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by timssopomo | 2025-04-14 15:04:06+00:00
Before the industrial revolution, there wasn't a ton of difference. If you look at a plane made in the early 19th century in both Japan and the US or Europe, they'd look pretty similar. A carpenter on one continent would probably be able to orient and use tools on the other easily.

Modern metal-bodied planes do work similarly, in that both let you set a blade slightly beyond a flat sole, allowing you to remove high surfaces on wood. That's about where the similarities end.

Japanese blades are laminated steel, and quality blades are hand-made by smiths. Smiths use proprietary techniques to make blades that can maintain edges for longer than machine-forged steels. Chipbreakers are made of laminated steel as well and can keep the primary blade under tons of tension, allowing it to remain stable even when cutting against the grain. Wooden bodies allow skilled users to adjust the blade depth within microns without sacrificing stability. Wooden bodies are easily adjusted to fit the needs of the user.

To use an analogy: using a western hand plane is a lot like trying to race a Camry rather than a Porsche. It's not that the Camry is wrong - it's just built differently. The Porsche is really easy to drive into a ditch if you're not careful. It'll break down a lot, but it'll also perform much better for a skilled driver. The Camry, conversely, will be easier for anyone to drive and probably go a lot longer without maintenance. It works fine as a daily driver, and you can tune it so that it'll perform like a Porsche would, but a very well-tuned Camry is probably not going to outperform a well-tuned Porsche and a person used to driving a Porsche is probably going to complain about the Camry's handling.
by tim333 | 2025-04-14 15:04:17+00:00
I think the whole two sides in a class war model is a bit dated. If you are thinking workers and owners of capital there is a spectrum between the Musks at one end and minimum wage workers at the other with most techies somewhere in the middle owning some property and or equity. The system should maybe be modified to make it fairer but the splitting into two side who fight each other thing doesn't really work.
Show HN: A Free InBody Scan Organizer and Tracker
by neonwatty | 2025-04-14 15:04:40+00:00
InBody scanners are widely used at gyms and clinics like Planet Fitness, Lifetime Fitness, CrossFit boxes, and F45 studios — but their official app only supports a few models and captures limited data. I built this simple app to scratch my own itch: just snap a photo of your printed scan from any InBody model, and it automatically extracts all metrics, stores the image, and tracks your progress over time.
by jacobr1 | 2025-04-14 15:04:42+00:00
Three big places:

1 - Claude Desktop (and some more niche AI chat apps) - you can use MCPs to extend these chat systems today. I use a small number daily.

2 - Code Automation tools - they pretty much all have added MCP. Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, VSCode GH Codepilot, etc ...

3 - Agent/LLM automation frameworks. There are a ton of tools to build agentic apps and many support using MCP to to integrate third party APIs with limited to no boilerplate. And if there are are large libraries of every third party system you can imagine (like npm - but for APIs) then these are going to get used.

Still early days - but tons of real use, at least by the early adopter crowd. It isn't just a spec sitting on a shelf for all the many faults.
by mdip | 2025-04-14 15:04:53+00:00
Interesting ... it's presented in the context of drugs for curing infections.

I wonder if this is being used for other drugs. My curiosity stems from personal experience: I had Migraine headaches from age 17 to about 35. I was put on ancient seizure medication that's common prescribed for Bipolar[0] because this doctor had three other patients that it nearly eliminated Migraine from. It was fall, a time when I'd get about one a week. After five days of taking it, I had my first Migraine ... if you could call it that -- I could only identify that it was a Migraine by the aura; the pain was about 10% what I'm used to).

Searching through the web, I found a forum that was filled with Migraine sufferers. Sure enough, there were a handful of people who swore by it. There were also a handful of people who it didn't work for. Looking at the more official sources, there was no indication that this drug could have any effect on Migraine; they listed all of the other off-label uses[1], but Migraine was not among them.

This medication had been in the news several times (and on the front page, here[2]) over the last few years and a year ago (or so), I looked it up on the "official sources", again. It now indicated that it was prescribed for Migraine.

It made me wonder ... how are things like that figured out/communicated down-stream? Is it entirely informally amongst doctors? I went to four different specialists before I found one who suggested this drug -- and he did so in a "half-hearted manner" not truly expecting it would work. It'd be nice if this was centrally tracked/managed as it might surface both "new uses for old drugs" and "new problems with old drugs."

[0] Which I do not have.

[1] It's rarely, if ever, prescribed for what it was originally approved for.

[2] It's Depakote, I'm not being cagey for nefarious purposes, I just didn't want this to be a drug advertisement.
by rubyfan | 2025-04-14 15:04:58+00:00
I think many were rightly adopting DEI initiatives in an environment post me-too and post George Floyd. I don’t think it was driven by hype but more a reaction to the environment which heightened awareness of societal injustices. Awareness led to all sorts of things - conversation, compassion, attempts to do better in society and the workplace, and probably law suits. You can question how motivated corporations were to adopt DEI initiatives but I think it’d be wrong to say it was driven by hype.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-04-14 15:05:31+00:00
> pronounced "infeasible" as "in-THESE-able."

What other way could you pronounce it?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=0...

...unless you're saying he pronounced the 'F' as a 'TH'?
by jfengel | 2025-04-14 15:06:11+00:00
They say you never reach the end saying "I wish I had spent more time at the office".

I wonder if that's true. At least, I could see somebody spending the last months of their life complaining that they had run out of money, and that their lives would have been so much better if they'd been richer.

It would be great if we knew of a thing that fulfilled our souls while also preventing our bodies from starving. Unfortunately, even the upper-middle-class don't know when they can stop working and just coast on their money -- and most don't really know what their "true calling" would have been.
by scythe | 2025-04-14 15:06:16+00:00
>Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?”

Bolsonaro was such an unbelievably terrible president that The Economist, that infamous right-wing rag (full disclosure: I am a long-time subscriber), endorsed Lula against him in 2018. If you're going to complain "does anyone care any more?" about a loss of common sense in politics, you probably shouldn't pair that complaint with a defense of Jair Bolsonaro, of all people.
by perdomon | 2025-04-14 15:07:27+00:00
Based on this article, it doesn't sound like he did anything illegal (initially). He saw an opportunity and took advantage of it not unlike high frequency trading in the late 90s/early 2000s. Decentralized markets operate in a space that's inherently risky -- if they don't want to get exploited, hire better engineers or get out of the game. Begging the government for help when you got bested isn't how decentralization works.
by 6510 | 2025-04-14 15:08:12+00:00
https://darienite.com/great-10-hour-new-york-chicago-railroa...

They do Beijing to Shanghai in 5 hours so you have to make New York to Chicago in 4 or it doesn't count.

The numbers are funny. Flying from New York to Chicago takes less than 2 hours but all things considered you lose 8 hours https://www.trippy.com/fly/New-York-City-to-Chicago

You might as well drive it in 12.
by palmotea | 2025-04-14 15:08:32+00:00
Says a CEO who's in a good position to extract more value from IP, once the little guy loses his rights.

Literally the first thing that's going to happen if "all IP law" is deleted, is all royalty checks back to artists and authors will stop. The next thing that will happen is any works of value will become locked down and restricted like you wouldn't believe (maybe movie theaters will see a resurgence, as it will be too risky to let others have possession of media files that cost millions to make).
by tpayet | 2025-04-14 15:09:39+00:00
Actually, Meilisearch uses the RAM available by design because it uses LMDB (which is memory-mapped) under the hood for key-value storage.

It's a feature, not a bug :D

The cool thing about that is that it is the OS that will get to choose which process to allocate memory, and you can always run it somewhere with less memory available, and it will work the same way
by nmeofthestate | 2025-04-14 15:09:48+00:00
My experience is limited - I work in the UK for a US company and haven't spoken to US developers from a wide variety of companies. However I've not heard any US developers talking about working such long hours. Closest thing I've heard is for devs to sometimes work over the core hours to build up time-in-lieu for extra vacation, over and above the paltry standard 2 week holiday allowance.
by byungsoopark | 2025-04-14 15:10:13+00:00
I've written a condensed summary version as a technical abstract here, in case anyone wants a quicker overview before diving into the full PDF: https://blog.naver.com/as33sa/223833263822 This version focuses on the key principles, system architecture, and potential applications. Since the original PDF is quite dense and spans 13 pages, I created this summary to make it easier for readers to grasp the core ideas more quickly. Feedback is always appreciated!
by gr4vityWall | 2025-04-14 15:10:44+00:00
> how do you monetize your personal code if it doesn’t really fit into a classic product or SaaS model?

Release it, and if it gets popular, you may sell consultancy time to interested parties.

Otherwise, if it really doesn't work as a business, I wouldn't try to monetize it. Unless I misunderstood your post, there is no need to.

From a personal perspective, I prefer writing Free Software, in both senses of the word. From a "I want money" perspective, contributing to Free Software in the past always resulted in better job opportunities to me.
by pornel | 2025-04-14 15:11:09+00:00
Less controversially, when you write C, you write for a virtual machine described by the C spec, not your actual hardware.

Your C optimizer is emulating that VM when performing symbolic execution, and the compiler backend is cross-compiling from it. It's an abstract hardware that doesn't have signed overflow, has a hidden extra bit for every byte of memory that says whether it's initialized or not, etc.

Assembly-level languages let you write your own calling conventions, arrange the stack how you want, and don't make padding bytes in structs cursed.
by TrackerFF | 2025-04-14 15:11:23+00:00
One universal law is that if you steal from people with more money than you, you're screwed. And the more money they have, the worse off you are.

But on a serious note, whenever you read about some people that have either managed to outright steal crypto, or find some vulnerability which hasn't been legality tested...and they just pack their bags, hoping to live life free, forever after. It just seems so naive, too naive with how smart these individuals otherwise tend to be.

I think it is fair to say that once you'll cross a threshold, could be a million. could be 10 million. could be 50 million. All depends on who you've taken it from, you'll realistically be hunted for life.

The people that do get away with these things, are state sponsored operators - but they don't walk away with tens of millions in loot, either.

EDIT: Reading the article, this guy sounds like a real piece of work.
by dani__german | 2025-04-14 15:11:25+00:00
people are getting quite snippy about this comment, but hating this mindset means you lock yourself away from so much actual wealth. It means you confine and condemn people to significantly worse economic conditions by limiting people's ability to freely associate and disassociate.

just to hammer this point home: Every mandatory employee benefit has a huge cost, and adding enough of them kills your economy. It makes it more expensive to have an employee than X many jobs can justify. That X grows every year, and that's X people who cant do that job and get paid money for it.
by sweezyjeezy | 2025-04-14 15:11:50+00:00
I agree that it's a little hard to care about this author's situation as much as other stories I've heard in the past couple of years. But that said, losing a job like this is never a nice place to be, and I don't hate this person for having those emotions. People are allowed to feel things, shaming them for that is not nice.

But I would caution people against writing public statements like this when they are still in shock, you might regret them later, better to try and regain some balance first.
by stuck12345 | 2025-04-14 15:11:50+00:00
we pivoted away from it for fairly dumb reasons ngl. my cofounder didn't segment ICP whatsoever and then got mixed signals from the market and eventually decided there wasn't a need. in hindsight, there was demand we just botched it. this is my first year doing startups and it's my fault not learning enough startup basics when we got started.
by ajb | 2025-04-14 15:11:51+00:00
Displays are not made of paint, though - they use light.

There are two models of combination:

- subtractive, which applies to paint, since the more you mix in the more frequencies are absorbed

- additive, which applies to light, as mixing an extra light adds the frequencies in it

So additive, where more colour tends to white, is correct.
by tempfile | 2025-04-14 15:12:02+00:00
"Code is Law" is a profoundly immature idea, and I am surprised anyone other than children take it seriously. The law is not, and never has been, something that is read literally and taken at face value. This is the entire reason that judges and lawyers exist.

Saying "The code let me do it, so it should be legal" is a bit like if I leave a "free to a good home" sign on a plant pot outside my home, and it leans on my car. It does not mean you are permitted to take my car, no matter how "obvious" it seems to you that it should.
by Havoc | 2025-04-14 15:12:31+00:00
Reddit in general is getting wild. Entire comment sections on clips have half the people 100% convinced it is AI and everyone who cant see it is stupid.

And the other half of comments is precise opposite. Equally convinced that it is real and the other half are morons.

And if you can’t get consensus on what’s even real then who posted it (bot/human) and potential motivations for doing so becomes murky too. Everything just sorta collapses. Can’t tell if the content is real. Can’t tell if the poster is real. Can’t tell if comment authors are real. Might not be all bots but may as well be
by TZubiri | 2025-04-14 15:12:50+00:00
I haven't checked and I don't know how it would render. But it is worth noting that since this was designed against an earlier version of css, it might render differently in older browsers.

For example, older monitors had less pixels, so it's likely that the wrapping was sensible in older monitor/browser configs.

To say nothing of browser defaults being different, if this was pre-css, then the margins might have been baked into the default browser interpretation. In other words, pre-margin property, a webpage without margin didn't mean "this has no margin", in the sense that a modern webpage without margin specified would mean "DO NOT ADD MARGIN TO THIS!".
by gizajob | 2025-04-14 15:12:57+00:00
I've commented here for a while that I feel like Tim Cook could be the problem.

I don't know where in the Steve Jobs playbook they are getting "stagnate for a decade and miss every boat by years". The Vision Pro release has been a debacle if not an out-and-out failure. We are told that Cook is in the job because he's a logistics genius and a getting-things-done expert, but the Vision Pro for example was a logistics failure, and a product failure, the likes of which Jobs would have rolled heads for. Siri is kind of nice but its functionality is basic at best, still.

I remember the story about the meeting Steve Jobs called about iCloud, where he asked the MobileMe team (paraphrasing) "What does MobileMe do?" and the team listed all the features, to which Jobs responded "well why doesn't it fucking do that?" and fired a bunch of them on the spot – later rescuing it somewhat by turning MobileMe into iCloud. Even Scott Forestall got the chopping block after delivering the UI for the iPhone very successfully, but was nevertheless still booted due to political and personality issues.

Yet have we heard of executives getting fired and berated for failures recently? No. Have any major heads rolled over the weakness like the Vision Pro and painful attempt at integrating ChatGPT? No. Have you tried to use "Image Playground" to make anything useful without it throwing up "sorry I can't do that for you Dave"? No, because it barely works, and won't create almost all the pictures I'd like it to, again because Apple are scared to the point of paranoia about anything that might damage their image, including the things now that they're baking into the computer that I paid for and yet cannot use in the way I wish. Is the iPhone actually better than its Android competitors? No.

It's understandable that they don't want to disturb the golden eggs of the iPhone and its huge profits, but I think Apple really do need to make some major changes in what they're doing and how they innovate going forward, and they need to be as daring as Steve Jobs would have been in doing it. Tim Cook isn't that guy.
by jstanley | 2025-04-14 15:13:27+00:00
> If you believe in cryptocurrencies, you can't run to the courts when people use them as designed, even if they didn't use them as intended.

If you believe in cash, does that mean you can't run to the courts if someone steals your cash?

If your security proves insufficient to prevent a theft, that doesn't mean the theft was legal! It just means your security was insufficient.

That security can be enforced by mathematics instead of courts is definitely a benefit of cryptocurrency, but when it goes wrong courts still matter.
by uokesita | 2025-04-14 15:13:33+00:00
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by bosse | 2025-04-14 15:13:39+00:00
I've been using Wallabag for articles I want to deal with later, with the Frigoligo app on iOS for offline reading. For bookmarks, I've been using the Floccus extension with the Nextcloud Bookmarks app.

I'm missing the social aspect of bookmarks on del.icio.us though, so I'll check out Omnom and the other mentions in this thread of what people are using.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-14 15:13:47+00:00
This argument comes up a lot, similar to the "humans lie, too" line of reasoning

The difference in your cited case is that employees are a class of legal person which is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which they work, along with any legal contracts they signed as a condition of their employment. So, that's a shitload of words to say "there are consequences" which isn't true of a bunch of matrix multiplications that happen to speak English and know how to invoke RPCs
by uokesita | 2025-04-14 15:14:00+00:00
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by BrandoElFollito | 2025-04-14 15:14:06+00:00
Of course, everything is relative. When I finished my PhD, getting a postdoc was easy and money was not really a concern. I did a "double PhD" (in two schools) and there were no problems for me to travel between the two (and associated costs).

Now the world is fundamentally different and it is much more difficult. Not to mention that people move from academia to industry, sometimes fro financial reasons.

When you put 16 B€ in front of that to study stuff that may be useful in 1000 years if we do a breakdown before (otherwise it won't) and you look at the site of budgets in universities, there is another relativity to be taken into account
by tempfile | 2025-04-14 15:14:15+00:00
> If you believe in cryptocurrencies, you can't run to the courts when people use them as designed, even if they didn't use them as intended.

Yes, indeed. And when people leave their home unlocked the thieves should get to keep their stuff. What kind of savagery is this?

> If you end up using the legal system to remediate undesired transactions, what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place?

Great question, we have been waiting for answers for nearly a decade now...
by matteason | 2025-04-14 15:14:41+00:00
It looks like you haven't launched yet, and there's just a waitlist sign up?

Show HN is for things people can try, and sign-up pages are explicitly off-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

There are more tips for Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
by dionidium | 2025-04-14 15:15:16+00:00
I am of two minds about this. As a matter of human disappointment, I totally get it. They liked working there. Now they don't. It's not their choice. And it sucks. This is extremely relatable.

But the naïveté and confusion on display in the post are extremely not relatable. What do you think a company is? What do you think a job is? What is it that you think you're doing there? And what is it that you believe you are owed?

On this front, this person talks like an alien -- or, more condescendingly, a child. I can't relate to it at all, nor do I think it's polite or kind to play along and pretend that their worldview is understandable.

Maybe -- maybe -- you could say something like, "look, these companies lie to their employees. They tell them that they're family, that they should bring their whole selves to work, that they are changing the world, that they matter to the company as an individual. You can't blame them for believing it."

But I do. Those are such ridiculous lies that I somehow have more contempt for anybody who believes them than I do the liars, who I view mostly to be playing out a kind of benign social fiction that's transparently fake to everybody involved.