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by WillAdams | 2025-07-29 11:36:36+00:00
Still raging that a Rotring Quattro is the only pen which I have lost (twice!) since I was a junior in high school over four decades ago. Did finally manage to get a replacement for the second one I lost, but if anyone ever sees a special edition Rotring Quattro as sold by Levenger w/ rubber coating for sale, let me know.

That said, these days I just carry a Skilcraft B3 Aviator as a slimmer, more pocketable multi-pen option (though I'm on my second, broke the clip of the first and haven't worked out how to disassemble and replace it).
by bartblast | 2025-07-29 11:36:54+00:00
re: "What are they exactly? Youve already mentioned distribution, but what else?"

Here are the key advantages of web clients beyond distribution:

Instant updates - Push a new version and every user gets it immediately. No app store approval process, no waiting for users to update, no supporting multiple versions in the wild.

Universal accessibility - Works on any device with a browser. Your grandmother's old Windows laptop, your coworker's Chromebook, someone's phone - all access the same application without platform-specific builds.

Zero installation friction - Users can try your application instantly by clicking a link. No download, install, permissions, or disk space considerations.

Sandboxed security model - Browsers provide built-in security isolation. Users trust clicking web links more than downloading and running executables.

Seamless integration - Easy linking, sharing, bookmarking. Users can send a direct link to a specific state of your application.

Lower development/maintenance overhead - One codebase, one deployment pipeline, one set of bugs to fix. Compare that to maintaining separate iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux builds.

Built-in networking - HTTP/WebSocket APIs are first-class citizens. No need to bundle networking libraries or worry about firewall configurations.

That said, native absolutely wins on performance, system integration, and offline capabilities. It's genuinely about picking the right tool. For Hologram specifically, we're trying to get you closer to native performance while keeping these web deployment advantages - best of both worlds for certain use cases.
by nlitened | 2025-07-29 11:37:07+00:00
I only know the situation which touched dozens of my friends and acquaintances. Say, you’re a relatively successful software professional in Russia, who has a small apartment and a car in a big city. Then the war with Ukraine starts, and all Russians are automatically sanctioned and blacklisted from the international financial system. You don’t want to make drone software or facilitate black-market oil trading, so you decide to sell everything and leave the country with your wife and kids to work elsewhere.

What, in your opinion, are your options for transferring abroad the cash you got from selling your hard-earned assets?
by boulevard | 2025-07-29 11:37:27+00:00
A developer‑focused guide on implementing the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a cloud‑hosted tooling layer for LLM apps. Grounded in a working implementation we built and deployed; includes tuning notes, metrics, and pitfalls.

- Why MCP vs. bespoke adapters - Architecture (gateway + small Python services) - Runtime loop (pause/execute/resume) - Budgets, timeouts, retries, circuit breakers - Security/governance (least privilege, audit) - Observability (latency/error metrics) - Examples (RAG chat, CRM triage, doc indexing) - Migration tips
by noodlesUK | 2025-07-29 11:37:39+00:00
I don't like the OSA and associated regulations as much as the next person -- I think we could have gotten a long way by saying you need to include a X-Age-Rating in http responses and calling it a day. The law itself is incoherently long and it's very difficult to know what duties you have.

However, I don't see what the legal basis of Wikimedia's challenge is. The OSA is primary legislation, so can't be challenged except under the HRA, which I don't really see working. The regulations are secondary regulation and are more open to challenge, but it's not clear what the basis of the challenge is. Are they saying the regulations are outside the scope of the statutory authority (doubtful)? You can't really challenge law or regulation in the UK on the basis of "I don't like it".
by ta1243 | 2025-07-29 11:37:43+00:00
Wow, so they've lost 40% of the original lot which were elected last year. But for some reason the press seems to think they're the official opposition.

They have the same number of MPs as the Green party, fewer than the DUP, half the SNP, and about 1/20th of the Lib Dems.

I note 75% of them didn't bother turning up to work, I'm shocked one did.
by aa-jv | 2025-07-29 11:38:27+00:00
"Israeli settler Yinon Levi, whom Trump removed from US sanctions list, arrested after death of Awdah Hathaleen"

At least there is some hope that the settlers will face justice. IMHO, this is of utmost importance to the matter of a final resolution of the calamity, and such arrests are an issue that the Palestinian people deserve - justice for the many, many crimes of the settlers.

One can hope that the tide is slowly turning in this conflict. It is incumbent on we, the people of the Free World™, to keep the heat on.
by derf_ | 2025-07-29 11:38:30+00:00
> I think HN has a lot of "if I can't see how it can be done then it can't be done" people.

No, HN has, "This has been thought of a thousand times before and it's not actually that good of an idea," people.

The motion search in a video encoder is highly optimized. Take your side-scroller as an example. If several of your neighboring blocks have the same MV, that is the first candidate your search is going to check, and if the match is good, you will not check any others. The check itself has specialized CPU instructions to accelerate it. If the bulk of the screen really has the same motion, the entire search will take a tiny fraction of the encoding time, even in a low-latency, real-time scenario. Even if you reduce that to zero, you will barely notice.

On the other end of the spectrum, consider a modern 3D engine. There will be many things not describable by block-based motion of the underlying geometry: shadows, occlusions, reflections, clouds or transparency, shader effects, water or atmospheric effects, etc. Even if you could track the "real" motion through all of that, the best MV to use for compression does not need to match the real motion (which might be very expensive to code, while something "close enough" could be much cheaper, as just one possible reason), it might come from any number of frames (not necessarily the most recent), etc., so you still need to do a search, and it's not obvious the real motion is much better as a starting point than the heuristics an encoder already uses, where they even differ.

All of that said, some encoder APIs do allow providing motion hints [0], you will find research papers and theses on the topic, and of course, patents. That the technique is not more widespread is not because no one ever tried to make it work.

[0] https://docs.nvidia.com/video-technologies/video-codec-sdk/1... as the first random result of a simple search.
by pimterry | 2025-07-29 11:38:33+00:00
> In a way we just need MQTT servers, a client with reliable push notifications and a manual key exchange mechanism. That would be really hard for govs to target.

Go even further: Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/). P2P E2EE texting, primarily via LoRa mesh (a mesh of long-range low-bandwidth direct radio connections) plus MQTT backup, with surprisingly nice UX even for non-techies. You can message people directly, or create encrypted groups too.

In effect, you broadcast your message (encrypted) via LoRa (travels a couple of kilometers through apartment blocks in a big city, or up to hundreds of kilometers in open countryside with line-of-sight), and then anybody else with meshtastic rebroadcasts it, up to 3 hops by default. Works OK for local chat through normal nodes, or really well if somebody within a few kilometers has a router on a roof/big hill nearby (map of opted-into-mapping public nodes: https://meshmap.net/ - IME that's about 10% of actual nodes). Optionally uses MQTT when there's any kind of internet connection available so you can chat long-range too (there's a public MQTT server available, or you can run your own) although that's not really the main use case.

No paid intermediaries or services involved, doesn't require a cell plan or internet or anything, even if the whole world collapses, you just keep on texting (for as long as you have battery).

Requires either a tiny radio gateway (e.g. https://lilygo.cc/products/t-echo-meshtastic) that you connect through with your phone via BT, or you can get a standalone device (https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-1) but <$100 in either case. Low-bandwidth though: only text & GPS, no pictures or audio. And obviously, this is pretty deep in the weird nerd shit so it might be a hard sell for your grandparents, and by its nature it's mostly useful for the local area chat anyway. Perfect for trips to low connectivity zones though (hiking, skiing, etc).
by saubeidl | 2025-07-29 11:38:42+00:00
Regarding the first point, you are leaning heavily on euphemisms ("detained") to make your case.

Regarding the second point, you purposefully picked the least offensive part (the mosquitoes, as opposed to the starvation, the sleep deprivation, the quarters tigher than in concentration camps), to misrepresent what is happening here.

It is exactly behavioral patterns like these that make it hard to assume good faith argument.
by ConfusedDog | 2025-07-29 11:39:48+00:00
It was not true years ago when I was using Cox. It said unlimited, but in fact had a upload/download limit. I think download was 500GB/month, upload was far less. I'm using Fios now and apparently it's truly unlimited unless my excessive usage is "unfair" to other users. I guess that kind of language is left to be interpreted by Verizon.
by TrackerFF | 2025-07-29 11:39:55+00:00
When you offer "unlimited", you're immediately exposing yourself to the 0.1% of userbase that will absolutely treat it is unlimited. Whale users/hoarders. This has been a known problem since the dawn of hosting...hell, it goes back to times before computers.

One thing I miss for the other users, i.e. the casual users that never use anywhere near of their quota, is rollover. If you haven't used your quota this month, the unused will roll over to the next month.
by pastage | 2025-07-29 11:40:12+00:00
You are not automatically a public servant if you are funded by taxes. In my definition that only happens when you start making decision that affect other people. E.g. handle who gets a tax cut, go to jail, or other things that we need to out source to people that serve our interests in powerful ways. It is important to differentiate them from people that just do a thing for money.

Further more saying things like "It is your fault that you are in front of my fist" is not productive. Being antiscience is the problem here not being antileft.
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-29 11:40:19+00:00
ah, what's the 12.50€ processing fee? Is it the DHL processing fees?

> But now I need to warehouse those 1000 items in Germany and re-package them into local parcels for each customer

Yes, it would be infeasible to ship such a low value good. Even on Temu I have to order a minimum of 29€. If you account for that, you should be able to see how a 10€ markup by esselunga/carrefour on imported price of 2.2€ is outrageous and reeks of lack of competition.

> Calculating in that I might have to deal with 10% returns, I need to charge 9€ per piece. And here's the kicker: If Temu would legally pay customs and deal with warranty and returns accoring to German law, they, too, would arrive at a similar price.

Temu now pays customs since the 150€ customs exemption has been gone for years now, and more importantly also the same VAT as your domestic retailer! So the 2€ price for the wine-opener I gave you includes customs and VAT.

For example my order of a few months ago of 38€ included a VAT of 6,09€

I hope you can see my point now that all this outrage against Temu/Shein is based on trumpian style misinformation about VAT and customs and a general "chinese bad, temu bad, we good" attitude which I personally find defeatist and embarrassing.

If we were to spend a fraction of this outrage on how bad our logistics and supply chains are for domestic producers(specially in DE: I used to work in retail dealing with EDI systems of EDEKA/REWE and domestic suppliers) we would be doing some thing productive.

Not to mention things like regulating/fining anti-competitive behaviour by GS1 and others.
by lazide | 2025-07-29 11:40:22+00:00
The challenge is that old growth forests, while retaining carbon, don’t pull much net carbon from the atmosphere. Their ‘spring’ is nearly fully compressed.

They are really beautiful and important, but they aren’t doing much when it comes to reducing atmospheric carbon anymore.

As ugly as it is, chopping them down (as long as we can stop the wood from rotting/burning/etc) and then having new trees grow in their place does more actual atmospheric carbon reduction.
by Vinnl | 2025-07-29 11:40:33+00:00
> What you may not realize if you use Safari or Firefox is that the banners are never displayed in Google Chrome!

Ah, so that's why so many websites are OK with it - they probably just don't realise that it's there.

> If the courts and antitrust regulators are reading—they probably won’t read my blog, but one can dream—this is yet another example of Google advantaging its own browser Chrome over other web browsers.

And vice versa: how Google is advantaging its own SSO/data collection platform over others, through Chrome.
by WillAdams | 2025-07-29 11:41:03+00:00
Well, there are the bottles ink comes in --- I left behind a drawerful of empty Sheaffer bottles at a previous job which I've always regretted.

Agreed, except I have _not_ been able to get my Aurora Hastil to write/fill reliably for a couple of years now, despite cleaning, and I can't send it in to the manufacturer since the tip was ground to a chisel italic by Gretta Lostkemper (who used to oversee custom grinding at Sheaffer). Guess I need to get an ultrasonic cleaner and try that....
by OldfieldFund | 2025-07-29 11:41:12+00:00
To anyone reading this, I recommend a 224-page book on the topic:

On Palestine

by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé, and Frank Barat (Editor)

Goodreads Rating: 4.27, 11,732 ratings, 1,588 reviews

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater.

First published May 7, 2015

The paperback is about $12 on Amazon.
by throw310822 | 2025-07-29 11:41:21+00:00
Besides this, notice how they're implying that having left a region of Palestine (even if that were true, which isn't) means that no Palestinian from that specific region has a right to attack them.

As if no Ukrainian had a right to attack Russia besides those in the occupied regions.

As if no American except Californians would have a right to fight if California were occupied by a foreign power.
by stockresearcher | 2025-07-29 11:42:00+00:00
It’s too bad LeMond sold his bike company to Trek. I have a small collection of American-made bikes. Every single one of the brands was acquired by Trek and then shut down a few years later…

The LeMond is probably my favorite. Great geometry, great road feel, and a fantastic paint job. I put some new wheels on it this spring and it gives it such a rad look. Totally modern and retro at the same time. Such a bike would sell really well right now.
by bartblast | 2025-07-29 11:42:22+00:00
The previous slowness was actually due to a temporary bitstring implementation we had in place. Now the full page renders at 60+ FPS, which is a massive improvement.

And this is just the beginning - I'm working on component-level selective rendering that should make things an order of magnitude faster still. Instead of re-rendering the entire page, only the specific components that actually changed will be updated.

It's exciting to see the performance gains become so noticeable in real usage. The hamburger menu responsiveness is exactly the kind of instant interaction that Hologram is designed to enable! :)
by pegasus | 2025-07-29 11:43:43+00:00
How so? Since I made it clear that I see both sides as responsible for the mess, it should be evident that I don't agree with Israel's excesses any more that with those of Hamas. (And anyway, even if I would have spelled out the obvious, you just revealed you would have auto-magically labeled my admission as insincere). All I wanted to show is how much truth-twisting side-pickers have to engage in to maintain their comfortable illusion of clarity.

Btw. it's not any prettier with hard-core Israel supporters either. Fair is fair.
by flub | 2025-07-29 11:43:43+00:00
I'm not sure I fully understand this window logic question. QUIC does MTU discovery, so if the link supports bigger datagrams the MTU will go up. Unreliable datagrams using RFC9221 can be sent up to the MTU size minus the QUIC packet overhead. So if your link supports >1500 bytes then you should be able to send datagrams >1500 bytes using iroh.
by mattlondon | 2025-07-29 11:43:50+00:00
I feel like this is where the heavyweights are really going to start throwing their weight around and basically drive the smaller startups out of town.

Can you really ever compete when you are renting someone else's GPUs?

Can you really ever compete when you are going up against custom silicon built and deployed at scale to run inference at scale (i.e. TPUs built to run Gemini and deployed by the tens-of-thousands in data centers around the globe)?

Meta and Google have deep pockets and massive existing world-class infrastructure (at least for Google, Meta probably runs their php Facebook thing on a few VPS dotted around in some random colos /s ) . They've literally written the book on this.

It remains to be seen how much more money OpenAI can burn, but we've started to see how much Anthropic can burn if nothing else.
by MOARDONGZPLZ | 2025-07-29 11:44:13+00:00
I would absolutely do this if I ran anthropic. Of course unlimited implicitly means “unlimited without abuse.” There are always these “power users” who run it 25/8 and use all the resources, or sell access to others. To Anthropic: of course the “power users” are also going to be the top 5% of extremely online folks who are going to angrily pen long form tweet storms and this whole thing will die down soon for the other 95% of us. Weather the storm.
by evaXhill | 2025-07-29 11:44:39+00:00
There is no free lunch when VC money is involved, and the new weekly rate limits in Claude code now are just the latest example of that. I knew there was going to be a rugpull and it definitely changes the psychology of using it when you know you could be locked out for multiple days. Also saying that "Less than 5% of users are affected" = anyone actually USING this tool for real work...
by Aachen | 2025-07-29 11:44:43+00:00
Yeah, I'm not sure how to directly fight it yet (besides voting as I've always done) but I'm avoiding border queues on a weekly basis now. It's a shame, but for now you can still drive right through on a dozen other border points, just not the highway

France apparently also had this around their Olympics or soccer world cup or something. It's not unique and so far it has always been a fad, usually to please nationalist voters for a while

And it doesn't negate the broader point
by conartist6 | 2025-07-29 11:44:45+00:00
"I firmly believe that AI will not replace developers, but a developer using AI will replace a developer who does not."

Ugh, anyone who says that and really believes it can no longer see common sense through the hype goggles.

It's just stupid and completely 100% wrong, like saying all musicians will use autotune in the future because it makes the music better.

It's the same as betting that there will be no new inventions, no new art, no works of genius unless the creator is taking vitamin C pills.

It's one of the most un-serious claims I can imagine making. It automatically marks the speaker as a clown divorced from basic facts about human ability
Show HN: Hybrid Groups – Agentic AI for human team collaboration [video]
by cstub | 2025-07-29 11:45:31+00:00
Most AI applications are built for individuals but work happens in groups and humans want to collaborate with both agentic AI and other teammates in the same session. We created Hybrid Groups for that purpose.

In Hybrid Groups, agents join group chats as virtual team members in Slack and GitHub. They participate in group conversations, proactively contribute when needed and perform actions on behalf of individual users, like managing your calendar for meeting suggestions or updating your todo list without sharing access to your private resources to the group.

The project is open-source at https://github.com/gradion-ai/hybrid-groups and can be run locally. To try it: Run the Docker container, connect your Slack or GitHub, and use the predefined demo agents or create your own agents. More info in the quickstart: https://gradion-ai.github.io/hybrid-groups/quickstart/.

We're early in development and would appreciate your feedback on the platform, potential improvements and other ideas!
by WillAdams | 2025-07-29 11:45:32+00:00
That happens on inexpensive nibs which lack iridium (or some similar metal/alloy) tipping.

A tipped fountain pen will be incredibly resistant to wear --- while I did significantly wear down the inexpensive Platignum (British brand, but despite the name untipped steel) fountain pen I had when I was younger after a couple of decades, when I finally switched to using more expensive pens with nibs for tipping, haven't had to replace a nib since.
by energy123 | 2025-07-29 11:45:47+00:00
Google and OpenAI have done similar things with their LLM offerings.

Gemini Advanced offered 2.5 Pro with nearly unlimited rate limits, then nerfed it to 100/day.

OpenAI silently nerfed the maximum context window of reasoning models in their Pro plan.

Accompanying the nerf is usually a psy op, like nerfing to 50/day then increasing it to 100/day so the anchoring effect reduces the grievance.

It's a smart ploy because as much as we like to say there's no moat, the user does face provider switching costs (time and effort), which serves as a mini-moat for status quo provider.

So providers have an incentive to rope people in with a loss leader, and then rug pull once they gained market share. Maybe 40% of the top 5% of Claude users are now too accustomed to their Claude-based workflows, and inertia will keep them as customers, but now they're using the more expensive API instead. Anthropic won.

Modern bait and switch, although done intelligently so no laws are broken.
by cyphar | 2025-07-29 11:46:03+00:00
If a homeserver adds a fake device to an existing user of a room, the default behaviour of Matrix clients is to implicitly trust that device and send new messages to it. So any homeserver used by any user in a room could read future messages transparently and without any indication to the user that this is happening (unless all users in the room have opted-in to the "do not send to untrusted devices" knob).

This defeats the entire point of end-to-end encryption. The entire point is that you shouldn't have to trust intermediary servers. If Matrix clients had a giant red flashing warning if you disabled the "do not send to untrusted devices" knob, then maybe this would be excusable -- but they don't and it is off by default.