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by charles_f | 2025-07-04 05:18:49+00:00
I remember a world where you had to manually connect to a physical machine then copy and paste DLLs around tp deploy stuff. A batch script (that occasionally worked) was great innovation when it came to deployment. Not that long ago I worked with a company where it took persuasion to stop the madness of manually deploying to "the cloud" from an IDE at night when the traffic was slower.

Kubernetes is borderline painful, because it's specific, you need to learn it, you'll get burnt a bunch of times and unlike a VM you can't connect and reboot. And it has this tendency like Javascript to have breaking changes every 9 months. But if you're doing anything at some scale, it's also pretty good once it's set. If you don't, and what you're looking for is simplicity, go for one of the functions / lambda / heroku alternatives. Yes, lock-in, but also not that much if you abstain from leaning into the proprietary too much. Which brings me to that

> Kubernetes has also created a powerful lock-in effect

What? Isn't lock-in to kubernetes the same lock-in you have with your programming language, databases and largely architecture decisions? I mean if you're using one of these cloud resources sure, but generally when just relying on the orchestration, it actually provides the opposite.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-04 05:18:56+00:00
If the original is an actual production shot on film, the film grain is naturally part of it. Removing it never looks good. If it is something shot on a digital camera and had grain added in post, then you can go back to before the grain was added and then do it client side without degradation. But you can never have identical when it originated on film. That's like saying you can take someone's freckles away and put them back in post just rearranged and call it the same.
by flowerthoughts | 2025-07-04 05:21:31+00:00
> But Nintendo has intentionally broken the Switch 2’s compatibility with those devices, using a new encryption scheme and some form of dedicated encryption chip, two accessory manufacturers tell The Verge.

It's pretty unclear from the article if this is about charging or video. DRM for video might be OK if properly labelled in the shop, but not charging.

I really hope the USB-IF punishes this behavior, and the EU too. Don't use the USB-C connector if you don't have honorable intentions regarding interoperability.
by tra3 | 2025-07-04 05:21:49+00:00
I had a quasi physical reaction when reading the description. Not a good one.

I don’t remember hotornot being amongst asimovs 3 laws of robotics..is this really the future we deserve?

The author is gonna be vilified, but next year someone’s gonna come up with a cute name and a material design for this and gonna make bank.

I’m kinda curious to see what 1/10 people look like but these are real people right.
by rvz | 2025-07-04 05:23:29+00:00
Nothing. It is the scam that won't ever change.*

The best part is, all companies know it is a scam. But they will abuse it anyway and any change against it will be heavily lobbied. Here is how it simply works:

What employers say (lie): "We can't find 'skilled' and 'talented' people locally." What they *REALLY* want: "We *really* need e̶x̶c̶e̶p̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶t̶o̶p̶ ̶g̶r̶a̶d̶u̶a̶t̶e̶s̶ AI agents to work 24/7 for $1 a month" What they *actually* do: *Issues hundreds of H1-Bs to the cheapest country they can find.*

> Is anything being done to fix this?

No.

Why would these companies want to fix their primary method of getting cheap labor?

*unless you introduce a new visa system and for technical roles, everyone must pass a 'leetcode' test in person to win the visa and the offering role is office only.
by defrost | 2025-07-04 05:25:08+00:00
"Designed" manner according to physical laws of nature such as thermodynamics, sure.

Coarsely predictable in the sense that more blankets on the bed (insulating gases in the atmosphere) trap more radiant heat energy, sure.

Predictable, as in we can predict what will happen in or between (or to) climate cells as that trapped energy increases ... nope, not so much.

That's the mathematical conclusion from the study of nonlinear systems embodied in things such as Ed Lorenz's Butterfly Effect and Stephen Smale's Horseshoe.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_map
by turbofreak | 2025-07-04 05:25:10+00:00
EA did recently release another corpus of C&C source code so I’m quite chuffed with their leadership in that regard. Now we just need BfME and E:BfD source code and maybe toss in NoX and a few other classics and we are cruising. But Renegade? Fuck. What a masterstroke. Whoever thought to release that is an absolute ledge.
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by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-04 05:26:47+00:00
You know full well that this isn't the same thing, which is why you've created a new account so your fascist apologia won't be linked with your main. He's claiming the authority not just to selectively enforce laws, but to rewrite them. (Why do the companies care about this distinction? They're worried, correctly, that many of us will demand the next administration prosecute them for what's now been months of flagrant lawbreaking.)
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-07-04 05:27:44+00:00
> hiring 16 year olds just because of their ability to write code

They weren't. They were hired because of their ability to deliver software products. Huge difference.

Every kid who mechanically copied BASIC games from a magazine could "write code", but they weren't Bill Gates.

(Anyways Bill Gates was hired because of nepotism, but that's irrelevant here.)
by tptacek | 2025-07-04 05:29:00+00:00
LLM output is crap. It’s just crap. It sucks, and is bad.

Still don't get it. LLM outputs are nondeterministic. LLMs invent APIs that don't exist. That's why you filter those outputs through agent constructions, which actually compile code. The nondeterminism of LLMs don't make your compiler nondeterministic.

All sorts of ways to knock LLM-generated code. Most I disagree with, all colorable. But this article is based on a model of LLM code generation from 6 months ago which is simply no longer true, and you can't gaslight your way back to Q1 2024.
by sebmellen | 2025-07-04 05:30:38+00:00
This being on page 2 with 247 upvotes in the three hour time period this post has been up is surprising to me. I wouldn't be surprised if @dang is suppressing it (but I'd also be happy to hear that it's not being suppressed).

It's pretty spineless for the Pickle team to come out and pretend they mistakenly re-licensed GPL code. Hilarious.

> in initially building it we included code from a GPL-licensed project that we incorrectly attributed as Apache

How can you write a sentence like that in good faith?
by MatteoFrigo | 2025-07-04 05:31:08+00:00
You are correct. The property that the colluding website and DMV still cannot identify you is called "unlinkability" and as far as I can tell cannot be achieved without zero-knowledge proofs. See https://github.com/user-attachments/files/15904122/cryptogra... for a discussion on this issue.

However, the timing attack resurfaces once you allow the DMV to revoke credentials. Exactly how the revocation is done matters. We are actively pushing back against solutions that require the DMV to be contacted to verify that the credential has not been revoked at presentation time, but this is a very nuanced discussion with inevitable tradeoffs between privacy and security.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-07-04 05:32:00+00:00
>Also, I expect better from the HN community when it comes to data. 5 (4, in reality. Because one of your links is flagged now) articles in a week not flagged for a forum that receives hundreds of submissions per day does not even meet the minimum statistical threshold.

I really have to question if you ever look at your own biases, because you just made up a story that agrees with your preexisting viewpoint. For the links I posted, I literally just searched "Trump" and took a few of the many unflagged posts from that search. It was in no way exhaustive. Why did you assume it was? It's quite easy to see that in a week, there are literally hundreds of unflagged political posts. My intention was to post an example, not a list of all of them.
by hx8 | 2025-07-04 05:32:14+00:00
> If you're going that far though you might consider not sending intact humans at all and just sending the eggs and growing them out either artificially or in some other animal.

I don't want to meet the humans that were raised by robots in the astroid belt instead of growing up in a community of humans. I think we would need to 100x our understanding of childhood development to have a chance of raising healthy adults, much less adults that could reintegrate well into 'natural' human societies.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-07-04 05:32:54+00:00
We're way past that point. The Trump regime is currently prosecuting a Congressmember on fabricated charges in retaliation for opposing his immigration policy. We've seen the same dynamic on the tariffs; a substantial majority of Congress knows the tariffs are bad and does not support them, but the Trumpists would never permit it to come up for a vote.
by trhway | 2025-07-04 05:33:25+00:00
In my home town back in Russia they now easily grow the stuff of my unreachable back then in USSR childhood dreams - apricots, cherries (the large sweet ones). The children there though don't do backcountry skiing like i did 40+ years ago because there is no snow these years there. And Russia pumps out fossil fuels without any care. They feel that things like opening of the Northern Passage and more agriculture on the previously hardly suitable lands are great for their future (they aren't climate change deniers, they are believers. Like everybody else there, I was taught about climate change as a clearly established scientific fact in the 6th grade in 1985).

So, until somebody brings out 10+ aircraft carriers and enforces global climate accord, i don't see any progress happening here.
by csomar | 2025-07-04 05:34:42+00:00
You do not. These measures are targeted against law-abiding and productive citizens to control them further. The other ones (the top 0.1% or the bottom 20%) are uncontrollable anyway.

In the future, you'll need a signed certificate with your PII/KYC to access the internet and get an IP address. China is already on the way there and the west is warming up to this approach.
by paulddraper | 2025-07-04 05:36:16+00:00
> Either that, or live in some futuristic utopia like the EU where banks consider "send money to people" to be core functionality. But here in the good ol' U S of A, where material progress requires significant amounts of kicking and screaming, you had PayPal.

The irony of this rant next to the AI rant.

Progress is not uniformly distributed I guess.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-04 05:36:24+00:00
In general, renewable carbon free energy sources are the only practical options, and have even proven economically beneficial in many places.

There is a cascade failure point that likely will arrive in a few decades based on our current trajectory. Geoengineering, planting trees, and or carbon credit systems does nearly nothing about long-term carbon cycles driving the issue.

In general, migration won't happen much as resource constraints can't relocate nor feed 12 Billion people. Maybe something like "The Silo" fiction will become popular, or Elon and his 1600 passenger (based on current designs) company will make it off planet. lol =3
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-04 05:36:32+00:00
> You forget that tmux is a terminal emulator.

No I don’t forget that.

> can output malformed unicode or escape commands that trigger crashes or code execution, it is actually a huge problem.

I agree.

And to go back to an earlier point, when was the last time you experienced tmux crash? Because I’ve been using it 15 years and yet to see that happen to me.

I get the need to protect against theoretical attacks, but what you’re advocating is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
by Analemma_ | 2025-07-04 05:36:49+00:00
I keep hearing this theory, that “eventually” we will find the use cases for distributed ledgers, and I don’t buy it. Bitcoin was invented at roughly the same time as the iPhone, and the iPhone immediately found use cases. Right away the global economy reoriented itself around the smartphone, because it demonstrated real value to actual people. We did not need to wait and twiddle our fingers for years going “I think there’s a decent chance people find interesting uses for this someday”.

Immutable distributed ledgers, by contrast, have found no use cases other than crime and financial speculation in coming up on twenty years. Exactly how long do we have to wait for these interesting uses that are “surely” coming?
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-04 05:37:34+00:00
Woah. Didn't expect it.

Can you give me some examples. Also I personally feel as if most of these are saturated and I don't think that I could earn a million with such loc. and maybe its me but personally I don't like touching most crypto since its grift. And the only one I'd like is monero for privacy but I doubt how much I need it anyway.
by washmyelbows | 2025-07-04 05:39:22+00:00
Couldn't agree more on many of these points. There is so much 'whatever' everywhere on the web that I legitimately don't understand people being interested in the platforms that suck everyone's time. Its frustrating as someone who used to enjoy the early web a lot and it's frustrating to see people that I have a lot of respect for buying into these awful systems with their time and attention. Worse still, I'm something of an outsider in many situations for opting out of them.

The author lost me a little on the AI rant. Yes, everything and everyone is shoving LLMs into places that I don't want it. Just today Bandcamp sent me an email about upcoming summer albums that was clearly in part written by AI. You can't get away from it, it's awful. That being said, the tooling for software development is so powerful that I feel like I'd be crazy not to use it. I save so so much time with banal programming tasks by just writing up a paragraph to cursor about what I want and how I want it done.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-04 05:39:31+00:00
will suffer the consequences it prescribes if they come back into power.

I guess we'll see in the mid-terms, but there's no guarantee at this point. A few special elections is not a telling of things to come for the whole country regardless of how many news articles hoping it does. Do not count on a blue wave as much as you would like it to happen. The right is just that much better at getting their message out than the left will ever be. It's much easier when you can just make stuff up and lie about everything that is verifiably false and your base eats it up. You can't counter that, at least they have shown no concept of being able to yet.
by goku12 | 2025-07-04 05:40:47+00:00
Just curious. I'm a Rust developer. But I don't see myself discriminating between tools written in C, C++, Rust, Zig, etc. They all seem easy to install and use, as long as they're reasonably bugfree. Scripting languages are slightly different as they require me to maintain their respective interpreters and tools on my system. What difference do you see between applications written in Rust and those written in other compiled languages?
by llamavore | 2025-07-04 05:40:48+00:00
It’s actually really good at small bugs but you need to make sure it can understand what’s broken by giving it context. Logs, curls, screenshots etc. The biggest problem is when it goes on vision quests and does stuff you didn’t ask.

The meme with the car and duck are basically how AI agents like to “fix bugs”, sometimes they’re like oh I fixed the bug and changed the button which you never asked for. Lol. Adding a wheel and changing the car into a cat!
by lucumo | 2025-07-04 05:41:21+00:00
KeepassXC seems to have included that for two years now: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825 (I don't use Keepass, so I can't attest to how well it works.)

There's a JSON example of an export on the page. It shows nicely what's stored on your machine.

It's a non-standardized format, because a standard is still being worked on. I think most vendors are just waiting for that. The FIDO Alliance has a news message about it: https://fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance-publishes-new-specifi...

In the article they mention they are not just going to support exporting passkeys, but also passwords and other credentials. The goal is to create a secure exchange format for that. They have published drafts of the standards.
by not_kurt_godel | 2025-07-04 05:41:22+00:00
They are, Biden funded research into it in 2022 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/13/what-is-solar-geoengineering.... Biden being the same POTUS who proposed and signed IRA aka the 'Green New Deal'.

Now that we've established that, what's your decisive and ambitious action you've made towards addressing climate change, so we can learn from the example you've set?
by gyomu | 2025-07-04 05:41:49+00:00
Broadly agreed with all the points outlined in there.

But for me the biggest issue with all this — that I don't see covered in here, or maybe just a little bit in passing — is what all of this is doing to beginners, and the learning pipeline.

> There are people I once respected who, apparently, don’t actually enjoy doing the thing. They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though.

> I glimpsed someone on Twitter a few days ago, also scoffing at the idea that anyone would decide not to use the Whatever machine. I can’t remember exactly what they said, but it was something like: “I created a whole album, complete with album art, in 3.5 hours. Why wouldn’t I use the make it easier machine?”

When you're a beginner, it's totally normal to not really want to put in the hard work. You try drawing a picture, and it sucks. You try playing the guitar, and you can't even get simple notes right. Of course a machine where you can just say "a picture in the style of Pokémon, but of my cat" and get a perfect result out is much more tempting to a 12 year old kid than the prospect of having to grind for 5 years before being kind of good.

But up until now, you had no choice and to keep making crappy pictures and playing crappy songs until you actually start to develop a taste for the effort, and a few years later you find yourself actually pretty darn competent at the thing. That's a pretty virtuous cycle.

I shudder to think where we'll be if the corporate-media machine keeps hammering the message "you don't have to bother learning how to draw, drawing is hard, just get ChatGPT to draw pictures for you" to young people for years to come.
by refurb | 2025-07-04 05:41:50+00:00
You're not really arguing in good faith when your response is "Fuck. No."

> The EU is stricter with immigration than the US. But it does not use secret police and concentration camps.

You don't think the police in Europe sometimes hide the identity of their police from onlookers when required? I'm pretty sure they do.

Do you also think Europe doesn't detain people who are in their country illegally? I'm pretty sure they do. They are even creating "return hubs", which are basically detention centers outside their own country which hold immigrants until they can be returned to their home or a third country.
by delusional | 2025-07-04 05:42:09+00:00
> I think the thing a lot of people don't realise when trying to make the next runaway hit game

Okay sure, let's say that. I don't think it's true. I think anyone who has ever made anything creative, which is most people, know that chasing success just make your creative work bad. That doesn't matter though.

Surely the executives at EA should know better. Like it's literally their job to know better. They head an entire organization dedicated to creative production. Surely the board would fire them if they don't know better right?

What is going on?
by rsingel | 2025-07-04 05:44:58+00:00
Sadly, if that were actually true that would be even f*** worse.

Oh we're not going to let tourists into our country because we asked them whether or not they'd ever smoked pot and they said yes.

We have no idea whether that's actually true or not, but if it is, that's the dumbest thing I've ever f*** heard, especially given the marijuana's legal in most states in the United States that anyone outside the US would actually want to visit
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-04 05:45:25+00:00
I have an issue with Stripe or Paypal banning merchants without recourse that do not sell adult stuff or anything else bad/high refund, just because 'AI flagged the account'. And I know from Paypal that they have used 'AI' (statistics) to flag accounts, without recourse, almost since they started. It did cost us a lot of money; we had no refunds or anything and paypal was simply (in email and on the phone) repeating that there was no recourse. We moved to an EU system which we are using for 15 years now and never had any issues of course (as we never did anything weird, ever); also, I can call them or visit them if anything happens unlike the impersonal big guys. Far cheaper too. Screw paypal & stripe (their fees are an absolute joke, no idea why they are so popular), thanks.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-04 05:45:30+00:00
> You never run curl dumping to stdout?

Not against untrusted URLs, no.

> You never cat or less a file you downloaded?

I don’t download untrusted files.

> You never ssh to servers run by other people?

100% no.

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Sounds like what you need more is a VM ;) executing anything untrusted in a secure environment is a dumb move.
by ipdashc | 2025-07-04 05:46:11+00:00
There was an article that made the rounds a few weeks ago that still rings true. Basically, it feels like one is going crazy reading either "extreme" of the whole LLM conversation, with one extreme (obviously) being the "AI can do anything" Twitter techbro types, but the other extreme being articles like this that claim it can't do anything.

I know the author already addressed this, literally calling out HN by name, but I just don't get it. You don't even need agents (though I'm sure they help), I still just use regular ChatGPT or Copilot or whatever and it's still occasionally useful. You type in what you want it to do, it gives you code, and usually the code works. Can we appreciate how insane this would have been, what, half a decade ago? Are our standards literally "the magic english-to-code machine doesn't work 100% of the time, so it's total crap, utterly useless"?

I absolutely agree with the general thrust of the article, the overall sense of disillusionment, the impact LLM abuse is going to have on education, etc. I don't even particularly like LLMs. But it really does feel like gaslighting to the extent that when these essays make this sort of argument (LLMs being entirely useless for coding) it just makes me take them less seriously.