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by ksec | 2025-06-11 17:41:57+00:00
Tidbits from when I was still heavily involved as what the post described as Mozilla community.

Even during B2G and Firefox OS Mozilla still believe Google were their Friends. And will somehow continue to fund them, because Google is a search company, not a Chrome / Android company.

B2G announced in 2011, but I remember some idea / hints of it started floating around before then. Probably somewhere along the way of developing PDF.js if I remember correctly.

Dont bet against Javascript. Anything could be done in Javascript should be done in Javascript. Practically speaking that means apart from Kernel and drivers all things should be javascript. Even when it is easier for it to be done in C++.

Hardware is cheap. Software is expensive. Moore's Law meant hardware cost will half every 2 years and eventually so cheap it will be subsidised by software. That is why by aiming at low cost smartphone they meant $35 dollar smartphones. I think this thought disease was actually started by Bill Gate. That was the time I learned Silicon Valley have absolutely no idea about anything supply chain and hardware. Apple being an absolute outliner and exception.

Firefox was slow the day Chrome was born. Because everything is comparative. And e10s ( Electrolysis ) took 7 years before it was shipped on Desktop. It was originally targeted for Firefox 4. And took another 1 - 2 years for additional tuning and ironing out rough edges. As the article suggested. Everything at the time was mobile and B2G. It took a while before they realise Desktop Firefox, their cash cow wasn't competing and need some attention. ( It was too late )

I dont remember if Memshrink was started because of B2G. But Firefox at the time definitely have memory issues. Memshrink is ultimately is what leads to Firefox being the best browser to handle thousands of tabs. And About:memory was born out of it.

B2G as an idea wasn't wrong per se. But it was wrong timing and execution. Mozilla as a company was way too idealistic. From technological, marketing, strategy to execution. Ultimately as the article suggest, it was a management issue.

And if Mozilla have taken those lessons and learned from it in 2016. I believe they could still have had Firefox OS windows of opportunity in 2021. When somehow both Google and Apple became evil. Instead they wasted money on AI and many other initiatives.

I believe the downfall of Mozilla was when they won the war against IE. And that perhaps planted the seed they could really achieve everything. To this day I am not sure if they realised they won because of the Mozilla community being their evangelist ( Not being a negative thing at the time of 00s ) and perhaps more importantly. Microsoft IE wasn't even competing.

I still remember the New York Times Ads. Good Old Days.
by bcantrill | 2025-06-11 17:42:36+00:00
Yes, that's all (unfortunately) correct. Part of the reason that we have been supportive of the openSIL effort[0] is to make our approach more generally attainable -- and of course we have opened our own work[1] and we will continue to be outspoken advocates for transparency at the hardware/software interface[2].

[0] https://github.com/openSIL/openSIL

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/illumos-gate

[2] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0552
by awsthrowaway1 | 2025-06-11 17:42:48+00:00
(Throwaway account because I work at Amazon)

Everyone at Amazon is focused on AI right now. Internal and external demand for GPU resources and model access is off the charts. The company's trying to provide enough resources to do research, innovate, and improve business functions, while at the same time keeping AWS customers happy who want us to shut up and take their money so they can run their own GPUs. It's a hard problem to solve that all the hyperscalers share.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-06-11 17:42:48+00:00
> Can it play Doom?

>...We're working on it.

Seriously though, can a ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT Feather[1] (dual-core Xtensa @ 240 MHz, 512KB built-in RAM, 2MB external PSRAM, 4MB Flash) play Doom? As usual with these microcontroller-type things, it looks like storage poses a harder limit than compute, but maybe just a bit of Doom could be crammed in?

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/5691
by charleszyong | 2025-06-11 17:43:05+00:00
Backlash is a real problem. I’m working with the supplier to prototype a small batch with 20 to 30% less backlash, though this may come at a slightly higher price and potentially a shorter lifespan.

If cost isn’t a concern, harmonic drives combined with brushless servos are excellent. I have a few harmonic drive units, and they’re truly amazing.
by ohdeargodno | 2025-06-11 17:43:47+00:00
> This isn't like some high-level CS:GO player who can consistently headshot fast-moving targets

Saying this about the one competitive shooter that has random first shot inaccuracy is an incredibly funny take.

>just trying over and over again until you get the exact right sequence of inputs (or "RNG") to claim the record, rather than repeatable skill.

There are pretty much zero active speedrun games that require "the right RNG" to win. There are some games with explicitly bad random things that are guaranteed to fuck up a run, like RE4, but skilled players all have backup strategies and most top runs did not get perfect RNG everywhere. Sums of best on most games are 20% lower than the time. Do you know why ? Because runs that end up requiring a 1/100000 strategy to win get bumped into different categories, otherwise the category dies. Sometimes, a reliable way to do that skip (like, say, Mi'ihen skip in FFX) is found, and what was once a cosmic bit flip is now a regular route that everyone knows and gets done.

Some players reset after 3 minutes, because they cannot accept the idea of having a suboptimal start, but runners like Siglemic or ZFG, who are responsible for the growth of speedrunning as a watchable thing got there because they push runs to the end, no matter what. As for "no repeatable skills", runners learned to manual superswim on The Wind Waker (requiring frame perfect input, sometimes without pause buffering), have game knowledge to the point where a randomizer ALTTP run is a fun live speedrun challenge, can setup ACE on games like Super Mario World, and so, so many others.

How many failed BLJs and 70 star stairs skip did it take you to get so angry at people playing games fast ?
Show HN: db-ui – simple self-hosted DB management UI with AI chat support
by n7olkachev | 2025-06-11 17:44:20+00:00
Hey! I needed a simple to use self-hosted web ui for managing db data.

pgadmin is pretty complicated, adminer is pretty old-looking. Also, the stuff I need to do often feels doable by AI so I would like to have it integrated too.

So I created my own. Currently works with postgres only (as this is the only DB I use) and connects to groq (they've a free plan and I didn't look further), not against adding alternatives if there's some demand for it.

Dockerized, also pretty simple to run from source (implemented as a next.js app).
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-11 17:44:21+00:00
The end of the article details the steps necessary for people who want to run Gnome without systemd. There is a monoculture of sorts, which is that bespoke init systems aren't tested or supported by Gnome itself, but like you already need to do to get Gnome working normally, you can still patch in support for whatever system you prefer. The article even provides a list of services and APIs that you will need to hook up to Gnome to make it work.

You don't need to reimplement logind or D-Bus, but you will need to patch your mechanisms of choice into Gnome itself. Gnome isn't planning on maintaining a second copy of common system services that exist on modern systems anymore (a copy that is based on a hack in the first place). The burden of maintenance now falls on whoever wants to provide their own alternative.

All the extra work you need to do to get alternative init systems working is work the Gnome team no longer needs to do.
Show HN: Koldy.io – We send you verified B2B contacts, no tools needed
by vittorioexp | 2025-06-11 17:44:49+00:00
I got tired of using tools that promise leads but end up taking hours to set up and filter. So I built Koldy.io — a super simple service: → You tell us who you want to reach → We send you a clean list of verified B2B contacts (CSV) in 48h No scraping, no learning curve, no subscriptions. Mostly useful for small agencies, indie consultants, early SaaS.

Would love any feedback — especially from anyone doing B2B outreach manually. Thanks
Ask HN: Advice on fundraising for an AI lab or an incubator
by sahil423 | 2025-06-11 17:44:54+00:00
Hey , I am Sahil building Gamod an ai lab which will focus on game dev and gamification using AI. I am also building Startanator and incubator for people younger than 20 and What would you suggest ot raise money for it and Gamod? also any growth hacks ?
by jandrese | 2025-06-11 17:45:28+00:00
The article talks about stress relief when it went down the rabbit hole of tiny mom & pop mills who were turning their kilns off every night because they didn't have a third shift and later discovering that turning them off periodically produces better lumber because it allows the wood to relieve stress and suffer less distortion.

However, the continuous process is basically just a slow moving conveyor belt where you are constantly feeding green wood in one end and dried lumber is constantly being spit out of the far end. I don't see why you couldn't incorporate ambient air chambers in strategic places on the belt to destress the lumber, at the cost of making the entire production line somewhat longer.
by siver_john | 2025-06-11 17:45:30+00:00
I mean the passenger train from Lebanon, TN to Nashville, TN is quite busy. I rode it over a decade ago and it was quite used and my partner rides it now and it is much the same. If it still ran at night like it did back then, I'd probably take it into downtown (and go downtown more often) for events. I don't believe the train left the station a long time ago, we just simply shifted it off the tracks.
by strongpigeon | 2025-06-11 17:45:47+00:00
I’m incredibly grateful that medical aid in dying is an option and that one can have agency not only in how they live but also in how they die.

I had someone close to me opt for it. They were greatly suffering and had no chance of their condition getting better. Having a planned final date allowed us to say farewell and thank each other for all the great moment we shared without feeling ominous. The last phone call I had with them will stay with me forever.
by mrandish | 2025-06-11 17:45:50+00:00
I watched it when it originally aired and agree it was surprisingly unimpactful on TV. Interesting backstory: I know someone who worked on the creative team for that TV special and while developing new illusion concepts, they brainstormed the idea of making the moon disappear from the night sky (as verified by a live audience augmented with astronomers with telescopes and a laser). However, they realized the concept of that effect was "too big" to play well to television audiences.

It's an interesting thought that a magic trick concept can be 'too amazing'. I think the Statue of Liberty was still 'too big' of a concept, at least for a television performance. Copperfield's illusion titled "Flying" is also really interesting in this regard. As both a magician and magical inventor, I think it's a terrific effect and Copperfield presented it beautifully. It's also one of the more difficult effects I've ever seen him do, both technically and physically. It's visually stunning, yet it just doesn't seem to have as strong of an impact on audiences as it should.

Levitating a person has long been one of the most challenging and popular stage illusions. Over the last 150 years it's been done dozens of different ways - with my personal favorite being the Asrah levitation invented by Servais Le Roy and first performed in 1902. Arguably, the Flying illusion, which was invented by legendary illusion creator Johnny Gaughan for Copperfield, is the ultimate 'perfect' levitation. It achieves levitation in its most ideal, unconstrained form yet somehow fails to 'connect' strongly with audiences. Understanding why it doesn't is one of those fascinating puzzles magical inventors debate over beer. Sometimes figuring out if you should do an effect is even harder than figuring out how to do it.
by strictnein | 2025-06-11 17:46:02+00:00
It's a great park with some surprisingly enjoyable rides. Lightning Rod is one of the most intense coasters I've been on. Definitely a little rough at times, but man it does not hold back at all. And it's kind of hidden in the layout of the park, with a lot of the track over the top of a hill.

A visit to the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area and the Smoky Mountains is great trip, especially with kids. Lots of quirky nonsense to enjoy, as well as some beautiful nature.
by mosburger | 2025-06-11 17:46:45+00:00
I think it'll be someone pushing the boundaries of hip hop/rap/etc., it feels like there's still a lot more experimentation and unexplored stuff that can happen there. And most of the people on HN probably won't really appreciate it much, just like the general population didn't quite fully appreciate Brian Wilson's genius back when he was doing his best work.

I'm not super close to that genre so I wouldn't dare hazard a guess who that might be.
by anonzzzies | 2025-06-11 17:46:45+00:00
> Step 2: Definitely don't take internet advice.

then

> Step 4: Intermittent fasting + 50% fat, 50% protein diet.

> Step 5: Ask doctor for a standard run of Fenbendazole or Mebendazole

Right...

So definitely don't listen to this then.
Show HN: MagnaLaunch – Fixed-price MVP builds for non-technical teams
by vittorioexp | 2025-06-11 17:46:47+00:00
Hey HN,

I built MagnaLaunch to help non-technical entrepreneurs and small teams get their products to market faster, without the usual dev bottlenecks.

It’s a service that scopes, builds, and delivers the first usable version of your product (what people often call an MVP). All fixed-price, with full source code, documentation, and a few months of post-launch support included.

I started this after seeing how many early-stage founders stall after prototyping either because they can’t find technical help or get stuck working with unreliable freelancers.

Would love feedback from the HN community on the concept, the positioning, or anything else.

Thanks.
by hinkley | 2025-06-11 17:47:01+00:00
We condensed redundancies in the 80’s to improve profit margins for rail. Those lines could have supported more cargo and passenger trains but they’re gone now. It’s difficult to add rail through populated areas. And some population centers are big enough that going around them is not feasible. Like you could go around Portland Oregon to add new west coast routes without much high profile eminent domain, but can you still do the same in New England?
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-11 17:47:45+00:00
>Seems a little strange to not want to try to commit to the requirements for transplant and instead just die.

You just have different values than the OP. I have values different from yours as well that would have me turn down a transplant... and it's not that I wouldn't want to live longer. There are just some measures I'm unwilling to take.
by scottcha | 2025-06-11 17:47:48+00:00
Maybe I’m a statistical anomaly or maybe I just don’t know the baseline occurrence rate for this stuff but I have 3 close acquaintances two of which are this persons age or younger with similar symptoms (tachycardia, though to a lesser degree) going on. Is there data on the incidence rates for this stuff and has it been increasing since 2021?
by svnt | 2025-06-11 17:48:23+00:00
It has been widely reported. Here is an example not of a coal-fired but diesel and gas mobile power sources. If you spend time looking you will have no trouble finding sources.

> Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a rule clarification allowing the use of some mobile gas and diesel power sources for data centers. In a statement accompanying the rule, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claimed that the Biden administration's focus on addressing climate change had hampered AI development.

> "The Trump administration is taking action to rectify the previous administration's actions to weaken the reliability of the electricity grid and our ability to maintain our leadership on artificial intelligence," Zeldin said. "This is the first, and certainly not the last step, and I look forward to continue working with artificial intelligence and data center companies and utilities to resolve any outstanding challenges and make the U.S. the AI capital of the world."

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-race-fossil-powered-generators-a...
by bell-cot | 2025-06-11 17:48:25+00:00
Suggested replacement article:

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-species-natural-enemies-pests....

(No paywall, and far more readable for the layperson.)

But either way, the research is a meta-analysis. Hopefully the Danes are busily experimenting, to figure out what % of a field should be planted with which flowers, to maximize the yield of the actual crops.
by mrguyorama | 2025-06-11 17:49:25+00:00
>What possible reason is there for them not to just be plugged into the car's power and computer?

The part where they are a sensor in a wheel and therefore have constant turning. Are you interested in engineering a system that can cheaply and reliably provide power and signal through a constantly and one direction turning joint? That's not a trivial problem, and most solutions are things like contact brushes on a turning bearing surface which would instantly foul in a tire and brake dust filled environment or a sealed puck of mercury channels that nobody wants to install on every single car in the world.

There are two ways tire pressure monitoring is done. The normal way is to piggy back on the tone wheels that ABS uses to monitor wheel rotation speed, as a flat tire has less circumference and therefore rotates faster. This has the down side that you need to "calibrate" it and people suck at doing that, it can't tell you raw pressure values at all, and for a while it wasn't normal for cars to have 4 independent ABS tone wheels so you couldn't always pinpoint which tire was flat. This method has no consumable parts, has no batteries, and sends no radio signals so is not trackable.

The other method is putting a battery powered pressure sensor and radio in the valve stem of each wheel. This method is retrofittable, will always give you raw pressure values and doesn't need any calibration (but does need pairing). However, the parts are more expensive, they are somewhat consumable and make tire changes more expensive and time consuming, and are constantly sending trackable signals that can be automatically dragnet surveilled. Don't buy this method.
by scop | 2025-06-11 17:50:55+00:00
Wouldnt it be nice is such an amazing piece of art. Grew up hearing it, never listening to the lyrics. Thought it was fun. As an adult finally paid attention to the lyrics one day and they knocked me off my feet. The happiest most upbeat song is really singing about something not quite there, an ideal, but real, something to be grasped and lost…or let go…

What a genius to be able to pull that song off.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-11 17:51:01+00:00
systemd is far from perfect, but it's the best we've got on Linux. Treating systemd like an init system is like treating your car like a Bluetooth speaker: yes, you can connect your phone to the speaker system over bluetooth and yes you can take the speakers with you to most places, but the speakers are only a small part of what you're taking along with you

Nobody is forcing systemd down anyone's throats. You can use init.d if you like, or OpenRC, or whatever you prefer. What's happening instead is that people who maintain software are no longer interested in maintaing init.d scripts or working around the missing features many supposed alternatives lack.
by BryanLegend | 2025-06-11 17:51:22+00:00
There used to be second or two between finishing a command and it getting executed. We easily use Alexa 20x a day at my house. Announcements, kitchen timers, lights & music.

I think the voice recognition is async now. It's streaming the data to a model. Before it would wait until the command was finished then send the .wav file off to a model.
by andy_xor_andrew | 2025-06-11 17:51:41+00:00
I encourage everyone to listen to his 1988 solo album self named “Brian Wilson”. It’s brilliant. Frequently called “Pet Sounds ‘88” since many fans consider it to be a spiritual sequel. The 80s synth dressing might seem off putting at first but the songwriting and musicality of it is just amazing.

Also, give a listen to Smile! - not Smiley Smile, or The Smile Sessions, but the 2004 recreation. It's quite mindblowing. If you close your eyes you can hear it as a true symphony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UbNwhm2EX8
by skyyler | 2025-06-11 17:53:47+00:00
SOPHIE was definitely in the running for being another Brian Wilson type. Her immense creativity was best when channeled through others, just like Brian's.

She enjoyed some widespread success during her short life, but since her death, the style of music she helped pioneer has exploded in popularity. The extremely popular "brat" album from last year contained both explicit celebration of her name and homage to her style.

But she's dead now. Her music still inspires me.

He's dead now, too. His music will continue to inspire me.
by const_cast | 2025-06-11 17:54:04+00:00
> He wants your violent leftie friends

Yeah, we all know how violent lefties are. They're djaying right now, the horror!

> It's not the police that started it.

Sure, but the police escalated it because that's all they know what to do.

The worst thing to do for a protest is send in the police. Because they're going to antagonize people, shoot rubber bullets, throw tear gas, and then suddenly you're on the news.

During the BLM protests there was footage out the wazoo of people literally sitting there or just walking and then having rubber bullets shot at them. Sometimes while they were actually on their knees.
by owenversteeg | 2025-06-11 17:54:40+00:00
440.64 Wh, 21600 mAh/20.4V, 1250W/60A constant discharge, 170A burst for 10s, total pack weight 1332g-1335g depending on connectors which gets you to 360 Wh/kg cell density or 330 Wh/kg pack density.

Impressive, but not that far off from much cheaper mass-produced cells.
by bob1029 | 2025-06-11 17:54:59+00:00
My most productive use of LLMs has been to stub out individual methods and have them fill in the implementations. I use a prompt like:

public T MyMethod<T>(/*args*/) /*type constraints*/ { //TODO: Implement this method using the following requirements: //1 ... //2 ... //... }

Anything beyond this and I can't keep track of which rabbit is doing what anymore.
by veilrap | 2025-06-11 17:55:10+00:00
I'm curious how/what you use the screens via AR for if you're not using environment locked screens. Particularly in a productivity/work environment.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the feature, it seems like enironment locked screens allows for more natural usage and interactions with the screens in the virtual space?

My experience is mostly with VR/AR products like Oculus has been mostly with environment locked AR information.
by telesilla | 2025-06-11 17:56:07+00:00
God Only Knows is the perfect song. Thanks Brian for bringing it into our lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NADx3-qRxek

and this beautiful film, very touchingly explores his life with the always-excellent Paul Dano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lioWzrpCtGQ