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by hackrmn | 2025-05-01 17:58:14+00:00
Ironically, perhaps, I just read the article while taking a micro-break from writing a triangle rasterizer (aliased, aka pixel-art / retro) in WebAssembly. It'll probably feature rendering performance orders of magnitude slower than a graphics card from 20 years ago, and I am well aware of it but the truth is I am not doing it because I am still nurturing a dream of becoming one of the rich rock stars of IT from an era that passed me by those same 20 years ago. No, it's just that I find it pleasurable to do these things, exactly because I don't need to stay competitive doing it -- well, not against hordes of very capable software engineers churning all kind of useful _valuable_ systems. Not the least because I am doing the things I do like the above, during my spare time, and I have reasons to believe there's plenty need for the artistic pet projects done in spare time on intake of inspiration.

So yeah, just reminding everyone that not everything is about fierce competition -- if artists can chain smoke and drink their life through ups and downs of patronage, so can everyone else.

Noone says we should stop being responsible, but all the responsibility and adulting without play is much, much worse, in my opinion, than the alternative. It just so happens that I relax writing code.

I am still writing other things that have long been invented, and they consistently give me inspiration.

Not sure if I missed the point of the article, but I react to what I read from it, after all.
by TuxSH | 2025-05-01 17:59:00+00:00
Personally, I'm getting 15 tok/s on both RTX 3060 and my MacBook Air M4 (w/ 32GB, but 24 should suffice), with the default config from LMStudio.

Which I find even more impressive, considering the 3060 is the most used GPU (on Steam) and that M4 Air and future SoCs are/will be commonplace too.

(Q4_K_M with filesize=18GB)
by thisisit | 2025-05-01 17:59:01+00:00
The more I read opinions like these, the more it becomes clear to me that people have no clue how markets or consumerism works. Questions are never considered. Like: Where are the raw materials for those local trailers and park benches coming from? What is the impact if some of the raw material used for local trailers and park benches are diverted towards making $139 low quality computer cases? Most importantly that even though "someone in America can sell the customer a box of some sort for $139", is there a market where people want to buy these low quality boxes?

The answer is that the time for sub par quality products is coming. Just not American made. If companies cannot import a decent quality box to sell for $139 and instead need to get a "barebones case" costing $70 and then mark it up to $139 to cover for tariffs -- that is what is going to happen. And given that lot of consumer protections like EPA, CFPB, FDA etc are being gutted - there is no going back if the box breaks down within the warranty period and you need or refund. Or worse yet, it contains lead or other harmful chemicals and it is going to be costly to remove those chemicals.
by anonymars | 2025-05-01 17:59:13+00:00
Devil's advocate: what is the typical markup at retail stores?

I am inclined to agree with you, it feels like rent seeking at some level (middlemen profiting from the work of the creator), but at the same time, there are many moving parts to get product into the hands of customers so I'm not sure what's fair / standard.

(This is separate from the topic of the article, in which Apple prohibits others from looking elsewhere for these services, which sure seems like textbook anticompetitive behavior)
by swatcoder | 2025-05-01 17:59:29+00:00
You're right about the individuals you're calling out, as well as some others, but I don't think it's fair to say "most" tech leaders.

It's just a few of the most troubled celebrity wealth-addicts making public the inherent ego-fragility that tends to drive addiction in the first place.

Meanwhile, there's still sooo many other tech leaders just trying to develop whatever vision they have for their business, industry, career, etc

Not all tech or business leaders are addicts, but some are, and as a society we tend to enable and even celebrate their addiction for whatever reason. Because of that, and because of power that comes with wealth, some of them wreak havoc as they use that power to manifest their very deep troubles in the public sphere.

And it's not a new phenemonom, nor particular to the tech industry. You can see it happen again and again and again throughout history.
by cjs_ac | 2025-05-01 18:00:21+00:00
Aside from the overarching thread of the current crop of CEOs struggling to come to terms with the fact that their empires are now all they'll ever be and it's up to others to continue innovating, I found these quotes interesting:

> The Internet is no longer the world's great frontier, and the pool of unsatisfied wants that suddenly welled up as the world first came online is not what it once was. There once was no graphical operating system, no decent web browser, no search engine that could find what you were looking for. The basic amenities are now there. Of course there is still much room for innovation, but merely being able to write a computer program and understand what computer networks are good for is no longer the superpower it once was. If you're young enough to pound Red Bulls all night, you're probably not old enough to have the breadth of knowledge required to launch a great software product.

> Maybe most of the critical things that can be created by one guy typing furiously are gone, and the opportunities that remain require expertise and wisdom from a bunch of different people.

The tech companies that became big after 2008 solved problems with the same spirit as Jeremy Clarkson asking, 'How hard can it be?' and proceeding to build an electric car with a moustache called Geoff[0]. Those companies - Uber, AirBnB, Meta, Twitter, and so on - waded into very complex problem spaces, waved the magic wand of software, and used vast amounts of venture capital to obliterate the traditional solutions to these problems before anyone could realise how unsatisfactory these new solutions were. So now governments are coming up with all sorts of regulations - some of which are completely inappropriate - in an attempt to get these companies to stop being so irresponsible with the fabric of society, so everyone is now even more upset.

The days when a person who can build stuff and a person who can sell stuff were all you needed to start a startup are gone. There's a third role that's crucial now: the person who has deep understanding of the problem before product design starts so that the company doesn't build another version of The Angrifier.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-OlOP0BQ_U
by chaseadam17 | 2025-05-01 18:00:27+00:00
I imagine what these guys miss is the freedom of obscurity. Tech has gone from being ignored to being ridiculed and regulated. Like a company getting more bureaucratic as it scales, it makes sense to professionalize a sector as its influence grows. The problem is that professionalization is often the enemy of innovation. If you care about having the freedom to innovate, this leaves you with three options: be the angry old man yelling at the clouds, constructively try to improve the process of professionalization from within or quietly go innovate elsewhere. The problem with the last option is that there aren’t too many places left to go and it’s hard to start over, which is why I think Elon and others take to some combination of the first two.
by cuken | 2025-05-01 18:00:44+00:00
This is really really cool! The physicality of it is special and can be a huge help with some people to gain an understanding of whats actually happening on the micro scale. Reminds me very much of "Spintronics", a game that holds a special place in my heart as I could teach a traditionally conceptual topic to my kids.

Are the designs you've come up with 3D printed? I feel like there's a huge possibility of community advancement into this ecosystem (fully appreciating you should make a return on all of your time and creativity).

Thanks again for sharing something so cool.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-01 18:00:55+00:00
There’s a million threats. These are not particularly bright people. They are busy and not aware of or concerned with much beyond limiting their own accountability for when they inevitably get burned by their bosses.

You and I know that. So do the adversaries. The biggest issue for them is going to be not tripping over the intelligence collecting agencies (or corps) already on their devices.
by Stratoscope | 2025-05-01 18:01:47+00:00
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by vkou | 2025-05-01 18:02:31+00:00
The resolution to that BSG episode was, also, on-the-nose consistent to its resolution for most of its political crises - everyone needs to sit down and shut up and get in line, because despite the veneer of representative government, they are living in a military dictatorship, where decisions are solely at the whims of Adama.

Who, despite all his flaws, (unlike the president, generally speaking) is not a bad person. But is very much a dictator (which was his job as the commander of a military vessel).
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-05-01 18:02:47+00:00
I'm also using Karakeep. It also has LLM-powered tagging, which, in my experience, works excellently. It's easy to self-host, fast on a relatively underpowered NAS, and I love the UX. Highly recommended.

Linkwarden looks nice, too, but when picking an option, I wanted one with a native Android app.
by dang | 2025-05-01 18:02:48+00:00
Did you miss that we asked you to stop breaking the site guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43857426

You posted 19 comments since then, most of which are perpetuating this flamewar. No matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are, this is abusive, and we ban accounts that do it.

Fortunately, it looks like your comment history is mostly fine (at least the parts of it that I skimmed back through) so this should be easy to fix.
by cptskippy | 2025-05-01 18:02:55+00:00
In my opinion 2.4GHz is rapidly becoming a non-starter. Companies like Eero, TP-Link, and Spectrum are using 40Mhz wide swaths of 2.4GHz for their Mesh backhauls. Sitting in my home office in a single family detached home, I can see 24 different SSIDs all running 40mhz on the 2.4GHz band with 7 having a signal strength greater than -80dBm.

5Ghz doesn't propagate very far and putting IoT devices inside your home on 5Ghz makes a lot of sense. With 6Ghz coming on line and being reserved for high bandwidth applications, 5Ghz for IoT makes even more sense.
by hnlmorg | 2025-05-01 18:03:11+00:00
> I disagree completely with other posts claiming only crypto and finance are being targeted; while it's hard to confirm

I can definitely confirm it’s not just finance and crypto being targeted.

I can also confirm it’s not just state sponsored North Korean agents too. Sometimes it’s just individuals trying to fake it until they make it.

However I dont agree with your conclusion that remote interviews are not dead because of this. Yes it’s annoying and time consuming filtering out these culprits, but the interview process already was an annoying and time consuming process to begin with. So I wouldn’t be so quick to throw the baby out with the bath water.
by ssorallen | 2025-05-01 18:03:32+00:00
> Why must I pay monthly for gigabytes of storage to backup my iphone when a single $30 hard drive could do it?

This is “I could build that in a weekend” mentality. Your data on iCloud is replicated, available via the internet, available 99.99% of the time, etc. If your $30 hard drive fails you lose everything.

The price and being able to use other services is worth debating, but comparing it to “a single $30 hard drive” is disingenuous.
by freejazz | 2025-05-01 18:03:40+00:00
I didn't say you said that. I asked if you thought that. Once again, that's a faciallly unreasonable response. Just to demonstrate that reasonable is a workable term that need not be this vague unlawful mystery that you decided is the case, entirely on your own.

>My contention was that the judge should have consulted SMEs when defining parts of the ruling outside her expertise.

The case consists almost entirely of the testimony of experts and the professionals working on both sides, so I think the judge is actually very familiar with the issues at play here and I'm not sure why you came to the conclusion that this kind of expertise was not considered when its the very nature of the entirety of the case.

>You aren't making a case for reasonableness as a concept.

I don't need to. It is not my obligation to defend the legal system because you have your own ridiculous and unfounded assumptions.

>You seem to be further implying that an assertion of reasonableness by a judge should carry the same weight as an assertion of reasonableness by SMEs or a jury of peers.

Judges make orders. SMEs don't and can't. And lol at the idea you are suggesting that a layman jury should define these things. It is clear to me that you do not understand the role of a jury in a trial. Jury's determine disputed facts. Nothing more, nothing less.

>Can you defend these assertions?

The issue isn't defending them. The issue is convincing you, an incredibly unreasonable person. That's probably not going to happen judging by the conversations I see you engaged with here.

But hey, I'm glad you came up with your own idea as to how the legal system should work, seemingly without any actual experience outside of reading the news. Very smart kid energy.
by bluGill | 2025-05-01 18:03:46+00:00
Only if they are 100% fake as opposed to farming out work to someone else. I can turn up to an interview in person no problem. When hired I just have the person in India use my name/picture and do the work.

Of course if they hire me as opposed to that person in India directly there is likely a reason they wanted someone in the US. Often those reasons are legal and somewhere a law is being broken.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-05-01 18:04:18+00:00
The entire claim of https://opensource.org/blog/the-sspl-is-not-an-open-source-l... holds down to "the right to make use of the program for any field of endeavor" and the SSPL does not prohibit the use of software in any field of endeavor.

The OSI then strays into a lot of nonsense that demonstrates just how bought and paid for they are, such as "the understanding that their work was going towards the greater good", like apparently... being used by a company which does not open source it's platform and treats its employees so poorly they have to pee in bottles. And of course, they immediately claim that "now... contributions are embedded in a proprietary product" because of course, the OSI believes they own the term and definition of open source, and that everything they don't agree with is inherently "proprietary".

And then of course, they suggest "relicensing is not evidence of any failure of the open source licensing model" even though it is very clear that businesses being unable to survive producing open source is kinda big flaw in the goal of promoting the public software commons. (Taking it a step further, if the FSF argues free software is a moral imperative, not fixing this is outright immoral.)
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by ketzo | 2025-05-01 18:04:55+00:00
I mean, to be honest, they gotta do both to achieve what they’re aiming for.

A truly useful AI assistant has context on my last 100,000 emails - and also recalls the details of each individual one perfectly, without confusion or hallucination.

Obviously I’m setting a high bar here; I guess what I’m saying is “yes, and”
by throw10920 | 2025-05-01 18:05:10+00:00
This is blatantly false, and one of the most dishonest and manipulative claims that I've seen on HN.

Performance is performance. If one technology is more performant by removing features, useful or not, it it factually faster, and that performance absolutely does count. Features are completely irrelevant to performance measurements of a system.

If you have two cars, car A with top speed 160 MPH and a 0-60 of 3s, and car be with top speech 120 MPH and a 0-60 of 5s, some people may still prefer car B because it has better mileage or nicer features or is cheaper (which is the overall value judgement that you seem to be extremely confused about), but precisely zero sane people will tell you that car A "isn't clearly better from a speed standpoint" because it has less features than car B.
by DannyBee | 2025-05-01 18:05:22+00:00
i'm aware of what lawyers tell you sometimes, since i am in fact, a lawyer in addition to being an engineer, but you have to think about the context as well. You aren't talking about trying to avoid another side finding it in mountains of discovery, you are talking about trying to avoid a judge who easily has the power to force your engineers to testify under oath about what they are doing, finding out about what you are doing.

This is a very bad plan :)

On top of that I'll also offer to you that the days of trying to avoid generating evidence as a mechanism for avoiding bad things happening are fast dying after google got sanctioned for having off the record conversations for exactly this reason.

It's bad advice - the better advice i used to give my clients is - if you are not doing anything wrong, don't act like you are doing anything wrong. If you are doing something wrong, stop.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-05-01 18:05:31+00:00
The author doesn’t understand/communicate-well what a n-bit color palette means, which then confused the rest of us. It refers to the complete size of the palette, in 2^n of course.

She created a 12-entry indexed palette, from the 12-bit (4096) possibilities of short css-hex codes, one nibble per char. (Also single css-hex codes double, so results are brighter than expectations.)

Tldr: This is a 12-entry indexed palette, not a 12-bit one. Neither of which we are constrained to.
by kevinsf90 | 2025-05-01 18:05:40+00:00
I recently moved on to a new company, but my prior company had a pretty large scale Elasticache Redis deployment in production (over 50 large clusters in us-east-1), and were in the middle of a complete migration to Valkey due cost savings, improved performance, and reduction in memory usage.

We've already completed migrating several large production clusters and I can confidently say that the migration had been pretty smooth and seamless.

Valkey is certainly production ready (at least on AWS it is). The team is looking forward to expedite and complete the migration
by pton_xd | 2025-05-01 18:06:00+00:00
"To start, you can choose from Integrations for 10 popular services, including Atlassian’s Jira and Confluence, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Asana, Square, Sentry, PayPal, Linear, and Plaid. ... Each integration drastically expands what Claude can do."

Give us an LLM with better reasoning capabilities, please! All this other stuff just feels like a distraction.
by throwup238 | 2025-05-01 18:06:18+00:00
That iterative research process is exactly how I use Google Deep Research since it has a 20/day rate limit. Research a problem, notice some off hand assumption or remark the report made, and fire off another research run asking about it. It depends on what you work on; in my use case I often have to do hours of research for 30 minutes of work like when integrating a bunch of different vendors’ APIs or pouring over datasheets for EE, so it’s worth firing off research and then working on something else for 10-20 minutes (it helps that the Gemini app fires off a push notification when the report is done - Anthropic please do this! Even for requests made from the web app).

As for long research times, one thing I’ve been using it for is historical research on old books. Gemini DeepResearch was the first one able to properly explain the nuances of identifying a chimeral first edition Origin of Species after taking half an hour and reading 400 sources. It went into all the important details like spelling errors and the properties of chimeral FY2** copies found in various libraries around the world.
by antirez | 2025-05-01 18:06:22+00:00
Thank you, Simon. I believe that cases like Elastic and Redis returning back to an open source license is like writing on the rock: "open source won", at least in the system software space. Companies get created, prosper and fail over time, but this message is here to stay with us for a long time, and shapes the society of tomorrow. It's a win of the software community itself.
by jjcm | 2025-05-01 18:06:24+00:00
To me the craziest thing about this is that often times web apps with the same functionality feel leagues faster to load, with nearly equivalent functionality.

Google docs/google sheets/notion/coda all load faster than the native MS Word / Excel.

Photopea is another example - it clones out the main user paths of Photoshop and loads in a 1/10th of the time.

I really don't understand it.
by reconditerose | 2025-05-01 18:06:29+00:00
The tl;dr is it's just a lockless hashmap attached to a TCP server with a log. Simple Get/Set operations are highly optimized, so with high batching they are able to efficiently fetch a lot of data efficiently. The architectures scales very well when you add threads and data access that is uniform.

It struggles a bit on certain types of workloads like hot keys, think heavy hitting a single sorted set. It's a cool architecture.
by zxcvgm | 2025-05-01 18:06:36+00:00
Cool, looks like text highlighting is a new addition in 2.10. There aren't any examples in the demo site of this, but can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page? That would help me recall quickly why I saved the link, without opening the original link and re-reading the page. I haven't really seen this in other tools (or maybe I just haven't looked hard enough), except Memex.