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by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-25 17:39:18+00:00
I mean yeah it would turn into 4chan since 4chan is also a anonymous board similar to this...

But what's wild is that when you say it always turns into 4chan, everyone knows that it means something bad, something bs.

the fact that 4chan has such a bad reputation is absolutely valid though, there is no denying of it, and maybe these other experiments also prove it that such reputation maybe exists because of the reason that the underlying system is flawed regarding anonymity, but that's just my hunch.

I like anonymity as an ideal, but 4chan (anonymity irl) not so much...
by jjmarr | 2025-08-25 17:39:39+00:00
The challenge is that there's an indeterminable point at which the "cheese" stops being an integral part of the burger.

For a "cheeseburger" cheese is obviously integral. For a Big Mac, it's less clear but a "plain" Big Mac usually includes cheese.

For a fancy place's "deluxe Wagyu beef burger" that has cheese/truffles/a bunch of other stuff, a "plain" version will likely not have cheese.
by milesvp | 2025-08-25 17:40:05+00:00
Even better when the customer just plain orders the wrong thing. I have a vivid memory of my pregnant wife and I at breakfast one morning, and she ordered apple juice. When the waiter brought apple juice she said she’d ordered orange, and when the waitress looked confused, I had to remind my wife she’d ordered apple. Total brain fart on her part (pregnancy brain seems to be a very real thing). Waitress didn’t care, especially after we laughed it off, and brought orange. But I know I’ve undoubtedly done the same thing, so I’m patient with mixups.
by kylemaxwell | 2025-08-25 17:40:16+00:00
These look like fun technology, but I don’t even know what the use cases would be anymore. I don’t need something to control my lights: I have an actual light switch for that. I don’t have endless terabytes of media that I need to serve within my household, so I just don’t know anymore what I would use this stuff for. Twenty or thirty years ago, I loved having a home lab, but these days I’m just not sure what I would do with it.
by alt227 | 2025-08-25 17:40:53+00:00
Yep, but then the laptop just becomes a screen and keyboard and can be the cheapest on the market. Remoting into your desktop to code is much more efficient than actually coding on a laptop, especially if you care about compile time. Then you can even set something compiling, shut your laptop and jump on your bike home, and have it done by the time you get there!
by wishfish | 2025-08-25 17:40:57+00:00
Looks like they'll be trying out the console / small box form factor again.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Valve-Fremont-Upcoming-console...

I'm glad they are. There's probably a sizeable market for a console that runs PC games smoothly at 1080. And could double as a PC. If they get it to the size of an XBox Series S or smaller, I would probably get one.
by tgtweak | 2025-08-25 17:41:09+00:00
You can do that with normal pipes buried 5+ft underground that pull air into the greenhouse - the earth's temperature regulates the cold in the cooler months and the heat in the warmer months. There are similar calculations for how much piping you need to sustain a certain volume of air at earth temperature (typically 15'C in most places). This is shallow geothermal.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-25 17:41:27+00:00
>First of all, medieval style punishments is not an acceptable answer.

Why? just because you put your foot down it's not acceptable? Think about it from another perspective. Think in terms of effectiveness rather than compassion. If compassion results in shit holes like SF, while strict punishment results in singapore. You can't argue with results.

Like I get your argument. Everyone gets it. Solutions cannot however just be about compassion. You need to consider compassion and effectiveness in tandem.

If pedophilia resulted in torture and the death penalty, I assure you, it will be reduced by a significant amount. You're much more likely to support this. In fact, I would argue that you have little compassion for the pedophile over the scammer.

It's not as if human morality is clear cut and rational. It's irrational, and lack of compassion is applied more to the pedophile who himself can't help his condition. Additionally there are cases of pedophilia where the victim and the perpetrator eventually got married.

So really just relying on compassion alone isn't going to cut it. You need to see effectiveness, and know when to apply medieval punishments. Because in all seriousness Singapore is a really great city; you can't deny that and you can't deny what it took for it to become that way.
by throwway120385 | 2025-08-25 17:41:52+00:00
Who follows recipes to produce every meal that they eat, anyway? I just look in the fridge, select some vegetables and a protein, and bang that together into something edible using spices or condiments most nights. But I'm not going to outsource that to my fridge because I'm a lot faster at thinking through all of that then my fridge would be. I do it entirely without thinking.
by skywal_l | 2025-08-25 17:41:54+00:00
Had to use my old TI 89 one day. Haven't used it in 10 years. Took it out of storage, put in 4 AAA usb-c rechargable batteries, worked like a charm. Could you do the same with your hard to replace custom battery?

Any consumer electronic using standard format batteries is superior by default. Because 10 or 20 years from now, it still have brand new full batteries lying around.
by numpy-thagoras | 2025-08-25 17:42:05+00:00
Alright, I'll bite:

To defend Wildberger a bit (because I am an ultrafinitist) I'd like to state first that Wildberger has poor personal PR ability.

Now, as programmers here, you are all natural ultrafinitists as you work with finite quantities (computer systems) and use numerical methods to accurately approximate real numbers.

An ultrafinitist says that that's really all there is to it. The extra axiomatic fluff about infinities existing are logically unnecessary to do all the heavy lifting of the math that we are familiar with. Wildberger's point (and the point of all ultrafinitist claims) is that it's an intellectual and pedagogical disservice to teach and speak of, e.g. Real Numbers, as if they're actually involving infinite quantities that you can never fully specify. We are always going to have to confront the numerical methods part, so it's better to make teaching about numbers methodologically aligned with how we actually measure and use them.

I have personally been working on building various finite equivalents to familiar math. I recommend anyone to read Radically Elementary Probability Theory by Nelson to get a better sense of how to do finite math, at least at the theoretical level. Once again, on a practical level to do with directly computing quantities, we've only ever done finite math.
by zahlman | 2025-08-25 17:42:11+00:00
> Go ahead, flag this message so it will disappear and no other persons will be ever know it existed. That's the HN way.

Commentary like this is a reason to flag posts in and of itself.

But the rest of your post presents far more rhetoric and conspiratorial thinking (including bringing in entirely unrelated policies that nobody ITT is arguing for) than analysis, evidence or even logical reasoning.

> 'Battery storage' has no scalable reason to exist as a topic except for a millionaire's survival enclave. Natural disasters span days and weeks NOT hours.

An experiment to try: fully charge your cell phone or some other similar device, then turn it off and leave it off. How long into the future do you expect you'll be able to turn it on again without another recharge? You might be surprised.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-25 17:42:30+00:00
>China has been posturing forever on Taiwan being a part of China.

And yet they continue to just posture instead of doing it.

The US does maintain a small military presence in Taiwan already. Answer me this: if the US is so heavily dependent on Taiwan _not_ being part of China, then why would they let them take it?

US bringing chip manufacturing in country weakens Taiwan’s position and only then will China take it, when it feels safe from retaliation from the US.
by rkagerer | 2025-08-25 17:42:50+00:00
Counterpoints:

- Specs are too limited for my needs (storage capacity for backup / home NAS purposes; compute power for local AI work; throughput for local high speed network traffic shaping; etc)

- can't upgrade over time (right now I'm averaging 15 years for my boxes, with incremental upgrades like storage, RAID adapters, memory, CPU etc, and I don't need to go through the days-long hassle of reformatting, reinstalling and reconfiguring OS's, services and software).

- less supported over time (I can still download driver upgrades in some cases, and find solutions if I run into something unexpected as the vendor is still in business and supporting the legacy model).

Full sized machines aren't difficult to build, and I've had great luck with second hand enterprise-targeted parts (eg. for a long time years back, used Mellanox Infiniband cards were dirt cheap on eBay because universities were upgrading to later generations, they were an order of magnitude faster than NIC's available at competing price points at the time, and as a bonus had lower latency). Older Areca RAID cards were great for SATA drives, easily upgradeable to new models, and I still have a few kicking around in production today.

Meanwhile neighbors have thrown out piles of ewaste and wasted time after their commodity junk failed unexpectedly.
by coryrc | 2025-08-25 17:43:19+00:00
It's already done and proven to work further North than anywhere in the USA:

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

We (USA) could have 80% of our Northern homes off fossil fuel and electric heat for less cost if we were a little more forward thinking and willing to work together.

But after nearly two decades they're decommissioning because the one-off components needed too much NRE to refurbish. If we all adopted this it'd be cheaper than what we pay today and zero greenhouse gas emissions. It'd finally make living in the temperate climates more climate-friendly than the warmer latitudes.
by cyberax | 2025-08-25 17:43:27+00:00
> If we could just create hot and cold piles or underground wells or something that we could tap into 4 months later when the temperature has changed, you would have completely solved heating and cooling.

This is literally what ground-loop heatpumps are doing. The ground loop is used as an energy source in winter, and since water is always at 0C, the heat pump efficiency can always be around 500%. And vice versa in summer.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-25 17:43:46+00:00
I'm on an MX Anywhere 3S and overall I'm a fan. The killer feature for me is the Bolt receiver being able to pair to both the mouse and the MX Mechanical Mini keyboard and being able to have a second receiver that both devices can switch to. Unfortunately they have to be switched over individually rather than following each other (and the mouse's switch button is underneath), but still, this is a pretty killer configuration that I haven't seen offered elsewhere.

For clarity, I plug my main receiver into my workstation and use Synergy to take the M&K over to an adjacent laptop in software, but the secondary receiver is useful when testing installers for NUC, Jetson, etc. Basically I've got a bare metal device on my desk plugged into a mini monitor and with one little dongle I can trivially get my keyboard/mouse on that device including in a preboot environment like the EFI firmware.
by Bender | 2025-08-25 17:44:08+00:00
Banning flag burning will be thrown out again. [1] Whats more this is in conflict with the proper means of destroying a damaged flag. [2][k]

(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

Also as an American and a US Veteran of the armed forces I support the right to burn a flag and not be shot for it. If anything it shows the strength and resilience of a country to support dissent rather than fearing it. I expect my leaders to be fearless. And for those opposing flag burning, be happy your dissenters are self identifying. If a person really hates a country they reside in then they should leave it as soon as possible and never return otherwise they are just throwing a tantrum or seeking attention. Have some comfort in knowing these people are likely just sheep that have been manipulated by agent provocateurs to sow division as part of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) [3].

If people do not have a burn permit one can and should use a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. Fire safety starts with you.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_desecration#United_States

[2] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare
by whartung | 2025-08-25 17:44:30+00:00
I love Unix.

It's my favorite OS.

And I like it for its fundamental process model.

That combined with stdin/out and pipes.

All stitched together with a process aware shell.

Lots (most) OSes had a process concept. But in Unix, they not only existed, they were everywhere, they were dynamic, and they were "cheap". They were user accessible. A process with its ubiquitous stdin/out interface gave us great composablilty. We can click the processes together like legos.

For example, VMS had processes. But after 4 years of using it, I never tossed processes around using it like I did on Unix. I never "shelled out" of an editor. I never & something into the background. Just never came up. One terminal, one process.

On Unix, however, oh yea. Pipe construct on the command line, bang out of the editor, :r! in vi. And the eco-system the was created out of this simple concept. The "Unix Way(tm)".

And anything was a process. A C program. A shell script. At this level, everything was a "system language".

Then, They (those Unix wizard folks) made networking a well behaved citizen in this process stdin/out world. `inetd` could turn ANYTHING (because everything had stdin/out) into a network server. This command is magic: `ls | cpio -ov | rsh otherhost cat > /dev/tape`

Does `ls` know anything about file archives? No. Does `cpio` know anything about networking, or tape drives? No. Heck, `cat` doesn't know anything about tape drives.

You just could not, back in the day, plumb processes and computers together trivially like you could with Unix. Humans could do this. They didn't need to be wizard status, "admins", guys in white coats locked in the raised floor rooms, huffing Halon on the side. Assuming you could grok the arcane syntaxes (which, absolutely, were legion), you could make Unix do amazing things.

This flexibility allowed me to make all sorts of Rube-Goldbergian constructs of data flows and processes. Unix has always been empowering, and not constraining, once you accept it for what it is.
by Hilift | 2025-08-25 17:44:32+00:00
California is converting thousands of abandoned oil wells to thermal storage for electrical generation.

https://eepower.com/news/engineers-repurpose-oil-wells-as-so...

California has thousands of abandoned (orphaned) oil and gas wells, with more than 5,500 identified as "likely orphaned" in 2023, and an additional 70,000 economically marginal and idle wells that could become orphaned in the future.

Kern County, California has 75% of the state oil wells, and the largest solar farms. Even after the 70,000 wells are idled, Kern County will continue to produce enough oil to meet all internal demands in California, although the state no longer has the refining capacity or anywhere to lay off the oil.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-06/major-c...
by mxuribe | 2025-08-25 17:44:51+00:00
I don't know DHH personally, but seeing what he did by introducing ruby on rails, plus listening to his thoughts via the rework podcast, also reading about his company's move away from the hyperscaler cloud providers, and now both the omakube and omarchy offerings...yeah, we need more folks (with his kind of fame of sorts) to help others as well.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-25 17:44:58+00:00
yes as an hyprland user, the community is definitely more vocal. I myself convinced one of my friends to use hyprland fedora as his first linux experience which is wild

(I also use nixos too but I use nix plasma and arch hyprland, i mean I barely use nix, arch is my goto but you get my point)

I agree it has buzz but its just cool open source software man, I like it. it isn't as plug n play even still as plasma or gnome for example but that's the point. Makes for a really good minimalist system but for me somethings don't usually work that "just" work on other desktop environments but I learnt a lot and now its a really enjoyable experience.

One example I can give of where I really had a big issue with hyprland was consistent schema around every application. I think its still broken on my system for qt apps which I had fixed but then broke again I think, but I now don't have the time to fix it and its a minor inconvenience at best. nothing wrong to hyprland, that's just fundamentally how it works if you try hyprland like me.

Omarchy seems to be promising the premise of hyprland with "it just works" Maybe if my arch system bricks, I will give omarchy a try. Untill then, I am happy with my theme and hyprland. Its cool. Dhh is also cool for making omarchy tbh.
by Kye | 2025-08-25 17:45:24+00:00
edit: someone changed it to a cropped form of the page title that's even less informative. I tried.

I had to redo the headline a bit to fit and accurately represent the overall picture.

Some key details copied from the post:

>> "Therefore, starting August 27 (Wed.), in line with other national postal operators, we will temporarily suspend the acceptance of postal items (small packets, parcels, and EMS (goods)) to the United States that contain the following items:"

>> "Individual gifts with a content value exceeding 100 US dollars

>> "Goods intended for sale for consumption"*

>> "In addition, we will continue to accept letters, postcards, printed matter, EMS (documents), and postal items (small packets, parcels, and EMS (goods)) containing gifts between individuals with a value of less than US$100."

>> "As an alternative to the above suspension of acceptance, our international courier service, UGX (U-Global Express), can handle shipments in compliance with U.S. customs regulations: UGX (U-Global Express)" [1]

[1] https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/UGX/index_en.html
by Krasnol | 2025-08-25 17:45:32+00:00
I'd assume those are just another symptoms of the Thielverse and where would be a better place to have it seeping into the younger, well fed tech scene than hn?

They know that they'll still be able to get around those "Inconveniences" or create their own elite places while the majority of the general public won't and we're not giving a damn about the general public anymore. That's woke and not trendy anymore.

I mean, this is so obviously wrong. People would be ashamed to argue for it back in the days.
by unsignedint | 2025-08-25 17:46:41+00:00
Well, isn’t that essentially what voicemail is? We already have a mechanism to send voices as files—it’s just that not all voicemail systems deliver them in that format.

It wouldn’t solve everything, but considering how many scammers rely on real-time urgency in their calls, shifting phone communication toward asynchronous messages could actually help. It would undercut that pressure tactic, and it would also make record-keeping much easier.
by acdha | 2025-08-25 17:47:26+00:00
> If you only give the AI the ability to do what the end user can already do, the risk is extremely low.

Just because I can send my money to Belize doesn’t mean it’s safe to give an LLM the ability to do the same. Until there’s a huge breakthrough on actual intelligence giving an LLM attacker controlled inputs is an inherently high-risk activity.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-25 17:47:55+00:00
I’m sure there’s differences in workflow styles. I tend to have multiple tasks in flight at any given moment and switch between them often enough that closing+opening sets of apps and windows represents showstopping overhead, so lots of things just sit open. Floating windows on mutliple desktops with dual monitors suits this style well.

It’s worth noting that I don’t spend large amounts of time in terminals and text editors, but instead in graphical apps and chrome-heavy IDEs which are awkward in tiling setups because of how much screen space they demand. If I were more terminal-heavy I’m sure tiling would make more sense.
by burnte | 2025-08-25 17:48:03+00:00
I recently did a 180 in my homelab. I had been getting better and better equipment, enterprise level, and I found that it took a lot mroe work and was a lot less fun than doing things the way I used to, which had been maximize small low cost systems. I enjoyed the jank, and going enterprise equipment eliminated jank. So I sold all the high end stuff and went back to miniPCs. My main VM host now is a Lenovo P3 Ultra with lots of RAM and storage, and I have a handful of other Dell Optiplex 3090 machines and a bunch of Raspberry Pis to run everything from. I enjoy it more, it's actually more stable, less expensive, quieter, and cheaper.
by ValdikSS | 2025-08-25 17:48:28+00:00
Gutenprint is also not packaged for 32-bit ARM (armel/armhf) in Debian 13 due to issues with 32-bit → 64-bit time_t transition on 32-bit platforms

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1064089
by Spivak | 2025-08-25 17:48:53+00:00
Is Hyperland the thing that finally convinces hacker types that Wayland is the future? A Wayland compositor that gives you Xorg like scripting via a UNIX control socket, easy to set up, and is much much less opinionated than GNOME.

So many of the criticisms of Wayland around the internet end up being things that Mutter doesn't let you control directly.
by jen20 | 2025-08-25 17:48:59+00:00
> "Balkanization" is the wrong way to view this.

It's a perfectly valid way to view it. Forest fire might be another valid way to view it, but is different. Both are equally valid, and represent different views of what ideal is.

> Tax and regulate it. It's what Europe does.

I am European. Nice try though.

> We need to stretch those muscles and get back into the habit of doing it.

I don't disagree. Start there then. Make it so that tracking me incurs such a heavy penalty payable to me personally that it is not worthwhile. Then go after the distribution mechanisms that allow someone to live a relatively tracking-free life without having to be an uber-nerd to make it reality.

> Mobile computing belongs to all of us.

There are plenty of platforms. What you are saying is it belongs to the people who want it to be a certain way with particular negative outcomes for many people. I want it to be a different way with negative outcomes that affect me less.
by thomasfromcdnjs | 2025-08-25 17:49:00+00:00
Same here, multiple monitors, overlapping windows has never worked for me. I don't need big monitors for the same reason. I also make sure to keep the number of things I have open to a minimum. Then simply tabbing or using a tiling manager like i3 (without using actual tiling) (they are just faster than running full desktops). It also means I can be productive with any setup anywhere e.g. a laptop
by hd4 | 2025-08-25 17:49:18+00:00
The reason it's wild is someone has managed to make a tiling WM that isn't just usable and nice, but actually created incredible hype around it, and made people want to give it a chance and switch away from something as entrenched as DEs. It's really a wondrous achievement, something the majority of the Linux community never thought could be done until it was.