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by gooosle | 2025-07-25 14:21:53+00:00
You planned and wrote a feature yesterday that would have taken yourself 2 whole days? And you already got it reviewed and deployed it and know that 'it works flawlessly'?

....

That reminds me of when my manager (a very smart, very AI-bullish ex-IC) told us about how he used AI to implement a feature over the weekend and all it took him was 20 mins. It sounds absolutely magical to me and I make a note to use AI more. I then go to review the PR, and of course there are multiple bugs and unintended side-effects in the code. Oh and there are like 8 commits spread over a 60 hour window... I manually spin up a PR which accomplishes the same thing properly... takes me 30mins.
by kouteiheika | 2025-07-25 14:21:58+00:00
No they're not? The process is essentially exactly the same, just with a much lower total FLOPs budget, since if you're not training from scratch then you don't need to train for as long. I can use *exactly* the same code that I used to fine-tune a model to train a new model from scratch; literally the only difference is whether I initialize the initial weights randomly or with an existing model, a couple of hyperparameters (e.g. for training from scratch you want to start at a higher LR), and training for longer.
by theamk | 2025-07-25 14:22:02+00:00
This still exists... OsmAnd, offline map app for Android, has 10M+ downloads. Maps.me has 50M+ downloads. Sure, that's not 10B+ of Google Maps users, but still a lot of users.

I don't think the "advanced users" market has shrunk much, it's just the whole pie became so much bigger that the overall ratio decreased.
by coldpie | 2025-07-25 14:22:31+00:00
You are correct, I don't think not being able to purchase porn games rises to the same level of danger as unsafe food or climate change, to require the government to tell businesses how they may operate.

> With your logic we should have just waited for free market competition to kick in Cocal cola and McDonalds to deiced on their own to stop putting arsenic into our food.

I don't think that's a fair comparison. No one is dying here. I do think the government should step into this market and perform major intervention by breaking up the big two companies into many little ones who can compete. After that, some payment processors may choose to support these business models despite the hit to their stock price (or whatever Visa's dumb argument is for not allowing these games).
by kreco | 2025-07-25 14:22:39+00:00
I strongly agree with the global sentiment.

If you can't actually download a copy of a digital content as a mere file, then you can't really host it and serve it.

You can't host your own Spotify-clone even if you are allowed to listen to songs. However, you can still download music on Bandcamp to feed your Spotify-clone.

You can't host your own your own digital Video Game Store usually because of various DRM, or because it's painful to "export" the content and painful to "import" it back.

Still on the video game side, You can't even backup your game save (at least on the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox Series), it's not because of any copyright infringement or IPs misuse, it's only a way for them to get more online subscription with online game save backup.

There is still a positive side: when it will become impossible to legally own anything, I'm pretty sure some illegal system will enable you to have a massive library of whatever you want at the cost of few clicks and/or a couple of bucks. I'm saying "positive side" even though it's illegal because I mostly talk about the comfort of having your own local library.
by dylnuge | 2025-07-25 14:23:18+00:00
I'm part of several small/mid-sized communities where people voluntarily do sysadmin work so that the group can have some nice shared services, and that's to say nothing of the number of people I know running personal homelabs/self-hosting setups at decent cost just for fun. You could of course say that fun, maintaining something for friends you care about, or having a dream of less corporately locked-in software are all incentives, but they're not monetary ones.

Really, it's easy to get sysadmin types interested in this; the problem is that most people aren't sysadmins and don't know any. If you really wanted a business model out of this, it'd probably be a managed service that lets non-tech-savvy users spin up their own versions of this without learning the details.

> Without this, it will work --- in the same way that open source works --- without any guarantees or commitments whatsoever.

There are plenty of successful economic models around open source, and plenty of open source software is used in high-reliability contexts. What comparison are you trying to make?
by dahart | 2025-07-25 14:23:20+00:00
I truly don’t understand the author’s opinions about contrast here. The RE7 image is the only one here that looks ‘realistic’, and at a glance could be mistaken for a photograph, and he says it’s got way too much contrast.

No other image here comes anywhere even close, definitely not Zelda nor GTA5.

Personally I think the whole problem with the first 5 images is that they don’t have enough contrast, and they have too much detail. The color handling isn’t the only reason they don’t look realistic, but making sure every single pixel’s nicely exposed and that nothing gets too dark or too bright is allowing to let all the CG fakeness show through. One of the reasons the RE7 image looks better is you can’t clearly see every single thing in the image.

If you take photographs outside and the sun is in the shot, you will absolutely get some blown out white and some foreground blacks, and that’s realism. The CG here is trying too hard to squeeze all the color into the visible range. To my eyes, it’s too flat and too low contrast, not too high contrast.
by dralley | 2025-07-25 14:23:28+00:00
Faster doesn't necessarily mean better racing. And F1 has been heavily regulated forever.

Turbos were banned in the 80s because they made the cars too powerful and difficult to handle. The reason F1 tires had big grooves cut into them for a long time was to reduce grip, also in an effort to tame the cars a bit and slow them down while cornering.

The 2026 regulations are no different. Yes peak power is reduced but so is downforce / drag. Drivers will have to brake a bit more at the turns and accelerate out of them (which the extra electrical power will make easier). That means more overtaking possibilities, and the overtaking will likely be more based on driving skill than the current DRS push-to-pass. The current ground effect cars have so much downforce that they can go through corners flat out that no previous generation of cars would have been able to - and while that's cool to watch it's not that interesting from a racing perspective. You don't want to watch a high-speed parade.

For years everyone was catastrophizing about how the 2026 regs would make the cars 8 seconds slower, but the current consensus is around 1 second. That's not a big deal. And it only takes things back to say 2007 speeds, nobody ever accused 2007 of not being exciting.
by maxdo | 2025-07-25 14:23:28+00:00
perhaps lot of european people need to have a wake up call. Europe is involved in a proxy war of China vs US. where EU associate member is fighting with china proxy, Russia.

Other proxies are Iran with their satelites, without china neither Iran or Russia would not survive current wars they sponsor agaist west.

as much as I hate current US admin, they push to increase NATO spending etc.

how is that not "uniting" ?
by renrutal | 2025-07-25 14:23:49+00:00
Cash is a hassle. It requires everyone to have change. You need to count the money, the cashier needs to count the money and store it. The line behind you gets longer. The end of day close-out process is longer.

Brazilians also generally don't like to walk with cash in their pockets. Only politicians usually do it, but in their underpants.

The pros is that cash is analog, no battery, internet connection or digital system needed to process it.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-07-25 14:24:52+00:00
To get more people using it, and more. I’ve encountered people who don’t use it because they think that it isn’t something that will help them, even in tech. Showing how different groups find value in it might get people in those same positions using it.

Even with people who do use it, they might thinking about it narrowly. They use it for code generation, but might not think to use it for simplified man pages.

Of course there are people who are the exact opposite and use it for every last thing they do. And maybe from this they learn how to better approach their prompts.
by mort96 | 2025-07-25 14:25:08+00:00
An X window manager and a Wayland compositor are so radically different beasts that it would probably require a monumental refactor of DWM to make it capable of having an X back-end and a wlroots back-end. Probably easier to just re-create DWM's interface on top of wlroots, like what Sway did with i3.

Also, DWM has an explicit goal of being minimal and to not grow too big. There's no way in hell that Suckless would accept a patch which makes the code way more complex and over 2x larger to make DWM work as a Wayland compositor.
by lumost | 2025-07-25 14:25:48+00:00
I’ve managed a few 8 figure infrastructure bills. The exponential decrease in hardware costs combined with the exponential growth in software engineer salaries has meant that these bills become inconsequential in the long run. I was at one unicorn which had to spend 10% of Cost of Goods Sold on cloud. Today their biggest costs could run on a modest Postgres cluster in the cloud thanks to progressively better hardware.

100k/mo on cloud watch corresponds to a moderately large software business assuming basic best practices are followed. Optimization projects can often run into major cost overruns where the people time exceeds the discounted future free cash flow savings from the optimization.

That being said, a team of 5 on a small revenue/infra spend racking up 100k/mo is excessive. Pedantically, cloud watch/datadog are SaaS vendors - 100k/mo on Prometheus would correspond to a 20 node SSD cluster in the cloud which could easily handle several 10s of millions of metrics per second from 10s of thousands of metric producers. If you went to raw colocation facility costs - you’d have over a hundred dual Xeon machines with multi-TB direct attached SSD. Supporting hundreds of thousands of servers producing hundreds of millions of data points per second.

Human time is really the main trade-off.
Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer
by recursivedoubts | 2025-07-25 14:25:53+00:00
Hey HN, we just released the 1.0 of the MonTana Mini Computer (MTMC-16), a virtual teaching computer to help students understand how low level computing works. It is a 16 bit computer with only 4k of ram, but we've made some design choices that help maximize what you can accomplish with the limited hardware

https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu/

It is written in java (sorry) and provides a web interface that has:

- a blinken-lighten display for registers

- a memory view with different filters you can apply

- a Gameboy-like game pad

- a console you can use to interact with the computer (including running assembly instructions directly)

- a file browser with an integrated editor for editing file

So everything you need to get going on low level programming.

It includes some sample code, including snake and conway's game of life, in the /src directory.

You can watch a quick start video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_6pZ_sT3y0

We have the start of a C compiler for the machine, but that's still a work in progress. We plan on improving the interactivity and visual feedback over the next few months, so any feedback you can give us would be very much appreciated!
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-07-25 14:25:55+00:00
The venerable script(1) command has been around since 1979 (via 3.0BSD), and while some of the timestamping (supporting via the -r flag to feed the resultant file into the playback) and other utility functions (replay via -p are much newer, the result is the same. Record to a (mostly) text file to schlep around as needed. And it's normally included by default on most installs, including macos.

There's no upload-to-server functionality unlike asciinema, but that may be a feature for some users.
by Palmik | 2025-07-25 14:25:56+00:00
As far as I know, there isn't a serious implementation of this that is ready for production and that has enough adoption in the affected regions (e.g. UK).

Chrome and Safari are working on browser APIs that seem reasonable, but will only be available around the end of this year. The various region specific identity providers (like GOV.UK One Login) will also need to integrate with those (possibly through Google/Apple Wallet or their own app).

That means one has to use shady 3p age verification services (like Persona) which do who-knows-what with customer data and cost on the order of $1 per verification.
by liampulles | 2025-07-25 14:25:57+00:00
I wrote a Go program to generate my blog (which is just a static site hosted on Github pages). I made it so that I could write blog posts with a "widget builder" DSL, which is a good compromise for me between customizabiity for individual pages vs being able to write 95% of everything with markdown.

Example of DSL: https://github.com/liampulles/liampulles.github.io/blob/mast...

Blog post with more info, and my site: https://liampulles.com/moving-blog.html
by xedrac | 2025-07-25 14:26:10+00:00
I would assert that nearly anyone can find a place to walk, or climb stairs, even if it's while they eat or work. Healthy food may be harder to come by for some, either because of expense or lack of availability. But again, fasting is a great protection against so many modern eating related problems, like type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The point is that nearly everyone can improve their preventative standing, even the less fortunate.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-25 14:26:20+00:00
>I don't think not being able to purchase porn games rises to the same level of danger as unsafe food or climate change

Holy cow, so many comments here and you still missed the point by a mile. The point isn't video games, the point is payment processors shouldn't be arbiters on what you buy. Because if they can stop you buying/selling video games, they can do the same for other stuff. Where does their right to censor you begin and end?
by mvieira38 | 2025-07-25 14:26:29+00:00
You're wasting a relevant amount of money by not using a credit card in Brazil. Interest rates are so high right now they have reached 1% monthly, which you can pocket by just delaying payment on everything for a month. And credit is stupid cheap here, too, with a bunch of different picks for free credit cards giving thousands of reais for anyone.

If you have some money you can easily get a card with high cashback, as well, in the 1%+ territory depending on if you want big banks or not, and pay no fees.
by firefoxd | 2025-07-25 14:26:31+00:00
Recently I made a small game at work called JPEG or PNG, for the front end team. Bootcamps tend to not focus on image formats at all, the results is all Figma images gets exported as PNGs and bloat the website. Devs often argue that the format is "sharper".

Anyway, my game consisted of a slide of images and we vote what's the most appropriate format. When when people got a hang of it, I threw in WebP and SVG. I talk about those last, because they can easily abused: i.e an SVG with an embedded png.
by genewitch | 2025-07-25 14:26:36+00:00
I bought cyberpunk when it released, i may have even pre-ordered, i don't remember. I played about 20 minutes after the title drop, you know the one. It was buggy, and didn't really look that good to me, on my samsung 4k monitor.

I then played it again, on the same monitor, last year, and i was pleased with the gameplay, but again, i didn't find anything that remarkable about the overall graphics. the fidelity was great, especially at distance, due to 4k.

I'm 50 hours deep in literally as i type this (about to launch the game), and this time, this time it is completely different. I have an LG 2k HDR screen with "Smart HDR" and i finally - finally - get it. Your eyes have to adjust just like in real life, to go from dark indoors to bright outdoors. you can see tail-lights and headlights in the mountains of NPCs driving around. lasers sweeping you are menacing.

Even fallout 4, which is the first game i played in 4k 10 years ago, looks easily 10 times better in HDR. And i only have the "vanilla+" mod set, 5GB of mods, not the 105GB modset.

I coined the phrase 4 or 5 years ago, that HDR stood for: Hot Damn, Reds! and really, reds are still my least favorite part, they burn to deeply, but from watching several movies on an HDR 4k TV and being real unimpressed, to just these two games, my entire viewpoint has drastically changed.

I didn't know you could put arbitrary people into photo mode in CP2077, and also pose them and move them around, so i was just entering photo mode as best i could and lighting and fiddling with the curves; however, these all took over 4 seconds to "render" to the final image, which i found interesting: https://imgur.com/a/DTesuhF
by NotPractical | 2025-07-25 14:26:47+00:00
> But no need for handing access to Health to more or less dubious apps

I mean, it's been vetted by Apple, right? If they did their job then it should be fine. This isn't the Play Store you're dealing with; it's the App Store. I kinda dig the "simple utility app that does one job well" format, tbh.
by layer8 | 2025-07-25 14:27:00+00:00
Other than in the sense of SMT (Hyper-Threading)? I don't think so. Threads are a software concept.

One can distinguish between native (OS) threads and green (language-runtime) threads which may use a different context-switching mechanism. But that's more of a spectrum in terms of thread-safety; similar to how running multiple threads on a single CPU core without SMT, single CPU core with SMT, multiple CPU cores, with different possible CPU cache coherency guarantees, create a spectrum of possible thread-safety issues.
by paranoidxprod | 2025-07-25 14:27:15+00:00
From one of these user's most recent posts here https://j3s.sh/thought/blogs-rot-wikis-wait.html:

p.s. i'm working on a new wiki to replace my website with - something new, from the ground up. git.j3s.sh/abyss - stay tuned

I wonder if they'll still be using a similar approach for the new site.
by markus_zhang | 2025-07-25 14:27:17+00:00
I think it's like porn. Not sure about you guys, but for me soft-core always looks better than HD hardcore. Soft-core encourages imagination and conveniently covers any body part that is a bit far from perfect.

And that's why I always think ladies who wear just enough clothes are way more sexy than nude ladies.

Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone.
by gchadwick | 2025-07-25 14:27:17+00:00
I do wonder why they decided to have have separate shell size and pin designations given there appears to be a 1:1 correlation between shell sizes and pins (i.e. the 'B' shell is always 25 pins, the 'E' shell is always 9 pins). Perhaps there was plan to have fewer pins in the same shell at some point?
by brongondwana | 2025-07-25 14:27:18+00:00
I'm working on the solution to this (co-authors from Google and Yahoo, it's legit):

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gondwana-dkim2-motiva...

Note that it doesn't help avoid Google actually sending out a message with user-provided text in it, but it does stop it being replayed to you without Google intending it, because the SMTP FROM/TO are protected.

The motivation draft doesn't include technical detail, see early drafts of the technical detail in the various related docs at:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dkim/documents/
by const_cast | 2025-07-25 14:27:40+00:00
The maintenance burden would be wayyy higher and the satisfaction with the project would plummet.

It's a catch 22. Support other devices, the software won't work as well or reliably or maybe buggy - users get pissed off.

Spent the time to make it not buggy on other devices = now you're doing mor dev work than even Google.
by bfrog | 2025-07-25 14:27:58+00:00
Intel is absolutely in a death spiral. Not much else to say. They are cutting cost with no real plan on growth if they are saying they won't invest in the foundry anymore. Foundry was a solid play by Pat, really their only play. Instead Intel seems set to lose whatever remaining relevance they have to their Arm, TSM, Nvidia, and AMD competitors which have a lead in both design and manufacturing a decade in the making.
by sgarland | 2025-07-25 14:28:11+00:00
> What we need first is incentive for smart, dedicated, part-time sys-admins to devote time and effort to community hosting.

I’d do it for free. I’ve long been frustrated that I have more reliable infrastructure in my homelab than most companies I’ve worked for, and that none of them have any interest in shifting out of the cloud.

I don’t see a market for it, though. Most people are generally happy with Google, Apple, etc. to host their stuff, and I get it - it’s quite reliable, integrates with the rest of their respective products nicely, and Just Works. Add to that the economies of scale, and it’s a non-starter unless you find a niche group of people.

Google One is $99/year for 2 TB of storage. For me to have confidence in uptime to offer public storage, I’d need at least 4U of colo rack space, and ideally 6U (2x 2U for HDD servers, 2x 1U for hosting applications in HA-ish). That would cost a few hundred USD/month, not to mention an initial outlay of tens of thousands of dollars for servers and drives (mostly the drives… high capacity enterprise-rated HDDs aren’t cheap). And that’s only for one site - ideally, of course, there are at least two, or at the very least, off-site backup like rsync.net.
by rtkwe | 2025-07-25 14:28:22+00:00
It's a mixed bag. Over time it's probably raised the salary of these kinds of players as teams change how they evaluate player worth but initially the first couple seasons effect is to underpay players vs the value they bring to the team and that's contrary to a long held pro-labor stance is workers should be paid more in line with the value they generate for the company rather than just what the companies do pay them.
by coldpie | 2025-07-25 14:28:22+00:00
> the point is payment processors shouldn't be arbiters on what you buy. Because if they can stop you buying/selling video games, they can do the same for other stuff.

We both agree this is bad. What we are discussing is how best to solve it.

In the scenario where we enforced existing anti-trust law and broke up the big 2 to form many smaller payment processors, one of the newly formed processors could pick up the business that the pickier processors don't want and take that profit, right? So it solves the problem, without having to pass any controversial new laws about compelling private business behavior.
by tiahura | 2025-07-25 14:29:15+00:00
The correct technical designation for a D-sub connector with nine pins is DE9.

It’s early and eyes are still a little blurry, but I’m not seeing a cite?

Wikipedia fleshes it out a bit:

The D-sub series of connectors was introduced by Cannon in 1952.[3] Cannon's part-numbering system uses D as the prefix for the whole series, followed by one of A, B, C, D, or E denoting the shell size, followed by the number of pins or sockets

No links to a primary source, but seems plausible.
by brongondwana | 2025-07-25 14:29:19+00:00
Bah, the datatracker doesn't list the candidate documents. Here's some direct links:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chuang-dkim2-dns/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gondwana-dkim2-header...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gondwana-dkim2-modifi...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-robinson-dkim2-bounce...

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-robinson-dkim2-messag...