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by rkomorn | 2025-08-26 13:02:26+00:00
I'm not sure how that's the conclusion you're coming to from reading that article.

In your example, the Israeli flag was around someone else's neck, belong to that person, and was yanked on, and the case law establishes that attacking someone who has an Israeli flag can be considered the motivation that makes it a hate crime.

And even if you read the paragraph that states

> Mainen said the ruling was significant because it established case law equating attacks against the Star of David and Israeli flag with antisemitism. Case law is formed by judges writing opinions on individual cases that guide legal interpretations in future cases. Case law differs from legal precedents in that precedents are binding, meaning they are rulings that courts must adhere to, while case law serves as a guidepost.

It still a- does not make it "illegal" and b- does not put it in a context where you decide to buy your own Israeli flag and burn it.
by infecto | 2025-08-26 13:03:10+00:00
This is a really bad take. Professional arborists don’t “rip every guard off their saws”, there aren’t even that many guards to begin with, and the ones that exist (chain brake, hand guard, throttle lock) don’t slow anyone down. They’re there so you don’t bleed out in a tree.

The “LARPing” angle makes even less sense. What’s the software equivalent, saying that keeping engineers out of direct prod access is just an ego hit? That’s not LARPing, that’s risk management. Same way arborists keep the guards on because downtime from losing a hand costs more than any pretend efficiency.

Bad tools don’t make you a pro, and pretending guardrails are just for “fools with money” is an incredibly bad take. It’s like those YouTube get rich folks that never mention how much of the success is luck.
by someone7x | 2025-08-26 13:03:33+00:00
> I don't live in the US, but there is nothing in the Constitution, nor in federal law, guaranteeing that you have the right to use cash.

They have the right to use cash, even if the vendor chooses not to accept it.

I learned this by trying to pay a fine with coins, which are NOT legal tender like cash is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender

> Each jurisdiction determines what is legal tender, but essentially it is anything which, when offered ("tendered") in payment of a debt, extinguishes the debt. There is no obligation on the creditor to accept the tendered payment, but the act of tendering the payment in legal tender discharges the debt.
by aurareturn | 2025-08-26 13:03:59+00:00
And where is LNL now? How's the company that produced it? Even under Pat Gelsinger they said that LNL is a one off and they're not gonna make any more of them. It's commercially infeasible.

Why does it matter that LNL is bad economically? LNL shows that it's definitely possible to achieve same idle or even better idle wattage than Apple Silicon.

How is you bringing up synthetics relevant to race to idle?

I truly don't understand what you mean.
by whitehexagon | 2025-08-26 13:03:59+00:00
Agreed, I ditched my spy-phone.

I'm using a tp-link M7000 with 4G, for SMS and wifi modem. A simple http page for send and receive SMS. I use the API to have my ZigBee gear SMS me.

I showed my dumb-phone to my bank and asked if I needed to close my account, suddenly card reader was still available as an option. If it becomes mandatory, they can buy me a phone.

It should not become the rule that we need a spy-phone, or any other BigTech services to take part in society. So I make my life hard work to defend that principle.

Hence I am hacking away with Zig on the PinePhone, since it has some nice hardware switches for switching off modem/GPS mic etc. But the modem itself is still a blackbox, so there will always be trust issues there.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 13:04:34+00:00
There aren't too many false positives, it's just that most modern android software is malware.

Saying "this will steal your data" is probably correct.

So what were actually asking users is to install some malware, if it's provided by a big enough tech company, but not other malware. Of course users get confused.

Just stop downloading apps altogether and run the web views in the original web view - the web browser.

Will Google, Meta et al. do that and abandon their apps? Of course not, they need to install malware.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-08-26 13:04:35+00:00
> Windows is the outlier here

What about Android? The only thing Android shares with Linux is the kernel; the entire user mode environment is completely different, and this includes how 'users' and their data are handled. What about automotive stuff like VxWorks?

> I know plenty of engineers (myself included) which have no interest in trying to make things work in the Windows ecosystem.

Good for you; then why even bother releasing stuff for Windows? Because it checks the 'here's your Windows release, now bugger off' box? As a parent commenter says,

> it is because they thought 'with -target darwin I don't get any compilation errors. ship it!'

What happened to actually caring about users, their expectations, and user-friendliness, without worrying about platform dogmas?

As an aside, Windows has the objectively superior filesystem permissions model. It supports a massive variety of access modes, uses ACLs by default, and this is what allows straightforward fleet management with AD. It is easier to map down Windows ACLs to POSIX octal file permissions than to map up the reverse.
by waiss717 | 2025-08-26 13:04:48+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’m Federico. I’ve been a music producer for years, mentoring artists and producing events, and I’ve been programming since I was 15. Waisy combines these two passions: music and code.

I noticed a common problem: ideas get lost, lyrics stall, and there’s no simple space to capture inspiration. Waisy is an AI-powered notepad that helps artists write lyrics, take notes, and overcome creative blocks, right when inspiration hits. It also has a built-in audio player, so artists can listen to tracks while writing or experimenting with lyrics, making it a perfect tool for music creation. It’s fast, simple, and lightweight.

In our first month, we got 5,000 registered users, and now in our second month we have about 3,500 monthly active users. Around 5% of them open the app daily, and over 90% come back, showing it’s useful exactly when artists need it.

Next, I’m working on an iOS version, improving the AI, and growing our user base globally. Waisy is small but designed to have a big impact on an artist’s creative workflow.

I’d love feedback from musicians, developers, or anyone interested in how AI can improve creative workflows.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-26 13:05:00+00:00
It should be very easy to get away from Microsoft products, but management would need to be tough and put their foot down. Plus once the move succeeds the IT budget will probably have a lot of $ freed for other things.

I saw an attempt at a very large company to abandon M/S, it was working but there were a huge amount complaints. Then after a couple months, you can guess what happened. Certain people, usually 1st and 2nd level management, got exemptions, then some "important" finance people. Guess what, the move failed because you ended up with 2 tiers of employees, the revolts started happening. After 1 year, the relented and went back to M/S.
by Fluorescence | 2025-08-26 13:05:00+00:00
What a waste of time.

"directionally correct"... so you don't know and made up some numbers? Great.

AMD doesn't "endorse benchmarks" especially not fucking Geekbench for multi-core. No-one could because it's famously nonsense for higher core counts. AMD's decade old beef with Sysmark was about pro-Intel bias.
by petralithic | 2025-08-26 13:05:13+00:00
As always, there are some people with taste and most without. Just because the tools change does not mean one suddenly develops taste and creativity.

For example, I saw this the other day. Could it be better, sure, but it's at least interesting in itself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/s/6EHgC29fvM
by Aurornis | 2025-08-26 13:05:30+00:00
Even the top engineers don’t have total freedom to choose what they work on. The work has to contribute to the business. I’ve seen valued engineers go off on tangents that don’t produce anything useful, which after time gets noticed and they are no longer considered one of the top engineers at the company. Worst case, the company needs to do layoffs and they look at what everyone has been contributing. They realize the engineer off working on their own thing could be removed without impacting operations at all, and that they have become detached from core business operations. So they are laid off and, honestly, nothing changes.

Everyone has to work on things that are in the company’s backlog of needs. The more status you have, the earlier you can be involved in shaping that backlog. But the backlog always comes down to what the business needs.
by debugnik | 2025-08-26 13:05:48+00:00
A couple of years ago the OCaml and Julia languages already had to deal with a content farm that created wikis for them, filled them with LLM-generated, blatantly wrong or stupidly low quality content, and SEOed its way above actual learning materials. Cue in the newbies to these languages being incredibly confused.

This at least tries to generate the text out of the actual project, but I'm pessimistic and think it'll cause similar confusion.
by apercu | 2025-08-26 13:06:15+00:00
" we would’ve raised taxes (across the board)"

So I lived in Canada (Ontario) for 18 years, and I've been back in the US for 4. In Canada (and here) I don't see how you "raise taxes across the board" when most tech salaries (90-180k) by the time you add in sales tax and fuel taxes you're already paying 45-50% tax rate. For example, hypothetically one year I was buying a house, so no RRSP contributions that year. On my hypothetical 160k salary I paid $58k in income tax and withholding, plus 13% HST on just about every single purchase, plus something like 24% for fuel/road taxes. That means an effective tax rate of something like 45%. But we don't get pensions or anything like that, so you also need to save. A lot. If my hypothetical example doesn't sound so bad, imagine if you were making $45k. Sure, lower tax rate, but still.

I'm sorry, as bad as it sounds to everyone, it's time for the capital class to pay up, the middle class can no longer subsidize society because it's simply too small now.

edit I want to be clear that I am not against taxes, I am for social services, I'm just tired of paying 10% of my net worth every year while folks worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars pay very little tax because they have limited "income", but then I pay for the roads they drive on and the public services they use.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-08-26 13:06:19+00:00
It's not about whether the person should live or die, it's that the Canadian government has vested responsibility to provide healthcare in itself while making other options illegal. I can't make my own choice to, for example, buy my own medical insurance to ensure I live for as long as possible with the most effective (and likely expensive) treatments. The government has said they got this and limited everyone's choice to government only.

They screwed this up via multiple mechanisms, because that's what government seems to do, and now there is a pretty decent shortage of healthcare up here. This makes the incentives highly perverse because the government can't provide the world class health care it promised even if it wanted to, which leads to political pressure to bring in MAID and chop tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical liability off the end of many patient's lives (which I would actually support if the underlying incentive structure was different, or if the government was at least honest about what was happening and compensating the MAID recipient's estates for forgoing treatment the government is obligated to provide but would be better for said government if they didn't). The most concerning bit here is the lack of provision of other life improving services like joint replacement, the latest experimental drugs, etc. and the likelihood that that is funneling people into a situation where MAID is the obvious best choice sooner than it otherwise would be. This is certainly happening with cancer treatments (although probably not intentionally, just incompetently) as people get detections for cancer and then find a months long wait list instead of days to weeks long wait list to see someone who can progress their treatment.
by jcranmer | 2025-08-26 13:06:24+00:00
> Second, the x86 platform has a lot of legacy, and each operation on x86 is translated from an x86 instruction into RISC-like micro-ops. This is an inherent penalty that Apple doesn't have pay, and it is also why Rosetta 2 can achieve "near native" x86 performance; both platform translate the x86 instructions.

Can we please stop with this myth? Every superscalar processor is doing the exact same thing, converting the ISA into the µops (which may involve fission or fusion) that are actually serviced by the execution units. It doesn't matter if the ISA is x86 or ARM or RISC-V--it's a feature of the superscalar architecture, not the ISA itself.

The only reason that this canard keeps coming out is because the RISC advocates thought that superscalar was impossible to implement for a CISC architecture and x86 proved them wrong, and so instead they pretend that it's only because x86 somehow cheats and converts itself to RISC internally.
by the_af | 2025-08-26 13:06:27+00:00
In Argentina, a well known case (well known within the industry) of fatal radioactive poisoning from an experimental nuclear reactor happened because an extremely experienced and well regarded operator was used to disabling safety measures of the reactor to speed things up. After all, he understood it perfectly and knew what was and wasn't actually safe to do.

Until he made a mistake, got a dose of radiation (he may have splashed himself with water, actually), and he instantly knew he was dead. And he was, within days, if my memory serves.

Experts make the dumbest mistakes because they are sure safety doesn't apply to them, because they know better.
Show HN: 70 Days → 800 GitHub Stars (Cold Start) – My Secret Was a Problem Map
by tgrrr9111 | 2025-08-26 13:06:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I want to share a story that might resonate with anyone who has tried to launch an open-source project from zero visibility, zero budget, zero network.

Seventy days ago I created a repo called WFGY. I had no prior followers, no launch partners, no ads. Today, it’s at 800 stars and counting. Pure cold start.

The “secret”? Not marketing. Not tricks. It was building a Problem Map.

---

#### What is a Problem Map?

Instead of claiming my system “improves reasoning” or “solves RAG bugs,” I wrote down 16 concrete failure modes engineers hit every day:

* Embedding drift (semantic ≠ vector closeness) * Chunking collapse (half-sentence vs full chapter granularity mismatch) * Versioning hallucinations (index v1 + v2 = ghost hybrid doc) * Pre-deployment ingestion collapse * Prompt injection bypasses * … and 10 more, all documented.

For each one I built a text-only “semantic firewall” module that fixes the issue without changing infra. Developers could see their exact bug listed, mapped, and patched.

This gave the repo two things:

1. Immediate empathy — engineers recognized their pain points word-for-word. 2. Immediate usability — they could paste my TXT file, keep infra untouched, and the model stabilized.

---

#### Why it mattered

* It wasn’t a claim, it was a diagnostic mirror. * People didn’t need to “believe” me — they could try the TXT in 60 seconds and watch bugs stop replicating. * Instead of selling “AI magic,” I showed a surgical checklist.

This is why strangers starred the repo. It wasn’t hype; it was problem → fix → proof.

---

#### What’s next

I’m now scaling this into something bigger:

* The Problem Map will evolve into a Global Semantic Surgery Room — think of it like an AI hospital’s operating theater. * Engineers bring in failure logs (RAG, OCR, planning drift). * The system triages, diagnoses, and applies the right semantic patch in real time. * Integrations are underway for n8n, Make, GoHighLevel and more — all unified under the same open Problem Map.

Launch target: September 1.

### Closing

I don’t see this as “my repo got stars.” I see it as proof that open source thrives when you solve pain with surgical precision.

If you’ve ever tried to cold start, my suggestion: don’t sell a dream, map a nightmare. Engineers don’t trust hype — they trust a checklist that fixes the crash.

Coming next: the Semantic Surgery Room and Global Fix Map (n8n, GHL, Make and more). Launching by Sep 1.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-08-26 13:06:41+00:00
First, there are no EU citizens. Only citizens of countries that are EU members.

Second, no EU-wide regulation can come into being without support from Council, and Council is formed by member countries.

As always, people are complaining EU this, EU that, when EU in reality is their own country, among others. It will be your country that will do the censorship etc. If your country is small and weak it has low impact on the international state of affairs, regardless of its membership in the EU. Macron or Merz have much more to say than von der Leyen.
by hollowturtle | 2025-08-26 13:06:44+00:00
So we have the following layers:

- One that parses markdown text and generates javascript code, be it React, Svelte or whatever. It must generate compiled react/svelte source, e.g. it cannot generate JSX

- The javascript code get executed at runtime which runs the chosen framework, but without a build step such frameworks won't generate optmized code. In the case of React even gives you the illusion that HTML rendering is in immediate mode but it actually

- Keep another layer that diffs some tree data in memory that eventually generate/manipulates DOM nodes which is retained mode rendering

- Which in turn calls native bindings with the rendering engine(be it Skia or whatever)

- Which in turn calls OS apis and so on...

I'm asking sincerely: where are we going?
by strken | 2025-08-26 13:07:02+00:00
A lot of it is quite debatable if not outright wrong.

Imagine you find yourself going into a meeting with no strong opinion on whether the new queue should be implemented with Kafka, Redis, or your existing SQL DB, and only average time pressure. The possible solutions here, in order of worst to best, are:

- equivocating until your manager picks the worst one

- picking one and not telling anyone you're unsure

- picking one and mentioning it might not be optimal but you think it'll work and we need to pick something

- cancelling the meeting midway through once you realise you don't know because you didn't do your homework

- moving the meeting to tomorrow three hours before it starts so you can do your homework

- turning up to the meeting having already picked one, with a reasonable understanding of the trade-offs and a quick write-up for everyone to review (bonus points if you sent it around beforehand, and if you're able to change your mind in response to valid criticism)

If you don't know the answer, that's a problem, and you should go work it out. If you are in a meeting to decide something that's not important, that's a problem, and you should cancel it and give everyone their time back (and also, how do you know it's not important?).
by rollcat | 2025-08-26 13:07:03+00:00
> It's a fairly common issue on Linux to be missing hardware acceleration, especially for video decoding. I've had to enable gpu video decoding on my fw16 and haven't noticed the fans on youtube.

I've worked in video delivery for quite a while.

If I were to write the law, decision-makers wilfully forcing software video decoding where hardware is available would be made to sit on these CPUs with their bare buttocks. If that sounds inhumane, then yes, this is the harm they're bringing upon their users, and maybe it's time to stop turning the other cheek.
by ralferoo | 2025-08-26 13:07:14+00:00
Haha, yeah. I went and bought a CM4 board with extra NIC so I could use an RPi as my gigabit router, and placed an order for a CM4 module (actually several) that didn't arrive until a year later (and they're still unused another 2 years after that). When it was obvious no CM4s were actually available from anywhere, I bought an N100 4 port router, and it's worked like a champ, comes with a decent enclosure and I could run VMs on it, and I can have a 1-WAN port and 3 ports going to a mini-switch in each room, so I don't even need an additional switch centrally. For me, it's far superior than the RPi solution would have been, well designed into a single case and around the same price.
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-26 13:07:47+00:00
Your electric chain saw weighs a ton for its power output and run time. You'd feel differently if you had to schlep it into the top of a tree all the time.

I have an electric chain saw. It overlaps in use with small, but not arborist small, gas saws and excels at some things they don't. While they can all do each other's jobs if you're ok with it being slower/not ideal it's very much a complimentary tool.

Where it really excels over gas saws is highly intermittent use, reduced maintenance and increased situational awareness (i.e. you can do stupid things more safely).
by jjani | 2025-08-26 13:07:55+00:00
The right thing in hindsight absolutely would've been for Microsoft to not relent, because of the power balance. Even back then when Intel was still a behemoth, Intel needed Microsoft more than the other way around. Hence why they were the ones begging MS, not the other way around.

What would Intel have done, only supply chips to.. what? Linux machines? Macs? A funny fantasy, obviously unthinkable. Or go wage a marketing campaign against MS? That too in effect would cause lower sales of new machines if anything, directly hurting Intel.

MS would've seen large benefits especially in the long term.

Now this is all very easy to say in 2025, but I think MS should've known this, yet greatly underestimated the negative effects that this would have. The people making the decision probably thought "it'll be okay, and worth staying super chummy with Intel". Probably plenty of golf trips and steak dinners were exchanged.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-26 13:08:07+00:00
We do make staples. The ones I have here are made in Europe. We don't buy such things from the US (though from China, maybe). I think a lot of it is just not very visible because it's mainly for internal market use.

In fact I'm not buying much of anything from the US anymore. If anything to screw up Trump's "trade deficit" even more despite his tariffs.
by loudmax | 2025-08-26 13:08:50+00:00
These figures are very plausible. Most Linux distros are terribly inefficient by default.

Linux can actually meet or even exceed Window's power efficiently, at least at some tasks, but it takes a lot of work to get there. I'd start with powertop and TLP.

As usual, the Arch wiki is a good place to find more information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management
by naikrovek | 2025-08-26 13:09:25+00:00
why are they named XDG_* like XDG_CONFIG_DIR?

Why not just CONFIG_DIR?

Doesn't matter. This whole situation is a mess, and it's still a mess in the year 2025. Clearly existing operating systems can't be changed significantly enough to change anything like this.

but we're all still afraid to write new operating systems. We cling to MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows as if our lives depend on it. Our lives do not depend on it.

If we want a saner OS, we could have it, but we don't want it bad enough, I think. It's easier to just deal with the piles of horse manure that has been piled on top of everything. So we have a rather active bikeshed discussion on HN about whether or not to use XDG_*.

We want to bikeshed more than we want to fix anything. Like all communities, this one also disappoints me.