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by steve_adams_86 | 2025-08-19 21:46:05+00:00
> Powered is when you can define multiple simple custom shortcuts

You nailed it. It drives me insane that FF and Zen are unable to be customized. A huge appeal for me with Arc was that suddenly I could use my keyboard more using shortcuts that made sense.

Arc does allow customization as well: https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/20595231349911-K...

I'm off of Arc due to the lack of maintenance and decreasing efficiency; it kills my laptop's battery remarkably quickly and it's kind of crazy to bother with it anymore.

edit: I'm an idiot. Zen has a settings pane for keyboard shortcuts. This is great: https://docs.zen-browser.app/user-manual/shortcuts

I think I tested Zen in early 2024 and it looks like shortcuts were revamped in mid-2024. Time flies.
by vannevar | 2025-08-19 21:46:16+00:00
>I read your other comment with the numbers and I don't think it makes the amazing difference you seem to.

Maybe you're looking more at the article headline, which implies the author was focused on the study results. The thrust of the article isn't that the programs are ineffective (in fact, toward the end of the article she's quite optimistic that isn't the case). Her problem is that the results are overstated. But one of the prime examples she cites to support that idea does not actually support it. Denver claimed significance, and the study results support their claim.

>The table you quote from the final study doesn't include the people who were lost, only those who filled out both surveys, T1 and T3. So using it to say they helped a greater percent of people is a bit weird.

Why is that weird? The percentage of the test group who found housing is significantly higher than control. We don't know what happened to the people who dropped out---the worst case scenario is that none of them found housing, which leaves the stats as they are.

>So what am i missing? Why should I look at these results and think it is amazing?

They didn't claim it was amazing, they claimed it was significant. The author implied they were lying. They were not. That's what you're missing.
by h2zizzle | 2025-08-19 21:46:43+00:00
Any mention of lost archaeology these days reminds me of the LiDAR surveys being down in Mexico and South America that are finding not just lost cities, but entire lost metropolitan areas (with suburbs, trade routes in between, etc.). It makes me wonder if there are analogues in places like West and Central Africa. A YouTube video I'd watched about African architecture posited that there is probably much to be discovered, as the quality of vernacular housing doesn't seem to match the pride in craftsmanship of other artifacts. Turkey is, historically, one of the most consistently populated places on the planet, going back into antiquity, so if large structures there (even purposely hidden ones) can go lost for literal millennia, how lucky would one have to be to stumble upon one in more sparsely-populated regions?
by nostrademons | 2025-08-19 21:46:46+00:00
This is a "hard money to stocks" ratio. The normal S&P 500 is essentially a measure of how much cash do you expect American companies to generate relative to competing investments (represented as the discount rate). By pricing it in gold, you tease out the effect of dollar devaluation and inflation. Some fraction of those earnings will be because the dollar is worth less and so companies can charge more, but this affects both future earnings and the dollars you use to buy the stocks. If you measure in gold used to buy the stocks, you eliminate the denominator there, teasing out present inflation.

That the ratio is not as high as the raw S&P 500 indicates that a significant component of the S&P 500's high valuation is because investors consider the dollar to be worth less, and expect that it will be worth even less in the future. However, that the ratio is better than it was in say the 1970s suggests that investors believe there is still a significant amount of real productivity in American companies and it's not all inflation.

One key assumption here is that gold = hard money. If gold is considered a speculative asset like Bitcoin (again assuming Bitcoin is not hard money, which is uncertain in 2025), one which is traded only by a small number of enthusiasts, then the ratio may measure speculative fluctuation in the value of gold more than any useful quantity.
by rimbo789 | 2025-08-19 21:46:46+00:00
The volume of containers is unimaginably huge.

Take the Evergiven. It can fit ~20k containers. A “quick” check each going 2 minutes would add 40k minutes to loading, or 667 hours or 27 days. A month basically.

In a world where time is money no way they are checking all containers.
Show HN: Wonder – AI-native design tool on canvas
by yegemberdin | 2025-08-19 21:47:14+00:00
Hi everyone! I wanted to share something wonderful we've been working on for the past months.

We found a way to leverage AI to make designs on a canvas, and we're building a design tool that can help with various tasks, from exploring different UX flows, layouts to complex tasks like building your design system.

If you are a designer or worked with designs in the past, we would love to get your feedback on what things can be useful for you!

We will be launching it with select people soon and hope that we can bring value to the design community.
by TLDRisk | 2025-08-19 21:47:27+00:00
Domain expiration is something that's more complicated than most people realize. As an example, I'm not sure if there's a definitive source stating that auto-renew grace is part of the ERRP. In my opinion it's not and the ERRP typically won't trigger for high value domains because they'll be sold or auctioned by the registrar instead.

As far as I know, the ERRP rules describe the policies for the deletion of expired domains, which isn't required, so working off the auto-renew grace status was a good choice here. Most people don't realize that expired domains aren't guaranteed to go through the ERRP lifecycle [1].

> You should be aware that during the auto-renew period, the domain name may be available to third parties for registration, depending on your registrar's terms of service. You may also run the risk of having your domain name auctioned to a third party by your registrar during this period (depending on your terms of service)

The process described here sounds like a pretty reasonable approach to a hard problem. It won't catch everything, but it's a good approach and it's nice to see some effort put into the issue.

1. https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/registrant-about-errp-...
by exe34 | 2025-08-19 21:47:48+00:00
I think I can allow it for nixos, which is such a pain in the ass (I say that affectionately) that it merits the accolade. it's an os made of nix the language and nixpkgs the package manager. it happens to use the Linux kernel and a lot of gnu stuff, so maybe it could still be called a distribution, but it's so unlike 99% of what's out there.
by IgorPartola | 2025-08-19 21:47:58+00:00
This is the Intek single cylinder 500cc that is rated for 16-18hp depending on who you get it from (though internally they are all the same). I do think it is newer but not that new. Their V twins are apparently a bit more bulletproof though I haven’t taken mine apart to check. That’s the one that catches fire now due to bad wiring.
by phyzome | 2025-08-19 21:48:19+00:00
Disconcerting amount of AI-slop images on that page... not good for one of the first things I notice about a web page to be "why are the images so weird".

(I'm also not keen to follow Max to another project... they fucked up OKCupid pretty badly, and Keybase never actually had a business model, with predictable results, so I have to imagine FOKS is going to get enshittified somehow as well.)
by Nextgrid | 2025-08-19 21:48:28+00:00
But there is no cryptography or any kind of identity verification involved in "signing" such an agreement. If I know your IBAN I can subscribe to such an agreement on your behalf.

I'm not sure about Europe, but at least in the UK, what makes such a system secure is that the account holder can reverse any "pull" transaction for over a month, with the merchant being on the hook. So it reduces the incentive to exploit it (or at least shifts the risk off the account holder), to a level where it's pretty much never done.
by shiomiru | 2025-08-19 21:48:33+00:00
Right. If anything, it's the opposite: removing XSLT reduces the complexity of existing browsers, allowing new ones to catch up faster.

To me it seems that some people just really like using XSLT, and don't want it gone. Which is fair, but it also has nothing to do with the web's openness - yes, Google has far too much power, but XSLT isn't helping.
by techcode | 2025-08-19 21:49:31+00:00
There are other tax exemptions in Croatia that might still make it worth it - especially in FIRE setting.

While say The Netherlands taxes your investments such as Stocks/ETFs (not their earnings/capital-gain/etc but literally just owning stocks/ETFs/etc) - in Croatia those are not taxed after you've held them for 1 or 2 years (don't recall if 1 or 2).

Similar (owning stocks/ETFs not taxed) in Serbia, Malta, Cyprus ...etc.
by geocar | 2025-08-19 21:50:21+00:00
> Loading one page is probably faster that loading a template and only after that loading the data with the second request, given that the network latency can be pretty high

XSLT is XML: It can be served with the XML as a single request.

You don't have any idea what you're talking about.

> That's why Google serves (served?) its main page as a single file and not as multiple HTML/CSS/JS files.

Google.com used to be about a kilobyte. Now it's 100kb. I think it's absolutely clear Google either doesn't have the first idea how to make things fast, or doesn't care.
by tombert | 2025-08-19 21:51:08+00:00
This actually looks pretty neat, particularly the integration with Flatpak.

One thing that confused me when I first went to Linux a million years ago was the difference in how you install stuff. With Windows you download an exe file, double click it, next next next finish, and you have your app installed.

With Linux, every distro is slightly different and it's almost never quite as straightforward to people. I think Flatpak has the potential to bring that kind of Windows-style of installation to the masses, and it always kind of annoyed me that Ubuntu doesn't embrace Flatpak outta the box.
by sophacles | 2025-08-19 21:51:13+00:00
Both articles were published today. It seems to me that the researchers and coderabbit agreed to publish on the same day. This is a common practice when the company decides to disclose at all (disclosure is not required unless customer data was leaked and there's evidence of that, they are choosing to disclose unnecessarily here).

When the security researchers praise the response, it's a good sign tbh.
by potatoman22 | 2025-08-19 21:51:38+00:00
Evidence for safe and fair AI systems is possible as long as you define what "safe" and "fair" mean for your usecase. Fairness might look like "no cohort has >5% higher false positive rate than another" and safety might mean "the model must have a false negative rate of less than 15%". Safety more so encompasses the workflows around the model, including human intervention, auditing, monitoring, etc.

Here's a good overview of fairness: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/con... and there's plenty of papers discussing how to safely use predictive analytics and AI in healthcare.

I don't know if this product can give proof for safe and fair ML systems, but it's not impossible to use these things safely and fairly.
by kickingvegas | 2025-08-19 21:52:43+00:00
Nostalgia no more! Midnight Commander/4DOS style file management can be achieved with Emacs Dired today and then some.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di...

For your consideration, I built a keyboard-driven menu interface for Dired called Casual to help with discovery. https://kickingvegas.github.io/casual/Dired.html
by jeffchuber | 2025-08-19 21:53:09+00:00
Qdrant team is also smart!

The main reason we have seen people switch from Qdrant to Chroma is for operational simplicity and reliability. With Qdrant you have to size nodes, manage sharding, be oncall, etc - with Chroma there is literally 0 config or operational pain. Search, that just works!
by Jubijub | 2025-08-19 21:53:10+00:00
+1. I worked on an internal corporate eCommerce in 2005 built entirely on DOM + XSLT to create the final HTML. It was an atrocious pain in the neck to maintain (despite being server side so the browser never had to deal with the XSLT). Unless you still manipulate XML and need to transform it in various other formats through XSLT/XSL-FO, I don’t see why anyone would bother with it. It always cracks me up when people « demand » support for features hardly ever used for which they won’t spend a dime or a minute to help
by duxup | 2025-08-19 21:53:14+00:00
It's always hard to get a feel for how many people in these stories are currently employees.

I've worked enough places that I've even half agreed with some passionate folks, but wanted nothing to do with their exact actions and escalation.

Lots of situations where "You can't treat us this way <insert issue>, we're going to <something curious>!" And I'm more along the line "Man I just want the schedule to come out a bit earlier... this isn't worth going to the mattresses for at this point."

I recall when stories of google employees forming groups with some interesting points of view were circulating and folks on HN who claimed to work at google basically indicated something like "Naw it's just a few people in that chat and everyone else avoids them."

That's not a commentary on these people's opinions or views, more on how hard it is to know what IS going on inside a company and the real range of views of those employees.
by p1necone | 2025-08-19 21:53:16+00:00
There's currently a large amount of non-technical Windows users who are being told Windows 10 is going to be no longer supported, and the only way for them to switch to Windows 11 is to buy a brand new device.

Anecdotally these people are less resistant to moving to Linux instead than you'd think, and having a distro which looks exactly like windows would be useful. Although I've just been recommending Kubuntu - KDE Plasma is already pretty close to Windows, and likely to be supported for a long time unlike this.

Getting off topic now, but I think this forced sunsetting of hardware by MS is a huge misstep - desktop/laptop PCs are no longer the necessity they used to be, I feel like a large proportion of people are going to choose to switch to just using their phone/tablet full time instead of buying a new Windows PC or installing Linux. Combined with their seemingly intentional devaluing of the xbox brand they seem to be hellbent on destroying everything that gives them mindshare with regular people.
by bitpush | 2025-08-19 21:53:33+00:00
> If companies claim to “take your security seriously”, then SSO should be available as a feature that is either:

>> - part of the core product, or

>> - an optional paid extra for a reasonable delta, or attached to a price tier, but with a reasonably small gap between the non-SSO tier and SSO tiers.

>> - Many vendors charge 2x, 3x, or 4x the base product pricing for access to SSO, which disincentivizes its use and encourages poor security practices.

----

I dont follow the logic. Food and shelter are a human rights, but that doesnt mean you can walk into a restaurant and insist that food be served at $dream price, or walk into Home Depot and take premium plywood and pay basic/entry level price.
by quickthrowman | 2025-08-19 21:53:42+00:00
Residences and rental units are not required to be ADA compliant. A multi-tenant residential building must be ADA compliant in the common and public areas of the building.

For residential rental units, landlords must make ‘reasonable accommodations, unless they would impose undue financial or administrative burden,’ which means if you get paralyzed while renting an apartment that isn’t ADA compliant you’re probably fucked unless you can afford to add a ramp yourself, and pay to have it removed when you leave. Adding a wheelchair ramp would be an undue financial burden, so a landlord isn’t required to add one. Replacing the door to a unit with a 36” wide door would likely not be considered an undue financial burden, so if you live in a building with ADA compliant public spaces and elevators, you’re probably OK since the landlord will likely install a larger door.

Government owned housing is required to be ADA compliant.
by cj | 2025-08-19 21:54:46+00:00
I’m not saying it’s a bad idea.

Only saying it won’t satisfy the people who don’t like the “SSO tax”.

There’s no difference between giving someone a discount vs. charging them less in the first place without a discount.

It’s semantics. It wouldn’t actually change what people end up paying at the end of the day. It’s just framed as a discount instead of an upsell.

Like if airline charged first class prices, but gave a “discount” for accepting an economy seat. (Same thing, just framed differently)
by sschnei8 | 2025-08-19 21:54:53+00:00
I love a semantic layer as much as the next guy...

Pivoting a decent sized BI shop toward using one instead of splashing the same SQL all over the place is *tough*. It's one of those: "the analyst could have been building important report for director and you want them to create re-usable logic??? we'll do that later, get report done now. Just copy/paste that SQL over here"

This is how you end up with the the 1000 model, "the numbers don't match up", hot mess situations that gain momentum and are hard to slow down.
by neilv | 2025-08-19 21:56:08+00:00
> As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions.

And that should be treated as a massive liability, where one breach wipes out your company with lawsuits. And the wronged parties can go after the assets of executives and maybe even investors, due to willful criminal negligence.

If there's any justice, the "greed is good" techbro industry will finally be told that the sociopathic combination of systemic surveillance/stalking and gross indifference about even basic security is over.
by prinny_ | 2025-08-19 21:56:31+00:00
As a Firefox user I could also say the same for other Firefox users. Every time profiles are mentioned and people mention containers it feels like they don’t get the use case. I want a dev profile with dev book marks and a daily profile with my non dev bookmarks. And I would also like dev plugins on one profile and different themes between these profiles. I believe this is something containers can’t offer.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-19 21:56:50+00:00
I don’t want to overly generalise because there aren’t such things as absolutes with programming. But this was the thinking behind my comment:

If you have dozens of methods then that might be an indicator that your object is too large in size and thus consumes too much memory even for simple tasks.

It also might be a symptom that you’re trying to do too much with that object so perhaps some methods should be generalised, if possible.

Or maybe the object is already too generalised and what you actually need is a more specific object that inherits some of the initial objects design?

It might be that some of those methods should have been private, or even functions.

Ultimately, it could be an indicator that the object is either badly designed or has evolved to the point that it’s now ready for a refactor.

But it could also be the most optimal way to approach that problem too. In some situations. However it’s a good point to pause and reflect on whether the pain/reward threshold has been crossed.
by cardanome | 2025-08-19 21:58:58+00:00
Yeah but for these people Linux Mint is the clear recommendation. Cinnamon is pretty close to the traditional Desktop they know.

For non-technical users you want something mainstream with a big community. Sure, for me AnduinOS not being very popular would not be an issue because of the Ubuntu base and me knowing what to search for but for beginners it is better to stick something where it is easy to get help for.
by gt0 | 2025-08-19 21:59:30+00:00
I find it strange how we talk about "visions" for companies like they are real things. Like when a company has a "mission" or a "vision", do people actually think that's real?

There is no vision other than making money, and I don't mean that as a rail against capitalism, it's just simply how it is. Steve Jobs didn't even let his own kids use iPads, I don't think Steve Jobs felt the iPad had any value other than monetary.

I like the iPad as a device, but there is no "vision" there, there is no overriding view of the future of computing or anything like that. It's a product. A nice product, but there is no vision, from Jobs or anybody else.
by rkomorn | 2025-08-19 22:00:39+00:00
I don't have any experience with making fraudulent transactions, but I at least had to prove who I was when signing up for recurring transactions (so the fraud would've been effectively in my name), and I also see all my authorizations in my bank app (and I can remove them at any time).

In the US, I'd be more worried about a one-time fraudulent ACH withdrawal than a recurring payment situation.

I don't see a similar risk here. It seems like there are more hoops to go through to make a pull transaction?
by nelox | 2025-08-19 22:01:49+00:00
It is hard to see the point of employees occupying their own company’s headquarters to protest contracts with Israel. Microsoft is not a government and it does not set foreign policy. It is a technology firm with clients that include many countries, including allies of the United States. Israel is one of those allies. Refusing to sell software or cloud services to Israel would not bring peace, it would simply undermine Microsoft’s ability to serve a lawful customer in line with international trade rules.

The workers demanding this kind of boycott ignore that Israel is a democratic state facing real security threats. They also ignore that their salaries and benefits come from contracts just like the ones they want cancelled. If every group of employees claimed veto power over which governments or companies their employer can serve, no global business could function.

There is also a basic issue of consistency. No one is occupying Microsoft offices over contracts with China, Saudi Arabia, or other states with serious human rights problems. Singling out Israel reveals that this is not a principled stand on universal rights, but a political campaign against one country. Employees are free to hold those views privately, but staging a disruptive occupation of their workplace crosses a line. It undermines trust, damages productivity, and forces colleagues into political disputes they did not sign up for.

If workers want to change foreign policy, the proper place is the ballot box, not the office lobby.