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Show HN: Word Slicer – browser word game (follow-up, looking for feedback)
by NoArcher888 | 2025-08-26 18:40:17+00:00
I shared Word Slicer here a while back — it’s a free, ad-free, browser-based word game where you try to find 5 words in 5 minutes. Since then I’ve been improving it (daily challenge archive, cleaner UI, better stats), and I’d love more feedback from the HN crowd. In particular, I’m interested in thoughts on the gameplay flow, design/UX, and what would make it more engaging.
by RankingMember | 2025-08-26 18:41:19+00:00
This podcast is one of my favorites to listen to while out riding my bike. Something about the cardio + his way of breaking down the core meaning behind philosophers' works is just a very edifying and enjoyable experience.

I had no idea who Byung-Chul_Han was before listening to this podcast- he has a lot of interesting things to say about the current state of our capitalist society. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byung-Chul_Han )
by dlahoda | 2025-08-26 18:42:26+00:00
we have openapi.

one of openapi methods inputs pk signed binary protobuf message and handles inner result which may be custom error code(after unwrapping http code).

some other openapi method is ws upgrade. data over ws has json schema for messages, but no any api generated. we could have sse and have similar problem.

other teams writes solana contact and generates its client(called anchor).

so we have rust, and generate a lot of ts.

after, somebody glues manually all these parts.

and after somebody supposely adapts these to react.

so out problem not docs, but a lot of manula glue to maintain. which in theory could be ai generated.
by pndy | 2025-08-26 18:42:38+00:00
IIRC Vista had a HIG document to par with Apple's and it's not surprising because they really wanted to change interface and kept it unified. Which worked for the most part but event today, in flat style era there are still 9x widgets deep down below that cannot be rooted out. What they could do was flattening these down.

But with release of Office 2007 and Windows Live suite they started changing interface again and Windows 7 was based upon slight plastic flatness and ribbons all over the place.

There was a community ran project Windows Taskforce that tried to catch up all sorts of interface quirks and with provided mockups they wanted MS to further polish their flagship project between Vista and 7. Sadly all these efforts were gone when MS decided to go Metro in Windows 8.
by Mtinie | 2025-08-26 18:43:12+00:00
> This seems like it could also lead to absurd situations. If a device contained both, would customs pretend it was simultaneously 100% made out of copper and 100% made out of steel and apply both tariffs?

Yes, because it benefits the “here’s how much extra revenue our copper tariffs generate in 2025” sound bites for the Administration to tout (even if they are fabricated numbers based on nonsensical assumptions.)
by Teever | 2025-08-26 18:43:14+00:00
But it really is an 'us or them' situation.

The US is treating everyone else like shit and isolating themselves from the world.

The world is slowly esponding accordingly and reconfiguring to the new reality where the US is unreliable and unfriendly.

While it's a lose/lose this will ultimately hurt the US more than everyone else.

The world isn't going to come to the aid of the US and prop them back up to their place of hegemony when this all goes to shit. The rest of the world is going to pick at the carcass of what was once an inspirational empire.
by alt227 | 2025-08-26 18:43:20+00:00
Apologies I was under the impression that the major OS release was every 2 years, and so I equated 6 years into 3 releases. No need to be quite so rude when you could just factually correct.

However My parents 2017 Macbook pro can only upgrade to Ventura, which is a 2022 release. 5 years and that $2.5k baby was obselete. However rude you are about your defense of Apple, 5-6 years until software starts being unable to install is pretty shitty. I use 30 year old apps daily on windows with no issue.

Looks like defending Apple is the smelly place to be judging by your tone and condescending snark.
by trinsic2 | 2025-08-26 18:43:33+00:00
Yesterday I submitted an article on looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux[0]. I noticed that it was used to promote an AI rendered article on enterprise security. I'm thinking they used it to drive traffic to their site. I'm posting this because I thought it was an interesting way to get the word out to switch to Linux, even if it's AI driven.

[0]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/publications/publication-lookin...
by digdugdirk | 2025-08-26 18:44:08+00:00
Looks like Louisiana is all aboard the "internal colonialism" that seems to be all the rage at the state level lately. In this case, flouting national/international renewable energy policy so the good people of Louisiana can get the long term benefit of... Having to deal with the fallout of another datacentre project?

Come on Louisiana legislature, at least make them pay for resurfacing a highway or something.
by setgree | 2025-08-26 18:44:20+00:00
> While it is still an emerging technology being used only on a modest scale as yet, it does have an advantage over some other renewable energies in that it is available around the clock.

I notice the 'some' here, and the absence of the word 'nuclear' from the article, which of course is also available around the clock. Most readers will know something about Japan's troubled relationship with nuclear power and can fill in that context themselves, but to my eyes, it's a startling omission.
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-26 18:44:24+00:00
I enjoyed your thoughts on people preferring to be right but having competing personal interests.

I have started and stopped writing several chains of thought related to it. But it makes me think about what categories of things we may prefer to be right about. And how they do or do not fit into the model you described. For example, empirical (the elephant weights more than a mouse), pragmatic ("hot water is good for your health" in Chinese culture), moral (murder is bad), etc. "Truth", "being right" etc. are just loaded terms I guess. The claims about being able to function effectively seem largely true for the more empirical stuff but the sort of information silos discussed online draw more idealogical lines.

Also made me think how a nihilist or social constructivist might behave or model things differently. it just seems like if you have a more relativist interpretation of truth, being right and believing in something is just the same thing. So it would be literally impossible for those things to be in conflict (either naturally or from the perspective of the person).
by jakeydus | 2025-08-26 18:44:27+00:00
Honestly you could have just saved us all this time by stating you're a hiring manager up front.

I appreciate your optimism regarding the nature of these postings, but I've seen at multiple companies them doing exactly what they describe in the article - fake job postings to improve their appearance to investors, fake job postings to justify H1B positions, etc. Every time I was at a company that got bought by private equity, the former appeared in huge numbers. As soon as we got acquired, in preparation for downsizing, the latter appeared in huge numbers. So you'll forgive me if "managing job hard :(" doesn't land for those of us who are applying for those jobs that don't exist.
by rdtsc | 2025-08-26 18:44:36+00:00
> They really fail to explain a key point here. The reason you colocate this with a desalination plant is because you use the super-salty wastewater from desalination as the salty side of the osmosis power plant. Then you find some wastewater which is low in salt (such as semi-treated sewage), and use that as the fresh side of the osmosis power plant.

They do hint at it at end:

> “It is also noteworthy that the Japanese plant uses concentrated seawater, the brine left after removal of fresh water in a desalination plant, as the feed, which increases the difference in salt concentrations and thus the energy available.”

And the "fresh" water is also "treated wastewater". That could mean a bunch of things but in most cases it's water that's released into the environment by the water treatment plant. Its quality can be as good as clean water, but most municipalities wouldn't feed that right back to the consumer, they dump in a river or lake instead.
by jordanpg | 2025-08-26 18:44:53+00:00
> But I also have no doubt these decisions aren't being made for the long-term benefit of the US as a whole

Then why are they being made? That is the real question that in my opinion is not being discussed enough. A lot of reacting to what's happening in the US, but not enough pondering about what the real goals are here.

I have my own views about this, which I used to think were somewhat conspiratorial and hyperbolic, but no more.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-26 18:46:46+00:00
Sure, this is a good step. But there's something the government can do that would be much more effective: Make their own job board. California already has this by the way, but it's a bit clunky and is intended for unemployed folks. We need a serious LinkedIn competitor from the government. Just like USPS competes with UPS and Fedex, and keeps them honest, a job board run by the government would raise the quality of all job boards, effectively setting a floor on how anti-user they can be (and we all know, LinkedIn is only a job board ostensibly, it's really a dark pattern factory that nags you to pay a monthly fee for random services almost no one needs).
by immibis | 2025-08-26 18:47:22+00:00
Google has backtracked from requiring HTTPS in Chrome. I repeat: HTTPS is not required. Where did you get that from?

If you're talking about Android, it doesn't require you to use WebPKI CAs. You can go self-signed.

If it's about the search engine, well, that's gone to shit and you'll only be visible if Google likes you in a completely arbitrary way - no point trying to add HTTPS to show up in search results now unless you already do.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-26 18:47:37+00:00
Christianity as an imperial-aligned religion doesn't happen sure, but I'm not sure it falls apart. Jesuism or "The Way," looks a lot more like the Anabaptist traditions, Quakers, Liberation Theology, Christian Anarchism, and secular "Jesus as moral exemplar" movements.

As to the degree that these are falling apart is debatable. They certainly don't have the strong central hierarchy and universalism that Catholic and Protestant sects have, but they seem to endure.
by daseiner1 | 2025-08-26 18:48:21+00:00
speak up, we can barely hear you in the top rows of the grandstands

voters have essentially zero influence over policy and overwhelmingly vote on "vibes". also most people don't care about policy at any level of detail until it directly affects them. is this good? no. true nonetheless. much of why i'm not much of a fan of democracy and i think it's a sham.

i don't think contributing to increased polarization, especially at the level of your neighbors, is something to be proud of.
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-26 18:48:25+00:00
Well.. Way more than 5% of consumption happens in the US. The majority of those 95% is also very poor and can’t afford a lot of of goods (let alone expensive ones).

Meaning that for a lot of businesses, especially those that manufacture goods US is often a very important and hard to replace market.

e.g. What do you think will happen to the profit margins of EU drug companies if Trump actually imposed his tariffs on pharmaceuticals? Besides the size of the US market they also generally charge much higher prices there.
by elbasti | 2025-08-26 18:48:34+00:00
I manufacture steel/aluminum goods for the US and I have direct experience with these tariffs. Let me explain why it must be this way and how it's actually supposed to work. This is not a defense of the tariffs, just an explanation.

First of all, if you want to use tariffs to boost domestic manufacturing, you must also tax the steel/al content of finished (or intermediate) goods. Otherwise, you put your local producers at a disadvantage, making the tariffs worse.

If you only tariff raw materials, then an american manufacturer has to pay either US steel prices or imported steel + tariff to manufacture, but a company overseas can use the cheaper foreign steel.

So if you want to tax raw materials, then you also want to tax those goods where raw materials are an important part of the cost.

The US has a catalog called the "Harmonized Tariff Schedule" (HTS) which is a catalog of basically everything under the sun [0]. When the steel & AL tariffs were announced, they also published a list of all the HTS codes where the steel/al content would also be taxed.

Last week the US published a revised list of HTS codes to which these tariffs apply, and they added about 400 items to them. For example, the aluminum content of cans is now taxed when it wasn't before.

Flexport has a very cool (and useful!) tariff simulator where you can look up any item and it will tell you if the steel/al content will be subject to these tariffs: https://tariffs.flexport.com

[0]: https://hts.usitc.gov/
by ssharp | 2025-08-26 18:49:02+00:00
Every tool I've tinkered with that hints at one-shotting (or one-shot and then refine) ends up with a messy app that might be 60-70% of what you're looking for but since the foundation is not solid, you're never going to get the extra 30-40% of your initial prompt, let the multiples of work needed to bolt of future functionality.

Compare that to the approach you're using (which is what I'm also doing), and you're able have have AI stay much closer to what you're looking for, be less prone to damaging hallucinations, and also guide it to a foundation that's stable. The downside is that it's a lot more work. You might multiply your productivity by some single digit.

To me, that 2nd approach is much more reasonable than trying to 100x your productivity but actually end up getting less done because you end up stuck in a rabbit hole you don't know you're in and you'll never refine your way out of it.
by drewbeck | 2025-08-26 18:49:18+00:00
Whenever people say that Apple is behind on AI, I think about stories like this. Is this the Siri people want? And if it is easy to prevent, why didn't OpenAI?

Some companies actually have a lot to lose if these things go off the rails and can't just 'move fast and break things' when those things are their customers, or the trust their customers have in them.

My hope is that OpenAI actually does have a lot to lose; my fear is that the hype and the sheer amount of capital behind them will make them immune from real repercussions.
by veidr | 2025-08-26 18:49:19+00:00
I don't know for sure, either, but I suspect any recent Macbook with 16GB RAM would be a significant upgrade over 14700H.

I don't like macOS, so in recent years, I only use it on laptop (which for me is like, a few on-site meetings per year, plus a few airplane flights). What infuriates me is that my mid-tier Mac laptop for those use cases is now significantly faster than any Linux workstation I can possibly buy... and positively annihilates any non-Apple laptop machine on essentially every meaningful benchmark.
by pcfwik | 2025-08-26 18:49:38+00:00
> This is the leverage paradox. New technologies give us greater leverage to do more tasks better. But because this leverage is usually introduced into competitive environments, the result is that we end up having to work just as hard as before (if not harder) to remain competitive and keep up with the joneses.

Off-topic, but in biology circles I've heard this type of situation (where "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place" because your competitors are constantly improving as well) called a "Red Queen's race" and really like the picture that analogy paints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
by cameldrv | 2025-08-26 18:49:47+00:00
I think that the difficulty for Intel is that they don't seem to attract the best talent anymore like they did 20 years ago. A big part of the job of running a leading edge fab is solving a lot of very tricky technical problems, and a lot less of those people work at Intel than used to. There are feedback loops in these things. The top people want to work with other top people. To some degree you can try to find those people and just offer them tons of money, which is what seemingly happened with Jim Keller (on the logic rather than the fab side, but still), but then he went and quit shortly thereafter.

Without the right people at the company, you can dump almost infinite money at a problem and still not solve it.
by unethical_ban | 2025-08-26 18:50:14+00:00
I like the framework and I like Fedora KDE. However the battery life, thanks to AMD and Intel, is horrible in comparison.

I can easily do 10-12 hours on my M4 MBP. My framework AMD 13 can do maybe half that if I have it on power save mode and I don't do anything heavy.

The keyboard is good, speakers are meh, track pad is not as good as Mac. Form factor is good.
by miltonlost | 2025-08-26 18:50:34+00:00
That's not what I was saying with my comment. There was no implication I want to go back to 1890s pre-labor rights. How did "raw materials should be cheap if you want to encourage manufacturing" get to "get rid of labor laws!!!". Your reading comprehension needs to be higher. Stating a basic economic principle does not imply the erosion of labor protections.
by jandrese | 2025-08-26 18:50:52+00:00
I understand where they are coming from. Otherwise you will definitely have people who take a metric ton of copper and slap a sticker on the side and declare that they are shipping stickers around to avoid the tariff. Of course a sane policy would be to have a "trace amounts" option in the tariff if your product contains less than a kg or less than 1% by mass of the stuff to avoid the paperwork, but the people who set this up are the kind of people who worry more about what criminals do than what productive people do. It's just plain badly designed regulation.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-26 18:50:59+00:00
Dang, there goes my plan to smuggle RTX 3090s into the country in jelly jars!

(For government agents: The above is a "joke", you surely have been introduced to this concept before they gave you the government brain chip, if not, here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke)
by general1726 | 2025-08-26 18:51:04+00:00
Yes they would 200% of product won't be a problem for them.

Furthermore as I know customs, the moment you will start making stuff up in a too brazen way, they will just use Google, search some average price of products and use that instead what you are declaring.

Sometimes it looks like they are getting a cut from amount of tariff they successfully scalp from you.
by dehugger | 2025-08-26 18:51:40+00:00
I work for a company that owns three different helmet brands. All of them sell MIPS helmets on our US ecomm websites and have for years. In fact, one saved from what could have been a severe injury this spring (a car pulled in front of me while I was riding an electric scooter at speed).

You dont need to do anything special to get a MIPS helmet in the US.
by toddmorey | 2025-08-26 18:51:51+00:00
Remember in image editing, the source image itself is a huge part of the prompt, and that's often the source of the ambiguity. The model may clearly understand your prompt to change the color of a shirt, but struggle to understand the boundaries of the shirt. I was just struggling to use AI to edit an image where the model really wanted the hat in the image to be the hair of the person wearing it. My guess for that bias is that it had just been trained on more faces without hats than with them on.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-26 18:52:21+00:00
I read all the Byte magazines until I stopped near the end of the eighties.. and the reason was as you indicated. The articles went from being about programming techniques, new languages, interesting hardware, CPUs, to instead be reviews of commercial software, and boring software at that. Actually Byte wasn't alone here.. nearly every magazine ended up the same (e.g. another one I read from the very first issue - the British magazine Personal Computer World), and died.
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-26 18:52:21+00:00
"For the new ecosystem to win, it needs to have its own user base for companies building apps to recognize it."

…And strong and effective antitrust legislation in place to stop current monopolies like Google from crushing small startups.

Trouble is, despite governments paying lip service to wanting competition in this arena they really don't want competition at all, especially so from small startups.

Look at it this way, controlling and handling a few big companies is much easier for governments than having to deal with a plethora especially so when many are small startups; and second, it's also easier for them to extract user data from Big Tech's operations (as Big Tech is predictable and they've been doing so for a long time)—than it it would be from many small startups, especially so when the products they're planning to manufacture are aimed at improving privacy and adding encryption.

Think of the current UK and Apple debacle and governments' motives for not being proactive become abundantly clear.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-08-26 18:52:23+00:00
I’m an old school Cocoa dev. I even wrote the UI for a bunch of the built in apps on your iPhone.

I love SwiftUI. I know it inside and out and I’ve talked to its creators. It’s not “done” yet but it is a joy to use. And its power is in saving you from doing “the other 80%” of the work for all the myriad a11y jobs most people don’t bother doing.

Yes of course it panders to web devs. Apple has the same problem MSFT did when webapps with js were invented: if good software can exist in the browser, who cares what OS you have?

SwiftUI is existential for Apple. They are betting the farm on it and Liquid Glass in the hope that native apps are more appealing to users than web apps.

Apple dies if everyone moves to a Google desktop and mobile stack.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-08-26 18:52:31+00:00
There's something I've never understood about resource extraction and globalization, maybe you could help.

If the US has a ton of Lithium but finds it too expensive to extract, why not buy it now while it's cheap, wait for it to become rarer in other countries so more expensive, and only extract it once it's worth it (or close to worth it)?