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Yet more reasons to keep using an old rooted Android for as long as possible and contribute to any efforts that make it easier to do so. I suspect the reason Android become dominant was the ease of modding and the community that created, and now they're trying to turn it into another authoritarian walled-garden like Apple. To paraphrase the famous Torvalds: "Google, fuck you!"
"Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
> Actual performance depends heavily on compositor + drivers, and I've found that modern hardware has HUGE performance improvements (especially Intel, AMD, and Apple Silicon via the Asahi driver)
Author’s argument is those hardware improvements could have been had for free with X11 upgrades. I’m not saying it’s a complete argument. But talking about architectural wins sounds like conceding the argument.
This index uses the word “democracy” when it really means “liberalism.” In an amazing use of doublespeak, most of this index is focused on liberal checks on democracy, not democracy itself.
Under a proper understanding of “democracy,” the massive backsliding happened in the 20th century. In Europe, with the advent of the EU, which shifted power away from voters to unelected bureaucracies seated in foreign countries. Or in the U.S. in the mid-20th century when vast power was delegated from the elected President and Congress to an unelected administrative state.
And those in Brussels are all by American giants that want EU bureaucrats to know they take privacy seriously.
That means that for the acquirees that was the only option on the table so GP is likely right.
Not having the UK in the EU makes English a better choice, not a worse one. It was one of those things where the UK had a 'home court advantage'. This is one of the strangest fringe benefits and of course there were some countries that tried to jockey for position but fortunately that didn't go anywhere.
Sure, but what's "essential"?
Not sure if mkeeter's comment has been ninja edited but it says between samples, it doesn't say it is interpolating to generate new samples.
> if it can’t see it can’t drive and ironically that’s when it reverts back to human control.
That seems to be better than that try to continue to run the vehicle. What would you expect it to do?
If it is foggy I just don't drive, anybody that expects me to drive when conditions are bad can go and drive themselves.
The interesting thing is this isn't Grok generating an image for an X user to distribute. It's Grok–and by extension xAI-SpaceX–directly distributing potential CSAM.
Right. If anything, this "tiny part" has pretty much taken over Python and turned it from OSS BDFL language into a company-backed one (like Erlang, Scala, C#).
> Salesforce has lost half its market cap in the last ~year
They're also at record revenue [1].
[1] https://investor.salesforce.com/news/news-details/2026/Sales...
Sometimes we trust the wrong people, sometimes we love the wrong people, sometimes the wrong people luck into incredible wealth and downstream power from said wealth. Most of life is luck. It is a gift when someone shows us who they are, removing any doubt or ambiguity.
> Where I live, in EU, parking meters even take cards.
Unfortunately, a more accurate way of putting it is: stuff takes cards in lieu of coins. Like, where I live (also EU), ticket machines in buses and trams have gradually been upgraded over the past decade to accept cards, and then to accept only cards.
It's a ratchet. Hidden inflation striking again. Cashless is cheaper to maintain than cash-enabled, so it pretends to be a value-add at first, but quickly displaces the more expensive option. Same with apps, which again, are cheaper to maintain than actual payment-safe hardware.
It's near impossible to reverse this, because to do that, you have to successfully argue for increasing costs - especially that inflation quickly eats all the savings from the original change, so you'd be essentially arguing to make things more expensive than the baseline.
The key issue uv solved wasn't dependencies, it was environments.
I used to have hundreds of venv folders scattered around my machine. These days I use "uv run" or "uvx" or "uv run --with boto3 python" and uv handles all of the bookkeeping for me.
> yes it does, and it's annoying as all hell. Dirt, sun, etc all pop an alert about degraded performance
As with all things FSD, it does sometimes and not others. I've driving my parents' Tesla with FSD engaged and it did complain when the windshield got dirty but didn't say anything when it drove into fog. (I took over manually.)
> it doesn't have a built-in betrayal baked into the structure
Astral was founded as a private company. Its team has presumably worked hard to build something valuable. Calling their compensation for that work 'betrayal' is unfair.
Community-based software development sounds nice. But with rare exception, it gets outcompeted by start-ups. Start-ups work, and they work well. What is problematic is the tech giants' monopoly of the acquisition endpoint. Figuring out ways for communities to compete with said giants as potential acquirers is worth looking into–maybe public loans to groups of developers who can show (a) they're committed to keep paying for the product and (b) aren't getting kicked back.
I didn't see more details in the article, but my guess is they were taking and averaging multiple temperature reads across the body. That is, core temp should only be within a narrow range like you say, but fingertip temp will vary much more widely.
All in all I found this to be a very strange article. If you just look at the data, I think a reasonable conclusion is that modern gear is vastly better at its function than old time Mallory gear. It's much lighter and keeps the wearer much warmer than old gear. But the whole tone of the article is about "myth busting" and how there haven't been really that many improvements in gear. I'm just looking at their charts and data and wondering what they're smoking.
Does anyone else remember when someone ported kill to the DOOM engine? So you could fire up DOOM and kill processes using different guns for different kill levels?
I don't know why but this reminded me of that.
Salesforce has lost half its market cap in the last ~year. Spending time and money to acquire a calendar scheduler shows just how badly they have lost the plot.
I know this is an HN meme but can someone look at https://www.getclockwise.com/overview and explain why an internal team couldn't build this in a couple of weeks? And it's not like Salesforce is lacking engineers - they employ 83,000 (!!) people globally.
The web sites seized are listed in the DOJ release.[1]
One of them is archived. It seems to be primarily about Albania.[2][3] Albania and Iran are not currently getting along; they severed diplomatic relations in 2022. This seems to be from an anti-Albania organization. Looks like an ordinary extremist site. Unclear why the US DOJ is involved with that one. Doesn't seem to involve the US directly.
One of the other sites is associated with the Stryker cyber attack, so that shutdown makes sense.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-i...
[2] https://justicehomeland.org/
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20260119141559/https://justiceho...
Other than directly cancelling a competing product, it's usually to acquire the staff. Bit like the football transfer market, but you can buy Marcus Rashford separately without having to buy the whole of Man U.
I don't think so. Colin Powell sold it and he had a stellar reputation. A lot of people found it very hard to believe that he would stake his reputation on this if it wasn't true. It wasn't, and he rightly never recovered from that. His UNSC presentation will go into the history books as the thing he is remembered for.
What’s exactly the issue? What’s left to do?
I wonder how effective the UK "green flash" plates (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/road-to-zero-in-sight-as-...) have been at EV marketing. I'm making a habit of looking out for them since I'm considering getting an EV myself.
Nobody on our street has one. I wonder if I get one it will spark a trend.
> let's redesign our cities to be car free
Or, let's not spend trillions of dollars on a behavioural experiment and get pedestrian safety with now-proven kit.
> Tell that to the 1200+ civilians murdered, raped, mutilated and burned alive on October 7th.
It's pretty clear that a substantial number of them were killed by the Israeli military in the course of its deliberate war crime of indiscriminate attack with civilians in the line of fire under the "Hannibal Directive". Investigations by Israeli and Western media and numerous Israeli (both military sources and civilian witnesses) accounts support this.
Its gotten relatively little play in US media specifically, but US media acts as a propaganda arm of the IDF and the Israeli government as much (even more, arguably) than it does for the domestic military and police forces, ignoring damaging stories, and when it can't completely ignore them using exonerative and passive voice framing to avoid attributing effects to the actors and actions causing them.
Ironic to see this on the front page just next to the report about Waymos being 13 times safer than humans.
Related blogpost: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/03/break-paxos.html
I have, and I have the same objection. Do you have a response to it other than “change society to 15 years ago”?
Salesforce seems to be doing a shutdown of many of their "pre-AI" products.[1]
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/controlled-demolition-salesfo...
"In the crashes that ODI has reviewed, the system did not detect common roadway conditions that impaired camera visibility and/or provide alerts when camera performance had deteriorated until immediately before the crash occurred."
Does it not detect them at all, or fail to deal with detected sensor degradation adequately? Does "Full Self Driving (assisted)" slow down under conditions of poor visibility?
Does Tesla even look for the road surface? One big advantage of those up-top LIDAR units is that you have a good scan of the pavement ahead. If you're not sensing flat pavement ahead, don't go there. That's basic. Vision-only systems, going back to Mobileye, have been overly dependent on looking for known kinds of obstacles. Original Mobileye could only detect car rear ends.
To prevent royalty. That is literally the reason. To prevent family dynasties.
Anecdotally, both from riding in them and walking/driving next to/around them, this feels obvious. They never get distracted. Sure, they sometimes make mistakes, but the mistakes are never "I didn't see that". They see better than humans in all cases (where they operate). They react faster than humans.
The one case where they hit a child, it was because the child jumped in front of the car. And they showed that they hit the child at a lower speed than a human would have because of the reaction time.
I would rather be in an area where only Waymo's are allowed than an area where they are banned.
My guess is that the $2/user/month thing is an average across all of the users, and the fact that you use YouTube enough to even consider to pay to go ad free puts you in the much higher range of dollars-per-month users such that $14/month may even lose them money.
>Then you can still pretty much "stick to cash" by withdrawing the whole thing on your payday.
Not if you want to make a purchase beyond a small amount, like $500 or $1000. Then it has to be through some fucking bank or CC.
A vaguely threatening letter is usually all it takes
It’s as if British people belong to their government.
Legally speaking, British people are subjects, not citizens.
Here's the deal. You'd find it all works a lot better if you actually were a member of the HN community who posted links to other people's content and participated in discussion.
dang is doing some kind of shadowbanning on outsiders who never take an interest in HN until one day they suddenly realize that their odds of getting more than 10 views are better than Product Hunt. Trouble is that these people don't understand what they are up against and they don't give up but they keep trying to post over and over again. dang really ought to make something that is more straight with people.
“you have to address the root cause: delivery workers are being made to go too fast by their bosses”
This is half nonsense. Yes, there is pressure for efficiency. But there will always be pressure for efficiency. Complaining about it—particularly as an regulator—isn’t a real solution, it’s passing the buck.
The solution is to split the fine between the employee and employer. Have both double with each cumulative violation. And yes, at a certain point, it becomes a criminal matter because it involves someone willfully putting New Yorkers at risk to earn their paycheque.
The Law of Supply & Demand. As immutable as F=ma.
> don't see how reporting on the financial results of the company to its owners on a quarterly basis is a distraction
I invest in mostly private companies. I’m be pretty furious if I learned those executives spend a material part of every quarter making pretty presentations for me.
> Does this impact the operations of the business, not a whole lot
Every public-company CEO and CFO I know basically has to drop what they’re doing for a week, sometimes two, a quarter when it comes to earnings. Preparing reports and releases. Talking to big investors and bank analysts.
You know until today I dismissed all those concerns about uv being a commercial product but now I am very concerned.
Microsoft has been a reasonable steward of github and npm considering everything but I don't feel so good about OpenAI this makes me reconsider my use of uv and Python as a whole because uv did a lot to stop the insanity. Not least Microsoft has been around since 1975 whereas I could picture OpenAI vanishing instantly in a fit of FOMO.
>People find their ring cameras too useful, businesses love cloud based security camera systems, facial recognition and cloud backup are expected features of every phone's photo app, courts consider recording integral to first amendment expression.
As long as the recordings aren't centrally stored and sold in bulk, and sold to brokers and governments, that would still be ok.
A big problem now both internally to a company and externally is that official support channels are being replaced by chatbots, and you really have no option but to trust their output because a human expert is no longer available.
If I post a question to the internal payment team's forum about a critical processing issue and some "payments bot" replies to me, should I be at fault for trusting the answer?
People keep saying this and this case from 2000 is the one instance anybody has been able to cite. Most police agencies use standardized domain-specific written exams --- the PELLETB, NTN, IOS --- that are both not general cognitive exams and have no ceiling score.
This really seems like one of those too-perfect Internet myths that just isn't ever going to die. I think the balance of evidence is that if you picked any police department in the US out at random, it would have the opposite of the incentive claimed in your comment, and no ceiling on general cognitive ability whatsoever.
Not sure I understand your example. If you always wait for the new version of a product to release the following year then you are never going to buy anything.
I'm sure I'm missing some context but what is Atari's role here exactly? Isn't OpenTTD an independent and fully legal project? What is Atari's basis for asking for a "compromise"?
Or is it just the case that the project maintainers got paid off?
... reminds me of the time I was in Quebec and there was a Montréal Canadiens game near my hotel and there was a fan taking up most of the elevator because he was dressed up like a player, mask and all!
The GAO is part of the legislative branch, not the executive. Makes that quite a bit harder.
This is more like the UK fining Parisian bars that courier alcohol to under-18s in the UK.
Police, and government agents in general, should have no expectation of privacy when doing their job, period. If you have to hide your face then I don't trust you. And yes, that applies to all of ICE.
As feedback to the author, I made the same mistake initially. It was only around halfway through when I realized the voters in question didn't necessarily care what they were voting for in the usual preferential or political sense, only that they were trying to have any consensus at all.
Looking back at the page again from the top, I see the first paragraph references Paxos, which is a clue to those who know what that is, but I think using "There’s a committee of five members that tries to choose a color for a bike shed" as the example, which is the canonical case for people arguing personal preferences and going to the wall for them at the expense of every other rational consideration, threw me back off the trail. I'd suggest perhaps the sample problem being something as trivial as that in reality, but less pre-loaded with the exact opposite connotation.
One language in the same category to another in the same category, yes. "Category" here being something roughly like "scripting, compiled imperative, functional". However my experience is that if you want to translate to another category and the target developer has no experience in it, you can expect very bad results. C++ to Haskell is among the most pessimal such translations. You end up with the writing X in Y problem.
In some sense the geographical concentration problems are worse with LEO satellite because LEO satellite has to cover most of the world which is mostly ocean, mostly uninhabitable, mostly uninhabited. Most of the market though is people who live in suburban and urban areas that are difficult to serve with that technology and where you are going to face pricing pressures because you have cable, fiber, DSL and wireless alternatives.
Even in the long term relatively difficult rural customers are going to get fiber and erode the market. My situation is a bit difficult because my power lines go through a wet meadow that was beaver habitat [1] but I am told they will be getting me connected in the next few months and I can ditch my fiber-to-the-node.
I think the bull case for Starlink is they get Starship working and that improves their cost structure. On the other hand, the rest of the world doesn't trust Musk and there is going to be a lot of surplus competition which is politically motivated just as there is for GPS except the economics will brutal.
I've read that China badly wants its own Starlink but it's having a hard time penciling it out because: (i) the world doesn't trust China any more than it trusts the US, (ii) China doesn't have the "Atlas Shrugged" underinvestment we have so there is a lot more fiber in places that are moderately rural [2] and (iii) China has vast amounts of ultra-rural territory but there are only so many people that live there.
[1] ... before they cut down all the trees and presumably, like any other loggers, blamed the environmentalists for shutting them down
[2] ... not to mention China developed many compact villages with moderate-large apartment buildings in many rural areas that are easy to serve
'the concept of “broken software” had been replaced by the concept of “an inadequate specification,”' represents a fundamental misunderstanding which has been a source of trouble in the industry for a long time.
That is, a lot of "broken software" has always been rooted in "an inadequate/incorrect specification" If problems in the spec are discovered up front they are cheap to fix, the further along you go in development or deployment, the more expensive they are to fix. AI doesn't change that. Like maybe with AI it is 20% faster to fix [1] across the board but it is still more expensive to fix things late -- you might think you are done with waterfall but waterfall is not done with you!
[1] My 20% is pessimistic but if you think you are 10x as productive with AI at putting functionality in front of customers in the long term with a universal scope I believe you've got the same misunderstanding about product life cycle that I'm talking about
Restarting Fieldwide Shutdown for Middle East Oil and Gas Producers is Not Easy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443238 - March 2026
is a resource I found helpful.
But is it a winning one?
Qualified immunity tends to chime in.
It's complicated.
The obvious path is the Grok path. That is, anybody with a big pile of money can read some papers and hire some people and make a model which is at or near the frontier. Beating current models by a hair at current benchmarks is not as hard as it looks because you will be building the system to beat those benchmarks from the beginning. [1]
Six months or a year later people will start to realize that you're not really improving or making progress though because that's something entirely different.
Now real advances in the long term are going to come out of smaller companies working on things like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamba_(deep_learning_architect... [2]
Like the frontier models are just too expensive to do the experimental work which will lead to advances in the science, the science is going to advance through work on little models whereas companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are very committed to maximize the performance of their existing systems in the short term and it is the intense competition that will keep them in an "Innovator's Dilemma" situation where their customers are going to reject anything really new which doesn't perform the same. [3]
[1] ... and even if you don't cheat the model will cheat for you
[2] ... not necessarily that one in particular, but something like that
[3] companies like Microsoft that "disrupt themselves" ignoring their customers are afraid of an Innovator's Dilemma situation but are paradoxically not stuck in it because they are monopolies who can force their customers to do something they don't like.
I've been WFH for 6 years since my local office permanently closed during Covid.
It's getting lonely. :(
It was funny but when we switched from my failing Alienware laptop to a new M4 Mac Mini my wife was absolutely furious at the ad saturation until I switched her from Safari to Firefox and installed an ad blocker. I guess I could have installed one in Safari if she registered an Apple account but that's something she'd feel no need for at all.
(e.g. as maligned as it is, the Microsoft account really is one account you can use to log into your computer, your XBOX, and all sorts of things. The Apple account is the center of your digital life on iOS but on MacOS it's kinda... tacked on)
Using random values defeats the purpose of the branch predictor. The best branch predictor for this test would be one that always predicts the branch taken or not taken.
Can pf actually shape at speeds above 4 gbps?
Great that I keep using traditional Python tools.
Reacting to the story itself, I've been on the same thought line but came to the opposite conclusion. Precisely because the generation of the code is unreliable, one of the metrics we will be using in the future to determine the value of the code is precisely how much it has been tested against the real world. Real-world tested code will always be more valuable than what has just been instantiated by an AI, and that extends indefinitely into the future because no AI will ever be able to completely deal with integrating with all the other AI-generated code in the world on the first try. That is, as AIs get better at generating code, we will inevitably generate more code with them, and then later code must deal with that increased amount of code. So the AIs can never "catch up" with code complexity because the problem gets worse the better they get.
This story is itself the explanation of why we're not going to go this route at scale. It'll happen in isolated places for the indefinite future. But farmers are going to buy systems, generated by AIs or not, that have been field tested, and will be no more interested in calling new untested code into being for their own personal use on their own personal farm than they are today.
The limiting factor for future code won't be how much AI firepower someone has to bring to bear on a problem but how much "real world" there is to test the code against, because there is only going to be so much "real world" to go around.
(Expanded on: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/what_value_code_in_ai_era/ ).
Easier said than done, during this week many German regions are on general strike, thus everyone just switched back to their cars, complaining about unions, their power in infrastructure and so on.
Naturally most of those cars are combustion based, because it is still very expensive to buy a new EV, and even used ones are more expensive than new combustion cars, and there is the whole question of how damaged the battery will be anyway.
It’s just pulling forward future gains while shrinking the time horizon, if the world speeds the transition to renewables and electrification from this. Short term gain for faster irrelevance.
Oil to $200/barrel please, as long as possible, same with LNG.
Edit: Iran attack wipes out 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity for up to five years, QatarEnergy CEO says - https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/03/19/iran-attack-... - March 19th, 2026
Looks like the global clean energy transition will be getting back up to speed.
Point 2 nowadays feels like high performance when compared to Electron crap.
Really beautiful photography. The play of light and contrasts are captured so well. Favourited!
>energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence
That would be the stupidest takeaway
In probably another year or two I expect the metrics will show that it is a positive turn off. Unfortunately we're on the cutting edge of this particular movement and there's still a lot more "value" to be "extracted" from the general public before they all get wise to it too.
The next problem we'll face after that, with the 1-2 years newer AIs of the time, is that the default LLM voice is just a particular affectation created by the training, not "the voice of LLMs" or anything. It's trivial to kick them into a different style. I just used AI to do some architecture design documents this week, and prompted it to first look at about 1-2k words that I wrote myself all organically for the style. The good news is the resulting documents almost, but admittedly, not quite entirely, lack that LLM style. They're still prone to more bullet lists than I use directly; then again, in this context they were fairly appropriate, so I'm not too triggered by the result.
The bad news is, that's all it takes to make AI writing that isn't in that default tone. It's not that hard. Students cheating on essays have already figured it out, the spammers really can't be that far behind. Probably more stuff than we realize is already AI output, it's just the stragglers and those who don't really care (which I imagine is a lot of spammers, after all) who are still failing to tweak the style. They'll catch up as soon as engagement falls off.
Mostly not wanting to pay Sun for Java Embedded licenses.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-sun-wanted-money-for-andro...
The problem isn't ART per se, embedded Java vendors also have their own internal implementations, but the big difference is that they pay for their licensing and support standard Java.
For you.
Here are two screenshots of the website taken a moment ago on iPhone 15 Pro Max:
Sounds exactly like what a bot would say, especially an account created "14 hours ago" to just post 3 similarly empty comments:
> "knock-on effect of this war is that it may cost double or more than double to replace all these weapons because all the mineral demand is going to go way up
It's a lazy assumption that the motivation for war is profit, but in this case ...
When I first read this headline I thought I'd wandered into the Warner Bros. office where writers go to pitch their scripts!
My MP3 "mix tape" doesn't play ads.
Indeed, the author of the article even misses on xBase and BASIC, two other famous languages without semicolons.
I want to do something like this for work, except instead of Civ it's discussing a topic, and instead of Civ it's email. Unfortunately, everyone seems addicted to Slack, as it minimises the time it takes for everyone to misunderstand each other.
Eventually it will be only prompts and zero programing as we know it, with a quarter of team sizes, the chosen ones.
Another 30-40% just didn't get caught because the reviewers also used LLM in their "reviews"
You shouldn't pick up fights with them, even if they run out of ammo, they'll just use the stick up their ass as a backup weapon.
I'll show myself out of the Citadel.
Agreed, greed knows no boundaries.
Hacker News was born out of the VC ecosystem, but was never about startups, they were like 10% of the content, or less
Not entirely.
For some problems, it is. Web front-end development, for example. If you specify what everything has to look like and what it does, that's close to code.
But there are classes of problems where the thing is easy to specify, but hard to do correctly, or fast, or reliably. Much low-level software is like that. Databases, file systems, even operating system kernels. Networking up to the transport layer. Garbage collection. Eventually-consistent systems. Parallel computation getting the same answer as serial computation. Those problems yield, with difficulty, to machine checked formalism.
In those areas, systems where AI components struggle to get code that will pass machine-checked proofs have potential.
I think this is where you’ll define the company culture. Maybe in the first 10, but certainly in the first 100. If you want to design the corporate culture, this is where it starts.
Agencies have switched to SaaS products and integrations via serverless or low code tooling, exactly because there is already too much of the same.
Most of the economically valuable software written is pretty unique, or at least is one of few competitors in a new and growing niche. This is because software that is not particularly unique is by definition a commodity, with few differentiators. Commodity software gets its margins competed away, because if you try to price high, everybody just uses a competitor.
So goes the AI paradox: it's really effective at writing lots and lots of software that is low value and probably never needed to get written anyway. But at least right now (this is changing rapidly), executives are very willing to hire lots of coders to write software that is low value and probably doesn't need to be written, and VCs are willing to fund lots of startups to automate the writing of lots of software that is low value and probably doesn't need to be written.
Now, from the people who brought you Pocket.
Could they please stop integrating services into Firefox? Thank you.
I hope the EU cracks down on them like they did with Apple.