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by evolve2k | 2025-08-06 04:32:10+00:00
End of article makes the case:

Homebrew can be useful for installing packages that aren't easily available on your distro. For many software programs, you may need to use Flatpak, Snap, or install from source. Using Homebrew can make it much easier to install and maintain.

For some distros, finding an updated package is difficult. You either have to deal with an outdated package or get the updated one via cumbersome means. If that package is available on Homebrew, you can easily get the updated one using a single command.

In the upcoming days, I can see myself continuing to use Homebrew on Linux for managing Linux packages due to its quality of life features and rich documentation. Especially if you're a developer, you're bound to love it.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-06 04:32:17+00:00
JS is hated but if you compile to browser JS that code will run in 2100. If you mainly deal with files / blobs not databases you will have these things in 2100 too. I think a lot of apps can be JS plus Dropbox integration to sync files. Dropbox may rot but make that a plugin (seperate .js file) and offer local read/write too and I think you'd be pretty future proof.
by AndyNemmity | 2025-08-06 04:33:18+00:00
I think if you believe that 90% of skills went to 0% but the other 10% are worth 1000x, that makes sense.

But even if that's true, the 1000x is going to go to far fewer humans. Maybe you're in the lucky % saved, but a lot of people won't be.

It's interesting to consider. I don't have any takes one way or the other, I'm just observing. I have no idea how all of this works out.
by ipnon | 2025-08-06 04:33:42+00:00
Drones are most effective as tools of psychological warfare I think. Infantry in a trench can maybe disable a wave or two of drones before becoming overwhelmed, but the drone operator can remain safe and calm in their bunker kilometers away. Most drones don’t make it on target or even inflict lethal injury but their presence or the threat of their presence constantly draws the enemy’s attention away from your units. In Ukraine soldiers seem to worry much more about drones more than small arms or indirect fire. And both sides use this to influence the tactical decision making of their enemies.
by plorkyeran | 2025-08-06 04:33:52+00:00
The officially given reason for shutting down Google Code was that it was never intended to be a product and was just a community service thing that they did because SourceForge had ceased to be a reasonable place to host open source projects. Once a bunch of other forges popped up (including but not limited to Github) there was no longer any real need for it.

I thought it sounded pretty plausible for that era of Google.
by kazinator | 2025-08-06 04:34:32+00:00
Why doesn't Flash get it correct, yet comes up with plausible sounding nonsense? That means it is trained on some texts in the area.

What would make 2.5 Pro (or anything else) categorically better would be if it could say "I don't know".

There will be things that Claude 3.7 or Gemini Pro will not know, and the interpolations they come up with will not make sense.
by rep_lodsb | 2025-08-06 04:36:02+00:00
I hate to be this critical, but this is not emulating the actual 4004.

It's a logic circuit simulator that takes in a compressed representation of something and runs it, with an I/O mechanism that emulates the Busicom calculator hardware (keyboard and printer).

Still impressive for the size of the code, but the "CPU" is nothing like a 4004, or any real microprocessor.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:36:21+00:00
Don't worry, GLP1 RAs are nothing like those other drugs. In fact I'd really challenge you to examine even one of the correlations there, the scale of research, use, known side effects, effectiveness is completely different.

The idea that people might only benefit from something like Ozempic a little if they were doing some other intervention before is irrelevant, because no one is doing those other interventions. Requiring people to suffer before providing useful, known-safe and well-researched medication is silly.

Medication is technology.
by CalRobert | 2025-08-06 04:36:33+00:00
As someone who was 100 pounds overweight for a long time, and now isn't, that mindset is really dangerous and preventing a lot of people from living life to its fullest.

There is never any reason to be cruel or unkind to people who are overweight, but pretending that it doesn't have negative consequences or is even "healthy for me" or whatever is really harmful.
by reanimus | 2025-08-06 04:38:06+00:00
I've actually heard people argue against having lights on signage for this exact reason: people shouldn't be reliant on lights that may or may not work to modulate their behavior when driving. They had been referring mainly to pedestrian crossing signs, but I think it applies here too. I generally treat any school speed limit sign as in effect if it's before nightfall as a rule of thumb.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:38:47+00:00
We also like to keep track of all the bad ones too[0] (tl;dr they're actually pretty reasonable).

It's amazing what lowering inflation, reducing body weight can do to the body. It's almost becoming irrelevant that GLP1 Receptor Agonists were originally for type 2 diabetes (i.e. reducing HbA1c) -- the effects are profound. Kidney health, heart health, overall health, longer lives -- all for the low low cost of gastrointestinal problems (which can be serious, especially if dehydrated).

[0]: https://glp1.guide/content/are-glp1-side-effects-all-the-sam...
by listenallyall | 2025-08-06 04:39:07+00:00
Your internal empathy gauge must be really fucked up if you felt it was more important to provide a grammar lesson 5 sub-comments deep, rather than recognizing that 3000 murder victims have senselessly been deprived of 25 years of watching their kids grow up, spending time with their families, just living their normal lives - in addition to the grief that their surviving families and friends feel - and just respectfully deciding this isn't a discussion you absolutely needed to butt into.
by monster_truck | 2025-08-06 04:39:20+00:00
Hell yes. Had a particularly insane minor contributor take the project and put it up on the store without asking. After I had it taken down they did things like harass my family and threaten me. They caught federal charges for interstate threats and found themselves 'retiring from tech' not long after.

That aside, have had two other projects take off and get flooded with normies demanding things on social media/github. I now do each under throwaway names and sell them to people who want the appearance of having shipped
by wonderwonder | 2025-08-06 04:39:43+00:00
I think its great you helped your dad lose weight but what is your issue with others choosing a different path? The health benefits of losing weight are massive . Why is it important to you that they do it how you want them to do it? Study after study has sung the praises of GLP-1s.

It appears that your major issue is that you are simply angry people are taking a short cut. Which seems odd, why would it bother you how someone lost weight, why not just be happy for them?

I got on GLP1s in January. I went from 6'1 240lb to 209lbs with defined abs benching 405lbs at 46 years old. I've worked out my entire life but never been lean like this. I like eating bread (steak, eggs, toast, ketchup and hot sauce is perhaps the single greatest breakfast in the history of the world. The toast is very important!) and potatoes are freaking incredible (mashed with Worcestershire sauce... bruv).

The bulk of my calories are protein but I generally eat what I want if I desire it. I just desire less of it. I had a roast beef sub from Jersey Mike's today with my kid, it was delicious. Their honey mustard is the bee's knees. I had a medium sub though and not a large.

The only change is now I essentially don't eat after 6pm. I just set that goal and the GLP-1 helped me keep it. The only side effects I have had is lower cholesterol and lower BP and that is while running 700mg of test. I'm going to hop on metformin next month after this cycle and target eliminating the fatty liver markers I have had for the last 20 years.

They work friend, they are good for you and they make people live happier healthier lives.

Embrace better living through chemistry.
by nowittyusername | 2025-08-06 04:41:43+00:00
Correction ... Nvidia is propping up the economy. its like 24% of the tech sector and is the only source of gpus for most companies. This is really , really bad. Talk about all eggs in one basket. If that company was to take a shit, the domino effect would cripple the whole sector and have unimaginable ramifications to the US economy.
by edg5000 | 2025-08-06 04:42:58+00:00
I agree with the premise of the article. It really bothered me when I realised I couldn't delete my business listing Google Maps, only set it to "permanently closed". And my bank, my countries' largest, one year ago dropped NFC in favour of Google Pay. Not to mention the Google popups that seem to appear on what seems every website (how did the manage this?!).

Personally I've moved to Zoho for mail and use Ubuntu with a rsync/zfs based backup solution. I'm not logged in to Google but I do use Google Search. On my phone I use a separate Google account specially for the phone, and I use F Droid, except for my bank, which only distributes their app through Google Play.

Why do you think the EU is trying to bully (ineffectively) US tech companies? I don't think bullying US companies is the solution. More embracing of Linux would help a lot. Banks need to behave; making Google Play store a requirement for banking should not be allowed by the authorities, since banks play a special role. Then there is search and maps. Something should be done about that as well. Maybe something like an EU-based perplexity/anthropic competitor would be great.
by tomhow | 2025-08-06 04:43:44+00:00
Please don't post snarky comments attacking other users like this on HN, no matter what you're replying to. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-06 04:44:10+00:00
> Excel rules the world, and even if it didn’t: nobody is running libreoffice on linux professionally, at least not that I am aware of- and hosting mail?

It has remarkable stickiness but the replacement for Excel isn't another spreadsheet, it's programming + databases. SAP and other custom business software are pretty big especially in large organizations. Word is pretty replaceable, as is the rest of MS Office, especially if you have a custom solution instead of relying on Excel. Self-hosting email is definitely a thing for massive corporations. And don't forget 2/3 of the big Linux vendors are European.

74% tracks. Lots do depend on MS and Google solutions, but enough don't.
by akkartik | 2025-08-06 04:44:30+00:00
I wasn't aware of Markdeep when I built this, but looking at it now, it's 6k+ lines of code: https://casual-effects.com/markdeep/latest/markdeep.js And then you need a browser underneath that weighs in at multiple GB (a scale that transcends lines of code metrics) By comparison, lines.love contains 2.6k LoC, and underneath it is LÖVE containing 100k LoC. This sort of analysis of the total size of the software supply chain and total hackability of the entire stack is what motivates me to look past web browsers. Once they grow past a certain size there is zero value to being open source for 99.99% of people.

(I do love that Markdeep is a single file of js without the ubiquitous pox of 1k-line package-lock.json!)
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:44:45+00:00
> I'm not a fan because it's expensive and once you go off of the drug the weight comes back on (at least from what I've read). That's not a trade-off I want to take lightly.

This isn't true

https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...

The rest of the incorrect points other people have basically covered, so won't repeat.

Is teaching the discipline lesson worth the shorter life people would live without this medication? Maybe we could find another way to teach people discipline that doesn't maintain a threat to their health?

> I don't find any of that unreasonable to me. I'm saying this as a type-2 diabetic who could stand to lose a lot of weight.

Gonna be incredibly blunt, but talk to your doctor and get on GLP1s. Take a low dose if you want.

GLP1s are incredibly well researched and effective. Imagine dying of a heart attack early because you refused to properly research effective, low-risk medication that is being used by millions and recommended by professional organizations and doctors widely. Real Steve Jobs energy.
by electroly | 2025-08-06 04:45:39+00:00
Zstandard gets a lot of attention but I love LZ4 for speed. At least in the .NET world we have a fast LZ4 compressor/decompressor that is barely slower than memcpy. If you're already copying the data, you might as well LZ4 it. It's great over the wire when I control both the server and the client.
by iusewindows | 2025-08-06 04:45:46+00:00
Today I read a stupid Hackernews comment about how AI is useless. Therefore Hackernews is stupid. Oh, I need a filtered list of which comments to read?

Do you build computers by ordering random parts off Alibaba and complaining when they are deficient? You are complaining that you need to RTFM for a piece of high tech?
by simonw | 2025-08-06 04:45:57+00:00
If you read my full post, it ends with this:

> I’m waiting for the dust to settle and the independent benchmarks (that are more credible than my ridiculous pelicans) to roll out, but I think it’s likely that OpenAI now offer the best available open weights models.

You told me off for jumping to conclusions and in the same comment quoted me saying "I think OpenAI may have taken" - that's not a conclusion, it's tentative speculation.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:47:07+00:00
Nope! It won't be, because capitalism.

In 2026, patent protections that lapse are going to cause a tidal wave:

https://glp1.guide/content/novo-nordisk-patent-protections-l...

For context, the previous calculus was:

https://glp1.guide/content/patent-expirations-for-glp1-recep...

(~2033 for the US)

Theoretically, the tidal wave of generic Semaglutide wouldn't hit the US or EU due to patent protections there... But see the aforementioned note about capitalism.

Note that there is already generic Liraglutide as well:

https://glp1.guide/content/another-generic-liraglutide-launc...

Tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) > Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy/Rybelsus) > Liraglutide

But having any of these available is a step change.

> (...who might be the target market - being overweight might be a disease of affluence)

This might be true on the margin but is mostly untrue these days. The lack of access to healthy unprocessed food and the free time to exercise are becoming increasingly problems for those who are NOT wealthy.
by troad | 2025-08-06 04:47:25+00:00
Many nice improvements, but I am a little saddened by the move to magic link logins in the auth generator.

I realise magic link login is in vogue, but it is necessarily going to be a short-lived fad. On the user side, it breaks password managers and is generally a janky and obnoxious user experience.[0] On the dev side, it adds a third-party service dependency by way of an email provider - a needless barrier/expense for beginners and makers of small scale apps, who tend to be the audience for an auth generator in the first place.

Honestly, I'm unsure who the audience for the new auth generator is supposed to be. I'm trying to picture someone who has simple enough needs to be happy with a local users table, but then wants all the complexity of handling login via email; who doesn't want to use an auth library, and doesn't want to write auth code either, but does want the responsibility for maintaining auth.. It seems like a fairly idiosyncratic stance.

I'm a big fan of the move away from implicit layouts though, as well as the simplified core components.

[0] Not to mention the whiff of data harvesting, a perception that is only going to get worse by association. Do you want your product to have the feeling of a shady restaurant booking app that is almost certainly selling those emails?
by simscitizen | 2025-08-06 04:48:13+00:00
If you type the name of the person, it should allow you to create a filter for "Messages with: Person". It should also pop up a filter bubble for photos. From there I think you can type in some query and it should do a query on the photos via text. I don't think you can add your date filter though.

Second way would be to open that conversation view, click on the contact icon at the top of the view, which should then bring you to a details page that lists a bunch of metadata and settings about the conversation (e.g. participants, hide alerts, ...). One of the sections shows all photos from that conversation. Browse that until you find the one you care about.
by asveikau | 2025-08-06 04:48:13+00:00
I read that some other apes have the simian version of HIV (SIV) endemic in them and it doesn't kill them. Other apes don't typically have exposure and it gives them AIDS. This suggests that in the long term, a species can develop natural immunity.

IIRC there have always been these stories about HIV about these unusual cases where a rare set of humans actually beats the virus. (Googling, I found the term "elite controllers") The first time I remember reading of something like that was around 1996. It's always been discussed with cautious optimism as something needing more study. You could see TFA along these lines.
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:49:13+00:00
Nope, because the change is actually in the brain.

https://glp1.guide/content/research-on-glp1-signaling-in-the...

https://glp1.guide/content/research-suggesting-glp1-is-a-bra...

https://glp1.guide/content/are-glp1s-primarily-brain-drugs/

This is the killer feature of Semaglutide and GLP1 Receptor Agonists widely. They were originally commonly thought about as digestion-slowing, and while that is part of it, the real change is that it's a brain drug.

Oh also, on whether people gain back the weight:

https://glp1.guide/content/do-people-regain-all-the-weight-l...

tl;dr - most people (i.e. over 50%) do not.
by 827a | 2025-08-06 04:49:46+00:00
So, to give a tactile example that helped me recently: We have a frontend web application that was having some issues with a specific feature. This feature makes a complex chain of a maybe dozen API requests when a resource is created, conditionally based on certain things, and there's a similar process that happens when editing this resource. But, there was a difference in behavior between the creating and editing routes, when a user expected that the behavior would be the same.

This is crusty, horrible, old, complex code. Nothing is in one place. The entire editing experience was copy-pasted from the create resource experience (not even reusable components; literally copy-pasted). As the principal on the team, with the best understanding of anyone about it, even my understanding was basically just "yeah I think these ten or so things should happen in both cases because that's how the last guy explained it to me and it vibes with how I've seen it behave when I use it".

I asked Cursor (Opus Max) something along the lines of: Compare and contrast the differences in how the application behaves when creating this resource versus updating it. Focus on the API calls its making. It responded in short order with a great summary, and without really being specifically prompted to generate this insight it ended the message by saying: It looks like editing this resource doesn't make the API call to send a notification to affected users, even though the text on the page suggests that it should and it does when creating the resource.

I suspect I could have just said "fix it" and it could have handled it. But, as with anything, as you say: Its more complicated than that. Because while we imply we want the app to do this, its a human's job (not the AI's) to read into what's happening here: The user was confused because they expected the app to do this, but do they actually want the app to do this? Or were they just confused because text on the page (which was probably just copy-pasted from the create resource flow) implied that it would?

So instead I say: Summarize this finding into a couple sentences I can send to the affected customer to get his take on it. Well, that's bread and butter for even AIs three years ago right there, so off it goes. The current behavior is correct; we just need to update the language to manage expectations better. AI could also do that, but its faster for me to just click the hyperlink in Claude's output, jumps right to the file, and I make the update.

Opus Max is expensive. According to Cursor's dashboard, this back-and-forth cost ~$1.50. But let's say it would have taken me just an hour to arrive at the same insight it did (in a fifth the time): that's easily over $100. That's a net win for the business, and its a net win for me because I now understand the code better than I did before, and I was able to focus my time on the components of the problem that humans are good at.
by verdverm | 2025-08-06 04:50:01+00:00
If you have seen videos from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially over time, you can see the evolution of tactics.

For example with tanks, they...

- strap artillery shell to the drone and fly it into the tank

- drop a standard grenade into the hatch after the crew has fled

They don't need to drop munitions like cluster, they strap several on and drop them one at a time. They have become quite skilled and accurate, even from 100+ meters up in wind

There are places in Ukraine where it looks like giant spiders live there, due to all the fiber optic cables from drones left on the battle fields
by loeg | 2025-08-06 04:50:01+00:00
Uh, so, first, I'll say that bariatric surgery is largely a successful (if extremely invasive) intervention. It is not the case that people who do that surgery somehow compensate eat back to the same level -- on average, they don't. And second, the GLP-1s just massively reduce the urge to snack/eat. I'm sure they are less effective for some people than others, but on the whole they are miraculously effective for the population that overate habitually (the obese).
by wolttam | 2025-08-06 04:50:20+00:00
I'll try! Let's consider a tree blowing in the wind:

To classically render this in any realistic fashion, it quickly gets complex. Between the physics simulation (rather involved) and the number of triangles (trees have many branches and leaves), you're going to be doing a lot of math.

I'll emphasize "realistic" - sure, we can real-time render trees in 2025 that look.. ok. However, take more than a second to glance at it and you will quickly start to see where we have made compromises to the tree's fidelity to ensure it renders at an adequate speed on contemporary hardware.

Now consider a world model trained on enough tree footage that it has gained an "intuition" about how trees look and behave. This world model doesn't need to actually simulate the entire tree to get it to look decent.. it can instead directly output the pixels that "make sense". Much like a human brain can "simulate" the movement of an object through space without expending much energy - we do it via prediction based on a lot of training data, not by accurately crunching a bunch of numbers.

That's just one tree, though - the real world has a lot of fidelity to it. Fidelity that would be extremely expensive to simulate to get a properly realistic output on the other side.

Instead we can use these models which have an intuition for how things aught to look. They can skip the simulation and just give you the end result that looks passable because it's based on predictions informed by real-world data.