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by quickthrowman | 2025-09-09 21:45:44+00:00
Agreed, a 46mm x 40mm watch face is absolutely massive, you’d need 8”+ wrists to have it look right. It would look like a hockey puck if I tried it on right after removing my 36mm automatic, but I have 6.25” wrists.

It’s approaching the size of the (in)famous Diesel ‘Mr Daddy’ watches lol: https://shop.diesel.com/en/man/watches/mr-daddy/
by xenobeb | 2025-09-09 21:46:26+00:00
I went into the office for the first time 2 months ago. The worst part was how massively distracting it was.

The people who like going into the office at my work, go in to socialize.

They are bored at home. It literally has nothing to do with being productive.

I am sure this is all a matter of scale though. My place is really small. At the scale of Microsoft I am sure there are thousands of people really gaming the system badly.
by EGreg | 2025-09-09 21:46:43+00:00
PHP has apcu as the in-memory cache

And it’s not a joke, PHP is actually the most secure runtime environment out there for web hosting, PRECISELY because of the shared-nothing architecture.

Faster runtimes exist, like Swoole and recently FrankenPHP, to do evented programming like Node JS. But let me tell ya — you risk all kinds of leaks, both of unfreed memory and of secrets, across requests. It ain’t worth it most of the time!
by nickff | 2025-09-09 21:46:44+00:00
I find this idea that there is a 'CEO RTO mania' to be absurd; if WFH was just as good for the company, and more attractive to employees, we should see a boom in WFH-first companies, which does not seem to be happening. Instead, it seems like CEOs see RTO as a way of getting rid of 'slackers', preventing people from multi-tasking while 'working', and in some cases increasing 'teamwork'.

In any case, it makes sense to have either a WFH organization, or an in-person one, but the mixed cases appear to be a friction-filled mess.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-09-09 21:46:56+00:00
> I don't know why you'd trust a checksum structure your adversary has complete control over.

I think the point is they don't have complete control over it. Sure, they have complete control over the version that is on GitHub. But git is distributed, and the developers will have their own local copies. If Microsoft screwed with the checksums, and git checks them. The next developer pull or push would blow up.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 21:47:58+00:00
We should know by now that all these RTO initiatives are not grounded in any reasonable logistics nor financial reasoning. Right now all of tech is in cut mode, and RTO's are a great way to do layoffs without calling them layoffs. Note that when Google got "too many" people RTO'ing, they did layoffs anyway.

If your office does try to make things stricter, it's another layoff attempt. I don't think it will work, because at this point we're in a "sticky" job market; those out of work are facing some of the stiffest markets in decades, those in work are holding on for deal life.
by smelendez | 2025-09-09 21:48:46+00:00
I was thinking about that recently. I don’t anyone ever pulling out a Game Boy in elementary or middle school in the 90s, even though many of us had them at home.

It’s not that we all got a lecture about no video games in school. It just very self-evidently wasn’t a place you would play video games. It would be like getting a pizza delivered to you at the doctor’s office. Just absurd.

I remember a kid with a Game Gear on the elementary school bus and even that being, well, unusual enough I remember it. Kind of similar to how kids will always remember seeing someone’s family pet run on the bus, because it blows their minds that it can even happen.
by toast0 | 2025-09-09 21:49:02+00:00
In a world where those sending email were consistent, the user could control the whitelist. 'This link is from a domain you've clicked through X times, do you want to click through? Yes / Yes and don't ask again'

If it's new, you should be more cautious. Except even those companies that should know better need you to link through 7 levels of redirect tracking, and they're always using a new one.
by taeric | 2025-09-09 21:49:04+00:00
I mean... I get paranoia, but this is arguing that an audit trail is not useful?

That is, a high pass rate could also indicate that it is a well functioning system with few spurious requests and none that are lacking required information.

Does requiring a warrant guarantee best behavior? No. But it does provide a solid path for accountability and a path to codify better rules, when abused.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-09 21:49:19+00:00
Yes, but CHERI opens whole new system design possibilities, including things like ultra-cheap intra-address-space security boundaries. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/pdfs/201607...

> We have used CHERI’s ISA facilities as a foundation to build a software object-capability model supporting orders of magnitude greater compartmentalization performance, and hence granularity, than current designs. We use capabilities to build a hardware-software domain-transition mechanism and programming model suitable for safe communication between mutually distrusting software

and https://github.com/CTSRD-CHERI/cheripedia/wiki/Colocation-Tu...

> Processes are Unix' natural compartments, and a lot of existing software makes use of that model. The problem is, they are heavy-weight; communication and context switching overhead make using them for fine-grained compartmentalisation impractical. Cocalls, being fast (order of magnitude slower than a function call, order of magnitude faster than a cheapest syscall), aim to fix that problem.

This functionality revolves around two functions: cocall(2) for the caller (client) side, and coaccept(2) for the callee (service) side. Underneath they are implemented using CHERI magic in the form of CInvoke / LDPBR CPU instruction to switch protection domains without the need to enter the kernel, but from the API user point of view they mostly look like ordinary system calls and follow the same conventions, errno et al.

There's a decent chance that we get back whatever performance we pay for CHERI with interest as new systems architecture possibilities open up.

MTE helps us secure existing architectures. CHERI makes new architectures possible.
by jhallenworld | 2025-09-09 21:49:27+00:00
The new thing that YouTube Premium includes is the one button press to skip over "commonly skipped parts of the video"- typically the in-video promotions. This just showed up last week on my nVidia shield connected to my TV. So finally there is a way to remove ads for real. It would be nice if it did it automatically.

The creator is getting paid more from my Premium subscription, so I definitely do not want to see their own ads.
by EGreg | 2025-09-09 21:50:02+00:00
When I started https://github.com/Qbix/Platform over a decade I go I went with PHP for most request handling and Node.js for optional realtime handling (delivering messages over websockets, delivering notifications to devices etc)

And I have never regretted it. PHP powers 80% of all web sites in the world, still today! And it is the only language and runtime out there that is shared-nothing for web serving. Eliminates all kinds of leaks, including of memory, and secrets etc.

PS: This was the early PHP framework that the platform grew out of: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/hETCmkpWFW and this is how long ago I posted on HN about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464112 !
by gcr | 2025-09-09 21:50:33+00:00
In 2020, Dropbox launched “new paper,” which turned the flat list of Paper documents on paper.Dropbox.com into literal files that live in your Dropbox folder. This was a staged rollout. Mine wasn’t migrated until five years later.

For a while, I could edit “paper files” that other team members created, and I could create paper docs on the old version (to the utter confusion of my team members), but I couldn’t create new paper files without duplicating a team member’s doc and deleting the content.

Now when I visit paper.Dropbox.com, all of my “old paper” docs are completely missing and I see an empty list (of what I presume are old-style docs.) :( I have local backups, but like, what’s the point of maintaining two separate services with the same name for five years?

Edit: Apparently my account was migrated in December 2024. I don’t know why the old interface is still accessible to me. A redirect or a message like “Check your ‘Migrated Paper Docs’ folder” would go a long way instead of showing an hauntingly empty list.

(I’m a very early user, signed up before 2008, have 3TB of free lifetime storage from referrals and internship bonuses)
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-09 21:50:57+00:00
> iPhones already have specialized hardware for AI acceleration.

This really is the problem. Why do I spend hundreds of dollars more for specialized hardware that’s better than last years specialized hardware if all the AI features are going to be an API call to chatGPT? I am pretty sure I don’t need all of that hardware to watch YouTube videos or scroll Instagram/web, which is what 95% of the users do.
by b112 | 2025-09-09 21:51:00+00:00
I have one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CDBYFH81

and a colour Boox. The refresh on the Boox is so fast, you can watch video.

I don't think the Meebook has refresh issues, it's definitely very fast for back/forward. Of course I don't have page turn animations on. I use the kindle app on it, and KOreader. If you get this, know that there is a thread to drop in a script, so the volume buttons page turn correctly when upside down.

If you live in Amazon turf, you can always buy and return if not suitable?

There are some reviews on Amazon.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 21:51:03+00:00
> if WFH was just as good for the company, and more attractive to employees, we should see a boom in WFH-first companies, which does not seem to be happening.

In this economy, you can't even make a company, let alone profess their benefits. This is all intentional.

If/when the economy recovers and funding is flowing around, I predict we will see this huge boom in WFH companies, especially with startups.

Unfortunately, larger corps are seeing "WFH" as yet another attempt to offshore as much labor as possible. I can't guarantee after this ebb that top tech companies will be begging for talent the same way they were last decade.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-09 21:51:19+00:00
Offshoring always ends in disaster, companies have tried this time and time again but the end result is an awful product that requires more money to fix than they needed to make it in the first place.

And that also doesn't solve the problem of dealing with institutional knowledge loss if you decide to aggressively cull employees trying to unionize. In either scenario the solution is for union workers to become even more aggressive with their demands and force companies to acquiesce.
by greycol | 2025-09-09 21:51:28+00:00
Every time I bite my tongue (literal not figurative) it's also astonishing to me. Last time I did was probably 3 years ago and it was probably 10 years earlier for the time before that. Would it be fair to call me a negligent eater? Have you been walking and tripped over nothing? Humans are fallible and unless you are in an environment where the productivity loss of a rigorous checklist and routine system makes sense these mistakes happen.

It would be just as easy to argue that anyone who uses software and hasn't confirmed their security certifications include whatever processes you imagine avoids 'human makes 1 mistake and continues with normal workflow' error or holds updates until evaluated is negligent.
by perihelions | 2025-09-09 21:51:52+00:00
Because GitHub can serve different bytes to different people. You log in as one of the project's devs, you get your own consistent, correct view of your project; some other people get malware instead. How do you reconcile the full picture? No one distrusts GitHub. There's no public log which git tools generically check against to see if GitHub is attempting something evil, the way they do with certificate transparency. GitHub is the public log.

Git may be designed as a distributed VCS; and it'd be a different situation if it were used that way in practice. For many projects, GitHub has a full MITM. They could even—forget about the checksums—bifurcate the views in between devs—accept commits from one dev, send over those commits with translated Merkle trees to another dev who has a corrupted history, and they'd never figure it out.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-09 21:51:57+00:00
> If they're not willing to touch them in their current condition, it seems strange that they loan me $300k with that house as collateral.

Private lenders != Bank loans. And as another commenter clarified, when I said "bank loan" I meant the usual mortgage loans.

https://lenderkit.com/blog/what-is-private-lending-and-how-i...

"What is private lending?

Private lending is a financial avenue where borrowers get loans from private lenders — individuals or businesses instead of borrowing funds from a bank or a credit union."

> If I can't make the renovation work financially, they're stuck with a shitbox, potentially one that I've done more harm than good to.

Yes, and ...?

Lending is always risky. That's why private lenders have very high interest rates. The private lender will assess how likely you are to succeed. They generally know RE fairly well, so they'll want your analysis on the worth of the house, and how you made the estimates on repairs. If they think you're way off, they'll just tell you why and not fund the deal.

And they'll want to know what you're losing. If you're a blue collar person and are willing to put $50-75K of your own money into the enterprise, they know you have skin in the game.

I appreciate the questions/counterpoints. Just keep in mind you're not arguing with someone who is merely arguing from a theoretical vantage point :-)
by meatmanek | 2025-09-09 21:52:18+00:00
I broke the back glass on my 15 Pro a few months ago, still covered by AppleCare+. I made an appointment at the biggest store in town, and they didn't have the part in stock when I got there. The Genius ordered the part and told me they'd have it in a few days. Nine days later, they finally got it. I made a new appointment, showed up, and they told me they had the part but didn't have a replacement phone in stock in case something went wrong during the repair. They offered to have me go to another store nearby, which had both the part and the replacement device, but I opted to just take the gamble (since back glass replacement seems like a low-risk repair).

The whole experience left me very disappointed with AppleCare+ and the Genius Bar in general.

Why the heck didn't they have the part in stock given that I made an appointment several days in advance? (You go through a little menu saying exactly which part is broken, rather than a free-form text field, so their systems _should_ have known that they'd need a replacement back glass in my color.) Why didn't they tell me before I hauled myself in for my appointment that they wouldn't have the part in stock? Why does it take 9 days to get replacements? Why didn't the first Genius tell me that other stores in town had the part in stock? Why didn't they have the backup device in stock or warn me in advance of my second appointment?

I worry that Apple has gotten complacent with service because they can get away with it.
by lukasschwab | 2025-09-09 21:52:27+00:00
> An RTO mandate is also an excellent thing for a CEO to show investors they are doing, if they are not making money and lack better ideas.

I think of Jeffrey Pfeffer's "social contagion" arguments a lot — first with regards to layoffs[^1], but increasingly also to RTO policies and tracked AI use.

It seems very unlikely execs (esp. in small organizations) are taking the time to read and seriously evaluate research about RTO or AI and productivity. (Frankly, it seems much less likely than them doing serious modeling about layoffs.) At some point, the "contagion" becomes a matter of "best practices" — not just a way to show investors what you're doing, but part of the normal behavior shareholders expect.

Bleak if true!

[^1]: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2022/12/explains-recent-te...
by Aurornis | 2025-09-09 21:52:27+00:00
Constructive Dismissal has been brought up in every RTO thread for years, but I've never heard of a case where it worked.

The key to constructive dismissal is that a reasonable person would have to find the new conditions intolerable and it has to constitute some form of discrimination (e.g. not a change in company policy, but a targeted attack that discriminates against you). So given that most people commute to work, you couldn't argue that it was intolerable to be asked to commute to work.

If you wake up one day to an e-mail from your employer that you, and you alone, need to relocate to their new office in a small town in Alaska for no good reason, you'd have a good case for constructive dismissal.

However if the company changes their policy and applies it equally to everyone requiring employees within 50 miles of an office come in (the case with this RTO move) then you don't have a valid case for a constructive dismissal lawsuit.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-09-09 21:53:07+00:00
Yes. Last week sucked. We were thinking of sticking with them, but it seems they're shakier than I thought. With all that, and GPT5 just kicking Opus 4.1's butt in cost, reliability, and quality, I'm leaning OpenAI again.

Who knows how it will be next week.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-09 21:53:29+00:00
> the company is possibly defaming the employees in a way that predictably adversely affects their ability to gain new employment. And there may be other potential problems that aren't apparent to me, since I'm not a lawyer.

Why is it that the "I'm not a lawyer, but" comments are always giving the worst legal advice?

There is no defamation case anywhere in this situation.
by m463 | 2025-09-09 21:53:40+00:00
I've heard inaccuracy could be dependent on how your arm is held/supported/relaxed when you are attached to the automatic cuff.

I always end up with my arm almost shoulder height resting on some bin on the side of the blood pressure device cart thing.

I wonder why they can't use an ergonomic chair with two appropriate-height support arms.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-09-09 21:53:41+00:00
They had this though? I'm similarly excited/relieved by this announcement.

At the start of summer you could still ask for any kind of file as an artifact and they would produce it and you could download it.

They they changed it to artifacts were only ever seen pages that you could share or view in the app.

Yes this is going to transform how I use Claude... BACK to the way I used it in June!

As a user this post is frustrating as hell to read because I've missed this feature so much, but at the same time thanks for giving it back I guess?
by pandalicious | 2025-09-09 21:53:42+00:00
>The presence of EMTE leaves Spectre V1 as one of the last avenues available to attackers to help guide their attacks, so we designed a completely novel mitigation that limits the effective reach of Spectre V1 leaks — at virtually zero CPU cost — and forces attackers to contend with type segregation. This mitigation makes it impractical for attackers to use Spectre V1, as they would typically need 25 or more V1 sequences to reach more than 95 percent exploitability rate — unless one of these sequences is related to the bug being exploited, following similar reasoning as our kalloc_type analysis.

Did they ever explain what that mitigation does?
by klardotsh | 2025-09-09 21:54:10+00:00
Yes. My Pebble Steel got over a week of battery in 2015, had physical, tactile buttons that worked even wearing thick winter gloves, and had an always-on-no-matter-what screen that was clearly readable in full sunlight.

Every smartwatch that hasn't met that bar, which is almost all of them ever made, is a joke to me. I'd have ordered a RePebble had I not moved back to analogue dumbwatches instead just before they were announced (and were iOS not actively hostile to competing watch implementations).
by randmeerkat | 2025-09-09 21:54:28+00:00
Wow, a phone with a battery that's so bad, they're selling an extra one to strap to the back of it, on launch day... The most innovative thing that Apple has done recently is figuring out how to have their CEO deliver a gift wrapped gold bar to the president. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEsY-YpF1E&t=133s
by ponector | 2025-09-09 21:54:54+00:00
>> where it comes from

It's a power play. To show regular folks their place. Big corpo is a modern feodal state, where CEO is an emperor, c-suites are kings, managers are barons, IC are peasants and external contractors are slaves(but leased from other owner).

It's not only RTO, it's also about timetable and dress code. Yes, I had a beef with IT manager about dress code in the development office of a bank. Just because he can show his power he tried to enforce dress code.
by snowe2010 | 2025-09-09 21:54:56+00:00
> Second, the songs must share SUBSTANTIAL SIMILARITY, which means a listener can hear the songs side by side and tell the allegedly infringing song lifted, borrowed, or appropriated material from the original.

Music has had this happen numerous times in the US. The distinction isn’t an exact replica, it’s if it could be confused for the same style.

George Harrison lost a case for one of his songs. There are many others.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/george-harrison-my-sweet-lor...
by coredog64 | 2025-09-09 21:55:14+00:00
Pre-pandemic, I had multiple employers that were incentivized via the state and county government to push remote working, ride sharing, and transit utilization as a means of reducing overall government spending on roads and road maintenance. It typically showed up as small benefits to the employee, like a monthly drawing for a $50 Target gift card or preferential parking spots. Based on that, I got the sense that while it may have been helpful in the aggregate, it wasn't wildly cost effective.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-09 21:55:19+00:00
I suspect the C-suite has noticed the discrepancy between attendance and occupancy

The solution is to downsize your physical plant.

My company has a ton of faults, but every time one of these stories hits the HN front page, I thank God that my company remains committed to work from home. So much so that it recently sold its last building, and the few dozen employees whose roles require them to be physically present have been relocated to a much smaller building on a train line.

The work-from-home policy comes very heavily from the top. I suspect it's due to two things:

1. We have no shareholders. So the C-levels don't feel the need to engage in performative monkey-see-monkey-do antics so they have something to talk about during investor calls.

2. The management is extremely female-heavy. If I had to guess, I'd say it's 4:1 female:male. And the biggest beneficiaries of work from home are caregivers, who are statistically more likely to be women.

While I believe that 90% of the "work-life balance" speeches that come out of our HR department are a bunch of bullshit, I also believe that when it comes to work-from-home, management loves it not just for the massive cost savings they say it's provided.
by hedora | 2025-09-09 21:55:38+00:00
Our i3 is good enough for 95% of our trips, and we rarely get it below 20% (the computer reports 100% when the cells hit 90%). There have been zero times when we needed the other car at the same time as the i3, and the i3 couldn’t handle either trip.

Also, battery wear out on them is basically unheard of. Even if it were a thing, they have an extremely long transferable battery warranty (try finding an estimated dealer price for a swap). If you do somehow kill the battery, third party replacement ones can have higher range.

I honestly don’t know why you think 113 miles is worthless for a secondary car. Wyoming has the highest number of miles driven per year in the US at 24K. That’s 65 miles a day, so the 113 mile car will be more than adequate for most trips for the average Wyoming driver, assuming they drive daily.

The US average is 14K miles.