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by esseph | 2025-08-06 06:31:35+00:00
You're very out of date.

First, you don't need AI operators, you just need a swarm. The operators are reusable!

>Ukraine reported the largest single-day drone attack by Russia on July 9, 2025, where Russia targeted Ukraine with a record 728 drones. This surpasses earlier attacks, including one on May 26, 2025, when Russia launched 355 drones.

With that many pilots, that is a swarm.

Next, analysis of last months AI driven attack was performed by many drones with no human terminal guidance - they were jammed and expected to be!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/ukraine-russia...

>“Our models are being trained to recognise targets to understand target prioritisation,” he says. “We do not have full autonomy yet. We use the human factor where we need to, but we are developing different scenarios for taking autonomy further.

> “We are also testing some autonomous drones, which we have not announced and are probably not planning to announce, but they have a high degree of autonomy, and they can potentially combine themselves into swarms. We are still facing technical problems and hurdles, but we already see a path forward on this.”

One Final Note - Most of the info you ever hear about military tech is only the things people are allowed to discuss publicly. The battlefield is also a hell of a lab, and 3d printers and open source flight software (and open source AI models) are amazing.
by disillusioned | 2025-08-06 06:31:57+00:00
Or just extend the logic to materiel instead of personnel, like Ukraine did with the airbase attacks earlier this year: for the price of a few dozen < $1k drones, you can eliminate $50M-$150M+ aircraft? The asymmetry is insane.

There's also nothing that practically stops those same tactics from being aimed at other soft infrastructure targets: electrical substations, telco facilities, water treatment facilities... the nightmare scenario is taking down transmission lines and switching stations outside, say, a large nuclear power plant during a heat wave. The nuke itself is hardened, obviously, but who cares if it can't transmit the power it's generating to the people that need it?
by apparent | 2025-08-06 06:32:06+00:00
Yeah, the trouble is making it look different — at a glance — from so many other things that would look roughly similar. A chip on a board could be CPU, GPU, or RAM, right?

I get wanting to move away from the spinning drive look, but it's kind of weird that they've replaced it with what looks to me like an external drive (but also looks like the power brick for the AVP, or battery pack.

Can anyone explain what the three little holes and one big one are supposed to represent?
by izabera | 2025-08-06 06:32:12+00:00
I post a lot of silly personal code on GitHub and the vast majority of issues/pull requests I receive are completely inane and generally not remotely helpful. Things ranging from "I've added a subtle shadow effect to the title in the readme" (thought it was someone's first pr just to get started but that wasn't even the case) to "I've added support for $obscure_system_youve_never_heard_of" (well meaning but the code is now 4x longer and a maze of ifdefs so maybe you should just keep it in your branch?) to "I tried this on my extremely outdated system that's old enough to vote and it threw an error" (yes it very much will throw an error, none of this can work there and I cannot help you).

But a few people have reported certain fundamental problems with my approaches or have otherwise put in a significant amount of work to debug and fix issues, and they've been extremely helpful and I can only hope I'll get more of them in the future.
by rafael123 | 2025-08-06 06:32:13+00:00
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by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-06 06:33:13+00:00
Seeking eminence costs more than making breakthroughs.

How else are you going to pay for lack of breakthroughs?

Some people aren't going to be capable of breakthroughs anyway, lots of them even know it from the beginning, so they naturally or intentionally seek different things using the same institutions and resources that could otherwise yield breakthroughs instead.

Edit: As a footnote suggested by my own question, you pay for lack of breakthroughs by building eminence out of thin air, if it wasn't obvious.
by nivertech | 2025-08-06 06:33:34+00:00
I don't understand why this headless browser should be in Elixir and why it should communicate via disterl/BERT? Although disterl is native to Erlang/OTP/BEAM VM, it should be implemented in native rendering engines.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer writing in Elixir to JS/TS or native (Swift/Kotlin etc.)

> to build truly native SSR applications

Why do you still call it SSR if it is rendered on the client device?

Is there a long-form article about this project, preferably with visuals/diagrams?
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-08-06 06:34:30+00:00
The US military had almost exclusively considered drones as expensive systems like the Predator used for standoff ground fire support much like an attack helicopter, or for use in counterinsurgency like the Switchblade

But in their defense, they never anticipated having to fight a near peer adversary on land to the extent Ukraine has. But I would argue no one really saw this coming to this degree. The Bayraktar for instance, was much along the lines of US drone philosophy, costing several million a piece, The drones used in the Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict were mostly used along that philosophy as well
by frabcus | 2025-08-06 06:35:58+00:00
Firstly it can render environments in detail. I'm (mostly) aphantasic even in dreams, so this wasn't obvious to me. But most people literally get visual renderings in their mind.

Secondly, it's fairly clear now that our sensory inputs are not being experienced as sensory inputs. We experience a reconstruction. Obvious basic sign of this is that we fill in the gap in vision where the optic nerve is. But generally, we're making an integrated world model all the time out of the senses, and are conscious of that world model.

You're right though, both the above are rendering the experience and can take shortcuts for that. It's sufficiently detailed in each case though that it kinda is rendering the world too, in some sense.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-08-06 06:36:45+00:00
The issue is not companies but governance. OSS licenses and companies are fine. Companies have a natural conflict of interest that can lead them to take software projects they control in a direction that suits their revenue goals but not necessarily the needs/wants of its users. That happens over and over again. It's their nature. This can means changes in direction/focus or worst case license changes that limit what you can do.

The solution is having proper governance for OSS projects that matter with independent organizations made up of developers, companies, and users taking care of the governance. A lot of projects that have that have last for decades and will likely survive for decades more.

And part of that solution is to also steer clear of projects without that. I've been burned a couple of times now getting stuck with OSS components where the license was changed and the companies behind it had their little IPOs and started serving share holders instead of users (elastic, redis, mongo, etc). I only briefly used Mongo and I got a whiff of where things were going and just cut loose from it. With Elastic the license shenenigans started shortly after their IPO and things have been very disruptive to the community (with half using Opensearch now). With Redis I planned the switch to Valkey the second it was announced. Clear cut case of cutting loose. Valkey looks like it has proper governance. Redis never had that.

Ollama seems relatively OK by this benchmark. The software (ollama server) is MIT licensed and there appears to be no contributor license agreement in place. But it's a small group of people that do most of the coding and they all work for the same vc funded company behind ollama. That's not proper governance. They could fail. They could relicense. They could decide that they don't like open source after all. Etc. Worth considering before you bet your company on making this a foundational piece of your tech stack.
by bell-cot | 2025-08-06 06:37:20+00:00
No - I am saying that the original complaints against the man are clueless, gentrified hypocrisy.

It's like chasing homeless beggars out of a shrine dedicated to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Joseph_Labre - the patron saint of homeless beggars - while claiming that you are defending the holy dignity of the saint.
by jalapenos | 2025-08-06 06:37:21+00:00
This position is grotesquely immoral.

The attitude that you have no responsibility at all for confirming the safety yourself, simply because a salesman says it's safe, despite clear existing public evidence they could have easily discovered that it's not, is collaboration in evil.

It's always easy and comfortable to falsely deal in absolutes, black and white, that one guy is the bad one and the other voluntary participants were the "victims". 100% vs 0%. But doing so is what lets people get away with aiding and abetting wrongdoing.

That "child" was a 19 year old university student, which is beyond draft age. He made his choice. Not that that exculpates the role of his mother in his death.

This position is disrespectful of everyone who doesn't make such reckless, and mostly showing off driven, risks.
by sebtron | 2025-08-06 06:38:10+00:00
Python is a very bad example because of the incompatibility between Python 2 and Python 3. All my pre-2012 Python code is now legacy because of this, and since most of it is not worth updating I will only be able to run it as long as there are Python 2 interpreters around.

I like Python as a language, but I would not use it for something that I want to be around 20+ years from now, unless I am ok doing the necessary maintenance work.
by throwup238 | 2025-08-06 06:40:45+00:00
> How come we aren't like chimps, with eternally shredded bodies and cheese grater abs, provided we get the protein to support them?

There are several reasons: Chimps have a higher density of testosterone receptors with a higher sensitivity than humans. Compared to humans, they are essentially roided out all the time.

Humans are also hairless endurance hunters so we naturally have much larger fat reserves (15-25% of body weight vs <10% for chimps) in order to retain body heat and have enough energy to hunt prey till they collapse from exhaustion.
by energy123 | 2025-08-06 06:42:04+00:00
Strategic depth is a factor. In the Israel/Iran war, Iran's Shahed drones weren't useful due to the large distance. They could be shot down at a leisurely pace. If Iran was fighting a nearby country like Iraq, it would be a very different story. On the other hand, Israel made use of surveillance drones inside Iran, but only due to methods employed to shrink the strategic depth, either by smuggling them into Iran, or doing a clandestine launch from allies like Azerbaijan. But obviously, such tactics are not durable in a war of attrition, and they're not applicable to high-volume Shahed-like suicide attacks.

In the Pacific theatre, Taiwan is very close to China, so possibly, attack drones will be useful similar to the Ukraine/Russia war.

There are also many different types of drones being employed. The short-range small quadcopters, all the way up to large Predator drones. Shaheds are kind of in the middle in terms of size. The boundary can be blurred too between loitering munitions (Switchblade) and drones.

For the suicide quadcopter drones, there is a realization that Skynet is the next step in the arms race. Full edge autonomy over the kill chain. No need for data link (susceptible to electronic warfare) or trained pilots or added round-trip latency.

Anti-drone tech is also changing. Interceptor drones, net-dropping drones, ground-based laser, electronic warfare, and small guided ground- or air-launched interceptors.

Also have to consider the combined arms picture, none of this can be reasoned about in a vacuum.

But I suppose my main takeaway is - no two theatres are the same, AND there is a diversity in drones. So to collectivize a takeaway around "drones" would be a reasoning error.

One thing will be certain when it comes to wars between nearby countries. You need to knock out the enemy's industrial production quickly with bombers. Or have your own industrial production that can maintain pacing and avoid culmination in a war of attrition.
by dmurray | 2025-08-06 06:42:34+00:00
American military doctrine seems to include the assumption that you will always have the manufacturing capacity and the supply lines to get all the materiel you need to the front, that you'll be bottlenecked by something else like manpower.

This works pretty well for fighting limited wars where part of the justification is to develop and maintain military readiness. Would it still be true in a large scale war against China - could you pump out a million drones a day - or would you wish for a doctrine that included reusable drones?
by moffkalast | 2025-08-06 06:42:46+00:00
Hmm that actually seems extremely slow, Piper can crank out a sentence almost instantly on a Pi 4 which is a like a sloth compared to that Ryzen and the speech quality seems about the same at first glance.

I suppose it would make sense if you want to include it on top of an LLM that's already occupying most of a GPU and this could run in the limited VRAM that's left.
by brabel | 2025-08-06 06:43:05+00:00
The guy was probably upset that someone might be trying to compete with them while their compiler is itself open source. But it still sucks that they couldn’t be more subtle about it. In the end both they and you got upset. A small change in his tone and you might both come off with a nice feeling, him for knowing you were just playing around, and you for perhaps getting recognition from a Kotlin dev.
by King-Aaron | 2025-08-06 06:43:13+00:00
> Stop painting people as idiots

1/3 of the voting population elected a known criminal, known sex predator, suspected child rapist, and known economically illiterate imbecile. The information may be hostile but it was widely and easily available.

At least 1/3 of the US voting population are idiots. Obviously there is a subset of that voting base that made an intelligent decision knowingly and complicitly elected Trump despite the extremely serious red flags, but I would still consider them to be idiots.
by ajuc | 2025-08-06 06:43:14+00:00
I also noticed this part of the article but for the oposite reason (I think 10-20 years is overly optimistic). I've written a small 2d game for Linux back in 00s. Using C++, SDL and a few other libraries (for example now-abandoned libparagui for GUI).

Any time I tried to run it afterwards - I had to recompile it, and a few times I had to basically port it (because libparagui got abandoned and some stuff in libc changed so I couldn't just compile the old libparagui version with the new libc).

It's surprisingly hard to make linux binaries that will work even 5 years from now, never mind 10-20 years from now.

For comparison I still have games I've written for DOS and windows in 90s and the binaries still work (OK - I had to apply a patch for Turbo Pascal 7 200 MHz bug).

The assumptions around linux software is that it will be maintained by infinite number of free programmers so you can change anything and people will sort it out.
by haganomy | 2025-08-06 06:43:25+00:00
So now programmers add value when they write more code faster? Curious how this was anathema but now is a clear evidence of LLM-driven coding superiority.

The math that isn't mathing is even more basic tho. This is a Concorde situation all over again. Yes, supersonic passenger jets would be amazing. And they did reach production. But the economics were not there.

Yeah, using GPU farms delivers some conveniences that are real. But after 1.6 trillion dollars it's not clear at all that they are a net gain.
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 06:43:57+00:00
> However, it's often several hours.

How, exactly, does 30 minutes of travel often become several hours? Are you stopping for dinner and some shopping along the way?

> You can relax when you are on the train and 30 minutes of driving often ends up being 45+ minutes once you factor in finding parking.

A typically average time to get to train station is around 10 minutes. Another 5 minutes waiting on and boarding the train, especially during off-peak hours when the entertainment you spoke of is most likely to happen. 10 minutes more to arrive at your destination after getting off the train. That is 25 minutes right there. So you are imagining just 5 minutes spent on the train?

Ignoring that you don't necessarily have to drive, 5 minutes of relaxation (let's say 10 minutes; you need to get home too) every once in a while when you occasionally take in a professional sports game or big name concert is what you consider a difference? If you really want to get into such fine grain details, where do we even begin? You are going to gain those 10 minutes of relaxation back in the rural area when you step out into your backyard instead of having to go all the way to the park. Realistically, once something takes place outside of the home, there is no difference.

Yeah, sure, certain situations could see that 25 minutes reduced, but there are also rural areas much closer to the city that can also see that travel time reduced. 30 minutes of travel away from the city can take you a surprisingly significant distance! The earlier comment wasn't trying to find a place of perfect optimization, rather some kind of reasonably average scenario.
by dash2 | 2025-08-06 06:44:32+00:00
I wonder if the gap between perception and reality, from that recent study, is because AIs are still so slow? The modern equivalent of https://xkcd.com/303/ might be "Waiting for the agent to complete!" So then you know you're more productive (and can spend more ten minute chunks of time reading HN) but your boss doesn't see it....
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-06 06:46:46+00:00
> while the money is in a liability account, I’ve seen companies in trouble not actually have the funds to cover the liability.

That's a weird edge case. As long as the company is operating, it isn't even possible for it to be unable to cover the liability of outstanding gift cards no matter how many there are. It has to honor the cards, but it has total freedom to set its own prices!

Given that the company is free to pay off the cards in kind while it's operating, it's not obvious why it should have to pay them off in cash as it ceases operating.
by decide1000 | 2025-08-06 06:46:59+00:00
The model is good and runs fine but if you want to be blown away again try Qwen3-30A-A3B-2507. It's 6gb bigger but the response is comparable or better and much faster to run. Gpt-oss-20B gives me 6 tok/sec while Qwen3 gives me 37 tok/sec. Qwen3 is not a reasoning model tho.
by astrange | 2025-08-06 06:49:06+00:00
> If you've ever been burned by Verilog's "works in sim, breaks in synthesis" gotchas

This is LLM phrasing. It's trying to be witty and relatable about an experience basically no person has ever had - or at least, those people being hardware engineers, they usually don't try to be witty and relatable in forum comments.

I don't know though, the comment as a whole doesn't feel AI-generated, but maybe AI-assisted.
by Sloowms | 2025-08-06 06:49:19+00:00
It's probably hard to prove with something from 1981 but no license or copyright doesn't mean the source is open for taking. It basically means you just haven't set a license and could do that at any time, rugpulling the code from anyone who uses it. This is why projects like Fedora and Debian make sure everything they ship has a license.
by esseph | 2025-08-06 06:51:43+00:00
I've been trying to judge this impact on doctrine and procurement but these things are hard to judge when it's happening. Hindsight is cheating ;)

It's huge, though. Many tiers of equipment, doctrine, vehicles, product time to market improvements, RF equipment, radars, stealth tech, software, battle drills, and even new job specializations of various levels. It's intense, and a constant iteration cycle at a pace we haven't seen for at least a long time, but possibly forever.
by elevation | 2025-08-06 06:53:22+00:00
Hamas is massively outgunned, so they hide behind whatever makes Israel look worst when Israel attacks. (Hospitals, adolescent combatants, medic uniforms, journalistic ID) So whenever Israel wins a tactical victory, they lose in the media. Hamas' play is to build public sentiments against Israel into international sanctions.

But the pattern I'm seeing in the events you list is par for the course in a war: Israel is targeting Hamas' infrastructure, supply chains, transportation, facilities, and combatants (even Hamas-coerced adolescent combatants.) The optics are terrible, but the pattern is tactical, not genocidal.

Also, the accusations of genocidal political speech have been refuted in detail [0]. TL;DR: BBC/NPR misquoted/elided two politicians (their initial report really was genocidal sounding, it just wasn't what the politicians said) and Netanyahu quoted a different verse in hebrew than people initially accused him of quoting.

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/is...
by astrange | 2025-08-06 06:53:24+00:00
> Like, I figured we were just never going to solve it, given the two possibilities were "radically re-engineer US culture such that moving to the US doesn't make previously-skinny people fatter" (with other countries heading the same direction as us needing to make similar moves, one supposes)

Moving to higher elevations in the US causes people to become less fat, so you can do this by moving to Colorado.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
by mcv | 2025-08-06 06:53:43+00:00
> And my bank, my countries' largest, one year ago dropped NFC in favour of Google Pay.

Dutch banks used to have a great system for contactless payment through your banking app. Worked perfectly. Last year, it seems they all abandoned it in favour of Google Wallet. I don't understand this move. Why outsource this to US tech giants when we had a perfect system already in place?

I think regulation that requires banks to keep their payment infrastructure in the EU and out of the hands of advertising companies would be a really good idea.
by amichayg | 2025-08-06 06:54:04+00:00
The core value of LLMs is simple: sometimes you need to write code, but what you really want is to design, experiment, or just get something usable.

Even when you do write code, you often only care about specific aspects—you just want to automate the rest.

This is hard to reconcile with modern business models. If you tell someone that a software engineer can also design, they’ll just fire the designer and pile more work on the engineer. But it doesn’t change the underlying truth: a single engineer who can touch many parts of the software with low cognitive friction is simply a better kind of engineer.