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> some countries find such creative ways to stifle innovation while they look to be caring about safety or what not
I'm not sure white-hat hacking is broadly compatible with German culture. Keep in mind that going bankrupt in Germany permanently closes off lots of avenues, from future lending to whether you can be in senior management at a public company.
Marketing can be a lot of different things.
I brought on a high-touch salesperson on spec years ago and it did not work out. He and I were really successful at getting audiences with people but we never made the sales we were looking for and, worse, he lost me small cheap jobs that I could have sold myself. He'd probably say it was a product problem and he might have been right but later on I found out I wasn't the only person who had the same experience with him.
For some products you need those kind of skills. I've met people like him who really are worth their weight in gold.
For other products you need somebody who can make an Adwords campaign, analyzes the analytics, refine it and repeat. That kind of person can be worth their weight in gold too.
For this conversation to be productive you have to have some idea if you need one or the other or a bit of both.
Paper:
"Going Light: The Effects of Minimal Mobile Phone Adoption on Young Adults’ Well-Being Depend on Motivation"
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/ubkeq_v1 | https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ubkeq_v1
How credible are the claims that the Claude Code source code is bad?
AI naysayers are heavily incentivized to find fault with it, but in my experience it's pretty rare to see a codebase of that size where it's not easy to pick out "bad code" examples.
Are there any relatively neutral parties who've evaluated the code and found it to be obviously junk?
Short film: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47363133
My mission was to create a Sci-fi Noir episode of the Twilight Zone by way of David Lynch and Phillip K. Dick. Big shout out to Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller for speaking to my soul in Severance. And of course to the enigmatic QNTM for sparking my imagination with the original story, "We Need to Talk About 55". Long live the SCP Foundation.India is weirdly more often forgotten in D.C., and almost never thought of as a threat, that framing is, as another commenter mentioned, a myth that largely propagates in India. It has recently only featured in Washington due to being a potential counterpoint to China, wherever that project is right now.
Signal uses SGX for features every other mainstream E2E messenger does in serverside plaintext.
They are if you are, in fact, holding it wrong.
As was the usual case in most of the few years LLMs existed in this world.
Think not of iPhone antennas - think of a humble hammer. A hammer has three ends to hold by, and no amount of UI/UX and product design thinking will make the end you like to hold to be a good choice when you want to drive a Torx screw.
Same as how I expect a coin to come up heads 50% of the time.
Think of it as social intelligence if the term “emotional” bothers you.
Solitary intelligence, in the wild, is just a different beast from tracking the exponential complexity of a social system. Everything we see—in biology, psychology and artificial intelligence—indicates that while these functions seem to share resources (you can't be an emotionally-intelligent idiot), they are distinct, with folks (and animals) possessing a lot of one and little of the other being observed, and their handicaps resulting from the lacking part being observeable, too,
Betamax was arguably better.
This is above your comment: https://archive.is/2026.04.06-100412/https://www.newyorker.c...
They run on an operating system you probably don't know all the inner workings of.
And that runs on a chip with trillions of transistors.
These usually belong in the whoishiring threads:
> I saw a tweet recently that perfectly encapsulates this: for most people over 30, certain things are "big screen tasks". I use my phone for a lot, but for some things I put the phone down and use my computer instead. I am most comfortable using a large screen and a keyboard for anything that requires writing more than a few words or using any interface for more than a few clicks.
Yup. From the frontier of mobile tech, I can say that a foldable phone (Galaxy Z Fold 7) is the first mobile device that successfully ate into this category, and bit a rather substantial chunks out of it. It's only been ~6 months into this experience, but the "big tasks" for me now are the ones that benefit from substantial use of keyboard and/or mouse. If it's only about screen space or doing things in 2-3 apps at the time, chances are my phone is now good enough for its mobility to beat inconvenience - though chances are also good that at least one of the programs will be a browser, because mobile apps still suck.
>I also wondered for many years why most of them didn't quit their jobs when on paper they would have been able to do so, but work is not a great place to ask those sorts of questions.
Because they're smart enough to know neither money nor leisure is not the be all end all...
We'll know it's been cracked when all the lost Bitcoins start to move.
Using an example with even more shady pricing practices isn't going to help much here.
India has 3x domestic PV manufacturing capacity (~154.4GW/year) versus current demand (~50GW/year). They are deploying ~2GW of solar every month, with ~105GW currently in development pipelines. As the piece indicates, grid and battery storage investments are critical to avoiding additional coal generation need. Solar and storage are currently roughly half the cost of new coal.
India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/indias-electrotech-... - January 22nd, 2026
Coal’s diminishing role in India’s electricity transition - https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/coals-diminishing-r... - October 29th, 2025
India's Solar Manufacturing Excesses Turn a Boom into a Glut - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050286 - February 2025
The article (with its doom-scrolling) suggests some stats phones should have:
Dismissing a notification ...... 22%
Intentional use ................ 20%
Checking something that pinged . 18%
Replying to a person ........... 15%
Updating/configuring/fixing .... 12%
Unlocking, forgetting why ...... 8%
Managing a subscription ........ 5%
The real headache is that everything with a network connection needs system administration.
Unless you use it several times a day, downloading an "app" just gets in the way. You should never have to download an "app" for a one-time use.
We never went back to the restaurant in Cupertino where the table QR code tried to force downloading an app that onboarded you into a food delivery service. That restaurant was treating on-site customers as delivery orders with a very short delivery distance. The food wasn't very good, either.
I am looking for a 60 ft+ steel ship if you come across one.
The Dodgers could have so easily turned this into a huge win. After 50 years they could have just awarded him a paper lifetime pass. Scan this and get in for any game! It would have been so easy.
Or if they really wanted him to go digital, just buy him a smart phone and install the app for him!
From my quick research online, it seems they've gone digital-only for season tickets because they don't want people just reselling them to turn a profit. They want actual season-long fans, so now if you transfer too many games they can track it and ban you. This is essentially anti-scalping. There's a legit justification.
You can still buy paper tickets at the stadium for a single game. But not for season passes anymore.
Apparently they've been making exceptions for him in years past where he was able to pay hundreds of dollars to have them custom printed for him. And this year they've decided to no longer provide that exception.
Honestly, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me. At some point, you have to cut off previous technologies because virtually everyone's moved to something better. You also can't buy tickets any more by snail mail with an enclosed check.
If this guy has the money for a season pass (!) he has the money for a smartphone. It seems like he just likes the nostalgia of paper tickets. But that's not a reason to add a separate ticketing flow just for him any more, like they had been up till now.
https://www.aol.com/articles/81-old-lifelong-dodgers-fan-012...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dodgers/comments/1s5fkni/la_dodgers...
ITAR feels a lot like Bernstein v. US all over again. Until very recently, everyone who can do anything that would be covered by ITAR was a giant corporation that likes the moat that regulations create, so it's unthinkable to challenge it. But that is changing, just like cryptography was in the early 90s.
Original reporting source:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/dodgers-fan-printed...
Thankfully I still buy proper music, what a sad state for human culture.
I am just waiting for everything to implode so that we can do away with those KPIs.
Underground data centers are looking better by the day. Deep underground. I can see some uses for abandoned mines.
I don't think you should call something 'open source' until you've released the source, but other than that this is an extremely impressive project. HAM's have been doing EME since forever (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear... ), it is a very neat trick.
It almost looks as if the EME bounce capability of this antenna is a fig leaf or an afterthought, my own 'applications' list would be a lot of things, but not that.
Here in my corner of Europe it seems to be working fine.
(1) The demand for fast compilation in languages like Go came from the terrible experience people had with C++
(2) The road to C++ was quite empirical, path-dependent, and "worse is better". Languages like PL/I, Ada, and the Modula series were aiming for the same niche but had a combination of bad ideas, excessive complication and being born just before we realized that every future OS outside the embedded space would look enough like POSIX that C's API for I/O would be portable
(3) Today I'm a little frustrated that we don't have languages that trade a slower build for more expressiveness or flexibility. Like I wish Python really exposed that PEG grammar. It doesn't have to be much harder to add an
unless(X):
if(!X):
Another fun related one: If your username is Tyler and you run shutdown, instead of the usual message it will say "Oh, good morning Mr. Tyler, going down?"
Discovered this in college when I was shoulder surfing a coworker who always used the username Tyler. When he typed shutdown I called it out, and he said, "wait, it doesn't do that for you? I always assumed it said that for everyone and just replaced the username!".
(For those of you too young to know, it's a reference to an Aerosmith song)
That Hegseth one is an extraordinary piece of media. It's dense with Hegseth and Epstein lore, the song is catchy, the visuals are a significant cut above the normal AI slop aesthetic.
If this is Iranian state backed propaganda (which seems very likely) it's light years ahead of those White House videos with footage of bombs mixed in with clips from action movies.
A few years ago I had an interesting experience at a company where I was working on a new prototype iPhone app and asked people around the office to install it... and a surprising number of people didn't want to do it because their phone was full already and they didn't want to delete photos in order to try a new app.
Made me realize that for a lot of people who get cheaper phones with less storage installing a new app is actually a pretty big decision.
While I sympathize with the author, and feel the same way, I think Apple/Google have some blame here. They make certain simple things only possible in the apps, because the APIs are not exposed via the web.
Notifications is a big obvious one. Not sure if they've changed it since I last looked into it, but having an app installed was the only way to send a notification to someone for a long time.
https://communitynets.org/content/community-network-map
https://communitynetworks.org/content/municipal-ftth-network...
How to Build a Fiber Network on a Small-City Budget [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUhtdBZbOMc
Getting Fiber to My Town [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24424910 - September 2020 (126 comments)
> many academics are often specialized in one area of their expertise and overfit in that dimension
An economist saying a national-security measure costs this much is fine. Where it goes off the rails is in turning costs into damnation without accounting for what one gets in return. In an attention-driven media environment, that sells.
What I've noticed is that whenever Claude says something like "the simplest fix is..." it's usually suggesting some horrible hack. And whenever I see that I go straight to the code it wants to write and challenge it.
I'm not sure that's the best takeaway here, in that it gets the causation wrong. It's not the deal that made the customer bad, it's that the bad customer insisted on getting a deal, whereas a good customer usually knows what quality costs and is prepared to pay.
The takeaway here is probably that the fix isn't just "never discount", but it's to screen for the kind of customer who treats a good deal as an invitation to strengthen the relationship.
I ran the tech side of the most popular independent ISP in Chicago (I guess they were mostly all independent back then) in the mid-late 1990s, and Usenet was the biggest nightmare we had to deal with. We were solid at it, too (Freenix-ranked, independently worked out the INN history cache, &c). Nothing we did had more fussy hardware associated with it.
The problem for us wasn't spammers; it was binaries. That's what killed Usenet.
(I loved Usenet, but also: good riddance.)
Yes - oddly parallel to the VDV decapitation attack on Ukraine. Supposed to be a quick win, now a quagmire, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead Russians.
Uh huh, sure.
There does seem to have been a psyop. With them being the target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Helmets_(Syrian_civil_wa...
See also: 'Euphoria'
Debt monetization is not happening. There's been significant expansion of the money supply, which got the US through COVID at a one-off cost of about 10% inflation in one year, which I think was a reasonable cost of covering the crisis (especially compared to the GDP response in less generous countries!)
What's happening is a much simpler, more drastic concern: does the US respect its international commitments?
> where the government should step in and say “welp, you took too long, we’re now funding municiple fiber and we’ll give it to everyone cheap
Thereby accruing not only a capital expenditure but ongoing operational obligation? How is this better than scaring the cable company into fronting the cash to get the same outcome?
> arbitrary seizure of treaty-protected deposits
One, Russia’s stuff hasn’t been seized. Europe tried. But, in true form, failed to get its act together.
Two, is the argument really that Trump would be constrained by precedent if Europe and the U.S. got into a situation where seizing the former’s gold comes on the table?
Any that forbid or restrict satellite comms?
Don’t use this in Iran.
Yes, irony depends on correctness.
It would be ironic for me to make a typo while bashing your spelling prowess. It would not be ironic if I didn’t.
It is similarly ironic that the Alanis Morrisette song about irony mostly mentions non-ironic things; “rain on your wedding day” isn’t ironic! And that’s ironic!
Many banks are known for pulling from a particular one.
Beats just making a mess of a language adopting every fancy feature other programming languages have immediately.
This article mixes the science with unnecessarily gendered language. It turns "a lying down position helps the doctor" to "men decided women should be on their backs" and "one pervert king liked watching women give birth, therefore somehow that's why".
Can't we just focus on the scientific advantages and not try to shoehorn sexism into everything?
As @somenameforme wrote:
[] they sold their 'non-standard' (seems to be bars below the modern purity standards) US reserves, and replaced them with new reserves purchased elsewhere which are now stored in France. As the price of gold continued to rise as they did this, they ended up making a bunch of dinero while also centralizing their reserves.
sounds like a gain to me.
>The decline is not just about the heart. VO₂ max falls by approximately 46% between ages 20 and 70, while maximal cardiac output falls by only 31% over the same period. The gap between those two numbers is the first quantitative signal that something beyond cardiac output is driving the loss.
The difference in % is modest enough that it just seems to implie it's not directly 45 degree linear, but has a not that impressive multiplier. Why would vo2max and cardiac output be perfectly direct? After all vo2max also takes into account the lungs and muscles for example.
However, very few tapeloader games ever tried to load more assets from tape. Generally it would just load a memory image and that would be that for the entire game.
Couldn't care less for a missing table or figure, or even for the whole paper. The theory is interesting in itself.
Nah that's how it's spelled in French.
I was also so sure I'd seen this earlier.
Clicking on 'past' also didn't show any results. Neither did Algolia help. I guess that's because both the title and the site are different.
Have been seen this happening many times lately on HN.
True, but: Microsoft haven't made a better UI framework that's portable to Windows yet. Everything after WPF has near zero adoption, including (critically important!) by Microsoft itself.
I don't see cloning UNIX every piece of hardware with a CPU as positive, so it isn't a valid point for me.
As computer nerd I favour diversity just like I had the pleasure to enjoy during the 8 and 16 bit home computing days.
Vertical integration of computers with a soul, full stack experience.
“Using UNIX is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.”
— Rob Pike
Nope, Microsoft redid the design due to the amount of Linux syscalls that were still left to implement.
What is this goal post moving? First the was file system access, then it became being unstable, what is going to be the next point?
Let me make it easier, WSL 1.0 did not support the syscalls for X Windows implementation.
Ideally we would still only use JavaScript on the browser, personally I don't care about about the healthy competition, rather that npm actually works when I am stuck writing server side code I didn't ask for.
A great improvement, already available for a few Java versions, that most likely Android Java will never support.
Being a 70's child, in computing since the mid 80s you made me almost spill my Monday coffee.
What a laugh, do you want the examples on Apple's side?
This thread feels like it went off the rails given that every locale I've ever lived in (many across the US) had fine, working garbage collection, and plenty of competent garbage men who worked for what I'm guessing was decent pay, certainly less than $10 million a year.
This is what groups like the EFF are for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_litigation_involving_t...
The same size as Super Mario Bros. (NES, 1985)
> Today, I explicitly only support two architectures: 64-bit x86 and ARM (little-endian). It is wonderful that we have arrived at the point where this is a completely viable proposition. In most cases the cost of supporting marginal users on rare architectures in the year 2026 is not worth it.
This - and efforts to reintroduce BE should be resisted in the same way as people who want to drive on the other side of the road for pure whimsy.
I note that we've mostly converged on one set of floating point semantics as well, although across a range of bit widths.
The US spends more per capita, and even as a share of GDP, on healthcare out of public funds than some advanced industrialized states that have universal systems, as well as spending even more on healthcare out of private funds than out of public funds. If we didn’t have a system which expended vast quantities of additional resources in order to assure that a substantial subset of the population is denied needed healthcare and instead just provided the needed healthcare, we could fund all those other things without cutting back on the war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace, either direct or those that we subsidize that are executed by other regimes.
We still should cut down (ideally to zero) on war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace, but the reason is because those things are unqualified evil on their own, not because doing so is necessary to fund healthcare and other priorities, which it very much is not.
If there is one term that has lost its value over the last three decades it is 'national security'. That gets trotted out for any number of reasons, the easiest and in my opinion most accurate interpretation is that it stands in for 'our desire to do this'.
If you want to keep software working on systems with a 9-bit byte or other weirdness, that's entirely on you. No one else needs or wants the extra complexity. Little endian is logical and won, big endian is backwards and lost for good reason. (Look at how arbitrary precision arithmetic is implemented on a BE system; chances are it's effectively LE anyway.)
It’s peak irony a company owned by the search overlord.
...whose search engine has itself become noticeably less of a search engine and more of a recommendation/sheeple-herding engine over time.
Check their comment history. This account is either trolling or just spouting talking points, it is getting pretty tiring. They can't even be bothered to properly cut-and-paste, see the missing 'I' at the beginning of the comment above.
> They're also competing to make as much profit as possible, which has effectively zero benefit for the public.
The end result is plenty of cheap stuff for people to buy. It's why free markets have full supermarkets and socialist markets have long lines.
Take the free market in software, for example. My entire software stack on my linux box cost me $0.
> Also have you checked the birth rate? Do you expect it to grow in a post-war context?
Yes, birth rates tend to go up when wars end.
> in the same sentence you say ‘for the first time’ and then ‘Plenty of precedent’. You either have no idea what ‘plenty’ means or you contradict yourself
This is baffling.
Women entering the workforce in the 1940s due to the war is the precedent. It happened throughout the developed world. We are now eighty years past that demonstration.
> The story of your country, which seems the only one you know, isn‘t as relevant as, for example, the history of ussr. We didn’t have a boomer generation.
There was indeed a birth rate spike in the 1940s in Russia.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1038013/crude-birth-rate...
Unfortunately… Stalin.
Side note: I have dual citizenship, so I’m not sure which one of them is “the only one” I know.
Most of the world is below replacement rate (~2.1 TFR), the rest will get there in a decade or two. Educated, empowered women delay having children, have less children, or no children. Holds across both developed and developing countries.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/15/5-facts-a...
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-countries-by-fert...
When I apply for a job, I use data to figure out the highest salary the company will accept.
What I've heard is it's "thousands", "100k+", and "millions", which doesn't sound like anything trustworthy.
Besides, that's not what "buffoonery" means.
The tl;dr is basically to stay with Win32 and ignore all the new and shiny.
That AI image at the end was more amusing than informative. Almost lost it at "Win15" and "Chrondum + frade.js".
Opposing viewpoint: discovered AI music without even realising it was AI, and now pleased with getting effectively infinite free entertainment. Just like human-made music, there's a lot of bad and mediocre, but occasionally great music. It's not like humans were creating in a void either --- everything is a derivative work.
Nothing against this project, it's been the case since forever that you could get better quality responses by simple telling your LLM to be brief and to the point, to ask salient questions rather than reflexively affirm, and eschew cliches and faddish writing styles.
Again, we're talking about retirees, homemakers, college students, disabled, etc. here.
> There are a lot of things you can do in a rich, tiny, homogenous country that you can't do in a enormous, diverse country.
The US is a large collection of a whole bunch of rich (by global standards), tiny, fairly homogenous areas. We manage roads and schools at state, county, and local levels; we could do municipal broadband.
> AI-generated content should have the same amount of copyright as prompt texts.
That's about right currently.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...
"Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the justices after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection because it did not have a human creator."
> From their perspective, gambling on a new managed-code framework had produced the most embarrassing failure in the company’s history
Most embarrassing failure in the company’s history that far.
All connections to the Internet are at some level "shared", except perhaps if you get a direct connection to one of the core routers. As others have mentioned, this is in a dense area and much closer to being in a LAN environment.
The other point that I'd like to bring up is how useful is a 25G connection to your local demarcation point if your speeds to most sites will be far lower in practice because the Internet isn't circuit-switched.
Care to give a rebuttal?
'Way back when the universe was formed, the first stack frames came into existence. Nobody truly knows who mapped them there, though among the well-learned, whispers of a great kernel are heard, a certain "Linux".'
That was 1970-01-01T00:00Z right?
As Peter Theil literally said, "Competition is for losers."
I am quite impresses it still is.
This isn't in the slightest bit complicated. Wikipedia does not allow AI edits or unregistered bots. This was both. They banned it. The fact that it play-acted being annoyed on its "blog" is not new, we saw the exact same thing with that GitHub PR mess a couple of months ago: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...