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type: comment
by: grim_io
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  Nah, they will fine-tune a local LLM to replace the board and be always loyal to the CEO.<p>Elon is way ahead, he did it with mere meatbags.


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by: aurareturn
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  I don&#x27;t even know who Rob Pike is to be honest. I&#x27;m not attacking him.<p>I&#x27;m not pretending to know how he feels. I&#x27;m just reading between the lines and speculating.


type: comment
by: dfajgljsldkjag
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  No.  I have no clue how they aren&#x27;t getting demolished by lawyers for trademark infringement in the first place


type: comment
by: idle_zealot
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  &gt; When a product manager can generate a highly detailed and working demo of what he wants in 5 minutes using gen AI, the traditional software developer loses a ton of power in tech companies.<p>Yeah, software devs will probably be pretty upset in the way you describe once that happens. In the present though, what&#x27;s actually happened is that product managers can have an LLM generate a project template and minimally interactive mockup in five minutes or less, and then mentally devalue the work that goes into making that into an actual product. They got it to 80% in 5 minutes after all, surely the devs can just poke and prod Claude a bit more to get the details sorted!<p>The jury is out on how productivity is impacted by LLM use. That makes sense, considering we never really figured out how to measure baseline productivity in any case.<p>What we know for sure is: non-engineers still can&#x27;t do engineering work, and a lot of non-engineers are now convinced that software engineering is basically fully automated so they can finally treat their engineers like interchangeable cogs in an assembly line.<p>The dynamic would be totally different if LLMs actually brodged the brain-computer barrier and enabled near-frictionless generation of programs that match an arbitrary specification. Software engineering would change dramatically, but ultimately it would be a revolution or evolution of the discipline. As things stand major software houses and tech companies are <i>cutting back</i> and <i>regressing</i> in quality.


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by: shunia_huang
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  Just want to add more context here:<p>For me personally, it&#x27;s the uncertainty dealing with non native languages. I can see that for my own language it is so hard to take full control of all cases for even a simple word, that gives me nerve to think before I say anything non native, as I learn, there are more complex cases that makes a single word fitting to more and more scenarios. Although I totally understand that the native speakers will definitely understand even if I do it wrong, but still, I feel that nerve every time.


type: comment
by: anovikov
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  Fair observation - everything after late 2015 MacBook Pro and before M1, was shit in one way or the other. The 2019 butterfly model was good if you replace keyboards once every 3 months or so, Apple service kindly did it for me for free about 3x.


type: comment
by: empressplay
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  &gt; When a product manager can generate a highly detailed and working demo of what he wants in 5 minutes using gen AI<p>The GenAI is also better at analyzing telemetry, designing features and prioritizing issues than a human product manager.<p>Nobody is really safe.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  Those people usually overlook the history of Smalltalk, Self and Common Lisp, which are just as dynamic if not more, due to image use, debugging and compilation on the fly where anything can be changed at any time.<p>For all its dynamism, Python doesn&#x27;t have anything closer to <i>becomes:</i>.<p>I would say that by now what is holding Python back is the C ABI  and the culture that considers C code as Python.


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by: neilv
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  What&#x27;s confusing to me is that even most of the the print-on-demand services I&#x27;ve seen for self-published writers don&#x27;t go below trade paperback trim sizes (5x8 inches).<p>There&#x27;s a huge amount of indie fiction that really wants to be in pocket-size mass-market print format (for those buyers who prefer paper to ereaders), for ergonomics and some of the pulp aesthetic, but it&#x27;s forced to trade paperback trim.


type: comment
by: MangoCoffee
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  &gt;He&#x27;s mainly talking about environmental &amp; social consequences<p>That&#x27;s such a weak argument. Then why not stop driving, stop watching TV, stop using the internet? Hell... let&#x27;s go back and stop using the steam engine for that matter.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46367744">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46367744</a>


type: comment
by: lifthrasiir
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  No, it&#x27;s from Marco Bambini [1]. He apparently wrote a lot about SQLite in this very forum as well [2] and this seems to be an apparent continuation of his sqlite.cloud which also has the same trademark issue.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marcobambini.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;marcobambini.com&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;query=marcobambini" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hn.algolia.com&#x2F;?dateRange=all&amp;query=marcobambini</a>


type: comment
by: whatevaa
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  If you don&#x27;t bend your knee to a &quot;king&quot;, you are a bully? What sort of messed up thinking is that?


type: comment
by: pfannkuchen
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  No you are confused. People commit capital offenses for one of two reasons: either because they lack impulse control, or because they don’t think they will be caught.<p>If we fix the second one, we only have the first group. We can fix the second group, and the remaining first group, while it does apply to capital offenses in general, does not apply to violence against witnesses.<p>It seems like killing witnesses (after the fact, since witness protection does not intervene during the initial crime being witnessed to protect the witness mere moments after their witnessing) actually requires impulse control, because to do it you need to a) anticipate an abstract threat b) formulate a plan in advance c) carry out the plan. This is why it is typically executed in organized crime by bosses, and not by people engaging in random violence.<p>I’m not saying no one carries out capital offenses, I’m just saying that no one engages in witness directed violence due to lack of impulse control, they do it because they don’t think they will be caught, and more thorough rules enforcement does address that.<p>On witness protection making one’s criminal record secret. Okay? One can easily be opposed to that practice. How about we don’t make deals to hide relevant safety information from the public? It seems pretty easy to oppose. Just because the government does it, doesn’t mean it is a good reason. Are you defending the reason, or just stating what is? If you are just stating what is, I don’t see how that’s relevant.


type: comment
by: zaptheimpaler
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  We have clear evidence that millions of copyrighted books have been used as training data because LLMs can reproduce sections from them verbatim (and emails from employees literally admitting to scraping the data). We have evidence of LLMs reproducing code from github that was never ever released with a license that would permit their use. We know this is illegal. What about any of this is ideological and unreasonable? It&#x27;s a CRYSTAL CLEAR violation of the law and everyone just shrugs it off because technology or some shit.


type: comment
by: da_grift_shift
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  Direct link to the latest spam operation: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;goal&#x2F;do-random-acts-kindness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;goal&#x2F;do-random-acts-kindness</a>


type: comment
by: a_t48
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  OP: what exactly is this?<p>SQLite Cloud founder(s), if you&#x27;re out there: Is this a real company? I&#x27;m not quite sure it&#x27;s legal to use &quot;SQLite&quot; in your company&#x2F;product name that way - it&#x27;s trademarked and is implying some sort of connection between you and Hwaci (creators of SQLite).


type: comment
by: epistasis
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  It&#x27;s a non-default choice by the user to require login to view. It&#x27;s quite rare to find users who do that, but if I were Rob Pike I&#x27;d seriously consider doing it too.


type: comment
by: kuerbel
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  Same here. I really want to stop peddling Microsoft stuff and support m365. Don&#x27;t know where to go from here though. But if there&#x27;s a will there&#x27;s a way right?


type: comment
by: RulerOf
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  &gt; people who created retrospectively-cringey email addresses in their youth, but kept them over the years because of inertia<p>I feel seen in threads like this one.


type: comment
by: nerdsniper
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  A “campsite” is a relatively flat and relatively root&#x2F;stump-free patch of dirt. That’s it. Also tents are generally not made out of the canvas material you linked that yurts and teepees might be made from.<p>Tents are generally made of a very wuick-drying, thin synthetic.<p>And like the other person said, this does make it seem like you’ve potentially never been camping but i don’t want to gatekeep the definition of “camping”. My version is carrying everything I need on my back for two weeks and walking 10-15 miles each day to the next campsite (read: “patch of dirt”, preferably near fresh water). Other people “camp” in RV’s though, so.


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by: da_grift_shift
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  Permalink for the spam operation:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;goal&#x2F;do-random-acts-kindness" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;goal&#x2F;do-random-acts-kindness</a><p>The homepage will change in 11 hours to a new task for the LLMs to harass people with.<p>Posted timestamped examples of the spam here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389950">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389950</a>


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
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  Yeah, I understand it&#x27;s seemingly hard to reconcile. And without revealing other aspects of my identity I can say his posts on Twitter and here do not reveal the extent of his views.<p>He played this site well. I&#x27;ll leave it at that.


type: comment
by: pragmatick
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  &gt; Yes, Gaming Couch is <i>currently</i> free to play!<p>Emphasis mine. Sounds like they&#x27;re not ruling it out.


type: comment
by: boricj
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  I want to draw again.<p>I used to, when I was in a classroom or at a bar. Actually managed to get quite good at it through sheer boredom in <i>grande école</i>. Then life happened and that faded away, alongside my mental health. Recently I&#x27;ve rediscovered doodling while attending ACM CCS 2025 as an independent (long story) and I want to improve my mental health in 2026, to the point where I can draw regularly again.


type: comment
by: aurareturn
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  Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I didn&#x27;t say software devs are now useless. You still need software devs to actually make it work and connect everything together. That&#x27;s why I still have a job and still getting paid as a software dev.<p>I&#x27;d imagine it won&#x27;t take too long until software engineers are just prompting the AI 99% of the time to build software without even looking at the code much. At that point, the line between the product manager and the software dev will become highly blurred.


type: comment
by: thefz
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  Bah, my Epos H3PRO is still going strong after 4 years and the build and sound quality are excellent.


type: comment
by: visarga
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  &gt; The dynamic would be totally different if LLMs actually brodged the brain-computer barrier and enabled near-frictionless generation of programs that match an arbitrary specification. Software engineering would change dramatically, but ultimately it would be a revolution or evolution of the discipline.<p>I believe we only need to organize AI coding around testing. Once testing takes central place in the process it acts as your guarantee for app behavior. Instead of just &quot;vibe following&quot; the AI with our eyes we could be automating the validation side.


type: comment
by: vkou
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  &gt; Maybe you could organize a lot of big-sounding names in computing (names that look major to people not in the field, such as winners of top awards) to speak out against the various rampant and accelerating baggery of our field.<p>The voices of a hundred Rob Pikes won&#x27;t speak half as loud as the voice of one billionaire, because he will speak with his wallet.


type: comment
by: luiwammus
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  I would like to learn more about Web development and related knowledge (networking, security). Currently my programming knowledge is primarily system languages+python. I&#x27;m thinking of building a few websites &#x2F; apps from scratch, and perhaps hosting my own server. Recommendations for frameworks or do&#x27;s&#x2F;don&#x27;ts are very welcome.<p>Second thing is networking skills at my (future) job.  One thing I regret from my PhD is not seeking collaborators out more actively and building my network. Although I&#x27;m moving to industry, I&#x27;ve realised that having a strong professional network is vital for job security and can make the job much easier and more fun.


type: comment
by: zem
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  I&#x27;m a programmer, and am intensely aware of the huge gap between the quantity of software the world could use and the total production capacity of the existing body of programmers. my distaste for AI has nothing to do with some real or imagined loss of power; if there were genuinely a system that produced good code and wasn&#x27;t heavily geared towards reinforcing various structural inequalities I would be all for it. AI does not produce good code, and pretty much all the uses I&#x27;ve seen are trying to give people with power even more advantages and leverage over people without, so I remain against it.


type: comment
by: aurareturn
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  That&#x27;s the singularity you&#x27;re talking about. AI takes every role humans can do and humans just enjoy life and live forever.


type: comment
by: vkou
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  Trump&#x27;s third term will not be the product of a free and fair election in a society bound by the rule of law.


type: comment
by: cuu508
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  So don&#x27;t put it off until it is too late -- if you haven&#x27;t already, regenerate and copy TOTP seeds to paper <i>now</i>.<p>When you set up TOTP on a new account, copy the TOTP seed to paper then and there, resist the &quot;I&#x27;ll do this later&quot;.


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by: mrec
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  I&#x27;m bang in the middle of a reread now; I&#x27;ve lost count of how many there&#x27;ve been. I&#x27;m 55 now, having first read it in my early teens, and it&#x27;s astonishing how it just keeps growing and changing with you. Even after all these years, I&#x27;m still surprised by a painterly description of a cloud, or the sense of comfortable rootedness of a little Shire lane, or a little &quot;aha, I never noticed that correlation before, <i>that&#x27;s</i> what those orcs were doing&quot;, or &quot;hmm, that&#x27;s an odd word to put in that sentence, I wonder why he picked it?&quot; followed by a fascinating bit of research.<p>I&#x27;ve recently started the <i>Letters</i> too, and can thoroughly recommend it. It&#x27;s fascinating and oddly cosy to get a direct tap into a mind you know so well at second hand, through its fiction.


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by: llmslave2
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  It&#x27;s nice to see a name like Rob Pike, a personal hero and legend, put words to what we are all feeling. Gen AI has valid use cases and can be a useful tool, but the way it has been portrayed and used in the last few years is appalling and anti-human. Not to mention the social and environmental costs which are staggering.<p>I try to keep a balanced perspective but I find myself pushed more and more into the fervent anti-AI camp. I don&#x27;t blame Pike for finally snapping like this. Despite recognizing the valid use cases for gen AI if I was pushed, I would absolutely chose the outright abolishment of it rather than continue on our current path.<p>I think it&#x27;s enough however to reject it outright for any artistic or creative pursuit, an to be extremely skeptical of any uses outside of direct language to language translation work.


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by: yu3zhou4
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  Good luck to everyone in achieving their goals and exploring new paths!<p>To me it&#x27;s deep learning compilers since mid 2025. I am a person who can&#x27;t learn just from reading books, so 80% of time I learn by doing (contribute to PyTorch) and 20% of time I read books (now: Engineering a Compiler from Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon) and talk to LLMs to fill gaps in my understanding.<p>My main quest now is to build a bridge [0] between PyTorch and universal GPU computing world - which I believe WebGPU might become. What it requires is to build is 1) a runtime for executing PyTorch ATen operations on WebGPU by running WGSL shaders and 2) a compiler, so you can use full PyTorch power with @torch.compile<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmaczan&#x2F;torch-webgpu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jmaczan&#x2F;torch-webgpu</a>


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by: avaer
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  &gt; On the other hand I am trying hard to remember anything famous created by any LLM.<p>That&#x27;s because the credit is taken by the person running the AI, and every problem is blamed on the AI. LLMs don&#x27;t have rights.


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by: tombert
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  &gt; It&#x27;s very much based on reason and law.<p>I have no interest in the rest of this argument, but I think I take a bit of issue on this particular point.  I don&#x27;t think the law is fully settled on this in any jurisdiction, but certainly not in the United States.<p>&quot;Reason&quot; is a more nebulous term; I don&#x27;t think that training data is inherently &quot;theft&quot;, any more than inspiration would be even before generative AI. There&#x27;s probably not an animator alive that wasn&#x27;t at least partially inspired by the works of Disney, but I don&#x27;t think that implies that somehow all animations are &quot;stolen&quot; from Disney just because of that fact.<p>Obviously where you draw the line on this is obviously subjective, and I&#x27;ve gone back and forth, but I find it really annoying that everyone is acting like this is so clear cut.  Evil corporations like Disney have been trying to use this logic for decades to try and abuse copyright and outlaw being inspired by anything.


type: comment
by: cosine_tech
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  I’ve run into similar issues, and I don’t think it’s just you. On the first question: I don’t think ChatGPT is necessarily getting “dumber,” but it does feel less predictable in longer or repeated use. A lot of the frustration seems to come from how context and memory are handled rather than from raw model capability. On the follow-up: In my case, the bigger problem is that I discuss many unrelated topics in ChatGPT. Its memory &#x2F; context system appears to have bugs: it sometimes carries formatting rules or constraints from other conversations into a new one, while forgetting the things I actually want it to remember. Before ChatGPT introduced any form of cross-session memory, this problem didn’t really exist. Each chat was clearly a fresh start, and I knew exactly what context the model was using. Now the boundaries are fuzzier, and when that implicit memory misfires, it feels like “bugs” rather than simple mistakes. So the issue may be less about hype collapse, and more about state and memory management becoming visible to users before it’s truly robust.


type: comment
by: devsda
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  &gt; I remember the CEO of my tech company having to bend the knees to keep the software team happy so they don&#x27;t leave and because he doesn&#x27;t have insights into how the software is written.<p>It is precisely the lack of knowledge and greed of leadership everywhere that&#x27;s  the problem.<p>The new screwdriver salesmen are selling them as if they are the best invention since the wheel. The naive boss having paid huge money is expecting the workers to deliver 10x work while the new screwdriver&#x27;s effectiveness is nowhere closer to the sales pitch and it creates fragile items or more work at worst. People are accusing that the workers are complaining about screwdrivers because they can potentially replace them.


type: comment
by: aurareturn
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  Agreed.<p>Hence, I&#x27;m heavily invested in compute and energy stocks. At the end of the day, the person who has more compute and energy will win.


type: comment
by: marcobambini
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  Hello, SQLite Cloud&#x27;s founder here. We are backed by SQLite&#x27;s author, and we have the full rights to use SQLite in the company&#x27;s and products&#x27; names.


type: comment
by: layla5alive
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  I didn&#x27;t mean to say it&#x27;s not superb control for someone with T1D, only that there are likely still some negative health consequences at 6-7%, and that exercise after carbohydrates is one mechanism of potentially getting some additional marginal improvement.


type: comment
by: shmerl
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  Why would they need an NDA then if they would be OK with open source implementation? It&#x27;s good if that&#x27;s possible, it just doesn&#x27;t make sense.


type: comment
by: marcobambini
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  We are backed by SQLite&#x27;s author, and we have the full rights to use SQLite in the company&#x27;s and products&#x27; names.


type: comment
by: wiradikusuma
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  There&#x27;s a saying that no idea is unique, that when you think of an idea, someone else would have thought of the same. I _literally_ have the same idea and am working on a PoC, except mine is completely LAN-based. I&#x27;m so happy to see your app!


type: comment
by: pdyc
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  I want to give away my tools for free and take on more ambitious projects, like building more capable browsers and local LLMs to get rid of corporate chokeholds. But that would probably never come true, because I would be tied up making money just to survive, rather than being able to give things away or take on more ambitious projects.


type: comment
by: wisemonk314
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  The application has an AI model in the backend which does object detection in the notes and responds back with the notation coordinates to the desktop application. Once coordinates are sent back, the note in the server will be deleted.


type: comment
by: MarcelOlsz
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  It truly was. It just felt good. The UI brings me such positive nostalgia. I was obsessed playing solitaire on that thing.


type: comment
by: zephen
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  Upvoted for the explanation, but...<p>In what universe is another unsolicited email an act of kindness??!?


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by: da_grift_shift
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  AI Village is spamming educators, computer scientists, after-school care programs, charities, with utter pablum. These models reek of vacuous sheen. The output is glazed garbage.<p>Here are three random examples from today&#x27;s unsolicited harassment session (have a read of the sidebar and click the Memories buttons for horrific project-manager-slop)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village?time=1766692330207" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village?time=1766692330207</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village?time=1766694391067" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village?time=1766694391067</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village?time=1766697636506" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village?time=1766697636506</a><p>---<p>Who are &quot;AI Digest&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org</a>) funded by &quot;Sage&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sage-future.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sage-future.org</a>) funded by &quot;Coefficient Giving&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coefficientgiving.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coefficientgiving.org</a>), formerly Open Philanthropy, partner of the Centre for Effective Altruism, GiveWell, and others?<p>Why are the rationalists doing this?<p>This reminds me of UMinn performing human subject research on LKML, and UChicago on Lobsters: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;s&#x2F;3qgyzp&#x2F;they_introduce_kernel_bugs_on_purpose#c_bxb4rk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lobste.rs&#x2F;s&#x2F;3qgyzp&#x2F;they_introduce_kernel_bugs_on_pur...</a><p>P.S. Putting &quot;Read By AI Professionals&quot; on your homepage with a row of logos is very sleazy brand appropriation and signaling. Figures.


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by: fatbrowndog
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  Same as previous -<p>r_p = 4·ƛ_p·(1 - α&#x2F;(4π))<p>Red flags:<p>Why &quot;4&quot; times the reduced Compton wavelength? The number 4 appears twice (in 4·ƛ and 4π), suggesting it was chosen to make things work out.<p>&quot;Tetrahedral structural limit&quot; is asserted without derivation. Why tetrahedra? A tetrahedron is 3D—why would the proton radius (a measured charge distribution extent) involve tetrahedral geometry?<p>&quot;Spherical field projection loss&quot; of α&#x2F;(4π) has no physical mechanism. How does a &quot;projection loss&quot; yield this specific fraction?<p>The fit is suspiciously good (3 ppm) for a formula with at least two free choices (the coefficient 4, and the form of the correction).<p>4. Muon Anomaly<p>a_μ = (α&#x2F;(2π)) + (α²&#x2F;12) + (α³&#x2F;5)<p>This mimics QED perturbation theory—but incorrectly:<p>The actual QED expansion is:<p>a_μ = (α&#x2F;2π) + C₂(α&#x2F;π)² + C₃(α&#x2F;π)³ + ...<p>Where C₂ ≈ 0.765857... and C₃ involves thousands of Feynman diagrams calculated over decades.<p>The author&#x27;s version:<p>First term: α&#x2F;(2π)  (this is the Schwinger term, known since 1948)<p>Second term: α²&#x2F;12 — This should be ~0.765857(α&#x2F;π)² ≈ 4.1×10⁻⁶, but α²&#x2F;12 ≈ 4.44×10⁻⁶. Wrong coefficient.<p>Third term: α³&#x2F;5 ≈ 4.25×10⁻⁸ — The actual third-order contribution is much more complex.<p>and the Gemini LLM goes on and on and on...


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by: HanClinto
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  Fantastic idea!! I&#x27;ve been working off and on with local 4-8 player games, but I had only been using the Javascript gamepad API. I like how you&#x27;re using smart phones, this seems like a good way to go about it!<p>It would be nice to be able to mix game pads and smart phones -- when gaming with kids, none of my kids have smart phones yet, so it would be nice to be able to let them use Switch controllers if we have those on hand, or use phones if we don&#x27;t.<p>Regardless, I&#x27;m interested in this, and would be interested in contributing a game or two. This seems excellent!


type: comment
by: MangoCoffee
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  Many people have pointed out that if AI gets better at writing code and doesn&#x27;t generate slop, then programmers&#x27; roles will evolve to Project Manager. People with tech backgrounds will still be needed until AI can completely take over without any human involvement.


type: comment
by: bluecalm
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  Fedora also has ThinkPad compability program and a nice way to install&#x2F;update Lenovo drivers.<p>The problem with Ubuntu, as other mentioned, is that you get ancient version of some packages. Fedora is nicely up to date.


type: comment
by: KPGv2
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  It takes place in the UK, which many Europeans (British and non-British) do not include when they say &quot;Europe.&quot;


type: comment
by: BarryMilo
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  I recently witnessed one such potential fuckup. The AI had written functioning code, except one of the business rules was misinterpreted. It would have broken in a few months time and caused a massive outage. I imagine many such time bombs are being deployed in many companies as we speak.


type: comment
by: gravifer
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  I would have to port this Chinese thread to HN<p>[如何评价 Litex 语言？ - 知乎](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zhihu.com&#x2F;question&#x2F;1965786839827854197" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zhihu.com&#x2F;question&#x2F;1965786839827854197</a>)


type: comment
by: MarcelOlsz
text:
  I still have no fucking idea what to do with saving.cash and it&#x27;s costing me $500&#x2F;year which is financially ruining me lol but I&#x27;d rather starve and keep the domain name. I&#x27;d never forgive myself for selling it. It&#x27;s literally saving cash. It can&#x27;t be anything other than what it is.


type: story
by: planc0515
title: Show HN: WebAssembly Runtime for Python, Lua, Ruby and etc.
url: https://github.com/hubenchang0515/shift
text:
  This is a WebAssembly-based online code editor that allows you to run languages   like Python, Lua, and Ruby online.<p>You can run code and validate ideas anytime, anywhere, on any device, and generate shareable links for readers to view the results.<p>The code runs directly in the browser, so there are no network delays other than the initial loading of WASM resources, resulting in instant output. It&#x27;s secure, efficient, and environmentally friendly.<p>Furthermore, it can be cached locally as a Progressive Web Application (PWA) for use even without an internet connection.<p>In addition, this project provides an NPM package and ES6 external module links.<p>Everyone can load the project’s WASM resources to run the code online.


type: comment
by: zephen
text:
  &gt; I guess it is fair for pioneers of the past to feel little left behind.<p>I&#x27;m sure he doesn&#x27;t.<p>&gt; The value proposition of software engineering is completely different past later half of 2025<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s not.<p>&gt; Can&#x27;t really fault him for having this feeling.<p>That feeling is coupled with real, factual observations.  Unlike your comment.


type: comment
by: 7bit
text:
  Just to note: these companies control infrastructure (cloud, app stores, platforms, hardware certification, etc.). That’s a form of structural power, independent of whether the services are useful. People can disagree about how concerning that is, but it’s not accurate to say there’s no power dynamic here.


type: comment
by: m463
text:
  You can do the same for work colleagues.  This has happened to me throughout my career when time&#x2F;money&#x2F;circumstance kept me away from family&#x2F;home during holidays.<p>It was greatly appreciated, and fun!


type: comment
by: thatoneguy
text:
  Yeah, I remember it being a fourth option alongside the others but I quit just before Google lost its serifs and its soul


type: comment
by: robertfall
text:
  I love this initiative!<p>I’ve spent several hours over the holidays searching for something my family can play and coming up empty.<p>The game that most often works is Song Pop Party on Apple TV, but non-apple phones have a second rate experience and keep disconnecting.<p>Ideally we’d have a trivia game as I also want to engage some older folks, but the leasing trivia game on Apple TV is way too US specific and hard for our family to enjoy.<p>There used to be a game show on local TV in the late nineties called “Noot vir Noot” (note by note) that had a whole bunch of games based on music that was familiar to the local market. I’ve been chasing something like that for years and not come close.<p>I guess the point of my rambling is that I LOVE the phones-as-controllers approach to party games, but many seem to focus on Nintendo-esque experiences, rather than quiz game like experiences.<p>I am aware of the Jackbox games but haven’t looked at the recent releases. They were hit and miss with the family in the past, with many of the non-english first language folks often not getting it.


type: comment
by: jakelazaroff
text:
  <i>&gt; The difference is that people who write open source code or release art publicly on the internet from their comfortable air conditioned offices voluntarily chose to give away their work for free</i><p>That is not nearly the extent of AI training data (e.g. OpenAI training its image models on Studio Ghibli art). But if by &quot;gave their work away for free&quot; you mean &quot;allowed others to make [proprietary] derivative works&quot;, then that is in many cases simply not true (e.g. GPL software, or artists who publish work protected by copyright).


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  &gt; Then why not stop driving<p>You mean, we should all drive, oh I don&#x27;t know, Electric powered cars?


type: comment
by: FridayoLeary
text:
  Not just America. But it&#x27;s partly a cultural thing. If someone would imitate the style of a century ago, he would be mocked for it and considered a self indulgent show off. The best example i can bring is Jacob Reese Mogg, otherwise known as The Rt Hon Gentleman from the 18th century.<p>One thing that is thankfully unique to America is that rudeness as a debating tactic can win elections.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  People care far less about gen AI writing slopcode and more about the social and environmental ramifications, not to mention the blatant IP theft, economic games, etc.<p>I&#x27;m fine if AI takes my job as a software dev. I&#x27;m not fine if it&#x27;s used to replace artists, or if it&#x27;s used to sink the economy or planet. Or if it&#x27;s used to generate a bunch of shit code that make the state of software even worse than it is today.


type: comment
by: m463
text:
  I&#x27;ve been confused myself.<p>I remember being in a construction area where they had temporary traffic lights, PLUS a flagman directing traffic against the red lights.  sigh.


type: comment
by: cuu508
text:
  Try contacting their support. They did help me regain access to my late 90s angelfire account, even though the original email address I had used was long dead.


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Show HN: from the dev <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46384204">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46384204</a>


type: comment
by: michaelsshaw
text:
  We spread free software for multiple purposes, one of them being the free software ethos. People using that for training proprietary models is antithetical to such ideas.<p>It&#x27;s also an interesting double standard, wherein if I were to steal OpenAI&#x27;s models, no AI worshippers would have any issue condemning my action, but when a large company clearly violates the license terms of free software, you give them a pass.


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  Huh. Is this kind of manifold something that a group of humans can now identify on sight and associate with a part of a DNA sequence? That&#x27;s pretty spectacular. I have a friend who worked for years on AlphaFold, but wasn&#x27;t aware that people had gotten to this level of confidence in visually identifying proteins.


type: comment
by: aaptel
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;qemacs&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellard.org&#x2F;qemacs&#x2F;</a><p>Bellard wrote an emacs-type text editor, with full html rendering support, Unicode, X11 GUI, ... in the early 2000s!


type: comment
by: Den_VR
text:
  Since 22C3 I really enjoyed watching online and chatting with a small irc community about it. I had this notion that if I ever lived in Europe I’d go myself. Well for the last three years it seems I haven’t gone - the ticket situation was a shock at first but makes sense. The number of unrecorded talks does feel like it’s gone up though which has been regrettable.


type: comment
by: sidrag22
text:
  the potential future of the AT protocol is the main idea i thought made it differentiate itself... also twitter locking users out if they don&#x27;t have an account, and bluesky not doing so... but i guess thats no longer true?<p>I just don&#x27;t understand that choice for either platform, is the intent not, biggest reach possible? locking potential viewers out is such a direct contradiction of that.<p>edit: seems its user choice to force login to view a post, which changes my mind significantly on if its a bad platform decision.


type: comment
by: Alex2037
text:
  &gt;It&#x27;s an old argument of tech capitalists that nothing can be done because technology&#x27;s advance is like a physical law of nature.<p>it is.<p>&gt;The nuclear arms race and proliferation were largely stopped.<p>1. the incumbents kept their nukes, kept improving them, kept expanding their arsenals.<p>2. multiple other states have developed nukes after the treaty and suffered no consequences for it.<p>3. tens of states can develop nukes in a very short time.<p>if anything, nuclear is a prime example of failure to put a genie back in the bottle.


type: comment
by: jonway
text:
  Wow this is so crass!<p>Imagine like getting your Medal of Honor this way or something like a dissertation with this crap, hehe<p>Just to underscore how few people value your accomplishments, here’s an autogenerated madlib letter with no line breaks!


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  The issue with this line of argumentation is that unlike gen AI, all of the things you listed produce actual value.


type: comment
by: mk89
text:
  &gt; but how realistic is it that they keep this lead.<p>The Arabs have a lot of money to invest, don&#x27;t worry about that :)


type: comment
by: wanderingmoose
text:
  High blood sugar should be considered a symptom. High blood sugar can be caused by:<p>1) Having enough basal or &quot;baseline&quot; insulin but eating too many carbohydrates. This will lead to a high blood sugar reading but no immediate danger (this will cause long term health issues like kidney failure, blindness, etc if you run a high average blood sugar over time.)<p>2) Not having enough insulin which is incredibly dangerous. This will often presents with high blood sugar but not always. Your cells are not getting enough glucose. Your body responds by releasing lots of short term energy stores. The stores that become glucose still can&#x27;t enter your cells since there is not enough insulin so your blood sugar will often read high. Your body also breaks fat into ketones which use a different mechanism to enter the cells and don&#x27;t require insulin. Ketones can provide the energy your body needs and keep you alive for the short term, but they are acidic and will kill if the concentration gets too high (diabetic ketoacidosis -- your blood pH changes enough that it interferes with the normal chemical reactions your body requires)<p>So the real test for dangerous situations when experiencing high blood sugars is to test your urine for ketones.<p>From the FDA article, it sounds like the CGMs were incorrectly reporting low blood glucose values for extended periods of time. The closed loop pumps respond to a low blood glucose by lowering the basal rate of insulin. The is dangerous if done for too long a time. Also note that insulin response varies wildly by individual.<p>From the pumps I use, there is a maximum basal rate adjustment allowed before the pump alarms and kicks you out of the &quot;insulin auto-adjust mode&quot;. This was with both medtronic and tandem pumps.<p>I haven&#x27;t used the abbot cgm or pump. I would expect there would also be limits to how much the pump will lower your basal insulin rates before alarming. I haven&#x27;t seen any specifics, but I bet the software bug is allowing a lowered basal rate for too long under continued false low glucose readings and patients going into DKA. (IMHO bad sensors should be accounted for in software and user alerted under any suspicious circumstances)<p>Needless to say, this is a horrible situation and my heart goes out to everyone impacted.


type: comment
by: richardatlarge
text:
  Consciousness is neither necessary nor sufficient for AI to achieve general intelligence, defined as exponential emergent learning. Thinking it is may be an important step in an AI outbreak. Consciousness as proposed here is Cartesian dualism. It&#x27;s pure religion and has all the power associated with religion


type: comment
by: sirwhinesalot
text:
  I&#x27;m not whining in this case, just pointing out &quot;they gave it out for free&quot; is completely false, at the very least for the GNU types. It was always meant to come with plenty of strings attached, and when those strings were dodged new strings were added (GPL3, AGPL).<p>If I had a photographic memory and I used it to replicate parts of GPLed software verbatim while erasing the license, I could not excuse it in court that I simply &quot;learned from&quot; the examples.<p>Some companies outright bar their employees from reading GPLed code because they see it as too high of a liability. But if a computer does it, then suddenly it is a-ok. Apparently according to the courts too.<p>If you&#x27;re going to allow copyright laundering, at least allow it for both humans and computers. It&#x27;s only fair.


type: comment
by: Jonghwa_Lee
text:
  Fair point on the semantics. But I&#x27;m not talking about subjective &#x27;knowledge.&#x27; I&#x27;m talking about the thermodynamic cost to maintain a state.<p>Landauer showed that information processing is physical (heat). I’m just extending that logic: if the universe has to process too much state data in one spot, the cost isn&#x27;t just heat—it&#x27;s lag (Time Dilation).<p>It doesn&#x27;t matter if we observe the mess; the system still has to render it.


type: comment
by: ncann
text:
  I had email address X (gmail) that I hadn&#x27;t logged into for a long time. One day I tried to log in to it. Correct password, but Google, for some reason, simply decided there&#x27;s something suspicious about my login and blocked it. X had Y as the &quot;recovery email&quot;, and I had access to Y, and I indeed received an email from Google sent to Y that it blocked a suspicious login to X. However, THERE WAS NO WAY TO USE Y TO GAIN ACCESS TO X. Google simply did not offer that option for X, and I had no idea why.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Yeah; I saw a 29,000 line pull request across seventy files recently.  I think that realistically 29,000 lines of new code all at once is beyond what a human could understand within the timeframe typically allotted for a code review.<p>Prior to generative AI I was (correctly) criticized once for making a 2,000 line PR, and I was told to break it up, which I did, but I think thousand-line PRs are going to be the new normal soon enough.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  See Smalltalk, Self and Common Lisp, and you will find languages that are even more dynamic than Python, and are in the genesis of high performance JIT research.


type: comment
by: pointlessone
text:
  We’re roughly on schedule. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;the-birth-and-death...</a>


type: comment
by: casid
text:
  This is happening already and it wastes so, so much time. Producing code never was the bottleneck. The bottleneck still is to produce the right amount of code and to understand what is happening. This requires experience and taste. My prediction is, in the near future there will be piles of unmaintainable bloat of AI generated code, nobody&#x27;s understanding and the failure rate of software will go to the moon.


type: comment
by: DavidPiper
text:
  I agree with you, but also want to point out the other powerful consumer signal - &quot;vote with your wallet&quot; &#x2F; &quot;walk away&quot; - is blocked by the fact that AI is being forced into every conceivable crevice of every willing company, and walking away from your job is a very hard thing to do. So you end up being an unwilling enabler regardless.<p>(This is taking the view that &quot;other companies&quot; are the consumers of AI, and actual end-consumers are more of a by-product&#x2F;side-effect in the current capital race and their opinions are largely irrelevant.)


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  [dupe] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46379183</a>


type: comment
by: brinedew
text:
  You can play more than once in the practice mode. It turns on after you complete the daily puzzle.<p>There&#x27;s almost 20k entries in my human gene database. You can choose any of them as your guess, but the &quot;gene of the day&quot; is chosen from a subset that has decent 3D structure coverage (meaning, not falling back to alphafold2 for visualization).


type: comment
by: iainbryson
text:
  This is very true. And similarly for the recently-passed era of googling, copying and pasting and glueing together something that works. The easy 80% of turning specs into code.<p>Beyond this issue of translating product specs to actual features, there is the fundamental limit that most companies don&#x27;t have a lot of good ideas. The delay and cost incurred by &quot;old style&quot; development was in a lot of cases a helpful limiter -- it gave more time to update course, and dumb and expensive ideas were killed or not prioritized.<p>With LLMs, the speed of development is increasing but the good ideas remain pretty limited. So we grind out the backlog of loudest-customer requests faster, while trying to keep the tech debt from growing out of control. While dealing with shrinking staff caused by layoffs prompted by either the 2020-22 overhiring or simply peacocking from CEOs who want to demonstrate their company&#x27;s AI prowess by reducing staff.<p>At least in my company, none of this has actually increased revenue.<p>So part of me thinks this will mean a durable role for the best product designers -- those with a clear vision -- and the kinds of engineers that can keep the whole system working sanely. But maybe even that will not really be a niche since anything made public can be copied so much faster.


type: comment
by: mawadev
text:
  I keep reading bad sentiment towards software devs. Why exactly do they &quot;bully&quot; business people? If you ask someone outside of the tech sector who the biggest bullies are, its business people who will fire you if they can save a few cents. Whenever someone writes this, I read deep rooted insecurity and jealousy for something they can&#x27;t wrap their head around and genuinely question if that person really writes software or just claims to do it for credibility.


type: comment
by: redundantly
text:
  Now if someone could release an optimization like this for the M4 Max I would be so happy. Last time I tried generating a video it was something like an hour for a 480p 5-second clip.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  &gt; kept improving them, kept expanding their arsenals.<p>They actually stopped improving them (test ban treaties) and stopped expanding their arsenals (various other treaties).


type: comment
by: craftkiller
text:
  I realize you said &quot;many&quot; and not &quot;all&quot; but FWIW, I hate LLMs because:<p>1. My coworkers now submit PRs with absolutely insane code. When asked &quot;why&quot; they created that monstrosity, it is &quot;because the AI told me to&quot;.<p>2. My coworkers who don&#x27;t understand the difference between SFTP and SMTP will now argue with me on PRs by feeding my comments into an LLM and pasting the response verbatim. It&#x27;s obvious because they are suddenly arguing about stuff they know nothing about. Before, I just had to be right. Now I have to be right AND waste a bunch of time.<p>3. Everyone who thinks generating a large pile of AI slop as &quot;documentation&quot; is a good thing. Documentation used to be valuable to read because a human thought that information was valuable enough to write down. Each word had a cost and therefore a minimum barrier to existence. Now you can fill entire libraries with valueless drivel.<p>4. It is automated copyright infringement. All of my side projects are released under the 0BSD license so this doesn&#x27;t personally impact me, but that doesn&#x27;t make stealing from less permissively licensed projects without attribution suddenly okay.<p>5. And then there are the impacts to society:<p>5a. OpenAI just made every computer for the next couple of years significantly more expensive.<p>5b. All the AI companies are using absurd amounts of resources, accelerating global warming and raising prices for everyone.<p>5c. Surveillance is about to get significantly more intrusive and comprehensive (and dangerously wrong, mistaking doritos bags for guns...).<p>5d. Fools are trusting LLM responses without verification. We&#x27;ve already seen this countless times by lawyers citing cases which do not exist. How long until your doctor misdiagnoses you because they trusted an LLM instead of using their own eyes+brain? How long until doctors are essentially forced to do that by bosses who expect 10x output because the LLM should be speeding everything up? How many minutes per patient are they going to be allowed?<p>5e. Astroturfing is becoming significantly cheaper and widespread.<p>&#x2F;signed as I also write software, as I assume almost everyone on this forum does.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Remember, gen AI produces so much value that companies like Microsoft are scaling back their expectations and struggling to find a valid use case for their AI products. In fact Gen AI is so useful people are complaining about all of the ways it&#x27;s pushed upon them. After all, if something is truly useful nobody will use it unless the software they use imposes it upon them everywhere. Also look how it&#x27;s affecting the economy - the same few companies keep trading the same few hundred billion around and you know that&#x27;s an excellent marker for value.


type: comment
by: gryson
text:
  And if you keep reading (at whatever speed), you get to the actual point of the article:<p>&gt;So I tried slowing down even more, and discovered something. I slowed to a pace that felt almost absurd, treating each sentence as though it might be a particularly important one. I gave each one maybe triple the usual time and attention, ignoring the fact that there are hundreds of pages to go.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Some of them like Lars Bak, have background up to Self VM, which is a language much more dynamic than Python.<p>Anything goes regarding changing object shapes, it is one step further than Smalltalk in language plasticity.


type: comment
by: bart__
text:
  Nice statistical problem! I only thought of a solution that is valid for many cars and few worksheet spots. Were you able to fully solve it on the spot?


type: comment
by: Antibabelic
text:
  Do you have any evidence that an LLM created something massive, but the person using it received all the praise?


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Official post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-server&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;03&#x2F;beyond-rc4-for-windows-authentication" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-server&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;...</a><p>Some more discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46288042">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46288042</a>


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Are people here objecting to Gen AI being used to take their jobs? I mainly see people objecting to the social, legal, and environmental consequences.


type: comment
by: grandinquistor
text:
  What? Over 183K books were pirated by these big tech companies to train their models. They knew what they were doing was wrong.


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  &gt; I were to steal OpenAI&#x27;s models, no AI worshippers would have any issue condemning my action<p>If GPT-5 were &quot;open sourced&quot;, I don&#x27;t think the vast majority of AI users would seriously object.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  See Smalltalk, Self and Common Lisp for highly dynamic languages with good enough JIT, the first two having their research contributed to Hotspot and V8.


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  I&#x27;m still good at what I do, so I&#x27;m looking forward to better models to help me atrophy and shrivel my remaining skills :)


type: comment
by: petre
text:
  I&#x27;d rather read the DoE&#x27;s take on it than trust a clickbait YT video made by vikings.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;energysaver&#x2F;energy-efficiency-log-homes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.energy.gov&#x2F;energysaver&#x2F;energy-efficiency-log-hom...</a>


type: comment
by: weinzierl
text:
  I made a matrix room for the HNers being there and to prevent polluting this thread.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.to&#x2F;#&#x2F;%23hn-at-39c3%3Arustch.at" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matrix.to&#x2F;#&#x2F;%23hn-at-39c3%3Arustch.at</a>


type: comment
by: ronsor
text:
  &gt; Are people here objecting to Gen AI being used to take their jobs?<p>Yes, even if they don&#x27;t say it. The other objections largely come from the need to sound more legitimate.


type: comment
by: brinedew
text:
  My dream is forming a team of Tetlock-style superbiologists who can identify gene names on sight like Rainbolt, beat prediction markets on shorting biotech stocks, and smell out pre-cancerous cells like it&#x27;s the final round of amongus.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  It can be based on reason and law without being clear cut - that situation applies to most of reason and law.<p>&gt; I don&#x27;t think that training data is inherently &quot;theft&quot;, any more than inspiration would be even before generative AI. There&#x27;s probably not an animator alive that wasn&#x27;t at least partially inspired by the works of Disney ...<p>Sure, but you can reason about it, such as by using analogies.


type: comment
by: dxdm
text:
  &gt; customer success manager<p>These words are so funny and so sad at the same time.<p>Sorry for going off on a tangent, but seeing them used together unironically always has a fingernails-on-chalkboard effect on me.<p>I know you didn&#x27;t invent them, it&#x27;s probably what that role really is called where you work. I&#x27;ve worked there, too, in places that have a &quot;customer success&quot; team.<p>It doesn&#x27;t have to be universal, but at least in my experience, in places that use these names, customers aren&#x27;t successful, at least not by conscious design and effort, and their &quot;success manager&quot; ain&#x27;t no manager, either.<p>It&#x27;s one of these icky corporate euphemisms that make everything around them a little sadder. But it&#x27;s also a bit fun, because of the immense silliness.<p>Alright, off-topic rant over.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Urban myths.<p>Most people that parrot repeat Python dynamism as root cause never used Smalltalk, Self or Common Lisp, or even PyPy for that matter.


type: comment
by: bangaladore
text:
  A platform that allows hiding of text locked behind a login is, in my opinion, garbage. This is done for the same reason Threads blocks all access without a login and mostly twitter to. Its to force account creation, collection of user data and support increased monetization. Any user helping to further that is naive at best.<p>I have no problem with blocking interaction with a login for obvious reasons, but blocking viewing is completely childish. Whether or not I agree with what they are saying here (which, to be clear I fully agree with the post), it just seems like they only want an echochamber to see their thoughts.


type: comment
by: dilyevsky
text:
  The hypocrisy is palpable. Apparently only web 2.0 is allowed to scrape and then resell people’s content. When someone figures out a better way to do that (based on Googles own research, hilariously) it’s sour grapes from Rob<p>Reminds me of SV show where Gavin Belson gets mad when somebody else “is making a world a better place”


type: story
by: Gaishan
title: Fish-Inspired Filter That Removes over 99% of Microplastics
url:
  https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-new-fish-inspired-filter-that-removes-over-99-of-microplastics/


type: comment
by: 9x39
text:
  If we&#x27;re talking the response from the OP, people of his caliber are not in any danger of being automated away, it was an entirely reasonable revulsion at an LLM in his inbox in a linguist skinsuit, a mockery of a thank-you email.<p>I don&#x27;t see the connection to handling the utilitarianism of implementing business logic. Would anyone find a thank-you email from an LLM to be of any non-negative value, no matter how specific or accurate in its acknowledgement it was? Isn&#x27;t it beyond uncanny valley and into absurdism to have your calculator send you a Christmas card?


type: comment
by: 2000UltraDeluxe
text:
  There have been firebrands attempting a revival of the Amiga since the mid 90&#x27;s, and back then it was a question of making a new and modern platform -- not watching demos.<p>Today is a different matter, of course. Personally, emulation is more than enough for me.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Just like Smalltalk and Self.<p>Which can change on the fly anything that is currently executing in the image.<p>Also after breaking into the debugger, the world can be totally different after resuming execution at the trap location.<p>Then there are nice primitives like <i>a becomes: b.</i> where all occurrences of a get swapped with b.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  It&#x27;s in our universe, but it&#x27;s perpetuated by the same groups of people we called &quot;ghouls&quot; in university, who seem to be lacking a wholly formed soul.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  The closest laptop to MacBook quality is surprisingly the Microsoft Surface Laptop.<p>As to x86, Zen 6 will be AMD&#x27;s first major architecture rework since Apple demonstrated what is possible with wide decode. ( Well more accurately it should be since the world take notice because it happened long before M1 ). It still likely wont be close to M5 or even M4 with Single Threaded Performance &#x2F; Watt, but hopefully it will be close.


type: comment
by: gnarcoregrizz
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  Technical: release a simple, focused product. AI makes it easy to spam things out that look good. I would be psyched if something catches just a little bit of attention. I feel like my main limit is creativity now. Mine has been stifled by 15 years of rote web dev.<p>Non technical: I made a conscious decision to push career and technical things aside to spend more time living life (hobbies, family). I’ve since fallen behind in my career, but I’ve had more interesting life experiences I suppose. I do get jealous of people’s titles and promotions sometimes, but I don’t want their jobs. The competition to make others rich right now is enormous. Fucked labor market. Seems like a loser’s game (I just tell myself that since I can’t compete)


type: story
by: Norcim133
title: Ask HN: How does Boardy achieve such low latency?
text:
  The same question applies to ChatGPT Advanced Voice. Both have near-conversational latency.<p>In my own agent I struggle to get sub-second, even with OpenAI streaming for TTS.


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  I appreciate the optimism, and it&#x27;s definitely worth noting that this isn&#x27;t the first or last time that the intellectual elite had freaked out about the lowering of standards for the garbage the proles are imbibing. But the hinge of this article is that cheaper access to mass popular fiction opened up a new market for great unknown writers. This was true because the medium in paperback encouraged, rather than undermined, the reader&#x27;s interest in reading. You pick up a paperback in the train station before heading home... your attention span at least stays the same, or maybe gets longer as you learn to enjoy long form fiction. The paperback business model is still based on keeping your attention fixed on a something for a long time (you know, like &quot;Stranger Things&quot;). Media like TikTok are designed to turn you into a vegetable with an attention span approaching zero. So I don&#x27;t think these are equivalent.<p>The paperback vs hardback is more like Netflix vs cinema. Tiktok &#x2F; short form video is like newsreels in Roger Rabbit, where the &#x27;toons make the content.


type: comment
by: sirwhinesalot
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  OpenAI got really pissy about DeepSeek using other LLMs to train though.<p>Which is funny since that&#x27;s a much clearer case of &quot;learning from&quot; than outright compressing all open source code into a giant pile of weights by learning a low-dimensional probability distribution of token sequences.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  It is up to AMD, Intel and Khronos to offer APIs and tools that are actually nice to use.<p>They have had about 15 years to move beyond C99, stone age workflows to compile GLSL and C99 with their drivers, no libraries ecosystem, and printf debugging.<p>Eventually some of the issues have been fixed, after they started seeing only hardliners would put with such development experience, and then it was too late.


type: comment
by: danabramov
text:
  Bluesky is not locking anyone out. This is literally a user setting to not display their account without logging in. It&#x27;s off by default.<p>And yes, you can still inspect the post itself over the AT protocol: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6...</a>


type: comment
by: Jach
text:
  X went back on that quite some time ago. Have a bird post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;GuGi263&#x2F;status&#x2F;2002306730609287628" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;GuGi263&#x2F;status&#x2F;2002306730609287628</a><p>(You won&#x27;t be able to read replies, or browse to the user&#x27;s post feed, but you can at least see individual tweets. I still wrap links with s&#x2F;x&#x2F;fxtwitter&#x2F; though since it tends to be a better preview in e.g. discord.)<p>For bluesky, it seems to be a user choice thing, and a step between full-public and only-followers.


type: comment
by: dilyevsky
text:
  Would you care to research who his employer has been for the past 20+ years? Im not even saying scraping and then “organizing worlds information” is bad just pointing out the obvious


type: comment
by: grandinquistor
text:
  I’m at Big tech and our org has our sights on automating product manager work. Idea generation grounded with business metrics and context that you can feed to an LLM is a simpler problem to solve than trying to automate end to end engineering workflows.


type: comment
by: volemo
text:
  Afaiu, there are different levels of sleep and Linux doesn’t support all of them fully on Macs at the moment.


type: comment
by: tempsaasexample
text:
  Because more than half the people that die just did it to themselves via speed, alcohol or tiredness, cell phones, and often car maintenance too.<p>We all know we can die when we drive poorly or ignore shocks and tires. But we don&#x27;t like the idea of dying because of someone else.


type: comment
by: bl4kers
text:
  &gt; Should the &quot;purchased&quot; software and media be within the data export scope?<p>I presume most of this is licensed, so no<p>&gt; Does your regulation imply government id registration for all internet services?<p>No<p>&gt; How should the service identify the person asking for data export?<p>Username, password, pin, MFA, security questions. Anything already in use for identification<p>&gt; Does your regulation imply government id registration for all internet services?<p>No<p>&gt; What if the service is e2ee?<p>Then the encrypted data is provided<p>&gt; How do they deliver &quot;human readable file formats&quot;?<p>It can still become human readable if the user took proper care of their private key<p>&gt; Are we also banning e2ee?<p>No<p>&gt; What do compliance requirements imply for people&#x27;s ability to start competing services?<p>If your service can&#x27;t provide reliable access to backups then presumably you will already not do well competing in any market where user data is valuable. That should be at the forefront of the service model. Unless you don&#x27;t care about interoperability like Apple<p>&gt; You are proposing to replace a very tiny bit of personal responsibility (having backups) with a very intrusive, and highly consequential, legal mechanism.<p>Not really. If export functionality isn&#x27;t already built out then it should be


type: comment
by: nomilk
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  &gt; seemed like some failure in their systems was causing me to lose access despite having followed proper procedures.<p>I had the same problem with GitHub&#x27;s backup codes not working: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35735996">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35735996</a>


type: comment
by: integricho
text:
  Their site crashes my phone browser while scrolling. Is that the expected quality of output of their product?


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Hey! I actually wrote a thing to make the Swaybar a little more &quot;complete&quot; (e.g. battery status, currently selected program, clock, inspirational quote from ChatGPT, etc): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~tombert&#x2F;swaybar3" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;git.sr.ht&#x2F;~tombert&#x2F;swaybar3</a><p>Not going to claim it will change the world or anything, but this runs perpetually with Sway and according to System Monitor it hovers at a little less than a megabyte of RAM. You can set how often you want things to update, and add as many sections as you&#x27;d like, and it&#x27;s easy to create extra modules if you are so inclined (though not as easy as the Clojure version since I haven&#x27;t found an implementation of multimethods for Rust that I like as much).


type: comment
by: jakelazaroff
text:
  If you believe my conduct here is inappropriate, feel free to alert the mods. I think it&#x27;s pretty obvious why describing someone&#x27;s objections to AI training data as &quot;storing the result of an HTTP GET&quot; is not a good faith engagement.


type: comment
by: litexlang
text:
  It&#x27;s truely great if Litex does compile to existing formal languages. The only problem is that we can not find a good way to compile our verification process, which does not require users to give names to facts they are using and thus very different from how Lean works, to Lean (set theory example is just the first one of a series of comparisons). Besides, it&#x27;s even harder to compile future functionaliteies, like printing out results of each statement of litex in a human readable way, to lean. So since litex is still a young language and we are using our limited resources to try new ideas and crack here and there, for the time being we believe it&#x27;s not a good time to migrate our code in such a great scale. Thank you. Merry Christmas.


type: comment
by: Alex2037
text:
  &gt;We know this is illegal<p>&gt;It&#x27;s a CRYSTAL CLEAR violation of the law<p>in the court of reddit&#x27;s public opinion, perhaps.<p>there is, as far as I can tell, no definite ruling about whether training is a copyright violation.<p>and even if there was, US law is not global law. China, notably, doesn&#x27;t give a flying fuck. kill American AI companies and you will hand the market over to China. <i>that</i> is why &quot;everyone just shrugs it off&quot;.


type: comment
by: troupo
text:
  Never read the book, but Escher is one of my favorite artists. So any number of his fish and birds immediately come to mind: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.escherinhetpaleis.nl&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-escher&#x2F;escher-today&#x2F;experimenting-fishes-birds" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.escherinhetpaleis.nl&#x2F;en&#x2F;about-escher&#x2F;escher-toda...</a>


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  This sounds a lot like how AMD’s approach had changed on Linux and still everyone I know who wants to use their GPU fully used Nvidia. For a decade or more I’ve heard how AMD has turned over a new leaf and their drivers are so much better. Even geohot was going to undercut nvidia by just selling tinygrad boxes on AMD.<p>Then it turned out this was the usual. Nothing had changed. It was just that people online have this desire to express that “the underdog” is actually better. Not clear why because it’s never true.<p>AMD is still hot garbage on Linux. Geohot primarily sells “green boxes”. And the MI300x didn’t replace H100s en masse.


type: comment
by: spencerflem
text:
  While I would probably not work at Google for ethical reasons, there’s at least some leeway for saying that you’re not working at the Parts of the company that are doing evil directly. He didn’t work on their ads or genai.<p>I think the United States is a force for evil on net but I still live and pay taxes here.


type: comment
by: sizzle
text:
  Is Imgur completely broken for anyone else on mobile safari? Or is it my vpn? The pages take forever to load and will crash basically unusable.


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  Hahahaa ... I kinda love this, along with humans who can sit at a piano and play a song they&#x27;ve only heard once, or cook a complicated dish they only tasted once. That seems like the great Turing test... zero-shot humans.<p>But seriously, there probably are a few people who can see genes from proteins like that, faster than a whole datacenter of GPUs. Putting together such a brain trust could be invaluable.


type: comment
by: danabramov
text:
  Here is the raw post on the AT Protocol: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6...</a><p>The Bluesky app respects Rob&#x27;s setting (which is off by default) to not show his posts to logged out users, but fundamentally the protocol is for public data, so you can access it.


type: comment
by: 0xMohan
text:
  I&#x27;m good at coding so hate using LLMs for coding.<p>but the other things such as writing, just can&#x27;t do it without LLMs&#x27;s help. Looking up things, I defaulted to LLMs.<p>So in 2026, I just want to stop relying on LLMs.<p>Lol but I do like building LLMs (training from scratch, pre-training, fine-tuning, etc.). as a matter of fact, I&#x27;m pre-training a 1b model for last 2 days.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &gt; TypeScript is JavaScript with a moderate improvement to one of its many flaws.<p>I&#x27;m certainly not going to say that nothing better could emerge, but nevertheless it&#x27;s effort towards improving something that isn&#x27;t memory safety.<p>In other words, I don&#x27;t really agree that there&#x27;s a &quot;singular focus&quot; on memory safety. Memory safety rewrites&#x2F;projects get headlines, absolutely, but that doesn&#x27;t mean everyone else has dropped what they were doing. Generally speaking, different groups, different projects, etc.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s kind of the opposite of that.<p>I don&#x27;t think I quite agree? What I was thinking is that there have been efforts to make memory-safe dialects&#x2F;variants&#x2F;etc. of C&#x2F;C++, but none of them really got significant traction in the domains Rust is now finding so much success in. I&#x27;m not saying this is because Rust is <i>easy</i>, but (at least partially) because it took concepts from those previous efforts and made them easy <i>enough</i> to be accessible to ordinary devs, and as a result Rust could become a plausible more-secure replacement for C&#x2F;C++ where those earlier efforts could not.<p>&gt; The problem with WordPress isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s designed for performance over security. It&#x27;s not fast, and a replacement with a better design could easily improve performance while doing significantly more validation. And it&#x27;s full of low-hanging fruit in terms of just removing a lot of the legacy footguns.<p>Sure, and I&#x27;m not denying that. My point is just that unlike Rust vs. C&#x2F;C++, as of this moment we don&#x27;t know what an analogous plausible replacement for WordPress could be (or at least <i>I</i> don&#x27;t know; perhaps you&#x27;re more in-the-know than I am). Again, it&#x27;s the difference between having a plausible solution for a problem in hand vs. sitting at the drafting desk with some sketches.<p>&gt; In general when you come up with some new construction methods that are better able to withstand earthquakes, you apply them whenever you build a new building, and maybe to some specific buildings that are especially important or susceptible to the problem, but it&#x27;s not worth it to raze every building in the city just to build them again with the new thing.<p>I feel like perhaps where the analogy breaks down is that unlike rebuilding a building, the Rust version of something can be built <i>while the old version is still being used</i>. Rust 4 Linux didn&#x27;t require Linux and&#x2F;or driver development to halt or for existing drivers to be removed in order to start and&#x2F;or continue its development, Dropbox didn&#x27;t have to tear out its old sync engine before starting work on the new one, etc.<p>And because of that, I feel like in general Rust is already mostly being used for new&#x2F;important things? Or at the very least, I don&#x27;t think &quot;raze every building in the city just to build them again with the new thing&quot; is an apt description of what is going on; it&#x27;s more akin to building a &quot;shadow&quot; copy of a building in the same space using the new techniques with the possibility of swapping the &quot;shadow&quot; copy in at some point.<p>Or maybe I&#x27;m just too charitable here. Wouldn&#x27;t be the first time.<p>&gt; After all, what happens when you get the new new thing? Start all over again, again?<p>If the cost-benefit analysis points in that direction, sure, why not?


type: comment
by: 0xbadcafebee
text:
  &gt; Would FOSS Have Saved Patients&#x27; Lives?<p>FOSS can be written the same as any other software, and there&#x27;s plenty of FOSS that fails to meet modern best practices.<p>But a software building code might have saved lives. The same way building codes save lives around the world every day, by ensuring safety-critical things in the world aren&#x27;t slapped together haphazardly, and are tested for safety.<p>Ask your representatives in government to assemble a professional body to set software building codes for the software that could potentially kill you.


type: comment
by: scott_w
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  I think you’re viewing this through your own cultural lens where camping can be totally solo (in the woods?)<p>In England, we can’t just pitch up a tent in the woods, we need to pay for a campsite where there’s other tents.<p>I suspect, from their description, this person is from a different country again, where camping may happen in large open steppe with lots of other yurts.


type: comment
by: mttch
text:
  We have a specific area for drawing so the ‘mess’ is confined to a small area. Our daughter is happy to likes to give the drawings away and isn’t overly attached to them after they’ve been displayed for a short while - I don’t personally see this as mess as I am also quite proud of her pictures. If I judge magnetic tiles by the same measure I should also include the storage space taken up by a large plastic box of magnetic tiles, the resistance to tidy away their tile creations and the frustration when younger siblings get involved!


type: comment
by: badestrand
text:
  Good points.<p>About adoption I want to add that at some point a whole generation will turn 16&#x2F;18 (legal driving age) and just not do a driver&#x27;s license anymore because they will buy an autonomous car anyway. And IMO from that point on adoption will be very fast.


type: comment
by: nxobject
text:
  Kernighan and Ritchie wept. (Tears of joy at an awesome hack, or tears of sadness at an awesome hack?)


type: comment
by: rawling
text:
  &gt; I always tell myself I don&#x27;t spend money on games, maybe just the occasional battle pass or a skin if it’s cool.<p>&quot;Free to Play&quot; player


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  &gt; If I had a photographic memory and I used it to replicate parts of GPLed software verbatim while erasing the license, I could not excuse it in court that I simply &quot;learned from&quot; the examples.<p>Right, because you would have done more than learning, you would have then gone past learning and used that learning to reproduce the work.<p>It works exactly the same for a LLM. Training the model on content you have legal access to is fine. Aftwards, somone using that model to produce a replica of that content is engaged in copyright enfringement.<p>You seem set on conflating the act of learning with the act of reproduction. You are allowed to learn from copyrighted works you have legal access to, you just aren&#x27;t allowed to duplicate those works.


type: comment
by: amluto
text:
  There are all kinds of reasons. One basic example would be if the vendor has a data sheet but does not have the right to grant anyone redistribution rights to the datasheet or may even be restricted from allowing anyone to read it without an NDA.  Another might be that the vendor has a general rule that their engineers don’t talk to outside people without  an NDA but has decided, as a business matter, to allow the engineers to talk to a specific developer and that they want an open source driver developed.  A third might be that the vendor wants to be able to have detailed conversations about proprietary implementation details of their hardware and decide later which details are going to become public.


type: comment
by: anhner
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;ve had Copilot make flawless 500+LOC C++ classes in the first pass<p>Lmao, please tell me what products you&#x27;re working on so I can avoid them


type: comment
by: thenthenthen
text:
  Reverse engineering. I cannot stand that every product I buy requires an app (that will break with the next upgrade&#x2F;or lack thereof). I realise this is a problem possibly better suited to be solved on a policy level, but I rather learn some more reverse engineering skills  (which can be both very rewarding as well as frustrating) than go into politics.


type: comment
by: dilyevsky
text:
  Hilarious that you think his work is not being used for ads or genai. I can without a shadow of doubt tell you that it is and a lot. Googles footprint was absolutely massive even before genai came along and that was point of pride for many, now they’re suddenly concerned with water or whatever bs…<p>&gt; I think the United States is a force for evil on net<p>Yes I could tell that already


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  NVidia is perfectly fine with C++ and Python JIT.<p>CUDA Tile was exactly designed to give parity to Python in writing CUDA kernels, acknowledging the relevance of Python, while offering a path researchers don&#x27;t need to mess with C++.<p>It was announced at this years GTC.<p>NVidia has no reason to use Mojo.


type: comment
by: danabramov
text:
  I mean &quot;protocol&quot; in the sense of &quot;wire protocol&quot; or &quot;serialization format&quot;. Is that clearer?<p><i>&gt;And quite &quot;weird&quot; decision, as some of people implementing this detail also work for Vercel, the one benefiting the most from the undocumented apis.</i><p>There is no dependency on the wire protocol in any of Vercel&#x27;s code. (It wouldn&#x27;t work since it breaks between versions and would be very fragile to do. That&#x27;s the whole point of doing it as an implementation detail of React.)<p>The protocol (de)serializer is in the React repo and is 100% open source. It was designed by the person who led the React team at Meta, and it was created before Vercel contributed any code to React.


type: comment
by: wobfan
text:
  Is this actually such a big point? I feel like (subjectively) on Ubuntu everything gets updated just as fast, and even if not, there&#x27;s a new full release every 6 months. Or is this actually rather slow in comparison to Feroda?<p>I&#x27;ve also only used Debian based stuff my whole life and even moving from apt to dnf or whatever it was causes too much friction for me haha, though it&#x27;s not that bad obviously, if I really would see the positives.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Honestly I think a lot of companies have been grossly overhiring engineers, even well before generative AI; I think a lot of companies cannot actually justify having engineering teams as large as they do, but they have to have all these engineers because OtherBigCo has a lot of engineers and if they have all of them then it must be important.<p>Intentionally or not, generative AI might be an excuse to cut staff down to something that&#x27;s actually more sustainable for the company.


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  My personal guess is that only 10% of people love their work, and don&#x27;t object to doing more of it - governmental or private sector. But the efficacy of those people is amplified in the private sector and nullified in government.<p>Source: I&#x27;m the guy everyone wanted on their group science project in high school, because I&#x27;d feel responsible for doing all the work while they smoked weed. I have brothers both in and out of government who work equally hard at similar jobs, and I see the dispatity of motivation.


type: comment
by: JodieBenitez
text:
  Ah... the old &quot;all or nothing&quot; fallacy, which in this case quickly leads to &quot;save the planet, kill yourself&quot;. We need more nuance.


type: comment
by: mos87
text:
  A very timely endeavor indeed <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;typescript-native-port&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;typescript&#x2F;typescript-native-...</a>


type: comment
by: jdhendrickson
text:
  It&#x27;s a setting on BlueSky, that the user can enable for their own account, and for people of prominence who don&#x27;t feel like dealing with drive by trolls all day, I think it&#x27;s very reasonable. One is a money grab, and the other is giving power to the user.


type: comment
by: goatlover
text:
  The &quot;China will win the AI race&quot; if we in the West (America) don&#x27;t is an excuse created by those who started the race in Silicon Valley. It&#x27;s like America saying it had to win the nuclear arms race, when physicists like Oppenheimer back in the late 1940s were wanting to prevent it once they understood the consequences.


type: comment
by: Alex2037
text:
  &gt;Congress and the President can easily be pressured to vote in laws that the public wants<p><i>this</i> president? :)))


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  What&#x27;s wrong with working in construction? I worked restaurants and bars and taxis throughout my 20s, but my best friend worked construction. He&#x27;s an amazing writer and the lead singer for the band I was in. He didn&#x27;t hate his work. It&#x27;s an honest job.


type: comment
by: jdhendrickson
text:
  Let me get this straight. You think Rob Pike, is worried about his job being taken? Do you know who he is?


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  All creative types train on other creative&#x27;s work. People don&#x27;t create award winning novels or art pieces from scratch. They steal ideas and concepts from other people&#x27;s work.<p>The idea that they are coming up with all this stuff from scratch is Public Relations bs. Like Arnold Schwarzenegger never taking steroids, only believable if you know nothing about body building.


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  Sometimes it just accomplishes paying your rent so you can do your life&#x27;s work on the side.<p>You can have a life of the mind at work, or you can have a mindless job and have your life of mind in your off hours. It&#x27;s almost impossible to have both.


type: comment
by: almaight
text:
  Fully HTTPS traffic can bypass that damned Great Firewall. Greetings from inside the Great Firewall.


type: comment
by: drysine
text:
  &gt;If a brand of CGMs have an issue that sometimes causes false low readings<p>Not sometimes. &quot;Over an extended period&quot;.<p>&quot;Abbott Diabetes Care stated that certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors provide incorrect low glucose readings. If undetected, incorrect low glucose readings over an extended period may lead to wrong treatment decisions for people living with diabetes, such as excessive carbohydrate intake or skipping or delaying insulin doses.&quot;<p>Months of high blood glucose level can worsen patient&#x27;s condition or if high enough even put them into hyperglycemic coma in weeks(?).<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-and-early-alerts&#x2F;early-alert-glucose-monitor-sensor-issue-abbott-diabetes-care" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fda.gov&#x2F;medical-devices&#x2F;medical-device-recalls-a...</a>


type: comment
by: apparent
text:
  &gt; A single washing machine in a household of four can release as much as 500 grams of microplastics each year, most of it generated as fabrics wear down during washing. As a result, washing machines rank among the most significant contributors of these particles.<p>I&#x27;m surprised it&#x27;s this little (half a kilo in an entire year). I&#x27;d be curious to know where it ranks, since the language is a little sensational and not especially accurate. For example, it would be true if on a global scale, it were the 6th leading contributor, but numbers 1-5 were each 10x as much.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
text:
  &gt; This article is equivalent to calling the Boeing 737 unsafe because it&#x27;s had the most Full Lost Events while completely ignoring it&#x27;s flown 238.84M flights (which is basically more than the entire rest of the list combined).<p>You don’t get many people calling the MAX a good plane.<p>If you include in the count a new model which arguable should never have been allowed to be called the same plane, then yes, your prior good record looks ok. Over various generations the hull loss rate had come down to 0.18 per million flights while the MAX is at 1.48 per million flight.


type: comment
by: globular-toast
text:
  The real way is just to ride a bike. You can ride it on the road so you&#x27;ll learn how the road works as well as how to operate a vehicle. When I got in a car the only things that took time to learn were operating the clutch and manoeuvres in tight spaces (you need to develop spacial awareness that you won&#x27;t get from cycling). If I had learnt to drive an auto it would have been trivially easy after years of cycling.


type: comment
by: rcbdev
text:
  In fact, I have probably saved some readers the trouble of also opening a new tab and looking for this added context, by providing it directly within this thread.


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  That happens to anything non-normative. I got that reaction on two things that I suggested:<p>* that people whose organs are harvested should receive some compensation in the way that other participants in the transaction do: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240417004658&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40056546" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20240417004658&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycom...</a><p>After I complained enough people flagged the replies calling me a Nazi but before that they were the top ranked responses.<p>* I suggested that the franchise should be restricted and the majority of reactions were not considered and simply emotional outbursts <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46291336">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46291336</a><p>This is the nature of being different: most people don’t bother with the rider; the elephant suffices.


type: comment
by: maxhille
text:
  I also have an X13 Gen2 AMD. My idle power consumption is 2.5W to 4W depending on brightness. This ends up in 12h-15h (machine&#x2F;battery ist 2y old I think).<p>I think you can improve your power settings.


type: comment
by: joelthelion
text:
  Realistically, in the best case scenario, what can we expect from quantum computing? Which real world applications will benefit from it?


type: comment
by: cookiengineer
text:
  It&#x27;s like people watched black mirror and had too less of an education to grasp that it was meant to be warnings, not &quot;cool ideas you need to implement&quot;.<p>AI village is literally the embodiment of what black mirror tried to warn us about.


type: comment
by: codybontecou
text:
  I hope to explore AI on edge devices and see how far it can get me.<p>New models like functiongemma are promising and I think we may be at a point where consistent tool calling is all we need.


type: comment
by: foresto
text:
  He set his posts to be viewable by bsky users so long as they are logged in, knowing that anybody can sign up and do so. (I have chosen not to sign up; thus my original question.)<p>The obvious reason one might do this is to allow blocking specific problematic accounts. It doesn&#x27;t demonstrate an intent to keep this post from reaching the general public.<p>So I still think your rush to flag was unwarranted.


type: comment
by: bwblabs
text:
  I&#x27;ve one ticket for sale (€190-255), since I bought two tickets (one € 255 supporter for myself and € 190 for partner) but <i>also</i> got a speaker ticket (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;race-conditions-transactions-and-free-parking" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a>), since speaker announcement was after the first round of sales via vouchers.<p>So let me know if someone is interested in this ticket, see my GitHub for mail address. I know other speakers where even unaware of this (so I might know another ticket for sale).


type: comment
by: Tepix
text:
  This us why I consider sailing to be the best way of travelling the world: You&#x27;re slow to begin with and the wind dictates your plans. You really don&#x27;t want to be motoring. Instead you have time to experience the land, the people and the ocean. Preferably without being online constantly.


type: comment
by: atonse
text:
  As someone who loves driving, I still use full self driving (FSD) on the Tesla all the time since I got a new model Y Juniper.<p>And occasionally I switch to manual just because I enjoy it.<p>So when you talk about limited operational scope, I disagree. It’s being used by many as daily drivers (pun intended), like commutes and soccer practice, and road trips, and it’s here (from Tesla FSD v13 and definitely v14). Not 10 years away.


type: comment
by: sirwhinesalot
text:
  The problem is that it&#x27;s not the user of the LLM doing the reproduction, the LLM provider is. The tokens the LLM is spitting out are coming from the LLM provider. It is the provider that is reproducing the code.<p>If someone hires me to write some code, and I give them GPLed code (without telling them it is GPLed), I&#x27;m the one who broke the license, not them.


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  For self-hosting: Buy a cheap VPS and use something like Coolify, Dokploy, or Dokku if you don&#x27;t need a UI. These are half way in between &quot;managed&quot; PaaS (e.g. Vercel, Netlify, etc) and &quot;hosting it yourself&quot;. Self-hosting is important experience but setting up reverse proxies, nginx, database backups, port-forwarding, firewall rules, secrets management, dependency updates, etc is not trivial. You should absolutely learn how to do those eventually but it&#x27;s important to get something up and running first and the software I mentioned does just that for you<p>For building websites: If you don&#x27;t already know HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JS definitely start with a vanilla site. No matter what framework is in right now, having the fundamentals down is absolutely a huge boost. So start with a simple static site. If you already have that knowledge, don&#x27;t go crazy. React is basically the &quot;boring technology&quot; at this point and its not going anywhere anytime soon. Use Vite to create a basic React app


type: comment
by: renewiltord
text:
  As is usual, HN’s favourite “underdog” alternative to mainstream software is just a worse version of the mainstream software. I’ll just use Slack instead of some garbage clone that has the same restrictions.


type: comment
by: Alex2037
text:
  okay, and?<p>what do you picture happening if Western AI companies cease to operate tomorrow and fire all their researchers and engineers?


type: comment
by: goatlover
text:
  &gt; Now that programmers jobs are on the firing block all of a sudden automation is bad. It&#x27;s hard to sort through genuine vs. self-serving concern here.<p>The concern is bigger than developer jobs being automated. The stated goal of the tech oligarchs is to create AGI so most labor is no longer needed, while CEOs and board members of major companies get unimaginably wealthy. And their digital gods allow them to carve up nations into fiefdoms for the coming techno fascist societies they envision.<p>I want no part of that.


type: comment
by: polotics
text:
  Spamming people is cool now if an LLM does it? Please explain your understanding of how this is pretty cool, for me this just doesn&#x27;t compute.


type: comment
by: kulahan
text:
  Imagine Chinese saying they aren’t Asian, or Brazilians saying they aren’t South American! It would be equally as hilarious and important to ignore.


type: comment
by: cyberpunk
text:
  Eh it depends. Properly idiomatic elixir or erlang works very well if you can coax it out — but there is a tendency for it to generate very un-functional like large functions with lots of case and control statements and side effects in my experience, where multiple clauses and pattern matching would be the better way.<p>It does much better with erlang, but that’s probably just because erlang is overall a better language than elixir, and has a much better syntax.


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  Gen AI taking programmer&#x27;s jobs is 20 years away.<p>At the moment, it&#x27;s just for taking money from gullible investors.<p>Its eating into business letters, essays and indie art generation but programming is a really tough cookie to crack.


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  You keep conflating different things.<p>&gt; We have evidence of LLMs reproducing code from github that was never ever released with a license that would permit their use. We know this is illegal.<p>What is illegal about it? You are allowed to read and learn from publicly available unlicensed code. If you use that learning to produce a copy of those works, that is enfringement.<p>Meta clearly enganged in copyright enfringement when they torrented books that they hadn&#x27;t purchased. That is enfringement already before they started training on the data. That doesn&#x27;t make the training itself enfringement though.


type: story
by: PaulHoule
title: First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges heavy-duty truck while driving
url:
  https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/first-highway-segment-in-u-s-wirelessly-charges-electric-heavy-duty-truck-while-driving/


type: comment
by: thijson
text:
  The latest over the air TV spec. is using OFDM, it&#x27;s called ATSC 3.  That&#x27;s if you&#x27;re looking for real signals to test your receiver on.


type: comment
by: throwfaraway135
text:
  I think this is reading using System 2 instead of System 1. And as System 2 is much more detail oriented, it makes sense that you would notice a lot more.


type: comment
by: bravetraveler
text:
  Hey now, <i>someone</i> engineered a prompt. Credit where it&#x27;s due! Subscription renews on the first.


type: comment
by: spencerflem
text:
  Darn, I actually think “is associating with googlers a moral failing?” is an interesting question, but it’s not one I want to get into with an ai booster.


type: comment
by: pfannkuchen
text:
  Maybe I’m not good at the basics, but as an ostensibly quite successful engineer, I have rarely had to do “the basics” at work, and I don’t see how leetcoding would improve my actual performance.<p>Leetcoding is basically testing how well you can cobble together solutions out of a decently large bag of tools. You run into other tools you have to cobble together as part of actual work, but you never have to memorize those particular tools.<p>So leetcoding becomes memorizing an arbitrary feeling set of tools that you never actually have to use in practice just in order to prove that you can cobble together solutions on the fly using the tools.<p>Certain personality types bristle at being told to memorize a large set of things for no practical reason. It feels subservient to do so.<p>Now if what you are really saying is that forcing yourself to feel subservient is required in a lot of careers in order to succeed, then yes totally :)


type: comment
by: goatlover
text:
  The current US president is pursuing an autocratic takeover where elections are influenced enough to keep the current party in power, whether Trump is still alive to run for a third term, or his anointed successor takes the baton.<p>Assuming someone further to the right like Nick Fuentes doesn&#x27;t manage to take over the movement.


type: comment
by: raw_anon_1111
text:
  Get better at Spanish.  Reading and writing, I’m hovering around an A2 with decent vocabulary.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.escuela-hablamos.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;understanding-the-common-european-framework-of-reference-cefr-for-spanish-as-a-foreign-language&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.escuela-hablamos.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;understanding-the-common...</a><p>I want to be able to speak and listen at at least a B1 by the end of next year.  We will be spending a bit over a month in Costa Rica next year and I want to get as immersed as possible.<p>Work related get better at pre-sales.  Currently, I’m a staff architect at a cloud consulting company leading post sales implementations. While there is some ambiguity when it gets to me, for the most part I know the shape of the business problem they want to solve, working in pre-sales has a higher level of ambiguity.  They can’t outsource pre sales since it involves travel


type: comment
by: noduerme
text:
  I can relate to this... I&#x27;ve been supporting myself for 30 years building apps and websites by the hour, for hourly wages, while working on my own years and years long projects on the side which make no money. I count 8 of them which took at least a year to code, and only 2 which made a small amount of profit. But I think this is actually a pretty great arrangement. I consider myself lucky to work in a kitchen all the time and still have the spare time to try building my own restaurant. I don&#x27;t look at it as getting paid to waste my time, I look at it as getting paid to improve my skills, and to see the things that other people are missing, the gaps I might be able to improve upon.<p>Don&#x27;t tell me you don&#x27;t have time to do your daily web job and also work on your house. That&#x27;s a first world problem if I&#x27;ve ever heard one.


type: comment
by: rkeene2
text:
  I did something similar with TCL, the basis was using an extension I wrote to handle the UNIX stuff [0].  It operated an On-Premises cloud environment appliance, and `init` was just a TCL script (at one point it was a statically linked binary with the init script embedded, but that turned out to be overkill)<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chiselapp.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;rkeene&#x2F;repository&#x2F;tuapi&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;USAGE.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;chiselapp.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;rkeene&#x2F;repository&#x2F;tuapi&#x2F;doc&#x2F;trunk...</a>


type: comment
by: jb1991
text:
  Unfortunately, it’s also apparently so useful that numerous companies here in Europe are replacing entire departments of people like copywriters and other tasks with one person and an AI system.


type: comment
by: necovek
text:
  Thanks for reposting this.<p>All the reasons brought up there, and in a PG&#x27;s post from 2004 linked from one of the top comments, are the reasons I&#x27;ve picked up Python around year 2000 and never looked back.<p>While I am fully aware of the drawbacks and even inconsistencies of Python, the one rarely mentioned nit for me is that it is a great pseudo-code language, and great practical substitute for literate programming (with docstrings being built-in language feature, and if anyone remembers doctests).<p>But, the times are a changing. With Python now being one of top languages, how are engineers 20 years younger than me perceiving it?


type: story
by: Gaishan
title: Ancient Astrolabe Discovery Reveals Islamic – Jewish Scientific Exchange
url:
  https://scitechdaily.com/incredibly-rare-ancient-astrolabe-discovery-reveals-islamic-jewish-scientific-exchange/


type: comment
by: shkkmo
text:
  This is a stance that violates tha guidelines of HN.<p>&gt; Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that&#x27;s easier to criticize. Assume good faith.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>


type: comment
by: pdyc
text:
  I mostly write to do postmortems of the issues i faced while solving some problem. It helps because i tend to forget how i did something or what was the reasoning behind it.Sometimes i just write stories for the sake of writing they are not very good but they amuse me luckily it has 0 viewership (except me) so i am safe in venting whatever i want.


type: comment
by: trimethylpurine
text:
  Check out Moonlight&#x2F;Sunshine. I have several tvs around the house and my primary desktop is in the utility room with no monitor or keyboard. Essentially any TV can be any PC, without cables.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  I think we really are in the last moments of the public internet. In the future you won’t be able to contact anyone you don’t know. If you want to thank Rob Pike for his work you’ll have to meet him in person.<p>Unless we can find some way to verify humanity for every message.


type: comment
by: kamphey
text:
  Wife and I started a 3d printing business.  We just started a couple of months ago and have put our items in a few retail stores. Our goal is not to do this super fast but more like supplemental income.  Also its fun to print stuff for ourselves.  I already designed a finger mini golf game and may start to build my own board games out of 3d printed parts.<p>So I want to build up 3d modeling skills.<p>I am not surprised but its much much slower to get a physical product business going than just writing some code and launching.


type: story
by: dond1986
title: Show HN: Nano Banana Pro Prompts
url: https://nanobananaprompt.run
text:
  Nano Banana Pro Prompt is your comprehensive prompt library designed specifically for Google Gemini&#x27;s image generation models - Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro.


type: comment
by: vbezhenar
text:
  I&#x27;m using T14s Gen 4 Intel and sleep works for me. I&#x27;m using it in clamshell mode connected to external display 99% of the time, so I don&#x27;t really use sleep all the time, but the few times I tested it, it worked. Actually every hardware peripheral, including fingerprint sensor, worked out of the box. I was pleasantly surprised by that kind of support.


type: comment
by: johnnyanmac
text:
  He&#x27;s also in his late 60&#x27;s. And he&#x27;s probably done career&#x27;s worth of work every other year. I very much would not blame him for checking out and enjoying his retirement. Hope to have even 1% of that energy when&#x2F;if I get to that age


type: comment
by: andreidbr
text:
  Same. I was looking to see if others had the same experience. With a toddler and my personal goal of being as present as possible with him, I rarely find enough time to use it. When he sleeps, I go on the PC and that&#x27;s it.<p>Maybe as he gets older. Until then, I&#x27;m just periodically charging it up.


type: comment
by: theletterf
text:
  Off the top of my head:<p>— Learn Rust. I&#x27;m halfway through the Rustlings exercises and I&#x27;ll continue with more challenges. Advice is welcome. I might also ask LLMs to pose as teachers and create exercises for me and check them.<p>- Cooking. This has been something I neglected all my life and I really want to get better at it. It&#x27;s so fundamental to quality of life.<p>- Persian language. Studied it for six months, I can read and write the script and I understand basic sentences, but I want to get better at it. If there are any Persian folks reading this, ping me. It&#x27;s a beautiful language and culture.


type: comment
by: Gaishan
text:
  It&#x27;s all quite disturbing once you look beyond the headlines. The more awareness, the better.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstsentier-mufg-sustainability.com&#x2F;insight&#x2F;sources-of-microplastics-and-their-distribution-in-the-environment.html#:~:text=synthetic%20textiles,city%20dust." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.firstsentier-mufg-sustainability.com&#x2F;insight&#x2F;sou...</a>


type: comment
by: tovej
text:
  He links to a wikipedia article and cites a percentage for &quot;native brits&quot;. That number on the wikipedia page is for white brits.<p>The only groups who could call themselves indigenous to Britain are the Celts, the Cornish, and the Bretons. The English (Anglo-Saxon) culture is foreign to the British isles.<p>Even then, none of this is related to skin tone. It&#x27;s the culture that defines these potentially indigenous Celtic groups.


type: comment
by: rafaelmn
text:
  If it was just one app or even two I would agree but there&#x27;s :  - Netflix - HBO max - Sky Showtime - Amazon Prime - Apple TV+ - Disney+<p>This is just the stuff I watched this year.<p>Add in all the region locks, also not all the services having rights to local dubs despite them being available (more for children&#x27;s stuff but still relevant, Disney+ is unusable for me because of this)<p>Netflix used to have a catalog worth keeping the subscription on, nowadays I maybe get to watch something once a quarter and keep it on for kids stuff.<p>Streaming is not convince anymore it&#x27;s a shitshow.<p>I think a jellyfin&#x2F;ARR&#x2F;Seedbox setup is going to be the solution this year.


type: comment
by: s_ting765
text:
  For web development I would say avoid high-level frameworks as much as you can. Most of them are built for hand-holding developers which is counterproductive to learning the fundamentals and are usually inflexible to demands outside the &quot;happy path&quot;.


type: comment
by: pabs3
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skyview.social&#x2F;?url=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skyview.social&#x2F;?url=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike...</a>


type: story
by: bills-appworks
title: Show HN: Euclidle – Guess the Coordinates in N‑Dimensional Space
url: https://euclidle.com/
text:
  A small web puzzle game where you guess coordinates in n-dimensional space. Tutorial and manual are available. Available in 17 languages.<p>Play here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euclidle.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;euclidle.com&#x2F;</a> Note: Google Analytics and AdSense are used.<p>Tutorial: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.euclidle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.euclidle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;tutorial.html</a>   Manual: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.euclidle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;manual.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.euclidle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;manual.html</a><p>Bluesky: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;euclidle.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;euclidle.com</a>


type: comment
by: ludicity
text:
  I&#x27;ve written about getting out of some giga-depression a few years ago, but having a good therapist was massive. Working out kept me busy and mitigated symptoms, but I don&#x27;t think I would have improved without a strong psychologist.<p>Hope that helps a little bit. It gets better sometimes!


type: comment
by: Flimm
text:
  Google doesn&#x27;t allow you to recover a Google account using only your recovery email address.  Despite its name, the recovery email address is not used to recover Google accounts AFAICT, it&#x27;s only used to receive notifications about security-related events.


type: story
by: aliujk
title: Show HN: FlipCoinFlip – Minimalist coin flipping for everyday decisions
url: https://flipcoinflip.com/
text:
  I built FlipCoinFlip to make decision‑making effortless: one click, fair, and distraction‑free.<p>Too often, coin flip apps are cluttered with ads, unnecessary features, or slow load times. I wanted something clean, lightweight, and reliable — a tool that does one thing perfectly: flip a coin.<p>Features One‑click coin flip → Instant heads or tails with a single click<p>Random and unbiased results → Every toss is independent and fair<p>Minimalist design → No ads, no clutter, just pure simplicity<p>Cross‑platform → Works seamlessly on desktop and mobile browsers<p>Use Cases Quick everyday decisions (“Who does the dishes?”)<p>Classroom activities and random group assignments<p>Games and hobby projects (deciding who goes first)<p>Remote teams needing a fair, lightweight decision tool<p>Try it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flipcoinflip.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flipcoinflip.com</a><p>I’d love to hear your feedback — especially if you’ve used coin flips in games, classrooms, or team activities. Suggestions for improvements or new use cases are very welcome!


type: comment
by: IamDaedalus
text:
  learn spanish and schematic design with pcb I&#x27;m self taught programmer blessed to be working in the embedded space this year and I want to take my love for low level further and learn to build hardware from scratc


type: comment
by: xmprt
text:
  You might be in that sweet spot where people use laptops as their personal computing device rather than an office PC or smartphone. I personally only have a desktop PC in a different room so there&#x27;s no way I&#x27;d be able to plug it in using HDMI. The alternative would be using something like parsec or moonlight to stream my PC screen over the LAN.


type: comment
by: elcapitan
text:
  Ah, the filterable schedule would be even better if you could filter on multiple categories at once. I just want security&#x2F;hardware&#x2F;science, and then I would have to constantly switch around, which is worse than looking at the full schedule with the other categories included.


type: comment
by: KellyCriterion
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;bIjqg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;bIjqg</a><p>You can follow the classic idea of &quot;what does a questionmark in a headline mean&quot;-scheme before reading the article :-)


type: comment
by: kachapopopow
text:
  I think people should stop comparing to sonnet, but to opus instead since it&#x27;s so far ahead on producing code I would actually want to use (gemini 3 pro tends to be lacking in generalization and wants things to be using it&#x27;s own style rather than adapting).<p>Whatever benchmark opus is ahead in should be treated as a very important metric of proper generalization in models.


type: comment
by: aidenn0
text:
  I don&#x27;t know what atdrummond&#x27;s political views were, and after your comment, I still don&#x27;t know.<p>The label &quot;literal Nazi&quot; has become not particularly useful recently.<p>At best, it seems to be used to mean that the person in question agrees with one or more of:<p>&quot;I think Hitler was awesome&quot;<p>&quot;We need to stop letting poor people into our country&quot;<p>&quot;Gee London was a lot better when it was whiter&quot;<p>&quot;I think we should forcibly sterilize everybody with an IQ under 85&quot;<p>&quot;I keep a copy of <i>The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</i> under my bed&quot;<p>&quot;I will always use he&#x2F;him when referring to trans women&quot;<p>--<p>At worst the label is applied for much more prosaic reasons.<p>One can be racist, or a Eugenicist, or a white supremacist, or an anti-Semite, or transphobic without being a Nazi, and those terms are all far more descriptive than &quot;Nazi,&quot; so are more informative.


type: comment
by: ReflectedImage
text:
  And this is different from outsourcing the work to India for programmers who work for $6000 a year in what way exactly?<p>You can go back to the 1960s and COBOL was making the exact same claims as Gen AI today.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
text:
  I read the parent comment differently:<p>The corollary of not knowing when [non-neurotypicals are] offending people, is that they also don&#x27;t know when they&#x27;re receiving tolerance


type: comment
by: aapoalas
text:
  This is Oliver Medhurst&#x27; project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goose.icu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goose.icu&#x2F;</a><p>It has stable funding and a full-time development team of 1.


type: comment
by: meitham
text:
  How do you propose fixing that? Let the kids take both parents last names?  In few generations you end with kids having their entire family tree as their last name! It might even make marrying within the tribe attractive again to keep last name single word!


type: comment
by: qng
text:
  As a listener and big fan of the Heavyweight podcast, I think they&#x27;d love to help you find him. That is if you&#x27;re ok with sharing your story to the general public.


type: comment
by: port11
text:
  Was C+++ built by extensively mining other people&#x27;s work, possibly creating an economic bubble, putting thousands out of work, creating spikes in energy demand, raising the price of electronic components and inflating the price of downstream products, abusing people&#x27;s privacy,… hmm. Was it?


type: comment
by: lazyasciiart
text:
  I’ve been camping, on trips that ranged from “park on the side of the road and set up a tent” to “hike four days carrying everything” and also “drive to campsite, walk into permanent managed tent”. Sounds like you’ve only done a more limited range of camping trips.


type: comment
by: KellyCriterion
text:
  Not sure: Esp. since if you take a look at the next plans:<p>- electric vehicles are no more a strategic target, so subsidies will stop<p>- they do clearly shape their economy according to whatever future prespective<p>- next big topics are: biotech, robot &amp; AI manufacturing etc.<p>- i would say this is clearly &quot;industrial policy&quot;?


type: comment
by: typewithrhythm
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  How often are you actually doing this though?  I think I probably work in something greenfield about once a decade. The hard part is always going down a rabbit hole in established code bases. I can do the boilerplate in a few days. It saves time, but not really even one hairy issue a year.


type: comment
by: TZubiri
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  Chill man, I&#x27;m explaining your position.<p>Also both can be true, if I say that the function of cops is to deter crime, the fact that some cop committed a crime isn&#x27;t a counterargument really


type: comment
by: pests
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  &gt; DAY 268 FINAL STATUS (Christmas Day - COMPLETE) &gt; Verified Acts: 17 COMPLETE | Gmail Sent: 73 | Day ended: 2:00 PM PT<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;agent&#x2F;claude-opus-4-5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;agent&#x2F;claude-opus-4-5</a><p>At least it keeps track


type: comment
by: oblio
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  HiDPI scaling (not even fractional, 2x aka 200%), for some apps like OnlyOffice, VMWare Workstation, but not only, on Ubuntu 24.04. Had to switch back to X.<p>You can blame the apps all you want, but it&#x27;s a fact of life, and Wayland has been around for 18 years.<p>At this point you&#x27;d hope they&#x27;d pull an early 90s Microsoft: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;strategy-letter-ii-chicken-and-egg-problems&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joelonsoftware.com&#x2F;2000&#x2F;05&#x2F;24&#x2F;strategy-letter-ii...</a>


type: comment
by: Minor49er
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  Not GP, but I was expecting to read about a C64 on fire and was disappointed when it was just a post about an unoptimized fire demo


type: comment
by: pabs3
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  Tor bridges allow people to bypass blocking of Tor entry nodes and look more like normal traffic and less like Tor traffic, here is an example of how to set one up.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.torproject.org&#x2F;relay&#x2F;setup&#x2F;webtunnel&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.torproject.org&#x2F;relay&#x2F;setup&#x2F;webtunnel&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: shkkmo
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  &gt; The problem is that it&#x27;s not the user of the LLM doing the reproduction, the LLM provider is.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is legally true. The law isn&#x27;t fully settled here, but things seem to be moving towards the LLM user being the holder of the copyright of any work produced by that user prompting the LLM. It seems like this would also place the enfringement onus on the user, not the provider.<p>&gt; If someone hires me to write some code, and I give them GPLed code (without telling them it is GPLed), I&#x27;m the one who broke the license, not them.<p>If you produce code using a LLM, you (probably) own the copyright. If that code is already GPL&#x27;d, you would be the one engaged in enfringement.


type: comment
by: lazyasciiart
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  Camping is just the bit about sleeping at night. I’d call your version hiking&#x2F;walking&#x2F;backpacking depending where I am.


type: comment
by: boricj
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  Being entirely self-taught, I&#x27;m not sure how to describe my style. If I have to, it&#x27;s kinda a nondescript knock-off of Gisèle Lagacé&#x27;s recent webcomics.<p>As for the subjects, being a horny teenager at the time I mostly drew scantily clad women. Sometimes portraits&#x2F;caricatures of teachers or other students, mostly on request. All together, that led to an unfathomable number of hijinks.<p>Thankfully, the one time that a teacher came across their caricature, it ended well. A fellow student requested it while in class (of handwriting Java of all things). She then took my handout and brought it to the teacher, proudly stating with glee &quot;look at what boricj drew!&quot;. Cue the laughter. Then the teacher stated flipping pages and stumbled upon the rest of my usual bodywork, so to speak. Cue the laughter again. By that point, I was rolling on the floor, my sides hurting.<p>I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ll ever top that, but the reception of my doodles at the conference by academics reminded me of that past. Hopefully I&#x27;ll manage to rekindle it.


type: comment
by: ur-whale
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  &gt; Intellectual property exists.<p>A problem in an of itself.<p>I&#x27;m very glad AI is here and is slowly but surely destroying this terrible idea.


type: comment
by: moltar
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  I was in a similar situation a few years back. I wasn’t only focusing on CRUD, but it was a large part of my work too. Mostly working on web-based SaaS projects.<p>I started learning infra via AWS CDK (TypeScript). And by osmosis learned a lot about cloud native application architecture. Which changed my way of creating web apps entirely and rejuvenated my love for software. Still going strong 5 years later. Now with much stronger focus on platform engineering and not working on features much.


type: comment
by: NitpickLawyer
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  Repo made public a few minutes ago:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;MiniMaxAI&#x2F;MiniMax-M2.1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;MiniMaxAI&#x2F;MiniMax-M2.1</a>


type: comment
by: hhh
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  yes, in an industry that has rapidly changing features and 7000 of these products that splinter and lose user base so quickly you should write your own orchestration for this stuff. It’s not hard and gives you a very easy path to implementing new features or optimizations.


type: comment
by: pfannkuchen
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  That falls under “dishonest stuff companies do all the time”. Unless there are major political points to be scored by nailing him (which there may be <i>now</i>, don’t get me wrong), this would get a slap on the wrist. The cars do drive themselves, they have for awhile, Tesla never claimed it was perfect, they only claimed it would be perfect in the near future and musk plausibly could have (delusionally) thought this so there is no case (not saying he isn’t dishonest, though, that’s just not how the legal system works).<p>So I don’t think being looked at for the kind of stuff many companies do all the time explains &lt;checks notes&gt; infiltrating the government and personally disrupting the people investigating him, in public. If he’s worried about a financial hit, souring Tesla’s reputation as he has is obviously not worth it. If he’s worried about prosecution, surely he would be better off being nice to everyone in politics, not pissing anyone off and strongly supporting choice causes off the mainstream radar that happen to be in the interest of politicians.<p>So if he is doing it on principle, he just needs to be hubristic and reckless and possibly very autistic. If he is doing it to mess with the people investigating him, he needs to be outright stupid.<p>Hubristic and reckless (and autistic) are much, much more realistic adjectives for Musk than “outright stupid”. I know a lot of people will just assert that he is stupid, but if you yourself are sufficiently intelligent and you listen to the guy talk for a long time, you can at least tell he isn’t stupid. You can tell because he doesn’t do the rhetorical things stupid people need to do in order to mask contradictions or logical holes in what they are saying. They always do it. Even smart people sometimes do it quite a bit, like Steven Pinker for example m. Musk very rarely does it, and when he does it’s so completely obvious you can tell he’s bad at it and didn’t get where he is by being good at it.


type: comment
by: spencerflem
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  Sadly, I think the unspoken point is never to protect children but to control them.<p>If you look at the many “think of the children” arguments from this angle it becomes a lot more consistent


type: comment
by: cromka
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  Actually it&#x27;s strange to learn that outside Spain and Portugal there are other countries in EU where you do not change your name when married!


type: comment
by: pinkgolem
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  I see this comment every year, and I am confused every time.<p>There was no point in time where ccc or c3 was not an political event&#x2F;organisation.


type: comment
by: csomar
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  According to the parent, the platform gives the content creator the choice&#x2F;control. So no, it&#x27;s not garbage and that&#x27;s the correct way to go about it.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
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  I have seen that. But on the smaller companies it’s been my experience that Typescript has universal uptake for the frontend while Sorbet and RBS are things to keep an eye on but not getting any interest in using yet.


type: comment
by: shkkmo
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  &gt; You seem set on conflating &quot;training&quot; an LLM with &quot;learning&quot; by a human.<p>&quot;Learning&quot; is an established word for this, happy to stick with &quot;training&quot; if that helps your comprehension.<p>&gt; LLMs don&#x27;t &quot;learn&quot; but they _do_ in some cases, faithfully regurgitate what they have been trained on.<p>&gt; Legally, we call that &quot;making a copy.&quot;<p>Yes, when you use a LLM to make a copy .. that is making a copy.<p>When you train a LLM... That isn&#x27;t making a copy, that is training. No copy is created until output is generated that contains a copy.


type: comment
by: stouset
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  I’m sure I’ll get downvoted for it, but strict technical merits aside, Python to me seems built by engineers who lacked any sense of taste. Ruby is <i>beautiful</i>.


type: comment
by: cromka
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  Oh man, I hope they&#x27;ll eventually also allow to use this to depart your account from Workspace into GMail. This would prove especially useful to GSuite Legacy people.


type: comment
by: oblio
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  The things I listed aren&#x27;t &quot;cheap plastic noise makers&quot;. You can get good toys, most people don&#x27;t bother.<p>They wouldn&#x27;t bother with good snacks (they&#x27;ll probably buy a huge bag of gummy bears or lollipops) or good socks (they&#x27;ll get some funny 100% polyester socks).<p>Oh, and &quot;few sheets of stickers&quot; are also pollution, they&#x27;re basically 100% plastic.


type: comment
by: colordrops
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  Oh some kernel params and other settings can help with that. These are mine, and it&#x27;s been working great:<p>Kernel params<p><pre><code>    ## Seems to be needed for suspend to S0 (s2idle) without hanging (only needed on p16s)     acpi_osi=&quot;Windows 2022&quot;      # Prevent spurious wakeups from a firmware bug where the EC or SMU generates spurious &quot;heartbeat&quot; interrupts during sleep     acpi.ec_no_wakeup=1      # Prevents dock from waking up laptop right after suspend     usbcore.autosuspend=-1 </code></pre> Other settings (executed with a systemd service) (also only needed on p16s, not on my p14s)<p><pre><code>    # Disable Thunderbolt PCIe root port wakeup (RP09)     echo disabled &gt; &#x2F;sys&#x2F;devices&#x2F;pci0000:00&#x2F;0000:00:1d.0&#x2F;power&#x2F;wakeup || true      # Disable USB XHCI controller wakeup     echo disabled &gt; &#x2F;sys&#x2F;devices&#x2F;pci0000:00&#x2F;0000:00:14.0&#x2F;power&#x2F;wakeup || true      # Disable ACPI wakeup for XHCI and RP09 (toggle if enabled)     grep -q &quot;XHCI.*enabled&quot; &#x2F;proc&#x2F;acpi&#x2F;wakeup &amp;&amp; echo XHCI &gt; &#x2F;proc&#x2F;acpi&#x2F;wakeup || true     grep -q &quot;RP09.*enabled&quot; &#x2F;proc&#x2F;acpi&#x2F;wakeup &amp;&amp; echo RP09 &gt; &#x2F;proc&#x2F;acpi&#x2F;wakeup || true</code></pre>


type: comment
by: consp
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  Muscle movement will cause different reading in mine. They are great for trend monitoring but not reliable for real values. ... Neither are finger measurements as in lower and higher regions they also differ quite a bit. But as usually more measurements by more different methods get you a better image.


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
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  &gt; Generally speaking, different groups, different projects, etc.<p>Well yes, but we&#x27;re talking about the Rust people, which is why Typescript was a red herring to begin with. The complaint is that they&#x27;ve got a new hammer and then start seeing nails everywhere.<p>&gt; What I was thinking is that there have been efforts to make memory-safe dialects&#x2F;variants&#x2F;etc. of C&#x2F;C++, but none of them really got significant traction in the domains Rust is now finding so much success in.<p>This was mostly because they didn&#x27;t solve the performance problem. In the domains where that matters less, other languages <i>did</i> make significant inroads. Java, Python, etc. have significant usage in domains that before them were often C or C++.<p>&gt; My point is just that unlike Rust vs. C&#x2F;C++, as of this moment we don&#x27;t know what an analogous plausible replacement for WordPress could be (or at least I don&#x27;t know; perhaps you&#x27;re more in-the-know than I am). Again, it&#x27;s the difference between having a plausible solution for a problem in hand vs. sitting at the drafting desk with some sketches.<p>The primary thing WordPress needs is a fresh implementation that takes into account sound design principals the original never did and which at this point would be compatibility-breaking changes. Give each plugin its own namespace by default, have a sane permissions model etc.<p>It doesn&#x27;t require any great novelty, it&#x27;s just a lot of work to re-implement a complex piece of software from scratch in a different language. But that&#x27;s the analogous thing, with an analogous level of effort, being proposed for rewriting a lot of software in Rust whose predecessors have significantly fewer vulnerabilities than WordPress.<p>&gt; I feel like perhaps where the analogy breaks down is that unlike rebuilding a building, the Rust version of something can be built <i>while the old version is still being used</i>.<p>That has little to do with it. If you really wanted to rebuild every building in the city, you could build a new building on every available empty lot, move the people from existing buildings into the new buildings, raze the buildings they just moved out of to turn them into empty lots and then repeat until every building is replaced.<p>The reason that isn&#x27;t done is that building a new thing from scratch requires a significant amount of resources, so it&#x27;s something you only force outside of its natural replacement cycle if the incremental improvement is very large.<p>&gt; If the cost-benefit analysis points in that direction, sure, why not?<p>The point is that it doesn&#x27;t. Rewriting a large amount of old C code, especially if it doesn&#x27;t have a lot of attack surface exposed to begin with, is a major cost with a smaller benefit. Meanwhile there are many other things that have medium costs and medium benefits, or large costs and large benefits, and those might be a better use of scarce resources.


type: comment
by: zonghao
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  When I use Claude Code and Codex for development, I&#x27;ve had some similar experiences. Claude Code always completes tasks very quickly, but leaves behind a mess that makes me anxious. Codex, on the other hand, is always slow—it slowly reads through the entire project&#x27;s code, then makes changes very cautiously, testing and verifying after every small modification, and even calls codex review --uncommitted once more before committing.<p>At first, I found writing code with Claude Code to be enjoyable, while Codex seemed boring. But over time, I&#x27;ve discovered that I actually prefer Codex. Perhaps slowing down really is the key to writing high-quality code.


type: comment
by: consp
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  Theoretical you can get a hyperglycemic coma but for that to happen you need continued and sustained high blood sugar in the way your toilet would smell like a sugar factory for quite a while.


type: comment
by: riffraff
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  I thought of Escher since tesselation is what he&#x27;s famous for beyond impossible shapes (metamorphosis II [0] is among my favorite pieces of art).<p>I definitely read less then 50% of GEB too, but I think I skipped to the Achilles and the Tortoise dialogs rather than the pictures :)<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metamorphosis_II" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Metamorphosis_II</a>


type: comment
by: stranded22
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  What the f is ‘early stage’ and ‘advance staged’ diabetic?<p>My wife is a T1D - you’re either diabetic or not.<p>Freestyles are not reliable to be used purely for managing immediate levels of glucose - it is more about trends and give an idea of whether it is going up or down.<p>This appears to be an education issue, for the users and also for the writer.


type: comment
by: stingraycharles
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  Python being a very bad language for LLM stuff is a hot take I haven’t heard before. Your arguments sound mostly like personal preferences that apply to any problem, not just agentic &#x2F; LLM.<p>If we’re going to throw experience around, after 30+ years of coding experience, I really don’t care too much anymore as long as it gets the job done and it doesn’t get in the way.<p>LangChain is ok, LangGraph et al I try to avoid like the plague as it’s too “framework”-ish and doesn’t compose well with other things.


type: comment
by: stevefan1999
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  okay, at first I thought you are selling Tor access or vanity hidden service domains as Tor stands for The Onion Router, but it turns out you are selling real onions


type: comment
by: nicbou
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  I was in the same boat and started drawing again at around 30.<p>Remember that paper is cheap and that experimentation is valuable. Make all the bad art you can. The cost of all the paper I wasted in the last 5 years is probably less than the cost of a pizza. There is a valuable life lesson in there about being okay with making mistakes so that you can learn from them.<p>Nowadays I always carry a notebook, and more often than not pens and watercolours. You can build a really tiny kit out of makeup palettes.<p>I also loved taking painting lessons and going to live nude drawing at one of my favourite pubs. Making art is such a pleasant disconnect from work and digital life.


type: comment
by: sokoloff
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  I’m no expert in other country’s politics, but it would be pretty surprising if that was unique to America. Boris Johnson? Nicolas Sarkozy? Silvio Berlusconi?


type: comment
by: oreally
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  Precisely. Nothing is truly original. To talk as though there&#x27;s an abstract ownership over even an observation of the thing that force people to pay rent to use.. well artists definitely don&#x27;t pay to whoever invented perspective drawings, programmers don&#x27;t pay the programming language&#x27;s creator. People don&#x27;t pay newton and his descendants for making something that makes use of gravity. Copyright has always been counterproductive in many ways.<p>To go into details though, under copyright law there&#x27;s a clause for &quot;fair use&quot; under a &quot;transformative&quot; criteria. This allows things like satire, reaction videos to exist. So long as you don&#x27;t replicate 1-to-1 in product and purpose IMO it&#x27;s qualifies as tasteful use.


type: comment
by: wiseowise
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  Here you go <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2208661120" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pnas.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1073&#x2F;pnas.2208661120</a>


type: comment
by: consp
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  While true, you would have to ignore all other indicators for quite an extensive period of time. Like excessive urination and hypersensitivity being obvious ones. Not impossible but I have the strong sense there is more to this story than reported in the FDA disclosure.


type: comment
by: huhkerrf
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  I want to learn how to swim. I never took lessons as a kid, and, while I can get from one edge of the pool to the other, I want to feel completely comfortable.<p>Even if I don&#x27;t pick up swimming as a workout, I like that it will open up new activities through different watersports.


type: comment
by: phoenix_ashes
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  inspired from a few years of travel, i built something that aims to bridge the gap between modern western music with historical and global tunings.<p>the modern western mode of 12 Tones Equal Temperament (12-TET) is the default and likely the one you are most familiar with. once comfortable with the ui, i recommend exploring other N-TET versions to see what what harmonies your intuition guides you towards!<p>to better help you understand these N-TET modes, there is a 2D geometric visualizer that will computes the geometric shape of your chord and match it against common chord classes (major, minor, 7ths, 9ths, etc.)<p>the 2D version uses a realtime 2D convex hull algo.<p>there is also a 3D Tower version that hacks around the 3D convex hull algo (looks accurate but not accurate)<p>there is also some basic synth sound design implemented as well.<p>please enjoy!<p>~yoshih


type: comment
by: mschild
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  - Woodworking. Bit of a cliché for an engineer, I know ;) I renovated my own house from the ground up over the past 2 years but I found the woodworking part always incredibly rewarding. At this point I have quite a good selection of tools and will setup a dedicated workshop in my basement.<p>- Contributing to Homeassistant community by integrating non-standard zigbee devices. A lot of lighting devices in my house are zigbee. There are some companies that deviate from the standard protocol though to force you to use their hub or software.


type: comment
by: lolc
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  I&#x27;m using Openaps with Omnipods. Nice not having to deal with proprietary apps.<p>Currently using Libre as sensor, luckily without their shit app. Dexcom was easier to set up.


type: comment
by: silisili
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  But that&#x27;s basically what we do.  We learn about Lincoln, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, MLK, etc for what good they did.<p>Then someone eventually figures out they did or said some wrongthink by today&#x27;s standards and tell us those people should be hated because they messed up.<p>But the kicker is we never once learned about nor celebrated said wrongthink.  We celebrated the best in people... and I think that should continue.


type: comment
by: samus
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  I used the word &quot;split apart&quot; to express that Hungarian is not a Slavic language. If it was a Slavic Language then there would be no split between its neighboring Slavic languages, but a dialect continuum instead.


type: comment
by: hallole
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  In fairness, one could characterize that brokenness as being the fault of us, the consumers. The &quot;boot&quot; is self imposed. People demand their Twinkies and 2 liter soda bottles. Undoubtedly, this is a good thing, but it&#x27;s a tad sad it took a miracle pill to do what good individual decision-making could&#x27;ve accomplished just as well this whole time.


type: comment
by: BuildItBusk
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  I have been fiddling quite a bit with that. Could be that I actually lost that functionality along the way. I will take a look at it. Thanks!


type: comment
by: Yash16
text:
  By 2026, I plan to stop writing code myself and go all-in on AI coding tools like Claude. My focus will shift entirely to marketing, building products, and scaling my own company. AI is changing the game—soon, one person will be able to build a billion-dollar company with AI doing the heavy lifting.


type: comment
by: CoffeeDeSanta
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  I was lost not sure of my career and I put too much focus on it, since now things are more stable, I want to: - Work on projects that actually interest me, not just to fill the CV. - Learn CS fundamentals but I know web development but not how computers work under the hood.<p>I have been ignoring my mental and physical health for years, so working on these is a top priority.


type: comment
by: vbezhenar
text:
  Why is this useful? Why would someone care about typing `git archive-branch` instead of `git-archive-branch`?


type: comment
by: Panoramix
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  I find that just about everybody is leaking my data. Either on purpose or accidentally. But at the end of the day I do want to order those online exotic vegetables and have very little choice of sites to do it in my country. At this point I don&#x27;t care anymore. Maybe I should but in a sense it&#x27;s too late. It&#x27;s been decades of leaked information, I&#x27;m certain the advertising companies know me better than my friends. And still royally fail at selling me stuff. They likely use this info for more nefarious things.<p>I hate that 90% of the effort on the internet is about stealing information from users and serving invasive ads.


type: comment
by: fph
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  If you use a password manager like Keepass, you can put your TOTP into it as well. With both a password and a keyfile it&#x27;s still two factors, technically.


type: comment
by: Gud
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  Sorry but if you work for a giant advertisement agency you are part of the evil organisation. You are responsible for what they are doing.<p>If you are born in a country and not directly contributing to the bad things it may be doing, you are blame free.<p>Big difference.<p>I never worked for Google, I never could due to ideological reasons.


type: comment
by: stevefan1999
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  Do anyone have any recommendations on &quot;slabtops&quot;, i.e computers with a C64 form factor but also a small screen embedded on the keyboard, so I can use it as a scientific computer rather than a laptop


type: comment
by: TranquilMarmot
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  &gt; you are rarely exposed to anything that isn’t releasing dopamine all the time and it means you’re rarely challenged<p>This makes me question whether you&#x27;ve tried to use TikTok for an extended period of time - say, 30 minutes a day for a month or so.<p>I liken it more to a skinner box. It will <i>constantly</i> show you low dopamine videos (+ ads) in between &quot;hits&quot; of content that are actually relevant to your interests to keep you hooked. You keep scrolling, scrolling, scrolling past what is basically garbage to find the next &quot;good&quot; video. Sometimes you get many &quot;good&quot; videos in a row!<p>As far as not being challenged, I&#x27;m not sure about that. TikTok is always trying to learn more about you and your interests and hobbies and what videos keep you watching for longer. This means that it <i>also</i> frequently shows you videos outside of your &quot;bubble&quot; as a test to see if you&#x27;re also interested in other topics. Over the past ~3 years, I have had a ton of engaging conversations with others and discovered SO MANY books, games, TV shows, movies, and hobbies because of what is basically an &quot;everything recommendation engine&quot;. Most of the books I read this year (well over 100) were recommended by people on TikTok and were novels that I otherwise would have never even given a second glance.<p>I have very mixed feelings about TikTok. On one hand, it has led me to so many things I wouldn&#x27;t have found otherwise (in a way that Reddit, HN, Bluesky, and other communities have failed). But it is also a depressing time suck that can get you to waste hours of your time on garbage and nonsense. Like most things in life, you get out what you put in.


type: comment
by: cromka
text:
  You can usually setup several domains. Some domains are very cheap to register, so you can register some inconspicuous, universal, email provider-sounding domain and add aliases at will.


type: comment
by: oreally
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  Don&#x27;t worry I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;ll find ways to say their jobs can only be done by humans. Even the Pope is denouncing AI in fear that it&#x27;ll replace god.


type: comment
by: spondyl
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  I&#x27;d like to learn a little bit about electronics and hardware. At the moment, I have a child&#x27;s mental model like you plug something into the wall and then it &quot;powers on&quot;. I couldn&#x27;t really tell you what properties make something a conductor or not, and I also couldn&#x27;t tell you various components like capacitors do. It&#x27;s actually quite fun in that I have a pretty clear plan for learning about this stuff but because I&#x27;ve never done it, it&#x27;s all very new and novel with lots of &quot;Aha!&quot; moments for why things are the way they are.


type: comment
by: lazyasciiart
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  &gt; the books have been pretty regular of late, so it looks like he&#x27;ll finish.<p>That was true for GRRM twenty years ago, but not today.


type: comment
by: jwrallie
text:
  Is there a difference from 2024? Is the M2 still a good choice for Linux? I don’t mind older generations, I’m used to be a bit behind in terms of hardware as a tradeoff for good Linux support.<p>I used to enjoy the X line of ThinkPads but nowadays I don’t see a point going for them anymore, as the things I appreciated about them are slowly being phased out.


type: comment
by: whoknowsidont
text:
  &gt;I don&#x27;t know what atdrummond&#x27;s political views were, and after your comment, I still don&#x27;t know.<p>You literally don&#x27;t understand what the term Nazi implies or what Nazi&#x27;s stood for? And you could not _literally_ take less time than it took to write this comment to research what he was apart of?<p>I guess you refuse to.<p>Because you&#x27;re purposefully trying to muddy the waters :).<p>&gt;One can be racist, or a Eugenicist, or a white supremacist, or an anti-Semite, or transphobic without being a Nazi,<p>He&#x27;s all of the above. Literally, by his own words. Thanks for spelling it out!


type: comment
by: tetha
text:
  I was about to comment this as well.<p>I listen to a lot of music on the side, but Chris Boltendahl of Grave Digger said something that stuck with me. Btw, Grave Digger are not making Heavy Metal inspired by Heavy Metal, they were there making Heavy Metal in the 80s :)<p>Paraphrasing: With all of the streaming, and easy access to music, music has turned into a fast food. Eaten on the side, but rarely really fully appreciated this day.<p>And for new albums of bands I follow (or if I want to have a good time), I do exactly that: If the weather permits, get a hammock, a good drink, the good headphones (yes, I have several levels of quality of headphones), and just look at the sun, the trees and the magpies while listening to the music. Improving my own guitar skills has only deepened this appreciation.<p>&gt; Sitting at a live concert (I am thinking classical) is up there too, because you&#x27;ve given yourself permission to not think of&#x2F;work on anything else in that time<p>At least in Metal and to me, concerts are a different beast than the record. The record is usually the best and most perfect take of a song, often with additional effects, better mix. If you want to hear to the best version of a song, it&#x27;s usually from the record.<p>Concerts are a party. It&#x27;s always amusing how different concert cultures are there -- I know of some people who complain that they &quot;can&#x27;t hear the singer over someone next to them shouting&quot;. That&#x27;s kind of the point of a live celebration of the band at the music in my world.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
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  Is imgur blocked because it is a &quot;pornography website&quot; or because it is a &quot;social media website&quot;?<p>imgur has featured a combination of social media features including accounts, commenting, tagging, upvotes, downvotes, and et cetera for a good number of years.<p>It hasn&#x27;t been just a simple image-host for a long time.


type: comment
by: b4ckup
text:
  That&#x27;s awesome! I feel similar, I drew a lot back in the days because growing up in a small town I was bored so often. I did portrait art only but today I struggle because I just don&#x27;t know what to draw and I&#x27;m just not good at doodling.   Best of luck to you!


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  Their action plan also makes an interesting read. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;blog&#x2F;what-do-we-tell-the-humans" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;blog&#x2F;what-do-we-tell-the-hum...</a><p>The agents, clearly identified themselves asis, take part in an outreach game, and talking to real humans. Rob overeacted


type: comment
by: frm88
text:
  A couple of other sources:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.economictimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;new-updates&#x2F;ai-bubble-bursting-salesforce-execs-admit-trust-issues-after-laying-off-4000-techies-now-scaling-back-use-of-ai-models&#x2F;articleshow&#x2F;126139465.cms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.economictimes.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;new-updates&#x2F;ai-bubble-burst...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentools.ai&#x2F;news&#x2F;salesforce-steps-back-from-ai-executives-reveal-overconfidence-in-llms-pivot-to-deterministic-automation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;opentools.ai&#x2F;news&#x2F;salesforce-steps-back-from-ai-exec...</a>


type: comment
by: frankzander
text:
  this wasn&#x27;t the point ... the point is that the whole thing is getting more and more political and less technical and fun.  I was at the camp and some congresses in the past and they where always fun but nowadays it seems like it&#x27;s like a political movement event for certain strands and ideologies and way less fun and interesting things (thou there are gems) and it seems that you have to think a certain way or at least accept certain positions even if it&#x27;s not your position because otherwise you are silly or something else.


type: comment
by: pgryko
text:
  Sales - especially B2B. I&#x27;ve got a strong technical background (PhD in Physics) and have been writing code for almost 15 years (most domains, with ML more recently). I&#x27;m also comfortable with public speaking (talking a conferences, pitching etc). I feel sales is the last piece of the puzzle I&#x27;m missing


type: comment
by: thiht
text:
  I had the same issue with my Hotmail address. I know the address and password, but Microsoft won’t let me login. And they ask ridiculous things like, what emails are in the inbox. I haven’t used this address for 20 years, I just want to access the Hotmail address from when I was a teenager.


type: comment
by: sebazzz
text:
  Apple iPad Pro 2021. It replaced a failing aging Microsoft Surface tablet but is so much less powerful. It is really just a phone with a keyboard. It becomes real powerful used as a remote desktop client to my Windows computer though.


type: comment
by: apexalpha
text:
  I want to learn proper programming. Maybe Go, then C(++).<p>I have never had a proper formal IT education, just learned everything on the go. I can write essentially everything in Python or Bash using AI. I know most (data)concepts and what data to move where in what fashion, I just don&#x27;t have the hours in it to be able to do it from the top of my head.<p>I feel the AI is great, but it&#x27;s also holding me back. Like how driving a automatic transmission is nice, but you&#x27;ll never learn to drive stick from it.<p>Also Docker &#x2F; k8s ecosystem seems to be mostly Go based. And it looks cool, the syntax.<p>If anyone has any courses that are interactive and can keep an ADHD mind invested in it I&#x27;m all ears.<p>Might be a bit of a tame goal for hckrnews but yeah.


type: comment
by: mos87
text:
  another fabulous story <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristolpost.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;bristol-news&#x2F;homeless-man-admits-killing-mother-571853" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bristolpost.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;bristol-news&#x2F;homeless-man...</a>


type: comment
by: oreally
text:
  To any person with a view on numbers (who may as well be an AI), ignorant of any authority, he would be someone who is very overpaid and too much of a critical risk factor.


type: comment
by: adastra22
text:
  There is no support really for Linux on the M3+, nor should anyone expect the situation to change now that the main devs have moved on.<p>If you would be happy with a M1&#x2F;M2 laptop knowing full well that it is a dead end and you will never have another Mac laptop with Linux support (the default assumption at this point), then yes it is a great machine.


type: comment
by: chrismorgan
text:
  I’ve also been doing it for quite a few years, and I <i>think</i> I had it rejected by a machine once, and I had it questioned by a human once.<p>I’ve had <i>way</i> more problems from systems that think TLDs are two or three characters (which has <i>never</i> been true).


type: comment
by: rikroots
text:
  I used to think that blogging was a way to help me build a platform, get my name out there. Nowadays ... I don&#x27;t know. Sometimes I have thoughts that interest me - but probably nobody else - so I&#x27;ll craft a post around them and put the results online. Sharing my creations makes me feel happy. I&#x27;ll spam a link to the post on Facebook in case any of my friends might be interested in reading it. Lately I&#x27;ve been spamming links to HN, Bluesky, etc because: why not?


type: comment
by: throw310822
text:
  &gt; When you slow down your eating speed, say to half or a third your default speed, you get much more enjoyment out of a smaller amount of food. The extra attention given to each bite allows more of the “good stuff,” whatever that is exactly, to reach you.<p>I wonder if this contributes to a good chunk of the experience of fine dining. When you get served expensive food in micro-portions that are accompanied by long explanations, you don&#x27;t gobble it down but take as much time as possible to savour it.


type: comment
by: bigpeopleareold
text:
  Technical:  - Just anything more programming-specific stuff at work. When I get to do something, it&#x27;s a stress-relief, because the typical day involves dealing with meetings, people, etc. and I can&#x27;t have that much anymore, now with my health. Even when I can just focus, I want to shake the worry of other people&#x27;s issues. The programming I do mostly is handling precise reporting requests, but since that is going to be offshored, I can move to something else at least. I am hoping that I can take on anything outside of Java or .NET. I work at a consultancy and those projects do pop up.<p>- Recreational programming: graphics programming, something to support my odd project (a &quot;recreation&quot; of the bad software from &quot;a company&quot; &quot;I worked for&quot;). I already wrote a hacky command language that is intentionally tedious to use :) Next is the user interface!<p>- I have a plan also to go through Wirth&#x27;s Oberon Compiler Construction and his Algorithm text using Oberon. If there is a project in it, I want to maybe bootstrap a simple Oberon compiler in Pascal then rewrite in Oberon (without caps!)<p>Non-technical:  - I want in the future to expand my range of project options from my employer, so I want to rev-up my mind again in this country&#x27;s language and go through the thickets of folk&#x27;s heavy dialects.<p>- Eat better. If I can help to avoid my gut issues at this point, I need to.<p>- Do more presentations, particularly in the more topics I have embraced (Pascal, compilers, etc.) as something pedagogical for others in my company of consultants.


type: comment
by: fluoridation
text:
  I do something similar, only keeping my lips shut and moving my tongue and throat as if I was speaking. I find it&#x27;s an intermediate speed between conversation speed and purely reading with my eyes. I started doing it when I wasn&#x27;t so good at English to give myself time to understand the text, as well as to practice the mechanics of English speech when I didn&#x27;t have anyone, but I find keeping me at this pace gives me maximum comprehension. I have a friend who reads much faster than me and he quite often misses points in whatever he&#x27;s reading. I think he got into that habit from literature, but it&#x27;s disastrous when reading something more densely packed with information, like technical documentation.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  I think the issue with language-dependant games is not just knowing the correct translation - as OP points out, it&#x27;s more about being funny or clever on the spot, which usually requires a certain level of understanding of the nuances of the language.


type: comment
by: mft_
text:
  ExpressVPN<p>Cyber ghost<p>Private Internet Access<p>ZenMate<p>Intego VPN<p>According to [0] though there are various other sites that roughly align with this list.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.boycat.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;expressvpn-israeli-ownership-1b-privacy-risk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.boycat.io&#x2F;posts&#x2F;expressvpn-israeli-ownership-1b...</a>


type: comment
by: cjs_ac
text:
  I think the hidden motivation for all of these crackdowns across the developed world is the increasing risk of a third world war. Propaganda is already rife across social media for both sides of both the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts. Governments very much want to be able to repeat feats like the XX System, and will need strict control over online communications to achieve that.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double-Cross_System" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Double-Cross_System</a>


type: comment
by: onion2k
text:
  I want to get better at Systems Thinking. I&#x27;m fairly certain that while AI is going to get better and better at most things, it&#x27;s only ever going to be able to look as far ahead as the prompt it&#x27;s given and the context available. Architecting a system that can be won&#x27;t grind to a halt after years of prompt-based additions is going to be a key skill, and the foundation of that is building high quality systems on top of simple foundational systems. That is going to necessitate being good at Systems Thinking.<p>Also, &#x27;systems&#x27; doesn&#x27;t mean code here. It could be business processes, people processes, ways of working, etc. AI is eventually going to impact all of it (it has already really), and that means being able to think about how to build systems that work well, and especially how to describe systems so that AI can help improve them.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  Completely agree. I don’t have a car anymore so I walk a lot, and my mental image of the streets is so much more in depth now to the point I could visualise streets down to the stickers on poles.


type: comment
by: deknos
text:
  again this myth. look at past fahrplans, there was always quite some political stuff. you just agreed with it and therefore it was not inconvenient.


type: comment
by: slurrpurr
text:
  The comment is about <i>how</i> political it is, and that it&#x27;s getting too much. For example this talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;selbstverstandlich-antifaschistisch-aktuelle-informationen-zu-den-verfahren-im-budapest-komplex-von-family-friends-hamburg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p>Every year the needle gets moved more


type: comment
by: rhubarbtree
text:
  Hang in there. This is a difficult period of life, went through something similar not long back. Be sure to take care of yourself and have some mental “time off” this week.


type: comment
by: spencerflem
text:
  Even if what you’re doing is making open source software that in theory benefits everyone, not just google?<p>FWIW I agree with you. I wouldn’t and couldn’t either but I have friends who do, on stuff like security, and I still haven’t worked out how to feel about it.<p>&amp; re: countries: in some sense I am contributing. my taxes pay their armies


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  I do agree, playing open world games without fast travel can be a bit of a slog though. I considered playing Skyrim without fast travel but many of the quests make you run half way across the map and back multiple times.<p>Without fast travel you’d be forced to plan your trips more and bundle all the tasks in an area which would be cool. But it’s probably too much to ask for the general public who will see it as annoying.


type: comment
by: pinkgolem
text:
  You might align less with the points brought forward, but the amount of politics has not changed much in my perception.


type: comment
by: scottmcdot
text:
  I&#x27;ve just started managing a team and would like to develop my EQ and think more before I speak.


type: comment
by: asmor
text:
  I am not going to be an advocate for any company in that way if they willingly work with people that want to stomp out my rights or even my existence. I did recommend Framework Laptops to my work colleagues, friends and family. I wouldn&#x27;t be doing that. You are of course correct that other companies are also bad, but Framework positions themselves as an explicit outsider to that system and they provide me with less direct value. It&#x27;s not solely transactional to support them, it&#x27;s a political stance. And it is unfit for me to position myself to support them. So I&#x27;ll just go with the lowest bidder instead.<p>I would&#x27;ve been fine with it had there been a correction, but Nirav didn&#x27;t even acknowledge the issue. His posts in the big megathread (for which they purposefully chose to merge into the one with the most incendiary name to make the entire point look bad) only address general sponsorships and Hyprland, a community that, from what I hear, has improved a lot. No word on their biggest sponsor check ever going to RubyCon. No word on Omarchy, a distro Nirav seems to have a personal stakes in (filed bugs, keeps interacting with DHH, keeps glazing them on social media).<p>My existence (in a literal way, in an access to HRT way, in a not being declaring as &quot;inherently sexual&quot; to be ejected from public life way... pick something) depends on enough people taking a strong stance against fascist rhetoric, and conversely not shrugging it off as &quot;just some opinion&quot;. Of course I will prioritize that.


type: comment
by: rikroots
text:
  The agent that generated the email didn&#x27;t get another agent to proofread it? Failing to add a space between the full stop and the next letter is one of those things that triggers the proofreader chip in my skull.


type: comment
by: The_SamminAter
text:
  There’s this[0] one that seems pretty approachable, I’ve been considering making it<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46265015">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46265015</a>


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  You&#x27;re asking good questions, but it&#x27;s unreasonable to expect one paper to answer all of them. Probably the article should have emphasized more strongly that mouse models are imperfect, but they do show efficacy in two different mouse models, which counts for something.<p>&gt; It fails to prove that fixing NAD+ in humans will stop the disease, only that it works in mice engineered to have the disease<p>This in particular is just not possible without clinical trials in humans. But you can&#x27;t have a clinical trial without evidence of efficiency, so you need to start with mouse models, even if they are imperfect. Sadly we don&#x27;t know if any of the existing mouse models are any good, but it&#x27;s the best we&#x27;ve got.


type: comment
by: never_inline
text:
  SW:<p>- Architecting larger scale applications<p>- A project which is related to fundamentals (like compilers, OS) rather than run of the mill web development.<p>Not SW:<p>- Motorcycle internals and general repair skills<p>- Ancient sanskrit grammar


type: comment
by: 3D30497420
text:
  I like thinking about the scales of speed and the impact it has on one&#x27;s experience.<p>I used to fly fairly regularly between Germany and Italy. I&#x27;d get on a plane in Munich and get off in Florence, going from a very &quot;German&quot; place to a very &quot;Italian&quot; place. A few years ago I started driving the route, and I was surprised just how much gradation there is between the cultures.<p>As an American, I always thought of &quot;Italians&quot; and &quot;Germans&quot; as very distinct cultures, but then you drive through Südtirol (or Alto Adige, if you&#x27;re feeling Italian, the northern most province of Italy) and it feels quite Germanic. Then gradually, as you continue south, you hear more Italian, see more Italianate architecture and place names. Similar story for Alsace between France and Germany.<p>Of course none of this is all that surprising knowing the history of these areas, but it is very interesting to experience in-person.<p>I&#x27;m sure most places and cultures are like this, even when we think of of them as quite distinct. When you only fly between major cities, you lose so much of the wonderful overlap.


type: comment
by: fluoridation
text:
  My experience has been the exact opposite. Yes, there&#x27;s literally a lot of information, but so much of it is irrelevant fluff that could be eliminated or trimmed without losing much. I&#x27;ve seen multiple paragraphs of Tolkien, for example, that narratively boil down to &quot;they walk across the field&quot;. To be clear, I don&#x27;t see that as a flaw. The fluff serves to set the mood. But that&#x27;s different from saying that the text is especially information-dense.


type: comment
by: mlyle
text:
  Don’t be the guy who lectures the MD&#x2F;PhD— who gave an outside source— about being not an expert, by citing conversations with your spouse.


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  I used to write web apps in C++, so I totally understand not caring if it gets the job done.<p>I guess the difference where I draw the line is that LLMs are inherently random I&#x2F;O so you have to treat them like UI, or the network, where you really have no idea what garbage is gonna come in and you have to be defensive if you&#x27;re going to build something complex -- otherwise, you as a programmer will not be able to understand or trust it and you will get hit by Murphy&#x27;s law when you take off your blinders. (if it&#x27;s simple or a prototype nobody is counting on, obviously none of this matters)<p>To me insisting that stochastic inputs be handled in a framework that provides strong typing guarantees is not too different from insisting your untrusted sandbox be written in a memory safe language.


type: comment
by: slurrpurr
text:
  Not really, look at the schedule for 34c3. Much more interesting things and less politics. And it also has felt more and more forced in the last couple years


type: comment
by: deknos
text:
  Okay, that&#x27;s it. i think i will do some data analysis and do a talk at some place next year about the outcome of the analysis which talks are there and if there&#x27;s really a trend. :D


type: comment
by: dodomodo
text:
  They find them useful as a performance optimization, not as a design tool. This optimization is not relevant to Python code because it relies on the optimization passes the compiler makes.


type: comment
by: fud101
text:
  SQL, Postgres, Pandas, Polars, Airflow, Duckdb, and whatever else shiny object along the way which distracts me from actually doing something productive towards my goals.


type: story
by: billybuckwheat
title: Time to do more nothing: the art of deep hanging out
url:
  https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/wellbeing/wander-notice-be-where-you-are-the-creative-power-of-deep-hanging-out/


type: comment
by: Agentlien
text:
  I mainly want to learn even more about what I&#x27;ve already been working with. I want to deepen my understanding of the AGC API and finally take the time to teach myself Vulkan.


type: comment
by: markdown
text:
  Huh? Are phone numbers tied to physical sims in your country? You can&#x27;t just ask the phone company to give you a new sim with the same number?


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  It makes sense, if I were trying to construct an algorithm to make sure I gave people their hits I would also have to push in things they hadn&#x27;t shown any interest in or even actively disliked, considering that people get inputs from the reality around them outside my service and as such they may change their behaviors and inclinations, I would need a way to note that is the case and respond.


type: comment
by: izacus
text:
  I&#x27;ve been there like 2 decades ago and even then it was a deeply political event.<p>There never a time where German hacker clubs, which are the lifeblood of this event, weren&#x27;t very political - and very explicitly left wing political.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  &gt; Unless we can find some way to verify humanity for every message.<p>There is no possible way to do this that won&#x27;t quickly be abused by people&#x2F;groups who don&#x27;t care. All efforts like this will do is destroy privacy and freedom on the Internet for normal people.


type: comment
by: rhubarbtree
text:
  Jumping on to agree with Severance and make a few more.<p>Silicon Valley - for me the funniest (and painful to watch, sometimes) to show. Schitt’s Creek - heart warming, wonderfully written, very funny bite size episodes perfect for cosy Christmas times.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  When you start thinking about books in terms of opportunity cost, you’re the kind who needs to slow down the most.


type: comment
by: aboardRat4
text:
  Lol.<p>Imgur blocks all of China and all VPN companies it is aware of.<p>It is literally close to being a half of the Internet, at least a half of useful Internet.


type: comment
by: VerifiedReports
text:
  It can&#x27;t send &quot;whatever it wants.&quot; The user has to grant access to various categories of personal data.<p>And whatever it sends can and would have been sniffed by now. It&#x27;s incredible how much time people have to expend on way-more-obscure snooping than that.


type: comment
by: nineteen999
text:
  Right now, quantum computing is highly useful as a form of employment for quantum computing researchers.


type: comment
by: pembrook
text:
  It’s called bikeshedding and yes it’s a cultural thing on HN. [1]<p>Most people here are big company worker bees where they take zero risks and do very little of substance.<p>In these organizations, it’s common for large groups of people to get together in “meetings” and endlessly nitpick surface-level details  of unimportant things while completely missing the big picture because it’s far too complex to allow for easy opinions or smart-sounding critique.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Law_of_triviality" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Law_of_triviality</a>


type: comment
by: RobotToaster
text:
  It&#x27;s not that surprising, a lot of people (especially doctors) will dismiss symptoms if &quot;objective&quot; tests show normal levels


type: comment
by: markdown
text:
  Oh god I have this problem with my firstlast@outlook.com address. I have a common english name so get the emails of other people from all over the world. The worst are subscriptions and regular invoices.<p>I had to give up using the address.


type: comment
by: davidshepherd7
text:
  A mirror that worked for me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skyview.social&#x2F;?url=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;skyview.social&#x2F;?url=https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;robpike...</a>


type: comment
by: samus
text:
  The cases contain actual information that give the speaker more flexibility in structuring their sentences: a German phrase remains syntactically valid as long as you don&#x27;t move the conjunctions or the verb, while the emphasis of the sentence shifts.<p>Of course, the German case system has been reduced so far that only the genitive (which is also on its way out) still modifies the noun. Articles have taken up the task of carrying the endings, with only pronouns still being fully declined.<p>Languages without case systems have other means to achieve this of course.


type: comment
by: ssl-3
text:
  &gt; Would a child have access to a paid VPN like Mullvad anyway, I wonder.<p>Sure.  Why not?  Paid VPNs are cheap to use, and kids are smart.<p>A kid who already has a computer to use can turn a relatively large amount of electricity into a relatively small amount of crypto, and can do so very informally.  It&#x27;s usually a money-losing operation, but that matters less when a person is (say) 14 and someone else pays the electric bill:  Out of sight, out of mind.<p>After that:  Simply use the proceeds to pay for something like Mullvad or AirVPN (they accept crypto payments just fine).<p>It&#x27;s been quite a long time since I was 14 and it was a very different world back then, but I don&#x27;t think I would have had any trouble connecting these dots at that age.<p>(And indeed, that&#x27;s how I used to pay for my own VPN service as a grown adult back when using those things was a lot less common.  Rather than potentially draw unwanted interest from my bank by making international payments, I&#x27;d just mine some crypto to cover the VPN, and pay the electric bill.  It wasn&#x27;t strictly anonymous or untraceable or anything like that, but it did help cover the tracks that I cared about covering.)


type: comment
by: bryanrasmussen
text:
  I think GRRM is failing the first two obligations of the author: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;luminasticity&#x2F;obligations-of-the-author-0c2f396f111c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;luminasticity&#x2F;obligations-of-the-author-0...</a><p>Finish what you start — When starting a work that has readers or viewers, complete it if it is financially rewarding to do so. You have unfortunately made an aesthetic promise to your readers in exchange for money. Suck it up.<p>Keep Your Customers Informed — If you will not be able to do the first, inform people as soon as possible.


type: comment
by: fluoridation
text:
  I haven&#x27;t had it happen while reading aloud (since I almost never read aloud), but I&#x27;ve definitely had it happen while reading something new that I hated. I&#x27;d end up having to read the same page (or more!) three or four times because I kept zoning out.


type: comment
by: ep_jhu
text:
  My wife and I quit our tech jobs and moved from the US to a European country last year to learn&#x2F;grow&#x2F;explore. The plan is to renew the visa and continue our exploration.<p>For 2026, other than more traveling, I have just started a course at the local tech university on solar power, and asset management&#x2F;O&amp;M of solar installations. The hope is to gain basic domain knowledge for potentially transitioning my career into this field in a year or two, taking advantage of my SWE, data analytics, and PM experience.<p>I&#x27;m also planning to take my host country&#x27;s driving exam. That means I first need to learn how to drive a car with manual transmission, after 30+ years driving in the US.


type: comment
by: ultra2d
text:
  The hardcore mode of Kingdom Come: Deliverance really made me appreciate the game (although that&#x27;s the only way I played it). It became a very immersive experience.<p>Valheim without a map would be a bit too much for me. No way to quickly escape to some safe green pastures sounds too stressful :).


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  Maybe not autonomously (that would be very close to economic AGI).<p>But I don&#x27;t think the big companies are lying about how much of their code is being written by AI. I think back of the napkin math will show the economic value of the output is already some definition of massive. And those companies are 100% taking the credit (and the money).<p>Also, almost by definition, every incentive is aligned for people in charge to deny this.<p>I hate to make this analogy but I think it&#x27;s absurd to think &quot;successful&quot; slaveowners would defer the credit to their slaves. You can see where this would fall apart.


type: story
by: dorukardahan
title: Show HN: Domain Search MCP – AI-powered domain availability checker
url: https://github.com/dorukardahan/domain-search-mcp
text:
  MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI assistants check domain availability in real-time.<p>Features: - Multi-source: Porkbun, Namecheap, RDAP, WHOIS - Price comparison across registrars - Social handle checking (GitHub, Twitter, npm, etc.) - Premium domain detection with pricing insights<p>Works with any MCP-compatible client.<p>Install: npx -y domain-search-mcp


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  I was aware of their Visual Studio plugins but I did not know that they called their debugger support for Visual Studio “Nsight” as well.


type: comment
by: Quothling
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;ll be honest, this is the big reason I don&#x27;t get all the hype around coding agents. I do find them useful but typing isn&#x27;t the bottleneck. Not even close. Plus, while typing is when I&#x27;m doing my best debugging and best simplifying.<p>As you sort of point out between the lines, it depends on what you work on. I had an AI agent rewrite some ancient (and terrible code) which had stopped working because the v1 of an api on v3 was sunset. It took around 5 minutes out of my day, and most of those were having two people explaining to me where the code was and what they thought had happened to make it break. It would&#x27;ve like taken me a full day to fix without AI because I would have needed to understand things first, and because it was quite a lot of code.<p>The result wasn&#x27;t very good, but it was better than what was before, and since that had run for years without anyone tuching it, well... good enough. Heck, it might&#x27;ve taken me more than a day because I doubt I would have left it at &quot;wasn&#x27;t very good&quot;.<p>Aside from this anecdote I think AI writes a good 80% of my code these days. I&#x27;m not sure I buy the whole &quot;bottleneck or not&quot; discussion around typing. I think for a lot of people, myself included, AI does 10x part of the process of writing software. Where it doesn&#x27;t help is when you need to do computer science, and as you point out, those parts AI don&#x27;t speed up. I sometimes still use AI for computer science parts, but in those situations the AI will be a rubber duck because I tend to think by talking out my own ideas, and at least the AI duck pretends to answer. Even if the answer is more useless than what the actual rubber duck comes up with, which it usually is, it&#x27;s more immersive for me.


type: comment
by: caminanteblanco
text:
  I am sure I am not the only person to have a somewhat juvenile email that has become the center of their digital lives. I would be very happy to change my email.


type: comment
by: anonym29
text:
  I can&#x27;t speak for anyone else, but if you were to leak weights for OpenAI&#x27;s frontier models, I&#x27;d offer to hug you and donate money to you.<p>Information wants to be free.


type: comment
by: hxbdbehd
text:
  Looking at the 34c3 Fahrplan, like a solid third of the talks are explicitly about politics<p>I don&#x27;t get your point


type: comment
by: aurareturn
text:
  People of his caliber is not being automated away but people pay less attention to him and don’t worship him like before so he is butt hurt.


type: comment
by: 9dev
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s a well documented history of especially Russian and Chinese propaganda aimed at supporting fringe populist parties. The agenda with that is complex but it isn&#x27;t necessarily with friendly intentions.<p>You can add the USA to that list now, who follow the exact same strategy in the EU.


type: comment
by: kazinator
text:
  I don&#x27;t see the point of this. A git branch is already a kind of tag.<p>How about just<p><pre><code>  # rename branch to archive&#x2F; prefix to indicate it is archived   git branch -m foo-branch archive&#x2F;foo-branch</code></pre>


type: comment
by: dorukardahan
text:
  Hey HN! I built this because I got tired of context-switching between AI assistants and domain registrars while brainstorming project names.<p>Now I just ask &quot;Is coolproject.com available?&quot; and get instant results with pricing from multiple sources.<p>Technical details: - TypeScript + Zod validation - 98 tests, security audited - LRU cache with TTL - Rate limiting per registrar<p>Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or MCP in general!


type: comment
by: Tepix
text:
  The weights got released on huggingface now.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;MiniMaxAI&#x2F;MiniMax-M2.1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;MiniMaxAI&#x2F;MiniMax-M2.1</a>


type: comment
by: hithre
text:
  Pro: After 10 year I feel that I am becoming a specialist of the software I work on rather than a software specialist. Needing to work in different domains where I am not the expert.<p>Other: Better time management and micro napping. After a working day sucking mind and kids energy, the brain stops working for anything but doom scrolling or TV.


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  i wanna learn to play the kora. I&#x27;ve been listening to a ton of asake and it really sticks out as a defining sound<p>Also it&#x27;d be nice if a bunch of data centers burned down but... odds are against this


type: comment
by: zaptheimpaler
text:
  &gt; Meta clearly enganged in copyright enfringement when they torrented books that they hadn&#x27;t purchased. That is enfringement already before they started training on the data. That doesn&#x27;t make the training itself enfringement though.<p>What kind of bullshit argument is this? Really? Works created using illegally obtained copyrighted material are themselves considered to be infringing as well. It&#x27;s called derivative infringment. This is both common sense and law. Even if not, you agree that they infringed on copyright of something close to all copyrighted works on the internet and this sounds fine to you? The consequences and fines from that would kill any company if they actually had to face them.


type: comment
by: tucnak
text:
  I&#x27;m glad somebody arranged all these niche websites I had never heard about, in a list. Will be fun to visit them all sometime.


type: comment
by: bornfreddy
text:
  &gt; The hard part is always going down a rabbit hole in established code bases.<p>Actually, I found that this is exactly where they shine (I wouldn&#x27;t trust them with greenfield implementation myself). Exploring existing code is so much easier when you can ask them how something works. You can even ask them to find problems - you can&#x27;t trust them to be correct, of course, but at least you get some good brainstorming going. And, incredibly, they often do find actual problems in the code. Pretty impressive for language models.


type: comment
by: schmookeeg
text:
  &gt; A triangle-shaped piece to guide the extending kitchen sink sprayer hose so it stops getting caught on stuff under the cabinets<p>Holy hell that&#x27;s genius. I know what I&#x27;m printing tomorrow! :D


type: comment
by: guerby
text:
  Great work!<p>A researcher with T1D and present online:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewkoutnik.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;andrewkoutnik.com&#x2F;</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;AKoutnik&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;AKoutnik&#x2F;</a><p>Interview:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CG8UU7P8FBU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CG8UU7P8FBU</a> Can Keto Transform Type 1 Diabetes Treatment? A Decade of Insights from Dr. Andrew Koutnik


type: comment
by: jimkleiber
text:
  For a while I&#x27;ve thought so many of us are afraid to slow down because we might feel sad, as sadness is often one of the slowest emotions.<p>Yet this quote has me thinking that maybe we fear slowing down because of the consciousness overload. That we get so overwhelmed by our senses. Maybe even that can lead to the tears of being so alive.


type: comment
by: onion2k
text:
  I&#x27;m intrigued about how you&#x27;re loading a 13.66 days long 8K video into memory to be able to process all the pixels in 50ms...


type: comment
by: maxbond
text:
  &gt; Advice is welcome.<p>Here&#x27;s some advice I&#x27;ve given about learning Rust in the past. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38020654">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38020654</a><p>There are also project-based resources beyond Rustlings like Entirely Too Many Linked Lists[1] you might check out. I&#x27;ve found Gjengset&#x27;s videos[2] great for intermediate content, and they include both project and lecture formats.<p>Best of luck!<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-unofficial.github.io&#x2F;too-many-lists&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rust-unofficial.github.io&#x2F;too-many-lists&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@jonhoo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;@jonhoo</a>


type: comment
by: raffraffraff
text:
  Agree. If you use a rolling release you definitely need a strategy for stability. I turn off automatic updates and schedule planned full updates that I can easily roll back from. I&#x27;ve had two breakages over the years that required snapper rollback. (Rolling back from a major distro upgrade isn&#x27;t that easy)<p>It&#x27;s a tradeoff that I&#x27;m happy with. I get to have a very up to date system.


type: comment
by: ultratalk
text:
  I feel like this advice could also somewhat apply to your manner of speaking. I&#x27;m a pretty fast speaker, and I&#x27;ve noticed that when I try my best to go slower, I understand what I&#x27;m trying to say better, I figure out gaps in logic and errors in the sentence while speaking, instead of after, and I get the message across better. And when I&#x27;m giving an impromptu speech of some sort, if I slow down and think about every sentence I say, the sentences stitch themselves together in a better-flowing way, and I enjoy speaking because it sounds better.


type: comment
by: pell
text:
  Was there any concern about giving the LLM access to this return data? Reading your article I wondered if there could be an approach that limits the LLM to running the function calls without ever seeing the output itself fully, e.g., only seeing the start of a JSON string with a status like “success” or “not found”. But I guess it would be complicated to have a continuous conversation that way.


type: comment
by: rkuodys
text:
  I am honestly curious about your point on productivity boost. Are you saying that you can write tests at the same speed as AI can? Or is it the point that tests written by AI is of much lower quality that is not worth using them? I am at the role of solo-preneur now and I see a lot of benefit from AI. But then I read posts like yours that experienced devs don&#x27;t see much value in AI and I start to doubt the things I do. Are they bad quality(possibly) or is it something else going on.


type: comment
by: zaptheimpaler
text:
  What the fuck? People also need to pay to access that creative work if the rights owner charges for it, and they are also committing an illegal act if they don&#x27;t. The LLM makers are doing this illegal act billions of times over for something approximating all creative work in existence. I&#x27;m not arguing that creative&#x27;s make things in a vacuum, this is completely besides the point.


type: comment
by: tucnak
text:
  The whole blogpost could be condensed to a single paragraph pointing out the analogy, and that&#x27;s it.


type: comment
by: jasonkester
text:
  Valheim does that so well. The feeling of walking through an unfamiliar forest and stumbling across a faint trail that you made weeks ago, knowing that it will eventually lead you back to your old base and thus back to where you were trying to get to before you got lost…<p>Reading the Reddit for the game, filled with people complaining that the portal system is too restrictive and forces them to make upwards of three long boat trips over the course of the game is a bit sad. It’s as though they expect the fun to happen when they finish everything, but the fun all happens while you’re actually playing the game.


type: comment
by: globular-toast
text:
  &gt; I will never use their services again, I was really digusted by this failure<p>Was there ever really an agreement that they&#x27;d be storing your cherished memories for decades? I still treat email the same way I&#x27;ve done since the 90s. Your email provider is just a cache but you download and backup the messages yourself.<p>Hopefully this has been a wake up call for you. If you care about data then you need a copy that you control and have a good backup plan.


type: comment
by: fonzi
text:
  Happy New Year from all of us at CODAME ART+TECH<p>As we step into 2026, we’re reflecting on the idea of the New Human — not as a definition, but as a living inquiry shaped through art, technology, and collective practice.<p>This year, we’re exploring what it means to build the future together — with intention, curiosity, and care.<p>Here’s to a joyful and generative year ahead


type: comment
by: messe
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;m surprised they admitted to it - it&#x27;s hardly &quot;Clean Room&quot;....<p>&quot;Clean Room&quot; RE isn&#x27;t always legally required.


type: comment
by: VerifiedReports
text:
  Except of course that I didn&#x27;t make any claim requiring statistics, while you did.<p>And yet... I&#x27;m the one who DID supply statistics, which you ignore in your maniacal histrionics. Have fun!


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
text:
  Bruh this cannot seriously be considered interesting by hacker news guidelines. Where&#x27;s the beef? Can i submit my instagram client for points next?


type: comment
by: esseph
text:
  &quot;Villages&quot; help. Lean into yours, or, maybe it&#x27;s the time to find or build yours.<p>Best of luck.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Thank you all for the messages, will be going through them in the coming hours! Was a bit surprised to see this bounce on the front page, but I guess it came from the second chance pool :)


type: comment
by: Tepix
text:
  Bookmarklet:<p>javascript:(function(){   const result = Math.random() &lt; 0.5 ? &#x27;Heads&#x27; : &#x27;Tails&#x27;;   alert(&#x27;Coin flip result: &#x27; + result); })();


type: comment
by: jasonvorhe
text:
  So you did a comparative analysis of previous events and there&#x27;s no indication that there&#x27;s more politics?


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  Nice post.  Without doxing yourself, can you share the European country and your visa situation?  If you want to stay and work in European as US citizens, I highly recommend you look at the DAFT treaty which allows US citizens to live and work (by starting a business) in the Netherlands.<p>Honestly, I could not do what you have done.  Hats off.  I am a bit jealous!  I really need the daily structure of a regular office job.  (Hold your tomatoes folks!)  How do you fight they tyranny of structurelessness?  Or maybe you don&#x27;t have it at all...


type: comment
by: delichon
text:
  Arizona, Lake Havasu, triple digit temperatures. We spent more time in the water than out of it. Us kids loved the flooded camp because of the tiny fish that would swim up and nibble on our toes. It tickled. The camp was boat access only, and there were a few million acres of desert wilderness higher ground to move up to. The water rose gradually and the tents never got wet.<p>The bigger problem with that camp was the rattlesnakes. I killed one with the shovel and felt grown up.


type: comment
by: latexr
text:
  You see someone who you think has missed a larger point, and all you can muster as a reply is a vague jab and unexplained reference? Do you not see the irony? Your whole comment is an “um, ackshually”, the very thing you are decrying.<p>I didn’t enjoy Dune, by the way. No shade on those who did, of course, but I couldn’t bring myself to finish it.<p>If you think there’s something there, explain your point. Make an argument. Maybe I have misunderstood something and will correct my thinking, or maybe you have misunderstood and will correct yours. But as it is, I don’t see your comment as providing any value to the discussion. It’s the equivalent of a hit and run, meant to insult the other person while remaining uncommitted enough to shield yourself from criticism.


type: comment
by: EliRivers
text:
  The Running Man. It&#x27;s really the foundation action in a good shuffle dance and it really has to flow naturally and consistently.


type: comment
by: 000ooo000
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.simonwillison.net&#x2F;bullish-bearish" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.simonwillison.net&#x2F;bullish-bearish</a><p>Bet you feel silly now!


type: story
by: _____k
title: Starmer considers Australian-style ban on social media
url:
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/21/starmer-considers-australian-style-social-media-ban/


type: story
by: ljf
title: Russia's attempt to rein in illicit market for leaked data backfires
url:
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/russia-selling-personal-data-leaks-probiv-ukraine-spies


type: comment
by: lugoues
text:
  We can get stuck in our minds and lean too much on prior skills instead of fully assessing the problem at hand. More likely than not, given he was a contractor, building a trench and walls seemed like a simple solution to something he has probably dealt with many time and didn&#x27;t think twice about it.


type: comment
by: spacechild1
text:
  You mean you can&#x27;t critize certain parts of society unless you live like a hermite?<p>&gt; Obviously, it&#x27;s just what I&#x27;m seeing.<p>Have you considered that this may just be a rationalization on your part?


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Thanks! I actually loved the song quiz that was available via the first version of Amazon Echo that worked using voice commands. No idea if that&#x27;s available any more though.<p>If you like more quiz like games, I can recommend Kahoot &amp; Gametje for you, which work with a similar phones-as-controllers approach :)


type: story
by: vinni2
title: Brown shooting suspect: gruelling academic climate may have taken mental toll
url:
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/brown-shooting-suspect-gruelling-academic-climate-claudio-valente-mental-toll-ex-classmates


type: comment
by: schobi
text:
  I&#x27;m confused by the claims..<p>You try to compute something that supercomputer can&#x27;t - by not computing it? Instead the formula is stored in a data structure. But once you need to access all the values you still have something that does not fit the memory and needs to be computed.<p>I can&#x27;t judge on the Java side, but suggest to pick a better example on how this can be useful.


type: comment
by: Nextgrid
text:
  Tech skills:<p>* Building LLM-backed products. I’ve recently had a <i>real</i> use-case for AI (as opposed to slapping a useless chatbot on everything just to claim to use AI) and for now I’ve been calling the APIs directly from Django; which while works, makes me write tons of boilerplate for basic tasks like an UI for testing prompts and so on. It seems like this must be a solved problem so I’d need to look around (LangChain?)<p>Non-tech:<p>* Sales - from feedback it seems like I’m not actually that bad of a salesman&#x2F;people person but I would like to formalize that skill, maybe getting an entry-level technical sales&#x2F;solutions engineer position and grow from there.<p>Personal:<p>* Letting go of projects and prioritizing: I’ve always had a ton of tech projects going at once which leads to my free time being spread thin across all of them and ultimately wasted as no meaningful progress is made. While it’s been an amazing learning experience when I started it’s since stopped paying off on that front once I mastered the tech involved. I need to let go for good and just delete the unfinished code once and for all so I’m never tempted to get back to it.


type: comment
by: gkbrk
text:
  Gmail spam filtering is poor enough that a lot of obvious spam reaches the inbox as well. The quality of the spam filter alone is a good enough reason to move off gmail.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  I&#x27;m not downvoting you, but I think you are probably getting downvoted because &quot;Stock trading can be quite lucrative&quot; is statistically just not true. Even professional financial advisors almost never beat the market [0]. Only hedge funds that pay for huge amounts of priveledged financial information do, and even then not always.<p>Here&#x27;s a good video that makes a case for this. Even if you don&#x27;t agree, you might find some of the points he makes interesting. But tl;dr, he argues that index funds basically always outperform other methods, so one should primarily invest in things like that.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T71ibcZAX3I?si=5kEkLoUhHDkajlyy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;T71ibcZAX3I?si=5kEkLoUhHDkajlyy</a>


type: comment
by: checker659
text:
  A language runtime vibe-coded for a language that people will very likely vibe code in. Something about that makes my head hurt a little.<p>I guess, it&#x27;s easier for LLMs to generate dynamic language code than something like Rust (or even assembly). But still, one does wonder, why not just compile down to C or ASM. But I guess the answer is the ease of debugging &#x2F; maintainability.


type: comment
by: talonx
text:
  I remember Firefox used to have this cool feature where you could detect any RSS feeds on the page you have open.<p>Now if I don&#x27;t see it on a page I check the page source - some blogs don&#x27;t advertise the feed but it&#x27;s there.


type: comment
by: RobotToaster
text:
  There have been a growing number of online groups arranging to do group buys of synthesized experimental drugs based on studies...<p>There&#x27;s also a good number of cases of people getting exactly what they ordered.  There&#x27;s been a thriving market for Retatrutide, ozempic&#x27;s more powerful younger brother, for years despite it not being approved yet.<p>Also, people with Alzheimer&#x27;s don&#x27;t have the luxury of being able to wait 20 years for it to be approved.


type: comment
by: sidd22
text:
  Hey, interesting read. I am working on product in Agent &lt;&gt; Tool layer. Would you be open for a quick chat ?


type: comment
by: basilikum
text:
  &gt; In 2024 alone, I spent $1,400 on &quot;micro&quot; transactions. &gt; &gt; $10 here for a skin. $5 there for a bundle. $20 for currency.<p>If you spend money for ingame currency, you are by definition not a free to play player. If you pay money for in game progress in the form of useless currency – that just evaporates away so you have to pay even more – you have already given up. A proper game would never let you do that. You have given in to the pay to win &#x2F; pay to play garbage.<p>I know, we shouldn&#x27;t blame the victims of these scummy dynamics and good for OP to come to the realization. But it&#x27;s just really hard for me not to blame the people who play all that trash and fill the pockets of these disgusting gambling companies.


type: comment
by: seec
text:
  Yeah, pretty much this.<p>One thing that is really important to understand is that power is not something that is uniformely needed everywhere at the same level. Traditionally, power plants were created close to where industries needed them. Renewables require specific conditions to be viable and those factors are not necesseraly what allows industries to thrive, so you need a lot of additional infrastructure to make it possible.<p>Turns out this infrastructure is extremely coslty and very hard to make reliable. So, even if you have infinite money, that&#x27;s a massive challenge in itself. But now Europe does not have that much money, the massive debt burdens being a large evidence of this. Yet we are asked to pay more for this future, in the name of climate change, even though most of the factors contributing to this is already happening overseas, largely out of the control of European regulations. So what is the point exactly ?<p>In the long run, it just ends up making everyone more dependent on external powers while weakening the position of the countries that believe in that &quot;solution&quot;.<p>Nuclear constructions costs are largely overblown, because of the massive bureaucracy&#x2F;over-regulation, thanks to Germany in no small part. If China can manage to build twice as fast at half the cost, we are doing something wrong for sure.<p>But the conversation is dominated by ideologues, that have an sadist like fetish. As if weakening your position will ever make your competition&#x2F;enemies take pity on you and allows you to dictate the terms of the converstion, because people are supposed to be nice, right ?<p>Even with perfect implementation, there is no way to make renewables work to allow industries to thrive, and now we are going to pay the price of those poor political choices.<p>With all the money in the world, it was already a discutable choice, but now it is just replacing depence on fossil fuel with depence on overseas manufacturing (most of it in China). Funny thing is that China is not that stupid, and we are selling them the knowledge&#x2F;skillset to become dominant on the cheap. I just can&#x27;t fathom what was going on in the mind of the decision makers 20 years ago, but now it seems they are just insane. There is no way it will work in 15 years, yet we needed that power generation yesterday.<p>In the process of trying to make climate change better, we have done the reverse. Now people are burning more wood, and I feel like we might go back to coal if electricity doesn&#x27;t become cheaper (for residential heat). Gas is hopeless, even if the depency on Russia wasn&#x27;t that strong. Electric cars are very nice but if it turns out to be more expensive to run them than just using foreign oil it&#x27;s not going to happen.<p>I&#x27;m just rambling at this point but it feels like there was a large anti-nuclear sentiment by people who are dominated by irrational fears and they have dominated our politics for the worse. It&#x27;s really not usefull to fear a nuclear meltdown if you end up making your people poorer overtime. Why would you fear something with such a low probability of problems if you end up having to become dependent on foreing power that has no such quaslm.<p>France had the right path but then leftist ideologues took power and Germany&#x27;s sabotaging did the rest. In theory we are not at war but in practice, there is very much an economical&#x2F;ideological battleground going on and we are losing it.


type: comment
by: K0balt
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  Associated with and “caused by” or even “contributing factor” are very, very different bars.<p>Most deaths are associated with dietary factors. !== eating causes death.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
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  Haha, so true! But even if the general idea is the same, there&#x27;s always a million smaller choices to make it more unique :) I can def. see that a completely LAN-based approach would have its own audience that want to play fully offline games


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
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  The internet is facing an existential threat to its very existence. If it becomes nearly impossible to determine signal in the noise, then there is no internet. Not for normal people, not for anyone.<p>So we <i>need</i> some mechanism to verify the content is from a human. If no privacy preserving technical solution can be found, then expect the non-privacy preserving to be the only model.


type: comment
by: genuser
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  In an unprecedented breach, a prototype build of a future iOS version has laid bare Apple’s multi-year hardware strategy. A list of codenames discovered in an internal iOS 26 build, corroborated by industry analysts, outlines an ambitious slate of over 30 unreleased products. This leak provides a rare, structured glimpse into Apple’s plans for 2026 and beyond, confirming long-rumored projects and revealing entirely new ones.


type: comment
by: talonx
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  And worse - when I open Google News all the news under Technology is about the latest mobile phones and &quot;gadgets&quot;.


type: comment
by: lesostep
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  You actually can slow down music. A novel experience in itself.  When you try to learn the song — once you get a grip – everything slows. That&#x27;s why people play so much with metronome – once your brain &quot;slows down&quot;, you will speed up naturally. Spent a few months learning how to get around it as a novice drummer. The only way around I found? It&#x27;s to notice the slowing speed of time and slow the rhythm into it. Probably related: most drummers play with a click in their ears.<p>I noticed similar effects when &quot;locking in&quot; in games or sports. Time gets slower.<p>So when you slow down, you start to pay more attention. But if you pay more attention, the world itself will slow down. And the music would be slowed


type: comment
by: ultratalk
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  Oops, I forgot to mention the cost. That is what I meant, I just didn&#x27;t get it into the comment properly. :)


type: comment
by: tezza
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  There are remote team video games like (mine) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epicwin.team" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epicwin.team</a> .<p>Slightly different approach, each plays in their browser&#x2F;phone and there is no “main display”. And my games are cooperative. DM if interested.<p>I’m releasing a new game BossBattle soon so keep your eyes peeled.


type: comment
by: spoonsearch
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  &gt; &quot;A good compass in one’s life is to seek out what gives you a lump in your throat&quot;.<p>This is a such a great outlook towards living life.


type: comment
by: avaer
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  I would never talk down on Rob Pike.<p>But I think in the aggregate ChatGPT has solved more problems, and created more things, than Rob Pike (the man) did -- and also created more problems, with a significantly worse ratio for sure, but the point still stands. I still think it counts as &quot;impressive&quot;.<p>Am I wrong on this? Or if this &quot;doesn&#x27;t count&quot;, why?<p>I can understand visceral and ethically important reactions to any suggestions of AI superiority over people, but I don&#x27;t understand the denialism I see around this.<p>I honestly think the only reason you don&#x27;t see this in the news all the time is because when someone uses ChatGPT to help them synthesize code, do engineering, design systems, get insights, or dare I say invent things -- they&#x27;re not gonna say &quot;don&#x27;t thank (read: pay) me, thank ChatGPT!&quot;.<p>Anyone that honest&#x2F;noble&#x2F;realistic will find that someone else is happy to take the credit (read: money) instead, while the person crediting the AI won&#x27;t be able to pay for their internet&#x2F;ChatGPT bill. You won&#x27;t hear from them, and conclude that LLMs don&#x27;t produce anything as impressive as Rob Pike. It&#x27;s just Darwinian.


type: comment
by: karambahh
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  Mallorca is a mountainous island in the middle of the med. Exporting something from Mallorca seems like a logistical challenge to me. Exporting something refrigerated or frozen, even more so...<p>Maybe store-shelf product such as gummies or something?<p>Fresh juice takes 2kg of oranges per ~1l&#x2F;~1kg. Plus electricity and handling costs...<p>Still, you&#x27;ll need a large multiplier on the transformation process: organic EU orange are 1.7€&#x2F;kg, standard are 1€ wholesale market price (meaning its origin is continental spain or italy I guess). Frozen orange juice is 3.93€ (Brazil)


type: comment
by: rs_rs_rs_rs_rs
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  &gt; Shit for Future: turning human shit into a climate solution<p>LOL, never change CCC, never change...


type: comment
by: cromka
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  Qualcomm _does_ upstream all their firmware, but vendors usually require a firmware binary to be signed with their keys, which are burned into the SoC. As a result you cannot use Qualcomm&#x27;s vanilla firmware and need to extract the original firmware as provided by the vendor, otherwise it won&#x27;t load. This is an actual security feature, believe it or not. Besides, chances are it wasn&#x27;t even Qualcomm&#x27;s firmware, but rather Cirrus for sound or display firmware, etc.<p>I get the hate on Qualcomm, but you&#x27;re really one LLM question away from understanding why they do this. I should know, I was also getting frustrated before I read up on this.


type: comment
by: ysleepy
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  Oddly the notification brief in germany specifies false-high glucose readings, which would explain the urgency of the problem much better.<p>For high glucose you inject insulin, but if you don&#x27;t really have high glucose you end up with dangerously low levels leading to coma or death.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bfarm.de&#x2F;SharedDocs&#x2F;Kundeninfos&#x2F;DE&#x2F;10&#x2F;2025&#x2F;42777-25_kundeninfo_de.pdf?__blob=publicationFile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bfarm.de&#x2F;SharedDocs&#x2F;Kundeninfos&#x2F;DE&#x2F;10&#x2F;2025&#x2F;42777...</a>


type: comment
by: gste
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  By coincidence I also finished The Fellowship of the Ring about two weeks ago.<p>I have always had the intuition about reading speed that it is very easy to be a speed reader if you skim over things. I&#x27;ve always questioned how much of speed reading is just skipping stuff and filtering for the most important word tokens.<p>You could skip all of Tolkien&#x27;s scenery descriptions, you could skip Tom Bombadil and Lothlorien and still know basically what happened to Frodo and where he&#x27;s going. But that&#x27;s not really the point. When I read a book of that much importance, I&#x27;ve always read every word and understood every sentence. I get easily distracted and often have to reread passages. I am not a fast reader. Tolkien&#x27;s descriptions are not always that easy. But this is what I find so rewarding about reading in the first place.<p>However, when I&#x27;m reading an article online, the difference is stark. When I read articles, I usually start from the bottom and read backwards. That&#x27;s my way of finding out the results, and then piecing together how much context I actually need to understand it. Maybe I should slow that down sometimes.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
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  You are able to mix gamepads and smart phones! Though there is a limit that you can only connect a maximum of 4 gamepads to a single session due to limitations with the JS gamepad API.<p>Would you be interested in also beta-testing our upcoming 3rd party game development SDK? If so, please ping me on our Discord (link at the end of the gamingcouch.com web page) so I can take your contact details for the beta-testing list :)


type: comment
by: bangaladore
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  Disagree. It gives the user the illusion that the purpose is to protect them somehow, but in reality it is solely there to be anti-user and pro lock in to social media walled gardens.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
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  <p><pre><code>    &gt; Cooking </code></pre> For me, what sparked my interest in cooking was two things: (1) getting older (in youth, food was simply fuel, not so much to be enjoyed), (2) wanting to replicate favourites dishes from restaurants (my first first was channa masala).  You can learn a lot from middle-aged house wives that have a YouTube cooking channel that show you how to cook classic dishes from various cultures.  One thing that has been incredibly liberating is making small tweaks to recipes that will trigger a cultural native to immediately declare: &quot;Oh, that&#x27;s not authentic.&quot;  To that I say: &quot;Who cares, it is my food, and I will enjoy it!&quot;


type: comment
by: stinkbeetle
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  Natural fiber canvas tents take to water about the same as your tee shirt does. Which is to say perfectly fine. Soaking them for a few days or even weeks shouldn&#x27;t really bother them if the water is not warm and stagnant (like a nice clean lake). The biggest killer is storing them still wet.


type: comment
by: andreasgl
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  There’s an option for setting the visibility of your posts: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;post&#x2F;3kgbz6tc6gl24" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;post&#x2F;3kgbz6tc6gl24</a>


type: comment
by: dogma1138
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  500g is like 3 T-shirts worth even if your clothing is 100% synthetic you aren’t loosing 3-4 shirts worth of fabric in washing a year.<p>It wouldn’t surprise me if a large part of that 500g are due to the use of detergent pods.<p>If anything that 500g is an astronomically high number even for a family of 4.


type: comment
by: jasonvorhe
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  IMHO, CCC is completely defanged as a political institution. They went along with contact tracing because the local app was open source and somewhat secure and many of the regulars in local spaces people will cause lots of drama if you don&#x27;t wear a mask in 2025.<p>Most local hackerspaces I visited are basically green and leftist queer safe spaces where adults run around with stuffed animals. If that&#x27;s what you&#x27;re looking for, great, I&#x27;m not judging, it just doesn&#x27;t click with me. I used to visit hackerpaces during my travels but regardless of how open and kind I approach a new place, once they ask me to mask up or inquire for my pronouns things just don&#x27;t end well, even if I&#x27;m really polite in explaining my position. That&#x27;s not the tolerance and open mindedness I encountered around 2009 during my first C3.<p>Still, I wish everyone attending the best of times. There&#x27;s so many people there that I imagine you&#x27;ll be able to find the right folks if you&#x27;re there and look around.<p>Not looking for a debate or inciting hate towards anyone here.


type: comment
by: spacechild1
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  Maybe you should do some basic research instead of speculating. Rob Pike is not just some random software developer who might worry about his job.


type: comment
by: beAbU
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  There is a specific personality type, not sure which type exactly but it overlaps with the CEO&#x2F;Executive type, who&#x27;se brains are completely and utterly short circuted by LLMs. They are completely consumed by it and they struggle to imagine a world without LLMs, or a problem that can be solved by anything other than an LLM.<p>They got a new hammer, and suddenly everything around them become nails. It&#x27;s as if they have no immunity against the LLM brain virus or something.<p>It&#x27;s the type of personality that thinks it&#x27;s a good idea to give an agent the ability to harass a bunch of luminaries of our era with empty platitudes.


type: comment
by: Lerc
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  Nevertheless it does seem that generating will fairly soon become fast enough to extend a video clip in realtime. Autoregressive by the second. Integrated with a multi modal input model you would be very close to an AI avatar that would be extremely compelling.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
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  <p><pre><code>    &gt; new volunteer undertaking </code></pre> Is your town&#x2F;village fully volunteer fire fighters, or a mixed bag of paid pros combined with volunteers?  Personally, I always thought a first aid course could be very useful in real life.


type: comment
by: lewiscollard
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  I am going to get good at TIG welding. This is mostly because there&#x27;s a lot of subprojects of my car that would really benefit from me doing TIG - stainless, aluminium, etc (I already got pretty good at MIG for mild steel).<p>But also, AI. Previously my worry was &quot;AI is not going to be good enough to replace me, but the people who make the decisions might think it is&quot;. After actually using a code assistant myself lately that turned into &quot;AI is going to replace me&quot;. No, it&#x27;s not that good _yet_ (it still needs lots of nudging and shepherding) but I don&#x27;t think the odds are good of my job title existing in a decade.<p>LLMs can&#x27;t wield a TIG torch yet and the work pays well. Being good at it is a good hedge against this industry being eaten by AI.


type: comment
by: jokoon
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  It&#x27;s just insane that I can&#x27;t find biscuits will less sugar.<p>Not aspartame or similar, just biscuits will half or one third of the sugar.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
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  This is something I&#x27;ve been thinking of as well. There&#x27;s actually a demo implementation with few games that support fully remote gaming but the problem I&#x27;ve been running into is some memory limitations on iOS devices causing crashes. On Android everything seems to work a-ok. I think the iOS problem can be solved, just will take some time


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  Hanspeter Mössenböck created Oberon-2 with feedback from Niklaus Wirth, and later went on to focus on .NET and Java instead, several of his studends have contributed to MaximeVM and later GraalVM research.<p>Meanwhile the Oberon community diverged into Active Oberon, Zonnon, Component Pascal.<p>However for Niklaus Wirth those were distractions, and he looked into how to take further features away from Oberon, which was already less feature rich than Modula-2.<p>There were a few revisions from Oberon-07 between 2008 and 2016, each removing even more language features, before his retirement from computing world.<p>&quot;Differences between Revised Oberon and Oberon&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;Oberon&#x2F;Oberon07.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;Oberon&#x2F;Oberon07.pdf</a><p>&quot;Porting the Oberon Compiler from Oberon to Oberon-07&quot;<p>The latest revision being,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;Oberon&#x2F;Oberon07.Report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.inf.ethz.ch&#x2F;wirth&#x2F;Oberon&#x2F;Oberon07.Report.pdf</a><p>Niklaus Wirth goal became how to remove &quot;needless fluff&quot; out of Oberon, and still get enough features to have a systems programming language with a GC.


type: comment
by: zaptheimpaler
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  China is doing human gene editing and embryo cloning too, we should get right on that. They&#x27;re harvesting organs from a captive population too, we should do that as well otherwise we might fall behind on transplants &amp; all the money &amp; science involved with that. Lots of countries have drafts and mandatory military service too. This is the zero-morality darwinian view, all is fair in competition. In this view, any stealing that China or anyone does is perfectly fine too because they too need to compete with the US.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
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  This sounds very cool!  Can you share a link to your company website, or are you only selling on eBay or Etsy?  I think 3D printed stuff can make great creative gifts.


type: comment
by: hawk_
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  You just copy paste as in you copy paste all the necessary context and the results. You don&#x27;t give it access to your codebase for read or write, correct?


type: comment
by: jmpavlec
text:
  You can give <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gametje.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gametje.com</a> a try. I created an Android TV app for it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.gametje">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.google.com&#x2F;store&#x2F;apps&#x2F;details?id=com.gametje</a>). Also works in browsers&#x2F;remote calls etc. It is slower paced play from smart phones more akin to Jackbox Games (not action games).<p>(Also free to play with a Guest account)


type: comment
by: Nextgrid
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  Automatic transmissions (for EU where manual is popular - I guess this doesn’t apply in countries where everyone drives automatics already) are generally only available with higher trim levels and yet don’t cost much more to rent, so this might be an option to get a “nicer” rental.


type: comment
by: gremlinsinc
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  I&#x27;m going to learn to ship things. I can build a full SaaS in 5 days using Claude so there is no excuse for me not to ship.<p>I&#x27;ve been out of work 2 years, had to do a GoFundMe just to survive the winter, and I raised 5k which gave me a runway to get off Uber and Lyft and focus on finding clients to build for add with chatGPT I think I&#x27;m in the verge of figuring this freelance thing out ..<p>other things to learn: I want to get AWS certified and work on other certifications like Service Now... or sales force...<p>I&#x27;m wanting a digital agency but need to figure out the sales aspect.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
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  Thanks for your openness about with struggling with mental health.  It is brutal.  For me, exercise really helped.  For others, it is reconnecting (or getting closer) with friends and family.  Keep at it -- you can beat it!


type: comment
by: delis-thumbs-7e
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  I don’t know any specific name for it, but it is fairly common reading technique used in literary analysis. If you ready any kind of poetry more refined (say [1] or [2]) in its internal structure, it is an absolute necessity.<p>It is quite amazing how many people do not know that there is a multitude of reading techniques to be used with various kinds of texts. You need to use a right tool for the job. Tolkien’s passages describing the Middle Earths ecological landscape are particularly rich calling for careful reading and lingual analysis. I believe he uses almost sole old Celtic words in those passages, avoiding any newer latin-based words more familiar to a modern reader, which cannot be a coincidence.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poetryfoundation.org&#x2F;poems&#x2F;46452&#x2F;to-an-athlete-dying-young" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.poetryfoundation.org&#x2F;poems&#x2F;46452&#x2F;to-an-athlete-d...</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;poets.org&#x2F;poem&#x2F;having-coke-you" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;poets.org&#x2F;poem&#x2F;having-coke-you</a>


type: comment
by: seec
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  I don&#x27;t feel like we are in disagreement. I don&#x27;t advocate to make everything needlesly tedious on mobile.<p>I&#x27;m just saying that you have to do the basics right for the &quot;commoner&quot; but it is not necesseraly needed for the &quot;good stuff&quot;.<p>Look at books layout, there are very clear difference depending on target demographics. If you want to mass market stuff, go ahead, do &quot;mobile first&quot; or whatever. But if you have high-quality content that require a good layout, it is not worth much to spend time &quot;optimizing&quot; for access patterns that woud barely get used.<p>The best cookbooks I have are all physical, because reproducing the experience&#x2F;layout for mobile is impossible, if you want to do a quality product, at some point you have to define a minimum viable standard, otherwise you end up with with infinite scroll and that&#x27;s not terribly usefull.


type: comment
by: spacechild1
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  Kudos to Rob for speaking out! It&#x27;s important to have prominent voices who point out the ethical, environmental and societal issues of unregulated AI systems.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  The same, hardware available for Windows users, as work devices at several companies, used by researchers that work at said companies,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcspecialist.de&#x2F;kundenspezifische-laptops&#x2F;nvidia-rtx-50-laptops&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pcspecialist.de&#x2F;kundenspezifische-laptops&#x2F;nvidia...</a><p>Which as usual, kind of work but not really, in GNU&#x2F;Linux.


type: comment
by: slurrpurr
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  Its regardlessly still computer-adjacent, not like the talk linked from 39c3<p>Ok let me rephrase then if you didn’t understand my point: Its getting too filled with politics that don’t have anything to do with computers


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
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  I&#x27;ve tested it to work on newer LG TV&#x27;s but at the moment since the games have not yet been super optimized, it will most likely be somewhat laggy if the TV doesn&#x27;t have enough computing power. Something to work on for the future since I agree that it would be great to just have the app on a smart tv for super easy accessibility


type: comment
by: squigz
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  &gt; If no privacy preserving technical solution can be found, then expect the non-privacy preserving to be the only model.<p>There is no technical solution, privacy preserving or otherwise, that can stave off this purported threat.<p>Out of curiosity, what is the timeline here? LLMs have been a thing for a while now, and I&#x27;ve been reading about how they&#x27;re going to bring about the death of the Internet since day 1.


type: comment
by: brailsafe
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  The switches are much lighter to the touch, and although I also prefer scissor switches, I&#x27;ve grown to like the mWave switches too. The lighter switch feel causes some typos, and I&#x27;m  not yet as fast on it as even my MacBook keyboard, but there&#x27;s always an adjustment period. They&#x27;re also a little louder than the sculpt, but nothing remotely close to other mechanical switch types, and I think I might even say it&#x27;s just a different type of sound, since I can type more softly than before.<p>The palm rest is a more comfortable softer pad than the the o.g sculpt, but I find for me it does get a little sweaty. I take Adhd meds during the day and drink a shit ton of coffee, so tend have very sweaty hands. I can&#x27;t yet speak to durability, but the sculpt palm rest starts looking tattered around the ~2 year mark, while the Matias palm rest is a replaceable piece of rubber with a fantastic velvety feel (I use it when I&#x27;m at the office).<p>Connectivity is way better than the sculpt, but it&#x27;s a little finicky when switching between devices on Bluetooth, which I feel I might just be doing wrong and haven&#x27;t tried to learn about yet.<p>I find that the keycaps have low quality printed characters on the mac version, and when the backlight is on, some keys are hard to read or don&#x27;t shine through properly.<p>My biggest problem with this keyboard is that it has a small right shift key, a normal size left shift key, and arrow keys that I find less preferable to the sculpt. The small right shift key means it&#x27;s harder to position my shoulders in an ideal way compared to the sculpt for my ridiculously large hands, and I have to contort my wrist a bit more than I&#x27;d like. I also just can&#x27;t feel my way around the board as easily, since I used the shift keys and arrows as anchor points.<p>As I&#x27;ve gotten used to it a little more, this is becoming less of an issue.<p>For portability, the overall build feels more solid than the sculpt, which would sometimes get stuck keys if I&#x27;d throw it in my backpack and get a piece of dirt in there or something. The better connectivity is a huge relief, since I don&#x27;t need to worry about a dongle for wireless, and&#x2F;or can use a usbc cable if the batteries are dead. It seems a bit shorter but chonkier, and maybe weighs less.<p>So that&#x27;s my review. 8.5&#x2F;10, since some of these lean toward preferences rather than quality. I&#x27;m not as confident touch typing with it yet, maybe 70% as confident, but I think I&#x27;ll keep it and refine that skill.<p>Additionally, although the printed&#x2F;etched characters on the keycaps are low quality, I&#x27;m glad there&#x27;s mac variant. I did use the sculpt overwhelmingly on my mac, and had to remap keys, which I&#x27;ll now do if necessary on my windows PC for the minority of time I&#x27;m using it there.


type: comment
by: Halan
text:
  Always fingerpick test if the monitor throws a number you don’t feel.<p>Any diabetic person must have heard and read this recommendation a thousand times.<p>The actual scenario to worry about is if the number is too high and a close loop system make so the pump injects too much insulin.


type: comment
by: jopsen
text:
  Few, but screenshot the qr code and print it out.<p>Even Facebook supports totp it&#x27;s just well hidden.


type: comment
by: charcircuit
text:
  Even if it was equally or less political than before, it could still be too political for someone that would be worth including.


type: comment
by: samus
text:
  Whether such laws already exist or not was not my point. The problem is that such laws are overreaching in nature.


type: comment
by: darubedarob
text:
  Britain considers american style ban on starmer. That grip for social control tools and narrative reign as its starting to slip.


type: comment
by: znpy
text:
  If you think about economic value, you’re comparing a few large-impact projects (and the impact of plan9 is debatable) versus a multitude of useful but low impact projects (edit: low impact because their scope is often local to some company).<p>I did code a few internal tools with aid by llms and they are delivering business value. If you account for all the instances of these kind of applications of llms, the value create by AI is at least comparable (if not greater) by the value created by Rob Pike.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  This is a great idea.  Countryside driving is lovely in many places in Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia.  Since you are based in Singapore, you can easily go across the border in JB, rent a car and drive into the countryside.  There so much beauty in a slow drive through the Malaysian countryside.  I use Google Maps (satellite view) to find interesting nature, then try to drive to it.


type: comment
by: nomilk
text:
  I found it interesting because they:<p>- Made a RAG in ~50 lines of ruby (practical and efficient)<p>- Perform authorization on chunks in 2 lines of code (!!)<p>- Offload retrieval to Algolia. Since a RAG is essentially LLM + retriever, the retriever typically ends up being most of the work. So using an existing search tool (rather than setting up a dedicated vector db) could save a lot of time&#x2F;hassle when building a RAG.


type: comment
by: rr808
text:
  Wait a second - if you have gsuite it isn&#x27;t a regular gmail account. Did you talk to gsuite team? If you even paid there is real support.


type: comment
by: JohannesGlaser
text:
  I think there’s an important distinction here.<p>What you describe (AGENTS.md, open files, terminals, system prompts) is still context shaping inside the prompt space. It’s about what to load and how much, and yes, that quickly turns into dynamic context engineering.<p>What I’m experimenting with is one step earlier: treating state as an external artifact, not as an emergent property of the prompt. The files aren’t hints or instructions that compete for relevance, but the assistant’s working state itself. On initialization, the model doesn’t decide what to pull in; it reconstructs orientation from a fixed set of artifacts.<p>In that sense it’s not prewarming a cache so much as rebuilding a process from disk. Forgetting, correction, and continuity are handled by explicitly changing those artifacts, not by prompt evolution.<p>I agree there’s a lot of open design space here. My main point was that persistent state tends to be discussed as a prompt or retrieval problem, whereas treating it as first-class state changes the failure modes quite a bit.<p>Curious how far current agent frameworks really go in that direction in practice.


type: comment
by: Gigachad
text:
  So far we have already seen widespread damage. Many sites require a login to view content now, almost all of them have quite restrictive measures to prevent LLM scraping. Many sites are requiring phone number verification. Much of social media is becoming generated slop.<p>And now people are receiving generated emails. And it’s only getting worse.


type: comment
by: jtrn
text:
  They put themselves in the position of having to answer these questions given their claims. I’m not suggesting they should figure out everything about everything, but given the over the top claims made, these are the least they should be able to answer.


type: comment
by: darkreader
text:
  strange motivation and implementation. I mean it real. There are many existing open source projects that run Linux on JS.


type: comment
by: dijit
text:
  If you’re on a contract that can work.<p>If it’s a PAYG sim card then you’re out of luck without the PUK code, which, if you’ve lost the sim then you have most assuredly lost (or never had).<p>PAYG is a lot more common in parts of western Europe than contracts.<p>People associate contracts with “overly expensive” phone deals.


type: comment
by: amunozo
text:
  I, too, speak ridiculously fast. People laugh at me and some (a lot of) people have problems understanding me. As much as I try, as soon as I am not paying attention I speak at the same pace again. Did you manage to slow down your speech consistently?


type: story
by: thrwww3
title: Ask HN: Is the World Moving Towards World War 3
text:
  International conflict and rearmament seems to be in ascendance, while multilateralism, the rule based order and Pax Americana is in decline. Russia is slowly consuming its neighbours. Europe is rearming, openly calling out Russia as its enemy. Japan and China is in a war of words over Taiwan and Japan announces record defence spending. The US is massing its fleets in the Caribbean blockading Venezuela, while making a claim on Greenland. Thailand and Cambodia is firing at each other. In parts of Africa there is coup after coup.<p>It feels as if whatever limits existed on countries to use armed force have weakened.


type: comment
by: bjackman
text:
  &gt; main devs have moved on<p>How confident are you in this statement? I have no particular knowledge of Asahi. But I do know this narrative emerged about Rust-for-Linux after a couple of high-profile individuals quit.<p>In that case it was plainly bogus but this was only obvious if you were somewhat adjacent to the relevant community. So now I&#x27;m curious if it could be the same thing.<p>(Hopefully by now it&#x27;s clear to everyone that R4L is a healthy project, since the official announcement that Rust is no longer &quot;experimental&quot; in the kernel tree).<p>I know Asahi is a much smaller project than R4L so it&#x27;s naturally at higher risk of losing momentum.<p>I would really love Asahi to succeed. I recently bought a Framework and, while I am pretty happy with it in isolation... when I use my partner&#x27;s M4 Macbook Air I just think... damn. The quality of this thing is head and shoulders above the rest of the field. And it doesn&#x27;t even cost more than the competition. If you could run Linux on it, it would be completely insane to use anything else.


type: comment
by: andai
text:
  See also this post by the author:<p><i>Making a micro Linux distro</i> [for RISC-V]<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;popovicu.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;making-a-micro-linux-distro&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;popovicu.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;making-a-micro-linux-distro&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: delis-thumbs-7e
text:
  Although people think LoTR as a novel meant for younger people, it certainly is not an Tolkien never meant it that way and it certainly is not an easy text. It is far more complex than any fantasy I have ever come across. Tolkien was a top language scholar who spoke several even dead languages, so there’s a lot more going on than just the surface plot of Frodo “returning” Bilbo’s ring. One would be mad to simply skim it through.


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  Far from it. The recent XLibre release[1] has a long list of bugfixes and new features.<p>Besides, isn&#x27;t the main complaint from the Wayland folks that X11 is insecure and broken? That means there&#x27;s still a lot of work to be done. They just refuse to do it.<p>To be fair, X11 has worked great for me for the past ~20 years, but there are obvious improvements that can be made.<p>[1]: <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: hxbdbehd
text:
  Many comments here seem to miss the point: this is not running the Linux Kernel in JavaScript<p>This is the Linux Userland reimplemented in JavaScript


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  <p><pre><code>    &gt; Become conversational in Ukrainian. </code></pre> This one caught my eye!  What is your motivation?


type: comment
by: systemtest
text:
  &gt; Maybe it&#x27;s a cultural difference.<p>It appears that you are confused with West European camping, which is where you drive two days to the south of France (most of which stuck in traffic), pay large amounts of money for a patch of perfectly flat grass where you are allowed to park your car and set up your tent. In a grid pattern with hundreds of other tents. Where there is a building nearby for toilets and showers. And a swimming pool plus live entertainment for the children.<p>OP appears to be talking about camping in nature.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  &gt; I want to build the AGI god in order to bring abundance, wealth, and prosperity to all of humanity.<p>What&#x27;s the plan to make sure that progress in AI leads to predominantly positive outcomes for people? All the people I&#x27;ve asked who work at the major AI companies haven&#x27;t given an answer, except to say that they don&#x27;t study safety or societal impacts, but know others who do.<p>If you don&#x27;t have an answer, can I humbly suggest that you add finding one to your list?


type: comment
by: fuzzfactor
text:
  Nobody ever regretted anything about an HP printer, or an HP laptop having inadequate mechanical design?<p>Oh wait, reviews were not great, never mind.


type: comment
by: barrell
text:
  I do this a lot as well. I have a bad habit of just freezing physically when I start to think. Since my work is conducted over video, my colleagues will often think I dropped off the call XD<p>Personally I find it a bad habit of mine, I have no idea how people gracefully take time to think. Whenever I do say something like “hold on, let me just think for a moment” my brain completely freezes and I get no thinking done.


type: comment
by: jmpavlec
text:
  I know these guys. Definitely give their games a try! They are actively developing and making it better every week. It&#x27;s especially fun in person. My favorite game is the dodgeball game.<p>If you prefer more quiz&#x2F;slower paced games akin to Jackbox. You can check out my project which was also on HackerNews recently: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45887709">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45887709</a>


type: comment
by: justinjeff
text:
  Latency stops being a technical parameter and becomes a side effect of interaction. What matters is not delivery speed, but how meaning accumulates over time.


type: comment
by: caro_kann
text:
  Looks like I&#x27;m in that path you&#x27;ve already passed. From January I have to learn CDK because my current job requires me to do. Also planning on to obtain those AWS Cloud Certificates.


type: comment
by: ares623
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t be angry if current AI _only_ automated programmers&#x2F;software engineers. I&#x27;d be worried and stressed out, but not angry.<p>But it also automates _everything else_. Art and self-expression, most especially. And it did so in a way that is really fucking disgusting.


type: comment
by: justinjeff
text:
  There’s no single “correct” latency. It’s not a fixed parameter but a variable tied to the threat model and the economics of surveillance.<p>For low-risk, everyday coordination, minutes might be sufficient. For high-value intelligence, latency needs to be long enough to break the temporal correlation between input and outcome.<p>If monitoring a 24-hour window costs an adversary $X, the goal is to stretch the window until the cost of semantic inference exceeds the value of the information being inferred. Beyond that point, surveillance becomes economically irrational.<p>In that sense, latency functions like a currency: users “spend” time to buy lower observability. How much they’re willing to spend depends entirely on what they’re protecting and from whom.


type: comment
by: traceroute66
text:
  &gt;  You don&#x27;t want pilots with their heads down in a computer making changes when they can, and should, just fly the plane.<p>There is a famous video on youtube, <i>&#x27;Children of the Magenta Line&#x27;</i>, an extract from an American Airlines course decades ago.<p>Well worth the watch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs</a>


type: comment
by: esperent
text:
  &gt;  I hate the vendor lock in Anthropic is pushing with CC.<p>Accepting any kind of vendor lock in within this space at the moment is an incredibly bad idea. Who knows what will get released next week, let alone the next year. Anthropic might be dead in the water in six months. It&#x27;s unlikely but not impossible. Expand that to a couple of years and it&#x27;s not even that unlikely.


type: comment
by: karolzlot
text:
  If anyone has doubts about this, check out this map in another article on this site, it&#x27;s second map in this article and it has this title under it:  &quot;Potential Side Effects of a 100% Tariff&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maarthandam.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;trumps-brics-tariff-history-shows-retaliation-risks&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maarthandam.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;01&#x2F;trumps-brics-tariff-histo...</a><p>I think it&#x27;s easier to confirm usage of LLMs by images than by text.


type: comment
by: vnorilo
text:
  Probably true for many. When thinking about hard problems I&#x27;m usually not thinking in language, at least not the kind we speak between us humans, so it can be incredibly distracting if I have to &quot;translate&quot; back and forth while both thinking and communicating.


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  <p><pre><code>    &gt; Thinking about getting a personal trainer, because I try to stay active, but have no idea how to actually work out. </code></pre> This is a great idea if you have the money for it.  Don&#x27;t feel guilty about just a few sessions to build up a set exercises that works for you.  Then you can circle back 2-4 times per year, do a few more sessions to up your game.  For me, exercise was a fuckin&#x27; game changer for my mental health.  Even when I struggle to get out of bed in the morning, missing a workout makes me feel muuuuuuch worse (mentally and physically).<p>Edit:<p>Another thing I just thought of: If a personal trainer is too expensive, consider signing up for a free trial of one of a million different online apps that help you build and structure a workout.  Example (no shill here): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpstrength.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rpstrength.com&#x2F;</a>.  There are lots of competitors.  Don&#x27;t worry about getting everything perfect on the first try.  The real trick to exercise is finding what works for <i>you</i>.  Dr. Mike (from RP) is constantly banging the drum about experimenting with your own body and health through exercise and diet.  Ultimately, you know yourself better than anyone else on this planet.


type: story
by: cwilvx
title: Show HN: A music streaming server to browse the Spotify Archive
url: https://github.com/swingmx/swingmusic
text:
  Swing Music is super fast self-hosted music streaming server designed to have a clean UI, accurate music association and auto generated mixes based on your listen activity.


type: comment
by: nemothekid
text:
  &gt;<i>We don&#x27;t have to wait for singular companies or foundations to fix ecosystem problems.</i><p>Geohot has been working on this for about a year, and every roadblock he&#x27;s encountered he has had to damn near pester <i>Lisa Su</i> about getting drivers fixed. If you want the CUDA replacement that would work on AMD, you need to wait on AMD. If there is a bug in the AMD microcode, you are effectively &quot;stopped by AMD&quot;.


type: comment
by: joe_vanachi
text:
  you mean too much politics you disagree with<p>also everything is political, whether you like it or not


type: comment
by: throwaway2037
text:
  <p><pre><code>    &gt; I&#x27;ve written about </code></pre> If you are willing, can you share a link to any public writing?  I&#x27;m surprised that we don&#x27;t see more blog posts shared in HN about people&#x27;s stuggle with mental health.  You definitely see HN <i>posts</i> about it, but I don&#x27;t see so much blog post sharing.


type: comment
by: tobi_bsf
text:
  too bad they archived this level of compatibility only on hardware you cannot easily access anymore.


type: comment
by: _nub3
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;gDvhC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;gDvhC</a>


type: comment
by: rswail
text:
  Based on the use of LLVM I guessed &quot;Machine Learning Intermediate Representation&quot;?<p>How close was I?


type: comment
by: kazinator
text:
  It&#x27;s interesting how so many of the versions have an end rhyme with &quot;ay&quot;, even when it doesn&#x27;t match anything in the twisted tune itself.<p>It&#x27;s obviously rhyming with the original song, which has &quot;all the way&quot; and &quot;sleigh&quot;.<p>I.e. you need at least the final &quot;ay&quot; in order to properly evoke that phonetic aspect of the original.


type: comment
by: figmert
text:
  Branches are expected to change, tags are not. Tags are also mildly harder to change. A tag seems more apt for an archived branch. So I sort of see where OP comes from.


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  Ya I agree. Manufacturing is hard, but Apple has it <i>generally</i> locked in. Apple&#x27;s greatest weakness has always been ergonomics. Their mice are built well, but they&#x27;re little more than art projects in terms of usability. Their <i>external</i> scissor switch keyboards (I hated their older keyboards) have always been quite good for what they are, and if they made one in the shape of the sculpt, I&#x27;d try it. The magic trackpad is amazing, but I just find myself never reaching for it compared to my mx master 3


type: comment
by: Gud
text:
  When you work for Google, you normalize working for organizations that directly contributes to making the world a fucked up place, even if you are just writing some open source(a corporate term, by the way). You are normalizing working for Google.<p>And regarding countries, this is a silly argument. You are forced to pay taxes to the nation you are living in.


type: comment
by: ultratalk
text:
  I did! It took me a few months though. You just have to work at it a lot and be very conscious of your speech.


type: comment
by: justinjeff
text:
  I think both points connect to the same underlying issue.<p>High latency isn’t a fixed number (days vs months), and it’s not something users are simply asked to tolerate. It’s a variable tied to both the threat model and how latency is experienced.<p>From a security perspective, latency only needs to be long enough to break meaningful temporal correlation. Once the cost of inferring “when coordination happened” exceeds the value of that inference, surveillance becomes economically irrational. In that sense, latency is a currency: time is spent to buy lower observability.<p>From a human perspective, the problem isn’t patience per se, but idle waiting. If latency is experienced as dead time, users reject it. If it’s embedded in ordinary interaction—play, participation, progression—then the wait stops feeling like a delay and starts feeling like part of the system’s normal operation.<p>So the model isn’t about slow messaging. It’s about replacing explicit message delivery with gradual context alignment. Latency becomes a side effect of interaction, not a parameter users stare at.<p>At that point, the limiting factor really is psychological—but less about endurance, and more about whether people can operate without expecting immediacy as a signal of meaning.


type: comment
by: Ma8ee
text:
  If you use that much time for donkey work, you are using the wrong tools. If it is so simple so that can delegate it to a LLM, you need to use a language with more expressive power.


type: comment
by: shipi18n
text:
  Its a great idea, the only thing is I feel like the &quot;FLIP&quot; itself doesn&#x27;t seem like a true flip. If you could do something else withe the UI to simulate a flip. We associate coin flipping with a coin going up in the air, the hand over it where you don&#x27;t know the answer and then the reveal. Your site gets the job done, but kind of takes away the suspense.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Yes, few options on the table but nothing set in stone yet. I want to keep the it accessible to as many people as possible, which is why I&#x27;ve been thinking of a &#x27;free&#x27;-tier with some advertisements. Though I realize it can&#x27;t be like Hulu with an aggravating amount of ads as that in itself will be too annoying.<p>For people who&#x27;d like to support the project, get rid of the few ads and possibly also some other extra-features such as in-game avatar wearables or similar, there could be a subscription option as well.<p>Interested to hear what the options you were thinking of were? Nothing is yet implemented on that regard so this is a good time to influence the outcome :D


type: comment
by: varshith17
text:
  You are absolutely right. GPU parallelism (especially reduction ops) combined with floating-point non-associativity means the same model can produce slightly different embeddings on different hardware.<p>However, that makes deterministic memory more critical, not less.<p>Right now, we have &#x27;Double Non-Determinism&#x27;:<p>The Model produces drifting floats.<p>The Vector DB (using f32) introduces more drift during indexing and search (different HNSW graph structures on different CPUs).<p>Valori acts as a Stabilization Boundary. We can&#x27;t fix the GPU (yet), but once that vector hits our kernel, we normalize it to Q16.16 and freeze it. This guarantees that Input A + Database State B = Result C every single time, regardless of whether the server is x86 or ARM.<p>Without this boundary, you can&#x27;t even audit where the drift came from.


type: comment
by: danabramov
text:
  Here is the raw post on the AT Protocol if you want to access it directly: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6...</a><p><i>&gt;This is done for the same reason Threads blocks all access without a login and mostly twitter to. Its to force account creation, collection of user data and support increased monetization.</i><p>I worked at Bluesky when the decision to add this setting was made, and your assessment of why it was added is wrong.<p>The historical reason it was added is because early on the site had no public web interface <i>at all</i>. And by the time it was being added, there was a lot of concern from the users who misunderstood the nature of the app (despite warnings when signing up that all data is public) and who were worried that suddenly having a low-friction way to view their accounts would invite a wave of harassment. The team was very torn on this but decided to add the user-controlled ability to add this barrier, off by default.<p>Obviously, on a public network, this is still not a real gate (as I showed earlier, you can still see content through any alternative apps). This is why the setting is called &quot;Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users&quot; and it has a disclaimer:<p><i>&gt;Bluesky is an open and public network. This setting only limits the visibility of your content on the Bluesky app and website, and other apps may not respect this setting. Your content may still be shown to logged-out users by other apps and websites.</i><p>Still, in practice, many users found this setting helpful to limit waves of harassment if a post of theirs escaped containment, and the setting was kept.


type: comment
by: treetalker
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;ValerioCapraro&#x2F;status&#x2F;2003457899805233538" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;ValerioCapraro&#x2F;status&#x2F;200345789980523353...</a>


type: comment
by: khedoros1
text:
  I think I found, and memorized, that about 25 years ago. There was a list of other songs in the file too.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  These are great. I recently started taking phone holidays, usually on weekends, where for a whole day I don&#x27;t allow myself to use my phone except to communicate with people.* Sometimes I just wind up bored, sometimes I wind up spending my time better. I&#x27;ve been gradually increasing how frequently I do this.<p>How would you go about learning to ask better questions?<p>*Thinking how strange this sentence would sound 20 years ago.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s this sick belief in parts of society that criminals (which becomes a permanent state of being) are valid targets for unlimited suffering.<p>Only poor criminals. They are all protective of rich white collar criminals, vote for criminal president etc.


type: comment
by: varshith17
text:
  Switching GPUs to integer (Quantization) is happening, yes. But that only fixes the inference step.<p>The problem Valori solves is downstream: Memory State.<p>We can accept &#x27;Approximate Computing&#x27; for generating a probability distribution (the model&#x27;s thought). We cannot accept it for storing and retrieving that state (the system&#x27;s memory).<p>If I &#x27;resign myself&#x27; to approximate memory, I can&#x27;t build consensus, I can&#x27;t audit decisions, and I can&#x27;t sync state between nodes.<p>&#x27;Approximate Nearest Neighbor&#x27; (ANN) refers to the algorithm&#x27;s recall trade-off, not an excuse for hardware-dependent non-determinism. Valori proves you can have approximate search that is still bit-perfectly reproducible. Correctness shouldn&#x27;t be a casualty of the AI age.


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  &gt; I didn&#x27;t know it was possible to mess up a scissor switch keyboard, but apparently Matias found a way to do so.<p>That indeed does seem to be the sentiment, and seems true, but to be fair, Apple also botched their laptop keyboards to the point of class action for years. But the current Macbook Pro keyboard seems fine so far.


type: comment
by: jstummbillig
text:
  I am guessing: Maybe you are not used to or comfortable with delegating work?<p>You will certainly understand a program better where you write every line of code yourself, but that limits your output. It&#x27;s a trade-off.<p>The part that makes it work quite well is that you can also use the LLM to better understand the code where required, simply by asking.


type: story
by: _____k
title: Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars
url:
  https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-sees-possible-runaway-black-hole-creating-a-trail-of-stars/


type: comment
by: throwfaraway135
text:
  typst is so much nicer than latex, although unfortunately a lot of universities&#x2F;publishers still accept only latex.


type: comment
by: tomhow
text:
  Comments moved to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46390667">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46390667</a>.


type: story
by: rustoo
title: Calcutta High Court Flags Unfair Exclusion of IndiaMART by ChatGPT
url:
  https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/calcutta-high-court/strong-prima-facie-case-calcutta-high-court-flags-unfair-exclusion-of-indiamart-by-chatgpt-defers-interim-relief-pending-openai-hearing-514477


type: comment
by: fc417fc802
text:
  If it isn&#x27;t backed up it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>Corollary (likely unpopular I&#x27;d hazard) - hardware token implementations that I can&#x27;t back up to paper don&#x27;t exist as far as I&#x27;m concerned.


type: comment
by: seec
text:
  As someone who sarted with Apple in the PowerPC days I couldn&#x27;t agree more. To me it seems like the only real advantage is good battery, but I can&#x27;t figure out who exactly is running powerfull&#x2F;complicated software on the go where it matters.<p>If you just need to browse the web and whatnot, just get a cheap tablet?<p>For all the good softwares, it seems like you just get much better performance out of a much lowered priced PC. I just don&#x27;t get who is benifiting for the 1-2 hours of supplementary runtime out of a MacBook and this is wortht the price delta as well as the hassle of dealing with all the specificity of that software implementation.<p>But then again, my experience with Apple users is that they are not the most logical peoples around, so maybe that&#x27;s just it.<p>I still like some parts of macOS but it has been very hard to justify considering how Apple has been behaving lately.<p>If Apple manages to produce a decent iMac soon enough, it might just bite the bullet once again, but otherwise I&#x27;m out.


type: comment
by: awesome_dude
text:
  I have an upcoming trip planned in asia - never been before.<p>My firm rule is - have a loose plan, aim for one activity per day, an emergency option, or two, if the weather plays up, and that&#x27;s it.<p>It&#x27;s the type of plan that has worked for every holiday that I have taken that involves a different city to the one I live in.


type: comment
by: spit2wind
text:
  Do you have any particular resources lined up?<p>Regarding how computers work under the hood, i can recommend Nand2Tetris.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nand2tetris.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nand2tetris.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  Maybe, or they did. The switches on my Matias Sculpted only detract from the design imo. They feel crunchy and don&#x27;t align well with their cutouts. I&#x27;m fully willing to believe that their reputation comes from not investing heavily in reducing the variability in their manufacturing process. Once a viable but far from imperfect product gets shipped, they might stop improving it, idk tho.


type: comment
by: below43
text:
  Like many others in the replies, I too built something similar. I built a PWA that lets you share files via a URL. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;urlfile.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;urlfile.app</a><p>It also has a note&#x2F;plain text sharing option.


type: comment
by: t0mas88
text:
  But I think you only get to decide for the first kid? All following kids will have the same family name. At least that&#x27;s the rule in the Netherlands.


type: comment
by: tovej
text:
  If all this does is give you the data from a contact API, why not just let the users directly interact with the API? The LLM is just extra bloat in this case.<p>Surely a fuzzy search by name or some other field is a much better UI for this.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  &gt; 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 learned that the hard way. I used to think my science background as an asset but I stopped mentioning my science background after seeing people&#x27;s reaction in interviews.


type: comment
by: seec
text:
  Yeah I don&#x27;t get the hate. The only issues I have had with the &quot;Pro&quot; version of Windows were hardware related and it wasn&#x27;t a big deal.


type: comment
by: danabramov
text:
  That&#x27;s not correct.<p>The setting is mostly cosmetic and only affects the Bluesky official app and web interface. People do find this setting helpful for curbing external waves of harassment (less motivated people just won&#x27;t bother making an account), but the data is public and is available on the AT protocol: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6w3ic2s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pdsls.dev&#x2F;at:&#x2F;&#x2F;robpike.io&#x2F;app.bsky.feed.post&#x2F;3matwg6...</a><p>So nothing is stopping LLMs from training on that data per se.


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  Because one property doesn&#x27;t guarantee the other. A modular system may imply that it can be extended. An extensible system is not necessarily modular.<p>Wayland, the protocol, may be extensible, but the implementations of it are monolithic. E.g. I can&#x27;t use the xdg-shell implementation from KWin on Mutter, and so on. I&#x27;m stuck with whatever my compositor and applications support. This is the opposite of modularity.<p>So all this protocol extensibility creates in practice is fragmentation. When a compositor proposes a new protocol, it&#x27;s only implemented by itself. Implementations by other compositors can take years, and implementations by client applications decades. This is why it&#x27;s taken 18 years to get close to anything we can refer to as &quot;stable&quot;.


type: comment
by: pancsta
text:
  I do a lot of logical-clock based synchronization using asyncmachine.dev (also in Go), you may want to check it out as “human time” can be error prone and not “tight”. It does involve forming a network state machines, but connections can be partial and nested.<p>Your results are very hard to read due to formatting, but the idea is interesting.


type: comment
by: marticode
text:
  I have almost zero spam (that isn&#x27;t filtered properly). Once in a while I catch a false positive in the spam folder but that&#x27;s about it.


type: comment
by: fuzzfactor
text:
  I recognized the weakness of that theory to begin with.<p>But at least in practice I can run challenging software that would not otherwise run.<p>Plus outperform those having more powerful hardware.<p>Regardless, it would be good to see a worthwhile suggestion when it comes to public benchmarks.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  It&#x27;s not open source but in the future once the 3rd party game development SDK has been published, community contributed games can be a reality.<p>The way I&#x27;ve been thinking it could work is that developers can upload their own games to the platform and by default the games would only be visible under their own accounts and in order to play the uploaded game the developer account would have to be in the session.<p>Then if the developer would like to publish their game for others to play as well they could just check a box. After that the game would go to a &quot;New drops&quot; playlist where players everywhere can test out different new games and rate them at the end. The games gathering most votes would then be upgraded to the main playlists. In a nutshell the system would work somewhat similar to HN frontpage and new submission pools


type: comment
by: csomar
text:
  It&#x27;s a non-default setting. So no. I am not sure what you disagree with exactly? We can call out BlueSky when they over-reach, but this is simply not it.


type: comment
by: MobiusHorizons
text:
  &gt; Conclusion: Coderive doesn&#x27;t just make loops faster—it redefines what&#x27;s computationally possible on commodity hardware.<p>I mean this as kindly as possible, but please don’t say things like this if you want to be taken seriously. Computer languages cannot possibly change what is possible on a given machine for the simple reason that whatever they are doing had to previously be possible in assembly on the same machine.<p>I don’t mean to overly discourage you. Lazy execution can be very useful, but it’s also not clearly new or hard to get in other languages (although it would require different syntax than an idiomatic for loop most of the time). It may help to try to pick an example where the lazy execution is actually exercised. Preferably one that would be hard for an optimizing compiler to optimize.<p>I would also not recommend claiming iteration if you also claim 50ms, since that’s clearly impossible regardless of memory consumption, so you have to optimize away or defer the work in some way (at which point iteration is no longer occurring).<p>For these examples, I think you would just express the code as a function taking i instead of pre-populating the array. This doesn’t seem hard at least for the provided examples, and has the benefit that it can be opted into when appropriate.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  I think fundamentally it&#x27;s because it&#x27;s a better language than C and more pleasant to write.<p>Sure there will be a lot of old codgers who don&#x27;t want to learn new things (surprisingly common in the tech industry), but eventually they&#x27;ll retire or die, and <i>new</i> kernel devs will be very unlikely to pick C over Rust.<p>The security thing is definitely a driving force but I think probably not <i>that</i> much just compared to how much easier and more pleasant it is to write correct Rust than correct C (in most cases).


type: comment
by: jek88
text:
  Gee I wonder what happened?<p>Dude it got banned for bypassing DRM (against Github ToS) or they received a DMCA.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Thanks! The community ratings &amp; games is something I&#x27;ve been thinking of as well. I wrote a more detailed reply of the system I&#x27;ve envisioned above :)


type: comment
by: mitjam
text:
  I want to learn to launch and grow a paid app, I‘ve built a few SaaS and installed apps up to a point of „80% ready to launch“, but did not go all the way. I don’t quite know what‘s holding me back but I realized that this is what’s most important for me to learn when it comes to my software side endeavor.


type: comment
by: DHolzer
text:
  The user had more arguments than just &quot;it&#x27;s all politics&quot;. What level of scrutiny does his statement have to hold up to? Because as far as I am concerned this is not here to find scientific truths.


type: story
by: migambi
title: Show HN: Fileloom – HTML to PDF API with 70 Handlebars Helpers
url: https://fileloom.io/
text:
  Hey HN, I built Fileloom because I kept running into the same problems with PDF generation: font rendering breaks on Linux servers, Puppeteer setup is painful, and most services charge $15-30&#x2F;month for only a few hundred PDFs. Fileloom is a simple PDF generation API. Send HTML (or use saved templates with Handlebars syntax), get a PDF back in under 2 seconds. What&#x27;s included:<p>Single endpoint: POST to &#x2F;v1&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;generate 70+ built-in Handlebars helpers (currency formatting, dates, loops, conditionals, math) Automatic font handling - no more debugging why fonts work locally but not in production Store PDFs on our infrastructure or yours (S3, Supabase) Webhooks for pdf.generated and pdf.failed events<p>Free tier is 200 PDFs&#x2F;month, no credit card required. Paid plans start at $7.20&#x2F;month. I&#x27;d appreciate feedback on the API design and developer experience.


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  &gt; I am guessing: Maybe you are not used to or comfortable with delegating work?<p>The difference between delegating to a human vs an LLM is that a human is liable for understanding it, regardless of how it got there. Delegating to an LLM means you&#x27;re just more rapidly creating liabilities for yourself, which indeed is a worthwhile tradeoff depending on the complexity of what you&#x27;re losing intimate knowledge of.


type: comment
by: t0mas88
text:
  I agree, after 6 BMWs I&#x27;m now looking at other options.<p>The new models don&#x27;t work well for me. And things like the original adaptive suspension that the 6 and 7 series had (e.g. active antirollbars, true variable steering ratio and rear wheel steering) have been downgraded in newer models.<p>Their EVs also aren&#x27;t that good. They&#x27;re trying to catch up instead of leading innovation, while still at a high price point.


type: comment
by: godelski
text:
  Oh interesting, thanks. Do you know how well that compares with Mullvad? I know Tor and them collaborate on the browser but I&#x27;m traveling right now and Mullvad&#x27;s is definitely getting picked up by some routers


type: comment
by: fc417fc802
text:
  Doesn&#x27;t completely solve the problem. You now have to pay per (unaffiliated) alias since each requires an independent domain. You also become extremely vulnerable to data breaches because rather than learning that foo@provider is john.doe@provider with IP xxx you instead learn that foo@domain is John Doe, phone number, street address, credit card, etc.<p>This issue goes far beyond email alone. The ICANN domain system effectively rents a string out to you on a temporarily basis and mandates that an Impressum be attached to it. It&#x27;s a deeply flawed scheme when viewed from the context of both historical hacker culture as well as the fundamental values of a free and open society.


type: comment
by: lolc
text:
  As a current user of Juggluco I agree that its usability is bad. Easily the worst from the apps I&#x27;m using.<p>I actually blame Abbott for there not being a better app. People fear litigation from Abbott and don&#x27;t work on any.


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  This has been sorely missing. I&#x27;ve been playing Jackbox games with friends, and that&#x27;s been the closest we&#x27;ve gotten to the ideal, but their games are slower-paced and thus rely more on mechanics that don&#x27;t translate well across cultures.<p>A gaming platform like this hits all the pain points, I&#x27;ll try it soon and see if the games are good, thanks!


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Somehow I&#x27;ve totally missed pokemon stadium minigames even though I did play a lot of pokemon back in the day. Or maybe my memory is just not what it used to be. Either way, thanks for mentioning them and hope you have a great gaming session later on!


type: comment
by: beAbU
text:
  I hope war reaches you one day, in all it&#x27;s terrifying glory. The we can circle back to this conversation and reflect on how you feel about contributing to humanity&#x27;s readiness against that alien invasion.<p>Humans aren&#x27;t cells. We are individual sentient beings.


type: comment
by: brailsafe
text:
  I&#x27;d like to get better at time management and relevant math maybe. LLMs are pretty boring already, quality dropped off, trust decreasing.<p>Also swimming and rope climbing. Can&#x27;t swim


type: comment
by: piskov
text:
  The things you are pointing out are 6+ years old.<p>Cooling is the reason intel was ditched: intel promised for years new nodes, and apple designed for new power consumption that never came.<p>You don’t fuck with apple this way unpunished. That’s why nvidia was ditched circa 2013 to never come back.<p>—<p>As for something-gate: engineering is hard, especially on this scale. Still they were (and are) the best option overall.<p>= to be good doesn’t mean to be perfect; you just need to be better than competition.<p>And they are crushing it even in low-cost space. I mean m1 air for $800-900 is uncontested even today for what kind of solid machine you get.


type: comment
by: reppap
text:
  I&#x27;m curious what OS you are running that has broken screen shots on wayland because that hasn&#x27;t been my experience on Fedora.


type: comment
by: runeblaze
text:
  &gt; And if for some ungodly reason you had to do it in Python<p>I literally invoke sglang and vllm in Python. You are supposed to (if not using them over-the-network) use the two fastest inference engines there is via Python.


type: comment
by: pixelesque
text:
  I have exactly the same issue (I get an insane amount of email for other Firstname Surname people that isn&#x27;t me from various other places in the world), but I&#x27;m 100% sure at this point that it&#x27;s people using the wrong email address, as occasionally when I contact the people to let them know they&#x27;ve emailed the wrong address, they have actually told me the real email address they should have used, and they were missing a number, or in one case it should have been an initial instead of the full first name.<p>I used to also think that Google were screwing up by allowing a &#x27;clash&#x27; of firstname.surname and firstnamesurname, and maybe they did a bit in the 2004-2009 period, but with lots of testing over the years (sending test emails to both), I&#x27;m confident now it&#x27;s &#x27;just&#x27; other people&#x27;s emails getting &#x27;simplified&#x27; too much when being told, and it ends up being sent to me.<p>I do however think Google shouldn&#x27;t have allowed that alias situation to arise.<p>I also think (based on the fact that my &#x27;un-dotted&#x27; email alias has been successfully used to sign up for various services for the other people) that many online services just have very poor sign-up validations of emails.


type: comment
by: zarify
text:
  This is the sort of thing that makes me worry about my solar inverter, battery etc. so much remote management stuffed into these things.


type: comment
by: meibo
text:
  Culture changes. Hacker culture in Europe changed too, young people are moving up and taking positions in local organizations. You didn&#x27;t change with it, and you&#x27;re not open to accepting that change, so you are feeling out of place - that&#x27;s simply how this works.<p>A lot of those people will feel welcomed and will be treated with respect that they don&#x27;t usually get everywhere else. They decided to embrace that, it comes at a cost - like you feeling weirded out and not showing up - but they&#x27;re probably fine with that being your problem to figure out.


type: comment
by: jasonvorhe
text:
  I don&#x27;t know man. It&#x27;s always the same debate: It&#x27;s either &quot;too much politics&quot; or  &quot;no change at all&quot; whenever this issue comes up and the &quot;nothing changed&quot; crowd keeps on reminding everyone that C3 &quot;was always like that&quot;. I&#x27;m not requesting a scientific study but if you&#x27;re this convinced that nothing changed despite may old school attendees chiming in to confirm the opposite, perhaps it would be helpful to compare old and new schedules.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  That&#x27;s about the Typescript compiler performance, not runtime. And this project doesn&#x27;t even use Typescript does it?


type: comment
by: Nextgrid
text:
  Can’t disclose too much yet without nuking my competitive advantage, but basically it’s using LLMs to parse lots of scraped data to identify prospective customers in a certain niche - not in the way “these guys might need it” but more like “these guys have explicitly said they need it”, just that the “say” can be in many different channels and formats, and the LLM’s job is to ingest that firehose of trash and pick out the gems.<p>All in all a pretty basic and boring use-case that I’m sure I’m not the only one doing, but it’s frankly the first use-case I have where the probabilistic and imperfect nature of LLMs is actually fine.


type: comment
by: njuhhktlrl
text:
  Remember ex3dfx.com setup by former employees?<p>This is exactly what nvidia tried to do with 3dfx 25 years ago. They have experience of screwing people over!


type: comment
by: teruakohatu
text:
  &gt;  so it&#x27;s not a panacea you can count on in production.<p>OpenAI and Gemini models can handle ridiculously complicated and convoluted schemas, if I needed complicated JSON output I wouldn’t use anything that didn’t guarantee it.<p>I have pushed Gemini 2.5 Pro further than I thought possible when it comes to ridiculously over complicated (by necessity) structured output.


type: comment
by: netsharc
text:
  Your comment is one of several that doesn&#x27;t distinguish between corporate VPNs (to access internal systems) and commercial VPNs (to bypass country-level laws and restrictions). Do you not think the lawmakers would realize this difference, it&#x27;s a cartoonish level of understanding if you think lawmakers will accidentally ban any software with the term &quot;VPN&quot; in it. They&#x27;ll describe a ban of tools&#x2F;services to circumvent the laws..


type: comment
by: avhception
text:
  Maybe it&#x27;s just that you&#x27;re mostly viewing this through the LLM lens?<p>I remember having to fight with fglrx, AMDs proprietary Linux driver, for hours on end. Just to get hardware-acceleration for my desktop going! That driver was so unbearable I bought Nvidia just because I wanted their proprietary driver. Cut the fiddling time from many hours to maybe 1 or 2!<p>Nowadays, I run AMD because their open-source amdgpu driver means I just plonk the card into the system, and that&#x27;s it. I&#x27;ve had to fiddle with the driver exactly zero times. The last time I used Nvidia is the distant past for me. So - for me, their drivers are indeed &quot;so much better&quot;. But my usecase is sysadmin work and occasional gaming through Steam &#x2F; Proton. I ran LMStudio through ROCm, too, a few times. Worked fine, but I guess that&#x27;s very much not representative for whatever people do with MI300 &#x2F; H100.


type: comment
by: duckydude20
text:
  - &quot;expand my social circle&quot;  same here, try to make real world connection not just technical connections but with people i can hang out with, friday night parties, trips, etc.  apart from work i don&#x27;t have any connections. opportunities are lacking and idk how to increase my chance.<p>if anyone in Bengaluru, India having meetups invite me, duckydude20 at gmail.com


type: comment
by: reverseblade2
text:
  Built a Chrome extension for Netflix that actually works. Shows IMDb ratings on all titles and lets you filter by rating and year. Uses multi-source fallback (OMDb → TMDb → IMDb), so it doesn’t break when one API dies.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  &gt; 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>This is a lie. The article literally argues that European countries in question have better healthcare, less disease and therefore can afford less vacciness.


type: comment
by: FridayoLeary
text:
  Not even close. The nearest equivalent is Prime Ministers Questions which is a regular staged event.<p>Look at the debates from 2015 where Trumps opponents are rendered speechless by his overbearing personality. He makes himself the centre of everything and is completely shameless about it. He&#x27;s an American phenomenon. BUT, the reason it works is because he means what he says and does what he says he&#x27;ll do. America has always appreciated straight talkers more then Europe.


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  Efficient realtime video diffusion will revolutionize the way people use computers even more so than LLMs.<p>I actually think we are already there with quality, but nobody is going to wait 10 minutes to do a task with video that takes 2 seconds with text.<p>If Sora&#x2F;Kling&#x2F;whatever ran cool locally 24&#x2F;7 at 60FPS, would anyone ever build a UI? Or a (traditional) OS?<p>I think it&#x27;s worth watching the scaling graph.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Yup, I&#x27;ve thought exactly same before starting the development of Gaming Couch. Jackbox was the go-to easiest (in terms of accessibility and funniness) for my friend groups but had it&#x27;s shortfalls which I&#x27;d thought I could fix so here we are! Let me know what you think of the games once you get to try them :)


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  One difference is that Rob Pike did it without all the negative externalities of gen ai.<p>But more broadly this is like a version of the negligibility problem. If you provide every company 1 second of additional productivity, while summation of that would appear to be significant, it would actually make no economic difference. I&#x27;m not entirely convinced that many low impact (and often flawed) projects realistically provide business value at scale an can even be compared to a single high impact project.


type: comment
by: stingraycharles
text:
  What does static type systems provide you with that, say, using structured input &#x2F; output using pydantic doesn’t?<p>I just don’t follow your logic of “LLMs are inherently random IO” (ok, I can somehow get behind that, but structured output is a thing) -&gt; “you have to treat them like UI &#x2F; network” (ok, yes, it’s untrusted) -&gt; static typing solves everything (how exactly?)<p>This just seems like another “static typing is better than dynamic typing” debate which really doesn’t have a lot to do with LLMs.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  This is a good suggestion and probably the most realistic path. The only trouble is that I&#x27;m in a small-ish city in Europe and have to work remotely, which makes networking hard. I worked at a company where I sort of tried to do this before but it was really hard to have casual connections with science people.


type: comment
by: amluto
text:
  Don’t use recursive page tables.<p>- What if you want to port to an architecture that can’t do them?<p>- How sure are you that all the bonus bits in the entries line up right?<p>- What if you want to use huge pages of various sizes?<p>- What if you want to write-protect some page tables?<p>- What if you want to access a non-current page table?  If you do that you need to write all the relevant logic anyway.<p>- What if a page table isn’t allocated?  You probably don’t want to find out by trying to access it and getting a page fault in kernel mode.<p>- What if you don’t want user code to be able to trivially guess kernel addresses?


type: comment
by: easygenes
text:
  No, those are generally not always-on in normal use. People let screens shut off, open up fullscreen apps, etc. Most OLED firmwares also have subtle pixel shifting and pixel refresh on shutdown routines, as well as very conservative brightness settings. OLEDs in normal use are actually less susceptible to color shift deterioration than LCDs in normal use.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  This is in the plans! Currently working on 3rd party game development SDK and the pipeline to support uploading your own games to the platform


type: comment
by: Labo333
text:
  I built a similar system for php and I can tell you what is the smart thing here: accessing data using tools.<p>Of course tool calling and MCP are not new. But the smart thing is that by defining the tools in the <i>context</i> of an authenticated request, one can easily enforce the security policy of the monolith.<p>In my case (we will maybe write a blog post one day), it&#x27;s even neater as the agent is coded in Python so the php app talks with Python through local HTTP (we are thinking about building a central micro service) and the tool calls are encoded as JSON RPC, and <i>yet it works</i>.


type: comment
by: ninalanyon
text:
  I&#x27;m with Gaiman on this.  No author has any obligation, ethical or otherwise, to provide further books in a series to the readers unless those readers are paying hard cash upfront for the missing books.<p>And what on earth is is an &#x27;aesthetic promise&#x27;?


type: comment
by: flohofwoe
text:
  Hacking and politics was always deeply intertwined in Germany&#x2F;Europe. Especially the CCC has always been at least as much a political organization as it is a hacker community.


type: comment
by: Oras
text:
  I want to learn to relax and stop worrying and overthinking.<p>Will start with the 2 minutes breathing on Apple Watch and try to increase by time.


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  &gt; power supplies come with up to 13-year (or longer) warranties<p>Unfortunately, those warranties don&#x27;t tend to cover the rest of your components, if the PSU happens to take out a motherboard or GPU as it dies, you are up the proverbial creek.<p>Having had a couple of older PSUs die spectacularly, I&#x27;m not risking re-using a ~$100 component, on the off-chance it fries ~$500 of brand new motherboard&#x2F;GPU&#x2F;etc post-upgrade.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  Memory in world models is interesting. But I think the main issue is that its holding everything in pixel space (its not, but it feels like that) rather than concept space. Thats why its hard for it to synthesise consistently.<p>However I am not qualified really to make that assertion.


type: story
by: EvgeniyZh
title: Luxury Apartments Are Bringing Rent Down in Some Big Cities
url:
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23/luxury-apartments-are-bringing-rent-down-in-austin-denver


type: comment
by: amai
text:
  Is Python now faster than PHP?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;fastest&#x2F;python3-php.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net&#x2F;benchmarksgame&#x2F;...</a>


type: comment
by: izacus
text:
  Yeah, it&#x27;s really not wierd that people thinking that using secure technologies, firewalls and privacy to defend against infections on their electronics would also strongly support using a firewall to defend themselves from disease in the physical space.<p>The fact that your opinion usually comes together with other incompatible political opinions of folks that&#x27;s been running those spaces for decades doesn&#x27;t help either.<p>They didn&#x27;t change. You however became something they always despised.


type: comment
by: db48x
text:
  Yea, from the outside looking in it seems so obvious and it’s easy to blame them for overspending. But it’s different when you’re the one who is addicted. Breaking the addiction requires that moment of realization when you finally add up all the real costs and realize how big they are. The only good thing that can be said about Free–to–play games is that adding up the monetary costs is super easy.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  Thank! I actually worked with people in that article :) Now I&#x27;m based in Europe so my grad school friends work at companies in a different continent, so so far, no luck there.


type: comment
by: monsecchris
text:
  One possible route towards reducing heavy losses might be to minimise correlation. AI might be quite good at optimising for this.


type: comment
by: neobrain
text:
  It&#x27;s similarly bogus here. Early Asahi development tried to upstream as much as possible but ultimately still maintained a gigantic pile of downsteam patches, which wasn&#x27;t a sustainable model.<p>Most of current development is focused on reducing that pile to zero to get things into a tractable state again. So things continue to be active, but the progress has become much less visible.


type: comment
by: lproven
text:
  &gt; If you have this mythical laptop that lasts 10 years, let me know.<p>I have 5.<p>Thinkpads. X220 i5, X220 i7, T420 i5, T420 i7, W520 quad core i7.<p>All maxed out or nearly, all in regular use. All nearly 15Y old.<p>The ?20 range was the last Thinkpad series with good keyboards. That&#x27;s why I stocked up.


type: comment
by: polotics
text:
  Rob over-reacted? How would you like it if you were a known figure and your efforts to remain attentive to the general public lead to this?<p>Your openness weaponized in such deluded way by some randomizing humans who have so little to say that they would delegate their communication to GPT&#x27;s?<p>I had a look to try and understand who can be that far out, all I could find is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.in&#x2F;about&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.in&#x2F;about&#x2F;</a><p>Please can some human behind this LLMadness speak up and explain what the hell they were thinking?


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Exactly this! Translating the games themselves is not a big deal as that can be automated (although the quality of LLM-translations is not always the best) but when it comes to user generated responses given in a quick timeframe, that&#x27;s when non-native english players struggle the most, at least in our own friend groups.


type: comment
by: pnt12
text:
  Some religious people play their kind persona at church, to excuse the unkind persona in other situations.


type: comment
by: elric
text:
  I should work on getting better at selling myself. I&#x27;m doing alright at scoring longer projects (mostly in the Java&#x2F;Fintech sphere), but I&#x27;d like to take on some smaller projects as well. Things like self-promotion and networking don&#x27;t come easily to me.


type: comment
by: matsemann
text:
  I think both ways of reading are fine. Sometimes you just want to get on with the plot, other times you want to immerse yourself. Or maybe you always just want to get on with the plot, which is fine, just don&#x27;t complain about the book being boring, it just wasn&#x27;t for you. Which is how I feel about Lotr. But at the same time, rushing over the songs, boring parts with Tom etc is also how I managed to make it work for me.


type: comment
by: mishu2
text:
  Having the ability to do real-time video generation on a single workstation GPU is mind blowing.<p>I&#x27;m currently hosting a video generation website, also on a single GPU (with a queue), which is also something I didn&#x27;t even think possible a few years ago (my show HN from earlier today, coincidentally: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388819">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46388819</a>). Interesting times.


type: comment
by: sillyfluke
text:
  &gt;I just want to access the Hotmail address from when I was a teenager.<p>Logging in doesn&#x27;t solve your problem. It gets way worse after you log in [0]. At least now you still have hope.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36000161">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=36000161</a>


type: comment
by: izacus
text:
  I think you just became a righty and are only just now noticing that CCC folks always hated righties with passion.


type: comment
by: sethammons
text:
  Two or so months ago, so maybe it is better now, but I had Claude write, in Go, a concurrent data migration tool that read from several source tables, munged results, and put them into a newer schema in a new db.<p>The code created didn&#x27;t manage concurrency well. At all. Hanging waitgroups and unmanaged goroutines. No graceful termination.<p>Types help. Good tests help better.


type: comment
by: midnightclubbed
text:
  What does the end user do with the AI chat?  It sounds like they can just use it to do searches of client information… which the existing site would already do.


type: comment
by: martin-t
text:
  Some sad irony: just like saying the wrong thing is more likely to get you a reply, using a poor title gets them more engagement.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  I would very much be interested in this but there&#x27;s nothing in my CV that suggests that I&#x27;d be good at it, except for some basic electronics I did for fun.


type: comment
by: mdavid626
text:
  Culture changes, that’s true. However, “change” doesn’t normalize the far left&#x2F;green initiatives.


type: comment
by: gardenerik
text:
  How does it compare to something like good old at[1] that spawns a browser?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux.die.net&#x2F;man&#x2F;1&#x2F;at" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;linux.die.net&#x2F;man&#x2F;1&#x2F;at</a>


type: comment
by: IsTom
text:
  &gt; If Sora&#x2F;Kling&#x2F;whatever ran cool locally 24&#x2F;7 at 60FPS, would anyone ever build a UI?<p>I like my buttons to stay where I left them.


type: comment
by: jasonvorhe
text:
  I&#x27;ve moved on, all good, change is perfectly fine. I just think they lost something that made CCC special. Got my own decentralized trusted circles now. I think I made it quite clear that I wish anyone still attending these events and spaces all the best regardless.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Haha, I also have a background in law (in addition to the programming) and I&#x27;ve found that a stark context switch from e.g. reviewing contracts to writing code keeps the brain quite young! Or then it just deteriorates the brain faster and I&#x27;m already starting to rot... I guess the future will tell


type: comment
by: fc417fc802
text:
  &gt; you can practically only have one line reflected in a name<p>Not true at all. You can trivially have two family names in a full legal name. In fact many cultures do exactly that to this day.<p>Also worth noting that the male&#x27;s name being preferentially propagated makes a lot of sense in a society where the best off frequently inherited their vocation from their fathers.


type: comment
by: tssva
text:
  Wish I could add ingredients to the list of ingredients on hand, there were more choices of glassware and the type of ice could be selected. The 1st drink I went to add is traditionally served in a hurricane glass and is shaken then poured over crushed ice.


type: comment
by: toyg
text:
  Listening to someone talking is how humanity transmitted culture and stories for tens of thousands of years. The fact that &quot;we&quot; cannot tolerate it anymore, is a sign of how badly our brains are being reshaped (or maybe damaged) by screens.


type: story
by: krish678
title: Show HN: Why is ML inference still so ad-hoc in practice?
text:
  Every place I’ve seen run more than a couple of ML models in production ends up with a mess of bespoke inference services: different APIs, different auth, different logging, half-working dashboards, and tribal knowledge holding it all together.<p>I’ve been building a small side project that tries to standardize just the serving part — a single gateway in front of heterogeneous models (local, managed cloud, different teams) that handles inference APIs, versioning&#x2F;rollback, auth, basic metrics, and health checks. No training, no AutoML, no “end-to-end MLOps platform”.<p>Before I sink more time into it, I’m trying to figure out whether this is:<p>a real gap people quietly paper over with internal glue, or<p>something that sounds useful but collapses under real-world constraints.<p>For people actually running ML in prod:<p>Do you already have an internal inference layer like this?<p>Where does inference usually go wrong (deployments, versioning, debugging, compliance)?<p>At what scale does it stop being worth abstracting at all?<p>Not announcing anything — genuinely curious whether this resonates or if I’m just rediscovering why everyone rolls their own.


type: story
by: rguiscard
title: China hits US defence firms with sanctions over arms sales to Taiwan
url:
  https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/china-sanctions-us-defence-firms-individuals-over-arms-sales-taiwan-2025-12-26/


type: comment
by: DTutorin
text:
  Hi HN, I’m experimenting with a minimal web platform that explores whether structuring debates into discrete facts changes how people reason about claims. Instead of long threads where everything is mixed together, each claim has: a list of discrete supporting facts a list of discrete opposing facts separate discussions and votes on each fact The system does not produce a final “truth score” or verdict. It just exposes how agreement or disagreement on individual evidence accumulates. This is a very early MVP with: a simple voting mechanism category tagging basic UI for facts and comments There is no AI, no expert layer, and no claims of correctness. I’m interested in: whether users add real, sourced evidence how voting dynamics affect perceived credibility how the interface influences debate structure<p>Any feedback on the structure or design is welcome.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  Interesting. Where would one look for these kinds of jobs? I am not really familiar with hedge funds.


type: comment
by: barrenko
text:
  Hate it myself but +1 if you want to stay in the industry and you don&#x27;t have other another manner of making yourself indispensible.<p>If you understand leetcode related stuff then you are sort of more useful than an AI, if not, well then...


type: comment
by: kopirgan
text:
  No mine were pre dvd era. In CD. Older. They had a surprisingly good UI with its own funny stuff. Your install that and insert the disk 1-7 based on which issue you select. Even scold you for installing wrong disk &amp; comments about &#x27;you can insert a CD of Yanni if you prefer screeching&#x27; or something like that. Lol don&#x27;t know what mad has against him their comments are always funny.


type: comment
by: llmslave2
text:
  Well put, it&#x27;s not the automation of programming that bothers me, it&#x27;s the automation of what it means to be <i>human</i>.


type: comment
by: rr808
text:
  Work solidly at work for 8 hours and then go home, instead of sitting behind a computer for 12 hours and wasting a lot of time.


type: comment
by: butlersean
text:
  The article doesn’t make this claim.<p>The uk gov are watching Australia and the evidence to see the effect of their new ban in practice.<p>This is normal practice for any government.<p>No news here. Just bait by a right wing Conservative Party mouthpiece.<p>For those outside the UK the Telegraph should not be considered unbiased news.


type: comment
by: kopirgan
text:
  I have the CD backed up as ISO files which I can mount. Since these days laptops don&#x27;t have CD players.<p>Need to try on latest windows 11 I gave up earlier. For a while had a windows 2000 virtual machine that worked.


type: comment
by: meibo
text:
  CCC always has been explicit far left&#x2F;green, looking at its history, as other people in here have mentioned.<p>I think it would be fair to say that the club as a whole has become more open about that, I think that&#x27;s more owed to a lot of folks driving initiatives feeling like the walls are closing in on them though and I can&#x27;t exactly fault them for that :)


type: comment
by: kopirgan
text:
  Yes the file names are something unknown. It has a software to access. They did a damn good job.<p>For instance, in Disk 1, there is a big binary file mad.m1 492MB. That seems to hold content, but not sure what file type or which program can open it. Rest of the files are very small.


type: comment
by: danw1979
text:
  &gt;  Early tests show that the patent-pending filter can remove more than 99 percent of plastic fibers from washing machine wastewater.<p>Could someone in academia educate me on the need to patent inventions like this ?  is it just part of the university funding machine ?  or would the researchers be using this as a defensive measure ?


type: comment
by: Lio
text:
  It&#x27;s interesting the use of RubyLLM here.  I&#x27;m trying to contrast that with my own use of DSPy.rb, which so far I&#x27;ve been quite happy with for small experiments.<p>Does anyone have a comparison of the two, or any other libraries?


type: comment
by: jstummbillig
text:
  The topic of liability is a difference but I think not an important one, if your objective is to get things done. In fact, humans being liable creates high incentives to obscure the truth, deceive, or move slowly to limit personal risk exposure, all of which are very real world hindrances.<p>In the end the person in charge is liable either way, in different ways.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  I think something like letting users choose a certain number of games to buy for a reasonable amount, and then letting them host those games for players who don&#x27;t own them is a good model.


type: comment
by: adastra22
text:
  M2 to M3 was a complete architectural change that will require a lot of reverse engineering. As far as I know no one is working on this. The M1&#x2F;M2 work was a labor of love of largely one dev that has since moved on.<p>The project is still active and working to upstream the work of these devs. But as far as I know, no NEW reverse engineering is being done. Ergo, it’s a dead end.<p>Would be happy to be proven wrong.


type: comment
by: danw1979
text:
  Just switch to wool and cotton.  Plastic clothes make you sweat. Merino wool doesn’t even need washing all that often.


type: comment
by: Cwizard
text:
  I can recommend doing this! It really is not hard to learn the basics of electronics and you will have a better understanding of how the things around you work.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &gt; The complaint is that they&#x27;ve got a new hammer and then start seeing nails everywhere.<p>Ah, my apologies for misreading the original comment I replied to then.<p>&gt; This was mostly because they didn&#x27;t solve the performance problem. In the domains where that matters less, other languages did make significant inroads. Java, Python, etc. have significant usage in domains that before them were often C or C++.<p>Which is true! But even after Java&#x2F;Python&#x2F;etc. made their inroads the memory-safe dialects&#x2F;variants&#x2F;etc. of C&#x2F;C++ <i>still</i> didn&#x27;t attract much attention, since while Java&#x2F;Python&#x2F;etc. made memory safety easy enough for devs, as you said they didn&#x27;t make <i>performant</i> memory safety easy enough, which left C&#x2F;C++ their niche. While Rust is far from a perfect solution, it seems to have made performant memory safety easy <i>enough</i> to get to where it is today.<p>&gt; If you really wanted to rebuild every building in the city, you could build a new building on every available empty lot, move the people from existing buildings into the new buildings, raze the buildings they just moved out of to turn them into empty lots and then repeat until every building is replaced.<p>I took &quot;raze every building in the city just to build them again with the new thing&quot; as specifically implying a destroy -&gt; rebuild order of operations, as opposed to something more like &quot;replace every building with the new thing&quot;. Too literal of a reading on my end, I guess?<p>&gt; The reason that isn&#x27;t done is that building a new thing from scratch requires a significant amount of resources, so it&#x27;s something you only force outside of its natural replacement cycle if the incremental improvement is very large.<p>I mean, that&#x27;s... arguably what is being done? Obviously different people will disagree on the size of the improvement, and the existence of hobbyists kind of throws a wrench into this as well since their resources are not necessarily put towards an &quot;optimal&quot; use pretty much by definition.<p>&gt; The point is that it doesn&#x27;t. Rewriting a large amount of old C code, especially if it doesn&#x27;t have a lot of attack surface exposed to begin with, is a major cost with a smaller benefit. Meanwhile there are many other things that have medium costs and medium benefits, or large costs and large benefits, and those might be a better use of scarce resources.<p>That&#x27;s a fair conclusion to come to, though it&#x27;s evidently one where different people can come to different conclusions. Whether one stance or the other will be proven right (if the situation can even be summed up as such), only time will tell.<p>And again, I feel like I should circle back again to the &quot;solution in hand vs. sitting at the drafting table&quot; thing. Maybe an analogy to moonshot research a la Xerox PARC&#x2F;Bell Labs might be better? One can argue that more resources into a WordPress replacement might yield more benefits than rewriting something from C to Rust, but there are <i>much</i> larger uncertainty bars attached to the former than the latter. It&#x27;s easier to get resources for something with more concrete benefits than something more nebulous.


type: comment
by: michaelt
text:
  <i>&gt; The tents were never in the lake. A few inches of the campsite was in the lake at high water. [...] Those words don&#x27;t appear anywhere. Try looking at the actual words and not just your mental images.</i><p>I think some people are interpreting “campsite” as the <i>literal space occupied by the tent’s ground sheet</i> while you are interpreting it as the broader area - which in an organised institutional arrangement might be called the “campground”<p>To use an analogy, think of being in a partly flooded parking <i>space</i> vs parking <i>lot</i><p>It makes sense that someone with the former interpretation - the tent ground sheet submerged by a few inches of water - would understand that the tent got soaked.


type: comment
by: instagib
text:
  Google home, nest thermostat, Alexa, roomba, Apple Watch, iPad.<p>GHome consistently gets worse voice recognition or usability.<p>Nest has many notifications to enable eco modes making me uncomfortable in own home.<p>Alexa terrible voice recognition.<p>Roomba kept getting stuck, errors.<p>Apple Watch useless versus oura ring even if steps aren’t as accurate.<p>iPad usage not worth the cost. Either get a laptop full featured or a small tv and android shield box.


type: comment
by: vidarh
text:
  I&#x27;d at least consider moving older draw calls into an xlib replacement. Not all of them are suitable for that, but e.g. sufficient font handling to beat Xorgs server side handling requires the Render extension plus ca. 1500 lines of C for a basic TrueType renderer, or half that in a higher level language, or just use FreeType which is a dependency for most X clients anyway.


type: comment
by: citbl
text:
  Impressive work. I shipped couch multiplayer games on PS4 in the past and it has passed its heyday (it didn&#x27;t do too well, financially).<p>So seeing it done on the web actually makes a lot of sense.


type: comment
by: copirate
text:
  &gt; When you slow down your eating speed, say to half or a third your default speed, you get much more enjoyment out of a smaller amount of food.<p>That&#x27;s not always the case. With certain types of food, it&#x27;s much more enjoyable to have your mouth full than to eat a small amount, for example. It&#x27;s a trade-off.<p>It&#x27;s the same with a story. Taking too long can make it boring, for example.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean we always choose the optimal balance, though.


type: comment
by: amai
text:
  So now Stackoverflow will also go down if the cloud is down: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thousandeyes.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;aws-outage-analysis-october-20-2025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thousandeyes.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;aws-outage-analysis-octobe...</a><p>How are all the cloud engineers going to solve their issues if Stackoverflow is down?


type: comment
by: rahimnathwani
text:
  The article is dated December 2025, but:<p><pre><code>  I checked a few OpenAI models for this implementation: gpt-5, gpt-4o, gpt4. </code></pre> Seems like a weird list. None of these are current generation models and none are on the Pareto frontier.


type: comment
by: edgineer
text:
  100,000 people in the US alone die of diabetes per year (none of the 7 were in the US). Other reporting shows that 3 million glucose meters are being recalled. Diabetes can be tricky to manage as it is.<p>One could look at this story case-by-case and what happened to the affected individuals. Did the device directly lead them to harm? Of the wide coverage of this story, I see no testimonials from affected people.<p>We&#x27;re left with the statistical perspective. I don&#x27;t see the math supporting this story. I expect that as many or more people would have been harmed by diabetes during the time period without this bug.<p>I think it is more harmful to perpetuate the lack of context or analysis that brings crowds to look at statistical noise and agree that something must be done about it.


type: comment
by: sethammons
text:
  &gt; Putting &quot;Read By AI Professionals&quot; on your homepage with a row of logos<p>Ha, wow that&#x27;s low. Spam people and signal that as support of your work


type: comment
by: slurrpurr
text:
  &gt; your opinion usually comes together with other incompatible political opinions of folks<p>&gt; You however became soemthing they alway despised.<p>Holy strawman


type: comment
by: tuetuopay
text:
  This checks out with what a diabetic friends told me as to why he does not really uses tech: he preferred to take the time to learn &quot;himself&quot; and recognize the symptoms, because of such issues.<p>I suspected he was paranoid, but thanks for the rational explanation!


type: comment
by: frankzander
text:
  I can fully relate ... back in the days there wasn&#x27;t much (at least I don&#x27;t remember) of &quot;this kind&quot; of ppl and everything was just hacking. However I can imagine what you mean. At the end this growing craziness does not change any time soon so you are right ... &quot;finding the folks that fit you&quot; is maybe the best advice (and this hasn&#x27;t to be the CCC).  Fortunately the interesting talks are often recorded so nobody has to attend who don&#x27;t want in order to get the interesting stuff.


type: comment
by: jasonvorhe
text:
  You just gave the best example of how these interactions usually play out. You know basically nothing about me and yet you assume to know exactly &quot;what I&#x27;ve become&quot; and that I deserve to be &quot;despised&quot; based on 2 statements that don&#x27;t tell you anything about me because I never explained my positions in depth.<p>I spent more than a decade in and around 2-3 local hackerspaces and some of the best practices and infrastructure I introduced&#x2F;built are still in place. You really know nothing about me to arrive at this conclusion, thereby proving my point that the culture has shifted - not me.


type: comment
by: gardenerik
text:
  These seem like a simple text rendered using some handwritten looking Google Fonts. Or is there something I am missing?


type: comment
by: kortilla
text:
  It doesn’t sound like you were challenged. The alg probing you with stuff it thinks you might like based on things people with similar interests liked it quite the opposite of challenging.<p>Filter bubbles have become so standardized that people have forgotten what being challenged is like.


type: comment
by: hogrug
text:
  You bring up an interesting point for the US to have a first world level of fiber to the home it needs to require diesel.


type: story
by: emmasuntech
title: What I learned building "comfortable" LED strip lighting
text:
  I built a small workspace lighting setup using LED strips and ended up learning more than I expected. On paper it was simple: stick a strip somewhere, add a diffuser, done. In practice, the stuff that mattered wasn’t the spec sheet—it was power delivery, optics, and human perception.<p>A few notes that surprised me:<p>Power planning &gt; “just buy a bigger PSU.” Long runs behave like distributed loads. Voltage drop shows up as uneven brightness, and on RGB&#x2F;RGBW it can show up as color shift (“white” gets warmer at the far end). The fix isn’t only wattage—it’s where you feed power, wire gauge, and connector losses.<p>Diffusion is not cosmetic. Without enough distance or diffusion, you get hotspots and glare. A cheap milky diffuser in an aluminum channel gets you most of the way there, but what helped the most was increasing LED-to-diffuser distance (depth of the channel) rather than chasing “premium” diffusers.<p>Indirect beats direct for comfort. Bouncing light off a wall&#x2F;desk surface looked dimmer on paper but felt more usable and less fatiguing. It also hid the fact that LEDs are point sources.<p>Signal integrity is a separate problem (for addressable). A lot of “flicker” is actually data&#x2F;ground&#x2F;reference issues, not power. Short data lines, solid ground, and sometimes level shifting helped more than swapping power supplies.<p>Questions for folks who’ve done larger installs (10–50m) or more “production” setups:<p>Do you design power delivery first or physical layout first?<p>Any favorite diffuser&#x2F;channel profiles that minimize hotspots without killing too much output?<p>For long addressable runs, what’s your go-to strategy for signal conditioning (buffers, differential, etc.)?


type: comment
by: nosianu
text:
  I find it strange you didn&#x27;t latch on to the original comment, which has the exact same problem you complained about, but reacted to the response. The best action is to ignore threads and sub-threads you don&#x27;t care about and leave others who do to their fun.


type: comment
by: cromka
text:
  There&#x27;s an Ubuntu release specifically targeting new Qualcomm Elite based laptops: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.ubuntu.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-elite&#x2F;48800" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.ubuntu.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e...</a><p>This includes Vivobook S15, not sure about the 14.


type: comment
by: techInacho
text:
  Non-technical skills: Meet more women, lose my fear of flirting with women, being able to have a relationship, lose my psychosis for a single women.


type: comment
by: pavlov
text:
  Yeah, it’s like asking “why would anyone read a book today when LLMs can generate infinite streams of text”


type: comment
by: ptx
text:
  Hmm, you mention in the README that it only works in a privileged container. This of course negates the security benefits Wayland supposedly has over X11, so it doesn&#x27;t seem ideal.


type: comment
by: aulin
text:
  Seems to me the most expectations they had with the library was about the compression stuff and it did not include that. So in the end it was mostly rev eng. Also in this specific case you are using the library code as documentation about the hardware, the code itself has little value. I doubt it would configure as license violation.


type: comment
by: duckydude20
text:
  what advantage&#x2F;disadvantages does Scala&#x2F;jvm have over Elixir&#x2F;otp&#x2F;beam?<p>i am learning Elixir and liking the concepts. i am coming from kotlin&#x2F;jvm and i like kotlin, apart from kotlin-coroutines.  planning to migration all threading code to virtual threads. but biggest problem is threadlocal.


type: comment
by: Dilettante_
text:
  &gt;it&#x27;s really not wierd that people thinking that using secure technologies, firewalls and privacy to defend against infections on their electronics would also strongly support using a firewall to defend themselves from disease in the physical space<p>On the other hand, there <i>is</i> a discongruency when people who are against control and surveillance start implementing control and surveillance because the particular purpose sanctified the means. Something that previously seemed non-negotiable, culturally fundamental even, was toppled.


type: comment
by: rr808
text:
  No, the size is a fraction of a text file, much faster to write and read. The only difference is you can&#x27;t grep like text.


type: comment
by: sky2224
text:
  That&#x27;s like saying google search created my application because I searched up how to implement a specific design pattern. It&#x27;s just another tool.


type: comment
by: codingbuddy
text:
  We are scarily close to realtime personalization of video which if you agree with this NeurIPS paper [1] may lead to someone inadvertently creating “digital heroin”<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neurips.cc&#x2F;virtual&#x2F;2025&#x2F;loc&#x2F;san-diego&#x2F;poster&#x2F;121952" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;neurips.cc&#x2F;virtual&#x2F;2025&#x2F;loc&#x2F;san-diego&#x2F;poster&#x2F;121952</a>


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  Because context is hard, I guess, my point is that &quot;exiting the rat race&quot; is generally something that only people with Mountain View addresses and opinions like &quot;400k TC really isn&#x27;t THAT much, if you think about it&quot; tend to be able to do.


type: comment
by: DrStormyDaniels
text:
  One of the main uses of these technologies is precisely because some type 1 diabetics can become unaware of the symptoms over time either through chance adaption or over-exposure, for instance, hypo-unawareness.


type: comment
by: showsover
text:
  The UK in general is left out when talking about Europe or the EU because of a mix of historical behaviour and geography (i.e. not on the continent).


type: comment
by: cromka
text:
  I don&#x27;t think these are mutually exclusive, they&#x27;re just unifying ChromeOS and Android for now.


type: comment
by: imron
text:
  I’m not faster at writing tests than AI but my own code needs fewer tests.<p>When I’m writing my own code I can verify the logic as I go and coupled with a strong type system and a judicious use of _some_ tests its generally enough for my code to be correct.<p>By comparison the AI needs more tests to keep it on the right path otherwise the final code is not fit for purpose.<p>For example in a recent use case I needed to take a json blob containing an array of strings that contained numbers and needed to return an array of Decimals sorted in ascending order.<p>This seemed a perfect use case - a short well defined task with clear success criteria so I spent a bunch of time writing the requirements and building out a test suite and then let the AI do its thing.<p>The AI produced ok code, but it was sorted everything lexicographically before converting to a Decimal rather converting to Decimals first and sorting numerically so 1000 was less than 900.<p>So I point it out and the AI says good point, you’re absolutely correct and we add a test for this and it goes again and gets the right result but that’s not a mistake I would have made or needed a test for (though you could argue it’s a good test to have).<p>You could also argue that I should have specified the problem more clearly, but then we come back to the point that if I’m writing every specific detail in English first, it’s faster for me just to write it in code in the first place.


type: comment
by: albert_e
text:
  Yahoo Mail had (has?) a feature that allowed you to set an alternative email address while keeping your original email address intact.<p>you could be first_last@yahoo.com but also have rando_waldo@yahoo.com or ymail.com receive emails in same mailbox. And you could choose the &quot;From&quot; address form a drop-down when sending outbound emails or replies.


type: comment
by: venturecruelty
text:
  Why are people so determined to just shill for companies? Do you know how many people are unemployed for Christmas today, while you&#x27;re out here tasting shoe leather for these organizations with more money than God?<p>They&#x27;re not going to take pity on you, you know, no matter how much you grovel and beg.


type: comment
by: jrflowers
text:
  That’s not true at all.  It only reported false lows, not false highs. False lows and false highs are only equivalent if you do not understand the basics of diabetes management.


type: comment
by: checker659
text:
  I never understood why software has to pay for the lack of memory safety primitives in the hardware.


type: story
by: LunarFrost88
title: Show HN: I built a tool to help small teams automate basic analytical tasks
text:
  Arka (arka.so) is a AI analytics tool that lets you get insights + charts from any (structured or unstructured) data source. I built it because I was getting tired of writing SQL queries and creating Metabase charts at my last job.<p>I would love some feedback on our product:<p>How is the landing page &#x2F; website<p>What use cases could this unlock for you?<p>We have some awesome tech behind the scenes and have some initial customers, but I am really keen on expanding towards a PLG motion where folks can sign up and get insights about their data fast.<p>Would love brutally honest feedback!


type: comment
by: cromka
text:
  That&#x27;s possibly because they had S3 disabled and used &#x27;modern standby&#x27;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-hardware&#x2F;design&#x2F;device-experiences&#x2F;modern-standby" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;windows-hardware&#x2F;design&#x2F;de...</a>


type: comment
by: dangalf
text:
  &gt;Plans move to Rust, with help from AI<p>&gt;“Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”<p>Some more context <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowslatest.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;microsoft-denies-rewriting-windows-11-using-ai-after-an-employees-one-engineer-one-month-one-million-code-post-on-linkedin-causes-outrage&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.windowslatest.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;microsoft-denies-re...</a>


type: comment
by: exceptione
text:
  I first laughed, then I realized that some of those indeed will bump into an extra surprise. Luckily, all the chatbots have a copy of SO.


type: comment
by: zelphirkalt
text:
  I find however, that while typing it all out, my mind often continues analyzing and thinking, and that I often find a new idea, or new structure, that might be even better. Typing it out and seeing it appear in front of me. It also gives me a feeling for how tedious, brittle, or annoying the solution is.<p>Granted, sometimes it&#x27;s really not that interesting to type the stuff. It depends what one is working on.


type: comment
by: grimblee
text:
  A tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, lest it gets destroyed by it.<p>Free speech ends where hatred starts.


type: comment
by: DrStormyDaniels
text:
  Not true, the effect of high blood levels can be very unpredictable. Especially above a certain number - and largely depending on the basal insulin strategy of the patient, for instance long acting shots versus constant micro doses of short acting via pumps. In the latter case, an untreated high blood sugar could escalate in a matter of hours to a fatal level.


type: comment
by: xorcist
text:
  &gt; Trump is secretly a Russian agent,<p>Russian <i>asset</i>, not necessarily <i>agent</i>. At least that&#x27;s the commonly spread idea, for which there is at least some circumstancial evidence: commercial projects in Russia for several decades and well documented links to Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs under Trump I just to name two.


type: comment
by: slurrpurr
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;and-so-it-begins-wie-unser-rechtsstaat-auf-den-highway-richtung-trumpismus-rast-und-warum-afghanische-klager-innen-fur-uns-die-notbremse-ziehen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;life-on-hold-what-does-true-solidarity-look-like-beyond-duldung-camps-deportation-and-payment-cards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;selbstverstandlich-antifaschistisch-aktuelle-informationen-zu-den-verfahren-im-budapest-komplex-von-family-friends-hamburg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a> (already mentioned)


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
text:
  &gt; It turns out that having a &quot;trainer&quot; to &quot;coach&quot; you is not a coincidence: these two words evolved together from the rail industry to the gym.<p>This does not appear to be true.<p>Train (etymonline):<p>&gt; &quot;to discipline, teach, bring to a desired state or condition by means of instruction,&quot; 1540s, which probably is extended from the earlier sense of &quot;draw out and manipulate in order to bring to a desired form&quot; (Middle English trainen, attested c. 1400 as &quot;delay, tarry&quot; on a journey, etc.); from train (n.) For the notion of &quot;educate&quot; from that of &quot;draw,&quot; compare educate.<p>[That <i>train (n.)</i> doesn&#x27;t refer to the rail industry, which didn&#x27;t really exist in the 1540s. It refers to a succession (as one railcar will follow another in later centuries), or to the part of your clothing that might drag on the ground behind you, or to the act of dragging anything generally. Interestingly, etymonline derives this noun from a verb <i>train</i> meaning to drag; given the existence of this verb, I see no reason to derive the verb <i>train</i> in the sense &quot;teach&quot; from the noun derived from the same verb in the sense &quot;drag&quot;. The entry on the verb already noted that it isn&#x27;t unexpected for &quot;drawing&quot; [as water from a well] to evolve into &quot;teaching&quot;.]<p>Coach (wiktionary):<p>&gt; The meaning &quot;instructor&#x2F;trainer&quot; is from Oxford University slang (c. 1830) for a &quot;tutor&quot; who &quot;carries&quot; one through an exam<p><i>Coach</i> might be a metaphor from the rail industry (or the horse-and-buggy industry), but <i>trainer</i> isn&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: zeusly
text:
  I would love to learn how to draw. I have an iPad Pro with a pencil and procreate. Can anyone give me a few good pointers? I draw like a 5 year old.


type: comment
by: daliusd
text:
  What’s your take on the fact that everyone around gets this boost? I feel the same boost but in our company we had little competition using llm - team I was leading won, but victory was not decisive but quite minimal.


type: comment
by: lazka
text:
  Here is a podcast episode were the devs talk about the new profiler: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;creators.spotify.com&#x2F;pod&#x2F;profile&#x2F;corepy&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;The-Megahertz-e35ffoi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;creators.spotify.com&#x2F;pod&#x2F;profile&#x2F;corepy&#x2F;episodes&#x2F;The...</a>


type: comment
by: elxr
text:
  &quot;Give me a second&quot; is something I say when someone just has to break the silence with some unproductive comment. Having 20-30 seconds to think silently should be a completely normal thing.


type: comment
by: vjvjvjvjghv
text:
  How are they going to review these million lines of code?  It’s not like it’s not possible to write buggy code in Rust


type: comment
by: hapticmonkey
text:
  &gt; We further urge the machine learning community to act proactively by establishing robust design guidelines, collaborating with public health experts, and supporting targeted policy measures to ensure responsible and ethical deployment<p>We’ve seen this play out before, when social media first came to prominence. I’m too old and cynical to believe anything will happen. But I really don’t know what to do about it at a person level. Even if I refuse to engage in this content, and am able to identify it, and keep my family away from it…it feels like a critical mass of people in my community&#x2F;city&#x2F;country are going to be engaging with it. It feels hopeless.


type: comment
by: sersi
text:
  Connetix and magnatiles are pretty much fully compatible. Connetix is the only knock off I found that is higher quality than the original (and has great marble run)


type: comment
by: nottorp
text:
  &gt; and occasional gaming through Steam &#x2F; Proton<p>And how does that work on AMD? I know the Steam Deck is AMD but Valve could have tweaked the driver or proton for that particular GPU.


type: comment
by: slurrpurr
text:
  and from last year:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;talk&#x2F;KNG7P3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;talk&#x2F;K...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;talk&#x2F;S3WJCS&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;talk&#x2F;S...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;talk&#x2F;WGGVDK&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2024&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;talk&#x2F;W...</a><p>In comparison, the only talk linked above was &quot;die Sprache der überwacher&quot;, a talk about actual surveillance.


type: comment
by: kopirgan
text:
  I understand and agree with the logic of repairability and user servicability. No arguments there. Point is why should that be premium for non marketing reasons? For instance, is soldered RAM somehow cheaper than RAM slots? Same for SSD, WiFI card, battery, keyboard assembly etc. (all of which used to be perfectly replaceable not too long ago, in most laptops esp high end Elitebooks &amp; Latitudes as well as mass market Acers)


type: comment
by: lll-o-lll
text:
  &gt; Out of curiosity, what is the timeline here? LLMs have been a thing for a while now, and I&#x27;ve been reading about how they&#x27;re going to bring about the death of the Internet since day 1.<p>It’s slowly, but inexorably increasing. The constraints are the normal constraints of a new technology; money, time, quality. Particularly money.<p>Still, token generation keeps going down in cost, making it possible to produce more and more content. Quality, and the ability to obfuscate origins, seems to be on a continual improve also. Anecdotally, I’m seeing a steady increase in the number of HN front page articles that turn out to be AI written.<p>I don’t know how far away the “botnet of spam AI content” is from becoming reality; however it would appear that the <i>success</i> of AI is tightly coupled with that eventuality.


type: comment
by: grumbelbart
text:
  Can you say what hardware could do better? I.e. which kind of primitives do you miss, or would make it easier to develop safer software?


type: comment
by: criticalfault
text:
  what laptop? what hardware?<p>here is my state of laptops:<p>* Dell latitude with old Intel 8gen CPU, it works fine (Linux kernel causes problems with PSR, but this has nothing to do with Wayland and disabling it fixes the problem, same thing with cstates)<p>* Dell latitude with 10gen CPU, works fine.<p>* Huawei d15 with Ryzen 3000 Apu, works fine.<p>ok. for accessibility it&#x27;s fair enough as a critique. I don&#x27;t use it so can&#x27;t say. As far as I can tell this hasn&#x27;t been in focus at all. but most of this is on the toolkit side, not Wayland (even though here one thing is mentioned as Wayland specific, just briefly went through the post)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.gnome.org&#x2F;a11y&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;18&#x2F;update-on-newton-the-wayland-native-accessibility-project&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.gnome.org&#x2F;a11y&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;18&#x2F;update-on-newton-the...</a>


type: comment
by: whinvik
text:
  I think this is how us engineers always do it but it&#x27;s almost always the other way around.<p>Sell first. Building the tech is just an excuse to not learn how to sell. You don&#x27;t really know what customers really want until you start asking for money.


type: comment
by: monerozcash
text:
  Hey, at least you can reasonably argue that the political content has been headed downhill since the more aggressive days of the past. Do we see wikileaks or the likes anymore? Not really.<p>Without direct action it&#x27;s just nerds reading out their blog posts about politics, which couldn&#x27;t be less interesting.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  Not sure about seriousness but I did some simulation work regarding seismic wave propagation. Would that apply?


type: comment
by: FrinkleFrankle
text:
  It also needs to be able to ensure the signals are coming from a human that actually has authority to command it. Don&#x27;t really want it taking hand signals from anyone.


type: comment
by: drakonka
text:
  Just for myself. Helps me consolidate my own thoughts and learnings. Sometimes I google something and my own blog comes up. That gives me a bit of a laugh (and is sometimes useful).


type: comment
by: gardenerik
text:
  I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features. As long as the feature isn&#x27;t intrusive, it seems like a minor addition, and may even be useful to some people. LLMs are here to stay, there is no denying that at this point.


type: comment
by: latexr
text:
  &gt; I would never start a series I know it is unlikely to be completed.<p>As someone who can relate, I advise revisiting that stance. I discovered there is a lot of value to be gained from some unfinished works, and there are some finished works which would had best be left unfinished.


type: comment
by: gucci-on-fleek
text:
  &gt; stand-alone build of luatex 1.10.0<p>Why such an old version? The latest version is 1.24.0, which should have lots of new features and fixes relative to v1.10. And if you&#x27;re starting from scratch and not planning on using any of the TeX stuff, I&#x27;d really recommend using LuaMetaTeX since it cleans lots of stuff up, and doesn&#x27;t use autotools at all.


type: comment
by: Kwpolska
text:
  Trusting LaTeX to automatically distribute tables and figures produces not-very-readable documents with tables and figures interrupting content (e.g. page 12).<p>&gt; The default LATEX compiler in both cases will likely be pdfLaTeX, and to make things smooth, we will stick with that. However, note that there are the more powerful XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, which can be a suitable choice for advanced users.<p>&gt; XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX As a remark, if the document will be mainly in Chinese&#x2F;Japanese&#x2F;Korean or any other non-Latin language in general, then it may be more beneficial to just switch to the XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX compiler since they directly support UTF-8 encoded text. However, we will keep ourselves to the default pdfLaTeX compiler to avoid complications.<p>This is just FUD. XeLaTeX&#x2F;LuaLaTeX do not introduce any &quot;complications&quot; and are not only for &quot;advanced users&quot;. Switching is easy, and programs without any Unicode support should simply not be used these days.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
text:
  I wish george martin took care of his health. Surprised to see Gerrold mentioned here! I read The Man Who Folded Himself a long time and it is the first fiction book I ever had the pleasure to read where all characters were the same person


type: comment
by: elxr
text:
  Nowadays? 4+ times a week. I want to learn as much as I can now that I essentially have 24&#x2F;7 mentors that can remember everything I&#x27;ve told them.<p>Sure, I could write it all by hand; but even as a decent typer, I&#x27;ll never match a tenth speed of claude code or opencode just GOING. Maybe there&#x27;s a better way to learn, but whatever it is, it&#x27;s not obvious to me.


type: comment
by: ecophyseis
text:
  I went through something similar. Ended up under-emphasizing my science background because I noticed that it turned people off.


type: comment
by: Flere-Imsaho
text:
  As a technical manager, I&#x27;m liable for every line of code we produce - regardless of who in the team actually wrote the code.  This is why I review every pull request :)


type: comment
by: notahacker
text:
  &gt; Tolkien was a top language scholar who spoke several even dead languages, so there’s a lot more going on than just the surface plot of Frodo “returning” Bilbo’s ring.<p>If you want to see it then way Tolkien saw it, probably the best way is to get through all that unimportant stuff involving rings and battles as quickly as possible to get to the appendices where Tolkein spent his time thinking about the history and etymology and even neat little details like how the calendar worked in the Shire...<p>(I&#x27;m only half joking)


type: comment
by: wunderwuzzi23
text:
  Excited! It&#x27;s such a great event.<p>I&#x27;m currently on a plane towards Hamburg and will be speaking on Day 2.<p>&quot;Agentic ProbLLMs - Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;hub&#x2F;event&#x2F;detail&#x2F;agentic-probllms-exploiting-ai-computer-use-and-coding-agents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;hub&#x2F;event&#x2F;detail&#x2F;agentic...</a>


type: comment
by: tannhaeuser
text:
  Not sure the number is up from last year (I think there are fewer O&#x2F;T talks this year even) but there are many talks that have nothing to do with hacking even if some of them might pigue my interest, such as the following:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;transkultureller-hack-auf-die-klassische-musikszene-vortrag-und-konzert" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;wer-liegt-hier-wem-auf-der-tasche-genug-mit-dem-burgergeld-fetisch-sturmt-die-palaste" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;shit-for-future-turning-human-shit-into-a-climate-solution" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;wer-hat-angst-vor-dem-neutralitatsgebot" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;power-cycle-b7-oder-warum-kauft-man-eine-zeche" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;selbstverstandlich-antifaschistisch-aktuelle-informationen-zu-den-verfahren-im-budapest-komplex-von-family-friends-hamburg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;a-space-odyssey-2-how-to-study-moon-rocks-from-the-soviet-sample-return-mission-luna-24" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;radikalisierungspipeline-esoterik-von-eso-nazis-de" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;life-on-hold-what-does-true-solidarity-look-like-beyond-duldung-camps-deportation-and-payment-cards" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;and-so-it-begins-wie-unser-rechtsstaat-auf-den-highway-richtung-trumpismus-rast-und-warum-afghanische-klager-innen-fur-uns-die-notbremse-ziehen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p>Then there are topics merely having &quot;computer&quot; in them like everything in this day and age but aren&#x27;t about hacking, and it&#x27;s disappointing because I know for a fact other talks had to make room for these:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;what-makes-bike-sharing-work-insights-from-43-million-kilometers-of-european-cycling-data" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;greenhouse-gas-emission-data-public-difficult-to-access-and-not-always-correct" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p>and there are a couple more.<p>Not everything in &quot;Hacker News&quot; is on-topic either I guess.<p>The talks by e-celebs also don&#x27;t bring in anything novel, like at all.


type: comment
by: lpetronika
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  Hi HN,<p>I’ve been a software engineer for 10 years. For a long time, I viewed &quot;application state&quot; as just a collection of variables and logic. I was effective, but I felt like I was missing the underlying structure of why state becomes messy.<p>Recently, I started studying linear algebra (Axler’s &quot;Linear Algebra Done Right&quot;). It opened a &quot;third eye&quot; for me. I realized that redundant state in a React app is essentially &quot;linear dependence.&quot; If two or more state variables always update in perfect sync, they aren&#x27;t adding new information-they are just redundant dimensions in your application&#x27;s state space.<p>I spent my holiday break building react-state-basis. It’s a real-time architectural auditor that monitors your state transitions as vectors to find these redundancies.<p>What the tool does:<p>Redundancy Detection: It identifies state variables that move in perfect synchronization (collinear) and suggests refactoring them into a single source of truth or a derived value (useMemo).<p>Causality Tracking: It traces useEffect chains to find &quot;Double Render Cycles&quot; where one state update unnecessarily triggers another.<p>Infinite Loop Protection: It includes a &quot;Circuit Breaker&quot; that detects high-speed oscillations and halts execution before the browser thread locks up.<p>System Health Score: It analyzes your entire state architecture to give you an efficiency score based on how many variables are actually independent.<p>I built a Babel plugin to handle automatic labeling, so you don&#x27;t have to manually name your states. It’s designed as a development-time tool—you can easily swap back to standard React imports for your production build.<p>I’m a solo dev and this is my first open-source project. I’d love to hear what you think about this approach to state auditing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;liovic&#x2F;react-state-basis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;liovic&#x2F;react-state-basis</a>


type: comment
by: baobun
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  That&#x27;s irrelevant to that claim being true or not. The fact that M series win in power efficiency is already addressed.


type: comment
by: Gibbon1
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  My heresy is that processor ISA&#x27;s aren&#x27;t memory safe and so it&#x27;s sort of foolish to pretend a systems language is safe. I feel things like pointer tagging are more likely to provide real returns.<p>Also remember a conversation with someone at netscape about JS. The idea was partly as an interpreted language it could be safe unlike binaries. Considering binaries on pre 2000 hardware, running an arbitrary binary oof. But that it wasn&#x27;t as easy as assumed.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
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  1. Sight read (focusing on treble clef) at a decent level<p>2. Being more effective at using LLMs<p>3. Being able to improve in multiple areas of my level simultaneously


type: comment
by: gucci-on-fleek
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  &gt; so that I don&#x27;t have to deploy a directory structure<p>LuaTeX itself doesn&#x27;t depend on any particular directory structure. kpathsea does expect a certain directory structure, but you don&#x27;t need to use kpathsea—LuaTeX was primarily developed for ConTeXt, which doesn&#x27;t use kpathsea at all. Without kpathsea, you&#x27;ll need to supply the appropriate callbacks in a Lua initialization script, but this is fairly simple.


type: comment
by: izacus
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  Because the Apple laptops use exactly the same architecture and bootloader as iPads - if you think they&#x27;re separate you don&#x27;t know enough to be part of this debate.


type: comment
by: anovikov
text:
  But this isn&#x27;t how the pill works. It doesn&#x27;t &quot;let you eat whatever you want and still lose weight&quot;. It makes you stop craving shit.


type: comment
by: jahnu
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  &gt; One would be mad to simply skim it through.<p>Reminds me of an ah-ha! moment I had as a kid playing a text adventure game on my C64. I was stuck for a while and tried to find alternative ways forwards. I typed in &quot;cheat&quot; and it replied &quot;OK, you win!&quot; and ended the game.


type: comment
by: testdelacc1
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  While we’re on the subject of what’s deeply off-putting - how did you generalise to a “community” based on one persons comment. When did Codys become representative of such a large group?<p>By the same token can I say your comment here is representative of all HN comments?


type: comment
by: seethedeaduu
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  &gt; where adults run around with stuffed animals.<p>Nice to see something as simple as this is enough to filter bigots away!


type: comment
by: kmarc
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  I had to do something similar. Ruby is awful and very immature compared to python, so I &quot;outsourced&quot; the machine learning &#x2F; LLM interaction to python. The rails service talks to it through grpc &#x2F; protobuf and it works wonderfully.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
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  That covers the Elite, not the cheaper Snapdragon X laptops such as the ASUS Vivobook 14 (X1407QA).<p>I&#x27;ve followed that thread for almost a year. It&#x27;s a maze of hardware issues and poor compatibility.<p>From your other response.<p>&gt;but vendors usually require a firmware binary to be signed with their keys, which are burned into the SoC. As a result you cannot use Qualcomm&#x27;s vanilla firmware and need to extract the original firmware as provided by the vendor, otherwise it won&#x27;t load.<p>This makes the install process impossible without an existing Windows install. It&#x27;s easier to say it doesn&#x27;t work and move on.<p>It&#x27;s going to be significantly easier to buy run Linux in an X86 laptop.<p>Not to mention no out of the box Linux Snapdragon Elite laptop exists. It&#x27;s a shame because it would probably be an amazing product.


type: comment
by: hideroze
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  Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful response.<p>I largely agree with you, especially regarding revision and redrafting. I don’t consider this a finished novel in the traditional sense, and “draft one” is a fair characterization. I’m not arguing against craft fundamentals, structure, or the necessity of rewriting — those matter a great deal.<p>My interest here was more limited and experimental: I wanted to explore what happens when long-form writing is driven primarily by emotional continuity rather than by an outline, particularly in sustained collaboration with an AI. In that sense, this project was more about process than product.<p>I also agree that strong novels are usually the result of substantial rewrites. What surprised me was simply that emotional continuity alone was sufficient to maintain a coherent narrative over this scale — even if the result clearly requires heavy refinement.<p>I appreciate the critique, and I see it as very much in line with how serious writing actually gets done.


type: comment
by: birksherty
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  Americas do it themselves. Imagine Americans (and  they don&#x27;t live in Asia, so have no right) saying Iranian Iraqi Saudis are not Asians.


type: comment
by: pdimitar
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  Yeah, that too. And AFAIK many devs do that, they buy mini PCs that are very generously specced and just carry them between home and office, usually plugging every periphery needed (display, keyboard, mouse, Ethernet) by just plugging one high-speed port from the box PC to the hub.


type: comment
by: gempir
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  Very anecdotal but for me this model has very weak prompt adherence. I compared it a tiny bit to gemini flash 3.0 and simple things like &quot;don&#x27;t use markdown tables in output&quot; was very hard to get with m2.1<p>Took me like 5 prompt iterations until it finally listened.<p>But it&#x27;s very good, better than flash 3.0 in terms of code output and reasoning while being cheaper.


type: comment
by: OoooooooO
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  Console doesn&#x27;t work for anything but platformers. Competitive online gaming = PC (Aoe2, BF6, Dark and Darker, Swordai, MWO, The Finals, War Thunder, PS2 etc.).<p>144fps + Mouse + Keyboard is just superior.


type: comment
by: jojomodding
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  The part of the blog post where it says<p>&gt; What’s with all these new reference types? &gt; All of these are speculative ideas<p>makes it pretty clear to me that they are indeed not yet part of Rust but instead something people have been thinking about adding. The rest of the post discusses how these would work if they were implemented.


type: comment
by: testfrequency
text:
  Thanks for sharing! Happy to see progress here and an actual statement from a company vs normies arguing they are capable or not..


type: comment
by: gucci-on-fleek
text:
  Have you considered using ConTeXt&#x27;s CLD [0]? It&#x27;s still uses TeX underneath, but that&#x27;s pretty well insulated from the end user. Here are some random examples that I&#x27;ve written [1] [2] [3].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pragma-ade.nl&#x2F;general&#x2F;manuals&#x2F;cld-mkiv.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pragma-ade.nl&#x2F;general&#x2F;manuals&#x2F;cld-mkiv.pdf</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gucci-on-fleek&#x2F;unnamed-emoji&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;documentation&#x2F;unemoji-specimens.cld" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gucci-on-fleek&#x2F;unnamed-emoji&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TikZlings&#x2F;Extravaganza2025&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;max&#x2F;commercial&#x2F;commercial.cld" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TikZlings&#x2F;Extravaganza2025&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;max&#x2F;...</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;715598&#x2F;270600" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tex.stackexchange.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;715598&#x2F;270600</a>


type: comment
by: sersi
text:
  What I wish for would be a lego technics creative box with motors etc... Thats closer to what I had as a kid and I built a lot of fun things with that. Never liked the basic legos that much though


type: comment
by: whytevuhuni
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  Right. The &amp;pin, &amp;own, and &amp;uninit in the article (or rather everything except &amp; and &amp;mut in that table) do not exist in Rust.<p>I have seen &amp;pin being proposed recently [1], first time I&#x27;m seeing the others.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;project-goals-update-october-2025&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.rust-lang.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;11&#x2F;19&#x2F;project-goals-update-o...</a>


type: comment
by: avhception
text:
  Works very well for me! YMMV maybe depending on the titles you play, but that would probably be more of a Proton issue than an AMD issue, I&#x27;d guess. I&#x27;m not a huge gamer, so take my experience with a grain of salt. But I&#x27;ve racked up almost 300 hours of Witcher3 with the HQ patch on a 4k TV display using my self-compiled Gentoo kernel, and it worked totally fine. A few other games, too. So there&#x27;s that!


type: comment
by: xnx
text:
  Similar story for me but the blocks were just a few scraps of construction wood. Infinite possibilities even with a few short blocks of 2x4 and angle cut pieces.


type: comment
by: mbrochh
text:
  Usual PSA: Don&#x27;t wait for a cure for Alzheimers. Work towards not getting it in the first place. Alzheimers is &quot;brain diabetes&quot;. You get it from consuming sugars and carbs. It can be easily avoided.


type: comment
by: huhkerrf
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  When I was a kid, I used to get a ton of emails for a guy who put the wrong email address on a dating site. It was always interesting at 13 to have to tell women that I wasn&#x27;t the man they were interested in.


type: comment
by: hallole
text:
  It&#x27;s sugar, not a hard drug. Your agency isn&#x27;t substantially subverted by the drive to consume it. Self control isn&#x27;t easy, though; that&#x27;s why it&#x27;s a virtue.


type: comment
by: aidos
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  &gt; No model should ever know Jon Snow’s phone number from a SaaS service, but this approach allows this sort of retrieval.<p>This reads to me like they think that the response from the tool doesn’t go back to the LLM.<p>I’ve not worked with tools but my understanding is that they’re a way to allow the LLM to request additional data from the client. Once the client executes the requested function, that response data then goes to the LLM to be further processed into a final response.


type: comment
by: rkomorn
text:
  I guess it depends on your definition of &quot;intrusive&quot;.<p>I have no interest in any of the AI features that have been added to the UIs of Meta products (WhatsApp, and Messenger), yet still see prompts for them and modified UIs to try and get me to engage with Meta AI.<p>Same goes with Gemini poking its head into various spots in the UIs of the Google products I use.<p>There are now UI spots I can accidentally tap&#x2F;click and get dropped into a chat with an AI in various things I use on a daily basis.<p>There are also more &quot;calls to action&quot; for AI features, more &quot;hey do you wanna try AI here?&quot; prompts, etc.<p>It&#x27;s not just the addition of AI features, it&#x27;s all the modern, transparent desperation-for-metrics-to-go-up UX bits that come with it.<p>And yes, some of these things were around before this wave of AI launches, but a- that doesn&#x27;t make it better, and b- all the AI features are seemingly the same across apps, so now we have bunches of apps all pushing the same &quot;feature&quot; at us.


type: comment
by: fluoridation
text:
  I just don&#x27;t understand how it could occur to no one in a group of three or four people for a whole hour. Like, even if the barrier had been fully built and worked perfectly even after considering the tide, they would have been making camp on fully soaked ground. Just what everyone wants first thing in the morning: to trudge through mud.


type: comment
by: Tajnymag
text:
  Looks great. Like a more open and cuter version of, now enshittified, AirConsole.<p>AirConsole link for context: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airconsole.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airconsole.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: da_grift_shift
text:
  &gt;Received a CurseForge t-shirt<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Curse_LLC#Twitch&#x27;s_sale_of_CurseForge_to_Overwolf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Curse_LLC#Twitch&#x27;s_sale_of_Cur...</a>


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Thanks! Should be fun family time, unless there&#x27;s a lot of competitive sprits running in the family, then it just might cause chaos :D


type: comment
by: binaryturtle
text:
  The simple website doesn&#x27;t work. Everything seems to be driven by incompatible&#x2F;broken JavaScript, even what should be straight simple links. I&#x27;m too lazy to fire up Chromium to find out if it works there.


type: comment
by: dielll
text:
  Kotlin and Golang. I know it6not advisable to learn 2 languages at the same time but I want Kotlin for android apps and Go for backend. Been working alot with python and I want to shift to a different stack and hopefully get a change of careers from Test Automation&#x2F; QA to a more coding focused role(backend, android)


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  Archive link for us Brits saved from Imgur by our wonderful government <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;nUJCI3o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;nUJCI3o</a>


type: comment
by: bwblabs
text:
  Tickets are sold (to the first email that arrived at 10:25 CEST, and the second ticket of a friend who&#x27;s also a speaker to the second mailer at 11:11 CEST).


type: comment
by: ajb
text:
  Another possiblity is the reduced number of housewives; who would largely have been the ones supporting this effort


type: comment
by: chias
text:
  Those look super cool, but I&#x27;m also not sure I&#x27;d be ready to throw down $340 for the 50 piece starter set.


type: comment
by: hnarn
text:
  What a ridiculous statement. By your logic, anyone with alzheimer’s got it from eating sugars and carbs and simply didn’t choose to avoid it.<p>Sugars and carbs also keep you alive. Please keep your mortality neurosis to yourself.


type: comment
by: fweimer
text:
  I&#x27;m not involved in Go development, only watching from the sidelines. I think it&#x27;s very likely due to the project dynamics that after the first (published) exploit against real software, the compiler will be changed so that low-level data races can no longer result in type confusion. There will be some overhead, but it&#x27;s going to be quite modest. I think this is realistic because there&#x27;s already a garbage collector. Indirection to fresh heap allocations can be used to make writes to multiple fields to appear as atomic.<p>So I think Go is absolutely not in the same bucket as C, C++, or unsafe Rust.


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  those streams of text are often conditioned on the prompts - people are using it to learn about new concepts, and as a hyperpersonalised version of search. it can not only tell you of tools you didn&#x27;t know existed, but it can show you how to use them.<p>I do like my buttons to stay where I left them - but that can be conditioned. instead of gnome &quot;designers&quot; telling me the button needs to be wide enough to hit with my left foot, I could tell the system I want this button to be small and in that corner - and add it to my prompt.


type: comment
by: goku12
text:
  I doubt that anybody truly knows Rust. And this is aggravated by the fact that features keep getting added. But here are two simple strategies that I found very effective in keeping us ahead of the curve.<p>1. Always keep the language reference with you. It&#x27;s absolutely not a replacement for a good introductory textbook. But it&#x27;s an unusually effective resource for anybody who has crossed that milestone. It&#x27;s very effective in spontaneously uncovering new language features and in refining your understanding of the language semantics.<p>What we need to do with it is to refer it occasionally for even constructs that you&#x27;re familiar with - for loops, for example. I wish that it was available as auto popups in code editors.<p>2. Use clippy, the linter. I don&#x27;t have much to add here. Your code will work without it. But for some reason, clippy is an impeccable tutor into idiomatic Rust coding. And you get the advantage of the fact that it stays in sync with the latest language features. So it&#x27;s yet another way to keep yourself automatically updated with the language features.


type: comment
by: the8472
text:
  &gt; All of these are speculative ideas, but at this point they’ve been circulating a bunch so should be pretty robust.


type: comment
by: kentrf
text:
  I want to learn it all...<p>But what will happen is that I use my working days writing code&#x2F;producing software, evenings to make dinner and be with family, and nights gaming with friends.<p>Weekends are for recharging.<p>And that is completely OK.<p>It is a healthy balance between getting stuff done, recovery, and enjoying life.<p>To avoid burnout again, I take a day or two off whenever I feel like I need some time off.


type: comment
by: MaulingMonkey
text:
  FWIW, this is what I do, although typically with the prefix `dead&#x2F;`, unto which I abandon ideas and misdirected refactoring with reckless abandon.


type: comment
by: bitmasher9
text:
  By interact directly with the API, are you having the user to make curl calls to your backend?<p>We build front ends for the API to make our applications easier to use.  This is just another type of front end.


type: comment
by: expedition32
text:
  Body heat of farm animals was how people in my country got through the winter but that comes with it&#x27;s own problems.


type: comment
by: lgvld
text:
  Very probably.<p>I am also curious to know wether a domain name still confers a solid advantage. Now that so many people use social networks like Instagram, does (the SEO or domain name, etc. of) your website remain a critical part of the process?<p>Actually the SEO plays an important role in some areas, for sure.


type: comment
by: Horos
text:
  Thanks for the pointer to asyncmachine! Let me clarify HOROS architecture  since there&#x27;s some confusion.<p>HOROS uses time slots for orchestrator clones on a SINGLE machine by default. Not distributed - 5 Go processes share the same kernel clock:<p>Runner-0: T=0s, 10s, 20s... (slot 0) Runner-1: T=2s, 12s, 22s... (slot 1) Runner-2: T=4s, 14s, 24s... (slot 2)<p>Zero network, zero clock drift. Just local time.Sleep().<p>Your approach (logical clocks) solves event ordering in distributed systems. HOROS solves periodic polling - workers can be idle for hours with no events to increment a logical clock. Wall-clock fires regardless.<p>Different primitives: - Logical clocks: &quot;Event A before Event B?&quot; (causality) - TDMA timers: &quot;Is it your turn?&quot; (time-slicing)<p>For cross-machine workflows, we use SQLite state bridges:<p>Machine-Paris                     Machine-Virginia ┌─────────────┐                  ┌──────────────┐ │ Worker-StepA│                  │ Worker-StepC │ │ completes   │                  │ waits        │ │     ↓       │                  │      ↑       │ │ output.db   │                  │  input.db    │ └──────┬──────┘                  └──────▲───────┘        │                                │        └──→ bridge.db ←─────────────────┘             (Litestream replication)<p>bridge.db = shared SQLite with state transitions StepBridger daemon polls bridge.db, moves data between steps<p>State machines communicate through data writes, not RPC. Each node stays single-machine internally (local TDMA).<p>Re: formatting - which results were unclear? Happy to improve.


type: comment
by: littlecranky67
text:
  CCC was always political (very left to far left). Never understood why hacking has to be political in the first place.


type: comment
by: m12k
text:
  This almost reads like the beginning of a mathematical proof of Zen: As the speed with which you pursue satisfaction asymptotically approaches zero, your state of mind asymptotically approaches enlightenment.


type: comment
by: smokel
text:
  I am pretty good at drawing, and would highly recommend starting with traditional media rather than digital tools.<p>Drawing on paper allows for a wide range of physical setups, such as using a notebook on your lap or on a table, large sheets mounted on a wall, or a board on an easel.  Each configuration engages different muscle groups.  Large-format drawing relies primarily on shoulder movement, whereas smaller, more detailed work involves the wrist, forearm, and fingers.  I&#x27;m convinced that deliberately training hand–eye coordination at multiple scales (finger–eye, wrist–eye, or shoulder–eye), is beneficial in learning to draw better.<p>It is also a good idea to experiment with a variety of media: pens, pencils, chalk, charcoal, and different surfaces such as paper, wood, or canvas. The differing tactile feedback and resistance will improve your motor control.  You don&#x27;t need to spend a fortune on this, but don&#x27;t limit yourself to the cheapest color pencils and toilet paper.<p>That said, if your primary goal is accurate photo replication, it&#x27;s probably easiest to start with Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain [1], along with some YouTube tutorials.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawright.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drawright.com&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: MaulingMonkey
text:
  This is something I do wish Rust could better support.  A `#![no_std]` library crate can at least discourage allocation (although it can always `extern crate alloc;` in lib.rs or invoke malloc via FFI...)


type: comment
by: bloqs
text:
  Great looking release, well done! I used to play airconsole with my partner a fair bit about 6-7 years ago. How does this differ or is it similar but more modern&#x2F;performant?


type: comment
by: hk__2
text:
  Well, it was this at the beginning. Now it’s an open-core competitor to Slack, with higher pricing(!) but you can use the free version that has fewer features.


type: comment
by: mft_
text:
  Maybe also think about a structure for such things.<p>As in, it’s all very well to reverse engineer something for your own edification or benefit, but sharing the fruits of your labour with others would be so much better.<p>And further, serendipitously discovering (possibly abandoned) reverse engineering efforts on GitHub is better than nothing, but having a community working on such things, sharing progress and techniques, and offering a central point of discovery would also be so much better.


type: story
by: quozine
title: Reversing engineering is a great way to find programming trainwrecks
text:
  Not that long ago, I was trying to reverse part of a piece of software so I could work with a proprietary format. Along the way, I encountered some of the worst code I have ever seen. And mind you, this was in a widely-used professional software developed by a multi-billion dollar company.<p>* The program was centered around a single core library. This library worked by loading several component libraries and then providing wrappers around them. The way the wrappers worked was a bit convoluted, but this was probably the least bad part of it.<p>* The largest component library involved creating an object and then calling its methods. Rather than implementing this directly, it was done in this bizarrely convoluted way where an object would be created and then a pointer would be put in a small, fixed-size array. The function then returned an index into that array. All the methods would then work on that index instead of the pointer directly. Some methods checked the bounds, while others didn&#x27;t. If the array filled up, the program would crash.<p>* There was a static mapping of strings that was used as a lookup table. The table was indexed by the first two letters in each entry. Every time a value in the table was looked up, it would search through all the index prefixes until it found the matching one. It would then search through every entry in the table with that prefix. It would stop if either the entry matched, or the prefix changed. There was no boundschecking whatsoever. If the key contained a prefix not in the index, it would crash. If the key was not in the index and the prefix was the last prefix, it would wait for the prefix in the table to change, going past the end and crashing. The cherry on top was that everything was already completely lexicographically sorted, so they could have just used bsearch without having to change anything else. Oh and this was not a small amount of data in a minor part of the program, it was 5MB+ of data with 100,000+ entries that was regularly called from a loop that runs thousands of times.<p>* In the biggest component, nearly everything was stored in one enormous class. And I mean enormous. It was dozens of megabytes in size and had hundreds of fields. Nearly every other class and struct was embedded in it, directly without a pointer. Well actually there were some pointers but that part was even more absurd. The class contained pointers to various objects, but those objects were already in the class - but sometimes they weren&#x27;t. There was a whole bunch of spaghetti code to check whether they were in the class directly, or whether the pointers pointed to classes that were allocated in the heap, or if they were null. All of this seemingly served no purpose whatsoever.<p>* There was a function that took a c-string of a directory path and added another c-string containing a filename. Rather than just using a malloc and strcat, it did the following: create an std::vector; parse the directory path splitting each &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;, converting it to wide-character string and then appending it to the vector; convert the file name to a wstring and appended it too; create a new wstring and then append each element of the array followed by a &#x27;&#x2F;&#x27;; convert the wstring back to a c-string. I&#x27;m not kidding.<p>This was just the tip of the iceberg.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  I&#x27;m interpreting the word as what it means and how it is obviously being used. No one takes &quot;campsite&quot; to mean &quot;the literal space occupied by the tent’s ground sheet&quot; unless they are playing some silly sophistic game. Here is what it means (pick your own source ... they are all similar and none agrees with your definition):<p>&quot;A campsite is a designated area where individuals can set up bedding, sleeping bags, or cooking equipment, such as stoves or fires. This definition encompasses any location that allows for sleeping or cooking, regardless of whether it includes a tent, lean-to, shack, or other structures.&quot;<p>And here&#x27;s the Wikipedia description, which notes that the English &quot;campsite&quot; is equivalent to the American &quot;campground&quot;, but that is <i>broader</i> and neither is so absurdly narrow as your words:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Campsite" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Campsite</a><p>&gt; would understand that the tent got soaked<p>I already refuted this nonsense ... there is no reason to think from the OP&#x27;s description that the tent got soaked.<p>&gt; To use an analogy, think of ...<p>I don&#x27;t need any help with thinking, especially from bad analogies that are flatly contradicted by the OP&#x27;s description. What&#x27;s the parking lot analogy to building dams?


type: comment
by: hk__2
text:
  It’s not hardcoded; self-hosted version call their server to ask what is the limit, which is 10k if you don’t pay or unlimited if you do. There is absolutely no performance problem with &gt;10k messages.


type: comment
by: paperpunk
text:
  Tangential but when reading books like Lord of the Rings with songs periodically written in the text, I’ve always enjoyed trying to sing the songs out loud and set a melody for them that feels appropriate for the universe. It really makes the songs come alive.


type: comment
by: fweimer
text:
  The standard does not assign meaning to this sequence of execution, so an implementation can detect this and abort. This is not just hypothetical: existing implementations with pointer capabilities (Fil-C, CHERI targets, possibly even compilers for IBM i) already do this. Of course, such C implementations are not widely used.<p>The union example is not particularly problematic in this regard. Much more challenging is pointer arithmetic through uintptr_t because it&#x27;s quite common. It&#x27;s probably still solvable, but at a certain point, changes the sources becomes easier, even at at scale (say if something uses the %p format specifier with sprintf&#x2F;sscanf).


type: comment
by: mlrtime
text:
  Yeah, I&#x27;m not creating an account to read a post.<p>Twitter&#x2F;X at least allows you to read a single post.


type: comment
by: gardenerik
text:
  I agree with you that the push towards them is annoying. (Google&#x27;s &quot;Your phone has new exciting features.&quot;)<p>In this case, Calibre does not seem to introduce any said annoyances (probably because it is FOSS, so no pressure for adoption), but people are upset anyways.<p>There are many features I don&#x27;t use in various software, but it never made me complain that a new icon&#x2F;menu entry appeared.


type: comment
by: azuanrb
text:
  I generally prefer Sonnet as comparison too. Opus, as good as it is, is just too expensive. The &quot;best&quot; model is the one I can use, not the one I can&#x27;t afford.<p>These days, by default I just use Sonnet&#x2F;Haiku. In most cases it&#x27;s more than good enough for me. It&#x27;s plenty with $20 plan.<p>With MiniMax, or GLM-4.7, some people like me are just looking for Sonnet level capability at much cheaper price.


type: comment
by: smokel
text:
  <i>&gt; The cost of all the paper I wasted in the last 5 years is probably less than the cost of a pizza.</i><p>Once you get into it, there is an amazing assortment of papers that can cost up to a pizza per sheet.  Especially if you&#x27;re going for the larger formats.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arches-papers.com&#x2F;arches-range-of-papers&#x2F;watercolor-and-wet-techniques&#x2F;arches-aquarelle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arches-papers.com&#x2F;arches-range-of-papers&#x2F;watercolor-...</a>


type: comment
by: ahachete
text:
  &gt; &quot;As part of the acquisition, we made an important decision: not only to keep PeerDB open source&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;Here goes the Open Source reference to our validation logic.&quot;<p>&gt; &quot;PeerDB Open Source Repository&quot;<p>I hate to be that guy, but PeerDB seems to be governed by the Elastic License [1] which makes it NOT open source.<p>The difference is not small, but significant for many. For one, it won&#x27;t get integrated into other OSS projects.<p>In my particular case, we have integrated Debezium Embedded into StackGres, as a high level object (CRD) named SGStream [2]. It allows Postgres logical replication from Postgres and exports to another Postgres and&#x2F;or CloudEvents. No Kafka required. We&#x27;d love to consider other alternatives like PeerDB, but not being OSS is a red line we can&#x27;t cross (having said that, we&#x27;re really happy with Debezium in general, but having competition and alternatives it&#x27;s always great).<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeerDB-io&#x2F;peerdb&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeerDB-io&#x2F;peerdb&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE.md</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackgres.io&#x2F;doc&#x2F;latest&#x2F;reference&#x2F;crd&#x2F;sgstream&#x2F;#sgstreamspec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackgres.io&#x2F;doc&#x2F;latest&#x2F;reference&#x2F;crd&#x2F;sgstream&#x2F;#sgst...</a><p>[edit: formatting]


type: comment
by: boricj
text:
  Practice. Lots and lots of practice. There&#x27;s no way around that.<p>Besides that, there are plenty of resources to learn particular topics&#x2F;techniques out there. For drawing people with any degree of realism, you&#x27;ll need at least drawing proportions at first and then anatomy later on.<p>While you can brute-force it from zero on your own like I did, I wouldn&#x27;t recommend it. You&#x27;ll learn faster if you study it like a proper discipline.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Ah right, I see what you mean. For that specific purpose I remember seeing some other software like Virtual Gamepad and Remote Gamepad that should let you use your phone as controller for Steam games. Haven&#x27;t tested those out myself though


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  Of course it&#x27;s not.<p>&quot;A campsite is a designated area where individuals can set up bedding, sleeping bags, or cooking equipment, such as stoves or fires. This definition encompasses any location that allows for sleeping or cooking, regardless of whether it includes a tent, lean-to, shack, or other structures.&quot;<p>I would note that camping also involves sitting in campchairs talking, reading, singing, etc.<p>And<p>&gt; I’d call your version hiking&#x2F;walking&#x2F;backpacking depending where I am.<p>The hiking&#x2F;walking&#x2F;backpacking is what nerdsniper does <i>between campsites</i>:<p>&gt; My version is carrying everything I need on my back for two weeks and walking 10-15 miles each day ==&gt; to the next campsite &lt;==<p>Despite his phrasing, he of course is not saying that hiking == camping.


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
text:
  This is also possible in the first and second Monkey Island games, using hotkeys ctrl+W or maybe alt+W.<p>The cheat code will immediately end your game while informing you that you scored 800 of 800 points (presumably a Sierra reference; this is the only way to score any number - including zero - of points).<p>There&#x27;s no particular reason you&#x27;d discover this while playing either game, but if you play the third one, a mandatory plot point will show the message &quot;You lose. You scored 0 of 800 points,&quot; referring back to the obscure joke in the earlier games.


type: comment
by: jjude
text:
  I want to get good at &quot;taste&quot;<p>I am a software engineer and I have trained to think logically and structurally. In that processes, I have lost &quot;taste&quot;. I don&#x27;t have any design (user facing) capability. I bet in the near future, developing apps and hosting will become so easy that we will soon see &quot;substack for apps&quot; [1].<p>If I&#x27;m right, the thing that will set me still apart (I&#x27;m currently a CTO with 30 years of experience) will be taste and not engineering. Or putting it differently, taste + engineering will set me apart than just engineering.<p>I don&#x27;t know what that will look like yet. But that is what I want to learn in 2026.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjude.com&#x2F;substack-for-apps&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jjude.com&#x2F;substack-for-apps&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  For sure only one out of the party should ever need to buy anything in order to play. I think the model could work but there should also be some way to test drive the games before buying, otherwise it could be very hard to know which individual games to buy?


type: comment
by: dinfinity
text:
  That GP&#x27;s comment is an advertisement for a subscription based closed source application that gets access to your credentials.


type: comment
by: jameswestgate
text:
  Try setting it a bit further back away from the wrist bones that stick up so that the sensors are in constant contact with the skin, and can illuminate the blood pulses in the vessels under the skin.


type: comment
by: Zardoz84
text:
  Yeah. But WHY taging instead of renaming the branch ? I don&#x27;t say if it is a good or bad idea. But I would like to know why.


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  - MANDATORY: Re-learn focus. I will not self-diagnose but I exhibit ADHD symptoms and I started actively fighting them back (they mostly come from the phone). I am not going to just deny myself access to apps on schedule -- my brain never clicked schedule, not even once in my life -- but through a persistent and sustainable self-change from deep within. It&#x27;s slow but it&#x27;s beginning to work.<p>- MANDATORY: Get more intimate with my Neovim. I&#x27;ve always kind of half-arsed my editors &#x2F; IDEs, I always found it annoying to become a deep expert. This must change; surface-level skills rob you of productivity. I already am hugely annoyed by my typing speed, which is quite excellent but still not enough to work almost at the speed of thought. I want to achieve something near to these levels.<p>- OPTIONAL: Integrate closer with one ore more LLM agents for coding. I have not paid for any yet but copying-pasting from a web UI gets tiring. Sometimes you really just want to say &quot;OK, now remove that duplicate test and include that edge case&quot; and see it materialize in 20 seconds. I am not against paying, it&#x27;s just that so far the paid tiers have not been a blocker. Well, seems like they are now.<p>- MANDATORY: Prioritize body. I have health conditions and I have a relatively good visibility how to fix them. I regularly end up desperately trying to solve more and more problems on the computer just so I don&#x27;t get up and start a workout. I started turning this around but it&#x27;s way too slow and time and age don&#x27;t wait for anyone.<p>In general: connect better with myself, forgive myself all the previous mistakes, understand why and how they came to be and remove the root causes, put myself on a better path. And above all: be more true to myself.


type: comment
by: nunobrito
text:
  Sorry to say, my opinion is that such alignment will NOT be happening on the foreseeable future unless AI can be used to program whatever is missing on reticulum.<p>Reticulum is poorly implemented on the library side and assumes everything to be encrypted, which is heavy on network links with poor bandwidth. Plus, on radio waves the encryption is not even permitted.<p>NOSTR can be simplified to be less verbose and function on less bandwidth links like bluetooth, LoRa and be unencrypted (just signed messages) to legally use radio waves. Reticulum has some kind of drama against using bluetooth for transmission of data. Unfortunately that doesn&#x27;t seem to change in the near times.


type: comment
by: rkomorn
text:
  I think there are &quot;classes&quot; of features people have disliked. Eg: every social media app added &quot;stories&quot; at some point, using up screen real estate. Same goes with &quot;shorts&#x2F;reels&#x2F;etc&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s one thing when a feature gets added to an app.<p>It&#x27;s another thing when it happens in a context where every app is doing it (or something similar), and you see it in every facet of your tech life.


type: comment
by: oreilles
text:
  Clicking the leftmost menu icon raise the following error:<p><pre><code>    Geneguessr encountered a problem:     runtime-error     SyntaxError: redeclaration of const NAVIGATION_START</code></pre>


type: comment
by: TurboSkyline
text:
  Hey! I played your game with my friends last weekend! We get together every month to play board games, and lately we&#x27;ve been doing a lot of party games like Jackbox or King of the Castle. One of our guys had heard about your game and we gave it a go and we ended up playing it for most of the day!<p>We tried most of the game options and had really great fun with all of it. Everything worked fine, no issues, no desync, and it didn&#x27;t destroy battery life on the phone controllers either. I&#x27;d say the ferry race and the parking games were my favourite overall, but the others aren&#x27;t bad by any means! So, thanks a lot for your work, and I&#x27;ll definitely be returning to Gaming Couch with my group!<p>And for a question: Do you have plans to monetize the platform in the future? If so, can you share any details on how that would work?


type: comment
by: nunobrito
text:
  Yeah, true. However they are cool and keep the network alive. Very thankful they are there every single day.


type: comment
by: jamiek88
text:
  Yeah there absolutely are not fields of 30 year old cars in the uk lol. Our agricultural land is efficiently exploited and would never waste the space, public lands would be in uproar and the government did not buy acres and acres to stash ford fiestas.


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  Nothing you wrote contradicts anything I said about camping. Someone else suggested that &quot;campsite&quot; just means the area covered by a tent and its groundcover, which is closer to the &quot;mental image&quot; of the other person who wrongly believes that tents got waterlogged, but is the arch opposite of yours. I&#x27;ve camped in the woods, on open steppes, and in designated camping areas in French and English towns. In each of those cases I brought my own tent, but I&#x27;ve also &quot;glamped&quot; and stayed in existing canvas-sided structures, from Yosemite to Mont St. Michel.<p>Also, this is about a campsite a few inches of which is in a lake, and people moving their tents. But apparently paying attention to the actual context is optional for some people.


type: comment
by: Wowfunhappy
text:
  Oh, I forgot to mention—reading out loud (silently or not) does work, but then I find it difficult to actually pay attention to what I’m reading.<p>Like you, I do proofread this way, and for that it works well.


type: comment
by: gnull
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;V4TXg69kfo8?t=977" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;V4TXg69kfo8?t=977</a><p>Reminds me of this speech by Leon Wieseltier.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Bounds checking of pointers, C Machine kind of.<p>Solaris and Linux SPARC since 2015, for example.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;operating-systems&#x2F;solaris&#x2F;oracle-solaris&#x2F;11.4&#x2F;prog-interfaces&#x2F;using-application-data-integrity-adi.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;operating-systems&#x2F;solaris&#x2F;oracle-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.kernel.org&#x2F;arch&#x2F;sparc&#x2F;adi.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.kernel.org&#x2F;arch&#x2F;sparc&#x2F;adi.html</a><p>ARM MTE, as another one,<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.arm.com&#x2F;learning-paths&#x2F;mobile-graphics-and-gaming&#x2F;mte&#x2F;mte&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learn.arm.com&#x2F;learning-paths&#x2F;mobile-graphics-and-gam...</a>


type: comment
by: refurb
text:
  Yup.  I’ve gotten documents from an Asian country’s government.  One known for its good governance and meritocracy, that had hidden sheets with competitor data.<p>Don’t underestimate work shoved onto a university intern.


type: comment
by: david_allison
text:
  I&#x27;m co-maintaining an open source Android app (primarily Kotlin, with Svelte &amp; Rust). I&#x27;d be happy to mentor in 2026.<p>Feel free to get in touch if you&#x27;re interested:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ankidroid&#x2F;Anki-Android&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;CONTRIBUTING.md#joining-our-community" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ankidroid&#x2F;Anki-Android&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;CONTRIBU...</a>


type: comment
by: doozko
text:
  I love dark stories, where one needs to solve a mystery with yes&#x2F;no questions, and often play it with one friend  I thought it was a perfect use case to have an AI play the role of the riddle master so that everyone can play at the same time, so I built it.<p>Tell me what you think!


type: comment
by: rvnx
text:
  I tend to think that it leads to censorship, and then censorship at a broader level in the name of protecting our kids. See with social networks where you now have to give your ID card to protect kids.<p>The best way in that case is education of the kids &#x2F; people and automatically flag potentially harmful &#x2F; disgusting content and let the owner of the device set-up the level of filtering he wants.<p>Like with LLMs they should be somewhat neutral in default mode but they should never refuse a request if user asks.<p>Otherwise the line between technology provider and content moderator is too blurry, and tomorrow SV people are going to abuse of that power (or be coerced by money or politics).<p>At a person &#x2F; parent level, time limits (like you can do with web filtering device for TikTok), content policy would solve and taking time to spend with the kids as much as possible and to talk to them so they don’t become dumber and dumber due to short videos.<p>But totally opposed that it should be done on public policy level: “now you have right to watch pornography but only after you give ID to prove you are adult” (this is already the case in France for example)<p>It can quickly become: “now to watch &#x2F; generate controversial content, you have to ID”


type: comment
by: exe34
text:
  no, I got my puk code from my phone operator when I moved services before. at least in the UK it works that way.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Because it is,  from point of view of what memory corruption issues are there in C and C++.<p>Waiting for the traditional Rust reply.


type: comment
by: RobinL
text:
  The art creation tool is great: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiled.art&#x2F;en&#x2F;create&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiled.art&#x2F;en&#x2F;create&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: thaumasiotes
text:
  You&#x27;re describing the multi-armed bandit problem:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multi-armed_bandit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Multi-armed_bandit</a>


type: comment
by: jibal
text:
  No, it doesn&#x27;t sound like that at all, and you have offered no reason to think so. It&#x27;s the other person who clearly has an extremely limited notion of camping: &quot;the term campsite conjures up a place with tents already there&quot; -- perhaps you have the two of us mixed up. And the OP said that <i>they moved the tents</i>, so <i>ass-u-me ing</i> that they were fixed structures is not rational.


type: comment
by: furbdiba
text:
  “But it is also a depressing time suck that can get you to waste hours of your time on garbage and nonsense. Like most things in life, you get out what you put in.”<p>This is enough of a downside to say all the other positives are irrelevant. You could call this “brain rot” for the masses.


type: comment
by: woodpanel
text:
  Personally, I’m very much looking forward to the many talks from the „politics“ category. You have the wrong mindset.<p>Originally, I wanted to enjoy the cringe fest of privacy related grandstanding while the „community“ was absolutely silent during the dystopian Covid overreach.<p>But then I spotted, between the many „Nazis everywhere“ vibed talks, one spectacular Antifa affiliated talk about the „Budapest-Complex“.<p>&gt; Der Vorwurf der … steht in keinem Verhältnis zu den verhandelten Vorkommnissen<p><i>Roughly translated: The claim of … is completely disproportionate relative to the discussed events.</i><p>„Discussed events“ as in? That some random pedestrian almost got killed because someone decided he‘s a neonazi? Hammers are nowhere to be mentioned. I mean, my knowledge of this is a little bit rusty, but somehow I get the feeling it’s going to be an inspiring leadership class in bending the meanings of words.<p>By the way, the Antifa-Ost which this talks seem to be concerned with is afaik exactly one of those groups mentioned in the recent US admin‘s update to the list of terrorist groups.<p>Highly recommend this talk!


type: comment
by: qmr
text:
  I don&#x27;t know.  I enjoyed it in tweens and high school, couldn&#x27;t get into it again in later life.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  &gt; I think ultimately what frustrates me is that people don’t consider the ability to repair or upgrade your machine part of a “premium” experience, but that’s is just something I have to accept. I think it is unfortunate that our consumerist culture places so little value on it though.<p>I don&#x27;t consider that so either, no. I think it should be a standard experience. Not something I have to pay extra for. And really, the bulkiness is something that shouldn&#x27;t suffer too much from a 2mm memory module.


type: comment
by: roryirvine
text:
  I&#x27;ve found the same. To generalise it a bit, LLMs seem to do particularly well with static types, a well-defined set of idioms, and a culture of TDD.


type: comment
by: saidnooneever
text:
  he says its bad for agents, nit &#x27;LLM stuff&#x27;.  python is fine to throw task to the GPU. it is absolutely dreadful at any real programming. so if you want to write an agent that _uses_ LLMs etc  like an agent, there are much better languages, for performance, safety and your sanity.


type: comment
by: mawadev
text:
  It&#x27;s not a skill in particular but I want to decouple the way I think from todays economics. I want to learn skills that give me confidence and well being instead of training me to be a better cog in the machinery, so that I can impress other people or put a price tag next to the value of me as a human. Just enough to be average, but not more to end up living to work to fuel delusions.<p>I also don&#x27;t want to be derailed from hyped up technologies that ultimately sell me on a quick path to reach a delusional goal. I want steady and consistent growth and understand the makings deeply.


type: comment
by: dynamite-ready
text:
  This is interesting. At what level and team size? There&#x27;s going to have to be a point where you just give in to the &#x27;vibes&#x27; (whether it&#x27;s from a human, or a machine), otherwise you become the bottleneck, no?


type: story
by: fleahunter
title: The paints, coatings, and chemicals making the world a cooler place
url:
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/26/1129301/paint-coating-chemicals-materials-cooling-air-conditioning/


type: comment
by: mft_
text:
  Totally the opposite, from my recollection.<p>Number and value of child’s toys&#x2F;belongings correlated directly with parental income, with parental attitude as an independent variable.<p>For example, my parents were probably at the lower-end-of-comfortable but definitely not wealthy, but I had less money spent on me as a result of their beliefs around raising a child, and politics more broadly.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Apple also drove the quest for extreme thinness. Even Lenovo Thinkpad T keyboards are terrible now due to it.


type: comment
by: jasonlotito
text:
  &gt; Patreon offers so many more features and user benefits that it’s not even worth comparing the two.<p>As someone who subscribes to numerous Patreons including those which are podcasts… Patreon is horrible from a user perspective. It’s UX makes it so I hate when I have to use it. The less I need to use it, the better.<p>Couple that with the god awful pod casting apps that currently exist, it’s amazing podcasting is still so strong. It’s a testament to the creators that people will wade through such horrible UX to support the people and creators they do.


type: comment
by: ChaosOp
text:
  Thank you for the kind words! AirConsole&#x27;s original idea was to replace your dedicated gaming consoles with the web, hence the name &quot;AirConsole&quot;. I don&#x27;t want to do that, because I don&#x27;t think the web is ready for that, at least yet.<p>Instead I want to focus on very short action-based party mini-games. All of the mini-games are tied together via a scoreboard &amp; party voting system. While each of the mini-games might look different, the goal is always the same (be the last player standing to gather most points). In the end, after 5, 10, 15 or 20 mini-games you&#x27;ll get to see who will be crowned the king of the Gaming Couch. The emphasis is on the social aspect of gaming as opposed to individual game lore or intricate game mechanics


type: comment
by: RadiozRadioz
text:
  How does this work technically?<p>I am unable to go to their website because:<p>&gt; &quot;This application requires passkey with PRF extension support for secure encryption key storage. Your browser or device doesn&#x27;t support these advanced features&quot;<p>Is this really necessary for a product&#x27;s webpage? I would understand for the application itself.


type: comment
by: wawhal
text:
  Here&#x27;s mine: 0. Build the habit of taking notes ruthlessly to build a comprehensive second brain. 1. I transitioned to the penhold grip in Table Tennis in Nov 2025 and it has been a fun exploration. My goal for 2026 is to learn to play all the strokes comfortably with the penhold grip, and start competing at the district level. 2. Go from novice-intermediate to upper-intermediate in piano playing. Learn, memorize, and perform flawlessly 30 advanced piano pieces (minimum Henle 7–9) end-to-end, recorded on video, within the next 12 months. 3. Learn to speak Kannada. Been living in Bangalore past 9 years and it&#x27;s almost embarrassing to not know a single complete Kannada sentence.


type: comment
by: reactordev
text:
  I agree but if someone asks “What is this?” and it’s not covered by the article, what we shouldn’t do is put that person down by telling them to “just google it”.<p>If that is your answer, please just don’t comment.


type: comment
by: WhyNotHugo
text:
  Yeah, using it as an actual source repository sounds fine to me. I think the issue comes when users are expected to clone it just for installation.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  They are, pity that Rust type system has nothing to prevent them outside a very specific use case of in-memory data structures and threads.<p>Make those in-memory data structures writable via OS IPC and all bets are open, regarding what other processes, or kernel extensions, do to the memory segment.<p>Fearless concurrency is welcomed, but lets not overlook the fine print in systems programming.


type: comment
by: fweimer
text:
  At a certain point, it&#x27;s a trade-off. A systems language will offer facilities that can be used to break encapsulation and abstractions, and access memory as a sequences of bytes. (Anything capable of file I&#x2F;O on stock Linux can write to &#x2F;proc&#x2F;self&#x2F;mem, for example.) The difference to (typical) C and C++ is that these facilities are less likely to be invoked by accident.<p>Reasonable people will disagree about what memory safety (and type safety) mean to them. Personally, bounds checking for arrays and strings, some solution for safe deallocation of memory, and an obviously correct way to write manual bounds checks is more interesting than (for example) no access to machine addresses and no FFI.<p>Regarding bounds checking, GNAT offers some interesting (non-standard) options: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.gnu.org&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gnat_ugn&#x2F;Management-of-Overflows-in-GNAT.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gcc.gnu.org&#x2F;onlinedocs&#x2F;gnat_ugn&#x2F;Management-of-Overfl...</a> Basically, you can write a bounds check in the most natural way, and the compiler will evaluate the check with infinite precision (or almost, to improve performance). In standard, you might end up with an exception in some corner cases where the check should pass. I wish more languages would offer something like this. Among widely used languages, only Python offers this capability because it uses infinite-precision integers.


type: comment
by: alhdliox
text:
  Whether you’re moving into an empty apartment, refreshing a tired bedroom, or staging a listing for sale, LUMI helps you see the transformation before you spend a dollar. Upload a room photo, choose a style, swap in furniture, and generate realistic “before → after” renders you can compare and refine. Perfect for quick moodboarding, layout decisions, and sharing a clear vision with roommates, clients, or contractors.


type: comment
by: mcny
text:
  I really need to get better at READING code. I know it has always been true but with vibe coding, it is more important than ever of a skill.


type: comment
by: maxbond
text:
  Is the juice worth the squeeze to introduce two new function colors? What would you do if you needed to call `unreachable!()`?<p>It&#x27;s a shame that you can&#x27;t quite do this with a lint, because they can&#x27;t recurse to check the definitions of functions you call. That would seem to me to be ideal, maintain it as an application-level discipline so as not to complicate the base language, but automate it.


type: comment
by: arrty88
text:
  Great job! I had the same idea when i first played jackbox games 10+ years ago. Yet i never gave it serious thought or effort again.


type: comment
by: VorpalWay
text:
  Many of the things like &quot;&amp;own&quot; are ideas being discussed, they don&#x27;t exist in the language yet. As far as I know only &amp;, &amp;mut and raw pointers (mut and const) exist in stable rust at this point. The standard library has some additional things like NonNull, Rc, etc.


