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by mindwok | 2025-06-24 01:46:57+00:00
I personally disagree. I use Cursor every day on commercial projects, and while I find background agents cool and useful in some contexts they are more often than not simply a distraction.

My preferred way to vibe code is to lock in on a single goal and iterate towards it. When I'm waiting for stuff to finish, I'm exploring docs or info to figure out how to get closer. Reviewing the existing codebase or changes is also super useful for me to grasp where I'm up to and what to do next. This idea of managing swarms of agents for different tasks does not gel with me, too much context switching and multitasking.
by delfinom | 2025-06-24 01:47:00+00:00
Yep, all these baby booomers lucked the fuck out being born in an era where the entire world needed the US after WW2. But over time the rest of the world slowly recovered and suddenly US goods became overpriced.

I blame much of the current US economy on the shenanigans of baby boomers and their parents. Who after having a booming economy for 3 decades, needed to quickly financial engineer themselves out of their infinite growth pension hole.

So what did they do? They started offshoring to compensate for the big mismatch in domestic debt financing and actual domestic wealth creation.

While they were doing they, they put the pedal to the metal on wealth inequality as those already with excessive wealth could leverage themselves to the tits to buy up the competition.

The problem is, alot of this is the net result at the macro scale and there were many independent decisions that led to everything.
by clipsy | 2025-06-24 01:47:20+00:00
> It's funny to me that America gets flak from all over the world for having no social safety net; if this was actually true, you'd expect to see people put aside a bit of their income, however meager it may be, out of an expectation that they will need it.

Congratulations, you've just discovered that human beings are not perfect rational actors.
by quitit | 2025-06-24 01:47:39+00:00
Yes it's a bit odd that the article poses the question if this will help or harm credit seekers. The point of the system is to provide transparency.

What does need to happen however is that these inputs are properly weighted such that those using FICO can make appropriate decisions. Similar to credit cards, numerous BNPL-purchases do not necessarily indicate that the debtor is in financial trouble. They could merely be using the services for the other conveniences they offer. Whereas seeking numerous loans is usually a negative metric.
Ask HN: Which low-code app creator should I learn how to master?
by AbstractH24 | 2025-06-24 01:47:47+00:00
Was thinking of doing a deep dive into Retool, but unsure if it's the best option.

I'm already familiar with Hubspot and Salesforce and how to do things using both clicks and code.

Would like to learn something that is so tied to a CRM with expensive licences.
by zdragnar | 2025-06-24 01:48:52+00:00
There's two primary areas that I've seen teams get bitten by this personally:

1) Designers don't understand that things are going to happen async, and the UI ends up wanting to make assumptions that everything is happening in real time. Even if it works with the current design, it's one small change away from being impossible to implement.

This is a general difficulty with working in eventually consistent systems, but if you're putting something in a queue because you're too lazy to optimize (rather than the natural complexity of the workload demanding it) you're going to be hurting yourself unnecessarily.

2) Errors get swallowed really easily. Instead of being properly reported to the team and surfaced to a user in a timely manner, the default setting of some configurations to just keep retrying the job later means if you're not monitoring closely you'll end up with tens of thousands of jobs retrying over and over at various intervals.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-24 01:48:57+00:00
> I think this is pretty consistent with the old school 1950s views of the current administration.

The effects are functionally the same, but I think the ideology and rhetoric behind then and now have changed.

There really isn't a purportedly "principled" system of logic behind these decisions, in the past these decisions would be dressed in principled rhetoric no matter how heinous they realistically were.

They aren't even bothering to dress it up in rhetoric that says there is something noble behind these decisions.
by alexpotato | 2025-06-24 01:50:27+00:00
The demo for CoD:MW3 [0] had a combat mission in and around the New York Stock Exchange.

As someone who worked in that area for many years AND worked on the technology side of finance, it was def a "trip" to be playing a FPS set in those neighborhoods.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Nqfnngxm0
by bitmasher9 | 2025-06-24 01:50:59+00:00
Let’s say you finance $40,000 in auto debt over 5 years. With a low interest rate of 6% paying $6,300 in interest. That’s over 15% of the amount borrowed! Many people have lager rates over longer periods.

Now consider what would happen if you invested that $6,300 for 30 years instead of spent it on interest. You’re losing out on tens of thousands of dollars in total lifetime wealth.

When you borrow money to “enjoy life” it can quickly end up costing 2x what it would if you spent the money outright, even if you borrowed at low rates.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-24 01:51:40+00:00
I don't necessarily think that goes against what the parent commenter is saying. The CSB does apparently do investigations and root cause analysis of chemical accidents and spills - in my mind they sound analogous to the NTSB and how they investigate aviation accidents.

So, by that analogy, I think the NTSB is amazing and has done crucial, instrumental work that makes flying safer (as the saying goes, aviation regulations are written in blood). So I think getting rid of the CSB sounds colossally stupid, and I think it's elimination could lead to a willingness by companies to be more careless when it comes to chemical safety.
by tolerance | 2025-06-24 01:51:56+00:00
I’m not as shocked by this as I am that there’s the possibility that most of the health-related headlines that I’ve seen lately about things affecting young people may have been referring to people who were in their mid-to-late thirties.

As a young man in his own right for that matter, I’m starting to wonder how other people my age with these sort of problems perceive themselves health-wise as far as diet, fitness and lifestyle go.
by naasking | 2025-06-24 01:52:06+00:00
Diffraction spikes [1] are a natural result of the wave-like nature of light, so they occur for all objects viewed through a telescope, and the exact pattern depends on the number and thickness of the vanes.

My favourite fact about these in relation to astronomy is that you can actually get rid of the diffraction spikes if your support vanes are curved, which ends up smearing out the diffraction pattern over a larger area [2]. However this is often not what you want in professional astronomy, because the smeared light can obscure faint objects you might want to see, like moons orbiting planets, planets orbiting stars, or lensed objects behind galaxies in deep space. So you often want sharp, crisp diffraction spikes so you can resolve these faint objects next to or behind the bright object that's up front.

[1] https://www.celestron.com/blogs/knowledgebase/what-is-a-diff...

[2] https://www.fpi-protostar.com/img/spikes.gif
by o11c | 2025-06-24 01:53:07+00:00
Fun fact: the King James Version of the Bible has several errors where it uses "thy" before a vowel sound. This might vary by edition, but I've verified some in a scan of the 1611 "he" bible. Unfortunately it's blackletter which I can't read quickly, and I really don't trust the OCR.

Semi-manual verse counts from a random digital copy I have convenient, before 'e' only:

(2 thy, 2 thine) elder (2 thy, 0 thine) elect (19 thy, 3 thine) estimation (most in the same chapter!) ("thy ewe" is correct due to pronunciation) (1 thy, 0 thine) exceeding (1 thy, 1 thine) excellency (1 thy, 1 thine) expectation (2 thy, 110 thine) eye

2 John, being short, is the only book that exclusively does it wrong. The other errors are in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Job, Proverbs, and Ezekiel, all of which also use the correct form.

(it also has errors before other vowels and 'h', though the 'u' one is debatable)

For "enemy" it is always the correct "thine".
by Toritori12 | 2025-06-24 01:53:44+00:00
I don't they will dare tbh. I would expect Big Techs to show how dwarf Nintendo is if do an attempt. Big distros do a lot of free work for them.

Ironically enough, maybe the reason why Nintendo is so litigious is because the OG Big Tech (IBM) hit Japan really hard with lawsuits in the early days of the industry.
by nerdsniper | 2025-06-24 01:54:07+00:00
I think if the goal is to “de-regulate”, there are other agencies that could be shut down instead. CSB provides all companies with the know-how to choose to prevent giant disasters. Shutting down this agency may be motivated by a desire to reduce regulation but it’s really counterproductive.

Someone who is against regulation might still support the work of CSB because it assists the operations of any de-regulated industries.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-24 01:54:08+00:00
> The US saw how China rose to dominate manufacturing, and would like to go back to being a manufacturing power again.

If that were the case, the US would be dumping trillions into spinning up manufacturing like China did.

The US has the power to do this, they did it during WWII, and like it or not, this current era requires heavy strategic investments that may not produce returns for decades, if at all. It's what China is doing and if the US were trying to compete, they'd do the same. We were getting somewhat close to this with the CHIPS Act, but that's on the chopping block[1], too.

Truth is US capital is happy to sell off manufacturing capability to cash in on cheap labor, and there is no monetary incentive to re-shore manufacturing capacity unless the government provides serious incentives or does it themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Subseque...
by muzani | 2025-06-24 01:54:37+00:00
I do chatbots focused on interesting conversations. Not specifically to solve this; it's just that I find most conversations dull and I'm the kind of person who would marathon Sorkin/Tarantino just to listen to people talk.

Would you be interested in an open ended first date sim? It could be voice so you get used to voice; one issue I have is I can type well but the brain circuits don't trigger the same way when talking.

Possibly start with an interested date at lower difficulty - someone who asks you the questions and coaches you into interesting answers. Then ramps up to shy/unfriendly where you have to work to get them engaged.
by ranguna | 2025-06-24 01:55:05+00:00
What is curious to me is that there's a possibility that a single plant in conjunction with natural oscillations caused enough trouble to start a doom scenario.

Oscillation -> damping -> possibly faulty equipment and possibly lack of power plants to absorve the reactive load -> 0 voltage in two countries and some neighbouring regions

There's also the possibility that Portugal put too much demand on the market due to negative prices, but I'm not sure if it was explained how much that had an effect on the whole thing.
by scarface_74 | 2025-06-24 01:55:08+00:00
Well seeing that you need a car to go to work to have money to invest in the first place…

And before you say “buy an old beater”, then you have to contend with an unreliable car that may cause you to be late to work and get fired. It’s also much easier and cheaper to get a car loan for a newish car than to borrow money to fix a car.
by lukas099 | 2025-06-24 01:55:20+00:00
Sadly, vets have a high suicide rate. This study found 1.6x the general population rate for male vets and 2.4% for females.

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2019/09/04/veterina...

I have a vet friend that I talk to a lot. One thing that struck me was how many clients will bring in a dog with a serious, obvious malady (the one I remember was a dog with maggots in its anus, sorry for the visual) and will be like, “are you sure he’s in pain? He hasn’t been crying all day”. And it will be evident that this has been happening for weeks.
by tho234234234234 | 2025-06-24 01:56:06+00:00
Two yen: buy Sony phones before Xperia gets shutdown. Sony obsesses about sound quality to the extent that they try to develop specialized solder materials (!) for the DAC-Jack pathway.

Bonus: Sony's AOSP program also releases images, and even oddballs like Sailfish release images spec. for Sony devices.
by ProAm | 2025-06-24 01:56:31+00:00
This is so wildly qrong I dont know how to start. Im assuming this person is not in America, where a lot of the population (unfortunately) uses these practices to buy things that are needed/non-essential) its a shell game the creditors were willing to pay. But now its a lot so its going to affect credit (which is should have to start).
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-24 01:57:02+00:00
I don't think this has much to do with AI and has a lot to do with the current grads declaring their major 4-5 years ago when a confluence of factors crashed together to make programming a job straight from utopia for a short while.

The end result of this will be dirt pay for juniors to weed out who is in it for the passion and who is in it for the money.
by okanat | 2025-06-24 01:57:14+00:00
I'm no American and I am from a country (Turkey, but I moved out) that has some similarities to both Asian and Western style corruption.

> "What is this govt. going to give me for free for me to vote for it"

The exact line of thinking has caused its own Trump case in Turkey. It is similar for the Eastern Europe. Many voted for Trump for petty small interests and very short term gains too. For all of them, social media was a huge boost to explode small gains into bigger narratives.
by eyegor | 2025-06-24 01:57:16+00:00
I wish setup.py was actually on the way out, but sadly, it's the only straightforward way to handle packages that use cython or interop. In these cases, libraries use setup.py to compile the dll/so/dylib at install time. Naturally this is a bit of nightmare fuel since installing gets arbitrary code execution privileges but there's no real standard for privileges in python package installs.
by hintymad | 2025-06-24 01:57:46+00:00
Copying from another post. I’m very puzzled on why people don’t talk more about essential complexity of specifying systems any more:

In No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks argues that the hard part of software engineering lies in essential complexity - understanding, specifying, and modeling the problem space - while accidental complexity like tool limitations is secondary. His point was that no tool or methodology would "magically" eliminate the difficulty of software development because the core challenge is conceptual, not syntactic. Fast forward to today: there's a lot of talk about AI agents replacing engineers by writing entire codebases from natural language prompts. But that seems to assume the specification problem is somehow solved or simplified. In reality, turning vague ideas into detailed, robust systems still feels like the core job of engineers.

If someone provides detailed specs and iteratively works with an AI to build software, aren’t they just using AI to eliminate accidental complexity—like how we moved from assembly to high-level languages? That doesn’t replace engineers; it boosts our productivity. If anything, it should increase opportunities by lowering the cost of iteration and scaling our impact.

So how do we reconcile this? If an agent writes a product from a prompt, that only works because someone else has already fully specified the system—implicitly or explicitly. And if we’re just using AI to replicate existing products, then we’re not solving technical problems anymore; we’re just competing on distribution or cost. That’s not an engineering disruption—it’s a business one.

What am I missing here?
by johnnyjeans | 2025-06-24 01:59:41+00:00
> Actually, the people who are "overly attached to code" tend to be computer scientists who are deeply interested in computation and its expression.

What academics are you rubbing shoulders with? Every single computer scientist I have ever met has projects where every increment in the major version goes like:

"I was really happy with my experimental kernel, but then I thought it might be nice to have hotpatching, so I abandoned the old codebase and started over from scratch."

The more novel and cutting edge the work you do is, the more harmful legacy code becomes.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-24 02:00:09+00:00
We're talking about software development here, not misinformation about politics or something.

Software is incredibly easy to verify compared to other domains. First, my own expertise can pick up most mistakes during review. Second, all of the automated linting, unit testing, integration testing, and manual testing is near guaranteed to pick up a problem with the functionality being wrong.

So, how exactly do you think AI is going to trick me when I'm asking it to write a new migration to add a new table, link that into a model, and expose that in an API? I have done each of these things 100 times. It is so obvious to me when it makes a mistake, because this process is so routine. So how exactly is AI going to trick me? It's an absurd notion.

AI does have risks with people being lulled into a false sense of security. But that is a concern in areas like getting it to explain how a codebase works for you, or getting it to try to teach you about technologies. Then you can end up with a false idea about how something works. But in software development itself? When I already have worked with all of these tools for years? It just isn't a big issue. And the benefits far outweigh it occasionally telling me that an API exists that actually doesn't exist, which I will realise almost immediately when the code fails to run.

People who dismiss AI because it makes mistakes are tiresome. The lack of reliability of LLMs is just another constraint to engineer around. It's not magic.
by westurner | 2025-06-24 02:00:36+00:00
Is it that there is not enough mass beyond the 30k-50k Kelvin wall at the edge of the solar system to attract away things with mass that can carry thermal energy; that thermal mass clumps in the well around the edges and only wisps away, or is that a sidewall boundary of a black hole?

Where is Planet X in relation to said wall of energy density?

Said wall is only sampled by the Voyager probes with a few exit trajectories?

Does said thermal wall extend all the way around the solar system, or is it mostly on one side of the sun; is it a directional coronal wake? Is there symmetry in said thermal wall around the trajectory of the sun?

Is this better explained with SQR Superfluid Quantum Relativity?

Are there other phases of matter at those temperatures?

From the article:

> "As the heliosphere plows through interstellar space, a bow shock forms, similar to what forms as a ship plowing through the ocean

So fluidic space wind and fluidic nonlinear bow shock wakes.

Are there additional heat walls beyond (and probably also before) the first, as there are with more laminar boat wakes?

Is there a gravitational wave "bow shock", too?

"The Heliosphere" https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/heliosphere-4/

From "Two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159195 :

> "The helical model - our solar system is a vortex" https://youtube.com/watch?v=0jHsq36_NTU

Where are planet X and the heat wall (and/or side wall) in this vortical model of the solar system?
by Leftium | 2025-06-24 02:01:45+00:00
It seems a lot of thought was put into the design of LogTape. I may integrate my logging tool with LogTape. My tool needs the callsite, so I don't think I can just write a LogTape sink; I think it would also have to wrap/extend LogTape itself.

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I built a DX-focused logging library on top of debug-js. Notable features of https://github.com/Leftium/gg:

- Automatic namespaces based on calling function + path to source filename/path.

- Can be inserted into the middle of expressions.

- Can output a link that opens the file in your editor/IDE of choice.

- Simple to disable

- Diagnostics/hints to help with installation/configuration

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I was surprised by the amount of logs already being output (by Vite) when I simply added https://github.com/debug-js/debug to my project.

Fortunately, debug-js output is very simple to filter via ENV and/or localStorage.debug

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What I look for in a logging library (with more focus on dev/debugging than production):

- Easy to add new logs.

- Easy to identify the location of the code that triggered the log. I noticed a lot of my logging was simply to indicate the start and maybe end of a function call. If needed, I might add additional logs between these.

- Easy to surgically disable/filter groups of logs. Should be easier than commenting/uncommenting calls to logger. Otherwise I end up with lots of uninteresting log chatter (or I delete log statements, only to add them again later...)
by danieltanfh95 | 2025-06-24 02:01:49+00:00
This is a demo of an authentication approach that combines the familiarity of passwords with the security of digital signatures. Instead of sending passwords to servers, users derive cryptographic key pairs from their passwords and use digital signatures for authentication.

With PDSA, passwords never leave the client device in plaintext and even if the server is breached, attackers cannot impersonate users, so even if users reuse the same password across services the impact to other services using the same password is minimal.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-06-24 02:02:33+00:00
What? They didn't say big government or respect for it did this. In fact, they're arguing for a strong government and that violent ignorance is dismantling valuable public systems.

Are you being sarcastic? To say India doesn't have violent ignorance in the same breath of... The obscene wealth inequality, social castes, sexual inequality, etc of that country...
by deathanatos | 2025-06-24 02:02:57+00:00
Is it? I should just purposefully bind myself?

Seems like using a tool to its fullest potential to get more work done is better advice.

> I would be just as quick and comfortable on any system I would likely encounter.

How often are we encountering other systems…? And even where I am rarely ssh'd into something else … are we doing so much editing of code (live in production…?) that it matters? (I heavily customize my vim, but it isn't like I'm lost on a remote system with stock vim, or nano. ed is another matter.)

But if I need tons and tons of editing, … sshfs+local vim/terminal? But this just such a rare case, it seems like one of those "we should optimize for the common case" — which this is not.
by vpShane | 2025-06-24 02:03:07+00:00
Whatever the statistics may be with this. I'm not a marijuana partaker but I'll say this: the #1 killer in this life is stress. I feel there's too many factors at play for data like this. Is it from the coughing, how does that weigh in on it? Is it from the binge eating? is it from the lack of mobility?

I read the articles before NY Times picked them up; it's paywalled.
by Loughla | 2025-06-24 02:04:13+00:00
You're being down voted but you're right.

Bringing manufacturing back is a stated goal of this administration.

Nevermind that you're not going to convince an American to work for Chinese wages in a sweatshop. Ignore that.

But the intended outcome of everything Dump is doing is to de-emphasize advanced education, bring back all basic manufacturing, and restore the "traditional" American values (white, straight, Christian). It's an absolutely stupid idea, but he's been pretty clear about it.