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Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
We blew up shipwrecked survivors a few weeks ago, which is a textbook example of a war crime.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/us/politics/us-boat-attac...
> Two survivors of the initial attack later appeared to wave at the aircraft after clambering aboard an overturned piece of the hull, before the military killed them in a follow-up strike that also sank the wreckage. It is not clear whether the initial survivors knew that the explosion on their vessel had been caused by a missile attack.
And "textbook" is not an exaggeration.
https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-survivors-hegseth-72...
> The Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of war describes a scenario similar to the Sept. 2 boat strike when discussing when service members should refuse to comply with unlawful orders. “For example,” the manual says, “orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.”
This seems anti democratic. How can we prevent small minorities from hassling everyone until they get their way?
Religiosity is negatively correlated with intelligence, so it sounds directionally accurate.
The primary legacy of Occupy Wall Street is that "the 1%" became a meme. Enough so that policies are still evaluated on how they affect "the 1%" vs the rest of the population. The concentration of wealth in the US became much better known. It did not, however, reduce that concentration of wealth.
Great news that these draconian pro natalism efforts will be ineffective. Low fertility rates and traps are primarily due to modernization and more opportunities for women. Bodes well for the citizens of remaining countries not yet below replacement rate, as their modernization and opportunities approaches.
> While China’s historic programs to push down fertility rates were successful, they were aided by wider societal changes: The policies were in force while China was modernizing and moving toward becoming an industrial and urbanized society.
> It’s policies aimed at increasing the birth rate now find unfavorable societal headwinds. Modernization has led to better educational and work opportunities for women – a factor pushing many to put off having children.
> In fact, most of China’s fertility reduction, especially since the 1990s, has been voluntary – more a result of modernization than fertility-control policies. Chinese couples are having fewer children due to higher living costs and educational expenses involved in having more than one child.
> Another factor to take into consideration is what demographers refer to as the “low-fertility trap.” This hypothesis, advanced by demographers in the 2000s, holds that once a country’s fertility rate drops below 1.5 or 1.4 – far higher than China’s now stands – it is very difficult to increase it by 0.3 or more.
> The argument goes that fertility declines to these low levels are largely the result of changes in living standards and increasing opportunities for women.
> Accordingly, it is most unlikely that China’s three-child policy will have any influence at all on raising the fertility rate. And all my years of studying China’s demographic trends lead me to believe that making contraceptives marginally more expensive will also have very little effect.
If you think it's going to replace you, then it's going to replace you regardless of whether you personally are feeding it data or not.
If it produces value for you, you should use it. If not, don't.
Individuals can change the world, too. Lee Harvey Oswald, for one. Elon Musk, for another (in a totally different way). And Fritz Haber. Plenty more.
tl;dr: things are fucked because we have been too content to rely on hopium, we need more fictional doomer and rebellion narratives to spur (other) people to action in the real world and change their cultural orientation over the long term.
There's a lot of problems with this perspective, but a very simple pragmatic one is that these data sets depend on volunteer consent, which will be withheld if people believe their contributed data will be used this way. At the end of the day, human consent is the paramount concern.
“…not only did Iryo train's front carriages which stayed on the track have "notches" in their wheels, but three earlier trains that went over the track earlier did too.”
This sounds like something a camera mounted on a sample of trains watching a wheel could catch.
(2019)
Chenoweth has backed off her previous conclusions in recent years, observing that nonviolent protest strategies have dramatically declined in effectiveness as governments have adjusted their tactics of repression and messaging. See eg https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/erica-chenoweth-demo...
One current example of messaging can be seen in the reflexive dismissal by the current US government and its propagandists of any popular opposition as 'paid protesters'. Large attendance at Democratic political rallies during the 2024 election was dismissed as being paid for by the campaign, any crowd protesting government policy is described as either a rioting or alleged to be financed by George Soros or some other boogeyman of the right. This has been going on for years; the right simply refuses to countenance the possibility of legitimate organic opposition, while also being chronically unable to provide any evidence for their claims.
Very interesting. I've always thought that there was something a bit "off" about LED torches and car headlamps; the brightness is there, but something about the light just doesn't seem to illuminate as well as an old dim incandescent or even fluorescent tube.
Japan has a culture of perfection.
> I do think there's a bit of an experience divide here, where people more experienced have been down the path of a codebase degrading until it's just too much to salvage – so I think that's part of why you see so much pushback.
When I look back over my career to date there are so many examples of nightmare degraded codebases that I would love to have hit with a bunch of coding agents.
I remember the pain of upgrading a poorly-tested codebase from Python 2 to Python 3 - months of work that only happened because one brave engineer pulled a skunkworks project on it.
One of my favorite things about working with coding agents is that my tolerance for poorly tested, badly structured code has gone way down. I used to have to take on technical debt because I couldn't schedule the time to pay it down. Now I can use agents to eliminate that almost as soon as I spot it.
I've heard Canada described as a "more moderate, and somewhat colder US".
In other words the same old boogeyman they always use to justify this crap.
Yes, that is indeed the point.
This goes beyond the 'right to repair' to simply the right of ownership. These remote updates prove again and again that even though you paid for something you don't actually own it.
Until the assholes come for your land.
You can actually shape reality, it is not something that you have to accept and roll over.
This is something I find fascinating about TikTok: on that platform you literally get a few seconds to catch the attention of your audience before they skip to the next video.
You can't just find one hook that works and reuse it forever because people will get bored of it - including if that hook is heavily used by other accounts.
This makes TikTok a fascinating brute-force attack on human psychology, with literally millions of people all trying to find the right hooks to catch attention and constantly evolving and iterating on them as the previous hooks stop being effective.
But it is the right thing to do for "this topic violates HN guidelines both in letter and in spirit, as well as predictably causing low-quality discussion threads".
As note, Visual C++ import std from C++23 takes about similar time.
Science and Nature are mol-bio journals that publish the occasional physics paper with a title you'd expect on the front page of The Weekly World News.
People keep forgetting that it's possible to legally migrate, work for awhile, and so on, and then "become illegal" due to deadlines or administration issues.
An example every tech worker should understand is H1-B, where as an added bonus your employer can make you illegal.
Remember, there used to be a time programmers productivity was measured in LoC per hour.
As such, this is high productivity! /s
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VXUS/
5 year chart
Without this hype, there is no growth. It’s a Hail Mary.
The article isn't resolving, so I can't speak to what it exactly says.
However, the question isn't "on your own domain vs not," it's "how you publish." Blog networks are popular because most people do not have the technical ability to spin up a server, buy a domain, and point it at it.
Why an atproto based solution instead of Medium or whatever? Because then you actually own your own data. And that also doesn't preclude it ending up on your own domain in the end anyway, because it's your data.
Unfortunately, academia is subject to the same sorts of social things that anything else is. I regularly see people still bring up a hoax article sent to a journal in 1996 as a reason to dismiss the entire field that one journal publishes in.
Personally, I would agree with you. That's how these things are supposed to work. In practice, people are still people.
You can’t fix this by giving them more money for training. This is how they’re trained to act.
A lot of American Christians aren't hyper committed to the specific theology of whichever flavor of Christianity they belong to, and will often sort of mix and match their own personal beliefs with what is orthodoxy.
That said, I'm ex-Catholic, so I don't feel super qualified to make a statement on the specific popularity of predestination among American evangelicals at the moment.
That said, in a less theological and more metaphorical sense, it does seem that many of them do believe in some sort of "good people" and "bad people", where the "bad people" are not particularly redeemable. It feels a little unfalsifiable though.
Anyone on the right who implicates Pretti for carrying a licensed firearm is a good litmus test for bad faith.
They last so long you forget they need charging.
> I saw writing on the wall and donated in 2022 my dji drone to Ukrainian army
Thank you for that.
Prusa MKIII. Good luck with that WA. There are enough of these floating around that that cat is firmly out of the bag and they're more than good enough for that kind of work.
True but then you'd be giving legitimacy to the entity that you will inevitably abandon at some point.
Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power.
The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.
This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all.
Oh, it is very clear, just not to you.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46749508
One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to have laws that are virtually impossible to not break.
I hope this gets tested in court and declared unconstitutional for being overly vague and arbitrary. For example, Montana used to have some maximum speed limits that were just "reasonable and prudent", but they were eventually rejected by courts as being too vague (what's prudent to you may not be prudent to someone else). This is similar, in that the FAA has a no fly zone but they don't actually publish what it is.
Catch-22 and 1984 weren't supposed to be instruction manuals.
So the unannounced movements of the secret police in their unmarked vehicles also create a bubble around them where usually-legal activity is illegal?
Races are not genetic groupings, they are social constructs whose boundaries evolve over time, which is particularly clear when they are formalized in a way which resista change and that formalization drifts increasingly far from the current common usage, such as the way the White racial category in common usage in America currently roughly corresponds to the the subset of the White racial category that excludes the Hispanic ethnicity in the US Census categorization.
The construction of race at any given time and place will tend to have non-zero correlation with genetic frequencies, in part by chance and in part because it is usually largely (but not entirely) drivn by appearance which is to some degree associated with some aspects of underlying genetics.
> e.g. black people are much more likely to have the genetic disease sickle cell anemia.
People with ancestry in sub-Saharan Africa (and within that, even more West Africa), India, the Middle East, and Mediterranean are more likely to have the gene that provides malaria resistance with one copy and sickle cell disease with two than other populations.
While the highest incidence group is also commonly “Black” in most constructions of race, a lot of the American perception of it as a nearly exclusively Black disease is because the population perceived as Black in the US is heavily drawn from West Africa, and the US population also underrepresents other populations in which it is more common than average AND does not include, and may not construct as Black, populations constructed as Black elsewhere in the world where it is not common.
> how did that person get in the door in the first place?
is answered by:
> any organization is likely to contain at least a few fairly toxic people
Start menu and the new calendar widget.
React Native though.
You're one of today's lucky 10k. (https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Except per the link, 2024 is #8 on that list. Not #1.
I work in a similar market, and we're only just starting to phase out these larger nodes and move to 22nm simply for wafer availability.
It doesn't benefit from 22nm - analog blocks generally don't scale down at all, they have to be a particular size to achieve particular current handling, inductance etc. requirements. But we need the production line availability.
In other words: "who's gonna pay for that?".
The sad thing about continuing development of existing technologies is that all reliability, robustness, and multi-purpose capabilities get optimized away over time. In the ideal world, companies wouldn't even sell you hardware or software, they'd just charge for magically doing the one thing you want at the moment, with no generality and no agency on your end.
It's a miracle we still have electric outlets in homes, and not just bunch of hard-wired appliances plugged in by vendor subcontractors.
I don't think this advice is useful. You're going to use your devices, so you won't control the temperature or, largely, the charge percentage.
I think good advice is to keep your devices as cool as you can (ie don't leave your cars in sunlight when there's shade), which you probably did anyway, and keep the battery between 20% and 80% as much as possible. If the battery is going to stay unused for a while, leave it at 3.8V (or close to it), or at 50%.
Batteries are ultimately consumables, so don't stress too much. Just care for them as much as convenient, and that's it.
They probably just performed a standard cyberattack on the radar systems before sending in the troops, it doesn't have to be the same weapon for both.
The movie itself predates the moon landing - it came out in 1968.
It's astonishing to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey today and reflect on how well the production design has aged. That movie is coming up on 60 years old now!
The portrayal of AI has held up extraordinarily well too.
Embedded AIs always suck. It's a dead end, long-term. By its nature, AI subsumed software products, reducing them to tool calls for general-purpose AI runtime.
This is why, “I trust everyone. It’s the devil inside them I don’t trust.”
I have listened to audio books since car radios with cassette slots exist, predating CarPlay in decades.
Still no CarPlay here.
It's not, but at least it will be equally ungreen.
While I agree it has a certain Perl feeling and I used to advocate for functions/operators, e.g. reflex or similar, it still feels better than unicode operators in FP languages or the two macro systems used by Rust.
At least being based on compile time execution infrastructure means you can debug it on IDEs, Clion already has some work into that direction.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/09/introducing-constex...
> The optimal decision in the Prisoner's Dilemma is to defect, but in the iterated version, where multiple Dilemmas occur and people remember previous results, Tit-For-Tat is optimal.
That’s not true. There is no optimal strategy in iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in the sense that defection is optimal in the single-round version; Tit-for-Tat performs well in certain conditions in iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, and less well in others (dependent particularly on the strategies played on the other side); in single-round, defection always produces a better outcome than defection independently of the choice made against it.
First trip to the moon, from 1959. Not Heinlein's "Destination Moon". Not Disney's version of the Collier's space program. A movie that seems to have been forgotten, even by collectors of early SF movies.
Not a low-budget production. Produced by Paramount Pictures. It was all too realistic - it's all about launches being scrubbed and budget cuts. They never do launch.
The president of the US is a convicted criminal - 34 felony counts, no less. He has made or threatened war on several countries, and threatens it regularly against US citizens. Let's get real about who's doing the threatening here.
Except only a few countries in the world have wages where their citizens can afford Apple.
While I can afford Apple, out of principle I am not buying anything above 300 euros, that requires me to also buy another computer for hobby coding, and a dev license.
All my use of Apple hardware is via projects where pool devices are assigned to the delivery team.
I mean, unless Windows is a special exception, almost certainly:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-a...
Just like the US, saying "immigrants" and "crime" gets the public, or at least the media, to demand authoritarianism.
Not really familiar with other platforms, but on Mediatek platforms the modem firmware is just loaded from the filesystem --- which you have full access to as root.
The Indian outsourcing long predated Nadella. Now it's outsourcing to AI.
This is very, very tempting, but despite not being that popular a blog, mine already went through the SPAM and hatred hell of the late 2000s and early 2010s.
I will not be tempted to have comments on my personal blog.
I think it's an overflow of a scaled counter.
Also, who else immediately noticed the AI-generated comment?
After they infamously started going after clones, anything branded FTDI is automatically suspicious.
USB-serial adapters are not particularly special. Dozens of other manufacturers make them.
well, what do the facts say? Thinking back to the last powerful Dem politician to get in trouble, Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey, I don't recall any outpouring of support from him from his colleagues or diehard Dem voters.
The track spacing didn't change, but yes, many if not all floppy drives could step the head slightly past the officially supported number of tracks.
Yes, and: the propaganda machine will benefit from being able to automatically dig up the most "lib"-coded posts to use in their assertions that they were right to kill that person.
I wonder if this will stay up on hn; the site is very against mass surveillance but anything involving ICE gets flag killed.
That happens every time. A few hours later the talking points get decided on and it’s suddenly crickets. (Plus a few bans.)
Personally I'm careful about multitasking. If you had two agents working on things in parallel you are going to have more problems stomping on each other's work even if they are working in two different checkouts of the same code. Also in terms of your effort supervising them if you are going back from one to the other you're more likely to get confused.
I wouldn't say "never multitask" but I think you should think carefully about a portfolio of things you can work on that don't conflict with each other.
One possibility to to race analysis of situations with an LLM. For instance punch in a prompt asking if it can figure out the cause of a bug and go off and try figuring it out yourself in the debugger. Or read or write documentation when it is off on a mission.
They started this long ago, with the first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 and a series of poisoning attacks all the way back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
Most of this stuff is routine technology now. There's no reason for it to be centralized.
I've been in the tech industry for 45 years. Layoffs happen regularly. Well, not regularly, what it is is a chaotic system. There will be good times and bad times. The best way to deal with it is to immediately save, at a minimum, 6 months of runway. Preferably a year.
When you're in between jobs, work on:
1. improving your job skills
2. network
3. build your resume by contributing to open source
4. start your own business
"In 1973, he proposed that the universe is a large-scale quantum fluctuation in vacuum energy. This is called vacuum genesis or the zero-energy universe hypothesis. He has been quoted as saying, 'the universe is simply one of those things that happens from time to time.'"
Apparently cybersquatter bots can monitor brand new company registrations and scalp domain names for resale to the same company.
> If they gave people API keys then no-one buys their ludicrously priced API product
The main driver for those subscriptions is that their monthly cost with Opus 3.7 and up pays itself back in couple hours of basic CC use, relative to API prices.
What OpenCode primitive did you use to implement this? I'd quite like a "senior" Opus agent that lays out a plan, a "junior" Sonnet that does the work, and a senior Opus reviewer to check that it agrees with the plan.
Estimates are for the team, not for an individual.
As the team grows and shrinks, the number of points delivered per sprint are expected to similarly rise and fall. A new person joining will likely take time to ramp up the number of points they're contributing.
The popular Playwright MCP uses the Chrome accessibility tree to help agents navigate websites: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/ed176022a63add8...
Because you have other benefits, so we'd really like to switch over to you, but we can't unless you support this dealbreaker feature that your competitor we're currently using has.
Is there even a regulated meaning to "made in X"?
The way I see it, "made in Europe" may be dubious, but "made in EU" should be just as okay to write as "made in USA". And if it's not a thing, well, nothing is a thing until people make it a thing.
EDIT: also we're talking about a software product here, where most things written on the product is legally meaningless - otherwise we'd have special customs regimes for those major software exporter places like "love" and "♡".
You could have a regular single-chip Ethernet NIC on the same card.
One should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration.
HN Search: data.gov - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov
A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974533 - February 2025 (18 comments)
Announcing the data.gov archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039 - February 2025 (132 comments)
Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 - January 2025 (238 comments)
The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876055 - January 2025 (58 comments)
1k teachers in Arizona have quit in the last six months because of this.
Over 1,000 Arizona teachers resigning plays a part in shortage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728151 - January 2026
>You're not talking to an AI coder anymore. You're talking to a team lead. The lead doesn't write code - it plans, delegates, and synthesizes.
They couldn't even be bothered to write the Tweet themselves...
> The most confusing part of terraform for me is that terraform's view of the infrastructure is a singleton config file that is often stored in that very infrastructure.
These folks also have an article about that: https://newsletter.masterpoint.io/p/how-to-bootstrap-your-st...
Venice is the extreme "tail wagging the dog" situation. Venice is dinky. It's not much bigger than San Francisco. Yet it was a major European power for centuries.