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by classichasclass | 2025-06-08 22:18:33+00:00
I spent a great deal of time at Reuben H. Fleet as a kid growing up in San Diego, playing in the science museum and watching whatever Omnimax movie was on. Didn't matter what it was, they were almost always great eye candy. Even saw, later, a Pink Floyd-themed laser light show projected on the dome. Never failed to impress.
by giantg2 | 2025-06-08 22:19:01+00:00
The other comments aren't surprising.

They released new hardware,but it really didn't differentiate itself in features or pricing from the existing market. There was no revolutionary use case to drive it forward. Existing competitors, such as HoloLens, already locked up the corporate market for things like maintenence spec or blueprint overlays. With a price point that is too high for mass consumer adoption, it's no surprise it flopped in the retail market too. Basically, the easiest answer for what happened to Apple Vision Pro is to just look up what happened to HoloLens. It's the same basic story, just a decade in advance.
by detourdog | 2025-06-08 22:19:27+00:00
It’s been a while but are you talking about the “Geekport”

https://www.beunited.org/bebook/

The Nike store on 57th street in Manhattan was powered by a BeBox. I forget if it ever actually worked. The original developer was replaced by Kandu and I remember them thinking it was trouble. Kandu was famous for hating anything more complex than MS-DOS. We worked on a project where they claimed to have rewritten most of DOS.
by Zak | 2025-06-08 22:20:00+00:00
A related thing that used to annoy me is that vanilla Android wouldn't connect to ad-hoc WiFi networks. Third-party ROMs usually would, so it wasn't due to a hard problem.

The bug report had a two-digit number and Google steadfastly refused to fix it for years. I haven't seen an ad-hoc network in a long time, but they were common when Android was young.
by FreakLegion | 2025-06-08 22:22:20+00:00
It's the preference and its multiplier that gives investors their money back first. These aren't different things, they're one thing, and generally only matter if the company exits for less than the valuation the investors invested at. The exception to this is if any investors have a liquidation preference > 1x (you should avoid companies where this is the case).

Preferences also don't stack with the rest of a liquidity event. E.g. say an investor puts in $100m at a post-money of $1b with a 1x liquidation preference. If the shares go for $900m, the investor gets back their $100m, and that's all. They don't lose money, but they don't make money either. If the shares go at a $1.1b valuation, the investor converts their preferred shares to common shares like everyone else has. The investor doesn't get their money back first and sell more shares on top of that. It's either/or.
by codingdave | 2025-06-08 22:23:15+00:00
Not unlike youth in our current society who leave home then bounce around from one place to another until they find the spot they want to settle in for a while.

I mean sure, colonists from hundreds of years ago are different than young adults of today.... but the tenuous nature, in general, of people out exploring the world for a new home is unsurprising.
Show HN: I Made a Simple Tool to Collect Client Feedback for Freelancers
by Usef | 2025-06-08 22:28:36+00:00
Hi!

I just launched Testimo – a small tool I built to help freelancers collect feedback from clients after a project.

Most freelancers (myself included) either forget to ask for feedback or get vague replies over email/DMs. Testimo simplifies this by giving you a clean, no-login feedback form you can send clients right after a project wraps up.

No account required for clients Customizable questions Clean UI for better response rate Perfect for testimonials, portfolio quotes, or improving service quality

I'm currently testing it with test users and trying to grow it to $100 MRR in 14 days. Feedback welcome!

Try it here: https://usetestimo.vercel.app

Would love your thoughts!
by seanalltogether | 2025-06-08 22:28:51+00:00
Shogo had a mod called Squishie where one player was normal size and on a team by themselves, and all the other players were tiny and on the other team. It was the most fun I've ever had at a LAN party in those early 00's. I'm surprised no one ever picked this up and turned it into a real game.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/squishie
by roxolotl | 2025-06-08 22:29:50+00:00
The thesis is spot on with why I believe many skeptics remain skeptics:

> To call AI a con isn’t to say that the technology is not remarkable, that it has no use, or that it will not transform the world (perhaps for the better) in the right hands. It is to say that AI is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking—and, soon, feeling—machines.

Of course some are skeptical these tools are useful at all. Others still don’t want to use them for moral reasons. But I’m inclined to believe the majority of the conversation is people talking past each other.

The skeptics are skeptical of the way LLMs are being presented as AI. The non hype promoters find them really useful. Both can be correct. The tools are useful and the con is dangerous.
by duffpkg | 2025-06-08 22:31:32+00:00
In "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed", which is a great read, there is discussion of the incredibly difficult time they had setting up tooling for working with titanium. This remains largely true today. Making things at any scale in titanium, while controlling cost is very, very difficult. Even if the titanium itself is gotten very cheaply.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-08 22:32:02+00:00
I don't care. I won't starve, live in my car or go hat-in-hand to my relatives to cover for rent. I did that for years while attending primary education and I will happily ruin whatever little middle-class pastiche you're so desperate to protect if it puts a roof over my head. I personally know dozens of people who would quit their job to subsume that compensation. The fact that it's all legal? I won't even remember who cares by the time my head hits the pillow. It's a problem for someone else.

You hate ads? Surveillance drives you nuts? This is the consequence of a dysfunctional government. You can protest the businesses all you want, it's their job to be apathetic. Make a big show of it, take off your flair and tell your AWS or Apple manager exactly how much all it sucks. They'll nod, write it all down on a legal pad, put it in a folder and refer to it when your next employer calls asking for cross-references. It would all make for a very touching scene of career suicide, and then your replacement can have a technical interview scheduled in by the end of the week. That is the sum of damages you can enjoy as the fruit of your protesting this company.

It's funny how much Americans care about their legacy while doing nothing worth remembering. A Microsoft employee who donates their disproportionate wage to an animal shelter is doing more to benefit the world than some shmuck who got mad at capitalism for the fly in his soup. John Carmack worked for Meta, and still has more of a legacy than every "hacker" on this site combined. If your identity is so shallow that it's defined by nothing other than the person who pays you, you have more serious issues than finding an ethical employer.
Ask HN: Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website?
by usercvapp | 2025-06-08 22:35:16+00:00
Hey everyone!

Many people are looking for jobs and typically apply via a CV or a resume PDF file.

Do you guys think? Something that can put their CV/resume as a website with /blog, /now, a website builder would help them and would be in Demand?

I just built one at UserCV.com and thought this would just go wild, but it looks like no one even noticed it.

Now, before I go and add more features, themes, I would like to have an opinion, if something like that would ever be in Demand or should I just trash it and move on!
by ojosilva | 2025-06-08 22:35:17+00:00
Drawbacks for using a pelican on a bicycle svg: it's a very open-ended prompt, no specific criteria to judge, and lately the svg all start to look similar, or at least like they accomplished the same non-goals (there's a pelican, there's a bicycle and I'm not sure its feet should be on the saddle or on the pedals), so it's hard to agree on which is better. And, certainly, having a LLM as a judge, the entire game becomes double-hinged and who knows what to think.

Also, if it becomes popular, training sets may pick it up and improve models unfairly and unrealistically. But that's true of any known benchmark.

Side note: I'd really like to see the Language Benchmark Game become a prompt based languages * models benchmark game. So we could say model X excels at Python Fasta, etc. although then the risk is that, again, it becomes training set and the whole thing self-rigs itself.
by leereeves | 2025-06-08 22:35:40+00:00
I'm not familiar with all the details of RFK Jr's position, the public debate about it, nor how many of the things reported in the news are accurate (truth being the first casualty of politics).

But I just looked for those topics in the official Make America Healthy Again report [1].

The positions in that report on those topics were not so unreasonable. It says seed oils are a concern because they are ultra-processed fats, only mentions cholesterol in the context of PFAS, and says "vaccines benefit children by protecting them from infectious diseases" but we may not need to give children nearly 30 doses of them.[2]

I do think his general position that processed food is unhealthy is not only reasonable, it generally matches conventional modern medical thinking, even if he is wrong about a few details.

And of course people looking for political ammunition only look for details they can use against him.

1: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/MAHA-R...

2: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/index.html
by movedx | 2025-06-08 22:36:37+00:00
That sounds like a great option to me. The more functionality you can get out of a container without giving up privileges, the better. Podman is just a tool like any other - I'd happily use it if it's right for the job.

All I would say is: can you run that same thing without a containerisation layer? Remember that with things like ChatGPT it's _really_ easy to get a systemd unit file going for just about any service these days. A single prompt and you have a running service that's locked down pretty heavily.
by thorum | 2025-06-08 22:37:11+00:00
> To actually get to the bottom of things: I think most normal folks are concerned more about getting by and making decent money in “the age of AI” than they are about being brilliant whizkid prodigies coming up with original ideas. A lot of those end up being poor anyway. But the desire to live a quality life is a more universal thing. No amount of “mind training” will help here. Just steer clear of paths that AI can dominate (they’re expanding), and failing that, use it to your advantage as best as you can.

In my experience most people working on this are attempting variations on a handful of generic ideas. Most AI startups are fairly uninspired “XYZ but with AI chat” type things or ideas that have no staying power because Claude 7 will one-shot the whole product with a prompt. Succeeding here in the long run means doing something truly different and new and interesting and that’s what the linked articles are about.
by yardie | 2025-06-08 22:38:10+00:00
> it was notified by Hitachi in November 1998 that Microsoft's licensing deal with Hitachi effectively prevented such an approach.

For those too young to remember, this is what the anti-trust case against Microsoft was actually about. Internet Explorer, while important, was just a small part of the Microsoft's monopolistic practice of absolutely fucking over developers, other OSes (including Linux) and consumer choice. It's mildly infuriating now to hear about the bad old Microsoft not being allowed to give end users the best browser available, knowing that was just the tip of the iceberg.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-08 22:39:28+00:00
> Trump said that Isaacman was a Democrat, although Isaacman has donated to both Republican and Democratic candidates and organizations over the year.

Beside the polemic over two toddler arguing in public, what grab my attention is the fact that someone who is considered to be appointed to NASA leadership use to give money to both opposite political side during election.

That’s messed up, someone like that has obviously absolutely no standing, honor,.. whatever you call it. Someone you can’t rely on, that will betray you.

I would consider it to be about the same level as a crackhead, you know he is going to betray you and all its responsibilities at some point, you just don’t know when.

Seriously, you don’t lead the NASA with people like that.
by dpe82 | 2025-06-08 22:40:25+00:00
If we hadn't had a pandemic in which lots of people lost their collective minds and an irresponsible political machine that took advantage of that, mRNA would be pretty universally hailed as the miracle it is.

That aside, yes. Education is important. Sadly at least in the US some of the people who lost their minds are now in charge of such education.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-06-08 22:40:26+00:00
> What works better to raise VC (which for many is the goal)[?] A nix wrapper or a deployment platform

Well, if I wanted VC money for this, even if I was buliding a simple nix wrapper, I'd still tell the VCs that it was a deployment platform. (to be clear I have no opinion on TFA or any idea whether this is what they're doing)
by khazhoux | 2025-06-08 22:40:30+00:00
The last 15 years I'm nagged by this thought that we don't let software developers be software developers anymore. Between sprint planning and JIRAs and project managers and constant meetings and "stakeholders" and senior engineering leadership who confuse progress-tracking for progress... when the hell are people supposed to do the amazing work??

I know it's beating a dead horse to pick on these, but it's a real problem. I look back at how productive we were with tiny teams up until right before 2010, and the main thing that stands out compared to today is all this goddamn overhead.
by sebasvisser | 2025-06-08 22:41:03+00:00
Funny how the same desire got both of us into building more or less the same app:

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/xyz-photo/id6602894199

Yours looks sleeker though. One thing I learned quickly after having friends use it..other people want different things and catering to more than just myself takes soooo much time.

So I stick to building what I want and releasing it for free.
by beambot | 2025-06-08 22:41:45+00:00
> there is no stock market that invests tens of millions of dollars in stopping people buying stocks

There definitely are -- everything from margin limitations, maintenance requirements, regulatory bodies, and counter party risk.

> It doesn't improve efficiency in any way because the price you are taking is known.

The price you are taking when you buy a stock is also known to all participants. Just like sports betting, the marketmaker (bookie) is profiting between the bid & ask spread.
by heliographe | 2025-06-08 22:41:57+00:00
Yes, making money on iOS is an uphill climb, many times more so if you’re not playing the TikTok ads and subscription model.

I’ve been making iOS software independently for almost 2 years now (https://heliographe.studio) and am about ramen profitable.

A few notes in case OP (or anyone interested in making some money in the App Store) is reading:

- you have to make the app free to download, and quickly demonstrate value then show a paywall if you want any purchases. Paid upfront just does not work unless you’re an already recognized product.

I had some apps that were paid upfront, and would mostly get $0 days. Switching to free to download immediately brought me to a slow but steady trickle of daily downloads, and from there you just have to work on your conversion rate.

- but that's still going to be pretty low, if you want any meaningful user acquisition, you're going to have to go look for the kind of people who might be interested in your product. The broader your potential audience is, the harder that's going to be (but that's why TikTok ads can work so well). In my case, choosing to focus on a somewhat niche area (tools for photography) is helpful; there's a strong photography community going on Threads and regularly posting on there yields good results (for now...)

- $2.99 is dramatically underselling yourself, especially if you offer a quality product that you put time to craft to your standards and has no tracking, no subscription, no ads, etc. You should play with pricing to see what the sweet spot in terms of conversion is, but in my experience it's always worth it to start at least at $4.99/$7.99 for these sort of utility apps. Of course, the design of your funnel/paywall will make a huge difference (ie you'll likely sell more of an app marked as $4.99 at 50% off, than just $4.99)

- learn about what makes for good App Store screenshots, descriptions, how keywords work, etc. Ariel from App Figures has some good videos on YouTube about what they see and what seems to work based on their data.

The days where you could make a little app, chuck it on the App Store for $.99, and have it just blow up are well over. If you want to make any money on the App Store (even if to just pay back for your Apple Developer membership), you have to put as much effort, if not more, in the marketing and promotion of your product than you put in the design & development of it. It's a grind for sure — and don't count on Apple to help you in any way (by and large they seemed more interested to promote games and dating apps with $49.99/mo subscriptions than small indies doing interesting things).

Good luck! Eager to try your app :)
by beeflet | 2025-06-08 22:42:02+00:00
I've used sudo before, but I find that it is really difficult to type with the safety gloves on because I keep fatfingering the password and locking myself out.

My family recently got me a new computer setup that won't require sudo and other practices considered harmful. It even does shapes, colors, and animal sounds, which is good enough for my use case.
by jsolson | 2025-06-08 22:43:56+00:00
I was surprised to see a mention of the Carnegie Science Center's Omnimax and the year 1978 -- my recollection was that this theater didn't open until I was both alive and cognizant enough of the world around me to remember it.

That seems consistent with this announcement from 2017 that the theater was going to close (citing a quarter century): https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/rangos-omnimax-theater-to...

I couldn't find any press covering it from 1978, although this directory of IMAX/Omnimax theaters from 1992 matches my recollection of it opening in ~1991.
by tzs | 2025-06-08 22:44:36+00:00
In the case of subsidizing clean energy I believe that most analysts have found that it results in a big net improvement in the long run.

Markets can get stuck in a local minimum where even though there is another local minimum that is lower than the current local minimum the market on its own won't move to that lower minimum because the cost to get out of the current local minimum is more than individual actors can afford.

Also in the case of clean energy there are benefits that aren't captured in the market price of clean energy or the price of fossil fuels, such as the effects of pollution. Pollution from fossil fuels leads to a lot of health costs in humans and also significantly reduces crop yields for example.
by zurichisstained | 2025-06-08 22:44:39+00:00
Ohhh absolutely not, that would be pretty wild - I just wanted to see if it could understand musical notation enough to come up with the correct melody.

I know there are far better ways to do gen AI with music, this was just a joke prompt that worked far better than I expected.

My naive guess is all of the guitar tabs and signal processing info it's trained on gives it the ability to do stuff like this (albeit not very well).
by metalman | 2025-06-08 22:45:20+00:00
there may be no yttrium issue

from wiki: Small amounts of yttrium (0.1 to 0.2%) have been used to reduce the grain sizes of chromium, molybdenum, titanium, and zirconium.[81] Yttrium is used to increase the strength of aluminium and magnesium alloys.[15] The addition of yttrium to alloys generally improves workability, adds resistance to high-temperature recrystallization, and significantly enhances resistance to high-temperature oxidation (see graphite nodule discussion below).[68]

Yttrium can be used to deoxidize vanadium and other non-ferrous metals.[15] Yttria stabilizes the cubic form of zirconia in jewelry.[82]

Yttrium has been studied as a nodulizer in ductile cast iron, forming the graphite into compact nodules instead of flakes to increase ductility and fatigue resistance.[15] Having a high melting point, yttrium oxide is used in some ceramic and glass to impart shock resistance and low thermal expansion properties.[15] Those same properties make such glass useful in camera lenses.[51]

Medical
by AStonesThrow | 2025-06-08 22:45:50+00:00
Trust to do what?

"Trust" is something that has scopes, and extents, and subjects and objects. It is nonsensical to ask such a question as "Guess how much people trust Microsoft". Because you have not defined any scope or categories or extent of that trust.

I trust a toddler not to run out into the street and I trust a toddler not to stick their head inside an oven. I do not trust a toddler to prepare fugu sushi, nor do I trust the toddler to weld steel girders at a height of 1000 meters.

I would trust my hypothetical wife to maintain our conversations and personal history as confidential. This is a mutual and reciprocal trust. I would trust her to prepare that fugu sushi for me, and while I would trust her skills in welding and safety precautions, I would do everything husbandly possible to ensure that she doesn't need to take a job as a welder.

I trust Microsoft to provide software to me, and I trust them to exceed their "no warranty for any purpose" sort of service disclaimers. I trust Microsoft to respond in a timely fashion to CVEs and release software updates. I trust Microsoft implicitly, because the vast majority of businesses trust Microsoft, and those cumulative business decisions have influenced my sentiment about trusting Microsoft to provide software, hardware, and services to me, over the course of 35+ years. Likewise, my somewhat paranoid and crumudgeonly father trusts Microsoft with a similar scope, although he did not trust their Aero UI interface and stubbornly simulated a Windows 95 desktop on XP...

I do not trust Microsoft to bear my children or prepare meals for me. I do not trust Microsoft to cultivate a potato farm or raise chickens. Despite these emails I've been getting which offer me $3 off every Microsoft-raised chicken, guaranteed hormone-free.

So you see that "trust" has many ways to qualify it, and some blank slate of unspecified "trust" is meaningless, as meaningless as your "Best Song of All Time" means nothing to me, because I don't know your criteria or scope.

Do you trust a toddler these days?
by jenadine | 2025-06-08 22:45:54+00:00
> produce writing not by thinking but by making statistically informed guesses about which lexical item is likely to follow another

What does "thinking" even mean? It turns out that some intelligence can emerge from this stochastic process. LLM can do math and can play chess despite not trained for it. Is that not thinking?

Also, could it be possible that are our brains do the same: generating muscle output or spoken output somehow based on our senses and some "context" stored in our neural network.