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by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-08-15 06:41:39+00:00
Wouldn't it be darn nice, though, if there was a universal mechanism for apps to announce which shortcut they have available and a centralized way to configure them all?

For example, I was able to assign copy/paste keys to the corresponding actions in the GTK keybindings, and it worked like charm, except in Chrome. That is, in Chrome, web content respected these keybindings, but the browser UI didn't. So I could use the keys on textareas and inputs all I wanted, but paste into the address bar? Nooooo, BECAUSE FUCKING CHROME HAS THEM HARDCODED per platform!

(However, in Firefox it worked just fine across the whole UI.)
Show HN: Hobby hurricane tracker for my islands
by ashitlerferad | 2025-08-15 06:41:44+00:00
Built a simple hurricane and weather tracker focused on the Eastern Caribbean islands I call home. It updates automatically with the latest NHC and OWM data, includes an interactive map, and lets you quickly check conditions for multiple islands as well as CPA. I suck at UI, so feedback and suggestions on how to make this more useful and easy to use are welcome.
by aredox | 2025-08-15 06:41:49+00:00
"You should expect OpenAI to spend trillions of dollars on data center construction in the not very distant future," Altman said. "And you should expect a bunch of economists to wring their hands and be like, 'Oh, this is so crazy. It's so reckless and whatever.'" "And we'll just be like, 'You know what? Let us, like, do our thing,'"

The talk about AI alignment is completely useless when Sam Altman himself is a "paperclip maximizer" who would doom us all to increase his clout.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-15 06:41:50+00:00
It's not like you can just stamp out a giant grid of flops and just go brrr. Getting utilization is difficult, and the closer you hew to Nvidia's tradeoffs the more you are going to come out unfavorably against a giant who's working with 10,000X your volume and decades of experience. Nvidia proprietary software is very highly embedded into everyone's stacks. The models undergo co-evolution with the hardware, so they are designed with its capabilities in mind.

It's like trying to take on UPS with some new, not quite drop-in logistics network. Theoretically its just a bunch of empty tubs shuffling around, but not so easy in practice. You have to be multiples better than the incumbent to be in contention. Keep in mind for the startups we don't really know who is setting money on fire running models in unprofitable configurations for revenue.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-08-15 06:41:55+00:00
Companies make tons of shit food that’s as cheap or cheaper than healthy things, while requiring no know-how or effort to prepare, and constantly bombard people with messaging telling them to buy it. Meanwhile people are overworked with less time and energy to prepare food. People aren’t raised to be considerate about the food they eat; many parents don’t teach their kids to cook and feed them tons of junk growing up. Of course under those circumstances a large portion of people eat shitty. Fix that stuff and they won’t eat shitty and get fat. It’s useless to blame them without suggesting actual fixes.

>Why aren't poor people in poorer countries fat despite suffering even bigger social issue like war, slavery, rapes and famine?

Famine
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-08-15 06:44:47+00:00
Sure you can. I have no problem with billionaires as long as they are enjoying their money without hurting people in the process. Having the money doesn’t mean you actively abuse your influence.

But once you have that kind of fuck off money and insist on abusing your power, or kowtowing to other people to get more power, and other BS, then you are an evil asshole. There’s a good reason why Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk etc rub people the wrong way. It’s not their wealth.
by v9v | 2025-08-15 06:45:14+00:00
In Emacs if CUA mode is on, C-c behaves as copy if any text is selected (and if no other keys have been pressed within a short time). To send a C-c when text is selected you do a C-S-c instead. Similarly in Windows Terminal I remember C-c works as copy without any issue (it deselects the text with the first C-c IIRC, so if you do two C-c's with text selected you copy and then send an interrupt).

Do any linux terminals implement anything like this? Why resort to adding new keys to keyboards?
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-08-15 06:45:38+00:00
The Gaza Health Ministry has a very good track record of providing verifiable death counts.

It works on the basis of reports from hospitals, and keeps information (like name, ID number, age and gender) for every deceased person. A lot of that information can actually be verified by Israel, since Israel controls the Gaza population Registry. If these people later showed up alive, that would easily prove the Health Ministry is lying. Yet that hasn't happened.

After past conflicts, outside organizations have reviewed the Health Ministry's numbers, and have determined them to be accurate, which is why major news organizations consider it reliable.[0] Even the Israeli government privately considers the numbers to be reliable and uses them in internal discussions, though it publicly claims them to be unreliable (the reader can guess why). Israeli intelligence has surveilled the Health Ministry, and came to the conclusion that it was working in good faith.[1] Again, this is completely different from what the Israeli government says in public.

The Gaza Health Ministry has periodically released its entire list of verified deaths. You can read every person's name, age, etc.[2]

The main concern about the numbers is that they are probably a massive undercount. Every hospital in Gaza has been bombed by the IDF, and the healthcare system is barely functioning at all any more. Beyond that, there is rubble everywhere, and nobody knows how many people lie dead underneath it.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/24/gaza-death-t...

1. https://www.mekomit.co.il/%d7%94%d7%a6%d7%91%d7%90-%d7%91%d7...

2. https://data.techforpalestine.org/docs/killed-in-gaza/
by GaggiX | 2025-08-15 06:45:57+00:00
That's why I focus on learning words rather than individual kanji characters. Kanji characters have so many different readings, and the Japanese language is full of exceptions that it's not worth the time unless you're passionate about it, eventually you will pick up the readings of most common ones and you will be able to guess new words automatically, writing them no thank you, I barely write in my own language without a keyboard.
by alkonaut | 2025-08-15 06:46:36+00:00
Also - that's easy for everyone. It's basically a framework so rigid/simple (Those are adjacent concepts for frameworks) that the business logic is almost boilerplate.

That is, so long as you stay inside the guard rails. Ask it to make something in a rails app that's slightly beyond the CRUD scope and it will suffer - much like most humans would.

So it's not that it's bad to let bots do boilerplate. But using very qualified humans for that to begin with was a waste to begin with. Hopefully in a few years none of us will need to do ANY part of CRUD work and we can do only the fun parts of software development.-
by klabb3 | 2025-08-15 06:46:49+00:00
It should be physical keys and they should be the same on every platform. I have at least 20 keys on my desktop keyboard that I never use, it’s not like the real estate isn’t there. Many older non-technical people struggle with combination keys.

If we had physical keys, we could also fairly easily add multiple clipboards like Copy+2 or Copy+F2 could be clipboard #2 without impacting the basic ease of use.
by subscribed | 2025-08-15 06:47:26+00:00
And it's actually a good thing and not bad. EU version explicitly requests Google or Apple attestation, which at least on Android is astonishing overreach, since theres Hardware Attestation API that can confirm the platform integrity better (instead of confirming old, unpatched handsets with leaked keys are secure, LOL).

Hopefully some countries will do it the correct way.
by microtonal | 2025-08-15 06:48:20+00:00
While the POs are fun devices for their price, the KO-II is a very limited, frustrating device. I fell into the hype and got one and after only two weeks after a complete beginner I realized I bought an over-expensive toy. An SP-404 MKII only costs a bit more and completely blows it away - actually usable display, almost unlimited sample storage, nicer step editing, far better and useful FX, etc. TE hypers will say it is much more complex and thus less fun and 'immediate' (they love to use that word), but for me the learning curve was about equal (for using the same functionality, the MK-II has much more functionality).

Or, since this is Hacker News. The Dirtywave M8 is a much much nicer device (does sampling and is a good ol' tracker) with synths, etc. Sure, it is more expensive, but you can make an M8 headless for just the price of a Teensy MCU. The UI is also much quicker and nicer than the KO-II once you get a feel for it.

tl;dr: bought a KO-II, even as a beginner I ran into its limits almost immediately. There are much better devices out there at similar price points (or much cheaper if you hook up an M8 headless to a laptop or cheap handheld game console).
by imoverclocked | 2025-08-15 06:48:56+00:00
I find myself wishing for a lower-overhead approach to this. 20% already gets the price from $14.99 to $12.49. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the cast gets less than 50% and lawyers get more than 40% of that. If true, that's less than $6.25 to the folks that actually made the movie and $8.75 (or more) of pure, unadulterated overhead. Finally, clicking on "where to watch" shows prices within $0.20 of each other. It's not ... not price-fixing, but it kinda is.

Also, "wholesale" is such a strange way to look at this. There is no way the digital asset is sent to them more than once. It's some kind of strange fiction for me to imagine, "here are X downloads of movie Y at a discounted rate. If you want more, you need to come back and purchase another X downloads." It's as if a download itself is a consumable that Disney provides.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-15 06:49:13+00:00
They had an episode mocking Al Gore about climate change and then did an episode years later where they basically admitted they were wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManBearPig

More to the point, you haven’t heard about their current season’s Trump episode?

The alt right aren’t exactly deep thinkers. It’s just like the police glorifying the Punisher.

https://www.newsweek.com/punisher-police-blue-lives-matter-s...

Or MAGA conservatives playing “Born in the USA” without listening to the lyrics.

South Park mocks everyone.

https://www.salon.com/2017/09/15/why-south-park-is-better-ar...

The “alt-right” have always been part of America or have you never heard of Jim Crow and segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”?
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-15 06:49:29+00:00
> And btw while apple is often offered as some golden standard for key bindings, I think the situation there is much (MUCH) worse: apps often intercept and handle common combinations on their own, with unclear precedence, which leads to non-deterministic behavior and a complete mess if you want to override any standard combination.

Thank you. That is absolutely the case. As someone who had to switch to Mac for work, I found the keybinding situation to be a complete mess. It's also incredibly hard to track down and change certain keybindings, many apps don't have any text configuration to easily modify and require you to go through their GUIs which require you to know what you are looking for (e.g., which app).
by asksomeoneelse | 2025-08-15 06:50:13+00:00
It doesn't seem to be just Steam. From what I see (from Switzerland), other online stores relying on PayPal seem to be impacted too. Though if the store let me try to use PayPal anyway, I can just switch the currency of the purchase to USD instead of using the currency of the credit card (CHF in my case), thus having my issuing bank do the currency conversion. It seems to work fine so far.

The timing of this problem is weird. Hard not to see a link with the recent troubles with Visa and Mastercard, even if Valve claims that it's not the case.
by timr | 2025-08-15 06:50:31+00:00
WaniKani at least teaches words. Spending almost a year of your life doing nothing other than learning "meanings" of individual Kanji is...well, I guess some people just really get addicted to that mechanical feeling of progress?

Reading is definitely helpful, but I've found the relative importance of reading, listening and speaking goes in cycles, and especially at the early stages, listening and speaking are far more motivating than anything else. And I'm an introvert!
by terminalshort | 2025-08-15 06:52:53+00:00
> opposition to coercion, opposition to hierarchy, opposition to state

But herein lies the problem. You can't have collectivism without this. Any collectivist system (which is all human societies to differing degrees) faces two fundamental problems of self interest. The free-rider problem and the problem of people who put in more than they get out leaving the collective. This requires coercion. Whether or not you define the authority applying that coercion a "state" is debatable, but that hardly seems like the important distinction here.
by CrouchEndTiger | 2025-08-15 06:53:49+00:00
I’d add an additional point to this list: Piracy offers control over the particular edit of the film you’re after.

I find it so infuriating when streaming services only offer the extended edit of the Lord of the Rings films - these scenes were edited out for a reason! I pretty much only want to watch the the cinematic edits.

Same for Bladerunner. There’s so many different edits and the streaming services rarely declare which edit they offer, let alone offering options to choose your preferred edit.
by taylorius | 2025-08-15 06:54:31+00:00
I agree. I think when something is at the cutting edge, and you're creating effects no-one has ever seen before - (the first Jurassic Park, say) - people really go the extra mile to make it look as great as possible. Fast forward to today, when CG is pretty much a commodity - and it's often a lot more about getting it done on time and within budget.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-15 06:55:01+00:00
I learned Ctrl-C for "kill program" very nearly before Ctrl-C for copy existed, and long before it existed on any platform I used. I value consistency, but I also value consistency with common practice for the type of application I'm using.

The common failure mode, for me, isn't hitting Ctrl-C for copy in a terminal by mistake, it's hitting Ctrl-Shift-C for copy in a browser and ending up with the console open, or hitting Ctrl-W to delete a word and having it close a tab.
by elahieh | 2025-08-15 06:55:18+00:00
Also, another example of an "unreasonable" challenge - the "Decipher Puzzle" https://cisa.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/468/2017/09/S... -- from 1983 to 1985.

You would think that one of the lessons of that is that someone could jump in right at the end and solve it after several clues were released. That hasn't worked with K4, which is increasing people's skepticism.
by carodgers | 2025-08-15 06:55:55+00:00
Fun fact. In Ghostty and (some) other GTK apps, if your mouse leaves the window, the first scroll click after re-entering the window is ignored. This is due to an ancient bug first identified in 2015.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750994

There are no plans for a fix. The maintainer recommends waiting for Wayland.
by robin_reala | 2025-08-15 06:56:20+00:00
If we’re talking about spare parts, and you bought the items when logged in or with a Family card, then at least on web (I haven’t checked on app) there’s a simple method to order spare parts.

1. Go to your purchases: https://www.ikea.com/dk/da/purchases/

2. Click on the order that contains the item you want spare parts for

3. Click on “Order spare parts” in the actions menu on the right

4. Select the item that needs the spare parts

5. You can then order the spare parts to be directly shipped to you for free
by saulpw | 2025-08-15 06:56:58+00:00
The capital gains tax could be 90%+ on any gains over $10m (and 99% over $100m), so they can still sell out, but it would cap liquid wealth at $100m dollars. However, they would still have a billion dollars of ownership, and the societal power that comes with being a billionaire, as they can leverage those assets to great effect without selling them. (As Elon Musk didn't actually pay $44b for Twitter.)

So I wonder if the government could levy a stock tax, in which every public stock was diluted by 1% per year, with non-voting stock going into a sovereign wealth fund. This would make for a gradual transition of companies from capitalist-owned to public-owned.
by rustystump | 2025-08-15 06:57:00+00:00
Depending on culture it very much is. Money is a direct signal of status in a way most other things are not as it is correlates to resources which nature selects for.

In the us of a, money is the ultimate status and often used as the measuring stick to the value of ones ideas, personhood, and everything in between.

I cannot stand it but it is what it is.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-08-15 06:58:01+00:00
> Compared to mac/ios, android and linux and windows ux is death by thousand papercuts

"What you're used to" is a major component of usability. I've had to do short stints on a macOS machine before, and find it a painful experience that I'm happy to be rid of when I'm done. People who are used to a macOS machine sometimes say the same thing about a Linux machine. They can both be right at the same time.

It isn't the only component of usability, to be clear, and it's also possible for applications to be objectively better. But familiarity and usability are often conflated.
by Galanwe | 2025-08-15 06:59:04+00:00
This drives me nuts as well, the number of times I close a tab with C-W, or select all with C-A...

My brain can "switch mode" when on a regular web page, but if I open some kind of "terminal in a page" (i.e. I the AWS console), then I'm 100% it will end up with a C-W.
by eviks | 2025-08-15 06:59:12+00:00
> physical keys and they should be the same on every platform.

That's an easy no, precisely because

> have at least 20 keys on my desktop keyboard that I never use

Very common operations should be ergonomic, i.e. have a convenient location. Unless you mean to make all keyboards split ergonomic with a thumb cluster, so you'd have prime space for copy and paste, adding bad 21st and 22nd key far away will be worse than a more convenient modifier

Also, you forgot laptops where there is not enough real estate to even fit the full standard desktop keyboard

(multiple clipboards would be a great benefit, though)
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-15 06:59:35+00:00
Same in Firefox. Absolutely infuriating and trivial for them to fix/disable with an about:config even if you absolutely had to keep Ctrl-Shift-C for the masses. I suppose it only affects, oh, everyone in the world who uses both dev tools and a terminal. Which is almost a complete intersection with people who use dev tools! Or have they always been expecting AI to take over web design entirely and you no longer need terminals or something?

You can inject JS into every single page to fix it via an extension, but extensions don't have the ability to fix it otherwise. I suppose you could also intercept it in an IME?
by fxwin | 2025-08-15 06:59:46+00:00
The design in the OP is still more appealing (if less practical) to me because its movements and how it plays are still fairly close to how a human would play (Precisely because of the sliding). Sort of like how we generally find it less interesting when a specialized robot can perform some specific task rather than say a humanoid robot, even if it is worse at said task.
by vinserello | 2025-08-15 06:59:58+00:00
We just launched a new feature in our time series platform Datastripes: the Scenario Node, an LSTM-based engine that lets you model not only forecasts, but also simulate hypothetical futures.

Traditional forecasting tools work okay—until the environment shifts. We wanted something that handles market shocks, supply chain collapses, booms, volatility, stagnation, and more.

Here’s what it does:

Trains an LSTM model on your time series to capture seasonality, non-linear dependencies, and long-term patterns.

Lets you apply “shocks” to simulate events: e.g. 50% drop in sales, sudden CAC spike, cost surge, etc.

Predefined scenarios: simulate Crisis, Growth, Volatility, or Stagnation with one click.

Custom scenario builder: you define the changes, and it models the downstream impact.

Why? Because predicting the future isn't enough—we need to explore multiple futures.

This came directly from user feedback (esp. from Product Hunt). We're now A/B testing UX improvements for easier config and better simulation graphs.

If you’re working with time series under uncertainty (sales, ops, finance), we’d love your feedback: https://app.datastripes.com

Happy to answer technical questions here too.
by szastamasta | 2025-08-15 07:00:19+00:00
I think that we cannot separate it from amount of free cash people have. Inflation, layoffs, etc. People simply want to limit their spending on less important things.

It just has to be cheap enough and you have to have enough free time to pay for media. Not something you can do when your utilities and taxes are 100% up from 3 years ago and you’re constantly boarded with layoff news.
by Kon5ole | 2025-08-15 07:00:39+00:00
>this was done so he could park in disabled spaces

That makes no sense to me. I can't think of a place Jobs would ever drive his car where it would matter if he could park at a disabled spot. He had his own spot at both Apple and his home, where else did he ever park often enough for that to matter?

Personally I believe the explanation that he did it to avoid the ugly license plate. It mirrors how he refused any stickers on the Mac, when all other PC makers had to put the "intel inside" on theirs.
by kristopolous | 2025-08-15 07:01:20+00:00
I have an interesting work around for that in my sidechat tool (https://github.com/day50-dev/sidechat/blob/main/sidechat/sid...)

It's an inversion. Instead of the user selecting and then having to figure things out, they declare an "intention to paste" and then do the selection.

In practical terms, they invoke the "use clipboard" feature then the code probes all the clipboards (tmux/primary/emacs/nvim/clipboard/secondary) and the user selects their text. One (or more) changes. That's the clipboard it's going to use.
by creakingstairs | 2025-08-15 07:01:22+00:00
I’ve taken your approach as well but I did notice that I retain Kanjis that I learn to write significantly more than ones I can just read. But memorising all the Kanjis is a bother.

I found the sweet spot to be writing on a scratch pad as I go through Anki. And not particularly worry about getting writing right too much. Sometimes I’d be confused in my head but my muscle memory would kick in and automatically write the kanji!
by gyomu | 2025-08-15 07:01:23+00:00
The world of music hardware is an interesting one.

You'll meet some amazing musicians who have been touring for decades and are still playing on the same guitar they got for $800 15 years ago.

And you'll meet people who drop 5 figures on synth gear every year and have never put together a single track.

If you're running a business selling electronic music gear, who would you rather target?
by klabb3 | 2025-08-15 07:02:15+00:00
Both that, and that we should not expect LLMs to achieve ability with humans as baseline comparison. It’s as if cars were rapidly getting better due to some new innovation, and expecting them to fly within a year. It’s a new, and different thing, where the universality of ”plausibly sounding” coherent text appeared to be general, when it’s advanced pattern matching. Nothing wrong with that, pattern matching is extremely useful, but drawing the equal sign to human cognition is extremely premature, and a bet that is very likely be wrong.