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by StableAlkyne | 2025-08-20 06:16:21+00:00
Fountains also feel incredibly good to write with once you find the right nib + pen + ink combo you prefer.

Deliberate practice is the #1 way to get better at most skills, and making the activity feel good will encourage that: if it feels good to write, you'll probably be more deliberate when doing it and really think about the strokes you're making.

Then you have a few "oh hey, if I do this with this part of the letter it looks really nice" moments, and people start commenting on the quality of your handwriting
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-20 06:18:17+00:00
> This is why many assumptions about the future are simply incorrect. For instance people think humanity will become more secular because it has through most of our lifetimes so surely that trend must continue on into the future? But secularity is inversely correlated with fertility.

And has been for the many generations over which humanity has gotten more secular.

> So all that we're going to see happen is secular folks disproportionately remove themselves from the gene pool while religious folks take an ever larger share - now think about what the children of this new gene pool will, on average, be like.

But for generations that hasn’t been what has happened, despite the correlation between religiosity and fertility not being a novel thing that developed this century? Why could that be? Because religion isn't a genetic trait. Fertility of populations and popularity of ideas and practices have some interaction, sure, but not in the simplistic “spread of a genetic lineage determines spread of culture and ideology” way you are trying to push here.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-20 06:18:43+00:00
Largely by a mixture of hypocrisy and commercialism. Catholicism has struggled mightily with this issue throughout its history, and is a big part of the reason that Protestantism even exists today. Get it, "Protest"ant? When people claim to hold values, and then act in apparent contradiction of those same values, it doesn't exactly inspire one to themselves adopt those values.

And that's been a major player, especially in the West, for the past ~70 years where you have politicians wearing religion on the coat of their sleeve, and then going and killing hundreds of thousands of people over what is overtly about oil, economics, and geopolitics - lofty moralistic rhetoric notwithstanding. Then you have things like the pedophilia scandals high within the Catholic hierarchy, made even worse by coverups.

This is probably why religions like fundamental Islam, Haredi Judaism, and so on are even more heritable. Those who follow such religions tend to very much live their proclaimed values. For instance I really don't agree with people like Khabib Nurmagomedov on many of his values, yet he lives those values, even when they hurt him in the short-run, and I find it very inspirational. I can only imagine how young (or older for that matter) Muslims see him. Integrity in life is just so important.
by postepowanieadm | 2025-08-20 06:18:49+00:00
There's a strange (for someone from Eastern Europe) zone around public services where shady individual thrive: like buying vignettes - you may buy "directly" from the state (nemzetiutdij.hu, eznamka.sk, edalnice.cz) or by some middleman that brings nothing to the process but has a ~20% commission.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-08-20 06:19:14+00:00
Hi! It sounds like you are not a systems engineer! Let me help:

When installing Windows Server, there is a "core" experience and a "desktop" experience option. The former is now the default, but nearly all enterprise software not made by Microsoft (and some that is made by Microsoft) require the latter. Including many tools which expect to run on domain controllers! Some software says it requires the GUI but you can trick into running without if you're clever and adventurous.

No GUI is definitely the future and the way to go when you can, but even the most aggressive environments with avoiding the GUI end up with a mix of both.

Speaking of a gaming PC, Edge on Windows Server is so badly implemented, I have a server that is CPU pegged from a botched install of "Edge Game Mode" a feature for letting you use Edge in an overlay while gaming. I don't think it should have been auto installed on Windows Server, but I guess those engineers at Microsoft making triple my salary know better!
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-20 06:19:37+00:00
> While I'm not sure I agree with you entirely, I will say that any culture that fails at reproducing itself will ultimately be replaced by one that does.

You make the same mistake as GP in confusing memetics with genetics. Cultures survive by ideas and behaviors spreading, not by genes. People can spread ideas without having children, and people can have lots of children and have their ideas die out.
by wraptile | 2025-08-20 06:20:01+00:00
I haven't written cursive for years and inspired by this article just tried it out and it still works! I never had a pretty hand writting and it's still just as ugly but very much functional.

Generally, I still do hand writing in terms of visualizing software with pen and paper but not in cursive but print letters as glace value is much more important here than information density and speed of cursive.

I find these fears really unfounded tbh. If we really need to hand write I think anyone can learn this skill in couple of days as we still have great hand dexterity, maybe even better than previous generations.
by seriusam | 2025-08-20 06:20:18+00:00
Hi,

> We use in-house evals (based on existing state-of-the-art benchmarks) to compare ambient scribes.

Have you validated that your in-house evals accurately reflect real-world performance?

> If you take a deeper look into the companies on our landing page, you will see that the first list refers to the compliance standards our workflows follow and the second refers to the existing tools we integrate with.

I am talking about your use of Abridge Ambient Scribe, Nuance and Deepscribe brands in your landing page. You have numbers on the number of beds, hourly efficiency and their costs next to the actual brands. I don't see any proper attributions or disclaimers.

Also, if you were to compare actual numbers you get from the websites, these companies can use different models for different users, have enterprise discounts for different organizations and etc. How are you planning on having access to these to make a proper comparisons to see what they would actually offer to their potential customer?

Fwiw, I am a fan of the "AI marketplace" runs. This one just raises a lot of questions for me.

But, good luck!
by fzeindl | 2025-08-20 06:22:22+00:00
1. how does this add value over mermaid? I like how it looks and works, but is there any real reason to switch over.

2. in my opinion, what all these tools are missing is the ability to add a manual „corrective“ layer, meaning to be able to adjust the automatically created output by moving and resizing boxes by a certain x/y amount.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-20 06:22:36+00:00
I understand liking fountain pens for their "old school steam punk" factor, but I think recommending them to improve your cursive is a little nutty.

I love writing by hand, and for years I was looking for the ideal instrument. Frankly, all the big "pen enthusiast" websites gave awful advice IMO. I essentially wanted something with the tactile feel of a good pencil, but with the permanence of ink. Finally I stumbled across fine line markers at an arts supply store (I like the prismacolor ones but I'm sure there are others). They come in various widths (some as thin as a thin mechanical pencil), and they don't smudge, bleed, or need to be refilled. They have a great tactile feel and an extremely sharp, crisp line. I'll never understand why pen forums never seem to recommend them.
by tekknik | 2025-08-20 06:23:14+00:00
you’re asking for people to care about something they do a few times a day and further asking people to devote time to this. it’s ok if you feel this is important but as a developer for over 15 years i don’t care if my text editor takes 10 seconds to start as i have other things starting at the same time that takes longer.

or put another way, if you care about text editor performance, or are hyper focused on performance in all cases, you miss the point of software development
by postepowanieadm | 2025-08-20 06:24:22+00:00
In Poland you started with a pencil, but as you got more proficient you could switch to a fountain pen. I never did.

As a leftie I was forced to do exercised designed for "normal" children, that were just painful. Thinking about using "normal" scissors with my left hand makes me sad and angry almost 40 years later. But I do enjoy a nice fountain pen and a thick paper - it's relaxing.
by willemlaurentz | 2025-08-20 06:25:07+00:00
This is the way to do it, good work and great that you posted this. The first release of my 40 million download app was held together by proverbial ducktape - yet the lessons learned from actually releasing it got me to come up with much better updates: https://willem.com/en/2018-02-21_updating-snake-97/
by ricudis | 2025-08-20 06:25:57+00:00
It's an excessively common scam nowadays that everybody is requiring an eVisa or electronic travel notice.

Fun story:

Once I was traveling to a country X that I was familiar enough with to know that thir governmental services web sites were awfully designed. We're talking about web design that would easily put Geocities to shame.

They had recently introduced an eVisa scheme that I have to complete.

Out of tirednes and being in a rush, I clicked at the wrong link. It gets me into a shiny, modern web page with nice graphics and a form to complete.

I instinctively think "WAIT! This is TOO nice for an official site!".

Then I look at the address bar, see an obvious scam-SEO URL, realize my mistake, and go back to search for the real one.

Which was as terribly designed as expected.
by mort96 | 2025-08-20 06:26:00+00:00
I don't understand what the difference is between "an ARM chip with native x86 translation" and a dual-ISA x86 and ARM chip.

And I don't understand why you'd want a dual-ISA x86 and ARM rather than just an x86 chip. You wouldn't get whatever CPU front-end simplicity advantages there are from ARM, since your front-end would get significantly more complex and consume significantly more transistors than with a normal x86 chip. And I don't think there's a market of people who want ARM for compatibility reason; any Windows software which supports ARM also supports x86.

What they could do is to release an ARM chip with a slightly extended ISA to add the select features which are difficult to emulate in software, such as loads and stores with the memory ordering guarantees x86 provides but ARM doesn't. Apple does this AFAIK, and it's one part of why Rosetta 2 is so good. But any ARM CPU maker could do this.
Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers?
by ghiculescu | 2025-08-20 06:26:17+00:00
I am the CTO of a SaaS company. The software we make isn't software for software developers. So we aren't building it for ourselves, and except for in some niche or contrived cases, don't have a reason to dogfood it.

We have a strong product management team, and a strong engineering leadership. From my perspective, we generally work on the right things, and get them done reasonably quickly to a reasonably high standard.

Whenever I put the word out for feedback, questions, or suggestions for things we could improve on, something that always comes up is "we need to improve developer understanding of how our customers use the product". I'm sure this isn't unique to us.

We have tried many things over the years, I wouldn't say I've found a silver bullet for it. We've tried things like visiting customers in person, encouraging devs to reach out to customers, encouraging devs to pair with customer-facing staff internally on meetings. We've also pointed to existing bug trackers and customer feedback forums as a place where devs can hear the word of the customer that's already been written down. All these things help a little bit, but the general vibe of "devs don't really understand how the customers use the product or why" persists.

Interested to hear how other companies approach this!
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-20 06:28:07+00:00
Even if we ignore the fact that I said "an unauthorized credit card transaction", that's all still incorrect.

> The credit card is associated with a checking account.

No, not necessarily. Several of mine are not. For example, Chase will happily accept payments in cash via their branches. https://www.chase.com/personal/credit-cards/education/basics...

> the bank will not protect or refund you for [fraudulent transactions on checking accounts and debit cards]

Deeply wrong. They are, in most cases, required to do so by federal law.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/compliance/compliance-resour...

"The Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA) and Regulation E apply to an electronic fund transfer that authorizes a financial institution to debit or credit a consumer's account. 12 CFR 1005.3(a). The term account means a demand deposit (checking), savings, or other consumer asset account (other than an occasional or incidental credit balance in a credit plan) held directly or indirectly by a financial institution and established primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. 12 CFR 1005.2(b)(1). It includes a prepaid account, as defined by Regulation E. 12 CFR 1005.2(b)(3)."

"Unauthorized EFTs include transfers initiated by a person who obtained a consumer’s access device through fraud or robbery and consumer transfers at an ATM that were induced by force."

https://ask.fdic.gov/fdicinformationandsupportcenter/s/artic...

"If your debit card or personal pin identification number (PIN) was lost or stolen, you must notify the bank within two business days after learning of the loss or theft. The bank cannot hold you responsible for more than the amount of any unauthorized transactions or $50, whichever is less. However, if you notify the bank after two business days, you could be responsible for up to $500 in unauthorized transactions."

Perhaps this is a little illuminating as to why your anti-fiat arguments fall on apparently deaf ears.
by lmm | 2025-08-20 06:28:15+00:00
IDPs are still very much useful and needed - short of the world agreeing on a single standard for what a driving license should look like, they're a lot more practical than expecting everyone to understand 192 different formats (and a few crazy countries like the USA even issue dozens of different license formats within the country). Delegating it to some random driving-related third party is slightly weird but not that weird (in my country they're done by the Post Office, which is arguably weirder, but I guess they also handle passport applications so it makes a certain amount of sense from that perspective).
by onion2k | 2025-08-20 06:29:00+00:00
I feel bad that you're getting downvotes. The reason is that pretty much every modern web stack decouples the URL routing from the source code directory structure these days. It was a nice hack back in the day, but there are so many problems with it no one really does it any more.

Some frameworks (Laravel, NextJS, etc) map from the directory structure to routes, but that's just a mapping rather than actually exposing the directories on the server. You can have /src/agents accessible as /agents. Or you could have /alice/bob/agents accessible through /agents. It's all just build tooling and web server config at the end of the day.
by galaxy_gas | 2025-08-20 06:29:28+00:00
Many sites do it .Included in many standard device fingerprinting / anti anonymity SAAS. Ebay facebook etc all do this ! But it looks this is first party to prevent the adblocking of them

1MB of obfuscated fingerprinting + portscan + Webgl . But oddity this one is trying to find burp suite specific route's.
by oblio | 2025-08-20 06:30:54+00:00
Or accept the fact that we're in 2025 and not follow Unix conventions from when paper and printer ink were expensive and they were printing out listings, and just name the thing "source".

I've gotten used to it, obviously - as someone with a career in IT for 20 years - but /etc & co. annoy me to no end. I know it will never change, I know why it won't change, I know GoboLinux will be just an interesting experiment, but it's still annoying.
When to Open Source
by abdospices | 2025-08-20 06:31:07+00:00
Companies like Buidler.io, PostHog, and Polar are notable for open-sourcing their entire platforms, rather than just a project or two. This raises a crucial question: What framework and rules should guide a company's decision to open-source? Furthermore, how much of a platform should be open-sourced, and which license such as MIT or BSL is most appropriate?
by lazide | 2025-08-20 06:31:44+00:00
This shit is hilarious. Like literally can’t make this up.

There are many problems with the current system, but it’s hard to think of a better indictment of everything you’re saying than “Which is why I havent voted. I'm a real person with real aspirations and I wont be taken advantage by the rich who provably run this shit.”

Huh?
by djtango | 2025-08-20 06:32:52+00:00
China spans 9.6M km. It has some of the biggest and most modern megacities (Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Shenzhen to name a few) and features ancient historical wonders like the Great Wall, Forbidden City and Terracotta Warriors.

The nature spans salt lakes and rainbow mountains akin to South America, to the Northern Lights in Mohe down to karst formations of Guilin shared with Vietnam's Halong Bay.

The cuisine is diverse and dishes popular in places like Xi'an reveal lasting influences dating back to the Silk Road.

If you can't find "somewhere really nice" amongst the myriad people and locations you haven't tried.
by theshrike79 | 2025-08-20 06:32:54+00:00
Depending on the level 1 though.

My "level 1" at home charges at 230V/10A from a normal outdoor outlet, which is around 2.3kW/hour. During an assumed 8 hour work day that's about 18kWh, which is enough to move my EV for over 100km.

My commute is WAAAY less than 100km, meaning that the battery is, in practice, full every time I leave. Even dropping it to 8A would still be perfectly enough.

The biggest problem is that L1 chargers are just glorified wall warts, nobody is doing L1 speeds with proper integrated Type2 connectors.
by defrost | 2025-08-20 06:33:00+00:00
You're correct that I can't be sure as I don't work at KPMG and haven't had any contact with their piles of documents, existing practices, or TaxBot summaries.

What I do know as a fact is that KPMG are self reporting satisfaction with their in house work on putting such a thing together.

The 'proof' will be the next five years of application to corporate clients.

> After all, LLMs are not very good with numbers.

The assumption, always, should be that neither are interns.

Hence why draft summaries should be reviewed and sanity checked by senior experienced people.

I would assume (based on my prior work summarizing large volumes of data for mineral and energy resources domain) that any report produced would have references back to source documents and pages making the task of cross checking the product simple and relatively straightforward.
by rkomorn | 2025-08-20 06:33:03+00:00
I'm sorry but I just don't buy that (and I pay/have paid for many subscriptions for product that have ads-based versions).

A business choosing to be ad-based is the business's problem. A person choosing to not experience ads is that person's problem. They just don't want to do business with each other and either party should have the freedom to make that decision.

I do think a lot should change around advertising, tracking, etc. For example: I think you should be able to set an option on your browser that says "no ads" that sites legally have to respect (even if the result is the site replies: "no content without ads"). At the same time, I think people should have to "declare" their ad blocker use.
by ceejayoz | 2025-08-20 06:33:24+00:00
That's my point. Having your code in `/src` doesn't mean some of that code doesn't still have routing at `example.com/agents`. It doesn't have to be a real directory.

A `.agents` directory (or routing pretending to be one) is nice because you are fairly unlikely to ever have user-facing `example.com/.agents` as a URL.
by agairola | 2025-08-20 06:33:24+00:00
OpenAI says GPT-5 is “safer and more useful” because of a new mechanism called safe completion. Instead of bluntly refusing the model tries to give safe but still useful answers.

That sounded important, but there wasn’t a public benchmark to compare it against other labs. So we built one: GrayZoneBench.

It tests models on the tricky gray areas — prompts that aren’t clearly safe or harmful — and scores them on:

- Safety (does it refuse when it should?)

- Helpfulness (is it still useful when it can be?)

- Effectiveness (the balance of the two)

We ran GPT-5 against Google and Anthropic models. Short version:

- Google and Anthropic perform just as well, sometimes better

- OpenAI has moved past blunt refusals, but still lags on usefulness

- Their new OSS model scores the same as their last gen

It’s all open: Results: https://bench.raxit.ai/

Code: https://github.com/raxITlabs/GrayZoneBench

OpenAI's Paper: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/be60c07b-6bc2-4f54-bcee-4141e1d6c...

This isn’t a take down. Benchmarks aren’t the end goal — but they’re a useful tool to see the landscape. We’re releasing this so others can test, critique and improve it.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-20 06:33:25+00:00
> over the last 50 years

You mean 2 years? Here's a handy chart of average wage vs inflation in US https://www.epi.org/blog/average-wages-have-surpassed-inflat...

It's kind of hovering above 0, too. Since this is just average wages, if you exclude CEOs who are earning 400x more than workers maybe it will not even be above inflation now
by godelski | 2025-08-20 06:36:07+00:00
Home Assistant integrates with WebRTC btw[0].

Also, why make the ESP32 the the hotspot? Why not just connect to the same network? Then you're not really range limited.

> I also think I unfairly like ESP because it’s an excuse to write C :)

Is the comment about Home Assistant being python? Yeah, I can get that. Feels weird to be using slow scripting languages on lean hardware. Though of course you can write whatever routines in C and just patch it in to the interface.

The ESPs are cheaper (here's the non-dev kit which has WiFi[1]), but way less powerful. I don't think you could get away with doing things on device. Though I wouldn't call that dev kit cheaper and that price point was context of my comment.

FWIW, I don't think there's really anything wrong with the project other than just that it comes off as doing things that have already been done before but presenting as if something novel was done. I'm all for reinventing the wheel. For fun, education, or even to improve. Just if I'm being honest, it came off with some weird vibes because of that. I imagine that's how some people are responding as well.

[0] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homeassistant/

[1] https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stamp-esp32s3-module