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by 542354234235 | 2025-09-11 11:36:30+00:00
I had the Flip 2, 3, and 5. I just switched to the Moto Razr Ultra and I feel like it is even better. The external screen works almost like the internal screen, making it extremely easy to use. Samsung locks down their external screen pretty hard and you need a lot of work arounds that still don't give me the same functionality as the Razr.

I also got the Clicks physical keyboard case for it, which turns it into a modern Blackberry type phone. I love it. The physical keyboard means no on-screen keyboard taking up your external screen space. I only actually open my phone a few times a day, which really helps keep doomscrolling at bay. Full discloser, the keyboard isn't perfect and definitely has some quirks and tradeoffs but on the whole I'm glad I got it.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-09-11 11:37:15+00:00
This is a misunderstanding from users POV. Something that a lot of people have.

Arch is a DO IT YOURSELF distro. They write that thing everywhere they can. The stability of the installation is literally ON YOU! Your responsibility as a DO IT YOURSELF distro user. They didn't trick you into it or something.

Expecting Arch linux to spoon feed is like expecting IKEA to give you assembled furniture.

You should use openSUSE or other "managed" rolling release distros. Arch IS NOT A "managed" rolling release distro.

https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/01/2024/a-linux-distro-r...
by AbstractH24 | 2025-09-11 11:37:49+00:00
While I like that quote, i just went to lookup the speach and was sadden to learn you “sanitized” it. Taking out the phrase “vast majority of white people and vast majority of black people”

That too says something about our times. Maybe a few things. From being unable to trust things without verifying, to people’s willingness to alter the truth to make a point, to how people fear discussing race and gender loud even in passing.
by seec | 2025-09-11 11:38:13+00:00
It's a bit sad that you get heavily downvoted but it shows that they have a completely distorted view of reality.

I still use RSS but I am completely with you on this. Most people, even those who work in tech related fields very rarely know what RSS is and when you explain it to them, they mostly don't care.

I have had a very nice example where I explained what RSS/Feedly was to an interested graphic artist/designer (pretty competent with computers, spends all day on it). Once she got it, she told ME it was basically the same as email newsletter or subscribing to a Facebook page, Twitter feed or things like that. Which of course it is.

So, she couldn't be bothered to try the thing and set it up. I completly get it. For those who are used to it, it makes sense. If you already have your subscription stuff managed elsewhere, it's just more work for little benefits for most people.

What's more RSS actually inverse the responsibility in the relation, and you become the one who has to manage long term changes. Some feeds change URLs and I don't even notice it and you need a specific software to read them, which might be paid and might change overtime. And unlike emails, you can't even archive it easily, you need another software or a reader that has the functionality.

It's just a hassle and the reason most people don't care is because they can get the same benefits without paying for anything or having to manage/learn new stuff.

RSS is just a technology that matches an idealism about the world, very prevalent in the optimist technophile sphere. But the reality is that people don't want to make that much effort for some dubious "advantage" and they are right.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-11 11:38:23+00:00
Well Meta was fined 1.2bn Euro in 2023 for violating GDPR guidelines, the latest being another 91m Euro in 2024 IIRC, making the total so far somewhere along 2.5 billion euros.

A quick Google-search tells me Meta's Europe Revenues in 2023 were 31.21bn USD, so the fine was ~3.5% of their Europe revenue at least (but yes, lesser on their global revenue).

Either way, the purpose of GDPR is not to earn money, but to reach compliance to the guidelines. The directive didn't fail if a company wasn't fined for not being compliant, it's the lever to reach compliance.

> Honestly, the whole thing seems aimed at just shaking down American tech companies to try to collect some additional revenue to keep funding the EU bureaucracy.

There's a world outside of US as well, even within Europe.

Companies whose main business is to deal with personal data are of course harder to transform, but it's hard to overstate the impact GDPR already had on the huge mass of companies who DON'T primarily deal with personal data.

Many People on here who worked in a larger company when GDPR became effective have seen the seismic impact it had on how PI/PII data is being handled. Suddenly companies asked themselves whether they REALLY need all this PII in all those different data silos across their operations.

GDPR isn't perfect, the EU isn't perfect, but with GDPR the EU made a leap forward in Private Data Protection.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-11 11:38:48+00:00
So you more or less want a BSD system. Have you tried them? They are a joy to use, can have far better performance than Linux, and have nice and predictable upgrade schedules. The base system is small and very usable out of the box. And documentation tends to be excellent.

In other words, with your requirements what are you still doing on Linux?
by upghost | 2025-09-11 11:39:05+00:00
I liked this article because I think it is a fairly charitable "strongman" take of the "pure" engineering camp from someone who identifies with the other camp.

That being said, there is an objective way out of this trap emdash check out Dave Farley's work on Modern Software Engineering [1].

It is a very clever approach to convert the process of software delivery into a software problem itself, with a minimal criteria of shipping new code safely every 24 hours.

When your "pure" engineers optimize around that, the distinction between your "pure" and "practical" devs tends to be pretty small.

[1]: https://a.co/d/eLvZYcE
by shoo | 2025-09-11 11:41:02+00:00
The analysis in the "Why does sorting win?" section of this article gave us a way to estimate that threshold.

Here's my attempt at it, based on that analysis:

Suppose each item key requires s bytes

For the hash table, assuming s <= 64, our cache line size, then we need to read one cache line and write one cache line.

The bandwidth to sort one key is p(N) * 2 * s where p(N) is the number of passes of 1024-bucket radix sort required to sort N elements, and 2 comes from 1 read + 1 write per 1024-bucket radix sort pass

p(N) = ceil(log2(N) / log2(buckets))

Suppose N is the max number of items we can distinguish with an s=8 byte item key, so N = 2^64

then p(N) = ceil(64 / 10) = 7 passes

7 radix passes * (1 read + 1 write) * 8 bytes per item key = 112 bytes of bandwidth consumed, this is still less than the bandwidth of the hash table 2 * 64.

We haven't found the threshold yet.

We need to either increase the item count N or increase the item key size s beyond 8 bytes to find a threshold where this analysis estimates that the hash map uses less bandwidth. But we cant increase the item count N without first increasing the key size s. Suppose we just increase the key size and leave N as-is.

Assuming N=2^64 items and an item size of b=10 bytes gives an estimate of 140 bytes of bandwidth for sorting vs 128 bytes of bandwidth. we expect sorting to be slower for these values, and increasing b or N further should make it even worse.

(the bandwidth required for hash map hasnt increased as our 10 byte b is still less than the size of a cache line)

edit: above is wrong as i'm getting mixed up with elements vs items. elements are not required to be unique items. if elements are unique items then the problem is trivial. So N is not bounded by the key size, and we can increase N beyond 2^64 without increasing the key size s beyond 8 bytes.

keeping key size s fixed at 8 bytes per item suggests the threshold is at N=2^80 items

given by solving for N for the threshold where bandwidth estimate for sort = bandwidth estimate for hash table

2 * 8 * (log2(N) / log2(1024)) = 2 * 64
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-11 11:41:13+00:00
It's AI effect let loose.

A lot of people really, really don't want LLMs to be "actually intelligent", so they oppose any use of any remotely "anthropomorphic" terms in application to LLMs on that principle alone.

IMO, anthropomorphizing LLMs is at least directionally correct in 9 cases out of 10.
by flipwassal | 2025-09-11 11:41:22+00:00
Do you know of whom they are speaking of when they say the 10%?

It could be liberals, conservatives, moderates, expats from Europe, etc.

I cannot believe that people think that violence is a good answer to anything.

I don’t upvote these recent killing of political figures or C-levels at companies that destroy people’s lives.

I sympathize with those that fight injustice and want the world changed for the better. But, there are often non-violent ways to do this.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-09-11 11:42:25+00:00
Just think for a moment how broken the EU model is. You don't want something to pass. Other citizens of your country don't want the thing to pass. Your politicians don't want that thing to pass. Your euro politicians don't want that thing to pass. Yet in the current model that doesn't matter one bit because your SOVEREIGN country may still be overruled by foreign countries and politicians.

It's unbelievable that we have allowed EU to spread into this all encompassing monster that deals with anything but economic cooperation among member countries.

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> European law has priority over any contravening national law, including the constitution of a member state itself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primacy_of_European_Union_law
by closewith | 2025-09-11 11:43:04+00:00
A tanker that was talking to them on VHF, telling them to manoeuvre.

If you can ignore lights increasing in intensity on a constant bearing and verbal commands via VHF, then you can ignore the radar and AIS proximity alarms (which both operated as expected).

Unless the computer is running the show, there's no way to overcome confirmation bias with beeps and flashes. I've seen it first-hand many times in training helmsmen. Sometimes in-person verbal commands are not enough, and physical control must be obtained.

It's simply a training and experience deficit. There's no substitute for time at sea or time under instruction.
by psychoslave | 2025-09-11 11:43:30+00:00
Democracy is where people, or at least those given full citizenship, have a duty to debate and decide the rules they will be agreeing to follow, directly.

Anything else is green washing.

Sure we can always still keep nuances in the many actual regimes which pretend to be democratic. But still the baseline is to sell bullshit democracy.

Democracy require well educated citizen which are given the relevant resources and were raised with will to take the burden of civil service for life and dedication to thrive the whole society.
by port11 | 2025-09-11 11:43:41+00:00
The EU feels undemocratic because it focuses on a lot of legislation that doesn't reflect what people want. It also works on some good stuff.

Over the past decade I went from a big fan to someone very troubled about the political goals of the elites.

And, having lived in Brussels, you can sorta see why they're disconnected from the “will of the people”…
by conartist6 | 2025-09-11 11:44:27+00:00
We know who the militia existed to fight.

The term "well-regulated milita" predates the constitution and traces back to the days when white people were often a substantial minority compared to the populations of enslaved black people they lived among.

On St Croix where a young man named Alexander Hamilton grew up, the ratio was 1 free person to 8 slaves, so the well-regulated militia was to assemble at the fortress if they heard a blast of the cannon: they were required to come with their weapons in order to put down a slave revolt.

Source: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.

It's also probably worth mentioning that "people" in "the right of the people" certainly excluded slaves from the right to own weapons, making the text even more burdened by its own history

My point is: what the founders understood was that some gun violence was the unavoidable cost of maintaining the system of slavery, itself a system of formalized/normalized political violence.
by spicyusername | 2025-09-11 11:44:59+00:00
explosive changes and development of new products

That's because that's not happening. Like I've been saying! The benefit is just that it makes coding (or brainstorming a vacation, or planning a diy project, or writing a dnd campaign, etc) a little faster... It's an accelerating technology.

I don't disagree that the hype around LLMs is overblown, but that doesn't mean the utility isn't tangible.

If you listen to the salesman, everything is always going to sound like it solves every problem, but that doesn't mean the products they are hawking solve no problems.
by pizza234 | 2025-09-11 11:45:08+00:00
Just a few days ago I've had a checksum mismatch on a RAID-1 setup, on the metadata in both devices, which is very confusing.

Over the last one or two years I've experienced twice a checksum mismatch on the file storing the memory of a VMWare Workstation virtual machine.

Both are very likely bugs in Btrfs, and it's very unlikely that have been caused by the user (me).

In the relatively far past (around 5 years ago), I've had the system (root being on Btrfs) turning unbootable for no obvious reason, a couple of times.
Show HN: I made an app that auto-generates weekly schedules
by mustafaelrashid | 2025-09-11 11:45:09+00:00
I built this app to manage my day because making schedules manually each week was tedious. The app automatically generates a new schedule every week and helps me stick to it. I first posted an early prototype a while back—this is the polished version. If you try it, I’d love to hear your feedback. (* with the subdomain it's day-chunks.web.app)
by K0balt | 2025-09-11 11:45:14+00:00
Hallucinations are actually not a malfunction or any other process outside of the normal functioning of the model. They are merely an output that we find unuseful, but in all other ways is optimal based on the training data, context, and model precision and parameters being used.

I honestly have no idea why OAI felt that they needed to publish a “paper” about this, since it is blazingly obvious to anyone who understands the fundamentals of transformer inference, but here we are.

The confusion on this topic comes from calling these suboptimal outputs “hallucinations” which drags anthropomorphic fallacies into the room by their neck even though they were peacefully minding their own business down the corridor on the left.

“Hallucination” implies a fundamentally fixable error in inference, a malfunction of thought caused by a pathology or broken algorithm.

LLMs “Hallucinating” are working precisely as implemented, only we don’t feel like the output usefully matches the parameters from a human perspective. It’s just unhelpful results from the algorithm, like any other failure of training, compression, alignment, or optimisation.
by ta1243 | 2025-09-11 11:45:47+00:00
He's had 15 years of success without his vote in a westminster election getting to 15%

Actual election results:

2010: 3%

2015: 13%. He was the only party to endorse leaving the EU in that election.

2016: (52% vote to leave the EU)

2017: retired

2019: 2%

2024: 14%

Yet his prime policy was passed in 2016 and implemented in 2019.

You don't need people to vote for you to get your policies passed. You need people to just believe in what you say, and other politicians will see that and implement them. The most successful politicians see all sides "steal their policies" and implement them. That's assuming your goal is the policy, not the power.
by shiandow | 2025-09-11 11:45:54+00:00
Interestingly you need a hash function big enough to be unique for all data points with high probability, it doesn't take much to point out that this is at least O(log(n)) if all items are unique.

Also if items take up k bytes then the hash must typically be O(k), and both the hashing and radix sort are O(n k).

Really radix sort should be considered O(N) where N is the total amount of data in bytes. It can beat the theoretical limit because it sorts lexicographically, which is not always an option.
by Retrogamingpap | 2025-09-11 11:45:55+00:00
This is the first of two articles that tell the story of the earliest adventure games developed in Norway, and how we managed to rescue them. These are games that until now have been almost completely forgotten, and the few details we’ve had have been vague and in fact largely wrong.

The first game is known as SVHA Adventure, and is an expanded version of the original Colossal Cave Adventure. SVHA Adventure was developed for minicomputers from Norsk Data at NTH in Trondheim, in 1979. The other game is called Ringen, and is an original adventure taking place in the Mines of Moria known from Lord of the Rings. Ringen was originally developed at UiT in Tromsø a couple of years later, but its story continued for several years outside the University.

Until now, neither of these games have been available online. So it is with great pleasure that we are not only able to present the story behind these forgotten games, but also working copies you can experience for yourself.
by closewith | 2025-09-11 11:46:16+00:00
Yes, and blue water navy advocates have been wilfully ignorant to this for at least a decade now.

In this instance, the excuses given are always:

* the small number on watch did not provide enough people to effectively commence damage control,

* the poorly trained crew did not close bulkheads as they evacuated from berths,

* the design did not have sufficient redundancy.

This ignores that all navies now:

* run lean crews and ultra-lean watches, relying on automation,

* training standards are dropping everywhere due to cost, and far fewer seafarers enter naval service with prior experience,

* ships are becoming more automated and cost-sensitive, so new frigates like the Type 26 (that will replace the Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates) or the upcoming US DDG(X)-class are likely to have significantly reduced redundancies and damage-control capacity, given tonnage is increasing by 40+% but crews are shrinking.
by triknomeister | 2025-09-11 11:47:14+00:00
Doctolib is not the problem at all. he real problem is the lack of government proactivity on these initiatives.

If the government had already thought about this in advanced (even in 2013 when doctolib was just starting out), then there could be very strong protectiosn for data which would then allay all of these concerns, and we might have had multiple players in this space.

The best use of Doctolib for me is that I can make appointments without having to speak perfect German on phone. I can make appointments in evening when I'm back from office and can relax a little bit. So, doctolib is a godsend for me as an immigrant here. and I'm guessing for a lot of people too. I can look up doctors who are available without having to bother the receptionist. This is much more efficient way of doing things.
by rinawarpt25 | 2025-09-11 11:47:53+00:00
The idea came from being tired of typing repetitive commands. Instead of "git add . && git commit -m 'fix' && git push", you can just say "Hey Rina, commit and push my changes."

Key features: - Voice control with natural language processing - Smart automation that learns your workflow - Beautiful, customizable themes - Team collaboration features - Cross-platform support (macOS first, Windows/Linux coming)

Built with Electron, React, and various AI APIs. The voice recognition works offline for privacy.

Free tier available, with paid tiers for advanced features and team collaboration.

Would love feedback from the HN community!
by pas | 2025-09-11 11:48:38+00:00
there will be always inequalities and "blind spots", just look at the US, more homogeneous in many ways, yet still there's no single market for many things (healthcare for example)

education seems similarly harmonized in both unions (the Bologna system works pretty well)

but just as in the US border issues are always affecting members differently (migration flows North, right? so southern borders are affected more; at the same time migrants went to NYC and Berlin because they are rich cities with opportunities and very migration-friendly policies)

and of course federalism in the US is also suffering from vetocracy (aka. tragedy of the anticommons), see housing, which very directly leads to "blue states" losing seats in the House (and similarly housing issues are catalyzing radicalization in the EU too)

(and the solution to the housing challenges are not obvious, and even if there are success stories - like Vienna - city-state politics is stuck in the usual local minimas)
by ta1243 | 2025-09-11 11:49:11+00:00
They should be happy. But the promised utopia didn't arrive, so now Farage is blaming the next thing, "just get rid of the 30k boat arrivals and things will be great".

(There's 900k arriving each year on visas, which if you are concerned with immigration is a far larger number, but that is harder for Farage to argue against)

Once the boats are all blasted to bits or whatever, and things still don't get better, who will be the next person to blame.
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