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by guappa | 2025-06-18 19:00:07+00:00
The standard library is the whole distro :)

It's hardly a fair comparison with old linux distros when osx certainly will not run anything old… remember they dropped rosetta, rosetta2, 32bit support, opengl… (list continues).

And I don't think you can expect windows xp to run binaries for windows 11 either.

So I don't understand why you think this is perfectly reasonable to expect on linux, when no other OS has ever supported it.

Care to explain?
by nayuki | 2025-06-18 19:00:41+00:00
My favorite variant: https://novayashkola.org/janko/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard

Since a year ago, I found that I can play songs by ear on the Janko keyboard far more easily than on standard piano keyboards.

More resources: https://github.com/wcgbg/terpstrakeyboard/ , https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=janko%20keyboar...
by kgwxd | 2025-06-18 19:00:56+00:00
I don't get why anyone even tries after Clojure. They got it 100% right. It's easier to read than anything else, and still super simple to parse. Commas are whitespace, use them or don't, where ever you want. Namespaced keywords are great. The data structures themselves act as functions. It's just... done.
by xp84 | 2025-06-18 19:01:00+00:00
Why are all your maps only of the Western US? Most people live in the eastern half.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/vfwjsc/approximate...

I know a lot of the West has terrible broadband, but a not insignificant majority of that land area is uninhabited federal land -- wilderness, such as high mountains, desert, etc. By focusing on the West and focusing on maps that don't acknowledge inhabitedness as an important factor, it confuses the issue.

I'd argue it's more of a travesty that actual fiber optic internet is only available in maybe 15% of addresses nationwide, than the white holes in Eastern Oregon or Northern Nevada. One major reason I believe this is that even at my house, where I have "gigabit" available via DOCSIS, my upload is barely 20Mbps and I have a bandwidth cap of 1.25TB a month which means if I saturate my bandwidth I can only use it for 2 hours 46 minutes per month.

If you compare "things that would be possible if everyone had a 500Mbps upload without a bandwidth cap" vs "things I can do on this connection" it's a huge difference.
by nottorp | 2025-06-18 19:01:18+00:00
Well yes.

I can think of at least two supermarkets where I have crap internet inside in spite of having whole city decent 5G coverage outside.

One thing that never loads is the shopping app for our local equivalent of Amazon. I'm sure they lost some orders because I was in said supermarkets and couldn't check out the competition's offers. Minor cheap-ish stuff or I would have looked for better signal, but still lost orders.
by alganet | 2025-06-18 19:02:40+00:00
> they are not sharing specific details of their success stories or failures

Can you blame them for that?

For other products, do you think people contact customer support with an abundance of information?

Now, consider what these LLM products promise to deliver. Text box, answer. Is there any indication that different challenges might yield difference in the quality of outcome? Nope. Magic genie interface, it either works or it doesn't.
by belval | 2025-06-18 19:03:22+00:00
In a clean room maybe, but honestly hydroponics usually makes things like that worse, not better and I say that as someone who's had a set up for over ~5 years at this point.

At the end of the day it's a pit of water with nutrient that is usually somewhat warm. You can control algae with hydrogen peroxide but there is always some water that will stagnate somewhere and lead to some mold level. It's really best to grow plants with a clear growth => harvest cycle so that you can periodically re-sanitize everything.
by metalman | 2025-06-18 19:03:47+00:00
rather than synthetic symbionts, looking for survivers that exist now and breed those, I believe that there are a number of successfull.... yes found some, https://www.thecoralfarm.com/reefkeeping-tips-tricks/nurturi...

https://www.mantasystems.net/a/blog/post/CoralPropagation

looking over the worst, hottest, most poluted and damaged reef areas for survivors might be the short cut to finding what you are looking for underwater drones can do the searching,harvesting, and re planting, with aquaculture operations wherever space is cheap, propagation and cloning is useualy low tech, and routine work , after getting the basic tecniques masterd, and costs for genetic scans are falling so this is not cost prohibative when going looking for funding, but dont aim too low, there is money out there, and many many people share your concern for corrals and ocean health

here is one of many organisations involved in similar work....Canadian, so not tropical corrals, but there are deep water northern corrals.....so

https://hakai.org/
by brudgers | 2025-06-18 19:03:50+00:00
Diesel-electric locomotives solve the what-about-when-you-don’t-need-power-problem with large resistors to convert generator output to heat.

Any other solution is non-trivially more complex. Because you need to be able to slam your brakes and then punch the throttle.

Dedicated right-of-way means trains don’t operate in rush hour traffic and infrastructure costs dominate their economics. Dedicated right-of-way is also a good way to improve bus efficiency, but nobody wants to pay the political price for that infrastructure.
by homefree | 2025-06-18 19:04:20+00:00
> Eventually, I dismissed Minsky’s theory as an interesting relic of AI history, far removed from the sleek deep learning models and monolithic AI systems rising to prominence.

That was my read of it when I checked it out a few years ago, obsessed with explicit rules based lisp expert systems and "good old fashioned AI" ideas that never made much sense, were nothing like how our minds work, and were obvious dead ends that did little of anything actually useful (imo). All that stuff made the AI field a running joke for decades.

This feels a little like falsely attributing new ideas that work to old work that was pretty different? Is there something specific from Minsky that would change my mind about this?

I recall reading there were some early papers that suggested some neural network ideas more similar to the modern approach (iirc), but the hardware just didn't exist at the time for them to be tried. That stuff was pretty different from the mainstream ideas at the time though and distinct from Minsky's work (I thought).
by the8472 | 2025-06-18 19:04:21+00:00
For CAs that'd likely get them kicked out of browser trust stores if someone detects it. And if it becomes known that a corporation pushes government-malware updates then that corporation would lose trust too.

So playing that card means moving the entire planet into a lower-trust equilibrium where everyone has to defend against that. In a better-coordinated world the conclusion from that would be "let's not do that", alas on this Earth TLAs have shown that they're willing to burn the commons, forcing a response like RFC 7258.
by nucleardog | 2025-06-18 19:04:25+00:00
It really doesn't seem like you're trying to engage constructively here.

Framework sells keyboards for the Framework 13 for ~$30. I can find a Surface Go on sale for as low as $500.

No, I don't think anyone's going to throw out a $500-$1000 device because it needs a $30 part and maybe 15 minutes of work (steps here: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Framework+Laptop+12+Input+Cover...) and they could instead replace their laptop with a tablet for a mere $470 more.
by smelendez | 2025-06-18 19:05:06+00:00
Physical businesses need to think about this too. Too many seem to assume every customer is tech-savvy and equipped with an iPhone.

Should you assume all your customers have smartphones? Smartphones with internet connections? Working cameras? Zelle? Venmo? Facebook? WhatsApp? Uncracked screens (for displaying QR codes to be scanned)? The ability to install an app?

I recently bought a snack from a pop-up food vendor who could only accept Venmo, which luckily I have, or exact cash, since he didn't have change. I'm pretty sure he only told me this after he handed me my food. I know lots of people who don't have Venmo—some don't want it because they see it as a security risk, some have had their accounts banned, some just never used it and probably don't want to set it up in a hurry while buying lunch.

I also recently stayed at a rural motel that mentioned in the confirmation email that the front desk isn't staffed 24/7, so if you need to check in after hours, you have to call the on-call attendant. Since cell service is apparently spotty there (though mine worked fine), they included the Wi-Fi password so you could call via Wi-Fi. There were also no room phones, so if the Wi-Fi goes out after hours, guests are potentially incommunicado, which sounds like the basis of a mystery novel.
ARR growth: Has the game changed that much or is there more behind it?
by MenesJo | 2025-06-18 19:05:21+00:00
I am a founder of a Seed stage startup and confronted every day with new news of ARR records of early stage companies, like $1M in 4 months, $10M in 8 months, ... whatever it is.

I get that startups like Cursor really changed the game and a lot of people adept it and this might be true for quite a few. However, I just can not wrap my head around that AI startups grow THAT quicker in the B2B space.

For my startup, I really have not seen that much of a change in the buying behaviour of our customers (enterprise IT buyers) - but maybe I am missing something completely.

What I notice however, is that most of those super growth AI startups have the following in common:

- UI is a chat (obv. LLM wrapper) - Targets a specific professional persona (like lawyer, seller, coder, etc.) - Business model: Low monthly subscription

Which makes me wonder if they just MRR*12 and then heavily inflate new subscribers (and the money is not really b2b money, but "professional consumer buyers" and they really should not be compared to b2b startups).

Has anyone made up some thoughts around that as well?
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-18 19:05:33+00:00
if complexity bad, then houses bad, air conditioning bad, roads bad, clothing bad, farming bad, computers bad, ....

simpler to live naked in wood, use big rock hunt food. but grug really like pizza. use computer order pizza, leave tip on app. grug no have to social interact, make grug happy.

manage complexity well and it make good result, worth occasional pain. soon complexity become normal.
by ndiddy | 2025-06-18 19:07:34+00:00
If someone besides Apple made a fanless laptop that had competitive performance with Apple's offerings (i.e. not a $200 Chromebook with a Celeron or a cast-off 5 year old smartphone CPU), I'd absolutely buy one. I got excited when the Qualcomm Snapdragon X was being discussed pre-launch, but then it came out with performance worse than the original M1 and it turned out that Qualcomm lied about giving it first-class Linux support. I really dislike Mac OS, but when I can't use a PC laptop in bed or on a couch or on my lap without it overheating, I'm not able to switch away. It's a shame that the entire PC industry is fine with selling laptops that will overheat when not used on a rigid flat surface.
by nrp | 2025-06-18 19:07:41+00:00
This is a key part of our product value prop. Our memory and storage upgrade pricing is much lower than most other laptop makers, and you can find your own on the open market for even less. Other laptop makers can preserve their overall margin by overcharging on those upgrades, which lets them price their base SKUs more aggressively. We accepted the tradeoff of not gouging on upgrades.
Show HN: Workflow builder for realtime voice agents
by nikkwong | 2025-06-18 19:07:49+00:00
Hi HN - we’ve been working on a new UX for building realtime voice agents with minimal code.

We’ve built a ton of voice agents in the past few years. We noticed that voice agent dev follows a pretty typical pattern:

⁃ Start with a “single prompt” version that dumps all relevant context and instructions into a one prompt, and provide access to all necessary tools the agent will ever need ⁃ As the agent gets more complex and users discover more edge cases, break the single-prompt version out into a more complex structure that gives a user more control over the precise conversational flow. There’s a pretty high ceiling for how complicated things can get with real-world systems.

We’ve been building https://www.voicekit.com/ for this workflow. It’s a full-featured (though minimal for now) platform for making and receiving phone calls with LLM-based agents. You can buy phone numbers, connect them to LLM-based workflows with access to HTTP-based tool calls, make outbound phone calls via API, and monitor calls in a simple dashboard.

Our intended workflow is for folks to start with the single prompt “simple mode”, and graduate into advanced mode over time - but to provide a simple UX that works well for both cases.

We’d love to hear your feedback.
by Tistel | 2025-06-18 19:09:01+00:00
I did CS and have been writing code for 20+ years. For the past two years, helping clients adopt LLMs into their business logic. It has lots of good use cases.

But, I can recognize when it makes mistakes due to my years of manual learning and development. If someone uses LLMs through their entire education and life experience, will they be able to spot the errors? Or will they just keep trying different prompts until it works? (and not know why it works)

Its like the auto-correct spell checker. I can't spell lots of words, I can just get close enough to the right spelling until it fixes it for me. I am a bit nervous about having the same handicap with LLMs taking that away from me in: thinking, logic and code.

Fully aware I can be dismissed as a dinosaur.
by Spivak | 2025-06-18 19:09:19+00:00
I think high schools / universities do their students such a disservice assigning books that students don't have the life experience to understand. Like they can read the book and analyze it sure but they're going to hate it and be bored out their minds because the experiences being portrayed aren't relatable (yet).

No high schooler or undergrad is going to understand a book that talks about being trapped in a life they don't enjoy by the choices they've made that's meant for a reader in their 40s.
by _3yjt | 2025-06-18 19:09:29+00:00
The “very/moderate high” comes from the standard itself, which is quantified within the standard. In the context, it is about the probability of having issues, while the effect (mild to catastrophic) is another axis. Considering that they stick to the “official” wording and seeing the criticism, I am not even sure if they can change to a more “lay-person” friendly and be acceptable to all the critics.

The standard also linked to the researches during their discussion.

Please read it, instead of just randomly throw out things hoping that they supported your argument.
by atrus | 2025-06-18 19:10:06+00:00
I think the repairabilty makes it hard to even compare monetary value, since in theory, you'd be keeping the same body, while swapping out the mainboard. Is it cheaper to buy two other laptops compared to one laptop + mainboard? That's what, a 3-5 year timeline? Who knows what prices/capabilities/etc will be like then.
by QRY | 2025-06-18 19:10:16+00:00
Thank you for sharing this, it's really helpful to have this as top-down learning resource.

I'm in the process of learning how to work with AI, and I've been homebrewing something similar with local semantic search for technical content (embedding models via Ollama, ChromaDB for indexing). I'm currently stuck at the step of making unstructured knowledge queryable, so these docs will come in handy for sure. Thanks again!
by ItCouldBeWorse | 2025-06-18 19:10:45+00:00
You are absolutely right- forgive me, im kind of out of touch with the whole steam revolutionizing gaming on linux.

I think the comment about the "transporttax" on hardware, ergonomic and cooling still holds up though even in a world where things like steam-deck exist.

Even more so, if you may have lightweight ar-headsets one day, with a glorified cellphone + mouse and keyboard.
by BeetleB | 2025-06-18 19:11:13+00:00
> It seems like a very shallow replacement for skimming

Actually, I think we have it all backwards. We're taught to skim because such tools didn't exist. Once (if!) they are reliable enough, skimming should become a dead art, like shorthand is.

One should know how to read well (in detail), when one needs to. Everything else can be delegated. Indeed, this is why people in high positions don't skim - they can afford secretaries and underlings to do the skimming for them.
by rchaud | 2025-06-18 19:12:44+00:00
Apps need a local server to work (especially if it writes to a local database), or be shipped in some kind of executable file format for the OS. As someone who can't code native apps but is decent enough in PHP, I've discovered that the way to solve my own problem is to run a bash script that loads an Apache server, then loads the index.php file of my app, all of which is stored locally on my hard drive. Works on mobile too, although I have to manually launch an Apache server first through termux.

Modern computing badly needs the ability to support building our own local apps without a remote web server dependency. This is how computing worked in the pre-internet age. HyperCard could connect to a database as could Filemaker Pro. Windows had something similar where GUI-based apps could read/write to an Access DB. These tools have been deprecated and only live on in some subscription-based SaaS.
by AJRF | 2025-06-18 19:13:48+00:00
I am happy to pay more money given the companies goals, and that extra money is an investment to me. If I didnt buy it they have one less sale, and I won't have contributed to making the world have more companies like framework. I have hope others are doing the same despite them not being the cheapest.

If they stop delivering, ill not buy their next thing, and ill be sad.
by miguel_martin | 2025-06-18 19:14:20+00:00
The first-generation Intel Ultra lineup is comparable to the M1 and M1 Max. See: https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/intel-core-ultra-7-165...

Intel's integrated graphics aren't as good, but they are similar in terms of power consumption & CPU performance.

Compared to M4, well, that's a different beast entirely. I'm not sure what's the latest there.
by afiodorov | 2025-06-18 19:15:08+00:00
> So, it was really fascinating that I had the menu gem basically demo working on my laptop in a few hours, and then it took me a week because I was trying to make it do it

Reminds me of work where I spend more time figuring out how to run repos than actually modifying code. A lot of my work is focused on figuring out the development environment and deployment process - all with very locked down permissions.

I do think LLMs are likely to change industry considerably, as LLM-guided rewrites are sometimes easier than adding a new feature or fixing a bug - especially if the rewrite is something into more LLM-friendly (i.e., a popular framework). Each rewrite makes the code further Claude-codeable or Cursor-codeable; ready to iterate even faster.
by treetalker | 2025-06-18 19:15:09+00:00
"I'm sorry, Iñigo, I didn't mean to vibe it so hard."

But seriously: as an attorney, I find that this writing perfectly reflects what I imagine it must be like to live inside the head of someone who agentic-vibe-codes for a living. It's all over the map; pulled (and pulling the reader) in a dozen different directions; non-standard; mixing metaphors and idioms; likely 20x longer than it ought to be; and almost able to figure out its own point in the pastiche as it flails around.

I imagine that the coding results of the process described would be similar. Would that be an accurate prediction?
by unsnap_biceps | 2025-06-18 19:15:13+00:00
I live in a pretty remote community, but we have a weekly farmer's market during the summer. A few years back, one of the vendors evidently ran some sort of scam on Venmo and Venmo banned everyone that bought anything from the vendor. Practically like a quarter of our community is banned which is a huge issue for other vendors that show up now that only support Venmo.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-18 19:15:23+00:00
You can't just point people at a 60-page paywalled standard and say "the supporting evidence to my claim is somewhere in here, I pinky promise". You are the one making assertions, it's on you to prove that the standard actually does reflect the text of TFA. I'm not going to read the whole standard because I'm not the one making the argument and I can't be bothered doing the research needed to refute every piece of nonsense science that shows up on the internet. What I can do is point out when someone is making unsourced claims and insist that they provide their sources if they want to be taken seriously.

Cite the exact page number and quote that you claim justifies the assertion that 246 Hz PWM carries an "extremely high" health risk. Then we can talk.
by mac-attack | 2025-06-18 19:15:55+00:00
I am of the same mind. Desktop for heavy lifting and a mid-range Chromebook (technically a chrultrabook now) for browsing w/ a lightweight yet modern feel.

I do think the plunge to leveraging a desktop/server across devices does require an understanding of ssh/rdp and tailscale/reverse proxies though, which is why it isn't as popular as it could be.
by 9rx | 2025-06-18 19:16:21+00:00
> But right now I don't have to write defensive tests that include null.

You seem to misunderstand. The question was centred around the fact that unexpected null cases end up being tested by virtue of you covering normal test cases due to the constraints on execution. Explicitly testing for null is something else. Something else I suggest unnecessary — at least where null is not actually part of the contract, which for the purposes of our discussion is the case. Again, we're specifically talking about the testing that is necessary to the extent of covering what is missing in the type system when you don't have a formal proof language in hand.

> You're asking about a circumstance that's just very very different from the one I'm in.

But one you've clearly had trouble with in the past given your claims that you weren't able to deal with it. Otherwise, how would you know?

Perhaps I can phrase my request in another way: If null isn't expected in your codebase, and your testing over where the type system is lacking has covered your bases to know that the behaviour is as documented, where are the errant nulls going to magically appear from?
by chneu | 2025-06-18 19:16:33+00:00
This is willfull ignorance disguised as hopeful.

OP isn't going to save the world. Them saving a few minutes isn't going to free them up to discover unlimited energy. This is just excess consumption masked as something else.

This is just more excuses to justify laziness. "Its worth it cuz one day I'll solve world hunger."
by nucleardog | 2025-06-18 19:16:54+00:00
Yeah, I personally take that into account however I can see why someone may not.

Framework has released fairly consistent upgrades for the Framework 13, but there's no guarantee that they will continue to do so, will release upgrades for the Framework 16, etc.

I think in a few years when they've been in business for closer to a decade than not and released updates across the whole product line, it'd be pretty hard for anyone to make an argument that that _shouldn't_ be factored in.
by no_wizard | 2025-06-18 19:18:53+00:00
This was how early browsers felt too, the open source browser engines were slower at adapting than the ones developed by Netscape and Microsoft, but eventually it all reversed and open source excelled past the closed source software.

Another way to put it, is that over time you see this, it usually takes a little while for open source projects to catch up, but once they do they gain traction quite quickly over the closed source counter parts.