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by jopicornell | 2025-05-19 20:43:34+00:00
Yes, I have to agree with responsivened vs stability. As I mentioned in another comment, my main stability issues could be hardware related, because I'm also a steam deck user and it has worked alright there (although I don't use the desktop mode daily).

For me, KDE is a better concept than Gnome, and I genuinely don't know which is better developed/mantained. But it is true that I always change after a week or so, and I've been a gnome user for longer periods of time.

I'll keep testing it, more so if I install updated hardware in my computer
Show HN: ProfiTree – Find Hidden Tax Savings in Your Investment Portfolio
by shahakshat609 | 2025-05-19 20:43:36+00:00
Hey HN I’ve been building ProfiTree, a tool to help investors—especially those managing their own portfolios—spot tax savings that are easy to miss.

If you're an active trader, it flags disallowed losses from wash sales that can quietly wipe out your tax benefits. If you're a long-term/passive investor, it surfaces opportunities to harvest losses you might not realize are there.

I started this after realizing I had personally missed out on tax savings just because I didn’t have visibility. ProfiTree connects securely to your brokerage (via SnapTrade – read-only access), analyzes your past trades, and highlights where you could have saved—and how to avoid missing out in the future. No transactions are ever made, it’s just insights and guidance.

It's still in early phase, but I’d love your feedback on:

Does this feel useful for the way you invest?

1. Is the value prop clear?

2. What would make this a “must-use” during tax season?

Appreciate you giving it a look https://www.profitree-tax.com
by shounakhn | 2025-05-19 20:43:46+00:00
OmniDimension is a platform to build, test, and deploy reliable Voice AI agents just by prompting. Users can simulate thousands of edge cases in minutes, monitor performance through built-in observability, and integrate with internal or external systems. The platform supports both no-code workflows and full APIs and SDKs, making it easy for developers and non-technical teams to go from idea to production without stitching tools together.
by noqc | 2025-05-19 20:43:52+00:00
I'm not a conservative. I'm absolutely in favor of free speech, modulo paid speech, as I listed above.

Deportation does require some process, but you're not being charged with a crime, you're being returned to freedom in your own country. If a democratically elected government demonstrates that you are not a citizen, and judges that the country would be better off without you in it, and further gained its mandate from the position that it would deport you, I'd be hard pressed to find a legal reason why this policy should be prevented. The first amendment protects you from prosecution, not deportation. We'll see if the supreme court agrees.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-19 20:43:55+00:00
You're calling it a "slow ramp (up)".

I don't see any evidence of that. It's just more legal attacks just like there have always been. Wikipedia has plenty of money to defend itself, and can always move resources between countries.

I don't see anything new going on. It may be new in the US, but it's also merely one government official who sent one letter, and any legal challenge there is incredibly unlikely to succeed in the courts.
by okanat | 2025-05-19 20:43:58+00:00
Nothing works out of the box with Linux. They may "seem" to work out of the box but you realize how many little tweaks go into making a laptop/consumer device work fully when you work as an embedded dev. It is quite difficult to get to the same power consumption levels and same exact hardware / software driver capabilities under Linux. There are simply no APIs for many things. So the entire driver has to live in userspace using some ioctls to write random stuff to memory or it cannot exist. There are also algorithms that the hardware manufacturer wants to keep closed.

Note that NVIDIA drivers didn't get better since they are more open source now. They are not. GPUs are now entire independent computers with their own little operating system. Some significant parts of the driver now runs under that computer.

Yes the manufacturers may allocate some people to deal with it and the corrosiveness of the kernel community. But why? Intel and AMD uses that as a marketing and sales stragtegy. If the hardware manufacturer is the best one there is, where is the profit for supporting Linux? Even Thinkpads don't have 100% support of all the little sensors and PMICs.

HiDPI issue hasn't been solved yet completely. Bluetooth is still quite unreliable. MIPI support should be the best due to the number of devices, until you realize everybody did their own shitty external driver and there are no common good drivers for MIPI cameras so your webcam doesn't work. USB stack is still dodgy. Microsoft in 90s had a cart of random hardware populating the USB tree completely and they just fucked with the NT kernel plugging and unplugging until it didn't break anymore for love's sake. Who did that level of testing with Linux?
by t1amat | 2025-05-19 20:44:00+00:00
Llama is arguably the reason open weight LLM’s are a thing, with the leak of Llama 1 and subsequent release of Llama 2. Llama 3 was a huge push for quality, size, context length, and multi-modality. Llama 4 Maverick is clearly better than it looks if a fine tune can put it at the top of LMArena human preferences leaderboard.

Grok 3 mini is quite a decent agentic model and competitive with frontier models at a fraction of the cost; see livebench.ai.
by p4bl0 | 2025-05-19 20:44:13+00:00
I wholeheartedly agreee. Nano is quite awesome, it is battle-tested and already has more features than needed for a basic text editor. Actually, Nano is too often frowned upon as too-basic, but is actually has a few advanced features that basic editors do not have (e.g., keyboard macros). I'd argue that Nano is simple rather than basic :).

I tried discussing it here a few months ago but it did not took off: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41289773
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-19 20:44:13+00:00
Would like to see the NYC own up to being a major player as opposed to just being blown around. (E.g. “free speech” might really be better off not behind the paywall if it really is so important)

In 2016 it would be have been tempting to blame Trump on TV, to see him as the fulfillment of Boorstein’s prophecy in The Image. People did blame Cambridge Analytica for that and in fact I nuked most of my socials in Dec 2016 but things have gone further in the 8 years since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e...
by thephyber | 2025-05-19 20:44:31+00:00
This concept was popularized by the book The Secret.

The concept of the book, as I understand it, is focusing your consciousness on something you want ”will cause the universe to bring it to you”.

The concept is silly to me (it’s the steps that you take to actually achieve the goal that make the difference), but in a way, it is a prerequisite to achieving the goal.

My biggest complaint is this type of thinking usually accompanies lots of “woo” thinking.
by resource_waste | 2025-05-19 20:44:36+00:00
Power according to Hobbes is the ability to get what you want.

One of the forms of power is success power, another is riches (more here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3207/3207-h/3207-h.htm#link2...)

By showing you can afford lavish things, you are demonstrating success power and riches. This makes people do whatever you want, or at least tilt the scale closer into your favor.

I think Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, then reading Will To Power would very much get you up to speed. Other authors, Hobbes, Machiavelli, maybe Stirner, maybe skip to Callicles in Plato's Gorgias. Even ChatGPT can probably get you started on Nietzsche.
by Supermancho | 2025-05-19 20:45:02+00:00
> And theoretically speaking, women’s mass entry into the workforce shouldn’t produce an overall decline in wages. Just like immigration or a baby boom, women’s entry into the workforce is both a positive labor supply shock and also a positive labor demand shock at the same time — when women earn more, they spend most of what they earn, on things that require labor to produce.1 So we shouldn’t expect the addition of women to the workforce to hold down wages.

The reason that excess labor doesn't drive down wages is because they spend those wages on rolls dice labor intensive things? This makes no sense in any direction.

I'm reading through the beginning, which was a little sus, then jumped to the end and loathe to read most of this handwaving.
by kgwxd | 2025-05-19 20:45:18+00:00
> authoritarianism

How exactly? I see the same level of ass-hatery on Bluesky as on Twitter, only difference is it's not shoved in my face by the owner of the company so it's really, really easy to avoid. BTW, you should check out the feeds of major Democratic leaders, see how people treat their representatives as representatives, instead being submissive to their words and actions.
by hennell | 2025-05-19 20:45:20+00:00
I think the thing with "manifesting" is it's almost impossible to write something down a 100 times a day, everyday without also doing other things about the goal, as it's on your mind so much. Obviously if you write "I'm going to become an olympic athlete" but just sit on a chair nothing will happen. But if you're writing that daily you're going to end up doing more exercise because you're thinking about it. You might spot opportunities that you would otherwise miss because your brain stops skimming over it because it's such a repetitive pathway now.

And while that obviously has limits, and is far from the magical technique some might claim - it's very hard to argue against things that work.
by trustinmenowpls | 2025-05-19 20:45:46+00:00
What an odd take... why are you attempting to rewrite reality?

Anyone can watch videos of biden from the start of his career to 2016 and then when he came back into the spotlight in 2019, they can then simply watch any video from 2019 until today and see an absolutely marked shift in mental capacity from 2016. Even if his family was in denial in 2019 when he first started his run for office, it became pretty clear by the middle of 2020 to anyone with eyes and ears that he was experiencing dementia.

All those video are online, and easily searchable. the claims you're making don't make any sense and aren't based in reality.
by krick | 2025-05-19 20:46:03+00:00
Skimming the comments, this is pretty much what everyone is saying. And I'm sure it's true, but I'd like to also point out the amount of money in question. What was the investment amount for that toy project of Altman? Right.

I don't mean to say 70B is not a lot of money, of course it is. But perhaps that's part of the point: it's a lot of money to feed these technology partners of academia and other friends of friends you are talking about, it's also big enough to make the frontpage on HN, but when it's seen as a sudden huge investment into the whole market, it's kinda telling by itself that startups are not exactly thriving in EU. And also that money is cheap now.
by trelane | 2025-05-19 20:46:05+00:00
If you (or whoever is reading this) want(s) a more refined Wine, I highly recommend CodeWeavers. Their work gets folded back into open source WINE, no less.

> To get to a better state, we've gotta confront those workarounds and attack them at the source.

To my eye, the biggest problem with Linux is that so few are willing to pony up for its support. From hardware to software.

Buy Linux computers and donate to the projects you use!
by landl0rd | 2025-05-19 20:46:19+00:00
I don’t remember mentioning Musk once in my comments. He’d also be a poor choice. They should stick with a european who understands the challenges of start-up high tech in europe.

I am in fact talking about start-ups and tech as a domain. That’s the area at issue so they should hire euros who understand those challenges well to fix them.
by detourdog | 2025-05-19 20:46:39+00:00
I find it hard to judge the expense of a solar array. I have purchased 2 in Massachusetts about 8 years apart. The SRECs I have received for the first array I would say roughly covered the costs. The second array seems to be on the same pace. I also benefit from the electricity produced.

Last year the second Massachusetts changed the electrical repurchase agreement and I just checked the bill for April. I produced 480 more kWh than used. I ended up with a $58.04 credit. National Grid pays me $.24320141 per kWh. I will be pumping just under 6,000 kWh a month into the gird until October.

I don't see solar as expensive I see it as a good value. I will always be buying electricity and it will always be rising in price. I'm happy to have the opportunity to invest to reduce these costs.

I agree that the system is not fair...
by iLemming | 2025-05-19 20:46:43+00:00
Yeah, well, I use ntfs in Linux. It somehow knows how to treat the partitions. Even though it can't fix the issues when they arise (which almost never happens) — there's no chkdsk for Linux. So, I just don't understand why Windows can't automatically sync the clock (as it explicitly set to do it) when it boots? Why does one have to get creative to fix the darn clock? If I can't even trust the OS to manage the time correctly, what can I trust it with, if anything at all?
by overfeed | 2025-05-19 20:47:01+00:00
I'd love to know where you think the starting position of the goal posts was.

Everyone who has used AI coding tools interactively or as agents knows they're unpredictably hit or miss. The old, non-agent Copilot has a dashboard that shows org-wide rejection rates for for paying customers. I'm curious to learn what the equivalent rejection-rate for the agent is for the people who make the thing.
by tecleandor | 2025-05-19 20:47:10+00:00
That's what it looks like. Same for Spanish, weird automatic translation.

I've also seen that they've uploaded "name pronunciations" to Wikimedia that are done via TTS engines that are not, precisely, last generation. [0] Looks like some sort of automation exercise. Edited in a bunch of languages, but mostly in English. [1]

0: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pronunciation_of_the_English_surname_Woodard.ogg 1: https://xtools.wmcloud.org/ec/en.wikipedia.org/Swmmng
by bluGill | 2025-05-19 20:47:57+00:00
I've seen houses built in the late 1960s that used non-standard 2x4s, so I will dispute those facts. I don't remember details (and can't be bothered to look them up), but IIRC several different standards were tried before the current one finally took.

The pre-planing is a common claim, but I don't believe it. They can make lumber whatever size they want - of course they need to plane it, but they just make it larger to account for that. Still the planing excuse it one they like to use because it doesn't show "them" as trying to cheat us.
by Fraterkes | 2025-05-19 20:48:04+00:00
I hear these salary comparisons a lot, but when I was studying at the most popular Dutch technical university none of the future SWEs I talked to where even considering moving to the US (this was back when there was an excess of swe jobs everywhere). There's not much of a braindrain of engineers as far as I can tell, European engineers are not vastly less impressive than their American counterparts, and the people running succesfull startups in the US do not posess any particular brilliance.

All of which is to say, I don't think lack of Software Engineering talent is the problem.
by SllX | 2025-05-19 20:48:40+00:00
> The ICC is incredibly important, incredibly young and global. Shifting this to europe would not solve the problem.

Well it’s incredibly young, but it is neither incredibly important seeing as how the premise of the court is suspect nor global seeing as how substantial portions of the globe have either not signed, not ratified, or withdrew their signature before ratification. I’ll give you “international”.

You’re right though: any possible software vendor is theoretically subject to someone’s sanctions regime. If they want to uphold the independence of their institution, that’s probably more work for an internal IT department.
by rhines | 2025-05-19 20:48:41+00:00
Yeah I remember binging his blog while between classes in university - he wrote well and had interesting thoughts on marketability, mastery, business, etc., all things that I was interested in as someone learning to be an adult and find his place in the world. Then Trump ran for president, and honestly the blog was still good - Adams had some genuinely good insights about why Trump appealed, and suggested that he might be using the Republicans to get into power but he really doesn't share their values and will shake things up for the better. But then somehow Adams' identity got wrapped up in the idea of Trump not being as bad as people think and he just supported Trump more and more even when it became clear that Trump did not have a master plan to liberalize the Republican party.
by okanat | 2025-05-19 20:49:07+00:00
> people whose main environment is Linux feel (correctly) that these problems have been solved a long time ago

There is also the quiet part to this. People who religiously use Linux and think that it is the best OS that can ever be, don't realize how many little optimizations go into a consumer OS. They use outdated hardware. They use the lower end models of the peripherals (people still recommend 96 DPI screens just for this). They use limited capabilities of that hardware. They don't rely on deeply interactive user interfaces.
by technetist | 2025-05-19 20:49:07+00:00
One thing I did like:

>Make the interface obvious and explicit, replace it with something like Rating is 5 stars.

>The semantics of the “stars” system are clear enough for human beings and are additionally visually reinforced with five stars below the text.

Things like this make the UI a little better. Even though the semantics and context are clear to those able to visually interpret it, there are some users that don't have this luxury. If someone is using a screenreader they will often need to tab around to figure out what 5/5 means. Is is a progress indicator, a page number, a recipe that doesn't have units on a page selling sunglasses?

There's really only 2 things I'd disagree with in this article:

1)

>Instead of 5.0 / 5, it’s better to show 5 of 5, since the .0 part has no meaning for the user, it’s important only for the computer. Users visit the site to get a service, don’t make them overthink and calculate your formulas.

>If the decimal part is important, round the numbers. Show 5 instead of 4.5 and 4 instead of 4.4. That’s sufficient if your site is not about math or chemical formulas.

I think that showing a decimal does have a purpose, it indicates that you should expect a fraction. If I land on a product page with 3/5 or 4/5 I would wonder if the product was really 4.9/5 or 3.1/5 both of which will hit the reptilian part of my brain differently and sway my purchase one way or another. But I will concede that showing a rounded 4.5 is better than 4.4 or 4.6.

2)

>The same applies to the list with stars. Nobody is interested in your computer data, so it’s fine to just remove the entire list of star distribution that merely clutters the page and pretends the site has a lot of content.

I agree with not showing progress bars, to a degree. But I do agree that his example is poorly executed. Sites should show the real ratio (I know product owners will hate that) or just show me the raw number.

>[...] For example, do not show stars that have no votes.

This would look odd to see:

* * * * * 64

* * * 4

* 1

I would wonder what happened to the rest of the stars. Is the site broken? Did my internet glitch and drop the network request to get the images?
by amlib | 2025-05-19 20:50:17+00:00
You can fix this issue by using a wine "bottle manager" like... Bottles. This allows you to easily manage multiple instances of wine installations (like having multiple windows installations) with better and easy to use tooling around it. More importantly, it also allows you to select across many system agnostic versions of wine that won't be upgraded automatically thus reducing the possibility of something that you rely breaking on you.
by aflukasz | 2025-05-19 20:50:31+00:00
Some of you cite your favorite strips. I will too.

Dilbert comes down to the caves where trolls (accountants) reside and gets a tour. The guide points to a troll sitting behind a desk, and mumbling in a stupor: "nine, nine, nine...".

Guide: And this is our random numbers generator.

Dilbert: Are you sure those are random?

Guide: That's the problem with randomness - you can never be sure.

Edit: Found it here: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-quest-for-rand....

And thank you, Scott - many laughs thanks to you.
by henrikschroder | 2025-05-19 20:51:17+00:00
My understanding is that it's net negative to test too much.

A lot of men die with prostate cancer, because only very few die from it. And if you belong to the former group, knowing about it or doing any kind of intervention means a massive loss in quality of life. So the best course of action overall is to close our eyes and stop looking. And hope you don't belong to the latter group.
by vasusen | 2025-05-19 20:51:26+00:00
We considered it for generating ruthless critiques of UI/UX ("product roast" feature). Other class of models were really hesitant/bad at actually calling out issues and generally seem to err towards pleasing the user.

Here's a simple example I tried just now. Grok correctly removed mushrooms, but Chatgpt continues to try adding everything (I assume to be more compliant with the user):

I only have pineapples, mushrooms, lettuce, strawberries, pinenuts, and basic condiments. What salad can I make that's yummy?

Grok: Pineapple-Strawberry Salad with Lettuce and Pine Nuts - https://x.com/i/grok/share/exvHu2ewjrWuRNjSJHkq7eLSY

ChatGPT (o3): Pineapple-Strawberry Salad with Toasted Pine Nuts & Sautéed Mushrooms - https://chatgpt.com/share/682b9987-9394-8011-9e55-15626db78b...
by ofalkaed | 2025-05-19 20:53:09+00:00
If you actually did it it would not be a simple affirmation for long, your mind will quickly start to wander as the act of writing the same thing over and over becomes more automatic and what your mind will wander towards is what you are writing and staring at. The brainwashing that is happening is that of brainwashing you to set aside a part of your day for sustained focused thought on your goals, something most people seem to have never learned, they learned to ask their guidance concealer and google and internet forums but never themselves.
by MrPowerGamerBR | 2025-05-19 20:54:39+00:00
Sadly I'm not one of those people because I have a desktop with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D, which does not have an integrated graphics card.

However now that AMD is including integrated GPUs on every AM5 consumer CPU (if I'm not mistaken?), maybe VMs with passthrough will be more common, without requiring people to spend a lot of money buying a secondary GPU.
by Mikey118 | 2025-05-19 20:55:02+00:00
Most people think building a good digital marketing strategy means staying on top of every new trend, testing the latest tools, and constantly analyzing data. And sure, that stuff matters, but that’s not what separates the average strategy from the ones that actually work. The real difference is how you think. A strategy built on simple principles that reflect how people actually behave, not how we wish they would.

Long before the Internet had a landing page, economists, psychologists, engineers, and even military strategists figured out a lot about systems, behavior, and decision-making. They weren’t trying to write marketing copy; they were trying to make sense of how things work. And they left behind principles that don’t expire. You’ve probably heard a few of them already. The 80/20 rule. Parkinson’s Law. Maybe even Hick’s Law if you’ve spent time around UX folks. But once you see how these laws apply to digital strategy, not theoretically, but in how campaigns scale, traffic flows, users decide, and systems break, you stop guessing and start seeing patterns.