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by cloverich | 2025-08-07 15:40:19+00:00
> So out of the gate you’ve got a problem with making the regulations more complicated to navigate.

Assuming the policy to reduce non-primary home ownership is tax based, carve out tax exceptions for home builders. Personally I would carve out exceptions for home flippers too, but could see that being more contentious. Either way though, this part of the problem would be, IMHO, trivial to solve.

> If the average carry time goes up even a little bit (and it will because investors close faster) that can make whole developments untenable. Others build because they have large investors to sell to if necessary.

I think that's fair. But conversely carry time is also high because prices are high, and investors drive up prices; builders also do this to an extent, by e.g. buying down points to avoid lowering prices, to keep the perceived price elevated. I have no illusions this is a simple problem to solve. The right question here is probably figuring out whether the overall supply going up by X increased rate because of investors will be worth the cost of the total homeownership rate being controlled by a shrinking proportion of the population (I would guess no).

My personal proposed solution here would be to kick out investors (tax policy), and also directly incentivize home builders selling to first time owners (via tax credits, comparable to e.g. EV tax credits). The latter would be quite expensive, but if the overall homeownership rate increases and home prices drop, it would likely be popular.
by os2warpman | 2025-08-07 15:40:48+00:00
> that never amounted to anything

They did amount to something.

Those announcements were part of Apple's initiative to build/assemble certain Mac Pros in Texas.

The idea is to do it on a high-margin, low-volume product so that any hiccups can be absorbed in the accounting and aren't as impactful to millions of customers. Hiccups like a dearth of US suppliers of subcomponents.

If a North American customer purchases a Mac Pro its final assembly occurs in Austin, Texas.

According to local media and government reports Apple has spent over a billion dollars in Austin and directly employed about 10,000 new permanent workers so far.

If you count local suppliers, the total is higher.

You can see some of the billion dollars here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dHy52bEoWizDC5qz5

You can click on "See more dates" and select 2020 to see that in two years that site went from "empty lot" to "hundreds of thousands of square feet and thousands of workers".

The Flextronics facility about a mile-and-a-half to the south is another chunk of cash.

Additionally, many, MANY, components from audio codecs to SoC cores to sheets of glass used in Apple products are made in the US and exported for integration into products that are assembled overseas.

If you think 5 years from announcement to construction is a long time, I've been working about that long on a committee to build a tiny 4-bay fire station. It isn't about money, we have the money and infinite money wouldn't really change anything. It's about permits, contractor availability, and subsystem/subcomponent lead times. The diesel fume extraction system installers had a year-long backlog of work alone.

If you're waiting for the iPhone to be built in the US, you're going to be waiting for a long time, perhaps an infinitely long time. Other, higher-margin lower-volume, products? That's more likely.

I'm more familiar than most with how difficult it is to build things in the US, because I build satellites for a living and fire stations as a civic duty.

It's hard.
by okincilleb | 2025-08-07 15:40:54+00:00
This is awesome! I recreated Win XP for my personal website a few years ago (https://www.sohailsayed.com/), but this completely blows it out the water on functionality.

I absolutely love just how much depth there is to the functionality in this (from being able to use apps like word, or being able to drag and move around icons on desktop).

Brilliant!
by cthalupa | 2025-08-07 15:41:00+00:00
Losing weight through any method will make your metabolism slow down - fat is metabolically active. Uncouplers won't change this. Even if 100% of your weight loss is fat, your BMR is going to drop. The amount of metabolic adaptation from caloric deficits is grossly overstated by many people, and the "starvation mode" adaptation is temporary. Just reaching a maintenance level of calories for a relatively short period of time is enough to reset it - but this change is minor to begin with. The majority of any metabolism slowing will occur purely as a function of weight loss.

The issue with regaining weight after coming off these drugs is that people don't change their habits, and once they are off, they no longer have the limited appetite, and return to eating like they did before, which just results in the problem reoccurring. Uncouplers won't change this.

If people want to sustain their weight loss, they either need to change their lifestyle and eating habits, or they need to stay on the drugs, and potentially even both.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-07 15:41:15+00:00
> NVIDIA, that their stock price didn't make any sense given their revenue, that is was an obvious bubble. Now their revenue is 10x higher, justifying the stock price from 2 years ago.

Nvidia sells (among other things) performance leading hardware products with a locked-in software ecosystem surrounding them.

OpenAi... doesn't.
by jodrellblank | 2025-08-07 15:41:29+00:00
The performance isn't there, it's here. Why is that person telling HN "my update is: I spent all day in meetings"? What value or contribution or discussion does it serve on HN in a topic about rambling while being remote?

If they were genuinely in meetings, and respect that as real work, and that's the right thing to say in the scrum update, then ... why is it noteworthy enough to comment here, and what do they "really mean it"?
by freeopinion | 2025-08-07 15:41:59+00:00
Hiring onsite security forces doesn't seem to be the answer. Inventory loss at big box stores is reportedly quite high. If you stocked a drop box with 20-dozen eggs and somebody stole a dozen, you might still be doing better than Walmart.

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-california-stores-closed-...
by a_shovel | 2025-08-07 15:42:19+00:00
I am aware of the Nova classification. "Vague" was the wrong word for me to use. "Overly broad" is probably closer to what I mean. Just read Group 4's definition. If "ultra-processed" can mean a million different things, then it doesn't matter that you've precisely defined all the things it can mean, your study will still be conflating a million independent variables.

If you think emulsifiers are unhealthy, conduct a study on emulsifiers. If you think the absence of Nova group 1 foods is unhealthy, study that. I am questioning the value of studying foods with emulsifiers OR no group 1 ingredients OR added sugar OR were extruded OR were moulded OR which have "sophisticated packaging" OR have fruit juice concentrates OR hydrogenated oils OR etc. etc. etc., as if they formed a single scientifically meaningful group.
by 3036e4 | 2025-08-07 15:42:21+00:00
Reading the title was enough for the Super Cars II intro music to start playing on repeat in my brain. A top-10 game music track of all time.

But regarding the A500mini version, I thought SC2 was one of the bundled games that was a bit too difficult to control using the included gamepad and that is probably more fun with a joystick? Or maybe I am just getting old.
by conception | 2025-08-07 15:42:38+00:00
Arguably hallucinating is a path to creativity. There are studies being done on having an llm hallucinate ideas and another validating them as a possible novel idea.

LLMs probably alone won’t be agi but humanity’s intelligence is also not just the limbic system or the neocortex. Our brains are also various different styled tools interconnected to create a greater whole. To that end LLMs may be a key part of bringing together the tools we already have been built (computing, machine learning, robotics, etc) into a larger system that is agi.
by chainingsolid | 2025-08-07 15:42:44+00:00
Personally for me I only care about x86 for 2 reasons.

1) Steam library.

2) And the just works combo of ATX & the ability to use any ISO on almost any x86 machine.

I'm personally scared if x86 dies the open market of ATX and bring your own OS won't exist as every company will just lock you in to only there stuff on their devices.
by dagmx | 2025-08-07 15:42:58+00:00
The majority of compute users do not care.

Everyone who uses a tablet or smartphone obviously doesn’t care.

Anyone on a Mac doesn’t care, and even on windows, only very performance sensitive people would care if Prism isn’t doing its thing.

You’d essentially be left with AAA PC gamers and other performance sensitive people, which are a small percentage of overall users.
by hintklb | 2025-08-07 15:43:00+00:00
>> if you rent then you're already indirectly paying for that.

Quick note: People repeat this non stop ("The cost is passed down to the renter"). This has been proven false many times. The cost to the landlord is mostly irrelevant to the renter. Rent is set by offer and demand in a particular market. Just try to increase your place 1000$ above market rates because "Maintenance and taxes", your renters will move. So it obviously doesn't work like this.
by johnnyjeans | 2025-08-07 15:43:10+00:00
In fairness the laisseiz-faire market has been dead for over 2 centuries, it's just that this kind of thing usually happens with backchannels, often with a threat of malicious legislation if you don't play ball. There's a point where the more capital you control, the less freedom you actually have. For a company the size of intel, the line between private and public is blurred. Sometimes it's brazen, like with the seizure of the railroads in the 19th century, but the state is usually sensible enough to keep the illusion alive in the public's eye if they can help it.

This administration doesn't seem to care very much about appearances. Nothing you and I can do about it but pity the poor sons of bitches who are large enough to be perceived by the archons, and clench our assholes in the hopes that we aren't swept up in the damages.
by LinuxAmbulance | 2025-08-07 15:43:14+00:00
Businesses are overly optimistic about AI replacing people.

For very simple jobs, like working in a call center? Sure.

But the vast majority of all jobs aren't ones that AI can replace. Anything that requires any amount of context sensitive human decision making, for example.

There's no way that AI can deliver on the hype we have now, and it's going to crash. The only question is how hard - a whimper or a bang?
by benreesman | 2025-08-07 15:43:17+00:00
I think everyone should want a directional incentive that hard work and the kinds of success that attach to hard work combined with cultivated expertise would be lucrative, on average if we reward positive outcomes achieved in productive rather than extractive ways? Good system. No one is mad when the smartest person they know who works constantly gets paid out. Some of these people getting these nosebleed offers I'm like, yeah, you pay that person 50 million they make you 250, I've seen it.

But it feels pretty fucking random at this juncture, I know really strong people kinda getting by, total hood ornaments in like, stupidly senior slots, its like if you took OG Google tough but fair stack rank from back when they were legitimately elite, and just shuffled the deck until there were zero bits of information left.

How do you compete on thst with a rising China, an India not far behind, and a Europe starting to wake up?
by justonceokay | 2025-08-07 15:44:23+00:00
In a classically disruptive way, the internet provided an existing service (information exchange) in a way that was in many ways far less pleasant than existing channels (newspapers, libraries, phone). Remember that the early Internet was mostly text, very low resolution, un credentialed, flaky, expensive, and too technical for most people.

The only reason that we can have such nice things today like retina display screens and live video and secure payment processing is because the original Internet provided enough value without these things.

In my first and maybe only ever comment on this website defending AI, I do believe that in 30 or 40 years we might see this first wave of generative AI in a similar way to the early Internet.
by FredPret | 2025-08-07 15:44:24+00:00
There's tons of good speculation. Speculators are not buying and selling land, or corn futures, or what have you.

They're trading risk.

Sell to a speculator and you turn an uncertain future into cash right now.

Buy from a speculator and you get to enter the market at the moment of your choice.

It unlocks specialization - house builders can focus on building houses, and corn farmers can focus on growing corn. As soon as they're done with a house / harvest, either a consumer or a speculator buys it and they can focus on producing the next house/crop. Without speculators, they'd have to not only do their value-add, they'd also have to predict the market and hope enough customers show up in future. With speculators, this is significantly mitigated.
by htrp | 2025-08-07 15:44:29+00:00
Relevant to this conversation

>So, I ask, why, exactly, is Cognition worth $10 billion? And why did it have to raise $300 million after raising “hundreds of millions” according to Bloomberg in March? Where is the money going? It doesn’t seem to have great revenue, Carl Brown of the Internet of Bugs revealed it faked the demo of “Devin the AI powered software developer” last year, and Devin doesn’t even rank on SWE-benchmark, the industry standard for model efficacy at coding tasks.

[1] https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/
by SkyPuncher | 2025-08-07 15:44:54+00:00
This isn't a bubble.

This is a small handful of companies absolutely dominating the bleeding edge in an extremely high value technology that has value in nearly every other market. There's a lot of misses with companies implementing LLMs, but there are a LOT of companies that are using LLMs to deliver massive value that was impossible 3 years ago.
Show HN: A news agent to easily follow anything you care about
by vincentyyy | 2025-08-07 15:44:57+00:00
Hi everyone, I built a news agent that helps you easily follow any topic. You just type in what you want to follow, AI keeps fetching the latest news for you every hour.

I built it because I often had to jump between tech news sites, LinkedIn, and sometimes X to stay updated. But they either require heavy filtering from me or distract me with something else.

How it works: - Ingests 2,000+ RSS feeds hourly (The Verge, NYT, Nature, IEEE, arXiv, etc.) - Creates embeddings for all articles using Voyage - Vector search matches your prompt against new content every hour - Delivers relevant articles

Would love to know what you think!
by timrogers | 2025-08-07 15:45:01+00:00
Tim from the GitHub Copilot coding agent product team here!

@artdigital is on the money here. Our quick tip for beginners is to use `copilot-instructions.md` (which we can now generate for you <3), but for more serious use, we'd strongly recommend adding `copilot-setup-steps.yml`.

That gets you a deterministic setup - and for many teams, it'll be easy, as you can just copy and paste from existing Actions workflows.
by ghaff | 2025-08-07 15:45:06+00:00
Very common in New England to have honesty system for various farm goods especially in exurban/rural locations. Often there are, stands that usually high school kids are looking after, but having just something with a payment box by the side of the road is pretty common. In fact, near where my brother has a house in Maine, there's a cheesecake store that doesn't routinely have someone there.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-07 15:45:13+00:00
There has been a big push by major AI companies to focus on "safety", which they understand to refer to the novel types of harm that a powerful AI model might cause.

It's true that some people are confident there's no such novelty, and it's impossible for an AI system to cause a problem which can't be analyzed within the frameworks we've developed for human misbehavior. Some of those people do say that if you don't agree with them it must be because of "eugenics". But both of these positions make so little sense to me that I'm not sure how to engage with them.
by Someone | 2025-08-07 15:45:14+00:00
> Right now we're like a village that lives by a river and has never reached the mouth talking about sailing across the ocean

And that’s an enormous understatement. Let’s say the villagers have travelled a meager 10 km of the river. Then, the ocean is, ballpark, at most 1,000 times as wide as the distance to the sea.

A thousand times the distance between earth and moon (the farthest humans have travelled) gets you, ballpark, to mars.

A lightyear is ~50,000 times the distance to mars or 50,000,000 times as far as humans have travelled. And yet, in interstellar travel, a lightyear gets you nowhere.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-08-07 15:45:14+00:00
Yes, read the quotes you took again. Attestation is not a thing currently. There is legitimate discussion about how to handle shitty password managers. If LastPass shits the bed again, it would be great to have a mechanism for others to block it or at least know that due to a major incident, keys from that tool are week. Debian OpenSSL keys were vulnerable for a long time and being able to know and alert or block private keys generated on a Debian machine is reasonable if not desirable. If KeepassXC is insecure or promote insecure practices who's fault is that and what do you suggest we do?

The entire issue is about doing the minimum possible of not exporting it in plaintext. Nothing is stopping you from decrypting it and posting it on your Twitter if you so wish. Just don't have the password manager encourage bad practices. How it that unreasonable?
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-07 15:45:15+00:00
That's exactly how it works. You accept the losses. Since the honesty box stores are very low volume and the box is emptied regularly you just accept that there will be losses but at least they'll be relatively small. The reason honesty boxes don't work in the city is that the equation leans to staffing being worthwhile to counter the losses.

I feel self-checkouts these days lean back towards the honesty box system but no one see's those as quaint at all :p
by esseph | 2025-08-07 15:45:20+00:00
If turbo Greed isn't a thing, why do the 830+ billionaires in the United States control more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population?

And, why did we just give them a YUGE tax break?

"Build more" is not an option, because the incentives don't align to solve the problem. The things getting built are built to capture margins and not to solve the housing problem.

Need regulation.
by mock-possum | 2025-08-07 15:45:23+00:00
Man it’s so awkward for me to hear about this stuff, when this hasn’t been my experience as a man at all.

I’ve always been a primarily homosocial guy, and I’ve never felt like I was lacking any of this stuff. Whether it’s someone to play videogames with, someone to cook dinner for, someone to cuddle with, someone to rant to, someone to debate or deliberate or just discuss - I’ve always had male friends close to me who care about me, who listen to me, and for whom I try my best to return the favour, when it comes around.

As a matter of fact I haven’t found my female friends to be any better at any of that than my male friends - and a couple of my best friends in particular are women.

Maybe I’m just lucky? Maybe other men are just doing it wrong?

I really do find the more I’ve grown up, the less I have any use or respect for all this traditional gender stuff. Why are we still pretending it’s valid? Why don’t we just grow out of it already?
Show HN: ApplicationFeedback – AI critiques top-tier accelerator applications
by amruth11 | 2025-08-07 15:45:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ApplicationFeedback (https://applicationfeedback.com/) to give founders instant, AI-generated critiques on accelerator applications. Every year I watch teams iterate endlessly on wording, only to get boilerplate feedback weeks later. I wanted something faster and harsher, like a partner who has read 1000 successful applications so founders can iterate faster.

How it works 1. Paste your draft (no login required). 2. Pick a template (accelerator, pitch deck, grant, cold email). 3. An AI model scores each key sections and offers rewrite suggestions. 4. Copy or download the revised text.

Looking for feedback on What parts of the feedback feel useful, and where does it miss the mark? Latency/UX annoyances? Would you trust AI for something as important as an accelerator app?

Drafts are processed in-memory, never stored, and the service is fully GDPR compliant. I’ll be in the thread all day brutal honesty welcome!
by csomar | 2025-08-07 15:45:28+00:00
The fix to all your city problems: Raises taxes on the greedy landowners who are sitting on empty lots and watch all your problems go away and your city boom with this one simple trick.

That's what happens when you have absolutely no ideas to innovate or bring new businesses. Or you ignore other realities, like Baltimore is a really dangerous city.

Cities are not revenue generators as some politicians or people assume. Cities capture and manage value created somewhere else. If there is no value to capture, the city die. People move on to other places to capture value and it is totally fine.
by dijit | 2025-08-07 15:45:29+00:00
I disagree wholeheartedly.

I spend a very disproportionate amount of my mental energy on my job, and I think earning a lot of money would not properly compensate for that. Energy is finite and life has a way of being just about as expensive as the money you have.

So, maybe it's fine that it will take me 30 years to earn what these people will in 2.
by grogenaut | 2025-08-07 15:45:46+00:00
I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is:

- Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working with docs or sheets - Gemini is worse than a Google search at helping me with sheet formulas

There's all these unique places in googles ecosystem I feel they could/should be excelling at AI at. They're not.

Hell I noticed yesterday searching for my remarkable preorder from years ago that you can't exact string search Gmail anymore. Searching for remarkable was pulling up "amazing". They're just degrading all of their products to stupidity at a time when I and AI can use more powertools