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by natch | 2025-08-27 15:20:45+00:00
That is a super bad take and we will probably both get flagged and rightly so (in fact I will even flag myself to get this off HN faster if it’s not deemed helpful) but your attempted slur deserves a response.

The parties opposed to child rape and unreasonable levels of immigration in Europe get called far right because they do scoop up a few far right supporters. But that’s unfair given the alternatives. HN really isn’t the place but let’s just say overall maybe it would be better if Europe doesn’t devolve further away from freedom and western values.
by MrResearcher | 2025-08-27 15:20:57+00:00
It's not really a lie, it's so-called "make-belief", which entrepreneurs exude in order to justify their own time and money investment, as well as spreading it to the army of employees. This sort of delusion is necessary for the inaugural period of concept development, until you prove whether the concept is viable or not. Some people call it vision. It is an entirely fictional concept, of course. Sometimes you stumble onto something working that gets traction. Then this lie turns into reality, and the entrepreneur is raised to the rank of prophets.

In other words, he doesn't do it out of malice. These are the rules of the game.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-27 15:20:58+00:00
Naturally written in Rust.

I could start taking bets every time I now see a "new kind of tool" for XYZ.

I am firmly in the camp tools for specific ecosystems should be written on the language of said ecosystem.

If one is hindered by the language, maybe that isn't the right ecosystem, or therein lies the opportunity for language toolchain improvements.
by slavik81 | 2025-08-27 15:21:25+00:00
I am a licensed professional software engineer in Canada. It's been fifteen years since I first registered with my professional association, but I will probably not be renewing my license this year as it's not providing any real benefit to my career.

Two decades ago there was a lot of talk about turning software development into a structured engineering discipline, but that plan seems to have largely been abandoned.
by colechristensen | 2025-08-27 15:21:56+00:00
For one of the aircraft mentioned in Skunk Works Lockheed insisted on doing the maintenance themselves because the military maintenance folks were making mistakes causing aircraft failures.

This incident is a data point in the "right to repair" where Congress is trying to force defense contractors to make all of their equipment entirely maintained by DoD workers, apparently they make mistakes though because in this case it is the stupid failure of a significant portion of the hydraulic fluid being water (which is a problem you could cause in your car but don't because you're not foolish and you put in the correct fluid and don't just fill your radiator up with water)
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-27 15:22:15+00:00
It's also misapplied here. If anything, it appears from the changes being made to WebKit that the issue is detailed interactions with DOM change logic and with CSS, not JavaScript. JavaScript may tickle the issue, but that's like blaming the mouse for allowing you to click on a button that has expensive operations attached to it.

I've definitely managed to make a page that uses almost no JavaScript and is dog-slow on Firefox (until Mozilla updated the rendering engine) just by building a table out of flexboxes. There's plenty of places for browsers to chug and die in the increasingly-complicated standard they adhere to.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-27 15:22:24+00:00
> Saturn V was launched 13 times in total. Starship is already 75% of the way there

Apollo 1 - lost on the launch pad, crew killed. very bad Apollo 13 - major malfunction causing loss of mission but crew saved. very not bad

Starship - 10 launches 5 failures. No crew ever so that pressure is also not comparable.

Are we really claiming Starship has achieved 75% of the results of Apollo? That's absolutely ludicrous
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-27 15:22:27+00:00
It's worse than that. The high-flicker, narrow-band LEDs used for most LED streetlights today create insanely bad color discrepancy and distortion due to motion.

It's a crime against nature and a crime against humanity that cities have allowed such a scourge to proliferate, when we have the science and technology for much better LED street lights.

It gets even worse because in order to make up for these discrepancies and distortion, manufacturers just.... turn them up brighter, fundamentally ignoring the problem and only making it worse.

It's bad enough that this affects drivers and pedestrians, but think of all of the animals who don't get a say, and who are even more sensitive to the flicker and lack of color information.
by thorin | 2025-08-27 15:22:50+00:00
In recent years I've struggled with knowing the details and how to get started. I've had to programme/design in Java, C#, Android, Python, bits of c and c++ all kinds of stuff. In theory now I can write programmes because I know what I want to do but I don't have a good knowledge of all the details so spent too long looking at docs or Stackoverflow. Now in theory I can write useful programs with AI. In some ways this makes me more keen to create and design programs. In other ways this means I don't really need to learn all the details that I didn't learn recently anymore.

Also stuff like leetcode goes away hopefully soon as as long as you understand a data structure and it's benefits you don't have to learn to implement it in every language?
by nvahalik | 2025-08-27 15:22:55+00:00
When doing web development I will occasionally connect my local code base to a remote SQL server via SSH.

This adds enough latency to be noticeable and I’ve found pages that were “OK” in prod that were unbearable in my local environment. Most of the time it was N+1 queries. Sometimes it was a cache that wasn’t working as intended. Sometimes it simply was a feature that “looked cool” but offered no value.

I’m not sure if there is a proxy that would do this locally but I’ve found it invaluable.
by aredox | 2025-08-27 15:22:58+00:00
>many are interested in HN _not_ becoming _yet another_ front in the political flame wars.

Thanks for deciding that without asking.

Stories about the Therac-25 - badly using a computer to control a radiation machine - are fine and often end on the front page. It killed 6 people.

Stories about DOGE - badly using computers, big data, AI to save "trillions" of USD - are apparently not fine. DOGE is killing tens of thousands of people, put Musk is close to Trump, so talking about it is "political" and therefore there is no interest in showing on the front page that DOGE's claims are wrong by several orders of magnitude.

Stories about Theranos - badly using computers to automate lab diagnostics - used to be fine. We talked at length about how Elizabeth Holmes was hailed as a genius, then how fishy it seemed, then the whistleblowers came and blew the lid off the deception that was going on. Holmes was condemned and sent to detention.

Will we be forbidden to talk about Theranos once she gets her pardon from Trump[0]? Because it would be "political"?

Are we forbidden to talk about Trevor Milton - co-founder and CEO of bankrupt electric truckmaker Nikola Motors, pardoned in March - was a fraudster[1], when he will inevitably launch a new startup? Will any mention of it be flagged because "we don't want no political flame wars"?

[0]https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/06/27/310688... [1]https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/trump-pardons-bitmex-crypto...
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-27 15:23:40+00:00
>If Trump had lost Iran would probably have a nuclear weapon

Random thing to be concerned about, and also very fringe evidence of "probably".

> The democrat's failure on immigration broadly (both at the border and on policy) is also something driving people away from them.

Immigration was never an issue - unemployment was at a record low especially after Covid, and crime was on its way down. Democrats had a bill that targeted immigration reform, which included provision for more funding to CBP and most importantly immigration hearings so that we can actually separate the people who are illegal versus people who are truly under refugee status and shown that they are willing to work and contribute. Trump told the Republicans to veto the bill because the immigration issue would make him look good in elections. You fell for it.

>Compare the extreme competence/political capability of someone like Elon Musk

You mean the guy that funded a candidate, that within 4 months told him to fuck off while passing the BBB that removed a major source of funding for his company? You mean the guy that bet Sam Harris 1mil after saying US wouldn't see more than 35k cases of Covid, only to reneg on the bet and block Sam?

Good one chief.

>The left has pushed identity based culture issues around DEI and gender ideology that have had serious negative effects up to and including surgical operations on children due to gender affirming care

A) Don't lump democrtats with the left. B) Surgical operations on children for gender affirmg care is a non issue, the number of these is incredibly small (and no, the argument Democrats would have increase this doesn't fly). As for DEI, you have to prove with numbers that this was harming American companies and institutions, in terms of economic impact or other factors.

>Also when it comes to guns, I live in California - the democrats are hardly the gun friendly party.

State politics =/= government politics. States have their right to enforce additional laws. Thats in the Constitution.

And again, above all, even if Im completely wrong on all of this, you still have a convicted felon who tried to coup the government, whos name was on the Epstein list with evidence of him being at parties, with Project 2025 thats halfway complete, who does dictator shit every single week. It would take an extraordinary amount of evidence to prove that Kamala was the worst choice.

Part of me really hopes that republicans win in 2026 and 2028, because as bad as things are now, they can get much much worse. Because people like you need to really suffer in daily lives to ever understand that Republican policies can lead to lives where you are concerned about being able to feed your kids instead of having the privilege to worry about tiny issues like DEI.
by dfabulich | 2025-08-27 15:23:53+00:00
There are better approaches, where you have dual LLMs, a Privileged LLM (allowed to perform actions) and a Quarantined LLM (only allowed to produce structured data, which is assumed to be tainted), and a non-LLM Controller managing communication between the two.

See also CaMeL https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/ which incorporates a type system to track tainted data from the Quarantined LLM, ensuring that the Privileged LLM can't even see tainted data until it's been reviewed by a human user. (But this can induce user fatigue as the user is forced to manually approve all the data that the Privileged LLM can access.)
by milen | 2025-08-27 15:23:53+00:00
Oh, wow - so happy to hear from a Clear user!

I was one of the co-creators of Clear and the developer who built the iOS app. It was co-created by me, Realmac and Impending. I had previously interned at Realmac and had been friends with the founder, Dan (they acquired another app of ours - EventBox, which later got rebranded as Socialite).
by eatonphil | 2025-08-27 15:24:08+00:00
To the contrary, when all the good New York meetups (Papers We Love, Linux User Group) didn't come back, and inspired by the continuously running Munich Database Meetup and TUMuchData, I started the NYC Systems Coffee Club and co-started NYC Systems (talk series) after which came Berlin Systems Group, Bengaluru Systems Meetup, San Francisco Systems Club, Systems from HEL, DC Systems, Vancouver Systems, South Bay Systems, and Seattle Systems.

So I think people are really eager for high quality talks and chances to gather with smart people.

What's more I think there are not enough meetups in almost any major city to satisfy the demand of speakers or attendees. For example, NYC Systems gets hundreds of people asking to speak (we have 12 speakers a year) and gets 2-3x as many attendees wanting to come as we have space for.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-08-27 15:24:22+00:00
Killer feature of NX is its build cache and the ability to operate on the git staged files. It takes a couple of minutes to build our entire repo on an M4 Pro. NX caches the builds of all libs and will only rebuild those that are affected. Same holds true for linting, prettier, tests etc. Any solution that just executes full builds would be a no-starter for all use cases.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-27 15:24:27+00:00
Of course not, because that wasn't what I wrote.

I wrote Mac OS, which was replaced by OS X.

macOS is a rebranding from OS X.

Delphi is pretty much relevant in Germany, to this day there are conferences to attend to.

You can still get tickets for this year,

https://entwickler-konferenz.de/en/
by Apreche | 2025-08-27 15:25:08+00:00
I have seen some events doing very well and some doing very poorly. There are some factors not mentioned here.

The biggest is cost. Travel, especially lodging, is very expensive right now in major cities, especially in the US. People just can’t afford hundreds per night. If an event has a larger population density within reach of walking, driving, and public transportation then more people turn up.

Another is industry presence. Big companies have found that showing up at conferences and conventions isn’t really worth it. In the video game industry E3 died and nothing replaced it. Companies just post their own direct videos to make announcements. Apple even stopped gathering everyone in an auditorium and just does videos now as well. When the industry presence at an event, like maybe CES, diminishes, then that means there will be less attendees as well.

Also, a lot of events don’t offer attendees anything they can’t experience at home. If it’s a bunch of talks, just watch video of them later. No need to be in-person unless you really need to do some networking. Some events are able to offer attendees a reason to be physically present, and they still draw a crowd.
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-27 15:25:12+00:00
> Conferences, announcements, etc all happened virtually and things were largely fine. Sure things like networking were lost (and the associated drinking), and while that was valuable was not necessarily the marketed reason for the events.

I haven't heard anyone say that things were fine. I and colleagues have participated virtually in ML conferences during covid and people almost unanimously said it was mostly useless. You can't compare zoom rooms to poster sessions, real social events with GatherTown etc. For papers you can just follow arXiv and configure alerts or browse the conference website. The networking and shared fun is core. People make friends/acquaintances, have discussions about how it is to live in another country, their job, their takes on events, gossip, and just general human exchange over beers etc. I know many of us here are introverts, but I'm still seeing it like this. It can be a bonding experience with colleagues to go to the same conference for a week, multiple times a year, you can become friends that will last long. Or it can be hell if you hate them. Two sides to the coin, I admit.

There are many things that can't be said fully openly, e.g. that the main purpose of such conferences is social. Because fun can't be reimbursed, the cog in the machine must be productive and efficient and serious. Except if it's structured like daycare activities mediated by a primary school teacher, i.e. "team-building workshops", whose concept already makes my stomach turn. People can socialize much better if it's not some structured forced activity but happens naturally alongside some other (non-made-up) activity, such as going to a conference and listening to talks etc.

Another thing is that you change your location and life a bit for a week (or a few days), shift your working style. If you stay in the same home or the same office and tune in virtually, most people just going to be multi-tasking. That's already the case for many meetings. People turn off their cameras, their mics, eventually even attendance dwindles. Then if you propose in-person events again, people are disinterested because they associate it with that low-engagement boring stuff, except they now also have to travel to it etc.
by hearsathought | 2025-08-27 15:25:36+00:00
> It's an overview of what we know about Proto Indo-European and its spread across the world.

That's a bit misleading isn't it? PIE died out a long time ago. And it certainly didn't spread all over the world. It's descendent languages moved into india, middle east and europe. And it's european languages ( primarily spanish, french and english ) that went global. Nobody would say Latin went global just because spanish is spoken around the world. Or old english went global because much of the world speaks english.

But thanks for the recommendation.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-08-27 15:26:27+00:00
I'm not a trump supporter. The point is that neither of the choices were acceptable. The blue team can't be rewarded for the shit they pulled, even if you have the boogie man on the other side.

Also, is anyone claiming that Trump isn't steering the ship? The people elected him and he seems to be the one at the wheel. The people elected Biden, who may have been steering the ship in his good hours of the day, but who knows who made the decisions the rest of the time.
by dheera | 2025-08-27 15:26:31+00:00
People are going to in-person events. The difference is now everyone and their grandmother just learned to code and there's a shitton of noise in tech meetups.

The only in-person events worth going to are those that have some kind of a filter on attendance, e.g. ones friends, investors, or employers invite you to.

I'm not interested in your Arduino project that detects pigeons with AlexNet.
by account42 | 2025-08-27 15:26:37+00:00
> No, it makes as much sense as USB-NVMe

I don't think that's true. USB is accessible in lots of places where SATA and PCIe is not, i.e. as external connectors. Yes eSATA is a thing but eSATA without being able to use USB or PCIe?

Or in other words, SATA->NVMe would at best serve users unwilling to upgrade their legacy racks while USB->NVMe has plenty of non-legacy use cases.
by credit_guy | 2025-08-27 15:27:06+00:00
It's a good analysis, but I am not sure why you are spending time doing this. People who care about your company (investors, users, partners etc) are probably sufficiently familiar with AI to disregard shallow analyses like Ed Zitron's one. You know the saying: a fool can throw a stone in a pond and 100 wise men can't take it out. It's not worth spending time debunking these pieces.
by c22 | 2025-08-27 15:27:11+00:00
I run the famous Kird Ape/Taiga combo in my Kibo, Uktabi Prince commander deck. It's a turn one 2/3 with the right opening hand (easier now because there are a lot more mountain forests).

The game is definitely going through a metamorphosis right now with the focus on Universes Beyond (licensed IP crossovers) and "collectors", in some ways Hasbro is trying to have their cake and eat it too. Whatever form it takes going forward it's managed to repeatably re-engage my interest for the last thirty years which is more than can be said about any other game.
by jameslk | 2025-08-27 15:27:14+00:00
Sorbet has its flaws. I didn’t like it either. Having used TypeScript extensively, there is a way to do it right and a way to do it wrong. I’d classify TypeScript as the ideal way to introduce static types into a very dynamic language, given its extensive flexibility to handle dynamic features in a language (e.g. smart type inference, ‘is’ keyword, very flexible generics). Sorbet doesn’t have a lot of those features

Ruby has a strong history and tradition of TDD/unit testing. This is partially a crutch for its lack of static type analysis. Ultimately checking for bugs before running code is very useful
Show HN: Python Playground – a Chrome extension to keep Python always at hand
by shlenkinr | 2025-08-27 15:27:23+00:00
Hey HN!

I built Python Playground, a Chrome extension that gives you a ready-to-use Python environment right in your browser - no installation needed.

It runs Python locally via Pyodide (WebAssembly) with most popular libraries included out of the box, plus a package manager to install additional modules from PyPI. The environment supports inline data visualization with Matplotlib and Plotly, file upload/download through a sandboxed filesystem, and the ability to save and reload snippets. Everything executes entirely on the client, so it works offline and nothing ever leaves your browser.

In addition to the extension, there’s also a web version you can try right away: https://python-playground.com

I’m planning to add debugging tools, synchronization between devices, and possibly more advanced features over time. I would be very interested to hear your feedback and what improvements you think would be most useful.
by runjake | 2025-08-27 15:28:12+00:00
X really sucks in it's current state, but it's where the things I'm interested in happen or are discussed first (eg AI state of the art, bootstrappers). There's a bunch of tech people I follow who aren't on BlueSky, Threads, etc.

Interestingly, when I glance at my Bluesky feed once a month or so, it's a lot of complaining about everything. I think I hear more about Elon on Bluesky than I do X. And yeah, I follow reasonably high-value people.

That said, I keep some sort of X exit plan in place, and I look at it a lot less than before. When the signal vs noise value shifts, I'll be done, but I'm not quite there yet.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-27 15:28:23+00:00
> Can't a person have 2 homes and live in both?

One home is always the "primary residence" for legal purposes. You can have and live in as many homes as you want, but only one counts as your primary residence.

That said, the allegation is just that, an allegation. Further, it's coming from people who are highly motivated to exaggerate or lie.