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by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-26 11:41:50+00:00
If the past few months have taught us anything, it's that Europe is so cowed and poorly-led that they'll knuckle-under and submit to whatever. In fact, if this is true, they probably won't even invest in local alternatives for fear of retaliation.

That said, the correct response would be to slowly and silently divest from US-based Big Tech, fork whatever can be forked, and invest heavily in local services and infrastructure.
by pasiaj | 2025-08-26 11:41:55+00:00
Past canaries of Apple's software downfall: Scripting and the new Notification Center.

The key thing to make macOS feel welcoming to everybody from noobs to the nerdiest of power users: Pretty much all functionality used to be accessible using an easy GUI, and keyboard shortcuts, and scripting and command line interface.

At some point Apple Script support started to thin out. I started to worry a bit at this point. Apps that power users care about rely on scripting support. I felt that advanced users have fallen outside the target audience of the product.

Then the new Notification Center came out. And suddenly there was no way of reacting to individual notifications from the keyboard. Two interfaces were no out! No keyboard shortcuts. No scriptability. You HAVE to use the mouse!

Core functionality was suddenly inaccessible using the PRIMARY input device!

How is it possible that the accessibility of such major OS functionality is this poor!

At this point I felt that it's not about target audiences, but about indifference. They don't much care.

Someone once said that monopolies are often never toppled - instead they just become irrelevant over time. This is what happened to Windows. The OS monopoly still exists, but it's no longer the center of anyone's attention.

The same seems to have happened to MacOS. It's as if it has become unimportant inside Apple.
by goku12 | 2025-08-26 11:41:58+00:00
> Tell that to all those assholes that are making malware and scamming society on billions.

And then? I don't know how many times I've downloaded APKs, including obviously malicious ones by accident. But not once has it ever been installed - not even when it was deliberate. The only way I ever 'sideloaded' anything is using 3rd party stores (just fdroid and aurora in my case), which themselves had to be installed via ADB after enabling developer mode. If you have that much skill, you're almost surely skilled enough to understand the security implications of sideloading and choose wisely.

And there are far worse malware available on play store than anything on fdroid repositories, if anything at all - anonymous or not. I hope you remember the SimpleMobileApps fiasco. People who installed it from fdroid were safe from the malicious update, but those who did it from play store were not, when the entire suite was turned into a spyware overnight. Not to mention the tea and boxscore apps scandal. Neither would have made it into fdroid. Google cares the least bit about security, if that isn't clear from the spyware tht each new android phone comes bundled with.

In all, Google's claim of security here is deceptive and farcical. The actual target is going to be the patched apps like revanced, root access software and anything else similar that allows the savvy user to escape the unfair and arbitrary limitations imposed by Google. The ultimate target is the users' pockets. This entire discussion is full of people reaffirming that conclusion. But scapegoats will be found and sacrificed regardless. Let's just not for once. Google deserves the atmost and undiluted contempt and condemnation for their greed and their willingness to erode consumer rights that underlie such dishonestly worded hostile and unilateral decisions.
by redbell | 2025-08-26 11:42:29+00:00
Oh, no! This is the least thing I expected to see as the #1 in Hacker News' front page!

This is a plot twist I never thought it would happen. While the EU [1], Japan [2] , UK [3] and Australia [4] are in the process of forcing Apple to allow sideloading and alternative App Stores, Google, which was far from these obligations, had taken a totally unexpected road to limit/control how sideloading should work.

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1.https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu/

2.https://www.phonearena.com/news/the-world-is-changing-japan-...

3.https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/uk-passes-bill-whic...

4.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/06/australia...
by carefulfungi | 2025-08-26 11:42:30+00:00
My opinion on this changed as we helped elderly parents with declining capabilities. The internet is an extremely dangerous place for those less cognitively able.

It is extremely hard to live without the internet - it's almost impossible - everything from your bank to your doctor to restaurants to the barber that wants to be paid by Venmo. Taking away your parent's internet connection is even harder than taking away their driver license. (And also more isolating.)

There is no law enforcement; there's no consequence for scammers; there's no technology stack that is safe for the less able. It's a brutal Wild West where the weakest are attacked without recourse, flooded with misinformation and lies, and targeted by significant financial scams.
by onion2k | 2025-08-26 11:42:32+00:00
Markdown UI is loading a bunch of components and then displaying them where you want them by parsing some Markdown to figure out where they go.

MDX goes a step further by enabling you to actually write the component JSX in the Markdown as if it's React (rather than using ``` syntax). You can just display a component that was loaded from somewhere else. Basically, if you took the Markdown UI components as React components, you could use the runtime embed option from here: https://mdxjs.com/guides/embed/
by hkpack | 2025-08-26 11:42:53+00:00
> but I also need to make a pumpkin pie so can you get me what I need for that

Have you actually baked a pumpkin pie? There are numerous versions, and the distinction between them is cultural. There is zero chance an AI will understand what kind of pumpkin pie you want, unless you are talking about the most general case in your region. In this case why even bother doing it yourself?

Yes, you can teach it the recipe beforehand, but I think it is too complex to tech the AI the details of every task you want it to perform. Most likely what will happen is AI will buy you whatever is more profitable for corporations to sell.

And there will be number of ways (and huge amount of money to make) to ensure that your open-weights self-hosted model will make the right choices for the shareholders as well.
by chrsw | 2025-08-26 11:43:04+00:00
I pulled up a podcast on YouTube the other week of just two people facing the camera and their faces side-by-side the screen. I had to just use audio only. I couldn't actually look at the video. The guest on the show was using some kind of AI filter for his video stream. I guess because he was on a low-quality phone camera, and he thought the filter would be better?? But the result was very disturbing. I almost barfed on my desk when his image came up.
by avhception | 2025-08-26 11:43:28+00:00
Some of the scars are so big, it's easy to miss the forest for the trees. A few years ago, I realized that the big cities of the Ruhrgebiet area were beautiful towns once, with amazing historic buildings. The hellscape of 60s and 70s buildings that dominates Cities like Bochum or Duisburg is a result of these cities being bombed into oblivion. It's all so very sad.
by brabel | 2025-08-26 11:43:29+00:00
I feel like there’s a cultural difference between people in this thread. I’ve lived and worked in 3 different countries and I can say that in one , you absolutely don’t need to tell anyone that it’s ok to break rules sometimes. They’ll do that without your advice, you can be sure of that! In others, only a small percentage of people will, specially when they are inexperienced and fear the consequences more than would be warranted in reality. Perhaps that’s the biggest culture difference I’ve noticed.
by jemiluv8 | 2025-08-26 11:44:12+00:00
This reads like a love letter to programming languages. You can never truly talk about the quirks of a language without dabbling in it. And without experience with other languages - I doubt some of these quirks might even be seen as such.

Error handling for instance has always been my pet peeve. With dynamic languages like python, errors were all "exceptions". But then golang came along and decided they'd be values and that only the truly exceptional errors should be "panicked". But the if err != nil syntax became super verbose only after I learned about the Result<Ok, Err> from Rust and the matching syntax associated with it.

A lot of people are shocked when they learn about ruby's monkey patching. I for one never truly groked the packaging of python applications until uv came along to deliver an experience similar to npm.

And I agree, Typescript is the state of the art as far as static typing on top of a dynamic language is concerned. But I never considered it a programming language. More like a tool to assist developers write/manage large javascript code.

In the end, I think the true reason for returning to pythong probably had more to do with getting a python gig. I live in the part of the world where my tech stack ended up being influenced early on by the places I worked. I didn't mind learning Typescript for my first gig or improving my skills with nodejs.

In the end, every language can really get things done. And Typescript helps me pay my bills and I couldn't be more grateful. Learn to love the quirks of your language and stop comparing it unfavorably with others. To date, I've never seen a language as elegant as ruby. Nor do I find an ecosystem better than python's at data science.
by rkendel | 2025-08-26 11:44:22+00:00
Most of us have a pile of half-baked ideas sitting in notes, whiteboards, or Notion docs. The problem isn’t coming up with them — it’s knowing which ones are worth chasing (and which ones will just eat your time).

I built ID8 as a scratchpad that doesn’t just store ideas — it helps you kill the bad ones early.

Here’s how it works:

• Bring your own idea (or let it generate some for you)

• Ideas go through a simple lifecycle: Suggested → Deep Dive → Iterating → Considering → Building/Launching

• Along the way you get AI-assisted validation (market signals, customer insights, defensibility checks)

• You keep a record of your thinking and the “why” behind each decision

• If something actually is worth building, you end up with pitch-ready docs and traction notes instead of scattered scraps

The goal: make research and validation as addictive as idea-generation, so you spend less time building stuff nobody wants.

Would love feedback from other hackers: • Would you use this to pressure-test your own ideas?

• Do you see it more as a solo tool, or something to use with a team?

• What would make this scratchpad the default place you put your next idea?

No GitHub signup (it’s broken) — just a simple email login and chrome
by tuhriel | 2025-08-26 11:44:29+00:00
Funnily enough, there is also the exact opposite discurse in the US regarding firearms; where one side says: that firearms need to somehow be restricted and and it needs more checks to buy a gun. But then the Industry tells the story that in that case only the 'good guys' get restricted, since the 'bad guys' don't really follow the law anyways.

Where with Anti-cheat and DRM only the 'good guys' get hit, since the 'bad guys' don't follow "the law" anyways.
by atonse | 2025-08-26 11:44:36+00:00
When netbooks ($400 notebooks) were all the rage, Steve Jobs was asked why Apple didn’t make one. And he said they didn’t know how to make a cheap laptop that didn’t suck.

And he was right. Netbooks mostly sucked. Same with Chromebooks.

There’s nothing to be gained by racing to the bottom.

You can buy an m1 laptop for $599 at Walmart. That’s an amazing deal.
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-08-26 11:45:19+00:00
I think that the answer are vendor-independent standards.

The main issue being solved here is that security relies heavily on those actors like Google and Apple. Banks, companies etc. have high security requirements (rightly so) and basically need to tick boxes. So if the only way to obtain, say, MFA, is through something only Goole/Apple provides, they will require Google or Apple devices.

If we had reasonable standards alternatives can become a reality.
by jamesvl | 2025-08-26 11:45:33+00:00
Have you taken a look at https://www.cctvcamerapros.com/ ?

It will cost a little more than the cheap ones on Amazon, but you get fully locally-hosted setup and their camera controller is running linux. You can swap in your own hard-drive for storing recordings. No subscriptions, and setup is pretty easy. Their technical support is top-notch - it's a small company and their engineers know the equipment well. No relationship, but I a customer.
by rkendel | 2025-08-26 11:46:00+00:00
This isn’t another “AI builds your startup for you” tool. It’s more of a scratchpad + validation layer. The goal is to kill bad ideas early and capture the reasoning behind your decisions, so you don’t waste time building something nobody wants.

A few notes up front: You can bring your own idea or have it generate ideas, but the point is validating, not spamming. The AI helps with research (market, customers, defensibility), but it doesn’t replace thinking — it’s more like a co-pilot. No GitHub login (broken right now) — just email/google signup. It’s early — so I’m looking for feedback on whether this is useful to you as indie hackers/founders.

Curious if you’d actually use this as your first stop for new ideas, or if it feels like overkill.
by sxzygz | 2025-08-26 11:46:14+00:00
You should know the sine and cosine for, say, 30 degrees. Say you’re rotating about the y-axis then you’ll rotate the xz-plane. Take the point (1,0,0). This is in the xz-plane (when y=0). Rotate it by 30 degrees about the y-axis. Where should it go? Draw the picture! Do the calculation with the matrix formula you are given, do they agree? Do this for different axes, different angle values, and different points. Eventually you will understand.

Hint: the standard way of drawing a normal graph has the x-axis positive to the right and the y-axis positive up. The right-handed coordinate system has the z-axis pointing out of the paper. This is where your fingers curl from x to y. In this coordinate system, looking down from the positive y-axis into the xz-plane, which direction does going from x to z curl around the y-axis? Is it right-handed or is it left-handed?

Good luck, keep at it!
by akimbostrawman | 2025-08-26 11:47:06+00:00
>They weren't afraid to show emotion or show that they really cared about the result. They were chalant.

I think in general people fear to be genuine about things they care about because the internet put a spotlight with the potential for ridicule on a scale never seen before on them. That is why young people seem so into self depreciation, can't be put down if you are there from the get go "it might be cringe but so am i" and "I like it ironically".
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-26 11:47:47+00:00
> For water specifically - it is generally speaking the most valuable resource available, we just don't appreciate it because we happen to have a lot of it.

And for water specifically, the second order effects from "water saving" programs can be actually negative. Not enough water means that sewers don't work properly any more, leading from events of stink to helping fatbergs grow [1].

To make it worse, the "obvious" idea of scaling down sewer mains doesn't work either because the sewers are (at least in Europe) also used as storm drains, so if you'd scale down the sewers you'd get streets flooded.

[1] https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/blockierte-kanalisation-die-...
by latentsea | 2025-08-26 11:48:01+00:00
Yeah, I can see how that would feel jarring. Music discovery is supposed to feel like serendipity—stumbling across a track you didn’t know you needed—so when AI-generated filler creeps into that space, it can cheapen the experience.

Spotify hasn’t officially said they’re flooding “Discover Weekly” with AI songs, but there’s definitely been a surge of AI-produced music uploaded to streaming platforms in the past year. Since Spotify’s algorithms don’t always distinguish between human and synthetic content, it can end up mixing both in your recommendations. That’s especially noticeable in genres where production is relatively easy for AI to mimic (ambient, lo-fi, EDM, generic pop).

I think the larger unease you’re feeling—AI creeping into places where you expected human curation or artistry—is being shared by a lot of listeners. There’s a debate brewing about whether platforms should label AI music clearly, or even let users opt out of algorithmic recommendations that include it.

Do you want me to check what tools or tricks people are using to filter out AI-generated songs on Spotify (or elsewhere), so you can get back to the human-made discovery experience?

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself with this one. I'll see myself out now.)
by outime | 2025-08-26 11:48:16+00:00
The latest RPi prices were outrageous when I checked, so I started looking for alternatives. I ended up getting a pretty nice N100 with much more RAM, an actual SSD, and more - all for just a bit more money. It’s been performing really well, and I also use it for Jellyfin among other things. I couldn’t recommend the setup more.
by friedchips | 2025-08-26 11:51:32+00:00
I'm not involved in this project, but I partially replicated the results from Mordvintsev et al. a few years ago because I found the idea interesting. The key idea for me was learning the possibly unknown rules of a CA from training examples. This sounded to me like something that could be useful in science, to learn about spatially distributed processes. Or in ML as a new idea for image classification or segmentation. The hope was always that a CA could be learned which would have a simple discrete representation which could then be used in inference with much lower computational needs than a full neural net. But unfortunately we never managed to succeed here, and I have the impression that this area is not as active anymore as it was some years ago.

I suppose the idea of this project is the same: show the correspondence between both in order to understand them better.

Anyway, some interesting papers from back then:

Cellular automata as convolutional neural networks: http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02942

Image segmentation via Cellular Automata: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04965

It's Hard for Neural Networks To Learn the Game of Life: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01398
by jemiluv8 | 2025-08-26 11:51:49+00:00
Typescript is not suitable for all applications. I also transitioned to Typescript from python some years ago and the extra information about "intent" provided by types made a world of difference to me when reading code written by other people. Type information is so valuable in a team of 3+ developers and when a rest api has at least 5+ resources. If your application or team size are any less, the benefits of typescript might not be obvious. I think that could be what you're experiencing.

In a team, it is just so much easier to come across a "typed" function as opposed to an untyped one. You need to read the entire function to know what it is about.
by rsynnott | 2025-08-26 11:51:55+00:00
> I imagine that mainstream assistant chatbots doing this is a brief occurrence. The next generations of AI systems will be trained to be better about not affirming psychotic users.

OpenAI attempted to nuke their overly-agreeable LLM (GPT-4o). After user outcry they brought it back. I wouldn't be too sure that companies will do the responsible thing here; there's a pretty ugly history of companies who sell to addicts deliberately making their products more addictive and appealing to said addicts (the tobacco industry is particularly notorious for this).

Like, one view would be that LLM 'companions' and 'therapists' are inherently harmful, or at least so likely to be net-harmful that making them available would be unjustifiable. But that's certainly not the view that the vendors are taking.

> It has no long term plans - it just wants the user to like it.

To be clear, it doesn't 'want' anything.
by bluGill | 2025-08-26 11:52:08+00:00
That is about right. The backlog is what makes money in general.

You want the top 5% not working on the backlog because that means if something urgent comes up you don't feel bad about asking them to switch tasks. If a junior needs help they are not interupting anything imbortant to ask. and it means you are making the 5-10% your leads and thus growing them into future top 5%.

that the top 5% often discover things that make money you didn't expect is a bonus.
by Ciantic | 2025-08-26 11:52:09+00:00
> "GNU/Linux" touch version that has a serious ecosystem

That is a very hard problem, unless someone with serious name recognition like Linus Torvalds starts to lead that kind of effort, or a big company like Microsoft suddenly decides that putting 1 billion towards GNU/Linux would be in their interest. With small efforts, it will remain scattered.

Crowdfunding has a lot of power if there is name recognition behind the effort. Star Citizen has already gathered $800 million with mostly enthusiasm and a good start. Who is there to lead the effort for GNU/Linux phone development?
by lelanthran | 2025-08-26 11:52:21+00:00
> but there is also the entirely valid argument that you shouldn't be able to arbitrarily modify your car (e.g. replace the breaks with some home-grown solution), as it can put yourself and others in danger,

That is a nonsensical argument.

"You shouldn't be able to put anyone else in danger" - agreed.

"You shouldn't be able to modify your car" - wtf does that have to do with danger?

"Modifying brakes (not breaks)" is not the same thing as "Putting people in danger". Sometimes we modify them to have better braking than the standard.

What countries actually do is test the end-result, i.e. Does the car conform to the legally mandated required braking performance?

Rather than campaign to stop people from owning property anymore, maybe just enforce the existing laws (which, as far as I know, are enforced already anyway).

This campaign to divide people into an owning class and a servile class is pretty damn repugnant, and "Because someone can be harmed if we allow people to own things" is just the new "But think of the children" nonsense.
by pm215 | 2025-08-26 11:53:00+00:00
I think that falls into the "did not correctly assess the risk beforehand" bucket (and as you say and as the post I was replying to said, this is quite common). If they had correctly assessed "this is going to be really awful if it happens such that want to rule out even an unlikely possibility of it" they ought to not want to do it the first time.
by Jedd | 2025-08-26 11:53:02+00:00
> Paul would need to make all the other 12 apostles buy into the story and start spreading it.

I'm not sure that follows.

What works do you believe that we have from these 12 people - and how would you evaluate the relative credibility of them and Paul / Saul?

As I understand it, Paul conceded he got all his information <sic> about Jesus from revelation, and there's a compelling argument to be made that his works all describe a different entity (a supernatural one) than the human-like character described elsewhere, and much later, in the NT.