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by Bender | 2025-08-23 01:28:18+00:00
Regardless of the adoption rate of QUIC, TCP is going to stick around for many, many years.

I agree with this and would add that the HN crowd is very HTTP browser and API centric. There are hundreds of thousands of applications that will be using TCP and not be updated until the internet is shut off. This is especially true for B2B applications. Just getting them to update cipher protocols is like pulling teeth, each time. There are an amazing number of "business critical" applications that are running ancient libraries, protocols, etc...

TCP and UDP will never go away but browsers and some API libraries may stop using TCP. More likely additional Layer 7 protocols may get added to TCP and UDP and people will use what works best for their application needs.
Show HN: Open-Source OpenAPI Parsing, Arazzo and Overlay Support from Speakeasy
by indybonez | 2025-08-23 01:28:42+00:00
At Speakeasy, we spend a lot of time working with OpenAPI specs, and we kept running into the same issues: existing parsers are either too rigid, incomplete, or don’t provide the foundations needed to build tools on top of OpenAPI.

So we built our own: speakeasy-api/openapi.

This is a fully open-source library for parsing, validating, and working with OpenAPI specifications. It’s written in Go and designed to be the foundation for SDK generators, documentation tooling, API gateways, and any other infra that needs to deeply understand OpenAPI.

A few things we focused on: • Full Coverage: Handles the entire OpenAPI 3.1 spec (and 3.0.x). • Arazzo Support: Natively parses Arazzo, the new workflow-oriented extension for OpenAPI. • Overlays Support: First-class support for Overlays to make spec customization and composition easier. • Strict Validation: Ensures correctness so downstream tools don’t choke on edge cases. • Composable: Exposes a clean API for building higher-level tooling. • Performance: Optimized for speed and scale.

We open-sourced it because we think the community needs a solid foundation to innovate on top of OpenAPI, especially as the spec evolves with things like Arazzo and Overlays.

You can check out the code here: https://github.com/speakeasy-api/openapi And here’s more detail on the motivation and design in our blog post: https://www.speakeasy.com/blog/release-oss-openapi-library

Would love feedback, contributions, and to hear what you might build with it!
by qwery | 2025-08-23 01:29:09+00:00
Yeah, I think it's obviously a pretty natural conclusion to draw, that {thing for hinder crawler} ≅≅ {thing for stop all crawler}. Perhaps I should have stated that explicitly in the original comment.

As for the presentation/advertising, I didn't get into it because I don't hold a particularly strong opinion. Well, I do hold a particularly strong opinion, but not one that really distinguishes Anubis from any of the other things. I'm fully onboard with what you're saying -- I find this sort of software extremely hostile and the fact that so many people don't[0] reminds me that I'm not a people.

In my experience, this particular jump scare is about the same as any of the other services. The website is telling me that I'm not welcome for whatever arbitrary reason it is now, and everyone involved wants me to feel bad.

Actually there is one thing I like about the Anubis experience[1] compared to the other ones, it doesn't "Would you like to play a game?" me. As a robot I appreciate the bluntness, I guess.

(the games being: "click on this. now watch spinny. more. more. aw, you lose! try again?", and "wheel, traffic light, wildcard/indistinguishable"[2]).

[0] "just ignore it, that's what I do" they say. "Oh, I don't have a problem like that. Sucks to be you."

[1] yes, I'm talking upsides about the experience of getting **ed by it. I would ask how we got here but it's actually pretty easy to follow.

[2] GCHQ et al. should provide a meatspace operator verification service where they just dump CCTV clips and you have to "click on the squares that contain: UNATTENDED BAG". Call it "phonebooth, handbag, foreign agent".

(Apologies for all the weird tangents -- I'm just entertaining myself, I think I might be tired.)
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-23 01:29:37+00:00
That rant was long.

My take after having been in the Apple ecosystem for a while: it's perfect if you can throw money at any issues.

The author's issue with notes not exporting goes away if he had multiple Mac's and never cared to move away from the walled garden.

People pissed about gaming on the mac are IMHO in the same boat, the real answer is usually "buy a console or gaming PC", or in other words "throw money at it".

People wanting cellular on the mac solved the issue with money (either an iPhone or portable WiFi). People wanting the iPad to do more solved it with money (permanent server connection and/or Mac screen sharing).

For people who don't have money to throw around, that ecosystem will just be pain at all turns IMHO. (It might be well worth it, but you need to be willing to commit that money in the first place)
by K0balt | 2025-08-23 01:29:41+00:00
I’d love this to be true but the tech involved is Sci-fi level stuff. Neutron beams used to chop off atomically perfect slices of giant silicon crystals and wacky stuff like that.

TBF garage fabs -are- a thing but it’s in the hundreds of nanometers scale. Thin film technology is also promising for low tech tape outs, but neither of those is going to be practical for anything better than 1980/90s tech. A modern die would be in the square meters range on those process densities, and could never achieve ghz speeds.

That said, there are a ton of scrappy companies sending out designs to 30-100nm scale fabs, companies with 5-10 employees cranking out cool designs and custom silicon… but they are still sending their tape-outs to giant companies to fab, just on their old, obsolete machines.

Silicon foundries are incredibly capital intensive, and short SOTA process lifespans burn through that investment at a frantic pace.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-08-23 01:29:48+00:00
>> Are there any anti-AI religions yet?

No. The Butlerian Jihad (https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad) hasn't happened yet.

I would guess that something similar could exist in the Terminator / Skynet timeline, but I am not aware of the religious beliefs of the humans struggling there.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-08-23 01:30:13+00:00
> Is it impossible that humans could build a system to know what a whale wants, based on its vocalization, that does better than the typical whale?

The answer resides in the question. For a human to know what a whale wants is to have an understanding of what it is to be a whale, not deriving a Rosetta Stone[0] such that bidirectional vocalizations could be exchanged.

So is it possible to communicate with a whale? Sure.

But the infeasiblity of cross-species understanding is far more difficult than even what you identified above:

... despite having similar biology and wants, humans misunderstand others' intents and miss cues a lot.

Now add to all of this the fact that computer algorithms are just that, and not even having the shared commonality of being mammals, and the possibility of a machine understanding what a human wants is fantastical at best.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
by pottertheotter | 2025-08-23 01:30:54+00:00
I'm all for the government getting stakes in companies that it invests in (see below), but I find it really odd that we already awarded this money to Intel through the CHIPs Act and, instead of disbursing the funds as a grant, they converted it into a stock purchase. I don't like that they're not going along with the law, although that's par for the course.

On getting a stake, I find it odd that the right wing (or at least Trump?) is all for getting stakes in businesses, as that seems so counter-intuitive to what they're about. Personally, I think that if the government is putting billions into strategic industries, taxpayers should get a financial return, not just vague promises of jobs or “competitiveness.”
by thunky | 2025-08-23 01:31:13+00:00
> I am screaming: crash and burn baby! Crash and burn! Gimme those shares at 50% off yesterday's price.

Sure, but once you reach the point where you have a lot of money in the market you probably won't enjoy watching 50% of it disappear, even if it means your next auto investment is for a nice bargain price.

Also, when the stock market crashes usually bad things accompany it. Like a depressed economy and job losses.
by tw04 | 2025-08-23 01:31:23+00:00
You’re confusing why we have tariffs. They aren’t doing this to bring back manufacturing to the US, they are doing this to shift tax burden to the lower classes.

There’s a reason why even folks that were pro tariff for the purposes of bringing back jobs to the US were completely dumbfounded on the sweeping, untargeted tariffs that look like they were drawn up by a drunk monkey with a sharpie and a map of the world.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-23 01:31:24+00:00
For one thing fascism was always a failure mode of democratic societies while communism was a failure mode of feudal/agrarian/autocratic societies. Maybe the Communists could have won electorally in Germany in the 1920s but it wasn't close anywhere else.

Marx predicted that workers would rise up in factories and seize the means of production but realistically Communist took over backward countries, killed the landlords and starved the peasants to fund rapid industrialization and sorta succeeded at it.

Zohran Mamdani says he wants to have government run grocery stores but that's not seizing the means of production it's seizing the means of distribution. I want to say it's beyond the pale but I grew up in "live free or die" New Hampshire where the state owned the liquor stores and it didn't seem like dangerous communism but the people in tax-a-chusetts were always complaining that we sold cheap booze.
by DharmaPolice | 2025-08-23 01:32:01+00:00
Because Google provides (or used to provide) a fast consistent interface for a lot of basic queries. Sure, if I'm researching etymology in depth then I'll go to a specialist site, but 90%+ of the time I'm just double checking the definition of a word or something like that.

In general, internet browsing is biased towards sites that you're familiar with and can be reasonably sure aren't going to do something annoying (it used to be popup adverts and auto playing music, now days it's popups about newsletters / memberships or aggressive notifications about cookies / privacy notices.). This is particularly true if you ever spent time browsing in an open plan office or similar public place. There's also a cognitive load of interacting with a new interface which isn't something you want to deal with if you're midflow and want to check a word.

This is not to say that those sites you mentioned are guilty of bad practices, but the point is I'm not a regular enough user of them to have them on my mental "generally trust" list.
by DirkH | 2025-08-23 01:32:11+00:00
This is basically exactly the same kind of criticism the far-left throws at effective altruism (EA), except they call EA moronic hyper-capitalism that is too fixated on quantifying cause and effect with modern economic theories that it ignores the systemic injustices inherent within the systems it works within. As a consequence it is doomed from the onset and completely ineffective and is only counterproductive and any other conclusion is dumb.
by dev-ns8 | 2025-08-23 01:32:18+00:00
Who knows if this is the reason that Trump is putting in place this trade war and increasing tariffs, but this paper is a very interesting perspective on why someone in the position the US is in, in regards to the global economy is extremely thought provoking [1].

Seeing as how Trump appointed the author into his political circle though could be evidence this is the ultimate goal.

The paper is quite lengthy, however, in the beginning Stephen explains this idea of the Triffin Dilemma. A country that acts as the worlds reserve currency and thus creates enormous demand for their currency for things outside of goods are at a disadvantage that exasperate their trade deficit. This is implicit for a countries currency where most global trade is settled in their dollars, not to mention the benefits of holding the world reserve currency as a value store or investment.

I've wondered since the tarifs were announced how much impact they can actually have, but besides that point what is a reserve currency country to do? Give up their reserve currency status? There are significant downsides to that as well...

[1] https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-23 01:32:36+00:00
Just one instance.

https://fedscoop.com/problem-project-threatens-progress-soci...

> The program, called the Disability Case Processing System, or DCPS, was designed to improve case processing and enhance customer service. But six years and $288 million later the program has “delivered limited functionality and faced schedule delays as well as increasing stakeholder concerns

For the main system they're still using COBOL, which has no Date data type, causing issues even in 2025.
by asdefghyk | 2025-08-23 01:33:00+00:00
RE "... The YouTube link on the ad is from the Israeli ad agency...."

(MAYBE) The important question is , Is the information being shown CORRECT?

However I just look up definition of propaganda, and it includes phrases like "...information to present a particular viewpoint.." "...it can be correct information.." I always assume it was incorrect information. So yes the above youtube link would fit the definition of propaganda. However we do not know if it is TRUE or NOT

Even looking for other entities with same information is not good enough. In addition the world s media seems to copy information from each other.

That means most of the previous articles on this Gaza/Hamas/Israel situation would be propaganda. I've always noted the LACK of articles criticising Hamas or even mentioning Hamas role in the situation , recently and over the last 18 months too.

I realize both sides would be releasing propaganda.

Gaza journalists are said (propaganda?) to be controlled by Hamas otherwise they get threats of violence (bashings) or death from Hamas.

This all fits in with the statement/saying ....the first causality of war is truth.
by ivewonyoung | 2025-08-23 01:33:32+00:00
If it was a company it'd have failed already.

> The program, called the Disability Case Processing System, or DCPS, was designed to improve case processing and enhance customer service. But six years and $288 million later the program has “delivered limited functionality and faced schedule delays as well as increasing stakeholder concerns

https://fedscoop.com/problem-project-threatens-progress-soci...

And that's just one instance.

Can you imagine raising $288 million from VCs for a software application while delivering so little?

But taxpayer money? Free and easy money to keep wasting coz no one cares. Tragedy of the commons.

For the main system they're also using COBOL, which has no Date data type, causing issues even in 2025.
by MengerSponge | 2025-08-23 01:33:51+00:00
> It's determined by whether the models make accurate predictions.

And it's experts who speak the language well enough to understand what is being said. Fortunately, it's not a priesthood that is linked to your family or a caste or some wildly selective process. All you have to do is spend a few years studying (2-6 depending on the particularities). You can learn the language and basically that makes you an expert too.

What society do you live in where scientists' expertise is taken on face value and acted on without substantial pushback and criticism? I'd like to live there, maybe.

> means everyone has to suddenly turn their entire lives upside down

This happened. Starting over a century ago, and continuing ever since with increasing loudness, urgency, and accuracy. And yet. The US is making it harder to build solar and wind power.
by mancerayder | 2025-08-23 01:34:00+00:00
The French government owns stakes in big corporations. And why not, why wouldn't the public own some stake and government (us, in theory) have some control?

Airbus being an example.

Is it because Trump did it? If Biden had done it, the comments from the right would sound like the sarcasm in this message thread.

Trump's temporary, he's not taking his stake home when his term expires.
by shirro | 2025-08-23 01:34:32+00:00
Everything is turning to shit due to short term extraction of profit. An incredibly stupid and incompetent management class are burning companies for fuel. It's crazy. Creative working people are seeing their futures and works destroyed by insane people who seem to have no proper oversight from their shareholders. Management has become a cult run by dodgy preachers grifting their way to bigger bonuses. Where is the critical thinking?

Then there is the ridiculous non-productive speculation class looking to get rich off the misery of others, stealing their wealth whether it be AI, crypto, gambling, financial scams, investment scams. Its all dodgy as hell and shame on everyone who knows better for pumping that rubbish and defending it (sure to be a controversial take with the get-rich-quick techbro crowd)
by Cloudef | 2025-08-23 01:34:43+00:00
Article citing valorant as doing anti-cheat the best way is really baffling. Their anti-cheat practices are so invasive they might as well require you to play on a PC they own completely. They simply won't let you play if you have software or drivers installed they don't trust. One step further is to use TPM and secure boot to completely lock your PC to a trusted vendor installation aka iOS/Android walled garden for PCs.

But if "serious gamers" really want to go this far to prevent cheating (which will happen anyways as it's not a technical but social problem) then go ahead I guess.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-23 01:35:08+00:00
Title of the article itself seems to have changed to:

70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payments to avoid IT giants

I think it should be:

70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payments to avoid unnecessarily additional costs to customers

Or more inflammatorily:

70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payments to avoid unnecessarily parasitic middlemen
by antichronology | 2025-08-23 01:36:08+00:00
> finding sequences on NIH

Almost! Yes most of the data is on NIH sub-institutes. For us we take most of the data from NCBI and intelligently pair it together. The training objective of our model takes pairs of sequences (thus the Joint Embedding Architecture) and trains the model to recognize that they are semantically similar but differ in appearance. This is conceptually similar to a lot of the contrastive learning literature from computer vision.

Sounds like a fun side project :)

There are some great tools out there for putting together plasmids for gene therapies where you can plug in different "elements". Promoters UTRs payloads - check out SnapGene I believe they have a free version.

I personally am hopeful that the political headwinds will blow over. When it comes to cancer vaccines it's one of the most exciting new modalities for treating cancer.

1 in 2 Americans are going to get cancer in their lifetime so no matter political affiliation, the need for health will ultimately drive people to invest in the modality.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-23 01:37:46+00:00
No, it isn't the same thing. The softmax probabilities are estimates; they're part of the prediction. The other poster is talking about the uncertainty in these estimates, so the uncertainty in the softmax probabilities.

The softmax probabilities are usually not a very good indication of uncertainty, as the model is often overconfident due to neural collapse. The uncertainty in the softmax probabilities is a good indication though, and can be used to detect out-of-distribution entries or poor predictions.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-08-23 01:37:54+00:00
Awful rant of an article, but I will say… Apple had a really frustrating period for laptops for a while. It was so bad that, while I loved OSX, I bought a different laptop.

- the early butterfly keyboards were fragile, difficult to type with, and stuff got stuck in them

- USB-C only transition made me have to use adapters everywhere

- the touch bar (and software escape key) was atrocious

- the glass screens were too thin and could break easily

They’ve fixed most of those issues since, but man, for a few years they were awful machines.
by kalleboo | 2025-08-23 01:38:10+00:00
The typical driver who does something like 10 over everywhere is probably not the biggest safety hazard.

When I lived in a small town in Sweden, the problem was that at night some drivers would blow down the country roads and straight through the small towns at crazy speeds assuming that there was nobody around. On some nights/weekends there were also zero police on duty in the whole municipality, they would have to be called in from a neighboring, larger, municipality.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-23 01:38:50+00:00
Are Cornell still using fancy European "eco" glass? I wonder if "out-of-town glazers" mean that the glass supplier/architect was OCD about their glass getting manhandled by "outsiders". Tariffs were supposed to be the "simple" solution to fix this.

My erstwhile understanding of the earlier appeal of Marxism was that it was fully compatible with the Weberian work ethic-- right until someone found a way to work the famous laziness of the Russians into propaganda.

Now that you mention it. Simplicity can appeal to the elites as a standin for "marketability to the masses". Helps the Kessel Run. (Pincer)

(That Mormons are a significant deal in the USG hiring pipeline is not a symptom of right wing sophistication-- unless one is a conspiracy theorist)
by Spooky23 | 2025-08-23 01:41:20+00:00
I agree. I’m 6’4”, 255 lbs - framewise, I am a gorilla. I can’t even get an exit row seat as my son isn’t old enough to sit there.

It’s ridiculous that seating is so tight that there is no way for me to be comfortable for any significant flight and it’s miserable for anyone other than a child around me.

Whenever I can, I fly in a premium cabin. But if that’s not an option, I’d rather drive 7-10 hours than fly economy.