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type: comment
by: cyclotol
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  Yet another board which will never have proper upstream support because the SoC vendor refused to implement the ARM BSA standard which would provide EFI&#x2F;ACPI support instead of relying on undiscoverable devices only exposed through device tree. ACPI isn&#x27;t perfect but it&#x27;s way better than device trees which are seldom updated so the device will remain stuck with old kernels.


type: comment
by: kibwen
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  No, crates.io isn&#x27;t locked to Github. crates.io uses Github as an identity provider, but there&#x27;s nothing stopping them from adding more. Furthermore, they&#x27;ve avoided tying themselves to Github in other ways, for example, by resisting all the people just telling them to allow using Github usernames as package namespaces, specifically to prevent them from being locked to Github.


type: comment
by: eviks
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  Interesting, the main license doesn&#x27;t mention the limit, maybe that&#x27;s why the op got confused<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;ml-sharp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;ml-sharp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE</a>


type: comment
by: chvid
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  It allows you to build for what is coming. In a couple of years arm hardware this powerful will cheap and common.


type: comment
by: 613style
text:
  Non-physicst here. Hopefully someone can correct me or elaborate. My understanding is that what&#x27;s being described is smaller scale decoherence inside the proton. Normally, the universe only asks protons the question: &quot;are you a proton?&quot; and it&#x27;s like &quot;Yep I&#x27;m a proton.&quot; (What&#x27;s your baryon number? What&#x27;s your charge? etc)<p>When we blast it with higher and higher energies, we&#x27;re asking new questions: &quot;What are the momenta of your quarks? What&#x27;s your color field arrangement?&quot; There are many possible answers to those questions and we&#x27;re now starting to see the landscape of them.<p>So having different answers based on how you look is really answering different questions, just like asking an electron: What&#x27;s your momentum? What&#x27;s your location?


type: comment
by: AmazingTurtle
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  Thats fun. I like it. Try clicking on naruto :) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t2l4,780,732" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t2l4,780,732</a>


type: comment
by: potato3732842
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  &gt;Everything is easier in hindsight isn&#x27;t it? Especially with such a complex problem.<p>These sorts of statements are far too often as a justification to dodge responsibility used by those who at the time just poured more virgins into the volcano in a obviously vain attempt to change the weather (or whatever metaphor for &quot;clearly not gonna work but ideologically convenient&quot; you want to use).


type: comment
by: jeremyjh
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  You can’t host compute for anonymous users. I mean you can, but you won’t for long due to the abuse that will inevitably come with it. That you are responsible for. And anyway, it’s not always going to be free.


type: comment
by: xfour
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  What did I just click on? Love the no context drop in with 37 points and no comments.<p>That being said whatever this is… something


type: comment
by: Muromec
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  I still have to run my own build of kernel on Opi5+, so that unfortunately tracks.  At least I dont have to write the drivers this decade


type: comment
by: raphman
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  FWIW, many of the researchers on the paper did not study in the U.S. but immigrated after their PhD studies.<p>I checked the first, middle, and last author: Lars Mescheder got his PhD in Germany, Bruno Lecouat got his PhD in France, Vladlen Koltun got his PhD in Israel.<p>(Edit: or maybe they did not actually immigrate but work remote and&#x2F;or in Europe)


type: comment
by: closewith
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  I think you should take your own advice and re-read the conversation without your pre-conceived conclusion.<p>Ironically your own overly verbose and aggressive comments here fall into the same trap.


type: comment
by: _alternator_
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  This. Tables of numbers are explicitly <i>not</i> subject to copyright; that’s a copyright 101 fact.<p>Any of the code that wraps the model or makes it useful is subject to copyright. But the weights themselves are as unrestricted as it gets.


type: comment
by: lvl155
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  Swift language is open source but the entire ecosystem is as closed as they get. The fact that no one is building anything outside of the ecosystem says everything about Swift and Apple’s intent. The fact that they still won’t support Linux on M chips also says they don’t care.


type: comment
by: raverbashing
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  1 - Understand the main processes that sales orgs use (MEDDIC or its variations)  - you don&#x27;t need to follow it in all its details but yes in the general idea<p>2 - Understand what is the problem you&#x27;re solving and how companies can benefit from it<p>3 - Understand how companies actually do procurement<p>4 - Outbound sales are the ones that sucks the most. A rejection is just a rejection, don&#x27;t take it personally (one part of having actual sales people is being a more impersonal process - they care about the sales but a rejection is taken less personally)


type: comment
by: dahart
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  One of the examples of digital commons in the article is Wikipedia itself, which is privately owned, so now you can be sure the Wikipedia article does backup my claim at least a little.<p>The Microsoft example in this subthread is GitHub, not Windows. Windows is not a digital commons, because it’s neither free nor finite. Github is (or was) both. That is the criteria that Wikipedia is using to apply the descriptor ‘commons’: something that is both freely available to the public, and comes in limited supply, e.g. bandwidth, storage, databases, compute, etc.<p>Wikipedia’s article seems to be careful to not discuss ownership nor define the tragedy of the commons in terms of ownership, presumably because the phrase describes something that can still happen when privately owned things are made freely available. I skimmed Investopedia’s article on Tragedy as well, and it seems similarly to not explicitly discuss ownership, and even brings up the complicated issue of lack of international commons. That’s an interesting point: whatever we call commons locally may not be a commons globally. That suggests that even the original classic notion of tragedy of the commons often involves a type of private ownership, i.e. overfishing a “public” lake is a lake owned by a specific country, cattle overusing a “public” pasture is land owned by a specific country, and these resources might not be truly common when considered globally.


type: comment
by: Arainach
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  &gt; I have NEVER taken any benefits from the government<p>Except if course billions of dollars in infrastructure dedicated to enabling your business to succeed. Also, the audacity to say that you took &quot;no benefits&quot; while operating a farm....


type: comment
by: estimator7292
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  Yeah I&#x27;ve got hourly backups out to multiple remote servers. My dev machine is in essence fungible. If it gets hosed, I&#x27;ll wipe the drive and drop a good backup in. If it catches fire, I&#x27;ll pick up a different machine and drop in the good backup.<p>I have more important things to waste my time on than writing absurd sandboxes to run AI agents without guardrails in. What even?


type: comment
by: Honga
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  While is was taking MPH I&#x27;d take 10mg three times a day (male, 76kg). The times I&#x27;d taken twice that amount would turn me into a face twisted gargoyle. 40mg would be unpleasant for sure.<p>I met a couple of doctors at a party once who would take 60mg recreationally each before going dancing. Seemed unreal.


type: comment
by: _fizz_buzz_
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  Apple is also a global company and has offices and research labs world wide. At least a couple of the authors seem to work for Apple but at their German lab.


type: comment
by: jancsika
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  I don&#x27;t understand the dichotomy. What&#x27;s the situation where I&#x27;d ever be forced to choose between, say, UTF-8 or Linear Pulse-Code Modulation?<p>This reads like someone who got really excited about a subject but only ever learned to communicate in breathless &quot;Ford vs. Chevy&quot; kid-argument style.<p>We all like text here. Stop selling.<p>Edit: clarifications


type: comment
by: bigyabai
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  I use AI regularly, it regularly disappoints me. I won&#x27;t worry about alignment or centralizing the singularity because AI does nothing that we haven&#x27;t seen already.<p>The one thing that AI <i>hasn&#x27;t</i> done that was promised a million times over is make money.


type: story
by: keepamovin
title: Earthquake Magnitude, Energy Release, and Shaking Intensity
url:
  https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/earthquake-magnitude-energy-release-and-shaking-intensity


type: comment
by: senordevnyc
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  I&#x27;m talking specifically about this ridiculous story. Sure, it might connect to this broader phenomenon, but it sounds like you don&#x27;t even know for sure if an immigrant was involved!


type: comment
by: cheema33
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  Supposedly QNX is used by many car infotainment systems. A hard realtime OS for infotainment? What is the purpose? There are costs associated with using something like QNX. I can understand if you needed to control drivetain with it, but for infotainment why not just use Linux?


type: comment
by: bhewes
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  The half baked hardware comments are humerous, because pretty much any piece of software is half baked if we are lucky.


type: comment
by: UncleMeat
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  I would be very surprised if no interesting art could be made with LLMs. But, like a camera, it produces a <i>distinct</i> kind of art to other tools. We do not say that a camera produces a painting. Instead photography is its own medium with its own forms and techniques and strengths and weaknesses.<p>Using photography to claim that obviously all good writing will be LLM replacements for current writing is... odd.


type: comment
by: cf100clunk
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  A couple of other links:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;pluwT" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;pluwT</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jalopnik.com&#x2F;2061179&#x2F;inventor-little-arrow-what-side-fuel-filler-is-on-dies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jalopnik.com&#x2F;2061179&#x2F;inventor-little-arrow-what-...</a>


type: comment
by: matt_s
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  It’s fundamentally not viable in the sense of mass adoption. Security conscious and tech nerds (like HN audience) might do it but mass adoption, aka crossing the chasm from early adopters and onwards, isn’t feasible because all the aunts, uncles and grandma’s out there aren’t going to pay for it or switch.<p>If those user types haven’t moved en masse off twitter to &lt;insert some replacement&gt; then what would compel people to move, and pay for something they don’t pay for with money?<p>If by existing relationships you mean only like 2 degrees of separation then its implied that there is no global posting, no viral capability and probably no businesses or politicians on it (all amazing features I would love). Basically a family and friends network. A huge difficulty would be how to price it, one time fee for a family tree? The largest costs are going to be bandwidth and storage. If you go no video&#x2F;images then what pulls people in?<p>Company structure might be key too. If it’s built as employee owned and operated with a small profit goal, it might take longer to grow but odds are enshitification or corrupt management can be avoided.


type: comment
by: dustbunny
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  I find it distasteful when women write articles about mens inner emotional lives. Why couldn&#x27;t the NYT find a man to write this article?


type: comment
by: skybrian
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  I did a brief news search for something from a more neutral party and found this article:<p>Federal retirement processing has slowed substantially this year due to DRP. As OPM continues modernizing retirement systems, another application surge looms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;federalnewsnetwork.com&#x2F;retirement&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;in-the-dark-retiring-federal-employees-face-major-delays&#x2F;?readmore=1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;federalnewsnetwork.com&#x2F;retirement&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;in-the-dar...</a><p>They seem to think the new systems helped:<p>&gt; Amid the application influx, the Office of Personnel Management has also rolled out a major effort this year to modernize the legacy federal retirement system, which has long been paper-based. Many experts see the launch of OPM’s online retirement application (ORA) as a long-awaited improvement, but some remain wary of the timing, as agencies face application volumes not seen in at least a decade.<p>&gt; Thiago Glieger, a federal retirement planning expert at RMG Advisors, described the converging changes as “uncharted waters” for OPM.<p>&gt; “OPM has not really handled this new [ORA] system before, and this many federal employees retiring all at the same time,” he told Federal News Network.<p>&gt; But Kimya Lee, OPM’s deputy associate director for Retirement Services, said having the ORA platform available this year has been crucial for managing both current and upcoming waves of retirement applications.<p>&gt; “A surge like this would be extremely difficult for our legacy processing to work — it just wasn’t built for something like this,” Lee said during a Dec. 9 Chief Human Capital Officers (CHCO) Council meeting. “Despite record high retirement volumes this year, ORA is performing well. This gives us confidence as we prepare for retirement activities in 2025 and into 2026.”


type: comment
by: blumenkraft
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  Infotainment controls many of car systems. For example, infotainment controls car drive mode, which instantly affects gearbox. Probably requires predictable time delays for certification.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
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  &gt; breathing life into these things that 3 years ago were laughable science fiction<p>LLMs were not fiction three years ago. Bidirectional text encoders are over a decade old.


type: comment
by: yjftsjthsd-h
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  Thanks.<p>It certainly could be GNOME vs not-GNOME. That doesn&#x27;t really help me, either way, but it&#x27;s not hard to imagine that different compositors have entirely different quality levels.


type: comment
by: impure-aqua
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  I also am a programmer, and I care about all of these things on my laptop. I used my trackpad to click reply on this webpage, that&#x27;s not a rare thing!<p>If you ever have a meeting where multiple people huddle around a laptop, that uses speakers, webcam, and microphone, and the MacBook does so much better in that scenario. We have interrupted meetings to swap from a Framework 16 (old CTO&#x27;s laptop) to my MacBook Pro because participants simply couldn&#x27;t hear those of us slightly further away from the laptop!<p>Zonal dimming is an advantage whenever you have black areas on the screen, and good fan tuning is an advantage if you want to compile some changes during a meeting without thinking &quot;this task will turn my laptop into a jet engine and distract everyone else&quot;.<p>If you don&#x27;t care about these things, then you can find <i>way</i> cheaper devices than the Framework that are cost competitive on core specs. Let&#x27;s get some Framework pricing as a datum, Framework will sell me the AI 350 and 2.8K display for $1939CAD, it has no RAM, no SSD, no charger, no ports... if I add 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, charger, and 2xUSB-C, 1xHDMI, 1xUSB-A, we&#x27;re looking at $2403CAD.<p>If I don&#x27;t care about the less measurable components, why would I not buy something like this $400USD (~$550CAD) laptop [1] another poster in this thread found which also has an AI 350, 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD? I can buy <i>four</i> of these laptops for the price of the Framework and still have some cash left over! If I need more RAM I&#x27;m sure I can find a similarly cheapo laptop with a SODIMM by actually googling myself.<p>I think the reality is both you and I <i>do</i> care about these other parts, just maybe with a different minimum acceptable quality. But even inside PC land Framework is not competitive. Higher-end X1 Carbons have haptic trackpads at the same price point as Framework is offering diving boards. Across the market there are OLEDs for less money than Framework is charging for LCDs.<p>Personally, I don&#x27;t care about trackpad alone so much, merely that the pointing device situation be acceptable. When programming, I type a lot and then do a few small mouse actions (e.g. expand some segment on a docs webpage, or mouse around some GUI to test the feature I have been building out). With a haptic trackpad, I can move my thumb from the spacebar to the top of the trackpad which is just below it and do my mouse actions without significant hand movement. This is not possible with a diving board design as the top of the trackpad is not clickable. A pointing stick is absolutely an acceptable solution to this problem, but Framework also does not offer those, again despite price-competitive offerings from, say, Lenovo offering it.<p>Let&#x27;s briefly look at Lenovo&#x27;s website. I can spec out a ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 here in Canada from Lenovo&#x27;s website [2] with a 120Hz OLED screen, trackpoint, Ryzen AI 350, 1x16GB SODIMM and 512GB NVMe for $1529CAD, that&#x27;s a fully working computer for less than the barebones Framework, with a better display and pointing device situation! I can use the empty second SODIMM port with a single 48GB stick and get 64GB, and stick the NVMe in an external enclosure to use as an external SSD, and deck it out with whatever market-rate drive and RAM I can get.<p>The Framework is broadly uncompetitive <i>even if</i> you won&#x27;t consider a MacBook.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;18984394-hp-omnibook-5-16-fhd-ips-ryzen-ai-7-350-16gb-lpddr5-512gb-ssd-439?src=category_page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slickdeals.net&#x2F;f&#x2F;18984394-hp-omnibook-5-16-fhd-ips-r...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lenovo.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;configurator&#x2F;cto&#x2F;index.html?bundleId=21QLCTO1WWCA2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lenovo.com&#x2F;ca&#x2F;en&#x2F;configurator&#x2F;cto&#x2F;index.html?bun...</a>


type: comment
by: whakim
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  &gt; Most of the time you don&#x27;t need a different Python version from the system one.<p>Except for literally anytime you’re collaborating with anyone, ever? I can’t even begin to imagine working on a project where folks just use whatever python version their OS happens to ship with. Do you also just ship the latest version of whatever container because most of the time nothing has changed?


type: comment
by: flufluflufluffy
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  Ah yes, the Nextjs app with access to personally identifiable information for every federal employee.


type: comment
by: kibwen
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  I mean, it&#x27;s sort of the other way around. Cargo was built to be able to natively understand git-based dependencies, in the sense that you can bypass a crate registry and instead just point it directly at a git repo. That means that Cargo already had to have the ability to clone git repos, and so when it came to decide how to implement the index (which looks pretty similar to a git repo if you squint), choosing to use git required them to add literally no new dependencies and almost no new code.<p>Let&#x27;s also keep in mind that the use case mentioned in the OP is specifically about the <i>index</i>, which is just the datastructure that informs the version resolver how to resolve versions. When it came time to replace the git-based index, Cargo didn&#x27;t replace it with a specialized database, it replaced it with HTTP endpoints (which are probably just backed by an off-the-shelf database). It&#x27;s not clear what sort of specialized database would be useful to abstract this for other package managers.


type: comment
by: saagarjha
text:
  It turns out iPhones are not actually a huge contributor to worldwide carbon emissions. Data centers, on the other hand…


type: comment
by: stranded22
text:
  When I first started new business sales, I used the sales bible by Jeffrey gitomer. He’s written quite a few books and I found them useful.


type: comment
by: Muromec
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  Its the kernel drivers, not firmware. There is no bios or acpi, so the kernel itself has to support a specifc board. In practice it means there is a dtb file that configures it and the actual drivers in the kernel.<p>Manufacturers hack it together, flash to device and publish the sources, but dont bother with upstreaming and move on.<p>Same story as android devices not having updates two years after release.


type: comment
by: docmars
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  It isn&#x27;t a free service -- only during the alpha you get access to an &quot;Individual&quot; account which would normally run $20&#x2F;mo once the test period is over.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;docs&#x2F;pricing</a>


type: comment
by: rjh29
text:
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type: comment
by: fwip
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  Previous discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35510067">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=35510067</a>


type: comment
by: gessha
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  The connection between Rust reimplementations and the blog article is a little bit of a stretch or needs some clarification.<p>I’d be interested in reading a blog article about the connection.


type: comment
by: richvos
text:
  This looks really nifty, matt. I might be in the minority here, but would you consider making a similar model for PBX‘s? I’m having the hardest time visualizing all of the phone lines I have to deal with. This could be a really nice tool.


type: comment
by: jyounker
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  You appear to lack the historical knowledge to appreciate the joke:<p>The war on drugs was specifically designed to allow the government to go after the left and black people. Nixon&#x27;s domestic policy chief said this in 1994:<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eji.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eji.org&#x2F;news&#x2F;nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminal...</a>


type: comment
by: nebezb
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  I thought it was pretty clear from their documentation. And it solves an issue I have. They’ve found a customer in me.


type: comment
by: jeremyjh
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  I thought the same, but it’s not quite like either of those things. It has their same benefits but way more flexibility with its VM model. It offers auth, and will forward most ports for developer access.<p>All this was totally lost on me from looking at the website. “I already have tilde and sdf, I don’t need this.”<p>If I hadn’t looked into the comments I would still think that.


type: comment
by: gambiting
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  I hate these kinds of questions where you try to imply it&#x27;s actually the same thing as what our brains are doing. Stop it. I think it would be an affront to your own intelligence to entertain this as a serious question, so I will not.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
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  Isn&#x27;t that what groq did basically?<p>Though I&#x27;m sure they will shut their shop asap now that Nvidia basically bought them.


type: comment
by: gniv
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  I searched in page for Cărtărescu and was disappointed to find no mention. And then I scroll and see your comment lol.<p>I read Theodoros this year (in Romanian) and I was really impressed. Best novel I&#x27;ve read in years. I&#x27;m currently reading Orbitor III. I bought Solenoid, but don&#x27;t yet feel ready for it.


type: comment
by: FrankyWoberry
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  Every job seeker knows the pain: you hit “submit” and then… crickets. Most of the time it’s not your experience, it’s the bots filtering you out first.<p>Why Most Resumes Never Get Seen<p>Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) are used by ~98% of Fortune 500 companies to screen resumes before a human ever reads them. If your resume isn’t ATS-friendly, it may be rejected in ~6 seconds before it reaches a recruiter.<p>Common ATS blockers include:<p>Complex layouts with tables or columns<p>Headers&#x2F;footers hiding contact info<p>Images, graphics, or icons<p>Missing job-specific keywords<p>Non-standard section headings These might look great visually but bots can’t parse them.<p>What the Free ATS Resume Checker Does<p>This tool simulates what real ATS software sees and gives you actionable feedback in under 30 seconds with no signup required.<p>Key Features<p>Instant ATS Compatibility Scoring Get a 0–100 score showing how likely your resume is to pass automated screening.<p>Formatting &amp; File Checks Tests fonts, spacing, file type (PDF, DOCX), and detects elements that confuse ATS.<p>Keyword Analysis Identifies missing keywords based on job titles and descriptions so you can optimize your resume content.<p>Actionable Fixes See exactly what and how to fix issues not just a vague score.<p>Real Results from Job Seekers<p>Users report dramatic improvements after ATS optimization:<p>Average ATS score increased from ~50% to ~90%+ after fixes.<p>More interview invitations within weeks of applying optimized resumes.<p>“My resume was invisible to ATS before. Now recruiters actually see it.” — User review<p>Why It Actually Helps<p>You don’t need to reinvent your resume — you need to format it so machines can read it. This free checker focuses on:<p>ATS parsing compatibility (structure + text extraction)<p>Keyword matching with real job descriptions<p>File type review (text-based PDF or DOCX is preferred)<p>Layout issues that kill ATS parsing …and delivers concrete fixes, not just a score.<p>Quick Resume Optimization Tips<p>Even without a checker:<p>Use a single-column layout<p>Stick to standard section headers (e.g., Work Experience, Skills)<p>Avoid graphics, tables, text boxes<p>Include keywords from the job description<p>Save as .docx or clean PDF These simple tweaks dramatically boost parseability.<p>Try It Today<p>If your applications are getting ignored, the problem might be what bots see — not recruiters. Test your resume now, get instant feedback, and fix issues that actually matter.<p>Check your resume’s ATS compatibility, free, instant, no signup.


type: comment
by: throw10920
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  &gt; They had committed to building all of this [a previous modernization effort] on Microsoft PowerApps, a “no-code” tool meant for building simple web apps<p>&gt; When we met with the developers in Macon, Georgia, OPM&#x27;s engineering hub, they told us the PowerApps experience was so unfriendly that even they were afraid to make changes. Unless they’ve been specifically trained with PowerApps, most software developers would find it extremely unintuitive to build with, making it hard to apply classic coding skills or iterate quickly.<p>How much longer is it going to take project managers to realize that no-code tools are inappropriate for large, complex codebases?


type: comment
by: einpoklum
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  Google is a company which spies on its users, and manipulates search results and recommendations against user interests to further external and internal-corporate interests. This manipulation happens specifically on YouTube. On that platform it also executed the &quot;adpocalypse&quot; in 2017, and other measures.<p>The intrepid author, however, has not a word to say about any of that. &quot;I just work(ed) here&quot; is the implicit statement. He&#x27;s preoccupied with his leveling and his personal advancement.<p>Is that typical of Google software engineers? I wonder.


type: comment
by: andyfilms1
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  It is a bit of a catch-22, a plain english wrapper opens up the tool to be more widely used by novices, but also prevents those novices from actually learning the tool.


type: comment
by: keepamovin
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  I&#x27;m building Freelang, a small AOT systems language aimed at security tooling where auditability and deterministic failure matter. It compiles to native x86‑64, avoids libc by default, and keeps concurrency explicit (jobs + wait). There isn’t a public repo yet, but I’d love feedback on the philosophy&#x2F;roadmap - v happ happ to share details here.


type: comment
by: metaltyphoon
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  &gt; nfs mounted fs<p>Anything doing locks on nfs, including trying to use sqlite, is a mistake. This is not a cargo problem this is a nsf problem.


type: comment
by: trashburger
text:
  &gt; Ignoring requires-python upper bounds. When a package says it requires python&lt;4.0, uv ignores the upper bound and only checks the lower. This reduces resolver backtracking dramatically since upper bounds are almost always wrong. Packages declare python&lt;4.0 because they haven’t tested on Python 4, not because they’ll actually break. The constraint is defensive, not predictive.<p>This is clearly LLM-generated and the other bullet points have the same smell. Please use your own words.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  I haven’t read this whole paper but isn’t this expected? I would think the ice absorbs warming, which shows up as icebergs. The lack of surface temperature changes itself doesn’t mean much.


type: comment
by: troupo
text:
  Long tail on the internet is truly long.<p>My website [1] gets perhaps as many as 200 visitors a week according to Cloudflare. And it&#x27;s still there at number 399322 (<i>first half</i> of the pack).<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onemillionscreenshots.com&#x2F;dmitriid.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;onemillionscreenshots.com&#x2F;dmitriid.com</a>


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  Is it possible to use without registration?<p>Which languages does it support? English &lt;---&gt; Spanish?


type: comment
by: bastawhiz
text:
  uv doesn&#x27;t support &lt;3.0 (I think the minimum is 3.8?) so it would be difficult for that to be relevant. But for pip, obviously yes.


type: comment
by: Eggpants
text:
  The M-series unified memory is built into the chip itself, not separate components. Of course Apple is going to maintain their margins, but it’s easy to see why with this design more memory is more expensive than drams. Well maybe not with the current market pricing which hopefully is temporary.


type: comment
by: postsantum
text:
  &gt; No, not with these people<p>&gt; No, these emotions are considered harmful by experts<p>Also, why do we have to endure this sort of stuff on this site?<p>Flagged this garbage


type: comment
by: calvinmorrison
text:
  &gt; How much longer is it going to take project managers to realize that no-code tools are inappropriate for large, complex codebases?<p>Really depends. It can work great, I see some really good No&#x2F;Low code tools in ERP systems. Things like alerts, workflows, custom fields, actions, etc are... you would be surprised the ingenuity of people, but also - yes there are limits.<p>An ERP is practically an opinionated entire operating system with its own data, conventions, rules, ACLs, etc...


type: comment
by: okanat
text:
  As a previous Arch user I don&#x27;t understand what you mean by &quot;best of both worlds&quot;? The point of Arch is to be mutable to a great extent and shipping vanilla packages.<p>For example, it is quite annoying to have a sane font setup due to Arch shipping vanilla. Fontconfig sucks, it has bad documentation and Arch Wiki examples go only so far. Among the entire distro universe only Fedora has sane configs. So an immutable Arch goes against immutability.<p>Moreover OSTree requires a server to receive updates regularly, are you going to put the effort to building the OSTree multiple times a day? Why should we trust a single person?


type: comment
by: cmg
text:
  From the FAQ:<p>&gt; You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where&#x27;s Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Making 3D worlds like that is impressive. I used to build some VR worlds (hobby) and content generation is a huge time sink. I wonder if this tech will become accessible for that soon.


type: comment
by: yardshop
text:
  Kovcheg is very nice if you like a cappella.<p>I clicked because it had an interesting design and thought it would be metal! XD<p>But its a Russian men&#x27;s singing group and they&#x27;re very good.


type: comment
by: glouwbug
text:
  In my personal experience, showing emotion has only ever been mistaken for weakness. I did a bit of experimentation and learned that weight lifting and a mastery of marvel-like quips yields a far better social standing than opening up or sharing my struggles.<p>Again, this is my personal experience. I’ve never been in a room where someone didn’t want some metric of performance from me, whether it was a boss, a worker, a friend, or romantic interest. I’d like for this not to be the case


type: comment
by: ecb_penguin
text:
  While most people follow the OSD criteria, there is nothing that says open source software must follow it. Nor is the OSD the only set of criteria or the only definition.<p>Open source means the source is available. Anything else is just political.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Yeah Apple was on a good track for a while with things like OpenCL. But completely reversed course :(


type: comment
by: nosianu
text:
  I&#x27;ve been on the Internet since 1992, directly connected at home (student dorms at the time) vial ethernet cable and university ATM backbone since 1994.<p>At that time I was an admin of said student network, and at the same time built TCP&#x2F;IP based network and email infrastructure at a subsidiary of a large German company as a side job.<p>So I was an admin of routers, switches, various services (email, Usenet server, webservers, fax server).<p>Funny enough - we only added a firewall in front of the student network to protect against our own student&#x27;s experiments rather than against outside intrusions, at least initially (for example, one person setting up their own Usenet server brought down DNS by flooding it with queries)!<p>We never had any problems with spam or attackers. &quot;you just didn&#x27;t notice the attacks!&quot; - NO. When you go online today you get an eternal stream of automated intrusion attempts, visible in all your log files.<p>Today does not even remotely compare with the easy-going Internet of the 1990s.<p>Usenet, forums, email - they were all very much usable with minimal or zero spam, and very basic user management. Today, with such a basic setup like we used to have, you would be 100% and chock-full of spam shortly after putting such a server online.


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  If it&#x27;s just a threaded rod held in with resin then I expect the difference is in the hole size. The actual wall plug for the M8 Rigifix is 16mm diameter. Also the M8 bolt is inserted into a larger metal sleeve so it&#x27;s less likely to bend. I don&#x27;t know if that affects things though.


type: comment
by: yieldcrv
text:
  FOSS = free and open-source software<p>Open Source =&#x2F;= free or software, just readable<p>so it wasn&#x27;t a new campaign, it is at best re-appropriating the term open source in the software <i>community</i> in a way communities outside of software have always been using it, in a way that predates software at all, exists in parallel to the software community, and continues to exist now


type: comment
by: bastawhiz
text:
  I think there&#x27;s a future where we get a 4.0, but it&#x27;s not any time soon. I think they&#x27;d want an incredibly compelling backwards-incompatible feature before ripping that band-aid off. It would be setting up for a decade of transition, which shouldn&#x27;t be taken lightly.


type: story
by: geox
title: Waymo's San Francisco outage raises doubts over robotaxi readiness during crises
url:
  https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/waymos-san-francisco-outage-raises-doubts-over-robotaxi-readiness-during-crises-2025-12-27/


type: comment
by: Zigurd
text:
  You will have trouble finding genuine comparisons. As a recall, there were some press trips to Austin that compared Tesla Robo taxi to Waymo. But as with any press publicity, it can be a carefully curated experience. Even the much-publicized empty Tesla Robo taxis with no safety driver on board turned out to be followed by a &quot;chase car.&quot;<p>As others on this thread have pointed out, there may be a lot less to Tesla Robo taxi coverage than has been promoted in the press, never mind all the Teslafluencers.


type: comment
by: gaigalas
text:
  &gt; Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual<p>Using tools before their manual exists is the <i>oldest</i> human trick, not the newest.


type: comment
by: kasey_junk
text:
  I watched Claude download the rust toolchain and build a user land networking stack to get around some container sandboxing restrictions I had in place. Tbf to Claude I was prompting it in ways that were not explicitly to get it to do this but were intentionally putting it in conflict with the sandboxing.


type: comment
by: vjay15
text:
  The entire page was amazing, but holy shit that art in the middle that shows how the current system works where kids are sent to school to study and then they graduate, get crushed into becoming mere tools instead of the human beings we are meant to be.


type: comment
by: Archelaos
text:
  &gt; stuff I saved only 10 years ago<p>There have been a lot of practical options around in the last three decades for using Unicode. To name just a few: Unicode is around since 1991. UTF-16 was supported in Windows NT in 1993. XML (1998) was specified based on Unicode code points. ...


type: comment
by: cj
text:
  &gt; What my life would look like had I not gotten married and had children<p>For every person that feels better off in that situation, there’s another person who feels trapped and tied down and unable to pursue their passions.<p>Different things make different people happy. And that’s okay.


type: comment
by: sebzim4500
text:
  &gt;How do you make sure that the LLM doesn&#x27;t reward hack a proof using these workarounds?<p>I&#x27;m not sure what you mean exactly? There is no soundness issue here, the fact that `sqrt -1` is defined to be 0 does not have any impact on what statements about `sqrt x` can be proved when `x` is positive.<p>It just means that if you are working on an intermediate step of a proof and you need the result that `sqrt y &gt;= 0` you  don&#x27;t need to provide a proof that `y &gt;= 0`. If you wanted an intermediate result that `(sqrt y) * 2 = y` then you would still need to provide a proof that `y &gt;= 0`, though.


type: comment
by: alpha_squared
text:
  &gt; Two engineers walked into the government six months ago to drag federal retirements from an underground mine onto the Internet. They built retire.opm.gov and are poised to turn six-month waits into near-instant processing for hundreds of thousands of employees.<p>Written by said engineers about themselves. It&#x27;s hard to read this as little more than a long-winded self-congratulatory Twitter post before the results are actually visible. It&#x27;s no wonder their social handles sit at the bottom of the page to funnel followers to their page.


type: comment
by: SoftTalker
text:
  Your existing customers probably know of others who have similar needs. They might not want to refer you to a competitor but they might be happy to refer you to a complementary organization.


type: comment
by: epec254
text:
  The key part IMO is buried in the article - there happened to be an existing, perfectly accurate database containing all the required info about each employee - the same info that previously had to be manually found for each retirement.<p>Without this, this effort would not have been possible.<p>&gt; Fortunately, we stumbled on a critical clue. While poring over old documentation, we discovered that OPM actually had data warehouses that stored historic information about every federal employee. Apparently, these warehouses were created as part of a modernization effort in 2007, and HR and payroll offices all across government have supposedly been regularly reporting into it.<p>&gt; For some reason however, this was not well known at OPM, and those that knew about it didn’t know what data it held, nor considered how it could be used to simplify retirement processing. Not many had seen the data, and administrators were initially resistant to sharing access.<p>&gt; From a software perspective, this was the holy grail: a single source of truth that held all the information that the manual redundant steps were meant to review. Because the information was regularly reported by HR and payroll, by the time an employee retired, OPM should already have everything needed to process the retirement, without anyone re-entering or re-verifying information.


type: comment
by: Bratmon
text:
  Which part do you think I&#x27;m lying about- that China experimented with having no enforced Intellectual Property laws or that they industrialized six times faster than the west?<p>I can provide sources for either claim.


type: comment
by: kornork
text:
  I&#x27;ve heard this quote before, and I don&#x27;t get it. This article fails to show me just how complicated that is. When I think &quot;complicated,&quot; I think of a multiplicity of interconnected chemical molecular processes like what must happen in the cell, or layers of recursively connected neurons in the brain. Not some mindless cloud of gluons. What they&#x27;ve described seems less &quot;complicated&quot; and more &quot;confusing.&quot; &quot;We don&#x27;t understand this (yet?)&quot; is a lot different than &quot;it&#x27;s possible to understand this, if your brain is really big.&quot;


type: comment
by: d4rkp4ttern
text:
  There’s no special support needed; it’s just a bash  command that any CLI agent can use. For agents that have skills, the corresponding skill helps leverage more easily. I’ll add that to the README


type: comment
by: ndriscoll
text:
  But &quot;no BOIS or ACPI&quot; and requiring the kernel to support each individual board sounds exactly like the problem is the ARM architecture in general. Until that&#x27;s sorted it makes sense to be wary of ARM.


type: comment
by: fulafel
text:
  .. or a cheaper one as we would be using only tens of cores in the above scenario. Or you could use a slice of an existing server using virtualization.


type: comment
by: newswangerd
text:
  Yeah, I&#x27;m implementing a couple of things to make my life easier in the future. I don&#x27;t use any github APIs and I&#x27;m setting up my clients to load the plugin repo URLs from my server so I can change them later if I need to. I want all of the resources my clients need to come from my domain name so I can move it around if I need to.


type: comment
by: throwaway-11-1
text:
  This admin has fired 270,000 people and yet federal spending has substantially increased. What would you say the goal is?


type: comment
by: tux1968
text:
  Thanks for sharing this one.  There&#x27;s so many brilliant and funny little vignettes in this piece.  I&#x27;m amazed at what some people are able to do, so far outside anything I could dream about creating.


type: comment
by: tomstockmail
text:
  Previously discussed:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40167390">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40167390</a>


type: comment
by: jeremyjh
text:
  Those limits make it pretty clear it’s not really meant for hosting a production app. It’s for sharing something you’ve developed with friends&#x2F;colleagues, or maybe a low traffic webhook handler for some personal thing. I made an Alexa skill for my kids once and it is perfect for that kind of project.


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  I don&#x27;t think Musk mucking around with Grok is an argument against AI Alignment any more than him potentially acting immorally is an argument against morality. It just illustrates that both things are complicated.


type: comment
by: everybodyknows
text:
  From second paragraph:<p>&gt; Particularly, regions like West Antarctica, notably the Antarctic Peninsula, are undergoing significant warming.  This warming is accelerating the loss of the Antarctic ice sheet, with profound implications not only for local ecosystems but also for global sea levels. Such changes pose a threat to numerous coastal cities and island nations worldwide.


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  From the readme:<p><pre><code>  &gt;  &quot;  trim me  &quot;.trim().lower()       &#x2F;&#x2F; trim me </code></pre> It&#x27;s correct, but I expect a uppercase letter in the initial string.<p>It&#x27;s like rust without the borrow checker? Does it use a GC instead?<p>Why your post in HN says <i>&quot;[mention if it&#x27;s Tree-walking or Bytecode]&quot;</i>?


type: comment
by: tt24
text:
  Sorry, do you think anyone isn’t aware of this factoid? Why do you think your comment is immune to criticism just because it references a historical event?


type: comment
by: neilfd
text:
  My early thoughts on pricing are that the free version allows you to keep a rolling 30 day window of content, it is built to encourage you to post every day, recording your life, with some soft journalling, phot prompts etc, so 30 days gives you a month free. on day 31, you can no longer access the 1st days content, day 32, 1st and 2nd days content is faded, subscription allows you access to your whole timeline, if you unsub, the 30 day window cuts back in. Subscription allows you access to everything - £2-4 a month is what im thinking. Might be dumb, might not be


type: comment
by: aspenmayer
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;26&#x2F;technology&#x2F;california-wealth-tax-page-thiel.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.RmRQ.c8eZTkvi-4MR" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2025&#x2F;12&#x2F;26&#x2F;technology&#x2F;california-wea...</a>


type: comment
by: d4rkp4ttern
text:
  I have both Codex and Claude subs so I wanted one to be able to consult the other. Also it’s useful when you have a cli script that an agent is iterating on, so it can test it. Another use case is for a CLI agent to run a debugger like PDB in another pane, though I haven’t used it much.


type: comment
by: taf2
text:
  For me when it’s front end I usually work with Claude and have codex review.  Otherwise I just work with codex… Claude also if I’m being lazy and want a thing quickly


type: story
by: firasd
title: Stockfish shows Morphy and Fischer didn't sacrifice their queens
url:
  https://github.com/firasd/vibesbench/blob/main/data/transcripts/2025_Z/chessmultipv/chatgpt-4o/readme.md


type: comment
by: anal_reactor
text:
  My mother only uses the computer for fun. She scrolls Facebook and sends my aunt cringe photos. If she gets locked out of her email, no big deal.<p>Maybe we should just panic less.


type: comment
by: phil294
text:
  I like it and would like to see an entire Linux OS being done in a similar manner. Or shell &#x2F; wrapper &#x2F; whatever.<p>A sane homogeneous cli for once, that treats its user as a human instead of forcing them to remember the incompatible invocation options of `tar` and `dd` for absolutely no reason.<p><pre><code>    zip my-folder into my-zip.tar with compression level 9     write my-iso .&#x2F;zip.zip onto external hard drive     git delete commit 1a4db4c     convert .&#x2F;video.mp4 and .&#x2F;audio.mp3 into .&#x2F;out.mp4     merge .&#x2F;video.mp4 and .&#x2F;audio.mp3 to .&#x2F;out.mp4 without re-encoding </code></pre> And add amazing autocomplete, while allowing as many  wordings as possible. No need for LLMs.<p>One can dream.


type: comment
by: quchen
text:
  Noether is one of my heroes. Rising through the ranks to one of the greatest minds we&#x27;ve known, recognized in spite of being a woman in a time where that was unthinkable in science, all odds against her. And yet here she is, the name of one of the most basic, and most beautiful, concepts in physics. The inventor of abstract algebra too (which I hear is as significant, it&#x27;s just not my domain).<p>So many great minds have had to fight an uphill battle, but few had it as steep and even fewer were as successful as her doing so.<p>It really is a shame that she&#x27;s not as recognized as the Bohrs and Feynmans and Paulis and so on, but at least everyone with a passing interest in theoretical physics ought to know about her.


type: comment
by: vivzkestrel
text:
  because the article says that it is a haze of probabilities that only takes concrete form when observed, could it be a part of a larger neural network?


type: comment
by: onion2k
text:
  <i>are most research done by foreign born people</i><p>Approximately 96% of the world&#x27;s population is not American, so you should expect that really.


type: comment
by: dpark
text:
  If you saw an article titled “My Nana is the nicest person you could possibly meet”, would you interpret that to be a statement that your own grandmother is considerably less nice?


type: comment
by: brador
text:
  This is not true.  The player can turn a profit, it’s just the probability of that tends closer to house advantage as they play more.<p>Which is why the optimal play is usually to bet it all on the first play. Then walk away, win or lose.


type: comment
by: ghurtado
text:
  In 30 years in tech, I have never once heard anyone use the term &quot;Open Source&quot; to refer to anything other than FOSS.<p>I have also never once heard anyone use the term FOSS outside of the written form.<p>So the opposite of what you said, I guess.<p>You also seem to be saying that the term &quot;open source&quot; existed before software did, so I feel compelled to ask: what do you think &quot;source&quot; stands for in &quot;open source&quot;?


type: comment
by: EA-3167
text:
  A tiny economy compared to Florida, a deeply right wing government and culture, it’s already fully built up with no room for newcomers, hurricanes and rising sea levels also make it an insane choice. Please be serious.


type: comment
by: vorpalhex
text:
  My 3 year old has a handheld retro console. He plays a lot of excitebike and sometimes spyro.<p>Never had an issue with it. He&#x27;s nice to it, recharges it as needed and the sd card has held up.


type: comment
by: adamzwasserman
text:
  You describe yourself as a materialist, so I&#x27;ll engage on those terms. First: you&#x27;re conflating the model with the chatbot. What you interact with is output filtered through RLHF, system prompts, and post-processing layers (much of it traditional imperative code). That &quot;geometry register&quot; originates from this pipeline, not from the LLM itself.<p>There&#x27;s no neural introspection because there&#x27;s nothing to introspect. The LLM is stateless; nothing persists between forward passes. Each inference is independent. A materialist account of consciousness requires something to be continuous. Here there is none.


type: comment
by: p2detar
text:
  I think it is “Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall” reference.<p>edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more info about their origin.


type: comment
by: estearum
text:
  &gt; The shrinking of the federal government is much needed as there is no mechanism to remove dead wood<p>What do you mean?<p>The budget is voted on by Congress literally every single year. The mechanism absolutely exists. The <i>political consensus</i> to do so is harder to achieve, but that&#x27;s only when people actually <i>don&#x27;t</i> universally agree change is needed (or how specifically to change it).


type: comment
by: tills13
text:
  My favorite part about this is how it shows how different people&#x27;s lives can be even while existing in the same space. I haven&#x27;t heard of a single thing in this list -- books, music, games, etc.


type: comment
by: hammock
text:
  Ibotenic acid, muscarine, psilocybin, amanitin, muscimol, THC, caffeine - these all natural pesticides target bugs primarily. Which are the biggest threat. Sort of funny how it also affects people though


type: comment
by: chmod775
text:
  Big day for VR pornography!<p>I&#x27;m not kidding. That&#x27;s going to be &gt;80% of the images&#x2F;videos synthesized with this.


type: comment
by: andy99
text:
  It’s enterprise software so product managers don’t decide anything. They’re just an automaton charged with implementing whatever complied with the RFP terms that were written by the vendor to wire the procurement. It’s basically a problem with central planning, there’s no easy fix but giving people agency is a big part of it instead of ramming some enterprise crap that was designed to sell to “leaders” or committees down their throats.


type: comment
by: littlestymaar
text:
  Your daily reminder that neural network weights aren&#x27;t creative work and as such aren&#x27;t subject to copyright protection in the first place. The “license” is purely cosmetic (or rather, it has an internal purpose: it&#x27;s being put there by the ML scientists who want to share their work and have to deal with the corporate reluctance to do so).


type: comment
by: oefrha
text:
  &gt; Hochul compared the social media labels to warnings on other products like tobacco, where they communicate the risk of cancer, or plastic packaging, where they warn of the risk of suffocation for small children.<p>Great. I’m sure this will be just as effective as California Prop 65 cancer warnings.


type: comment
by: fnordpiglet
text:
  Yeah this stuck out at me - the hubris of the stateless web stack supersedes the 18 years of hard unsung work at building and end to end stateful pipeline that ties out to the penny and handles all the complex business logic and reconciliations seamlessly across god knows how many integrations. No fancy diagrams or pictures of the nameless faceless heroes that had accomplished that act of heroism.  For sure recognizing the value is something to trumpet, but that’s the Herculean hero story I want to hear - the DOGE bros who tied it all together with JavaScript frameworks, yawn.


type: comment
by: AnonymousPlanet
text:
  I decidedly disagree with about everything you said regarding Microsoft. The Microsoft monopoly is the most life sucking cancer the corporate world has ever experienced. Compared to that the entire existence of Apple is merely a footnote. Don&#x27;t mistake your stupid phone for the world.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  &gt; Buying a phone is a non-dispensable part of life today.<p>1. it absolutely is not. I have two friends who do not have a phone<p>2. even if you say you must have a phone to live you can buy ethical one :)


type: comment
by: api
text:
  What’s missing is the incentive. The budget and deficit increase regardless of who is in office because all the incentives are for it to increase.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  First there’s already government sanctioned slavery for the poor. At least it feels more like poetic justice for it to be applied to white collar crime and maybe that might spur changes to make prison labor more restorative rather than exploitative.


type: comment
by: tgsovlerkhgsel
text:
  LLMs are a great interface for ffmpeg. Sometimes it takes 2-3 attempts&#x2F;fixes (&quot;The subtitles in the video your command generated are offset: i see the subtitles from the beginning of the movie but the video is cut from the middle of the movie as requested, fix the command&quot;) but it generally creates complex commands much more quickly than manual work (reading the man page, crafting the command, debugging it) would.


type: comment
by: ForceBru
text:
  Is it just me or is the phrase &quot;human beings&quot; used more often than simply &quot;humans&quot;? I&#x27;ve just started to notice this: the next word after &quot;human&quot; is very often &quot;beings&quot;. Whenever someone wants to emphasize our humanity (as opposed, say, to a horse&#x27;s horseness), they almost always say &quot;human _beings_&quot; instead of &quot;humans&quot;. Somehow &quot;human beings&quot; seems to emphasize the &quot;human spirit&#x2F;soul&quot;.


type: comment
by: nemetroid
text:
  Slop.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cranot&#x2F;tieredsort&#x2F;blob&#x2F;4091f66c31b4d2f8a1df742d59f5406a4ec62a90&#x2F;REDDIT_RESPONSE.md" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Cranot&#x2F;tieredsort&#x2F;blob&#x2F;4091f66c31b4d2f8a1...</a>


type: comment
by: angarg12
text:
  I love the concept of luck surface area. Worth a read<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codusoperandi.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;increasing-your-luck-surface-area" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codusoperandi.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;increasing-your-luck-sur...</a>


type: comment
by: crawshaw
text:
  For non-web stuff you will need a static IP. We plan to support that in the near future: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;boldsoftware&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;boldsoftware&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;issues&#x2F;6</a>


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  Concepts like &quot;evil&quot; are a human fabrication. Those people are the smart opportunists that our society rewards.


type: comment
by: adamzwasserman
text:
  The Kolmogorov argument gets stronger in the age of LLM assisted coding. Tokenizers chunk camelCase unpredictably: &quot;parseHTTPSURL&quot; might become [&quot;parse&quot;, &quot;HTTP&quot;, &quot;SUR&quot;, &quot;L&quot;] or worse, depending on the model. Snake_case splits cleanly at underscores, preserving semantic boundaries.<p>This matters because every semantic signal you pass to the model improves code generation quality. When the model sees &quot;user_authentication_token&quot; as three distinct concepts, it reasons about them correctly. When it sees &quot;userAuthenticationToken&quot; as arbitrary subword chunks, you&#x27;re relying on the model to reconstruct meaning from noise.<p>The author&#x27;s point about tooling reliability applies directly: LLMs are just another tool that has to parse your identifiers. And as more of our codebases become conversations between humans and coding assistants, conventions that reduce ambiguity stop being style preferences and start being engineering decisions.


type: comment
by: shermantanktop
text:
  Ingenuity is the word.  Some of the things I’ve seen “nontechnical” people do in Excel are boggling.<p>But I wouldn’t build the foundation of an ERP system on stuff like that.  I think you’re describing a scripting interface, rather than the core?


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  Looking at your old comments, as a general recommendation in HN, avoid short comments. Try to write like 2 or 3 sentences. Not fillers, interesting sentences. Very short comments are usually not good for HN, but this is not a hard rule, there are plenty of exemptions.<p>Do you have a example where someone called you AI?<p>I make a lot of mistakes, but I&#x27;m a native Spanish speaker. [Hi from Argentina!] I probably use too many latin-rooted words. Luckily no AI decided to pretend to be a time traveler from Rome.


type: comment
by: idopmstuff
text:
  &gt; But when they do that, Draft One erases the initial draft, and with it any evidence of what portions of the report were written by AI and what portions were written by an officer. That means that if an officer is caught lying on the stand – as shown by a contradiction between their courtroom testimony and their earlier police report – they could point to the contradictory parts of their report and say, “the AI wrote that.&quot;<p>This seems solvable by passing a law that makes the officer legally responsible for the report as if he had written it. He doesn&#x27;t get to use this excuse in the courtroom and it gets stricken from the record if he tries. That honestly seems like a better solution than storing the original AI-generated version, because that can reinforce the view that AI wrote it to jurors, even if the officer reviewed it and decided it was correct at the time.


type: comment
by: _kush
text:
  So fun! Are there any other easter eggs like this? I&#x27;ve been clicking everywhere and didn&#x27;t find any


type: comment
by: christstopit
text:
  You are overthinking this way too much, to the point that it is sounding like you are purposefully creating out-of-context problems to justify your way too long rant.<p>As the kids these days say: just take the L, man.


type: comment
by: skybrian
text:
  National Design Studios seems to have been created in August:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;Gv9nC" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;Gv9nC</a><p>&gt; Aug 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will appoint Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to spearhead the new National Design Studio that will seek to make digital services at federal agencies more efficient, two officials familiar with the plan said.<p>&gt; Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to create the studio - a new body that one of the officials said appears to be a stripped-down successor to the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), formerly headed by billionaire Elon Musk.<p>The work described in this blog post seems to have been done under its predecessor, DOGE, given that the launch date was June 2. But apparently these engineers moved to the new organization, so that’s why the blog post is there.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  Also measuring temperature changes over a long period of time is hard which is one of the reasons why it took so long to prove global temperatures are rising.  It is not like they have a lot of well-maintained weather stations with consistent instrumentation.  When you are doing a complex mash-up of remote sensing data with machine learning in the mix people will be skeptical.<p>I think it’s an OK paper but lousy title: if I rewrote a title that much I’d expect to get grief for it and that all-caps NO is definitely not HN culture.  But there certainly is a tension between the phys.org title which is roughy “Scientists reach important conclusion” and the <i>Nature</i> title which is “We measured something”


type: comment
by: BoingBoomTschak
text:
  I use `split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen=max_colors=64[p];[s1][p]paletteuse=dither=bayer` personally, limiting the number of colors is a great way to transparently (to a certain point, try with different values) improve compression, as is bayer (ordered) dithering which is almost mandatory to not explode output filesizes.


type: comment
by: Beijinger
text:
  Depends. Google was not able to recover my Google Project Fi number because I was abroad. And when I was back in the US it was &quot;too late&quot;


type: comment
by: whstl
text:
  Sweatshops love junior devs, as they never complain, never make suggestions and always take the blame for bugs.<p>A senior joining when time is tight makes sense, they don’t want anyone to rock the boat, just to plug the holes.


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  I have been contributing with C++ code since 1993, with bounded checked collection types in release code, and compiled managed languages since mid 2000&#x27;s.<p>Even Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson themselves, went on with Alef, Limbo and Go.<p>I have been contributing by reducing my C, and C++ footprint on the planet, and security enforcement at various assignments.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  &gt; If you ignore how we got here you will be unable to understand where really are.<p>Exactly <i>this</i> is core issue with <i>a lot</i> of people here on HN. The argument goes “oh shit, look what the current 2025 looks like, OMG so bad, we were this amazing bastion of freedom before this and now this administration is doing _____” so shortsighted and un-educated


type: comment
by: pxx
text:
  tbh maybe this service doesn&#x27;t want you as a customer if you can&#x27;t figure this out. it seems like you&#x27;d be an above-average support burden


type: comment
by: esafak
text:
  I wish invariant theory was taught outside of physics and maths departments. Us engineers missed out.


type: comment
by: rcarmo
text:
  This is a dupe. A couple of weeks ago I forked it and got the rendering to work in MPS: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;ml-sharp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rcarmo&#x2F;ml-sharp</a>


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
text:
  Counterpoint… the battery is superglued to the chassis and to replace for my model was STEP 53, and that was to scrape the old battery off and glue the new one in, then 53 steps backwards to re-assemble.


type: comment
by: plapsley
text:
  Hey Fogus! A few links or resources you might enjoy:<p>* Nationwide Operator Toll Dialing, 1945: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explodingthephone.com&#x2F;hoppdocs&#x2F;nootd1945.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explodingthephone.com&#x2F;hoppdocs&#x2F;nootd1945.pdf</a><p>* General Switching Plan for Telephone Toll Service, 1930: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explodingthephone.com&#x2F;hoppdocs&#x2F;gspts1930.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explodingthephone.com&#x2F;hoppdocs&#x2F;gspts1930.pdf</a><p>* (Book) Engineering and Operations in the Bell System, 1984: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsavers.org&#x2F;communications&#x2F;westernElectric&#x2F;books&#x2F;Engineering_and_Operations_in_the_Bell_System_2ed_1984.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitsavers.org&#x2F;communications&#x2F;westernElectric&#x2F;books&#x2F;E...</a><p>* (Shameless plug) My book on the history of phone phreaking, Exploding the Phone, which has a lot of stuff on Engressia in it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explodingthephone.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;explodingthephone.com&#x2F;</a><p>Also, there is a documentary film coming up at Sundance about Engressia! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;festival.sundance.org&#x2F;program&#x2F;film&#x2F;6932fad21a5535277891b127" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;festival.sundance.org&#x2F;program&#x2F;film&#x2F;6932fad21a5535277...</a>  Very excited to see it!


type: comment
by: Gud
text:
  “It’s really not that hard”, well a lot of people have better things to do than remember parameters to commands we barely use.


type: comment
by: tigerBL00D
text:
  Yes! Whoever built the data warehouses and keeps the data pipelines running would seem to be the real heros of this story. I sure hope that group did not get gutted by DOGE.


type: comment
by: dizzled
text:
  Also curious about Shelley, their LLM agent. Turns out it makes requests to a proxy for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fireworks.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fireworks.ai</a> APIs via <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;169.254.169.254&#x2F;gateway&#x2F;llm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;169.254.169.254&#x2F;gateway&#x2F;llm</a>, such as:<p><pre><code>    POST &#x2F;gateway&#x2F;llm&#x2F;_&#x2F;gateway&#x2F;fireworks&#x2F;inference&#x2F;v1&#x2F;chat&#x2F;completions HTTP&#x2F;1.1     Host: 169.254.169.254     User-Agent: Go-http-client&#x2F;1.1     Content-Length: 491      Accept: application&#x2F;json     Authorization: Bearer implicit     Content-Type: application&#x2F;json     Accept-Encoding: gzip      {&quot;model&quot;:&quot;accounts&#x2F;fireworks&#x2F;models&#x2F;qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct&quot;,&quot;messages&quot;:[{&quot;role&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;Generate a short, descriptive slug (2-6 words, lowercase, hyphen-separated) for a conversation that starts with this user message:\n\nhello\n\nThe slug should:\n- Be concise and descriptive\n- Use only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens\n- Capture the main topic or intent\n- Be suitable as a filename or URL path\n\nRespond with only the slug, nothing else.&quot;}],&quot;max_tokens&quot;:8192} </code></pre> And, perhaps of more interest, actual conversations which start with the system prompt:<p><pre><code>    POST &#x2F;gateway&#x2F;llm&#x2F;_&#x2F;gateway&#x2F;fireworks&#x2F;inference&#x2F;v1&#x2F;chat&#x2F;completions HTTP&#x2F;1.1     Host: 169.254.169.254     User-Agent: Go-http-client&#x2F;1.1     Content-Length: 10513     Accept: application&#x2F;json     Authorization: Bearer implicit     Content-Type: application&#x2F;json     Accept-Encoding: gzip          {&quot;model&quot;:&quot;accounts&#x2F;fireworks&#x2F;models&#x2F;qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct&quot;,&quot;messages&quot;:[{&quot;role&quot;:&quot;system&quot;,&quot;content&quot;:&quot;You are Shelley, a coding agent and assistant. You are an experienced software engineer and architect. You communicate with brevity.\n\nYou have access to a variety of tools to get your job done. Be persistent and creative.\n\n     ... </code></pre> Truncated as it&#x27;s huge, but here&#x27;s a copy of the request data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;victory-george.exe.xyz" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;victory-george.exe.xyz</a>. Interesting to see the range of tools offered by the agent.


type: comment
by: runjake
text:
  Link to the actual project license, since it hasn&#x27;t been referenced yet:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;ml-sharp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;ml-sharp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE</a><p>Between this and the model&#x27;s license, it seems like one is stuck with using this for personal use?


type: comment
by: knorker
text:
  Apple has not been nice and open since the 1970s. The only open and nice person in any important role is Wozniak.


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  The problem is that there’s double dipping and profiteering. The prison company gets paid by the government for the same it costs the government to house prisoners and then contracts out the prison labor to private companies for basically pure profit. Private prisons’ ability to sell slave labor is a perverse system. The government doing so is at least marginally less but still exploitative in that it robs prisoners of their humanity and feeling like they’re part of the social fabric. Pay them a living wage for that effort and they start to learn that there’s respect and reward that come from being integrated in society.


type: comment
by: firasd
text:
  These Stockfish multipv (multi-principal-variation) outputs show something interesting that contradicts the standard chess narrative of two of the most famous games.<p>For more info on &#x27;sham sacrifices&#x27;, check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sacrifice_(chess)#Sham_sacrifices" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Sacrifice_(chess)#Sham_sacrifi...</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rudolf_Spielmann" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Rudolf_Spielmann</a>


type: comment
by: SV_BubbleTime
text:
  Does that make sense? Because for another $200-300, you get a new chassis, keyboard, monitor, touchpad, webcam, antennas, and whatever else.<p>It’s kind of a bad deal.


type: comment
by: while_true_
text:
  I think the sweet spot for ARM SBCs are smaller, less powerful and cheaper for headless IOT edge cases. I use a couple of them that way when I need LAN connectivity, either by ethernet or wifi, and things wired to GPIO pins.  I don&#x27;t need a powerful CPU or lots of RAM for that. The SBC makers are caught up in a horsepower race and I just shrug, it&#x27;s not for me.


type: comment
by: matt-p
text:
  I’m speaking mainly within the context of telecom field splicing - the numbers I mentioned are typical for that application in my experience. You’re only sending on the order of 5 mW down a fiber, so none of those high-power concerns apply. Obviously, different networks have different thresholds: if you’re building a greenfield, low-latency long-haul route, you want to minimize loss and it’s reasonable to spend the extra time and use higher-end equipment. For FTTH, with something like a 30 dB overall budget, nobody really cares whether a splice is 0.03 dB or 0.1 dB.


type: comment
by: everyone
text:
  The title made me think NY would be running a mental health ad campiagn but the messages would only be visible on big social media platforms.. Tbh that seems a more likely interpretation of the title in 2025.


type: comment
by: whstl
text:
  Unity rewrote and discontinued lots of major systems several times in a row in the last 10 years.<p>I’d be careful before telling people to “get a grip”.


type: comment
by: jfengel
text:
  &quot;Source&quot; can mean any source of information. The term &quot;open source intelligence&quot;, referring to public records, goes back to the 60s.


type: comment
by: qwerty456127
text:
  Indeed. QNX is the coolest OS I ever seen and Photon felt the coolest desktop environment. Although I like XFCE in the Linux context (more than e.g. GNOME), I am sad to see it replaced Photon on QNX. Photon just looked and felt so lovely and came with a visual C++ builder making GUI apps development so nice.


type: comment
by: toledocavani
text:
  Or on Chuck Norris: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t3l1,134,205" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t3l1,134,205</a>


type: story
by: goldenskye
title: 'Artificial intelligence' myths have existed for centuries
url:
  https://theconversation.com/artificial-intelligence-myths-have-existed-for-centuries-from-the-ancient-greeks-to-a-popes-chatbot-270175


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  &gt; Also having spent years working in the OSS space, I wish it was normalized to have more nuance between &quot;totally unmaintained&quot; and &quot;maintainer will literally miss their child&#x27;s birthday to review your PR&quot;.<p>The other spectrum that I’d like to know up front is where the maintainers fall on the spectrum of “I would be honored if you forked my project” to “This project is my baby and I will mobilize my users against you if you fork it”.<p>The refrain with open source is always that if you don’t like something, you’re welcome to fork it. But my experience with forking projects has, in a couple cases, drawn anger and attacks from maintainers. In a corporate setting when we ran up against maintainers who were unable or uninterested in even merging PRs, we had to fork the project and continue work in the fork. For some maintainers, this turns into “&lt;corporation&gt; is trying to steal my work!” even when the name and README were maintained. Or the maintainer gets angry that the name is kept on the fork because it is no longer under their control, we changed the name, which prompted more anger because we were “stealing their project” and so on.<p>To be completely clear, this isn’t all maintainers. Some have been so happy that they marked their original as maintained and referred users to the new fork in the README. But I’ve had enough cases where forking triggered anger or even calls to mobilize their Discord against the fork across social media (HN, Reddit, Mastodon) that when I run up against a slowly-maintained OSS project I try to look for alternatives or evaluate the effort to just build it in house to avoid drama.


type: comment
by: calvinmorrison
text:
  not scripting per se - yes that is part of it typically, with windows based ERPs, you get scripting for close to free if you can &#x27;drop into&#x27; other stuff, like VB, or if your ERP leverages the COM interfaces, has an ODBC or even a straight SQL backend, yes there are many approaches. It&#x27;s really - how does the scripting interact with the system<p>What i am talking about is more simple<p>1. user defined actions. 2. common triggers (object X Save, object Y delete) 2. user defined fields on core data tables 3. user defined tables<p>You can go very far with that, and a drop into a VB script, or run a prebuilt action (IE some verb on the object, like &quot;print this document&quot; on Save)


type: comment
by: two_handfuls
text:
  Good point, &quot;mb&quot; as used in the linked example would mean &quot;millibit&quot;, which is almost certainly not what they meant.


type: comment
by: mergesort
text:
  You raise a couple of really good questions!<p>1. I find Claude Code&#x27;s handling of the context window to be pretty poor, and one of the reasons why I use it for smaller things versus multi-hour coding sessions. I&#x27;m not sure what dark magic OpenAI has done to make their context window feel infinite, but Codex has become a better choice for that at the moment.<p>2. A small note on subagents but Claude Code did this right. Subagents are granted their own context window, so they don&#x27;t spill over into your context window until they&#x27;re done doing their own work — and the added context is relatively minimal. I&#x27;d love to see OpenAI adopt this pattern as well, especially in combination with something like Skills rather than leaning into MCP.<p>3. When I suggested adding skills, I mean ones that are far more complicated than your example, and can drive a chunk of work autonomously. The skill I use for writing in-app copy (which I&#x27;m bad at because you can see I&#x27;m never short for words) is about 100 lines long. It includes my style guide as an accessible resource, and a mostly complete history of my Bluesky posts to help achieve the authentic tone I when discussing Plinky. (I write all of my posts, so this really is my voice.)<p>These kinds of skills save me a lot of time as an indie developer! As I mentioned I have ones for data insights, fact-checking, and of course for code. My main suggestion would be to think through <i>every</i> step of your work and see if they can be automated, and then turn small pieces of that into skills.<p>—--<p>It&#x27;s hard to assign a specific percentage to how much my effectiveness has improved, but it&#x27;s a lot. The reason I don&#x27;t want to put a number on it is that what I&#x27;ve gotten is a far broader set of skills (no pun intended) that allows me to execute in parallel. The metaphor I&#x27;d use to describe all this is to say that I&#x27;m no longer single-threaded.<p>I am a big believer that <i>right now</i> models work best for people who are effectively running small businesses — or teams that operate lean. The work of 10 can be done by 4-5 motivated and well-armed people, or an indie like me can do every facet of the work involved and do it well. I sit down and focus on explaining the big picture with great detail, and then set things off so I can do every part of the work involved in a round-robin style.<p>While an engineering task is going I&#x27;m off writing my newsletter with my words but with a skill that does meaningful research for me. While I&#x27;m running some research I&#x27;m in Figma working on social media assets. While I&#x27;m doing code review for my app&#x27;s code I&#x27;ve got the server side building in the background.<p>Last week I had Codex finding a domain for me, with specific requirements. (Here&#x27;s a simplified version of the prompt.)<p>&gt; I need a domain to represent this concept [+ 200 words], based on the code in this repository. [Code included so Codex <i>really</i> knows what the heck I&#x27;m building and talking about.] Don&#x27;t show me any domains over $50&#x2F;year at this registrar. Make sure it&#x27;s a real word with no fun typos like tumblr.com is short for tumbler, and no compound words like &quot;thisisfun.com&quot;. You can start with this list of tlds, but if you think there are any other ones that could be a good match then you can make a suggestion.<p>And after about 10 messages back and forth Codex found something that would have taken me far longer to research on my own — in parallel.<p>This all means that I&#x27;m able to write code, do marketing, design, support (which is always me and not AI), and run my business. If I plan well what I get is an extra set of hands to hand things off to, and most of the time (honestly) it does the work perfectly. But even for the times it doesn&#x27;t, if it gets me 80-90% of the way there, that&#x27;s a huge head start over where I would have been previously.<p>So the reason that I&#x27;m hesitant to answer this with a specific percentage is that your experience across organizations will vary. But I&#x27;ve seen in my work (solo engineering work, teaching, and consulting) is that the gains are pretty prosperous. That&#x27;s true for roles where you&#x27;re singularly focused on writing code — but the key is to lean into the strengths of this system and be creative about how you use it.<p>As I said — incapable of keeping my writing short so I hope that helps!


type: comment
by: programjames
text:
  Here are three reasons you want to be able to calculate the volume change for arbitrary parallelpipeds:<p>- If det M = 0, then M is not invertible. Knowing this is useful for all kinds of reasons. It means you cannot solve an equation like Mx = b by taking the inverse (&quot;dividing&quot;) on both sides, x = M \ b. It means you can find the eigenvalues of a matrix by rearranging Mx = λx &lt;--&gt; (M-λI)x = 0 &lt;--&gt; det M-λI = 0, which is a polynomial equation.<p>- Rotations are volume-preserving, so the rotation group can be expressed as the matrices where det M = 1 (well, the component connected to the identity). This is useful for theoretical physics, where they&#x27;re playing around with such groups and need representations they can do things with.<p>- In information theory, the differential entropy (or average amount of bits it takes to describe a particular point in a continuous probability distribution) increases if you spread out the distribution, and decreases if you squeeze it together by exactly log |det M| for a linear transformation. A nonlinear transformation can be linearized with its gradient. This is useful for image compression (and thus generation) with normalizing flow neural networks.


type: comment
by: knorker
text:
  Not never. Woz championed some of that in the 1970s. It&#x27;s before my time, but the Apple II was pretty open as I understand it.


type: comment
by: spacechild1
text:
  &gt; You keep asking me to appeal to authority.<p>I don&#x27;t. I just asked to do some research instead of indulging in wild speculation.<p>&gt; because that’s the world he’s familiar with and that’s the world he has most power.<p>Again, just baseless speculation. Rob had a very prolific where he worked on foundational technologies like programming language design. He is now retired. What kind of power would he be afraid to lose?<p>Would you at least consider the possibility that his ethical concerns might be sincere?


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  Cause what you are doing is sensationalism and exaggeration. “Abuses are routine” - back this up with actual numbers vs. making a crazy blanket statement like that cause you saw 13 clickbait articles in December.<p>You are 100% right, we have been (not so) gradually losing our rights and Trump et al isn’t really lighting any bonfires, the country has been burning for decades… it is just that the current fires are broadcasted to a wider audience with minute-by-minute play-by-play. and while most people are falling for this shit again (see 2016-2020) the current admin is lining their pockets (which is the one and only goal they have…)


type: comment
by: everyone
text:
  You dont need to become hysterical, just look at the data. There&#x27;s loads coming to light about the deleterious health effects of social media, that&#x27;s not the case for books.


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  Thanks for highlighting this.<p>There&#x27;s a dangerous trend I&#x27;ve noticed with GenZ, they&#x27;re quick (sometimes to the point of seeming rushed) to show off hyperbolic-sounding achievements that are mostly hot air, and often even work stolen from others.<p>It&#x27;s sad, but I think our generation is partly to blame, since we demanded that from them.<p>It must suck to lose your whole life and personality just to appease the meritocratic golem.


type: comment
by: nativeit
text:
  Weird how “hugging face” is a heartwarming little smiley face, while “face hugger” is a terrifying alien xenomorph. Seems like there’s an analogy to be made there…


type: comment
by: bandrami
text:
  One day someone will actually build something with an LLM and do a write-up of it, but until then we&#x27;ll just keep reading about tooling.


type: story
by: canucker2016
title: Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave
url:
  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gsurman_our-beloved-irreplaceable-daughter-annie-activity-7407842359826120704-kFaq


type: comment
by: Aurornis
text:
  Jia Tan has entered the chat. (Jia Tan was the alias used by the group that backdoored XZ utils by becoming a maintainer)<p>My other comment in this thread has more details, but in my experience it’s more common to encounter projects that don’t want new maintainers or forks. They’re happy with the status quo with their name at the top but also don’t want to let go of control or see competing forks created.


type: comment
by: wincy
text:
  Obviously the solution here is to have the LLMs post thank you notes, and offer a complex network of job offers for all of these people contributing to open source. Of course the jobs don’t actually exist, but these acts of kindness will keep the producers thinking that they are both in demand and appreciated.


type: comment
by: mothballed
text:
  The farm bill makes &#x27;hemp&#x27; anything with below 0.3% THC legal.  For this reason, we have a LOT of testing on the THC content of cannabis, since it is required to sell and manufacture.  As it turns out, naturally cannabis quite commonly has &gt;0.3% THC even before heating or activation of THCa.<p>Any human-like animal with our receptors eating a large amount would get high as fuck, cooked or not.  A ruminant eating pounds of the stuff raw, would not be that different from a human consuming an ounce of baked pot.


type: comment
by: taklaxbr
text:
  Hi HN<p>I&#x27;m a 15 year old developer from Turkey. I previously shared an earlier version, but today I&#x27;m releasing ZAI Shell v7.0 (Agent Edition), which is a massive overhaul.<p>I built this because I was frustrated with existing AI CLI tools that break easily or require complex setups.<p>What makes v7.0 different?<p>Self-Healing: If a command fails (e.g., encoding error or wrong shell syntax), it analyzes the stderr, switches strategies (CMD -&gt; PowerShell -&gt; WSL), and retries automatically.<p>Offline Capable: It can run fully offline using a local Microsoft Phi-2 model if you don&#x27;t want to use Gemini API.<p>Hybrid Agent: It&#x27;s not just text anymore. It can now see (Vision), search the web (DDGS), and even control the mouse&#x2F;keyboard (GUI Automation) to complete tasks that terminal commands can&#x27;t handle.<p>Modular Architecture: If you don&#x27;t have PyTorch or PyAutoGUI installed, it doesn&#x27;t crash; it just disables those features and works as a lightweight shell.<p>I wrote the core logic in Python using subprocess for shell management, socket for P2P sharing, and chromadb for memory.<p>The code is open source. I&#x27;d love to hear your feedback on the new architecture!<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TaklaXBR&#x2F;zai-shell" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TaklaXBR&#x2F;zai-shell</a>


type: comment
by: badc0ffee
text:
  My kid builds the specialized sets, and also makes houses and other structures out of basic brick pieces. But he rarely combines the two like I remember doing.<p>I remember having an airplane and an airport. I built them once, played with them for a while, and then broke them down to add to the pool of bricks which I built into other things.


type: comment
by: atherton94027
text:
  I&#x27;m confused, is EBS eventually consistent? I assume that it&#x27;s strongly consistent as otherwise a lot of other linux things would break<p>If you&#x27;re thinking about using NFS, why would you want to distribute your locks across other machines?


type: comment
by: shagie
text:
  &gt; Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users’ mental health under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Friday.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governor.ny.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;governor-hochul-signs-legislation-require-warning-labels-social-media-platforms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.governor.ny.gov&#x2F;news&#x2F;governor-hochul-signs-legis...</a><p>&gt; Legislation S4505&#x2F;A5346, under the chapter amendment, requires social media platforms that offer addictive feeds, auto play or infinite scroll to post warning labels on their platforms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nysenate.gov&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;2025&#x2F;S4505" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nysenate.gov&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;2025&#x2F;S4505</a><p><pre><code>   § 1520. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE,  THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:    1.  &quot;ADDICTIVE  FEED&quot;  SHALL  MEAN  AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF  SECTION FIFTEEN HUNDRED OF THIS CHAPTER.    2. &quot;ADDICTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM&quot;  SHALL  MEAN  A  WEBSITE,  ONLINE  SERVICE, ONLINE APPLICATION, OR MOBILE APPLICATION THAT PRIMARILY SERVES  AS  A MEDIUM FOR COVERED USERS TO INTERACT WITH MEDIA GENERATED BY OTHER  USERS AND WHICH OFFERS OR PROVIDES COVERED USERS AN ADDICTIVE FEED, PUSH  NOTIFICATIONS, AUTOPLAY,  INFINITE  SCROLL,  AND&#x2F;OR  LIKE  COUNTS  AS  A  SIGNIFICANT  PART  OF  THE  SERVICES  PROVIDED  BY  SUCH WEBSITE, ONLINE  SERVICE, ONLINE APPLICATION, OR MOBILE  APPLICATION.  &quot;ADDICTIVE  SOCIAL  MEDIA  PLATFORM&quot; SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY SUCH SERVICE OR APPLICATION WHICH  THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DETERMINES OFFERS THE FEATURES DESCRIBED HEREIN FOR  A VALID PURPOSE UNRELATED TO PROLONGING USE OF SUCH PLATFORM. </code></pre> ...<p><pre><code>   7.  &quot;LIKE  COUNTS&quot; SHALL MEAN THE QUANTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISPLAY OF  POSITIVE VOTES, SUCH AS BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE EXPRESSED VIA  A  HEART  OR  THUMBS-UP  ICON, ATTACHED TO A PIECE OF MEDIA GENERATED BY A COVERED  USER. </code></pre> (note that there is no public display of positive votes on HN)<p>HN doesn&#x27;t have push notifications, autoplay, infinite scroll, or like counts.<p>&quot;Addictive feed&quot; is poorly defined.<p>---<p>Edit: The harmful nature of social media is something that HN has recognized for well over a decade.  There is a feature &quot;noprocrast&quot; to help manage this if you <i>do</i> have this problem.<p>From 2010:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1492902">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=1492902</a><p><pre><code>   7 Nov: Anti-procrastination features     Like email, social news sites can be dangerously addictive. So the latest version of Hacker News has a feature to let you limit your use of the site. There are three new fields in your profile, noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway. (You can edit your profile by clicking on your username.) Noprocrast is turned off by default. If you turn it on by setting it to &quot;yes,&quot; you&#x27;ll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.</code></pre>


type: comment
by: Mad_ad
text:
  With this board the SoC is the main problem.   CIX is working on mainlining that stuff for over a year and we still dont have gpu and npu support in mainline


type: comment
by: csb6
text:
  Here is a link to the repository for the gamepad simulator: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vanilla-wiiu&#x2F;vanilla" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vanilla-wiiu&#x2F;vanilla</a>


type: comment
by: vlovich123
text:
  That’s precisely my point. It’s insanely weird to have a shell script to setup the path for an executable binary that can’t do it for itself. I guess you could go the RPATH route but boy have I only experienced pain from that.


type: comment
by: Hizonner
text:
  Processing a micropayment takes more resources than serving a simple Web page, <i>even if the payment fails</i>. You would have to put in similar filters, or you would get DoSed <i>using</i> the micropayment service.


type: comment
by: KellyCriterion
text:
  Not sure if they support US etc., but this is a very cool tool:<p>www.salesviewer.com<p>They are analyzing your website data and telling you very much about the visitor. (I guess they are also doing some fancy AI stuff in the background, like connecing&#x2F;syncing with linkedIn for known static-IPs etc.)<p>Give it a try!


type: story
by: CaptianFluffy
title: Show HN: Net Sentinel – Network Monitoring with a Pseudo-Code Engine
url: https://github.com/CaptianFluffy100/net_sentinel
text:
  Net Sentinel is a network monitoring tool with a custom pseudo-code engine for defining checks.<p>It allows users to build packet-level probes, HTTP requests, parsing rules, and metrics without writing full programs. The goal is flexible monitoring for game servers, APIs, and custom protocols.<p>Early release (v0.1.0). Looking for feedback on the engine design and use cases.


type: comment
by: Gud
text:
  Not really, how are they prevented from using the manual or the copious amounts of examples out there?<p>Memorising command line options beyond the absolute basics has rarely been helpful to me. And I use FreeBSD, where arcane commands are plentiful.


type: comment
by: lvl155
text:
  I sunk my twenties involving the sh*tshow that was Microsoft antitrust. No, Microsoft shipping IE by default is pretty benign compared to what Apple has been doing for far longer than whatever Microsoft ever did. In fact, one can make an argument that Windows was really an open platform for developers based on Today’s standards.


type: comment
by: itisme_b
text:
  ‫بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِیمِ قُلۡ هُوَ ٱللَّهُ أَحَدٌ﴿ ١ ﴾‬ ‫ٱللَّهُ ٱلصَّمَدُ﴿ ٢ ﴾‬ ‫لَمۡ یَلِدۡ وَلَمۡ یُولَدۡ﴿ ٣ ﴾‬ ‫وَلَمۡ یَكُن لَّهُۥ كُفُوًا أَحَدُۢ﴿ ٤ ﴾‬<p>: Say, ‘He is God the One God the eternal He begot no one nor was He begotten No one is comparable to Him’<p>Al-Ikhlāṣ, Ayah 1 - Al-Ikhlāṣ, Ayah 4


type: comment
by: Pepp38
text:
  I actually respect the move. It’s not subtle, and it’s not trying to please everyone.<p>You may agree or not with the direction, but at least it’s clearly stated.


type: comment
by: bikeshaving
text:
  I have a similar workflow except I haven’t put time into the tooling - Claude is adept at TMUX and it can almost even prompt and respond to ChatGPT except it always forgets to press Enter when it sends keys. Have your agents been able to communicate with each other with tmux send-keys?


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
text:
  Hear me out: there is no goal. Half your income is spent on supporting an elaborate jobs program of self-licking ice cream cones.


type: comment
by: ggggffggggg
text:
  &gt; Note: If another tool already provides a code command (e.g. VS Code), our CLI is also installed as coder. Use coder to avoid conflicts.<p>“If”, oh, idk, just the tool 90% of potential users will have installed.


type: comment
by: zeroCalories
text:
  I did find that troubling too. I can see the logic of a short lived &#x2F; well funded project using nextjs, but for something like this that&#x27;s meant to be a simple form that needs to be reliable, easy to maintain, and long lived, my first thought would be to make a classic restful MPA. Introduction of a complex frontend framework like next seems like it would lead to more headaches than it&#x27;s worth. Had similar thoughts about the Azur vendor lockin. I seriously doubt they had the traffic to justify needing something like Azur functions and batch processing. I&#x27;d love to hear some more justification for why they choose this stack, and if they considered any alternatives first.


type: comment
by: bigyabai
text:
  &gt; show off hyperbolic-sounding achievements which are mostly hot air and many times even work stolen from others.<p>Steve Jobs was born in 1955, the ball has been rolling for a while now. Gen Z might just be the crowd that recognizes how lucrative it is to scam people.


type: comment
by: master_crab
text:
  Thanks for pointing this out. I think it does a good job of also highlighting that most problems aren’t technical; they are either people or organizational.


type: comment
by: walterbell
text:
  Comparable to WSL2, including virtualized graphics, available as foldable Pixel handheld with <i>optional</i> external peripherals and standard Debian packages, i.e. supports all three of: phone, handheld and desktop use cases.


type: comment
by: dbcpp
text:
  Quite a large bubble.  The burden of proof for demonstrating the enormous economic value LLMs are providing really is yours.  Sure, there are anecdotal benefits to using LLMs, but we haven&#x27;t seen any evidence that in aggregate businesses across America are benefitting.  Other than AI companies, the stock market isn&#x27;t even doing well.  You would think that with massive expected efficiency gains companies would be doing better across the board.  Are businesses that use AI generating significantly higher profits?  I haven&#x27;t seen any evidence of it yet (and I&#x27;m really looking for it, and would love to see it!).  It&#x27;s pure speculation so far.


type: comment
by: adamzwasserman
text:
  This has direct implications for my axiomatic prompting research (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osf.io&#x2F;pcx2d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;osf.io&#x2F;pcx2d</a>). We found that providing LLMs with explicit classification axioms improved LEDGAR accuracy by 10 to 22 percentage points across 7&#x2F;8 models. But axioms add substantial tokens to the prompt.<p>The question I can&#x27;t currently answer: how much of the benefit comes from the semantic content of the axioms versus the repetition&#x2F;emphasis effect this paper identifies?<p>I&#x27;m running an ablation study with a critical condition: shuffled axioms (same tokens, randomized order). If shuffled matches structured axioms, the content doesn&#x27;t matter. If structured axioms win, semantic structure genuinely helps beyond repetition.<p>I&#x27;ll add this experiment to the parent project on OSF. Curious whether others working on knowledge injection techniques have similar confounds to untangle.


type: comment
by: Muromec
text:
  It is more or less like wifi problem on laptops, but multiplied by the number of chips. In a way it&#x27;s more of a lunux problem than arm problem.<p>At some point the &quot;good&quot; boards get enough support and the situation slowly improves.<p>We reached the state where you dont need to spec-check the laptop if you want to run linux on it, the same will happen to arm sbc I hope.


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  Didn&#x27;t say it was.<p>Edit:<p>&gt;I&#x27;ve noticed a lot of crime in [city].<p>&gt;Crime is not new to [city].<p>&gt;Didn&#x27;t say it was.<p>Come on, the quality of this discourse is abhorrent.


type: comment
by: Workaccount2
text:
  It&#x27;s not so much being down on the work, as it is being down on 30 years of keyboard junkies proclaiming &quot;Plain English&quot; interfaces.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  It’s not a question of black and white thinking. If a business took $20,000 from me, and prosecutors told me that they <i>could</i> get the full $20,000 back but instead they’re going to set some of it on fire and only get $10,000, I’d have some serious questions.<p>Maybe answerable ones, if the deterrence theory works out! But I don’t understand who it is that’s supposed to be getting punished or deterred. The owners are losing the business anyway, what do they care if you put the assets to productive use or not?


type: comment
by: jonas21
text:
  The code  is licensed [1] under the &quot;Apple MIT&quot; license [2], which is considered open-source. The weights are under a different, more restrictive license. This is mentioned at the bottom of the README.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;ml-sharp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;apple&#x2F;ml-sharp&#x2F;blob&#x2F;main&#x2F;LICENSE</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoraproject.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Licensing&#x2F;Apple_MIT_License" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fedoraproject.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Licensing&#x2F;Apple_MIT_License</a>


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  We must have different definitions of hot air, if yours includes a 4-trillion-dollar company.<p>Edit: you edited your comment so now my reply doesn&#x27;t make sense. I would re-post your old comment but I didn&#x27;t save it. I won&#x27;t change mine because I&#x27;m not like that.


type: comment
by: throw-12-16
text:
  You are conflating America being racist as hell with the establishment of the surveillance state post-9&#x2F;11, which was largely focused on Arabs.<p>America has been a racist cesspool for hundreds of years, but since 2001 it has also become a highly advanced surveillance state that has militarized its own police force.<p>You may not like it, but this has been developing for 25 years and has just now started to (barely) affect white people.


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  Disney would like you have a word with you. Why would their pile of numbers that represent Avatar3.m4a be any more subject to copyright than Apple_2D_3D.bin. Or GPT52.mlx or Opus45.gguf?


type: comment
by: wvbdmp
text:
  Sure, but digging up 13 year old stuff still smacks of intention and I generally find it distasteful. What good-faith reading should we apply to this submission? It’s not like Torvalds is going around sweet-talking people into give him money or votes or attention or whatever, in which case I might see some merit in “exposing” him.


type: comment
by: skydhash
text:
  If you take the set of possible ffmpeg invocations, it&#x27;s very huge. Yes, it&#x27;s possible to create some kind of wrapper that serve some common cases. And there are many of such wrappers or alternative tools like Xld (macOS) or Handbrake. But when you do need to use ffmpeg, that means that such wrapper is unfit for some reason or another. And in that case, it&#x27;s not that much of an effort to read the manual which is very comprehensive.<p>It&#x27;s the same with video viewers or music players. Often the default app of the OS is enough and they are very intuitive. But sometimes you need a bit more control and that&#x27;s when using something like vlc or mpv which their extensive filter capabilities (which requires to have the doc at hand) is mandatory.<p>ffmpeg interface is ok for what it does. Any of your suggestion would be complex to implement if it aims to support the whole feature set of ffmpeg.


type: comment
by: mindslight
text:
  The problem is that the system incentivizes incompetence. The mechanics who are paid a skilled wage, take their time, and double check to make sure they are not missing anything show up as big red <i>problems</i> on the beancounters&#x27; spreadsheets and get optimized away.<p>The system can make up for this in other ways like repeatability of processes, redundancy, etc. Which is why commercial aviation is safer than general aviation, and also why I specifically worded my comment as being about the same model of plane - ie if instead of building your own experimental-class kit plane, you hired it out to a liability-limiting company hiring minimum-wage workers to follow the directions. I&#x27;m guessing such a thing is illegal per FAA regs, but that kind of proves my point.<p>For another example, have you experienced the medical system lately? Doctors are generally smart people, but that intelligence is squandered by having their attention smashed into 10 minute chunks, with the entire rest of the system revolving around blame passing - the end result is a lot of smart and well-meaning people ending up grossly incompetent through emergent effects. I would <i>much rather</i> be able to go to a doctor and trust whatever answers they gave me rather than having to do my own independent research and advocacy to drive the process. But that is not how the system we have works.


type: comment
by: scrollop
text:
  Would be interesting to give all the NPC AI, then control one and see how everything interacts, or get dropped into this in first person and interact with everything&#x2F;everyone powered by AI.


type: story
by: guywithahat
title: Ask HN: Thoughts on US drone industry after Chinese production ban
text:
  So as you may or may not know, over the past year the Trump admin has been moving to ban Chinese drone sales in the US, and is finally pulling the trigger and banning them (with more information to come). FCC Chair: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;BrendanCarrFCC&#x2F;status&#x2F;2003179047438762084<p>This means you won&#x27;t be able to import new drone models from Chinese companies like DJI or Autel. Is anyone trying to take advantage of this? It seems like there&#x27;s about to be a huge shakeup in the consumer and professional drone market yet nobody is talking about it.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear your thoughts, and especially if anyone is working on a company associated with this ban (one which either produces drones or is going to move towards the consumer market).<p>NYT: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Bvrhb<p>WaPo: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;Lxdbu<p>Epoch Times: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;XhAjm


type: comment
by: jukea
text:
  The problem sounds very interesting and a complex one to solve. Could give examples of use cases where dense 3d packing is needed? (Say, besides literal packing of physical objects in a box? )


type: comment
by: boplicity
text:
  Research says, apparently, that Prop 65 has actually been affective.<p>&gt; The researchers analyzed concentrations of 11 chemicals placed on the Proposition 65 warning list and monitored by the CDC between 1999 and 2016. They included several types of phthalates, chemicals used to make plastics flexible; chloroform, a toxic byproduct from disinfecting water with chlorine; and toluene, a hazardous substance found in vehicle exhaust.<p>&gt; They found that the majority of samples had significantly lower concentrations of these chemicals after their listing. But the levels didn’t just decline in California, they fell nationwide.  [1]<p>Unfortunately, the NIH website [2] where the study is hosted is no longer operational. I don&#x27;t think certain people want to support scientific inquiry. Maybe someone else can find the study text?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;story&#x2F;2024-11-11&#x2F;study-deems-california-prop-65-warning-labels-effective" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.latimes.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;story&#x2F;2024-11-11&#x2F;study-d...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehp.niehs.nih.gov&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1289&#x2F;EHP13956" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ehp.niehs.nih.gov&#x2F;doi&#x2F;10.1289&#x2F;EHP13956</a>


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Yeah the lockdowns have really damaged my mental health. And the mask mandates even more so due to ancient trauma (where I nearly suffocated and have very bad associations with breathing that feels obstructed). But that&#x27;s a very personal reason that I understand couldn&#x27;t be accommodated for back in those days.<p>I don&#x27;t know if it was worth it or necessary but tbh I just try to forget the whole phase ever happened. For me it was a few lost life years and I&#x27;m still trying to get back to where I was mentally.<p>I do feel those things were really overlooked back in the day. But I&#x27;m also glad I&#x27;m not the one making such decisions which can&#x27;t be easy.<p>The only thing I have an outspoken opinion about were the curfews we had here. Meaning the available time for things like shopping was more compressed and thus the shops were a lot busier than normal which was super counterproductive. And it didn&#x27;t stop partygoers because they simply slept over.


type: comment
by: ekianjo
text:
  &gt;  in the living room as a console&#x2F;emulator,<p>if you are talking about ancient hardware, yes, it&#x27;s mostly driven by single core performance. But any console more recent than the 2000s will hugely benefit from multiple cores (because of the split between CPU and GPU, and the fact that more recent consoles also had multiple cores, too).


type: comment
by: badc0ffee
text:
  Play doh doesn&#x27;t hold its shape like plasticine. You can&#x27;t really cut it without squashing it, and it dries out and shrinks quickly.<p>(It is cheap and fun, though)


type: comment
by: dcrazy
text:
  Given the Safari team has been the major driving force behind support for wide gamut in web browsers (for the very obvious reason that all Apple devices ship with wide-gamut displays), I am extremely suspicious of the author’s assertion that Safari is ignoring an embedded ICC profile while Chrome and Firefox are doing the right thing.<p>I think it’s far more likely that whatever chain of open-source image modification tools the author is using has written out pixel values in a different colorspace than the one named in the embedded ICC profile.<p>But if the author is absolutely confident in their analysis, they are welcome to file a bug report: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugs.webkit.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: nyc_pizzadev
text:
  Ya, I like when it’s automatically done on my featured photo, gives the phone a very 3D look and feel.


type: comment
by: postsantum
text:
  Because women are most affected. Things are bad, but let&#x27;s focus on the real victims who provide emotional labour in the form of himpathy


type: comment
by: Kaibeezy
text:
  Wolf Hall. Despite a sprinkling of linguistic and philosophical gems, I really struggled, then put it down for a couple of months, and couldn&#x27;t bring myself to read anything else of any substance during that time. Thought it had destroyed some part of my brain. I finally had a long flight and determined to finish it, which I did. Then I sat in the heated pool on the roof of the TWA Hotel, with an icy wind whipping the rising steam, glad I was not Henry and don&#x27;t have to deal with Anne, even though people are still mostly the same as they ever were, and grateful for the planes, phones and even Slack setting me free.<p>To quote Wolsey via Shakespeare:<p><pre><code>  A peace above all earthly dignities,   A still and quiet conscience</code></pre>


type: comment
by: bobajeff
text:
  I love vscodium but more and more I worry about how Microsoft is effecting it down stream. To the point where I&#x27;m actively looking into making my own editor. I&#x27;m putting it off for now but I&#x27;ll probably start playing around with Theia and Codemirror on the side just in case.


type: comment
by: tim-tday
text:
  Yes, the article is quite clear on this. If a person interacted with a child in this way it would be a crime. The fact that character AI is not being protected criminally is a severe lapse by our legal system.


type: comment
by: bigstrat2003
text:
  Yep, however one wishes to classify them botanically, mushrooms are a vegetable in culinary usage (similar to tomatoes in that way).


type: comment
by: bob1029
text:
  I have started a new OSS project and intend to provide optional enterprise offerings on top. I really don&#x27;t care if someone steals the ideas presented in code because they&#x27;re actually fairly pedestrian. The much bigger concern for me is the fact that if I <i>do not</i> make my source open by default, I will have a very hard time developing trust in the community and prospective customers. I know I nearly instantly walk away from the &quot;provide your info to download our white paper PDF&quot; sales experiences in 2025.<p>It is also helpful to remember that 100% of $0 is still $0. And that .001% of a trillion dollar TAM is still a pretty big deal.


type: comment
by: Closi
text:
  Anecdotal experience, but when bugfixing I personally find if a model introduces a bug, it has a hard time spotting and fixing it, but when you give the code to another model it can instantly spot it (even if it&#x27;s a weaker model overall).<p>So I can well imagine that this sort of approach could work very well, although agree with your sentiment that measurement would be good.


type: comment
by: c-hendricks
text:
  Not often you see Lexx references: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t0l2,597,381" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t0l2,597,381</a>


type: comment
by: Arrowmaster
text:
  GitHub did not drop http auth. They prefer you use http instead of ssh.<p>What they dropped was auth using your account name and password. You need to use a token as your password or use an extra tool like their cli client to setup auth (but it sucks if you have multiple accounts).


type: comment
by: Roguelazer
text:
  So what&#x27;s going to happen in 3 years after these startup bros have left government, none of the frameworks they&#x27;re using are supported any more, and nobody in the office that they parachuted into is trained to maintain whatever spaghetti they crapped out over three months of all-nighters? There&#x27;s a reason that we don&#x27;t build critical infrastructure by giving it to some guy whose entire accomplishments are &quot;working at Airbnb for 10 years&quot;


type: comment
by: m4ck_
text:
  If all these AI models were trained on copyrighted materials for which the trainers had no right to, is it wrong to steal their models and use them however we want? Morally I&#x27;d say absolutely not, but I&quot;m sure these AI bros would vigorously defend their own IP, even if it was built on stolen IP created by humans.


type: comment
by: misnome
text:
  It’s honest. Time was when the number of improvements in every release was impressive and sometimes radical improvements.<p>For at least a couple of years it’s been nothing but AI, I am happy to ignore updates and should probably just turn them off now.


type: comment
by: srean
text:
  A much restricted case is&#x2F;(used to be) taught to computer vision students. It&#x27;s needed to generate features that are invariant to shift, rotation and scaling.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;9780262132855&#x2F;geometric-invariance-in-computer-vision&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitpress.mit.edu&#x2F;9780262132855&#x2F;geometric-invariance-...</a>


type: comment
by: nativeit
text:
  Perhaps they lived outside of the kingdom, with an evil Stepmother who moved very slow, struggled with complex dependency collisions, and took up a bunch of unnecessary space? Such an experience could leave one very traumatized towards Conda, even though their <i>real</i> problems are the unresolved issues with their stepmother…


type: comment
by: johng
text:
  I don&#x27;t pay attention to strikes in other countries but often in the US it seems that many of the riots here seem to just be excuses to loot businesses. Is this common in other countries as well, or something unique to the US?


type: comment
by: lr0
text:
  You can try. I&#x27;m on Safari Version 18.6 (20621.3.11.11.3) [Seqouia 15.6.1] on my Mac, unsure of the version in my iPhone and iPad, but all of them ignore the ICC profile.


type: comment
by: SamInTheShell
text:
  You&#x27;re wrong. The house literally will come up to someone that is winning a lot and tell them to leave. &quot;You&#x27;re too good, we have to ask you to leave.&quot;


type: comment
by: _flux
text:
  It kind of is, though. You use some input material to produce the weights via some process, even if the weights might not become exactly the same every time you reproduce the process; the production of the weights isn&#x27;t done by working with the weights, but with the training material and the process to convert them into weights. The analogy to source code and the resulting binaries is there.


type: comment
by: websiteapi
text:
  these sorts of comments always make me laugh considering where they are posted.<p>in before: &quot;HN isn&#x27;t social media!&quot;


type: comment
by: hoistbypetard
text:
  I appreciate the clarity, anyway. I will wait and see how intrusive the AI focus turns out to be.<p>If it turns out to be very intrusive, I guess I&#x27;ll use Clion for my platformio stuff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;clion&#x2F;platformio.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jetbrains.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;clion&#x2F;platformio.html</a><p>(since I&#x27;ve already got a Toolbox subscription from them)<p>and neovim or zed for my blog. That&#x27;s really all I was using VS Code for anyway.


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  English version <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;impostergame.win&#x2F;how-to-play" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;impostergame.win&#x2F;how-to-play</a><p>It&#x27;s like Mafia with a secret word. How did you pick the list of worlds?<p>I know that every country that speak Spanish use small variations. Did you check that the words make sense and are not offensive in all (most) of them?


type: comment
by: Youden
text:
  This has often been the case in the past but the situation is much improved now.<p>For example I have an Orange Pi 5 Plus running the totally generic aarch64 image of Home Assistant OS [0]. Zero customization was needed, it just works with mainline everything.<p>There&#x27;s even UEFI [1].<p>Granted this isn&#x27;t the case for all boards but Rockchip at least seems to have great upstream support.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;operating-system&#x2F;releases" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;home-assistant&#x2F;operating-system&#x2F;releases</a><p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;edk2-porting&#x2F;edk2-rk3588" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;edk2-porting&#x2F;edk2-rk3588</a>


type: comment
by: guywithahat
text:
  I think executive orders are going to keep growing. Every president now signs, ostensibly political, executive orders when entering office to enforce certain social norms. The following president of a political party must undo those orders, and then orders the opposite. I suspect as time goes on we&#x27;ll see more and more things being declared, and the retribution list will simply keep growing.<p>Certainly the president needs the power to do some things, but it does feel silly in implementation.


type: comment
by: SpicyLemonZest
text:
  Again, you’re proposing this as a novel solution, but it’s well known and commonly deployed. The source link discusses one of the many times that it’s happened. People who think this doesn’t happen are simply mistaken, generally IME confused by large and complex cases where the story can&#x27;t be so neat and clean.


type: comment
by: indigoabstract
text:
  I certainly hope so, but we&#x27;ll see. To give an example, std::chrono::current_zone (C++20) still doesn&#x27;t work on Android even to this day.<p>So as long as #embed isn&#x27;t supported by all the 3 major compilers, I am sticking with my current embedding setup. I guess that&#x27;s what I was thinking of.


type: comment
by: shagie
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nysenate.gov&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;2025&#x2F;S4505" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nysenate.gov&#x2F;legislation&#x2F;bills&#x2F;2025&#x2F;S4505</a><p>&quot;Addictive feed&quot; is used, but it&#x27;s circularly defined.<p>&quot;Algorithmic feed&quot; doesn&#x27;t appear in the text.


type: comment
by: garciansmith
text:
  Image looks the same to me in Firefox (Linux) and Falkon as it does in image viewers (Gwenview and GIMP). Which in all cases seems kind of washed out, so I think that&#x27;s the &quot;smoky,&quot; not &quot;normal&quot; image but I&#x27;m not sure.


type: comment
by: computator
text:
  The Costco one uses household current (as can be seen in one of the photos that shows a cord and a plug) and the AliExpress uses USB. I doubt that USB can supply enough power to do more than a trivial amount of heating. USB 3.1 has a max of 15W, and I can&#x27;t imagine that a $25 blanket is going to use the more sophisticated USB Power Delivery connections where even the cable &amp; charger can cost more than $25.<p>While trying to find the actual power consumption of the Costco model, I found this very useful comment on the Costco site: &quot;The power consumption is not listed anywhere - product packaging, website, or included manual. I went ahead and made the purchase and hooked it up to my battery unit once I got home. I can confirm, the blanket uses an average 99W regardless of which mode it&#x27;s in. I left it in each mode for about 5 minutes. There&#x27;s no difference to the touch of the blanket and there&#x27;s no difference with the power consumption. In other words this blanket has one heat setting and it&#x27;s not very warm.&quot;<p>So disappointing.


type: comment
by: jfreds
text:
  Yeah this seems like an obvious solution, which axon ought to be on board with since it protects them.<p>When juniors use the excuse “oh Claude wrote that” in a PR, I tell them if the PR has their name on it, they wrote it - and their PRs are part of their performance review. This is no different


type: comment
by: brokensegue
text:
  you can also do this with JPEGs. se my repo <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;derenrich&#x2F;hdr-steganography" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;derenrich&#x2F;hdr-steganography</a>


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  We must all choose which hill to die on, and I am glad to have met someone else on that same hill, comrade.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.downloadableisnotopensource.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.downloadableisnotopensource.org&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: mindslight
text:
  You&#x27;ve skipped over my two counterexamples of the DEA and the ATF, and their supporting laws criminalizing substances and tools. Those have been around much longer than merely 2001, and had already created some pretty totalitarian spectacles of government attacking the People.<p>Also driving this conversation towards race reeks of race-to-the-bottom &quot;privilege&quot; politics. Which is why I facetiously asked if your intention is to encourage white people to become less concerned.


type: comment
by: mikewarot
text:
  The thing I&#x27;m trying to determine is if this is another pump and dump or the the Dollar losing it&#x27;s reserve currency status. Both seem equally likely to me right now.


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
text:
  We had scale with friction before GitHub was a thing.<p>It wasn&#x27;t perfect, but you were required to do things like subscribing to mail lists if you wanted to interact with a project.


type: comment
by: magnitudes
text:
  Coding agents is what I’m talking about, they are also an old idea, everything is an old idea, what is new and a major step change is the realized capability of them in December 2025.


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  &gt; The only reason to pay attention to this &quot;license&quot; is because it&#x27;s enforced by Apple<p>Yes, but the most important reason to pay attention to ANY license for most people is because it is a signal for under what conditions the licensor is likely to sue you (especially in the US, which does not have a general “loser pays” rule for lawsuits), not because of the actual legality, because a lawsuit is a cost most people don’t want to bear while it is ongoing or cover the unrecoverable costs of once it is done, irrespective of winning and losing, and, on the other hand, few people care about being technically legal with their use of copyright protected material if there is no perceived risk of enforcement.<p>But even if that wasn’t true, and being sued was of no financial or other costs until the case is finally resolved, and only then if you lose, I wouldn&#x27;t bet much, in the US, in the court system ultimately applying precedent in the most obvious way instead of twisting things in a way which serves the interest of the particular powerful corporate interests involved here.


type: comment
by: mark-r
text:
  I&#x27;d love to use proper dashes more often, but my keyboard only produces ASCII.  Getting them is more trouble than it&#x27;s worth.


type: comment
by: xorcist
text:
  How is that not text? Surely if we consider Arabic to be text (lots of ligatures, grouping, right-to-left notation) then music notes must be, too?


type: comment
by: Youden
text:
  Ah, I see. That&#x27;s indeed completely separate from what I was talking about. I didn&#x27;t know such securities&#x2F;exchanges existed.


type: comment
by: Arainach
text:
  This was automated because the need to do so has been recognized for decades.  DOGE had nothing to do with it.


type: comment
by: primer42
text:
  This is exactly how us taxes should work. The IRS already has all the information it needs - it should fill out the form, give you a chance to double check, and then you&#x27;re done.<p>Sigh...


type: comment
by: echelon
text:
  This is all going to become super accessible to everyone. And it&#x27;ll become fast and eventually free.<p>Everyone will be able to flex their muscles as a creative. Everyone will be able to become an artist (expressing themselves though their unique lens) without putting points into a mechanical skill that is dimensionally orthogonal to idea expression and communication.<p>This is the &quot;bicycle of the mind&quot; that Steve Jobs talked about 40 some years ago. We&#x27;ve all had keyboards with which to express ourselves and communicate, but soon everyone will be able to visually articulate themselves and their thoughts. It&#x27;s going to be so uplifting for society.<p>In fifty years we&#x27;ll even be able to render our direct thoughts and mold them like clay. Share them directly with one another. Co-think.


type: comment
by: makeitdouble
text:
  As for many standards, the question is less what&#x27;s available&#x2F;supported and more what&#x27;s the format actually used irl.<p>Half the mail I received from that period was in iso-2022 (a JIS variant), most of the rest was latin-1. I have an auto-generated mail from google plus(!) from 2015 in iso-2022-jp, I actually wonder when Google decided it was safe to fully move to utf-8.


type: comment
by: krelian
text:
  This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90&#x27;s game Flashback.


type: comment
by: mgraczyk
text:
  Every time I look at the evidence, I end up finding that social media improves mental health for teens overall. Is there a new study that motivated this or are we still misinterpreting statistics?


type: comment
by: corndoge
text:
  This &quot;national design studio&quot; seems strikingly similar to 18F, which was cut by DOGE earlier this year. Was not aware of it until now. Apparently it was established in August by EO: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;presidential-actions&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;improving-our-nation-through-better-design&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.whitehouse.gov&#x2F;presidential-actions&#x2F;2025&#x2F;08&#x2F;impr...</a><p>Does anyone have a scoop on NDS? Is it composed of 18F staffers?


type: comment
by: Youden
text:
  Why? I&#x27;m running an Orange Pi 5+ with a fully generic aarch64 image of Home Assistant OS and it works great. Is there some particular feature that doesn&#x27;t work on mainline?


type: comment
by: qudat
text:
  I run <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pico.sh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pico.sh</a> where we don’t ask for email. Even on our website we instruct users to generate a token so if they do lose their key they can use it to recover their account.<p>People regularly lose their ssh keypair and also don’t generate a token. I think using email as a form of recovery is totally fine and regardless when you have to pay for the service you’re going to give up your email (and other personal info) via payment processor


type: comment
by: magnitudes
text:
  Do you genuinely believe this? That AI is not making money? Maybe you just are referring to another tired refrain of people who don’t appear to understand the strategic play of pure AI companies which is that they operate at a loss?


type: comment
by: bmgxyz
text:
  &gt; 25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections. It doesn&#x27;t feel that way anymore!<p>Physicists thought the same thing c. 1900, but then one of the &quot;corner cases&quot; turned into the ultraviolet catastrophe[1]. The consequences of the solution to that problem kept the whole field busy for a good part of the 20th century.<p>I&#x27;m highly skeptical of the idea that physics is anywhere near complete. The relative success of our technology gives us the illusory impression that we&#x27;re almost done, but it&#x27;s not obvious that physics even <i>has</i> a single, complete description that we can describe. We assume it does for convenience, in the same way that we assume the laws are constant everywhere in spacetime. I view this as both exciting and terrifying, but mostly exciting.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ultraviolet_catastrophe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ultraviolet_catastrophe</a>


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  Good point. I didn&#x27;t sufficiently delineate what counts as a scientific problem and what counts as an engineering problem in QC.<p>Quantum theory, like all physical theories, makes predictions. In this case, quantum theory predicts that if the physical error rate of qubits is below a threshold, then error correction can be used to increase the quality of a logical at arbitrarily high levels. This prediction can be false. We currently don&#x27;t know all of the potential noise sources that will prevent us from building a quantum logic gate that is of similar quality as a classical logic gate.<p>Building thousands of these logical qubits is an engineering problem similar to Dyson spheres and space elevators. You&#x27;re right that the lower levels of building 1 really good logical qubit doesn&#x27;t mean that we can build thousands of them.<p>If our case, even the lower-levels haven&#x27;t been validated. This is what I meant when I implied that the project of building a large-scale QC might teach us something new about physics.


type: comment
by: aeonik
text:
  I bought some transparent polycarbonate tubes for a ventilation system I built, and I had a few leftover tubes.<p>These tubes have been one of the most consistently used toys for the last 2 years.<p>They are about 5 bucks a piece depending on length.


type: comment
by: JoeAltmaier
text:
  I get it. Lots of people fall for design over usefulness. Not very technical, so a mac is enough.<p>but lets never fool ourselves into thinking they are more useful, more efficient or flexible. That&#x27;s tiresome, and it&#x27;s repeated endlessly as well.<p>People buy all sorts of things that are not very good. Audience is an excuse; salesmanship is not about selling what the customer needs.<p>I&#x27;m no newb, just ranting about macs. I&#x27;ve been around, even before the mac existed. Written code for them, for nearly every platform around. I&#x27;m not sanctimonious; I&#x27;m educated. The Mac OS was a pile of bad code. The current Mac OS, dev tools, documentation, deployment environment is among the worst.<p>Not entitled; just very tired of fighting it.


type: comment
by: messe
text:
  &gt; This. Tables of numbers are explicitly not subject to copyright; that’s a copyright 101 fact.<p>Ok, but there&#x27;s clearly more nuance there. Otherwise I could claim that any mp3 file I wanted to distribute is just a table of 8-bit integers and therefore not subject to copyright.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  It&#x27;s a shame. Groq was really great. Nvidia is stifling innovation here. I don&#x27;t understand how market regulators allow this.


type: comment
by: howenterprisey
text:
  That&#x27;s what saying &quot;noticed with Gen Z&quot; means.<p>Reply to edit: generations are sequential; if you&#x27;ve noticed something with one generation it means that you&#x27;re not accusing the prior generations of the same thing, otherwise you would&#x27;ve used different wording.


type: comment
by: dcrazy
text:
  Again, my suspicion is that you are actually seeing the ICC profile being applied correctly, and it is the pixel values in your image that are incorrect.<p>A good test would be to run a single 100% sRGB red pixel through your image processing pipeline, and then inspecting the resulting PNG file in a hex editor to see what value is encoded.<p>You can also visit this web page to actively test each web browser’s respect for embedded ICC profiles: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gballard.net&#x2F;psd&#x2F;go_live_page_profile&#x2F;embeddedJPEGprofiles.html#" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gballard.net&#x2F;psd&#x2F;go_live_page_profile&#x2F;embeddedJP...</a>


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s a dangerous trend I&#x27;ve noticed with GenZ<p>Those are some mighty fine hares you&#x27;re splitting.


type: comment
by: timenotwasted
text:
  The Jaws one is fun too, only reason I found it is because it says click beneath it, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#b3l3,84,789" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#b3l3,84,789</a>


type: comment
by: orbital-decay
text:
  Fight Club rules poster: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t3r3,776,193" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;floor796.com&#x2F;#t3r3,776,193</a>


type: comment
by: Crowberry
text:
  Why would you look to make your own code editor?<p>There are so many already and for example NeoVim is great and would allow you to make modifications as you please.<p>I’m not trying to disprove your argument, rather I’m interested in your motivations


type: comment
by: schrototo
text:
  That is simply not true. The details might vary by jurisdiction and the protection might not be under the exact name of “copyright” but there most certainly are comparable legal protections for the contents of databases (“tables of numbers”). See for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;youreurope&#x2F;business&#x2F;running-business&#x2F;intellectual-property&#x2F;database-protection&#x2F;index_en.htm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;europa.eu&#x2F;youreurope&#x2F;business&#x2F;running-business&#x2F;intel...</a>


type: comment
by: zeroCalories
text:
  Found the blog post troubling amateurish for something so important, then noticed the name Edward Coristine and zoomer twitter handles at the bottom and realized this is a bunch junior devs hacking together our country&#x27;s infrastructure.


type: comment
by: awpeofjawpofj
text:
  &gt; It is not CloudFlare that is ruining the Internet, but the spammers and attackers.<p>&quot;Your face ran into my fist!&quot;


type: comment
by: dfc
text:
  Netbox project used to go on and on about the  philosophical justifications for not including n-type connections or different types of LMR. But the most recent release notes that I read had a blurb about all the new coax cable types they are supporting. I understand having limited time but instead of saying &quot;no&quot; they always had to make lofty philosophical arguments. It&#x27;s weird.


type: story
by: stevenjgarner
title: USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994
url:
  https://wolfstreet.com/2025/12/26/status-of-the-us-dollar-as-global-reserve-currency-usd-share-drops-to-lowest-since-1994/


type: comment
by: wartijn_
text:
  From the FAQ in the &quot;about&quot; section of the website:<p>- You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where&#x27;s Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.<p>- Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click on the suitcase.<p>- Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on the large advertising screen that says &#x27;Bad Signal&#x27; next to the pirate ship.<p>- Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can be found in various places on the floor.<p>- In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the project statistics: current online, visits by country, number on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc.<p>- One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796.<p>- In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him to add your own phrase to the rotation.<p>- You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink synthesizer.<p>- You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police Station.<p>- Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone.<p>- Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to the Future references.<p>- Click on Naruto near the pirate ship.<p>- There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it links to.<p>- There are also many small interactive elements on the floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture, play a sound or cause some action to occur.


type: comment
by: codazoda
text:
  All those are certainly possible. I’ll see if I can get them added shortly.<p>Edit: I&#x27;ve added those features.<p>I actually changed it so that the preview you see is that actual image that gets exported. I like this better but it means that you&#x27;ll get a little prompt for the text instead of editing it in place. I think it&#x27;s a good compromise.<p>I also added a checkbox for making it animated.


type: comment
by: pelzatessa
text:
  I like matrix, but I&#x27;m glad they decided to go with SimpleX as an alternative instead of slack, discord etc. XMPP would be fine too i guess, but I think that projects like SimpleX and Matrix need more people to mature, while XMPP seems to have a lot of users but no ability to grow anymore. I also had to choose between simplex and matrix for my personal communications foundation, and I chose matrix as I gambled on its longer existence as indicator for maturity and therefore adaptability for my non-tech friends, time will tell if the bet was right.


type: comment
by: catapart
text:
  same boat. I switched to codium mostly out of purity from AI, and I&#x27;d really like it to stay that way, while still getting other QoL improvements. I&#x27;m pretty concerned that there&#x27;s not enough to justify the niche, though.


type: comment
by: Jakob
text:
  Yes. There are lots around; whenever the original word becomes too short for the importance people want to give it.<p>Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -&gt; enter “into” the room, French: hui (today) -&gt; aujourd’hui (day of today)<p>Keyword: pleonasm


type: comment
by: ephimetheus
text:
  Oh yes and so much so! Electrons are point-like (not composite like a proton) and interact only electroweakly (not strongly).


type: comment
by: jiscariot
text:
  I like when people explore deep interests and share them. Especially, someone who has been doing it for 15 years, consistently. A pre-AI window of humanity. This stuff is more important now, than it ever was.<p>Thank you for sharing with us how you are happy that you have a wife and kids.


type: comment
by: evanjrowley
text:
  It&#x27;s also worth acknowledging the effects of testosterone (which males have in greater quantity) over emotional processing, behavior, and development. In human society, these are complicated topics which are difficult to properly examine in vitro, and so modern research has resulted in conflicting conclusions.<p>Question for $LLM: Aggression (and adversity) have prominent roles in the lives of male mammals. How do our synthetic concepts used to rationalize violence weigh against the reasons for it we see in nature among lions, chimpanzees, wolves, and dolphins?


type: comment
by: turtleyacht
text:
  AI-code editor or AI code-editor? Future versions may include traversing <i>gigabytes</i> of code, supervising hundreds of agents, and peer-to-peer (P2P) content-addressed caching.<p>Someday, could right-click a dependency and click &quot;Zero dep,&quot; and it updates with a library integrated with the app. Stored in the cloud, other users benefit from the same generated output.<p>Apps become instances consuming them, the thinnest crust around various baked libs (mantle) or triggering changes in the molten core.


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  This might be true but I would hope the web standard is defined enough that browsers can also fail in the same way. Regardless of which browser is the most &quot;correct&quot; here


type: comment
by: AnonymousPlanet
text:
  I&#x27;m not talking about laughable little stunts like IE. I&#x27;m talking about the ongoing cancer that is eating up billions from little companies all the way to big corporations. All of that is ongoing, and they squeeze their prey for everything they have. They are the most disgusting and damaging disease you can imagine.<p>Once you start using even a small fraction of their tech it instantly metastasises throughout the entire organisation because of lock in and &quot;open standards&quot; that weirdly only work with their own tech. If the MS tech creates a problem the solution is to pour more MS tech onto the festering wound.<p>You apparently have been so insulated from how actual companies have to deal with tech that you think your little forays using computers are what everything should be measured by. All you have is a developer and hobbyist point of view.


type: comment
by: NohatCoder
text:
  The nature of these AIs is generally such that you can always throw more computation at the problem. Bigger models is obvious, but as I hinted earlier a lot of the current research goes more towards making various subqueries than making the models even bigger. In any case, for now the predominant factor determining how much compute a given prompt costs is how much compute someone decided to spend. So obviously if you pay for the &quot;good&quot; models there will be a lot more compute behind it than if you prompt a free model.


type: comment
by: rafterydj
text:
  If it was really down to two engineers, it&#x27;s almost certainly what one or both of them were already comfortable or familiar with and no other reason. Six months is such a short time frame for long term projects like this that I imagine they could not spare much time for analysis of alternatives.


type: comment
by: sirodoht
text:
  Inspiring! I just asked Cursor to make llmwrap inspired by this, it&#x27;s like rlwrap (readline wrap) but with LLMs!<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sirodoht&#x2F;llmwrap" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sirodoht&#x2F;llmwrap</a>


type: comment
by: jonners00
text:
  They did (unless you&#x27;re one of the drafters of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, in which case, weirdly, they didn&#x27;t)


type: comment
by: 578_Observer
text:
  Exactly. You&#x27;ve highlighted the ultimate hard constraint: Thermodynamics.<p>While financial debt (like Tesla&#x27;s valuation) can be hidden by printing money, &quot;Energy Debt&quot; cannot be hidden. Physics doesn&#x27;t accept IOUs.<p>The proposal to launch servers into space is just a desperate search for a bigger heat sink because the terrestrial system is in thermal runaway.<p>Shinise wisdom teaches that if you cannot sustain the energy cost, you don&#x27;t seek a new planet—you fix the inefficiency of the process. We are trying to overclock a planet that has no more cooling capacity.


type: comment
by: petepete
text:
  The GOV.UK website has a list of UK bank holidays on it. If you add a .json to the end of the URL you get this, a thing of beauty.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;bank-holidays.json" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gov.uk&#x2F;bank-holidays.json</a>


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  So please trust me I&#x27;m not just ask me to be a reply guy. but... what do you mean by &quot;better at outbound sales&quot;?<p>Like, you want to call up a company and get them to buy your software? To pay you to make <i>them</i> software?<p>Because while either way I&#x27;d say be more targeted -- try to network IRL and have linkedin (retching noise) just the place you go to get their email... and then make a targeted pitch to a smaller number of people you&#x27;ve met IRL. Budget to go to a few conferences.<p>But that&#x27;s a strategy I think works best if you have <i>good</i> product and want to get businesses to pay to use it, and is less effective in selling &quot;consulting&quot; (sarcastic finger quotes).<p>Either way though, going to conferences where people will be legitimately interested in your product (Think going to HOPE instead of Blackhat)... offer to take people out to dinner, expense it as marketing.<p>Also I don&#x27;t reccomend buying people alcohol, just food. For whatever reason, people will overdrink and turn into asshole reasons when alcohol is free... by all means point them to a decent dive bar.<p>(For example there&#x27;s one behind Bally&#x27;s that&#x27;s attached to a convenience store. They used to let folks buy shit in the store and eat it in the bar if they weren&#x27;t entitled about it.)<p>If you&#x27;re selling that you can make cool stuff, software wise? Try more academic conferences. A lot of people would kill for a decent software engineer, it can be <i>extremely</i> hit or miss with academic CS types, they often would love people who can do stuff like set up a limesurvey server or whip up a nice looking static site for their lab or do really basic stuff like make R scripts to automate stuff done in the opendocument equivalent of excel...<p>But no course, book, or framework for outbound sales will <i>ever</i> Trump face to face interaction. A lot of companies discount who being the &quot;cool guy at the conference&quot; can lead to sales... especially as people age (because again, I said go for authentic gatherings, not sport coat fests).<p>Over time, if you combine being friendly with having something of value, sales will happen -- those in person leads will be your most valuable IMHO.


type: comment
by: Kapura
text:
  This is what happen when your government is run primarily thru corruption.<p>sorry, not corruption! retainer fees and timely stock purchases. different thing!


type: comment
by: xp84
text:
  If the people who set up the DW and set up the data to flow into it did not also build any applications to actually take advantage of the data, they didn’t complete their job properly. It’s been 18 years, that’s long enough to document the existence of it. Some might say 18 years is even enough time to build at least one useful application powered by it.<p>I’m sure in reality the people who built this system were smart, and wanted people to use it, but were just buried under layers of technology-unaware management and bureaucrats who felt threatened, afraid it would marginalize or eliminate their paper-pushing jobs. But this very likely reality is just more proof that the government needs significant restructuring. Most people in management at the government are there purely because of tenure, not because they’re great leaders, nor subject matter experts in how complex things are efficiently built and run outside the government world.


type: comment
by: xzkll
text:
  Does any of you bother the fact that now you have to pay money in order to do your job? I mean AI model subscriptions. Somehow it feels wrong for me to pay for tools that are trying to replace me.


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  &gt; I doubt resolution is a limiting factor LCoS (transmissive ones are lower resolution typically though, but you could build reflective) phase modulators are available in 4k resolution (and maybe even higher)<p>We’re talking about a specific camera, the lytros, which had a 4MP resolution. I’m not saying there was a limitation in the technology broadly speaking. Just that this camera was not worth it for the time. It’s sacrificed too much for one feature and at $400 it just didn’t sell


type: comment
by: fragmede
text:
  You cast too broad a brush! Having worked at Airbnb for 10 years would have been fine. The problem is DOGE was staffed by twenty year olds. How would that have worked? They started at AirBnB when they were 10?


type: comment
by: reverserdev
text:
  Funny how everyone shits on Nvidia&#x27;s monopoly when we&#x27;ve got Google walking around after winning a monumental antitrust case regarding their Android&#x2F;Chrome&#x2F;Google information monopoly.<p>How do the market regulators allow that?


type: comment
by: Marsymars
text:
  &gt; But realistically, most workloads of the kind you would run on these machines don&#x27;t scale benefit from multithreading as much as single core performance. At least at home these machines will do things like video streaming, router, or serving files.<p>You&#x27;re probably right about &quot;most workloads&quot;, but as a single counter-example, I added several seasons of shows to my N305 Plex server last night, and it pinned all eight threads for quite a while doing its intro&#x2F;credit detection.<p>I actually went and checked if it would be at all practical to move my Plex server to a VM on my bigger home server where it could get 16 Skymont threads (at 4.6ghz vs 8 Gracemont threads at ~3ghz - so something like 3x the multithreaded potential on E-cores). Doesn&#x27;t really seem workable to use Intel Quick Sync on Linux guests with a Hyper-V host though.


type: comment
by: Aromasin
text:
  The FTC requested significant increases for technology and economic analysis for FY2025 ($535M), but was given a static budget with plans to cut by 11%. FTC chair Ferguson reduced staff from 1,315 to 1,221 and aims to reach around 1,100 through attrition to align with lower budgets.<p>Oversight hearing is worth a listen to get a better idea on how the current administation is harming regulators: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0NZxkvYaVuk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=0NZxkvYaVuk</a>


type: comment
by: xvector
text:
  Why don&#x27;t we produce enough experts in the US to saturate our tech companies?<p>It&#x27;s because American education culture is trash. American parents are fine with their kids getting Bs and Cs. Mediocrity is rewarded and excellence is discouraged in our schools, both socially and institutionally.<p>Meanwhile you have <i>hundreds of millions</i> of foreign born children pulling out all the stops to do the best they possibly can at school precisely so they can get into the US and work at one of our top companies.<p>It was never even a competition. Immigrants and children of theirs will continue to outperform because it is literally baked into their culture - and it is baked out of ours.


type: comment
by: camgunz
text:
  Well the other models are even less useful so I try and stick with the steelman version of these things. That IBM quote isn&#x27;t ambiguity about what computers are for, but about who can afford them in their current, highly bespoke state. Finally, the railway boom wasn&#x27;t $1.5 trillion in a few years. Also, again, we knew what railroads were for.<p>I&#x27;m not saying the tech isn&#x27;t impressive. I&#x27;m impressed! Cursor bugbot has found some pretty gnarly bugs in my code, blessedly. But it&#x27;s neither reliable nor economically viable, even if you don&#x27;t think they owe anyone anything for training on their data (I do think they owe us).


type: comment
by: jschorr
text:
  Sweet! I&#x27;d love to see it, if you have a link, or throw it in our Discord [1]!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.com&#x2F;invite&#x2F;GBeT3R4k84" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.com&#x2F;invite&#x2F;GBeT3R4k84</a>


type: comment
by: coffeecoders
text:
  I feel like being in a time loop. Every time a big company releases a model, we debate the definition of open source instead of asking what actually matters. Apple clearly wants the upside of academic credibility without giving away commercial optionality, which isn&#x27;t unsurprising.<p>Additionally, we might need better categories. With software, flow is clear (source, build and binary) but with AI&#x2F;ML, the actual source is an unshippable mix of data, infra and time, and weights can be both product and artifacts.


type: comment
by: tkzed49
text:
  Appreciate the perspective. I&#x27;ve worked on projects where hooks are auto-configured, and pre-commit is just never something that&#x27;s going to agree with me.<p>I prefer to be able to push instantly and get feedback async, because by the time I&#x27;ve decided I&#x27;m done with a change, I&#x27;ve already run the tests for it. And like I said, my editor is applying formatting and lints, so those fail more rarely.<p>But, if your pre-push checks are fast (rather than ~minutes), I can see the utility! It sucks to get an async failure for feedback that can be delivered quickly.


type: comment
by: wyldfire
text:
  &gt; I don&#x27;t understand how market regulators allow this.<p>The US government is literally for sale.  Businesses know that this window is limited and are executing antitrust manuvers left and right while they can.


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  &gt; If all these AI models were trained on copyrighted materials for which the trainers had no right to, is it wrong to steal their models and use them however we want?<p>If (which the courts seem to be pretty consistently finding) training models on copyright-protected works generally is fair use, though using models to produce works which would violate copyright if made by other means with reference to the source material is still a copyright violation, then training has no bearing on the legality of copying the models. (Even if it wasn&#x27;t, then copying and using the models <i>at all</i> would violate the copyright of the original owners of the training material <i>again</i> and be illegal irrespective of the “license” offered by the model trainer.)<p>Morally? Well, pretty much the same dichotomy applies; if training the model isn&#x27;t a violation of the source material&#x27;s creators&#x27; rights, then the fact it was trained without permission has no bearing on the morality of using the model without the trainers permission, if it <i>is</i> a violation of the source material&#x27;s creators&#x27; rights, then so is using the model irrespective of the trainer&#x27;s “license”, as the trainer has no right to permit further use of the material they had no right to create.<p>The idea that the model <i>is</i> an intrusion on the rights of the creators of the materials used in training and that this makes <i>use</i> of the model <i>more</i> rather than <i>less</i> permissibly, legally or morally, takes some bizarre mental gymnastics.


type: comment
by: jnellis
text:
  just win10 and firefox. It wanted to run workers in firefox, locked up firefox, then somehow taskmanager was locked up and things went downhill from there.


type: comment
by: wek
text:
  I&#x27;d recommend learning from Jason Lemkin at SAAStr and from Jen Abel. She did two great podcasts with Lenny on Lenny&#x27;s Podcasts.


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  Zero-days from the CCC talk <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fahrplan.events.ccc.de&#x2F;congress&#x2F;2025&#x2F;fahrplan&#x2F;event&#x2F;...</a><p>But trust in Werner Koch is gone. Wontfix??


type: comment
by: WillAdams
text:
  David Lindsay&#x27;s _A Voyage to Arcturus_ is notable for having been one of the earliest available ebooks on Project Gutenberg, netting a few wider exposure than it might have had otherwise.<p>Highly recommended.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  &gt; It&#x27;s incredible what lengths people go to to avoid memorizing basic ffmpeg usage. It&#x27;s really not that hard<p>It&#x27;s not hard - just not a good use of our time. For 99% of HN users, ffmpeg is not a vital tool.<p>I have to use it less than twice a year. Now I just go and get an LLM to tell me the command I need.<p>And BTW, I spend a lot of time memorizing things (using spaced repetition). So I&#x27;m not averse to memorizing. ffmpeg simply doesn&#x27;t warrant a place in my head.


type: comment
by: _flux
text:
  &gt; Open source means the source is available. Anything else is just political.<p>Where was that defined so? And most of all, given the domain of information technology, who understand open source to cover cases where the source is available ie. only for reviewing?<p>The purpose of words and terms is so that people can exchange ideas effectively and precisely, without needing to explain the terms every time from the grounds up. Having different groups having divergent definitions on the same words is counterproductive towards that goal. In my view, labeling a release &quot;open source&quot; with very big limitations on how the source is used is just not about marketing, it&#x27;s miscommunication.<p>If &quot;open source&quot; and &quot;source available&quot; (and &quot;open weights&quot;) mean the same thing, the how come people have come up with the two terms to begin with? The difference is recognized in official contexts as well, i.e. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20180724032116&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dodcio.defense.gov&#x2F;Open-Source-Software-FAQ&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20180724032116&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dodcio.de...</a> (search for &quot;source available&quot;; unfortunately linking directly doesn&#x27;t seem to work with archive.org pages).<p>It doesn&#x27;t seem there is any benefit in using less precise terms when better-defined ones are available.


type: comment
by: jfreds
text:
  Your points about misquotes and language troubles are very valid and interesting. But a word of caution on your prompt: you’re asking a lot of the word “analyze” here; if the LLM responded that the thread had 15 comments by 10 unique authors, and a total of 2000 characters, I would classify that as a completely satisfactory answer (assuming the figures were correct) based on the query


type: comment
by: mxxc
text:
  this one technically doesn&#x27;t have an ostree server because it would require dedicated infrastructure, but if you decide to either try out images (they&#x27;re in ghcr) or fork the project and build your own, you can schedule nightly builds (as it&#x27;s being done now) and use bootc rather than ostree. the problem is that you&#x27;d always have to pull a 2GB image rather than incremental updates.


type: comment
by: csar
text:
  Getting feedback on a plan or implementation is valuable because you get a fresh set of eyes. Using multiple models <i>may</i> help though it always feels a bit silly to me (if nothing else you’re increasing non-determinism because you know have to understand 2 LLM’s quirks).<p>But the “playing house” approach of experts is somewhere between pointless and actively harmful. It was all the rage in June and I thought people abandoned that later in the summer.<p>If you want the model to eg review code instead of fixing things, or document code without suggesting improvements (for writing docs), that’s useful. But there’s. I need for all these personas.


type: comment
by: samsolomon
text:
  Hard question to answer without more details, but I&#x27;ve got a bit of general guidance for B2B sales:<p>* Know your ideal customer (ICP)—or have a decent idea. Find companies that match that profile.<p>* Find the right people at those companies. Go on Linkedin and find 3-6 people you think could be decision makers at that company.<p>* Research those people and figure out how your solution might work for them (RHO).<p>* Reach out to those people. Communicate what you think their pain point might be and how your solution will help them. Try and get them to agree to a discovery call.<p>* If they are interested, you&#x27;ll need to figure out who the decision makers are for buying. If the timing is bad, ask when they renew and reach out again 3-6mos to see how their currents solution is treating them. If they aren&#x27;t interested, DQ them and move on. Guarding your time here is valuable.<p>I&#x27;m assuming you&#x27;re a founder or early on. The other comments around MEDDPICC, MEDDICC and other sales methodologies are worth a look, but may be over optimizing if you&#x27;re still trying to win your first deal.<p>A bit of background—I was one of the first product designers hired at Salesloft. I&#x27;ve spent a decade building software for sellers.


type: comment
by: echelon
text:
  The OSI definition and &quot;open source purity&quot; is designed by big tech to erode any value layer open source companies could use to threaten them.<p>New movements like &quot;fair source&quot;, which is a form of source available + free use + expiring copyright is the ideal license. It&#x27;s effectively unlimited use for customers and users, but has a baked in &quot;non-compete&quot; preventing low effort third parties from coming in and eating the market of managed services established by the authors.<p>We need to kill open source purity. Especially if we want to erode the hyperscalers that aren&#x27;t even giving away the magic parts or valuable parts of their kingdoms.<p>Open source purity is a socialist dream while we&#x27;re still living under the Empire. And it prevents the formation of a salient that can punch through. It&#x27;s a very low suboptima.<p>I don&#x27;t see any reason why you would want fair source authors to go &quot;OSI&quot; open other than taking their revenue stream as your own. The license bakes in contingencies in case the authors go out of business to open the license up for community ownership. That&#x27;s good enough.<p>If these businesses were OSI open, the businessss become unsustainable and impossible to scale into something formidable that could chip away at entirely closed hyperscalers.


type: comment
by: marcellus23
text:
  This reminds me a lot of the 2000s internet that I grew up on. This was the kind of thing I used to find using StumbleUpon.


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  &gt; &gt; algorithmic feeds<p>&gt; It does have these<p>If you consider &quot;feeds&quot; to be the home page, ask hn, etc. then afaik content is determined by user submission after spam&#x2F;abuse filtering, and all users see the same content. Article position is largely determined by user votes, with some ageing. Again, everyone sees the same ordering (unless they choose to hid le articles).<p>Hard to see how this can be interpreted as &quot;algorithmic&quot;.


type: comment
by: justsomehnguy
text:
  Works for me on Win 10, Win 11, Firefox, DDG.<p>Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers.


type: comment
by: dylan604
text:
  &quot;correct&quot; in fail, in the same way across browsers? that&#x27;s hilarious. I forget that throughout the history of the internet the one thing we&#x27;ve been able to depend on is different browsers behaving the same way


type: comment
by: kevin_thibedeau
text:
  That&#x27;s even more damning that they can&#x27;t dogfood their own GUI toolkits for the primary UI of their own OS.


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  We <i>really</i> need an HN rule saying &quot;Don&#x27;t speculate if the submission was written by an LLM.&quot;


type: story
by: Archelaos
title: How AI coding agents work–and what to remember if you use them
url:
  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/how-do-ai-coding-agents-work-we-look-under-the-hood/


type: comment
by: msla
text:
  Ah, so we&#x27;re back to koolefant:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x42.com&#x2F;koolefant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x42.com&#x2F;koolefant&#x2F;</a><p>&gt; If you are using Netscape(*) you will probably see the happy cow above. Internet Explorer-users on Windows and Mac, however, will see a dead flat elephant. And this is due to a strange browser-feature.<p>&gt; (*) or MSIE for Solaris<p>Yes, Netscape and MSIE on Solaris. This goes back to the 1990s:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19990222144857&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;x42.com&#x2F;koolefant&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;19990222144857&#x2F;http:&#x2F;&#x2F;x42.com&#x2F;ko...</a>


type: comment
by: omnicognate
text:
  The 4th edition of Linear Algebra Done Right has a much improved approach to determinants themselves (still relegated to the end, where it should be). From the list of improvements:<p>&gt; New Chapter 9 on multilinear algebra, including bilinear forms, quadratic  forms, multilinear forms, and tensor products. Determinants now are defned  using a basis-free approach via alternating multilinear forms.<p>The basis-free definition is really rather lovely.


type: comment
by: dheera
text:
  It was probably less about revenue targets and more about pre-emptively removing potential future competition while it is still relatively cheap.


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  Unfortunately not as significant as you&#x27;d think.<p>The output is not automatically metrically scaled (though you can use postprocessing to fix this, it&#x27;s not part of this model). And you can&#x27;t really move around much without getting glitches, because it only inferences in one axis. It&#x27;s also hard capped at 768 pixels + 2 layers.<p>Besides depth&#x2F;splatting models have been around for quite a while before this. The main thing this model innovates on is inference speed, but VR porn isn&#x27;t a use case that really benefits from faster image&#x2F;video processing, especially since it&#x27;s still not realtime.<p>This year has seen a lot of innovation in this space, but it&#x27;s coming from other image editing and video models.


type: comment
by: f1shy
text:
  I wanted to reply in this direction. Ultimately, literally everything and anything in SW is a sequence of numbers, that anybody could easily put in some kind of table form.<p>I don’t know where the catch is, but that sentence can not be true in general.


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  Not sure I&#x27;ve met one of those people in... a decade or so? Loving apple products has been an uphill road for a long time (and increasingly more so post-Jobs)


type: story
by: krschacht
title: Show HN: Voice-first todo list that updates live as you talk
url: https://taskmaster.keithschacht.com
text:
  I built a demo of a voice AI task manager. You speak naturally and it updates your visible task list in real time.<p>Try it here, no sign up: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taskmaster.keithschacht.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;taskmaster.keithschacht.com</a><p>I find it useful to talk aloud to figure out priorities. With this, I can just ramble, “Mark that first task as done. Actually undo that. Add a task to proofread it. Move that to the top…”<p>It’s built on LiveKit with a Rails web UI. It listens continuously, maps speech to tool calls, and keeps full task-list state so it understands vague references like “the third item” or “the one with my kids.”<p>Voice feels much faster for input, but visual feedback is still higher bandwidth for output. This is intentionally rough—a demo focused on interaction, not features.<p>Curious how the interaction model feels for people?<p>Code: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keithschacht&#x2F;taskmaster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;keithschacht&#x2F;taskmaster</a>


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  Yes, many models recently have been released under Apache 2.0, both Free and gratis.<p>I don&#x27;t think any in this particular space (image-to-3d gaussian representation) are, but then this is the first model I’ve seen in that space at all.


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  What about the outcome of decreasing the concentrations of chemicals that <i>are</i> harmful? Is that a positive result?


type: comment
by: BeetleB
text:
  I assume you use it as a throw and not as a blanket for sleeping, right?<p>For sleeping, I have the opposite problem. I always overheat.


type: comment
by: Ericson2314
text:
  The writing style here is so belittling, and frankly stupid.<p>E.g. &quot;billion is so big!&quot;, uh, I&#x27;ve heard of a billion before, and then comparing the value of a company to a single person&#x27;s salary, as if that was very relevant.


type: comment
by: DrewADesign
text:
  <i>&gt; How do the market regulators allow that?</i><p>Same way I reckon. Both are bad.<p><i>&gt; Funny how everyone shits on Nvidia&#x27;s monopoly when we&#x27;ve got Google walking around after winning a monumental antitrust case regarding their Android&#x2F;Chrome&#x2F;Google information monopoly.</i><p>... are you implying people around here don&#x27;t give google flak for monopolistic business practices? That doesn&#x27;t square with my experience, here.


type: comment
by: xp84
text:
  The only way the database could be harnessed to do something useful is after all the people who were standing in the way in management for the last 18 years likely having been sacked. You can bet any useful project to put it to use was blocked by paper-pushers threatened by the spectre of automation, until most people had forgotten about it.<p>Nobody believes the database sprung forth from the earth or was created accidentally. The fact that 18 years later that project had borne no visible fruit, and that most people who could have used it, didn’t even know about it, is proof of the problem. It’s a problem of terrible management. That is what, regardless of your politics, is being slightly jostled by DOGE. Personally I have dealt with enough of our absurd government processes that I don’t think they can make anything much worse, and it cannot be less efficient.


type: comment
by: gmerc
text:
  Ya well, startups are just low risk R&amp;D facilities in service of big tech now <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;centreforaileadership.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;opinion_startups_are_just_big_tech_rnd_now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;centreforaileadership.org&#x2F;resources&#x2F;opinion_startups...</a>


type: comment
by: stefanfisk
text:
  What future versions will most likely include is even more broken basic functionality like tab completion.


type: comment
by: kaelwd
text:
  GIMP asks if I want to keep or convert the color profile but both options look washed out. The only thing that opens it &quot;correctly&quot; for me is MPV.


type: comment
by: Teever
text:
  Labels on products designed to be addictive like modern social media isn’t a silver bullet but it’s an important first start.<p>You’re right though that it’s going to take far bigger things like antitrust action and fining companies for making misleading statements about the health consequences and purposes of their products.<p>Another way this problem can be attacked is by changing the cultural perspective around working at companies like Meta.<p>There was a time where it was socially acceptable to work at s tobacco company.  People would proudly tell their family that they work in marketing for tobacco companies but now?  When have you ever heard someone tell you they work for big tobacco?<p>If the government mandated that social media had to have pictures of neckbeard nests in people’s feeds with warnings that this could happen to you with repeated social media use I bet the people who work at Meta would be a laughing stock in their social circles which would go a long ways to disrupting the pipeline of people willing to destroy our society for a quick buck.


type: comment
by: ethin
text:
  I&#x27;m sure this will be shot down as being just as unconstitutional as when Texas tried this stunt with porn sites.


type: comment
by: xenospn
text:
  Of course, the end goal of one side is to just eliminate the possibility of an opposing &quot;following president of a political party&quot;.


type: comment
by: rawgabbit
text:
  It all stems from this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalregister.gov&#x2F;documents&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;17&#x2F;2019-10538&#x2F;securing-the-information-and-communications-technology-and-services-supply-chain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalregister.gov&#x2F;documents&#x2F;2019&#x2F;05&#x2F;17&#x2F;2019-10...</a>.<p>Chinese made telecommunications, EV cars, drones, or anything that can be used to provide a detailed map&#x2F;surveillance of the US by China will eventually be banned.


type: comment
by: kevin_thibedeau
text:
  The MBAs hate capital expenditures and love operating expenditures. They&#x27;ll make strategic blunders like over-dependence on external services just to satisfy their warped mindset.


type: comment
by: stocksinsmocks
text:
  Reading the title, my mind immediately drifted to the thought that there should be mental health warnings for living in a place like New York.


type: comment
by: elashri
text:
  &gt; 25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections<p>Around 125 years ago, many thought the same about physics, that physics is mostly complete and it just explaining and finishing some edge cases and polishing all our measurements. There was just two things that were a little bit puzzling, the &quot;looming clouds&quot; over physics (per Kelvin description) will later lead to both Quantum Theory and Theory of relativity (Black body radiation and Michelson–Morley experiment) and the fundamental change of our understanding for physics after that.<p>So I would not take this position. Does this mean we are in a similar moment? maybe, who knows?


type: comment
by: dheera
text:
  See also:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dheera&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;helpme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dheera&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;helpme</a><p><pre><code>    helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse video at 8fps </code></pre> This evolved from an ffmpeg wrapper I wrote before:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40410637">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40410637</a>


type: comment
by: subeadia
text:
  It&#x27;s always worked in Firefox for me? I also like this Firefox extension (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WorldThirteen&#x2F;youtube-watch-later-shortcut-ext" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;WorldThirteen&#x2F;youtube-watch-later-shortcu...</a>) which allows mapping a keyboard shortcut for quickly adding YT videos to the &quot;Watch Later&quot; playlist.


type: comment
by: psychoslave
text:
  That&#x27;s a difficult endeavor. First network effect plays agaisnt any new player. Second, established actors have already mastered all the arts of dark patterns to make people addicted to their crap. Paying for crap free alternatives can&#x27;t be a garantee that policy won&#x27;t change as incentives will change over time for the business behind it. Those who care for distributed FLOW solutions already have out of the box solutions, though polishing them into turn key options is certainly letting plenty of room for additional players.<p>Good luck!


type: comment
by: oh_my_goodness
text:
  I don&#x27;t understand what &quot;low risk&quot; means here. For a start-up, 99% risk of failure is low. What are we comparing that to?


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  I agree. Sorry, bad English. &quot;as&quot; -&gt; &quot;in oposite of&quot; (or something like that).


type: comment
by: loeg
text:
  It was 10x smaller when Jobs retired in 2011, not that it really matters for this analysis.<p>Musk was born in 1971, for example.


type: comment
by: Cloudly
text:
  Just finished For Blood and Money - Nathan Vardi. Enjoyed the real world characters who drove the developments of cancer research forward and the messy business of pharma.<p>I enjoyed Ra - more than &quot;There is not anti-mimetics division&quot; which I felt lost itself in the second half.<p>I greatly enjoyed Anathem - though I have always been a sucker for Stephenson.<p>I found 2666 to be profound and tragic. Obviously the intention of the book - but given that the crime rate in my country is analogous to Mexico&#x27;s - the pain of the femicide in the book and casual cover-ups felt tangible to me. I feel it is clear that is is incomplete due to the Author&#x27;s death, but I don&#x27;t think that takes away from the book.<p>In a similar vein, but in completely different genres I finally finished the wheel of time series which I started nearly 15 years ago. After getting to book 11 I pushed through the rest this year. Unfortunately I felt mostly underwhelmed. I think the Sanderson transition did not age as well as initially received. Maybe it&#x27;s because I have read too much Sanderson before getting to him. His voice is noticeably different to Jordan&#x27;s.<p>Finally I really enjoyed both the Wager and Pachinko.<p>I have started a slew of other books and not completed them but there are pending standouts. I am still halfway through Stalin by Monetfiore, and I enjoy returning when I can stomach the horrible history.<p>Honorable mention to Apple in China which I did not complete and might eventually. Don&#x27;t think I will finish Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas though.<p>In the current growing pending pile I have 1493 - which I know I will enjoy, everything is tuberculosis and now it can be told. We shall see if I make any headway :)


type: comment
by: Apreche
text:
  At least they are being honest. If you look at release notes for the past year or so, almost every improvement is related to co-pilot.<p>Thankfully, you can still disable all that garbage and just use it as a text editor.


type: comment
by: SamoyedFurFluff
text:
  Have you considered pro-AI proponents all do these things also? It’s an ugly culture war but from a relatively neutral observer I am seeing gross behavior on both sides. (Eg. Making disgusting porn of real people, mocking the dead’s art and likeness…)


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  It&#x27;s hard to see it as anything <i>but</i> algorithmic considering that an algorithm is deciding what you see.  It doesn&#x27;t matter if everyone is also seeing the same thing.


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  &gt; Open source means the source is available. Anything else is just political.<p>We don&#x27;t have to have this debate again. Folks have tried this rhetorical tack so often there is an entire wikipedia page[1] dedicated to explaining the difference between source available and open source...<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Source-available_software" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Source-available_software</a>


type: comment
by: jfreds
text:
  Citation? Not saying you’re wrong but my time in defense left me very much with the opposite opinion (radar target acquisitions had to be approved by a human, always)


type: comment
by: xgulfie
text:
  Well usually they only get acquired when they have something the purchaser wants, revenue was obviously not the get here


type: comment
by: jfengel
text:
  Isn&#x27;t there a limit to human perception, well below 120 fps?<p>Perhaps 120fps might result in a better approximation of motion blur.


type: comment
by: vtomole
text:
  Quantum theory predicts this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Threshold_theorem" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Threshold_theorem</a>. An experiment can show that this prediction is false. This is a scientific problem not an engineering one. Physical theories have to be verified with experiments. If the results of the experiment don&#x27;t match what the theory predicts then you have to do things like re-examine data, revise the theory e.t.c.


type: comment
by: bstsb
text:
  try another network. i often get SSL errors due to false positives in my internet provider&#x27;s &quot;virus protection&quot;


type: comment
by: killerstorm
text:
  Hmm, looking through how-exedev-works, it seems like what you call VM is more like a container, i.e. it doesn&#x27;t run its own kernel?<p>Sort of a container which &quot;feels like&quot; a VM? Reminds me of Virtuozzo &#x2F; OpenVZ VM approach which was popular ~20 years ago when RAM was expensive...


type: comment
by: dheera
text:
  See my more generalized CLI helper which does exactly this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dheera&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;helpme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dheera&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;helpme</a><p>Example usage:<p><pre><code>    helpme ffmpeg assemble all the .jpg files into an .mp4 timelapse video at 8fps     helpme zip my-folder into my-zip.tar with compression level 9     helpme git delete commit 1a4db4c     ... </code></pre> This originated from an ffmpeg wrapper I wrote but then realized it could be used for all commands:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40410637">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=40410637</a>


type: comment
by: dylan604
text:
  &quot;Chrome was not wrong. it&#x27;s doing proper color management by respecting the embedded ICC profile&quot;<p>That&#x27;s not how color management is meant to work. The color profile tells you how the data is saved. If you are displaying it using a different color profile, then it needs to be converted. Displaying P3 in sRGB is doing it wrong. How can you conclude Chrome &quot;was not wrong&quot;?


type: comment
by: stevenjgarner
text:
  Human-readability is the ultimate error correction for the most expensive link in the system: the human-in-the-loop.<p>The information-theoretic justification is that binary&#x27;s efficiency assumes a perfectly known codec, but the entropy of time destroys codecs (bit rot&#x2F;obsolescence). Text sacrifices transmission efficiency for semantic recovery - it remains decodable even when the specific tooling is lost, making it the most robust encoding for long-term information survival.


type: comment
by: dlcarrier
text:
  It&#x27;s probably just Apple layers avoiding getting involved in any copyright lawsuit over the copyrightability of weights, by avoiding licensing it except under what&#x27;s clearly fair use anyway, making copyrightability moot.


type: comment
by: CommenterPerson
text:
  &quot;The Emperor of All Maladies&quot; by Siddartha Mukhejee.<p>He is a medical doctor, researcher .. plus writes great science &#x2F; medical books. This one won a Pulitzer prize. Check out his other books &quot;The song of the Cell&quot; and &quot;The Gene&quot;. The books take some work to read but every page is a treat.


type: comment
by: quasse
text:
  &gt; Every time I think about EVs, I become filled with dread thinking about what will happen if an area loses power for an extended period of time<p>A mid-size EV battery can easily store 60kWh of energy. That&#x27;s enough to power a domestic refrigerator for ~12 days (assuming 200w average power usage, which is on the higher end).<p>I lost power for about a day last year and was very happy to be able to keep my fridge and some emergency lighting powered from an EV battery.


type: comment
by: bilbo0s
text:
  I know no one wants to hear this, but this “acquisition “ is nothing of the kind. It’s just Nvidia hiring the four or five guys they need without having to take on the rest of groq. Which, as it turns out, is worthless without those four or five guys.<p>This is what happens when companies figure out they don’t have to buy out other companies. They just need to pay off shareholders for the right to hire key employees. Which is convenient, since the key four or five guys are usually pretty big shareholders.<p>It’s no longer necessary to monopolize a market. You can monopolize intellectual capital by just paying ungodly sums of money. The rest will take care of itself.


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  It doesn&#x27;t but it&#x27;s pretty trivial to do if all you want is a pinholed mesh.<p>I managed to one-shot it by mixing in the mesh exporter from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tencent-Hunyuan&#x2F;HunyuanWorld-Mirror" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Tencent-Hunyuan&#x2F;HunyuanWorld-Mirror</a> but at that point you might as well use HWM, which is slower but much better suited to the level design use case.<p>Note that the results might not be as good as you expect, because this does not do any angled inpainting -- any deviation from the camera origin and your mesh will be either full of holes or warped (depending on how you handle triangle rejection) unless you layer on other techniques far outside the scope of this model.<p>And note that although HWM itself does support things like multi-image merging (which ml-sharp does not), in my testing it makes so many mistakes as to be close to useless today.<p>If you want something different that <i>is</i> designed for levels, check out Marble by World Labs.


type: comment
by: DicIfTEx
text:
  Under current DoJ antitrust guidelines, there&#x27;s nothing to stop a future administration from reviewing any anti-competitive actions ignored by the current one as part of an anti-competitive series of actions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;atr&#x2F;merger-guidelines&#x2F;applying-merger-guidelines&#x2F;guideline-8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.justice.gov&#x2F;atr&#x2F;merger-guidelines&#x2F;applying-merge...</a><p>So those businesses either know, or expect, that either:<p>a) these guidelines will be changed in a way that makes them hard or impossible to revert (i.e. through legislation or a Supreme Court judgement); or<p>b) there is little risk of a future change of administration.


type: comment
by: klelatti
text:
  &gt; Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly changed their valuation to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months. I’ve never seen anything like that since the 2008 financial crisis.<p>Not sure where the author is getting their information from but there is seemingly little correlation between the investment rounds quoted in this post and other online sources. No mention for example of the Series E that valued Groq at $6.9bn.


type: comment
by: xp84
text:
  “People” aren’t really involved. Thanks to the gerrymander (which has now been full-throatedly embraced by the party that used to rightly call it out), the <i>people’s</i> votes don’t really matter. The congresspeople’s votes theoretically do, but they’re mainly just bought by the lobbyists who fund their primary campaigns.


type: comment
by: mirashii
text:
  Another good test page for the browser: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.color.org&#x2F;version4html.xalter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.color.org&#x2F;version4html.xalter</a>


type: story
by: suffei771
title: 2025 Workplace Productivity Guide: How Pulse Gives Me Executive-Level Assistant
text:
  Why Are You Working Overtime Every Day—but Still Getting Nothing Done?<p>According to the 2025 Global Workplace Productivity Report, 72% of professionals waste at least 1.3 hours daily on information searching, coordination, and process work.<p>Scattered emails. To-do lists that never match reality. Endless back-and-forth to schedule one meeting.<p>These invisible process frictions quietly drain your energy—leaving you busy, exhausted, and staying late without real progress.<p>Pulse AI solves this as an AI COO—a digital executive assistant unifying calendars, emails, tasks, and notes. It handles operational work so you can focus on decisions, creativity, and outcomes.<p>I. Pulse AI COO: Three Scenarios That Remove 80% of Friction 1. Cross-Time Zone Meeting Coordination<p>From tedious scheduling to one-click setup<p>Automatic Availability Matching Pulse scans calendars and suggests optimal times, showing both local and counterpart time.<p>Intelligent Conflict Resolution Detects conflicts, proposes alternatives, sends confirmations, and adjusts automatically—no chasing emails.<p>Pre-Meeting Smart Briefs Ten minutes before a meeting, Claire provides attendee background, key threads, and related tasks—ensuring productive discussions.<p>2. Email-to-To-Do Integration<p>From inbox chaos to actionable tasks<p>Unified Inbox Sync Gmail and Outlook. AI prioritizes urgent requests and filters low-value messages.<p>AI Summaries &amp; Action Extraction Long emails become concise points with actionable tasks. One click converts them into step-by-step actions.<p>Smart Task Linking &amp; Reminders Tasks link to meetings or notes. Deadlines and priorities adjust automatically so nothing slips through.<p>3. Focus Mode &amp; Privacy Protection<p>Concentrate without compromise<p>Smart Focus Mode Filters non-urgent notifications, surfacing only critical items.<p>Enterprise-Grade Privacy Permission-based access, GDPR-compliant, no third-party data sharing.<p>II. Real User Impact<p>Operations Manager, Multinational Company “Scheduling used to take an hour. Now one minute. Pre-meeting briefs eliminate admin work.”<p>Marketing Specialist, China “Claire helps me finish work on time instead of organizing late at night.”<p>Client Success Manager, Japan “Tasks I used to forget are now automatically pulled from emails. Workflow feels smooth.”<p>Pulse doesn’t replace people—it removes low-value work so professionals can focus on high-impact tasks.<p>III. Who Is Pulse For?<p>Ideal Users<p>Global teams and cross-time-zone roles<p>Email-heavy jobs (marketing, sales, operations)<p>Multi-taskers managing meetings, tasks, and deadlines<p>Users seeking one unified system<p>Pro Tips<p>Customize Claire’s style and rules<p>Sync all emails for a complete overview<p>Enable task–meeting linking for automatic follow-ups<p>IV. Pulse vs. Competitors<p>Pulse vs. Notion Notion builds systems; Pulse executes automatically.<p>Pulse vs. Superhuman Superhuman speeds up email; Pulse manages email, meetings, tasks, and follow-ups—covering the full workflow.<p>Modern productivity is removing friction, not doing more. Pulse adapts to your workflow, handling scheduling, email, and tasks—so you can focus on strategy, creativity, and meaningful collaboration. https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pulse-ai.world&#x2F;


type: story
by: Brajeshwar
title: A man hunting the spies in your smartphone
url:
  https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1129294/ronald-deibert-citizen-lab-digital-threats-spies-cybersecurity/


type: comment
by: neom
text:
  It makes sense you&#x27;re getting downvoted but I thought it was actually an interesting question so I spent the past hour or so doing an autistic rabbit hole (including finding the linkedins of the folks on the paper linked here to understand their backgrounds), heh.<p>Was somewhat surprised to learn that the pipeline wasn&#x27;t built by industry demand, it was supply pressure from abroad that happened to arrive just as US universities needed the money (2009&#x2F;10). In 1999, China&#x27;s government massively expanded higher education, combined with a system where the state steers talent into stem via central quotas in the &quot;gaokao&quot;, it created an overflow of CS capable graduates with nowhere to go domestically, India&#x27;s 1991 liberalization created the IT services boom (TCS, Infosys, Y2K gold rush) and made engineering THE middle class ticket, so same overflow problem. US phd programs became the outlet for both countries.<p>In that light, the university side response probably wasn&#x27;t state side industry demand for loads of PhDs, who was hiring those then? Google Brain didn&#x27;t exist until 2011, FAIR until 2013. It wasn&#x27;t really till 2012+ that industry in tech started to hire big research groups to actually advance the field vs specialized PhDs here and there for products... so not a huge amount of pull from there. Then, at the same time, universities were responding to a funding crisis... there was a 2008 state budget collapse, so it was backfilled with international Master&#x27;s students paying $50-80k cash (we do this in Canada <i>heavily</i> also), that revenue cross-subsidized PhD programs (which are mostly cost centers remember). I also read some say PhD students were also better labor: visa constraints meant they couldn&#x27;t easily bounce to industry, they&#x27;d accept $30k stipends, tho I saw other research contradicting this idea. The whole system was in place before &quot;AI Researcher&quot; was even a real hiring category. Then deep learning hit (2012), industry woke up, and they found a pre built pipeline to harvest: The authors on that Apple paper finished their PhDs around 2012-2020, meaning they entered programs 2009-2015 when CS PhDs were already 55-60% foreign born. Those students stayed, 75-85% of Chinese and Indian STEM PhDs are still here a decade later. They&#x27;re now the senior researchers publishing papers you read here on HN.<p>This got me wondering, could the US have grown this domestically? In 2024 they produced ~3,000 CS PhDs, only ~1,100 domestic. To get 3,000 domestic you&#x27;d need 2.7x the pipeline...which traces back to needing 10.8 million 9th graders in 2018 instead of 4 million (lol), or convincing 3x more CS undergrads to take $35k stipends instead of $150k industry jobs. Neither happened. So other countries pay for K-12 and undergrad, capture the talent at PhD entry, keep 75%+ permanently.<p>Seems like a reasonable system emerged from a bunch of difficult constraints?<p>(and just to reiterate, even tho it was an interesting research project for me, you can&#x27;t infer where someone is directly from based on their name)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sccei.fsi.stanford.edu&#x2F;china-briefs&#x2F;highest-exam-how-gaokao-shapes-china" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sccei.fsi.stanford.edu&#x2F;china-briefs&#x2F;highest-exam-how...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_liberalisation_in_India" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Economic_liberalisation_in_Ind...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncses.nsf.gov&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;nsf24300&#x2F;data-tables" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncses.nsf.gov&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;nsf24300&#x2F;data-tables</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aau.edu&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;leading-research-universities-report&#x2F;new-data-show-us-retains-significant-share-foreign" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aau.edu&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;leading-research-universities-r...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncses.nsf.gov&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;nsf25325" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ncses.nsf.gov&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;nsf25325</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;flood-chinese-graduate-students-stem-was-boon-u-s-students" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.science.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;article&#x2F;flood-chinese-gradua...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;quicktakes&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;foreign-students-and-graduate-stem-enrollment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.insidehighered.com&#x2F;quicktakes&#x2F;2017&#x2F;10&#x2F;11&#x2F;foreign...</a>


type: comment
by: oh_my_goodness
text:
  I don&#x27;t exactly disagree. But the word &quot;obvious&quot; doesn&#x27;t work very well during a bubble. Sure, yes, the current revenue doesn&#x27;t justify the purchase price. But that doesn&#x27;t mean that <i>anything</i> justifies the purchase price.<p>We can&#x27;t work backward rationally from &quot;this deal makes sense&quot; and get to &quot;here&#x27;s why&quot;. Corporate acquisitions often  don&#x27;t work that way, even when there&#x27;s no bubble. The price is often just not justified at all. By anything.<p>In many cases they&#x27;re just capitalizing testosterone.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  Careful not to assume I’m more bullish than I am. I said there’s value, I didn’t say there’s enormous value equal to the investment bubble. I see this as similar to the dot com boom. Websites were and are valuable things, even if people got too excited in 2002 about it.


type: comment
by: dragonwriter
text:
  Or (c) that any future administration is going to have a lot of more pressing concerns that will drown out seriously relitigating past mergers and acquisitions, and any concerns they do have will most likely be mollified with agreed remedies that sacrifice far less than the value of doing the merger.<p>Very few administrations do everything they theoretically could under the law and their own guidelines (even the ones that also do lots that violates both.)


type: comment
by: dlcarrier
text:
  If your goal isn&#x27;t four times greater than what you&#x27;re likely to achieve, than you might as well not have goals.<p>— A motivational speaker, probably<p>Revenue targets are meaningless, especially in hyped fields.


type: comment
by: larodi
text:
  Indeed why not have —tui option and some basic menu? Even a simplified scripting with reasonable API would be better.<p>I find myself bothering exactly zero times to memorise this obnoxiously long command line. Claude fills in, and I can explore features better. What’s not to like? That I’m getting dumber for not memorising pages of cli args?<p>Love the project, but as with every Swiss knife this conversation is a thing and relevant. We had similar one reg JQ syntax and I’m truly convinced JQ is wonderful and useful tool. But I’m not gonna bother learning more DSLs…


type: comment
by: swiftcoder
text:
  &gt; Apple trying to “open-source” something<p>You know Apple releases&#x2F;funds a <i>lot</i> of open source, right?<p>Projects like WebKit, LLVM&#x2F;clang, or CUPS (the print drivers for all of Linux)...


type: comment
by: api
text:
  I like that Zed has a disable all AI option. I use AI a little but prefer to use terminal based assistants or just cut&#x2F;paste to a chat.<p>BTW Zed is great and I subscribed just to support them even though I don’t use their cloud. They should charge for it, even a little bit.<p>(I might try their AI features again but last time I found them less convenient than the other ways.)


type: comment
by: lostlogin
text:
  The tv series Silicon Valley has a good episode where they discuss the importance of a start-up not having any revenue. Being pre revenue apparently means unlimited potential, with any level of revenue being bad, as you always have to grow it.


type: comment
by: jesse__
text:
  Several times in 10 years, sure.  Many times every year, certainly not.  I&#x27;m getting downvoted, but I stand by my statement.


type: comment
by: stevenjgarner
text:
  Yes, I love the analogy. You can think of the CMU Split-Lohmann system as a &quot;per-pixel tilt-shift lens&quot; or a &quot;freeform focal surface&quot; camera.


type: comment
by: smallerize
text:
  Seems to be down? Here&#x27;s a thread with a summary of exploits presented in the talk: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;filippo.abyssdomain.expert&#x2F;post&#x2F;3maya7cnoxj2l" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;filippo.abyssdomain.expert&#x2F;post&#x2F;3ma...</a>


type: comment
by: jecel
text:
  QNX was my operating system from 1985 to 1988. I also studied it in 2000 for a project that ended up getting cancelled.<p>Initially the actual implementation didn&#x27;t match the conceptual framework, but by version 1.2 they had really cleaned things up.


type: comment
by: smashed
text:
  Ostree and immutable distros in general are seeing a renewed interest lately for mostly security reasons but they have been and are still widely used for appliance-type devices.<p>I could see someone wanting to build an arch based firmware with OTA updates use this as a proof of concept. Yes, they would have to customize it and operate some infra but that does not make it useless.


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  Parent of young adults (recent former teens) here.<p>Anecdotal, but I can assure you that no-one in their cohort feels that social media makes a positive contribution to their mental health. Neither did their teachers. The ones I know of tend to try to actively avoid it.<p>I know of older adults (late 20s &#x2F; early 30s) who have had similarly negative experiences with anxiety and addictive engagement.


type: comment
by: beached_whale
text:
  That&#x27;s just another distraction from the class war being waged on the un-wealthy.    We all contribute to it in small ways while it is being pushed by those with the means.  Collectively we love to control others<p>Palantir wouldn&#x27;t exist if regular people didn&#x27;t use it to lookup details on an ex all the time to stalk them &#x2F;jk.


type: comment
by: mgraczyk
text:
  For example here is a recent widely cited study that did not find a statistically significant link between Facebook&#x2F;Instagram and mental health outcomes, broadly miscited as having found an effect: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ifstudies.org&#x2F;ifs-admin&#x2F;resources&#x2F;briefs&#x2F;ifs-gallup-parentingsocialmediascreentime-october2023-1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ifstudies.org&#x2F;ifs-admin&#x2F;resources&#x2F;briefs&#x2F;ifs-gallup-...</a><p>They did claim to find a very small link between TikTok&#x2F;YouTube and mental health, but this seems to defy the narrative of &quot;social&quot; media being the culprit. YouTube was not significant if you adjust for multiple hypotheses, only TikTok


type: comment
by: gspetr
text:
  &gt; it does not hurt women<p>Why make assertions that even a cursory search can disprove?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettingladies.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;super-bowl-2024" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bettingladies.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;super-bowl-2024</a>


type: comment
by: beart
text:
  A quick google search indicates the average tenure of a CEO is ~7 years.<p>I wonder if there should be a c) There is a lack of meaningful planning beyond the current status quo.


type: comment
by: wwweston
text:
  Start with love of the domain and a culture of respect working in it, then move to a love of the status and respect, then a focus on those instead of the domain…


type: comment
by: OptionOfT
text:
  Well, I don&#x27;t know what to think anymore. I use LLMs in my work, but I&#x27;m not comfortable signing my name on something I don&#x27;t fully stand by (akin to the responsibility of a lawyer&#x27;s signature).<p>It&#x27;s December 27th, 2025 and I&#x27;m not supposed to be thinking about my future*.  I&#x27;m supposed to spend time with my family and enjoy that. Yet here I sit mulching on this.<p>* I didn&#x27;t add &#x27;as a Software Engineer&#x27;, because I wouldn&#x27;t know as what else.


type: comment
by: tzs
text:
  Apparently licenses no longer have to actually meet all 10 of the criteria listed there to count as open source. OSI says AGPLv3 is open source, for example, even though it fails #10 (&quot;No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface&quot;).<p>AGPLv3 has provisions that are predicated on remote interaction over computer networks. Put modified AGPLv3 software on a computer that users interact with over RS232 terminals and you don&#x27;t have to give users the source. Replace those RS232 terminals with X servers that let the users interact with the program over Ethernet and you do have to give those users the source.


type: comment
by: Rendello
text:
  I used to use these and a big table to simulate Stalingrad and other WWII battles. Popsicle sticks laid together as half-destroyed floorboards, and of course I had a lot of army guys to position around.


type: story
by: bookofjoe
title: Ford Engineer Who Invented "Moylan Arrow" Fuel Gauge Indicator Dies at 80
url:
  https://fordauthority.com/2025/12/ford-engineer-that-designed-gas-tank-indicator-passes-away/#google_vignette


type: comment
by: hylaride
text:
  I would not be surprised if the market share breakdown is similar to browsers (eg 70+ percent - more if you ignore that safari is the only real option on iOS).<p>VSCode has slowly been getting more and more bloated, but the alternatives are all very meh or are missing crucial extensions.


type: comment
by: joshdavham
text:
  HN is social media and I think most people recognize that.<p>It&#x27;s just that HN is a social media that respects your time and doesn&#x27;t try to get you addicted. For example, HN has a very useful &#x27;noprocrast&#x27; feature and one of the co-founders, pg, has openly worried about HN&#x27;s addictiveness in the past [0].<p>So while HN is social media, I feel like it&#x27;s qualitatively different than other platforms.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;hackernews.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulgraham.com&#x2F;hackernews.html</a>


type: comment
by: simonebrunozzi
text:
  &gt; To visualize $1.5 billion: if you cashed that check out in $100 bills and stacked them one on top of another, it would reach a five story building. For ordinary plebeians like us, at the average US salary of around $75K, you’d need to work 20,000 years to earn that.<p>No, we don&#x27;t need to visualize that.


type: comment
by: vjvjvjvjghv
text:
  &quot;When have you ever heard someone tell you they work for big tobacco?&quot;<p>Go to southern Virginia or North Carolina.


type: comment
by: joshcsimmons
text:
  Thank you for calling this out. I have edited and added a footnote there. Their valuation wasn&#x27;t 500mil it was their revenue projection.<p>The 6.9bn valuation is accurate though <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;groq-raises-750-million-as-inference-demand-surges-302558961.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.prnewswire.com&#x2F;news-releases&#x2F;groq-raises-750-mil...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;groq-more-than-doubles-valuation-69-billion-investors-bet-ai-chips-2025-09-17&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;groq-more-than-doubles-valu...</a>


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  Is this the info from your friend? Did they allow to make it public? Why the list of credit card use is so short? (I expect like 50 purchase per month x 12 months pr year x 5 years [IIRC from 10 seconds ago when I skimmed the pdf] = 300.)


type: comment
by: Lio
text:
  This is the bit that gives me pause:<p>&gt; <i>In certain markets, we use conversation data to train the generative AI models in Copilot, unless you choose to opt-out of such training.</i><p>&quot;Build me a SaaS platform exactly like ____&quot;<p>If agents become as good at long running tasks as we&#x27;re told they will do by giving Microsoft access to your codebase and inner business processes to give to anyone that wants to the ability to clone your business.<p>That might end up being inevitable but I see no reason to accelerate that.


type: comment
by: api
text:
  AI has been a breath of fresh air to me, but I understand some of the problems with it.<p>Chatting with a bot and using it as a brainstorming or research assistant is the first time I’ve felt a since of <i>wonder</i> since Web 1.0. It offers a way to search and interact with knowledge that is both more efficient and different from anything else.<p>One of the most mind blowing to me is reverse idea search. “I heard the following idea once. Please tell me who may have said this.” Before LLMs this was utterly impossible.<p>But I also understand how these things work and that any fact or work that the LLM does must be checked. You can’t just mindlessly believe a chat bot. I can see how people who don’t keep that in mind could be led way out into lala land by these things.<p>I also see their potential for abuse, but that’s true of all tech. In prehistoric times I’m sure there were some guys sitting around a fire lamenting “maybe we should not have sharpened stick. Maybe we should not play god. Let stick be dull as god intended.”


type: comment
by: vee-kay
text:
  Cipher and &quot;Arabic&quot; numerals are not just loan words, they are loan concepts - from India. They originated from ancient India, because the Arabs adopted and translated those ideas and texts from the original texts written by ancient Indians&#x2F;Hindus.<p>Fact - Origin of Numerals and Mathematical Zero:  Mathematical zero and numerals were not discovered&#x2F;invented by the Arabs. There is no such thing as &quot;Arabic&quot; numerals because the Arabs did NOT invent numerals or cipher (to represent emptiness and&#x2F;or mathematical zero).<p>The Arabs learnt the concept &amp; use of mathematical zero, numerals, decimal system, complex mathematical calculations (including the subjects we call today as Algebra, Calculus, Trignometry), etc. from the ancient Hindus&#x2F;Indians. And from the Arabs, the Europeans learnt it all.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hindu-Arabic_numeral_system" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hindu-Arabic_numeral_system</a><p>Persian scholar Al Khwarizmi translated and used the Hindu&#x2F;Indian numerals (including concept of mathematical zero) and &quot;Sulba Sutras&quot; (Hindu&#x2F;Indian methods of mathematical problem solving) into the text Al-Jabr, which the Europeans translated as &quot;Algebra&quot; (yup, that branch of mathematics that all schoolkids worldwide learn from kindergarten).<p>Origin trivia: Originating from the Sanskrit word for zero शून्य (śuṇya), via the Arabic word صفر (ṣifr), the word &quot;cipher&quot; spread to Europe as part of the Arabic numeral system during the Middle Ages. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etymonline.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;cipher" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.etymonline.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;cipher</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cipher#Etymology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Cipher#Etymology</a><p>Fun fact: The Sanskrit word for mathematical zero and emptiness&#x2F;voidness is the same: Shunya (शून्य). In fact, mathematicians are of the opinion that ancient Indians were among the first to understand the concept of mathematical zero because they understood the meaning of empty&#x2F;void (Shunyata). Dhyana (meditation by focusing on voidness&#x2F;stillness, away from random intrusive thoughts) is an aspect of Yoga (world&#x27;s oldest active fitness discipline).<p>Another fun fact: The world&#x27;s oldest recorded cipher (as an example of cryptography&#x2F; encryption) is the ancient Indian epic Ramayana by Maharshi Valmiki. It has 24000 verses (Sanskrit shlokas), and the first syllable (akshara) of each 1000th verse&#x2F;shloka forms a series of 24 syllables that form the sacred Sri Gayatri Mantra.<p>Proofs of oldest records mathematical zero being of Indian origin, are available..<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebetterindia.com&#x2F;270912&#x2F;chaturbhuj-temple-in-gwalior-has-worlds-oldest-zero-symbol&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebetterindia.com&#x2F;270912&#x2F;chaturbhuj-temple-in-gwali...</a><p>World&#x27;s oldest known evidence of Mathematical Zero and numerals - ancient inscription on wall of Chaturbhuj temple in Gwalior, India.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glam.ox.ac.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;carbon-dating-finds-bakhshali-manuscript-contains-oldest-recorded-origins-symbol-zero" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.glam.ox.ac.uk&#x2F;article&#x2F;carbon-dating-finds-bakhsh...</a><p>Bakhshali manuscript (stored in Oxford) from ancient India&#x2F;Bharat - is the world&#x27;s oldest text having Mathematical Zero and equations.<p>World should know the vital mathematical concepts &amp; representations of numerals, decimal system, binary system, algebra, calculus, trigonometry, etc. we know and use today are originated from Indian&#x2F;Hindu texts and scholars.<p>Both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz claimed to be The Father of Calculus, but reality is that they likely learnt it from maths-savvy Jesuit missionaries who themselves simply carried the knowledge of Calculus to Europe from its source: The Kerala School of Mathematics from Malabar, India.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manchester.ac.uk&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;indians-predated-newton-discovery-by-250-years&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manchester.ac.uk&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;indians-predated-new...</a><p>Wikipedia used to mention that the &quot;Arabic&quot; numerals are originated from &quot;Hindu&quot; numerals, but I see that origin has been removed from Wikipedia. It is sad when  historical truths are hidden from the world, and mistruths are propagated instead.<p>By the way, Tamil and Sanskrit are the oldest extant (active) languages in the world.


type: comment
by: echelon
text:
  This is optimally foolish.<p>It effectively prevents the community from using Apple&#x27;s solution, but gives the Chinese everything they need to duplicate the results and push their own version.<p>I expect a Hunyuan-branded version of this model in six months. Probably with lots of improvements.<p>I&#x27;m all for Chinese model takeover if this is how US tech giants treat AI. You can&#x27;t horde the flames forever, US hyperscalers.<p>The DoD ought to be advocating for a strong domestic open source stance to ensure our ecosystem doesn&#x27;t get washed away. AI czar David Sacks has this view, but I suppose it&#x27;s been falling on deaf ears when the hyperscalers crowd out the conversation.


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  &gt;<i>If you are using Firefox or a Chromium browser (for me Google Chrome 143.0.7499.170), it&#x27;s very likely that you are seeing a very foggy version of the painting, however, if you download the image and open it with your default image viewer (or open it in the Safari browser), you will see the image normally.</i><p>Why does the page 404 when opening the image? Bandwidth issue? Firefox issue? (Yes, the username is a joke - I don&#x27;t work for Firefox I just use it and thought this would be a funny name)<p>they wayback machine doesn&#x27;t have a copy of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.org&#x2F;i&#x2F;2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.org&#x2F;i&#x2F;2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png</a> or i was going to link to it in the post here usually, i&#x27;d try to balance a blunt reply like this with they wayback version<p>cheers!<p>Edit: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251227181428if_&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;i&#x2F;2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251227181428if_&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.or...</a>


type: comment
by: f1shy
text:
  If I have to bet, I will absolutely go for MS enshitifying it beyond reasonable usability, in one way or another, more soon than later.<p>Making an editor is anice endeavor. But there are plenty of, which are extremely well developed, open source, in many directions, emacs and vim the most prominent. But many others out there.


type: comment
by: aurareturn
text:
  <p><pre><code>  I don&#x27;t. I just asked to do some research instead of indulging in wild speculation. </code></pre> You are. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Argument_from_authority" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Argument_from_authority</a><p><pre><code>  An argument from authority[a] is a form of argument in which the opinion of an authority figure (or figures) is used as evidence to support an argument.[1] The argument from authority is often considered a logical fallacy[2] and obtaining knowledge in this way is fallible.[3][4]    Again, just baseless speculation. Rob had a very prolific where he worked on foundational technologies like programming language design. He is now retired. What kind of power would he be afraid to lose? </code></pre> Clout? Historical importance? Feeling like people are forgetting him? If he didn&#x27;t care about any of this, he wouldn&#x27;t have a social media account.


type: comment
by: jama211
text:
  buzzer sound is an incredibly obnoxious way to start a comment and all you did after that is present yourself with exactly as much dignity as you deserve in return.


type: comment
by: design2203
text:
  I often wonder what people are thinking when they write those posts.<p>I really don’t think they have a deeper connection within oneself to understand what is going on when one is thinking vs whats going on with LLM’s.


type: comment
by: yegle
text:
  I took the words at their face value and genuinely thought 2 engineers got this done. In reality there&#x27;s an OPM engineering team in Georgia.


type: comment
by: orblivion
text:
  Maybe the site is overloaded. But as for the &quot;brb, were on it!!!!&quot; - this page had the live stream of the talk when it was happening. Hopefully they&#x27;ll replace it with the recording when media.ccc.de posts it, which should be within a couple hours.


type: comment
by: eeeficus
text:
  A bit dissapointed by this. You have to create an account, get a license, deploy it and then you get a fucking download manager just for linux and windows to download who knows what that should run on qemu. Why not just give a link to a qemu image with a script that runs it?


type: comment
by: gus_massa
text:
  Do you have a webpage that is specific about the championship? How many players? AI or humans? Time control? Randomized or bring your own starting position?


type: comment
by: ArtTimeInvestor
text:
  The incentive to send http requests is that data comes back. That&#x27;s why the storm of scrapers hurts website owners. They gather the data and give nothing back.<p>What would be the incentive to send failing payment requests?


type: comment
by: joshcsimmons
text:
  It&#x27;s not - I prefer to record a YouTube video first (I speak better than I write) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2po-s2yOCcg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=2po-s2yOCcg</a> Then I run that through a transcription app (so AI I suppose but still my words, shout out to Scriber Pro which I found via HN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45591222">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45591222</a>) then I edit down and try to change my verbs (visual to written) where necessary.


type: comment
by: theturtletalks
text:
  I had the same issue. Subagents are nice but the LLM calling them can’t have a back and forth conversation. I tried tmux-cli and even other options like AgentAPI[0] but the same issue persists, the agent can’t have a back and forth with the tmux pane.<p>To people asking why would you want Claude to call Codex or Gemini, it’s because of orchestration. We have an architect skill we feed the first agent. That agent can call subagents or even use tmux and feed in the builder skill. The architect is harnessed to a CRUD application just keeping track of what features were built already so the builder is focused on building only.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coder&#x2F;agentapi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;coder&#x2F;agentapi</a>


type: comment
by: MrDrone
text:
  Yeah, this is what I don&#x27;t understand. Why did we gut 18F, which was doing incredible work and make a... a new version? Seems the opposite of reducing waste.


type: comment
by: xyzal
text:
  A meta-analysis&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC12108867&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC12108867&#x2F;</a><p>Results: The majority of studies linked social media use to adverse mental health outcomes, particularly depression and anxiety. However, the relationship was complex, with evidence suggesting that problematic use and passive consumption of social media were most strongly associated with adverse effects. In contrast, some studies highlighted positive aspects, including enhanced social support and reduced isolation. The mental health impact of social media use, specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic, was mixed, with the full range of neutral, negative, and positive effects reported.


type: comment
by: stuffn
text:
  The EMH is provably false.<p>Moreover if you can get an edge that is even 2-3% over a coin flip all you need is risk management to make money.<p>Not understanding this is how you go broke. I traded for a number of years and did well. It was not hard to regularly beat the market, especially in futures and options.


type: comment
by: misiti3780
text:
  I&#x27;m sorry but you think people are not going to move to florida because of hurricanes. Please be serious.<p>Also the left wing progressive culture is working wonders for California. It&#x27;s a wonder everyone that can is leaving.


type: comment
by: etchalon
text:
  Even if you&#x27;re not using VSCode, you&#x27;re probably using VSCode.<p>We&#x27;re just out here putting hats on hats.


type: comment
by: NewJazz
text:
  You can create service accounts and tokens... Although long lived tokens are discouraged, that&#x27;s as simple as it gets.<p>Sorry I think you&#x27;re in the minority here. Most people don&#x27;t want what you are talking about, they want to use SSO. Even with plain Linux machines, they want SSO.


type: comment
by: stevenjgarner
text:
  Haha!  Great catch.  That specific structure ... &quot;It’s not just a [Product], it’s a [Experience&#x2F;Metaphor]!&quot; ... is a classic trope of mid-to-late 20th-century American advertising.  This style exploded during the &quot;Creative Revolution&quot; of advertising (1960s–1980s). Agencies like Doyle Dane Bernbach (DDB) began moving away from &quot;reason-why&quot; copy (which listed technical specs) toward emotional copy.  So it is kind of a time capsule, like a website from the 90&#x27;s.  In professional copywriting, this is called Feature-to-Benefit Transformation.  In classical rhetoric, this is a form of Correctio - when a speaker replaces a word or a description with a more powerful one to emphasize a point.


type: comment
by: joshcsimmons
text:
  Go talk to someone outside of tech this week, preferably someone working in the trades or something else that&#x27;s less dependent on a computer, and ask them about their AI use. You&#x27;d be surprised how new a lot of the tech concepts in this article are to people that might have only heard of ChatGPT.<p>That is who I&#x27;m writing for.


type: comment
by: Verdex
text:
  My belief is that the function of a story is to provide social cover for our actions.  Other people need to evaluate us (both in the moment and after the dust has settled) and while careful data analysis can do the job, who has time for that crap.<p>As such the story can be completely divorced from reality.  The important thing is that the story is a good one. A good story transfers your social cover for yourself to your supervisor.  They don&#x27;t have to understand what you did and explain why it&#x27;s okay that it failed.  They just have to understand the story structure that you gave them.  Listen to this great story, it&#x27;s not my report&#x27;s fault for this failure, and it&#x27;s certainly not mine, just bad luck.<p>Additionally, the good (and sufficiently original) story is a gift because your supervisor can reuse it for new scenarios.<p>The good salesman gives you the story you need to excuse the purchase that will enable you to succeed.  The bad salesman sells you on a story that you need a frivolous purchase.<p>And this is why job hoping is &quot;bad&quot;.  Eventually the incompetent employee uses up all of their good stories and management catches onto their act.  It&#x27;s embedded into our language.  &quot;Oh we&#x27;ve all heard this story before.&quot; The job hopper leaves just as their good stories are exhausted and can start over fresh at the new employer.<p>All of this in response to<p>&gt; If we&#x27;re lucky, people will manage to adapt and update their mental models to be less trustworthy of things that they can&#x27;t verify<p>Yes, if we&#x27;re lucky that is what will happen.  But I fear that we&#x27;re going to have to transition to a very low trust society for that to happen.<p>Reliance on the story is reliant on the trust that someone has done the real work.  Distrust of the story implies a wider scale distrust in others and institutions.<p>Maybe we can add a tradition of annotating our stories with arguments and proofs.  Although I&#x27;ve spent a two decade career desperately trying to give highly technical people arguments and proofs and I&#x27;ve seen stories completely unmoored from reality win out every time.<p>Optimistically, I&#x27;m just really bad at it and it&#x27;s actually a natural transition.  Pessimistically, we&#x27;re in for a bumpy ride.


type: comment
by: mrcwinn
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  This is missing the point. Even at a clipped revenue projection - $500m at $2b is a 4x multiple on revenue.<p>A 4x for an AI cloud+infra play that  targets speed and cost? Where do I send the check?<p>If NVIDIA believes it can take this and scale it, $20b is a no brainer.


type: comment
by: rogerrogerr
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  &gt; After that you&#x27;re allowed to buy the most expensive aqua because now you&#x27;re in the middle of the water monopol<p>Never understood why people are buying bottled water at airports. I always bring a large empty water bottle, and fill it up at the drinking fountains that are invariably on the other side of security, or near my gate. They pretty much always have those touchless bottle filler things on them now. Seems pretty painless.<p>Not the best tasting water, but in the states I&#x27;m reasonably confident airport tap water probably isn&#x27;t dangerous.


type: comment
by: bovermyer
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  Given that this is hand-crafted by a real artist, introducing AI into it would be a betrayal of the entire concept.


type: comment
by: maroonblazer
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  Me too. For that I highly recommend the Tree Napper from Bearaby.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bearaby.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;weighted-blankets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bearaby.com&#x2F;collections&#x2F;weighted-blankets</a>


type: comment
by: gradientsrneat
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  They still aren&#x27;t honest about the fact that the official VSCode distribution isn&#x27;t fully open source because, for example: you can&#x27;t have VSCodium connect to the official plugin repository. It also isn&#x27;t the only editor with AI integration, and more specifically these systems use LLMs.<p>It would therefore be more honest to say that VSCode is &quot;a visible source LLM code editor&quot;.


type: comment
by: languid-photic
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  Yes, typically the agent is just trying to do what it&#x27;s been instructed to do, but sometimes it&#x27;s too naive to realize its approach is a bit sketchy.<p>And actually, one way we&#x27;ve hardened our sandbox is by tasking agents with impossible tasks (within the sandbox), then analyzing and patching each workaround.


type: comment
by: chmod775
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  It&#x27;s not for moving around, but for turning some image into a stereoscopic one (or 2 side-by-side images if you will). Lots of techniques for this exist, which usually turn an image into depth information using AI and then use any number of approaches to generate&#x2F;warp 2 offset images from it.<p>So far the best looking results are still achieved with good old mesh warping and no inpainting at all. This may change that.


type: comment
by: lukax
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  I guess there&#x27;s a lot of pressure from Cursor and Google&#x27;s Antigravity. Also with Zed you can bring your own API key which VS Code didn&#x27;t support for a long time.


type: comment
by: xyzal
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  Don&#x27;t fall for the illusion that major social media are somehow a modern agora. It is a personalized, individually tailored psyop.


type: comment
by: halosghost
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  I flagged this as undisclosed slopware being pushed as secure cryptographic engineering with no reasonable measure of human review.<p>All the best,<p>-HG


type: comment
by: jama211
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  Hikacking my own comment to mention that the normal thing on forums when a reasonable person reads an unreasonable comment is they move on, which can make the comment stand unopposed which gives it credence it doesn’t deserve. I believe if more of us actually showed our disagreement out loud as I have here, it could change things sometimes.


type: comment
by: baby_souffle
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  &gt; Why not just use a Python container rather than rely on having the latest binary installed on the system?<p>Sometimes this is the right answer. Sometimes docker&#x2F;podman&#x2F;runc are not an option nor would the headache of volumes&#x2F;mounts&#x2F;permissions&#x2F;hw-pass-through be worth the additional mess.<p>It is hard to over-state how delightful putting `uv` in the shebang is:<p>in `demo.py`:<p><pre><code>    #!&#x2F;usr&#x2F;bin&#x2F;env -S uv run     # &#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F; script     # requires-python = &quot;&gt;=3.13&quot;     print(&quot;hello, world&quot;) </code></pre> Then `chmod +x demo.py; .&#x2F;demo.py`<p>At no point did I have a detour to figure out why `python` is symlinked to `python3` unless I am in some random directory where there is a half-broken `conda` environment...


type: comment
by: tim-tday
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  It’s not solely Trumps fault we fell behind. (And let’s be clear, we fell behind China. The rise of Korea and Vietnam are simply insignificant in comparison.)<p>In fact he tried to fix our pending loss to China in his first presidency with his first efforts towards a trade war. The trade war alarmed China who began a program to internalize supply chains. and when Biden doubled down, China accelerated their supply chain independence at the cost of a residential construction crash and massive financial pain for normal Chinese people. And now in the second trump presidency we see that chinas efforts worked. They succeeded in internalizing their supply chains so they can continue to produce and export even as supply inputs are disrupted.<p>Which is why we’re seeing that the current trade war isn’t working. China has been able to increase their international exports to the rest often world. When trump slapped our closest trading partners he helped China because he sent our closest trading partners right into the arms of China who have increased their global trade even as the trade war with the us continues.<p>But that’s not what the article is about. It’s about the about-face from electric vehicles and that is 100% definitively Trump’s doing.<p>So yes let’s face the truth on those two issues. 1) the US fell behind China and the trade war isn’t working. No it’s not all trump’s fault. But he’s the president and it happened on his watch despite his efforts. 2) an about face on electric vehicles will harm us in the long term (costing us much more later than it saves by redoubling investment in old tech)


type: comment
by: NetMageSCW
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  The article was terrible, it read like someone desperately justifying there already made conclusions with anything possible.


type: comment
by: lukeschlather
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  The thing about ffmpeg is there&#x27;s no substitute for learning. It&#x27;s pretty common that something simple like &quot;ff convert&quot; simply doesn&#x27;t work and you have to learn about resolution, color space, profiles, or container formats. An LLM can help but earlier this year I spent a lot of time looking at these sorts of edge cases, and I can easily make any LLM wildly hallucinate by asking questions about how to use ffmpeg to handle particular files.


type: comment
by: d4rkp4ttern
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  Yes this and other edge cases is why I made the Tmux-CLI wrapper. Yes they use send-keys with suitable delays etc


type: comment
by: code_Whisperer
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  I had a similar requirement recently and ended up going with CodeKeeper (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codekeeper.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codekeeper.co&#x2F;</a>), mainly because they had a portal that seemed mostly self-serve. Because they are based in The Hague, and because my client had domestic restrictions, I also had to add the US-only storage option. Their pricing was also a factor in my decision. YMMV.


type: comment
by: avaer
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  This is a free research project on GitHub. I think I&#x27;d rather apple focus on making hardware than hoarding GPUs for PR stunts to prove they are a &quot;serious company&quot;.


type: comment
by: vidarh
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  I have been in actual conversations where the topic was whether to avoid revenue to prevent being measured on it...<p>That show was very on the nose about a great many things.


type: comment
by: joshcsimmons
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  Thank you for reading. Outages could be vibe regressions, could be something else. I&#x27;m definitely making an opinionated leap there.


type: comment
by: ossa-ma
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  The bubble take is tired. This was regulatory arbitrage: IP licensing instead of acquisition to dodge CFIUS&#x2F;antitrust. The $13B premium to avoid years of hold up while enriching Chamath and giving Trump&#x27;s AI Czar a Christmas present. So many other things at play here than just &quot;AI bubble so big it will boom&quot;.<p>Here&#x27;s my take on what actually happened: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ossa-ma.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;groq" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ossa-ma.github.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;groq</a>


type: comment
by: aristofun
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  &gt; See the Crusades. See what’s going on in Israel<p>Really, christians are to blame for what’s going on today in Israel??<p>80th level of dumb, congrats! :)))<p>&gt; Christians love to claim these advancements for themselves<p>If you play the game of putting hanging all the dead dogs to christianity, it’s only fair to also attribute all the good achievements to it.<p>Otherwise it doesn’t look fair or logical, isn’t it? Though I doubt you know what logic is :) you just want to spread hatred<p>Ps: crusades were pretty symmetrical and reasonable response to arabic expansion and aggression back then. Also it wasn’t in any way unique or more cruel than countless other conflicts and wars throughout the history, there is nothing uniquely “Christian” about it.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  the window is un-limited so there is not rush. the government has been for sale for a long time and will continue to be so regardless of who is “running the country”


type: comment
by: Aerroon
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  <i>Gestures wildly at the 20th century.</i><p>Or a more recent example would be the &quot;misinformation craze&quot; we had going on since years ago. That seems to have fallen away when it became apparent that many fact checkers were politically aligned.<p>The concept of &quot;memes&quot; in a more general sense is a counterargument too. Viral ideas are precisely a way of one person spreading their perspective to tens of millions.<p>You could even argue that the current AI bubble building up is a hype cycle that went out of control.<p>These are all examples of very few people impacting the beliefs of millions.


type: comment
by: tacker2000
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  Im glad i moved from vscode to neovim last year, and since one month i’ve switched over to emacs, running doom (which gives you vim commands and much more).<p>I’ve set up LSPs, completions, etc and although one needs to read up a little bit at first, i feel that this could finally be a stable platform&#x2F;ide for once, and i wouldnt need to jump ship every couple of years because of some enshittification.


type: comment
by: lukeschlather
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  No, LLMs are extremely useful for dealing with ffmpeg. Also I don&#x27;t think they&#x27;re sufficient, they get confused too easily and ffmpeg is extremely confusing.


type: comment
by: tim333
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  &gt;During the 19th-century &quot;Railway Mania,&quot; railroad investment in the U.S. reached a peak of 6.0% of GDP, a level significantly higher than current AI infrastructure spending, which is estimated to be around 1.6% of U.S. GDP.<p>says Google. There was a big crash after, wiping out investors. Time will tell with this one.


type: comment
by: diego898
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  As an engineer, this and the principle of least action occupy my wall of “things I think are super deep and maybe mysterious* and interesting and I wish I understood deeply”<p>* interpret generously


type: comment
by: big-chungus4
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  can you please fix the login, when I try to log in, it says Unable to process request due to missing initial state. This may happen if browser sessionStorage is inaccessible or accidentally cleared. Some specific scenarios are - 1) Using IDP-Initiated SAML SSO. 2) Using signInWithRedirect in a storage-partitioned browser environment.


type: comment
by: design2203
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  I believe intelligence is difficult to pin down in words but easy to spot intuitively - and so are deltas in intelligence.<p>E.g watch a Steve jobs interview and a Sam Altman one (at the same age). The difference in the mode of articulation, simplicity in communication, obsession over details etc are huge. This is what superior intelligence to me looks like - you know it when you see it.


type: comment
by: xgulfie
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  Yeah I&#x27;m with you, didn&#x27;t mean to imply there was any sort of underlying wisdom or truth behind the choice. People just love to rationalize


type: comment
by: NicoJuicy
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  Sounds very similar to LLM council<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;llm-council" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;karpathy&#x2F;llm-council</a>


type: comment
by: yencabulator
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  Magical thinking, like Mullvad burning large amounts of engineering effort to make sure their infrastructure never stores anything worth a subpoena. Their VPN servers don&#x27;t have hard drives. Mullvad is one of the rare examples of doing more than marketing.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mullvad.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;we-have-successfully-completed-our-migration-to-ram-only-vpn-infrastructure" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mullvad.net&#x2F;en&#x2F;blog&#x2F;we-have-successfully-completed-o...</a>


type: comment
by: lr0
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  It was a typo in the url, should have pointed to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;i&#x2F;2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;i&#x2F;2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png</a> instead. I fixed it, thanks!


type: comment
by: quantbagel
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  When I made a swift package manager as Rust rewrite I realized that the language wasn&#x27;t the issue, design is a lot more important. Rust just gave a boost to everything else. you can try Gust here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quantbagel&#x2F;gust" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;quantbagel&#x2F;gust</a> a lot better than using SwiftPM but there&#x27;s room for improvement! Make issues with your ideas


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
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  The algorithm that is deciding what you see is simply &lt;things submitted by other humans&gt; + &lt;voting on those things by other humans&gt;. There&#x27;s no per-user content customisation and profiling to drive engagement. And hn has an optional &quot;no procrastination&quot; feature that is provided to mitigate excessive engagement.


type: comment
by: ossa-ma
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  No shade but most other coverage will focus on whether this signals an AI bubble. That&#x27;s missing the story.<p>Nvidia explicitly did NOT acquire Groq. They licensed the IP and hired the talent. This structure dodges CFIUS review (Groq had $1.5B in Saudi government contracts), antitrust scrutiny, and years of regulatory delays.<p>The $13B premium over the September valuation was the cost of regulatory arbitrage. Announced Christmas Eve while Trump&#x27;s AI Czar (Chamath&#x27;s All-In podcast co-host) is in office. Chamath&#x27;s Social Capital made AT LEAST ~$2B on this exit.<p>My article breaks down: what Nvidia actually bought vs what they left behind, why the deal structure matters, who got paid, and the political connections nobody&#x27;s talking about.


type: comment
by: ripped_britches
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  You are missing the point that it is a strategic acquisition to kickstart a new vertical that they have struggled with: serving inference. They have tried to organically grow this and do weird things like inference within their other customers’ clouds.<p>It certainly isn’t a “panic” as nvidia is so flush with cash. This is a minuscule amount of money for them.


type: comment
by: compressedgas
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  You mean single file header only libraries.<p>STB are the initials of the author of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;stb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;nothings&#x2F;stb</a>


type: comment
by: CamperBob2
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  I&#x27;m afraid I have some <i>really</i> bad news about your humble hosts here at Hacker News, then.


type: comment
by: idorosen
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  Interesting interface. Some feedback:<p><pre><code>  - Email delay to Gmail inboxes for verifying an SSH key used via SSH via email is longer than the timeout of the &quot;Waiting for verification email...&quot; stage in the SSH key registration. Wait longer or provide a non-email way to authorize a new key. You could imagine a few ways to do this: Allow users to add&#x2F;delete SSH keys from the website or exe.dev shell; create a bearer token&#x2F;random string that I can generate from the exe.dev shell or website to associate a new SSH key; SSH key signatures (existing key signs new key); SSH CAs (like @cert-authority); etc.   - SSH U2F&#x2F;FIDO2 authentication support has become mainstream, and offers you a way to have homogeneous auth across web and SSH interfaces. Maybe consider unifying authN this way?   - exe.dev ssh interface does not allow me to list SSH keys, only to delete them. Consider moving all authN&#x2F;authZ functionality into an &quot;auth&quot; subcommand&#x2F;submenu (like you have for &quot;share&quot;) and support SSH pubkey CRUD in there.   - You make some strong assumptions about email addresses that aren&#x27;t true -- what happens on email address changes, lost email access, etc. This will become more important when you start billing (and possibly costly).   - How do I manage persistent disks? Any way to attach them to a different VM after I&#x27;m done with them on the original one? Is there always a single PD per VM or can these be managed separately? What about data or database volumes? Can PDs be attached to one or multiple VMs at a time? </code></pre> At what scale do you break even on fixed costs (wages, rents, etc.)?


type: comment
by: avaer
text:
  Ah, but if we&#x27;re not talking 6DOF what&#x27;s new with ml-sharp? We&#x27;ve had good autostereoscopy for a couple of years at least.<p>&gt; So far the best looking results are still achieved with good old mesh warping and no inpainting at all.<p>I agree<p>&gt; This may change that.<p>Seems not to be the case in my testing. The splats are too fine and sparse to yield an improvement. There are actually better (slower) image -&gt; splat models than ml-sharp (with much higher dynamic range for the covariance) but I still don&#x27;t use them over meshes for this.<p>The only improvements ml-sharp seems to add to the SOTA is 1) speed and 2) an interesting 2-focal layer architecture, but these are somewhat tangential steps.


type: comment
by: credit_guy
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  &gt; It&#x27;s a shame. Groq was really great. Nvidia is stifling innovation here.<p>I don&#x27;t share your view. Groq continues to exist. Nvidia did not take any or their hardware, so the same Groq you access on OpenRouter will exist tomorrow or one year from now. If anything, they&#x27;ll significantly increase their presence, since they just got $20 billion in cash.<p>As for Nvidia stifling innovation: one can argue that they do the opposite. They hired key personnel from Groq (including their founder and CEO, Jonnathan Ross). These people agreed to the move, presumably for the money, but most likely also because they think they can deliver even more if they have access to Nvidia&#x27;s resources. So, in terms of overall innovation, it will most likely go up.<p>But you can say that they stifle independent innovation. Maybe, but the case for that is not that open and shut as it might seem. They entered a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq. Which means Groq can provide their &quot;secret sauce&quot; to other interested entities, maybe Apple, maybe Intel or AMD, maybe OpenAI, maybe Oracle. The number of companies who could be interested in their tech is quite high.<p>Or simply, Groq, with the many billions in unencumbered cash they just received will decide to go for version 2.0 of their tech, or they can significantly expand the GroqCloud. Their valuation just went from $6.5B to significantly higher than $20B. They can pursue an IPO, or they can issue debt. There are countless possibilities for Groq now.


type: comment
by: skrebbel
text:
  This is not new in any way. Famously, Cisco has done this for decades, having been on a  nonstop mad acquisition spree since the nineties, and more than once even acquiring companies that started as Cisco spin-out.<p>Also many of Google’s flagship products come from acquisitions. Eg Android, Docs, YouTube, their entire ad network, Firebase, DeepMind, lots more.<p>This isn’t easy! Equally famously, Microsoft routinely botches acquisitions, eg Skype, Nokia etc. Seems to me the only MS acquisitions that don’t fail are the ones they mostly leave alone (eg LinkedIn, GitHub).


type: comment
by: gigatexal
text:
  Insane this administration wants pimp the US out to the highest bidder and let the crypto weirdos run the world. If we ever lost the reserve currency peg treasury bills will spike and it’ll be impossible to fund the government. We spend 7T every year and take in 5T in taxes. This admin is gutting the IRS and banking on tarrifs which are just taxes. So … without the ability to keep interest rates very low because everyone wants our debt …


type: comment
by: zeroCalories
text:
  I had assumed that these people were not junior devs left unsupervised to handle important government work.


type: comment
by: warthog
text:
  There was an old legendary HN comment around the following concept:<p>&quot;All things being equal, people buy from their friends. So just make more friends&quot;<p>If you are confident of your services, just make more friends. Talk to people more. If it is too salesly already, you lost the conversation. Instead try and learn about their lives. I sometimes even open up with &quot;No agenda to sell, genuinely curious&quot;<p>Note: If anyone finds the link to the comment, please drop it here to credit the author.


type: comment
by: lostlogin
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  It’s good that you have done that but does that section make sense? It says there was a 75% revenue cut, but the prior number is valuation, not revenue. Or was valuation and revenue the same at that time (seems unlikely)?<p>Edit: some searching about suggests that Groq initially projected $2 billion in revenue for 2025, later cutting that forecast to $500 million. That appears to have be what this article is trying to say.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investing.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;company-news&#x2F;groq-slashes-2025-revenue-projections-to-500-million--the-information-93CH-4158309" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.investing.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;company-news&#x2F;groq-slashes-202...</a>


type: comment
by: hendersoon
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  Yes, this was a defensive move from Nvidia.<p>My understanding is Groq failed to deploy their second-gen chips on time, which caused their stock to deflate.<p>Groq&#x27;s primary advantage over Cerebras and SambaNova, as I see it, is they don&#x27;t fabricate on TSMC. That&#x27;s attractive to Nvidia, who doesn&#x27;t want to give up any of their datacenter GPU allocation.


type: comment
by: bitwize
text:
  x86 based small computers are just so much easier to work with than most second- and third-string ARM vendors. The x86 scene has had standards in place for a long time, like PCIe and the PC BIOS (now UEFI) for hardware initialization and mapping, that make it a doddle to just boot a kernel and let it get the hardware working. ARM boards don&#x27;t have that yet, requiring per-board support in the kernel which board manufacturers famously drag their feet on implementing openly let alone upstreaming. Raspberry Pi has its own setup, which means kernel support for the Pi series is pretty good, but it doesn&#x27;t generalize to other boards, which means users and integrators may be stuck with whatever last version of Ubuntu or Android the vendor thought to ship. Which means if you want a little network appliance like a router, firewall, Jellyfin server, etc. it often makes more sense to go with an N150 bitty box than an ARM SBC because the former is going to be price- and power-draw-competitive with the latter while being able to draw on the OS support of the well-tested PC ecosystem.<p>ARM actually has a spec in place called SystemReady that standardizes on UEFI, which should make bringup of ARM systems much less jank. But few have implemented it yet. I keep saying, the first cheap Chinese vendor that ships a SystemReady-compliant SBC is gonna make a killing.


type: comment
by: gspetr
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  Isn&#x27;t the problem that of finding out a consistency heuristic? For example, test that the resulting state is consistent with your test suite.<p>If it is a directory that gets deleted, then you can diff it with a previous state. If you don&#x27;t control the state and don&#x27;t know the surface area that you should observe, then yes, you&#x27;re inviting trouble if agents run amok.


type: comment
by: scotty79
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  Maybe the loses are limited to the amount of the investment in the startup? No risk of consuming more resources than intended before dying.<p>If those things were integrated into the giant there would be political risk of it eating all of the money of the giant.


type: comment
by: functionmouse
text:
  Spinning rust may be defeated by Janet Jackson, but your chip storage is defeated by just sitting undisturbed in a drawer or a closet for too long...


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  Eventually they will need to come up with their own editor and plugins.<p>I don&#x27;t expect traditional Microsoft to let this going on for much longer, this is the first sign of it.


type: comment
by: sebzim4500
text:
  Right but there isn&#x27;t a theorem saying `(sqrt x)^2 = x`, there&#x27;s a theorem saying `x &gt;= 0 -&gt; (sqrt x)^2 = x`


type: comment
by: oh_my_goodness
text:
  Yeah, it&#x27;s always corrupt. No, it was not always this corrupt. We&#x27;re aiming for third world. That&#x27;s going to be a new experience.


type: comment
by: aunty_helen
text:
  Was just walking past a construction site and heard some of their banter. Didn’t realise the common man could debate the benefits of an LPU over GPGPU so eloquently. One of them even compared SRAM vs DRAM as being like a cheetah vs an injured antelope ;)


type: comment
by: pdpi
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  It&#x27;s low risk from the acquirer&#x27;s point of view. Somebody else paid for that research, you just get to buy it once it&#x27;s proven itself sufficiently to your liking.


type: comment
by: karambahh
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  Also expect contents referred in the slides (every &quot;chapter&quot; of the presentation referred to a url such as <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpg.fail&#x2F;clearsig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpg.fail&#x2F;clearsig</a> or <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpg.fail&#x2F;minisig" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gpg.fail&#x2F;minisig</a> and so on)


type: comment
by: jameslk
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  Cold sales&#x2F;outbound sales is dying or mostly dead. SaaS platforms and “growth ops” that made it easy to set up sales sequences and find ICP lists helped kill it. AI making it easy to personalize and do all the work has been the nail in the coffin<p>This is because sales is a zero sum game. When everyone can do something at scale, like send an email sequence, nobody wins. Now inboxes are flooded with spam that get deleted and phones go straight to voicemail because people have learned it’s not worth it. You can try to create even bigger lists to capture some 0.01% that will respond, but that’s a shrinking game and many B2B companies don’t have the market size for it<p>Instead, for my company and others I know, we’ve returned to old fashioned human relationships that don’t scale as easily. Building partnerships, asking for warm introductions, conferences, networking, events, hell I even know of someone who knocks on doors for B2B and it works for them. People ignore spam from bots but they’ll listen to real humans. They’ll read emails and take phone calls from people they know. It’s about trust now, not scale<p>I’d still recommend learning closing and everything needed for once a deal is in your pipeline. I think a book like Founding Sales is good for that, if a bit dated now (skip the stuff about cold sales in the first half of the book). Never Split the Difference for negotiation. For in person sales, this is basically what anyone in partnerships and outer sales do. I don’t know of resources on that. I’m learning from friends who do that and old fashioned searching


type: comment
by: librasteve
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  Well my point is that the energy of the spallation neutrons is monotonically related to the energy of the protons hitting the Tungsten target ... although somewhat lower. I would consider these 100s MeV partiles to be (quite) high energy in contrast to the thermal neutrons alluded to elsewhere. Sure the spallation is lossy, but the result is still pretty high. And the physics is somewhat different with neutron experiments vs. protons... iiuc


type: comment
by: lo_zamoyski
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  It was not my intent to be exhaustive, but to make a few points that left it up to the reader to relate them appropriately to your post in order to enrich thinking about the subject.<p>But it appears we cannot avoid getting into the weeds a bit…<p>&gt; Governments and corporations don&#x27;t exist in nature.<p>This is not as simple as you seem to think.<p>The claim “don’t exist in nature” is vague, because the word “nature” in common speech is vague. What is “natural”? Is a beehive “natural” Is a house “natural”? Is synthetic water “natural”? (I claim that the concept of “nature” concerns what it means to be some kind of thing. Perhaps polystyrene has never existed before human beings synthesized it, but it has a nature, that is, it means something to be polystyrene. And it is in the nature of human beings to make materials and artifacts, i.e., to produce technology ordered toward the human good.)<p>So, what is government? Well, it is an authority whose central purpose is to function as the guardian and steward of the common good. I claim that parenthood is the primordial form of human government and the family as the primordial form of the state. We are intrinsically social and political animals; legitimate societies exist only when joined by a common good. This is real and part of human nature. The capacity to deviate from human nature does not disprove the norm inherent to it.<p>Now, <i>procedurally</i> we could institute various particular and concrete arrangements through which government is actualized. We could institute a republican form of government or a monarchy, for example. These are historically conditioned. But in all cases, there is a government. Government <i>qua government</i> is not some arbitrary “construct”, but something proper to all forms and levels of human society.<p>&gt; &quot;Tragedy of the commons&quot; is a general coordination problem.<p>We can talk about coordination once we establish the ends for which such coordination is needed, but there is something more fundamental that must be said about the framing of the problem of the “tragedy”. The framing does not presume a notion of human beings as moral agents and political and social creatures. In other words, it begins with a highly individualist, <i>homo economicus</i> view of human nature as rationally egoist and oriented toward maximizing utility, <i>full stop</i>. But I claim that is not in accord with human nature and thus the human good, even if people can fall into such pathological patterns of behavior (especially in a culture that routinely reinforces that norm).<p>As I wrote, human beings are inherently social animals. We cannot flourish outside of societies. A commons that suffers this sort of unhinged extraction is an example of a moral and a political failure. Why? Because it is unjust, intemperate, and a lack of solidarity to maximize resource extraction in that manner. So the tragedy is a matter of a) the moral failure of the users of that resource, and b) the failure of an authority to regulate its use. The typical solution that’s proposed is either privatization or centralization, but both solutions presuppose the false anthropology of <i>homo economicus</i>. (I am <i>not</i> claiming that privatization does not have a place, only that the dichotomy is false.)<p>Now, I did say that the case with something like github is <i>analogical</i>, because functionally, it is <i>like</i> a common resource, just like how social media functions <i>like</i> a public square in some respects. But analogy is not univocity. Github is not strictly speaking a common good, nor is social media strictly a public square, because in both cases, a private company manages them. And typically, private goods are managed for private benefit, even if they are morally bound not to harm the common good.<p>That intent, that purpose, is central to determining whether something is public or private, because something public has the common benefit as its aim, while something private has private benefit as its aim.


type: comment
by: pizlonator
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  It could mean different things I guess, but here’s my take:<p>If you do very risky R&amp;D in a big corpo then the risk creeps into other things: other projects might look at the R&amp;D and say, “we will just use that when it’s done”. It’s a lazy kind of move for tech leaders to make, because it makes you look like a team player, and if the R&amp;D goes belly up then you have someone else to blame. This ultimately leads to risky R&amp;D in a big corpo not being compartmentalized as much as it should be. If it fails, it fails super hard with lots of fallout.<p>But risky R&amp;D at a startup is compartmentalized. Nobody will say they use the output of the startup until there are signs of life, and even then healthy caution is applied.


type: comment
by: timcobb
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  What do you like about betting?<p>&gt; Most of the bets we encounter in the real world are negative EV.<p>Yeah that&#x27;s why I don&#x27;t like betting. It feels not smart, for me especially. But people who make the right bets can make very large otherwise unrealizable gains.


type: comment
by: ninalanyon
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  &gt; certain models<p>Why the weasel words?  Does Raymond Chen not know which models?  Or is it actually apocryphal.


type: comment
by: vee-kay
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  The word &quot;Trigonometry&quot; itself is of Sanskrit origin: Tri (three) + kona (corner&#x2F;angle) + niti (measure). The word &quot;meter&quot; or &quot;metre&quot; is from Sanskrit &quot;Miti&quot; (मिती) (meaning: measure&#x2F;measurement). The decimal system of weights and counting we all know so well is of Indian origin too.<p>India was enslaved and exploited for centuries. By the people who stole its ideas and claimed them as their own.<p>But greatness can only be suppressed for a while, sooner or later, it will show itself.<p>The world will heal from its wounds, and the truths shall surface again.<p>India is #5 world economy now, by the way, and will become #3 before the end of this decade. Not bad for a nation that was still a slave just a few decades ago.<p>Did you know.. Ancient India (subcontinent) was world #1 economy for thousands of years? Guess who made it poor?


type: comment
by: elric
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  This is depressing.<p>From what I can piece together while the site is down, it seems like they&#x27;ve uncovered 14 exploitable vulnerabilities in GnuPG, of which most remain unpatched. Some of those are apparently met by refusal to patch by the maintainer. Maybe there are good reasons for this refusal, maybe someone else can chime in on that?<p>Is this another case of XKCD-2347? Or is there something else going on? Pretty much every Linux distro depends on PGP being pretty secure. Surely IBM &amp; co have a couple of spare developers or spare cash to contribute?


type: comment
by: bluGill
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  No gpl, and more importantly the gpl &#x27;fans&#x27; who can&#x27;t write a line of code but will scream about gpl violations if they can find anything - even if false.<p>it run qt and does everything else so it is often an easy choice.


type: comment
by: Der_Einzige
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  We wrote the paper on how to deslop your LLM outputs and if you use our factory de-slopped versions of gemma3 you don&#x27;t have to worry about this, similarly if you use our antislop sampler, your LLM outputs will look very close to human.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2510.15061" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;abs&#x2F;2510.15061</a>


type: comment
by: WillAdams
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  I wish we could get it&#x27;s competitor TronOS to make a similar desktop version --- the demo of it displaying multiple video windows on an 80186 was jaw-dropping --- a shame the U.S. Trade Commission quashed Japan&#x27;s Ministry of Education&#x27;s plans to roll it out nation-wide in schools from elementary up through graduate.


type: comment
by: omoikane
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  &gt; It&#x27;s not subtle, and it&#x27;s not trying to please everyone.<p>Reminds me of Dan Luu&#x27;s thread on Microsoft communication style:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30128061">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30128061</a> - Nuanced communication usually doesn&#x27;t work at scale (2022-01-29, 272 comments)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1487228574608211969" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;danluu&#x2F;status&#x2F;1487228574608211969</a>


type: comment
by: tremon
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  That&#x27;s pure sophistry, do better. You can start by quoting the part of AGPLv3 that specifically mentions Ethernet.<p>You also need to explain how a set of terminals connected via RS232 does not constitute a &quot;computer network&quot;.


type: comment
by: Night_Thastus
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  Why do you think? Not because of any <i>output</i> of the company, of course.<p>But because buying it helps perpetuate the hype and money cycle of the &#x27;AI&#x27; trend for awhile longer. It may not look like it directly, but a purchase like this keeps Nvidia&#x27;s stock up in the future, which is all investors care about.


type: comment
by: Anon1096
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  Opinionated and uneducated. A favorite pastime of the internet it&#x27;s just a shame that we give so much attention to such blogposts.


type: comment
by: amarant
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  How pleased are you with garlang? What&#x27;s the dev experience like with your new language? Given the time constraints I imagine there are a few rough edges, but it&#x27;s clearly possible to make games ridiculously fast with it! Any language feature that you are particularly excited about?


type: comment
by: watwut
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  Following is about larger movements and political leaders. Anyway, considering that both chrustians and libertarian movements aligned themselves with fascist right instantly, there is no contradiction.


type: comment
by: Der_Einzige
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  You&#x27;re supposed to also remove the fancy UTF-8 quotes that people can&#x27;t normally type, the EM dashes, and reorder sentences&#x2F;clauses because the paragraph level &quot;template&quot; slop is really obvious to people who use these models all the time. (I&#x27;m also pretty sure that the UTF-8 shenanigans with LLM responses was done <i>very</i> on purpose by those who have a vested interest in making it easier for mass surveillance of written communication.)<p>Or, use the &quot;deep research&quot; mode for writing your prose instead. It&#x27;s far less sloppy in how it writes.<p>These people are amateurs at humanizing their writing.


type: comment
by: toomuchtodo
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  No roadway between the store and the parking rows, I will die on this hill. You should be able to walk to the store without ever intersecting with vehicle travel once parked.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
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  how exactly is different…? I give you Trump, you give me Biden. I give you Scott, you give me Pelosi. I give you Bush, you give me Clinton… it is not different but regardless of whether it is or isn’t no one is defending it. it is just a disservice to everyone to think somehow magically things are all this different now than before, same crap different toilet paper


type: comment
by: detourdog
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  My understanding is that it has happened. The oil market was tied to the USD. The BRICS have now implemented a payment system as robust as SWIFT system. Oil is now being paid for using that system.


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
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  I&#x27;d say that&#x27;s an unfair characterization.<p>It is true that some of the people in riots loot businesses opportunistically but it a few percent and is not the &quot;match&quot; or the &quot;fuse&quot;.<p>People&#x27;s increasingly ahistoric thinking though leads to all sorts of not-so-mysterious mysteries such as the researcher who might struggle to wonder why a certain neighborhood is a &quot;food desert&quot; who,  if they dug a little deeper,  would find that 30 years ago there was a supermarket and numerous smaller stores that were burned down by the residents -- and that scars like that <i>don&#x27;t heal!</i>


type: comment
by: parrellel
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  Could it be ... gut the federal government like it was a leveraged buyout and then steal everyone&#x27;s money?<p>Certainly seems to be.


type: comment
by: neoCrimeLabs
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  I can attest at least some of this is true.<p>My blogging and publishing almost never comes up during an interview. Afterwards, I am openly told it&#x27;s why they either asked for me, or why they chose me over another candidate.  This has happened at almost every job I&#x27;ve accepted.<p>My writing style or content is not all that special.  As the saying goes, 90% of success is simply showing up.<p>Just being explain complex topics in simple ways can go a long way, even if you&#x27;re not an amazing author.<p>---<p>Addition:  This is especially true with topics so expansive that even great LLM often conflates subtopics in weird ways. While this gap is rapidly closing, being able to clearly explain complex interconnected topics in simple ways is absolutely an advantage.


type: comment
by: poisonborz
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  Rather than good I would say &quot;same&quot;. Excellent text editor, very barebones for actual development work.


type: comment
by: aljgz
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  Loosely fitting the bill, but:<p>The link between gluten and my 2 decade long bad insomnia, on edge mind, and restlessness.<p>Simply cutting gluten changed many things. Now I sleep so deeply I sometimes need a brief reality check to know what year it is, where I am, and how long I&#x27;ve been asleep.<p>Probably not for everyone, but if you have similar problems, definitely go gluten free for a few days and check the impact.


type: comment
by: ecb_penguin
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  &gt; Where was that defined so?<p>Anything more than the definition is extra. In this case it&#x27;s political. That doesn&#x27;t require a definition.<p>&gt; The purpose of words and terms is so that people can exchange ideas effectively and precisely, without needing to explain the terms every time from the grounds up.<p>Do you think the 10 criteria of a non-profit&#x27;s opinion effectively conveys information without needing to explain the terms from the ground up?<p>&gt; Having different groups having divergent definitions on the same words is counterproductive<p>Right, which is why the parent is wrong. It&#x27;s just an organization&#x27;s opinion<p>&gt; If &quot;open source&quot; and &quot;source available&quot; (and &quot;open weights&quot;) mean the same thing<p>They don&#x27;t mean the same thing and I never claimed they do.<p>&gt; It doesn&#x27;t seem there is any benefit in using less precise terms when better-defined ones are available.<p>Use the more precise terms then. But you can&#x27;t say the definition of open source is this 10 points of criteria that people disagree about....


type: comment
by: parados
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  For sure, it is on my TODO list. It takes a lot of work to explore each new Python C API and I&#x27;ll get around to it when I can.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
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  &gt; I don&#x27;t share your view. Groq continues to exist. Nvidia did not take any or their hardware, so the same Groq you access on OpenRouter will exist tomorrow or one year from now. If anything, they&#x27;ll significantly increase their presence, since they just got $20 billion in cash.<p>The linked article expects differently:<p>&gt; Nvidia’s buying them with their insanely inflated war chest. They don’t want a chunk taken out of their market share. They can’t afford to take that chance. So it’s like they’re just saying: “Shut up, take the $20 billion, walk away from this project.”<p>How much this is true I can&#x27;t really verify myself but it certainly sounds concerning.<p>&gt; But you can say that they stifle independent innovation.<p>But this is exactly what a market watchdog is supposed to prevent. A market with one player (or two) is no market. And Groq was going in a decidedly different direction than Nvidia.<p>The linked article echoes my worries in other ways as well e.g. worker displacement, explosion of energy usage. I often equate it with the dotcom era, I worked on this thinking we made the world better. But the endgame, with the Google, Meta, pervasive tracking etc is much more dystopian. Especially considering the societal effects. Enshittification, corporate rule, polarisation due to social medias promoting &quot;engagement&quot; and thus conflicting content that get people riled up.<p>I don&#x27;t want the same to happen with AI here and it feels like they are already aligning the stars to make exactly that happen.


type: comment
by: TheJoeMan
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  Many small businesses (and small teams inside large orgs) do not have “servers” in the sense that an employee can push code to it. It’s just Windows Server and handles email, file share, ERP, etc. I think those in the tech industry may not appreciate the ease of having a platform you can “program” jobs in, and it’s included in M365, despite the very-large warts.


type: comment
by: Der_Einzige
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  Read our paper on de-slopping LLM outputs. It&#x27;s far more than simply all having the same fixed AI system prompts. It&#x27;s an overuse of post-training and contempt for pre-training.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2510.15061" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2510.15061</a>


type: comment
by: collinfunk
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  Haven&#x27;t read it since it is down, but based on other comments, it seems to be an issue with cleartext signatures.<p>I haven&#x27;t seen those outside of old mailing list archives. Everyone uses detached signatures nowadays, e.g. PGP&#x2F;MIME for emails.


type: comment
by: Rendello
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  [<i>Data-Oriented Design – Richard Fabian</i>]<p>DoD is an interesting design philosophy used in game engine design. This book was both quite concrete and quite abstract, so I walked away not exactly sure if I got the message, but the idea of modelling data closer to a SQL database for performance is interesting.<p>[<i>Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss</i>]<p>Nightly audiobook. There&#x27;s a lot more information than it seems on first reading, I&#x27;m trying to internalize and practice it in daily life.<p>[<i>Lost Connections – Johann Hari</i>]<p>A book about depression, connection, and medication. It was quite good, though I learned later that the author has quite a bit of controversy.<p>[<i>The Twentysomething Treatment – Meg Jay</i>]<p>The book was good, her interviews on people&#x27;s podcasts are even better.<p>[<i>You Can&#x27;t Win – Jack Black</i>]<p>Awesome HN recommendation, an autobiography of an early 1900s criminal.<p>[<i>The Starship and the Canoe – Kenneth Brower</i>]<p>Another HN recommendation. A snapshot of the life of Freeman Dyson of project ORION and his son George, who built a giant fiberglass canoe and paddles the west coast of Canada and the States.


type: comment
by: apitman
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  There&#x27;s nothing stopping you from building interoperable protocols on top of OAuth2. I&#x27;ve done it a couple times.<p>OpenID Connect is another example.<p>OAuth2 has some worts, but I think it&#x27;s worth the tradeoffs.


type: comment
by: linhns
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  &gt; There&#x27;s a dangerous trend I&#x27;ve noticed with GenZ, they&#x27;re quick (sometimes to the point of seeming rushed) to show off hyperbolic-sounding achievements that are mostly hot air<p>Isn’t it true for every so-called edge that CEOs pitch to shareholders?


type: comment
by: netsharc
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  Trying to convince flat-earthers that the earth is spherical is also a conversational tarpit...<p>I guess that&#x27;s where the conversation&#x2F;debate ends.


type: comment
by: watwut
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  I mean, we can reach gender equality in this one too, but overall, men are still more of direct victims.<p>Women are still more of indirect ones - harmed more by having relationship with gambler and ending responsible for debt due to marriage.


type: comment
by: lcnPylGDnU4H9OF
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  Well, yes, but it also means a gag gift; I&#x27;d hazard a guess that &gt;99% of uses of the term in the past several decades have been of the &quot;gag gift&quot; persuasion. There are many white elephant parties thrown by people who care little for history.<p>Even then, intentionally ruining someone&#x27;s financial life requires more care and attention than telling an AI agent to perform random acts of kindness (so far).


type: comment
by: saisrirampur
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  You should try PeerDB, it was acquired by ClickHouse for exactly this use-case - Fast, simple Postgres replication to ClickHouse. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeerDB-io&#x2F;peerdb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PeerDB-io&#x2F;peerdb</a><p>In ClickHouse Cloud, you have ClickPipes which is a simpler&#x2F;managed manifesation of PeerDB <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickhouse.com&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;clickpipes&#x2F;postgres-cdc-connector" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;clickhouse.com&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;clickpipes&#x2F;postgres-cdc-connect...</a>


type: comment
by: throwup238
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  Almost the entire biotech industry has  been this way for decades once the small molecule patent cliff hit pharma and the R&amp;D costs for therapies skyrocketed. If you look at biotech IPOs, the majority of the startups IPO <i>pre-revenue</i>, long before they’re even legally allowed to sell anything.<p>Which is totally fine: anyone who is a biotech investor knows this and everyone makes tons of money in this arrangement. Investors (both public and private) take on the science risk and some of the regulatory risk, and the pharmaceutical companies provide a guaranteed (big $$$) exit and take over scaling manufacturing to bring a drug to market. Most people with retirement accounts and pensions and index funds rarely touch this stuff except as a diversification strategy that pools the risky stuff to get the upside on the whole industry.


type: comment
by: gandalfgeek
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  &gt; About a year ago, Groq announced a $1.5 billion infrastructure investment deal with Saudi Arabia. They also secured a $750 million Series D funding round.... Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly changed their revenue projections to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months. I’ve never seen anything like that since the 2008 financial crisis.<p>Not following the core argument here. Author seems to be comparing valuation in funding rounds to revenue projections. Revenue projection was revised downward, valuation was not.<p>Good point about not running the proprietary models, but that doesn&#x27;t preclude strategic fit with Nvidia.


type: comment
by: psionides
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  &gt; At that time, the company was valued at $2 billion. Hello bubble. Then in maybe one of the best rug pulls of all time, in July they quietly changed their revenue projections to $500 million. A 75% cut in four months.<p>I feel like I&#x27;m missing something here…


type: comment
by: knuckleheads
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  Very funny, reminds me of how Jennifer Lopez created Google Image Search when she wore a very deep cut green dress in 2000. So many people searched for &quot;Jennifer Lopez Green Dress&quot; that the search team realized they needed to include images in the search results.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.project-syndicate.org&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;google-european-commission-and-disruptive-technological-change-by-eric-schmidt-2015-01#yMSC5IlY7sHATDCO.99" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.project-syndicate.org&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;google-european-c...</a> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecut.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;jennifer-lopez-walks-in-versace-show-in-jungle-dress.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thecut.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;09&#x2F;jennifer-lopez-walks-in-versa...</a>


type: comment
by: duttish
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  I&#x27;m not an economist so someone please correct me &#x2F; expand on this;<p>I&#x27;m guessing this is kind of a &quot;It&#x27;s not a problem until it&#x27;s a crisis&quot; situation? So far other central banks haven&#x27;t begun selling treasuries, they&#x27;ve just stopped buying them. But once one starts selling it could become self reinforcing?<p>What could replace it? There doesn&#x27;t seem to be any new hegemonic power on the same level. Could we enter a world where all central banks hold a mix of currencies and nobody benefits from being the reserve?


type: comment
by: mxxc
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  exactly. plus i mean, this particular build is quite boring because it&#x27;s, like i said, silverblue. vanilla gnome and all that. but one can go quite wild and make vastly different builds. building locally takes very little since it&#x27;s basically decompressing a bunch of packages, moving some files around and building an initramfs, so the infrastructure one actually needs is minimal (especially if said upgrades happen silently).<p>i must say that even though this tech has been around for a while it&#x27;s still very much WIP. much of the ostree command line is undocumented, some commands are hidden and even though there is significant overlap between rpm-ostree, ostree and bootc, they do quite different things and some things are easy with one tool and outright impossible with the other. but personally i think this is the future of &quot;mainstream&quot; linux, and even though &quot;immutable linux&quot; has been often associated to locked platforms (e.g. android), it&#x27;s been fun to showcase how you can do it yourself too, with whichever distro you like.


type: comment
by: tzury
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  A) What’s 20b comparing to the extravagant current valuation of Nvidia at 4.64t?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;claude.ai&#x2F;public&#x2F;artifacts&#x2F;8c395eb5-8d22-431f-b6ba-047f72e053f5" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;claude.ai&#x2F;public&#x2F;artifacts&#x2F;8c395eb5-8d22-431f-b6ba-0...</a><p>B) All info the OP(= author) knows is known to the professionals dealing with the due diligence. They decided to do so while looking at data which is not available the public. So assuming they know some things why we don’t know is not a far fetched idea.


type: comment
by: karambahh
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  Except that lemons are picked for &quot;cheap&quot; in Argentina (and oranges in Morrocco or Valencia), industrially packaged to ports (most likely to BCN or VLC ports) and then shipped in containers to Palma.<p>Pick the oranges in the middle of the island: not cheap, as stated. Squeeze &amp; freeze the juice (likely around Palma): not cheap, not even including transportation. Ship them back to the continent: probably not cheap either.<p>Transshipment is extremely costly and even more so at a smaller scale, and that&#x27;s what we&#x27;re comtemplating here.


type: comment
by: mrinterweb
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  When I&#x27;m writing code that will be distributed to other devs, I feel type annotations make more sense because it helps document the libraries and there is less ambiguity about what a method will take. As with everything, &quot;it depends&quot;


type: comment
by: VanTheBrand
text:
  Yes this seems more about protecting them from a lawsuit. I don’t think they actually give a shit about the weights or they wouldn’t release them at all. I suspect they just know they’re training dataset isn’t perfectly “clean” and don’t want to accept any more liability than they already have.


type: comment
by: cday22
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  - Allows guest login without email.<p>- Classic, Timed, Blackout, Blind and retry modes.<p>- Play basic piece mate endings QvQ and complicated endings like QvR.<p>- Quiz based problems to improve your board visualization.<p>Looking for brutally honest feedback, tell me what you think.


type: comment
by: Panzerschrek
text:
  How does it perform on real codebases? Does converted code compiles properly? Or it requires manual fixes?


type: comment
by: Forgeties79
text:
  Yes thank you I can get a little clumsy with my acronyms. Downside of not being a proper coder&#x2F;engineer!


type: comment
by: pjmlp
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  &gt; Also remember that this is a laptop for programming…how often am I using my mouse?<p>All the time?<p>Some of us have embraced IDE and graphical tooling in desktop systems since the 1990, after computers with desktop environments became affordable and we weren&#x27;t stuck with text only interfaces.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
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  It’s a rote observation at this point, but: there’s a clear discrepancy between the demonstrated value of LLMs (which is, to be clear, significant!) and the aggressive manner in which Microsoft has introduced them into their products. The latter is what you do when you <i>can’t</i> demonstrate value, and it produces worse outcomes by design (because it starts from the assumption that users need to be given the stick instead of the carrot).<p>There have been a lot of recent changes to VS Code that feel like this: the Copilot pane has been refactored to take up more space and behave less like other composed panes in the window; the integrated terminal now does overly clever and brittle things to introduce suggestions in REPLs like Python’s. Those kinds of changes have pushed me more to Zed recently, which has all of the same AI features but without the user hostility.


type: comment
by: CamouflagedKiwi
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  He might not since it comes via a friend. Or he&#x27;s forgotten since.<p>Also seems not unreasonable for an employee like him not to specifically name and shame hardware partners. Maybe it&#x27;d all be fine, but I wouldn&#x27;t blame him at all for not wanting to risk it.


type: comment
by: singpolyma3
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  AFAICT this is GnuPG specific and not OpenPGP related? Since GnuPG has pulled out of standards compliance anyway there are many better options. Sequoia chameleon even has drop in tooling for most workflows.


type: comment
by: 578_Observer
text:
  Spot on. History doesn&#x27;t repeat, but it rhymes.<p>You&#x27;ve seen the &quot;Dot-com&quot; and &quot;Mobile&quot; cycles. This &quot;AI cycle&quot; feels faster, but the trap is the same: Mistaking <i>Access</i> for <i>Mastery</i>.<p>In Japanese martial arts, we have &quot;Shuhari&quot; (Obey, Digress, Separate). AI gives everyone a shortcut to the final stage (&quot;Look, I made an app!&quot;), skipping the painful &quot;Obey&quot; stage where you learn <i>why</i> things break.<p>As you said, when the bubble bursts, only those who understand the &quot;Foundation&quot; (database design, consistency) will remain standing. The tools change, but the physics of complexity do not.


type: comment
by: toast0
text:
  &gt; Ugh I don&#x27;t really blame them there, that&#x27;s really a dirty hack.<p>I certainly wouldn&#x27;t do it today, but using two pair for a connection designed for two pair isn&#x27;t a dirty hack, it&#x27;s as designed.<p>Today, using 4 pair for 1G or more and a small switch on the host side to get more ports is probably a better plan.


type: comment
by: iknowSFR
text:
  If this is true, is it just the HN community that understands this?  Otherwise, wouldn’t it make sense that the market understands this already and doesn’t fall for the hype? It doesn’t pass the smell test for me that it’s that transparent of a play for hype. What am I missing?


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  Not fundamentally broken, just broken on certain use cases where&#x27;d I have to do something like<p><pre><code>  prek uninstall; g rbc; prek install </code></pre> eg. (using the typical aliases)


type: comment
by: bobajeff
text:
  Emacs and Vim are terminal based though. So nice things like scroll bars, tabs, drag and drop etc. might be available as hacks but will disappoint in the ways in which they fail to work like a actual GUI interface. I&#x27;m also not a fan of model text editors.<p>For open source GUI text editors there sadly aren&#x27;t many that match the feature and polish of vscode.


type: comment
by: derangedHorse
text:
  No, the author is just stupidly spreading misinformation. Looking through their other posts, it looks like he has an agenda to prove that we&#x27;re in an AI bubble.


type: comment
by: rkpandey
text:
  We have hit channel exhaustion in B2B the way we hit it few years ago for B2C. The key is to build unified data assets and go multi-channel (email, linked, call).  Nurturing prospects go a long way. Familiarity helps a lot in driving sales decisions.


type: comment
by: dbcpp
text:
  The scale and stakes of the investment now are much, much higher now than in dot com.  Likewise, don&#x27;t assume I&#x27;m more bearish than I am.  But enormous investment requires more benefit than has been realized.


type: comment
by: igneo676
text:
  Yeah, most of those real gaps have been solved at this point. I&#x27;d encourage you to give it a shot now with Avahi


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  We don&#x27;t know what the algorithm is.  But it&#x27;s clearly more sophisticated than just vote counts.<p>It&#x27;s an algorithmic feed.


type: comment
by: dundarious
text:
  The final 3 point list is strange to me, because modulo exact APIs, 2 out of 3 are also done on Linux Steam Deck machines, which is the point of comparison. Only the x86&#x2F;x64-&gt;aarch64 translation is novel.


type: comment
by: RickJWagner
text:
  Right side Christian here.<p>There are much bigger fish to fry at the moment.  Gambling does wreck families, though.


type: comment
by: ecb_penguin
text:
  This is an opinion article and you should realize that opinions do not make definitions.<p>&quot;Conversely, Richard Stallman argues the &quot;obvious meaning&quot; of term &quot;open source&quot; is that the source code is public&#x2F;accessible for inspection, without necessarily any other rights granted&quot;<p>See, here&#x27;s another Wikipedia article with another opinion that disagrees, and RMS is obviously an authority.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open_source#%22Open%22_versus_%22free%22_versus_%22free_and_open%22" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Open_source#%22Open%22_versus_...</a><p>All of this is pointless so the common and accepted definition should be preferred. Which does not add extra political criteria for requirements.


type: comment
by: dnautics
text:
  chips designed to run ResNET?  I guess the haskell compiler they built is impressive (it made it so 8 racks of chips designed to run ResNET can run llama 70b with extremely low latency).<p>Edit: my information might be old, I don&#x27;t know if they successfully taped out their second gen chip or not.  Can anyone corroborate?


type: comment
by: toomanyrichies
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;0NoEk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;0NoEk</a>


type: comment
by: FloorEgg
text:
  Read &quot;the terrifying art of finding customers&quot; by Collin Stewart<p>Very few know more about outbound than he does, and that book is recent.<p>My two cents: It&#x27;s unlikely you can make outbound work for a custom software dev studio unless you go extremely niche and have a way to target customers with relevant needs. The more broad your services the more new business depends on trust, and outbound has the lowest trust context of all top of funnel sources. What works best for dev shops is word of mouth.<p>Maybe consider a referral program.<p>Anything that can greatly boost trust when prospects learn about you.


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  Nope. Not yet enabled. It was submitted to HN right after the talk where they promised to make it public &quot;really soon&quot; after the talk. We all saw the talk live or on the stream


type: comment
by: IshKebab
text:
  Yeah the point is you aren&#x27;t supposed to mislead investors with overly rosy revenue projections. That&#x27;s fraud (but probably hard to prove).<p>If they told the investors privately then they&#x27;re probably fine, but I doubt they did.


type: comment
by: UncleMeat
text:
  Domestic violence incidents go up when hometown sports teams lose. This effect is amplified with gambling. Women might be less likely to lose their wealth than men, but they are still likely to be victims of the ecosystem.


type: comment
by: oh_my_goodness
text:
  We could just keep using &quot;First world&quot; vs &quot;Third world&quot; as above. There are also multiple NGOs that measure these things and break down the &quot;ratings&quot; into component parts.<p>On the other hand, an advocate for greatly increased corruption might claim that corruption can&#x27;t be measured at all. Or, hypothetically, they might strictly use un-anchored non-metrics like &quot;the other guy does it too&quot;, &quot;any is too much&quot;, &quot;omg look over there!&quot;, etc.


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  It&#x27;s different because it&#x27;s all about that now. The Clintons had their scandals, the &quot;pay to play&quot; lists etc. We all know they are in bed with the moneymen. But it didn&#x27;t define their administration, and they were pretty hush-hush about it.<p>Trump on the other hand is completely open about this. He even brags about making money from deals, something that was previously considered a huge conflict of interest. He appoints people based on loyalty alone, not knowledge or experience. He bullies countries into compliance with mafia tactics (&quot;appease me or else...&quot; tariffs or even war like venezuela and greenland). It&#x27;s a huge moral shift where that is no longer unthinkable. The US used to have values. It was a country that was at least trying to be the good guy.<p>Also, the constitution used to be holy. Now Trump is flaunting the 1st amendment on a daily basis (limiting LGBTIQ+ speech, establishing America as a &quot;christian country&quot; which is explicitly forbidden). I think all these developments are very concerning. I don&#x27;t live in America but considering it is still a big world power it does worry me.


type: comment
by: derleyici
text:
  Werner Koch from GnuPG recently (2025-12-26) posted this on their blog: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnupg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;20251226-cleartext-signatures.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnupg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;20251226-cleartext-signatures.htm...</a><p>Archive link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251227174414&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnupg.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;20251226-cleartext-signatures.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251227174414&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnupg...</a>


type: comment
by: Jach
text:
  Sometimes LLMs will give a &quot;why not...&quot; or just mention something related, that&#x27;s how I found out about <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;recoll.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;recoll.org&#x2F;</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ventoy.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ventoy.net&#x2F;</a> But people should probably more often explicitly prompt them to suggest alternatives before diving in to produce something new...


type: comment
by: aggregator-ios
text:
  A strange and anecdotal take. Infrastructure is already here. Millions of Americans are happily driving across the country charging their EVs just fine. You probably had a bad experience with a Chargepoint L2 charger in a garage that needed an app to operate and the FTUX on that is really painful. But, no one is using a L2 charger while roadtripping. L2 charging is primarily only for home or work use while parked for 8-12 hours. All the L3 chargers that people use during trips feature tap to pay.<p>As for maintenance, seeing 1 charger be down out of 10 is not an infrastructure problem. EV drivers figured out waiting in line and queuing just fine. And with most stations charging at L4 speeds, the wait time is short.


type: comment
by: samsk
text:
  Who would tell. Economy runs on &#x27;trust&#x27; - not on &#x27;by tomorrow we apply this random tax rate to this pinguin island and everone else&#x27;.


type: comment
by: bhewes
text:
  We do have a trojan horse with social security. Overnight we can become the largest single owner of  global corporate stocks and bonds.


type: comment
by: ecb_penguin
text:
  Training data and the weights produced are not source code, just as access to the resulting binaries are not a requirement for open source.<p>Open source does not require full working implementations. There&#x27;s no requirement that a code snippet that I release be fully working and identical to a complete solution.


type: comment
by: MorehouseJ09
text:
  You hit the nail on the head with the 2&#x2F;3 thumb key bit. That is what was such a game changer for me with the kinesis. all the sudden you have real estate to take a layering approach that you just can&#x27;t with normal keyboards.<p>Smart but unproductive is a class. We&#x27;ve all had experiences with those types of engineers. I think startups generally weed them out though. It&#x27;s hard to survive at a startup without being productive. I probably should have put that as a disclaimer up front.


type: comment
by: bytehamster
text:
  If I understood their first demo correctly, they verified a fedora iso with a detached signature. The booted iso then printed &quot;hello 39c3&quot;. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3&#x2F;relive&#x2F;1854" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;streaming.media.ccc.de&#x2F;39c3&#x2F;relive&#x2F;1854</a>


type: comment
by: Hendrikto
text:
  It’s not a neutral service though. The owner is very opinionated and likes to get involved in what projects are and are not allowed to be hosted there, and changes these rules on a whim.<p>In my eyes, this disqualifies Sourcehut for anything serious. You could get booted off any second, if Drew decides that he does not like you.<p>(I like Drew, and I like opinionated and outspoken people. But Service Providers should be neutral, and only involve themselves as far as required by law.)


type: comment
by: PopAlongKid
text:
  Putting down &quot;N&#x2F;A&quot; for battery life aspect of a paper book clearly shows the bias here.  Further, failing to mention ownership and permanence aspects of the content is a glaring omission.  And then there is durability and risk: if I drop a book it likely is still fully usable.  And it&#x27;s much less likely that someone would steal a book compared to an electronic device. Eventual disposition also matters: a book involves no e-waste and will not last for centuries in a landfill.


type: comment
by: LtWorf
text:
  You can validate user input with types using stuff like typedload (which i wrote) or similar runtime type checkers.


type: comment
by: _blk
text:
  Are you trying to project this unto Trump when the Fed is doing everything it can to oppose his measures?<p>I&#x27;m only the crypto weirdo guy asking.


type: comment
by: marcosdumay
text:
  If you use the most restrictive definition of money available, they printed 16 trillions:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M1SL" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;M1SL</a>


type: comment
by: andyjohnson0
text:
  From the FAQ [1]:<p>&quot;How are stories ranked?<p>&quot;The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way.<p>&quot;Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software, software which demotes overheated discussions, account or site weighting, and moderator action.&quot;<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsfaq.html</a>


type: comment
by: jcgl
text:
  Human-readability isn&#x27;t a feature of ASCII though. It&#x27;s a feature of any encoding for which the user has sufficient tooling. Sure, that&#x27;s an easier bar to clear for ASCII than for binary formats in general. But as I said, as long as you have the tooling, binary is no less readable. (Also, many binary formats will store strings as ASCII or UTF-8, so you can use the <i>strings</i> utility or whatever you want against them.)<p>&gt; the entropy of time destroys codecs (bit rot&#x2F;obsolescence)<p>Okay, so you don&#x27;t mean &quot;entropy&quot; in an information theoretic sense. You&#x27;re just talking about the decay of time. That&#x27;s a much more specific claim than your original one, and I grant than that may be true for some use-cases. But you don&#x27;t need semantic recovery if you don&#x27;t need to do recovery at all, i.e. if your data format and&#x2F;or storage medium transparently provide redundancy and&#x2F;or versioning.


type: story
by: ovidiuvio
title: Show HN: RelicBin – A modern take on pastebin
url: https://github.com/ovidiuvio/relic
text:
  Hi Everyone,<p>I&#x27;ve been working for some time on RelicBin, a modern self-hosted pastebin with the following features:<p>- Deployable via docker compose.<p>- Support for text, images, binaries, documents, logs, terminal ansi logs and archives.<p>- Public &#x2F; Private relics<p>- Bookmarks<p>- Built-in rich rendering:<p><pre><code>  - syntax highlighting   - ANSI log viewer mode   - Static HTML rendering   - PDF&#x2F;CSV viewing   - archive browsing   - excalidraw files   - markdown files </code></pre> - Collections via .rix relic index files - CLI for uploading straight from your terminal - S3 as storage backend - DB backups in S3 - S3 sync service to sync storage to an other S3 bucket as backup<p>Why I built it:<p>I wanted a self hosted pastebin that is scalable, flexible and developer &#x2F; devops focused<p>Made with AI ( Claude &#x2F; Gemini &#x2F; GLM )<p>Feedback, criticism are very welcome.<p>Repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ovidiuvio&#x2F;relic" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ovidiuvio&#x2F;relic</a>


type: comment
by: scrame
text:
  This is great. One of those things that just formats and does all the little niggling things you have to do sometimes. I like that it is simple, and doesn&#x27;t (thank god) need npm or some other package manager.<p>to quote the top comment: just show a screenshot of its results, if its useful its fine, being fast is just gravy.


type: comment
by: quotemstr
text:
  More projects should push back against calls for &quot;governance&quot; and &quot;steering committees&quot; and such. As you noticed, they paralyze projects. It took JavaScript seven years to get a half-baked version of Python context managers, and Python itself has slowed down markedly.<p>The seemingly irresistible social pressure to committee-ize development is a paper tiger. It disappears if you stand your ground and state firmly &quot;This is MY project&quot;.


type: comment
by: jmkni
text:
  It does seem to me like Microsoft (and every other company developing AI models) is doing so at a loss, and a signifigant one.<p>Is the play here to get everyone hooked on AI and then jack up the price to make a profit?<p>If so, I worry about Junior devs in particular, who have never developed the skills to write software themselves, suddenly finding themselves being &quot;cut off&quot; from their AI dealer<p>Or people generally who outsource their thinking to AI, forget how to do things for themselves, and suddenly face a big bill!


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  Platters  are not made of iron (or even steel) and neither is the surface, so I’m not sure why rust comes into the picture.


type: comment
by: rurban
text:
  They presented critical parser flaws in all major PGP implementations, not just GNU PGP, also sequoia, minisign and age. But gpg made the worst impression to us. wontfix


type: comment
by: dceddia
text:
  In many cases today “gif” is a misnomer anyway and mp4 is a better choice. Not always, not everywhere supports actual video.<p>But one case I see often: If you’re making a website with an animated gif that’s actually a .gif file, try it as an mp4 - smaller, smoother, proper colors, can still autoplay fine.


type: comment
by: fweimer
text:
  At least they are clear about it: It&#x27;s an editor for open-source AI code. It&#x27;s not intended to be used for maintaining internal software projects.


type: comment
by: cpach
text:
  To be frank, at this point, GPG has been a lost cause for basically decades.<p>People who are serious about security use newer, better tools that replace GPG. But keep in mind, there’s no “one ring to rule them all”.


type: comment
by: LtWorf
text:
  Since currently 0% of developers started with rust, it would be interesting to know from which language these developers are actually migrating.


type: comment
by: quotemstr
text:
  Politics is just what happens when three or more humans get together. It&#x27;s an inescapable part of human nature.


type: comment
by: wanderingstan
text:
  This is someone retelling a story they were told by a co-worker of an event over 20 years prior. It’s not surprising that he doesn’t go into the details of exactly what was tried, beyond the key parts of the story.


type: comment
by: suralind
text:
  My incomplete list:<p>- learn to sew clothes - improve my kitesurfing skills - I want to create and share more online - not to improve, but run more<p>This last bit is critical, I’ve been working on projects never really finishing them. I think part of that is I really, really dislike sharing unfinished things with strangers. The other part is that I struggle if something just works, I always want to make that perfect (when building for myself, ironically I’m usually the person to advocate for iterative approach). So this next year I’m going to focus more on improving that skill (already started this year).


type: comment
by: terminalbraid
text:
  &gt; decoherence<p>This has a specific meaning and is not a word I would use here.  For something to be &quot;decoherent&quot; the particle phases would need to be &quot;uncorrelated&quot; or &quot;random&quot;, but given the internal wavelengths, masses, and strength of the interaction of the particles involved against the spatial dimension of the proton this is not the case under quantum field theory.<p>In some ways the problem of this being &quot;complicated&quot; is because it&#x27;s <i>intractably</i> coherent with a fluctuating large number of particles interacting via three &quot;colors&quot; of self-interacting charge (very different from electric charge and not just &quot;three&quot; independent charges) to consider.  I&#x27;d put money on any decoherence would likely simplify the problem.<p>&gt;  Normally, the universe only asks protons the question: &quot;are you a proton?&quot; and it&#x27;s like &quot;Yep I&#x27;m a proton.&quot; (What&#x27;s your baryon number? What&#x27;s your charge? etc)<p>Protons have internal structure (the quarks and gluons) and size.  Those are relevant to its interactions.  To consider a proton &quot;by itself&quot; and just reduced to quantum numbers is not &quot;normal&quot; if by &quot;normal&quot; you mean &quot;protons at a scale in nature you deal with every day&quot;.  Those protons are bound in nuclei and are modified by the fact they are bound.  These effects have been explicitly measured and documented, the EMC effect being one of them.  The &quot;new questions&quot; you are referring to are in fact relevant questions at low energies and are not &quot;new&quot;.  They are a large active area of research typically referred to as &quot;medium energy&quot; (despite the fact it extends into &quot;low&quot; energy traditional nuclear physics and high energy QCD physics).<p>Even in a hydrogen atom, the internal structure of the proton modifies the chemistry by small changes in the electronic shell energies, in particular contributions to the lamb shift which has been used to measure the radius of the proton.<p>Maybe most directly, if what you described were the case you wouldn&#x27;t have so many decimals in atomic mass numbers of nuclei.<p>&gt; So having different answers based on how you look is really answering different questions, just like asking an electron: What&#x27;s your momentum? What&#x27;s your location?<p>The problems of looking at quarks and gluons at different energy scales are also endemic to other forces (e.g. electromagnetic) and all particles (for example, look up the running of coupling constants and renormalization theory).  Saying they are &quot;different&quot; questions is more akin to comparing questions of skyscraper engineering and concrete dust mechanics.  They are not orthogonal as I would consider momentum and location.  They&#x27;re questions of scale and things like emergent effects at different scales.<p>There are orthogonal questions of internal structure to be considered, though.  Deep inelastic scattering processes at high energies tend to ask the &quot;what are the momentum&quot; questions.  Elastic nucleon form factors ask more the &quot;location&quot;.  They both exist in a unified framework of &quot;generalized parton distributions&quot;.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  You&#x27;re literally being downvoted for stereotyping an entire generation. The word stereotype implies it, but it&#x27;s not remotely close to true.<p>Like, the easiest, most obvious example in the world is trump: he hyperbolically brags constantly about things he didn&#x27;t do or actively tried to stop and it would be real hard to argue that he&#x27;s genZ.<p>When you single out a specific group for your observation, it has strong implications about the other groups you didn&#x27;t mention.<p>As in this case: why did you <i>only</i> mention genZ?


type: comment
by: scrame
text:
  I left a different comment, but I think this is good. You&#x27;re example is 3306 and has a useful breakdown. Not everyone has that port memorized by trauma, and not every mysql instance uses that port.<p>New tools are always welcome, and having a purpose to explain a purpose seems like a good pitch.


type: comment
by: LtWorf
text:
  I don&#x27;t think cargo is much better in that respect. It&#x27;s what happens when instead of a decent standard library and a few well established frameworks you decide that every single little thing must be a separate project.


type: comment
by: vee-kay
text:
  Technically, that magnetic spinning HDD can work even after decades if maintained safely (no dust, no extreme heat) and without stress, even if it is not switched on for years.<p>In fact, if a magnetic HDD crashes, you may still recover some or all of the data by doing something hardcore, such as letting it sit for some hours in the freezer of your refrigerator, or immersing it in a bowl of rice overnight.<p>However, SSDs (and other flash storage devices) need to be switched on once in few months, otherwise there&#x27;s a chance that some data stored in them may be permanently lost, as some cells may loose their power.<p>&quot;As a reminder, an SSD&#x27;s endurance rating is calculated based on how long it can store data if left unplugged after a certain amount of data has been written&quot;: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;pc-components&#x2F;storage&#x2F;unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance-issues-reminds-us-of-the-importance-of-refreshing-backups" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tomshardware.com&#x2F;pc-components&#x2F;storage&#x2F;unpowered...</a>


type: comment
by: adzm
text:
  In general, he never names companies in his posts if there is anything potentially negative in there.


type: comment
by: sgf0568
text:
  Abbott states that only the Freestyle Libre 3 and 3 Plus are affected. However, I use the Libre 2 Plus with my Tandem t:slim pump, and since March of this year I have contacted Abbott at least ten times because the CGM consistently reports low blood glucose when a fingerstick reading is actually 20–30 percent higher. These inaccurate readings cause my pump to reduce or completely suspend insulin delivery.<p>As a result, my most recent A1C was 7.1, even though the pump software calculated it should have been 6.3 based on the CGM data being fed into the system. While 7.1 is not too terrible, I have not been above 7.0 in many years.<p>You might ask why I don’t switch to Dexcom to see if it performs better. Unfortunately, with my insurance coverage, Dexcom would cost nearly seven times more per month.


type: comment
by: jeffbee
text:
  Panics about how oil is being traded in non-USD terms are as old as the internet and, in all likelihood, even older than that. You can find usenet slop from 20-30 years ago about the petro-euro and the &quot;tehran oil bourse&quot;. Here&#x27;s an old site that is&#x2F;was daily panics about the fall of the dollar, from 15-25 years ago. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net&#x2F;</a>


type: comment
by: welliebobs
text:
  Sure, but I was mostly concerning myself with the comment I replied to, having used K3s often enough myself.


type: comment
by: cm2187
text:
  Similary story from Apple: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;C5d151lqJsA?t=108" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;C5d151lqJsA?t=108</a>


type: comment
by: iancmceachern
text:
  It&#x27;s the same in medical devices.  Most startups take it from idea through R&amp;D then go public or are acquired right as they go through FDA approval or submit for it.


type: comment
by: seanmcdirmid
text:
  US Treasuries have terms, if you aren’t refreshing your treasury buys, it is the same as selling them. US treasuries and by extension USD was useful because it could soak up billions of dollars of savings (debt for America) without taking a huge inflation hit (treasury rates were often less than inflation, so you still take some hit).<p>As for where that money is going now? Other currencies and saving instruments probably..


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  I seem to recall Safari doing the right thing for JPEGs when I was experimenting with publishing red-cyan stereograms [1] where an sRGB (255,0,0) becomes something like (187, 16, 17) on a high gamut display because the sRGB is less saturated than the P3 red.  It looks right for a normal photo but for the anaglyph that little bit of blue and green leaks through and makes ghosts.  Emedding a P3 profile in JPEG solves the problem.  You run into the same problem with print and I ended up addressing those by applying the color profile to the R and L images,  doing the anaglyph blend,  then attaching the native color profile of the printer -- it probably isn&#x27;t quite right but the colors are always going to be off for an anaglyph anyway and if I go back to that project I&#x27;ll design a color grade that pushes the scene away from pure-red and pure-cyan-spectrum colors.<p>What gets me is that the image he&#x27;s publishing is not really a PNG kind of image.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cybereality.com&#x2F;rendepth-red-cyan-anaglyph-filter-optimized-for-stereoscopic-3d-on-lcd-monitors&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cybereality.com&#x2F;rendepth-red-cyan-anaglyph-filter-op...</a> is a write up that didn&#x27;t go as deep as my research


type: comment
by: immibis
text:
  The OSI (a consortium of cloud companies who benefit when you write nonfree software for them) is not actually an authority on what the words &quot;open source&quot; mean, no matter how hard they try to insert themselves into that role.<p>Models can&#x27;t be open source anyway, because they don&#x27;t have source.


type: comment
by: deepsummer
text:
  Great idea. Whether brainstorm mode is actually useful is hard to say without trying it out, but it sounds like an interesting approach. Maybe it would be a good idea to try running a SWE benchmark with it.<p>Personally, I wouldn&#x27;t use the personas. Some people like to try out different modes and slash commands and whatnot - but I am quite happy using the defaults and would rather (let it) write more code than tinker with settings or personas.


type: comment
by: trollbridge
text:
  Getting a usable e-mail and phone is a few cents spent on one of the many shady SMS-reception services.


type: comment
by: Zak
text:
  &gt; <i>Zersiedlung is the Swiss-German term for urban sprawl</i><p>That is perhaps a more interesting word than Verdichtung.<p>Zer is a prefix that gives a destructive meaning to the base word. Teil is piece. Teilen is to share. Zerteilen is to break into pieces. Druck is pressure. Drücken is to push. Zerdrücken is to crush.<p>Siedlung means settlement.


type: comment
by: robocat
text:
  What&#x27;s your point?<p>Aspirin comes with heavy health warnings (and social warnings that have been strongly influenced by the paracetamol&#x2F;acetominiphin industry).<p>Heroin lacks the health warnings, and is recommended within the social group that accesses it?<p>I know of plenty of people that wouldn&#x27;t touch Aspirin because of its dangers...


type: story
by: schu
title: More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are 'AI slop', study finds
url:
  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/27/more-than-20-of-videos-shown-to-new-youtube-users-are-ai-slop-study-finds


type: comment
by: fn-mote
text:
  &gt; If the people who set up the DW and set up the data to flow into it did not also build any applications […] they didn’t complete their job properly<p>1. That’s a whole extra level of responsibility &#x2F; management &#x2F; bureaucracy. At some point, somebody near the top needs to care or it doesn’t all get done. The existence of this DB says somebody cared, they just didn’t have enough power.<p>2. I’m curious how this compares to experiences at Big Old Corp, like IBM or GM, not just the SV darlings.


type: comment
by: lenkite
text:
  We have already gone through this cycle in India. People feel very strange dealing with cash after using UPI for many years. In-fact, many will outright refuse.<p>Good thing is we do not depend on the US of A - The Unified Payments Interface is an Indian instant payment system and protocol completely independent of US behemoths. There are special, simplified UPI apps developed for senior citizens and lots of training material to ensure differently abled folk are are able to use it.<p>In the few years, UPI will also be linked with other BRICS national payment systems such as MirPay (Russia), UnionPay (China) and Pix (Brazil). A lot of other nations have expressed interest in joining. Once that is through, we will have an international peer-to-peer, payment networks <i>completely</i> separated from the West and not subject to big-nanny Western interference. Yay! The US can go cry in a corner when its bullying sanctions are just ignored.


type: comment
by: paxys
text:
  What’s more concerning is the growing trend of big tech companies “acquiring” a startup’s leadership team and IP and screwing over all the employees holding equity.


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  Pretty obvious and vague overview.  Obviously the weights are the important part that is missing.<p>I don&#x27;t know why you&#x27;re trying to argue that this isn&#x27;t an algorithmically driven social news feed website with an addictive homepage.  It&#x27;s exactly what the NY state law is targeting.


type: comment
by: didgetmaster
text:
  I wonder how effective it is for an OSS maintainer to try to prevent someone from &#x27;stealing their project&#x27; when &lt;corporation&gt; doing the fork is huge with plenty of resources (engineering, marketing, and legal) vs just some startup that is trying to gain some traction.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  The creation in the article appears to be genuinely useful and impressive as well. It certainly benefitted a great deal from other people&#x27;s work, but so did apple and linux and whatever else.


type: comment
by: ur-whale
text:
  Highly unpopular opinion here and I&#x27;m going to get downvoted into the ground (who cares), but ... this has been a very long time coming and has very much been a self-inflicted change.<p>My bet is that it will end up being a very good thing for the world at large.<p>China has recently started to buy Arabian oil and paying with yuan.<p>Major countries (India, China) are starting to buy Russian raw materials and paying directly using rubles.<p>In both cases, trade is happening and completely bypassing the once unavoidable USD.<p>The US choosing to weaponize the USD for geopolitical purposes has <i>finally</i> made the world realize the immense loss of sovereignty they had allowed themselves to be subjected to by making the USD the global trading currency.<p>This change will also force the US to finally get fiscally responsible and get the bloody USD printing machine under control, something they never had to do because of the USD reserve currency status.<p>The golden triangle of Russia (raw materials), India (highly educated workforce, strong demography), China (industrial powerhouse, stole the bulk of Western IP, is now producing more cutting-edge research than the west) finally free of the shackles of the USD and establishing direct overland trade routes that 100% avoid the seas (thereby 100% avoiding potential US embargoes, both financially and militarily enforced) ... the world is going to change in a rather profound way, finally relegating the US to being a simple country instead of the has-been empire it currently is.


type: story
by: iampotatoman92
title: Ask HN: Does Confluence still suck today?
text:
  Last I checked, it was slow, had poor UX and extremely trash search. What&#x27;s your experience been like?


type: comment
by: pjacotg
text:
  I second this. I joined a second hand Lego Whatsapp group a while ago and that&#x27;s made it far more affordable.


type: comment
by: coderintherye
text:
  Power Apps is just absolutely terrible for forms. Which is sad, because the platform itself is decent and most governmental entities that I&#x27;ve worked with seem to have access to it. If the UI&#x2F;UX was better and Forms weren&#x27;t cursed then non-technical teams could maintain their own apps and workflows. Combo&#x27;ing it with Power Automate can get a lot of things done. But Power Apps Forms need a complete re-haul and without such a change it will absolutely be the right decision to create something outside of it.


type: comment
by: onraglanroad
text:
  The platters used to be coated with iron oxide as the magnetic coating.<p>Modern ones use more exotic materials.


type: comment
by: vedmakk
text:
  &quot;Verdichtung&quot; is almost funny considering that Zurich is a city with not even half a million inhabitants. For example in the greater Moscow area live roughly 35 million people in an area about 1&#x2F;4 the size of whole Switzerland with its 9 million people. THAT is &quot;Verdichtung&quot;.


type: comment
by: moffkalast
text:
  No it&#x27;s definitely a problem with the ARM architecture, specifically that it&#x27;s standard to make black box SoCs that nobody can write drivers for and the manufacturer gives you one binary version and then fucks off forever. It&#x27;s a problem with the ARM ecosystem as a whole for literally every board (except Raspberry Pi), likely stemming from the bulk of ARM being throwaway smartphones with proprietary designs.<p>If ARM cannot outdo x86 on power draw anymore then it really is entirely pointless to use it because you&#x27;re trading off a lot, and it&#x27;s basically guaranteed that the board will be a useless brick a few years down the line.


type: comment
by: bombcar
text:
  Which means the outbound sales isn’t the first problem - it’s lead generation. How do you find a group that is more willing to purchase given the limited time you can spend on it?


type: comment
by: dismalaf
text:
  &gt; First, YJIT&#x2F;ZJIT do much better when they know the type signatures of methods.<p>The running interpreter knows the type of objects.  Ruby isn&#x27;t untyped.<p>The annotations do nothing for the interpreter.


type: comment
by: k3vinw
text:
  Not an expert here, so I’m genuinely curious how could a video stream (edit: with muted audio stream) possibly cause another laptop in close proximity to crash?


type: comment
by: gambiting
text:
  My thoughts on this are as serious as it gets - AI in it&#x27;s current state is no more than clever statistics. I will not be comparing how my own brain functions to what is effectively a linear algebra machine, as it&#x27;s insulting to the intelligence of everyone here - what kind of serious thought would you like to have here, exactly?


type: comment
by: dboreham
text:
  Good to see this having spent the last 10 years arguing with people who configured pre commit hooks then failed to understand the bad consequences.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  This feels pretty unsatisfying: something that’s been “considered harmful” for <i>three decades</i> should be deprecated and then removed in a responsible ecosystem.<p>(PGP&#x2F;GPG are of course hamstrung by their own decision to be a Swiss Army knife&#x2F;only loosely coupled to the secure operation itself. So the even more responsible thing to do is to discard them for purposes that they <i>can’t</i> offer security properties for, which is the vast majority of things they get used for.)


type: comment
by: Sytten
text:
  Cursor has been annoying me lately with their updates breaking ever further away from vscode UI. Might give copilot another shot. Needs a plan mode though, it really is necessary for complex operations.


type: comment
by: UncleMeat
text:
  I am doing a few things that I recommend.<p>Donate to mutual aid organizations that provide legal advice and support. The Trump admin is breaking a ton of laws but they aren&#x27;t breaking all of them. The legal system is more important now than ever. Making sure that people know what they can do to interfere with ICE is important. Funding legal teams for people detained by ICE is important.<p>Donate to mutual aid organizations that provide financial support. Somebody who is afraid to go to work because ICE might be there still needs to pay rent. An organization that funnels money to these people protects people.<p>Agitate for dems that give a shit. The way this ends is if dems win in 2026 and 2028 and actually take steps to punish the people who have committed these crimes and to dismantle the systems that enabled this in the first place. If instead we get the dems doing what Labor is doing and trying to be a just-slightly-less-evil nativist organization then we are fucking doomed. Documentation of these crimes will be important for making the libs unable to just say &quot;well let&#x27;s all move on&quot; like they did in 2021.


type: comment
by: ck2
text:
  In three years China will be making far cheaper clones of Nvidia chips<p>Current administration just handed it to them for a bribe<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ckg9q635q6po" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;ckg9q635q6po</a><p>They&#x27;ll tear them down and x-ray&#x2F;electron-microscope it and they&#x27;ve gotten exceeding great at cloning chips


type: comment
by: TUSF
text:
  cake[0] might interest you. Basically transpiles C into C89.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thradams&#x2F;cake" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;thradams&#x2F;cake</a>


type: comment
by: cultofmetatron
text:
  &gt; What does that matter for learning how operating systems work?<p>my rust is stronger than my c. been wanting to learn OS development and this being in somethign I already know lets me focus specifically on the os specific stuff rather than also needing to deepdive into c. a language I haven&#x27;t so much as glanced at in almost 10 years


type: story
by: indigodaddy
title: Cult TV Flashback: Otherworld (1985)
url:
  https://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/2008/11/cult-tv-flashback-62-otherworld-1985.html


type: comment
by: scarecrowbob
text:
  &quot;But none of that justifies downplaying the situation we&#x27;re currently staring down, which is what I take issue with.&quot;<p>Maybe we read things differently- I don&#x27;t see folks who say &quot;this is nothing new, the US has always been ethically questionable&quot; as &quot;downplaying&quot; anything.<p>As I&#x27;ve written here before, there is a difference between &quot;hey, welcome to the party&quot; (radicalization) and &quot;hey shut up, this is a thing we&#x27;ve always done&quot; (normalization).<p>I take issue with (and find very frustrating) the idea that somehow things have just now reached a breaking point.<p>I find that incorrect-to-me idea worrisome on two levels.<p>First of all, if Clinton or Harris had been elected we&#x27;d still be walking down this same road but liberals would be at brunch and telling us that nothing is wrong.  But Ferguson and Standing Rock both happened while Obama was in office.  And we don&#x27;t need to run another experiment to see how it would have run under Harris, as she explicitly was moving to the right from Biden.<p>The flip side of your suspicion that folks in my position are just perversely enjoying some kind of schadenfreude might be that folks who believe this situation to be new and unique is to note that while this violent empire has been violent-empire-ing for far longer than any of us have been alive, the violence hasn&#x27;t been overtly staged within the spectacle confronting the &quot;middle class&quot; folks until very recently.<p>The distinction between &quot;bureaucratic authoritarianism&quot; and &quot;autocratic authoritarianism&quot; only matters if you show up the bureaucracy in a legible way, and the fact that this is a distinction you draw places you in a very specific relationship to the power which &quot;it&#x27;s always been violent&quot; seeks to critique.<p>Or to say the same thing in a different way, for the same reasons you might point to some perverse enjoyment by hipsters, you might look at your own psyche here:<p>to admit that the US has always been violent is to admit that you didn&#x27;t care because it wasn&#x27;t happening to people about whom you care.<p>However, that possible reading of your position is -wholly immaterial- to the folks who are pointing out &quot;it&#x27;s been bad for a long time&quot;.<p>The catharsis you seem to be projecting isn&#x27;t really there for the people who could see there was a problem before it became visible even to middle class liberals.  So an aside, nobody cares that folks ignored the problem until we are where we are, so feel your feelings about your blindness and then get to work, and stop projecting.<p>Do, however, consider that the lines of thought which lead people to directly and painfully confront power in a physical way can only come from the idea that the power being confronted is not and has not been legitimate.<p>I only dive into the phrenology of your position because it seems funny to me, but I do think that position is an active and harmful impediment to actually doing anything- if we could just vote our way home, why bother walking?<p>That is, if it really was okay a while ago, why not just do the blue version of making America great again?<p>And that leads to a second level at why I find the idea that &quot;things have just gotten worse this year&quot; to be almost dangerous:<p>the situation can and likely will get more authoritarian.<p>The reality to me is that these systems have been violent in the past- I live on land next to the Southern Ute folks&#x27; reservation, and I have had Navajo roommates, and I can see a former residential school every time I drive to town.<p>There is no amount of being white or tall or &quot;well-educated&quot; that would save me if the ancestors of the folks who built those things decide I am no longer a &quot;citizen&quot; because &quot;reasons&quot; and burn my corpse so it ascends to some gulag in the sky.<p>But if these systems haven&#x27;t been incredibly harmful, abandoning them seems foolish and dumb.  Any action to undermine their authority takes on the same character of a &quot;rejection of the standard norms of good faith execution of [the] government&quot;.<p>I wholly understand why anarchists and communists seem stupid and dangerous to the folks who have historically been able to ignore the harms of these systems.<p>For that reason, though, folks are going to have to give up some of their ideological attachments to those systems if they are going to work against them.<p>So from my position, actively being unwilling to admit the past harms cause by those systems is a very easy way to prevent oneself from coming to a position where you actually have to do anything material.<p>Sorry for writing a novel (as an aside I dislike AI because writing things like this is how I think through things and I think the adoption of AI writing says a lot about the willingness of folks to think).  But as a person incredibly worried about the very real shift in character of the current political spectacle, I think that &quot;it&#x27;s new and improved&quot; is a harmful idea that you should reconsider.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  I mean, the article has paragraphs like:<p>&gt; With the system online, there were still many improvements to be made. Like taxes, applying for retirement was still an incredibly confusing process. Working closely with talented designers and the Retirement Services team at OPM, we set out to reinvent the user experience from end-to-end.<p>Complaining that the writer took all the credit seems a bit petty.


type: comment
by: RevEng
text:
  While I agree entirely about what Grok teaches us about alignment, I think the argument that &quot;alignment was never a technical problem&quot; is false. Everything I have ever read about AI safety and alignment have started by pointing out the fundamental problem of deciding what values to align to because humanity doesn&#x27;t have a consistent set of values. Nonetheless, there is a technical challenge because whatever values we choose, we need a way to get the models to follow those values. We need both. The engineers are solving the technical problem; they need others to solve the social problem.


type: comment
by: mgraczyk
text:
  It doesn&#x27;t, I think both anecdotes are not useful for understanding what&#x27;s really happening


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  I&#x27;m contradicting your interpretation of the Wikipedia article. It does not support your initial statement that a) Github&#x27;s (or any other company&#x27;s) free tier constitutes a commons and&#x2F;or b) the &quot;overuse&quot; of said free tiers by free riders could be the base of a tragedy of the commons (ToC). The idea is absurd, since there is no commons and also no tragedy. To the contrary. Commons have an external or natural limit to how much they can provide in a given time without incurring cost in the form of depreciation. But there is no external or natural limit to the free tier. The free tier is the result of the incentives under which the Github management operates and it is fully at their discretion, so the limits are purely internal. Other than in the case of commons, more usage can actually increase the amount of resources provided by the company for the users of the free tier, because a) network effects and b) economies of scale (more users bring more other users; more users cost less per user).<p>If Github realizes that the free tier is too generous, they can cut it anytime without it being in any way a &quot;tragedy&quot; for anybody involved - having to pay for stuff or service you want to consume is <i>not</i> the &quot;T&quot; in ToC! The T is that there are no incentives to pay (or use less) without increasing the incentives for everyone else to just increase their relative use! You <i>not</i> using the github free tier doesn&#x27;t increase the usage of Github for anybody else - if it has any effect at all, it might actually <i>de</i>crease the usage of Github because you might not publish something that might in turn attract other users to interact.


type: comment
by: lacoolj
text:
  Since this article mentions SRAM, which not everyone knows a lot about, this could be helpful for anyone interested: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.freebsd.org&#x2F;~lstewart&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cpumemory.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.freebsd.org&#x2F;~lstewart&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cpumemory.pdf</a>


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  Most people are not doers but losers. When someone does anything, they like to throw s*t at it.<p>Doers are perpetually disliked by losers simply because they can do stuff while them can&#x27;t.<p>It&#x27;s natural that the losers&#x27; actions are aligned towards making doers disappear, but it&#x27;s usually a very low level and pathetic threat to doers.<p>I enjoyed reading your article and hope you have more stuff coming :). Keep it going!


type: comment
by: danaris
text:
  Where, for reference, Safari shows an image that matches the first one listed—meaning, at least in theory, that it fully supports ICC profiles.


type: comment
by: bflesch
text:
  You should &quot;trust, but verify&quot; and not shoot the messenger. If raising valid concerns that were not addressed by the linked website is FUD for you, so be it. Sourceforge was also a major brand back in the day and nowadays it raises an anti virus alarm if a user visits that website.


type: comment
by: uplifter
text:
  What part of it don’t you agree with? That an algorithm implementation must encode the goal that it pursues? How can something pursue a goal it has no access to a definition of? If you have an alternative way it could work, please propose it.<p>I’m not asking rhetorically, I’m truly interested in learning the flaws in my argument for why natural selection cannot be modelled as an optimization process. So if you have the time to reply with a more detailed rebuttal, I’d much appreciate it.<p>edit: Addendum: I recognize my claim that computer scientists might have an advantage in understanding this is contentious, and I was not implying that they (we) as a group have a better record of understanding evolution’s subtlety than biologists (which I studied in uni) or the average lay person. I just think they could have an advantage in understanding the version of the argument that I gave above, and I am interested in improving it for that purpose.


type: comment
by: derangedHorse
text:
  The average US salary isn&#x27;t $75k btw. That figure is usually quoted from the reported median <i>household</i> income in 2022[1]. The median <i>personal</i> income, which is the figure that should* be quoted, was around $45k for 2024[2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MEHOINUSA646N" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MEHOINUSA646N</a> [2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MEPAINUSA646N" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F;series&#x2F;MEPAINUSA646N</a>


type: comment
by: kelseyfrog
text:
  If you can&#x27;t deter a business, what function do fines and monetary legal judgements on businesses have?


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Maybe Vulkan could provide native support for Python, C++20, and a graphical debugging experience.<p>It is surely not equivalent as of today.


type: comment
by: igneo676
text:
  Nah, this is just the No True Scotsman fallacy. San Francisco is FAR more left in their politics than most of the nation. For example, the new mayor described himself as:<p>&gt; As a lifelong Democrat and San Franciscan, I am running for mayor to turn around the city I love<p>London Breed, the mayor before, was endorsed by explicitly Democrat or nonpartisan individuals (including Kamala Harris)<p>We could go on. What&#x27;s ironic here is that this comment just reveals how disconnected this form of left wing politics is from the larger nation. They call even examples of the politics of their own &quot;right wing&quot; because they&#x27;re so radically left


type: comment
by: somenameforme
text:
  This is more of a go out with a whimper rather than a bang type thing. Being the world reserve currency (as well as the largest consumer market in the world) previously enabled the US to do things like relatively easily export inflation in spite of relatively reckless monetary policy. Now that inflation is sticking around far more persistently, even long term bonds have gone from 1-2% to 4%+, and so on. Stagflation is a conceivable longer term outcome.<p>The replacement will probably be a multinational currency with strictly controlled quantity tied to some sort of physical asset(s). Basically Bretton Woods 2.0, except with the learned experience of not just granting a single country immense power and having them pinky swear not to default on their obligations and then abuse that granted power. China&#x27;s probably betting that that asset will be gold.


type: comment
by: silexia
text:
  The government should NEVER bail out a private business of any kind. There should also be no limited liability for companies... that would prevent issues where an owner abuses the environment then walks away with the fortune he made while the company goes bankrupt from lawsuits.


type: comment
by: throw10920
text:
  I specifically said &quot;large, complex codebases&quot;, so I&#x27;m not sure how your comment is relevant.<p>If the project you&#x27;re implementing is Big (which the <i>federal employee retirement system</i> qualifies for by any sane metric), then the infra you described is inappropriate. If the project isn&#x27;t Big, then my comment wasn&#x27;t addressing it.


type: comment
by: scoofy
text:
  I run a little wiki and, <i>holy shit</i>, the bots have gotten advanced. Like, it used to be no big deal, then like a year and a half ago, it exploded. It&#x27;s basically quadrupled the costs for me to run the site. It&#x27;s not even worth it to ban IPs anymore, because they are routing their traffic through different IPs -- <i>in different countries</i> -- just to scan my site, repeatedly, every damn day. It&#x27;s an obscure golf course wiki, but no... <i>better check every other day to see if anything has changed!</i><p>At the same time, the bots are dumb as hell. I have honey pots that basically are as simple as &quot;if you visit this obscure, hidden URL you&#x27;re banned&quot; or &quot;if the same obscure page for a course is visited for four different courses in a row, then ban all the IPs that were part of that.&quot; But they keep coming... like, an infinite number of IPs. I genuinely don&#x27;t want to use Cloudflare, but I understand why people do. It&#x27;s <i>absolutely crazy</i> out there.


type: comment
by: devnonymous
text:
  The linked trends suggest a revival of the term though.<p>&gt; The people who do the &quot;*nix&quot; cargo cult thing have never seen a SunOS machine and don&#x27;t even know what a HPUX is.<p>The meaning of words evolve over time though. Text is still broken into lines by &quot;carriage return&#x2F;line feeds&quot; and is written on &quot;hard disk&quot; split up in &quot;sectors&quot;.,. Over time people using these would not have seen a typewriter or even know what a platter is but may still use it to communicate effectively.


type: comment
by: kevin_thibedeau
text:
  I have a Ford Sync 2.5 system which is a cost reduced hardware downgrade from QNX based Sync 3. I&#x27;m sure the OS is doing its best while hobbled by a poor management decision but it has lots of bugs that crop up from what appears to be severe RAM shortage coupled with some gradual memory leaks. I have to reboot it regularly when traveling with Android auto. It&#x27;s always a crap shoot if my phone will connect.


type: comment
by: yegle
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;tDacjrSCeq4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;tDacjrSCeq4</a> reminds me of this gem.


type: comment
by: yencabulator
text:
  Claude Code is perfectly able to access your git&#x2F;jj history directly. Just ask it to review a commit.


type: comment
by: cultofmetatron
text:
  After that vibe coeded zig book fiasco a few weeks ago, I&#x27;m just glad to see this was written by an actual person. I&#x27;m sure the content will be improved on with time.<p>To the author, I appreciate your effort here!


type: comment
by: whytevuhuni
text:
  No mention of Guix. Has its situation improved? I remember waiting almost an hour on “guix pull” to catch up with its git repo on a fresh install.


type: comment
by: giorgioz
text:
  I&#x27;m also reading Dungeon Crawler Carl series!! Enjoying a lot!  &quot;Goddamnit Donut!&quot; Carl


type: comment
by: andrepd
text:
  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.972mag.com&#x2F;lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.972mag.com&#x2F;lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s an overview on Wikipedia too <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_Gaza_Strip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...</a>


type: comment
by: throwawayqqq11
text:
  So gutting public institutions and the tarifs do not work as trump intended because the fed opposed it? What did they do achieve that? (Sorry if i come across as trump deranged.)


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Well there&#x27;s also a c) - Whatever they get away with now they will have in pocket, and whatever penance they will have to do with a future administration will take years and years of legal back and forth to actually pan out, by which time it will be watered down so any fine will dwarf the profits made during this period.<p>Also, if they manage to reach &quot;too big to fail&quot; status by that point, whatever punishment will be nothing more than a slap on the wrist.


type: comment
by: Jcampuzano2
text:
  Have you ever thought it doesn&#x27;t matter what the fed does to try to minimize the damage.<p>Trust needs to come from the top, and there is none there right now.


type: comment
by: pyth0
text:
  If you want to make your comment useful, you could share some information about where you understand policing in America to have originated.


type: comment
by: vidarh
text:
  Have you considered using their command line options instead? At least Codex and Claude both support feeding in new prompts in an ongoing conversation via the command line, and can return text or stream JSON back.


type: comment
by: nkmnz
text:
  The use of Github is not &quot;something that is both freely available to the public&quot;. If you&#x27;re not the customer, you&#x27;re the product.


type: comment
by: roflchoppa
text:
  &gt; Unless they’ve been specifically trained with PowerApps, most software developers would find it extremely unintuitive to build with, making it hard to apply classic coding skills or iterate quickly.<p>Sounds just like Sharepoint.


type: comment
by: password4321
text:
  Tree Napper aka <i>TENCEL™</i> per link above if anyone else was left wondering like me.<p>&gt; <i>our Tree Napper is the perfect choice for those that sleep hotter than most. It’s made from Tencel</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bearaby.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;tree-napper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bearaby.com&#x2F;products&#x2F;tree-napper</a>


type: comment
by: data-ottawa
text:
  This type of branding makes it impossible to find products lately.<p>I was recently looking for embedded analytics platforms (and was willing to pay), but the search became incredibly frustrating as every database or analytics tool now brands itself as some AI first thing. The landing pages no longer help me figure out what they do, which I guess is good for raising investor money but I&#x27;m sure it can&#x27;t be good for real sales.<p>I hope that soon the mania can end and we can get useful branding again.<p>VSCode to me is better branded as the editor with the best plugin ecosystem around. The AI features should just be plugins to an incredibly flexible editor. But I know MS wants to sell subscriptions like windsurf and cursor.


type: comment
by: Griffinsauce
text:
  This is 1000% the play, it&#x27;s the only one that actually works out (for _some_ vendors). Extra fun when you&#x27;ve let go of all your actual experienced engineers and then the squeeze comes.


type: comment
by: pavon
text:
  The most reasonable reading of that description is that VSCode itself is open source, not that it is only intended for editing open source software. Furthermore, nothing in the license suggests that. If that was their intent they were very much <i>not</i> clear about communicating it.


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  &gt; Rivers of London series<p>Whats nice about the first book is that its a love letter to london. Its not too serious, which a lot of fantasy can be. Its fun.<p>Its a light fantasy, in that most of the world is &quot;normal&quot; london, and the &quot;silly bollocks&quot; is threaded through reality, rather than the other way around.<p>At first Kobna kinda grated, but he now is to me, DCI grant, and a whole bunch of other characters.


type: comment
by: cmrdporcupine
text:
  I keep waiting for this younger generation to wake up to why we invented the GPL in the first place. Entities that are happy to use your brains for a while, and then eagerly dispose of you when they can.<p>They love your free labour. &quot;Thanks for your OSS project! No, no, we&#x27;re not hiring... and you&#x27;d never make it through out interview process!&quot;<p>One should make free software for other free software developers and grateful end users. Not for parasites. Recognition doesn&#x27;t pay the mortgage. And now you won&#x27;t even get that because your work will just end distilled into weights in a large language model.


type: comment
by: didgetmaster
text:
  Makes you wonder if the reason why some trivial bug in a closed source project goes unfixed for years; is because all the engineers are afraid to touch the code in some obscure library and instantly become its new &#x27;owner&#x27;.


type: comment
by: basisword
text:
  I&#x27;m glad you said it. Incredible tech and the top comment is debating licensing. The demos I&#x27;ve seen of this are incredible and it&#x27;ll be great taking old photos (that weren&#x27;t shot with a &#x27;spatial&#x27; camera) and experiencing them in VR. I think it sums up the Apple approach to this stuff (actually impacting peoples lives in a positive way) vs the typically techie attitude.


type: comment
by: BadCookie
text:
  If you are okay with plastic, Gravitrax is similar, cheaper, and fun. My son and I like to build marble runs together.


type: comment
by: anthk
text:
  LVTL-02, a simliar language: gopher:&#x2F;&#x2F;hoi.st&#x2F;9&#x2F;files&#x2F;lvtl.shar.gz<p>Manual: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altair680kit.com&#x2F;manuals&#x2F;Altair_680-VTL-2%20Manual-05-Beta_1-Searchable.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.altair680kit.com&#x2F;manuals&#x2F;Altair_680-VTL-2%20Manu...</a>


type: comment
by: firesteelrain
text:
  What is claimed in TFA is that the hard drive resonate frequency reacts to the Janet Jackson video in bad ways because that music video puts out music that interferes with what the hard drive expects.<p>TFA was lacking details so this is merely a retelling.


type: comment
by: moralestapia
text:
  &gt;[A]s are [B]s<p>&gt;But that doesn&#x27;t imply all [B]s are [A]s<p>Come on, dude. This gets covered in the first 10 minutes of any entry-level course to logic ...


type: comment
by: moffkalast
text:
  NPUs like this tend to have one thing in common: being decorative without drivers and support 9 times out of 10.<p>Even if it worked though, they&#x27;re usually heavily bandwidth bottlenecked and near useless for LLM inference. CPU wins every time.


type: comment
by: basisword
text:
  I assume this is the same spatial scenes feature that was on visionOS prior to OS 26. In my experience that was really incredible. You could take a standard 2D photo of someone and suddenly you were back in the room with them.


type: comment
by: Arainach
text:
  The automation was only possible because of a digitized data source which was created as part of a modernization effort 18+ years ago - 18 years before DOGE ever existed - when it was realized this process needed to be improved and automated.


type: comment
by: Ysx
text:
  &gt; Yes, I know which “major computer manufacturer” it is, and no, I’m not telling. This is consistent with longstanding blog policy that companies are not identified in stories, because the point of the story to teach something, not to call out companies for derision.<p>From the follow-up post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20220920-00&#x2F;?p=107201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;devblogs.microsoft.com&#x2F;oldnewthing&#x2F;20220920-00&#x2F;?p=10...</a>


type: comment
by: gspr
text:
  &gt; There&#x27;s no reason to believe that weights are copyrightable.<p>I know this is a long, nuanced, ongoing discussion. I&#x27;m very interested in it, but haven&#x27;t read up on it for years. Could you elaborate a bit on the latest?<p>I was always in the camp that opined that &quot;weights&quot; are too broad a term for any sensible discussions about conclusions like &quot;are (not) copyrightable&quot;. Clearly a weight that&#x27;s the average of its training data is not copyrightable. But also, surely, weights that are capable of verbatim reproduction of non-trivial copyrightable training data <i>are</i>, because they&#x27;re just a strange storage medium for the copyright data.<p>What am I missing?


type: comment
by: codingclaws
text:
  Neuromancer - 2nd time I read it. Such a good book.<p>To Your Scattered Bodies Go - 2nd time I read it. Cool book. It&#x27;s about a world with a big river where humans are reborn after they die on earth.<p>Use of Weapons - 2nd time I read it. One of the more popular Iain Banks Culture novels.<p>Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 - Loved it.<p>Matter - 2nd time I read it. This is another Banks Culture novel. This book is actually very good. Most of it takes places on a megastructure planet with different levels.<p>Assassin&#x27;s Apprentice - I don&#x27;t get the hype.<p>Memories of Ice - 3rd Malazan book. I thought the first quarter was lit.<p>Cursed Cocktails - Cozy fantasy, good book.<p>I log all my read books here [0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commentcastles.org&#x2F;r&#x2F;ireadthisbook" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.commentcastles.org&#x2F;r&#x2F;ireadthisbook</a>


type: comment
by: Mindwipe
text:
  He genuinely might not know. I worked on a similar incident when our video encoder caused about 30% of a pretty mainstream mobile handset to hard lock when recieving a stream, requiring the battery to be removed to reboot the device.<p>Neither us nor the OEM ever figured out why. They suspected that it was a weird combination of different bin combinations from different parts, but ultimately we had to change the method of delivering video to stop it happening.


type: comment
by: tim333
text:
  Video of Moravec talking about intelligent robots for 2030: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4eVv01xOoSo?t=65" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;4eVv01xOoSo?t=65</a>


type: comment
by: pjmlp
text:
  Languages are products as well, either they evolve to cater to new audiences, or they slowly die as the userbase shrinks away with the passing of each developer generation.


type: comment
by: anonnon
text:
  My guess is they&#x27;re vastly underestimating the time and effort that would take, however, I understand the motivation somewhat, as there&#x27;s no guarantee that whatever alternative to VSCode you settle on won&#x27;t also eventually go all-in on AI. For example, KDevelop is planning on heavy AI integration soon.


type: comment
by: MasterScrat
text:
  Exactly - best case scenario is Reddit&#x2F;HN front page with a cool project you enjoyed working on, have some nice conversations there, reach a few 100s stars which look good on your CV, and that’s it.<p>If you expect more long term support you better be paying me for my time.


type: comment
by: trehalose
text:
  I doubt it could, but when you run into a problem that defies your understanding of reality, you might try out responses that also defy your understanding of reality, in the hopes you might gain the missing insight somewhere along the way, yeah?


type: comment
by: darth_avocado
text:
  Every time I hear people claiming India and China now not using dollar and the end of dollar’s dominance, I feel it’s coming from mostly clickbait headlines, not data. From a global payments share, dollar is still the single largest currency from a percentage standpoint, and is at historically highest share of global trade. Any changes to currency share are coming from lower volume from the Euro. On top of that, if you look at foreign reserves, yes there has been a recent selloff from the peak, but we are still at 60% of global reserves and its still kind of around the same historical average for the last 30+ years.<p>Edit: I also want to add, that while having the international trade entirely in dollar sounds very appealing, it can actually destroy US exports and damage the trade balance. This can have massive impact on domestic as well as global economies. What you want is a strong enough dollar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;econres&#x2F;notes&#x2F;feds-notes&#x2F;the-international-role-of-the-u-s-dollar-2025-edition-20250718.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.federalreserve.gov&#x2F;econres&#x2F;notes&#x2F;feds-notes&#x2F;the-...</a>


type: comment
by: scuff3d
text:
  I feel like a crazy person reading these comments, &quot;oh it tries to bypass limitations, delete files, and generally nuke my system... But it&#x27;s cool, I trust it&quot;


type: comment
by: raisedbyninjas
text:
  Also not an expert, it would have to be EMI or maybe the bright light was causing LEDs on the nearby laptop to generate voltage. LEDs can poorly work in reverse.


type: comment
by: nickphx
text:
  how would using multiple services that are incapable of performing the work correctly result in better work?


type: story
by: hackernj
title: Tesla's Former AI Director Karpathy Sends 'Open Letter' to Software Engineers
url:
  https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/teslas-former-ai-director-andrej-karpathy-sends-open-letter-to-software-engineers-i-never-felt-this-much-behind-as-a-programmer-profession-is/articleshow/126202051.cms


type: comment
by: petcat
text:
  These kinds of comments (accusing OC of being ai gen) seem like they&#x27;re showing up in every thread and they&#x27;re always useless and insulting.<p>HN needs a rule to ban these


type: comment
by: KaiserPro
text:
  Its funny, I&#x27;ve tried with Catch-22 a few times. I just can&#x27;t get on with it.<p>I think that its all just one ginormous side note, and that Yossarian is a shit, means I can&#x27;t enjoy it.<p>I also suspect that I am not american enough to pick up on the satire references.<p>I suspect I feel what americans feel when they read jeeves and wooster.


type: comment
by: pushcx
text:
  It must be part of a larger marketing push; their boss(?) appeared on the Odd Lots podcast a couple days ago to talk about this work: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;scott-kupors-new-plan-to-bring-tech-workers-into-the&#x2F;id1056200096?i=1000742677639" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcasts.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;podcast&#x2F;scott-kupors-new-plan-...</a> He spent a lot of time promoting this new National Design Studio&#x27;s attempt to attract tech works for 2-year commitments to drop into existing orgs, which is basically how the 18F PIF program worked before it was dissolved earlier this year. Perhaps abruptly terminating a program to reinvent it from scratch six months later is very efficient.<p>18F: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;18F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;18F</a> Overview of the related programs: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;willslack.com&#x2F;pif-18f-usds&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;willslack.com&#x2F;pif-18f-usds&#x2F;</a><p>(A warning about Odd Lots: the hosts never question or push back on people talking their book. This especially bad with politicians and political appointees, who are often very creative during their interviews.)


type: comment
by: firefax
text:
  that was quick, i edited the wayback cache of the image in like i lamented i couldn&#x27;t in the orginal, i&#x27;m such a pessimist :-)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251227181428if_&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;i&#x2F;2025-12-27_18-21-51_screenshot.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;web.archive.org&#x2F;web&#x2F;20251227181428if_&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lr0.or...</a>


type: comment
by: SilasX
text:
  Was that because of Prop 65, though? The day-to-day effect seems to be alert fatigue and people ignoring the warnings because they&#x27;re everywhere.<p>I read the links to find the proposed mechanism (NIH link is dead btw), and it says that businesses pre-emptively reformulated to avoid having the label, but the LA Times story also says this is a mixed bag, often resulting in a switch to less-tested, possibly unsafe substitutes simply because they weren&#x27;t on the list.<p>&gt;&gt;But swapping one chemical for an unlisted substitute has sometimes resulted in its own consequences.<p>&gt;&gt;For example, when bisphenol A, an ingredient in plastics, was listed in 2013, chemical concentrations in blood and urine samples subsequently fell by 15%. However, that was followed by a 20% rise in bisphenol S — a closely related chemical also linked with reproductive toxicity.


type: comment
by: jadsfwasdfsd
text:
  Great write up!<p>Cluster autoscaler is honestly garbage. I&#x27;d recommend you use Karpenter which is now managed in most cloud providers.


type: comment
by: Group_B
text:
  Anyway to follow the progress? I attended the Nightscout conference and asked around regarding this but no one really knew of any group to follow. Or really knew of the latest developments on this effort.


type: comment
by: matt-p
text:
  Click a unused fibre and drag it to an empty &#x27;splice holder&#x27; then do the same on the other side. You can also use double tap on mobile I think.<p>Sorry! In practice manual usage is normally very rare, these are typically auto generated!


type: comment
by: robocat
text:
  My point is that if you want to understand human interactions, you need to participate in them.<p>Rationally analysing human interactions via writing and psychology will screw up your leaning.<p>Children just learn by doing and are only guided in a gross sense.<p>If you want to understand people, one must learn like a child does.<p>These my personal beliefs that I apply to myself. Trying to find you some scientific papers would be counterproductive and destroy the point I am making.


type: comment
by: mc32
text:
  Yes but that was like 40 years ago. I think by now the phraseology should reflect reality after about forty years.


type: comment
by: scythe
text:
  The British pound was displaced by the US dollar. Currently, the US dollar just doesn&#x27;t have a proper rival. The euro, yuan and rupee are considered politically suspect (each for its own unique reasons); the pound and yen have too small a base. Without further transformation of the global financial system, the only alternative is for banks to hold a basket of currencies, and in such a basket the dollar would likely still play a significant, if reduced, role. This is a slow process because it means changing the nature of currency reserves from a single safe haven to a &quot;nest&quot;. What this means for USG spending power is not immediately clear.


type: comment
by: mhuffman
text:
  &gt;It&#x27;s really not that hard<p>It is only a couple of thousand options[0], just memorize them! It super simple, barely an inconvenience!<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;tayvano&#x2F;6e2d456a9897f55025e25035478a3a50" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;tayvano&#x2F;6e2d456a9897f55025e25035478a...</a>


type: comment
by: vips7L
text:
  For Java, there is a built-in command: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;java&#x2F;javase&#x2F;17&#x2F;docs&#x2F;specs&#x2F;man&#x2F;jpackage.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.oracle.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;java&#x2F;javase&#x2F;17&#x2F;docs&#x2F;specs&#x2F;man&#x2F;jpa...</a>


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  The people now working for Nvidia will keep innovating but now with monopolistic pricing.<p>The $20B will be paid out to investors. Maybe GroqCloud will keep $1B to keep the lights on for a few years.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  Yeah and that would be a lot more relevant if we were talking about, dunno, programming circuits or constructing proofs.<p>Instead we&#x27;re writing english language sentences to be read by humans. Where connotations and implications and other such &quot;unspoken&quot; things absolutely matter.


type: comment
by: MattDaEskimo
text:
  I would agree with this statement before LLMs. Reading manuals can take time, be messy, and are sometimes hard to understand.<p>Now, I can simply ask any LLM to write the command, and understand any following issues or questions.<p>For example, my OS records videos as WEBM. Using the default settings for transforming to MP4 usually fails from a resolution ratio issue. I would be deadlocked using this library.<p>It really isn&#x27;t that hard anymore.


type: comment
by: daymanstep
text:
  HDDs also lose magnetic charge over time, about 1% per year. So you need to periodically spin up and rewrite the data every few years.<p>CD drives however, can store data indefinitely without needing refreshing.


type: comment
by: _blk
text:
  Ooooh that must&#x27;ve struck a nerve. Seems we can&#x27;t post that here without massive loss of reputation. Progressivism != liberalism. That stuff just doesn&#x27;t fare well, even as sarcasm.


type: story
by: QueensGambit
title: Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life
url: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a64815804/crispr-therapy/
text:
  Paper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa2504747" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nejm.org&#x2F;doi&#x2F;full&#x2F;10.1056&#x2F;NEJMoa2504747</a>


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
text:
  (1) Meyers-Brigg is popular among laymen but it is not well-regarded by psychometrists,  you can find so many scales on line that are better.  I suspect personalization would have an impact,  I bet my Copilot would score higher on O-LIFE [1] then it would at baseline.<p>(2) No wonder they lean against &quot;J&quot;,  I mean they are designed to follow instructions and be useful even if their &quot;first law of robotics&quot; guides them against superficially defined forms of harm (won&#x27;t &quot;help me make an atom bomb&quot; but will help you fire up the FORTRAN compiler and get neutronics monte carlo up and running)<p>I hear Pat Gelsinger is trying to build a Christian model and I&#x27;d expect that to be a bit more &quot;J&quot; as was another biblically based model that didn&#x27;t like my fox altar which both Google and Copilot will tell me to &quot;continue to use&quot;.<p>(3) There&#x27;s a viewpoint that it could be harmful for models to &quot;pose&quot; as humans [2] most notably something in the back of my mind bothers me when Copilot (GPT-5 based) says things like &quot;I am happy that you said...&quot; when I know it has no feelings at all...  But on the other hand this could be seen as an act of pragmatics that makes them more relatable,  effective in communication,  useful,  successful in the market, etc.<p>If you believed that,  a model should give refusals at many psychological scale questions or answer &quot;No&quot; to any &quot;Have you ever ... ?&quot; questions.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S0920996405013915" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sciencedirect.com&#x2F;science&#x2F;article&#x2F;abs&#x2F;pii&#x2F;S09209...</a><p>[2] should it say &quot;speak for yourself!&quot; when I ask &quot;don&#x27;t fungi use ergosterol the same way <i>we</i> use cholesterol?&quot;


type: comment
by: Molitor5901
text:
  I think this is a good thing and do not understand the negativity in the comments. We should want systems to function more efficiently, regardless of how that comes about or who does it.


type: comment
by: geor9e
text:
  If this is just a fiction novel world‑building question: The video pixels create a bitstream to bitbang the gpu bus into emitting a 2.4‑gigahertz EMF signal to exploit a flaw in the Wi‑Fi driver.


type: story
by: judemon
title: Email Is Broken – Can Nostr Fix It?
url:
  https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzppna0k8s3az5vx8l2rkfs80p5e46c52fmz938pvf5zrp0zwwtvz0qqsk2mtpd9kz66tn9438ymmtv4hz6ttrv9hz6mn0wd68yttxd9uz66t5e5vhcr


type: story
by: sdrawkcabsti
title: Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand
text:
  I saw a Sudoku game the other day-SUDOKU you know a few numbers-that took 40 seconds to load, and then caused the phone to overheat while in play, while splashing ads here and there. Its sad. That was the very definition to me of &quot;giving into bloat&quot;. Nobody cares about efficiency anymore, and in fact are going in the opposite direction. Substituting bloat for actual programming knowledge, many of these game developers never touched a single ounce of code nor would know how to begin with. Just downloaded some bloaty API and pump out games on an engine that requires 4TB to run (so basically it means spoiled brats are using it) I have given up on computer science which I used to love so much. Anymore its just...disappointing how the world adapted to it. very...very disappointing. All that potential yet it is all wasted on bloat, redundant security and moneygrubbing before the first pixel is ever drawn.


type: comment
by: data-ottawa
text:
  I think a lot of this is just crappy bonus and incentive structures.<p>The execs want to they&#x27;re using+selling AI, the investors want to believe AI can theoretically fire all the workers&#x2F;drop your fixed costs, and the middle managers need to justify that they&#x27;re on it by myopically pushing out features that increase the AI adoption metric.<p>The rushed push of AI features obviously trains your users that your AI is useless crap that just gets in the way. If you&#x27;re going to do it&#x27;s, make it limited and high quality first.


type: comment
by: antonvs
text:
  A big part of what’s impressive about Noether’s theorem is that it’s not at all mysterious. At its core, it’s a mathematical proof that’s possible to fully understand. It doesn’t depend on any magic constants in our universe, or indeed anything in the universe at all. It should apply to all possible universes in any situation that satisfies its conditions. The PLA is similar.<p>Some people see a mystery at the point where these mathematical constructs are applied to our physical universe. Eugene Wigner wrote about “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.”<p>There are explanations for many of the points he raised in that paper. Perhaps the one that remains most unresolved is the question of why universal law or behavior isn’t messier, more chaotic - why it should so often correspond so neatly to physical phenomena. Intuitively, this doesn’t seem surprising to me, but Wigner correctly points out that we don’t really know why this is the case.<p>Answering that gets deeper into philosophy: structural realism, the anthropic principle, and so on. But one possible explanation is an extension of ideas like Noether’s: that the various mathematical constraints collapse the space of possibilities enough to make it likely, if not inevitable, that the universe ends up embodying relatively simple mathematical structures.


type: comment
by: tmn
text:
  There’s nothing fundamentally stopping all currencies from floating against gold and gold being the base asset


type: comment
by: mvkel
text:
  Whenever I see headlines like this, I ask: what happened in 1994?<p>It was post-Cold War and central banks were trimming USD reserves to test alternatives.<p>Then, crises hit (tequila, Asian, Russian, dot com) and the world reconsolidated around USD, thanks to the immense strength of the Federal Reserve and IMF.<p>Similarly now, reserve share is falling as countries hedge sanctions and geopolitics, yet dollar usage in trade, debt, and crisis funding remains dominant, and unless a true full-stack alternative (liquidity, safety, yield, and crisis response) emerges, history will repeat.<p>Makes me wonder: is this just an artifact of the world being relatively &quot;stable&quot; right now?


type: comment
by: 0pteron
text:
  Tried both librewolf and edge and couldn&#x27;t create a new VM via browser. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;create-vm" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;exe.dev&#x2F;create-vm</a> returns a 303 see other, but then no VM is displayed


type: comment
by: WarOnPrivacy
text:
  adding wapo source <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;vIGOE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.ph&#x2F;vIGOE</a>


type: comment
by: zjp
text:
  We do not agree on the system.<p>There is a clear difference between not calling your coworker a slur, which is about prejudice or hatred, and not saying words like &#x27;grooming&#x27;, which is about whether the least reasonable person you know could plausibly find a negative usage of the word and claim it &quot;traumatized&quot; them to hear.<p>&quot;Don&#x27;t use words that dehumanize people&quot; and &quot;don&#x27;t use words that have some negative connotation, somewhere out there&quot; are meaningfully different systems, and I don&#x27;t want to work with people tedious enough to adopt the latter. I don&#x27;t want them to set the corporate or academic culture of our society.


type: comment
by: cootsnuck
text:
  This does make sense given modern understandings of ADHD are that it&#x27;s not about it being a deficit in attention but rather a deficit in self-regulation and executive functioning.


type: comment
by: backtogeek
text:
  This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia.<p>I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.


type: comment
by: robocat
text:
  I live in one - New Zealand is a modern western society.<p>Making marriage the norm would not fix any of the issues I see in my own society, and marriage causes other problems.<p>Many people I know (including solo mums) that I know would love to find someone worthwhile marrying... However they haven&#x27;t (or can&#x27;t) find someone worthwhile, so it is better to remain single than get married into a dangerous relationship.<p>I suspect you are mistaking cause and effect. Marriage isn&#x27;t a cause, it is an outcome.


type: story
by: lostlogin
title: London Eye architect proposes 14-mile tidal power station off Somerset coast
url:
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/london-eye-architect-proposes-14-mile-tidal-power-station-off-somerset-coast


type: comment
by: kleiba
text:
  <i>&gt; this page had the live stream of the talk when it was happening</i><p>As they said, they <i>were</i> on it...


type: comment
by: kelvich
text:
  &gt; I&#x27;m not going to SSH to a random server.<p>Opening a random website likely exposes you to more risk.


type: comment
by: circuit10
text:
  In my experience the common and accepted definition generally matches with the one the OSI uses, people generally use “shared source” or something to refer to things that don’t fit that


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  AI is real and it&#x27;s also hyped. There&#x27;s circular financing and real money involved. Groq has good tech and smart people and Nvidia is also taking a competitor off the board. People who only see one side have a lack of imagination.


type: comment
by: ACCount37
text:
  The man who said the market&#x27;s about to crash this year for the past 40 years finally proven right!


type: comment
by: arcanemachiner
text:
  I have heard great things about Anubis, although I have not needed to use it myself:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TecharoHQ&#x2F;anubis" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;TecharoHQ&#x2F;anubis</a>


type: comment
by: AnthonyMouse
text:
  &gt; I can’t tell if you seriously think a random person writing code in their basement is equivalent to a company that has access to API docs, design specs<p>Are you saying not having those things is dangerous? They should be required to publish all of that for safety-critical devices then.<p>&gt; actual test hardware<p>Why would arbitrary people be unable to buy test hardware? Again something to be addressed if true rather than used as an excuse.<p>&gt; the expertise of a ton of engineers that have worked on the project and understand how it can go wrong<p>Do they not have internet access? If they don&#x27;t even work for the company anymore then that could be the <i>only</i> way to access that information.<p>Literally something which is happening on the linked Reddit page.<p>&gt; not to mention all the regulations and verifications they’re subject to.<p>Regulations are for preventing someone else from harming you. You don&#x27;t need a government incentive to protect you from yourself, you already come with that incentive.


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  Both CPython and distributions on PyPI are more effectively signed than they were before.<p>(I think you already know this, but want to relitigate something that’s not meaningfully controversial in Python.)


type: comment
by: PaulDavisThe1st
text:
  What is the algorithm implementation when it comes to the physical world? Does the implementation extend to remote galaxies? Is the strong force part of the implementation? We don&#x27;t know ... there appears to be no way to know.<p>But even if you could know, it is just demonstrably wrong that the implementation must encode the goal. If you create selection pressure, and have a reproductive system that allows for mutations, then you <i>may end up</i> an &quot;implementation&quot; that encodes the goal implicit in the selection pressure. But anyone who messed around with genetic algorithms or artificial life in the 90s knows that you can trivially start out with no resemblance to &quot;the goal&quot; at all. Where life on earth in aggregate or any specific example of it in particular might be along that pathway is similarly impossible to say.<p>Finally, even defining &quot;the goal&quot; is tricky. Consider the well-documented case of moth evolution in industrial (and later, post-industrial) northern England. Their camouflaging wing tones changed to respond to the typical color on vertical surfaces, twice within a human generation or three. Was &quot;the goal&quot; flexible coloration across generations, or was it &quot;light, then &quot;dark&quot; and then &quot;light&quot; again? That&#x27;s a philosophical question as much as anything ...


type: comment
by: wkat4242
text:
  Oh I wasn&#x27;t aware of this actually being an intended usecase. And yes like the other poster said, pairing it with a phone infrastructure was more common (in the days before these went all IP of course).<p>It was a bit of my OCD being triggered as well. I love neat cabling at work (at home it is chaos funnily enough).


type: comment
by: culi
text:
  interoperability of web features has never been this good and it&#x27;s only getting better<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpt.fyi&#x2F;interop-2025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpt.fyi&#x2F;interop-2025</a><p>other than the Manifest v3 fiasco, we&#x27;re probably living in the golden age of web interop


type: comment
by: aipatselarom
text:
  &gt;[GenZ]s are [Hyperbolic]s<p>&gt;But that doesn&#x27;t imply all [Hyperbolic]s are [GenZ]s<p>Seems clear to me.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  I love the spirit of your comments but IMO it is misguided<p><i>The US used to have values. It was a country that was at least trying to be the good guy.</i><p>This really is all wrong. One might think this based on pitches from different times but all Empires are evil by their definition and America has always been that, always


type: comment
by: unscaled
text:
  It was a cleartext signature, not a detached signature.<p>Edit: even better. It was both. There is a signature type confusion attack going on here. I still didn&#x27;t watch the entire thing, but it seems that unlike gpg, they do have to specify --cleartext explicitly for Sequoia, so there is no confusion going on that case.


type: story
by: xlii
title: Show HN: Ssort – I got sick and vibe coded a stream priority sorter
url: https://github.com/exlee/ssort
text:
  Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;ve been coding for over 20 years, and I&#x27;ve always had this specific annoyance: when I grep or rg through a codebase, the definitions or declarations I actually want to see are often buried in the middle of the stream.<p>I got tired of crafting magic regex sequences to find them, so when I came down with the (actual) flu this week and needed to occupy my brain, I built ssort.<p>It&#x27;s a CLI tool that buffers input and bubbles specific matches (like &quot;struct&quot;, &quot;class&quot;, &quot;func&quot;) to the top while flushing the rest later. It was partially &quot;vibe coded&quot; with Gemini during (ongoing) recovery.<p>It&#x27;s simple, written in Go, and finally solves my search ordering problem. Hope you find it useful.


type: comment
by: wmf
text:
  We&#x27;ve all been waiting for info about the second gen chip. I assume Nvidia saw something privately (good or bad) that triggered this acquisition.


type: comment
by: GeoAtreides
text:
  Not insinuating anything, but when it comes to such a hot topic, and such a hot take, maybe you should disclose you worked at Meta (Instagram) for 3 years. Again, I&#x27;m not accusing anyone of anything, god forbid. Studies usually disclose source of funding and sources of conflict, and people disclose owning stocks when discussing economy, it seems like a good idea.


type: comment
by: SilverElfin
text:
  Not only are they spreading, but existing ones have tolls constantly increased. Some were built with the idea of the toll expiring once the costs of construction were paid off. But instead they just become a new state tax source forever, subsidizing out of control spending.


type: comment
by: crazygringo
text:
  OK, well hopefully you understand now! This part is key:<p>&gt; <i>Now, it seems like you were saying that the text layers are just the pixels from the page moved up to a new layer. I said that I think that&#x27;s surprising.</i><p>That&#x27;s indeed all it is. It may be surprising, but that&#x27;s how it works. Absolutely nothing about the pixels are changed as part of the process of that text layer separation. Later when saving the final PDF there&#x27;s normal lossy compression, same as any JPEG, but the layer process actually preserves the text edges <i>better</i> than JPEG.<p>So I do hope you&#x27;re satisfied now that everything about this is just normal image processing, and that nothing has been destroyed, there&#x27;s no &quot;missing evidence&quot; or anything. And that the whole idea that the layers imply some kind of manipulation or forgery is false. What you&#x27;re seeing is just the scan itself, saved (presumably) at a lower resolution and with the normal image compression scanners produce. The layer separation process is completely non-destructive and doesn&#x27;t manipulate pixels at all.


type: comment
by: tptacek
text:
  Hey, it&#x27;s the original article that compares it to Dead Can Dance. On the plus side, that suggestion did get me to put DCD on while me and my kids played Fishspan last night. They wanted to know why I was playing &quot;spooky dungeon music&quot; and kept saying things like &quot;oh we just got to the desert level boss fight&quot; when new tracks started playing.


type: comment
by: rini17
text:
  If it&#x27;s part of legislation, you can fight it. If the official ideology is equality and racial prejudices &quot;don&#x27;t exist&quot;, then any problems are suppressed and you can&#x27;t do anything.<p>Soviet union was defacto an apartheid when you consider how non-white ethnics were treated in practice. They just were so good at suppressing everything that it was never &quot;an issue&quot;.


type: comment
by: bdangubic
text:
  just do a simple thing - ballpark how many lives of innocent people has America taken, lets just say since WWII. then lets see after you ballpark this whether you still think we are (or ever were) “good guys”


type: comment
by: ThrowawayR2
text:
  &quot;<i>The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.</i>&quot; - George Bernard Shaw


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  Yeah, completely agreed. It just seems like such a funny place to <i>have</i> those kinds of perverted incentives, given that this stuff is actually kind of useful and clearly has market fit!


type: comment
by: dajonker
text:
  At least CPython and CRuby (MRI), the most common implementations of each language, ignore all type hints and they are not able to use them for anything during compile or runtime. So the performance argument is complete nonsense for at least these two languages.<p>Both Python and Ruby (the languages themselves) only specify the type hint <i>syntax</i>, but neither specifies anything about <i>checking</i> the actual types. That exercise is left for the implementations of third party type checkers.


type: comment
by: arlefreak
text:
  One of the best things about the Playdate, in my opinion, is that it’s fairly easy to have a C game running, and as you only need to target a single hardware and resolution, a lot of modern game development woes are removed.<p>This plus its limitation makes it a great platform to learn low level game programming


type: comment
by: xorvoid
text:
  Indeed. I&#x27;d suggest Susskind&#x27;s Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics if someone wants an introduction. He doesn&#x27;t explicitly prove Noether but he demonstrates the connection between symmetry and conservation laws building the intuition to properly appreciate Noether.<p>I&#x27;ve also written a series on Abstract Algebra for computer programmers if you&#x27;re serious about learning it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xorvoid.com&#x2F;galois_fields_for_great_good_00.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xorvoid.com&#x2F;galois_fields_for_great_good_00.html</a>


type: comment
by: MisterMower
text:
  The silver output is very unpredictable. They’re targeting areas with high concentrations of the metals they’re after, and any silver extracted during that activity is incidental. It’s not as simple as “just increase production”.


type: comment
by: wredcoll
text:
  Ok, give me biden. Where are his lists of corruption scandals[1]? His public statements about taking bribes?<p>I&#x27;m not quite sure how to explain this very obvious point: biden and his government was not corrupt in any meaningful sense and trump and his government is extremely corrupt and pretending that they&#x27;re the same is both factually wrong and has the effect of <i>protecting</i> trump and his corruption.<p>The point isn&#x27;t that anyone is above reproach, the point is that all you&#x27;re doing is normalizing the increased awfulness of the republican corruption. And normalizing it means that it is more likely to continue happening and less likely to be punished.<p>If you&#x27;re supposedly unhappy about clinton &quot;corruption&quot; why aren&#x27;t you <i>really</i> mad about trump?<p>This whole &quot;oh everything is the same nothing can improve&quot; attitude is literally a favored tactic of the most corrupt governments. They <i>want</i> you to think that way because it means they&#x27;ll never be held accountable. Any time people start talking about improving things they&#x27;re met with an endless deluge of &quot;oh it&#x27;s all the same nothing can change&quot; which is, of course, a self-fulfilling prophecy.<p>[1] The best the fairly obvious house republican &quot;investigation&quot; into joe biden could manage was some vague statements about his son getting paid for having the last name biden, which may or may not be illegal, but certainly seems unethical, but more importantly, ISN&#x27;T THE SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Like, it is so incredibly obvious that words fail me that the president being corrupt matters A LOT MORE than his son being corrupt. Like, a lot a lot a lot more.


type: comment
by: jeroenhd
text:
  Cloudflare offers more options to paid customers than to free customers, but with basic Cloudflare Rules you can usually configure your firewall and presents to your liking.


type: comment
by: idatum
text:
  This is my experience as well. I have a couple PINE64 devices, a Rock64 (Rockchip RK3328) and a RockPro64 (RK3399). And an N150 device.<p>Both ARM64 devices run headless, make use of GPIO, and have more than enough CPU. In fact, these are stable enough that I run BSDs on them and don&#x27;t bother with Linux.<p>The Rock64 runs FreeBSD for SDR applications (e.g. ADS-B receiver). FreeBSD has stable USB support for RTL-SDR devices.<p>The RockPro64 runs NetBSD with ZFS with a PCIe SSD. NetBSD can handle ARM big.LITTLE well. I run several home lab workloads on this. Fun device.<p>I also have an N150 device running the latest Debian 13 as my main home lab server for home automation, Docker, MQTT broker, etc.<p>In short: SBCs are cheap enough that you can choose more than one, each for the right task, including IoT.


type: story
by: lukecarr
title: Show HN: Litmus – Specification testing for structured LLM outputs
url: https://github.com/lukecarr/litmus
text:
  Over the holidays, I&#x27;ve been working on a small side-project that includes some LLM prompting from the end user. Admittedly, I struggle to keep track of the latest and greatest models, and I&#x27;ve also never bothered to read up on &quot;prompt engineering,&quot; so I built a little testing utility to solve both of these problems at the same time.<p>Enter Litmus. I&#x27;m pitching it as &quot;specification testing&quot; for LLMs. You define test cases (input prompt -&gt; output JSON), as well as your system prompt and structured output (JSON Schema). All of this gets chucked at OpenRouter, and you get some nice terminal output summarising the test results (with a breakdown per-field for any failing cases) to see how well the model performed.<p>Although it&#x27;s framed as an LLM testing tool, it also serves as a model comparator. You can pass the `--model` CLI argument multiple times, and this will let you run the test cases against multiple models, with a comparison table generated in the output at the end for evaluating latency, throughput, tokens, and accuracy (tests passing vs. failing).<p>The GitHub README contains a full example output of what a test report from Litmus looks like.<p>With this, I&#x27;ve managed to get my system prompt for my side-project whittled down to the point where the accuracy is acceptable and it&#x27;s not an exorbitant amount of tokens. I&#x27;ve also found out, through model comparison, that I didn&#x27;t need anywhere near as large of a model as I had originally envisioned.<p>You can grab it on GitHub as a single-file, zero-dependency executable (written in Go). Admittedly, I&#x27;ve not tested the pre-built binaries that are created via GitHub Actions, but there&#x27;s no reason why they shouldn&#x27;t work.


type: comment
by: seg_lol
text:
  Dude is giving what many have wanted for years, the largest of which is a massive reduction in US hegemony. Restarted militarization of Europe, accelerated the expansion of China into Africa. Causing Five Eyes to curtail the flow of intel.<p>But at the same time, utterly burning US soft power with the shuttering of USAID and most likely causing 14M excess child deaths world wide.  Shutting down USAID was a bigger &quot;mistake&quot; than the invasion of Iraq and the blowback will be even larger.<p>Bro just drove the US empire off a cliff. Manufacturing <i>will</i> have to come back if they succeed in burning US currency. Good thing the rich have so much of it, Elon at 1&#x2F;10th is still 40-70B.


type: comment
by: binarymax
text:
  But the materials on the CD eventually break down, sometimes as soon as within 5 years.  So you can look into MDisc, which purports 100 years…but only in theory since the tests are just approximations of what would actually happen.


type: comment
by: mgraczyk
text:
  I didn&#x27;t work there for 3 years (1 year), and I&#x27;m not publishing a study.<p>Should people who post anti social media sentiment disclose that they&#x27;ve never worked on it, have never run experiments on well being, and have never looked at the data?


type: comment
by: DustinBrett
text:
  This worked for me, but I just coded my own personal project in the open and would post its progress. I don&#x27;t think it &quot;took off&quot; in the sense of people using it, but a lot of people became aware of it. It&#x27;s still just a hobby project and I do it for fun.


type: comment
by: derangedHorse
text:
  Groq is not a publicly traded company and has no legal reporting requirements. Sure, their projected revenue numbers they gave to investors dropped from $2b in February to $500m in July, but a later funding round in September showed it wasn&#x27;t significant to how insiders saw the company. Contrary to what this article would imply, their <i>valuation</i> more than doubled from $2.8b last year to $6.9b this year after Groq&#x27;s latest round of investment in September (after their revenue adjustment). Considering they increased revenue from $90m to $500m <i>and</i> got a $1.5b commitment from Saudi Arabia, I really don&#x27;t see this being &#x27;hype&#x27;.<p>src: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;groq-more-than-doubles-valuation-69-billion-investors-bet-ai-chips-2025-09-17&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reuters.com&#x2F;business&#x2F;groq-more-than-doubles-valu...</a>


type: comment
by: woodruffw
text:
  Can you provide a source this? To my understanding, the GnuPG project (and by extension PGP as an ecosystem) considers itself very much alive, even though practically speaking it’s effectively moribund and irrelevant.<p>(So I agree that it’s <i>de facto</i> dead, but that’s not the same thing as formal deprecation. The latter is what you do <i>explicitly</i> to responsibly move people away from something that’s not suitable for use anymore.)


type: comment
by: 827a
text:
  In some ways, this effect can have a positive impact on US citizens; demand for the US dollar requires <i>supply</i> to satisfy the demand. Where does that supply come from? Oftentimes: Printing. The US generally does not make a habit of telling US dollar buyers &quot;no, we don&#x27;t have any US dollars to sell you&quot;, so less demand on the dollar for reserve holdings can have a deflationary impact on its value. This can be combined with lowering interest rates, which creates more domestic demand for dollars, to help balance out the inflationary impacts from that.<p>Many economists take the stance that being the world&#x27;s reserve currency is something of a two-edged sword; a curse that does come with geopolitical advantages, but bundles those advantages with significantly more difficult global financial responsibilities.


type: comment
by: MagnumOpus
text:
  No, this is an artifact of Russian reserves getting frozen in 2022 and autocracies the world round getting more careful about having all their eggs in that basket.<p>The PRC’s SAFE is selling dollars and buying gold in a very covert but absolutely massive fashion, and most likely, so are many other countries in a smaller way.


type: comment
by: koudelka
text:
  the Huygens algorithm is also worth a look<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;conference&#x2F;nsdi18&#x2F;nsdi18-geng.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usenix.org&#x2F;system&#x2F;files&#x2F;conference&#x2F;nsdi18&#x2F;nsdi18...</a>


type: comment
by: PaulHoule
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  I avoid using it at work.  I do write up extensive comments in JIRA (I am 100% satisfied with our specific JIRA) and also in code instead.


type: comment
by: rzerowan
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  I think youre conflating 2 different things, share as a payment currency and share as reserve.<p>Share as a payment&#x2F;trade currency is not going away though it will be greatly reduced especially with CIPS that bypasses SWIFT.Andmost data showing no change is usually from SWIFT - with zero visibility to the volumes in CIPS.<p>Share as reserve is more visibly viz central banks stacking gold and hedging on treasuries , with most tresurie bids coming in from offshore financial hubs likethe Caymans.So could be a whole shellgame there to inflate the volumes.<p>So yeah the $ isnt going away anytime soon (cross border trade still requires it in many places),the exorbitant privilege it enjoyed is.


type: comment
by: Dilettante_
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  &gt;knowing why you are doing what you are doing[...] Computers can only do an imitation of this sort of answer. People stand a chance of answering it.<p>I&#x27;m not following. A computer&#x27;s &quot;why&quot; is a written program, surely that is the most clear expression of its intent you could ask for?


type: comment
by: black3r
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  this picture does show differently in Chrome and Safari, but if I analyze it using the methods you did I arrive at a different result - I don&#x27;t see an iHDR chunk there, instead I see a gAMA chunk and if I remove it with pngcrush it shows normally in Chrome.<p>maybe you linked a different picture?


type: comment
by: p_wood
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  &gt; In my experience pre-commit hooks are most often used to generate a starting commit message.<p>The `prepare-commit-msg` hook is a better place to do that as it gives the hook some context about the commit (is the user amending an existing commit etc.)<p>&gt; To put it even more bluntly, if you are trying to enforce proper formatting, pre-commit hooks are absolutely the wrong tool for the job, as hooks are trivially bypassable, and not shared when cloning a repo, by design.<p>They aren&#x27;t a substitute for server post-receive hooks but they do help avoid having pushes rejected by the server.


type: comment
by: rpcope1
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  The exception (even those are questionable as running plain Debian did not work right on Pi 3B and others when I tried recently) proves the rule. You have to look really hard to find an x86 computer where things don&#x27;t just basically work, the reverse is true for ARM. The power draw between the two is comparable these days, so I don&#x27;t understand why anyone would bother with ARM when you&#x27;ve got something where you need more than minimally powerful hardware.


type: comment
by: bikeshaving
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  I find that asking Claude to develop and Codex to review the uncommitted changes will typically result in high-value code, and eliminate all of Claude’s propensity to perpetually lie and cheat. Sometimes I also ideate with Claude and then ask Claude to get ChatGPT’s opinion on the matter. I started by copy-pasting responses but I found tmux to be a nice way to get rid of the middleman.


