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by alganet | 2025-07-16 01:28:26+00:00
Agent Smith is 1/3 of Trinity. C'mon, that's right in the face.

In the flanking symbolism (three figures, a central one flanked by two others), Trinity represents the flanking formation itself.

Agent Smith represents one of the flanking figures that disconnects from the main formation. He's basically Furiosa.

Similar flanking trios are seen in Star Wars (Han, Leia, Luke), Starship Troopers (Rico, Carmen, Carl).

Somehow, it also alludes to the popular trope of "protagonist, girlfriend, best friend" seen in many popular movies, and dissected in The Truman Show.

This has nothing to do with AI agents. Some of those ideas go back millenia in the past.

I think the writers were high as fuck and thought that we computer people see this as "the operating system of society" or something (because they're full of bullshit just like that).
by AlotOfReading | 2025-07-16 01:29:16+00:00
Apple isn't the beholder here. Users are.

I think you're just using an overly narrow definition of art that excludes things you don't find aesthetically pleasing. I'm assuming you also wouldn't find Rauschenberg's white paintings (https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/art/galleries/series/...) or Picasso's various animal drawings (https://www.pablopicasso.net/images/Camel%20Pablo%20Picasso....) to be art?

Would you care to venture a definition of art?
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 01:29:55+00:00
> You're assuming this isn't already in the works; I simply see it as we can make the standard now, or let the standard be dictated.

The difference is we've grandfathered in a lot of older technology - x86, old desktop operating systems like Windows and Linux, old browsers, BIOS, etc. So the existing tools we have for censorship have to work around these existing platforms.

These platforms were created in a time where user control was paramount and security was an afterthought. They often do not have the mechanisms required to lock down the boot loader 100% of the time, or give a verified boot chain, or make sure the display signal isn't being intercepted. Our DRM and censorship, then, is very limited. I mean, even with secure boot - I can just turn that off. I can just turn on legacy MBR BIOS mode too. What now?

On other, newer, platforms, like your smartphone or smart TV, you'll notice the DRM is much stronger. Try changing out your OS on an iPhone. These platforms are ripe for the picking when it comes to censorship you can't circumvent.

So long as these older platforms exist, the usecases must be supported. Sure, we can "streamline" things on DRM heavy platforms like iOS - but we need to keep a trapdoor. Who is going to alienate Windows? Or x86 as a whole?
by Shindi | 2025-07-16 01:30:17+00:00
I totally missed you can embed AI features directly into claude artifacts. I ran the first GPT store hackathon in NYC and I feel like people were very underwhelmed. What could you do in a custom GPT you couldn't with a shared chat? The integration felt very annoying. Claude I feel nails how easy it is to build + how easy it is to share
by ajmurmann | 2025-07-16 01:30:53+00:00
Even if you thought another movie was gonna be as good as City of God right now, do you think you'd be as likely to actually go to the cinema to see it as you were in 2002 or might you simply wait, safe $20 and a trip and watch it at home 3 months later? I think both factors play a role and they have synergy as well. Fewer people go to the cinema -> smaller market and less incentive to take risks -> fewer people go to the cinema -> ...
by userbinator | 2025-07-16 01:31:12+00:00
We don't want "mitigation", we want true correctness --- or at least the level of perfection achievable before manufacturers thought they could operate with negative data integrity margins and convinced others that it was fine (one popular memory testing utility made RH tests optional and hidden by default, under the reasoning that "too many DIMMs would fail"!) All DRAM generations before DDR2 and early DDR3 didn't have this problem.

RAM that doesn't behave like RAM is not RAM. It's defective. ECC is merely an attempt at fixing something that shouldn't've made it to the market in the first place. AFAIK there is a RH variant that manages to flip bits undetectably even with ECC RAM.
by saurik | 2025-07-16 01:31:45+00:00
That's insane :/. But, maybe, "on the bright side", The Mozilla Foundation is unrelated in some sense to Firefox? AFAIK, they don't spend any of their money on it anyway.

The whole Mozilla situation is even more of a scam than how the Wikimedia Foundation uses sob stories about paying for Wikipedia to get people to donate money to an entity which spends almost no money on Wikipedia... but, at least it does run Wikipedia! lol :/.

There is another interesting detail from your reference that makes it seem even worse to me: it says the CEO's salary is "paid only by a related for-profit"; at first, I was thinking "ok, at least the Foundation in fact is spending the money it is being donated (though, not on Firefox)"... but then I realized that means the Corporation is, in fact, spending $7m that it could have spent on Firefox.
by mvdtnz | 2025-07-16 01:32:16+00:00
> most countries will have at most 5 major ISPs

I find this hard to believe. In New Zealand, the tiny country I live in, I can name off the top of my head at least 10 ISPs. You're telling me most countries, which on average are far bigger than mine, have fewer? I don't believe it. Another made-up statistic.
by arp242 | 2025-07-16 01:32:18+00:00
> I understand go's reasons, ReDoS etc, but the "purism" of RE2 does fly in the face of practicality to an irksome degree.

Preventing ReDos is literally the reason RE2 exists though, so I don't think it's "purism" to not implement these things. What you want is not unreasonable, but fundamentally incompatible with the goals of RE2.

Ways to do look-behinds in linear time, as detailed in this article, are a relatively new development AFAIK(?) I don't think the RE2 people are principally opposed to integrating that if it can be done well. I suspect someone will have to write a patch though, since the main RE2 maintainer died last year.
by drewbeck | 2025-07-16 01:32:54+00:00
Two reasons come to mind. 1. AI hype is the hottest it will ever be, better to sell into as many industries as you can now while everyone is excited about it. 2. There are a lot of unknowns as to what these tools will be best at, or which workflows it will improve or supplant. Better to get more people in more industries using the tool now to uncover these use cases.
by const_cast | 2025-07-16 01:33:16+00:00
Making things secure and private is hard. There's a lot of hoops to jump through.

Naive implementations are easy and cheap. And, if these tools and their entire software tree is not open-source, we cannot verify it's security.

We just have to trust that the developers are good at what they're doing. When every company under the sun has had multiple data breeches, I'm not too keen to do that.

Open-source the entire stack, show me a few white papers proving it's cryptographically sound, then I'll consider it. Until then, we should do with these tools what they deserve: being shoved up the government's ass.
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by DaveZale | 2025-07-16 01:34:02+00:00
never forget!

Isn't that the rallying cry?

You know how to search. Find the map. Know the history.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/12s6lq5/this_map_o... from Natgeo

Israeli soldiers are killing not only others but themselves. We have to know the truth, otherwise we're all just lost at sea without a compass, or even a map.
Show HN: I built a dream interpreter in JavaScript, no AI, no server, just logic
by DinoNuggies456 | 2025-07-16 01:34:45+00:00
I built a browser-only dream interpreter that maps symbols to meaning using a custom keyword engine. No AI, no tracking, no backend it’s all deterministic logic, built with vanilla JavaScript. The idea was to see if emotional and symbolic interpretations could still feel personal without using machine learning. Dreams are parsed against a map of 300+ symbolic meanings. Everything runs locally in your browser and saves via localStorage. You can revisit old dreams, reflect on interpretations, or just explore what the system sees in your subconscious. Happy to answer questions, would love feedback!
by tucaz | 2025-07-16 01:36:55+00:00
You have to learn by doing. Here’s a good tutorial for Fusion 360 -> https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLISvF10lebIzMQjtPhKVlCwzs...

And a classic for Blender from Blender Guru -> https://youtu.be/4haAdmHqGOw?si=7Sk-dxbyPFi5PL8u

I’m no expert but the little I know was trying to solve one problem after the other.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-16 01:37:17+00:00
>An accurate analysis of the fall of Pascal would be longer than the rest of this essay.

I put the blame solely on the management of Borland. They had the world leading language, and went off onto C++ and search of "Enterprise" instead of just riding the wave.

When Anders gave the world C#, I knew it was game over for Pascal, and also Windows native code. We'd all have to get used to waiting for compiles again.
by maxnevermind | 2025-07-16 01:38:49+00:00
I think Altman said in Lex F. podcast that he works 8 hours, 4 first one being the most productive ones and he doesn't believe CEO claiming they work 16 hours a day. Weird contrast to what described in the article. This confirms my theory that there are two types of people in startups: founders and everybody else, the former are there to potentially make a lot of money, and the later are there to learn and leave.
by bookofjoe | 2025-07-16 01:38:49+00:00
1. I joined in 2016. I guess it all depends on what the cutoff is for "newcomers." I suppose you could call anyone who signed on after 2007 a newcomer.

2. "demanding?" I wrote:

>Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"I would very much like to enjoy HN the way I did years ago, as a place where I'd discover things that I never otherwise would have come across. The increasing AI/LLM domination of the site has made it much less appealing to me.
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-16 01:38:53+00:00
Yeah it seems like there are two issues here being conflated. The first is that non-US-persons are operating, by proxy, Azure assets that serve US Gov missions. The second is that those persons may be operating assets used in sensitive missions. Say IL4 and up.

The first is a little embarrassing for Microsoft, but a venal sin, not a mortal one. Makes them look like cheapskates offshoring work, instead of training local workers, but Ok, fine.

The second would be a mortal sin, assuming ( its not clear from the article whether) these non-US people are really operating at IL4 and up. Those assets really need US people especially at the higher impact levels. All of the above is public info described in FedRAMP standards.
by regularization | 2025-07-16 01:39:01+00:00
Yes..people in the past were celibate until marriage - what? Maybe some were, like som are now.

From World War II into the 1960s, the median age of a married woman in the US was 20. So maybe many were virgins, if they didn't get together with their fiancee. The median age of first marriage for women in the US is now 28.
by sanswork | 2025-07-16 01:39:04+00:00
I used some courses on Udemy called something like design for 3d printing with Fusion and it went through starting with very simple flat objects(I think it was a comb) and working your way up then there were intermediate and advanced courses for after. I went from zero understanding of fusion to being not an expert or even advanced but comfortable enough to design pretty much any little part or idea I have in just a few days of practice.
by iJohnDoe | 2025-07-16 01:39:35+00:00
Any existing theories where all this is going? What’s the long term play here?

When Bush Jr. was president, he grabbed so much power. Didn’t make sense he would just hand that power over to the next guy, but he indeed have a peaceful transfer of power.

I’m not sure Democrats would want to give this much power to ICE. Not really thinking about Trump as a third term, but maybe we’re just doomed to have Republicans in power - forever being elected?
by userbinator | 2025-07-16 01:40:40+00:00
but prior to rowhammer it is also possible no-one ever thought to check for it

It was known as "pattern sensitivity" in the industry for decades, basically ever since the beginning, and considered a blocking defect. Here's a random article from 1989 (don't know why first page is missing, but look at the references): http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~mazum/PAPERS-MAZUM/patternsensiti...

Then some bastards like these came along...

https://research.ece.cmu.edu/safari/thesis/skhan_jobtalk_sli...

...and essentially said "who cares, let someone else be responsible for the imperfections while we can sell more crap", leading to the current mess we're in.

The flash memory industry took a similar dark turn decades ago.
by goku12 | 2025-07-16 01:40:57+00:00
I think the 'project is abandoned if not updated' mentality came from corporate development culture. Unfortunately, I don't see any other reasonable way to for users to evaluate the project status. This wasn't how free software ecosystem was supposed to operate.

And yes, the solution is to add a note right at the top of README, saying that the project is not abandoned and any new bugfixes or feature updates will be considered. Ideally, this should be standardized, with a common way to represent project status across all projects.
by acdha | 2025-07-16 01:41:21+00:00
I think there’s a lot to that. It feels both like the market shrunk in the sense that they’re competing with options which didn’t exist back then but also two other interesting changes: very expensive movies need the international market to be really profitable which limits creativity somewhat (more social norms to stay within, many topics to avoid) and also leads to uncreating safe bets. The other big change was that streaming services sucked up a lot of audience & creativity, but aren’t tracked in box office revenue and also have different goals and weird relationships with their audiences (e.g. Netflix is so quick to cancel that some people never watch an incomplete series).
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-07-16 01:41:36+00:00
This sort of used to be true and mostly isn't today. Firefox and Edge both have reasonably good tracking prevention features. They rival Privacy Badger in effectiveness (it's largely moot these days), and the only thing between tracking prevention and ad blocking is that the latter also focuses on protecting your poor innocent eyes from advertising, which I mostly couldn't care less about if the tracking is being defeated.

I think if you are extremely narrowly scoping well-trusted ad blockers, you may be okay, as long as you understand you are trusting the ad blocker with your banking info. But it would be far better for a browser to include capabilities in first-party and eradicate extensions altogether.

A Pihole is also far safer than an adblock extension, because it can't see your decrypted your web traffic the way a browser extension can.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-07-16 01:41:58+00:00
Maybe the problem in framing AI as an interface is that there isn't that much money in an "interface" is there?

Like there is no money in "GUI". There is a lot of work that each company wanting to build a good GUI app needs to put into their particular app. And the more specialized the app, the more custom and potentially complex and expensive that will be. But there are no "GUI companies", unless you count Microsoft and Apple as GUI companies.
Show HN: Clippy – a better pbcopy for macOS that handles files properly
by nberkman | 2025-07-16 01:42:04+00:00
I made clippy because pbcopy can't do something I needed every day: copy files to paste into GUI apps. When you pbcopy < image.png, you get raw bytes instead of a file that Slack or email can use.

Clippy fixes this:

- clippy report.pdf → ⌘V into any app uploads the file

- curl image.png | clippy → pipes become pasteable files

- clippy *.jpg → multiple files at once

- Text files still work like pbcopy

Technical: Direct Objective-C bindings via CGo. Copies file references (like Finder), not contents. Auto-cleans temp files. No AppleScript hacks.

Install: brew install neilberkman/clippy/clippy
by mikewarot | 2025-07-16 01:44:36+00:00
I bit the bullet, and learned FreeCAD, and it wasn't easy. There are plenty of YouTube videos to watch a few times and try to see what's going on. The key realization for me was I could actually just draw boxes, lines, etc. Later, you can add constraints to them to get the right size, add symmetry, etc.

The reason I went with FreeCAD is because there is an available Gear Generator workbench, and I wanted to have something I could keep, without having to pray Autodesk still likes me next year.

Now, if you want to just 3d sculpt things, there are simple programs that let you push and pull shapes, rotate, rinse and repeat, like Windows Paint 3D.
by tguvot | 2025-07-16 01:45:14+00:00
first comment on your link: What's important to remember is that at this point (as in prior to 1948) both Jews and Arabs were referred to as Palestinians since it was the common name for the region

besides this i am not sure what exactly this map supposed to show. 30 years before that this area was called "province syria palestina" and was part of ottoman empire for hundreds of years
by ryao | 2025-07-16 01:45:30+00:00
Nvidia implements ECC in software since they did not want to add the extra memory chip(s) needed to implement it in hardware to their boards. The only case where they do it in hardware is when they use HBM memory.

That said, GDDR7 does on die ECC, which gives immunity to this in its current form. There is no way to get information on corrected bitflips from on-die ECC, but it is better than nothing.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-07-16 01:45:55+00:00
ICE is the new gestapo

as for the illegals, if they're in the IRS database that means they're paying taxes -- which means they're contributing positively to the economy; give them legal status so they can continue contributing -- all this does is push them to _not_ file

the country would be much better off if engineers' time was spent building systems to catch the large amount of tax fraud by the wealthy -- IRS estimated a tax gap of $700 billion.
by cjbillington | 2025-07-16 01:46:28+00:00
The lasers alone set you back many tens of k so it's not really possible to do on the cheap presently, even if a lot of the cost is expertise and the high overhead of R&D costs when only producing small number of units.

Oh and to know if it's any good you have to either build two (ideally more) of them to compare against each other (ideally using different approaches so their errors are less correlated), or have access to a clock better than the one you're building to compare to. So you can rarely get away with building just one if you want to know if you've succeeded.

Source: I work on the software for these portable optical clocks: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-quantum-clocks-accuracy-curren...
by ls612 | 2025-07-16 01:46:43+00:00
This is dead wrong. For all of human history through say 1800 gains in productivity flowed back to the general population in the form of more kids (but no per capita growth), this was the Malthusian equilibrium. Since 1800 not only has the typical person’s standard of living exploded but the typical person works in both paid and nonpaid labor far fewer hours. Roughly the typical person worked 4000 hours a year in paid and domestic labor in 1800 compared to less than 2000 hours a year today.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-16 01:47:15+00:00
I mean if you reduce something enough you can say “x pays for y” in almost any case for anything since it’s all technically one big pot for one group. Even earmarked money.

If I give you $500 to help pay for your medical bills and a few months later (bills have been paid by then) I see you bought a PS5, can I say, “not cool you used my money to buy a PS5”?

Don’t get me wrong I think Mozilla/FF has been very poorly managed. But I have just never liked these kinds of “transitive property” arguments or whatever we want to call it. Unless they’re straight up funneling donations into the CEO’s bank account I just don’t see it that way.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-16 01:47:29+00:00
> Could somebody explain why there is so much negativity towards Thinking Machines in this thread?

I think it lies at the intersection of a lot of topics where HN comments are hostile: VCs, large fundraising, AI, OpenAI related employees. These are all topics where HN comments are more hostile than pragmatic.

Most of the hostility is just a proxy for “VCs bad” banter.
by jsnell | 2025-07-16 01:48:01+00:00
You're moving the goalposts, given the original complaint was not about research costs but about the marginal cost of serving additional users...

I guess you'd be surprised to find out that Meta's R&D costs are an order of magnitude higher than OpenAI's training + research costs? ($45B in 2024, vs. about $5B for OpenAI according to the leaked financials.)