like to do DIY, that&#x27;s not a work tool, that&#x27;s a play tool that is coincidentally a  work tool to do work.


type: comment
by: rangestransform
text:
  the jaguar ipace base vehicle is uber black eligible in some markets, compared to the shitty check engine light hoopties you could risk with uberx


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  (reposting from the MicroQuickJS thread if only because it seems more relevant here)<p>Always interesting when people as talented as Bellard manage to (apparently) never write a &quot;full-on&quot; GUI-fronted application, or more specifically, a program that sits between a user with constantly shifting goals and workflows and a &quot;core&quot; that can get the job done.<p>I would not want to dismiss or diminish by any amount the incredible work he has done. It&#x27;s just interesting to me that the problems he appears to pick generally take the form of &quot;user sets up the parameters, the program runs to completion&quot;.


type: comment
by: jtrn
text:
  I wish all self-promoting scientists and sensationalizing journalists had a fraction of the honesty and dedication to actual truth and proper communication of truths as you do. You seem to feel that it’s more important to be transparent about these kinds of technical details than other people are about their claims in clinical medical research. Thank you so much for all you do and the way you communicate about it.<p>Also, I’m not that familiar with the whole process, but I just wanted to say that I think you were too hard on yourself during the last performance drama. So thank you again and remember not to hold yourself to an impossible standard no one else does.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  I wanted to express similar sentiment, but I didn&#x27;t understand how I would without leaving a rule breaking comment.<p>It&#x27;s my sincerely held opinion that we&#x27;re fostering a culture here that ignores the &quot;human impact&quot; of the technology that we&#x27;re rushing to adopt.<p>I&#x27;m well aware that many members of this community have achieved &quot;success&quot; through software. This includes the rapid adoption of new computing paradigms, new technology stacks, new frameworks, etc.<p>I am fortunate to be employed. But around me, when I step out of my house, it&#x27;s painful. People are hurting. They&#x27;re unemployed. They&#x27;re depressed. And the younger generation is even worse. They can&#x27;t even afford to dream.<p>I live in a corporate world of forced smiles and fake enthusiasm. I would hate for that same culture to take root here. We need to be able to express significant doubt, or even cynicism against AI, without fear of backlash.


type: comment
by: mort96
text:
  You don&#x27;t have to maintain the fork and&#x2F;or update to the latest version if you don&#x27;t need new features <i>or security fixes</i>.<p>Most people want security fixes.


type: comment
by: gozzoo
text:
  I have quetion - slightly off topic, but related. I was wandering why is pyhton interpreter so much slower than V8 javascript interpreter when both javascript and python are dynamic interpreted languages.


type: comment
by: markus_zhang
text:
  Without official support, the Asahi team needs to RE a lot of stuffs. I’d expect it to lag behind a couple of generations at least.<p>I blame Apple on pushing out new models every year. I don’t get why it does that. A M1 is perfectly fine after a few years but Apple treats it like an iPhone. I think one new model every 2-3 years is good enough.


type: comment
by: brunoarueira
text:
  In Brazil, multiple companies are offering a call and WhatsApp, both through automated messages with menus and in the end escalate to humans.


type: comment
by: scott_w
text:
  While you’re correct, corporate security teams demand suppliers “comply with OWASP,” despite this being a nonsensical statement to anyone who’d read the website.<p>Unfortunately, the customer purchasing your product doesn’t know this and (naturally) trusts their own internal experts over you. Especially given all their other suppliers are more than happy to state they’re certified!


type: comment
by: __patchbit__
text:
  I don&#x27;t know how to find the ideal font for the missing glyph on my environment which is BSD.<p>Using the `unicode&#x27; command from plan9userspace, for example<p><pre><code>   unicode 2ff0-2fff </code></pre> the last three symbols are shown inside emacs as squares with the four hex values inside.<p>Typing in the search field `2fff&#x27; finds `no match found&#x27;.


type: story
by: tmadsen_
title: Show HN: nunchux – A handy tmux launcher buddy thing
url: https://github.com/datamadsen/nunchux
text:
  Had some fun over the christmas holidays and nunchux is the output.<p>A fun menu for tmux to reduce the number of apps I need to remember the name for.<p>Also a nice quick way to browse hacker news via hackernews_tui :-)


type: comment
by: keeganpoppen
text:
  how about the plainly obvious fact that every call tree system first spends 1-8 minutes going through all the things that you can actually do on the website instead of calling: do you really think they would bother with that if people aren’t calling about stuff that is easily done on the website? sure, we all agree that it is partly designed to get people to hang up in disgust and give up, but that is an obviously insufficient explanation compared to the simpler and more comprehensive explanation that people simply do, as a matter of fact, prefer to use the phone despite it being clearly less useful for easily-computer-able tasks.


type: comment
by: fc417fc802
text:
  That doesn&#x27;t match my experience at all. If I disable filtering what I see is a slew of ephemeral domains. Without DMARC I&#x27;m sure they would instead be official looking and fake.<p>&gt; It comes from so many sources you can&#x27;t block them,<p>Nonsense. If it were really countless fixed sources then a centralized domain blacklist would be sufficient. The issue is that the sources - both domain and IP - are aggressively rotated and even spoofed whenever possible.


type: comment
by: talos
text:
  The Information article can be found on archive.is.<p>Both the OP article and this Times of India article appear to be AI-generated summaries of the original article.<p>Craziness!


type: comment
by: cogman10
text:
  &gt; reason was cost<p>Yeah, it was supposed to be replaced with a kinder&#x2F;gentler system, but that never came.  They shut down the support system completely with a &quot;we&#x27;ll figure out how to fix this later&quot; and that never came.<p>I think the solution is pretty obvious, TBH.  Pay people to take care of their family with disabilities.  It&#x27;s often a full time job to take care of someone with a severe disability.  Some states do make allowances to pay out to family caregivers, but it&#x27;s a convoluted system where you have to be employed by a private care agency which is ultimately reimbursed for the care.  There&#x27;s a pointless private business in the way just adding on admin fees.<p>But there desperately needs to be something in place for people without that support.  Parents die&#x2F;leave&#x2F;are incarcerated and we really don&#x27;t have any sort of system setup to handle that.


type: comment
by: allears
text:
  This has nothing to do with &quot;free speech.&quot; This is a right-wing agitator who deliberately broke the rules of a public gathering in order to generate publicity and maybe make some money through lawsuits. He&#x27;s being backed, naturally, by other right-wing organizations.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  The communication I get from customers is seldom clear and never  unambiguous but I’ve managed since the 90’s


type: comment
by: laladrik
text:
  During the last couple of years working on Rust programs I collected a number of GDB scripts.  Eventually, they  evolved into the project. Also, I wrote an article about how I came up with each of the scripts <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexmarkov.xyz&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rustToolsGdb.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;alexmarkov.xyz&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rustToolsGdb.html</a>


type: comment
by: hxtk
text:
  It’s a real problem for defense sites because .mil is a public suffix so all navy.mil sites are the “same site” and all af.mil sites etc.


type: comment
by: physicles
text:
  - Surround yourself with friends who also aren’t playing the game.<p>- Get really clear about what your actual financial goals are, not what they’d need to be in order to maintain status among game-players.<p>- Get compensated in ways other than money. For me, working four days a week instead of five, and working remote from anywhere, is worth a whole lot of money. And working at a smaller company is a hell of a lot more fun if you like being part of product decisions.<p>- If you can, find ways to do things that your ladder-climbing friends can’t do. Spend a month in Europe without taking any holiday. Spend the whole winter in Thailand. Use that extra mental energy from that day off to do something amazing.<p>I left FAANG about 10 years ago and took a massive pay cut. I’d do it again.


type: comment
by: user_7832
text:
  I (admitedly much younger than you) would think that assuming there&#x27;s good internet and decent road connectivity, you could spend a lot of time on your interests and hobbies, no? My biggest hobbies (photography, diy audio) don&#x27;t really need urban environments after the manufactured camera&#x2F;woofer leaves the warehouse and ships to your home. Even easier perhaps if your interest is purely coding&#x2F;laptop work (like writing a novel), I would think?<p>(For what it&#x27;s worth - I myself am a city guy, but only because that&#x27;s where I grew up in and have spent all my life. A town of 100k people feels desolate for me on Sunday evening, but I also don&#x27;t live with family.)


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  &gt; The corollary of not knowing when [neurotypicals are] offending people, is that they also don&#x27;t know when they&#x27;re receiving tolerance<p>This assertion seemed to go unrecognized in the other replies; I really think it earns a moment of reflection.


type: comment
by: pcarroll
text:
  We implement STUN and TURN functionality natively in WireGuard rather than using separate protocols.<p>Netrinos uses a central rendezvous server that participates in WireGuard handshakes solely to collect your devices&#x27; public endpoints and share that information with your other devices. When a device roams to a new location, the server learns the new endpoint and updates the other devices in your account.<p>When direct P2P fails, Netrinos connections fall back to a relay server. The relay is a WireGuard peer, but it can only relay traffic between peers in your account. All customer accounts are strictly firewalled from each other.<p>If you want more control, you can enable a device in your account as a relay server with a checkbox in the app. This could be a home PC with a stable connection or a low-cost cloud server.


type: comment
by: zozbot234
text:
  A new Wayland protocol is in the works that should support screen cutout information out of the box: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phosh.mobi&#x2F;posts&#x2F;xdg-cutouts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;phosh.mobi&#x2F;posts&#x2F;xdg-cutouts&#x2F;</a> Hopefully this will be extended to include color information whenever applicable, so that &quot;hiding&quot; the screen cutout (by coloring the surrounding area deep black) can also be a standard feature and maybe even be active by default.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  Could explain how a compound that&#x27;s already on the market and has been patented for (some) medical use at least once in 2015 (expiring 2035) might make a good case for &quot;Big Pharma gigabucks&quot;? I thought one reason for a lack of research into &quot;repurposablity&quot; of existing small molecule drugs is the fact that new applications cannot be independently patented?


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  What is your intent in sharing this? Why do we <i>need</i> to remember this story? Do you - and others who are talking about how strangers might murder you and your family - really think that people don&#x27;t consider that risk or something?


type: comment
by: heisenbit
text:
  Good point, get into the right company and move to a place you like. I did that way back moving from lab to customer service (right company and right country) to get into the R&amp;D I wanted. Easier to execute in a company that is rapidly expanding.


type: comment
by: bheadmaster
text:
  I can think of two possible reasons:<p>First is the Google&#x27;s manpower. Google somehow succeeds in writing fast software. Most Google products I use are fast in contrast to the rest of the ecosystem. It&#x27;s possible that Google simply did a better job.<p>The second is CPython legacy. There are faster implementations of Python that completely implement the API (PyPy comes to mind), but there&#x27;s a huge ecosystem of C extensions written with CPython bindings, which make it virtually impossible to break compatibility. It is possible that this legacy prevents many possible optimizations. On the other hand, V8 only needs to keep compatibility on code-level, which allows them to practically switch out the whole inside in incremental search for a faster version.<p>I might be wrong, so take what I said with a grain of salt.


type: comment
by: fancy_pantser
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35567986">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35567986</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44572750">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=44572750</a><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: pyrolistical
text:
  I’m annoyed they called it comptime when it isn’t the same as Zig’s more powerful comptime.<p>You can think of zig’s comptime as partial evaluation. Zig doesnt have a runtime type reflection system, but with comptime it makes it feel like you do.


type: comment
by: shortcord
text:
  I think I do prefer the KJV here. Has the classic familiarity.<p>The ESV is the translation I have used since it came out for personal reading and study, though.


type: comment
by: Arainach
text:
  It&#x27;s not hypocrisy or virtue signaling if people are <i>choosing</i> to be tolerant.<p>If someone is standing near the train tracks and sees a train approaching a stalled car, they should be praised for <i>choosing</i> to run over and help even if their initial instinct is to get as far away as possible.


type: comment
by: reactordev
text:
  Sometimes you start a business. Sometimes a business starts you. Awesome that the author saw this as an opportunity and not a down side to owning a name he never really wanted to begin with.<p>Sometimes the right business just finds you and you’re at the right place at the right time to see it.


type: comment
by: user_7832
text:
  That&#x27;s the first tree that rendered properly on my mobile, Merey Christmas and good job! Also nice bottom layer of ampersands, looks really festive for some reason!


type: comment
by: jnwatson
text:
  The best toy my sister and I got is a now long-discontinued product called Omagles.  They were brightly colored tubes and panels you connected with plastic clips.  They were strong enough to stand and climb on.  They even had wheels we could make vehicles out of.<p>They were so good I bought a used one for my own kid who had a great time with them.<p>After some Googling, I see that the rights to Omagles were bought and are now sold under the brand Tubelox.


type: comment
by: nilamo
text:
  Games are made for windows because that&#x27;s where the device drivers have historically been. Any other viewpoint is ignoring reality.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  &gt; a lesson learned<p>It&#x27;s certainly a perspective of many, but many others think it&#x27;s wrong, that children should run freely (there&#x27;s a whole movement around that), etc.<p>&gt; please please also don’t forget that people are dangerous<p>IME from a life spent in cities has taught me that people - strangers, unhoused people, etc. - are great. Most will be happy to to help, have a pleasant conversation, etc. (Read Jane Jacobs who, iirc, examines it in detail.) Humans are social creatures - we don&#x27;t live alone, we&#x27;re made to socialize and live in groups.<p>You need to be a social creature too and read people a little. Obviously some people aren&#x27;t in a mood to interact; don&#x27;t be rude or an idiot (they&#x27;ll probably ignore you). And there&#x27;s risk to everything - you can die in an accident but still travel by car; you can catch diseases but you still leave your home.<p>Really, the exception I think I see at a higher rate is apparently wealthy people. Maybe they aren&#x27;t accustomed to the need to help each other, but there seems to be a culture of anger toward those who might need some help today. Why don&#x27;t they just support themselves like I do?


type: comment
by: gist
text:
  I recognize that this wasn&#x27;t your decision but I would say having that HN Christmas banner (or any religious holiday banner) is a form of proselytizing. (Not disagreeing with what you said in reply btw.)<p>I feel that having a banner like that shows a sense of entitlement that people who celebrate (or have been raised to believe in Christ or another religion) have with this entire time of year.<p>(This is irrespective if the same is done for other holidays which apparently it is but HN history doesn&#x27;t show this (when searching for stories from a particular day)).


type: comment
by: HarHarVeryFunny
text:
  What&#x27;s the point?<p>None of this is individually difficult, but an actual human being had the motivation and talent to bring it all together in 7 days, which is impressive.<p>So what if an LLM can create the same components if you tell it to. It&#x27;s a bit like someone sharing a handknit sweater they just made, and you counter with &quot;Well, here&#x27;s a machine made one I bought in Walmart, made in 5 min in China&quot;.


type: comment
by: ixci
text:
  That advice would be much better directed toward the activists trying to force &quot;gender identity&quot; nonsense into law and policy.


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  &gt; Judging books by their unborrowedness is like judging a youtube video&#x27;s educational content by its view count.<p>I disagree with this. Libraries are notorious for being open about their processes; they will happily reveal flows of materials, down to the item.


type: comment
by: jynelson
text:
  i think you would be interested in demoscene, it’s about exactly this thing: making art out of extremely harsh requirements.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  Well... if you had the tools, and skills, and very likely some help, and the willpower to &quot;just build a hut&quot;<p>Also, how long ago was &quot;before governments&quot;?


type: story
by: thisislife2
title: Building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing memory modules and soldering them
url:
  https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/russian-enthusiasts-are-building-their-own-ddr5-ram-amidst-the-worldwide-shortage-as-easy-as-sourcing-your-own-memory-modules-and-soldering-them-on-empty-pcbs


type: comment
by: spankibalt
text:
  &gt; &quot;Today the only option for less than 10&quot; are Android tablets and they are far from a PC.&quot;<p>Yeah, outside of the odd offering from GPD or their knock-off crews every now and then, that segment only exist in the industry-PC market (&quot;ruggedized&quot;). Everything else is indeed ToyOS land. Or indie hopefuls, most of which either don&#x27;t make it to market or are not powerful enough.


type: comment
by: ptx
text:
  Are you saying that you can&#x27;t get the title of the active window in X11 without using some features specific to the X.Org implementation?<p>It looks like the core X11 protocol spec [1] defines all that&#x27;s needed, specifically the GetInputFocus, QueryTree and GetProperty messages. You might also want some things from the EWMH spec [2] (e.g. _NET_WM_NAME for UTF-8 or _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE to identify top-level application windows) but none of this seems like an implementation-specific X.Org feature.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;X11R7.7&#x2F;doc&#x2F;xproto&#x2F;x11protocol.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.org&#x2F;releases&#x2F;X11R7.7&#x2F;doc&#x2F;xproto&#x2F;x11protocol.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specifications.freedesktop.org&#x2F;wm&#x2F;latest&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;specifications.freedesktop.org&#x2F;wm&#x2F;latest&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: bediger4000
text:
  Your final sentence is interesting. I&#x27;m not a strict doctrine adherent, but in TDD, don&#x27;t you write some minimal test, then implement the system to pass the test?


type: comment
by: keeganpoppen
text:
  that is a great point. it’s one thing to occasionally rugpull employees, who are still at least paid for their services and robbed only of their EV on their options (i say “only”, though i find this increasingly common practice to be absolutely deplorable, to be clear). but how could investors possibly be happy with this becoming the new normal? will it get to the point where these sorts of faux acquisitions also involve paying out investors and <i>only</i> shafting employees? at that point you are only really even getting like a 20% discount over acquiring the company outright, which hardly seems worth it. which is to say that your point is very astute: the investors are definitely the linchpin here.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  I&#x27;m still not sure if you&#x27;re speaking of SOP in general or AI-interfaces to them. Why don&#x27;t you answer that simple question before ranting on?


type: comment
by: WD-42
text:
  None of those games, or a very small amount of them, are written in python. None of the ones that need to be performant for sure.


type: comment
by: user_7832
text:
  Merry Christmas! Nice touch with the snow, makes for a cosy and homely atmosphere! (It&#x27;s 25⁰C here. Please send help &gt;.&lt;)


type: comment
by: sweetjuly
text:
  Genies, maybe? They are omnipotent and (generally) sufficiently aware of your desires that they shouldn&#x27;t actually get &quot;confused&quot;. Genies are tricksters that will do their absolute best to fulfill the letter of your wish but not the meaning.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
text:
  Nothing that you said prevents one from discussing models and making estimates.<p>All you&#x27;re saying is you don&#x27;t like my model (presumably because you&#x27;d like more inputs to the estimation?). Ok. You might not like my model, but at my comment on conditional probabilities was correct. The person that I was responding to wasn&#x27;t that.


type: comment
by: rdiddly
text:
  What makes you think platitudes are always dishonest, first of all? Your writing sounds like fuckin&#x27; AI, so I wouldn&#x27;t complain if I were you. &quot;Beggars can&#x27;t be choosers.&quot; Also, &quot;You can&#x27;t always get what you want.&quot; I will respond in platitude format.<p>1) Effort still correlates with outcomes, it&#x27;s just that there is some random noise in the signal. Maybe moreso in these noisy times.<p>2) DID any of what she did matter? If she enjoyed it or found it meaningful, then yes. If it was just being &quot;sensible&quot; a.k.a. grinding and bald careerism, then no, even if she weren&#x27;t laid off.<p>3) She&#x27;s young. My first layoff, I took it hard too. By the third or fourth one, I would laugh and look forward to a small vacation of coasting on unemployment.<p>4) Ordinarily a post-college-age kid with a job is living on her own and you wouldn&#x27;t have access to her crying moments. And another primary emotion alongside despair would be anxiety about making rent. It&#x27;s painful to watch your kids suffer, but suffer they will and suffer they must.<p>5) Continuing from point 2, does she have a meaningful hobby? She needs to start one. If only to provide a break from the unhealthy amount of grinding she sounds like she&#x27;s doing. Try music, a lot of engineers are good at music. I&#x27;m good enough at it that I was once able to support myself on it, and now see my day job as something I can leave, something I tolerate but am too good for. My genius is not defined by it. It&#x27;s only work.<p>6) Celebrate Christmas the way all half-assed unprepared people do: Big feast at the Chinese restaurant tonight. Or Thai, I guess is the new Chinese. Pretending everything is okay? Who fucking died? Everything IS okay. A little perspective would go a long way and you&#x27;re the one who needs to provide it.


type: comment
by: tomrod
text:
  What a cool story. Not tech for tech&#x27;s sake, but tech that grows into something simpler, more efficient, and more world-opening for something as wonderful as the Vidalia onion


type: comment
by: ux266478
text:
  The only pro I can think of is you get a standard scheme set of batteries, which isn&#x27;t even really a pro in this space. The biggest con is implementation size and complexity. IIRC the JITter alone is twice the size of LuaJIT&#x27;s entire codebase, and not for being vastly better.<p>License problems too, if you&#x27;re not making copyleft software. Guile is GPL, both Luas are MIT.


type: comment
by: sgt
text:
  Yeah but that&#x27;s probably because the legal blocks are a bit complicated. Most people just pirate it, I&#x27;d assume. I find all that stuff on torrents if I need.


type: comment
by: chucke
text:
  Maybe I wasn&#x27;t clear, but until now there were 2 types of type notations being debated, RBS and sorbet&#x2F;RBI. Sorbet adopting RBS means that&#x27;s the lowest common denominator.  Typing is definitely not a standard,  not yet. rbs-inline is definitely not a pet project, it&#x27;s the RBS creator response to the main complaint about RbS , its the reason sorbet finally adopted it, and will be part of mainline rbs gem.


type: comment
by: Ekaros
text:
  There never was a model to fund open source. At least outside largest and most wide spread codebases. I think it is that reality is finally hitting. Free money has run out and now software must stand as either community efforts, wide enough used foundations or forced support.


type: comment
by: pansa2
text:
  &gt; <i>that’s faster</i><p>In every test I&#x27;ve done, Ruby has been faster than Python. In my experience that&#x27;s been the case since Ruby 1.9, with the move to YARV.


type: comment
by: billy99k
text:
  Well, if you listen to any radio station, you also hear the same songs on rotation. It&#x27;s not much different. I feel like music stopped being unique after 2010 or so.


type: comment
by: wiseowise
text:
  And with Java, and with Go, and with Rust, and with pretty much any language offering some form of FFI.  But they&#x27;re used with Python, and good luck convincing your interviewer that it should be used with Ruby.


type: comment
by: lurk2
text:
  Haiti’s inability to enforce zoning laws is not something the developed world ought to strive to emulate. Haiti is an undesirable place to live precisely because it has no capacity to enforce rules and norms. The flow of migrants from Haiti to the developed world is unidirectional; no one is going the other way. No one who has any alternative is trying to move into these slums.<p>&gt; As long as a house is primarily considered an investment, and not a just a structure to keep us safe from the elements and a place to raise a family, housing will only ever become more expensive and less available.<p>There is a sort of conspiracy to repress affordable housing, but it isn’t done primarily with property values in mind the way you’re alluding to. Most people dwell in houses; the equity is irrelevant to them until they actually sell it. High real estate prices are not an investment but a membership; they exclude undesirable residents. Most of those undesirable residents belong in psychiatric facilities, but until those facilities are reinstituted, this is the system we’re left with.<p>There are other factors at play (e.g. fire safety setbacks, American market expectactions favoring larger houses, etc.), but those are all far more pedestrian.<p>Basically everywhere on earth where an option exists, people prefer to live in autocentric suburbs or Manhattan-style megalopolises; both are expensive to construct and maintain. Slums are just an attempt to cut these costs at the expense of fire safety, sanitation, and structural integrity.


type: comment
by: jdalgetty
text:
  Magna tiles are easy to clean up in the they stick to each other sense, but I still find them all over the house.


type: comment
by: classichasclass
text:
  In the past this was pretty lax (I&#x27;ve had a long-term box at a Mail Boxes Etc. that then became a private mail boxes place that then became a UPS Store) and they didn&#x27;t really care when I first opened it. Now there&#x27;s a push for KYC also; we got a sheet the other day asking to verify our physical street address, something I never personally got in the years I&#x27;ve been there. Apparently new regulations or something, they said.


type: comment
by: falcor84
text:
  As I understand it, terms of use on a publicly accessible page aren&#x27;t enforceable. That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s legal to e.g. scrape pages of news sites regardless of any terms of use. If it&#x27;s curlable, it&#x27;s fair game (but it&#x27;s fair for the site to try to block my scraping).


type: comment
by: evmar
text:
  Exact same for me!  Just ten minutes ago my son opened his Xmas present, his first box of TubeLox. My expectations and hopes are high but he is currently distracted by the flashier presents.


type: comment
by: zkmon
text:
  That&#x27;s very interesting. My domain purchased in 2015, finally seems to make some meaning due to recent tech advacnes. Time to do something with it.


type: comment
by: Klonoar
text:
  “Upgradable hardware on a laptop” is a loud minority.<p>I want open hardware. I want to know what’s running on my machine. I don’t really give two shits if the RAM is soldered because I will probably upgrade when (if) it becomes a problem.


type: comment
by: Peanuts99
text:
  Nordic countries have essentially eradicated homelessness by allowing the government to take an active interest in fixing the underlying issues that cause it. As a citizen, I don&#x27;t want the burden of having to fix homelessness, that&#x27;s what I pay taxes for.


type: comment
by: derektank
text:
  Peter appears to still be at it.[1] Very impressed by his commitment to the bit.<p>[1]  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;searchbound&#x2F;status&#x2F;1996247844080996549#m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;searchbound&#x2F;status&#x2F;1996247844080996549#m</a>


type: comment
by: user_7832
text:
  I&#x27;d love to see it on the stores! You already have 8 votes (and now one guy in the form of me who&#x27;s familiar with extensions but not git clone lol - though I can figure it out.)


type: comment
by: mishrapravin441
text:
  ust to clarify, I’m writing these comments myself. I use grammar llm plugin though to clean up phrasing, but the substance is mine.


type: comment
by: cubefox
text:
  It was Yudkowsky&#x27;s colloquial term for hard takeoff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;tjH8XPxAnr6JRbh7k&#x2F;hard-takeoff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lesswrong.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;tjH8XPxAnr6JRbh7k&#x2F;hard-takeo...</a>


type: comment
by: windexh8er
text:
  Given that it&#x27;s not documented also becomes a trust issue.  OpenAI is clearly headed towards monetizing results and if search is biased &#x2F; injected with unlabeled ads or questionable sources they become a new vector for both untrustworthy results and potential misdirection or misinformation.


type: comment
by: usernameisjim
text:
  I think at some point the difference of how much advanced lateral technology there is and can be made will be very abundant<p>(100s of different phones, AR) different types of designs of what people use and all very customized and fashionable to each person’s taste (people will be able to travel to most places very easily and be incredibly individualistic)<p>My post from URL further:<p>I can run storage off solar at home &lt; 20W and all inference on my phone<p>this century I’d say a phone would be faster than any access I have to any cloud LLMs now<p>&lt; 5 years 120B model faster?<p>I think future is likely untethered from any electrical outlet, you’re connected via satellite…<p>With efficient compression you can already achieve even photorealism at 200-400 megabits and 50ms latency.<p>If I want more power I can own it at home and connect to it remotely.<p>If Starlink supports 500 million on its v3…<p>I’d say you could just use AR on other infrastructure remoted in as well to a few other services… don’t see why anyone can’t own their own, every household only needs enough compute for who’s there…<p>If AR is also optimized no need for screens anywhere.<p>i.e. comfortable contact lens with self hosted wireless modules (or portable and efficient projectors and photonics), I won’t be alive but assume some mix of that future very powerful very low overhead customized technology will be what people have access to in like year 2500-3500+<p>Complete abundance, homes could even be printed or built in a day however you want, fully free experiential commerce…<p>Neutral digital transactions, some kind of very ubiquitous systems to interact and between these layers (robotics, synthetic video, materials access&#x2F;manufacturing from small scale to large)<p>Zoning laws probably will be even more of a vernacular than anything if things can rapidly change so quick…<p>Questions for responses: &#x2F;&#x2F; do you agree&#x2F;disagree?<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; by what year do you think the world will look more like this (maybe some choose more BCI devices), year 2300, 3300?<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; if not similar what do you think will then be ubiquitous by the year 3000+, summary of what you envision?<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; what similar technologies do you think can be designed&#x2F;iterated on now over the next 4-30 years closest to this future (or the one you think more likely), 1-3 concepts or things that will have more of an impact (particularly for consumers)?


type: comment
by: gcarvalho
text:
  &gt; Only at small scales are full stack engineers valuable.<p>Seems like the ideal career is to start somewhere big and successful enough that allows you to specialize (after some poor generalists sabotaged their own careers by making it a thriving environment for specialists).  Because even small scale businesses think they should start by hiring specialists.


type: comment
by: Delk
text:
  I&#x27;m guessing that was a 286. I think Intel parts topped out at 12.5 MHz but AMD and Harris eventually reached 20 or even 25 MHz. I still have my original PC with a 12.5 MHz one.<p>The difference with the 386, I think, is that AFAIK the second-sourced 8086 and 286 CPUs from non-Intel manufacturers still made use of licensed Intel designs. The 386 (and later) had to be reverse engineered again and AMD designed their own implementation. That also meant AMD was a bit late to the game (the Am386 came out in 1991 while the 80386 had already been released in 1985) but, on the other hand, they were able to achieve better performance.


type: comment
by: yunnpp
text:
  Are you saying 501 non-profits don&#x27;t pay capital gains? (b) certainly avoids tax on the donor&#x27;s part, but on the non-profit? I am assuming the non-profit would have to convert to fiat to do something useful with the donation.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  These comments from dang in 2018 are worth linking as well<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16633521">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16633521</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16444556">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16444556</a>


type: comment
by: chrisjj
text:
  That title is false and misleading.<p>True title: EngineAI T800: Humanoid Robot Performs Incredible Martial Arts Moves


type: comment
by: lazarus01
text:
  Totally agree.<p>In my 25 years in tech, there were no meritocracies.  I came from a simple working class upbringing and experienced upward mobility into the white collar class.<p>I differentiated myself by always finding ways to solve problems, that others weren’t willing to do.  People expected things to be done a certain way, I expected nothing and did everything myself my own way.<p>I never had mentorship that taught me “how to play the game”.  People saw me as a threat, some would copy my work and take credit for it.  I don’t have the mentality to fight with people over a game, so I let people win, to my detriment.<p>I never had hunger for title or compensation, so it was never offered to me unless I voiced my desire to exit.<p>My friends who played the game are sitting on a fortune, where they have more material possessions, but their kids are struggling and they are struggling, to find peace and happiness, because they are “owned” by the game.  They have no substance in their life and compare themselves to others who play the game.  A endless cycle of jealously.<p>I sit here with peace and very high life satisfaction, understanding I have skills that help people, that fulfill a purpose, that comes with healthy integration with my unbreakable values.<p>Learning to think independently while ignoring superficial reward signals with focus on self concordant goals is the recipe to life satisfaction.


type: comment
by: rubymamis
text:
  Did someone do a deep dive on why battery life is so awful on Linux? Or is it some Ashai&#x27;s driver&#x27;s inefficiencies that causing this?


type: comment
by: nchmy
text:
  *will do<p>I just went looking for docs and it seems that 8.2 is not out yet<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rails&#x2F;rails&#x2F;pull&#x2F;56350&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rails&#x2F;rails&#x2F;pull&#x2F;56350&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: ponector
text:
  What happened with recommendation letters? Portfolio?<p>If I have 10+ years of proven experience with positive public recommendations written by high managers from F500 companies why should I be challenged with puzzles?<p>Talk an interview to figure out motivation and if we have the same vibe. Then hire me and decide a month later if I&#x27;m worth your money.<p>Trial period exists in labor law for a reason.


type: story
by: nedoto
title: Show HN: I created a tool to generate handwritten signatures
url: https://signcraft.pro/
text:
  At this time, I had to sign multiple documents (energy, gas, water, etc) for our new house.<p>I&#x27;m using a Mac, and I have the option to create my own sign and reuse it multiple times, making it easy for me.<p>I&#x27;m also exploring vibe coding, so I decided to try building a small web app to generate handwritten signatures, allowing me to have a cool-looking signature and for others to use it if they want.<p>You can generate multiple signatures and only pay if you want to download your 7-signature pack.<p>I decided to let the users pay for it (only $3), not to become rich obviously :D, but to maybe cover some operational costs, like the VPS and the domain.<p>Since this is my first vibe-coded project, I&#x27;m also open to receiving feedback, so I can give some directions to my &quot;virtual employee&quot; :D<p>Thanks in advance!


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  It&#x27;s not a single thing. Trying to get a screen reader on GNU&#x2F;Linux is awful. Getting dwell click is easy on X11 and... <i>some</i> Wayland implementations. Or if you like: It was bad on X, and is worse on Wayland.


type: comment
by: FooBarWidget
text:
  Furthermore, we don&#x27;t even know whether NAD precursor supplementation works. They raise intracellular NAD+ levels, but unclear whether they raise intercellular NAD+, which is what really matters. There are also those that say NAD+ recycling matters more than we think, and precursors don&#x27;t address that.


type: comment
by: bikenaga
text:
  Original article: &quot;Revisiting the Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Insights from South Asian Genomes&quot; - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biorxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2025.11.05.686799v1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.biorxiv.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;10.1101&#x2F;2025.11.05.686799v1</a>


type: comment
by: thisislife2
text:
  And the author of the paper has disclosed that they have patent on the drug being tested. Let&#x27;s see if the results can be reproduced by others. Then let&#x27;s see how it tests with humans.


type: comment
by: danmaz74
text:
  &gt; adopted Sorbet and it is nothing but an impediment to progress<p>How so?<p>I never really missed types in Ruby, even if I like them a lot in typescript, but right now I&#x27;m doing some &quot;vibe coding&quot; on a personal project and I was thinking about trying Sorbet. I think that it could help Claude Code avoid some mistakes it often makes which make it waste a lot of time fixing.


type: comment
by: sitzkrieg
text:
  while i prefer visual studio and its working autocomplete, these recent vscode changes made me completely turn off all auto completion and insertions and no longer use any extensions, now it&#x27;s barely acceptable


type: comment
by: Ekaros
text:
  Broadly. You can do anything you want with MIT licensed software as long as you include the copyright and warranty notice.<p>I suppose with &quot;freeware&quot; technically you could be prevent from redistributing or selling it. As there is no hard definition on that term.


type: comment
by: spiffy2025
text:
  Personally I don&#x27;t have a PhD, but do have several advanced degrees. From experience, I&#x27;d suggest look into deeptech companies that are looking for SWEs. Deep tech companies typically need folks with the ability to pursue scientific enquiry with a SWE &#x2F; Product mindset.<p>I work at a company that is hiring folks that have a background in (helio)physicists &#x2F; quantum (I think we have about 3 nobel prize labs represented right now in a team of 9) with SWE &#x2F; ML experience (EDIT: and Full Stack Developers), to build products for the aerospace industry. Not exactly earth science, but if Heliophysics &#x2F; Physics is of interest, my masked email in profile.


type: comment
by: anonym29
text:
  What&#x27;s the objective, clearly disambiguated, empirically demonstrable difference between memory loss, dementia, and Alzheimer&#x27;s?


type: comment
by: stephenlf
text:
  Absolutely insane way to start a business. “Let me blow 2 grand on a domain name. Not sure what it’s for, yet.”


type: comment
by: bitwize
text:
  Funny, the other day I started writing an X server of my own. While I appreciate and welcome this work, I still use and write software that makes use of old X draw calls, which I intended to incorporate into my server, unlike the author of this work. So I&#x27;m glad to see my efforts have not been made largely redundant!


type: comment
by: stetrain
text:
  If you want the latest and greatest you can get it. If an M1 is fine you can get a great deal on one and they’re still great machines and supported by Apple.


type: comment
by: bradlys
text:
  It depends on how many people he was in charge of. If he’s CTO of 500 people company where only 40 are engineers, you’re not getting past senior manager at faang.


type: comment
by: reisse
text:
  The thing about Macbooks is people tend to compare them with <i>all</i> of the regular laptops, of which 95% are in entirely another market segment. Even worse, some regular laptops can vary from &quot;cheap shit&quot; to &quot;good machine&quot; under one name, depending on the options selection (looking at you Lenovo). Hats off to Apple, having very narrow selection of models with very limited customization options helps them greatly.<p>There are models from Dell, Lenovo, and ASUS which have better screens than Macs, better design and build quality (subjectively), on-par performance and just slightly worse battery life. It just takes time and effort to find them.<p>(also, am I the only one who finds Apple trackpads _uncomfortable_ to touch?)


type: comment
by: foxglacier
text:
  I&#x27;m more cynical. I think most people really are intolerant. They have their culture which they perhaps unconsciously equate with being good or morally right and anyone who doesn&#x27;t follow the complex unwritten rules is shunned or abused. Those rules may be mostly good but nobody questions them all, yet almost everybody either enforces them or tacitly tolerates their friends enforcing them. This is probably necessary because if everyone went around inventing their own standards for behavior, people wouldn&#x27;t get along very well and the outcome of &quot;most people get along with each other most of the time&quot; is itself valuable - it just comes at the cost of those who can&#x27;t understand it. I think most people can&#x27;t comprehend the possibility that somebody who seems reasonably normal and intelligent doesn&#x27;t understand the rules so they must be acting maliciously and deserve punishment.


type: comment
by: 7402
text:
  I recently needed to make a mockup of something, so I got some plasticine from Amazon, since I remembered playing with the stuff when I was a kid. However what I received was quite stiff and left an unpleasant oily smell on my hands that I had to scrub off with a lot of effort. Is there a particular brand of plasticine that you have had a good experience with?


type: comment
by: glerk
text:
  I downloaded it to try and bought a &quot;pro&quot; subscription ($15 for 750 requests, no idea what counts as a &quot;request&quot;). The app is a vscode fork similar to cursor. I entered one prompt which was a simple &quot;plan a way to architect this moderately complex thing within my code&quot;. The agent went on thinking for 5 minutes or so with no indication of progress, then it told me it blew past my 750 requests allowance and threw an error. Yeah... ok.


type: comment
by: llimos
text:
  Why is it bad that one of the key components of plastic is fossil fuel? Isn&#x27;t locking it up in plastic preferable to burning it?<p>If they are referring to the energy cost of manufacturing it, that&#x27;s got nothing to do with the raw material being fossil fuels.


type: comment
by: staticman2
text:
  &gt;I look back at period pieces - films showcasing the 40s, 50s, etc., and it seems like mental institutions would be a wonderful way to house these folks and keep them fed and warm<p>I&#x27;m reading this comment as if you had written:<p>&quot;The TV show Hogan&#x27;s Heroes makes being a prisoner of war sound like a jolly good time.&quot;


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  This reads like a polished newspaper article, but I&#x27;ve never heard of this website before and there are no links.<p>A search found an similar article from Times of India which credits The Information, there&#x27;s no good way for non-subscribers to search it.


type: comment
by: dangalf
text:
  &gt;BP in February announced plans to sell off $20bn (£15bn) worth of assets in a bid to focus on its core crude oil and gas business and strengthen its balance sheet. Following today&#x27;s deal and previous announcements, the company says its over half way to meeting that target. It is also shifting its strategy away from investment in green energy and renewing its focus on oil and gas following pressure from some investors who were frustrated that its profits and share price had lagged behind rivals.


type: comment
by: runningmike
text:
  Understanding how LLMs work is challenging. But learning the core concepts is should be fun. Good news is that great open tutorials are created that give you a kickstart when working with LLMs.


type: comment
by: wrs
text:
  If they didn’t have a negative response, it wouldn’t be tolerance, by definition. Tolerance <i>means</i> engaging with something you have a negative response to.


type: comment
by: nine_k
text:
  The key addition to the list: &quot;Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components produced in a foreign country and all communications and video surveillance equipment and services listed in Section 1709(a)(1) of the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (Pub. L. 118-159)&quot;. In other words, drones, motors, batteries, control systems, sensors.


type: comment
by: BurningFrog
text:
  Around the same time, much of the US also stopped building housing at the rate needed.<p>I&#x27;m pretty sure there would be far less homeless if there were a lot more homes around.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  &gt;Yeah, maybe in a decade.<p>You are getting 3nm and 2nm along with GAA later this year precisely because of AI.


type: comment
by: bradlys
text:
  All of these are easily faked and&#x2F;or not able to be shared. You think I can share code from FAANG?<p>Also, hiring is very expensive for those first few months at big tech. It’s also very morale draining to see your peers fired constantly - which is what would happen. Morale at faang is already hitting rock bottom due to the mandatory yearly+ 10%+ layoffs.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  Kiki Ruff is the creator behind this, she and her work are simply delightful. I cannot recommend enough.<p>(no association besides being a patron)


type: comment
by: WD-42
text:
  Asahi is all reverse engineering. It’s nothing short of a miracle what has already accomplished, despite, not because of, Apple.<p>That said some of the prominent developers have left the project. As long as Apple keeps hoarding their designs it’s going to be a struggle, even more so now.<p>If you care about FOSS operating systems or freedom over your own hardware there isn’t a reason to choose Apple.


type: comment
by: yorwba
text:
  So last month you asked for feedback on the D2 Engine <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45886319">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45886319</a> and now you &#x27;found&#x27; the D3 Engine in an open directory...


type: comment
by: Eddy_Viscosity2
text:
  I feel this way about government sponsored sports stadiums. But not research. Public funded research is is a net benefit, even when some of it is wasted.


type: comment
by: TZubiri
text:
  I don&#x27;t think they are paying taxes anyway. It&#x27;s a crypto millionaire. Guess how they are making millions.


type: comment
by: thatha7777
text:
  The “Lua engine” seems to support only one, hardcoded, command (redis.call) with no other syntax&#x2F;lua operators! It even lacks conditionals! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wutlu&#x2F;boltcache&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;lua.go" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;wutlu&#x2F;boltcache&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;lua.go</a>


type: comment
by: odie5533
text:
  I wonder if the sunk cost worked in his favor here. If he&#x27;d only spent ten dollars on the domain, he probably would have built nothing.


type: comment
by: izacus
text:
  Each controller and subcomponent on the motherboard needs a driver that correctly puts it into low power and sleep states to get battery savings.<p>Most of those components are proprietary and don&#x27;t use the standard drivers available in Linux kernel.<p>So someone needs to go and reverse engineer them, upstream the drivers and pray that Apple doesn&#x27;t change them in next revision (which they did) or the whole process needs to start again.<p>In other words: get an actually Linux supported laptop for Linux.


type: comment
by: billy99k
text:
  &quot;I only date liberal men.” Politics is not her only concern. She is also looking for someone ambitious, with a stable career, who is Jewish and, perhaps most important, shares her desire to start a family.&quot;<p>Well, good luck finding someone like this.


type: comment
by: SG-
text:
  author mentions he paid $750 for a MacBook Air M2 with 16GB while on Amazon a M4 Air with 16GB is usually $750-800.  I get it that M4&#x2F;M3 aren&#x27;t supported to boot Asahi yet, but still.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  Mozilla was sued to rename Firefox (like I said) by one Phoenix Technologies. If I remember right, they picked two bad names before picking &quot;Firefox&quot; but I don&#x27;t remember the other one.


type: comment
by: HackingWizard
text:
  You could always ask the police to see if they anything about. Or Hire a detective if you want closure.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  yes, but I find it hard to constrain it to a minimal implementation. what usually happens is it writes some tests, then an implementation, and then according to the thinking, makes some modification. it works with a relatively precise prompt, but starts to go a bit off the rails when you say things in broad terms (&quot;write tests to ensure concurrency works, and the implementation to ensure said tests are correct&quot;)


type: comment
by: throwaway0x832
text:
  correction: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;searchbound&#x2F;status&#x2F;1007015211486900229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1007015211486900229%7Ctwgr%5E483a0fdfa73c26f08bf4734b755446438bfddc00%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.deepsouthventures.com%2Fi-sell-onions-on-the-internet%2F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;searchbound&#x2F;status&#x2F;1007015211486900229?ref_src...</a>


type: comment
by: zipping1549
text:
  Humans will always be miserable and for the most part, we are just as miserable as we were few years or few decades ago, if not better off. We can(and frankly, should) enjoy nice things from time to time.


type: comment
by: TZubiri
text:
  I&#x27;ll explain a bit what&#x27;s going on here. The typical crypto ethos usually isn&#x27;t aligned with governments or paying taxes at all.<p>Additionally, banks are heavily government regulated entities, they are almost part of the executive branch. Aiding in the collection of taxes, neutering economic incentives for illegal activities, and implementing public economic policy are common and unquestioned responsibilities placed on banks through laws.


type: comment
by: Borg3
text:
  Haha yeah, seems so a bit.. There is really no problem with IP reputations at all. If prefix is often moved and traded, just DROP it at edge.. because traffic will be malice anyway.. problem solved.<p>The really valuable prefixes are those with are stable and have good reputation on them.. Everything else is junk these days..


type: comment
by: Tade0
text:
  &gt; Maybe I feel the satisfaction of clicking them together as I clean them up. Cleaning becomes a little like playing.<p>My preschooler daughter got Magna Tiles for Christmas and she&#x27;s cleaning them up herself, which is a first for her.<p>I&#x27;m surprised the Minecraft blocks feel less strong - Magna Tiles seem to be using standard AlNiCo magnets and I expected, given the price, that the Minecraft ones would be using neodymium magnets, but apparently they&#x27;re not and this weakness comes from magnets being only at the corners.


type: comment
by: rawgabbit
text:
  My only comment is that your analysis ignores the political dimension. Politics shapes our economic and technological realities. “historical winners shape institutions to protect their own interests”.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Why_Nations_Fail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Why_Nations_Fail</a>


type: story
by: scentoni
title: The 'doorman fallacy': why careless adoption of AI backfires so easily
url:
  https://theconversation.com/the-doorman-fallacy-why-careless-adoption-of-ai-backfires-so-easily-268380


type: comment
by: Joel_Mckay
text:
  Sounds like a GIS company may be a good fit, or another related service.  =3<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esri.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;about&#x2F;careers&#x2F;job-search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.esri.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;about&#x2F;careers&#x2F;job-search</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpl.jobs&#x2F;c&#x2F;educational-jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpl.jobs&#x2F;c&#x2F;educational-jobs</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spacex.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;jobs?programs=Starlink&amp;disciplines=Engineering%20-%20Aerospace%20%26%20Mechanical%7CEngineering%20-%20Software%20%26%20Analytics&amp;employmentTypes=Regular" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spacex.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;jobs?programs=Starlink&amp;discip...</a>


type: comment
by: thdrtol
text:
  The tetrahedral shape of the molecules define the 6 sides. I believe that would be a constant.<p>Temperature, moisture, pressure and maybe more variables are the parameters.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  The biggest one is I don&#x27;t want someone submitting malicious (or just poorly designed) code that crashes my server - hence the focus on memory and CPU limits.<p>I also need to limit filesystem access - don&#x27;t want them stealing private files from elsewhere on the system, or filling the disk with garbage data (again causing a crash).<p>Network access restrictions are important too - I don&#x27;t want my server becoming part of some DDoS attack, or an attacker using it to hit supposedly safe internal endpoints (SSRF).


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  &quot;Norway, the first country to use only electric vehicles&quot;<p>Related:<p><i>Norway declares victory in move away from gas cars</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45607169">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45607169</a> - October 2025 (14 comments)<p><i>EVs reach record 98.3 pct share of new car sales in Norway, surge across Europe</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45596668">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45596668</a> - October 2025 (3 comments)<p><i>Norway says &#x27;mission accomplished&#x27; on going 100% EV, proposes incentive changes</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45593746">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45593746</a> - October 2025 (1 comment)<p><i>Norway Is Uprooting Its Fuel Pumps as Electric Cars Take Over</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;newsletters&#x2F;2025-03-28&#x2F;norway-is-uprooting-its-fuel-pumps-as-electric-cars-take-over" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;newsletters&#x2F;2025-03-28&#x2F;norway...</a> | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;zZMep" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.today&#x2F;zZMep</a> - March 28th, 2025<p><i>Cratering motor fuel sales in Norway show the death spiral that can end oil</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37966767">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37966767</a> - October 2023 (208 comments)<p><i>Monitoring CO2 emissions on Norwegian roads [pdf]</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.toi.no&#x2F;getfile.php?mmfileid=74689" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.toi.no&#x2F;getfile.php?mmfileid=74689</a> - January 2023<p><i>Norway EV sales and related data</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robbieandrew.github.io&#x2F;EV&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;robbieandrew.github.io&#x2F;EV&#x2F;</a><p><i>Norway EV Charger Map</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;placetoplug.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;charging-stations&#x2F;norway&#x2F;map" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;placetoplug.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;charging-stations&#x2F;norway&#x2F;map</a>


type: comment
by: DANmode
text:
  Been loving your well-placed comments for 5 years.<p>Keep up the great work - your team should be giving you a raise; you’re a great reflection on them.


type: comment
by: TZubiri
text:
  The topic on whether FSF is an effective organization is too big to fit on a comment, but I&#x27;ll just add my two cents on how the FSF helped me this week:<p>I was looking into shared key encryption, found Shamir&#x27;s Secret Sharing algorithm, found a GNU implementation called ssss.<p>Thank GNU


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  15 years ago I tried it and got that path error.  1 year ago I tried again and still got the same error.  I&#x27;m well aware that it&#x27;s simple enough to fix. But I was baffled that the same error was still there.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  &gt; In places without governments like Haiti you can raise a family in a relatively simple structure<p>have you actually tried living in Haiti? Bonus points for being born and living past 4 years old. Even more points for living on median wage.<p>Eliminating homeless isn&#x27;t that expensive. The UK did it during covid, it cost like 700million. Thats not like a partial thing. _everyone_ had a room to stay in and 3 meals a day. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-9057&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commonslibrary.parliament.uk&#x2F;research-briefings&#x2F;cbp-...</a><p>It could be made significantly cheaper if government had social housing to spare (you know like actually build them again)


type: story
by: JumpCrisscross
title: India Is on a Himalayan Building Spree to Prepare for a Clash with China
url:
  https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/india-is-on-a-himalayan-building-spree-to-prepare-for-a-clash-with-china-c914dcaf


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
text:
  “ The way Faulkner treats his characters, I treat domain name projects. I buy them with an intention to develop. And I let them take the lead. They’re the inspiration for the business itself. They guide me towards what they need to become. I’m just the dude behind the keyboard (sorta).”<p>To me it makes sense. Without a domain name, it’s just an idea. The domain name makes it real, and it’s a foundation the biz can stand on. Too many people try to start a biz without a foundation.


type: comment
by: IdontKnowRust
text:
  That&#x27;s an interesting POV ,  I hope we never have to work for billionaire&#x27;s wives in this way


type: story
by: Edybrown
title: Show HN: Pyfrontkit Update
text:
  Generating frontend from Python often involves more complexity than necessary, especially when integrating design with backend logic. Pyfrontkit (v1.1.10) is a Python library designed to reduce that friction. Its approach is based on three ideas: simplicity, efficiency and control. With Pyfrontkit, frontend is defined with significantly less code than traditional HTML + CSS. In many cases, the reduction exceeds 50% in written characters, reducing noise and potential error points. A single design definition can produce different outputs depending on the context: HTML + CSS written to disk In-memory generation Embedded or separated styles All from the same source. Templates are not passive files, but Python functions. They are encapsulated once and reused without creating multiple variants. Since templates are functions, they can receive arguments containing: data (content) design values (colors, styles, visual behavior) This allows the same template to adapt dynamically without duplicating code. Using a template introduces no additional friction: it is called like any regular Python function from backend logic, making integration with Python frameworks straightforward. The result is a simpler workflow with fewer layers, fewer concepts to learn and more control for the developer. Sharing a few  img with visual examples of the flow in this version<p>Links: GitHub: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Edybrown&#x2F;Pyfrontkit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Edybrown&#x2F;Pyfrontkit</a> PyPI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;pyfrontkit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pypi.org&#x2F;project&#x2F;pyfrontkit&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: SG-
text:
  the point still stands as last year the M4 was released and was already seeing those deals especially with the M3 earlier too.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  I think Firebird was the <i>second</i> name they tried to use that was already taken. They were definitely sued by Phoenix Technologies for one incident. Bryan Lunduke has a podcast explaining the history of this but I saw the one about Phoenix on the Wikipedia page before posting.<p>Edit: Here you go: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-fight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-f...</a>


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  &gt; I highly recommend this kind of simple toy for young children.<p>As a parent I very much agree. And for grown-up children too.<p>On my desk I have a small tin containing small wooden blocks and planks, arches, etc. I get lots of play value from them - when my thinking is blocked, or if I just want to fool around and not think at all. I&#x27;m in my mid fifties.<p>And over at my climbing club&#x27;s off-grid climbing hut we have a big box of over-sized, home made jenga blocks. Pretty-much everyone plays with them: not only jenga, but also just building structures or giant domino runs or whatever.<p>We all need to play sometimes.


type: comment
by: paganel
text:
  That&#x27;s a very neat idea! If you ever have the time to do it you should try it out, in fact you&#x27;ve gave me an idea of trying to do the same for my city, Bucharest, just need to find some relevant data-sources.


type: comment
by: bell-cot
text:
  233 points and 89 comments back in 2022 - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32053044">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=32053044</a>


type: comment
by: GabrielTFS
text:
  They would generally need to convert to fiat to do something useful, yes, but 501 (c) (3) nonprofits generally don&#x27;t pay capital gains tax, no.


type: comment
by: Offpics
text:
  You look for impact, not how much it took time. There are people that work a lot, but have no real outcomes. Also this particular type of resume is popular because google has promoted this style


type: comment
by: everforward
text:
  I know of a couple reasons offhand.<p>JavaScript is JIT’ed where CPython is not. Pypy has JIT and is faster, but I think is incompatible with C extensions.<p>I think Pythons threading model also adds complexity to optimizing where JavaScripts single thread is easier to optimize.<p>I would also say there’s generally less impetus to optimize CPython. At least until WASM, JavaScript was sort of stuck with the performance the interpreter had. Python had more off-ramps. You could use pypy for more pure Python stuff, or offload computationally heavy stuff to a C extension.<p>I think there are some language differences that make JavaScript easier to optimize, but I’m not super qualified to speak on that.


type: comment
by: KetoManx64
text:
  What does this matter for blind people who want to use Linux?  All that matters to them is that it&#x27;s super complicated and nobody wants to work with the tech to make screen readers work on Wayland.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;m0025sr0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;programmes&#x2F;m0025sr0</a> has a bit more information in it, but its in a radio show with a bunch of other bits and pieces. From memory its in the last quarter of the show.<p>He has a really lovely welsh accent.<p>The other thing to do is they did this largely because its what they felt was the right thing to do.


type: comment
by: hugs
text:
  it&#x27;s just v1. good for experimenting, not for production (yet!).<p>and yes, it&#x27;s perhaps impolite and silently taboo for me to say it out loud, but &quot;not being controlled by microsoft&quot; is on the top 10 list of &quot;why vibium and not playwright&quot;. most of the sf world has gone all-in on playwright; i&#x27;m betting on web standards. i hope people will notice that distinction. however, i realize vibium can&#x27;t win just as the &quot;not microsoft&quot; option; it will also need to win on the merits.<p>microsoft is already incredibly well-positioned to own the whole dev stack. from their investment in openai to vscode, github, and playwright... they are in a powerful position. i&#x27;m old enough to remember the last time ms had massive power over the stack (see: internet explorer 6).


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-fight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-f...</a><p>All the first 3 names were taken. They probably had to bribe even the holders of the Firefox trademark to get it (though the terms were never disclosed).


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  &gt;Would be curious: Is it US-centered? How much people from LatAm or SEA? EU?<p>Why would it <i>not</i> be US centered? YC is an US company.<p>Overall, US + Canada is 50 - 60%. UK + EU is 25 - 35%. You could find post that lands on HN frontage showing their stats.


type: comment
by: slowmonkey
text:
  Thank you! Very appreciated!  Coming to understanding that I should make it AI-cli-agnostic for better universality.


type: comment
by: christophilus
text:
  I was chatting with my brother- a poli sci guy- and the world seems reminiscent of the pre-world war era in some foreboding ways. I sure hope things can deescalate without a major hot engagement between the super powers.


type: comment
by: fsh
text:
  This doesn&#x27;t match my experience. My previous three laptops (two AMD Lenovo Thinkpads, one Intel Sony VAIO) had essentially the same battery life running Linux as running Windows.


type: comment
by: KetoManx64
text:
  Just got a major release as well with tons of new contributors and fixes&#x2F;additions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;X11Libre&#x2F;xserver&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;xlibre-xserver-25.1.0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;X11Libre&#x2F;xserver&#x2F;releases&#x2F;tag&#x2F;xlibre-xser...</a>


type: comment
by: looneysquash
text:
  &quot;Animals&quot; suggests more than one kind of animal.<p>Which animals besides mice does this cause a full neurological recovery in?


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  Perhaps so.<p>But over here in the reality of the world that we have to interact that, this concept of perfect rule-following will never, <i>ever</i> happen -- unless something first manages to wipe the last of the stain of humanity off of the earth&#x27;s face.


type: comment
by: collingreen
text:
  Super good point. Only two options with no middle ground and definitely should choose to hurt an unlimited number of people on the off chance of a long future alien invasion and the even longer chance that by going out of our way to hurt people now will somehow actually matter against a spacefaring, almost-certainly-interstellar hostile force.<p>What nonsense.


type: comment
by: bsima
text:
  Yeah and afaict all of the employees are totally in the dark as to what&#x27;s going on. They have no idea if they&#x27;ll get paid (I&#x27;m an ex-employee)


type: comment
by: boh
text:
  Honestly this got me to subscribe. The back catalog is pretty stellar with pretty much every major writer of the twentieth century making a contribution. Zooming in on PDFs just wasn&#x27;t how you wanted to read them.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  I mean, thats one way to look at it.<p>But reading between the lines, having someone with a gambling habit isn&#x27;t the best live in &quot;maid&quot; especially if they work full time as a bin man.<p>I would just suggest that looking to believe the worst in people will not make you stronger or more effective than others, it&#x27;ll just make you lonely.


type: comment
by: ezfe
text:
  Yes, this is true - but it’s still beneficial enough to have fewer claims. Claims incur cost in many ways and running a business with fewer claims would be more predictable and likely worth the minimal trade off.


type: comment
by: Buford_Jones
text:
  Self hosting around 17 domains with a variety of individual accounts on each one. I create a new email on one of the domains to use for a specific purpose. For example, I use guitar@myname.com for guitar related stuff, aarp@anothename.com, Azure[1,2,3,4]@yetanotherdomain.com that I use for testing various permissions in Azure. Multiple emails for each of the kids domains and I have at least 3 domains per kid (3) and a few for the spouse. Everything works perfectly with DKIM, SPF, and DMARC setup.


type: comment
by: opello
text:
  Also worth checking out the Veritasium video on snowflakes:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ao2Jfm35XeE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ao2Jfm35XeE</a>


type: comment
by: CrossVR
text:
  &gt; Only the competing forces with other geopolitical actors keep them remotely honest.<p>If competition between unions is important, then why not allow the EU to set up its own rules? Perhaps the US is wrong this time and the DSA will result in a more fair market and better online discourse as promised.<p>Or it will turn into a authoritarian censorship machine, then at least the US will know never to adopt something similar. But we won&#x27;t solve anything by just maintaining the status quo and attacking anyone that tries to enforce their own set of rules within their own jurisdiction.<p>If X doesn&#x27;t want to deal with those rules they are free to leave.


type: comment
by: efnx
text:
  Hot take - Along these lines video games score incredibly well.<p>Arguably not a “toy”, but it’s interesting to think about.


type: comment
by: KetoManx64
text:
  What makes them more so secure?  Configurability I can see, usability maybe, as Ubiquiti is all about simplification and ease of use.


type: story
by: ilyasseisov
title: Show HN: After 37 failed interviews, I built the prep tool I wish I had
text:
  Hey HN, I’m Ilyas.<p>For 18 months, I was stuck in a loop: apply, interview, reject. Repeat. I sent over 1,000 applications and failed 37 interviews.<p>The frustrating part? I wasn&#x27;t failing complex algorithm challenges. I was failing basic questions like “What are React portals?” or “Explain GET in HTTP”.<p>I knew the answers, but under pressure, my mind went blank. I realized my problem wasn&#x27;t understanding—it was remembering.<p>At first I used ChatGPT to help me create flashcards. But with time storage and tracking complexity grew. Plus sometimes AI was wrong.<p>That&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve built the tool to scratch my own itch. It’s a flashcard-based system designed to move web dev knowledge from &quot;I kinda know this&quot; to &quot;I can explain this instantly under pressure&quot;.<p>How it works (The Technical Bit): Instead of passive reading, the system uses spaced repetition and active recall to fight the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve. It covers 24 categories (React, Node, SQL, etc.) with 4,900+ questions. The goal is to build strong neural pathways through testing rather than just re-watching tutorials.<p>The Outcome: After using this system for a few weeks, I stopped panicking in interviews. I eventually scored 95% on a technical test and landed a dream offer with paid relocation.<p>Why I’m sharing it: I felt sick from the job search process and I know many others do too. I wanted to build something practical that helps to increase chances of passing dev interview.<p>It isn&#x27;t a &quot;magic button,&quot; but a practical system for people who are tired of failing because they &quot;kinda&quot; know the material.<p>It can help you, or at least helped me to get a dream job with paid relocation.<p>I’d love to get your feedback on what helped to do a breakthrough on successfully passing dev interviews?!<p>p.s. just in case you would like to take a look at the tool, URL is below:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99cards.dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;99cards.dev&#x2F;</a><p>Thanks, Ilyas


type: story
by: udit_50
title: What are you building in AI?
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  Hi HN,<p>I’ve been building in AI for a few years now, mostly as a solo founder. One thing I’ve consistently found useful is reading and listening to honest accounts from people actually building — not launch posts, but the thinking, trade-offs, and mistakes along the way.<p>As we move into a new year, I want to spend more time learning from others working at the frontier of AI: researchers, founders, and engineers building real systems.<p>If you’re working on something interesting:<p>What problem are you trying to solve?<p>Why now?<p>What’s been harder than you expected?<p>Not looking to promote anything or collect leads — just genuine stories and technical or product insights. I think there’s a lot of quiet, high-quality work happening that doesn’t always get discussed.<p>Would love to hear what people here are building.


type: comment
by: thePhytochemist
text:
  Consider laboratory automation?<p>I work in that now. I am going through the same issue as you after studying science (there are many of us!). Jobs rarely overlap, wanting both skillsets. Am I ever going to do this scientific work I learned about? I feel entering this area has been progress.<p>I&#x27;m on the &#x27;science&#x27; side right now, after doing CAD, software and firmware for a few years. The previous robots I made were not for scientific work. Now I make liquid handling robots for laboratories and I hope that my scientific skills will be valued in the workplace.<p>In the workplace, people mostly seem to want you to choose a box and stay in it rather than using a varied skillset. Right now I can say I &quot;make robots&quot; but mostly I take parts, put them in the machine we make and use them for a bit then send them on their way as tested items. The robot is largely a black box - I&#x27;m not allowed to see the CAD, software or firmware it runs, certainly not use my skills in those areas. But I&#x27;ll keep trying - to bring value to the employer and find more interesting&#x2F;valued work using the skills I&#x27;ve gained over the years. Entering a workplace for whatever they want then moving within it over time is a time tested strategy, especially in government because they are unionized and very rarely fire anyone.<p>Keep in mind funding sources during your search. In Canada we have SRED, which is a tax rebate for scientific work and easy to get. People, even if they studied science, seem to perceive scientific work as expensive and mostly useless so subsidies like this really help. Since it&#x27;s a rebate that means you must work for a company that already has revenue, not a small startup. Look for a company with at least a room they call a lab and they will keep time sheets for all &quot;R&amp;D&quot; work.


type: comment
by: wakawaka28
text:
  Yes, and that was just the start lol... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-fight&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;mozilla-holds-fire-in-naming-f...</a>


type: comment
by: Lord-Jobo
text:
  Not embeds or links, but tons of skeet screenshots on Reddit, daily. ubiquitous. Not remotely as common as xeets, but the platform is way less common so that checks out.<p>And the overwhelming majority of Xitter content that breaks out of platform are just screenshots as well and not direct links&#x2F;embeds.


type: comment
by: justin66
text:
  I meant 14, then. I bought my framework from the third or fourth batch that was available (going from memory), in November 2021 (going from email).<p>Nothing premium about it at all. That’s ridiculous in my opinion, the quality is cringe in comparison to an Apple. On the other hand, I’ve got four years of use out of it, so… whatever.<p>I <i>wanted</i> to love it very badly, and they did the right thing with the camera and audio cutoff switches and their location. But  that wasn’t enough to make it a great laptop.


type: comment
by: breadchris
text:
  This feels like a relevant wiki page to mention <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Onion_Futures_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Onion_Futures_Act</a>


type: comment
by: bencornia
text:
  &gt; The way Faulkner treats his characters, I treat domain name projects. I buy them with an intention to develop. And I let them take the lead. They’re the inspiration for the business itself. They guide me towards what they need to become. I’m just the dude behind the keyboard (sorta).<p>I feel the same way about personal projects and blogs. A good idea tends to be self-reinforcing. It just needs someone to uncover it. Selling onions on the internet seems unusual but to the right person that idea is gold.


type: comment
by: rolph
text:
  it is possible for an oncocyte [cancerous cell]<p>to lose the features that define it as a subunit of tissue.<p>in this case warts, or tumour cells may be transplanted during surgery, to a person that has nicked themselves with a scalpel or other such instrument, it is not impossible for a technician to have this happen while preparing a biopsy.<p>the way a virus promotes cancer is by inserting, into genetic locus [address] that is close enough to the start of an &quot;oncogene&quot; that cancer results.<p>Diagnostic dilemma: A surgeon accidentally transplanted a tumor into his  own hand<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;cancer&#x2F;diagnostic-dilemma-a-surgeon-accidentally-transplanted-a-tumor-into-his-own-hand" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.livescience.com&#x2F;health&#x2F;cancer&#x2F;diagnostic-dilemma...</a><p>biological development is a strange bird, for example a tumour with promiscuous histocompatability, that is still &quot;a dog&quot; from a genetic perspective.


type: comment
by: breve
text:
  I tell my kids to imagine they have the toys they want.<p>It&#x27;s good for their development and the clean-up-time can&#x27;t be beat.


type: comment
by: chocochunks
text:
  No, because the M4 Air wasn&#x27;t even out until March of this year. It was only in the iPad and MBP last year.


type: comment
by: nobodyandproud
text:
  Some real leadership in contrast: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;fibrebond-eaton-bonus-walker-30844d62?st=eegPYY&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;fibrebond-eaton-bonus-walker-30...</a>


type: comment
by: gettingoverit
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  By the look on the issues there, it seems the rest of the post is not that true either<p>Edit. Call me a hater, but... I know the guy! That&#x27;s the guy from Google whose code never works in the most hilarious ways! See issues on the rest of his pinned repos.


type: comment
by: phil21
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  The most likely explanation when hundreds of people make the same fuckup is the tooling and&#x2F;or process sucks. Not that hundreds of people lack basic competence.<p>The most recent analogy I have is field techs in IT work. A company sends out &quot;truck roll&quot; tickets, and then complaints when there is a 40% failure&#x2F;re-work rate on said truck rolls.<p>A single or handful of techs with said failure rate?  Yep, perhaps incompetence.<p>A global failure rate across dozens of cities&#x2F;countries and 40+ technicians total? No longer incompetence. At least at the field tech level. That&#x27;s a documentation, process, and standards problem 100% guaranteed.<p>That some above average highly competent &quot;hero&quot; technicians are able to compensate for it is irrelevant.


type: comment
by: lukevp
text:
  I agree with the point that making the VS Code terminal behave in a special manner without opt-in is going to be disruptive to newer engineers. Why not make it a shell plugin instead and offer to install&#x2F;customize the shell the first time someone launches a new shell in VS Code instead? Then it changes it system wide, like oh-my-zsh or something would.


type: comment
by: tweakimp
text:
  In the near future we will use lazy imports :) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peps.python.org&#x2F;pep-0810&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peps.python.org&#x2F;pep-0810&#x2F;</a>


type: story
by: ajtazer
title: Ollama token exfiltration still present in latest release
text:
  I reproduced CVE-2025-51471 on the latest Ollama release and confirmed the issue is still present with the proposed fix unmerged.<p>Short demo video showing the token exfiltration flow: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;kC80FSrWbNk<p>Original disclosure (FuzzingLabs &#x2F; Huntr): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huntr.com&#x2F;bounties&#x2F;94eea285-fd65-4e01-a035-f533575ebdc2<p>Fix PR (still open at time of testing): https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ollama&#x2F;ollama&#x2F;pull&#x2F;10750


type: comment
by: bane
text:
  Interesting discussion here [1] with a couple screenshots of the differences.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;emulation&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1pv6m13&#x2F;new_commit_to_duckstation_adds_option_to_show&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;emulation&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1pv6m13&#x2F;new_comm...</a>


type: comment
by: latchkey
text:
  Out of curiosity, what would you use it for?<p>One big issue with HBM is the amount of idle power it consumes. A single MI355 is ~230W, just idle.


type: comment
by: gnabgib
text:
  (2019) At the time (60 points, 18 comments) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19878917">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19878917</a><p>Title: <i>From Collisions to Chosen-Prefix Collisions Application to Full SHA-1</i>


type: comment
by: modeless
text:
  I think this is worth worrying about, especially with knockoff magnatiles. The magnets are small enough to swallow. If a child swallows two they could die, for the same reason that &quot;buckyball&quot; magnet toys were banned: the magnets can snap together with intestinal tissue in between and perforate the intestinal wall.


type: comment
by: MrBuddyCasino
text:
  Plus, wooden blocks look a lot nicer than plastic stuff. I try to avoid plastic items because they inevitably ruin a room’s aesthetic.


type: comment
by: chrneu
text:
  I&#x27;ve been doing some version of this since college. ...holy shit that&#x27;s almost 20 years.<p>It started as a bit of a joke on the &quot;That&#x27;s a good band name&quot; line. It became &quot;That&#x27;s a good domain name&quot;. Yes, I went to a stem college.<p>Anyway, i&#x27;ve started 4 pretty decent businesses based entirely off that bit. My friends and I would be riffing out behind the pizza place&#x2F;bar we frequented, someone would say something and then &quot;That&#x27;s a good domain name&quot; comes out. I&#x27;d make a quick note and think about it for a few days. I found that if I come back to it after a week or so then it&#x27;s maybe worth something.<p>Business and domain names can make or break a company.<p>On top of all that, i&#x27;ve also bought and then sold hundreds of domains for a profit based off this bit. I use various registars when they have sales, buy em up cheap for a few years, then park em.<p>After reading the OP, it&#x27;s kinda funny. I did something similar with a garlic grower back in the early 00&#x27;s. I had a domain, my brother worked for a garlic farmer, the farmer wanted to export to asia. It worked out well for a few years.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
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  If we take this at face value, and assume for the moment that you are talking about the US.<p>For homeless people there is no requirement by the US government to house them. There are some grants to provide shelter, but no statutory tool that says &quot;you must fix this&quot;<p>So right there, the &quot;government&quot; has got out of the way. One could observe that if it was the government&#x27;s fault, then the US should have a lower homelessness problem.<p>If we look at the international standings, the USA has a higher rate of &quot;unsheltered&quot; per 100k than say france or the UK.<p>So if its not the government, perhaps is that US citizens are just stingy fuckers who don&#x27;t want to help?


type: comment
by: CommenterPerson
text:
  To the author: was there an open process to move to another role within your previous company? That could be another path to finding a better environment where one could grow in salary and responsibility?


type: comment
by: daemonologist
text:
  HN has some formatting syntax but not full markdown: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;formatdoc">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;formatdoc</a>  For your tree I added the newlines back and then used the &quot;text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim&quot; feature.<p>Merry Christmas!


type: comment
by: ajtazer
text:
  The issue is a trust boundary failure in the registry authentication flow: the client accepts the WWW-Authenticate realm provided by a registry without validating origin, which allows signed authentication material to be sent to an attacker-controlled endpoint during a normal model pull.<p>No exploit chain or malware is involved. The client generates and forwards the token itself based on untrusted input.<p>The original disclosure credits FuzzingLabs. I focused on reproducing the issue on current builds and validating the impact.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  M1 is indeed quite adequate for most, but each generation has brought substantial boosts in performance in single-threaded, multi-threaded, and with the M5 generation in particular GPU-bound tasks. These advancements are required to keep pace with the industry and in a few aspects stay ahead of competitors, plus there exist high end users whose workloads greatly benefit from these performance improvements.


type: comment
by: reppap
text:
  I&#x27;m running fedora and have been screenshoting and screen sharing (with the teams PWA) just fine. So might be time to get something newer.


type: comment
by: johnfn
text:
  It got over 3000 back in 2019!! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19728132">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19728132</a>


type: comment
by: weaksauce
text:
  another early days project but pretty well thought out in that space: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yippee-fun&#x2F;empirical&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;literally_README.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yippee-fun&#x2F;empirical&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;literally_...</a>


type: story
by: EGreg
title: The Time Spiral:How Quantum Error Correction Enabled Faster-Than-Light Signaling
text:
  They eventually stopped arguing about whether the past could be changed. That debate belonged to an earlier phase, when spacetime was treated as sacred and causality as something that required paradox-prevention mechanisms. Grandfather paradoxes, self-consistency constraints, closed timelike curves. All of it assumed a universe that demanded a single, globally coherent history.<p>The civilization that finally exploited faster-than-light signaling learned something different. History did not need to be self-consistent. It only needed to remain navigable. They called it the spiral.<p>Long before they were a Kardashev civilization, their physics had already accepted uncomfortable facts. Bell had killed locality. Pilot-wave theory made nonlocality explicit. Under quantum equilibrium that nonlocality was sterile and non-signaling, reproducing everything ever measured. Valentini showed this behavior was contingent rather than fundamental, a property of equilibrium rather than a law written into reality itself.<p>Breaking out of that phase did not resemble crossing a threshold. There was no dramatic event. Instead there was a gradual realization that with sufficient quantum coherence stabilization, tiny statistical biases could be detected. Not cleanly or cheaply, but inferentially, by systems designed to notice deviations so small they vanished unless expectations were adjusted. The first usable deviation from the Born rule did not transmit a message. It merely made one future slightly more likely than another.<p>The key insight was this: faster-than-light signaling does not overwrite history. It branches it, but only along directions that preserve navigability. Attempts to force large changes failed. The universe did not forbid change; it simply refused to stabilize configurations that demanded global consistency.<p>Time was no longer a line or a tree. It was a helix. Each intelligent intervention nudged the system into a neighboring trajectory. The past remained compatible with itself, but it was no longer identical. Nothing prevented contradiction in principle. What prevented chaos was cost. Branches that diverged too sharply lost coherence and became unreachable. The civilization learned to make small, deliberate divergences, enough to change outcomes without losing contact.<p>There were loops, but they were not closed. An intervention from the future could bias a past experiment whose altered result changed the future system that sent the bias. Not by contradiction, but by drift. Each pass landed on a slightly different layer of the spiral.<p>This could not happen accidentally. A nuclear reactor can be built without deeply understanding fission because the amplification is automatic. The spiral could not. Exploiting nonlocal signaling required intelligence. Without intelligence there was no spiral, and causality looked classical.<p>They tried to dominate. Expansion multiplied variables, destroyed coherence, and collapsed branches. Rigid goals shattered navigability. They learned that a civilization using time spirals to dominate selects itself out of the spiral. Survival required restraint, so they became local, dense, internally sophisticated, and externally boring.<p>To younger civilizations still debating whether faster-than-light communication is allowed, the universe appears unchanged. Relativity works. No-signaling holds. Causality looks intact. Only when nonlocal realism is accepted honestly, as pilot-wave theory does, does the door crack open.<p>The civilization did not fix the past. It outgrew it. History became navigable rather than sacred. Time became another dimension that demanded engineering discipline. If the spiral exists, it does not announce itself. It ensures that the futures capable of finding it are never the ones that shout.<p>A concise argument for why this view is cleaner rather than wilder than current QM interpretations is here:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;magarshak.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;why-pilot-wave-theory-deserves-a-second-look&#x2F;


type: comment
by: cubefox
text:
  Related: Recently another study on a mouse model had similar effects when using lithium orotate:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;lithium-deficiency-and-alzheimer-s-disease" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;blog-post&#x2F;lithium-deficiency...</a>


type: comment
by: lomase
text:
  Why you waste your time with people who don&#x27;t have a clue what they talk about and rush to reply them?<p>You replied 2 min after my comment... I am sorry you are that lonely on christmas day


type: comment
by: shahartal
text:
  CVE-2025-68664 (<i>langchain-core</i>): object confusion during (de)serialization can leak secrets (and in some cases escalate further). Details and mitigations in the post.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  I&#x27;m, uh, pretty familiar with the routine. I stand by what I said: you do not need any particular CSRF defense in place; you need to not have CSRF vulnerabilities. There&#x27;s no OWASP checkbox-alike that requires you to have CSRF tokens, and plenty of real line-of-business apps at gigantic companies don&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: scarmig
text:
  &gt; 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.<p>As someone who&#x27;s seen both cancer and Alzheimer&#x27;s up close, that would be a very easy choice.


type: comment
by: thisislife2
text:
  Great insight. And she is clearly depressed (person shows signs of deep sadness and hopelessness, withdraws from social activities and isolates themselves; has significant changes to sleep, appetite, and energy levels) so it is difficult for her to think clearly and move on to acceptance. (I&#x27;d say you too show the signs). Please take this test - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fspcares.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Burns-Checklists.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fspcares.org&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2020&#x2F;03&#x2F;Burns-Checkl...</a> (PDF) - and encourage your daughter to do so as a first step. If she has severe depression, get her a therapist ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cares.beckinstitute.org&#x2F;get-treatment&#x2F;clinician-directory&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cares.beckinstitute.org&#x2F;get-treatment&#x2F;clinician-dire...</a> ). As others have advised, she needs to learn new coping skills to make her more resilient to failures like these, and this is the perfect opportunity to do so as she is still in her youth.


type: comment
by: Avi-D-coder
text:
  The quality is much worse for me with uncommon words. I also plan to add a thin llm rewrite layer on top so I can write by just speaking but that will be later.


type: comment
by: mhd
text:
  I&#x27;m also pretty sure that there was an &quot;Elixir&quot; in IT before there was the language said framework is written in… I mean, given that the letter &quot;X&quot; is in both Unix and X11, I&#x27;m pretty sure most words containing it have already been used once or twice.<p>(I still think they should&#x27;ve stuck with &quot;Firebird&quot;, little danger of confusing a browser with a database system mostly used by Delphi devs)


type: comment
by: cultofmetatron
text:
  been sitting on fullstackjavascript.com for years. been too busy writing javascript to do anything with it and now I work almost exclusively in elixir.


type: comment
by: ghostghostghost
text:
  Nice app! I&#x27;m learning Python currently and was curious, it&#x27;s a nice way to give a quick snapshot into the feel for the language.<p>I reached pandas (something that I&#x27;ve yet to dive into) and had to refresh and lost my progress. It&#x27;d be good to put a shortcut to level command to jump on a topic so you don&#x27;t have to do it all over again!


type: comment
by: eviks
text:
  &gt; Hunting for a job is a full-time occupation. Doing so while maintaining high performance at a demanding job like YouTube is a recipe for cognitive fracture.<p>You don&#x27;t need to maintain it that high, just enough not to get fired within the expected time to find a new one?<p>&gt; From a critical perspective, this signals organizational dysfunction.<p>Indeed, but since you understand it, you also don&#x27;t have to waste your time 13 times?


type: comment
by: dgacmu
text:
  Except that those same people then complain about how many homeless people there are.<p>Reagan&#x27;s destruction of the mental health system was really awful. The system needed improvement and more accountability, but we need it.<p>I had an adult step-brother too ill with schizophrenia to be cared for at home (he began making violent threats and stealing things, up to and including my mom&#x27;s car), but under the current threshold for being compelled to take his medication. My mom (his step-mom; an attorney) spent years trying to find ways to get him help, but he bounced in and out of being homeless and ended up being murdered at about age 60 in a halfway house. Just a stupid, tragic waste of a life and all of the resources mis-allocated.<p>Sadly, it&#x27;s just another example of how the US is penny-wise and pound-foolish when it comes to social services.


type: comment
by: ohyoutravel
text:
  Got these many years back after having been posted here. Very happy with the purchase, but wouldn’t order again as my wife hated the smell. Highly recommended everyone order these at least once.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  We migrated off them when they removed the license tier (there was cheaper self hosted tier that had LDAP feature we needed, and we really only got the enterprise version for) and essentially forced everyone to tier above.


type: comment
by: tantalor
text:
  It&#x27;s kind of funny this guy doesn&#x27;t understand his own business.<p>It&#x27;s not onions. It&#x27;s lead generation.


type: comment
by: socalgal2
text:
  You have a point. At the same time insurance companies are getting out of insurance because they can&#x27;t afford it. Apparently (I didn&#x27;t verify this), the cost to repair cars has gone up so much that the economics don&#x27;t work out. So they&#x27;re leaving the market. Maybe less crashes would bring them back?<p>Pick a source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=car+insurance+companies+leaving+caliofornia" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=car+insurance+companies+leav...</a>


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  It&#x27;s a mix of &quot;because they can&quot; and  &quot;because they need to maintain infrastructure for mobile push&quot;.


type: comment
by: billy99k
text:
  He basically got the other side to admit that European healthcare, which has always been used as an argument as &#x27;better&#x27; than US care, is actually not as good.<p>He can intentionally start supporting things he hates at this point, and academia and the media will write articles and release research papers as to why it&#x27;s actually bad.<p>During Covid, it was pretty dangerous when the federal government started intentionally limiting usage of things like Monoclonal antibodies in states like Florida, which was shown to work after someone already had Covid. This most definitely killed people and I really can&#x27;t listen to anti-science liberals that make decisions based on politics and feelings and not actual science.<p>Hell, they told us that trying to limit flights at the beginning of Covid was &#x27;racist&#x27; and that we should &#x27;hug an Asian&#x27;. Does this sound like the party of &#x27;science&#x27; to you?<p>The &#x27;conspiracy theorists&#x27; were even right about the Covid vaccines: it&#x27;s now shown to cause blood clots and it definitely resulted in deaths. There was also no testing with pregnant women and we still don&#x27;t know the long-term effects.<p>I don&#x27;t see how we can just move on with these things or how we can ever believe the medical community run by liberals again. We need trials and people need to go to prison responsible for these deaths.<p>Big pharma companies that don&#x27;t have any accountability aren&#x27;t going to care if they kill people. I used to live in a college town around 2007 or so. Anti-big pharma was a normal platform in the liberal community. It only turned to licking the assholes of the big pharma companies and anyone who supported them after Republicans were apprehensive about untested vaccines being forced onto them.<p>Again, this has nothing to do with science.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  I love how I came into this thread going “it would be fun if this was actually about onions, but it is probably something about Tor” but was wrong!


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  I don&#x27;t know how you can read about the many experiences people have with Wayland not working - even now, let alone 2020 - and conclude that &quot;all things work&quot;.<p>I think we are <i>finally</i> at the point where you can say <i>most</i> things work and it&#x27;s silly to go back to X11, but even so Wayland has clearly been a huge failure.


type: comment
by: mbreese
text:
  If you follow HN over the course of 24 hours, you’ll see at least 3 major waves. I tend to have an odd sleep schedule, so I’m always amused when I’m online to see which group is currently active.<p>There is an Asian&#x2F;Australian wave, followed by Europe, and the North America. Some of the best times are when the waves start to mix (ex: early morning NYC time, you’ll get the Europe and NA groups interacting).<p>You’ll see different types of stories posted. Similar enough to where it all makes sense to be on HN, but it seems like a different flavor. But the comments are where I start to see more differences. You can get new takes on the same article if you see the comments from different times of the day.<p>This doesn’t take into account the total numbers of people active from each region, which I suspect is skewed towards more users the US coasts. But, it does, I think, speak to how US centric HN is. I think it serves the needs each of the waves in a distinct way.<p>In many ways, this is just an extension of the weekend HN effect. You can clearly observe differences on the site over the weekends. So, to me, it is unsurprising that you’d find differences across time zones. I’d love to actually see this analyzed more. This is just the take from someone who has been awake at enough hours to observe some anecdotal trends.


type: comment
by: boarsofcanada
text:
  I meant to make it to the lecture this year but some personal drama got in the way.<p>Looking forward to once again trying to plan on being there for the 2026 version!


type: comment
by: gattr
text:
  I had such blocks as well. For a recent take on this, I can recommend Kapla, typically come in a large (a couple 100s) box of skinny rectangular cuboids. I had fun doing, ahem, preliminary testing, before gifting them to my niece.


type: comment
by: legel
text:
  I happen to have a background at this interface as well, as the founder of DeepEarth and Ecodash.ai. I can tell you that I would greatly value such experience in collaboration, although I am not currently hiring. While having such a specific interdisciplinary niche can feel limiting, I also see it as a potential superpower in excelling in a very important domain. I&#x27;ll also add that machine learning and other modeling techniques are a great bridge between classical natural sciences and modern tech today, that I would look for in collaborators. More specifically from the earth sciences, &quot;GeoAI&quot; would be a key focus.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Searching for &quot;P7C3-A20&quot; just now, looks like it&#x27;s readily available now from multiple sources.


type: comment
by: Tikrong
text:
  Looked at a repo and it seems this project was heavily AI generated. Would be interesting to hear from the author of the project how it was built.


type: comment
by: rocmcd
text:
  QA? What&#x27;s that? &#x2F;s<p>In all seriousness, it&#x27;s been a long time since I&#x27;ve seen a dedicated QA position instead of just assuming that devs will test as they go.


type: comment
by: jandrewrogers
text:
  This is the way. I&#x27;ve seen this successfully done many times. The barrier to entry is much lower once you already work at a company and just about everybody needs more software engineers than they can find.


type: comment
by: ahazred8ta
text:
  related Shamir tools: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bs.parity.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bs.parity.io&#x2F;</a> -- <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;passguardian.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;passguardian.com&#x2F;</a> -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iancoleman.io&#x2F;shamir&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iancoleman.io&#x2F;shamir&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  Wooden blocks were great.<p>At one point way back then, my dad made something in the workshop that improved them tremendously:  Wooden boards.<p>These were small, thin, very flat boards of oak -- about 3&#x2F;16&quot; thick and 3&#x2F;4&quot; wide.  Their lengths varied in 2&quot; increments, and the length of each board was written on it.<p>With boards added in, the blocks got a lot more interesting.  Fastening was still limited to gravity, but things like cantilevers started happening.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Please disclose your affiliation with the project before submitting it. You did not simply &quot;find&quot; it, anyone can click into your submission history and surmise:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45886320">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45886320</a>


type: comment
by: osigurdson
text:
  I don&#x27;t think anyone says: &quot;I switched from Python to Ruby&quot; (of vice versa) for performance.


type: comment
by: pavel_lishin
text:
  The ideal &quot;fuck you, parents&quot; present must be noisy, and yet must require no batteries. Drums &amp; cymbals are a good choice, as is a vuvuzela or an Aztec death whistle.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  &gt; I know it’s somewhat of a tired observation by now but I still wonder every time how badly you have to misread LOTR to name your company after the witch kings cursed surveillance artefacts.<p>Have you considered that it is not &quot;misread&quot;, they just see themselves on Saruman side ?


type: story
by: Horos
title: Orchestrating 5000 Workers Without Distributed Locks: Rediscovering TDMA
text:
  I needed to orchestrate 500-5000 batch workers (ML training, ETL) using Go and SQLite. Every tutorial said: use etcd, Consul, or ZooKeeper.<p>But why do these processes need to talk to each other at all?<p>THE INSIGHT<p>What if orchestrators never run simultaneously?<p>Runner-0 executes at T=0s, 10s, 20s... Runner-1 executes at T=2s, 12s, 22s... Runner-2 executes at T=4s, 14s, 24s... Runner-3 executes at T=6s, 16s, 26s... Runner-4 executes at T=8s, 18s, 28s...<p>Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA). Same pattern GSM uses for radio.<p>GO IMPLEMENTATION<p>type Runner struct {     ID, TotalRunners int     CycleTime time.Duration }<p>func (r <i>Runner) Start() {     slot := r.CycleTime &#x2F; time.Duration(r.TotalRunners)     offset := time.Duration(r.ID) </i> slot<p><pre><code>    for {         time.Sleep(time.Until(computeNextSlot(offset)))         r.reconcile() &#x2F;&#x2F; Check workers, start if needed     }</code></pre> }<p>Each runner gets 2s in a 10s cycle. No overlap = zero coordination.<p>SQLITE CONFIG<p>PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL; dbWrite.SetMaxOpenConns(1)  &#x2F;&#x2F; One writer dbRead.SetMaxOpenConns(10)  &#x2F;&#x2F; Concurrent reads<p>With TDMA, busy_timeout never triggers.<p>THE MATH<p>Capacity = SlotDuration &#x2F; TimePerWorker          = 2000ms &#x2F; 10ms = 200 workers per runner<p>5 runners = 1000 workers 25 runners = 5000 workers (25s cycle, 12.5s avg latency)<p>For batch jobs running hours, 10s detection latency is irrelevant.<p>BENCHMARKS (real data from docs&#x2F;papers)<p>System       | Writes&#x2F;s | Latency | Nodes | Use Case etcd         | 10,000   | 25ms    | 3-5   | Config ZooKeeper    | 8,000    | 50ms    | 5     | Election Temporal     | 2,000    | 100ms   | 15-20 | Workflows Airflow      | 300      | 2s      | 2-3   | Batch TDMA-SPI     | 40       | 5s avg  | 1-5   | Batch<p>WHAT YOU GAIN: - Zero consensus protocols (no Raft&#x2F;Paxos) - Single-node deployment possible - Deterministic behavior - Radical simplicity<p>WHAT YOU SACRIFICE: - Real-time response (&lt;1s) - High frequency (&gt;1000 ops&#x2F;sec) - Arbitrary scale (limit ~5000 workers)<p>UNIVERSAL PATTERN<p>Wireless Sensor Networks: DD-TDMA (IEEE 2007) - same pattern Kubernetes Controllers: Reconcile every 5-10s (implicit TDMA) Build Systems: Time-slice job claims vs SELECT FOR UPDATE<p>WHY ISN&#x27;T THIS COMMON?<p>1. Cultural bias: Industry teaches &quot;add consensus layer&quot; as default 2. TDMA sounds old: It&#x27;s from 1980s telecoms (but old ≠ bad) 3. SQLite underestimated: Actually handles 50K-100K writes&#x2F;sec on NVMe 4. Most examples optimize for microservices (1000s ops&#x2F;sec), not batch<p>WHEN NOT TO USE:  Microservices (&lt;100ms latency needed)  Real-time systems (trading, gaming)  &gt;10,000 operations&#x2F;sec required<p>GOOD FOR:  Batch processing  ML training orchestration  ETL pipelines (hourly&#x2F;daily)  Video&#x2F;image processing  Anything where task duration &gt;&gt; detection latency<p>THE REAL LESSON<p>Modern distributed systems thinking: 1. Assume coordination needed 2. Pick consensus protocol 3. Deal with complexity<p>Alternative: 1. Can processes avoid each other? (temporal isolation) 2. Can data be partitioned? (spatial isolation) 3. Is eventual consistency OK?<p>If yes to all three: you might not need coordination at all.<p>CONCLUSION<p>I built a simple orchestrator for batch workers and rediscovered a 40-year-old telecom pattern that eliminates distributed coordination entirely.<p>The pattern: TDMA + spatial partitioning + SQLite The application to workflow orchestration seems novel.<p>If Kubernetes feels like overkill, maybe time-slicing is enough.<p>Sometimes the best distributed system is one that doesn&#x27;t need to be distributed.<p>--- Full writeup: [blog link] Code: [github link]<p>Discussion: Anyone else using time-based scheduling for coordination-free systems? What about high clock skew networks?


type: comment
by: ludicrousdispla
text:
  If you&#x27;re in the US then you will need to wait a year <i>at least</i> for any new job opportunities related to science.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  &gt;In other words: get an actually Linux supported laptop for Linux.<p>For a lot of people the point is to extend the life of their already-purchased hardware.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  &gt; Crucially, it&#x27;s end to end encrypted.<p>I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s all that crucial for something that at most gets some ticket descriptions on it


type: comment
by: aeyes
text:
  I have worked several union jobs, collective contracts usually don&#x27;t touch the promotion process. If they do they often give automatic promotions after X years where X is still a fairly high number. And obviously this is not a great strategy for many reasons.<p>Negotiations about yearly pay raises are common but these are in the 2-5% range. Even non unionized big tech companies usually still give these yearly adjustments but its nothing compared to the 20-30% you can get when you level up.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  If performance was a goal... hell if it was even a consideration then the language would be very different.


type: comment
by: jrpt
text:
  There’s a lot of umbrella diagnoses that would benefit from more specific diagnostics first. What we call Alzheimer’s is probably actually caused by number of different causes depending on the person. This is true of a lot of things in medicine that get grouped together. That’s why testing a drug in mouse models with all the same characteristics sometimes works but fails to translate into humans who have more variety amongst each other.<p>The same is true of many diagnoses like pneumonia, cancer, alopecia, essential tremor: there’s multiple different groups that would benefit from different things, and if we had better ways to identify the groups, we’d give them what works for them instead of wasting their time with the wrong treatment. As an example, antibiotics won’t work for viral pneumonia and in addition to wasting the patient’s time, actually harm your microbiome. If you had a perfect way to know which is which, you’d always get the right treatment.<p>Precision medicine takes this even further.


type: comment
by: _____k
text:
  Enforcement of character limit for the header got it place. I did not want to alter it too much either.


type: comment
by: glamp
text:
  I love this post. I read it a few years ago and tried the same thing. I bought and then built riverreports.com (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riverreports.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.riverreports.com&#x2F;</a>).


type: comment
by: qgin
text:
  I think we could probably lighten up on zoning without going full mad max warlord anarchy in every way


type: comment
by: ghurtado
text:
  &gt; Looked at a repo and it seems this project was heavily AI generated<p>That&#x27;s the first thing that I noticed too.<p>It&#x27;s gotten to the point that my body subconsciously rejects bullet lists and headings that start with emojis.


type: comment
by: aristofun
text:
  Even if one is a hardcore atheist and thinks that Jesus was only a weird jewish rabbi, not the god, one should celebrate the birthday of the most influential and awesome man in the history of mankind.<p>Merely out of respect to all his legacy and positive influence that changed the world to a better place than it was before him.


type: comment
by: trimethylpurine
text:
  Right. My comment wasn&#x27;t about maids from the Jetsons. General purpose robots are not soon. But for more specific tasks we&#x27;ve come very far in the last decade.<p>Warehouse automation is a reality today. Package delivery is also, just not broadly across the US. But it is very much happening right now.<p>Specifically my comment was about package delivery, which appears to be around the corner for most major cities, and already in place in several major cities around the world.<p>For indoor delivery, you don&#x27;t really need Atlas. A 4 wheeled &quot;full self drive&quot; can fairly easily navigate cubicles and press elevator buttons. It&#x27;s really not that crazy, and doesn&#x27;t require any reasoning whatsoever. Basic preprogrammed pathfinding borrowed from any modern video game works fine for this. I don&#x27;t think you need any advanced AI, let alone AGI.


type: comment
by: auraham
text:
  I gave it a try a few months ago. The first thing that I searched for was the REPL. Comparing it with Python, I prefer ipython over irb. It would be nice to see some improvement on DX on the REPL side


type: comment
by: Fiveplus
text:
  The internet was originally promised as a way to disintermediate these kinds of supply chains, yet we often ignore these &quot;boring&quot; businesses for hype trains. The fact that he added a phone number and it sometimes out-sells the website is the cherry on top.


type: comment
by: haunter
text:
  The browser app might be some outdated Windows application, that&#x27;s the case with the MAD DVD too, but you can find the actual issue files in some folders


type: comment
by: phatskat
text:
  Reading about APE similarly sparkled me - the amount of ingenuity and sheer amazingness (if not perhaps a touch of depravity) that goes into these kinds of endeavors is awe inspiring.


type: comment
by: nake13
text:
  I built a very similar experiment about 10 days ago and shared it here (the post is in Chinese):<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;nake13&#x2F;status&#x2F;2000401664923324439" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;nake13&#x2F;status&#x2F;2000401664923324439</a><p>My focus was on finding a good text→URL-slug compression strategy. I used ChatGPT-5.2-Pro mainly to explore and compare different compression approaches and trade-offs.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  It was a short enough post that it didn&#x27;t really warrant a tl;dr.<p>Also, sadly these days many people assume such summaries are written by an LLM, and HN users seem to really dislike them.


type: comment
by: nektro
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;m rather calling for dissolution of the stock market for speculation<p>this would do so much untold good, i hope i live to see it


type: comment
by: aqme28
text:
  That&#x27;s what the magnatiles are for. The toy they really want is a rocket ship, so instead we give them a cheap little tool to imagine it with.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  &gt; The open source community really needs to stop with the &quot;just fork it&quot; mindset.<p>It&#x27;s right mindset. Just not applicable to projects that are made majority by the company because none of the contributors will move so it&#x27;s essentially trying to make new team from scratch.


type: comment
by: lelanthran
text:
  &gt; If that were true, the FSF wouldn&#x27;t call it a free license.<p>It is true; the license gives you the source, to do with as you please, including closing it off.<p>Famously, Microsoft included BSD licensed tools in Windows since the 90s and <i>did not distribute the sources!</i><p>And that is completely legal. If you want to force the users to distribute their changes to your open source product when they are redistributing the product, you need to use GPL.


type: comment
by: softwaredoug
text:
  The main problem isn’t embeddings, in my experience, it’s that “vector search” is the wrong conceptual framework to think about the problem<p>We need to think about query+content understanding before deciding a sub problem happens to be helped by embeddings. RAG naively looks like a question answering “passage retrieval” problem, when in reality it’s more structured retrieval than we first assume (and LLMs can learn how to use more structured approaches to explore data much better now than in 2022)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwaredoug.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;rag-users-want-affordances-not-vectors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;softwaredoug.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;09&#x2F;rag-users-want-affo...</a>


type: comment
by: slashdave
text:
  It&#x27;s worse than that. It&#x27;s not a black box. We know how the architecture is constructed. We can read the weights.


type: comment
by: wnevets
text:
  &gt; Attributing &#x27;smugness&#x27; is a way to duck the merits of the issue. People with mental disabilities also need a stable roof over their head, security, privacy, heat, a bathroom, a bed<p>But it&#x27;s only one piece of a very complex problem, it&#x27;s akin to the magical thinking that is incredibly provision everywhere these days. &quot;Just stop using seed oils and America will be healthy again!&quot;<p>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.


type: comment
by: tjr
text:
  I might have said that I didn&#x27;t realize snowflakes took photographs, but it turns out to be the work of Wilson &quot;Snowflake&quot; Bentley, so I guess in this case, they do.


type: comment
by: lelanthran
text:
  It&#x27;s actually very simple:<p>MIT&#x2F;BSD licenses are <i>pro-business</i> - any business can take the product, change a few lines and redistribute the result <i>without</i> making their changes available.<p>GPL is <i>pro-user</i> - anyone who gets the source, makes changes, and then redistributes the result has to make their changed sources available as well.


type: story
by: itsm0rty
title: Show HN: I created interactive buttons for chatbots
text:
  It&#x27;s about to be 2026 and we&#x27;re still stuck in the CLI era when it comes to chatbots. So, I created an open source library called Quint. Quint is a small React library that lets you build structured, deterministic interactions on top of LLMs. Instead of everything being raw text, you can define explicit choices where a click can reveal information, send structured input back to the model, or do both, with full control over where the output appears. Quint only manages state and behavior, not presentation. Therefore, you can fully customize the buttons and reveal UI through your own components and styles. The core idea is simple: separate what the model receives, what the user sees, and where that output is rendered. This makes things like MCQs, explanations, role-play branches, and localized UI expansion predictable instead of hacky. Quint doesn’t depend on any AI provider and works even without an LLM. All model interaction happens through callbacks, so you can plug in OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or a mock function. It’s early (v0.1.0), but the core abstraction is stable. I’d love feedback on whether this is a useful direction or if there are obvious flaws I’m missing. This is just the start. Soon we&#x27;ll have entire ui elements that can be rendered by LLMs making every interaction easy asf for the avg end user. Repo + docs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ItsM0rty&#x2F;quint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ItsM0rty&#x2F;quint</a> npm: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;@itsm0rty&#x2F;quint" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;@itsm0rty&#x2F;quint</a>


type: comment
by: J-Kuhn
text:
  Combining source code under different licenses into one product is a nightmare.<p>You have to follow the AGPL &quot;no additional restrictions&quot; clause while also following the Apache License, and the Apache License might have require you to follow additional restrictions.


type: comment
by: chrneu
text:
  I&#x27;ve found more and more often the last few years that a lot of the long time businesses I use still do most of their ordering by phone. Or some version that involves talking to actual person.<p>The restaurants I go to still generally do phone ordering because they care about the quality of their ingredients. They want to discuss and talk about it with someone before placing an order.<p>The engineering and consulting firms I work with are the same. The engineers I enjoy working with are all phone based, not a lot of emails unless there are details involved.<p>I&#x27;m a bit of the same way. There is a lot of peripheral information that we miss out on when everything is done via automation&#x2F;email. Those dead moments when our brains wander, then we ask a silly question, tend to bear fruit.<p>It&#x27;s gotten to the point where I generally don&#x27;t order anything online anymore because I can&#x27;t trust I&#x27;ll get what I ordered. When I have to deal with support it&#x27;s an automated system that only gives me 1 or 2 options, neither of which satisfy my needs so I have to make a compromise. I&#x27;m not interested.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  the absolute best fuck you present is no present at all, there is <i>nothing</i> parents like more than kids that have nothing to do


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  1. Linux isn&#x27;t a panacea for depreciated hardware, and it never will be.<p>2. If your priority is system lifespan, you are already using OEM macOS.


type: story
by: _____k
title: Cursor CEO warns vibe coding builds 'shaky foundations'
url:
  https://fortune.com/2025/12/25/cursor-ceo-michael-truell-vibe-coding-warning-generative-ai-assistant/


type: story
by: albert_roca
title: Is the Standard Model overfitting or am I curve-fitting?
text:
  I am developing a geometric model of physical interactions based on geometric constraints (w = 2, δ = √5 ) and topological invariants. No free parameters, just geometry. In your opinion, is this a legitimate geometric unification or just sophisticated curve-fitting?<p>Results:<p>Proton radius (r_p): Modeled as a tetrahedral structural limit (4 · ƛ) with spherical field projection loss (α &#x2F; 4 · π).<p><pre><code>  r_p  = 4 · ƛ_p · (1 - (α &#x2F; (4 · π)))   Pred: 8.407470 × 10^-16 m   Exp:  8.4075(64) × 10^-16 m   Diff: 3 ppm </code></pre> Proton magnetic moment (g_p): Derived from the dynamic potential (δ = √5 ) damped by a golden friction term (α &#x2F; Φ).<p><pre><code>  g_p = (δ^3 &#x2F; w) - (α &#x2F; Φ)   Pred: 5.5856599   Exp:  5.5856947   Diff: 6 ppm </code></pre> Muon anomaly (a_μ): Derived as a hierarchical resolution of the icosahedral geometry: surface (α &#x2F; 2 · π) + nodes (α^2 &#x2F; 12) + vertex symmetry (α^3 &#x2F; 5).<p><pre><code>  a_μ = (α &#x2F; (2 · π)) + (α^2 &#x2F; 12) + (α^3 &#x2F; 5)   Pred: 0.00116592506   Exp:  0.00116592059   Diff: 4 ppm </code></pre> α particle radius (r_α): Modeled as a 4-nucleon tetrahedron (8 · ƛ) with a linear nucleonic projection cost (α &#x2F; π).<p><pre><code>  r_α = 8 · ƛ_p · (1 - (α &#x2F; π))   Pred: 1.67856 × 10^-15 m   Exp:  1.678 × 10^-15 m   Diff: 330 ppm </code></pre> Proton mass (m_p): Connecting the Planck scale to proton scale via a 64-bit metric horizon (2^64) and diagonal transmission (√2 ).<p><pre><code>  m_p = ((√2 · m_P) &#x2F; 2^64) · (1 + α &#x2F; 3)   Pred: 1.67260849206 × 10^-27 kg   Exp:  1.67262192595(52) × 10^-27 kg   Diff: 8 ppm </code></pre> Neutron-proton mass difference (∆_m): Modeled as potential energy stored in the geometric compression of the electron (icosahedron, 20 faces) into the protonic frame (cube, 8 vertices). Compression ratio = 20&#x2F;8 = 5&#x2F;2.<p><pre><code>  ∆_m = m_e · ((5&#x2F;2) + 4 · α + (α &#x2F; 4))   Pred: 1.293345 MeV   Exp:  1.293332 MeV.   Diff: 10 ppm. </code></pre> Gravitational constant (G) without G: Derived from quantum constants and the proton mass, identifying G as a scaling artifact of the 128-bit hierarchy (2^128).<p><pre><code>  G = (ħ · c · 2 · (1 + α &#x2F; 3)^2) &#x2F; (m_p^2 · 2^128)   Pred: 6.6742439706 × 10^-11   Exp:  6.67430(15) × 10^-11 m^3 · kg^-1 · s^-2   Diff: 8 ppm </code></pre> Fine-structure constant (α): Derived as the static spatial cost plus a spinor loop correction.<p><pre><code>  α^-1 = (4 · π^3 + π^2 + π) - (α &#x2F; 24)   Pred: 137.0359996   Exp:  137.0359991   Diff: &lt; 0.005 ppm </code></pre> Preprint: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doi.org&#x2F;10.5281&#x2F;zenodo.17847770


type: comment
by: jerkstate
text:
  We have some magnet tiles that have tubes and ramps for building marble mazes with - they are probably the most popular toy in the house. The thing about magnet tiles is there are several brands but they’re incompatible so it’s best to buy multiple sets from a single brand.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  And you&#x27;re entirely wrong. MIT just require attribution, not giving the source code.<p>That is why companies and corpo programmers LOVE BSD&#x2F;MIT code, they can freely steal I mean use it in their for-profit products without giving anything back but some bit of text hidden in about box


type: comment
by: _ZeD_
text:
  keep in mind that, apart from the money throw at js runtime interpreters by google and others, there is also the fact that python - as a language - is way more &quot;dynamic&quot; than javascript.<p>Even &quot;simple&quot; stuff like field access in python may refer to multiple dynamically-mapped method resolution.<p>Also, the ffi-bindings of python, while offering a way to extend it with libraries written in c&#x2F;c++&#x2F;fortran&#x2F;... , limit how freely the internals can be changed (see the bug-by-bug compatibility work done for example by pypy, just to name an example, with some constraint that limit some optimizations)


type: comment
by: kankerlijer
text:
  For all the toys my kids received until they hit 3+, they probably got the most enjoyment out of cardboard boxes.


type: comment
by: toss1
text:
  Seriously, even on Christmas, Mr. Scrooge?<p>Just because the main purpose of the forum is technical things of interest and intellectual curiosity, doesn&#x27;t mean we can&#x27;t be human and show empathy and caring.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  I’ve thought Costco’s Kirkland brand would be perfect for such a product line. No smarts in the product: dumb, reliable, repairable, and as efficient as possible within the first three constraints.


type: comment
by: Lyngbakr
text:
  I have a PhD in a similar field to Earth Science and now I&#x27;m an engineering team lead at a company in a field related to my PhD. This is the second such role I&#x27;ve held like this and it was very much that I found a perfect position in both cases. I think a key part of being able to combine my domain and technical expertise in a single role was that the jobs were at startups where there&#x27;s often the need for folks to wear multiple hats. That said, in the past decade since leaving academia I have perhaps seen a handful of such jobs. So, they <i>do</i> exist, but are few and far between, IME.


type: comment
by: kelnos
text:
  That&#x27;s an admirable goal, but, depending on the hardware, it can run into that pesky thing called reality.<p>It&#x27;s getting very tiresome to hear complaints about things that don&#x27;t work on Linux, only to find that they&#x27;re trying to run it on hardware that&#x27;s poorly supported, and that&#x27;s something they could have figured out by doing a little research beforehand.<p>Sometimes old hardware just isn&#x27;t going to be well-supported by <i>any</i> OS.  (Though, of course, with Linux, older hardware is more likely to be supported than bleeding-edge kit.)


type: comment
by: sidrag22
text:
  &gt; Humans are just animals with a superiority complex.<p>I feel you are just attempting to avoid defending your actual stances tbh.<p>I actually AGREE that humans are not that special... however, that applies to literally every single human. what you are doing is isolating groups of humans, which is something drastically different.<p>We can be not special on a grand scale, but we still must all live together.


type: comment
by: visarga
text:
  Haha, I can&#x27;t read long articles anymore because I want to reply, a habit I picked chatting LLMs.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  The Nordic countries also tend to be brutally cold, dark or damp for a substantial chunk of the year. (With the exception of Denmark perhaps.) No one could survive sleeping outside in those conditions.


type: comment
by: mekael
text:
  Surprisingly, this has been a project I’ve been tinkering with for years.  There is an easy way to get the raw png&#x2F;jpeg files out, but it does require a windows box.  Im planning on working on it more over the long holiday.


type: comment
by: philistine
text:
  Absolutely this IBM. In 1989, they <i>owned</i> the PC market. It was theirs. Of course the cracks were deep and deepening, but IBM still could have maintained a leadership of that industry to this day. Instead, they squeezed so hard the PC market fell from their iron grip.<p>The fact IBM still exists and is an important company is irrelevant. They lost control of the de facto computing standard. Microsoft could lose control as well.


type: comment
by: sanj
text:
  Can I suggest putting a strand of Christmas lights inside the completed structure?  They get a little diffused and look really cool.<p>For bonus points, get pics of your kids&#x27; faces lit by only that light.<p>Boom: next year&#x27;s card.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  It&#x27;s a good domain name for what its worth. But are you&#x2F; anybody not worried about the javascript trademark by oracle and the lawsuit of oracle vs deno and the times oracle sends cease and desist to even books about javascript one time or any conference with javascript as an example<p>This I think is the reason why javascript conferences are instead called ecmascript conferences


type: comment
by: flopsamjetsam
text:
  I first picked up this style from the GNU C++ style guide, and it&#x27;s so handy I use it in every language that accepts it.


type: comment
by: GarnetFloride
text:
  Merry Christmas, This has been a wild one. On the way to my sister&#x27;s house we got a call from her sister saying their dad needs to go into an assisted living place because his pneumonia is not getting better and needs 24&#x2F;7 care. But this will cut off the income my wife was bring in for caring for him.<p>As the call is on our car throws a red light: Transmission malfunction: Service now. We take the next exit and happen to find a Big O Tire place which is where we get most of our car work done. The transmission is seized, but it&#x27;s Christmas Eve and no one is open to get an estimate on a replacement. But that&#x27;s okay a couple of cousins are able to pick us up to get to the party.<p>We get home and find big pile of presents on our doorstep but we find they are addressed to names we don&#x27;t know. So we bring them in for safekeeping. Today I look around the apartment building and finding one with a dollhouse on the balcony give a knock but its the wrong door but they knew the family which was downstairs so the right family got the presents finally.<p>Now cinnamon rolls are baking for breakfast and starting dinner prep soon.<p>But somehow I have to figure out if I should replace the transmission on a 13 year old car which needs $4500 in suspension work too or replace the whole vehicle.<p>And find a way to make more money since the part-time job I have right now to open up time for caregiving won&#x27;t be enough for all this, and it looks like caregiving won&#x27;t be necessary for much longer anyway.


type: comment
by: rangestransform
text:
  you also need a lid angle sensor instead of a open&#x2F;closed detector to account for the acoustic reflections off of the screen


type: comment
by: hluska
text:
  I’m having a lot of trouble with your comment. The word ‘resell’ doesn’t appear anywhere in the issue - there is absolutely nothing about reselling it anywhere within the linked issue.


type: comment
by: syncsynchalt
text:
  I think the author did it for C64 reasons, but for other reasons it was a vibe in 1995: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Web_colors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Web_colors</a>


type: comment
by: happymellon
text:
  Linux might work with your hardware, but it might not work well.<p>If your vendor is hostile like Apple, it will be hard to make it keep on working.


type: comment
by: Tikrong
text:
  Yep, and the number of commits is insane. In early commits there are cursor rules and reports about task complexity made by AI. So it&#x27;s really interesting, how was the project created.


type: comment
by: tbrownaw
text:
  There is a complexity class called BQP, which is more or less the things that quantum computers are good at. This includes P which is more or less the things they normal computers are good at. Things that quantum computers are <i>better</i> at would more or less be one minus the other. One interesting point is that BQP probably doesn&#x27;t include all of the rather famous NP class.


type: comment
by: qingcharles
text:
  It has been broken. I actually have the set on my desk ready to rip, I just couldn&#x27;t find my USB DVD drive.<p>Here&#x27;s a link to the guy that broke it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reconSuave&#x2F;PlayboyPDF&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reconSuave&#x2F;PlayboyPDF&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  &gt; Buildkit is integrated into dockerd the same way the old builder was. If you want a newer Buildkit you&#x27;ll need to run it separately of course.<p>I don&#x27;t think that the older builder created special containers for itself?<p>&gt; I&#x27;m not quite sure I understand what you are trying to do with nfs there. But you can definitely export the cache to a local filesystem and import it with cache-from.<p>Which is dog-slow, because it squirts the cache through a socket. I have an NFS disk that can be used to cache the data directly. This was just one of the attempts to make it go faster.<p>&gt; You can also provide named contexts.<p>Which can only refer to images that are built inside this particular buildkit or are pullable from a repo.<p>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.


type: comment
by: chrneu
text:
  They&#x27;re really good. The apple thing is no joke. Vidalia and Walla-Walla onions are top tier alliums.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  It&#x27;s not really open source project. They always gated a bunch of features, require CLA (so even if someone does contribute, boom, your code is theirs and they will probably close it down behind enterprise license if it is useful enough), and have pretty complex licensing scheme <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mattermost.com&#x2F;product-overview&#x2F;faq-mattermost-source-available-license.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.mattermost.com&#x2F;product-overview&#x2F;faq-mattermost-...</a><p>&gt; Everyone else is just going to keep using Slack, and arguably outside of these niche concerns, it&#x27;s a better funded and higher quality product.<p>They had niche when their lite enterprise license (just basic LDAP and some other small features) was $2.5 per user.<p>Now they are basically on slack pricing, why would anyone bother...


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  If you have to ask people whether or not your preprint resembles curve-fitting, you have just self-reported that you are an AI user with no academic background.<p>Good luck with the peer review, you&#x27;re gonna need it.


type: comment
by: scsh
text:
  Independent of any feelings about the use of AI, I find that specific style of formatting to be extremely visually distracting and tend to click away because of that.  Emoji, imo, are very information dense per character so it makes the rest of the info hard to parse.


type: comment
by: olyjohn
text:
  Have you ever put MacOS on a PC laptop? Terrible hardware support and the worst battery life of any OS.


type: comment
by: kortilla
text:
  Having some laws for bad behavior doesn’t mean Islam doesn’t let men shirk responsibility. Women are expected to cover themselves because of men being expected to have so little self control.


type: comment
by: move-on-by
text:
  I’m not Daniel, but I think some of these questions are pretty easy to answer.<p>* Does it have to be?<p>Of course not. This is a free open source project. Absolutely none of it ‘has to be’. Speaking more towards features, I’m sure a lot could be removed, but why? For example, the newer ‘wcurl’ tool no doubt added to the LoC, and it doesn’t do anything that couldn’t already be done with the CLI- but I certainly appreciate it being created. Thank you Daniel and the cURL team!<p>* Should it be?<p>There is a whole list of features being deprecated. Personally, I’ve found cURL’s support timeline and deprecation notices very gracious. Page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curl.se&#x2F;dev&#x2F;deprecate.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;curl.se&#x2F;dev&#x2F;deprecate.html</a><p>On the other hand, new things are coming all the time. For example, adding support for HTTP3 and QUIC no doubt added substantially to the LoC, but it would be a glaring omission to not have it.<p>* Were sub-libraries or some kind of splitting ever considered?<p>This is the main reason for my response. How would the use of sub-libraries help with anything? At the end of the day, it’s still the same amount of code (maybe even more?), and the same bill-of-materials that must be maintained, no?


type: comment
by: Der_Einzige
text:
  Same thing back at you. The vacuum is a play tool to anyone who finds cleaning to be “fun”.<p>There’s whole genres of cleanup games on steam which are extremely popular, profitable, and well reviewed.<p>One of my favorite vectrex games is a Pac-Man clone where you play as a vacuum.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  It&#x27;s because you misunderstood the reason - they OSS part got them some free advertising and users that gave it a try and got on the subscription.<p>Now VC&#x27;s want their money so gotta make people that can&#x27;t be bothered to get off it to migrate to paid plan


type: comment
by: horizion2025
text:
  I don&#x27;t understand this focus on micro performance details... considering that all of this is about an interpretation approach which is always going to be slow relatively speaking. The big speed up would be to JIT it all, then you dont need to care about structuring of switch loops etc


type: story
by: CoffeeDeSanta
title: Ask HN: Dentistry, Software Engineering and Health Informatics
text:
  I graduated from dental school, I never wanted to study dentistry but that&#x27;s a story for another time, I studied web development for sometime, looked for webdev jobs, never landed one, now I work at a health informatics company in the implementation part but I really wanna scratch that SWEing itch, I am studying CS fundamentals these says but I am not sure what I should do next, what I know is that I don&#x27;t think I want to remain at the HI job forever.


type: comment
by: tjruesch
text:
  I haven&#x27;t done as much testing as I&#x27;d like to confidently answer this in general terms. In our own environment we have the benefit of defining the system prompt for translation, so we can introduce the logic of the tags to the LLM explicitly. That said, in our limited general-purpose testing we&#x27;ve seen that the flagship models definitely capture the logic of the tags and their semantic properties reliably without &#x27;explanation&#x27;. I&#x27;m currently exploring a general purpose prompt sanitizer and potentially even a browser plugin for behind-the-scenes sanitization in ChatGPT and other end-user interfaces.


type: comment
by: nicoburns
text:
  Because key developers have left the project, and developers who are capable of such work are few and far between.


type: comment
by: baruch
text:
  The company still got $20B of cash(?) in its books, it can pay dividends to its shareholders (investors) and they get their payment. The company can go down the drain afterwards. If it can still make money with its remaining assets that&#x27;s only a nice small bonus.<p>So the only ones getting shafted are the employees.


type: comment
by: cj
text:
  Is this the same NAD+ that’s prescribed by longevity &#x2F; hormone clinics?<p>Edit:  after some googling, sounds like NAD+ (which you can get from real doctors) is the “building blocks” similar to how protein is the building blocks for muscle, while the experimental compound changes&#x2F;enhances how the building blocks are used inside your cells.


type: comment
by: hugs
text:
  i started the selenium project as just a js and python thing. but it got really popular in java circles.<p>vibium will also be a big tent project and support ts&#x2F;js, python, java, and as many other languages we can support, too. but i started with ts&#x2F;js because that&#x27;s what&#x27;s extremely popular right now. (and i like js!)<p>(side-note: i f&#x27;ing love nim, we will be supporting nim, too. getting nim on the tiobe top 20 is on my bucket list.)


type: comment
by: schneems
text:
  Now available on Heroku <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devcenter.heroku.com&#x2F;changelog-items&#x2F;3521" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devcenter.heroku.com&#x2F;changelog-items&#x2F;3521</a>


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  &gt; <i>Meanwhile, your comments provide an amusing clinic on hypocrisy.</i><p>Have you not noticed that you&#x27;re also providing <i>zero</i> facts? Again, I suggest you look in the mirror. Do you somehow think that when you make a claim <i>you</i> don&#x27;t need facts, but when people disagree with you <i>they</i> do...?<p>There aren&#x27;t any actual studies on rates of usage of the DEL key. So I don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re expecting.<p>I suggest, in the future, that you don&#x27;t apply such double standards, where you demand empirical evidence from everyone else, but neglect to give any yourself. It&#x27;s not a good look, and you aren&#x27;t going to gain much respect doing it. Hopefully you can learn from this exchange and be better than that in the future. Good luck.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Very interesting, I feel like domain names definitely have values but I don&#x27;t know much about domain names that much but how do you buy or sell hundreds of domains?<p>I found websites&#x2F;newsletters like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ungrabbed.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ungrabbed.com&#x2F;</a><p>Personally It would be interesting to see some domain names for cheap and if I have an idea, I can perhaps have domain name for cheap or something similar to it but I don&#x27;t really know if I should go into this hobby perhaps and no guarantees that I would but I am curious about resources basically and I wish if you can tell me more about it<p>I feel like the issue I feel as if is that most domains would just be parked in there or would be sold for losses perhaps.


type: comment
by: Tikrong
text:
  When I see this style first thing that comes to mind is that the whole text was generated and maybe not even read by the author. And I am not yet confident to trust AI in writing the docs without supervision. So I have troubles in trusting the whole thing I see because of that.


type: story
by: Rostik312
title: Show HN: I Patched Agents SDK to Work with React Native
url: https://testflight.apple.com/join/TvcaP2q6
text:
  For the last two weeks, I was struggling to make Agents SDK work with React-Native. The problem is they never made support for it. After two weeks of trying different approaches, using a server as a proxy, or trying to make my own web socket, I almost gave up. Then I decided to do a little bit of digging and found out that actually someone in July tried to propose a PR with a fix to make React-Native work with Agents SDK. However, the maintainers ghosted that PR. After some digging, I have made my own patch, and successfully made Agents SDK work with React-Native.<p>Secondly, I&#x27;ve reached out on every platform possible to both maintainers for the Agents SDK repository, and finally got a response through Instagram, surprisingly.<p>The lesson is that I&#x27;ve learned is: - I can patch any open source library to make it work for my purposes.  - Second, as a nobody, you can reach out to people through many, many channels, and they will respond to you through one of them.<p>P.S. It&#x27;s a TestFlight App, so you might wanna open it on your iPhone.


type: comment
by: thunderbong
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;ESS9F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;ESS9F</a>


type: comment
by: aobdev
text:
  Have you worked on different types of Python projects? (Not in different codebases, different <i>types</i> of codebases)<p>I don’t have any specific complaints about Python syntax because I can force it to get the job done…but homogeneous, it is not.


type: comment
by: jerkstate
text:
  Unfortunately, LEGO has decided that they want to make mostly high-margin co-branded sets with Nintendo, Pokémon, Minecraft, Star Wars, Monster Jam, F1, etc rather than cool engineering sets with a lot of flexible pieces that can be built into lots of different things. Luckily Chinese vendors like Uncle Brick and Mould King have stepped in to offer huge sets of Technics compatible parts, including simple motors that LEGO simply does not make anymore, for not much money. It’s really too bad that Lego abandoned that market. I would certainly pay a premium for the original stuff but a lot of what I would like is just not available. Now, I still buy a lot of the branded LEGO stuff, but the Chinese stuff has also entered the rotation for the older kids who are interested in engineering.


type: comment
by: pjdemers
text:
  If the earth is one big tomato garden, maybe aliens will leave us alone.  Also, native Americans were very aware that other groups of humans existed beyond their horizon, and some of the those groups were hostile to them. We have zero reason to believe there is anyone out in space hostile to us. In fact, we have plenty of evidence there isn&#x27;t anyone at all out there.


type: comment
by: pansa2
text:
  True. Choosing between the two languages usually comes down to their library ecosystems - or more bluntly, to Rails on one hand vs NumPy on the other.<p>Nonetheless, it&#x27;s still common for people to talk about the relative performance of the two languages, and to claim that Ruby is slower than Python. As someone who&#x27;s actually tested this, it hasn&#x27;t been true for 15 years.


type: comment
by: willis936
text:
  Very little progress made this year after high profile departures (Hector Martin, project lead, Asahi Lina and Alyssa Rosenzweig - GPU gurus).  Alyssa&#x27;s departure isn&#x27;t reflected on Asahi&#x27;s website yet, but it is in her blog.  I believe she also left Valve, which I think was sponsoring some aspects of the Asahi project.  So when people say &quot;Asahi hasn&#x27;t seen any setbacks&quot; be sure to ask them who has stepped in to make up for these losses in both talent and sponsorship.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosenzweig.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;asahi-gpu-part-n.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rosenzweig.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;asahi-gpu-part-n.html</a>


type: comment
by: eightturn
text:
  author here : ) happy to answer questions if you have any. We also have a twitter account here if you want to follow along: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vidaliaonions" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vidaliaonions</a>


type: comment
by: chiefalchemist
text:
  &gt; when you can quickly create an AI illustration, you don’t need to hold it to high standards of composition, color, or even the right number of fingers. Hence slop.<p>But it’s not the lack of quality per se, it’s the quantity, it’s the scale. That’s not the fault of the tool per se (‘cause in the right hands the tool is capable of producing quality.)<p>Lowering the barrier to entry increases the number of the under-qualified. It invites Dunning Kruger to become the norm. That creates an excessive amount of output. It’s going to fall on a bell curve. Slop by definition is the middle and lower of the curve.


type: comment
by: cyberax
text:
  You absolutely can patent existing drugs. There&#x27;s a whole scummy pharma industry that takes existing drugs that are widely used off-label and patents that off-label use.


type: comment
by: eigenspace
text:
  There was no change of course. Julia&#x27;s AbstractArray interface requirements are just agnostic about array start indices. we have packages (e.g. OffsetArrays.jl) for arbitrary index ranges and that has existed for a long time.<p>If anything, the only significant change is that the community is becoming more and more convinced that offset array support is a bit of a footgun and makes it easy for bugs to sneak into generic code.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
text:
  Quite an obvious one would involve it occurring on an island. The effects of wars and invasions sweeping across continental Europe destabilised the institutions which would allow it to emerge.<p>High rainfall also lends itself to agriculture, water power and all the other uses of water in industry.<p>Ultimately I put it down to education. When large sections of the population become literate, and science can be explored without fear of reprisal or control by government... Then it flourishes. A society which hinders access to education, censors scientific discussion or binds it to certain interests is bound to fail.<p>As for slavery, I believe it is overstated. Many societies have had slavery and not industrialised. At best, I think slave labour allowed merchants to become wealthy, but is a disincentive to industry as it was in Roman times.


type: comment
by: exmadscientist
text:
  I can&#x27;t upvote your comment enough.<p>Please... people, do not get your hopes up over this one PR pump piece released on Christmas Day. This is not a legit study. (It might, perhaps, somehow, still be correct, perhaps... even broken clocks are right twice a day... but it&#x27;s still not a legit study.)


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by: cwyers
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  Just use WSL2 and Docker Desktop. VS Code has DevContainer support so you can standardize on a Docker image for your project.


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by: Der_Einzige
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  You better check your privilege re: your oppressive claims about humans needing to live somewhere to avoid trauma. Do you think the Roma have a lot of trauma just because they are nomads?


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by: beAbU
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  &gt; I fed my setup, budget, and constraints as context into Gemini<p>OP, you fucked around and found out.


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by: snowpid
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  what? is this serios? to quote my link from the most major jewish organisation:<p>&quot;Die Zeit der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft mit Millionen getöteter Juden, Sinti und Roma, Homosexueller und politisch Verfolgter ist für den Fraktionsvorsitzenden der AfD lediglich ein „Vogelschiss“. Die darin zum Ausdruck gebrachte Haltung verharmlost in unerträglicher Weise die Gräuel der Geschichte. So wie vor wenigen Jahren bei Pegida oder in Chemnitz laufen AfD-Politiker nun bei Querdenker-Demos neben Hooligans und Rechtsextremen. &quot;<p>Maybe get out of your buble. Most jewish and gay people despise the AfD. Most jewish and gay people want to leave the country in case of AfD majority. But hey Im talking to an account calling the AfD &quot;most pro-jewish&quot; party.


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by: aiiizzz
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  Does it make sense? Absolutely. Do you want to spend the rest of your life making dropdowns? It&#x27;s a waste.


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by: lelanthran
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  &gt;&gt; windows and macos cant even do proper window managing for a start<p>&gt; Well they certainly manage them better than x11 and wayland.<p>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.


