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by rlpb | 2025-09-16 15:38:14+00:00
There is another related growing problem in my recent observation. As a Debian Developer, when I try to audit upstream changes before pulling them in to Debian, I find a huge amount of noise from tooling, mostly pointless. This makes it very difficult to validate the actual changes being made.

For example, an upstream bumps a version of a lint tool and/or changes style across the board. Often these are labelled "chore". While I agree it's nice to have consistent style, in some projects it seems to be the majority of the changes between releases. Due to the difficulty in auditing this, I consider this part of the software supply chain problem and something to be discouraged. Unless there's actually reason to change code (eg. some genuine refactoring a human thinks is actually needed, a bug fix or new feature, a tool exposed a real bug, or at least some identifiable issue that might turn into a bug), it should be left alone.
Show HN: Spyc – Privacy-First Investment Tracker for DIY Portfolio and Net Worth
by lykhonis | 2025-09-16 15:38:16+00:00
Hey, I'm Vlad, founder of Spyc (pronounced "spice"). I've been building this as a side project turned fulltime over the past few months, drawing from my own frustrations as a DIY investor juggling spreadsheets and apps that either lacked privacy or were bloated with features I didn't need. I'm actively working on it, iteratively adding and exploring new features to enhance the dashboard from a large list of ideas.

Spyc is a web app that lets you track your net worth and portfolio securely without storing any personal identifiable info. You upload your statements (PDFs or CSVs from brokers), it parses them ephemerally - processing in realtime and discarding the originals right after - and gives you visuals like allocation pies, performance lines, and heatmaps. It also runs simple simulations (e.g., Monte Carlo for projections). Everything's anonymized and stored under a hashed key from your Google signin, with a one-click delete option.

What sets it apart: No automatic integrations or data hoarding like many trackers. It's manual-upload only to keep control in your hands, focusing on privacy as the core. It's optimized for mobile too.

To try it out: Head to spyc.io - you can sign in with Google (no email/password setup) and start uploading sample data immediately. I've set up a demo mode with pre-loaded anonymized datasets if you want to poke around without your own files (just click "see sample statements" on the dashboard).

This is the first public share; no prior HN threads. Looking forward to your thoughts, bugs, or feature ideas - I'm here to discuss.
by azangru | 2025-09-16 15:38:25+00:00
> React isn’t just "winning by default" It's winning because at the core it's just JavaScript function composition.

This might be just a rationalization. React might be "winning" (whatever that means), because it was the first proper component-based library, when its competitors (Backbone, Angular, Ember) were large, slow, and clumsy, and still struggling with the concept. Plus, developers back then were easily impressed by the word "Facebook", which meant a large tech company that probably knew what it was doing, and served as a guarantee of good quality. So it had a tremendous head start and good marketing. If Vue, Svelte, Solid, or Lit were there first, who knows if React would be "winning" now.
by aw1621107 | 2025-09-16 15:38:32+00:00
Thanks for the reference! For the convenience of anyone else reading, the appeals docket is at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67566242/united-states-.... Note that there are two appeals briefs; it seems the defendant replaced their attorney at some point during the appeals process.

For what it's worth, I think this is the government's response to the argument you raise (on page 22 of the response brief, PDF page 30):

> Section 5845, captioned “[d]efinitions,” is a definitional provision, not a criminal prohibition. As relevant here, § 5845(b) defines the term “machinegun,” and § 5845(f) defines the term “destructive device.” These definitions do not create additional elements of the offenses charged under §§ 5861(d) and 922(o). Therefore, the government was not required to charge the applicable definition(s) in the indictment. See, e.g., Robbins, 476 F.2d at 30 (holding that an indictment under § 5861(d) need not refer to the definitions in § 5845 to “fairly notify a defendant of the charge against him”); United States v. Hoover, 635 F. Supp. 3d 1305, 1316 (M.D. Fla. 2022) (rejecting the argument that the government “was required to plead the specific facts supporting its contention that the [firearms] at issue fall within the definition of a machinegun”); cf. United States v. Pennington, 168 F.3d 1060, 1065 (8th Cir. 1999) (“The indictment’s failure to cite [18 U.S.C.] § 1346, a definitional provision, and to use its specific term, ‘honest’ services, does not mean no crime was charged.”).

And defendant's response, page 5:

> The question is whether the indictment “fully, directly, and expressly, without any uncertainty or ambiguity, set forth all the elements necessary to constitute the offence intended to be punished” and whether the indictment complied “with the necessity of alleging in the indictment all the facts necessary to bring the case” within the intent of the statute. United States v. Carll, 105 U.S. 611 (1881) (emphasis added). The government’s failure to give any specificity in the indictment cannot be remedied by wriggling as to whether the missing information can be considered an “element” or not. Even if the government were correct that the particular definition (or definitions) the prosecution is proceeding under does not change “elements,” it changes the “facts” underlying the scope of the statute.

I have no idea who is correct legally, and since oral arguments appear to have been held a few days ago I suppose I'll have to wait to see who is right.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-16 15:38:39+00:00
Sure, look at the bottom countries

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html

The lifeblood of the European economy is still the same things that were the lifeblood 30 years ago.

There is no tech scene in Europe, despite tech being at the global economic forefront for those 30 years.

The US spent more per capita than Europe did on support to Ukraine. It also provided the lions share of weapons and armaments.

And now Europe is turning to the US to supply most of it's energy. Which is methane. Heaven forbid the EU give green investment funds special economic rules to foster growth, it might generate a few billionaires.

Europe is a trust fund state burning old money and milking old industry. It desperately needs to build its own independence. Russia coming knocking seems to have been a bit of a wakeup call, but even still single child Europeans are sitting on the beaches of the Mediterranean complaining that they cannot retire at 55.

Wake up.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-09-16 15:38:56+00:00
This is just extremely one sided. He intentionally sabotaged his ex employers computer systems, was hired to fix them, was caught as the original cause of the problem, fired again, then used a back door to take down their systems again. He plead guilty to this in 2014.

He was on probation and required to use monitoring software as a condition of being let out of jail early, he had a secret iphone he used to access the internet that was not monitored, so his probation was revoked. He wasn't arrested again, his probation was revoked.

The wife's account focuses on a ton of irrelevant details, the above is sufficient to explain the entire situation.
by OneWithTech | 2025-09-16 15:39:05+00:00
I’ve been building Level3ID Premium services, which focus on secure identity + branding layers for online platforms. To test and showcase these services in action, I created HowCanIAI.com and spun up a demo shop to show Level3ID tech in action. I thought the demo t's were so good I created: howcaniai.printful.me.

The demo shop isn’t really about selling T-shirts — it’s a working example of:

How Level3ID’s identity layer can integrate into consumer-facing projects

Using the Humafy Widget for custom branding in a live environment

Combining AI generation (memes) with real-world fulfillment (Printful)

This project let me test branding, authentication, and smooth integration with third-party platforms — all in a way that’s visible and fun.

I’d love feedback on:

The approach of using demo shops to showcase tech services

Whether this kind of integration feels seamless to you

Other “real world” demo ideas people here would find useful

Links:

Buy the real T's and Sweatshirts→ howcaniai.printful.me

Tech stack / service base → Level3ID.com
by tedggh | 2025-09-16 15:39:29+00:00
I got a walkie talkie set as a Christmas present when I was 8. Which was kind of an evil thing to do given I had no siblings or friends to play with. One day I turned one set on and listened for a while and I thought I heard someone talking behind all the static noise. So I said something and was shocked to hear the voice talking back to me. Fast forward a few decades, next week is my wedding and that voice on the other side of the radio is my best man.
by klibertp | 2025-09-16 15:39:48+00:00
> You can't refuse to submit evidence to court, including things like encryption keys or things only stored in your head

Out of curiosity, how does this work? If I claim I don't remember a particular password that I (provably) didn't enter for the past X months, how does the court force me to recall it? With an $8 wrench? Wouldn't that be cruel (if not unusual) punishment?
by rwmj | 2025-09-16 15:40:00+00:00
Well, I'm currently having a hard time finding a good electrician, and the ones who I have employed in the past earn pretty generous hourly rates.

(I say this half-joking, but also I know a DBA who retrained as an electrician and was happier than ever. It's the fact he retired - early - which has put me in my current predicament.)
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-16 15:40:08+00:00
Weed for normal people isn't a big deal, but weed for people on the cusp of mental illness or even just mental unwellness can exacerbate whatever issue they are facing.

Alcohol on the other hand mostly just knocks you out from doing anything too cerebral after you pass the ballmer peak. I say this as a person who prefers weed to alcohol 100x.
by recursive | 2025-09-16 15:40:12+00:00
All compilers translate one language to another language. Historically compilers targeted lower-abstraction languages than the source language. "Transpiler" is a compiler whose input and output abstraction levels are similar.

The React cinematic universe has a habit of repurposing existing terminology, but they're both transpilers, to the extent that "transpiler" is even a word.
by worldsavior | 2025-09-16 15:40:34+00:00
Sde Teiman MAYBE was real (there is still no proof, and it still being investigated by ISRAEL), but we're talking about terrorists whom murdered and raped people, not citizens.

TikTok is the most propagned platform currently. Not only about Gaza, but about everything. In the mean time, all the injured/starved citizens that were pictured and put on news papers were all a lie. I can also tell you I see many, many videos of sustained shops, rich food, candies and whatever first-world country has in Gaza. Give me one video please.
by nradov | 2025-09-16 15:40:36+00:00
The situation prior to 1990 is hardly relevant today. Back then West Germany was still coasting on Marshall Plan largesse, and had low labor costs due to a favorable demographic profile and huge numbers of Gastarbeiter. That situation no longer obtains, plus they're still trying to develop the former East Germany after Soviet occupation wrecked it. Now if Germany wants to survive as an independent power with freedom of action then they'll have to make some tough choices.

If you want to claim that butter vs. guns is nonsense then please be specific and explain exactly where the money will come from. And let's not have any vague non-answers like "tax the rich" or "cut waste".
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-16 15:40:40+00:00
To me it felt a little more about being left behind. I felt this undercurrent of bitterness that the city the author once exalted, through the tech boom, the tech bro era, is leaving her behind, and in its place are the natural progressions of that era she whims nostalgically about.

Like the factory towns of the pre-digital era, when it's good it's great, but when they leave, innovate away, or move on it can leave those behind feeling cheated.
by piltdownman | 2025-09-16 15:41:00+00:00
Or... The Sting!

Back when Social Engineering meant wearing a hell of a suit and dodging the 'Bunco Squad'. All the elements are there: Greed, Scarcity, a sense of urgency, all legitimised by the leveraging of Social "proof".

If it was remade today there'd be a good chance Redford would find Newman's character down on his luck running facebook ads for crypto scams featuring AI videos of prominent celebrities.
by dummydummy1234 | 2025-09-16 15:41:01+00:00
My impression is that gnuradio is fine for prototyping/poc, but has issues in its design when you try and run production workloads with more complex workflows (ie, writing custom Mac layers/ workflows that involve heavy feedback, etc. you end up having to do a a lot of hacking around with the message passing infrastructure).

That being said last I used it extensively was v3 so maybe v4 is better. Did they get rid of thread per block and allow you to have a single thread service a sub signal chain? I remember that the number of context switches between threads, and balancing latency vs buffer sizes was a pain in the rear.
by jncfhnb | 2025-09-16 15:41:22+00:00
> The claim was originally made by me. Qualifiers like “important”, “material” were added by you so you’re the one who’s moving the goal posts with vague words like “important”.

> The word I used is “significant”which I will specify here as a different mean value.

There are statistically significant differences between any two populations where randomness is included provided your sample size is big enough. Your thinking here is novice and misinformed. If an effect size is immaterial and unimportant then it definitionally does not matter. You win no points for saying HA! Technically there is an immaterial advantage for Asians! If it’s immaterial, it doesn’t matter.

> It applies because among top countries of different races with extremely high wealth, gdp and education standards there are clear differences in IQ. You can still attribute this to environment but it starts to lean towards genetics once you match wealthy countries.

Wealth is one of many things that matters. It’s not the only thing. As I have said before, culture is a huge one.

> None of this is solid but neither is your conclusion that genetics doesn’t influence racial intelligence in any significant way. If your conclusion is “we don’t know” then my counter is common sense and evidence suggests otherwise.

You need to learn how to interpret statistical effect sizes. The basic 101 conclusion of failure to reject null hypotheses is that you cannot conclude that population A is different from population B. But “different” doesn’t mean much. The important takeaway is much rather that there’s no evidence of a strong effect size showing that one race is materially intrinsically smarter than another. If there were a big gap, it would be visible in available statistics. It’s not, so we can largely conclude that there’s no material difference.

You’re talking a big talk about people being biased by trying to be equitable but ultimately you’re just saying “well I can’t provide it but my common sense biases say my race must be superior, even if it’s by a meaninglessly small margin”. Yeah, ok buddy. Take a lap.
by browningstreet | 2025-09-16 15:42:10+00:00
Yeah, I just learned about that, TBH. Never knew about it. I'm still hardwired to tap in the lower right corner for tabs. I haven't retrained my monkey brain just yet...

I'll concede that all this Safari tab stuff, with the workarounds, is less problematic to me than the Apple Watch face swiping thing when it arose. They conceded that too, but it took a .1 release to do it.
by natmaka | 2025-09-16 15:42:20+00:00
I already answered: Nope. Officially, industrial breeding is no longer pursued in some nations (France being one) because uranium is cheap, which is a poor excuse because, if that were the case, why have they been searching at great expense for decades, and are they still doing so in various nations (in France, experts are calling for projects to be revived), when the price of uranium has never (apart from a brief bubble around 2007) been a threat?

Attempting to industrialize breeding is justified because achieving it would considerably reduce dependence on uranium and the burden caused by waste, to the point that even nations with uranium are becoming active: Russia is the most advanced, and it has large deposits via its vassal Kazakhstan.

Should Uranium get more scarce and thus more expensive, the economic incentives change very quickly and then we can pull such an industrial breeder reactor off the shelf.
by pydry | 2025-09-16 15:42:25+00:00
Exactly this. 2023Q1 was when the interest rate hike from the previous year really kicked in with full force. It was the first hiring market I ever saw in well over a decade where the employers were firmly in the drivers seat even for seniors.

I can imagine that there were a decent number of execs who tried chatgpt, made some outlandish predictions and based some hiring decisions upon those predictions though.

This paper looks kinda trashy - confusing correlation with causation and clickbaity.
by freakynit | 2025-09-16 15:43:11+00:00
Wrote a small utility shell script that uses docker behind the scenes to prevent access to your host machine while still allowing full npm install and run workflow.

https://github.com/freakynit/simple-npm-sandbox

Disclaimer: I am not Docker expert. Please review the script (sandbox.js) and raise any potential issues or suggestions.

Thanks..
by triceratops | 2025-09-16 15:43:17+00:00
> in a world with rapidly increasing population

That world was 30 years ago. In 2025 world average total fertility rate is 2.2, which is a shade above replacement rate (2.1). And 2.2 is a 10% drop since 2017 alone (when it was 2.46).

Because life expectancy is higher, the population will continue to increase. But not "rapidly".
by Chris2048 | 2025-09-16 15:43:32+00:00
> gets whacked for running a tor node.

'whacked' usually means killed. This guy was neither killed, nor jailed for 'running a tor node', but a bunch of more specifically bad, illegal shit that it would be misleading to describe this way.

The same way as describing destroying a bunch of an ex-employers data on-site causing thousands in loss is not a "workplace dispute".

> these are outcomes that nobody wants

which outcomes? these are outcomes no-one wants, but you've yet to prove they happen. It takes a lot of time to properly go through case details to determine abuse, it seems like you are very casually throwing around accusations.

> You might as well compare...

Why? they comply with the law, why does that make them 'big'? I'm sure the FBI has plenty resources to go after them, in fact, they have more to lose.

The 'one man shop' needs to comply with the law, however big or small they are.

> Who is law enforcement gonna try and abuse?

abuse? this guy says no-onw is kicking his door down, have you proof it changes for smaller setups?

they go after whoever they think is breaking the law, and not complying (providing relevant licences, proof of testing) flags you for that. Are you suggesting the small guy should fly under the radar?
by tonyarkles | 2025-09-16 15:43:38+00:00
Having worked on non-linear simulators/ODE solvers off and on for a decade, I agree and disagree with what you're saying.

I agree with you that that is 100% the point: you don't already know what's going to happen and you're doing modelling and simulation because it's cheaper/safer to do simulation than it is to build and test the real physical system. Finding failure modes, unexpected instability and oscillations, code bugs, etc. is an absolutely fantastic output from simulations.

Where I disagree: you don't already know what's going to happen, but you DO know generally what is going to happen. If you don't have, at a minimum, an intuition for what's going to happen, you are going to have a very hard time distinguishing between "numerical instability with the simulation approach taken", "a bug in the simulation engine", "a model that isn't accurately capturing the physical phenomena", and "an unexpected instability in an otherwise reasonably-accurate model".

For the first really challenging simulation engine that I worked on early on in my career I was fortunate: the simulation itself needed to be accurate to 8-9 sig figs with nanosecond resolution, but I also had access to incredibly precise state snapshots from the real system (which was already built and on orbit) every 15 minutes. As I was developing the simulator, I was getting "reasonable" values out, but when I started comparing the results against the ground-truth snapshots I could quickly see "oh, it's out by 10 meters after 30 minutes of timesteps... there's got to be either a problem with the model or a numerical stability problem". Without that ground truth data, even just identifying that there were missing terms in the model would have been exceptionally challenging. In the end, the final term that needed to get added to the model was Solar Radiation Pressure; I wasn't taking into account the momentum transfer from the photons striking the SV and that was causing just enough error in the simulation that the results weren't quite correct.

Other simulations I've worked on were more focused on closed-loop control. There was a dynamics model and a control loop. Those can be deceptive to work on in a different way: the open-loop model can be surprisingly incorrect and a tuned closed-loop control system around the incorrect model can produce seemingly correct results. Those kinds of simulations can be quite difficult to debug as well, but if you have a decent intuition of the kinds of control forces that you aught to expect to come from the controller, you can generally figure out if it's a bad numerical simulation, bad model, or good model of a bad system... but without those kinds of gut feelings and maybe envelope math it's going to be challenging and it's going to be easy to trick yourself into thinking it's a good simulation.
by antonvs | 2025-09-16 15:43:50+00:00
If you look at the video on his tiktok, the boroughs are divided into rectangles with clear shifts between the borders. For the boroughs at least, it seems like he repeated a style for a given rectangle and then switched to a different style for the next one. The result is more impressionistic, it doesn't seem to be accurate down to the building level.

It's possible his Manhattan is more accurate, I didn't try to check.
by addicted | 2025-09-16 15:43:57+00:00
Install Google For Windows...

until Lucy pulls the football again.

How does Google expect anyone to trust them.

I absolutely loved the Google Windows search app, and even went as far as fighting for our org to install the google appliance, only for Google to pull the rug out from under us.

They have Exchange solutions working for over 2 decades but the Google Appliance barely lasted 5 years.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-09-16 15:44:05+00:00
AGI or even a bona fide IQ = 80 AI assistant which can really use the Internet as opposed to just predict the next word.

An IQ=80 assistant running 24/7/365 at your disposal would mean enormous productivity gains.

Some other themes are fusion or if you still want to bet on Musk pumping abilities , the Tesla humanoid robot. I think Musk lost it tho, the climate change trade has exhausted itself, and he's been the climate change trade guy for a decade, it's hard to shake that image and say "hey! forget about climate change here's a nice robot!"