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walterbell ranked #29 [karma: 94559]

MS Windows had an exclusive period for X1, but Google will support Android and ChromeOS on Qualcomm X2-based devices in 2026, which will hopefully include the pKVM/KVM hypervisor used by Android, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45368167

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

> Some people really overdo HTTP verbs /GET, /POST, /PUT, /DELETE and leave much work to frontend. Irks me a lot.

If I understand you correctly, I don't think of it as overdoing HTTP verbs so much as using an excessively naive mapping between HTTP resources and base table entities.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79401]

Thank you, this is so much more helpful if you don't want to watch videos.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112478]

> Social media has become a reminder of something precious we are losing in the age of LLMs: unique voices.

Social media already lost that nearly two decades ago - it died as content marketing rose to life.

Don't blame on LLMs what we've long lost due to cancer that is advertising[0].

And don't confuse GenAI as a technology with what the cancer of advertising coopts it to. The root of the problem isn't in the generative models, it's in what they're used for - and the problem uses aren't anything new. We've been drowning in slop for decades, it's just that GenAI is now cheaper than cheap labor in content farms.

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[0] - https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112478]

It does, by its very nature. Power is not magic, nor is it the Force. It's not a quantity you can stockpile and own - power is leased, it's granted to you by other people. It comes with expectations on how you will wield that power, and usually can be taken away just as quickly as it was granted, if you exercise it in ways they don't approve[0].

Power is obtained through meeting people, gaining their favor, entering deals, providing them services, eventually joining their ranks and advancing to the next level on the ordinal scale. Especially in politics, "power corrupts" by definition; by the time you gain any, you're so thoroughly entangled in mutual deals and friendships with other players you're no longer an autonomous entity - and if you're not willing to do that, you will never be given the opportunity to advance.

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[0] - Yes, there are caveats and strategems one can use to hold on to power - usually by playing people against each other to coerce ongoing support; every history period and every movie with a villain has plenty of examples. It's another discussion; my focus here is on what power is, and where it comes from.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]
toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbitol

Study:

Intestine-derived sorbitol drives steatotic liver disease in the absence of gut bacteria - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.adt3549 | https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.adt3549

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]

The LLM v human debate here reminds me of the now dormant "Are you living in a simulation?" discussions of previous decades.

nostrademons ranked #39 [karma: 81533]

It's telling that basically all of Google's successful projects were either acquisitions or were sponsored directly by the founders (or sometimes, were acquisitions that were directly sponsored by the founders). Those are the only situations where you are immune from the performance review & promotion process.

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77211]

Quite the opposite in fact. Throughout history the most successful artists have been the well funded ones.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]

Perhaps in New Zealand but VERY unlikely in the U.S. what with current governance.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

See "price stickiness" and what is simplified as "menu reprinting costs"; there's usually a cost associated with changing prices, and a cost associated with renegotiating prices for everything that's not being sold on a spot market. People cannot buy housing at spot, and while spot-labour pricing is definitely a thing for some services it's so socially destabilizing for anything skilled that most workforces operate on salary.

The reverse of this is that high inflation tends to cause a lot of strikes, because salaries refuse to go up and very high levels of inflation need salary repricing every month or even week.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

Are those the only two options? If you think the answer is yes then that suggests a moment of reflection.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]
rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 182484]

Recently, with my mom’s passing, I realised I’m now an orphan.

It really sucks, at any age.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]
pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

A more widespread piece of hostile hotel shower architecture is unlabelled controls. You need trial and error to work out which way is more water, and more heat.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

In some ways, poor project management is like an algal bloom or wildfire: costs expand, feeding on other costs, unless a huge active effort to keep them under control is made.

And it ends up being a disaster for the public.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sovereign_Individual : 1997, since I had to check.

> Interesting how often you meet the same people if you just start digging a little.

Endemic problem in UK politics, and a lot of other countries.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

It's notable that the BBC recent adaptation set in the present day was also able to make Watson an Afghanistan veteran.

I read the stories as an child, and seen various of the film adaptations; Holmes became a meme even within Conan Doyle's lifetime, but I'm sure I'd benefit from going back to the source as an adult.

ColinWright ranked #14 [karma: 133204]

Too late for anyone to see this comment, and it's just a trivial bugbear of mine, but the article has this:

> "... meaning a radio signal will take a full 24 hours—a full light-day—to reach it."

They don't mean "a full light-day" ... they mean "a full day". They're talking about the time it will take, and "light-day" is the distance it's travelling.

A trivial type error that a compiler would barf on, that people will gloss over and not notice, but which niggles at me.

Sorry ... I now return you to your regular programming.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]
pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

There is definitely a third option of "badly regulated through regulatory capture that favors incumbents, prevents competition and makes things worse for the public, while protecting actual malfesance". The US has a lot of this. The EU version tends just to protect the incumbent too much.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123212]

Anything that is a millimeter to the left in US politics, which happens to still be considered right in the rest of the world, gets immediately coined as left wing activists.

thunderbong ranked #19 [karma: 113230]

Clovelly in Cornwall still uses donkeys and sleighs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovelly

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

I have a postit note idea that says simply "typesafe macro assembler".

I've not fleshed this out yet, but I think a relatively simple system would help deal with all the issues you mention in the first paragraph while allowing escape hatches.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 182484]

It’s often better to overlay caching and other tricks on top of naive implementations than making the implementation more complicated.

pseudolus ranked #6 [karma: 181270]
pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

It's all second and third order effects. You'd then be less impressed if you found the zoom out toothpick video was itself just made with AI. And even less impressed if you zoom out further, and discover your entire feed is just different AI toothpick sculpture videos, because that's what went viral yesterday so now everybody has prompted one overnight.

There are about 250k games on Steam and over 125M users. What happens when full sloppification means there's 250M games on Steam? You scroll forever without reaching a game that more than a few other humans have played. But you can't distinguish it from the thousands of other similar games. Choice is a fatigue all of its own.

pjc50 ranked #23 [karma: 104296]

Whole bunch of factors involved in this which HN is ill-equipped to deal with. But I think paranoia about "grooming" should probably be counted as a factor as well. A lot of people are going to be suspicious about an adult man who wants to hang out with children. So everything gets tangled up and shut down in the name of safeguarding.

If you ask the question "what proportion of girls and young women have a male mentor", the problem becomes even more obvious.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

I'm flagging this based on previous experience with similar threads.

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74498]

The difference is it's delivered via SMS, and someone wanted to sound cool.

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74498]

Exactly this. People treat LLMs like they treat machines and then are surprised that "LLMs are bad".

The right mental model for working with LLMs is much closer to "person" than to "machine".

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

We have the same in dutch, but, surprise twist: it is often the dutch that get it wrong. And indeed, it is confusing, but then again, it is just a bit of noise injected into the bitstream and easily worked around once you attune to that particular speaker.

Note that for people not attuned to a language some differences that are clear as day to the natives are absolutely inaudible.

The difference between 'kas' and 'kaas' in dutch is obvious to me and if your language uses stressed vowels it probably is obvious to you too but if your language skills do not yet include that difference you will not even hear these as two different words.

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74498]

This take has given me second degree burns. I must have never shipped anything then, what with vim being my favorite editor.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 112478]

On the contrary; stubborn refusal to anthropomorphize LLMs is where the frustration comes from. To a first approximation, the models are like little people on a chip; the success and failure modes are the same as with talking to people.

If you look, all the good advice and guidelines for LLMs are effectively the same as for human employees - clarity of communication, sufficient context, not distracting with bullshit, information hygiene, managing trust. There are deep reasons for that, and as a rule of thumb, treating LLMs like naive savants gives reliable intuitions for what works, and what doesn't.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

Compared to what they are already doing it would be marginally more difficult.

coldtea ranked #32 [karma: 89250]

The definition of functional in the context of the discussion is that in works in the way the manufacture explicitly designed it work, in a standard industry practice fashion, not as an unforeseen bug or malfunction.

Not some abstract notion.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

That is not how it works.

A breach is unauthorized disclosure, the mechanism through which it is achieved is not relevant to that classification.

An employee that walks out with a file would also be classified as a breach, even if no systems got compromised from the outside.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

Who made you the judge? Just let HN do its thing.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 234015]

That can be true, but that doesn't mean it was manufactured in America. More often it means it was either labeled, packaged or assembled in America. But the supply chain does not end where you buy a finished product.

anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 97657]

This is reflexive pessimism with no substance. You're not articulating a set of particular challenges that need to be navigated/overcome, which could provide a roadmap for a productive discussion; it's just doomposting/demoralization that contributes nothing.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]
anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 97657]

Make a blog post with examples, or you'll be collecting reactions that are impossible to validate.

anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 97657]

I don't find any of this persuasive because nowhere does it articulate who or how the defendants came to be accused of anything in the first place. I can not make my mind about how to feel when the context is removed, even if I think the state's argument is entirely specious.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 413984]

I'm pretty familiar with the capabilities Flock actually offers law enforcement agencies, and it's license plates, makes, models, colors, and some identifying characteristics. This stuff isn't an abstraction, I don't have to reason about it axiomatically; you can directly engage with your local municipal government to see what's going on here.

anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 97657]

So only ~35 million people?

Maybe more people aren't running older hardware because it's too difficult, rather than because they don't want to. The basic idea is here is taht if a device can still hold a charge and the user is OK with limited features, they should be able to keep using it as long as they feel like it.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79401]

Pooping isn't intimacy.

This doesn't have anything to do with Americans.

zdw ranked #13 [karma: 136514]

The Jonsbo N3 case which is 8x 3.5" drives has a smaller footprint than this, which might be better for most folks. Needs a SFX PSU though, which is kind of annoying.

If you get an enterprise grade ITX board that has a 16x PCIe slot which can be bifurcated into 4 M.2 form factor PCIx4 connections, it really opens up options for storage:

* A 6x SATA card in M.2 form factor from Asmedia or others will let you fill all the drive slots even if the logic board only has 2/4/6 ports on it.

* The other ports can be used for conventional M.2 nVME drives.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

> Why would any group of people book a single room?

To save money.

> Is there some secret trick where multiple people turn up and bring their own beds with them, only to be foiled by a missing toilet door?

Beds? Probably not. But, people (especially younger people, can sleep on the floor with climate appropriate (which, depending on the season and available heating, can be "none") coverings for warmth; I did this happily a fair amount in various groups aroun high school age, but I certainly wouldn't want to now in middle age.

zdw ranked #13 [karma: 136514]

None of this means that you have to be on a specific platform. GitHub as default/mandatory is a single point of failure for the entire tech industry.

For an example of another language that avoids being entirely coupled into Github, Go has it's real code hosting and CI interaction on a Gerrit instance, with some sync back and forth to GitHub for a few items.

The CI pain and operational blindness mentioned in the Zig post is entirely real.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

> Result declares a type-level invariant — an assertion enforced by the compiler, not runtime — that the operation can fail.

“Can do X” is not an invariant. “Will never do X” (or “Will always do Y”) is an invariant. “Can do X” is the absence of the invariant “Will never do X”.

> Using `.unwrap()` is always an example of a failure to accurately model your invariants in the type system.

No, using .unwrap() provides a narrower invariant to subsequent code by choosing to crash the process via a panic if the Result contains an Error.

It may be a poor choice in some circumstances, and it may be a result of mistakenly believing that code returning the Result itself had failed to represent its invariants fully such that the .unwrap() would be a noop—but even there it respects and narrows the invariant declared, it doesn't ignore it—and, in any case, as it has well-defined behavior in either of the possible input cases, it is silly to describe using it as a failure accurately model invariants in the type system.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

Great work! Thanks for sharing!

Questions:

How do you intend to scale up? Do you plan to become the aggregators you intended to replace? Or will you adopt a more cooperative model? What is your monetization or cost recovery strategy? What is your end goal for the product?

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

Both comments are true. We could go faster if fossil subsidies shifted to solar and batteries, but we will still go fast regardless. Most US solar is utility scale, but buying your own solar is cheap enough now you can almost go off the grid (battery price decline will catch up shortly) assuming you have enough space for panels. Utility scale solar is still a good investment, even with the loss of tax subsidies, and is the fastest way to deploy new generation capacity.

Regardless, we’ve reached a global tipping point where solar, battery, and EV deployment continues to accelerate and peak fossil fuel demand is very near.

anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 97657]

I largely agree, although in an emergency bystanders/emergency workers shouldn't be trying to figure out how a door handle works at all. As a general non-driver, I find it kinda disturbing how auto manufacturers are constantly making these cosmetic adjust that impact safety - excessively bright headlights, distracting animated turn signals, weird ass handles. Not all features are innovations, some are just bad ideas.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

PRs aren't an optional feature, though acting on PRs is obviously optional; nothing prevents you from ignoring or (even automatically) closing all PRs from anyone who is not on a list of approved contributors.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

From a comment:

> The flush Hyundai and Kia handles are motorized and retractable, but they can also be opened entirely mechanically without power. They are little more awkward to use when unpowered but it's entirely doable if you know how. You just push the front side in which pops out the rear grab handle part. This also how Chevy has done their Equinox EV handles which is powered on the higher trims but unpowered for the base model I believe.

So, as long as they fail safe, I think they’re fine from a form and function perspective. It’s the failing unsafely (Tesla) that’s the problem. If they do not work without power, they should fail safety testing.

steveklabnik ranked #28 [karma: 96152]

I ran a Rust server on an Oxide rack for me and some friends one weekend.

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157543]

More info on "Strategy", the company, which is supposedly the world's largest public Bitcoin holder.[1] "According to its most recent X post, the firm has raised $11.9 billion through common equity, $6.9 billion in preferred equity, and $2 billion in convertible debt."

The equity part includes listed stocks: STRF, STRC, STRE, STRK, and STRD. Those are on the NASDAQ, not crypto exchanges. Here's a long discussion of Strategy's strategy.[2] They're leveraged, but the financing for the leverage is not from crypto markets, and has more strength behind it. The whole thing will come unglued if there's a prolonged drop in the price of Bitcoin, but they can ride through medium-length down periods. Strategy's various stocks have dropped more than the price of Bitcoin.

[1] https://cryptonews.com/news/strategy-reports-21b-raised-in-2...

[2] https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/blogs/digital-assets/matthew-si...

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172182]

> real concern that giving governments...the power to criminalize voluntary economic activity tends to entrench wealth and power rather than to lubricate mobility

Uh, sure. But this isn't a real political phenomenon. When concerns arise around power and wealth entrenchment, the solution has never been to reduce the state's power to regulate the economy.

jrockway ranked #48 [karma: 73170]

I just feel like this becomes time consuming after a while. Will there be soap? Toilet paper? A bed? You don't know unless you ask! But ... c'mon ... they can just tell you on the website.

pseudolus ranked #6 [karma: 181270]
pseudolus ranked #6 [karma: 181270]
anigbrowl ranked #27 [karma: 97657]

Can you show off your toilet fetish on a more appropriate forum please

jedberg ranked #44 [karma: 76603]

Unlikely, given that you don't know it has no door until after you get there.

And also, when I travel with my kids, I still want to close the door.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]
jedberg ranked #44 [karma: 76603]

Pydantic also has a first party integration with DBOS, which doesn't require an external state server.

https://ai.pydantic.dev/durable_execution/dbos/

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101694]

Shorter term the Gregorian calendar has the ratio for leap years just a tiny bit wrong which will be a day off by 3000 years or so.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101694]

Love the quote:

  Every systems engineer at some point in their journey yearns to write a filesystem
It reminds me of a friend who had a TRS-80 color computer (like me) in the 1980s who was a self-taught BASIC programmer who developed a very complex BBS system and was frustrated that the cluster size for the RS-DOS file system was half a track so there was a lot of space wasted when you stored small files. He called me up one day and told me he'd managed to store 180k of files on a 157k disc and I had to break it to him that he was storing 150k (minus metadata) files on a 157k disk as opposed to the 125k or so he was getting before... With BASIC!

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157543]

"Network" is too broad. What you really want for most apps is "can only talk to its home domain from which it was downloaded".

stavros ranked #47 [karma: 74498]

Was it made of glass?

I've stayed in a hotel where the toilet door was made of glass, and had big gaps. I was staying with an acquaintance, so things were really awkward. It didn't help that the shower was right in front of this frosted glass, so the person's entire silhouette was very visible when showering.

Another time, in Amsterdam, I stayed at an AirBnB where the toilet was on the balcony, and had a glass door (non-frosted) in the kitchen. Yep, if you needed to go, and someone was cooking, or was a neighbour, they were looking right at you.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79401]

The author has this backwards:

> but the new trend is surveillance pricing. A company will know that you just got paid and so charge you just a bit more for your chicken nuggets than they do when you haven’t been paid in two weeks.

First of all, no, a company has no idea when you get paid. The reality of lots of apps (like McDonald's) is discount pricing. You pay full price at the store if you're a rich person who can't be bothered with apps. Downloading an app and creating an account is the modern equivalent of cutting out coupons or buy-10-get-one-free cards -- price-conscious consumers will go to the trouble and get cheaper prices. They're just loyalty programs. Price discrimination like this is nothing new, and it lets rich people subsidize the lower costs for people with less money.

These apps run in sandboxes. There's not much to surveil. Obviously don't grant them permissions to see your contacts or track your location all the time. Will the app be able to tie all your purchases to a single identity? Of course. But the stores already do that anyways if you use the same credit card for each purchase.

I don't mind downloading apps for the 5-10 stores/restaurants I go to most. Beyond that, I obviously won't because it's too much of a hassle. But the loyalty discounts I get save me real money. I have no problem with that.

crazygringo ranked #40 [karma: 79401]

Seriously.

I upgraded my iPad to a USB-C version and discovered I couldn't use my 1st-gen (Lightning) Apple Pencil with it even though it's compatible -- because I first had to buy a special female-female USB-C<->Lightning dongle just to be able to plug it in to pair it. (Even though I can keep using my Lightning charger to charge it separately from my iPad.)

Moving from Lightning to USB-C hasn't been too bad for me since I use wireless charging with e.g. my Lightning AirPods. But the transition is a huge pain. Because of weird cases like the Pencil, it's not even enough to just have a USB-C charging cable and a Lightning charging cable.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

> Porn, obviously, though if you look at what's popular on civitai.com, a lot of it isn't photo-realistic.

I don't have an argument to make on the main point, but Civitai has a whole lot of structural biases built into it (both intentionally and as side effects of policies that probably aren't intended to influence popularity in the way they do) that I would hesitate to use "what is popular on Civitai" as a guide to "what is attractive to (or commercially viable in) the market", either for AI imagery in general or for AI imagery in the NSFW domain specifically.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

> Kants Categorical Imperative is a terrible way to model reality.

It's not a way to model reality, terrible or otherwise. That’s not what it purports to do.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 101694]

By the stopwatch it takes 3x longer for me to upload a photo to the Instagram web app than it does to Mastodon. Facebook's blue website works pretty well but the Instagram site comes across like something that was vibe coded in a weekend or maybe a straw man that was made to prove SPAs are bad. Contrast that to the Mastodon application produced by a basically unfunded application that's fast and reliable.

pjmlp ranked #18 [karma: 123212]

Yes?

That is why some people are forbidden to contribute to projects if their eyes have read projects with incompatible licenses, in case people go to copyright court.

Animats ranked #11 [karma: 157543]

There is recency and survival bias, yes. But a sizable fraction of movies are remakes or series extensions. The Marvel Overextended Universe has taken this up to 11. That it's still working, mostly, leads other studios to make movies in that style.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-u-s-inflation-by...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-pric...

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/the-american-dream-will-cos...

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

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toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

I built an agent for Muckrock that I use to rapidly build FOIA requests. Whenever I think “I wish I had an exuberant intern that requires lots of supervision for this work,” I reach for an agent.

minimaxir ranked #49 [karma: 72975]

OpenRouter can also prioritize providers by price: https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/routing/provider-selection...

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

> Saying that the men's vitality clinic "pushed you" into a treatment protocol is like saying that a fertility clinic pushed you into getting pregnant.

No, it isn't. “Men’s vitality” doesn’t mean “getting pumped with testosterone regardless of indications” the way “fertility” means “getting pregnant” in either literal denotation of words or the understanding of the general population.

> Sure, it's a common outcome, but you had an idea of what you wanted out of it before you walked in the door.

Yes, but in the case of fertility clinics, getting pregnant aas definitely the outcome beinf sought. Being pumped with testosterone isn’t the outcome being sought from a men’s vitality clinic, it is (even for the people who are actively thinking about it) a mechanism (and not an appropriate one for every patient) for atteempting to acheive the desired outcome.

If you go to a fertility clinic and they don't attempt to identify the source of your fertility issues and just pump you with hormones not indicated for your specific issue, that would be wrong, too.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172182]

> Lots of more countries involved in sending stuff to space

But only two investing in high-cadence, high-mass capabilities.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

CATL's Spain plant will likely be one of Europe's largest LFP battery production hubs at ~50GWh of production capacity, employing ~4k workers with an investment of ~€4.1B.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

> Update: after years of being on the wish list of a ton of top AWS teams, AWS released a built-in version of this feature about two weeks after we published this. Never let it be said gentle ribbing doesn’t work. Also, thanks AWS! We meant it when we said that the only thing better than having something easy to deploy was not needing to deploy anything at all. Everything in this post about workload identity is still relevant but you should probably use upstream’s implementation unless you have a good reason not to (for example, private validators for whom you need a VPC endpoint).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_pr...

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45834299 - November 2025 (0 comments)

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]

It patches the reward center in the brain, which improves everything downstream of that (as mentioned in llm_nerd's sibling comment to yours).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45907422 (citations)

(i am hopefully that probiotics might be a future path to curating gut microbiota that meets an individual's GLP-1 in vivo production needs based on target metabolic outcome, but immediate intervention is welcome for obvious health reasons at scale)

walterbell ranked #29 [karma: 94559]

> Each firm knows

In some cases, firm == family, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

  A chaebol is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family. A chaebol often consists of multiple diversified affiliates, controlled by a person or group. Several dozen large South Korean family-controlled corporate groups fall under this definition.

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]
dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 126080]

The entire value proposition of agentic AI is doing multiple steps, some of which involve tool use, between user interactions. If there’s a user interaction at every turn, you are essentially not doing agentic AI anymore.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 413984]

Since you've been very strident throughout this thread I'm wondering if you're going to have a response to this. Similarly, I'm curious, as a scholar of Bernstein's cryptography writing --- did the MOV attack (prominently featured on Safecurves) serve as a lovely harbinger of the failure of elliptic curve cryptography?

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77211]

If landlords want to just look at other public listings and adjust their own prices in response (which is completely legal to do) then why does a service like Realpage exist?

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 413984]

The point of building more is to reduce the price of the available stock. Your rebuttal is incoherent.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172182]

> they are all-in on AGI

What are you basing this on? None of their investor-oriented marketing says this.

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 413984]

Cloudflare doesn't seem to have called it a "Root Cause Analysis" and, in fact, the term "root cause" doesn't appear to occur in Prince's report. I bring this up because there's a school of thought that says "root cause analysis" is counterproductive: complex systems are always balanced on the precipice of multicausal failure.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 99023]

no paywall: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/sleep-apnea-parkinsons-s...

>Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Positive Airway Pressure, and Implications of Early Treatment in Parkinson Disease

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...

toomuchtodo ranked #24 [karma: 102958]
JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172182]

> if we really want a presence off of earth we'd be better off building larger and larger space habitats and bootstrapping a mining industry in space

This turns entirely on how human biology works in zero versus low gravity. (Same for spin versus natural, or linear, gravity.)

The experiments we need to be doing is building and launching space stations and planetary bases for mice.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 172182]

Just avoid holding it that way.

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77211]

TL;DR - financial analysts look at current charts and project them foward by 5 years and go "wow the numbers look bad".

Sure OpenAI may well be bleeding money into the 2030s, or may even go bust completely depending on how pessimistic you are, but the analysis completely skips:

- They are building their own data centers, and will be less reliant on renting compute from Microsoft and Amazon over time.

- Once the AI bubble has subsided costs for GPU purchases and rentals will decrease significantly. Plus there will be more advancements and competition in the space (e.g. Google TPUs) and Nvidia will no longer be able to name their own price.

- We will write more efficient software for training and inference.

- Once user growth is tapped out OpenAI will no longer need to have the overly generous free tier that they do today. And if they decide to turn up the advertising faucet these users could bring in a ton more revenue than in the projection. Thinking that every AI company combined will capture only 2% of the total digital advertising market is ridiculous. AI apps are already challenging social media for scrolling time.

Basically, the entire space is evolving so rapidly that it's pointless to make a projection with the assumption that the landscape isn't going to change from here on.

paxys ranked #42 [karma: 77211]

I wonder if these researchers include their own jobs in the analysis. Because AI can very easily spit out random numbers and a lengthy explanation to make them seem believable.