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It means people get to enjoy more indie games with good designs, instead of having FOMO for cool graphics without substance.
And not just Airbus. Very quietly there is a lot of stuff being moved out of the US and away from MS, AWS, Google etc. Trump has absolutely no idea what he's doing and comes across as the proverbial bull in a China shop.
History books a hundred years hence will have some choice things to say about how we all stood by and let this happen.
Missed the sarcasm. But FWIW, all three are legitimate threat actors for a strategic airplane manufacturer.
No, project 2025 is very much about centralizing federal power, securing and further entrenching Republican partisan power, and dismantling and/or restructuring federal institutions that are perceived as being particularly useful in implementing priorities the Right does not share so thar even should the attempt to enteench Republican institutional advantage not secure a permanent majority, the federal government will have been selectively institutionally crippled so that gearing up to do things Republicans would prefer not be done will take longer than it takes to bring Republicans back into power to stop it.
Its very much about centralizing power while very carefully restructuring capacities, not decentralizing power.
NIST campus status: Due to elevated fire risk and a power outage for the Boulder area, the DOC Boulder Labs campus is CLOSED on December 19 for onsite business and no public access is permitted; previously approved accesses are revoked.[1]
WWV still seems to be up, including voice phone access.
NIST Boulder has a recorded phone number for site status, and it says that as of December 20, the site is closed with no access.
NIST's main web site says they put status info on various social media accounts, but there's no announcement about this.
> * as a French person, I'm used to restaurant menus being, at best, a few words written on paper ; and sometimes there's no physical support and the menu is only provided orally by the waiter*
Plenty of restaurants in Japan are omakase in various forms. Sometimes this means high-end sushi. Often, that you sit down and are served the chef's special. (Particularly true in the towns.)
He's running for governor of California. He's apparently having trouble getting 6,000 signatures or $5000 to get on the ballot, so he's probably not a serious candidate.
There is no such thing as anonymity. With the number of bits required to ID a person and the fact that you are leaking such bits all the time you can simply forget about anonymity.
Many people online seem to think that they are anonymous and so were emboldened to do stuff that they might not have done if they had realized this. They continued to feel extremely good at this right up until the knock on the door.
No reports are from UFODAP sensors.[1]
UFODAP supposedly has about a hundred automatic cameras around the world, mostly in the US. You can buy the hardware. It's a pan-tilt-zoom camera under a plastic dome, with hardware that looks for moving objects in the sky, photographs, and tracks them. Analysis software recognizes birds and aircraft. If two sites connected to the same control program lock onto a target, they can triangulate. It's possible to use ADS-B data for filtering out known aircraft. The hardware is good enough to detect and track the International Space Station.
But they don't see to be catching much.
Incidentally, hobbyists have been flying triangular jet-powered high speed drones since at least 2017.[2] Watch the video. That would look like a UFO if it wasn't a clear day and the pilot wasn't making low passes. Many of the "flying triangles" are probably something like that.
Russia, Ukraine, and Iran all use something similar, in various sizes.
I want to see what the EU anti-trust organization will make of this.
Didn't know about that.
No, it clearly has a gloating tone to it. 'A reverse engineer's candy store' is clearly meant as a slur.
When in fact TP-Link is doing the right thing with keeping older versions available. So this risks some higher up there thinking 'fuck it, we can't win, might as well close it all off'.
They can come to Portugal, we don't do Chromebooks, or to most European countries for that matter.
Unless all around the world is the usual "world === USA".
> the whole idea of IP law is that the true value of the underlying property can only be realized if the property owner has the power of the state to force others to negotiate for it
You're describing property in general. Not just IP.
> Apple was told "you can charge for your IP"
It's a bit misleading to use quotes in this case, given you aren't quoting the court.
I still have a tiny DOS binary (x86 Asm) that I wrote decades ago for turning plaintext ASCII files into PDFs, for those annoying use-cases where the former isn't accepted but the latter is. It's only a few hundred bytes, with the majority being data to be copied verbatim into the output file.
> number of people have lost their lives, which keeps the scale of the tipster's personal losses in perspective
I disagree. The shooter’s victims fell to a random act of violence. (As in the victims were randomly selected. The shooter didn’t randomly occur.)
It is tragic. But it was a crime committed by one man, now dead, who targeted the innocent.
The tipster is more than innocent. He is a hero. His eviction is not a random act of cruelty, but a result of his heroism. And his assailants aren’t a monster, whom we don’t expect to strive for goodness, but us.
We have a full page on the methodology we used! Let me know if you’d like access to the dataset we created for this.
I'm not sure if you realise that those two sentences sound like 100% verbatim LLM output, or am I actually replying to a bot and not a human.
In this case though, the coverup is likely not even worse than the crime.
I'd be shocked if it were because the owners now this is a fragile thing and one word from Dan or Tom that this is or was the case and half the participants here would walk. The owners are more than likely well aware of that risk and are not going to destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Check out the treatment PG (and Garry Tan) got in the thread about defending YC's effective investment into Installmonetizer for a good example of news.ycombinator.com's response to such crap.
> I don't see the word powerpoint anywhere in https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image-Layered,
The word "powerpoint" is not there, however this text is:
“The following scripts will start a Gradio-based web interface where you can decompose an image and export the layers into a pptx file, where you can edit and move these layers flexibly.”
I vibe-coded a prototype Python library just to see how it could work - left you an issue comment about that here: https://github.com/fastserial/lite3/issues/6#issuecomment-36... - code is at https://github.com/simonw/lite3/tree/conformance-suite/lite3...
(Update: I used the same process to add a JavaScript library as well: https://github.com/simonw/lite3/tree/conformance-suite/lite3...)
https://www.brightsaver.org/ is the US advocacy group advocating for balcony solar in the US
Only the poorly-written ones, which are unfortunately the majority of them.
One of the most interesting coding agents to run locally is actually OpenAI Codex, since it has the ability to run against their gpt-oss models hosted by Ollama.
codex --oss -m gpt-oss:20b
I think he is referring to capability, not architecture, and say that NB is at the point that it is suggestive of the near-future capability of using GenAI models to create their own UI as needed.
NB (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) isn't the first major-vendor LLM-based image gen model, after all; GPT Image 1 was first.
> Imagine an election where candidates are liable for the veracity of every claim they make, with immediate penalties to their candidacy, and only verified facts are allowed in ads
You cease to have a democracy. The real power sits with the verifier in that system.
The Titanic disaster was a confluence of many instances of bad luck. Including the idea that if the lookout had noticed the berg a few seconds later, it wouldn't have sunk.
(Because then it would have hit the berg head on, crushing the front, but not ripping most of the side open.)
If the Promptty name is riffing off of Ghostty, that doesn't make sense as "tty" is a specific terminal pun.
It’ll be interesting to see how they deal with the aging components and for how long will they remain in operation as new modules are added. The technical problems are real and LEO is an unforgiving environment - stuff breaks, wears, reacts with highest wisps the atmosphere, and so on.
On the bright side, Russia will have unique learning from extending the lifetime of the lab based on the first parts that were installed.
CLI based development predates IDEs for a couple of decades, and we moved away for very good reasons.
> I use an 11-year-old machine
What OS are you running that can't run modern versions of browsers, and on what hardware?
Current Chrome runs on Windows 10, which came out 9.5 years ago but was intended to run on older computers, and macOS Monterey, which runs on Macs from ~2014-2015 depending on the model. But even Big Sur before that, the most recent version of Chrome which runs on that is Chrome 138 from just 6 months ago, and that doesn't seem old enough that you need to build userscript hacks.
I'm really curious what you're actually running. Generally speaking, an 11-year-old desktop should be able to run the current browser, and if not, a very recent one.
This ambiguity resulted in some very funny drama on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/nws.noaa.gov/post/3ma754dbtuj2t
What is the value of Wikipedia? Hard to value public goods, because the value of HN comes from its mods. I suppose if one must, start at whatever gains YC has seen on its investments during HN's lifetime, with some discount for the fact that ZIRP is unlikely to occur again and the future will not be like the past wrt the startup ecosystem. There is no guarantee a new owner would cultivate the same forum participants who might consider being a founder or employee of a YC portfolio company. The product is YC portfolio company stock; HN is machine to leverage curious, driven people as fuel for VC gains, with the consumer excess being brain tickles for the rest of us.
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/pulling-back-the-curtain-...
> For anyone over the age of 16 this comment is a loud expression of your political views.
I'm curious as to what you think those political views are, because I strongly agree with what sidcool wrote (even if they didn't mean it the way I interpreted it) and I disagree with you.
I think that Reddit "is a biased cesspool of partisanship", but very much in both directions. Many subreddits are so wholly hard right or hard left that I think they're almost caricatures of themselves. And even for subreddits without a hard political bent, they are often the very definition of an echo chamber - they are great places to go where you want everyone to agree with you and you can see people who disagree with you get downvoted to oblivion. And, importantly, this is literally by design based on how subreddits are created and moderated.
I have rarely (not never, but rarely) made a comment that took a somewhat nuanced opinion where I wasn't heavily downvoted. And, contrarily, I have made similar comments on HN where, if I wasn't particularly upvoted, I received what felt like fair dialogue and back-and-forth with other commenters.
All that said, I still use Reddit frequently and find it frequently interesting, sometimes informative, and often pretty hilarious.
If it's isolated from the Internet, no.
Graeme Wood (always a good read) on this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/conspiracy-rumors-...
The release is supposedly incomplete.
US justice department will not release all Epstein files by Friday deadline, official says - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg9plrkl8no | https://archive.today/htvaI - December 19th, 2025
> Part of that collapse was a result of a phenomenon where financiers would force technology companies to stop innovating.
Here's the thing: not every company needs to do deep tech innovation, and not every company should.
The financiers were almost certainly correct that iRobot would make more money focusing on selling vacuum cleaners, not developing military/space robots on the side. Building fancy military and space robots is fun and cool, but if it's not producing profit or clearly leading to better consumer products that make money, then it's not the right company to be doing it. Plenty of other companies will do it better -- it makes sense to have one set of companies relying on grants and defense contracts that innovate and that do fundamental research and aren't taking investor money, and another set of companies that take lots of investor money and focus on consumer products without expensive R&D. The idea that they have to be the same companies is silly.
The real story here is not about shutting down R&D -- that makes sense. It's about whether you think the FTC/Lina Khan was right to oppose Amazon acquiring iRobot, and whether they bear any responsibility for what happened after.
> Thing is, if you slash research
And if you dump your defence contracts you may have trouble paying for research.
> understand your perspective about the technical value of an exploit
Going out on the world’s sturdiest limb and saying u/tptacek knows the technical and trading sides of exploits. (Read his bio.)
> Let's grant our GPT an infinite context-window.
No. If you have infinite memory, you get into decidability issues, which the author does. Lots of people have been down this rathole. Penrose is probably the most prominent. It doesn't help.
The real issues are combinatoric. How hard is this? Is there an upper bound? Is this one of those many problems where the worst case limit is exponential but the average limit is much lower? Or where a "good enough" solution is far cheaper computationally than a perfect one. The Traveling Salesman problem is the classic example, but it comes up in other optimization contexts, such as the simplex method of linear programming.
Setting 2 is still pretty generous. It means "Kernel does not allow allocations that exceed swap + (RAM × overcommit_ratio / 100)." It's not a "never swap or overcommit" setting. You can still get into thrashing by memory overload.
We may be entering an era when everyone in computing has to get serious about resource consumption. NVidia says GPUs are going to get more expensive for the next five years. DRAM prices are way up, and Samsung says it's not getting better for the next few years. Bulk electricity prices are up due to all those AI data centers. We have to assume for planning purposes that computing gets a little more expensive each year through at least 2030.
Somebody may make a breakthrough, but there's nothing in the fab pipeline likely to pay off before 2030, if then.
It's interesting that Rod Brooks has been erased from the history of Roomba. He's not even mentioned in the Wikipedia article.
I didn't notice any higher latency than with my Xbox one controller!
Which AI providers have access to real-time Twitter data?
I gave up understanding GPU names a long time ago. Now I just hope the efficient market hypothesis is at least moderately effective and as long as I buy from a reputable retailer the price is at least mostly reflective of performance.
They've hyperoptimized all these marketing buzzwords to the point that I'm basically forced into the moral equivalent of buying GPU by the pound because I have no idea what these marketers are trying to tell me anymore. The only stat I really pay attention to is VRAM size.
(If you are one of those marketers, this really ought to give you something to think about. Unless obfuscation is the goal, which I definitely can not exclude based on your actions.)
Very cool, like the ram air turbine that deploys on aircraft in the event of a power loss.
The Chomsky Hierarchy isn't the right way to think about, in fact the Chomsky paradigm probably held back progress in language technology over the past 70 years.
In the Kuhnian sense, Syntactic Structures was the vanguard of a paradigm shift that let linguists do "normal science" in terms of positing a range of problems and writing papers about them. It was also useful in computer science for formally defining computer languages that are close enough to natural languages that people find them usable.
On the other hand, attempts to use the Chomsky theory to develop language technology failed miserably outside of very narrow domains and in the real world Markov models and conditional random fields often outperformed when the function was "understanding", "segmentation", etc.
From an engineering standpoint, the function that tells if a production is in the grammar that is central to the theory is not so interesting for language technology, I mean, if LLMs were -centric then an LLM would go on strike if you got the spelling or grammar wrong or correct you in a schoolmarmish William Safire way but rather it is more useful for LLMs to silently correct for obvious mistakes the same way that real language users do.
The other interesting thing is the mixing of syntax and semantics. For a long time I believed the "Language Instinct" idea of Pinker in which the ability to serialize and deserialize language is a peripheral that is attached to an animal and you need the rest of the animal and even the surrounding world to have "human" competence. Now LLMs come around and manage to show a lot of linguistic competence without the rest of the animal and boy we have egg on our face, and coming out of the shadow of the Chomsky theory, structuralism will rear it's head again. (e.g. "X is structured like a language" got hung up on the unspoken truth that "language is not structured like a language")
> I mention the problem of ‘hallucinations’ – when an AI model presents false or fabricated information as factual – and the need for a human face in court. The Sandie Peggie judgment allegedly contained AI-made errors. He waves this all away. ‘Temporary bugs and sentimental preferences. The economic argument is overwhelming.’
As usual with "AI replacing humans", the key thing to consider here is accountability.
I want to get my legal advice from someone who is accountable for that advice, and is willing to stake their professional reputation on that advice being correct.
An LLM can never be accountable.
I don't want an LLM for a lawyer. I want a lawyer armed with LLMs, who's more effective than the previous generations of lawyers.
(I'd also like them to be cheaper because they take less time to solve my problems, but I would hope that means they can take on more clients and maintain a healthy income that way even as each client takes less time.)
The closing paragraph of that story:
> ‘My niece is a lovely girl, really smart, great at school, and the other day she told me she wants to be a lawyer. And I thought, “Oh my God, my little niece wants to be a lawyer”, and I flat out told her. I said please do not destroy your life. Do not get into a lifetime of debt for a job that won’t exist in ten years. Or less.’
Uh oh. Here we go again, with the "don't bother studying computer science, it's 2002, all the jobs will be outsourced to cheaper countries in the next few years!". So glad I didn't listen to that advice back then!
"When we do it, it's called sense of humor. When they do it, it's bias and partisanship."
> The 133,000 hectares (328,000 acres) of pristine wilderness in the Cochamó Valley was bought for $63m (£47m) after a grassroots campaign led by the NGO Puelo Patagonia, and the title to the wildlands was officially handed over to the Chilean nonprofit Fundación Conserva Puchegüín on 9 December.
https://conservapucheguin.org/en/news-en/heart-of-cochamo-in...
https://conservapucheguin.org/en/
(truly an incredible price and value realized for the land preserved)
> Not talking about investments or replacing money, more like recognizing contribution and keeping value inside a community instead of everything being tied to launch sales.
That's half the business incentive of constant updates to the game after release. It works for some games but not others.
Sam has a long history of building beautiful visual explanations like this - I didn't realize he works for ngrok now, here's his previous independent collection: https://samwho.dev/
Man, for $1000 I'd definitely be checking to make sure it got refunded, and manually requesting a refund after a week had passed.
Waiting a few months is not smart because not every delivery service is going to store the delivery status details. I've generally found that after 3 months, data starts disappearing from services and refund options can become technically impossible. Like, on eBay, even if a seller wants to refund you after more than 90 days, they can't. Part of this is for accounting too -- at some point you just have to be able to definitively close the books and say here are the sales we made, that number isn't going down in the future because of potential outstanding returns.
> there should be some enforcement mechanism to settle disputes locally.
They are called courts and they exist.
Of course, companies like to require you to agree to binding arbitration, instead.
You can still find things like an Arduino Micro that has less ROM & RAM than the lunar lander.
But finding something new slower than a 2MHz CPU is probably a challenge nowadays; even the Micro is 16MHz and can probably be overclocked a ways above that without much work or risk.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFY2S56 - not that that is necessarily the best way to buy such a system, just showing they exist.
"The Man With The President's Mind" — fantastic 1977 novel by Ted Allbeury
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Presidents-Mind-Ted-Allbeury/dp/0...
This was "announced" in October, and last week they were saying they're shipping to trusted partners to kick the tires before a real release, with posted screenshots.
So, we'll see what it ends up like, but they have apparently already executed.
> How is it not a form of digital heroin
Because "digital heroin" is a nonsense phrase used as a thought-terminating cliché.
> when the side-effects are the same of?
Assuming that this is intended to be something like "when the side effects are the same as those of heroin?" then the premise is false; the effects (side or otherwise) of TikTok are not meaningfully similar to those of heroin.
It's pronounced "aggie".
> It also has already taken junior jobs.
Well, its taken blame for the job cutting due to the broad growth slowdown since COVID fiscal and monetary stimulus was stopped and replaced with monetary tightening, and then most recently the economy was hit with the additional hammers of the Trump tariff and immigration policies, as lots of people want to obscure, deny, and distract from the general economic malaise (and because many of the companies, and even more of their big investors, involved are in incestuous investment relationships with AI companies, so "blaming" AI for the cuts is also a form of self-serving promotion.)
If you're not like me, and you're interested in trying out this integration
The problem I have with a lot of these "oh I've heard it all before"-type posts is that some of what you heard is true. Yes, IDEs did make for some bad programmers. Yes, scripting languages has made for some bad programmers. Yes, some other shortcuts have made for bad programmers.
They haven't destroyed everyone but there definitely are sets of people who used the crutches and never got past them. And not just in a "well they never needed anything more" but worse programmers than they should or could have been.
> The problem with durable execution is that your entire workflow still needs to be idempotent.
Yes, but what that means depends on your durability framework. For example, the one that my company makes can use the same database for both durability and application data, so updates to application data can be wrapped in the same database transaction as the durability update. This means "the work" isn't done unless "recording the work" is also done. It also means they can be undone together.
>If you treat it as a weird little newspaper run by nerds for their own curiosity
That's my favorite phrase of this entire thread, which I'm reading in its entirety.
Aka "the titles when people post these on reddit".
Now you know why HN has the "no editorializing" rule. :)
FreeBSD status on Apple Silicon, https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon
Modern LLMs are now actually good at having a sense of humor.
> If I understand correctly, generics here are “type agnostic” functions in a strongly typed language?
They are not.
They are applicable to a well-defined range of sets of input types, instead of a single specific type combination, and produce a well-defined output type for each input type combination.
> It seems strange to put in so much effort for type checking then only to throw it overboard by implementing something that ignores type.
Generics do not ignore types. That's kind of the whole point.
Excellent HN-esque innovation in moderation: immediate improvement in S/N ratio, unobtrusive UX, gentle feedback to humans, semantic signal to machines.
How was the term "rug" chosen, e.g. in the historical context of newspaper folds?
> Counterpoint: Sufficient media control kills a democracy because it enables you to control public sentiment and election outcomes.
That's just as true when the entity seizing control is the government, such that the entity that control public sentiment and election outcomes is the incumbent administration.
How did you get an LLM to be snarky or did you do something else?
It's also a great service that I'm happy to pay for -- the tech support is great and just as fast as the mail, but I hardly ever have to use it.
Related:
Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46320508 - December 2025
The geometry means it's not so bad. The 'plane is going horizontally, but your initial acceleration is effectively vertical. Thinking of the triangle of forces, the 'plane is going in the sin(θ) direction (therefore with speed) whereas you are going in the cos(θ) direction ... therefore not travelling much.
So the geometry works in your favour, and the forces on you aren't that bad.
Very reasonable increase imho.
(fastmail customer)
Additional citation:
Americans Facing a Tough Job Market in 2025 Won’t Get a Break Next Year - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-19/what-to-e... | https://archive.today/2Eim9 - December 19th, 2025
To make it perfectly clear, no browser support outside Appleworld
https://caniuse.com/?search=HEIC
I mostly am a DSLR photographer but for the occasional iPhone shot
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115740936297822037
I use Photoshop. (Where's Cindy when I need her?)
Reminds me of the Michael Crichton "Mousetrap" story which was published at the top of the Wargames craze:
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/41417/michael-c...
Doesn't seem to work in Mobile Safari - anyone know the intended status of mobile support? I found one relevant ticket but it was closed in 2020: https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/issues/10
The time will be taken with your accounts frozen, the bank non responsive, and probably before of a judge to help you restore them.
It's even worse than that: as long as it somewhat works, managers don't care, if not prefer it (to more slowly developed, more tested, more well architected code)
>Apple managed to become the most valuable company in the world without ads. Adding them after hitting that milestone feels either greedy or desperate, maybe a little of both.
The way the modern economy works they don't care for maintaining the same revenues and profit level. They need to show they do better than other stocks so people buy theirs.
So if they have to increase margins by doing whatever crap, show ads, etc they will do it.
>I’d rather pay an extra $100 for the phone than have ads all over it.
Half of your wish is granted: you already pay $100 extra for the phone or even more. On top of that, it will also have ads.
They have to make “shit creek” to put a end to all those water bodies.
Can’t you make bandwidth reservations and optimise data location to prefer comms between directly connected nodes over one or two-hop paths?
In an ideal world, Apple would have released a Mac Pro with card slots for doing this kind of stuff.
Instead we get gimmicks over Thunderbolt.
People seem to be divided between "AI doesn't work, I told it 'convert this program' and it failed" and "AI works, I guided it through converting this program and saved myself 30 hours of work".
Given my personal experience, and how much more productive AI has made me, it seems to me that some people are just using it wrong. Either that, or I'm delusional, and it doesn't actually work for me.
This is why Sony killed the PS2Linux effort, and the PS3 Linux no longer offered graphics acceleration.
They had hoped for a second wave of Yaroze like indie developers, instead the large majority were repurposing their PS2 as MAME like emulators or Linux computers.
"All 3 global users this is relevant for are currently having a party"
https://old.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1ppt7nj/new_in_2025_...
People wonder why there's a backlash when the pro-AI side sounds like the Borg.
> but first it needs to replicate all of its existing functionality.
And be compatible with docx. The pedanticly-correct title for this article would be the immortality of docx.
> that because you credibly could, you're in a much stronger negotiating position in all those mutually beneficial deals you would like to make
Except it doesn't put one in a stronger position. It systematically weakens the economy. It only makes sense for domestic power-consolidation since a poor economy that can't trade with anyone except the state is entirely beholden to whoever controls the state.
Stupid idea. Stupid people.
Perhaps a system where the University publishes papers written by its researchers, and nobody else. That way, there is gatekeeping in the form of the University not hiring researchers who are kooks or frauds. The University's incentive would be maintaining their reputation.
Can you clarify? I thought a major benefit of SSDs is that there isn't any difference between sequential and random access. There's no physical head that needs to move.