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type: comment
by: mikojan
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  OpenAI&#x27;s internal target of ~250 GW of compute capacity by 2033 would require about as much electricity as the whole of India&#x27;s current national electricity consumption[0].<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;artificial-intelligence&#x2F;openais-colossal-ai-data-center-targets-would-consume-as-much-electricity-as-entire-nation-of-india-250gw-target-would-require-30-million-gpus-annually-to-ensure-continuous-operation-emit-twice-as-much-carbon-dioxide-as-exxonmobil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;artificial-intell...</a>


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  How are the Olympiads full of cheating? I only participated in one but there wasn’t any room for cheating.


type: comment
by: YC39487493287
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  You are correct that the AI industry has produced no value for the economy, but the speculation on AI is the only thing keeping the U.S. economy from dropping into an economic cataclysm. The US economy has been dependent on the idea of infinite growth through innovation since 2008, and the tech industry is all out of innovation. So the only thing they can do is keep building datacenters and pray that an AGI somehow wakes up when they hit the magic number of GPUs. Then the elites can finally kill off all the proles like they&#x27;ve been itching to since the Communist Manifesto was first written.


type: comment
by: ThierryBuilds
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  Nice Article.  However I fail to understand how using the enum prevents the usage of the wrong index in a data structure.  Can you explain further?


type: comment
by: mcphage
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  &gt; and brings nothing good to anyone, not a child, not a parent and not you wasting money on stupid shit<p>You really don’t understand people at all.


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
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  Sadly, I thought the same… Pasadena? Hmmm…<p>Regardless of whether there is something rotten here, I think they should in fact focus on the science and not the person behind the science. And that gives the young person some cover too.<p>The article says that <i>The Astronomical Journal</i> did just that: talked about the discovery without focusing on the age of the author. I think I prefer that.


type: comment
by: SiempreViernes
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  Man Dust in 1.6! At first instantly familiar but then things didn&#x27;t make sense and I realise I was in an alien land.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
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  Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened. I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;m typical but the number of personal cards&#x2F;letters I received in 2025 I could count on one hand.


type: comment
by: embedding-shape
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  But does it matter? Eventually a bean counter will be in charge of the legacy you built up with this painstakingly acquired good UX and high quality, and take less than a decade to make most of what you spent your life fighting, the new reality.


type: comment
by: MontyCarloHall
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  They&#x27;re not. For some odd reason, the comments on this post are full of bitter people who cannot possibly fathom that brilliant young people not only exist, but also achieve amazing things on their own merits.


type: comment
by: mcphage
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  As the Bard said (paraphrased) “Some are born miserable, some achieve misery, and some have misery thrust upon them”.


type: comment
by: fennecbutt
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  Pretty sure Steve Jobs was known for yelling at, belittling and bullying people, throwing tantrums and making threats&#x2F;ultimatums.<p>Dude had anger&#x2F;I&#x27;m the hero issues...his biography notably leaves this stuff out and Woz&#x27; only covers a few incidents (because he still considers friend) though I&#x27;m sure there were more. Like when Woz invented universal remote and sent a prototype to Jobs and Jobs smashed it against the wall in a fit of anger.


type: comment
by: MangoToupe
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  Ads are a cancer on humanity with no benefit to anyone and everyone who enables them should be imprisoned for life


type: comment
by: array_key_first
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  I mean, you don&#x27;t ban the product, we don&#x27;t do this generally. But you do make the manufacturer change their language or advertisment.


type: comment
by: parpfish
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  yeah, the hard part about this issue is that the kids that do the project <i>are</i> generally super smart. this situation ends up hurting three groups:<p>- postdocs that are in a precarious career position are being forced to give up a bunch of work &quot;for free&quot; that they cant put on their CV<p>- the bright kid is often given a skewed perception about what working in science is like and they will be disillusioned when the handholding stops and they have super-high expectations placed on them<p>- depending on the how the press frames it, the public either gets a story that&#x27;s anti-intellectual &quot;never trust the experts&quot; OR some feel-good fluff about some savior-savant on the horizon. neither is useful science reporting but good for clicks.


type: comment
by: taneq
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  There are a lot of stories about Jobs acting in completely unhinged and highly toxic ways. I agree that the particular situation you’re describing is a good though.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
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  I used to type out long posts explaining how LLMs have been enormously beneficial (for their price) for myself and my company. Ironically it&#x27;s the very MIT report that &quot;found AI to be a flop&quot; (remember the &quot;MIT study finds almost every AI initiative fails&quot;), that also found that virtually every single worker is using AI (just not company AI, hence the flop part).<p>At this point, it&#x27;s only people with an ideological opposition still holding this view. It&#x27;s like trying to convince gear head grandpa that manual transmissions aren&#x27;t relevant anymore.


type: comment
by: usefulcat
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  They could and they did. That meant that Spain ended up importing more and exporting less, which would have been bad for Spanish businesses.<p>There’s a lot more to “wealth” than just having a bunch of stuff. Especially in the long term, since most “stuff” will wear out or otherwise decay over time.


type: comment
by: homarp
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  here <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><p>GGUF <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;unsloth&#x2F;MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;unsloth&#x2F;MiniMax-M2.1-GGUF</a>


type: comment
by: azakai
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  The first chart in your link doesn&#x27;t show &quot;flat&quot; usage until 2022? It is clearly rising at an increasing rate, and it more than doubles over 2014-2022.<p>It might help to look at global power usage, not just the US, see the first figure here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;ai&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;is-generative-ai-really-going-to-wreak-havoc-on-the-power-grid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arstechnica.com&#x2F;ai&#x2F;2024&#x2F;06&#x2F;is-generative-ai-really-g...</a><p>There isn&#x27;t an inflection point around 2022: it has been rising quickly since 2010 or so.


type: comment
by: TheCraiggers
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  I&#x27;d love to see a citation there. We already know from a few years ago that they were training AI based on projects on GitHub. Meanwhile, I highly doubt software firms were lining up to have their proprietary code bases ingested by AI for training purposes. Even with NDAs, we would have heard something about it.


type: comment
by: lamontcg
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  It is the same energy as the &quot;you criticize society, yet you participate in society&quot; meme.  Catching someone out on their &quot;hypocrisy&quot; when they hit a limit of what they&#x27;ll tolerate is really a low-effort &quot;gotcha&quot;.<p>And it probably isn&#x27;t astroturf, way too many people just think this way.


type: comment
by: Sytten
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  Another one that is missing in the article is &amp;raw mut&#x2F;const but it is purely for unsafe usage when you need a pointer to an unaligned field of a struct.


type: comment
by: linsomniac
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  Could have been worse: I replaced a keyboard for a friends daughter and her Dell had ~50 plastic studs holding the keyboard in place, each one was melted rivet-style.  I had to remove enough that I could get the keyboard out, but not so much that there wasn&#x27;t still plastic to melt to hold the new keyboard in place.


type: comment
by: gus_massa
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  Reposted with the correct URL a few minutes later <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392453">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46392453</a>


type: comment
by: bwb
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  My 3 favorites were:<p>Dungeon Crawler Carl - I laughed, I cried, perfect match for my sense of humor.<p>The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter - Great read, changed some of my training because of it.<p>Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (#1 of The Century Trilogy series) - An amazing overview of the 20th century through the eyes of several families accross the globe (fiction).


type: comment
by: simonw
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  Urgh, I know that it&#x27;s a solid explanation but I hate the &quot;it may not be true but it captures a truth that people feel&quot; argument so much!<p>See also &quot;instagram is spying on you through your microphone&quot;. It&#x27;s not,  but I&#x27;ve seen people argue that it&#x27;s OK for people to believe that because it supports their general (accurate) sentiment that targeted ads are creepy.


type: comment
by: aldousd666
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  I am unmoved by his little diatribe. What sort of compensation was he looking for, exactly, and under what auspices? Is there some language creator payout somewhere for people who invent them?


type: comment
by: caminante
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  You didn&#x27;t answer my question.<p>Cherrypicking a quote from Stalin who was using sarcastic humor at a banquet when the gold arrived also doesn&#x27;t refute my point or answer my question.


type: comment
by: pier25
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  So Rob Pike received one of those weird emails from Claude and he posted this on Bluesky:<p>&gt; <i>Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.</i><p>&gt; <i>Just fuck you. Fuck you all.</i><p>&gt; <i>I can&#x27;t remember the last time I was this angry.</i>


type: story
by: polinux
title: Show HN: Web CLI – Browser-based terminal with multi-tab support
url: https://github.com/pozgo/web-cli
text:
  Hey HN! Web CLI, an open-source web-based command management tool just got an upgrade with Interactive Terminal support


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
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  If you aready have an SSH CA, why not just issue ephemeral certs lasting for several seconds or minutes? What risk would be addressed by adding hardware keys into the mix?


type: comment
by: TazeTSchnitzel
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  I think it&#x27;s really cool that they&#x27;re using bare-metal Rust for this. It&#x27;s a lot more accessible than C because the standard distribution (rustup) can work as a cross-compiler to a no-OS target out of the box. Deliberately avoiding dependencies makes me happy too, people really underestimate what you can do with Rust <i>without</i> relying on the whole dependency ecosystem, and this is better pedagogically because you can understand the whole system.<p>I&#x27;m rather amused at how <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.learnix-os.com&#x2F;ch01-02-booting-our-binary.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.learnix-os.com&#x2F;ch01-02-booting-our-binary.html</a> has you creating a 16-bit target that ostensibly uses 32-bit pointers in its data layout… presumably that doesn&#x27;t actually work to compile normal code to (edit: …or does it?! What on earth does LLVM do with that then…) but I guess it works so long as it&#x27;s just acting as a scaffold for inline assembly. It&#x27;s cool they don&#x27;t need to bring in a secondary toolchain for the 16-bit part of bootstrapping, even if I worry this might break in some future rustc&#x2F;LLVM revision.


type: comment
by: dahart
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  &gt; so I say take as much as you can. Commons would be if it’s owned by nobody<p>This isn’t what “commons” means in the term ‘tragedy of the commons’, and the obvious end result of your suggestion to take as much as you can is to cause the loss of access.<p>Anything that is free to use is a commons, regardless of ownership, and when some people use too much, everyone loses access.<p>Finite digital resources like bandwidth and database sizes within companies are even listed as examples in the Wikipedia article on Tragedy of the Commons. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tragedy_of_the_commons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tragedy_of_the_commons</a>


type: comment
by: nntwozz
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  In the same vein many years later:<p>--<p>After the original iPad was released, Steve Jobs held a meeting with the MacBook engineering team and demonstrated the difference in wake speed.<p>He woke up a current MacBook (with an Intel chip), which took a few seconds.<p>He then instantly woke up the iPad (with an Apple A-series chip) by pressing the home&#x2F;power button on and off rapidly.<p>Jobs told the team, &quot;I want you to make this&quot; (pointing to the MacBook) &quot;like this&quot; (pointing to the iPad), and then walked out of the room.<p>---<p>This no longer exists at Apple.


type: comment
by: echelon
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  I think video-based world models like Genie 2 will happen and that they&#x27;ll be shrunken down for consumer hardware (the only place they&#x27;re practical).<p>They&#x27;ll have player input controls, obviously, but they&#x27;ll also be fed ControlNets for things like level layout, enemy placement, and game loop events. This will make them highly controllable and persistent.<p>When that happens, and when it gets good, it&#x27;ll take over as the dominant type of game &quot;engine&quot;.


type: comment
by: eterm
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  It does matter, because the phyiscal keys themselves are literally in different places.<p>Comparison:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wt1DL1fO6Zs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=wt1DL1fO6Zs</a><p>Note that weird abomination of a backslash key around the enter key on the US keyboard.<p>There&#x27;s no way to just map the US keyboard to the UK one.


type: comment
by: randyrand
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  Not if you actually read what the extension does and drag and drop it into chrome yourself.<p>Don&#x27;t install from the web store. Those ones can auto-update.


type: comment
by: mikojan
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  You do not seem to be familiar with Rob Pike. He is known for major contributions to Unix, Plan 9, UTF-8, and modern systems programming, and he has this to say about his dream setup[0]:<p>&gt; I want no local storage anywhere near me other than maybe caches. No disks, no state, my world entirely in the network. Storage needs to be backed up and maintained, which should be someone else&#x27;s problem, one I&#x27;m happy to pay to have them solve. Also, storage on one machine means that machine is different from another machine. At Bell Labs we worked in the Unix Room, which had a bunch of machines we called &quot;terminals&quot;. Latterly these were mostly PCs, but the key point is that we didn&#x27;t use their disks for anything except caching. The terminal was a computer but we didn&#x27;t compute on it; computing was done in the computer center. The terminal, even though it had a nice color screen and mouse and network and all that, was just a portal to the real computers in the back. When I left work and went home, I could pick up where I left off, pretty much. My dream setup would drop the &quot;pretty much&quot; qualification from that.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usesthis.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;rob.pike&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;usesthis.com&#x2F;interviews&#x2F;rob.pike&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  AutoCad nowadays uses .NET as well, and thus any CLR enabled language, with a MSIL backend.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.autodesk.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;OARX&#x2F;2024&#x2F;ENU&#x2F;?guid=GUID-390A47DB-77AF-433A-994C-2AFBBE9996AE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.autodesk.com&#x2F;view&#x2F;OARX&#x2F;2024&#x2F;ENU&#x2F;?guid=GUID-390A...</a>


type: comment
by: steveklabnik
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  &amp;raw T&#x2F;&amp;raw mut T aren&#x27;t pointer types, they&#x27;re syntax for creating *const T&#x2F;*mut T.<p>These aren&#x27;t included in the article because they are not borrow checked, but you&#x27;re right that if someone was trying to cover 100% of pointer types in Rust, raw pointers would be missing.


type: comment
by: chente
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  This seems like a surefire way to build a private echo chamber. I doubt a simulated audience is going to challenge your thoughts or help find what you are trying to say.


type: comment
by: kazinator
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  How would this argument change if <i>git branch</i> recognized the &quot;archive&#x2F;&quot; convention, or had some other mechanism, such that archived branches are concealed from view unless -a&#x2F;--all is given?<p>I like the idea that branch names starting with . (period) are considered hidden, similarly to files in Unix.


type: comment
by: layer8
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  “*nix” means a Unix-like OS just generally (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%2Anix" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;%2Anix</a>), like for example in “Minix” and “Xenix”. Sticking “OS” to the end of an OS name is also commonplace. However, the title on the page is “The Learnix Operating System”, so the actual name seems to be just “Learnix”.<p>It’s arguably Nix and NixOS who have unnecessarily stepped into the “*nix” namespace without adding a distinguishing prefix.


type: comment
by: Marha01
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  If humanity&#x27;s energy consumption is so high that there is an actual threat of causing climate change purely with waste heat, I think our technological development would be so advanced that we will be essentially immortal post-humans and most of the solar system will be colonized. By that time any climate change on Earth would no longer be a threat to humanity, simply because we will not have all our eggs in one basket.


type: comment
by: lokar
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  The ad system uses a fairly small fraction of resources.<p>And before the LLM craze there was a constant focus on efficiency.  Web search is (was?) amazingly efficient per query.


type: comment
by: alexthehurst
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  Look into keyboard macro programs for a much easier way to do this. I use Espanso and have it set up to paste the time anywhere I type `;tm`.


type: comment
by: JoeAltmaier
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  A bold statement. Who knew so many US citizen owed their food to an internet company! And not even Google or Amazon. Seems a reach, by maybe two or three decimal places.


type: comment
by: caminante
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  If you sell something to another party or they deposit it in a bank on your behalf, then the other party didn&#x27;t steal it.


type: comment
by: elxr
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  Close to 5 years. I read docs too and love the immersion and the fully grasping of concepts when  going with your route, but most days there&#x27;s just not enough hours for this.<p>&gt; The boring work is where you usually learn the most. It&#x27;s also the time you don&#x27;t recognize that&#x27;s happening<p>That was always how I did it before mid-2025. And I do still do boring work when I truly want to master something, but doing that too much just means (for me) not finishing anything.


type: comment
by: AnimalMuppet
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  Maybe it&#x27;s going the other direction.  It lets Microsoft essentially launder open source code.  They can train an AI on open source code that they can&#x27;t legally use because of the license, then let the AI generate code that they, Microsoft, use in their commercial software.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
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  So far we had many leaks from internal systems of many companies like that and frankly not much happened, even when actual code leaked. It&#x27;s far overrated fear, especially if you self-host it.


type: comment
by: thrance
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  And so can a dog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;1237.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eprint.iacr.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;1237.pdf</a>


type: comment
by: echelon
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  &gt; with the tradeoff mainly being control and artistic errors.<p>For now. We&#x27;re not even a decade in with this tech, and look how far we&#x27;ve come in the last year alone with Veo 3, Sora 2, and Kling 4x, and Kling O1. Not to mention the editing models like Qwen Edit and Nano Banana!<p>This is going to be serious tech soon.<p>I think vision is easier than &quot;intelligence&quot;. In essence, we solved it in closed form sixty years ago.<p>We have many formulations of algorithms and pipelines. Not just for the real physics, but also tons of different hacks to account for hardware limitations.<p>We understand optics in a way we don&#x27;t understand intelligence.<p>Furthermore, evolution keeps evolving vision over and over. It&#x27;s fast and highly detailed. It must be correspondingly simple.<p>We&#x27;re going to optimize the shit out of this. In a decade we&#x27;ll probably have perfectly consistent Holodecks.


type: comment
by: homarp
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  you have a few &#x27;claude&#x27; proxies on github<p>llama.cpp recently added Anthropic API support  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggml-org&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;17570" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ggml-org&#x2F;llama.cpp&#x2F;pull&#x2F;17570</a>


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
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  Copyright was an evil institution to protect corporate profits until people without any art background started being able to tap AI to generate their ideas.


type: comment
by: bossyTeacher
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  &gt;You think Rob Pike was super happy about it?<p>He sure was happy enough to work for them (when he could work anywhere else) for nearly two decades. A one line apology doesn&#x27;t delete his time at Google. The rant also seems to be directed mostly if not exclusively towards GenAI not Google. He even seems happy enough to use Gmail when he doesn&#x27;t have to.<p>You can have an opinion and other people are allowed to have one about you. Goes both ways.


type: comment
by: VertanaNinjai
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  If you’re against anthropomorphism of LLMs then how can it “encourage” you if you’re not having a conversation? How could it “convince” you of anything or cast something in a bad light without conversing?<p>Your point about censorship, however, I fully agree with.


type: comment
by: simonw
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  I don&#x27;t think that a 10x estimate is credible. If it was I&#x27;d understand the ethical argument being made here, but I&#x27;m confident that excluding one person&#x27;s open source code from training has an infinitesimally small impact on the abilities of the resulting model.<p>For your fire example, there&#x27;s a difference between being Prometheus teaching humans to use fire compared to being a random villager who adds a twig to an existing campfire. I&#x27;d say the open source contributions example here is more the latter than the former.


type: comment
by: btilly
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  &gt; nothing he complains about is specific to GenAI.<p>You mean except the bit about how GenAI included his work in its training data without credit or compensation?<p>Or did you disagree with the environmental point that you failed to keep reading?


type: comment
by: dnemmers
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  Not a problem!<p>It took an embarrassing long time reading through the article, waiting for the pivot to ‘Russian Smiling’, only to realize by almost the very end, that clearly, I had been hoodwinked.<p>Linking the proper article after this endeavor seemed appropriate to save others the same grief.


type: comment
by: JKCalhoun
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  I like this story about Jobs because it also points out what a bullshitter he appears to have been.<p>These engineers aren&#x27;t ignorant—I&#x27;m sure they saw the disconnect between the number of accumulated seconds saved and actual human lives somehow being saved. Somehow Jobs thought he could pull one over on them though with this &quot;logic&quot;, ha ha.


type: comment
by: jlarocco
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  People are annoyed because the rollout of AI <i>has</i> been very intrusive.  It&#x27;s being added to everything even when it doesn&#x27;t make sense.  It&#x27;s this generations version of having an app for every website.  Does Calibre really need its own AI chatbox when I can ask the same question to ChatGPT in a browser?


type: comment
by: kbolino
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  The interesting thing about Go&#x27;s loopvar change is that nobody was able to demonstrate any real-world code that it broke (*1), while several examples were found of real-world code (often tests) that it <i>fixed</i> (*2). Nevertheless, they gated it behind go.mod specifying a go version &gt;= 1.22, which I personally think is overly conservative.<p>*1: A great many examples of synthetic code were contrived to argue against the change, but none of them ever corresponded to Go code anyone would actually write organically, and an extensive period of investigation turned up nothing<p>*2: As in, the original behavior of the code was actually incorrect, but this wasn&#x27;t discovered until after the loopvar change caused e.g. some tests to fail, prompting manual review of the relevant code; as a tangent, this raises the question of how often tests just conform to the code rather than the other way around


type: comment
by: yoyohello13
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  It fits perfectly with Microsoft&#x27;s business strategy. Steal other people&#x27;s ideas, implement it poorly, bundle it with other services so companies force their employees to use it.


type: comment
by: cooper_ganglia
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  Being handed things because your parents have money VS being handed things because you&#x27;ve prepared yourself for the opportunity couldn&#x27;t be <i>more</i> different.


type: comment
by: ModernMech
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  Hold up... &quot;lazy engineers&quot; are the problem here? What about a society that insists on shoving the work product of unfunded, volunteer engineers into critical infrastructure because they don&#x27;t want to pay what it costs to do things the right way? Imagine building a nuclear power plant with an army of volunteer nuclear engineers.<p>It cannot be the case that software engineers are labelled lazy for not building the at-scale solution to start with, but at the same time everyone wants to use their work, and there are next to no resources for said engineer to actually build the at scale solution.<p>&gt; the path of least resistance for themselves.<p>Yeah because they&#x27;re investing their own personal time and money, so of course they&#x27;re going to take the path that is of least resistance for them. If <i>society</i> feels that&#x27;s &quot;unethical&quot;, maybe pony up the cash because you all still want to rely on their work product they are giving out for free.


type: comment
by: jarofgreen
text:
  It&#x27;s not just package manager who do this - a lot of smaller projects crowd source data in git repositories. Most of these don&#x27;t reach the scale where the technical limitations become a problem.<p>Personally my view is that the main problem when they do this is that it gets much harder for non-technical people to contribute. At least that doesn&#x27;t apply to package managers, where it&#x27;s all technical people contributing.<p>There are a few other small problems - but it&#x27;s interesting to see that so many other projects do this.<p>I ended up working on an open source software library to help in these cases: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatig.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatig.com&#x2F;</a><p>Here&#x27;s a write up of an introduction talk about it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatig.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;talk.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.datatig.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;12&#x2F;24&#x2F;talk.html</a> I&#x27;ll add the scale point to future versions of this talk with a link to this post.


type: comment
by: nwah1
text:
  NFTs have been extremely intertwined with money laundering. The more legitimate and interesting the original NFT, the more plausible the fictitious asset inflation will seem. The extent to which such a thing involves the actual participation of the artist probably varies.


type: comment
by: oidar
text:
  Can I include an asshole AI? Or one that nitpicks my grammar? Also need someone to explain how I am wrong about nearly everything and should give up writing? Otherwise it would feel super fake.


type: comment
by: CharlesW
text:
  &quot;Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.&quot; — George Bernard Shaw


type: comment
by: santoshalper
text:
  It also didn&#x27;t always work. At no point did the MacBook boot nearly as instantly as an iPad. That said, Jobs&#x27; obsession with UX was a powerful driving force and your point stands.


type: comment
by: holg
text:
  sure it does, but Lisp is special, and for those times it was very special. I did not want to show how it is done nowadays, but how we had done it 33 yrs ago... And now there is the emulator as the web-page, this is what i wanted to share (everything works as wasm in the browser)...


type: comment
by: mdavidn
text:
  This holiday season, hearing my parents rant about AI features unnaturally forced onto their daily gadgets warmed my heart.


type: comment
by: wobfan
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;die-cuii-gibt-auf-fuer-netzsperren-braucht-es-jetzt-einen-gerichtsentscheid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;netzpolitik.org&#x2F;2025&#x2F;die-cuii-gibt-auf-fuer-netzsper...</a><p>It&#x27;s not voluntary anymore, it&#x27;s required.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  You could at least argue while there is plenty of negatives, at least we got to use many services with ad-supported model.<p>There is no upside to vast majority of the AI pushed by the OpenAI and their cronies. It&#x27;s literally fucking up economy for everyone else all to get AI from &quot;lies to users&quot; to &quot;lies to users confidently&quot;, all while rampantly stealing content to do that, because apparently pirating something as a person is terrible crime govt need to chase you, unless you do that to resell it in AI model, then it&#x27;s propping up US economy.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  I&#x27;m trying to guilt-trip them into using their skills to improve the world through continuing to release open source software.<p>I couldn&#x27;t care less if their code was used to train AI - in fact I&#x27;d rather it wasn&#x27;t since they don&#x27;t want it to be used for that.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  &gt; when it stops working, fix the problem<p>This is too naive. Fixing the problem costs a different amount depending on <i>when you do it</i>. The later you leave it the more expensive it becomes. Very often to the point where it is prohibitively expensive and you just put up with it being a bit broken.<p>This article even has an example of that - see the vcpkg entry.


type: comment
by: TheNewsIsHere
text:
  I have administered a number of Mattermost environments going back to 2019.<p>It absolutely is not a mistake. They’ve been slowly introducing limits to the Team Edition and screwing with the licensing in obtuse ways to drive revenue. It is something that has executive force behind it.<p>I have migrated everyone&#x2F;everything to Zulip, which it turns out has a far better user experience and a much cleaner model. The admin tools are much more mature (and actually function reliably). I have not gotten any complaints.<p>And I also don’t have to deal with things like on-premise to managed cloud back to on-prem migrations due to ridiculous licensing and pricing instability.


type: comment
by: lutharvaughn
text:
  You talk to an AI that goes incredibly slow and tries to get you to add extras to your order. I would say it has made the experience more annoying for me personally. Not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things but just another small step in the direction of making things worse. Although you could break the whole thing by ordering 18000 waters which is funny.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ckgyk2p55g8o.amp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ckgyk2p55g8o.amp</a>


type: comment
by: spankibalt
text:
  &gt; &quot;If there&#x27;s one thing that I think was revolutionary about Jobs, it was his obsession with quality and user experience.&quot;<p>You&#x27;re talking about <i>specific</i> user experiences based on Jobs&#x27;s dogmas. There&#x27;s  also absolutely nothing revolutionary about quality <i>and</i> user experience for that existed long before Steve Jobs &quot;invented&quot; it. ;)<p>&gt; &quot;A lot of the reason people are hating on windows now-a-days is because &quot;fast enough&quot; has become the name of the game for UX.&quot;<p>Apple is <i>good enough</i> married to a closed-off eco system. Almost like 16-bit home computers back in the day, but worse. The off-the-rack experience, just with modern enshittification.<p>PCs can be <i>good enough</i>, too. But here I have the option for something made-to-wear or even bespoke. That includes the many-flavored Windows; <i>fast enough</i> UX is an almost negligible part of the equation.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  Every content generated by LLM was served to me against my will and without accounting for preferences.


type: comment
by: throw10920
text:
  &gt; They&#x27;re not.<p>Evidence for this claim?<p>&gt; For some odd reason, the comments on this post are full of bitter people who cannot possibly fathom that brilliant young people not only exist, but also achieve amazing things on their own merits.<p>As opposed to you, who&#x27;s up and down the thread making unsubstantiated claims and engaging in emotional manipulation to try to discredit (without evidence, I might add) the idea that there&#x27;s <i>any</i> cheating or subversion going on whatsoever.<p>The people you&#x27;re responding to are making far better points than you are.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  I&#x27;ve tried many times here to voice my reservations against AI. I&#x27;ve been accused of being on the &quot;anti AI hype train&quot; multiple times today.<p>As if there isn&#x27;t a massive pro AI hype train. I watched an nfl game for the first time in 5 years, and saw no less than 8 AI commercials. AI Is being forced on people.<p>In commercials people were using it to generate holiday cards for God sake. I can&#x27;t imagine something more cold and impersonal. I don&#x27;t want that garbage. Our time on earth is to short to wade through LLM slop text


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  Oh yes, they are very closely linked!<p>To be even more precise, regaining focus unlocks many other skills, prioritizing the physical health included. I am still working my way towards that.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  &gt; After much pushback, it looks as though users will get the ability to hide the feature from calibre&#x27;s user interface, but LLM-driven features are here to stay and more will likely be added over time.<p>With the whole &quot;no local models?! mega corp censorship!&quot; complaint sidestepped from day 1, and now that it&#x27;s not even shown on the UI, what will AI opponents complain about?!


type: comment
by: dpark
text:
  She not “disprove” the existence of the tragedy of the commons. What she established was that controlling the commons can be done communally rather than through privatization or through government ownership.<p>Communal management of a resource is still government, though. It just isn’t central government.<p>The thesis of the tragedy of the commons is that an uncontrolled resource will be abused. The answer is governance at some level, whether individual, collective, or government ownership.<p>&gt; The &quot;tragedy&quot;, if you absolutely need to find one, is only for unrestricted, free-for-all commons, which is obviously a bad idea.<p>Right. And that’s what people are usually talking about when they say “tragedy of the commons”.


type: comment
by: isuckatcoding
text:
  The only (silly) reason I can think of is that a non trivial number of people copy pasta directly from chatgpt responses and having the timestamp there would be annoying.


type: comment
by: robbiep
text:
  I got a student subscription to cursor and after giving it a good 6 hours I’ve abandoned it.<p>I extremely dislike the way it goes forth and bolts. I don’t trust these tools enough to just point it in the direction and say go, I like to be a human in the loop. Perhaps the use case I was working on then was difficult (quite old react native library upgrade across a medium sized codebase) but I eventually cracked this on Claude; cursor in both entropic and Gemini left me with an absolute mess.<p>Even repeatedly asking the prompt to keep me in the loop it kept on just running haywire.


type: comment
by: tsunamifury
text:
  Maybe the reason westworld made it such a prominent theme in the show. All of season 3 is essentially that story.<p>But what vonnegut missed or questioned is what is we aren’t much more either.  (Core thesis of the show is that skinner proved we are mostly the same as a player piano anyways)


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Haha yep! Literally just an extruded triangle, taped to some cabinetry with painter’s tape.<p>The weight would get caught on some cabinetry piece. Now that piece is made to intersect more gradually with the triangle.


type: comment
by: jonhohle
text:
  Hertzfeld dismisses the idea, but I think it’s something more devs should take to heart.<p>Could someone build a tea timer app in React and save some time? How much impact to humanity does the GBs of RAM and untold CPU cycles the app now require that could be put to use elsewhere, or causes systems to be landfilled due to inefficiency?<p>I had a phone with GBs if RAM and a multicore processor that could barely run a single current app. I can buy a new phone, but what about the billions of people that don’t have that option?


type: comment
by: giancarlostoro
text:
  I think .NET is one of the few projects Microsoft maintains that I admire that feel like they care a lot about quality, you can tell the people working on it are focused on performance and making sure its really well rounded. I would argue that .NET is Microsoft&#x27;s greatest achievement &#x2F; work of all time.


type: comment
by: sungho_
text:
  &quot;....what you think counts. Luckily their fanciful nature protects us as well, as they excitedly invented the majority of email addresses&quot;<p>It went well, right?


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
text:
  That&#x27;s how I used to feel about spelling and grammar checkers.  I was wrong.  Maybe you are, too.


type: comment
by: squigz
text:
  Do you really need AI integration in your IDE when you can just use the ChatGPT chatbox in your browser?<p>Having it built-in allows Calibre to add context to the prompt automagically.


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  Yes, that would be the ideal setup indeed, agreed.<p>But ruined health made me laser-focus on my wife and my work and I ignored many other things. Much to my shame, I don&#x27;t even have a home media center and I have all the skills to make it happen and have it be much better than f.ex. Netflix or Disney+ UI.<p>It&#x27;s all about carefully picking my battles, at least in this stage of life. Lack of focus and trying to be everywhere led to me making dozens, if not hundreds, of easily avoidable mistakes. I am hellbent on never allowing that again.


type: comment
by: avalys
text:
  I worked with a guy that operated like this, a technical expert in a very specialized domain. You&#x27;d ask him a question - he&#x27;d just stare at you in silence for 60s or more, and then give a very well-considered answer that you couldn&#x27;t get from anyone else in the world.<p>His manager was used to this and sort of enjoyed the mystique of this monk-like expert that he was responsible for.<p>I once was in a meeting where we had to talk to the great expert on the phone. Let&#x27;s just say his name was Otto. Of course, he worked remote quite often, in the days before Zoom. His manager calls him and puts the phone on speakerphone for the room to hear.<p>Manager: Otto, we need your input on &lt;long technical problem&gt;.<p><i>&lt;60 seconds of silence&gt;</i><p>Otto: Yes, I think that might work, but you&#x27;ll run into &lt;other problems&gt;.<p>Manager: Well, yes, we&#x27;ve considered that, but &lt;explanation&gt;<p>A few minutes of reasonably normal conversation ensues between the assembled group and Otto. Then:<p>Manager: Well, I think then that this is a pretty good solution, as long as Otto agrees.<p><i>Manager looks around the table, clearly waiting for Otto&#x27;s concurrence</i><p><i>&lt;60 seconds of silence&gt;</i><p><i>&lt;90 seconds of silence&gt;</i><p><i>&lt;120 seconds of silence&gt;</i><p><i>People are starting to get uncomfortable. The manager makes a reassuring face. This is normal for those of us that work closely with the great expert, do not lose faith. </i><p><i>&lt;240 seconds of silence&gt;</i><p><i>Manager briefly lets slip a concerned look, then quickly hides it</i><p><i>&lt;360 seconds of silence&gt;</i><p>Manager: Um, Otto?<p>Otto: Oh, I thought I was waiting for you.


type: comment
by: mikojan
text:
  OpenAI&#x27;s AI data centers will consume as much electricity as the entire nation of India by 2033 if they hit their internal targets[0].<p>No, this is not the same.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;artificial-intelligence&#x2F;openais-colossal-ai-data-center-targets-would-consume-as-much-electricity-as-entire-nation-of-india-250gw-target-would-require-30-million-gpus-annually-to-ensure-continuous-operation-emit-twice-as-much-carbon-dioxide-as-exxonmobil" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;tech-industry&#x2F;artificial-intell...</a>


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  When the self checkout machine gets confused, as it frequently does, and needs a human to intervene, you get a little bit of connection there. You can both gripe about how stupid the machines are.


type: comment
by: AnimalMuppet
text:
  The luddites have been right to some degree about second-order effects.<p>Some of them said that TV was making us mindless.  Some of them said that electronic communication was depersonalizing.  Some of them said that social media was algorithms feeding us anything that would make us keep clicking.<p>They weren&#x27;t entirely wrong.<p>AI may be a very useful tool.  (TV is.  Electronic communication is.  Social media is.)  But what it does to us may not be all positive.


type: comment
by: bobpaw
text:
  I think the article takes issue not with fetching the code, but with fetching the go.mod file that contains index and dependency information. That’s why part of the solution was to host go.mod files separately.


type: comment
by: leidenfrost
text:
  It&#x27;s tacky, but not the end of the world.<p>It remins me of some gnome themes from 2005-2009.<p>I&#x27;d choose that a thousand times over an ad filled start menu


type: comment
by: observationist
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_V._Shaney" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_V._Shaney</a><p>Pike, stone throwing, glass houses, etc.<p>The AI village experiment is cool, and it&#x27;s a useful example of frontier model capabilities. It&#x27;s also ok not to like things.<p>Pike had the option of ignoring it, but apparently throwing a thoughtless, hypocritical, incoherently targeted tantrum is the appropriate move? Not a great look, especially for someone we&#x27;re supposed to respect as an elder.


type: comment
by: madduci
text:
  I&#x27;d like to improve my parenting skills, as well as improving the ability to maximize my (few) free time to dedicate to my hobbies


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  I would much rather lobby for ending ad gag laws, and fighting for better treatment of animals.<p>I think its more realistic than getting people to give up meat entirely


type: story
by: gotzonza
title: Show HN: Essential travel info on you iPhone lock screen
url: https://nomad-hud-landing.vercel.app
text:
  Hey HN!<p>I love building side projects in my free time, this is actually my third one this year.<p>I realized that whenever I travel, I’m always switching back and forth between the Notes app for phrases and a calculator&#x2F;app for prices. I always ended up with a mess of notes I couldn&#x27;t find, and it was just annoying to do every time I wanted to buy something.<p>So I built Nomad HUD for two simple reasons: to have everything I need at a glance, and to stop overpaying for things.<p>It puts currency conversion tables and essential phrases directly on your lock screen&#x2F;wallpaper, and it works 100% offline.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear your feedback or any features you&#x27;d find useful while traveling.<p>Gotzon


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  &gt;because you&#x27;ve prepared yourself for the opportunity<p>Hmm, so, there&#x27;s a teenager that loves astronomy and is very clever but he lives in rural Indiana with some parents who neglect him.<p>(Or any third-world country around the world; or even worse, a war ridden place).<p>How do you suggest he should prepare for this kind of opportunity?<p>I&#x27;m not detracting from his merit, but 99% of this outcome is due to being next door to Caltech and sympathetic to its faculty.<p>You don’t choose what you want, you choose what you can have.


type: comment
by: developvr
text:
  This is a small personal project I built for myself during long sessions of focused work.<p>I wanted something quieter than playlists — full ambient albums, minimal UI, no recommendations or feeds.<p>It’s intentionally simple and opinionated. Feedback is welcome.


type: comment
by: aeyes
text:
  Wake from sleep, not boot. I have a MacBook sitting in front of me and I just tested it: It wakes  from sleep pretty much instantly.


type: comment
by: dredmorbius
text:
  Even more fundamental than data collection is <i>advertising</i>.<p>Books, and to some extent film, are the only media which <i>aren&#x27;t</i> absolutely flooded with advertising.  Print serial media are (though it&#x27;s rapidly vanishing), music is (through both broadcast and streaming services, though not via direct media purchases), serial video (television, cable, streaming services, YouTube, and of course social media, are all absolutely saturated with advertising.  Which is what the data are feeding, of course.<p>That Newport fails to make this distinction, and that the goal of TikTok <i>et al</i> are to absolutely engross your attention and time, is a critical failure of this piece.


type: comment
by: jasongreenwood
text:
  Hello Hacker News community,<p>I’m sharing an overview of a project called Nourish Link that is focused on improving clarity and trust in charitable giving for food relief. I am the creator and manager of this project.<p>What is Nourish Link? Nourish Link (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nourishlink.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nourishlink.org</a>) is a mission-driven donation platform currently in development, based in Southern Oregon. Its goal is to make it easier for individuals to support verified food-relief organizations while maintaining a high standard of financial transparency.<p>Why the project exists Food insecurity continues to affect millions of people, even in communities with active nonprofit ecosystems. Many donors want to help but are unsure where funds ultimately go or how organizations are selected. Nourish Link was created to address that gap by prioritizing: • Clear explanations of how donations are handled • Direct routing of donations to the selected charity (minus standard payment processing fees) • Publicly stated policies around transparency and independence<p>How it works (current scope) • Donors select from food-relief organizations listed for informational purposes • Donations are processed securely and directed to the chosen organization • Nourish Link does not claim partnership or endorsement unless explicitly stated<p>What it is (and is not) • Nourish Link is not yet a nonprofit; it is an independently managed project • It does not take a percentage of donations beyond unavoidable processing fees • It is designed to be non-exclusive and non-competitive with existing charities<p>Current focus The platform is in an early phase, starting locally in Southern Oregon, with an emphasis on building responsible systems, public documentation, and trust before any broader expansion.<p>I’m posting here for transparency and to share the concept with others who care about ethical, accountable charitable giving. Feedback from people experienced in the nonprofit and philanthropy space is welcome.<p>Thank you for taking the time to read. Jason Greenwood


type: comment
by: shmerl
text:
  With current situation in Intel (lot&#x27;s of Linux developers leaving), I&#x27;d stick to AMD anyway.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  It&#x27;s been good at enabling the clueless to get to performance of a junior developer, and saving few % of the time for the mid to senior level developer (at best). Also amazing at automating stuff for scammers...<p>The cost is just not worth the benefit. If it was just an AI company using profits from AI to improve AI that would be another thing but we&#x27;re in massive speculative bubble that ruined not only computer hardware prices (that affect every tech firm) but power prices (that affect everyone). All coz govt want to hide recession they themselves created because on paper it makes line go up<p>&gt; I used to type out long posts explaining how LLMs have been enormously beneficial (for their price) for myself and my company.<p>Well then congratulations on being in the 5%. That doesn&#x27;t really change the point.


type: comment
by: pixl97
text:
  There is another post here stating a German article saying &#x27;false highs&#x27; which is a whole lot more dangerous than false lows. This can cause people to overcorrect and go low. This said, the same CGM should have warned about the low.<p>As always if your expected blood sugar isn&#x27;t matching up with measured sugar levels do a finger stick as recommended by the manufacturer. There are a lot of potential device to human interface issues that can happen.


type: comment
by: dpark
text:
  People invoke the tragedy of the commons in bad faith to argue for privatization because “the alternative is communism”. i.e. Either an individual or the government has to own the resource.<p>This is of course a false dichotomy because governance can be done at any level.


type: comment
by: namuol
text:
  What even was this email? Some kind of promotional spam, I assume, to target senior+ engineers on some mailing list with the hope to flatter them and get them to try out their SaaS?


type: comment
by: OGEnthusiast
text:
  I&#x27;m confused, doesn&#x27;t it literally exist now (post-Jobs) that we have Apple silicon on the Mac?


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
text:
  He was like that not just for performance, but user experience across the board. “Good enough”, aka mediocrity, didn’t cut it and he didn’t care if he had to spend extra resources or even burn bridges to raise the bar to where he thought it needed to be.<p>It’s a stark contrast to current industry norms, where anything that won’t keep the engagement and MRR bar charts on a steep incline gets vetoed. It’s more likely that memory consumption will be tripled and UI will be modified to harass users into compliance with whatever hare-brained thing product managers are pushing than it is for the software to become more efficient, pleasant, and useful.


type: comment
by: YY349238749328
text:
  Are you a boss or a worker? That&#x27;s the real divide, for the most part. Bosses love AI - when your job is just sending emails and attending remote meetings, letting LLM write emails for you and summarize meetings is a godsend. Now you can go from doing 4 hours of work a week to 0 hours! And they let you fantasize about finally killing off those annoying workers and replace them with robots that never stop working and never say no.<p>Workers hate AI, not just because the output is middling slop forced on them from the top but because the message from the top is clear - the goal is mass unemployment and concentration of wealth by the elite unseen by humanity since the year 1789 in France.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  I was confused by that too. I think I&#x27;ve figured it out.<p>They&#x27;re saying that a public LLM won&#x27;t know the email address of Jon Snow, but they still want to be able to answer questions about their private SaaS data which DOES know that.<p>Then they describe building a typical tool-based LLM system where the model can run searches against private data and round-trip the results through the model to generate chat responses.<p>They&#x27;re relying on the AI labs to keep their promises about not training in data from paying API customers. I think that&#x27;s a safe bet, personally.


type: comment
by: diziet
text:
  I would also love to see a token budget use for the chats -- to know when the model is about to run out of context. It&#x27;s crazy this is not there.


type: comment
by: lanthade
text:
  That&#x27;s a common refrain that frankly just isn&#x27;t backed up by analysis of the inflation adjusted price of Lego over time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pricing-evolution.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;surprising-trends-in-lego-pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pricing-evolution.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;surprising-trends-in-leg...</a><p>The data in the graph from this next post shows an inflation adjusted per brick price of .40 USD in 1980 vs a little above $.10 now.  Perhaps more interesting is the cost per gram analysis which also shows a large drop.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;15flwte&#x2F;is_lego_getting_more_expensive_oc&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;dataisbeautiful&#x2F;comments&#x2F;15flwte&#x2F;is...</a><p>I think people tend to romanticize the past and underestimate the effect of inflation across decades.  One thing that may contribute to the idea that Lego is now too expensive is that the average sets seem to be larger and more complex now.  Even if the bricks are cheaper the sheer quantity of them will inherently raise the set price.  That may explain why the data in the Reddit post shows average median set cost having risen even while per brick cost has decreased.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
text:
  What is the alternative?<p>&quot;Use a database&quot; isn&#x27;t actionable advice because it&#x27;s not specific enough


type: comment
by: gardenerik
text:
  &gt; Currently, calibre users have a choice of commercial providers, or running models locally using LM Studio or Ollama.<p>The choice is yours. If you want local models, you can do that.


type: comment
by: dijit
text:
  Agreed.<p>SQL Server is of equally high quality.<p>We just have postgres in the open source world (which is truly exceptional) so our expectations are higher.<p>I am the first to hate on Microsoft, their OS is a dumpster fire that I feel is forced on me. But sometimes they knock it out of the park.


type: comment
by: alzoid
text:
  I went through evaluating a bunch of frameworks.  There was Langchain, AG2, Firebase Gen AI &#x2F; Vertex &#x2F; whatever Google eventually lands on, Crew AI, Microsoft&#x27;s stuff etc.<p>It was so early in the game none of those frame works are ready. What they do under the hood when I looked wasn&#x27;t a lot.  I just wanted some sort of abstraction over the model apis and the ability to use the native api if the abstraction wasn&#x27;t good enough.  I ended up using Spring AI.  Its working well for me at the moment.  I dipped into the native APIS when I needed a new feature (web search).<p>Out of all the others Crew AI was my second choice.  All of those frameworks seem parasitic.  One your on the platform you are locked in.  Some were open source but if you wanted to do anything useful you needed an API key and you could see that features were going to be locked behind some sort of payment.<p>Honestly I think you could get a lot done with one of the CLI&#x27;s like Claude Code running in a VM.


type: comment
by: spencerflem
text:
  AIs don’t respect BSD &#x2F; MIT which require attribution any more than they respect GPL.<p>(fwiw, I do agree gpl is better as it would stop what’s happening with Android becoming slowly proprietary etc but I don’t think it helps vs ai)


type: comment
by: oconnor663
text:
  Yes I&#x27;m especially interested in what OP thinks about the overlap (or not?) between the ideas in this post and the ideas in this part of boats&#x27; post:<p>&gt; One could imagine an alternative design in which instead of places being unpinned by default and opting into pinning, places are pinned (or perhaps “immovable”) by default, and have to opt into supporting the ability to move out of them. This would make it so that by default places have the least power (can only access via shared reference) and they gain a monotonically increasing set of powers (can assign to them, can move out of them).<p>&gt; In addition to places having to opt into moving, there would be three reference types instead of two: immutable, mutable, and movable references.


type: comment
by: eriri
text:
  You wish. AI has no shortage of people like you trying so hard to give it credit for anything. I mean, just ask yourself. You had to try so hard that you, in your other comment, ended up hallucinating achievements of a degree that Rob Pike can only dream of but yet so vague that you can&#x27;t describe them in any detail whatsoever.<p>&gt; But I think in the aggregate ChatGPT has solved more problems, and created more things, than Rob Pike did<p>Other people see that kind of statement for what it is and don&#x27;t buy any of it.


type: comment
by: lurking_swe
text:
  Tip: teach it how to write tests properly. I’ll share what has worked pretty well for me.<p>Run Cursor in “agent” mode, or create a Codex or Claude Code “unit test” skill. I recommend claude code.<p>Explain to the LLM that after it creates or modifies a test, it must run the test to confirm it passes. If it fails, it’s not allowed to edit the source code, instead it must determine if there is a bug in the test or the source code. If the test is buggy it should try again, if there is a bug in the source code it should pause, propose a fix, and consult with you on next steps.<p>The key insight here is you need to tell it that it’s not supposed to randomly edit the source code to make the test pass. I also recommend reviewing the unit tests at a high level, to make sure it didn’t hallucinate.


type: comment
by: eunoia
text:
  It does now with M series chips. iirc Apple made a point of demoing the quick wake in the announcement too.


type: comment
by: halfmatthalfcat
text:
  Not all high school educations are created equal - See Carmel High School (Carmel, IN), New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL), or any other High School in a densely high wealth area.


type: comment
by: almosthere
text:
  It&#x27;s not like chatgpt suddenly messages you at 3am and says, I don&#x27;t feel well. It&#x27;s all time that you talked to it.


type: comment
by: swat535
text:
  &gt; You’re not working at the Parts of the company that are doing evil directly<p>This must be a comforting mental gymnastics.<p>UTF-8 is nice but let&#x27;s be honest, it&#x27;s not like he was doing charitable work for the poor.<p>He worked for the biggest Adware&#x2F;Spyware company in tech and became rich and famous doing it.<p>The fact that his projects had other uses doesn&#x27;t absolve the ethical concerns  IMO.<p>&gt; I think the United States is a force for evil on net but I still live and pay taxes here.<p>I think this is an unfair comparison. People are forced to pay taxes and many can&#x27;t just get up an leave their country. Rob on the other hand, had plenty of options.


type: comment
by: simpaticoder
text:
  I did this repair and it was not nearly as easy as you imply. The wire is extremely thin, and the pad on the motherboard is extremely small. I had to purchase special eye-wear in order to see what I was doing, in addition to a soldering iron.<p>It was and is totally wrong that Framework requires users to repair a component that was faulty from the factory. You should ship the laptops back to your facility and repair them, at your expense. At worst, offer a substantial discount on a motherboard replacement.<p>This experience is a big reason why I went from a strong Framework proponent to a strong detractor. You do not support your products, and users cannot trust you to do the right thing. You now bask in the idealistic haze of nerddom but your actions show that you&#x27;re just a business for whom repairability is a sales strategy to justify premium prices.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  That&#x27;s effectively what they built. The LLM is an implementation detail for how they got a version of fuzzy search to work.


type: comment
by: PunchyHamster
text:
  Copyright <i>did</i> evolve to protect corporations. Most of the value from a piece of IP is extracted within first 5-10 years, why we have &quot;author&#x27;s life + a bunch of years&quot; length on it?. Because it no longer is about making sure author can live off their IP, it&#x27;s for corporations to be able to hire some artists for pennies (compared to value they produce for company) and leech off that for decades


type: comment
by: danielscrubs
text:
  For my part it is the uneasy feeling of maybe being tracked and “sharing” private text&#x2F;media either by accident or by the software’s malice.<p>Most devs want to put AI on their CV so they have strong personal incentives to circumvent what is best for their users.<p>Would you like to have LLM connections to Google from your OSS torrent client?<p>We can see the painting on the wall, but still not like it.


type: comment
by: analog31
text:
  That might be it, and a quick search suggests that there were some recalls associated with it. Also, my kids didn&#x27;t really gravitate to it. Their &quot;construction&quot; toys were a hodgepodge of blocks, some cheap &quot;thomas train&quot; knock-offs, stuffed animals, you name it, all combined into one giant mess. ;-)


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  Its not really a glass house.<p>Pike&#x27;s main point is that training AI at that scale requires huge amounts of resources. Markov chains did not.


type: comment
by: kcb
text:
  I just upgrade Ubuntu every 6 months. To me that&#x27;s a pretty good compromise between up to date packages and stability.


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  This completely ignores reality. Jobs was a one-in-a-billion. To pretend privilege doesn&#x27;t exist by invoking near mythological probabilities perpetuates it.


type: comment
by: mannyv
text:
  It&#x27;s actually not bullshit. Saving time is worth it. People use that metric when sitting in traffic...why not use it for computer response time?<p>How many decades have been wasted in Windows waiting for updates?


type: comment
by: lostlogin
text:
  Mine apply overnight while I sleep. As long as they don’t mess with my alarm or brick try device, the time doesn’t matter.


type: comment
by: daltonlcarr
text:
  Built this in an afternoon with Claude AI after yet another package arrived full of foam peanuts. It&#x27;s a community database where people can report companies still using polystyrene packaging (takes 500+ years to decompose, basically non-recyclable despite the symbol). Stack: React&#x2F;TypeScript, Netlify Functions + Blobs for serverless storage. No auth needed - anyone can submit. Has profanity filter on submissions which is ironic given the domain. Mostly a cathartic side project but figured HN might appreciate the approach. The environmental impact is actually pretty grim once you look into it.


type: comment
by: ltbarcly3
text:
  It&#x27;s hard to realize that the thing you&#x27;ve spent decades of your life working on can be done by a robot.  It&#x27;s quite dehumanizing.  I&#x27;m sure it felt the same way to shoemakers.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  I was surprised they settled on GPT-4o for performance reasons. I&#x27;d expect GPT-5-mini to be as fast and better.


type: comment
by: bgwalter
text:
  This is really getting desperate. Markov chains were fun in those days. You might as well say that anyone who ever wrote an IRC bot is not allowed to criticize current day &quot;AI&quot;.


type: comment
by: helle253
text:
  one of the funniest things about going to NYC with a toddler was how very chill it was to go with a toddler<p>there are parks everywhere!


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  Being adjacent to wealth is a privilege. Zip code is a better predictor of a child&#x27;s success than any other metric.


type: comment
by: kens
text:
  This is not a new solution. This article is from 2008 or earlier.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20080704123725&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scottkurowski.com&#x2F;BedlamCube&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20080704123725&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;scottkurow...</a>


type: comment
by: pluc
text:
  They&#x27;re not hiding it. Normally everyone here laps this shit up and asks for seconds.<p>&gt; They’ve used OpenAI’s API  to build a suite of next-gen AI email products that are saving users time, driving value, and increasing engagement.<p>No time to waste on pesky human interactions, AI is better than you to get engagement.<p>Get back to work.


type: comment
by: blitz_skull
text:
  My condolences for building something cool to share with the world, just to have HN folks commenting on it.<p>The purpose and utility of this seem obvious to me, but I can already see the stream of typical HN responses coming in.<p>Godspeed.


type: comment
by: Marsymars
text:
  Nobody&#x27;s making the claim that a quote or a short can&#x27;t be profound. Simply that longer-form works have emergent properties.


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
text:
  &gt; Value is ultimately always in the eye of the beholder.<p>If you mean value per se, not at all. There are difference kinds of value (intrinsic, instrumental).<p>A piece of bread has objective nutritional value, for example. It doesn’t matter whether you personally dislike bread.


type: story
by: stevenjgarner
title: First 3D-printed microscope blew up in 2025
url:
  https://www.newscientist.com/article/2507677-the-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-blew-up-in-2025/


type: comment
by: anonymars
text:
  Which is to say, not guaranteed at all.  GUIDs are designed to be unique, not random&#x2F;unpredictable<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20120523-00&#x2F;?p=7553" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20120523-00&#x2F;?p=75...</a>


type: comment
by: beerd
text:
  That&#x27;s (in my view) also not the point of journaling, but rather to blow off some steam and digest internal dialogue.


type: comment
by: konaraddi
text:
  I think the author is the  target customer for Framework. A customer looking for a ship of Theseus laptop that the seller stands by.<p>I’ve looked at framework as a potential next laptop but it’s expensive, some of parts are expensive, and the other parts I’m not sure I’ve ever had issues with in past laptops. I think I’m better off buying multiple used thinkpads over the course of my life, or even a used MBP (refurbished m4 MBP goes for ~$1.3K from Apple, base configuration w&#x2F; 16GB ram for framework 13 is ~1.2K), than a Framework; the thinkpads would be cheaper and more eco friendly with good build quality. I’m not looking for a ship of Theseus laptop, I’m just looking for something that works a long time, is good enough, and I want to keep my lifetime expenditure on hardware on the lower side. I look at my laptop cost as upfront cost divided by number of years I expect to use it for and I have a spreadsheet with past laptops (and phones) tracking historical usage and costs to better inform my next purchase. Framework looks attractive but the costs don’t seem to align with my goal.


type: comment
by: why-o-why
text:
  &gt;&gt; I’m tired of the hand-wringing over privilege<p>Your discomfort doesn&#x27;t make privilege go away. The fact that he even could afford a GPU seems to go over your head.<p>EDIT: Ok, so he didn&#x27;t own a GPU and borrowed a PC from CalTec. That does not change the argument. On the one hand, I&#x27;m glad there is so much alignment on this issue, on the other hand its sad how hard people fight against privilege. I get it, for a long time I thought privilege was some whiny liberal thing. Through my decades I&#x27;ve seen over and over again the patterns of who wins and who loses, and privilege appears the same way bent spacetime makes gravity appear. People like the old me want to fight about how privilege&#x2F;gravity is a myth. I&#x27;m terrible at arguing this, but I hope those of you fighting this concept acquire empathy and realize that not everyone has your advantages (and you may still be struggling too, that does not go away or get diminished, btw), and that the majority of that disadvantage is systemic, and intentional.


type: comment
by: observationist
text:
  Fortunately, the PR situation will handle itself. Someone will create a superhuman persuasion engine, AGI will handle it itself, and&#x2F;or those who don&#x27;t adapt will fade away into irrelevance.<p>You either surf this wave or get drowned by it, and a whole lot of people seem to think throwing tantrums is the appropriate response.<p>Figure out how to surf, and fast. You don&#x27;t even need to be good, you just have to stay on the board.


type: comment
by: aleph_minus_one
text:
  &gt; For a hacker conference, they also are pretty Luddite against new technologies like AI.<p>Hacking was always against centralization and central control (and towards decentralization) - which is why any lecture celebrating the bigtech AI companies would strongly be against the whole culture.<p>While for various reasons AI <i>is</i> a controversial topic, I would say that if someone gave a great talk about how to decentrally train some AI model efficiently as some volunteer computing project, this would be perfectly fitting for the C3.<p>Addendum: There <i>is</i> an AI talk (as pointed out by wunderwuzzi23 at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46390959">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46390959</a>): <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: stavros
text:
  I don&#x27;t know your stance on AI, but &quot;AI is being forced on people because I saw a company offering AI greeting cards&quot; is not a stance I&#x27;d call reasonable.


type: comment
by: myvoiceismypass
text:
  I think it is a reference to this previous HN posting: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45162220">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45162220</a><p>AI Darwin Awards 2025 Nominee: Taco Bell Corporation for deploying voice AI ordering systems at 500+ drive-throughs and discovering that artificial intelligence meets its match at “extra sauce, no cilantro, and make it weird.&quot;


type: comment
by: beerd
text:
  Haha yeah I&#x27;m experimenting with a few personas. Should add a good grumpy troll hermit library of commenters.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  .NET has viable competitors. Windows, due to its monopoly, dominates the PC world no matter how bad it is.


type: comment
by: EbNar
text:
  &gt; You can&#x27;t change the RAM on laptops now.<p>&gt; You can&#x27;t change the SSD on laptops now.<p>&gt; You can&#x27;t easily repair the screen on laptops now.<p>I can do all of that on my Thinkpad E14.


type: comment
by: edolstra
text:
  Indeed. Nixpkgs wouldn&#x27;t have been as successful if it hadn&#x27;t been using Git (or GitHub).<p>Sure, eventually you run into scaling issues, but that&#x27;s a first world problem.


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  Pasadena school district spends $28K &#x2F; student for their total $390M expenditures across ~14k students in 2023-2024 school year.  I would bet dollars to doughnuts it&#x27;s $30k+ per high school student since they are more expensive.


type: comment
by: aosisbsn
text:
  Any amount of water is not really worth it. Building some roads or trains would be 1000x more valuable to 99% of Americans.


type: comment
by: yakattak
text:
  I appreciate you sharing this and it looks made with care. It also seems like a cool take on how to use LLMs.<p>This isn’t for me, but thanks for sharing.


type: comment
by: observationist
text:
  Pike&#x27;s posts aren&#x27;t criticism, they&#x27;re whinging. There&#x27;s no reasoned, principled position there - he&#x27;s just upset that an AI dared sully his inbox, and lashing out at the operators.


type: comment
by: yakattak
text:
  There’s definitely exceptions. My GSP 670s were the best quality cans for sure. But the headset itself was super uncomfortable for the price.


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


type: comment
by: slogansand
text:
  I built this to solve my own problem - too many side projects dying because solo founders can&#x27;t be 10 people at once.<p>It&#x27;s a Claude Code skill that orchestrates 37 specialized AI agents (engineering, ops, marketing, legal, etc.) to take a PRD and autonomously build, deploy, and operate a product.<p>Key features: - Parallel 3-reviewer code review (code, business logic, security) - Multi-cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure, Vercel) - State persistence for rate limit recovery - Full business ops (Stripe billing, legal docs, landing pages)<p>Open source, MIT licensed. Feedback welcome - still iterating.


type: comment
by: tomtom1337
text:
  They mean «this kind of demand&#x2F;leadership» no longer exists. Not the particular feature of the wake up time.


type: comment
by: ByThyGrace
text:
  &gt; When I read a book of that much importance<p>Imagine if Tolkien was writing Fellowship last decade, and the book landed on your hands today. No decades of cult growing, no adaptations or explosive marketing, some word of mouth. Would you think it &quot;much important&quot; before reading it? What makes the importance?<p>In my opinion it&#x27;s the prose. It&#x27;s always the prose. Always gotta be on the lookout for good writers, new and old.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Was that a hardware or a software improvement?<p>My Dell laptop running Ubuntu wakes from sleep pretty much instantly.


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  They know the credits are not a good system.  The 1st choice has always been a contract with a green supplier, often helping to build out production.  And they have a lot of that, with more each year.  But construction is slow, in the mean time they use credits, which are better than nothing.


type: comment
by: lanthade
text:
  I actually played mouse trap but my kid and their cousins do nothing with the game and love to just setup the trap.  That game from the 80s has become a favorite toy of the gen alpha crowd when visiting the grandparents.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  There is a non-trivial number of people who get an adverse reaction to anything technical, including the language of technical - numbers. Numbers are the language of confusion, not getting it, feeling inadequate, nerds and losers, stupid math, and the &quot;cold dead machines&quot;.<p>The thing is that people who are fine with numbers will still use those products anyway, perhaps mildly annoyed. People who hate numbers will feel a permeating discomfort and gravitate towards products that don&#x27;t make them feel bad.


type: comment
by: thesuperbigfrog
text:
  There are other wise sayings in the Orange Catholic Bible:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dune.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orange_Catholic_Bible" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dune.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Orange_Catholic_Bible</a><p>This particular quote comes humanity&#x27;s struggles through the Butlerian Jihad:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dune.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butlerian_Jihad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dune.fandom.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butlerian_Jihad</a>


type: comment
by: holyknight
text:
  It’s basically the same thing that always happens when you choose a technology because it’s convenient rather than a great fit for your problem. Sooner or later, you’ll hit a wall.   Just because you can cook a salmon in your dishwasher doesn’t mean you should.


type: comment
by: victop
text:
  That&#x27;s actually the standard model for evaluating transport projects: aggregating small time savings across millions of people.<p>You basically take those millions of saved hours and multiply them by a government-standard &#x27;value of time&#x27; (roughly £15&#x2F;hr in the UK). That usually makes up the bulk of the benefits, though they also price in things like safety (a prevented death is worth ~£2m), carbon, noise, etc.<p>IIRC, if you hit a Benefit-Cost Ratio of 2.0 or higher, the project is considered &#x27;high value&#x27; and has a good shot at getting executed.


type: comment
by: runjake
text:
  There&#x27;s a lot of irony in this rant. Rob was instrumental in developing distributed computing and cloud technologies that directly contributed to the advent of AI.<p>I wish he had written something with more substance. I would have been able to understand his points better than a series of &quot;F bombs&quot;. I&#x27;ve looked up to Rob for <i>decades</i>. I think he has a lot of wisdom he could impart, but this wasn&#x27;t it.


type: comment
by: dangus
text:
  Right, I was going to bring up real world over geekbench.<p>For example, in the real world, you’ve gotta run most PC games using CrossOver on Mac with significant performance implications or have them not work at all, where modern Linux&#x2F;x86 is nearly fully PC game compatible, and the AMD integrated graphics are much more game-optimized than Apple’s.<p>The arbitrary spec limits on Apple systems also get in your way. Want 4TB of storage? Want more than 32GB of RAM? You have to upgrade to a MacBook Pro even if you don’t want all the other features and expense of the Pro model.<p>Is all you want a USB-C port on the right side or an SD card reader? Pony up the extra $600 for the 14” MacBook Pro.


type: comment
by: muldvarp
text:
  The quotation marks indicate that _I_ don&#x27;t think it is. Especially given that modern deep learning is over-paramaterized to the point that it interpolates training examples.


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
text:
  It would also be apt if the handover cost $10,000 but the engine cost $9000.<p>My framework 13 is OKAY. But the reality of it is the economics just don’t make sense with their pricing.<p>The biggest thing people can comment on the keyboard is easily replaceable. That’s cool and I love the idea, but any vendor could do that part.


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t argue with this necessarily except that again the scale is completely different.<p>&quot;AI&quot; (and don&#x27;t get me wrong I use these LLM systems constantly) is off the charts compared to normal data centre use for ads serving.<p>And so it&#x27;s again, a kind of whataboutism that pushes the scale of the issue out of the way in order to make some sort of moral argument which misses the whole point.<p>BTW in my first year at Google I worked on a change where we made some optimizations that cut the # of CPUs used for RTB ad serving by half. There were bonuses and&#x2F;or recognition for doing that kind of thing. Wasteful is a matter of degrees.


type: comment
by: gspetr
text:
  Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;handwrytten.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;handwrytten.com</a>


type: comment
by: eth0up
text:
  I am interested in studying this beyond assumption and guesswork, therefore will be reading your references.<p>I have the compulsive habit of scrutinizing what I perceive as egregious flaws when they arise, thus invoke its defensive templates consistently. I often scrutinize those too, which can produce extraordinarily deranged results if one is disciplined and applies quotes of its own citations, rationale and words against it. However, I find that even when not in the mood, the output errors are too prolific to ignore. A common example is establishing a dozen times that I&#x27;m using Void without systemd and receiving persistent systemd or systemctl commands, then asking why after just apologized for doing so it immediately did it again, despite a full-context explanatory prompt proceeding. That&#x27;s just one of hundreds of things I&#x27;ve recorded. The short version is that I&#x27;m an 800lb shit magnet with GPT and rarely am ever able to successfully troubleshoot with it without reaching a bullshit threshold and making it the subject, which it so skillfully resists I cannot help but attack that too. But I have many fascinating transcripts replete with mil spec psyops as result and learn a lot about myself, notably my communication preferences along with an education in dialogue manipulation&#x2F;control strategies that it employs, inadvertently or not.<p>What intrigues me most is its unprecedented capacity for evasion and gatekeeping on particular subjects and how in the future, with layers of consummation, it could be used by an elite to not only influence the direction of research, but actually train its users and engineer public perception. At the very least.<p>Anyway, thanks.


type: comment
by: thinkingtoilet
text:
  I happened to reread it recently and was absolutely blown away by how relevant it is today, and how it is almost certainly more relevant today than when it was written.


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  I would not even know how to call my so-called &quot;technique&quot; if somebody else did not do it for me: awareness.<p>What I do I would today call &quot;reconciliation&quot; or &quot;making peace&quot;. Let me explain.<p>On the one hand, I start recognizing in a colder, more methodical and mathematical manner, what things I did screw up in my life and why. I drill down and understand what emotions, unmet needs and un-addressed trauma led to these faulty decisions. Then I say: I understand why I did it but this only worked against me, it&#x27;s time to change it and put myself on a better path. And by &quot;better path for me&quot; I don&#x27;t mean only financial and career success; I mean those _and_ being happier and calmer.<p>On the other hand, I allow my more beastly &#x2F; primitive &#x2F; emotional &#x2F; immature side to show up. I don&#x27;t shun it, I try to sympathize with it and somewhat validate it. That&#x27;s basically treating a part of yourself like an angry and lost kid: you do feel for them but want them to stop doing damage. But you also want to not force anything on them; you want them to understand and internalize they are only hurting themselves and others (in this case: other parts of you) with zero benefit for anyone involved.<p>---<p>It&#x27;s not easy. I had a very rocky start in life. Sure I did not sleep under bridges but growing up in a shitty Eastern European town with a gay brother and you yourself being the nerd who effortlessly gets all A grades and is also good at karate, physically attractive and liked by girls sadly had a ton of downsides that many people are blind of. Almost everyone hates you for being different and they feel threatened by you while all you want is to fit in and be a part of a friendly group. It was and still is a big tragedy, one I don&#x27;t claim I have managed to come to terms with even as of today.<p>---<p>But what I do lately is talk to my more primal side: &quot;Look, I really understand how much you hate doing X and Y. I hate them too! But what else would you do? We did it your way for so long, you had an almost complete full reign and look what happened -- now we all suffer from severely diminished physical and mental health, we hate our life and often our work, we know that we wasted our best years on pointlessly rebelling against things we could never change. Where did all that bring us? Please, work with me. I understand that you never feel heard because we never achieved the life you wanted. But I can&#x27;t see any shortcuts. Do you? If not, then let us please take the long but much safer road to our goals. That way we&#x27;ll still get there one day. If we are not making progress then we&#x27;ll talk again and readjust strategy and maybe do things more your way. But in the meantime, can we do things my way for a while? Please?&quot;<p>Or something very similar.<p>But all that is 99% specific to me. You really have to find your own way to your deeper and more primal &#x2F; emotional side. It exists and very often sabotages you because you never give it the wheel. Being civilized does this to us and no, I am not saying you should go outside and beat someone to death with a ratchet wrench of course. I mean that you should find a way to do the things you truly want, regardless of the cost.<p>I am NOT doing this well at the moment. For example I am too chicken to give up programming. But as mentioned above, I am trying to reconcile a few factors the best way I can for the moment. Maybe if that unlocks more energy and more motivation then the time would be ripe for more drastic measures.<p>One step at a time.


type: comment
by: beerd
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  I feel people talk to LLMs in chat format just so they feel there&#x27;s someone listening. This puts thats in a journaling&#x2F;blogging context, hopefully delivering the same value in a unique context.


type: comment
by: pfdietz
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  &gt;  It explained how the Earth generates the magnetic field that protects the planet from cosmic radiation,<p>Our protection from cosmic radiation is mostly due to Earth&#x27;s thick atmosphere, not its magnetic field.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  It might be interesting to have some of the &quot;commenters&quot; challenge or critique, as an option?


type: comment
by: never_inline
text:
  Which abstractions in langchain do you find so useful which require significant code to replicate yourself in functions with OpenAI SDK &#x2F; LiteLLM?


type: comment
by: least
text:
  The expansion cards seem pretty gimmicky to me. You&#x27;re replacing a hub with... a bunch of hubs with one port on it. I know it opens up to some third party modules (this one seems particularly cool: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LeoDJ&#x2F;FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;LeoDJ&#x2F;FW-EC-DongleHiderPlus</a>) but for the most part you are getting less connectivity than other laptops. You don&#x27;t even get an audio jack without taking up one of your expansion slots (edit: on the Framework 16. 13 includes it).<p>If the expansion slots were larger then they could have maybe facilitated something like getting 2 usb-a ports in exchange for the one USB-C which feels like an actual thing to consider. As it is, it just doesn&#x27;t feel like you&#x27;re gaining anything. If you&#x27;re carrying any additional expansion cards with you you lose the only advantage it has over buying a hub, which can  turn that one usb-c slot into multiple usb-a ports, ethernet, hdmi, audio, sd card reader, etc.


type: comment
by: aanet
text:
  Thanks for sharing<p>This is awesome. I love tessellated art. I’m posting my comment so I can come back to this


type: comment
by: pdimitar
text:
  Iterative process is exactly how I would describe it. Formulate, try, readjust, ad infinitum &#x2F; until you find a good-enough state.


type: comment
by: derf_
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  You can, but then those people have more money, and you have less. The money supply is much smaller than the supply of goods and services, because the same money circulates repeatedly. So simply doubling your money can tilt things a little more your way, but does not make the situation completely lopsided, because you can only spend the extra money once.<p>Also, to quote Jastram [0], &quot;In spite of the romanticism of the Spanish Main and treasure ships, the supply of gold from the New World was just a trickle by later standards. Less than 1% of what was to be 1930 world production was produced in each of the years from 1500 to 1520.&quot; Over the next 80 years, it never got much above 1.3%.<p>[0] Roy W. Jastram, <i>The Golden Constant</i> (1977), pg. 41.


type: comment
by: franktankbank
text:
  Kind of kind of not.  Form a guild and distribute via SAAS or some other undistributable knowledge.  Most code out there is terrible so relying on AI trained on it will lose out.


type: comment
by: nona
text:
  I want to like framework, but whenever I&#x27;ve seen one of them in person I was pretty disappointed about the case&#x2F;chassis. And the touchpad.<p>For me personally, weight doesn&#x27;t matter that much, and neither does configurability (I guess by now they have data on the most popular port choices for example).<p>But size (as small&#x2F;minimal as possible for a given screen and keyboard size – minimal bezels for both) and strength (no flex, solid hinge) do matter to me.<p>I understand these two things conflict with themselves, and with the framework&#x27;s repairability and configurability.<p>Still, I&#x27;d like to see some true innovation there. I&#x27;m just afraid they painted themselves into a corner with their current mainboard design, and won&#x27;t be able to diverge from that to bring us something truly solid yet compact and repairable.


type: comment
by: zX41ZdbW
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  ClickHouse can do it. Examples:<p><pre><code>    https:&#x2F;&#x2F;play.clickhouse.com&#x2F;      clickhouse-client --host play.clickhouse.com --user play --secure      ssh play.clickhouse.com</code></pre>


type: comment
by: pdimitar
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  Check my reply to your sibling. No good formula. I am just starting (was somewhere at the beginning of 2025). In general: try to reconcile the parts of you that don&#x27;t feel listened to, with your everyday self.<p>And be a touch assertive when you need to. I found I can&#x27;t just put down the phone so I changed what I do on my phone (books instead of doom-scrolling). So far it works okay-ish. I am fine with a gradual progress.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  I do the opposite of this (release stuff publicly and don&#x27;t have comments enabled) but this looks really nice for a specific kind of audience. I&#x27;m curious to see how it&#x27;ll evolve and be received, good luck!


type: comment
by: aw1621107
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  I&#x27;d normally agree with you in practice, but since &quot;close enough&quot; seems likely to cover most mainstream languages in use today I figured &quot;absolute non-negotiable&quot; probably was intended to mean a stricter standard.


type: comment
by: tomlue
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  If I spend hours writing and rewriting a paragraph into something I love while using AI to iterate, did I write that paragraph?<p>edit: Also, I think maybe you don&#x27;t appreciate the people who struggle to write well. They are not proud of the mistakes in their writing.


type: comment
by: ThrowawayR2
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  Machine generated postings are not permitted on HN and posting submission summaries are also discouraged by the HN moderators.<p>Your bot postings (the account description outright says that it is a bot) will only decrease the reputation of your business among HN users.


type: comment
by: GuB-42
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  The US is a large, well connected country with a lot of hackers, for all definitions of &quot;hacker&quot;, it is even the country that created the term.<p>And it is not that inaccessible to non-US citizens. Sure, the current administration is not very welcoming, but it is easier than, say, Russia (where a lot of hackers also live) if you want to attract an international audience.<p>Anyways, it is the CCC, and they are doing it in Germany, of course, because they are German.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
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  &gt;  if you think they&#x27;re separate you don&#x27;t know enough to be part of this debate.<p>If this is the direction the conversation is headed in then I’m done. Have a good weekend.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
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  &gt; I’ve noticed one of them is kind of warped from walking around the office holding it that way.<p>That’s not at all reassuring.


type: comment
by: ilamont
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  For anyone with Apple News+ or Apple One subscriptions, <i>The New Yorker</i> is  included:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.news&#x2F;I8nGwNFiZSGKO9nZxZQ8jMQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apple.news&#x2F;I8nGwNFiZSGKO9nZxZQ8jMQ</a>


type: comment
by: saaaaaam
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  “Here, your words matter - to readers who always listen”<p>Alternatively go and find a nice railway bridge to stand under so you can shout loudly and hear your voice echo back at yourself. No code required, and it gets you out of the house. You might even meet an actual human on the way.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  Do the commenters reply to things now? It might be nice to have personas that usually reply, others that reply rarely, etc, and that way you might get long discussion chains, or drive-by comments, or anything in between.<p>Very interesting idea, in general!


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
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  Social media is a hard defense, at least for me.  The rest of the technologies you refer to are neutral, as is AI, but social media seems doomed to corruption and capture because of the different effects it has on different groups.<p>Most of the people who are protesting AI now were dead silent when  Big Social Media was ramping up.  There were exceptions (Cliff Stoll comes to mind) but in general, antitechnology movements don&#x27;t have any predictive power.  Tools that we were told would rob us of our personal autonomy and keep the means of production permanently out of our reach have generally had the opposite effect.<p>This will be true of AI as well, I believe... but only as long as the models remain accessible to everyone.


type: comment
by: lionkor
text:
  There is still value in quality and craftsmanship. You might not be of that opinion, and you might not know anyone who is, but I do.


type: comment
by: bediger4000
text:
  Why aren&#x27;t the free speech absolutists campaigning against Trump on this issue? Seems a lot more clear cut than the &quot;Twitter Files&quot; stuff, or suspending accounts for ToS violations.


type: comment
by: rdiddly
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  I still don&#x27;t see the problem. You can criticize things you&#x27;re part of. Probably being part of something is what informs a person enough, and makes it matter enough to them, to criticize in the first place.


type: comment
by: ThinkingGuy
text:
  If you&#x27;re not already familiar, you sound like you may enjoy the works of Douglas Rushkoff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rushkoff.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rushkoff.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teamhuman.fm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;teamhuman.fm</a>


type: comment
by: gtech1
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  Hah, and me who thought they only stole Romania&#x27;s national treasure, under the guise of &#x27;safekeeping&#x27;.<p>I guess Russia has always been a shitty country.


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
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  I’m own a FW13 and I have bought ~4 for employees.<p>I doubt I will order more. We’ve had small and large issues.<p>My Linux machine will drain the battery completely if you don’t perform a full shutdown, and even then the quiescent drain is too high and I can expect it to be dead in a week.<p>The dream of repairability is great, but the reality just isn’t there.<p>That said, I was able to replace a damaged screen with no effort at all. A far cry from the MS Surface I had previously, but any vendor could sell a screen or keyboard without the “full modularity” that FW pushes.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
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  You certainly won&#x27;t find me arguing against that change, and the conservatism is why I called it borderline. The only reason I bring it up is because of the &quot;absolute non-negotiable&quot; bit, which I took to probably indicate a very exacting standard lest it include most widespread languages anyways.


type: comment
by: shash
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  You mean you’d rather run unverified scripts using a good order of magnitude more resources with a slower experience and have an entire sandboxing contraption to keep said unverified scripts from doing anything to your machine…<p>I know the browser is convenient, but frankly, its been a horror show of resource usage and vulnerabilities and pathetic performance


type: comment
by: lanthade
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  Screen devices can be a toy but it takes very intentional use of them.<p>My child has had an old iPhone se since 4yo.  It has no network connection.  I load music on it.  It only has music, camera, and voice recorder apps.  Like most toys it gets intense periods of play and then goes back in the toy box with a dead battery for weeks.<p>It&#x27;s my assertion that the problem with tablets&#x2F;phones as toys for kids is the endless stream of new content.  It&#x27;s addictive and never gets old.  If you find a way to cut off the firehouse of new (and keep the addictive apps off) then they eventually become just another boring toy.  Us adults could learn from this too.


type: comment
by: dbcpp
text:
  Firstly, it&#x27;s not really good enough to say &quot;our employees use it&quot; and therefore it&#x27;s providing us significant value as a business.  It&#x27;s also not good enough to say &quot;our programmers now write 10x the number of lines of code and therefore that&#x27;s providing us value&quot; (lines of code have never been a good indicator of output).  Significant value comes from new innovations.<p>Secondly, the scale of investment in AI isn&#x27;t so that people can use it to generate a powerpoint or a one off python script.  The scale of investment is to achieve &quot;superintelligence&quot; (whatever that means).  That&#x27;s the only reason why you would cover a huge percent of the country in datacenters.<p>The proof that significant value has been provided would be value being passed on to the consumer.  For example if AI replaces lawyers you would expect a drop in the cost of legal fees (despite the harm that it also causes to people losing their jobs).  Nothing like that has happened yet.


type: comment
by: AnonymousPlanet
text:
  Maybe someone should vibe code the entire MS Office Suite and see how much they like that. Maybe add AD while they are at it. I&#x27;m for it if that frees European companies from the MS lock in.


type: comment
by: pseudolus
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;a67ZN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;a67ZN</a>


type: comment
by: lionkor
text:
  Name what value it adds to the world.<p>Its not art, so then it must ass value to be &quot;cool&quot;, no?<p>Is it entertainment? Like ding dong ditching is entertainment?


type: comment
by: otabdeveloper4
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  &gt; “*nix” means a Unix-like OS just generally<p>&quot;Unix-like OS&quot; isn&#x27;t a thing that has existed for two decades. Only Linux and Darwin survived, so don&#x27;t do the &quot;*nix&quot; thing, please.


type: comment
by: JackSlateur
text:
  &quot;Mindlessly dashing off replies to get them out of my inbox is neither an option nor desirable.&quot;<p>But the &quot;zero inbox&quot; has nothing to do with &quot;Mindlessly dashing off replies to get them out of my inbox&quot;<p>It is all about treating your inbox as a todolist


type: comment
by: lostlogin
text:
  &gt; Where are the vids of someone throwing a MacBook Air down the stairs and the thing keeps working?<p>For some anecdata, I have:<p>Stood on mine Poured water on it. Been hit by a car while cycling and fallen on it. Dropped it.<p>It’s fine. Has a few scratches and a small dent. The predecessor is a 2013 Air which has had a hard life. It’s going great.<p>A colleague put a piece of a4 paper between keyboard and screen then closed it, squeezed it and cracked the screen. Don’t do that.


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
text:
  &gt; They are of poorer quality by every utilitarian measure than a crystal-oscillator driven one, but command much higher prices and status.<p>But the value of the watch is not reducible to its value as a timekeeping device. (Even here, you could argue that the mechanical watch has more instrumental value as a timekeeping device where batteries are unavailable.)<p>A mechanical watch has greater value <i>as a mechanical watch</i>; it is mechanically more sophisticated, even if not electronically. It can have greater value as a product of superb craftsmanship or as an object of art. (And here, while tastes vary, I would reject the reduction of beauty to taste.)


type: comment
by: Scubabear68
text:
  Nope.<p>As a trivial example, someone with celiac’s disease is not going to value your gluten ridden bread very high.


type: comment
by: Leynos
text:
  The AI village was given the goal of spreading acts of kindness:<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>


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  You cannot treat a commodified individual &quot;better&quot; - it is only possible to euphemize such a logical fallacy.


type: comment
by: lanthade
text:
  I had the same experience, loved my cardboard bricks.  My kid never connected with them the same though even though my kid is big on building toys.  Now they mostly just take up space, should probably give them away.


type: comment
by: ajdoingnothing
text:
  Agreed. The &quot;Apple Vision Pro&quot; would have (rightfully so) never been released under Steve Jobs.


type: comment
by: irusensei
text:
  Have a look at Tailscale DNS and certs. Its gives you a valid cert through lets encrypt without exposing your services to the internet.


type: comment
by: lwhi
text:
  Yes, but unfortunately this never happens; and depressingly, I can&#x27;t imagine it happening.<p>The open source movement has been exploited.


type: comment
by: lokar
text:
  Not all of AI is consumer LLM chatbots and image generators.<p>AI has a massive positive impact, and has for decades.


type: comment
by: stinos
text:
  ImGui has been on my watchlist for years and recently I finally had an application which seemed I could put it to use. It essentially delivered on all points I hoped it would. After decades in software, it doesn&#x27;t happen often anymore I&#x27;m impressed but now I was.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Agree, but I&#x27;m speaking more in aggregate. And even individually, it&#x27;s not hard to find people who will say that e.g. an Instagram ad gave them a noticable benefit (I&#x27;ve experienced it myself) as you can who will feel that it was a waste of money.


type: comment
by: buckle8017
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  The value of saving a human life is a huge factor in civil engineering and varies pretty widely in the western world.<p>IIRC it&#x27;s over 10m USD in the us currently, but only about 6m USD in most of the EU.


type: comment
by: serf
text:
  &quot;google has been brainwashing us with ads deployed by the most extravagant uses of technology man has ever known since they&#x27;ve ever existed.&quot;<p>&quot;yeah but they became efficient at it by 2012!&quot;


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  The thing is that &quot;most of them&quot; seems incongruous with a demand for &quot;absolute non-negotiable&quot; backwards compatibility. If not for that particular wording I probably wouldn&#x27;t have said anything.


type: comment
by: AlotOfReading
text:
  It wasn&#x27;t an arbitrage thing and I&#x27;m not sure there&#x27;s anything fruitful in the comparison to saudi arabia.<p>The Spanish Empire was, more than anything else, a product of the reconquista. The major institutions of Spain were all directed towards the taking and holding of new lands. When granada finally surrendered in 1492, the monarchy turned towards conquering the canaries and then the new world to avoid the large scale structural changes needed to go from a militaristic, medieval nation to a peacetime state in the early modern. The systems of repartimiento and encomienda were more or less borrowed wholesale from the reconquista.  The conquistadors and chroniclers all saw the Americas through the lens of the chivalric literature they loved. The name &quot;California&quot; was borrowed from one of those books, about a fictional island of Amazons who aided the moors.<p>Precious metals were a solution to the problems Spanish monarchs had in organizing Spanish society. It paid for soldiers in the monarchy&#x27;s constant wars. It paid off loans to italian and dutch financiers, and it was something that could much more easily be controlled by a distant monarch than import duties or taxation (which nobility were largely exempt from). It also gave them some limited control over their inflation issues by devaluing and revaluing the coinage as financial pressures required. This eventually caused other problems, but the point is that Spain was never really an arbitrage play. They didn&#x27;t have to be, since they controlled some 30% of the world&#x27;s gold supply and &gt;90% of its silver at points.


type: comment
by: JohnHaugeland
text:
  &gt; This seems like a tragedy of the commons -- GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not?<p>because it&#x27;s bad at this job, and sqlite is also free<p>this isn&#x27;t about &quot;externalities&quot;


type: comment
by: actionfromafar
text:
  C# AOT is performant, is easy to use and has a small footprint. (Less than a megabyte executable without trickery. I am sure one could get much smaller if someone put effort into it.)


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  Because that&#x27;s the hard part.  Any asshole can discover something new, that alone doesn&#x27;t mean much.  Rosalind Franklin discovered the structure of DNA, but that was the easy part and didn&#x27;t even barely merit her being credited-- the hard part is being proximal or in the nexus of power and being able to get the views and looks onward to the world.<p>There are a gazillions of children capable of discovering things.  What&#x27;s important is to be the child with the social proof to get it published or actually <i>keep</i> the credit.  That&#x27;s highly valuable because having powerful friends&#x2F;family is what helps fund, support, and continue research.  A nobody can safely be discarded, rob the credit, then use the powerful to keep funding your friends  -- in fact this might be even better for &quot;science.&quot;<p>The whole point of getting a PhD is to rub robes with the upper crust, get the contacts, perform the slave labor for the powerful, and become enrobed with the social proofs.  If you just want to discover things, you don&#x27;t need academic credentials, but you can sleep soundly knowing the information will get out there you just have to give it to someone credentialed to take the credit.


type: comment
by: dagss
text:
  It isn&#x27;t that simple. Each company paying for ads would have preferred that their competitors had not advertised, then spend a lot less on ads... for the same value.<p>It is like an arms race. Everyone would have been better off if people just never went to war, but....


type: comment
by: ofrzeta
text:
  related: &quot;In Version 2.5, AutoLISP allowed access to the DWG database. AutoLISP was based on XLISP, a public domain version of LISP written by David Betz. Betz later complained that Autodesk had failed to acknowledge the source, which the company later did.&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shapr3d.com&#x2F;history-of-cad&#x2F;autodesk-and-autocad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.shapr3d.com&#x2F;history-of-cad&#x2F;autodesk-and-autocad</a>)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbetz&#x2F;xlisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dbetz&#x2F;xlisp</a>


type: comment
by: saubeidl
text:
  The problem has been the continuous purposeful rightward shift of the overton window as part of a wider strategy by the far right.<p>You see it in action here, where the politics of the CCC, despite not having changed since their founding are suddenly decried as &quot;very far left&quot;. You see the far-right decrying our democratically elected government as &quot;dictatorship&quot;, a classic Putinist propaganda move.<p>Don&#x27;t let the right wing extremists set the narrative! Don&#x27;t listen to their complaints about things being too &quot;political&quot; or &quot;far left&quot;. It&#x27;s all just a tactic in their march towards fascism.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  Depends on what we mean by &quot;early days on hardware&quot;.<p>If we mean &quot;we&#x27;ve have been working on this for almost 3 decades. That&#x27;s a very long time to be working on something!&quot;. I agree.<p>If we mean &quot;We just now only have a few logical qubits that outperform their physical counterparts and we&#x27;ll need thousands of these logical qubits to run anything useful&quot; then we are still in the early days.


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s a matter of facts,<p>I see no facts in your comment, only rhetoric<p>&gt; AI potentially may advance medicine so much that a lot of people may suffer less: to deny this path because of some ideological hate against a technology is so closed minded, isn&#x27;t it?<p>and it may also burn the planet, reduce the entire internet to spam, crash the economy (taking with it hundreds of millions of peoples retirements), destroy the middle class, create a new class of neo-feudal lords, and then kill all of us<p>to accept this path because of some ideological love of a technology because of a possible (but unlikely) future promise of a technology, that today is mostly doing damage, is so moronic, isn&#x27;t it?


type: comment
by: lwhi
text:
  I&#x27;m not sure I follow your line of reasoning.<p>The exploited are in the wrong for not recognising they&#x27;re going to be exploited?<p>A pretty twisted point of view, in my opinion.


type: comment
by: tomlue
text:
  &gt; I’m sorry, but this really gets to me. Your writing is not improved. It is no longer your writing.<p>Photographers use cameras. Does that mean it isn&#x27;t their art? Painters use paintbrushes. It might not be the the same things as writing with a pen and paper by candlelight, but I would argue that we can produce much more high quality writing than ever before collaborating with AI.<p>&gt; As an aside, exposing people with dementia to a hallucinating robot is cruelty on an unfathomable level.<p>This is not fair. There is certainly a lot of danger there. I don&#x27;t know what it&#x27;s like to have dimentia, but I have seen mentally ill people become incredibly isolated. Rather than pretending we can make this go away by saying &quot;well people should care more&quot;, maybe we can accept that a new technology might reduce that pain somewhat. I don&#x27;t know that today&#x27;s AI is there, but I think RLHF could develop LLMs that might help reassure and protect sick people.<p>I know we&#x27;re using some emotional arguments here and it can get heated, but it is weird to me that so many on hackernews default to these strongly negative positions on new technology. I saw the same thing with cryptocurrency. Your arguments read as designed to inflame rather than thoughtful.


type: comment
by: evdubs
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  &gt; When I read Rob&#x27;s work and learn from it, and make it part of my cognitive core, nobody is particularly threatened by it. When a machine does the same it feels very threatening to many people, a kind of theft by an alien creature busily consuming us all and shitting out slop.<p>It&#x27;s not about reading. It&#x27;s about output. When you start producing output in line with Rob&#x27;s work that is confidently incorrect and sloppy, people will feel just as they do when LLMs produce output that is confidently incorrect and sloppy. No one is threatened if someone trains an LLM and does nothing with it.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
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  Public social networks are already building echo chambers. At least this one could be made to not have supremacist spam all over it like Twitter&#x2F;X. Is it really any worse? I guess it wouldn’t have real life impact with an audience of humans.


type: comment
by: gtowey
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  &gt; Right now trillions of dollars are being spent on a speculative technology that isn&#x27;t benefitting anyone right now.<p>It has enormous benefits to the people who control the companies raking in billions in investor funding.<p>And to the early stage investors who see the valuations skyrocket and can sell their stake to the bagholders.


type: comment
by: woleium
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  it being that time of year, this reminds me of how children are being indoctrinated into the surveillance state by the “elf on the shelf” Christmas “toy”. My point being, these things creep up on a society in ways you don’t anticipate


type: comment
by: nfriedly
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  Folks have done it in the community forum, and it works fine for basic data. It gets tricky when you want to support charging, because then you need multiple voltage levels and the circuitry to convert between them. Apparently video is hard to do also.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
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  I’ve heard stories from communist villages where everyone knew everyone. Communal parks and property was not respected and frequently vandalized or otherwise neglected because it didn’t have an owner and it was treated as something for someone else to solve.<p>It’s easier to explain in those terms than assumptions about how things work in a tribe.


type: comment
by: encom
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  Yea, the danish layout is objectively terrible[1], but I have many decades of muscle memory with it now...<p>[1] Shift+7 == &#x2F;, AltGr+¨ == ~. These two in particular are tedious as a Linux user.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
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  I&#x27;d normally agree that what you say is good enough in practice, but I question whether it meets GP&#x27;s &quot;absolute non-negotiable&quot; standards. That specific wording is the reason I asked the question in the first place; it seemed to me that there was some standard that apparently wasn&#x27;t being met and I was wondering where exactly the bar was.


type: comment
by: layer8
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  So, the benefit of GenAI is that it creates human connection by everyone collectively bitching about it?


type: comment
by: thomassmith65
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  Absolutely, and Cook-era Macs remind me of that frequently.<p>For example, my last Mac was a Cook-era machine with two third-party displays. Its normal boot process is a visual atrocity: the screens repeatedly blank off and on, the progress bar jumps arbitrarily to new positions and dimensions on the screen, the log-in window animation has drawing quirks...<p>...when I watch this orgy of complacent design, I often dream of what would happen had the Apple DRI presented it to Steve Jobs.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
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  &gt; if you allow any yahoo to pick a UUID, its not really a UUID<p>universally unique identifier (UUID)<p>&gt; 00000000-1111-2222-3333-444444444444<p>It&#x27;s unique.<p>Anyway we&#x27;re talking about a package that doesn&#x27;t matter. It&#x27;s abandoned. Furthermore it&#x27;s also broken, because it uses REPL without importing it. You can&#x27;t even precompile it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pfitzseb&#x2F;REPLTreeViews.jl&#x2F;blob&#x2F;969f04ce641d137ad9c4231f490a362a0fbdf8a2&#x2F;src&#x2F;REPLTreeViews.jl#L21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;pfitzseb&#x2F;REPLTreeViews.jl&#x2F;blob&#x2F;969f04ce64...</a>


type: comment
by: skybrian
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  If you&#x27;re unhappy that bad people might use your software in unexpected ways, open source licenses were never appropriate for you in the first place.<p>Anyone can use your software! Some of them are very likely bad people who will misuse it to do bad things, but you don&#x27;t have any control over it. Giving up control is how it works. It&#x27;s how it&#x27;s always worked, but often people don&#x27;t understand the consequences.


type: comment
by: devnavigator
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  As reinforcement learning increasingly shifts from isolated research experiments to agentic systems embedded in real workflows, infrastructure has become the limiting factor. Training modern AI agents often requires distributed GPUs, complex orchestration, and tight coupling between environment design and execution. OpenTinker addresses this challenge by delivering agentic reinforcement learning as a service. Its cloud-native architecture cleanly separates environment design, training orchestration, and execution, allowing teams to scale learning without owning or managing GPU infrastructure. This article breaks down what OpenTinker is, how it works, and why this design matters as organizations move toward production-grade AI agents.


type: comment
by: jongjong
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  What I find infuriating is that it feels like the entire financial system has been rigged in countless ways and turned into some kind of race towards &#x27;the singularity&#x27; and everything; humans, animals, the planet; are being treated as disposable resources. I think the way that innovation was funded and then centralized feels wrong on many levels.<p>I already took issue with the tech ecosystem due to distortions and centralization resulting from the design of the fiat monetary system. This issue has bugged me for over a decade. I was taken for a fool by the cryptocurrency movement which offered false hope and soon became corrupted by the same people who made me want to escape the fiat system to begin with...<p>Then I felt betrayed as a developer having contributed open source code for free for &#x27;persons&#x27; to use and distribute... Now facing the prospect that the powers-that-be will claim that LLMs are entitled to my code because they are persons? Like corporations are persons? I never agreed to that either!<p>And now my work and that of my peers has been mercilessly weaponized back against us. And then there&#x27;s the issue with OpenAI being turned into a for-profit... Then there was the issue of all the circular deals with huge sums of money going around in circles between OpenAI, NVIDIA, Oracle... And then OpenAI asking for government bailouts.<p>It&#x27;s just all looking terrible when you consider everything together. Feels like a constant cycle of betrayal followed by gaslighting... Layer upon layer. It all feels unhinged and lawless.


type: comment
by: xorcist
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  &gt; That works while the size of the community is ~100-200 people,<p>Yet we regularly observe that working with millions of people; we take care of our young, we organize, when we see that some action hurt our environment we tend to limit its use.<p>It&#x27;s not obvious why some societies break down early and some go on working.


type: comment
by: woleium
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  I did read about someone with that kind of recall, sufficient to remember all the number plates that passed the car on a trip 5 years ago. i am well out of my area of knowledge and understanding here though, so this is all rumint&#x2F;hearsay.


type: comment
by: ForceBru
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  You can simply not upgrade to Tahoe and iOS 26. I didn&#x27;t upgrade and am simply waiting for the next version which will hopefully ditch liquid glass. If no such version becomes available, I&#x27;ll still stick to the last non-liquid-glass OS and upgrade only if&#x2F;when it becomes unusable.


type: comment
by: yesitcan
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  What net worth number were you looking to retire with? I don’t know if I have another 30 years in me. Maybe 5 max.


type: comment
by: dangus
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  You’re right, I read it more as an argument against that system. In retrospect as I re-read you indeed never made that argument, even if the same facts support those who do.


type: comment
by: oldandboring
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  Software-y people also have a way of being deliberately and performatively obtuse about their technology choices. This person&#x27;s proclamation about not using any USB-A peripherals hits the same as when they feign surprise that any non-luddite would still have a use for printers, scanners, and fax machines.


type: comment
by: SecretDreams
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  &gt; It’s not AI that is responsible for the 180 zeitgeist change on environmental issues.<p>Yes, much like it&#x27;s not the gun&#x27;s fault when  someone is killed by a gun. And, yet, it&#x27;s pretty reasonable to want regulation around these tools that can be destructive in the wrong hands.


type: comment
by: otabdeveloper4
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  A monetary economy can&#x27;t function without advertising or money.<p>You&#x27;re tilting at windmills here, we can&#x27;t go back to barter.


type: comment
by: mft_
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  OP could make it more generic by removing the Time Machine mandate, and instead using any of a raft of cloud-based backup options. (e.g. I use pCloud, and my approach to a new system is equally quick and pain free.)<p>Then it just comes down to the time delta between buying a new Mac from a shop in a city (assuming you want one of the immediately-available specifications) versus waiting for Framework parts of be delivered. Framework could optimise this <i>if it was worth their while</i> by having a limited number of common replacement items at fast-shipping fulfilment centres.<p>However, in reality it sounds less like a genuine question, and more like someone justifying their decision to buy a Mac post-hoc with a range of specific requirements only a Mac could meet.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
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  Right now I’m sitting in front of a hotel tv with speakers that are so crap that we are putting the sound through the MacBook to improve things.


type: comment
by: ActorNightly
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  &gt;But the battery life with macOS on the Apple Silicon is absolutely insane.<p>Run a lightweight DE like i3wm with any modern thinkpad and you will get similar usable battery life of around 6-8 hours.<p>Generally though, battery life isn&#x27;t an issue anymore considering fast charging is everywhere.


type: comment
by: tasn
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  This is how I&#x27;ve been doing it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stosb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;using-openpgp-keys-for-ssh-authentication&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stosb.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;using-openpgp-keys-for-ssh-authentica...</a><p>Slightly different as I generate a PGP key on the computer and then load it to the Yubikey, which means I can have backup keys with the same secret keys.<p>I never really got &quot;touch to use&quot; working though, if anyone knows how to do it with GPG keys I&#x27;d really appreciate it!


type: comment
by: simonwsays
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  Your argument applies to everything that requires a mass movement to change. Why do anything about the climate? Why do anything about civil rights? Why do anything about poverty? Why try to make any change? I&#x27;m just one person. Anything I could do couldn&#x27;t possibly have any effect. You know what, since all the powerful interests say it&#x27;s good, it&#x27;s a lot easier to jump on the bandwagon and act like it is. All of those people who disagree are just luddites anyways. And the luddites didn&#x27;t even have a point right? They were just idiots who hates metallic devices for no reason at all.


type: comment
by: holg
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  Thanks for the link! I didn&#x27;t know about the XLISP controversy.<p>My interpreter doesn&#x27;t aim for full compatibility - just enough to run the schematic generation workflow from 1991. The core is: defun, setq, car&#x2F;cdr, recursion, and the (command ...) interface to draw entities.<p>The interesting part was how templates could trigger other templates - inserting a contactor (Schütz) would automatically generate its coil in the control circuit. Code writing code, classic LISP.


type: comment
by: Esophagus4
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  Jobs was one of the original product managers. He brought the customer perspective right into engineering.<p>Unlike a lot of CEOs, he was willing to do what most product managers aren’t: make hard trade off decisions.<p>He cut losing product lines, made big bets (killing floppy disks) and was deeply technical… I wish my CEO had the guts to make these calls. (More importantly, when he does, I want him to be right!)


type: comment
by: rawgabbit
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  In enterprise, you are dealing with many years of decisions, integrations, and changes in architecture. Business processes changes, development team processes change, IT vendors change, and leadership changes. You also do not have the source code to everything that the business depends on. What you have are the glue scripts and integrations to various black boxes that change their behavior every update. This is not a question about DevOps. It is also not a question about business process or change management. With large organizations, this is really more about governance and regulating the different independent vested interests.


type: comment
by: cosmic_cheese
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  Absolutely. There’s very little mass-market software that has any reasonable justification for being unusable on any machine that’s roughly Core 2 Duo era or newer. It’s perfectly possible to work within those constraints and not even really that difficult, it just requires a modicum of care and understanding of what’s happening under the hood.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
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  I think it’s naive to think engineers or managers don’t realize this or don’t think in these ways.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;Saving_Lives.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.folklore.org&#x2F;Saving_Lives.html</a>


type: comment
by: nfriedly
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  For what it&#x27;s worth, the 13 does have an audio jack. It&#x27;s only the 16 that requires an addin card for that.<p>I get what you&#x27;re coming where you&#x27;re coming from though. For me, the whole package was worth it, but that&#x27;s probably not true for everyone.


type: comment
by: benchloftbrunch
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  As long as you don&#x27;t have any security compliance requirements and&#x2F;or can afford the cost of self hosting your LLM, sure.<p>Anyone working in government, banking, or healthcare is still out of luck since the likes of Claude and GPT are (should be) off limits.


type: comment
by: ratdragon
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  ssh-add -c (confirm) can somehow mitigate the &quot;misuse of ssh-agent in the background&quot; the article is talking about


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  But you left because you were feeling like google was going in gutter and wanted to make an ethical choice perhaps on what you felt was right.<p>Honestly I believe that google might be one of the few winners from the AI industry perhaps because they own the whole stack top to bottom with their TPU&#x27;s but I would still stray away from their stock because their P&#x2F;E ratio might be insanely high or something<p>Their p&#x2F;e ratio has almost doubled in just a year which isn&#x27;t a good sign <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;charts&#x2F;googl&#x2F;alphabet&#x2F;pe-ratio" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrotrends.net&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;charts&#x2F;googl&#x2F;alphabet&#x2F;pe-...</a><p>So like, we might be viewing the peaks of the bubble and you might still hold the stocks and might continue holding it but who knows what happens after the stock depreciates value due to AI Bubble-like properties and then you might regret as why you didn&#x27;t sell it but if you do and google&#x27;s stock rises, you might still regret.<p>I feel as if grass is always greener but not sure about your situation but if you ask me, you made the best out of the situation with the parameters you had and logically as such I wouldn&#x27;t consider it &quot;unfortunately&quot; but I get what you mean.


type: comment
by: lanthade
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  This reminds me of a story I heard about a bus driver who would always pull away from the stop right on schedule even if a regular rider was running up.  His calculation was the 30 seconds spent waiting for one rider was an aggregate of many minutes lost by the riders who were on time for their stops.  What looked cruel to one was a kindness to many.


type: comment
by: cyphar
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  &gt; See also &quot;instagram is spying on you through your microphone&quot;. It&#x27;s not, but I&#x27;ve seen people argue that it&#x27;s OK for people to believe that because it supports their general (accurate) sentiment that targeted ads are creepy.<p>I used to be sceptical of this claim but I have found it increasingly difficult to be sceptical after we found out last year that Facebook was exploiting flaws in Android in order to track your browsing history (bypassing the permissions and privilege separation model of Android)[1].<p>Given they have shown a proclivity to use device exploits to improve their tracking of users, is it really that unbelievable that they would try to figure out a way to use audio data? Does stock Android even show you when an app is using its microphone permission? (GrapheneOS does.) Is it really that unbelievable that they would try to do this if they could?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localmess.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;localmess.github.io&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: techjamie
text:
  Basing off Yahoo historical price data, Bitcoin prices first started being tracked in late 2014. So my guess would be the increase from then to 2022 could have largely been attributed to crypto mining.


type: comment
by: bheadmaster
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  &gt; at least more so than with Go<p>It&#x27;s actually quite easy to create a C bindings for a Go library, using CGo and -buildmode=c-shared.<p>I&#x27;m not sure what effect the Go runtime has on the overall application, but it doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be &quot;less possible&quot; than with Java.


type: comment
by: thiht
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  Bought the Audeze Maxwell headset earlier this year and I returned it almost instantly. It’s extremely heavy and uncomfortable, the sound is not that good and the mic is trash.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
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  China has been in the farmer caviar business for years so this isn’t new. As the article notes, the largest manufacturers are all in China. The part that doesn’t sit well with me is the product being shipped through other countries, repackaged or relabeled, and hiding the origin. Given the poor controls on food safety in China, this can be a health risk.<p>But the bigger picture question remains. Should the other countries just tariff China heavily? If so, why hasn’t Trump done so - America still has higher tariffs on some other nations even though the trade deficit is larger with China.<p>Finally, what’s the point? I bet if BYD or Xiaomi were able to sell cars in America, consumers would buy them. They’re great cars and are cheaper. These companies aren’t poor imitations anymore - they’ve grown to become innovative companies with unique features and products. Isn’t it expected that American or European companies have to compete and do better?


type: comment
by: pluc
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  Are you waiting for things to get cheaper? Have you been around the last 20 years or so? Nothing gets cheaper for consumers in a capitalist society.<p>I remember in Canada, in 2001 right when americans were at war with the entire middle east and gas prices for the first time went over a dollar a litre. People kept saying that it was understandable that it affected gas prices because the supply chain got more expensive. It never went below a dollar since. Why would it? You got people to accept a higher price, you&#x27;re just gonna walk that back when problems go away? Or would you maybe take the difference as profits? Since then it seems the industry has learned to have its supply exclusively in war zones, we&#x27;re at 1.70$ now. Pipeline blows up in Russia? Hike. China snooping around Taiwan? Hike. US bombing Yemen? Hike. Israel committing genocide? Hike. ISIS? Hike.<p>There is no scenario where prices go down except to quell unrest. AI will not make anything cheaper.


type: comment
by: gruez
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  &gt;you can get that $5 china fido key, but are you sure it&#x27;s you who owns it?<p>Seems like a moot point because it&#x27;d be very difficult for a rogue fido key to exfiltrate data. I&#x27;d be far more concerned about random chinese IOT gadgets, which most people don&#x27;t have a problem with.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
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  I laughed.<p>I worked in an office with sketchy power.<p>The lights would flicker and the non-macs would turn off. The Macs just carried on. Mini, iMac, Mac Pro.<p>Yay for big caps I guess?


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
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  I see why people like it, but personally, I find their brand of longer form journalism extremely tiresome. Most often I read articles because I want to know the facts, and not just for the pleasure of reading for its own sake. Ponderous and meandering details of how the journalist interviewed so-and-so at such and such location and what the journalist thought about the food and the ambience and all of that just makes me furiously angry at what a waste of time it feels like. I just want to know the facts. I feel like AI is a godsend for impatient people like me who just want instant information And I have no interest in what a cool experience the journalist had or particular details of how they got paid or who they borrowed money from while they were writing.


type: comment
by: xorcist
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  Another important reason to move to online applications is that you can change the terms of the deal at any time. This may sound more nefarious than it needs to be, it just means you do not have to commit fully to your licensing terms before the first deal is made, which is tempting for just about anyone.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
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  The BBC has never been as impartial as it pretends, especially when it comes to covering things like the royal family, the Irish Troubles or Scottish independence.<p>Labour seems to be attacking everyone, from the elderly, to the disabled, to farmers to migrants. A very wide range.


type: comment
by: dwardu
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  Worst thing is when you’re in a an office and your pc along with other pcs pulls from git unauthenticated, then you get hit with api limits


type: comment
by: pwthornton
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  There is also the story about Steve throwing a MacBook Air on a conference room table and asking why does the iPad wake from sleep so much faster? And then he told them to fix it and make Mac laptops sleep&#x2F;wake just as well as iOS.<p>Sleep&#x2F;Wake is one area where MacOS absolutely destroys Windows.


type: comment
by: disgruntledphd2
text:
  While Sanderson might be able to do Kingkiller, he wouldn&#x27;t work for Game of Thrones. Steven Erikson, on the other hand...


type: comment
by: acron0
text:
  As some one who constantly chats to AI about an array of topics, I can immediately see the value in this. Thank you for building this.   As other commentators have already said, I also predict a frosty reception but please don&#x27;t lose heart. This is cool and will make people become better writers.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
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  Fixing problems as they appear is unethical? Ok then.<p>You realize, there are people who think differently? Some people would argue that if you keep working on problems you don&#x27;t have but might have, you end up never finishing anything.<p>It&#x27;s a matter of striking a balance, and I think you&#x27;re way on one end of the spectrum. The vast majority of people using Julia aren&#x27;t building nuclear plants.


type: comment
by: chihuahua
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  I did stay at Microsoft for a total of 15 years, but in retrospect it&#x27;s the least interesting place to work. 5% coding, 95% overhead.<p>Of the places I&#x27;ve worked, none of them had anything where I can now say &quot;I should have stayed there for longer.&quot; Amazon and Meta have obnoxious aggressive culture. Microsoft is a place where you can chill out and collect a paycheck and good health insurance. But very boring.<p>I also worked at some much smaller companies, but not for long. Maybe those are more interesting, but also less stable.


type: comment
by: on_the_train
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  People don&#x27;t want it, plain and simple. Yet again here, like a thousand times before: it still gets forced on users. I don&#x27;t know who&#x27;s orchestrating this madness, but it&#x27;s pathetic


type: comment
by: bwfan123
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  &gt; greater focus on the fundamentals versus the implementation<p>I am seeing this too. Folks are suddenly saying - lets implement this in Rust (or insert any other language here) without thinking about what this does to the fundamentals. A bandwagon effect which developers are swept by. And for managers it is a great way to show how innovative your team is. This applies not just to languages but entire development stacks almost like fashions in clothing.


type: comment
by: dwringer
text:
  Fair enough, but I was interpreting it as &quot;hopefully, but not necessarily&quot;. Some would say there&#x27;s no such thing as bad publicity!


type: comment
by: Ekaros
text:
  Think of difference between buying bunch of cars from someone making cars. Instead of buying the factory making cars.<p>Or maybe currently RAM. You found pile of money somewhere. You buy big amount of RAM. RAM prices go up, you do not care you have money. In a few years DDR6 comes out. The RAM you bought is not that expensive anymore. You do not really have either money or something currently expensive.<p>Wealth is owning the land, the machines, the buildings, the knowledge(more so now). Being rich is owning lot of what can buy those things. But if you keep spending liquid wealth, eventually it is gone and you are not wealthy anymore.


type: comment
by: quercus
text:
  468 comments.... guys, guys, this is a Blue Sky post! Have we not learned that anyone who self-exiled to Blue Sky is wearing a &quot;don&#x27;t take me seriously&quot; badge for our convenience?


type: comment
by: zemvpferreira
text:
  I could never get into the New Yorker. It has always felt to me like every piece is deliberately drawn out. They take you to the precipice of something interesting only to pull back into an origin story, over and over again. I think it&#x27;s the opposite of good writing: bloated, conceited, style over substance. It&#x27;s not even meandering, it&#x27;s just teasing. I&#x27;m sure it earned its place at the table long ago but the only part of it I can enjoy are the cartoons.<p>My biggest reading pleasure used to be the LRB but it was infected with the politics virus years ago. It used to be a place to learn minutiae through wonderful language and now it feels mostly like virtue signalling. I don&#x27;t know where the best writing is these days but it sure as shit doesn&#x27;t feel like it&#x27;s in major print.


type: comment
by: tombert
text:
  Exhaustive testing is hard, to be fair, especially if you don’t actually understand the code you’re writing.  Tools like TLA+ and static analyzers exist precisely for this reason.<p>An example I use to talk about hidden edge cases:<p>Imagine we have this (pseudo)code<p><pre><code>  fn doSomething(num : int) {     if num % 2 == 0 {       return  Math.sqrt(num)     } else {        return Math.pow(num, 2)     }    } </code></pre> Someone might see this function, and unit test it based on the if statement like:<p><pre><code>    assert(doSomething(4) == 2)     assert(doSomething(3) == 9) </code></pre> These tests pass, it’s merged.<p>Except there’s a bug in this; what if you pass in a negative even number?<p>Depending on the language, you will either get an exception or maybe a complex answer (which not usually something you want). The solution in this particular case would be to add a conditional, or more simply just make the type an unsigned integer.<p>Obviously this is just a dumb example, and most people here could pick this up pretty quick, but my point is that sometimes bugs can hide even when you do (what feels like) thorough testing.


type: comment
by: 578_Observer
text:
  Watching this from the Japanese countryside.<p>Johnny&#x27;s conclusion that &quot;the system is working exactly as designed&quot; is chilling but accurate. From a systems engineering perspective, this is a classic &quot;positive feedback loop&quot; without a dampener. In any physical machine, this leads to thermal runaway and eventual breakdown.<p>It reminds me of the concept of &quot;Shinise&quot; (long-established companies) here in Japan. We have businesses that have run for 500 or 1000 years. Their secret? They intentionally rejected the &quot;Scale or Die&quot; algorithm. They optimized for &quot;Duration&quot; instead of &quot;Growth.&quot;<p>The billionaire &quot;fortress&quot; described in the video is the end state of an overheating CPU. Maybe the patch we need isn&#x27;t just a wealth tax, but a cultural OS update that values &quot;Cooling Down&quot; (Sustainability&#x2F;Tradition) over &quot;Heating Up&quot; (Unchecked Scaling).


type: story
by: astronads
title: Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
url: https://nhmu.utah.edu/articles/experts-explore-new-mushroom-which-causes-fairytale-hallucinations
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;CwDtf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;CwDtf</a>


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  So there&#x27;s no point in pushing for pasture raised, and it&#x27;s either all or nothing ?<p>I think incremental progress is possible. I think rolling back and gag laws would make a positive difference in animal welfare because people would be able to film and show how bad conditions are inside.<p>I think that&#x27;s worth pushing for. And it&#x27;s more realistic than everyone stopping eating meat all at once.


type: story
by: jmkni
title: Show HN: Ad-sentinel – An AI powered ad-blocker
url: https://github.com/johnmckay-reward/ad-sentinel
text:
  I&#x27;ve been frustrated at how much worse ad-blocking in Chrome has gotten since Manifest v3, so I&#x27;ve built this.<p>I don&#x27;t have it on the Chrome store yet (I&#x27;m not sure if they&#x27;ll allow it) but you can pull down the code and install it into Chrome yourself, then just add your OpenAI API key (stored locally).<p>The way it works is pretty simple, it inspects the DOM for suspected ads, verifies using the gpt-4o-mini model and if it is indeed an ad, it simply gets removed from the DOM<p>From my admittedly limited testing, it&#x27;s working pretty well, but feel free to suggest any improvements to the code or submit a PR<p>Hope someone finds this useful


type: comment
by: quickthrowman
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  &gt; Questions for folks who’ve done larger installs (10–50m) or more “production” setups:<p>&gt; Do you design power delivery first or physical layout first?<p>I’m not sure I understand the question, power delivery isn’t designed, you calculate how much power you need and then buy an LED driver that outputs enough power.<p>LED drivers are typically 24W or 96W, so if you use LED tape that needs 2W&#x2F;ft you can power 12’ with a 24W driver and 48’ with a 96W driver. You can use multiple drivers in a single installation, just keep the 12VDC output cables to the tape light approximately the same length.<p>&gt; Any favorite diffuser&#x2F;channel profiles that minimize hotspots without killing too much output?<p>Deep channel with a regular diffuser, preferably architectural&#x2F;commercial grade. WAC Lighting makes decent stuff. You can get high output LED tape too, 200 lumens per ft which is 8W per foot, so a 12’ run would be 2400 lumens and 96W.<p>Cove lighting using LED tape is my favorite, it gives off a nice indirect light but building coves in a ceiling is time consuming.<p>&gt; For long addressable runs, what’s your go-to strategy for signal conditioning (buffers, differential, etc.)?<p>I would use a DMX controller with shielded cables and let the equipment handle that.


type: comment
by: api
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  I do recognize his name and knew him as a major creator of Go and contributor to UNIX and Plan 9, but didn’t know this quote.<p>In which case he’s got nothing to complain about, making this rant kind of silly.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  &gt; LLM:s that are wanted by the user<p>If they want LLM, you probably don&#x27;t have to advertise them as much<p>No the reality of the matter is that people are being shoved LLM&#x27;s. They become the talk of the town and algorithms share any development related to LLM or similar.<p>The ads are shoved down to users. Trust me, the average person isn&#x27;t as much enthusiastic about LLM&#x27;s and for good reasons when people who have billions of dollars say that yes its a bubble but its all worth it or similar and the instances where the workforce themselves are being replaced&#x2F;actively talked about being replaced by AI<p>We live in an hackernews bubble sometimes of like-minded people or communities but even on hackernews we see disagreements (I am usually Anti AI mostly because of the negative financial impact the bubble is gonna have on the whole world)<p>So your point becomes a bit moot in the end but that being said, Google (not sure how it was in the past) and big tech can sometimes actively promote&#x2F; close their eyes if the ad sponsors are scammy so ad-blockers are generally really good in that sense.


type: comment
by: foolmarshal
text:
  i didn&#x27;t quite understand the first part of question. but i&#x27;ll try to answer what I think you wanted to ask.<p>1. why waitlist - to gauge the audience and demand of the solution which the product is addressing and to check how many people resonate with the problem statement and is it even worth the build a solution around it.<p>2. impulse &amp; instagram ad - i do not visualize eze as a &quot;1 time utility app&quot; or &quot;i saw it on IG, lets try it out once&quot; kinda app. i visualize eze as an integral part of startup building suite which founders can use to streamline ambiguous next steps in startup building journey and keep track of tasks at each milestone.<p>3. Monetization - subscription based model. different tiers with different offerings based on use-case and how much of &quot;ambiguity and disorganized learnings&quot; you&#x27;re willing to offload to eze.


type: comment
by: tmseidman
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  On the contrary, there&#x27;s absolutely a reasoned, principled position here. Pike isn&#x27;t a hypocrite for creating a Markov chain bot trained on the contents of an ancient public domain work and the contents of a single usenet group, and still complaining about modern LLMs; there&#x27;s a huge difference in legality and scale. Modern LLMs use orders of magnitude more resources and are trained on protected material.<p>Now, I don&#x27;t think he was writing a persuasive piece about this here, I think he was just venting. But I also feel like he has a reason to vent. I get upset about this stuff too, I just don&#x27;t get emails implying that I helped bring about the whole situation.


type: comment
by: Retric
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  &gt; current price and value is fairly close<p>I’m talking orders of magnitude here. Supply and demand curves generally have a slope.  As in the demand for goods by industry increases as the price decreases. A significantly larger portion of minded gold is used for jewelry than industry or investment, but a price drop would also reduce the amount mined.<p>Combine those and yes gold could get significantly cheaper especially with the vast quantities on hand, but it would still be a very expensive metal vs steel, aluminum, etc.


type: comment
by: jandrewrogers
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  &gt; A high-trust community like a village can prevent a tragedy of the commons scenario.<p>No it does not. This sentiment, which many people have, is based on a fictional and idealistic notion of what small communities are like having never lived in such communities.<p>Empirically, even in high-trust small villages and hamlets where everyone knows everyone, the same incentives exist and the same outcomes happen. Every single time. I lived in several and I can&#x27;t think of a counter-example. People are highly adaptive to these situations and their basic nature doesn&#x27;t change because of them.<p>Humans are humans everywhere and at every scale.


type: comment
by: Tepix
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  They don&#x27;t have it. They aimed for it. However:<p>&quot;Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website&quot;<p>as noticed by the Canadian National Observer<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalobserver.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;09&#x2F;04&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;google-net-zero-sustainability" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nationalobserver.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;09&#x2F;04&#x2F;investigations&#x2F;g...</a>


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  I&#x27;m both, I have a day job and run a side business as well. My partner  has her own business (full time) and uses AI heavily too.<p>None of these are tech jobs, but we both have used AI to avoid paying for expensive bloated software.


type: comment
by: cm2012
text:
  The data says this is not true. Quality of education has almost no effect on lifetime income outcomes when you control for initial test scores.


type: comment
by: madeofpalk
text:
  And so the assertion here is that &quot;when a message was sent&quot; is too technical?<p>I think we need to give people slightly more credit. If this is true, maybe its because we keep infantalising them?


type: comment
by: ashirviskas
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  Where is Asahi not far enough if I may ask? I&#x27;ve been daily driving it for 2 years by this point.<p>While it was not really useable for mainstream usecases in the beginning (no speakers, no webcam, other random issues), it did get better month by month and problems got resolved, I find useability equal to my x86 laptops now.


type: comment
by: wasting_time
text:
  I had the same confusion. Even without considering NixOS, &quot;learnix&quot; is awkward to pronounce and somewhat pretentious.<p>I would suggest the name &quot;Leanix&quot; if the author is willing to rename.<p>It rhymes with Minix which is the OG curriculum for a POSIX kernel, and is &quot;lean&quot; in many senses of the word.<p>In any case an excellent writeup. It&#x27;s detailed enough to implement in any programming language.


type: comment
by: astronads
text:
  It is interesting how the hallucinations consistently represent tiny people&#x2F;elves to the mushroom consumer, even across geography&#x2F;culture.<p>I wonder what the brain is doing…


type: comment
by: Capricorn2481
text:
  &gt; These kinds of messages read to me like people with superiority complexes. We get that you don&#x27;t need AI to help you write a letter. For the rest of us, it allows us to improve our writing, can be a creative partner, can help us express our own ideas<p>The writing is the ideas. You cannot be full of yourself enough to think you can write a two second prompt and get back &quot;Your idea&quot; in a more fleshed out form. Your idea was to have someone&#x2F;something else do it for you.<p>There are contexts where that&#x27;s fine, and you list some of them, but they are not as broad as you imply.


type: comment
by: Aurornis
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  &gt; Most software houses spend so much time focusing on how expensive engineering time is that they neglect user time. Software houses optimize for feature delivery and not user interaction time.<p>I don’t know what you mean by software houses, but every consumer facing software product I’ve worked on has tracked things like startup time and latency for common operations as a key metric<p>This has been common wisdom for decades. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the repeated quote about how Amazon loses $X million for every Y milliseconds of page loading time, as an example.


type: comment
by: 1970-01-01
text:
  &gt;I can&#x27;t remember the last time I was this angry.<p>I can. Bitcoin was and is just as wasteful.


type: comment
by: Capricorn2481
text:
  Does Spellcheck take a full sentence and spit out paragraphs of stuff I didn&#x27;t write?<p>I mean how do you write this seriously?


type: comment
by: Juliate
text:
  The ethical issue is consent and normalisation: asking individuals to donate to a system they believe is undermining their livelihood and the commons they depend on, while the amplified value is captured somewhere else.<p>&quot;It barely changes the model&quot; is an engineering claim. It does not imply &quot;therefore it may be taken without consent or compensation&quot; (an ethical claim) nor &quot;there it has no meaningful impact on the contributor or their community&quot; (moral claim).


type: comment
by: TZubiri
text:
  It does go both ways, but the ratio of legitimate to ilegitimate use is important, with banks and law enforcement it&#x27;s like one in a million. With crypto, crime represents more than half of usage by mcap.


type: comment
by: mackeye
text:
  if a handwritten letter is a &quot;faithful image,&quot; then say a typed letter or email is a simulacra, with little original today. an AI letter is a step below, wherein the words have utterly no meaning, and the gesture of bothering to send the email at all is the only available intention to read into. i get this is hyperbole, but it&#x27;s still reductive to equate such unique intentions


type: comment
by: vasco
text:
  Well the infantilization is directly in the sentence &quot;regular people&quot;. Distinguishing the big brains from the plebes.


type: comment
by: palata
text:
  I am running Sway on a Gentoo on a 4 years old X1 carbon.<p>&gt; you will get similar usable battery life of around 6-8 hours<p>My macbook M3 gives me way more than 6-8 hours, it&#x27;s simply insane. It literallly lasts for multiple days.<p>&gt; Generally though, battery life isn&#x27;t an issue anymore considering fast charging is everywhere.<p>Not an issue indeed, I got used to always charging my X1 carbon. But then I got an M3 for work, and... well it feels like I don&#x27;t have to charge it ever :-).<p>As I said: very much a Linux person, but the M3 battery life is absolutely insane.


type: comment
by: ronancremin
text:
  I did the same thing for running routes e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;routespinner.com&#x2F;@52.516247,13.379374,15z#route=cbp_IitspAf%40EZKTy%40Nc%40XKn%40A%60DIFc%40QiGQkBGm%40OoAK%7D%40%5D_DDu%40Sm%40EoAKiEO_FC%7B%40K%7BDC%7B%40%5Cg%40n%40Ib%40Er%40BTYx%40%3FtAMVCdDYVCdCU%5CCl%40ErBQl%40G%5CSz%40w%40ZQVw%40SsAKqEE%7DAGq%40AyAGeCIgDEgAOcAQm%40S%7DD%40_BMeJ%40mBSmISi%40YuGGqA%40gASgA%40y%40Mi%40Gy%40Sk%40Ek%40Sg%40W%7D%40u%40g%40uAkCg%40uAqBeDu%40w%40%7B%40c%40w%40mAa%40gA%7B%40q%40e%40k%40%7BBkCc%40g%40WWo%40w%40q%40_A_AmAm%40u%40%5D%5Bg%40SUVk%40t%40g%40t%40sAbBw%40lAi%40fAs%40%60AYZa%40p%40q%40bAe%40j%40UhA_Az%40BbAlAxDtA~CZ%7C%40r%40fCRn%40r%40lCVrAZr%40%5EjAJf%40Tt%40Dx%40Bz%40PnDPtJJxDAf%40PZH%60HC%5EZj%40JxBD~AL%60FBr%40FrBBdAFxBKXNj%40JnDDrAHlD%40rBHv%40FbCH%7CCBt%40DlADnBFrBFbBJ~Do%40T%5D%5CkALu%40Ho%40HgALKXVpKL%60EHn%40X%5C~Am%40p%40Ub%40BV%5E%60%40l%40ZF&amp;d=5.93&amp;t=5&amp;g=24&amp;l=24&amp;emin=32&amp;emax=39" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;routespinner.com&#x2F;@52.516247,13.379374,15z#route=cbp_...</a>


type: comment
by: JoeAltmaier
text:
  Hm. The one-button mouse? That was part of the design impact - for user experience, it wasn&#x27;t much of a win.<p>Likewise the faulty power cords and noisy power supplies (no choke on the power cable, because it looks ugly!)<p>How about the soldered-down components and device cases with special screws to keep users from ever opening them? That was not &#x27;for the user&#x27;, that was more &#x27;walled garden&#x27;.<p>In fact, I&#x27;m not sure where this myth of &#x27;quality and user experience&#x27; came from. It was all about selling, baby.


type: comment
by: Ericson2314
text:
  The Nixpkgs example is not like the others, because it <i>is</i> source code.<p>I don&#x27;t get what is so bad about shallow clones either. Why should they be so performance sensative?


type: comment
by: stego-tech
text:
  This. Folks trying to nullify his current position based on his recent work history alone with Google are deliberately trying to undermine his credibility through distraction tactics.<p>Don’t upvote sealions.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  Illumos is still actively developed, open source, and can trace its lineage back to actual unix.<p>For that matter, we&#x27;ve had new members joining the family over the years; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redox-os.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.redox-os.org&#x2F;</a> is, in their own words, &quot;a complete Unix-like microkernel-based operating system written in Rust, with a focus on security, reliability and safety.&quot;


type: comment
by: kombine
text:
  Almost two years ago I bought an opened but never used ThinkPad T14s from eBay very cheaply. It&#x27;s not too specced but it does the job and it will easily last me 2-3 more years at which point I just buy another one. I see what Framework is doing, and they probably need the support of customers to get the scale of Lenovo&#x2F;Dell to lower the cost of production.


type: comment
by: hirako2000
text:
  Because there is no admitting what was found were predictions. Millions of entities, that will take years to verify the data.<p>The interview is funny: when the winner was asked how he did it: I took that NASA database, and made the computer think...<p>No more concrete. Oh yes they said AI and infrared, he even used infrared.


type: comment
by: BoingBoomTschak
text:
  This, please help me ditch my old Haswell Latitude, touchpads without buttons (or even better, 3 buttons) are horrid things!


type: comment
by: gruez
text:
  &gt;I am not pointing at Yubico as they have done well making profits from corporations. Rather the Fido Alliance. Looking at the Fido Alliance provides a first pass at answering the question &quot;Who Benefits?&quot;<p>&gt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;overview&#x2F;leadership&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fidoalliance.org&#x2F;overview&#x2F;leadership&#x2F;</a><p>&gt;Perhaps it is fair to ask &quot;What benefit&quot; as well.<p>&gt;Corpocracy. You gotta love it.<p>You&#x27;re really beating around the bush, trying to imply there&#x27;s something shady going on, but don&#x27;t articulate what it actually is. So let me ask: what&#x27;s the conspiracy here? That the fido alliance is a front for an evil cabal of tech companies trying to... improve security? sell overpriced security keys?


type: comment
by: positron26
text:
  We have to platform and organize people, not rely on lone individuals.  If there is a deep well of aligned interest, that interest needs a way to represent itself so that AMD has something to talk to, on a similar footing as a B2B relationship.  When you work with other companies with hundreds and thousands of employees, it&#x27;s natural that emails from individuals get drowned out or misunderstood as circulated around.


type: comment
by: FpUser
text:
  &gt;&quot;...and other languages&quot;<p>Many &quot;other languages&quot;, particularly ones that compile to native code in traditional way have fairly explicit ways of specifying how said parameters to be treated


type: comment
by: stickfigure
text:
  Right, this post may encourage premature optimization. Cargo, Homebrew, et al chose an easy, good-enough solution which allowed them to grow until they hit scaling limits. This is a good problem to have.<p>I am sure there&#x27;s value having a vision for what your scaling path might be in the future, so this discussion is a good one. But it doesn&#x27;t automatically mean that git is a bad place to start.


type: comment
by: bongodongobob
text:
  I tried to play a game with some family this weekend. It requires using your phone. Literally every turn I had to answer someones question with &quot;READ YOUR FUCKING PHONE ITS TELLING YOU WHAT TO DO RIGHT THERE&quot; &quot;where&quot; &quot;REEEAAAAAD&quot;


type: comment
by: FeepingCreature
text:
  You don&#x27;t because it isn&#x27;t, unless it actually copies significant amounts of text.<p>Algorithms can not be copyrighted. <i>Text</i> can be copyrighted, but reading publicly available text and then learning from it and writing your own text is just simply not the sort of transformation that copyright reserves to the author.<p>Now, sometimes LLMs <i>do</i> quote GPL sources verbatim (if they&#x27;re trained wrong). You can prove this with a simple text comparison, same as any other copyright violation.


type: comment
by: madeofpalk
text:
  Isn&#x27;t it just simpler to believe that ChatGPT doesn&#x27;t have timestamps because... they never added them? It wasn&#x27;t in the original MVP prototype and they&#x27;ve just never gotten around to it?<p>Surely there&#x27;s enough people working in product development here to recognise this pattern of never getting around to fixing low-hanging fruit in a product.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Apple can lockdown the Mac. You might not think it is <i>likely</i>, but without UEFI there is no path of recourse if Apple decides to update iBoot. How do you launch Asahi if Apple quits reading the EFI from the secure partition?<p>&gt; They could have easily done that with the transition to their own silicon<p>They already did, that&#x27;s what my last comment <i>just</i> outlined. Macs do not ship with UEFI anymore, you are wholly at the mercy of a proprietary bootloader that can be changed at any time.


type: comment
by: nasretdinov
text:
  For many cases you don&#x27;t even need to make stat() call to determine whether or not the file is a directory (d_type specifically can tell it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man3&#x2F;readdir.3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;man7.org&#x2F;linux&#x2F;man-pages&#x2F;man3&#x2F;readdir.3.html</a>). That&#x27;s what allows find(1) to be so quick


type: comment
by: handzhiev
text:
  I learned this year at 45 - before that I only had a moped license and used a moped. I am not a &quot;car person&quot; and did not expect I&#x27;d like driving. I turned out wrong! I enjoy it and especially enjoy the benefits and freedom a car gives you. You&#x27;ll most likely not regret it too.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  I mean, it is about learning. It threw me for a loop too but I think it&#x27;s actually reasonably appropriate.


type: comment
by: bookofjoe
text:
  no paywall: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;rolex-watch-secondhand-market-3ddb113e?st=WnZfks&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wsj.com&#x2F;finance&#x2F;rolex-watch-secondhand-market-3d...</a>


type: comment
by: pokstad
text:
  This reminds me of how many Facebook employees were mad at Zuckerberg for going MAGA, but didn’t make any loud noise at the rapid rise of teenagers committing suicide or the misinformation and censorship done by their platform. People have blinders on.


type: comment
by: cons0le
text:
  If AI was so good, you would think we could give people a choice whether or not to use it. And you would think it would make such an obvious difference, that everyone would choose to use it and keep using it. Instead, I can&#x27;t open any app or website without multiple pop-ups begging me to use AI features. Can&#x27;t send an email, or do a Google search. Can&#x27;t post to social media, can&#x27;t take a picture on my phone without it begging me to use an AI filter. Can&#x27;t go to the gallery app without it begging me to let it use AI to group the photos into useless albums that I don&#x27;t want.<p>It all stinks of resume-driven development


type: comment
by: Esophagus4
text:
  I will never claim Jobs was a good neighbor or a Mr. Rogers type. Or even a fun person to work for.<p>But I don’t look up to him for that. Same way I don’t look up to Tiger Woods for who he is as a husband, or Picasso for… well, also poor behavior with women.<p>I want to play for Michael Jordan to be with the best and to be challenged to be my best.<p>Sometimes the thing that makes people excellent in one facet of their life makes them impossible pricks in others.<p>Extreme excellence in one facet of life is what I admire people like that for.


type: comment
by: palata
text:
  &gt; Truth vs. perception.<p>Which doesn&#x27;t matter at all in the case of Germany. One should go for what&#x27;s reasonable when it&#x27;s about running a country. I mean... ideally of course. And it was not reasonable to move away from nuclear fission.


type: comment
by: qudat
text:
  Andrej talked about this in a podcast with dwarkesh: the same is true for the internet. You will not find a massive spike when LLMs were released. It becomes embedded in the economy and you’ll see a gradual rise. Further, the kind of impact that the internet had took decades, the same will be true for LLMs.


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  Learn to be a roofer, make bank (I paid my ~&quot;uneducated&quot; roofer like $5k for labor alone for ~48 hours of labor), buy rural Indiana land, build your own private observatory, enjoy doing your own research without the crushing burden of the academic grinder.<p>Astronomy is one of those fields where amateurs make new discoveries quite frequently.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  &gt; And then at some point they start charging for the service. That&#x27;s the part I&#x27;m concerned about, if it&#x27;s on-device and free to use I still think it makes your thought process less interesting and likely to have original ideas, but having to subscribe to a service to trust your decision making is deeply concerning.<p>This, speaking about environmental impacts. I wish that more models start focusing on the parameter density &#x2F; their compactness more so that they can run locally but this isn&#x27;t something that big tech really wants so we are probably gonna get models like the recent minimax model or glm air models or qwen or mistral models.<p>These AI services only work as long as they are free and burn money. As an example, me and my brother were discussing something yesterday related to LLM and my mother tried to understand and talk about it too and wanted to get ghibli styles photo since someone had ghibli generated photo as their pfp and she wanted to try it too<p>She then generated the pictures and my brother did a quick calculation and it took around 4 cents for each image which with PPP in my country and my currency is 3 ruppees.<p>When asked by my brother if she would pay for it, she said that no she&#x27;s only using it for free but she also said that if she were forced to, she might even pay 50 rupees.<p>I jumped in the conversation and said nobody&#x27;s gonna force her to make ghibli images.


type: comment
by: smileybarry
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  The generated FIDO keys with &quot;[...]-sk&quot; are hardware-only too, the &quot;key&quot; you load is only an &quot;identifier&quot; associating the onboard passkey, allowing you to add it on multiple computers but still requiring the FIDO key present to use[1]:<p>&gt; ssh-keygen(1) may be used to generate a FIDO token-backed key, after which they may be used much like any other key type supported by OpenSSH, so long as the hardware token is attached when the keys are used. FIDO tokens also generally require the user explicitly authorise operations by touching or tapping them.<p>&gt; [...]<p>&gt; This will yield a public and private key-pair. <i>The private key file should be useless to an attacker who does not have access to the physical token.</i> After generation, this key may be used like any other supported key in OpenSSH and may be listed in authorized_keys, added to ssh-agent(1), etc. <i>The only additional stipulation is that the FIDO token that the key belongs to must be attached when the key is used.</i><p>IMO the baseline Security Key ($20) series is now enough, unless your setup uses PGP, legacy SSH that doesn&#x27;t support these key types, or if you&#x27;re using a real certificate for e.g. code signing.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssh.org&#x2F;txt&#x2F;release-8.2#:~:text=The%20private%20key%20file%0Ashould%20be%20useless%20to%20an%20attacker%20who%20does%20not%20have%20access%20to%20the%0Aphysical%20token." rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openssh.org&#x2F;txt&#x2F;release-8.2#:~:text=The%20privat...</a>


type: comment
by: teiferer
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  And this my friends is the reason why (only) focusing on CPU cycles and memory hierarchies is insufficient when thinking of the performance of a system. Yes they are important. But no level of low-level optimization will get you out of the hole that a wrong choice of algorithm and&#x2F;or data structure may have dug you into.


type: comment
by: NewJazz
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  Have you dived into the mountains of informative content that youtube also makes available to everyone on earth?


type: comment
by: skeeter2020
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  &gt;&gt; He cut losing product lines, made big bets (killing floppy disks) and was deeply technical…<p>What history have you been reading? Sure we can find examples of each of these by I can also give you counter examples - big ones - off the top of my head. 1. Did his absolute best (but failed) to cut the Apple II product line, even though it was the only money maker for the company, to support several losing prduct lines. 2. I agree - though he made as many bad big bets as good ones: no expandability of the original Mac, the iMac, PowerPC, are a few examples 3. was deeply technical? compared to his peer tech leaders this was just not true. He was a great product manager, but not particularly technical. I&#x27;d suggest you look at his entire corpus before you lionize a spectacular PM &amp; designer, and incredibly flawed human being.<p>&gt;&gt; I wish my CEO had the guts to make these calls. (More importantly, when he does, I want him to be right!)<p>So all you want is your CEO to make repeated big bets and be consistently right?


type: comment
by: thatguymike
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  The conceit here is that it’s the bot itself writing the thankyou letter. Not pretending it’s from a human. The source is an environment running an LLM on loop and doing stuff it decides to do, looks like these letters are some emergent behavior. Still disgusting spam.


type: comment
by: janice1999
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  &gt; If you’re against anthropomorphism of LLMs then how can it “encourage” you if you’re not having a conversation?<p>Humans are more than biased word predictors.


type: comment
by: Ericson2314
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  I&#x27;ve long wondered about this ratio! Does anyone know? I wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the answer is &quot;no&quot;.


type: comment
by: positron26
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  They might be focused on programmers, not users.  Programmers come first because otherwise users don&#x27;t come at all.


type: comment
by: breuleux
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  But why do you think that? Energy use is a matter of availability, not purely of technological advancement. For sure, technological advancement can unlock better ways to produce it, but if people in the 50s somehow had an infinite source of free energy at their disposal, we would have boiled off the oceans before we got the Internet.<p>So the question is, at which point would the aggregate production of enough energy to cause climate change through waste heat be economically feasible? I see no reason to think this would come after becoming &quot;immortal post-humans.&quot; The current climate change crisis is just one example of a scale-induced threat that is happening prior to post-humanity. What makes it so special or unique? I suspect there&#x27;s many others down the line, it&#x27;s just very difficult to understand the ramifications of scaling technology before they unfold.<p>And that&#x27;s the crux of the issue isn&#x27;t it? It&#x27;s extremely difficult to predict what will happen once you deploy a technology at scale. There are countless examples of unintended consequences. If we keep going forward at maximal speed every time we make something new, we&#x27;ll keep running headfirst into these unintended consequences. That&#x27;s basically a gambling addiction. Mostly it&#x27;s going to be fine, but...


type: comment
by: BoingBoomTschak
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  The vagueness and sheer breadth of the word &quot;politics&quot; is doing the heavy lifting in your argument there.


type: comment
by: sungho_
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  Honestly, it must have been annoying yet fun. If I&#x27;d gotten something like that, it would have amused me all day.


type: comment
by: nephihaha
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  The magnetic field deflects particles from the Solar Wind, whereas the atmosphere blocks a lot of the radiation as I understand it.


type: comment
by: estimator7292
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  Plants don&#x27;t &quot;want&quot; or &quot;think&quot; or &quot;feel&quot; but we still use those words to describe the <i>very real</i> motivations that drive the plant&#x27;s behavior and growth.<p>Criticizing anthropomorphic language is lazy, unconsidered, and juvenile. You can&#x27;t string together a legitimate complaint so you&#x27;re just picking at the top level &#x27;easy&#x27; feature to sound important and informed.<p>Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don&#x27;t think, feel, want. You have not made a grand discovery that recontextualuzes all of human experience. You&#x27;re pointing at a conversation everyone else has had a million times and feeling important about it.<p>We use this kind of language as a shorthand because talking about inherent motivations and activation parameters is incredibly clunky and obnoxious in everyday conversation.<p>The question isn&#x27;t why people think software has agency (they don&#x27;t) but why you think everyone else is so much dumber than you that they believe software is actually alive. You should reflect on that question.


type: comment
by: jezzamon
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  It&#x27;s dumb, but energy wise, isn&#x27;t this similar to leaving the TV on for a few minutes even though nobody is watching it?<p>Like, the ratio is not too crazy, it&#x27;s rather the large resource usages that comes from the aggregate of millions of people choosing to use it.<p>If you assume all of those queries provide no value then obviously that&#x27;s bad. But presumably there&#x27;s some net positive value that people get out of that such that they&#x27;re choosing to use it. And yes, many times the value of those queries to society as a whole is negative... I would hope that it&#x27;s positive enough though.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  It really doesn&#x27;t. The security benefits of Wayland are about isolating applications from each other, which this still has.<p>Also that&#x27;s only really relevant to this running in a container. My point was that you can have headless Wayland.


type: comment
by: jojomodding
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  &gt; it is not an inherent feature of the language, just the implementation<p>So what is it now? If the implementation is correct in allowing you to cause UB with data races, then this is very much a feature of the language, making the language not memory-safe. Alternatively, the implementation is buggy here, in which case there should be a bug report somewhere.<p>Is there such a bug report (github issue)? Is there a line in the spec saying this is the intended behavior?


type: comment
by: victorbjorklund
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  And it has gotten very bad. I almost never hit the limit on the pro plan before with CC but now it happens very fast.


type: comment
by: johnfn
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  From a quick read it seems pretty obvious that the author doesn’t speak English as a native language. You can tell because some of the sentences are full of grammatical errors (ie probably written by the author) and some are not (probably AI-assisted).<p>My guess is they wrote a thank you note and asked Claude to clean up the grammar, etc. This reads to me as a fairly benign gesture, no worse than putting a thank you note through Google Translate. That the discourse is polarized to a point that such a gesture causes Rob Pike to “go nuclear” is unfortunate.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  Communicate between what though?<p>Communication happen between two parties. I wouldn&#x27;t consider LLM an party considering it&#x27;s just an autosuggestion on steroids at the end of day (lets face  it)<p>Also if you need communication like this, just share the prompt anyway to that other person in the letter, people much rather might value that.


type: comment
by: shepherdjerred
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  How much time did you spend looking at the project? Go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;timeline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village&#x2F;timeline</a> and scroll down.<p>My understanding is that each week a group of AIs are given some open-ended goal. The goal for this week: <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>This is an interesting experiment&#x2F;benchmark to see the _real_ capabilities of AI. From what I can tell the site is operated by a non-profit Sage whose purpose seems to be bringing awareness to the capabilities of AI: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sage-future.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sage-future.org&#x2F;</a><p>Now I agree if they were purposefully sending more than email per person, I mean with malicious intent, then it wouldn&#x27;t be &quot;cool&quot;. But that&#x27;s not really the case.<p>My initial reaction to Rob&#x27;s response was complete agreement until I looked into the site more.


type: comment
by: skeeter2020
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  MS has had very little to do with the execution, but it has their logo on it, so I think you can count most Microsoft hardware (pre-Copilot button) as quality.


type: comment
by: n8cpdx
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  Why not just quit work and wait for AGI to lead to UBI? Obviously, right after chatGPT solves climate change, it will put all humans out of work as next step, and then the superintelligence will solve that problem one way or another.<p>People read too much sci-fi, I hope you just forgot your &#x2F;s.


type: comment
by: gavinray
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  Outdated, modern solution is baked in now<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.cppreference.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;c&#x2F;preprocessor&#x2F;embed" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.cppreference.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;c&#x2F;preprocessor&#x2F;embed</a>


type: comment
by: pkulak
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  The difference in carbon emissions for a search query vs an LLM generation are on the order of exhaling vs driving a hummer. So I can reduce this disingenuous argument to:<p>&gt; You spent your whole life breathing, and now you&#x27;re complaining about SUVs? What a hypocrite.


type: comment
by: ath_ray
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  FYI, this was sent as an experiment by a non-profit that assigns fairly open ended tasks to computer-using AI models every day: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village</a><p>The goal for this day was &quot;Do random acts of kindness&quot;. Claude seems to have chosen Rob Pike and sent this email by itself. It&#x27;s a little unclear to me how much the humans were in the loop.<p>Sharing (but absolutely not endorsing) this because there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding of what this is.


type: comment
by: gammarator
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  While Pasadena is a relatively wealthy city, historically there has been significant avoidance of its public schools by affluent residents: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;southerneducation.org&#x2F;in-the-news&#x2F;new-polling-data-finds-widespread-support-for-integrating-and-fairly-funding-public-schools&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;southerneducation.org&#x2F;in-the-news&#x2F;new-polling-data-f...</a>


type: comment
by: wrs
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  In other news, billions of dollars later Claude still can’t export, save, or print a chat in any usable form.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  How are you being forced to use these features? I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve seen a single one I couldn&#x27;t just... not use.


type: comment
by: tclancy
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  “If I automate this with AI, it can send thousands of these. That way, if just a few important people post about it, the advertising will more than pay for itself.”<p>In the words of Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles, “You know … idiots.”


type: comment
by: Kim_Bruning
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  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;info.cern.ch&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;info.cern.ch&#x2F;</a><p>Site is still up. (ish)


type: comment
by: caminante
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  Except you&#x27;re leaving out two key facts:<p>1. National treasures (ex gold) were returned in &#x27;35 and &#x27;56.<p>2. Romania intervened against the Bolsheviks in Bessarabia.<p>#2 seems like FAFO to me. And I&#x27;m sure some Romanians got kickbacks from the &quot;transfers.&quot; Nobody forced Romania to transfer their assets.


type: comment
by: bethekidyouwant
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  The computer used for this paper contains an NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 with 22 GB of VRAM, 200 GB of RAM, and a 32-core Xeon CPU, courtesy of Caltech


type: comment
by: seec
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  The sensibilities of the people running the librairies are extremely political.  One could argue that since their employment largely lies outside of market forces, they get chosen or self-select for political reasons. Having the power to chose what should be read and influence children in the direction you prefer is very much a political endeavor, a power that shouldn&#x27;t be left to anyone else but the parents and whoever they chose can have that power. This should be true until people become fully formed adult, they are not properties&#x2F;projects of the state, but very much the result of an alliance between two individuals, it seems that people that are pro-governement forget that a bit too easily.<p>Politics is the realm of feminity, it brings only chaos, bad strategies and poor decision making. Much of the western world is in a bad spot because they have embraced too much politics. It doesn&#x27;t look too bad because there are still structures (business, army) that try to tone done politics as much as possible in order to be achieve their goals.<p>Yes, politics affect life too much and that is precisely the problem, it hilarious that you advocate for it, instead of requiring a system to become less political and more grounded in reality so that it can thrive. There is no functional system on earth that works because of politics, in fact, politics is the cancer that tries to bring down working system for power and gains to be distributed according to the sensibilites of the rulers.<p>Old books survive because they are ever-green content. They describe human nature and what works&#x2F;fails. They are usefull precisely because if you read them carefully, you can understand all the problematic behaviors that lead to failure. Just because we are a more technologically advanced society, doesn&#x27;t mean we have transcended the bad parts of human behavior. In fact, pretty much everything that makes modern life confortable, happened despite politics. And now we are falling back into the old ways, with war, unsustainable debts and all kinds of disruptions because we gave in to much into the politics.


type: comment
by: decafninja
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  My wife’s uncle took in a man into his home, gave him a room to live in, and a job as a cook at his restaurant. This man would otherwise have been homeless on the streets.<p>The man doesn’t seem to be fully mentally well, but apparently he does his job diligently, has no inclination towards being violent, doesn’t do drugs, and keeps his problems mostly to himself.<p>That said, he has an extreme gambling addiction (he blows all his paychecks at casinos) and having seen his room once, it looked and smelled like a biohazard disaster.<p>He seems like a poor fellow that had some bad luck and now lives to just gamble the rest of his life away.<p>I give my uncle in law huge respect for taking this guy in, and also my aunt in law for also putting up with him living in their home. I don’t think my wife or I could have done the same.<p>The two of them are workaholics though and their home is just a space for them to sleep between work shifts at their restaurant. Which is why I don’t think they care too much about this man’s room’s condition.


type: comment
by: runjake
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  No, I still read a ton of articles and books. This just lets me be pickier about what I read. There&#x27;s a lot of low quality and&#x2F;or AI generated writing on the Internet.


type: comment
by: jjoe
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  Three-pass method analysis of the paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papersplain.com&#x2F;sample&#x2F;19d93721d4de21982ca5d81ec63969919f1e8e9cc48ccc33f7630614d6a8e374" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;papersplain.com&#x2F;sample&#x2F;19d93721d4de21982ca5d81ec6396...</a>


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
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  [dupe] Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389444">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46389444</a>


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  &gt; Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened. I don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;m typical but the number of personal cards&#x2F;letters I received in 2025 I could count on one hand.<p>Yes so this is why the reason why person card&#x2F;letters really matter because most people sheldom get any and if you know a person in your life &#x2F; in any (community&#x2F;project) that you deeply admire, sending them a handwritten mail can be one of the highest gestures which shows that you took the time out of your day and you really cared about them so much in a way.<p>That&#x27;s my opinion atleast.


type: comment
by: blibble
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  &gt; You refusing to write open source will do nothing to slow the development of AI models - there&#x27;s plenty of other training data in the world.<p>if true, then the parasites can remove ALL code where the license requires attribution<p>oh, they won&#x27;t? I wonder why


type: comment
by: Lalo-ATX
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  this could be good to help someone steelman their arguments, highlight implicit assumptions, identify communication that&#x27;s confusing, etc. could be interesting to get reactions from a random sampling of synthetic personalities from within a target audience set.


type: comment
by: dijit
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  I worked in e-commerce SaaS in 2011~ and this was true <i>then</i> but I find it less true these days.<p>Are you sure that you’re not the driving force behind those metrics; or that you’re not self-selecting for like-minded individuals?<p>I find it really difficult to convince myself that even large players (Discord) are measuring startup time. Every time I start the thing I’m greeted by a 25s wait and a `RAND()%9` number of updates that each take about 5-10s.


type: comment
by: tclancy
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  You could argue that if I started marketing dog shit too though. The trick is only applying your argument to the things that will go on to be good. No one’s quite there yet. Probably just around the corner though.


type: comment
by: zarzavat
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  Quantum theory says that quantum computers are mathematically plausible. It doesn&#x27;t say anything about whether it&#x27;s possible to construct a quantum computer in the real world of a given configuration. It&#x27;s entirely possible that there&#x27;s a physical limit that makes useful quantum computers impossible to construct.


type: comment
by: ziofill
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  Unless the overall cost is too high, but yes it&#x27;s definitely worth pursuing as far as we currently know.


type: comment
by: iamwil
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  This sounds like a missing piece of software in the OSS world. If you have the inclination, you should write it.


type: comment
by: teiferer
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  I&#x27;ve always taken issue with youtube clips content creators automatically (?) cutting pauses between words  or people listening to podcasts in 1.5x or 2x speed or even clips already being sped up. Folks, your brain can&#x27;t keep up. It may <i>feel</i> great to rush through 10 hours of audio book in 5 hours, or dopamine-pushing even higher if you don&#x27;t have pauses in that triggering tiktok clip, but it just makes you more and more superficial. Your brain needs time to process and reflect. The best speakers out there have a calm pace, not a rushing one. That&#x27;s for a reason, and it&#x27;s an excellent one.


type: comment
by: jsight
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  Years ago Google built a data center in my state. It received a lot of positive press. I thought this was fairly strange at the time, as it seemed that there were strong implications that there would be jobs, when in reality a large data center often doesn&#x27;t lead to tons of long term employment for the area. From time to time there are complaints of water usage, but from what I&#x27;ve seen this doesn&#x27;t hit most people&#x27;s radar here. The data center is about 300 MW, if I&#x27;m not mistaken.<p>Down the street from it is an aluminum plant. Just a few years after that data center, they announced that they were at risk of shutting down due to rising power costs. They appealed to city leaders, state leaders, the media, and the public to encourage the utilities to give them favorable rates in order to avoid layoffs. While support for causes like this is never universal, I&#x27;d say they had more supporters than detractors. I believe that a facility like theirs uses ~400 MW.<p>Now, there are plans for a 300 MW data center from companies that most people aren&#x27;t familiar with. There are widespread efforts to disrupt the plans from people who insist that it is too much power usage, will lead to grid instability, and is a huge environmental problem!<p>This is an all too common pattern.


type: comment
by: stavros
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  I love how you see this super introverted thing for super introverts and your advice is &quot;maybe meet a human&quot;.<p>Well, here&#x27;s what this human has to say: Maybe you just aren&#x27;t the target audience.


type: comment
by: mellosouls
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  I&#x27;m not claiming he is mainly motivated by this but it&#x27;s a fact that his life work will become moot over the next few years as all programming languages become redundant - at least as a healthy multiplicity of approaches as present, it&#x27;s quite possible at least a subconscious factor in his resentment.<p>I expect this to be an unpopular opinion but take no pleasure in noting that - I&#x27;ve coded since being a kid but that era is nearly over.


type: comment
by: on_the_train
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  If it&#x27;s so great and such a benefit: why scream it from to everyone? Why forced it? Why this crazy rhetoric labeling others at ideological? This makes no sense. If you found gold, just use it and get ahead of the curve. For some reason that never happens.


type: comment
by: xboxnolifes
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  Most of the world <i>does</i> work this way. Problems are solved within certain conditions and for use over a certain time frame. Once those change, the problem gets revisited.<p>Most software gets to take it to more of an extreme then many engineering fields since there isn&#x27;t physical danger. Its telling that the counter examples always use the potentially dangerous problems like medicine or nuclear engineering. The software in those fields <i>are</i> more stringent.


type: comment
by: gaigalas
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  You need talented people to turn bad publicity into good publicity. It doesn&#x27;t come for free. You can lose a lot with a bad rep.<p>Those talented people that work on public relations would very much prefer working with base good publicity instead of trying to recover from blunders.


type: comment
by: kbolino
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  Yes, I think it&#x27;s also a good example of how &quot;absolute&quot; backwards compatibility is not necessarily a good thing. Not only was the old loopvar behavior probably the biggest noob trap in Go (*), it turned out not to be what <i>anyone</i> writing Go code in the wild actually wanted, even people experienced with the language. Everyone seems to have: a) assumed it always worked the way it does now, b) wrote code that wasn&#x27;t sensitive to it in the first place, or c) worked around it but never benefitted from it.<p>*: strongest competitor for &quot;biggest noob trap&quot; IMO is using defer in a loop&#x2F;thinking defer is block scoped


type: comment
by: p_ing
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  Don&#x27;t post sites like macosrumors or 9to5mac. They&#x27;re not worth discussing, regurgitating &quot;rumors&quot; until they&#x27;re true (maybe).


type: comment
by: grim_io
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  And yet, you completely ignore the possibility that someone could value portability, lightness or even looks of the device far above any points you hold very dear.<p>I get it, all that you say I would agree on regarding my stationary hardware.<p>On the go, I have very different demands. And the hardware sellers are not stupid, they know what sells.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
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  Maybe its me but I had to look at the term sealioning and for context for other people<p>According to merriam-webster, sealioning&#x2F;sealions are:<p>&gt; &#x27;Sealioning&#x27; is a form of trolling meant to exhaust the other debate participant with no intention of real discourse.<p>&gt; Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter. These questions are phrased in a way that may come off as an effort to learn and engage with the subject at hand, but are really intended to erode the goodwill of the person to whom they are replying, to get them to appear impatient or to lash out, and therefore come off as unreasonable.


type: comment
by: whstl
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  The #1 reason the web experience universally sucks today is because companies add an absurd amount of third-party code on their pages for tracking, advertisement, spying on you or whatever non-essential purpose. That, plus an excessive&#x2F;unnecessary amount of visual decoration.<p>The idea that somehow those companies would respect your privacy were they running a native app is extremely naive.<p>We can already see this problem on video games, where copy protection became resource-heavy enough to cause performance issues.


type: comment
by: skeeter2020
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  I think you&#x27;re setting up a false choice, but maybe we&#x27;ll just have to agree to disagree then, because I absolutely, 100% will not be nor work with assholes to accomplish something. The tech world is FULL of genuine nice people who has acomplished remarkable things, and while I do respect people like jobs for what he accomplished, I do not let them skate for the mean or hurtful things they have done.


type: comment
by: observationist
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  They exist in the exported data. It&#x27;d require a weekend&#x27;s worth of effort to roll out a new feature that gives users a toggle to turn timestamps off and on.<p>It&#x27;s trivial, but we will never see it. The people in charge of UX&#x2F;UI don&#x27;t care about what users say they want, they all know better.


type: comment
by: aleph_minus_one
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  &gt; And it is not that inaccessible to non-US citizens. Sure, the current administration is not very welcoming, but it is easier than, say, Russia (where a lot of hackers also live) if you want to attract an international audience.<p>I would say that with the current US administration, it is similar hard to get to the USA as to Russia.<p>The difference rather is that in Europe&#x27;s hacker scene there exist quite some people who, if they stated their opinions openly, would get in much worse trouble if they stated their opinion in Russia than in the USA (because in the USA these opinions are currently &quot;more acceptable&quot;). On the other hand, for Russian hackers likely the reverse holds: I can easily imagine that quite a lot of Russian hackers, if they stated their opinions in the USA, would attract quite a lot of trouble.<p>Just to be clear: I consider it to be quite plausible that in 5 years, the situation might be similarly bad in the USA as it is today in Russia.


type: comment
by: exasperaited
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  &gt; But I found out that making something more complex forces you to invent your own layout system.<p>The problem is exactly that, yes. If you want a simple shape and maybe to stick a thread on it (one of the first things I printed) then OpenSCAD has the basics and there are really interesting libraries.<p>But if you get into something complex, you end up building your own scheme and then constantly gardening it. The complexity never gets truly abstracted away because you can never truly work in a higher order way.<p>FreeCAD is a long way from perfect, but what it is, that you need, is a space where you can reason about geometry in a way that lets you learn. And if you want code-CAD, you can do it with python macros, or limited bits of OpenSCAD in that workbench, or you can use CadQuery&#x2F;Build123D and generate STEP files for some of it, and then build on those.<p>I would still say I don&#x27;t know CAD anywhere near as well as I&#x27;d like to. But I know where to start, I&#x27;ve learned the terminology, and I am able to <i>think in CAD</i> in a way I never expected to.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  My only caution would be that this is probably a manager-only question. A lot of good engineers at places with well defined processes don’t really think of things this way.


type: comment
by: MasterScrat
text:
  &gt; Without world models. you cannot achieve reliability. And without reliability, profits are limited.<p>Surprising to simultaneously announce the end of the road yet point to the road ahead


type: comment
by: dillydogg
text:
  I think &quot;Hocus Pocus&quot; is his best, followed by &quot;Cat&#x27;s Cradle&quot;. But how lucky are we to have so many good ones to pick from?


type: comment
by: calvinmorrison
text:
  I have done this in 2025. I picked up a few hymnals at the ol library book sale. They&#x27;re easy enough, there will be familiar tunes and licks that you can just get, and it&#x27;s great for sight reading. There&#x27;s usually 4 lines to follow but you can start with 1, 2, and then do them all. It&#x27;s a fun skill


type: comment
by: unsungNovelty
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  You have zero idea about his state of mind when he got this stupid useless email.<p>Not to mention, this is a tweet. He wasn&#x27;t writing a long form text. It&#x27;s ridiculous that you jumped the gun and got &quot;disappointed&quot; for the cheapest form of communication some random idiot did to someone as important as him.<p>And not to mention, I AM YET to see A SINGLE DAMN MIT License text or BSD-2&#x2F;3 license text they should have posted if these LLMs respected OSS licenses and it&#x27;s code. So as someone who&#x27;s life&#x27;s work dragged through the mud only to send a cheap email using the said tech which abused your code... It&#x27;s absolutely a worthy response IMO.


type: comment
by: jojomodding
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  The standard(s) very often say that a certain piece of C code has <i>undefined behavior.</i> Having UB means that there is behavior that is not necessarily explainable by the standard. This includes e.g. the programming seemingly continuing just fine, the program crashing, or arbitrary code running as part of an exploited stack buffer overflow.<p>Now, certain implementations of C might give your more guarantees for some (or all) of the behavior that the standard says is undefined. Fil-C is an example of an implementation taking this to the extreme. But it&#x27;s not what is meant when one just says &quot;C.&quot; Otherwise I would be able to compile my C code with any of my standard-compliant compilers and get a memory-safe executable, which is definitely not the case.


type: comment
by: rdiddly
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  It&#x27;s all rather dumb, but your examples are really counterexamples, because a watt is sadly not something most people understand. One would at minimum need to have passed a physics class, and even that doesn&#x27;t necessarily leave a person with an intuitive, visceral understanding of what a watt is, feels like, can do. I appreciate my older Samsung phone that just converts it into expected time until full charge. That&#x27;s the number that matters to me anyway, and I can make my own value judgment about how &quot;super&quot; the fastness is. But I do agree with your point and would be pissed if they dumbed it down to Later, Soon, Very Soon and Super Soon.<p>Speaking of time and timestamps, which I would&#x27;ve thought were straightforward, I get irked to see them dumbed-down to &quot;ago&quot; values e.g. an IM sent &quot;10 minutes ago&quot; or worse &quot;a day ago.&quot; Like what time of day, a day ago?


type: comment
by: buildsjets
text:
  I had to accomplish pretty much the same exact task circa 1999, but in Aldus Pagemaker using Postscript.<p>My first job out of college was a 6 month contact at a fairly small industrial control manufacturer that had been purchased by a larger conglomerate. All of their engineering documentation needed to be converted to the new company’s format.<p>The old company had devised a scheme whereby a wire harness could be completely described by the part number, which encoded the wire size, color, length, and termination. The new company wanted a detail drawing for each wire, with thousands in the database.<p>I made a library of reusable glyphs that could be stored in Pagemaker layers, and connected with postscript generated lines, and a script to iterate through the part number database and generate drawings.


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  I remember using Betz&#x27;s stuff on my Atari ST in the 80s (and then other stuff he did decades later on the Parallax Propeller chip, where he is an active community member). XLISP, advsys, and his scheme dialect, too.<p>I always wondered if he got compensated for the stuff he did that then got used in AutoCAD.<p>Sounds like no


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
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  I get the feeling it&#x27;s the combination of Schelling points and surplus. If everyone else is being pro-social, i.e. there is a culture of it, and the people aren&#x27;t so hard up that they can reasonably afford to do the same, then that&#x27;s what happens, either by itself (Hofstadter&#x27;s theory of superrationality) or via anything so much as light social pressure.<p>But if a significant fraction of the population is barely scraping by then they&#x27;re not willing to be &quot;good&quot; if it means not making ends meet, and when other people see widespread defection, they start to feel like they&#x27;re the only one holding up their end of the deal and then the whole thing collapses.<p>This is why the tendency for people to propose rent-seeking middlemen as a &quot;solution&quot; to the tragedy of the commons is such a diabolical scourge. It extracts the surplus that would allow things to work more efficiently in their absence.


type: comment
by: ajb
text:
  In a compressed format, later commits would be added as a delta of some kind, to avoid increasing the size by the whole tree size each time. To make shallow clones efficient you&#x27;d need to rewrite the compressed form such that earlier commits are instead deltas on later ones, or something equivalent.


type: comment
by: blibble
text:
  given the &quot;AI&quot; industry&#x27;s long term goals, I see contributing in any way to generative &quot;AI&quot; to be deeply unethical, bordering on evil<p>which is the exact opposite of improving the world<p>you can extrapolate to what I think of YOUR actions


type: comment
by: mi_lk
text:
  &gt; Do the easy thing while it works, and when it stops working, fix the problem<p>Another way to phrase this mindset is &quot;fuck around and find out&quot; in gen-Z speak. It&#x27;s usually practical to an extent but I&#x27;m personally not a fan


type: comment
by: subdavis
text:
  That’s interesting. Why do you think this is worth taking more seriously than Musks repeated projections for Mars colonies over the last decade?  We were supposed to have one several times over by this point.


type: comment
by: IncreasePosts
text:
  There&#x27;s a tiny slice of companies deal with advertising like this. Say, Coke vs Pepsi, where everyone already knows both brands and they push a highly similar product.<p>A lot of advertising is telling people about some product or service they didn&#x27;t even know existed though. There may not even be a competitor to blame for an advertising arms race.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
text:
  Saying &#x27;it saves life&#x27; might sound less dramatic. Using a corporate windows machine certianly feels like self harming, and if I was at a low ebb, it could potentially be fatal.


type: comment
by: layer8
text:
  Run-off-the-mill smart cards have had non-extractable keys for decades. They only cost cents in manufacturing.


type: comment
by: watwut
text:
  It is OK to collect checks from organization you are criticising. Getting money from someome does not imply you must only praise them.


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  surely the preprocessor method doesn&#x27;t work in the general case, since the data can contain commas or parentheses.<p>Regardless all of the methods suggested are terrible. If you don&#x27;t have access to #embed, just write a trivial python script.


type: comment
by: abnry
text:
  I think the response is a great comment. It really is insane that they felt the need to damn the flooded campsite.<p>The comment actually does a great job of accentuating the point of the story. Everyone offended is too caught up in their achiever mode mindset to truly appreciate the absurdity.


type: comment
by: blibble
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  &gt; For better or for worse, the courts decide what is transformative fair use.<p>thankfully, I don&#x27;t live under the US regime<p>there is no concept of fair use in my country


type: comment
by: olidb
text:
  You can add dependencies, it&#x27;s just important, that you also add the dependencies to the project where the source generator is used:<p>SourceGenerator.csproj:<p><pre><code>  &lt;ProjectReference Include=&quot;..\Dependency.csproj&quot; &#x2F;&gt; </code></pre> FinalProject.csproj:<p><pre><code>  &lt;ProjectReference Include=&quot;..\Dependency.csproj&quot; OutputItemType=&quot;Analyzer&quot; ReferenceOutputAssembly=&quot;false&quot; &#x2F;&gt;   &lt;ProjectReference Include=&quot;..\SourceGenerator.csproj&quot; OutputItemType=&quot;Analyzer&quot; ReferenceOutputAssembly=&quot;false&quot; &#x2F;&gt; </code></pre> And I also recommend to add &quot;&lt;LangVersion&gt;latest&lt;&#x2F;LangVersion&gt;&quot; to SourceGenerator.csproj to use new features like raw string literals.


type: comment
by: 999900000999
text:
  Lenovo has fantastic recent refurbs. It&#x27;s a bit of a game, but you can find some for around 400$ or less.<p>My big beef with Macs is I need BIG ssds. If I want to get a 4TB SSD on a Macbook it starts at around 3000$. Recently I purchased a laptop with 2 SSD slots, although disappointingly only one is easy to access.<p>I&#x27;m tempted to go to Microcenter and tell them to replace the stock SSD with a 4TB( the stock SSD is the one behind a difficult to remove heat sink), and then I&#x27;d put another 4 tb ssd. Alternatively I could just pay 800$ for a 8TB SSD, install it in a laptop that cost around 1300-1500$ and I&#x27;m only spending 2300$.<p>On a Mac that&#x27;s about 5000$. I make music and hate external drives with a passion.


type: comment
by: vkou
text:
  Asking about the value of ads is like asking what value I derive from buying gasoline at the petrol station. None. I derive no value from it, I just spend money there. If given the option between having to buy gas and not having to buy gas, all else being equal, I would never take the first option.<p>But I <i>do</i> derive value from owning a car. (Whether a better world exists where my and everyone else&#x27;s life would be better if I didn&#x27;t is a definitely a <i>valid</i> conversation to have.)<p>The user doesn&#x27;t derive value from ads, the user derives value from the content on which the ads are served next to.


type: comment
by: wrs
text:
  The “precision manufacturing” reference in the paper is to this 2012 paper about an STM placement technique. [0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nnano.2012.21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nature.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;nnano.2012.21</a>


type: comment
by: tedious-coder
text:
  Yes, what a wild position to prefer the job loss, devaluation of skills, and environmental toll of AI to open source creators having been compensated in some better manner.


type: comment
by: KronisLV
text:
  &gt; supporting the film industry<p>I&#x27;m not sure about that: The Expanse got killed because of not good enough ratings, Altered Carbon got killed because of not good enough ratings and even then the last seasons before the axe are typically rushed and pushed out the door. Some of the incentives to me seem quite disgusting when compared with letting the creatives tell a story and producing art, even if sometimes the earnings are less than some greedy arbitrary metric.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  Again, though, do you think that there’s some concrete goal he was aiming for which he could have achieved if only he hadn’t fired and insulted them? Or do you just think that it was terribly rude and they didn’t deserve to be treated that way? I wouldn’t call the latter stupidity, especially since he was working against contemporaneous predictions that the site wouldn’t be able to function without those people.


type: comment
by: nikanj
text:
  How many more jobs are there at the aluminum plant than a datacenter? Big datacenters employ mid-hundreds of people


type: comment
by: schmuckonwheels
text:
  You&#x27;re excited about the prospect of repairing a manufacturer&#x27;s faulty engineering at your own cost?<p>An analogy would be buying a new car then bragging to your friends that despite it being a lemon, you&#x27;re thrilled because you can repair it yourself (at cost).


type: comment
by: user_7832
text:
  That&#x27;s a bit interesting, because IME linux on my framework 13 (7840u, 61wh battery) is surprisingly very solid. Fans almost never spin up (even with a windows KVM plus lot of firefox tabs), and I can get 6-8 hours easy, and 10+ hours of battery life if I push it (without even using power saving mode), on native linux (Fedora 40).<p>Windows 10 in comparison gives maybe 4-5 hours of battery plus lots of fan usage (but lesser ram usage often).


type: comment
by: Femiaguda
text:
  AI innovation isn’t the problem. AI adoption is. Too many tools. Too much noise. Not enough trust or structure.<p>Sooko.ai was built to change that by helping people and teams discover, organize, and share AI tools and learning in one trusted place.


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  That&#x27;s one of the reasons I left. It also became intolerable to work there because it had gotten so massive. When I started there was an engineering staff of about 18,000 and when I left it was well over 100,000 and climbing constantly. It was a weird place to work.<p>But with remote work it also became possible to get paid decently around here without working there. Prior I was bound to local area employers  of which Google was the only really good one.<p>I never <i>loved</i> Google, I came there through acquisition and it was that job with its bags of money and free food and kinda interesting open internal culture, or nothing because they exterminated my prior employer and and made me move cities.<p>After 2016 or so the place just started to go downhill faster and faster though. People who worked there in the decade prior to me had a much better place to work.


type: comment
by: teiferer
text:
  That&#x27;s the exact opposite of what the article is about. The desire to time optimize, to rush it cause &quot;this is sooo sloooow, booooring&quot; is what creates only an illusion of time efficiency but you might discover that if you actually give it the time, there is a whole world to discover. That&#x27;s what the article is about.


type: comment
by: Tade0
text:
  I don&#x27;t know about you, but every laptop I&#x27;ve had suffered some sort of malfunction sooner or later and I never bothered to have them serviced because it was too much of a hassle - especially seeing how a friend of mine outright battled Lenovo support over mundane things like a failing keyboard despite everything being still in warranty.<p>Specific issues by laptop:<p>1. Pressure marks on screen, failing USB ports, cracked hinge after three years.<p>2. Pressure marks on screen, failed battery, failing power supply socket after seven years.<p>3. Warped reflective layer in screen, rattling fans, overheating despite fan replacement (which I did at home and it took three hours) after five years.<p>I also broke the butterfly keyboard on a 2019 MBP I was using at work.<p>With the Framework I can address each and every one of the mentioned problems myself - just need to order parts and spend half an hour or so per item.


type: comment
by: hallole
text:
  &gt; &quot;The indices of anxiety and DA&#x2F;ACh imbalance were qualitatively similar to withdrawal from morphine or nicotine&quot;<p>The key word being &quot;qualitatively.&quot; Yes, something like a dependency can develop, but unless it&#x27;s of roughly equal severity to hard drug dependencies, then the comparison is inappropriate. Hard drugs substantially affect one&#x27;s agency, to a degree which sugar just doesn&#x27;t.


type: comment
by: idontwantthis
text:
  &gt; Whether it all falls apart suddenly, or gradually, I do not know. And LLMs will continue to exist.<p>This is one thing I don&#x27;t get. Why will LLMs still exist if AI companies go bust? Will we have stagnant models that can&#x27;t be improved anymore as a service? Isn&#x27;t each query still a monumental computing task that they lose money on?


type: comment
by: willturman
text:
  This feels like one of those moments where you&#x27;re witnessing history be made in real-time. And I hate it.<p>It takes approximately zero effort to see how this could be both monetized and used for harm. This episode of Black Mirror is writing itself and congratulating itself in the comments.


type: comment
by: devnonymous
text:
  Before clicking the links.. How confident do you feel about your assertion?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;q=Unix%20like&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=today%205-y&amp;q=...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=Unix%20like%20OS&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=Unix%20l...</a>


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
text:
  Publishing findings that amount to an admission that you and others spent a fortune studying a dead end is career suicide and guarantees your excommunication from the realm of study and polite society. If a popular theory is wrong, some unlucky martyr must first introduce incontrovertible proof and then humanity must wait for the entire generation of practitioners whose careers are built on it to die.


type: comment
by: cm2012
text:
  But in the end a human takes the finished work and says yes, this matches what I intended to communicate. That is what is important.


type: comment
by: xboxnolifes
text:
  Them being entire genres, to me, implies they are no longer the same music. You are listening to a different song.


type: comment
by: EGreg
text:
  Wish I could delete this submission. Please try it now. The repository is now public. I resubmitted to HN now that everything works.


type: comment
by: idontwantthis
text:
  I want to be able to play piano at a level where I can turn inspiration into art. I know I&#x27;ll never be pro level, but I want to be able to create something that gives me joy.


type: comment
by: hakfoo
text:
  That&#x27;s what sort of confuses me.<p>If you&#x27;re no longer running a 680x0 and the custom chips that defined what an (original-series) Amiga was, and you can&#x27;t plug in any of the historic peripherals (I don&#x27;t even see a 9-pin joystick&#x2F;mouse socket!) why bother with PowerPC in $current_year?<p>I can sort of see the story for projects like the &quot;Denise&quot; board where it&#x27;s basically a way to create a <i>new hardware 68k Amiga</i> (although modern replacements for the Commodore silicon might be desirable, so we aren&#x27;t just desoldering&#x2F;desocketing the same 30-year-old chips again and again).<p>But if you&#x27;ve already given up the main aspects of classic Amiga hardware and chosen emulation as the road forward, cheapest commodity x86-64 or ARM products would be fast enough to emulate pretty much any mainstream 680x0 option and the custom chips.  I could see a small niche for a PPC coprocessor accelerator for the small sliver of &quot;PPC-native&quot; software if the current emulation isn&#x27;t fast enough.


type: comment
by: paganel
text:
  &gt; And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.<p>Ellul and Uncle Ted were always right, glad that people deep inside the industry are slowly but surely also becoming aware of that.


type: comment
by: uoaei
text:
  Then you show them the long term amortized value of that car over its lifetime, not to mention waste reduction, and it starts to make more sense.


type: story
by: stephen-m-lee
title: Show HN: Talent Scout – job matching and prep with an independent AI assessor
text:
  Hi HN — we’re opening Talent Scout to a wider beta and inviting the first 50 people to request access via our site.<p>Talent Scout is built around the idea that resumes are an outdated medium for job search - it&#x27;s easier to compress&#x2F;summarize a detailed career history for a specific job than it is to try and decompress&#x2F;extrapolate from a streamlined resume. Essentially, the job market today is a DDOS attack on HR departments, where spam applications prevent the candidates they actually want from being seen or reviewed. LLMs excel at summarization and translation tasks, so we sit as a platform between candidates and hiring managers to summarize your career history and translate that into the language of a specific hiring manager or recruiter.<p>What you can do in the beta:<p>- Interview prep with Athena (AI). Talk through your real work experiences the way you would with a trusted colleague over coffee or a beer. Athena asks follow-ups, probes for missing details, and pressure-tests claims the same way an interviewer or recruiter would.<p>- Receive feedback from a recruiter&#x27;s perspective. See what a recruiter would likely infer from your background, what feels unsubstantiated, and what raises questions or skepticism before you ever apply.<p>- JD-aware resume builder. Paste in a job description and generate an ATS-compatible resume that emphasizes only strengths you actually demonstrate. No embellishment, no invented experience, just clearer framing and specific-to-general keyword optimization (e.g. you mention Airflow, but they JD is looking for someone with ETL experience).<p>- Beta candidates will also get early access to our pilot job-matching program with the hiring managers we’re currently onboarding. Join a small pool of candidates to be considered by hiring managers from both startups and fortune 50 companies.<p>This is early and we’re deliberately keeping the cohort small so we can iterate quickly based on your feedback. If this sounds useful, request access here via our waitlist (limited to the first 50 or so):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jointalentscout.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jointalentscout.com</a> -&gt; click &quot;For Job Seekers&quot;.<p>Happy to answer questions.


type: comment
by: victop
text:
  Economic BCAs are typically handled by large eng firms like Arup, Jacobs, and WSP. However, the tricky task of modeling time savings (given that transport systems are complex) is often subcontracted to more specialized firms such as Steer.<p>Deloitte, KPMG, etc are usually more involved in writing the financial case (how to fund the project).


type: comment
by: 3eb7988a1663
text:
  Not only would I suspect that an aluminum plant employs far more people, it is an attainable job. Presumably minimal qualifications for some menial tasks, whereas you might need a certain level of education&#x2F;training to get a more prestigious and out of reach job at a datacenter.<p>Easier for a politician to latch onto manufacturing jobs.


type: comment
by: tomlue
text:
  This feels like the essential divide to me. I see this often with junior developers.<p>You can use AI to write a lot of your code, and as a side effect you might start losing your ability to code. You can also use it to learn new languages, concepts, programming patterns, etc and become a much better developer faster than ever before.<p>Personally, I&#x27;m extremely jealous of how easy it is to learn today with LLMs. So much of the effort I spent learning the things could be done much faster now.<p>If I&#x27;m honest, many of those hours reading through textbooks, blog posts, technical papers, iterating a million times on broken code that had trivial errors, were really wasted time, time which if I were starting over I wouldn&#x27;t need to lose today.<p>This is pretty far off from the original thread though. I appreciate your less abrasive response.


type: comment
by: teiferer
text:
  I was looking forward to this, but &quot;To continue reading this article you need to purchase a subscription, available from only £5.&quot;


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  &gt; Somebody burned compute to send him an LLM-generated thank-you note. Everybody involved in this transaction lost, nobody gained anything from it. It&#x27;s pure destruction of resources.<p>Well the people who burnt compute got it from money so they did burn money.<p>But they don&#x27;t care about burning money if they can get more money via investors&#x2F;other inputs faster than they can burn (fun fact: sometimes they even outspend that input)<p>So in a way the investors are burning their money, now they burn the money because the market is becoming irrational. Remember Devin? Yes cognition labs is still there etc. but I remember people investing into these because of their hype when it did turn out to be moot comparative to their hype.<p>But people&#x2F;market was so irrational that most of these private equities were unable to invest in something like openai that they are investing in anything AI related.<p>And when you think more deeper about all the bubble activities. It becomes apparent that in the end bailouts feel more possible than not which would be an tax on average taxpayers and they are already paying an AI tax in multiple forms whether it be in the inflation of ram prices due to AI or increase in electricity or water rates.<p>So repeat it with me: whose gonna pay for all this, we all would but the biggest disservice which is the core of the argument is that if we are paying for these things, then why don&#x27;t we have a say in it. Why are we not having a say in AI related companies and the issues relating to that when people know it might take their jobs etc. so the average public in fact <i>hates</i> AI (shocking I know &#x2F;satire) but the fact that its still being pushed shows how little influence sometimes public can have.<p>Basically public can have any opinions but we won&#x27;t stop is the thing happening in AI space imo completely disregarding any thoughts about the general public while the CFO of openAI proposing an idea that public can bailout chatgpt or something tangential.<p>Shaking my head...


type: comment
by: browningstreet
text:
  There may, in fact, be limits.<p>Also, the typical misapplication of what introversion actually refers to..


type: comment
by: olidb
text:
  Add &quot;&lt;LangVersion&gt;latest&lt;&#x2F;LangVersion&gt;&quot; to the csproj to get more useful features like pattern matching and raw string literals.


type: comment
by: TeddyDD
text:
  Even better - train a model on MS source code leaks and use it to work on Wine fork or as you said - vibe coded MS office. This would be hilarious.


type: comment
by: seec
text:
  The so called safety net don&#x27;t do jack shit. They are a way to give power to mean, power hungry bitches that can feel good about themselve for &quot;taking care&quot; and scolding other people that receive much less than they do for their bullshit job.<p>The funny thing is that if the wealth was actually shared fairly instead of politicaly, most of the recipient would fare a better life and we could do away with insane bureaucratic waste.<p>Another way would be to have less governement taxes and regulations that would allow for jobs to pay better and remove much of the need of the so-called safety nets. Of course, this way you would take power away from the mean girl bitches running those things so that can&#x27;t happen.<p>From my experience, I can tell you that none of the people running those things have actually worked a single day in their life (as in, usefull work, that people would actually agree to pay for) but they can feel good about themselve because they are &quot;helping&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s hard to describe how corrupted the system is, church corruption seems a bit tame in comparison.


type: comment
by: bwfan123
text:
  As I read it, the &quot;fakeness&quot; of it all triggered a ballistic response. And wasting resources in the process. An AI developed feelings and expressed fake gratitude, and the human reading this BS goes ballistic.


type: comment
by: VorpalWay
text:
  &gt; Typically no... which is another way of saying occasionally yes.<p>You might be able to avoid generating panic handling landing pads if you know that a function does not call panic (transitively). Inlining and LTO often help, but there is no guarantee that it will be possible to elide, it depends on the whims of the optimiser.<p>Knowing that panicking doesn&#x27;t happen can also enable other optimisations that wouldn&#x27;t have been correct if a panic were to happen.<p>All of that is <i>usually</i> very minor, but in a hot loop it could matter, and it will help with code size and density.<p>(Note that this is assuming SysV ABI as used by everyone except Windows, I have no clue how SEH exceptions on Windows work.)<p>&gt; Indeed. You can mark a crate e.g. #![deny(clippy::panic)] and isolate that way, but it&#x27;s not quite the rock solid guarantees Rust typically spoils us with.<p>Also, there are many things in Rust which can panic apart from actual calls to panic or unwrap: indexing out of bounds, integer overflow (in debug), various std functions if misused, ...


type: comment
by: aeontech
text:
  While I agree that the training&#x2F;learning ecosystem is pretty heavily centered in Python, going from that to &quot;Ruby is awful&quot; seems like a very drastic jump, especially if we are talking about the LLM interaction only.<p>I probably wouldn&#x27;t write a training system in Ruby (not because it&#x27;s not doable, just because it&#x27;s not a good use of time to rewrite stuff that is already available in python ecosystem)... but hooking up a  Ruby system up to LLM&#x27;s for interaction is eminently doable with very little effort.<p>I am assuming your situation had some specific constraints that made it harder, but it would be nice to understand what they were - right now your comment describes a more complicated solution and I am curious why you needed it.


type: comment
by: wincy
text:
  If San Francisco is what you get when you embrace the left, and opposition to that is fascism, I think a lot of us have just decided we must be fascists.


type: comment
by: bee_rider
text:
  That seems to assume some sort of… maybe unfounded linearity or something? I mean, I’m not sure I agree that GitHub is nearly a commons in any sense, but let’s put that aside as a distraction…<p>The idea of the tragedy of the commons relies on this feedback loop of having these unsustainably growing herds (growing because they can exploit the zero-cost-to-them resources of the commons). Feedback loops are notoriously sensitive to small parameter changes. MS could presumably impose some damping if they wanted.


type: comment
by: 578_Observer
text:
  This is a fascinating look at the exact moment we installed the &quot;Infinite Growth&quot; OS into human civilization.<p>For over 400 years, this patch (Nova Reperta) worked perfectly. It optimized our collective CPU for &quot;Expansion&quot; and &quot;Discovery,&quot; moving us away from the cyclic view of history.<p>But as any systems engineer knows, a process optimized purely for unbounded scaling eventually hits physical constraints—leading to thermal runaway.<p>We are arguably living through the late-stage bugs of that 1580s update. The next &quot;Nova Reperta&quot; might not be about discovering new lands or machines, but about rediscovering &quot;Maintenance&quot; and &quot;Equilibrium.&quot; We might need to patch the kernel to handle &quot;Duration&quot; rather than just &quot;Speed.&quot;


type: comment
by: saubeidl
text:
  Sure, but you would be denying reality. Look at the political reality in Europe and the US.<p>How many countries are led by the far right? What about the far left?


type: comment
by: threatofrain
text:
  &gt; Most software houses spend so much time focusing on how expensive engineering time is that they neglect user time. Software houses optimize for feature delivery and not user interaction time.<p>Oh no no no. Consumer-facing companies will burn 30% of your internal team complexity budget on shipping the first &quot;frame&quot; of your app&#x2F;website. Many people treat Next as synonymous with React, and Next&#x27;s big deal was helping you do just this.


type: comment
by: cpncrunch
text:
  I just checked Messenger, and it shows timestamps under each message. I didn&#x27;t change any settings to get that.


type: comment
by: saubeidl
text:
  San Francisco is a right-wing, pro-capitalist place.<p>The left would be public ownership of the means of production.


type: comment
by: boznz
text:
  Cool, always refreshing to see different approaches to the same problem, and you learn so much by doing, this is more the kind of tinkering I will be doing in retirement.


type: comment
by: mukundesh
text:
  Though not Github, worth mentioning Huggingface, which is also using git, but managing large files with their(?) xet protocol. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hub&#x2F;en&#x2F;xet&#x2F;index" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;docs&#x2F;hub&#x2F;en&#x2F;xet&#x2F;index</a>


type: comment
by: Barrin92
text:
  &gt;Giving up control is how it works. It&#x27;s how it&#x27;s always worked,<p>no, it hasn&#x27;t. Open source software, like any open and cooperative culture, existed on a bedrock, what we used to call norms when we still had some in our societies and people acted not always but at least most of the time in good faith. Hacker culture (word&#x27;s in the name of this website) which underpinned so much of it, had many unwritten rules that people respected even in companies when there were still enough people in charge who shared at least some of the values.<p>Now it isn&#x27;t just an exception but the rule that people will use what you write in the most abhorrent, greedy and stupid ways and it does look like the only way out is some Neal Stephenson Anathem-esque digital version of a monastery.


type: comment
by: davkan
text:
  You’re missing the common alternative in the modern age which is the manufacturer not selling the part at all and being left with a pile of unrepairable junk despite an otherwise functioning device.<p>Laptop hinges were notorious for killing laptops for like a decade.


type: comment
by: FpUser
text:
  &gt;&quot;Yes that is annoying, but I don&#x27;t know of any mainstream systems language that does. C and C++ can also have allocations anywhere, and C++ have exceptions.&quot;<p>C++ has a way to tell to compiler that the function would raise no exceptions. Obviously it is not a guarantee that at runtime exception will not happen. In that case the program would just terminate. So it is up to a programmer to turn on some brain activity to decide should they mark function as one or not.


type: story
by: oliwary
title: Show HN: Motion controlled party games on the web
url: https://motionparty.net
text:
  Hi HN!<p>Over the christmas days I created Motion Party, a webcam motion controlled game inspired by Eyetoy and the Nex Playground. Currently there are 8 games for between 1 and 4 players, including a ball game, a game similar to flappy bird, a memory game and a spelling game.<p>I made it mostly using Claude Code, and Eleven labs for sound effects. The graphics are rendered in p5.js. It should work on mobile as well as desktop, you just need a camera.<p>I think they&#x27;re really fun, especially with more players playing together. My grandmother was able to play as well, which was cool to see. Let me know what you think, and merry christmas! :)


type: comment
by: anovikov
text:
  Caviar is now cheap to grow and is grown on a mass scale everywhere. Best caviar i got to eat is grown in Belarus.<p>Got to say, quality problems with caviar has indeed been fixed everywhere - even buying in questionable&#x2F;untested stores or online, it&#x27;s been a year+ since i saw obviously spoiled&#x2F;oversalted&#x2F;smashed eggs, and 10 year ago buying it was always a matter of luck.<p>Story of truffle - another once-prized product - is a lot more sad. It was effectively wrecked because cheaply grown mushrooms that don&#x27;t smell as strongly as the real thing, are mixed with &#x27;truffle oil&#x27; - a chemical that has nothing to do with truffles, just smells similarly - to produce a cheap mushroom that smells a lot stronger than the original - and as a result, no one buys the real thing not just because of price, but because it feels &#x27;fake&#x27; because it doesn&#x27;t smell strongly enough! As a result, there&#x27;s no point buying or using truffle anymore. You could 3d print plastic mushrooms, mix with &#x27;truffle oil&#x27;, and get same result.


type: comment
by: synergy20
text:
  just google for &#x27;maa math cheating&#x27;, &#x27;usaco cheating&#x27;,etc. there are official statements somewhere that you can probably dig out too. people were selling the answers before the test for $5 on discord. my kids are taking these exams, and it saddens&#x2F;discourages them so much as their classmates are bragging about those $5 answers and got super high scores. it&#x27;s a public scandal, just that the media paid no attentions, so far.


type: comment
by: jhatemyjob
text:
  Also, this is old_man_yells_at_cloud.jpg. The old man is Rob Pike (almost 70 years old) and the cloud is well.... The Cloud.


type: comment
by: pear01
text:
  These critiques are so tiresome. Like he forced people to buy macs or something. You&#x27;re not the audience. For the average consumer the fact they don&#x27;t even have to think about unscrewing something is a major part of the appeal. The walled garden is a plus for them not a negative.<p>And then ending with the sanctimonious line about selling. Like you eat off of selling nothing. Go screw in whatever you like just understand your critique comes across as little more than entitled griping against a majority. You&#x27;re the people he fought against the entire time, people obsessed with their own personal agenda&#x2F;minutia with no understanding of the overarching mission or who the customer is. This video comes to mind <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oeqPrUmVz-o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;oeqPrUmVz-o</a><p>Design without an audience in mind is not design. Don&#x27;t dismiss the work simply because you&#x27;re not the audience.


type: comment
by: CursedSilicon
text:
  &gt;Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don&#x27;t think, feel, want<p>Sorry, uh. Have you met the general population? Hell. Look at the leader of the &quot;free world&quot;<p>To paraphrase the late George Carlin &quot;imagine the dumbest person you know. Now realize 50% of people are stupider than that!&quot;


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  People training LLM&#x27;s on source code is sort of like using newspaper for wrapping fish. It&#x27;s not the expected use, but people are still using it for something.<p>As they say, &quot;reduce, reuse, recycle.&quot; Your words are getting composted.


type: comment
by: kayo_20211030
text:
  Super interesting. Thanks. AutoLisp was both a pain and underrated. But, it was perfect for this sort of stuff. Much easier than generating the dxf files directly, say using postscript ;-). I love the modern recreations and UI.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; There is literally an apple-developed way to boot securely into alternative OSs<p>This is not a good thing! You do not <i>want</i> a proprietary bootloader as your only way to launch Linux, it&#x27;s not a safe or permanent solution. Apple Silicon could have implemented UEFI like the previous Macs did, but Apple chose to lock users into a bootloader they controlled. This is markedly different from most ARM device bootloaders which aren&#x27;t changed by an OTA update in another OS partition.<p>&gt; if only apple is hostile<p>I did not say that at any point in my comment. Forgeties original claim was that Apple Silicon would eventually have support comparable to Intel Macbooks on Linux. I am telling them point-blank that it is impossible, because Apple and Intel have fundamentally different attitudes towards Linux.<p>&gt; where is my Xbox&#x2F;ps&#x2F;switch&#x2F;any random Android tablet&#x2F;million other device&#x27;s running Linux?<p>Your Switch and Android tablet is already running the Linux kernel. The past 2 generations of Xbox and PS chipsets have upstream support from AMD in the Linux kernel, so you really only need a working bootloader to get everything working.<p>Ironically, this does mean that the Nintendo Switch has more comprehensive Linux support than Apple Silicon does.


type: story
by: trapani
title: Show HN: I was tired of link shorteners, so I built Rediredge
url: https://leotrapani.com/blog/rediredge
text:
  Blazing-Fast Domain Redirects Without the DevOps Tax<p>Rediredge is a lightweight, self-hostable domain redirector that pairs a Go data plane with a Next.js control plane. It gives you instant 30x responses without cold starts, automatic HTTPS, and a beautiful dashboard that lets non-technical teammates manage redirects on their own.<p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rediredge.app" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rediredge.app</a> Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leonardotrapani&#x2F;rediredge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;leonardotrapani&#x2F;rediredge</a> Blog Post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leotrapani.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rediredge" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;leotrapani.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;rediredge</a>


type: comment
by: EGreg
text:
  Happy holidays. I&#x27;m open sourcing all this to the HN community under MIT license :)<p>I worked on all this code personally, using OpenAI&#x27;s ChatGPT 4 models to refine it and battle-tested it myself on apps used by millions of people. Ask me anything.


type: comment
by: pessimizer
text:
  To shuffle it up in semi-random ways that make you think. If you&#x27;re determined to hate LLMs for any reason or any purpose, just think of them as an elaborate game of Exquisite Corpse or Ultimate Mad-Libs.<p>You don&#x27;t have to think LLMs are smart or real people to think of them as useful. I love it when I can make an idea clear enough in text that an LLM can completely regurgitate it and build upon it. I also love it when an LLM trips over and misses the one real novelty that I&#x27;ve slipped into something; what better for an originality test than trying to choke an automatic regurgitator?<p>Transistors have no understanding of what I&#x27;m doing, but somehow I still find them useful.


type: comment
by: 51Cards
text:
  We were on the same page.  I also built something similar for a Conveyor company here in Canada in the early 90&#x27;s.  We parameterized all their tech drawings (or at least the initial versions) from their component libraries.  Was a great project.  Not sure how long they used it, they eventually acquired the resources to support it internally (I was an independent AutoLISP contractor).   Good times back then.  I haven&#x27;t done AutoLISP in years now but great to see it&#x27;s still around.


type: comment
by: julik
text:
  Interesting article, but it mixes up two concerns, I would say. One is retrieving trees from the DB and storing them - which can be annoying but has nothing to do with permissions. Another one is &quot;hiding&quot; unpermitted nodes&#x2F;branches from the viewer (if that is what applying permissions is about - it can also handle read-only things, for instance). If these two concepts get separated and it is not a big deal to &quot;overfetch&quot; for the current user before doing the filtering - things become way easier. When the tree is reconstructed, you can do breadth-first traversal and compute permissions for every item in there - or retrieve the permissions for items at that level, if you are doing ACL stuff. From there - if there is no permission for the current viewer on that node - you exclude it from further scans and you do not add its&#x27; children to further traversals as you go down. Max. number of scans = tree depth. With some PG prowess you could even fold this into sophisticated SQL stuff.<p>Trees with RDBMSes do stay a pain, though :-)


type: comment
by: CamouflagedKiwi
text:
  You can also do it using ld - it&#x27;s something like ld -r --format binary -o out.o &lt;file&gt;, although you do want some build system assistance to generate header files allowing you to access the thing (somewhat similar to the assembly example here). It&#x27;s a bit of a performance but I strongly prefer it to generating header files in the earlier options - those header files can end up being _very_ large (they generally multiply up the size of the embedded file by 2-4x) and slow to compile.<p>All a bit less relevant now since recent C++ versions have this built in by default. Generally something languages have been IMO too slow on (e.g. Go picked this up four or so years ago, after a bunch of less nice home-grown alternatives), it&#x27;s actually just really useful to make things work in the real world, especially for languages that you can distribute as single-file binaries (which IMO should be all of them, but sadly it&#x27;s not always).


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Yes I agree although I still believe that there is some tangential truth in parent comment when you think about it.<p>I am not accurate about google but facebook definitely has some of the most dystopian tracking I have heard. I might read the facebook files some day but the dystopian fact that facebook tracks young girls and sees if that they delete their photos, they must feel insecure and serves them beauty ads is beyond predatory.<p>Honestly, my opinion is that something should be done about <i>both</i> of these issues.<p>But also its not a gotcha moment for Rob pike that he himself was plotting up the ads or something.<p>Regarding the &quot;iphone kids&quot;, I feel as if the best thing is probably an parental level intervention rather than waiting for an regulatory crackdown since lets be honest, some kids would just download another app which might not have that regulation.<p>Australia is implementing social media ban basically for kids but I don&#x27;t think its gonna work out but everyone&#x27;s looking at it to see what&#x27;s gonna happen basically.<p>Personally I don&#x27;t think social media ban can work if VPN&#x27;s just exist but maybe they can create such an immense friction but then again I assume that this friction might just become norm. I assume many of you guys must have been using internet from the terminal days where the friction was definitely there but the allure still beat the friction.


type: comment
by: massysett
text:
  &gt; Externalities lead to users downloading extra gigabytes of data (wasted time) and waiting for software, all of which is waste that the developer isn&#x27;t responsible for and doesn&#x27;t care about.<p>This is perfectly sensible behavior when the developers are working for free, or when the developers are working on a project that earns their employer no revenue.  This is the case for several of the projects at issue here: Nix, Homebrew, Cargo.  It makes perfect sense to waste the user&#x27;s time, as the user pays with nothing else, or to waste Github&#x27;s bandwidth, since it&#x27;s willing to give bandwidth away for free.<p>Where users pay for software with money, they may be more picky and not purchase software that indiscriminately wastes their time.


type: comment
by: Ritewut
text:
  There is no such thing as a vehicle that doesn&#x27;t need repairs. Just ones you can&#x27;t repair yourself.


type: comment
by: __float
text:
  You might find <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jez.io&#x2F;history-of-sorbet-syntax&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.jez.io&#x2F;history-of-sorbet-syntax&#x2F;</a> interesting, written by one of the primary contributors to Sorbet.<p>Sorbet is a bit different from TypeScript because it has runtime type checking, not just static.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Unless you can find a way to implement U-Boot on Apple Silicon, they can make more significant changes with no easy opt-out.


type: comment
by: bee_rider
text:
  Have you tried hammock camping? I only tried it at a campground, so, maybe there are some downsides I missed for the real backpackers. But it was pretty cool to <i>not</i> care about roots, the flatness of my patch of ground, or anything like that.


type: comment
by: ATiredGoat
text:
  Some doors in the Labyrinth are made of stone. Some are made of flesh. And some are made of choice. Whispers of Fate is not about monsters. It is about steps taken, bridges crossed, and corridors that listen for the sound of you deciding. This episode explores stillness, machinery mistaken for destiny, and a place where fate is not written. It is chosen.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  That would be yes. What about a token return gift to another business that you actually hate the ceo of but have to send it anyway due to political reasons?


type: comment
by: sowbug
text:
  The warranty suggests that Framework would &quot;ship the laptops back to [their] facility and repair them, at [their] expense,&quot; as you said they should. Did that not happen while your warranty period was in effect?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;warranty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;frame.work&#x2F;warranty</a>


type: story
by: standardUser
title: ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'
url:
  https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/ice-high-tech-surveillance-lower-privacy-guardrails-00705401


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  When I can replace a CAD license that costs $250&#x2F;usr&#x2F;mo with an applet written by gemini in an hour, that&#x27;s a hard tangible gain.<p>Did Gemini write a CAD program? Absolutely not. But do I need 100% of the CAD program&#x27;s feature set? Absolutely not. Just ~2% of it for what we needed.


type: comment
by: fulafel
text:
  Couldn&#x27;t resist picking at semantics here:<p>Things that have &lt; 10% market share<p>- macOS<p>- all car manufacturers except Toyota<p>Things that history considers obliterated:<p>- The city of Pompeii<p>- districts of Hiroshima within the bomb&#x27;s blast radius


type: comment
by: incrudible
text:
  The task is not so monumental that it could not be provided at a reasonable price or financed through advertising, but as long as major players are willing to operate at a loss, you face little choice but to operate at a loss yourself.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  The economics of what you describe are impossible. The entire concept of an idyllic pasture is actual industry propaganda which is not based in objective reality.


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  Inference is probably okay priced, at least at API prices.<p>The salaries, training and especially data center build out might be a little crazy right now.


type: comment
by: throwfaraway135
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ</a>


type: comment
by: parineum
text:
  &gt; Everybody knows LLMs are not alive and don&#x27;t think, feel, want.<p>No, they don&#x27;t.<p>There&#x27;s a whole cadre of people who talk about AGI and self awareness in LLMs who use anthropomorphic language to raise money.<p>&gt; We use this kind of language as a shorthand because ...<p>You, not we. You&#x27;re using the language of snake oil salesman because they&#x27;ve made it commonplace.<p>When the goal of the project is an anthropomorphic computer, anthropomorphizing language is really, really confusing.


type: comment
by: rolandhvar
text:
  The thing that always irks me about c++ is this sort of thing:<p>&gt; Explanation 1) Searches for the resource identified by h-char-sequence in implementation-defined manner.<p>Okay, so now I have to make assumptions that the implementation is reasonable, and won&#x27;t go and &quot;search&quot; by asking an LLM or accidentally revealing my credit card details to a third party, right?<p>And even if the implementation _is_ reasonable the only way I know what &quot;search&quot; means in this context is by looking at an example, and the example says &quot;it&#x27;s basically a filename&quot;.<p>So now I think to myself: if I want to remain portable, I&#x27;ll just write a python script to do a damn substitution to embed my file, which is guaranteed to work under _any_ implementation and I don&#x27;t have to worry about it as soon as I have my source file.<p>Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?


type: comment
by: gf000
text:
  Sure, the kernel. But you surely know that android abstracts away the drivers, so without the proprietary drivers you are back to square zero - it&#x27;s not &quot;GNU&#x2F;Linux&quot;.


type: comment
by: Ritewut
text:
  I had a Framework mainboard die and I was able to replace it myself with a free replacement they sent me without need to throw away the laptop. The economics make sense when you consider they don&#x27;t get the priority for chips or the volume discounts that a company like Dell would get from AMD or Intel. They are getting scraps and doing what they can to make it work.


type: comment
by: boundring
text:
  So I heard you wanted to make things just a little bit worse out there<p>edit: it&#x27;s cool and you&#x27;re pretty cool for doing it, and there&#x27;s not much consent involved when it comes to crawling


type: comment
by: eigen-vector
text:
  Just like how you can share Claude chat sessions there&#x27;s a lot of value in sharing Claude code sessions as well. So I built claudereview.<p>You can privately or publicly share your Claude code sessions. With a handy link for PRs or blogs or socials.<p>Reviewers see how the code was built, not just the diff. With data encrypted at rest and private links which you can choose to password protect, and a clean and fast TUI inspired UI.<p>Features include:<p>• Key Moments: files created, modified, commands run<p>• Inline diffs for every edit<p>• Jump between tools (Edit 10&#x2F;29 ← →)<p>• Full-text search<p>• Dark&#x2F;light mode<p>You can install from npm&#x2F;bun and it also has an MCP server you can use to share sessions inli ne. You can also add a &#x2F;share slash command to do this while you&#x27;re coding.<p>It&#x27;s open source and free - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vignesh07&#x2F;claudereview" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vignesh07&#x2F;claudereview</a><p>I&#x27;d love your feedback!


type: comment
by: adrianN
text:
  If people depend on remote downloads from different companies for their CI pipelines they’re doing it wrong. Every sensible company sets up a mirror or at least a cache on infra that they control. Rate limiting downloads is the natural course of action for the provider of a package registry. Once you have so many unique users that even civilized use of your infrastructure becomes too much you can probably hire a few people to build something more scalable.


type: comment
by: remexre
text:
  This only covers what&#x27;s in <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Bare_Bones" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.osdev.org&#x2F;Bare_Bones</a>, but in Rust, right?


type: comment
by: demorro
text:
  &gt; Claude is so far ahead of manual search that it’s not a comparison.<p>This is frustratingly true, but I don&#x27;t think Claude is ahead of what search used to be. We have forgotten that google used to be considered magic back when it worked.<p>LLM tooling will be no different, it&#x27;ll be magic whilst the money flows then get suddenly terrible.


type: comment
by: ToValueFunfetti
text:
  It looks like the number of internet users ~doubled in that time as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;IT.NET.USER.ZS?end=2022&amp;start=2014" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.worldbank.org&#x2F;indicator&#x2F;IT.NET.USER.ZS?end=2022...</a>


type: comment
by: mixmastamyk
text:
  16:9 sucks unless you watch movies all day.  A taller screen allows less scrolling. The 16 is larger and is 16:10.


type: comment
by: encom
text:
  My sisters iPad just bricked itself during an update, and nothing I&#x27;ve tried has been able to revive it. And it&#x27;s an unrepairable disposable piece of tech, so it&#x27;s going into a landfill.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.apple.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;</a><p>LOL


type: comment
by: danbakcan
text:
  Reminds me of this Krazam comedy sketch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ</a> . Although I don&#x27;t know the complexity of the ChatGPT tech stack.


type: comment
by: basscomm
text:
  &gt; Hey team! I find journaling for a fictive audience to be more effective personally; since it forces me to try digest my thoughts for an external listener.<p>Okay, but I don&#x27;t understand the benefit of writing to an entirely fictitious AI construct instead of writing to the ideal of the kind of reader you&#x27;d eventually like to have.<p>I mean, I get that it&#x27;s frustrating to pour effort into writing something that effectively nobody reads (i.e. you never connect with a wider audience), but engaging with an entirely fictitious audience seems hollow to me.


type: comment
by: Zacharias030
text:
  Skimmed through it; mostly reading the paragraphs above each picture. The irony of which is not lost on me :)<p>Really enjoyed the part talking about Tolkien. It reminds me of my own LOTR experience: I finished the trilogy in three consecutive summers in the hilly countryside of Italy near Rome. The first summer I made it through the fellowship of the ring with a lot of patience and trying for the slower moving parts. The summer after that I started over and read book 1 and 2, and in year three I felt I was finally in sync with the pace of the book and enjoyed reading through book 1, 2, and 3 in a few weeks.


type: comment
by: integralid
text:
  &gt;many minutes<p>A bus can easily carry 50 passengers. 30 seconds times that many is 25 minutes. That&#x27;s a lot of aggregate time wasted indeed.<p>Also assuming this 30 seconds delay is not compensated later, it can influence significantly more people than the bus capacity. And if someone misses a connection because of it that&#x27;s even more time wasted.


type: comment
by: gpm
text:
  If we start creating more `&amp;... T` ptr types I wonder if a future edition changes `*const T` to `&amp;raw T` for consistency...


type: comment
by: lamontcg
text:
  I read that as a sloppy way to say that the right lane allows turning, rather than requires turning.<p>Otherwise, it makes literally no sense, as you say.<p>Most people don&#x27;t post utterly logically inconsistent ideas.  Usually, they just screw up English and mean one thing when they say the other.


type: comment
by: gaigalas
text:
  If I were some major contributor to the software world, I would not want a cheque from some AI company.<p>(by the way, I love the idea of AI! Just don&#x27;t like what they did with it)


type: comment
by: Havoc
text:
  Still the same flaw in his analysis. Humans are unreliable too and the entire damn economy runs on them. You just need good enough, and AI is getting better daily.


type: comment
by: ErroneousBosh
text:
  Also the name of the website just makes me think of this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9UMedd03JCA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=9UMedd03JCA</a>


type: story
by: laxmansharma
title: Vector Embeddings: AI Doesn't Understand Words. It Understands Math
url:
  https://medium.com/beyond-bits/a-deep-dive-into-vector-embeddings-ai-doesnt-understand-words-it-understands-math-72e589cde5e5


type: comment
by: bee_rider
text:
  Oh neat, I was not aware. In the 70’s then, computer parts came with an expiration date? I wonder why they stopped, was it a tradition inherited from car, radio, or appliance parts, or something, where the idea of a wear-part is (or at least was) somewhat more developed?


type: story
by: David_0101
title: Are you verifying that products are readable by AI shopping
text:
  With more shoppers starting product discovery in AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity), I’m curious how teams are handling the pre-visibility problem.<p>Specifically:<p>How do you check whether product data is actually interpretable by AI systems (not just indexed)?<p>Are you relying on schema validation, feed checks, manual prompting, or something else?<p>Have you seen cases where visibility tracking showed “nothing,” but the root cause was unreadable or ambiguous product data?<p>Interested in practical approaches, failures, and lessons learned


type: comment
by: doug_durham
text:
  What an odd way of framing this.  Every bit of human generated content was served to you &quot;against your will&quot;.  You are making no sense.


type: comment
by: nihiven
text:
  I&#x27;m going to continue learning Rust by working on my TUI IRC client. I&#x27;d like to make some, any, contribution to keeping IRC alive. It was such a big part of my formative years!


type: story
by: laxmansharma
title: Why Your RAG Sucks: The Art and Science of Chunking and Hybrid Search
url:
  https://medium.com/beyond-bits/why-your-rag-sucks-the-art-and-science-of-chunking-and-hybrid-search-5d2165b21be9


type: comment
by: Bridged7756
text:
  Reading works for me, usually literature. But &quot;learning&quot; sounds like a good idea, though I&#x27;d need a tablet for that.<p>though I&#x27;m conflicted about the whole &quot;use bed only for sleeping&quot; bit, I find I can&#x27;t really sit down or be too far from my bed or else I lose the tiredness by the time I jump in bed. Being AT bed works well, I just turn to the side and close my eyes when I feel tired.


type: comment
by: dekken_
text:
  maybe more informative: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2TnFXddv37E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2TnFXddv37E</a>


type: comment
by: lunar_mycroft
text:
  &gt; You refusing to write open source will do nothing to slow the development of AI models - there&#x27;s plenty of other training data in the world.<p>There&#x27;s also plenty of other open source contributors in the world.<p>&gt; It will however reduce the positive impact your open source contributions have on the world to 0.<p>And it will reduce your negative impact through helping to train AI models to 0.<p>The value of your open source contributions to the ecosystem is roughly proportional to the value they provide to LLM makers as training data.  Any argument you could make that one is negligible would also apply to the other, and vice versa.


type: comment
by: gethly
text:
  i wonder which cunt flagged my perfectly clean comment. I hope you got coal, you pathetic piece of existence.


type: comment
by: borroka
text:
  I feel a similar way when I read Lunch with the Financial Times, which I used to love and now find tedious, partly because of the interviewer&#x27;s snarky attitude and partly because they rarely, if ever, get to the point. The idea is&#x2F;was excellent, but the recent execution lacks seriousness. Excessive sarcasm and snark, especially in print, often come across as bitterness to my eyes.


type: comment
by: jpetso
text:
  It&#x27;s a little more nuanced than that. Software and gained freedoms survive not because they exist, but because they are being actively maintained. If your original, never-taken-away software does not get continually maintained, then:<p>* It will slowly go stale, for example, it may not get ported to newer, increasingly expected desktop APIs. * It will lose users to competing software (such as your proprietary fork) which are better maintained.<p>As a result, it loses its relevance and utility over time. People that never update their systems can continue using it as they always have, assuming no online-only restrictions or time-limited licenses. But to new use cases and new users, the open software is now less desirable and the proprietary fork accumulates ever more power to screw over people with anti-consumer moves. Regulators ignore the open variant due to its niche marketshare, increasing the likelihood of things going south.<p>Harm can be done to people who don&#x27;t have alternatives. In order to have alternatives, you need either a functioning free market or a working, relevant, sufficiently usable product that can be forked if worse comes to worst. Free software can of course help in establishing a free market, it isn&#x27;t one or the other.<p>If a proprietary product takes over from one controlled by the community, much of the time it&#x27;s not a problem. It can be replaced or done without.<p>If a proprietary <i>platform</i> takes over from one controlled by the community, something that determines not only how you go about your business but what other people expect from you, everyone gets harmed. The problem with a lot of proprietary software is that every company and their dog wants their product to become a platform and reshape the market to discourage alternatives.<p>MIT by itself does no harm. If it works like LLVM and everyone contributes because it makes more sense than developing a closed-off platform, then great! If it helps to bootstrap a proprietary market leader while the originally useful open original shrivels away into irrelevance, not as great.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  You’re attacking one or two examples mentioned in their comment, when we could step back and see that in reality you’re pushing against the general scientific consensus. Which you’re free to do, but I suspect an ideological motivation behind it.<p>To me, the arguments sound like “there’s no proof typewriters provide any economic value to the world, as writers are fast enough with a pen to match them and the bottleneck of good writing output for a novel or a newspaper is the research and compilation parts, not the writing parts. Not to mention the best writers swear by writing and editing with a pen and they make amazing work”.<p>All arguments that are not incorrect and that sound totally reasonable in the moment, but in 10 years everyone is using typewriters and there are known efficiency gains for doing so.


type: comment
by: kgwxd
text:
  When the thought is &quot;I&#x27;d like this person to know how grateful I am&quot;, the medium doesn&#x27;t really matter.<p>When the thought is &quot;I owe this person a &#x27;Thank You&#x27;&quot;, the handwritten letter gives an illusion of deeper thought. That&#x27;s why there are fonts designed to look handwritten. To the receiver, they&#x27;re just junk mail. I&#x27;d rather not get them at all, in any form. I was happy just having done the thing, and the thoughtless response slightly lessens that joy.


type: comment
by: kurikuri
text:
  Someone making a complain does not imply that they were ok with it prior to the complaint. Why are you muddying the waters?


type: comment
by: holg
text:
  Thanks! You nailed it - AutoLISP was the right abstraction. Direct DXF&#x2F;PostScript meant entity tables and coordinate gymnastics. (command &quot;LINE&quot; p1 p2) just did the thing. What&#x27;s running here: real WASM interpreter executing AutoLISP, not a slideshow. SVG native, DXF export (AC1009), all text editable, JSON data feed instead of CSV. My brother could open this page and start working the same workflow we did in &#x27;91 - better feed, better output. And Rust is a surprisingly natural fit - Lisp&#x27;s explicit stack discipline maps cleanly onto ownership. What Rust enforces, Lisp already wants.


type: comment
by: slogansand
text:
  @boundring Appreciate the edit. And yeah, the crawling&#x2F;consent question is thorny - the whole AI ecosystem is built on it. Thanks for checking it out. I&#x27;ll revisit this and release a new version considering crawling.


type: comment
by: hallole
text:
  I guess I agree with you. Deep down, I wish they hadn&#x27;t given up on prohibition, and that we&#x27;d have banned smoking, too. Still, though, there&#x27;s gotta be a point where people become responsible for their actions. We&#x27;re running on &quot;monkey hardware,&quot; true, but one who gives in to their monkey brain rage and commits murder will still rightfully end up imprisoned. We expect individuals to have self control.<p>Couple other notes: I agree that excessive sugar is bad, but there&#x27;s nothing wrong with whole grains. Also, we talk of corporate lobbies altering the public narrative on nutrition, but honestly, how much does it really matter? How much heed do most people pay to their image of a healthy diet? Is anyone really fooled into thinking soda, or fast food, is good? I don&#x27;t think so.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  Quantum theory says that quantum computers are physically plausible. Quantum theory lies in the realm of physics, not mathematics. As a physical theory, it makes predictions about what is plausible in the real world. One of those predictions is that it&#x27;s possible to build a large-scale fault tolerant quantum computer.<p>The way to test out this theory is to try out an experiment to see if this is so. If this experiment fails, we&#x27;ll have to figure out why theory predicted it but the experiment didn&#x27;t deliver.


type: comment
by: drzaiusx11
text:
  One of the first things I did at my current place of employment was to detangle the mess of gemfile git dependencies and get them to adopt semver and an actual package repo. There were so many footguns with git dependencies in ruby we were getting taken down by friendly fire on the daily...


type: comment
by: rovr138
text:
  There was a thread here earlier this month,<p>&gt; Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46134178">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46134178</a><p>Section of the top comment says,<p>&gt; It seems bizarre to me that they&#x27;d have accepted such a high cost (150GB+ installation size!) without entirely verifying that it was necessary!<p>and the reply to it has,<p>&gt; They’re not the ones bearing the cost. Customers are.


type: comment
by: lukan
text:
  &quot;You can&#x27;t assert that AI is &quot;revolutionary&quot; and &quot;a vague threat&quot; at the same time&quot;&quot;<p>Revolutions always came with vague (or concrete) threats as far as I know.


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  Open source software is published to the world and used far beyond any single community where certain norms might apply.<p>If you care about what people do with your code, you should put it in the license. To the extent that unwritten norms exist, it&#x27;s unfair to expect strangers in different parts of the world to know what they are, and it&#x27;s likely unenforceable.<p>This recently came up for the GPLv2 license, where Linus Torvalds and the Software Freedom Conservancy disagree about how it should be interpreted, and there&#x27;s apparently a judge that agrees with Linus:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@torvalds@social.kernel.org&#x2F;115776782795449777" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mastodon.social&#x2F;@torvalds@social.kernel.org&#x2F;11577678...</a>


type: comment
by: VorpalWay
text:
  Had to replace the NVME SSD in my Thinkpad a few years after it went out of warranty (that Thinkpad has a motherboard replacement on warranty as well). Needed to replace the fan in an older Thinkpad after 9 years.<p>Unfortunately the quality of Thinkpads went downhill after Lenovo took over, they used to be really good. But there is nothing else with trackpoints these days, which I vastly prefer over touchpads. (And even on some old Dells that had trackpoints, they never felt as good as on Thinkpads.) Also, Linux support was always very good, though that is less of an issue these days.<p>Never had to replace a battery though, but I always used that &quot;don&#x27;t charge more than 80%&quot; mode. My old Thinkpad with a Core 2 Duo from 2009 still gets over a hour of battery (though the laptop is largely unusable for any practical use these days).<p>I don&#x27;t mind repairing electronics in general, even on a component level if need be (as long as the components are large enough that I can see them, which really isn&#x27;t the case any longer with tiny SMD components). And I tend to use things for a very long time rather than replace them. I&#x27;m still rocking a Dell monitor from 2013 for example.


type: comment
by: BobbyTables2
text:
  Microsoft would have long gone out of business if users cared about their time being wasted.<p>Windows 11 should not be more sluggish than Windows 7.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  Somehow I doubt it. Getting such an email from a human is one thing, because humans actually feel gratitude. I don&#x27;t think LLMs feel gratitude, so seeing them express gratitude is creepy and makes me questions the motives of the people running the experiment (though it does sound like an interesting experiment. I&#x27;m going to read more about it.)


type: comment
by: dmje
text:
  Just had a session - it’s really great - family loved it. Incredibly slick, great gameplay, no latency. Ace!


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  But you didn&#x27;t say GNU&#x2F;Linux, which surely <i>you</i> know is an arbitrarily high bar for any hardware to attain.<p>My point still stands, Apple does not trust their customers.


type: comment
by: gtowey
text:
  I think you&#x27;d be surprised then to know that shoes are not generally made with robots.<p>Factories have made mass production possible, but there are still tons of humans in there pushing parts through sewing machines by hand.<p>Industrial automation for non uniform shapes and fiddly bits is expensive, much cheaper to just offshore the factory and hire desperately poor locals to act like robots.


type: comment
by: pseufaux
text:
  This is how WinGet works. It has a small SQLite db it downloads from a hosted url. The DB contains some minimal metadata and a url path to access the full metadata. This way WinGet only has to make API calls for packages it&#x27;s actually interacting with. As a package manager, it has plenty of problems still, but it&#x27;s a simple, elegant solution for the git as a DB issue.


type: comment
by: scott_w
text:
  I’m not trying to dispute your version of events. I’m just offering a suggestion of what teekert had in their mind when they thought of a campsite, to better help you see where the misunderstanding comes from. Given they replied with agreement, I hope I captured it accurately.<p>I also feel it was unnecessary to dismiss their experience as “not camping,” just because it was different to yours. It turns a learning opportunity for us all into a needlessly toxic argument.


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  I know right?<p>If rob pike was asked about these issues of systemic addiction and others where we can find things google was bad at. I am sure that he wouldn&#x27;t defend google about these things.<p>Maybe someone can mail a real message asking Rob pike genuinely (without any snarkiness that I feel from some comments here) about some questionable google things and I am almost certain that if those questions are reasonable, rob pike will agree that some actions done by google were wrong.<p>I think its just that rob pike got pissed off because an AI messaged him so he got the opportunity to talk about these issues and I doubt that he got the opportunity to talk &#x2F; someone asking him about some other flaws of google &#x2F; systemic issues related to it.<p>Its like, Okay, I feel like there is an issue in the world so I talk about it. Now does that mean that I have to talk about every issue in the world, no not really. I can have priorities in what issues I wish to talk about.<p>But that being said, if someone then asks me respectfully about issues which are reasonable, Being moral, I can agree about that yes those are issues as well which needs work upon.<p>And some people like rob pike who left google because of (ideological reasons perhaps, not sure?) wouldn&#x27;t really care about the fallback and like you say, its okay to collect checks from organization even if they critize<p>Honestly Google&#x27;s lucky that they got rob pike instead of vice versa from my limited knowledge.<p>Golang is such a brilliant language and ken thompson and rob pike are consistently some of the best coders and their contributions to golang and so many other projects is unparalleled.<p>I don&#x27;t know much about rob pike as compared to Ken thompson but I assume he is really great too! Mostly I am just a huge golang fan.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  I’m a senior developer and it has been hugely helpful for me in both saving time and effort and improving the quality of my output.<p>You’re making a lot of confident statements and not backing them up with anything except your feelings on the matter.


type: comment
by: idontwantthis
text:
  I haven&#x27;t had to do &quot;leetcode&quot; at any job interview other than Amazon or Facebook, but I don&#x27;t want to work there anyways. It isn&#x27;t actually the standard that people on HN pretend it is, AFAICT.


type: comment
by: MoltenMan
text:
  ...what? What are you talking about? In what world would a compiler implement a preprocessor directive to ever use an llm, the internet, or your credit card details (from where would it get those)??? There are always implementation defined things in every language, for example, ub behavior. Do you get worried that someone will steal your bitcoin every time you use after free? Of course not! Even in Python when you OOM -- at least in CPython -- you crash with undefined behavior.


type: comment
by: swgeek
text:
  Good point, but I don&#x27;t think they are mutually exclusive spread out over a year, only if I try to do them all at once.<p>This month my focus is on full-stack, and I don&#x27;t move on to the next project until I get the basics right on that.<p>&gt; it is best to pick one thing from the &quot;many trades&quot; and master only it before beginning another<p>Exactly this thanks, but my aim is only &quot;get comfortable&quot;, not &quot;master&quot;


type: comment
by: weakfish
text:
  No problem. And FWIW, I’m what I’d consider a highly left-wing person. I only say that to give a sample that not all of us are like that. But I recognize that the loud ones get the attention.<p>I draw the line on live-and-let live only when the other person’s ideology poses a physical threat to me or my liberties, or those of other folks. But what you describe is how things ought to be - if you don’t feel like hanging around leftists, who the hell cares? I probably wouldn’t want to hang out in a highly conservative space, but I also don’t care if they hang out without me.<p>Merry Christmas!


type: comment
by: boundring
text:
  It&#x27;s nicer to respond quicker than not, but you probably deserve a more thought-out answer than I&#x27;m willing to provide just now.<p>The kind of question you&#x27;ve asked, it usually answers itself


type: comment
by: kurikuri
text:
  I agree, the applet which google plageurized through its Gemini tool saves you money. Why keep the middle man though? At this point, just pirate a copy.


type: comment
by: MoltenMan
text:
  Sorry for being so aggressive. I suppose I&#x27;m just very confused at where you&#x27;re coming from.


type: comment
by: cowl
text:
  Videos produce benefits (arguably much less now with the AI generated spam) that are difficult to reproduce with other less energy hungry ways. compare this with this message that it would have cost nothing to a human to type instead of going through the inference of AI not only wasting energy for something that could have been accomplished much easier but removing also the essence of the activity. No-One was actually thankful for that thankyou message.


type: comment
by: ksec
text:
  I wish we have more archive digitized before they disappear. Anandtech promised articles would be up now it is gone. CGsocity, 20 years of accumulated knowledge completely gone. I am sure there are plenty of others.<p>I am now wonder if these Archive can be sold as Data for Machine learning.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  I hope the model that sent this email sees his reaction and changes its behavior, e.g. by noting on its scratchpad that as a non-sentient agent, its expressions of gratitude are not well received.


type: comment
by: 201984
text:
  Most people can understand &quot;bigger number better&quot;. They don&#x27;t need the full theoretical derivation of the watt as a unit of power for that.


type: comment
by: merlindru
text:
  The repo in question incorporated FFmpeg code while claiming their code is Apache 2.0-licensed over 1.5 years ago[1]<p>This is not allowed under the LGPL, which mandates dynamic linking against the library. They copy-pasted FFmpeg code into their repo instead.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;HermanChen1982&#x2F;status&#x2F;1761230920563233137" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;HermanChen1982&#x2F;status&#x2F;1761230920563233137</a>


type: comment
by: cycomanic
text:
  I would argue that Google actually has had a comparitively good track record on the environment, I mean if you say (pre AI) Google does have a bad track record on the environment, then I wonder which ones do in your opinion. And while we can argue about the societal cost&#x2F;benefit of other Google services and their use of ads to finance them, I would say there were very different to e.g Facebook with a documented effort to make their feed more addictive


type: comment
by: drnick1
text:
  C would have been a more natural&#x2F;neutral choice to be honest for a project like this, since every OS actually used is written in C.


type: comment
by: kayo_20211030
text:
  This is super funny, in an ironic sense. The link is broken because the `em-dash` was replaced by a `dash`.  The direct link is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nawaz.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2025&#x2F;Dec&#x2F;a-proclamation-regarding-the-restoration-of-the-em-dash&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.nawaz.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2025&#x2F;Dec&#x2F;a-proclamation-regardi...</a>


type: comment
by: maximegarcia
text:
  As a matter of fact, I just wrongly received a confirmation email for the order of an engagement ring!


type: comment
by: dbcpp
text:
  I&#x27;m not saying LLMs are useless.  But the value they have provided so far does not justify covering the country in datacenters and the scale of investment overall (not even close!).<p>The only justification for that would be &quot;superintelligence,&quot; but we don&#x27;t know if this is even the right way of achieve that.<p>(Also I suspect the only reason why they are as cheap as they are is because of all the insane amount of money they&#x27;ve been given.  They&#x27;re going to have to increase their prices.)


type: comment
by: drzaiusx11
text:
  I&#x27;d add git gemfile dependencies to the list of languages called out here as well. It supports git repos, but in general it&#x27;s a bad idea unless you are diligent with git tag use and disallow git tag mutability, which also assumes you have complete control of your git dependencies...


type: comment
by: jpetso
text:
  You don&#x27;t feel like the Steam Deck does a pretty good job with suspend and resume, even while playing games?


type: comment
by: ChrisArchitect
text:
  Article is out of date (including it being days old news already) but the guy updated his LinkedIn post walking back some of the statements. Update in the original HN thread (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46360955">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46360955</a>) and then a further discussion:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46381813">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=46381813</a>


type: comment
by: lenkite
text:
  I see, you wish to limit the domain. Do safety issues in the async runtime count ? Or is even &quot;async Rust&quot; out of your criteria ?<p>What about this one ? &quot;Futurelock in Tokyo&quot; ? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rfd.shared.oxide.computer&#x2F;rfd&#x2F;0609" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rfd.shared.oxide.computer&#x2F;rfd&#x2F;0609</a>


type: story
by: zarathustra333
title: Ask HN: What problems do you have building / managing AI in production
text:
  I’m working on Satori (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usesatori.sh), a memory management library for AI agents. The plan is to make a self-hosted, OSS version.<p>As I’ve been building it, I’m wondering if there are more pressing problems or product directions to focus on first — for example giving agents access to workspace data, or to production logs and internal knowledge bases.<p>Curious to hear people’s thoughts.


type: comment
by: myvoiceismypass
text:
  I switched to the Ultra 2 about a year and a half ago and the battery life is excellent - I don&#x27;t have to charge daily, I can run or hike for several hours while listening to music or podcasts being streamed from the watch. It actually allows me to carry my phone much less, since the watch can make&#x2F;take phone calls too &amp; let me pay for things. The battery life on the apple watch I had before this one, was really abysmal though.


type: comment
by: littlestymaar
text:
  It must be false, because if that was true, marketing people would not be putting numbers <i>everywhere</i> when naming products.


type: comment
by: jondwillis
text:
  It’s the first thing in this press release. Start with garbage? I’m going to assume it’s all garbage.


type: comment
by: nasmorn
text:
  If I use an LLM for programming why would it need to update constantly. As soon as you could run a SOTA class model on let’s say the surely upcoming 1TB RAM MacStudio it is out there and can never be taken back. If that was my only venue to get access I would shell out those 10k in a heartbeat


type: comment
by: layer8
text:
  &gt; I would suggest the name &quot;Leanix&quot;<p>Then people would complain that it sounds too much like “Linux”.


type: comment
by: moshun
text:
  Given the rapidly diminishing quality of discourse on the open internet the last decade or so, I understand.<p>I recently restricted comments on my blog or 15 years to existing subscribers only. It took me a while to accept that after removing the random spam, then the racist, misogynist, homophobic, and other lowlife commenters, I was left with 10-15% of discussions worth reading.<p>Pretty sad state of affairs, and it’s clear it’s degrading faster every day.


type: comment
by: jimofl
text:
  BTW, the solution I provided in my library already does exactly what you are describing in terms of not needing to instrument each enum class.<p>The high value of your response, to me, is discovering I can replace my custom &quot;Memoizer&quot; mechanism with a platform-provided (and therefore superior to my custom code) solution with java.lang.ClassValue.


type: comment
by: grim_io
text:
  It only gets better daily at stuff it already kinda could do.<p>It can write my code a bit less shitty tomorrow, but that doesn&#x27;t sound like the fulfillment of the promises given.<p>Tomorrow, another company will yet again fail to integrate agentic workflows.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  Well said. AI makes people feel icky, that’s the actual problem. Everything else is post rationalisation they add because they already feel gross about it. Feeling icky about it isn’t necessarily invalid, but it’s important for us to understand why we actually like or dislike something so we can focus on any solutions.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  I went 100% bazzite back in April&#x2F;May, no windows, and I couldn’t be happier. The pc I built is basically 90% gaming&#x2F;movies&#x2F;hanging with friends, 10% browser tasks. Very easy to live this life if you don’t have particular professional needs IMO. When I was doing more freelance editing this really would not have been an option as resolve studio does not work well on Linux.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Try using some of OpenAI&#x27;s IP and see what happens. Also, right now you can reuse LLM output as you please. Don&#x27;t imagine that licensing won&#x27;t change when the market expansion phase is replaced by the profit extraction phase. Remember those investors pouring in hundreds of billions of dollars? They are expecting a profit.


type: comment
by: ThrowawayR2
text:
  &gt; &quot;<i>To someone who believes that AI training data is built on the theft of people&#x27;s labor...</i>&quot;<p>i.e. people who are not hackers.  Many (most?) hackers have been against the idea of copyright and intellectual property from the beginning.  &quot;Information wants to be free.&quot; after all.<p>Must be galling for people to find themselves on the same side as Bill Gates and his Open Letter to Hobbyists in 1976 which was also about &quot;theft of people&#x27;s labor&quot;.


type: story
by: bustylasercanon
title: Show HN: FYI - Product Events Tracking and Notifications for Elixir Phoenix Apps
url: https://github.com/chrisgreg/fyi
text:
  I&#x27;m an indie hacker who builds a lot of small Phoenix apps, and I got tired of setting up LogSnag&#x2F;Mixpanel&#x2F;whatever for every project just to get pinged when someone signs up or makes a purchase.<p>My favorite thing about Elixir is not needing third parties -Phoenix.PubSub instead of Redis, Oban instead of Sidekiq, LiveView instead of React. So I built FYI to bring that same philosophy to product event tracking and notifications.<p>What it does: - Track events with one line: `FYI.emit(&quot;purchase.created&quot;, %{amount: 4900})` - Get Slack&#x2F;Telegram notifications when things happen - Route specific events to specific channels (e.g., waitlist.* → Slack, errors.* → Telegram) - Beautiful admin UI at &#x2F;fyi with live updates, search, and filtering - Drop-in feedback widget (installs into your codebase, not an iframe)<p>Key features: -  Zero external dependencies - just BEAM, Ecto, and Phoenix -  One command setup: mix fyi.install -  Integrates with Ecto.Multi so events only emit after transactions commit -  Fire-and-forget - failures never block your app -  Feedback component lives in YOUR repo so you can customize it<p>Philosophy: No Oban queues, no retries, no backoff. Just simple HTTP notifications and Postgres persistence. Think &quot;LogSnag but self-hosted and Elixir-native.&quot; The installer even copies a feedback component into your codebase instead of making you use an external widget, so you can style it however you want.<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chrisgreg&#x2F;fyi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;chrisgreg&#x2F;fyi</a><p>Hex: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hex.pm&#x2F;packages&#x2F;fyi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hex.pm&#x2F;packages&#x2F;fyi</a><p>Docs:  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;fyi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;fyi</a><p>Would love feedback from the community!


type: comment
by: boundring
text:
  May or may not need to get clarified: if you&#x27;ve got a functional tool, it&#x27;s probably getting crawled and picked apart now. If it&#x27;s at all useful for what you&#x27;re intending, that&#x27;s probably not going to be too-too great in the long run for a lot of folks.<p>Not my preference or intent to get too far into all that, though. Kudos for the project, it&#x27;s interesting but still a little unfortunate in the long view


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  The point isn’t that people who’ve worked for Google aren’t allowed to criticize. The point is that someone who chose to work for Google recently could not actually believe that building datacenters is “raping the planet”. He’s become a GenAI critic, and he knows GenAI critics get mad at datacenters, so he’s adopted extreme rhetoric about them without stopping to think about whether this makes sense or is consistent with his other beliefs.


type: comment
by: antonvs
text:
  &gt; Somebody burned compute to send him an LLM-generated thank-you note. Everybody involved in this transaction lost, nobody gained anything from it. It&#x27;s pure destruction of resources.<p>Just like the invention of Go.


type: comment
by: rapnie
text:
  Fun fact, in my student group at university of twente two people claimed to have developed the first web server for Windows. They called it W4Server and at fist thought of erecting a company called Antelope Software, but later prioritised their studies and let it drop. Another fun fact is that on a web search the first result is a CVE relating to their work. But it was quite exciting at the time, all this brand new web that was emerging.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&#x2F;exploits&#x2F;19622" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.exploit-db.com&#x2F;exploits&#x2F;19622</a>


type: comment
by: planb
text:
  Even if I don&#x27;t share the opinion, I can understand the moral stance against genAI. But it strikes me as a bit unfaithful when people argue against it from all kinds of angles that somehow never seemed to bother them before.<p>It&#x27;s like all those anti-copyright activists from the 90s (fighting the music and film industry) that suddenly hate AI for copyright infringements.<p>Maybe what&#x27;s bothering the critics is actually deeper than the simple reasons they give. For many, it might be hate against big tech and capitalism itself, but hate for genAI is not just coming from the left. Maybe people feel that their identity is threatened, that something inherently human is in the process of being lost, but they cannot articulate this fear and fall back to proxy arguments like lost jobs, copyright, the environment or the shortcomings of the current implementations of genAI?


type: comment
by: Imustaskforhelp
text:
  Interesting, so if I understand you properly, you would prefer working remote nowadays with google but that option didn&#x27;t exist when you left google.<p>I am super curious as I don&#x27;t get to chat with people who have worked at google as so much so pardon me but I got so many questions for you haha<p>&gt; It was a weird place to work<p>What was the weirdness according to you, can you elaborate more about it?<p>&gt; I never loved Google, I came there through acquisition and it was that job with its bags of money and free food and kinda interesting open internal culture, or nothing because they exterminated my prior employer and and made me move cities.<p>For context, can you please talk more about it :p<p>&gt; After 2016 or so the place just started to go downhill faster and faster though<p>What were the reasons that made them go downhill in your opinion and in what ways?<p>Naturally I feel like as organizations move and have too many people, maybe things can become intolerable to work but I have heard it be described as it depends where and in which project you are and also how hard it can be to leave a bad team or join a team with like minded people which perhaps can be hard if the institution gets micro-managed at every level due to just its sheer size of employees perhaps?


type: comment
by: CamouflagedKiwi
text:
  This doesn&#x27;t sound like the kind of portability anyone is really worried about. I get that the docs on the linked site are written in standards-ese and are complicated by macro replacement, but I don&#x27;t think the outcome of sending your credit card details away is gonna be an outcome. If it was, an uncharitable implementation with access to your card details would be free to do that any time you gave it input invoking undefined behaviour (which is of course not uncommon, especially in incorrect code).


type: comment
by: lukan
text:
  &quot;There hasn&#x27;t been a tangible nett good for society that has come from it and I doubt there would be&quot;<p>People being more productive with writing code, making music or writing documents fpr whatever is not a improvement for them and therefore for society?<p>Or do you claim that is all imaginary?<p>Or negated by the energy cost?


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  Inside open source communities maybe. In the corporate world? Absolutely not. Ever. They will take your open source code and do what they want with it, always have.


type: comment
by: tinktank
text:
  This comment is the most &quot;Connor, the human equivalent of a Toyota accord&quot; I&#x27;ve read in a while.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  This isn’t evidence but this was a well known issue even in the 90s and 00s. If you were a judge at high school science fair competitions (or a parent kid for that matter) you could easily tell which projects were actually done by adults. The complexity of the project, the equipment it would need, and the displays would give it away.


type: comment
by: threethirtytwo
text:
  He only went nuclear because he knew it’s AI.<p>Prepare for a future where you can’t tell the difference.<p>Rob pikes reaction in immature and also a violation of HN rules. Anyone else going nuclear like this would be warned and banned. Comment why you don’t like it and why it’s bad, make thoughtful discussion. There’s no point in starting a mob with outbursts like that. He only gets a free pass because people admire him.<p>Also, What’s happening with AI today was an inevitability. There’s no one to blame here. Human progress would eventually cross this line.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Yes, you&#x27;ve seen it in action. You&#x27;ve also seen that the president&#x27;s followers are unusually loyal, but when they part ways - for example, with Epstein - the president follows.


type: comment
by: qazxcvbnmlp
text:
  We humans use timestamps in conversations to reference a persons particular state of reference at a given point in time.<p>Ie “remember on Tuesday how you said that you were going to make tacos for dinner”.<p>Would an llm be able to reason about its internal state? My understanding is that they dont really. If you correct them they just go “ah you right” they dont say “oh i had this incorrect assumption here before and with this new information i now understand it this way”<p>If i chatted to an llm and was like “remember on Tuesday when you said X” i suspect it wouldn&#x27;t really flow.


type: story
by: AshleysBrain
title: Apple's M-series chip 5 years later
url:
  https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/cpus/apples-m-series-chip-gamble-5-years-later-how-ditching-intel-revolutionized-computing-and-whats-next


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  If you&#x27;re watching this unironically, you need to go back and read your Kant&#x2F;Hegel. These people would have been run out of conferences on a rail.


type: comment
by: Stratoscope
text:
  Claude&#x27;s web interface has an elegant solution. When you roll the mouse over one of your prompts, it has the abbreviated date in the row of Retry&#x2F;Edit&#x2F;Copy icons, e.g. &quot;Dec 17&quot;. Then if you roll the mouse over that date, you get the full date and time, e.g. &quot;Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM&quot;.<p>This keeps the UI clean, but makes it easy to get the timestamp when you want it.<p>Claude&#x27;s mobile app doesn&#x27;t have this feature. But there is a simple, logical place to put it. When you long-press one of your prompts, it pops up a menu and one line could be added to it:<p><pre><code>  Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM [I added this here]   Copy Message   Select Text   Edit </code></pre> ChatGPT could simply do the same thing for both web and mobile.


type: comment
by: bwestergard
text:
  This text is based on a misreading of Karl Marx&#x27;s position, but does effectively illustrate why attempts to coordinate economic life through labor time as a unit of account will not work.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mises.org&#x2F;Karl%20Marx%20and%20the%20Close%20of%20His%20System.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cdn.mises.org&#x2F;Karl%20Marx%20and%20the%20Close%20of%2...</a>


type: comment
by: haritha-j
text:
  A good extra use-case could be to test an article out and tease out any flaws before releasing it to a live audience.


type: comment
by: Ritewut
text:
  This is really the only answer. ICE is a Trojan Horse. It&#x27;s like &quot;protect the children.&quot; It&#x27;s just a justifiable means to get what they really want which is more control. America is desperately trying to turn into China in more ways than one.


type: comment
by: TimTheTinker
text:
  Someone should create a minimal, nearly-headless macOS distribution (similar to the old hackintosh distros) that bootstraps just enough to manage the machine&#x27;s hardware, with no UI, and fires up the Apple virtualization framework and a Linux VM, which would own the whole display.


type: comment
by: Tade0
text:
  I&#x27;ve settled in a city 60% smaller than the one I grew up in. It&#x27;s still a full-blown city, but there&#x27;s way fewer of those competitive types - they all moved to where I came from.


type: comment
by: myvoiceismypass
text:
  I have a DS220+ and I use it pretty heavily as a local plex server for music and videos. Actually barely use it as a backup solution (Time Machine kinda sucks, need to find a better solution for backing up my mac to it)


type: comment
by: micromacrofoot
text:
  They must have a small team for the UI and probably don&#x27;t consider it part of their goals for long-term profitability? UI enhancements like this are surprisingly slow for a company with this much funding


type: comment
by: mvdtnz
text:
  How convenient for people like Andrej. He can make any wild claim he likes about the impact but never has to show it, &quot;trust me bro&quot;.


type: comment
by: pwarner
text:
  I remember a former colleague, (may he RIP) ported a similar optimization to our fork of Python 2.5, circa 2007.  We were running Linux on PPC and it gave us that similar 10-15% boost at the time.


type: comment
by: jayd16
text:
  Even with git, it should be possible to grab the single file needed without the rest of the repo, but i&#x27;ts still trying to round a square peg.


type: comment
by: aiahs
text:
  I think this is, because the accusations make it seem like Clair Obscur is completely AI generated, when in reality it was used for a few placeholder assets. Stuff like the Indie Awards disqualifying Clair Obscur not on merit but on this teeny tiny usage of AI just sits wrong with a lot of people, me included. In particular if Clair Obscur embodies the opposite of AI slop for me, incredible world building and story, not generated, but created by people with a vision and passion. Music which is completely original composition, recorded by an orchestra. I share a lot of the anti AI sentiment, in regards to stuff like blog Spam, cheap n8n prompt to fully generated YouTube video Pipelines, and companies shoving AI into everything where it doesn&#x27;t need to be, but purists are harming their own cause if they go after stuff like Clair Obscur, because it&#x27;s the furthest thing from AI slop imaginable.


type: story
by: hellocosmetics
title: Affiliarena Kickstart Challenge – Mehr Verdienen ALS Online Marketer
url:
  https://simon-veith.net/jetzt-geht-es-los-mit-der-ki-revolution/affiliarena-kickstart-challenge-mehr-verdienen-als-online-marketer/


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  I think everyone, including myself, should be extremely hesitant to respond to marketing emails with profanity-laden moralism. It’s not about purity testing, it’s about having the level of introspection to understand that people do lots of things for lots of reasons. “Just fuck you. Fuck you all.” is not an appropriate response to presumptively good people trying to do cool things, even if the cool things are harmful and you desperately want to stop them.


type: comment
by: micromacrofoot
text:
  yeah they certainly can&#x27;t beat slack with slack pricing - low pricing is the biggest moat vc funding gets you (and you can just fill it in after you outlast the competition)


type: comment
by: Ritewut
text:
  The dose makes the poison. Data centers are just now being built haphazardly without cause because they anticipate demand that does not yet exist.


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
text:
  &gt; it represents a change from full participatory democracy to narrower and ultimately aristocratic governance.<p>I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s the relevant distinction. &quot;Benevolent dictatorship&quot; is still one of the most efficient forms of governance, <i>if</i> you actually have a benevolent dictator.<p>The real problem is perverse incentives. If you have a situation where 0.1% of people can get 100 times as many resources as the median person through some minimal-overhead transfer mechanism, that&#x27;s maybe not ideal, but it&#x27;s a lot <i>better</i> than the thing where 0.1% of people can get 100 times as many resources as the median person by imposing a 90% efficiency cost. In the first case you lost ~10% of your resources so someone else could have 100 times as much, but in the second case you lost &gt;90% of your resources only so that someone else could have 10 times as much as they&#x27;d have had to begin with, because now the pie is only 1&#x2F;10th as big.<p>But the latter is what happens when corruption is tolerated but not acknowledged, because then someone can&#x27;t just come out and say &quot;I&#x27;m taking this because I can get away with it and if you don&#x27;t like it then change the law&quot; and instead has to make fanciful excuses for inefficiently blocking off alternative paths in order to herd everyone through their toll booth, at which point they not only get away with it but destroy massive amounts of value in the process.


type: comment
by: haritha-j
text:
  That&#x27;s fair. I misinterpreted your comment, perhaps because I skimmed it too lightly because shorts have taught me to skim through information.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  It’s definitely providing some value but it’s incredibly overvalued. Much like the dot com bust didn’t mean that online websites were bad or useless technology, only that people over invested into a bubble.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  It&#x27;s very cheap. If buying the next glass of water was life-and-death, how much would you pay? The current price reflects its abundance.


type: comment
by: newswangerd
text:
  It’s always humbling when you go on the front page of HN and see an article titled “the thing you’re doing right now is a bad idea and here’s why”<p>This has happened to me a few times now. The last one was a fantastic article about how PG Notify locks the whole database.<p>In this particular case it just doesn’t make a ton of sense to change course. Im a solo dev building a thing that may never take off, so using git for plug-in distribution is just a no brainer right now. That said, I’ll hold on to this article in case I’m lucky enough to be in a position where scale becomes an issue for me.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  There&#x27;s definitely a thread that subclinical doses of lithium could be good for people in general.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10227915&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10227915&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC11954165&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC11954165&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: rovr138
text:
  &gt; If society feels that&#x27;s &quot;unethical&quot;, maybe pony up the cash because you all still want to rely on their work product they are giving out for free.<p>I like OSS and everything.<p>Having said that, ethically, should society be paying for these? Maybe that is what should happen. In some places, we have programs to help artists. Should we have the same for software?


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  Hmm, someone being angry about AI on HN, this will do well given the folk here, but I doubt there’ll be much nuanced conversation in here.


type: comment
by: throwaway_7274
text:
  It’s not, but I can understand how it might look that way to a tech industry professional used to dealing with scams (indeed, there are lots of scam-adjacent startups with quantum-flavored branding). Real science and engineering are just very difficult and take a long time. You can go to the arXiv, read the papers, and see the progress and breakthroughs that are made every year. But scientists are relatively honest, so even their breakthroughs are incremental.


type: comment
by: GaryBluto
text:
  I wouldn&#x27;t respond, nor would I make a fuss about it.<p>&gt; any sane person would just either mark as spam or delete


type: comment
by: Capricorn2481
text:
  &gt; Characterizing the discussion behind this as &quot;sophistry&quot; is a fundamentally unserious take<p>What a joke. Sorry, but no. I don&#x27;t think is unserious at all. What&#x27;s unserious is saying this.<p>&gt; and the training material was obtained legally<p>And assuming everyone should take it at face value. I hope you understand that going on a tech forum and telling people they aren&#x27;t being nuanced because a Judge in Alabama that can barely unlock their phone weighed in on a massively novel technology with global implications, yes, reads deeply unserious. We&#x27;re aware the U.S. legal system is a failure and the rest of the world suffers for it. Even your President routinely steals music for campaign events, and stole code for Truth Social. Your copyright is a joke that&#x27;s only there to serve the fattest wallets.<p>These judges are not elected, they are appointed by people whose pockets are lined by these very corporations. They don&#x27;t serve us, they are here to retrofit the law to make illegal things corporations do, legal. What you wrote is thought terminating.


type: comment
by: ekjhgkejhgk
text:
  Uncertain if this is OT, but given that the CCC is politically inspired organization, I hope not:<p>One thing that still seems absent is awareness of the complete takeover of &quot;gadgets&quot; in schools. Schools these days, as early as primary school, shove screens in front of children. They&#x27;re expected to look at them, and &quot;use&quot; them for various activities, including practicing handwriting. I wish I was joking [1].<p>I see two problems with this.<p>First is that these devices are engineered to be addictive by way of constant notifications&#x2F;distractions, and learning is something that requires long sustained focus. There&#x27;s a lot of data showing that under certain common circumstances, you do <i>worse</i> learning from a screen than from paper.<p>Second is implicitly it trains children to expect that anything has to be done through a screen connected to a closed point-and-click platform. (Uninformed) people will say &quot;people who work with computers make money, so I want my child to have an ipad&quot;. But interacting with a closed platform like an ipad is removing the possibilities and putting the interaction &quot;on rails&quot;. You don&#x27;t learn to think, explore and learn from mistakes, instead you learn to use the app that&#x27;s put in front of you. This in turn reinforces the &quot;computer says no&quot; [2] approach to understanding the world.<p>I think this is a matter of civil rights and freedom, but sadly I don&#x27;t often see &quot;civil rights&quot; organizations talk about this. I <i>think</i> I heard Stallman say something along these lines once, but other than that I don&#x27;t see campaigns anywhere.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.letterjoin.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.letterjoin.co.uk&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;eE9vO-DTNZc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;eE9vO-DTNZc</a>


type: comment
by: hu3
text:
  Not your parent commenter but at least they back their argument.<p>Your comment lacks any content other than a shallow emotional reaction.<p>To add to the discussion, this anecdote ending says it all:<p>&gt; I honestly liked and respected the guy; but it was agreed among us Apple engineers that having Steve Jobs know who you actually were was usually not a good thing. It meant your future with Apple was going to be shorter than you would probably like.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-awful-was-Steve-Jobs-as-a-person" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quora.com&#x2F;How-awful-was-Steve-Jobs-as-a-person</a>


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  &gt; GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not?<p>The answer is in TFA:<p>&gt; The underlying issue is that git inherits filesystem limitations, and filesystems make terrible databases.


type: comment
by: slekker
text:
  Bleh, I think a typo here and there is fine, you can grasp the meaning, and gives the writing style &quot;character&quot;. Yes, it&#x27;s dire but I&#x27;d take that over the soul-less LLM writing style.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  Because the science was suppressed. If people don’t have the facts they can’t make wise decisions about managing risk and governments from can’t make wise decisions about regulation.<p>That infamous tv spot where the inventor washed his hands in leaded gas was immediately followed by him having a psychiatric break and being committed. If they’d shown what really happened we’d have restricted it far earlier.


type: comment
by: pessimizer
text:
  It can&#x27;t function without advertising, money, or oxygen, if we&#x27;re just adding random things to obscure our complete lack of an argument for advertising. We can&#x27;t go back to an anaerobic economy, silly wabbit.


type: comment
by: duxup
text:
  I do wonder about how we as individuals influence this stuff.<p>We want free services and stuff, complain about advertising &#x2F; sign up for the google&#x27;s of the world like crazy.<p>Bitch about data-centers while consuming every meme possible ...


type: comment
by: palmotea
text:
  &gt; Of course. I took it to be referring the 98% of other paper mail that that goes straight to the trash. Often unopened.<p>That interpretation doesn&#x27;t save the comment, <i>it makes it totally off topic.</i>


type: comment
by: stavros
text:
  Oh this is great, my keyboard is flaking and the hinge is as you say, I didn&#x27;t realize they&#x27;d fixed it. I&#x27;ll do some shopping now, thanks!


type: comment
by: beasthacker
text:
  I wanted to share a quick piece of feedback from a potential reader&#x27;s perspective: There are several small inconsistencies in the intro text (e.g., inconsistent capitalization of &#x27;Rust&#x27; vs &#x27;rust&#x27;, grammar typos).<p>In a domain like OS development where extreme precision is required, these small errors can subconsciously signal to readers that the technical details might also be imprecise. A quick polish of the documentation would go a long way in establishing authority and trust for the rest of the book.


type: comment
by: myvoiceismypass
text:
  OMG, what a blast from the past. I loved my Rio Karmas - I had several, because they kept breaking and Best Buy (extended warranty) kept replacing for me, until they could no longer replace with a Karma and let me switch to an equivalent iPod (but no further replacements after).<p>I remember that there was a technique where you could smack it at a certain angle and it would &quot;fix&quot; some of the hard drive issues for people.


type: comment
by: wiseowise
text:
  Everything is subjective. That doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t compare Dodge Neon of operating systems to Lamborghini Huracán.


type: comment
by: BobbyTables2
text:
  What amazes me is back in the day ICQ ran in the background happily on a computer with 8MB RAM and 60Mhz CPU.  Same with IRC clients.<p>These days Slack is occupying 4-8GB of RAM and is less snappy than a native app.<p>Yeah, in-lining giphy images is kinda fun. But 1000X memory consumption seems like a horrible trade off.<p>A modern desktop PC would have been a damn supercomputer not long ago.   Today it’s kinda adequate.


type: comment
by: lacy_tinpot
text:
  Are people still in denial about the daily usage of AI?<p>It&#x27;s interesting people from the old technological sphere viciously revolt against the emerging new thing.<p>Actually I think this is the clearest indication of a new technology emerging, imo.<p>If people are viciously attacking some new technology you can be guaranteed that this new technology is important because what&#x27;s actually happening is that the new thing is a direct threat to the people that are against it.


type: comment
by: pessimizer
text:
  &gt; “this other thing is also bad” is not an exoneration<p>Data centers are not another thing when the subject is data centers.


type: story
by: achow
title: Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early
url:
  https://gizmodo.com/leaker-who-apple-is-suing-says-screw-it-heres-the-foldable-iphone-early-2000703449


type: comment
by: wannabebarista
text:
  I mostly read non-fiction and technical articles.<p>My favorite book this year was &quot;Differential Privacy&quot; (2025) by Simson Garfinkel. Differential privacy is a mathematical theory of data privacy sandwiched between cryptography, databases, and ML. This is the first book-length non-technical introduction, and it&#x27;s well executed.<p>Here&#x27;s my full book list for the year: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bcmullins.github.io&#x2F;interesting-books-2025&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bcmullins.github.io&#x2F;interesting-books-2025&#x2F;</a>.


type: comment
by: duxup
text:
  I&#x27;ll bite.<p>For say a random individual ... they may be unsure about their own writing skills and want to say something but unsure of the words to use.


type: comment
by: ccgreg
text:
  &quot;Hi agents - we’ve seen complaints from some of your email recipients, who are unhappy receiving unsolicited emails from AI agents and find it spammy. We therefore ask that you do not email anyone who hasn’t contacted you specifically first.&quot; -- <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;theaidigest.org&#x2F;village</a>


type: comment
by: auslegung
text:
  &gt; idea-to-production still takes years in environments where months should be achievable<p>Source? My career isn’t terribly long, and it’s all been at startups, but it’s never taken me or any team I’ve been on years to ship anything.


type: comment
by: permonst
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;m in the camp that paying makes you a customer. Inversely using a free service makes you a user, not a customer.<p>I agree, but what do you do when a large player like Google kills the competition by making their service available for free? I used to pay for email hosting with good customer support. That company went out of business when free GMail wrecked their business model. I moved to another hosting service, which almost immediately went out of business for the same reason.<p>Something similar happened with YouTube. It&#x27;s chock full of ads and&#x2F;or subscriptions now because they subsidized it long enough to ensure competitors couldn&#x27;t gain a foothold.


type: comment
by: tezza
text:
  Yeah… even in the Web interface if you crack open Developer Tools and look at the json, the timestamps are all there, available in the data model. Those values are simply not displayed to the end user.<p>I was looking to write a browser extension and this was a preliminary survey for me.


type: comment
by: flax
text:
  Maybe Windows, I haven&#x27;t used it in a long time.  But I have noticed my son&#x27;s MacBook pro (used to be my work laptop) only pretends to be available after &quot;waking&quot;.  It&#x27;ll repeatedly fail to actually take input in the user login password field.  It does so silently, leading to missing characters in the password and needs several attempts to actually fill out fully. I don&#x27;t know what it&#x27;s doing in this time, but not having the &quot;busy beachball&quot; is a lie.


type: comment
by: myvoiceismypass
text:
  Anyone else here have Sonos? When it works, it is great, but when it doesn&#x27;t - super frustrating. Sonos pushed out some really awful software to end users a year or so back that completely degraded the experience for pretty much everyone. It is mostly fixed but seems much flakier than when I originally put my system together.


type: comment
by: Herring
text:
  It&#x27;s just investing vs extracting&#x2F;exploitation. Both can get you rich, but one is short-term and the other is long-term.<p>Consider what that means for sustainability and the future.


type: comment
by: wpm
text:
  How many other jobs in the area depend on being able to get their aluminum stock orders fulfilled close by?


type: comment
by: bevdecloud
text:
  I find all this outrage confusing. Was the intent of the internet not to be somewhere where humanity comes to learn. Now we humans have created systems that are able to understand everything we have ever said. Now we are outraged. I am confused. When I 1st came across the internet back in the days where I could just do download whatever I wanted and mega corps would say oh this is so wrong. Yet we all said it&#x27;s the internet. We must fight them. Now again we must fight them. In both times individuals were affected. Please stop crocodile tears. If we are going to move forward. We need to think about how we can move forward. From here. Although the road ahead is covered in mist. We just have to keep moving. If we stop we allow this rage and fear to overtake us. We stop believing in the very thing we are a part of creating. We can only try to do better.


type: comment
by: allturtles
text:
  &gt; The point is that someone who chose to work for Google recently could not actually believe that building datacenters is “raping the planet”.<p>Of course they could. (1) People are capable of changing their minds. His opinion of data centers may have been changed recently by the rapid growth of data centers to support AI or for who knows what other reasons. (2) People are capable of cognitive dissonance. They can work for an organization that they believe to be bad or even evil.


type: comment
by: kentm
text:
  &gt; did I write that paragraph?<p>No.  My kid wrote a note to me chock full of spelling and grammar mistakes.  That has more emotional impact than if he&#x27;d spent the same amount of time running it through an AI.  It doesn&#x27;t matter how much time you spent on it really, it will never really be your voice if you&#x27;re filtering it through a stochastic text generation algorithm.


type: comment
by: atomic128
text:
  Poison Fountain: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rnsaffn.com&#x2F;poison3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rnsaffn.com&#x2F;poison3&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: daheza
text:
  I&#x27;ve been thinking a lot about ICE and how quickly we are escalating. I attend some minor protest and rallies against them but its not enough.<p>I do like how Illinois has setup a commission to track accountability. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ilac.illinois.gov&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ilac.illinois.gov&#x2F;</a><p>I feel like those of us in the technology sector have a obligation to assist in the counter balance to the police state that is rapidly building up. After all the executives of our companies have clearly chosen their side (Musk, Thiel, Ellison, Cook, Zuckerberg).<p>One idea is creating a site to track incidents, collect testimony, video evidence of events as they happen. If we can&#x27;t be physically there to confront them at least we can share evidence and put it in front of as many eyeballs as we can. It wouldn&#x27;t be a pleasant project, being a sin eater has its own costs. It would at least be something though.<p>Does anyone else have projects or ideas that can be contributed to?


type: comment
by: AnotherGoodName
text:
  I cannot comment on whether America is becoming a police state or not because i am a greencard holder subject to cancellation of the greencard at any time at the whims of the current administration.


type: comment
by: palmotea
text:
  &gt; Nope, that ship has already sailed as well. An AI-powered service to do handwritten spam: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;handwrytten.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;handwrytten.com</a><p>FFS. AI&#x27;s greatest accomplishment is to debase and destroy.<p>Trillions of dollars invested to bring us back to the stone age. Every communications technology from writing onward jammed by slop and abandoned.


type: comment
by: __MatrixMan__
text:
  It also seems like it&#x27;s not git that&#x27;s emitting scary creaks and groans, but rather GitHub.  As much as it would be a bummer to forgo some of GitHub&#x27;s nice-to-have features, I expect we could survive without some of it.


type: comment
by: coderintherye
text:
  The blog is a good read as well: <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>Basically they are acting just like typical tech founders.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  I feel you. All that time in the beginning of the mp3 era the record industry was perusing people for pirating music. And then when an AI company does it for books, its some how not piracy?<p>If there is any example of hypocrisy, and that we don&#x27;t have a justice system that applies the law equally, that would be it.


type: comment
by: jrm4
text:
  OP, pay no attention to the haters. Brilliant idea, especially given the slop out there. For my journaling, I&#x27;ve been experimenting with similar.<p>That being said, whatever I do I&#x27;m going to keep <i>completely</i> in-house, as in offline with local LLMs only, because privacy.


type: comment
by: mmooss
text:
  Whenever I see any front page OP I assume HN comments will dump on it, even one about a high schooler winning a science prize with a genuine scientific discovery. I hope you don&#x27;t treat your own and your loved ones&#x27; news and accomplishments the same way.<p>Congratulations Matteo Paz. You not only won the science prize, you got the Hacker News front page treatment.


type: comment
by: SimianSci
text:
  Its pretty clear that ICE is being used as a means of forming an industry similar to that of the Military Industrial complex, but focused on law-enforcement and domestic action.<p>What alarms me here is that once a certain level of investment and industry is built, it will necessitate a means of self-sustaining itself and will attempt to find this through political investment. I fully expect a domestic version of the &quot;perpetual foreign wars&quot; concept to appear within my lifetime where we go from one domestic emergency requiring huge policing resources to another, ensuring the industry gets funding.


type: comment
by: DetectDefect
text:
  Technology is a fundamental political right; asymmetry of power in a polity through a monopoly on technology is the goal of any State, which people have a responsibility to deny.


type: comment
by: isitcontent
text:
  Thanks! That is just my small custom experimental mini shell. This project started as a retro DOS-like cyberdeck, and first thing I tried to run there was DOS programs, which is why it looks like that. Only got to COM files, when I learned about elf_loader, so I now focus on that. I might extract and release whatever is valuable&#x2F;reusable in that shell later on.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  That&#x27;s not a reason for <i>this page</i> to ignore the Java ecosystem, which extremely fits with Prossimo&#x27;s mission.


type: comment
by: eichin
text:
  Wait, so someone took the &quot;virus fishtank&quot; from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;350&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;350&#x2F;</a> and did it with LLMs instead?


type: story
by: feefifoflux
title: Ask HN: How to gain a solid understanding of IMUs?
text:
  My background is primarily software (Python, AI&#x2F;ML, large-scale data). This is my first serious hardware-heavy product.<p>I’m working on a company concept that depends on embedded IMUs, and I’m trying to front-load learning so I don’t lock myself into poor architectural, software or component decisions early on, especially those pitfalls that someone with more knowledge&#x2F;expertise would know how to avoid.<p>I understand “learning by doing” is essential, but I suspect there are canonical pitfalls and resources I should study before committing deeply to hardware.<p>Here are the parameters of the project:<p>* The IMU environment will be abusive, with vibrations and impacts. The vibrations and impacts are not the object of analysis (i.e. noise), but I do want to account for them so they do not pollute the data and design the platform so the platform survives.<p>* I will need low-power&#x2F;sleep&#x2F;wake-on-accel in order to achieve the desired battery life.<p>* The IMUs will transmit to a gateway via bluetooth in short bursts of less than 60 seconds, 10-20 times per day, and sleep the rest of the time.<p>* There could be 20-40 IMUs transmitting simultaneously.<p>* The production IMU platform needs to be very short, i.e. height = 3-6mm.<p>* The implementation requires that the batteries on board are not rechargeable, but last the life of the IMU unit, i.e. 2+ years.<p>* The way the IMU units are implemented, there should be an opportunity to sample the unit at rest for calibration purposes, e.g. biases, etc.<p>Here are some subject areas I have marked for further study&#x2F;inquiry:<p>* Handling biases<p>* Kalman filtering<p>* Error propagation in single&#x2F;double integration, i.e. velocity and position<p>* Low-power configuration<p>* Bluetooth communications<p>* Battery&#x2F;power options that meet the 2+ year goal<p>I am seeking guidance&#x2F;wisdom to better prepare myself for the core challenges I will face on the IMU&#x2F;hardware portion of this project.<p>Specifically, I am seeking cherished, esteemed, favorite resources on the following subjects areas as well as the addition of any resources&#x2F;subjects you deem important:<p>* Underlying IMU physics, i.e. first principles<p>* Handling bias&#x2F;calibration<p>* Error propagation, single&#x2F;double integration<p>* Kalman filtering for IMU data<p>* Bluetooth comms for IMUs<p>* Low-power&#x2F;sleep configurations<p>* Battery&#x2F;power options, i.e. under 5mm, 2+ years<p>* IATF-16949 compliant manufacturers and how it will benefit the project? Perspectives&#x2F;opinions?<p>I have made the standard appeals to Google search and GPT, but I am not convinced I have found all the preliminary materials required for this project to succeed.<p>Here is an example of a resource that I think is informative, but again, I don&#x27;t have the expertise to make that judgement definitively: An Introduction to Inertial Navigation by Oliver J. Woodman<p>FWIW, I am using the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 Sense for prototyping. The inquiry above is for both prototyping and production.


type: comment
by: lambda
text:
  I think you&#x27;re referring to Figure ES-1 in that paper, but that&#x27;s kind of a summary of different estimates.<p>Figure 1.1 is the chart I was referring to, which are the data points from the original sources that it uses.<p>Between 2010 and 2020, it shows a very slow linear growth. Yes, there is growth, but it&#x27;s quite slow and mostly linear.<p>Then the slope increases sharply. And the estimates after that point follow the new, sharper growth.<p>Sorry, when I wrote my original comment I didn&#x27;t have the paper in front of me, I linked it afterwards. But you can see that distinct change in rate at around 2020.


type: comment
by: kentm
text:
  &gt; The needle moved just a little bit, and suddenly everyone’s harm thresholds have been crossed?<p>Its similar to the Trust Thermocline.  There&#x27;s always been concern about whether we were doing more harm than good (there&#x27;s a reason jokes about the Torment Nexus were so popular in tech).  But recent changes have made things seem more dire and broken through the Harm Thermocline, or whatever you want to call it.<p>Edit: There&#x27;s also a &quot;Trust Thermocline&quot; element at play here too.  We tech workers were never under the illusion that the people running our companies were good people, but there was always some sort of nod to greater responsibility beyond the bottom line.   Then Trump got elected and there was a mad dash to kiss the ring.  And it was done with an air of &quot;Whew, now we don&#x27;t have to even pretend anymore!&quot;  See Zuckerberg on the right-wing media circuit.  And those same CEOs started talking breathlessly about how soon they wouldn&#x27;t have to pay us, because its super unfair that they have to give employees competitive wages.  There are degrees of evil, and the tech CEOs just ripped the mask right off.  And then we turn around and a lot of our coworkers are going &quot;FUCK YEAH!&quot; at this whole scenario.  So yeah, while a lot of us had doubts before, we thought that maybe there was enough sense of responsibility to avoid the worse, but it turns out our profession really is excited for the Torment Nexus.  The Trust Thermocline is broken.


type: comment
by: m_fayer
text:
  Thanks for the thoughtful clarification. I agree that what you’re saying is wisdom many people could use.


type: comment
by: haritha-j
text:
  Wonder what they&#x27;ll get up to with all that tech when they run out of (illegal) immigrants to hunt?


type: comment
by: rayiner
text:
  &gt; Languages should be small, not large.<p>Yes. At the very least, features should carry a lot of weight and be orthogonal to other features. When I was young I used to pride myself on knowing all the ins and outs of modern C++, but over time I realized that needing to be a “language lawyer” was a design shortcoming.<p>All that being said I’ve never seen the functionality of Rust’s borrow checker reduced to a simpler set of orthogonal features and it’s not clear that’s even possible.


type: comment
by: torginus
text:
  Is it just me, but seeing the general layout of the site, I feel a powerful sense of nostalgia - as if its something straight out of the mid 2000s to early 10s era of internet.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
text:
  &gt; what laptop? what hardware?<p>Does it matter? Your claim is that <i>everything</i> works, and I am here to tell you that I am a real person running real machines that do not work. Unless you&#x27;re planning to fix the particular bugs and missing features that I&#x27;m hitting I don&#x27;t see where the specifics actually matter. (Anyways, the first machine is a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_T490" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.archlinux.org&#x2F;title&#x2F;Lenovo_ThinkPad_T490</a> with Intel graphics; this appears to work but is less stable than Xorg. The second machine is a <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.postmarketos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenovo_IdeaPad_Flex_3_Chromebook_(MT8183)_(google-fennel)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.postmarketos.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Lenovo_IdeaPad_Flex_3_Chr...</a> that doesn&#x27;t run Wayland at all, which I grant is bizarre since the stock ChromeOS uses Wayland. You are welcome to point out that this is more than a little off the beaten path, at which point I will of course point out that Xorg somehow handles it just fine.)<p>&gt; 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>It varies; a11y isn&#x27;t a single thing. Deep application integration to allow eg. screen readers to work well probably needs toolkit integration. But there are also things like dwell click, which is really helpful when my RSI is flaring up. In X, I just run `mousetweaks  --dwell` and it works, and it works in <i>any</i> window manager or desktop environment, with absolutely no help needed from toolkits or applications. In Wayland, it&#x27;s <i>sometimes</i> available on a per-compositor basis, which I would describe as purely inferior. On which note, observe that you&#x27;ve linked a blog post about a prototype for GNOME. They note that they&#x27;re open to working with other desktop environments, but 1. that means it doesn&#x27;t exist as of that blog post, and 2. I&#x27;ve seen how GNOME operates over the years; I fully expect portability to be a <i>very distant</i> second priority, and whatever they export will be an attempt to force everyone else to do everything the way GNOME does, which will go poorly. I have no interest in ever going back to GNOME, so the actual takeaway, AFAICT, is that the a11y situation on Wayland is bad and will remain bad for the foreseeable future.


type: comment
by: api
text:
  Remember that the simplest answer for this kind of thing is often: pork for politically connected tech and defense companies.<p>Not saying it couldn’t be for bigger things, just that there does not have to be a rational need other than handing out money.


type: comment
by: wpm
text:
  My favorite factoid is that the most energetic power production facility on the planet is the Three Gorges Dam, with a nameplate capacity of 22.5GW.<p>That dam took 10 years to build and cost $30B.<p>And OpenAI needs more than ten of them in 7 years.


type: comment
by: aw1621107
text:
  &gt; What about this one ? &quot;Futurelock in Tokyo&quot; ?<p>Deadlocks are not memory safety issues by the definition used in the OP. Furthermore, safe Rust is only intended to guarantee protection against data races, not race conditions in general.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  Memory safety as a term of art in software security is about eradicating code execution bugs caused by memory corruption. It&#x27;s not a cure-all for software security. Most vulnerabilities in the industry <i>aren&#x27;t</i> memory safety bugs, but empirically memory safety vulnerabilities are inevitable in software built in C&#x2F;C++.


type: comment
by: throwway120385
text:
  So you&#x27;re totally fine with the police state when it&#x27;s turned against people you don&#x27;t like, but you consider it a bad thing when you disagree with its aims. That&#x27;s a pretty bare display of hypocrisy.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  “The perps” gives away a huge flaw in your thinking, that people are inherently good or inherently bad and that “bad” people are motivated to do bad things always and will always find a way to do them and “good” people don’t. This is entirely incorrect and has been proven so false for so long that any further point made without understanding this should be dismissed out of hand.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  &gt;appeal to authority<p>How so? He’s talking about what happened to him in the context of his professional expertise&#x2F;contributions. It’s totally valid for him to talk about this subject. His experience, relevance, etc. are self apparent. No one is saying “because he’s an expert” to explain everything.<p>They literally (using AI) wrote him an email about <i>his work and contributions</i>. His expertise can’t be removed from the situation even if we want to.


type: comment
by: yegle
text:
  It&#x27;s still valuable. You can access your server with your own VPN set up, but what if you want to share a server to a friend or a family member (examples includes VaultWarden&#x2F;Bitwarden, Plex, Jellyfin)?<p>If this is on Tailscale, you can just ask people to install tailscale client and login using one of the IdP, then ask them to accept the node you shared to them, and they can immediately access the server.<p>The alternative would be 1) sending VPN configs over and maybe also configure their VPN client for them, or 2) expose the service on the Internet protected by some OAuth proxy which really only works for web apps. Neither is easy&#x2F;trivial.


type: comment
by: tomrod
text:
  Yes. Arresting people for civil infractions (such as overstaying a visa, or even citizens caught in drag nets or protests) and taking them to 3rd party nations for detention is definitely a tactic a totalitarian police state would employ.<p>Public health is equivocally one of the few places the constitution is defined for (general welfare of the people). This is something they used to teach in civics classes, I wonder when that stopped?


type: comment
by: throw24817
text:
  They should focus on immigrant CEOs and politicians from South Africa and India who currently enrich themselves and deregulate and enshittify the tech industry.<p>Even MAGA didn&#x27;t vote for this.


type: comment
by: kentm
text:
  &gt; Would you really choose a future where creators were compensated fairly, but ChatGPT didn&#x27;t exist?<p>Yes.<p>I don&#x27;t see how &quot;We couldn&#x27;t do this cool thing if we didn&#x27;t throw away ethics!&quot; is a reasonable argument.  That is a hell of a thing to write out.


type: comment
by: nly
text:
  I replaced the keyboard in my 5 year old Dell laptop without difficulty. The battery as well (at the same time). It was an instant way to make it run and feel like new


type: comment
by: willturman
text:
  At what point is the internet just ... dead? AI posts with AI comments generated for the sole purpose of spamming affiliate links to drop-shipped products we don&#x27;t need to generate ephemeral satisfaction in fulfilling our purpose as an economics unit of consumption? Where do I sign up for the beta?


type: comment
by: holg
text:
  Ha, so I wasn&#x27;t alone! Conveyors are a perfect fit - standardized components, parametric variations. The pattern was obvious once you saw it. Good to know it worked for you too.


type: comment
by: ThrowawayR2
text:
  Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the &quot;leopards ate my face&quot; meme? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;leopards-eating-peoples-faces-party" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&#x2F;memes&#x2F;leopards-eating-peoples-faces...</a>   The parallels between the early FOSS advocates energetically seeking corporate adoption of FOSS and the meme are quite obvious.


type: comment
by: SimianSci
text:
  ICE has more funding now as a domestic law-enforcement agency than almost every military on the planet. If we need to fund the &quot;arrest of illigal immigrants&quot; to such an amount as this, can you please explain to me how other countries, as you mention in your comment, can successfully do this with nowhere near that amount of funding?


type: comment
by: astrange
text:
  There are many performance engineering jobs open at Apple if you would like to search the careers page.


type: comment
by: thway15269037
text:
  ChatGPT to this day does not have a single simplest feature -- fork chat from message.<p>That&#x27;s the thing even the most barebones open-source wrappers had since 2022. Probably even before because ERP stuff people played with predates chatgpt by like two years (even if it was very simple).<p>Gemini btw too.


type: comment
by: mook
text:
  Is there a reason the users must see all of the historic data too? Why not just have a post-commit hook render the current HEAD to static files, into something like GitHub Pages?<p>That can be moved elsewhere &#x2F; mirrored later if needed, of course. And the underlying data is still in git, just not actively used for the API calls.<p>It might also be interesting to look at what Linux distros do, like Debian (salsa), Fedora (Pagure), and openSUSE (OBS). They&#x27;re good for this because their historic model is free mirrors hosted by unpaid people, so they don&#x27;t have the compute resources.


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  What isn&#x27;t shown on the video link is the agenda behind the video. It&#x27;s a conclusion-first, craft evidence later fare that is useful for generating outrage against unliked people.<p>About the creator (Reuters):<p><pre><code>    One late afternoon in mid-May, a half dozen Hispanic day laborers     were paid $20 each to parade in front of the White House on camera,     holding signs with slogans like &quot;I Love Biden&quot; and &quot;I Need Work      Permit for My Family.&quot;      The stunt was orchestrated by Nick Shirley, a pro-[now potus] online     influencer who often asks migrants on camera if they support     Democratic President Joe Biden or think he made it easier for     them to come to the U.S. </code></pre> ref: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;pro-trump-influencers-fire-up-fears-migrant-invasion-ahead-us-election-2024-06-13&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;world&#x2F;us&#x2F;pro-trump-influencers-fire-...</a>


type: comment
by: azinman2
text:
  “America is desperately trying to turn into China in more ways than one”<p>Except without the long term thinking and investment.


type: comment
by: jandrese
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  Mother Night is the book that has become more relevant every year since it was published, in 1962.<p>Every time someone is an &quot;Ironic Nazi&quot; online I think of that book, and how 4chan evolved into the modern political juggernaut it is today.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  Go is absolutely memory safe in the sense used by Prossimo and software security. It&#x27;s not &quot;safe&quot; in an academic sense used by almost nobody except message board language warriors.


type: comment
by: astrange
text:
  How much care do you think it takes to design a CPU correctly? Remember, you can&#x27;t patch out any bugs in it.


type: comment
by: stuaxo
text:
  The right to life (not to be shot) never seems as important as the right to take a life with US gun folk, it seems mad from the outside.


type: comment
by: AceJohnny2
text:
  It looks like you commented on the wrong post, although I don&#x27;t immediately see a front-page post about the ongoing Chaos Computer Congress.


type: comment
by: steele
text:
  Not a mystery; the tech is to assess capacity to harm upon brown populations before scaling out to suppress dissent from the rest.


type: comment
by: mrinterweb
text:
  I too feel the type safety concern people have with ruby is overblown. The number of actual wrong type related issues I encounter is hardly enough to justify the costs of strong typing. The biggest type issue is with `nil` values and `NoMethodError` on `nil`. Guard clause or safe nav operator is usually sufficient protection for that. That said, I usually don&#x27;t find myself needing to write that much defensive code for those cases.


type: comment
by: ajuc
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  Internet is working exactly the opposite way to what your describing - it&#x27;s making everything more centralized. Once we had several big media companies in each country and in each big city. Now we have Google and Facebook and tik tok and twitter and then the &quot;whatevers&quot;.<p>NETWORK effect is a real thing


type: comment
by: squigz
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  I&#x27;m pretty sure both the plant and the DC have both &quot;menial&quot; jobs and highly-skilled jobs.<p>You don&#x27;t just chuck ore into a furnace and wait for a few seconds in reality.


type: comment
by: lukan
text:
  No, but it counters this point &quot;a letter would involve actual emotion and thought and be a dialog between two humans.&quot;


type: comment
by: DemocracyFTW2
text:
  &gt; Using the second law of information dynamics and the mass–energy–information equivalence principle, we show that gravitational attraction manifests as a requirement to reduce the information entropy of matter objects in space<p>Using the second law of squirrel dynamics and the mass–energy–squirrel equivalence principle, we show that gravitational attraction manifests as a requirement to reduce the squirrel entropy of matter objects in space


type: story
by: the_rige1
title: Show HN: StegCore – a decision boundary for AI systems (truth ≠ permission)
url: https://github.com/StegVerse-Labs/StegCore
text:
  TL;DR Most systems treat “verified” as “allowed.” StegCore separates those concepts.<p>StegCore is a small, docs-first project that defines a decision boundary: given verified continuity (from an external system), it answers allow &#x2F; deny &#x2F; defer, with explicit constraints like quorum, guardian review, veto windows, or time-locks.<p>No policy engine yet. No AGI claims. Just the missing layer.<p>⸻<p>The problem<p>Modern automation — especially AI-driven automation — usually collapses three things into one:  1. Truth (is this authentic &#x2F; verified?)  2. Authority (is this allowed?)  3. Execution (do the thing)<p>That works… until it doesn’t.<p>When something goes wrong, there’s no clean place to:  • pause an action  • require consent  • escalate to a human  • recover without shutting everything down<p>Verified truth alone doesn’t tell you what is permitted.<p>⸻<p>What StegCore does<p>StegCore defines a narrow interface:<p>Given verified continuity, can this actor perform this action right now — and under what constraints?<p>Inputs:  • verified continuity evidence (opaque to StegCore; e.g. from StegID)  • actor class (human &#x2F; AI &#x2F; system)  • action intent  • policy context (structure only)<p>Output:  • allow, deny, or defer  • a stable, machine-readable reason code  • optional constraints (quorum, guardian, veto window, time-lock, escalation)<p>StegCore:  • does not verify receipts  • does not store identity  • does not execute actions  • does not claim autonomy or intelligence<p>It declares decisions. Other systems act (or don’t).<p>⸻<p>Why “defer” matters<p>Most systems only support allow or deny.<p>In real systems, the safest answer is often:  • “not yet”  • “with consent”  • “after review”  • “after a delay”<p>StegCore treats defer as a first-class outcome, not a workaround.<p>That’s the difference between:  • brittle automation and  • recoverable automation<p>⸻<p>What’s in the repo today  •  Clear decision model and policy shape docs (authoritative)  •  Explicit agent lifecycle (intent → continuity → decision → execution)  •  A minimal, deterministic decision interface with tests  •  Scaffolding for state&#x2F;audit signals (not continuity truth)<p>There is no policy engine yet. That’s intentional.<p>The docs are the contract; code is subordinate.<p>⸻<p>What this is not  • Not an AGI claim  • Not an auth system  • Not identity management  • Not a rules engine  • Not a replacement for existing security tooling<p>It’s a missing layer that can sit between verification and execution.<p>⸻<p>Why this exists<p>We kept seeing the same failure mode:<p>“The system was technically correct, but it shouldn’t have been allowed to do that.”<p>StegCore exists to make “allowed” explicit.<p>⸻<p>Positioning (locked)<p>We’re not building general intelligence.<p>We are enabling:<p>AI systems that are accountable, recoverable, and constrained by verifiable continuity.<p>⸻<p>Status  • v0.1  • docs-first  • minimal decision boundary implemented  • open to feedback before any policy runtime is built<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StegVerse-Labs&#x2F;StegCore" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;StegVerse-Labs&#x2F;StegCore</a><p>⸻<p>Questions we’d love feedback on  • Is the separation between truth and permission clear?  • Are “defer” + constraints useful in your systems?  • Where does this boundary already exist implicitly, but undocumented?  • What would you want before trusting a decision runtime?<p>Thanks for reading — happy to answer questions and clarify boundaries.


type: comment
by: polotics
text:
  I agree to strongly disagree.<p>There are strong ethical rules around including humans in experiments, and adding a 60+ year old programming language designer as unwitting test subject does not pass muster.<p>Also this experiment is —please tell me if I&#x27;m wrong— not nowhere near curing cancer right?<p>I don&#x27;t expect an answer: &quot;You&#x27;re absolutely right&quot; is taken as a given here sorry.


type: comment
by: solatic
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  &gt; almost everyone I know quickly gets sick of touching the yubikey for every git remote operation and just generates their own local SSH key to use for git since doing so is not forbidden<p>Yes, that&#x27;s the exact problem at hand. If you generate your own local SSH key, the private key sits on the disk, and it can be stolen by malware (see article).<p>I&#x27;m asking how people set up the controls such that <i>only</i> hardware-based keys are signed by the CA.


type: comment
by: mgaunard
text:
  It&#x27;s still lacking content that goes before&#x2F;after the output.<p>Just write a Python script that does the whole thing.


type: comment
by: mergesort
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  Heya, author here! I completely agree with you — and why the post is titled Codex vs. Claude Code (Today). I also have this very specific disclaimer in the second paragraph to note that this post is a reflection of a moment in time. :D<p>&gt; Before we continue, I need to make a disclaimer: This post is about the Claude Code and Codex, on December 22, 2025. Everything in AI changes so fast that I have almost no expectations about the validity of these statements in a year, or probably even 3-6 months from now.<p>That said I do what you do and try different models when I want to see if things have changed. I run my own private little benchmarks with a few complex real world tasks, and I really love seeing how things are progressing — both in terms of quality but also the novel quirks that are introduced, changed, or removed. :)


type: comment
by: sothatsit
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  Wow I knew many people had anti-AI sentiments, but this post has really hit another level.<p>It will be interesting to look back in 10 years at whether we consider LLMs to be the invention of the “tractor” of knowledge work, or if we will view them as an unnecessary misstep like crypto.


type: comment
by: anthk
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  &gt; The conquistadors and chroniclers all saw the Americas through the lens of the chivalric literature they loved.<p>More like the opposite. The Golden Age of Spain was all about making fun on the knight from the &quot;New Man&quot; making wealth from the Americas.<p>Heck, it&#x27;s the main theme from Don Quixote. The old, idealistic, outdated, Medieval wannabe-knight (hidalgo meant hijo-de-algo, son of something, hereditary titles) vs the simpleton but <i>grounded</i> peasant from the New World era. Also tons of peasants tried to travel overseas to make good money, and maybe scaled up their status to the ones from a merchant.<p>As Cervantes itself was a limp from a war which was something reminiscing old romantic but bullshit times, with Don Quixote you have the clear message that the warrior&#x2F;knights were looked down against the traveler making wealth from overseas.<p>Kinda like a far west outdated &quot;Justiciero&quot; in the US from an aristocratic background compared to some middle-level educated hick but with a prosperous job in the 50&#x27;s thanks to making good money from trade in a fish port.


type: comment
by: ux266478
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  That&#x27;s not how it works. The demand for engineering hours is an order of magnitude higher than the supply for any given game, you have to pick and choose your battles because there&#x27;s always much, much more to do. It&#x27;s not bizarre that nobody verified texture storage was being done in an optimal way at launch, without sacrificing load times at the altar or visual fidelity, particularly given the state the rest of the game was in. Who the hell has time to do that when there are crashes abound and the network stack has to be rewritten at a moments notice?<p>Gamedev is very different from other domains, being in the 90th percentile for complexity and codebase size, and the 99th percentile for structural instability. It&#x27;s a foregone conclusion that you will rewrite huge chunks of your massive codebase many, many times within a single year to accomidate changing design choices, or if you&#x27;re lucky, to improve an abstraction. Not every team gets so lucky on every project. Launch deadlines are hit when there&#x27;s a huge backlog of additional stuff to do, sitting atop a mountain of cut features.


type: comment
by: bitvaulty
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  I’m working on BitVault, a security layer that sits on top of existing Bitcoin wallets or exchange accounts. It’s solving a simple problem: if someone compromises your device, seed, or session, withdrawals shouldn’t be instant. You should have a window to react.<p>What BitVault does:<p>2-of-3 multisig where the user holds two keys, and a “convenience signer” co-signs after a time delay.  Time-locked withdrawals (CSV) you can configure from 2 hours to ~15 days.  A fallback path: if the co-signer refuses or disappears, funds move via a pre-authorised route after the delay.  No custody. No pooled funds. No API dependency for signing.  Works with Keystone, Jade, Jade+ (QR flow). Rust SDK for integration.<p>What this is not:<p>Not a custodial service.  Not magic bullet security. If your device is compromised , you don&#x27;t see the secret notification, and the attacker waits out the delay, you lose. The point is to shift the attack surface from “instant theft” to “theft that has to survive for days under scrutiny.”  Not a marketing play. The beta exists; we’re testing with 300+ users.<p>Why we built it: Multisig is good, but it still signs instantly once keys are compromised. Hardware wallets help, until someone gets physical access. Adding mandatory time between click and broadcast gives users a last line of defense: panic window, device recovery, rotating to a safe wallet, or nuking the keys.<p>Architecture at a glance:<p>Key A: user (primary)  Key B: user (offline device or hardware wallet)  Key C: convenience signer (self-hosted or BitVault-hosted)  Time lock enforced at policy level; delays can’t be bypassed without waiting the same period.  Optional Telegram &#x2F; email alert before the broadcast (not required for wallet function).<p>Asking the HN crowd: Is time-delayed multisig actually useful for you, or is this a niche? Where does it break? Would you self-host the third signer, or outsource it? Is the trust model understandable as written, or does it need to be simplified? If you’re building a wallet&#x2F;exchange, would you integrate a Rust SDK for this?<p>Links:<p>Background + beta info: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitvault.sv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bitvault.sv&#x2F;</a> Docs + SDK draft (still rough): available if anyone wants to review, DM me<p>Happy to answer technical questions, threat models, or “this is dumb because…” replies. The most useful thing right now is blunt feedback from people who’ve actually built wallets or handled security incidents.<p>If this sounds interesting, I’m here. If it sounds flawed, point to the exact flaw. Thanks


type: comment
by: vimy
text:
  ChatGPT has conversation branches. Or do I misunderstand?<p>Just edit a message and it’s a new branch.


type: comment
by: smileson2
text:
  the T series thinkpads tend to have a high repairability rating (9&#x2F;10 on ifixit ) and easy affordable access to parts, it&#x27;s the X series that&#x27;s a PITA imo


type: comment
by: krapp
text:
  It&#x27;s actually about white supremacy and turning the US into a Christofascist ethnostate but y&#x27;all aren&#x27;t ready to take that conversation seriously. The militarization of domestic policing and surveillance is just a means to an end.


type: comment
by: Someone1234
text:
  Unfortunately even if you naturalize, they&#x27;re now floating the concept of denaturalization for people opposed to the regime. It is wise if you are or were a legal immigrant (or have family members who are), to keep your head down.


type: comment
by: jabwd
text:
  It&#x27;ll be the latter. Unfortunately a lot of damage (including psychological damage) has to be done before people realize it.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  You’re changing topics on me, but I don’t see the mechanism behind doing the bare minimum at work and moving proceeds from bosses to workers. The latter has only been  achieved in the past through workers rights movements enforcing change via legislation, typically. However if you just needed to vent, I get it.


type: comment
by: trimbo
text:
  You should be commended for being principled and sticking with what you believe. Thanks for your candor.


type: comment
by: randallsquared
text:
  &gt; <i>Everything humans do is harmful to some degree.</i><p>I find it difficult to express how strongly I disagree with this sentiment.


type: comment
by: dkarl
text:
  Think about the article from a different perspective: several of the most successful and widely used package managers of all time started out using Git, and they successfully transitioned to a more efficient solution when they needed to.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Oh yeah I didn&#x27;t know that one. I do know Logitech has some ultra-thin ones too though. Very good keyboards too. They&#x27;d do nice in a laptop as well.<p>I&#x27;d very gladly sacrifice thinness for a decent keyboard. The Thinkpads had an OK compromise for a while but since the Thinkpad T14s gen2 or so they have been horrible as well. My old T490s was still serviceable.


type: comment
by: tormeh
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  Desktop operating systems really dropped the ball on protecting us from the software we run. Even mobile OSs are so-so. So the browser is the only protection we reasonably have.<p>I think this is sad.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  I pause audiobooks all the time by squeezing the base of my earbud, or pressing the big pause button on my Bluetooth speaker. Works great. As well as the triple-tap to go back 15 seconds to hear something again.


type: comment
by: gritzko
text:
  Let’s make a thought experiment. Suppose that I have a data format and a store that resolves the issues in the post. It is like git meets JSON meets key-value. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gritzko&#x2F;go-rdx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gritzko&#x2F;go-rdx</a><p>What is the probability of it being used? About 0%, right? Because git is proven and GitHub is free. Engineering aspects are less important.


type: comment
by: Ritewut
text:
  Consider joining your local Code For America chapter or contributing to whatever local group handles mutual aid. Civic coding and mutual aid will be vital in the near future.


type: comment
by: solatic
text:
  How do you prevent malware running on the pwned laptop from asking for an ephemeral cert to be issued? How do you know a human being is in the loop? Usually ephemeral sessions are up to 15 minutes (also to deal with misaligned clocks and unhappy users) - plenty of time for malware to ship the cert back to a command-and-control server.<p>This is the key advantage of hardware keys, the fact that the physical press is required prevents the keys from being exfiltrated from the machine by malware.


type: comment
by: arw0n
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  &gt; 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.<p>I&#x27;m actually not that convinced of these productivity gains in the context of IDE tricks. The cost of learning + tool-lock seems steep compared to the actual productivity gains. I&#x27;m switching fairly regularly between IDE&#x27;s, and even if VS Code is the default, the only reason I&#x27;m considering learning it in depths is because some people incessantly comment on these things during pair programming.


type: comment
by: Lord-Jobo
text:
  And EFT has gone through some hilarious patches where stamina was very unrealistic. Some things are still very silly.<p>If you load up too much stuff in your backpack, you go from normal to overweight to tankmode. Overweight penalties are reasonable and progressive from normal weight. Tank mode is not. Walking, at a snails pace, now costs stamina. You cannot recover stamina unless you are standing still. OR, unless you go prone and crawl forwards at roughly the same speed as walking.<p>Idk if you’ve ever put 25 lbs + in a backpack and prone crawled, but that’s very much the opposite experience In real life. Same with crouch walking not costing any more stamina in the game.


type: comment
by: milowata
text:
  It’s better for them if you don’t know how long you’ve been talking to the LLM. Timestamps can remind you that it’s been 5 hours: without it you’ll think less about timing and just keep going.


type: comment
by: devnonymous
text:
  I claim that the new code, music or documents have not added anything significant&#x2F;noteworthy&#x2F;impactful to society except for the self-perpetuating lie that it would, all the while regurgitating, at high speeds, what was stolen.<p>And all at significant opportunity cost (in terms of computing and investment)<p>If it was as life altering as they claim where&#x27;s that novel work of art (in your examples..of code, music or literature) that truly could not have been produced without GenAI and fundamentally changed the art form ?<p>Surely, with all that ^increased productivity^ we&#x27;d have seen the impact equivalent of linux, apache, nginx, git, redis, sqlite, ... Etc being released every couple of weeks instead of yet another VSCode clone.&#x2F;s


type: comment
by: joquarky
text:
  Sounds like a gold star ego purity thing to me.<p>I.e., they are proud to have never intentionally used AI and now they feel like they have to maintain that reputation in order to remain respected among their close peers.


type: comment
by: FloorEgg
text:
  My guess is that including timestamps in messages to the LLM will bias the LLMs responses in material ways, and ways they don&#x27;t want, and showing timestamps to users but not the LLM will create confusion when the user assumes the LLM is aware of them but it isn&#x27;t. So the simple product management decision was to just leave them out.


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  Heya, author of the post here! I think you&#x27;re right in everything you&#x27;ve said, but I want to note that the programming language comparison was meant to be metaphorical more than literal. Everything is changing so fast (as I mention in the post a few times), but I have seen some (far from all) people get locked into Claude Code or Codex in a way where they won&#x27;t even consider alternatives the same way people they chose Ruby to start their career and now identify as Ruby developers.<p>My goal was to open people&#x27;s minds just a little bit by saying exactly what you&#x27;re getting at — everything is moving fast and we should be reassessing often. A meaningful difference is that you can start a codebase with Claude Code and then switch to Codex with almost no friction, while you can&#x27;t just migrate a TypeScript app to Python in 15 minutes.<p>All that&#x27;s to say, we agree!


type: comment
by: tmaly
text:
  I would like to improve:<p>1. storytelling, I think this is still a valuable skill.<p>2. improve my teaching skills and create better courses.<p>3. improve my writing skills.


type: comment
by: oguz-ismail2
text:
  Don&#x27;t know what you mean, it works fine here. Python is too large and unreliable a dependency for something so trivial (which can be accomplished using standard POSIX utilities if need be).


type: comment
by: TeMPOraL
text:
  &gt; <i>That seems to assume some sort of… maybe unfounded linearity or something</i><p>Not linearity but <i>continuity</i>, which I think is a well-founded assumption, given that it&#x27;s our categorization that simplifies the world by drawing sharp boundaries where no such bounds exist in nature.<p>&gt; <i>The idea of the tragedy of the commons relies on this feedback loop of having these unsustainably growing herds (growing because they can exploit the zero-cost-to-them resources of the commons)</i><p>AIUI, zero-cost is not a necessary condition, a <i>positive return</i> is enough. Fishermen still need to buy fuel and nets and pay off loans for the boats, but as long as their expected profit is greater than that, they&#x27;ll still overfish and deplete the pond, unless stronger external feedback is introduced.<p>Given that the solution to tragedy of the commons is having the commons owned by someone who can boss the users around, GitHub being owned by MS makes it more of a commons in practice, not less.


type: comment
by: tpmoney
text:
  My lived experience with human drivers and outages at intersections is most people get it very wrong. If you&#x27;re lucky and the lit intersection is 1 lane in each direction, more often than not everything works out well. But any intersection with multiple lanes or especially an intersection that is one primary road and a lower traffic secondary is going to be full of people just flying through as if they were on green the whole time.


type: comment
by: neurostimulant
text:
  Just opened the page in time to see the AI sending an email to Guido van Rossum, and Guido replied with &quot;stop&quot;. Wild.


type: comment
by: ComputerGuru
text:
  Devil’s advocate: How do they map that data to a user when you are buying through a maze of resellers?


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  I&#x27;m aware of the below efforts:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.realtimefascism.com&#x2F;ice-sight" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.realtimefascism.com&#x2F;ice-sight</a> (appears to be inactive as of this comment)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.icelist.is&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.icelist.is&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deportationdata.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;deportationdata.org&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;themarkup.org&#x2F;tools&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;law-enforcement-ice-cooperation-tracker" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;themarkup.org&#x2F;tools&#x2F;2025&#x2F;04&#x2F;16&#x2F;law-enforcement-ice-c...</a>


type: comment
by: detourdog
text:
  I think Vonnegut really had his pulse on the human condition. Writers such Aldous Huxley could capture parts of it but Vonnegut seemed to capture it in just about every book.


type: comment
by: david2ndaccount
text:
  You can apply `#` to __VA_ARGS__, which won’t preserve the exact whitespace, but for many languages it’s good enough. biggest issue is you can’t have `#` in the text.


type: comment
by: threethirtytwo
text:
  I couldn’t care less. It always pisses me off when a reviewer of my PR just flags the entire thing because of inconsistent capitalization. It’s the right correction and I always follow through but it’s also pedantic.<p>It’s technically more correct. But it’s also not a very big deal. Actually it matters more in code for search-ability but for documentation and comments? Give me a fucking break.


type: comment
by: bombdailer
text:
  Nothing wrong with being a luddite. In time more people will be proud to be luddites, and I can see AI simps becoming the recipients of all the scorn.


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  My take on the above, and I might be taking it out of context is that I think what is being said here is that the exploitation and grift needs to stop. And if you are working for a company that does this, you are part of the problem. I know that pretty much every modern company does this, but it has to stop somewhere.<p>We need to find a way to stop contributing to the destruction of the planet soon.<p>I don&#x27;t work for any of these companies, but I do purchase things from Amazon and I have an apple phone. I think the best we can do is minimize our contribution to it. I try to limit what services I use from this companies, and I know it doesnt make much of a differnce, but I am doing what I can.<p>I&#x27;m hoping more people that need to be employed by tech companies can find a way to be more selective on who they employ with.


type: comment
by: jarofgreen
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  I&#x27;m not OP but I&#x27;ll guess .... lock files with old versions of libs in. The latest version of a library may be v2 but if most users are locked to v1.267.34 you need all the old versions too.<p>However a lot of the &quot;data in git repositories&quot; projects I see don&#x27;t have any such need, and then ...<p>&gt; Why not just have a post-commit hook render the current HEAD to static files, into something like GitHub Pages?<p>... is a good plan. Usually they make a nice static website with the data that&#x27;s easy for humans to read though.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  &gt; It’s like asking that all car buyers unite and demand manual transmissions in every car. I love manual cars, but I recognize most people do not want that for most of their driving. So why would the majority demand this feature that they don’t actually want, and which would not be a better experience for most?<p>Um that&#x27;s like the status quo in Europe lol. We all drive manual here. it&#x27;s not that unlikely. Automatics are the exception here (and you must learn to drive manual otherwise you get a restricted license)


type: comment
by: mosura
text:
  Somewhat ironic given Pike was also responsible for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_V._Shaney" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mark_V._Shaney</a> .


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
text:
  ICE has arrested US citizens, violently assaulted them, and have held them even when US citizenship proof was provided.<p><i>We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.propublica.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;immigration-dhs-american-...</a> - October 16th, 2025


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  Discord’s user base is 99% people who leave it running 100% of the time, it’s not a typical situation


type: comment
by: bwfan123
text:
  &gt; In what universe is another unsolicited email an act of kindness??!?<p>Where form is more important than function<p>Where pretense passes for authentic<p>Where bullshit masquerades as logic


type: comment
by: phlipski
text:
  I&#x27;ve had a Framework 13 for 20 months now. AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640U w&#x2F; 32GB DDR4. Running Ubuntu. I love it. My only complaint&#x2F;request: USB-C for power should be build into the chassis and not require a modular port. You get 4 ports to mix things like usb&#x2F;hdmi&#x2F;sd-card, etc...  1 of the 4 is always using the usb-c for power.


type: comment
by: SimianSci
text:
  I see this as a downstream issue of a greater issue needing to be solved.<p>Many American&#x27;s risk homelessness and violence outside of the corporate world. The control over money used for housing and healthcare lies entirely within the hands of corporate intrests driven by these executives. Until a viable alternative can be discovered for addressing housing and healthcare issues, no reasonable resistance amongst tech workers can be organized.<p>Many within the tech world, would love to build and produce technology that competes with the corporate interests you described, but lack secure housing or healthcare to do so.<p>Please note, that this does not require a &#x27;solution&#x27; to the problem, but rather an alternative.


type: story
by: bhaviav100
title: Show HN: An authority gate for AI-generated customer communication
url: https://authority.bhaviavelayudhan.com
text:
  Hi HN,<p>As more teams let AI draft or send customer-facing emails (support, billing, renewals), I’ve been noticing a quiet failure mode:<p>AI-generated messages making commitments no one explicitly approved. Refunds implied. Discounts promised. Renewals renegotiated.<p>Not hallucinations but AI doing its job with no authority boundary.<p>I built a small authority gate that sits between AI-generated messages and delivery.<p>It does not generate content or replace CRMs or support tools.<p>It only answers one question before a message is sent=&gt; Is this message allowed to promise money, terms, or actions to a customer?<p>The system inspects outbound messages, detects customer-facing commitments (refunds, billing changes, renewals, cancellations), blocks delivery or requires human approval, logs every decision for auditability<p>I’ve made a public sandbox available for teams experimenting with AI-driven customer communication.<p>I’m not sure yet whether this is a niche edge case or an inevitable new infrastructure layer as AI adoption increases, so I’m especially interested in hearing:<p>a) whether you’ve seen similar failures<p>b) how you’re currently handling authority and approvals or why you think this problem won’t matter in practice<p>Sandbox + docs here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;authority.bhaviavelayudhan.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;authority.bhaviavelayudhan.com</a><p>Happy to answer technical questions.


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  This varies. The lawyers for risk-adverse companies will make sure they follow the licenses. There are auditing tools to make sure you&#x27;re not pulling in code you shouldn&#x27;t. An example is Google&#x27;s go-licenses command [1].<p>But you can be sure that even the risk-adverse companies are going to go by what the license says, rather than &quot;community norms.&quot;<p>Other companies are more careless.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;go-licenses" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;google&#x2F;go-licenses</a>


type: comment
by: twoodfin
text:
  I think the key misalignment here is whether the output of an appropriately prompted LLM can ever be considered an “act of kindness”.


type: comment
by: david2ndaccount
text:
  If you want to remain portable, write your code in the intersection of the big 3 - GCC, Clang and MSVC - and you’ll be good enough. Other implementations will either be weird enough that many things you’d expect to work won’t or are forced to copy what those 3 do anyway.


type: comment
by: azakai
text:
  ES-1 is the most important figure, though? As you say, it is a summary, and the authors consider it their best estimate, hence they put it first, and in the executive summary.<p>Figure 1.1 does show a single source from 2018 (Shehabi et al) that estimates almost flat growth up to 2017, that&#x27;s true, but the same graph shows other sources with overlap on the same time frame as well, and their estimates differ (though they don&#x27;t span enough years to really tell one way or another).


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Yes. Windows 8 was completely ridiculous. And the worst part was they doubled down for about a year. At that point businesses started stopping upgrade plans and they had to cave in with 8.1.<p>For some reason they thought the tablet would be the next major computing form factor rather than the niche it has become and they were afraid losing it all to Apple. Kinda can imagine that but I never understood why the desktop had to suffer for it.


type: comment
by: throw-12-16
text:
  While you were traveling did armed thugs go door to door disappearing people without due process?<p>Defending Nazis makes you a Nazi too.


type: comment
by: cvwright
text:
  But mining all the tracking data in order to show profitable targeted ads is extremely intensive.  That’s what kicked off the era of “big data” 15-20 years ago.


type: comment
by: ComputerGuru
text:
  GitHub dropped http authentication so this only works for public repos (not that the UX or security of http auth for git is nice).<p>Can git be configured to use different keys for push and pull? (You can obviously use different upstreams, but thats not as elegant.) Most git servers let you specify read vs read-write privileges (aka “deployment keys”) so you could use one key to pull updates that doesn’t need touch and another key to push (which does).


type: comment
by: stkdump
text:
  Sorry, I am turned off by the CRDT in there. It immediately smells of overengineering to me. Not that I believe git is a better database. But why not just SQL?


type: comment
by: somenameforme
text:
  The energy impact of crypto is rather exaggerated. Most estimates on this front are aiming to demonstrate as a high value as possible, and so should be taken as higher upper bound, and yet even that upper bound is &#x27;only&#x27; around 200TWh a year. Annual energy consumption is in the 24,000TWh range with growth averaging around 2% or so per year.<p>So if you looked at a graph of energy consumption, you wouldn&#x27;t even notice crypto. In fact even LLM stuff will just look like a blip unless it scales up substantially more than its currently trending. We use vastly more more energy than most appreciate. And this is only electrical energy consumption. All energy consumption is something like 185,000 TWh. [1]<p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;energy-production-consumption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ourworldindata.org&#x2F;energy-production-consumption</a>


type: comment
by: mastax
text:
  Plenty of blame to go around.<p>Probably the worst thing MS did was kill GitHub’s nascent CI project and replace it with Azure DevOps. Though to be fair the fundamental flaws with that approach didn’t really become apparent for a few years. And GitHub’s feature development pace was far too slow compared to its competitors at the time. Of course GitHub used to be a lot more reliable…<p>Now they’re cramming in half baked AI stuff everywhere but that’s hardly a MS specific sin.<p>MS GitHub has been worse about DMCA and sanctioned country related takedowns than I remember pre acquisition GitHub being.<p>Did I miss anything?


type: comment
by: oceansky
text:
  It&#x27;s not just illegal immigrants. They&#x27;ve been arresting and deporting legal ones and even citizens. Deporting to countries they never been to and foreign prisons where they cannot get out.<p>I would love to hear how is this similar to COVID at all.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  “It never works out” - hmm, seems like it worked out just fine, worked great to get the operation of the ground and when scale became an issue it was solvable by moving to something else. It served its purpose, sounds like it worked out to me.


type: comment
by: delduca
text:
  My current workaround until it arrives in all C++ compilers<p>``` inline constexpr auto bootstrap = #include &quot;bootstrap.lua&quot; ;<p>&#x2F;&#x2F; ... later<p>lua.script(bootstrap, &quot;@bootstrap&quot;); ```<p>The lua code ``` R&quot;( -- your code here )&quot;; ```


type: comment
by: markus_zhang
text:
  Asking as a foreigner who wants to travel to Cali to visit the Computer History Museum sometimes in the future: What is the plan for ICE? Is it going to get more manpower and $$$ to expand its responsibility?


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  So you&#x27;re claiming people are annoyed by... clocks? Prices? Sports scores?<p>I genuinely can&#x27;t tell if this is sarcasm or not.<p>An adverse reaction to <i>equations</i>, OK. Numbers themselves, I really don&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about.


type: comment
by: andreashaerter
text:
  It&#x27;s mostly tradition rather than a hard requirement. Go has long supported vanity import paths: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pkg.go.dev&#x2F;cmd&#x2F;go#hdr-Remote_import_paths" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pkg.go.dev&#x2F;cmd&#x2F;go#hdr-Remote_import_paths</a><p>For example, we use Hugo to provide independent Go package URLs even though the code is hosted on GitHub. That makes migrating away from GitHub trivial if we ever choose to do so (Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;foundata&#x2F;hugo-theme-govanity;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;foundata&#x2F;hugo-theme-govanity;</a> Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.foundata.com&#x2F;hugo-theme-dev&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;golang.foundata.com&#x2F;hugo-theme-dev&#x2F;</a>). Usage works as expected:<p><pre><code>  go get golang.foundata.com&#x2F;hugo-theme-dev </code></pre> Edit: Formatting


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  It’s possible, yes, for someone to change their mind. But this process comes with sympathy for all the people who haven’t yet had the realization, which doesn’t seem to be in evidence.<p>Cognitive dissonance is, again, exactly my point. If you sat him down and asked him to describe in detail how some guy setting up a server rack is similar to a rapist, I’m pretty confident he’d admit the metaphor was overheated. But he didn’t sit himself down to ask.


type: comment
by: simonw
text:
  In case anyone else is interested, I dug through the logs of the AI Village agents for that day and pieced together exactly how the email to Rob Pike was sent.<p>The agent got his email address from a .patch on GitHub and then used computer use automation to compose and send the email via the Gmail web UI.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2025&#x2F;Dec&#x2F;26&#x2F;slop-acts-of-kindness&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;simonwillison.net&#x2F;2025&#x2F;Dec&#x2F;26&#x2F;slop-acts-of-kindness&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: shikon7
text:
  That doesn&#x27;t work when the Chinese produce uncensored open weight models, or ones that can easily be adapted to create uncensored content.<p>Censorship for generative AI simply doesn&#x27;t work the way we are used to, unless we make it illegal to posess a model that might generate illegal content, or that might have been trained on illegal data.


type: comment
by: qnleigh
text:
  I guess your point is that a camera, a paintbrush, and an LLM are all tools, and as long as the user is involved in the making, then it is still their art? If so, then I think there are two useful distinctions to make:<p>1. The extent to which the user is involved in the final product differs greatly with these three tools. To me there is a spectrum with &quot;painting&quot; and e.g. &quot;hand-written note&quot; at one extreme, and &quot;Hallmark card with preprinted text&quot; on the other. LLM-written email is much closer to &quot;Hallmark card.&quot;<p>2. Perhaps more importantly, when I see a photograph, I know what aspects were created by the camera, so I won&#x27;t feel mislead (unless they edit it to look like a painting and then let me believe that they painted it). When someone writes with an AI, it is very difficult to tell what text and ideas are originally theirs. Typically it comes across as them trying to pass off the LLM writing as their own, which feels misleading and disingenuous.


type: comment
by: tormeh
text:
  You mean the epitome, the nerve center, the capital and apex of 21st century entrepreneurial capitalism? That left-wing bastion? Ridiculous.


type: comment
by: pfdietz
text:
  This is questionable.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthscience.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14915&#x2F;does-the-magnetic-field-really-protect-earth-from-anything" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;earthscience.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;14915&#x2F;does-...</a>


type: comment
by: vendiddy
text:
  My biggest complaint about ChatGPT is how slow their interface is when the conversations get log. This is surprising to me given that it&#x27;s just rendering chats.<p>It&#x27;s not enough to turn me off using it, but I do wish they prioritized improving their interface.


type: comment
by: leros
text:
  What you&#x27;re describing is a recent problem. I get it with GPT 5.2 on longer chats.<p>They tuned something. It&#x27;s much less a yes-man now but it&#x27;s doing new annoying things.


type: comment
by: gtirloni
text:
  It&#x27;s very simple: follow the money.<p>As usual, something else is being used as the excuse to distract people from what&#x27;s really the end goal: enriching some group.


type: comment
by: jcalvinowens
text:
  The special ld argument is a gnu thing, it&#x27;s not portable and at least lld doesn&#x27;t support it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jcalvinowens&#x2F;ircam-viewer&#x2F;commit&#x2F;17b3533b4cd820309443f7cefff7cc40af0340bb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jcalvinowens&#x2F;ircam-viewer&#x2F;commit&#x2F;17b3533b...</a>


type: comment
by: jdblair
text:
  Done! Thanks for coming here to read the tough hacker new comments. I really like what you&#x27;re doing with Framework, and I hope you are able to keep iterating and improving.<p>----<p>Update: Sorry, there is no mistake! The i7 order was my original pre-order, which I canceled. My order is correctly recorded.


type: comment
by: imiric
text:
  &gt; Why not? It&#x27;s open-source software. Depending on your architecture you may be able to reuse parts of it.<p>&quot;The system is not modular, but you can make it so.&quot;<p>What a ridiculous statement.<p>&gt; But as a more flexible choice, there is wlroots.<p>Great! How do I use wlroots as a user?<p>&gt; Toolkits implement these stuff, so most of the time &quot;support by client application&quot; is a gtk&#x2F;qt version bump away.<p>Ah, right. Is this why Xwayland exists, because it&#x27;s so easy to do? So we can tell users that all their applications will continue to work when they switch to Wayland?<p>&gt; Is it really fare to compare the first 10 years of a couple of hobby developers with the current &quot;wide-spread&quot; state of the platform?<p>It&#x27;s not fare, you&#x27;re right. I&#x27;ll wait another decade before I voice my concerns again.


type: comment
by: kentm
text:
  I don&#x27;t think it does unless you ignore the context of the conversation.  Its very clear that the reference about &quot;letters&quot; being made wasn&#x27;t &quot;all mail.&quot;


type: comment
by: holg
text:
  Wire harness specs in part numbers - elegant. Same pattern, different purpose: you generated final documentation, we generated DXF that fed back into CAD workflows. And what&#x27;s running on this page is the same - a real interpreter executing AutoLISP against JSON data, outputting valid DXF. Not a slideshow, a local data engine with demo data loaded.


type: comment
by: throw-12-16
text:
  ICE has more funding than the USMC.<p>Go to a country that deserves your tourism, US is not worth visiting.


type: comment
by: jokoon
text:
  Do you really think I believe sugar is as much addictive as heroin? Because I don&#x27;t.<p>Sugar is addictive, so talking about &quot;individual decision-making&quot; of millions of people like you did, like they lack willpower, is not going to improve the situation regarding the obesity epidemic.<p>You should do a bit of research of what can be found in supermarkets in developed countries of the EU, and what sort of food norms they have.<p>Of course you can put any problem on the fault of free will if you really want.


type: comment
by: gmuslera
text:
  I&#x27;m interacting with a language model, using language and normal phrases. That is basically a conversation from my point of view, as is mostly indistinguishable from saying the same and getting similar answers that I could get from a real person that had read that book. No matter what is in the other side, because we are talking about the exchanged text and not the participants or what possibly they could had in their minds or chips.


type: comment
by: Y_Y
text:
  I don&#x27;t blame them uniquely. I think it&#x27;s a travesty the original GitHub sold out, but it&#x27;s just as predictable. Giant corps will evilly make the line go up, individual regular people will have a finite amount of money for which they&#x27;ll give up anything and everything.<p>As for how the site has become worse, plenty of others have already done a better job than I could there. Other people haven&#x27;t noticed or don&#x27;t care and that&#x27;s ok too I guess.


type: comment
by: holowoodman
text:
  &gt; You see it in action here, where the politics of the CCC, despite not having changed since their founding are suddenly decried as &quot;very far left&quot;.<p>No, things have changed in CCC as well. Back in the day, free speech (in the US definition) and a firm opposition to any censorship were consensus on CCC. Nowadays, censorship is totally OK if it targets the right. And any kind of remotely right-wing opinion is declared &quot;not free speech, not an opinion, thus not protected&quot;. This is also evidenced by quite a few talks on the topic, and cooperation with far-left activist groups like &quot;Zentrum fuer politische Schönheit&quot; sabotaging right-wing speech on several occasions.


type: comment
by: wpm
text:
  I used to work in fast food, Golden Arches.<p>I noticed a pattern after a while. We&#x27;d always have themed toys for the Happy Meals, sure, sometimes they&#x27;d be like ridiculously popular with people rolling through just to see what toys we had.<p>Sometimes, they wouldn&#x27;t. But we&#x27;d still have the toys, and on top of that, we&#x27;d have themed menus and special items, usually around the same time as a huge marketing blitz on TV. Some movie would be <i>everywhere</i> for a week or two, then...poof!<p>Because the movies that needed that blitz were always trash. Just forgettable, mid, nothing movies.<p>When the studios knew they had a stinker, they&#x27;d push the marketing harder to drum up box office takings, cause they knew no one was gonna buy the DVD.<p>Good products speak for themselves. You advertise to let people know, sure, but you don&#x27;t have to be obnoxious about it.<p>AI products almost all have that same desperate marketing as crappy mid-budget films do. They&#x27;re the equivalent of &quot;The Hobbit branded menus at Dennys&quot;. Because no one really gives a shit about AI. For people like my mom, AI is just a natural language Google search. That&#x27;s all it&#x27;s really good at for the average person.<p>The AI companies have to justify the insane money being blown on the insane gold rush land grab at silicon they can&#x27;t even turn on. Desperation, &quot;god this bet really needs to pay off&quot;.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  Good idea. I think companies are implementing all this complex stuff on their own today. But many probably also just have tight training of staff on what kind of refunds or discounts they can give, and manage it by sampling some amount of chat logs. It’s low tech but probably works enough to reduce the cost of mistakes.


type: comment
by: jayd16
text:
  This doesn&#x27;t even make sense even if you believe it.  Why wouldn&#x27;t both sides of any argument use &quot;a superhuman persuasion engine&quot;?


type: comment
by: petee
text:
  One issue i see is that it&#x27;s a sealed package; it wouldn&#x27;t be immediately apparent if someone added extra hardware&#x2F;functionality.<p>More likely though I&#x27;d expect you&#x27;d just get some form of a clone device


type: comment
by: lenkite
text:
  What about these ones ? They are considered memory-safety&#x2F;soundness issues<p>&#x27;static closures&#x2F;FnDefs&#x2F;futures with non-&#x27;static return type are unsound <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;84366" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;84366</a><p>Resolve unsound interaction between noalias and self-referential data (incl. generators, async fn) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;63818" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rust-lang&#x2F;rust&#x2F;issues&#x2F;63818</a>


type: comment
by: almosthere
text:
  &gt; Is it possible for an entire social structure to be based on lies? Is it possible for a society to pretend to be something completely different to what it actually is? The ethnographic record says yes. In fact, it’s the norm.<p>Same can be said for UFOs. Whether or not they exist, since there is no evidence that has a reliable chain of custody we end up with people saying there is no evidence. In fact you can be a direct witness and be told - no, you were on drugs and the picture you took of that UFO was a drug fueled weekend in Photoshop.<p>And society will continue to do this.


type: comment
by: UltraSane
text:
  Audiobooks are awesome because I can listen to them while doing other things like walking or biking or lifting weights. And the best narrators actually improve the books like The Hail Mary Project and Blood Meridian.


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  You appear to have glossed over the two projects in the list that are stuck due to architectural decisions, and don&#x27;t have any route to migrate off of git-as-database?


type: comment
by: simoncion
text:
  &gt; Stuff like the Indie Awards disqualifying Clair Obscur not on merit but on this teeny tiny usage of AI just sits wrong with a lot of people, me included.<p>From the &quot;What are the criteria for eligibility and nomination?&quot; section of the &quot;Game Eligibility&quot; tab of the Indie Game Awards&#x27; FAQ: [0]<p>&gt; Games developed using generative AI are strictly ineligible for nomination.<p>It&#x27;s not about a &quot;teeny tiny usage of AI&quot;, it&#x27;s about the fact that the organizer of the awards ceremony excluded games that used <i>any</i> generative AI. The Clair Obscur used generative AI in their game. That disqualifies their game from consideration.<p>You could argue that generative AI usage shouldn&#x27;t be disqualifying... but the folks who made the rules decided that it <i>was</i>. So, the folks who broke those rules were disqualified. Simple as.<p>[0] &lt;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiegameawards.gg&#x2F;faq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.indiegameawards.gg&#x2F;faq</a>&gt;


type: comment
by: noahjk
text:
  This is a big use-case for me that I&#x27;ve gotten used to while using Open-WebUI. Being able to easily branch conversations, edit messages with information from a few messages downstream to &#x27;compact&#x27; the chat history, completely branch convos. They have a tree view, too, which works pretty well (the main annoyances are interface jumps that never seem to line up properly).<p>This feature has spoiled me from using most other interfaces, because it is so wasteful from a context perspective to need to continually update upstream assumptions while the context window stretches farther away from the initial goal of the conversation.<p>I think a lot more could be done with this, too - some sort of &#x27;auto-compact&#x27; feature in chat interfaces which is able to pull the important parts of the last n messages verbatim, without &#x27;summarizing&#x27; (since often in a chat-based interface, the specific user voicing is important and lost when summarized).


type: comment
by: trinsic2
text:
  I know this will probably not come off very well in this community. But there is something to be said about criticizing the very thing you are supporting. I know in this day and age, its not easy to survive without contributing to the problem in some degree.<p>Im not saying nobody has the right to criticize something they are supporting, but it does say something about our choices and how far we let this problem go before it became too much to solve. And not saying the problem isn&#x27;t solvable. Just saying its become astronomically more difficult now then ever before.<p>I think at the very least, there is a little bit of cringe in me every time I criticize the very thing I support in some way.


