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by digdugdirk | 2025-09-15 17:30:11+00:00
I agree in principle with the above comment, but for some additional context - slicer software has gotten really, really good these days. Especially (sadly) if you don't need open source software.

To make a CNC machining metaphor - Slicer software is basically just your interface to the dials and knobs on the CNC settings for speeds and feeds. There's more settings, because 3d printing is more like if a CNC had a baby with a welder and an injection molding press, only it's injecting and simultaneously welding up a blob of plastic. You're balancing the toolpaths, the temps, the adhesion, and the overall speed all at the same time, all for whatever material you're using.

So it's complex, but these companies have a ton of data and experience in order to make sure their preset settings are damn good out of the box. And these days, they get it right more often than they get it wrong!

Long story short - you should probably just get a Bambu. You'll learn what you need to learn from it, while having good quality output the whole time. If you find out it's not suitable for what you're looking to do, then you can sell it used with decent resale and get the best printer for your specific application.
by devdua | 2025-09-15 17:30:12+00:00
Today Thinkst released a free, new Canarytoken - AWS Infrastructure Canarytoken on https://canarytokens.org.

It catches attackers in your AWS account by putting tempting assets in their way and alerting you if they get probed.

Extending their old work on fake AWS assets, this makes it even easier to deploy juicy S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, SSM parameters, SecretsManager secrets, and SQS queues, that attackers will want to browse.
by adroniser | 2025-09-15 17:30:38+00:00
Of the papers submitted to a conference, it might be that reviewers don't offer suggestions that would significantly improve the quality of the work. Indeed the quality of reviews has gone down significantly in recent years. But if Anthropic were going to submit this work to peer review, they would be forced to tighten it up significantly.

The linear probe paper is still written in a format where it could reasonably be submitted, and indeed it was submitted to an ICLR workshop.
by famouswaffles | 2025-09-15 17:30:40+00:00
TensorFlow is a C++ library with a python wrapping, yet nobody (obviously exaggeration) actually uses tensorflow (or torch) in C++ for ML R&D.

It's like people just don't get it. The ML ecosystem in python didn't just spring from the ether. People wanted to interface in python badly, that's why you have all these libraries with substantial code in another language yet development didn't just shift to that language.

If python was fast enough, most would be fine to ditch the C++ backends and have everything in python, but the reverse isn't true. The C++ interface exists, and no-one is using it.
by xp84 | 2025-09-15 17:30:42+00:00
I mean, given that it's updated after setup with the normal flow, I'm okay with it.

The thing I've most been convinced of in the past 5 years of building as much 'iot/smart home' stuff out as possible in my house is that nearly every vendor is selling crap that has marginal usefulness outside of a 'party trick' in isolation. Building out a whole smart home setup is frustrating unless it's all from one vendor, but there isn't one vendor which does all of it well for every need.

On my phone I have apps for: Ecobee, Lutron, Hue, 4 separate camera vendors[1], Meross, and Smart Life. Probably a couple more that I'm forgetting.

Only Lutron and Hue are reasonable in that they allow pretty comprehensive control to be done by a hub or HomeKit so I never have to use those apps.

It's been years since Matter and Thread were supposedly settled upon as the new standards for control and networking, but the market is, instead of being full of compatible devices, instead absolutely packed with cheap wi-fi devices, each of which is cloud-dependent and demands to be administered and even used day-to-day only through a pile-of-garbage mobile app whose main purpose is to upsell you on some cloud services.

[1] I admit the fact I have 4 is my fault for opportunistically buying cameras that were cheap rather than at least sticking with one vendor. But many people have a good excuse, perhaps one vendor makes the best doorbell camera, while another might make a better PTZ indoor camera.
by hadlock | 2025-09-15 17:30:50+00:00
It would not surprise me at all to see 512, 768, 1024 gb models targeted at commercial or home users in the next 5 years. I can imagine a lot of companies, regulated ones in particular like finance, defense, medical, wanting to run the models in house, inside their own datacenter. A single card or pair of cards would probably be more than adequate for a thousand or more users, or half a dozen developers. If you already have a $25,000 database server, $12,000 for an "ai server" isn't a wild ask.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-15 17:31:21+00:00
> Remember, this is just a bit of fun. There's no practical way to build domestic batteries with this capacity using the technology of 2025.

Huh? A single Tesla Powerwall 3 stores just about the same 13.5 kWh the author describes as being the battery size they need [1]. And they are by far not the only ones offering ready-to-install battery packs.

Fully electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid wallboxes enable even larger systems.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/de_DE/powerwall?redirect=no
by ramon156 | 2025-09-15 17:31:32+00:00
My team isnt dysfunctional but I always get hit on the head for doing work and not making a ticket. I don't get it, if I see something bad I'm not going to search which ticket would best fit this issue. Just reviw my PR !

Also, so far most of our projects start simple but end in chaos and deadlines on the minute. I feel like we could always do better.
by virtualritz | 2025-09-15 17:31:52+00:00
There are no truths but your opinion in this case runs counter of what 35 years developing software have taught me.

Obviously, I may be an outlier. Some crank who's just smitten by the proposal of spending his time writing code instead of trying to get a dependency (and its sub-dependencies and their sub-dependencies) to build at all (e.g. C/C++) or to have the right version that works with ALL the code that depends on it (e.g. Python).

I.e. I use cargo foremost (by a large margin) for that reason.
Show HN: Better Word Counter
by puntofisso | 2025-09-15 17:32:02+00:00
I developed a word counter website that allows the user to add multiple sections, and keeps count of both each section's and the overall totals in real time.

This is a very minor development which serves two personal purposes:

* test whether I could create a simple app with vibe-coding (using Claude Code) and little interaction other than testing * fulfil a personal user need that the existing alternatives (such as https://wordcounter.net/ or select-and-count on MS Word/Google Docs) didn't quite capture in the way I needed.

If you're curious, my use case was writing an application that required an exact overall count, but split unequally among 4 sections.

Comments, feedback, questions, feature requests, unlikely monetisation ideas – all very welcome.
by Apocryphon | 2025-09-15 17:32:30+00:00
Enshittification really hits hard when the luster has fallen but the money printing must continue. The general perception that Facebook is somewhat of a utility app now, the young people have departed for more hip and current platforms, and it's just most used by grandparents and content-generating bots. (Though it's still useful for Marketplace and Events and so forth.) Also long before this, FB weakened a lot of its other features such as Groups, or Facebook Apps.

So it makes sense that they're looking for more nefarious, scraping the bottom of the barrel, desparate behavior to keep the money printer churning despite increasing consumer apathy.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-15 17:32:54+00:00
Anecdote:

Someone I know works for a municipality in digital transformation. They have a public facing website where local residents can report things to the municipality, such as potholes, water system issues, noise complaints, etc.

The UI has this huge taxonomy with like 200 categories with three levels of nesting that route to different departments. There are multiple "other" categories.

When a resident chooses other, it becomes an employee's job to choose a different category. But 30% of the categories employees choose are wrong (about the same for residents).

It's a UX problem, a taxonomy problem, a training problem, a change management problem, a work routing problem, and all these contribute to longer resolution times.

My friend started tinkering with a small quantized local LLM, testing whether it could classify the reported issues more accurately than the public/staff. Of course it could. They're preparing to integrate it into production. Installing it will dramatically improve the UX for the residents, save staff time (at least hundreds of hours a year), improve resolution time, etc.

My friends boss mentioned it at a conference and apparently "no one else is doing this".

So yeah, we are just barely scratching the surface of the productivity opportunities LLMs offer. It's early, not because the technology isn't developed enough to help (it is), but because most people are still figuring out how it can help.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-15 17:33:20+00:00
> Value Migration: Writing code becomes like typing—a basic skill, not a career. Value moves to understanding what to build, how systems fit together, and navigating the complexity of infinite cheap software pieces.

I saw this happening way before LLMs came on the scene in 2015. Back then, I was an ordinary journeyman enterprise developer who had spent the last 7 years both surviving the shit show of the 2008 recession and getting to the other side of being an “expert beginner” after staying at my second job out of college for 9 years until 2008.

I saw that as an enterprise dev in a second tier tech city, no matter what I learned well - mobile, web, “full stack development”, or even “cloud”, they were all commodities that anyone could learn “well enough@ so I wouldn’t command a premium and I was going to plateau at around $150-$160K and it was going to be hard to stand out.

I did start focusing on just what the author said and took a chance on leaving a full time salaried job the next year for a contract to perm opportunities that would give me the chance to lead a major initiative by a then new director of a company [1].

I didn’t learn until 5 years later at BigTech about promotions were about “scope”, “impact” and “dealing with ambiguity”.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

I had never had a job before with real documented leveling guidelines.

Long story short, left there and led the architecture of B2B startup and then a job working (full time) in the cloud consulting department of AWS fell into my lap.

After leaving AWS in 2023, I found out how prescient I was, the regular old enterprise dev jobs I was being offered even as a “senior” or “architect” were still topping out at around $160K-$175K and hadn’t kept up with inflation. I have friends who are making around that much with 20 years of experience in Atlanta.

Luckily, I was able to quickly get a job as a staff consultant at a third party consulting company. But I did have to spend 5 years honing my soft skills to get here. I still do some coding. But that’s not my value proposition.

[1] Thanks to having a wife in the school system part time with good benefits I could go from full time to contract to permanent in 2016.
by anthk | 2025-09-15 17:33:23+00:00
End of the world? Finisterra in Galicia, Spain? That's in the Northwest past of Spain, facing the Atlantic. As you might guess, the currents and cliffs were so rough that the locals named the place "The end of the world" (Finis Terrae in Latin).

On KDE, the best for the project would be an inmutable distro with Flatpak.
by ryandrake | 2025-09-15 17:33:26+00:00
I’ve always considered the chargeback the last resort “burning the bridge” action. Problem is that merchants lately are getting way worse about customer support.

I’ve been a credit card user for 30 years, and in the first 25 of those years, I only had to resort to chargeback once. In the most recent 5 years, I’ve had to do it about 3 times. Companies in general are just way less responsive now and take their customers for granted way more than in the past.
by robenkleene | 2025-09-15 17:33:50+00:00
> Most apps are buggy & sloppy, including Finder, Calendar, Mail, Music, and Clock.

Relative to what? E.g., which GUI apps are better than these? I'd list all of those apps (except Music, and maybe Clock, which I don't use enough to judge) as some of the strongest GUI apps I use today (although Notes, Logic Pro, and Final Cut would be my top three apps Apple makes today, in that order). Note that doesn't mean those apps are without flaws, but I'd be hard pressed to name anything definitively better. Ableton Live/MaxMSP is probably the only non-Apple ecosystem GUI app I can think of that I'd consider first rate (I might add Sublime Text/Sublime Merge, but I haven't used those enough to say definitively). Acorn, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, NetNewsWire, Transmit, Things, BBEdit, are all Apple ecosystem apps I use regularly that I'd consider great, but I don't think any of those are definitively better than Apple's first-party apps. So curious what software you're comparing Apple's apps to that you'd consider definitively better than them?

(Regarding Mail and Calendar, curious if you're using those with Gmail or Exchange. Mail/Calendar only work ok with those services.)
by tialaramex | 2025-09-15 17:34:04+00:00
The short story "The State of the Art" ? Yes, Diziet is a Special Circumstances agent - we also see her in Use of Weapons. Some of the other shorts in the collection of that name aren't set in the Culture. you can probably say "A Gift From the Culture" isn't about SC per se, but it also isn't really about the Culture.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-15 17:34:05+00:00
Because they contain so much more nicotine they are way more addicting, way better for the lungs than smoking but still bad for cardiovascular health. Disposables should be illegal for environmental protection reasons, that's a bit unrelated though since these companies can very easily switch to reusable/pod-systems.

We want people to vape rather than smoke tobacco, obviously, it's not a zero-sum issue.
by eschneider | 2025-09-15 17:34:11+00:00
> Your CI/CD takes a huge amount of time because you forgot to leverage caching.

The bane of my existence are CI/CD systems that get caching 99% right. Chasing down the problems from that last 1% of strangely busted...well, lets just say that if you want TENSION at work, good way to get it. :/
by rstat1 | 2025-09-15 17:34:17+00:00
>>Who is arguing for a backdoor? Do you actually know what are the proposed technical approaches or are you making assumptions?

The 14 EU countries pushing for this policy to become law. Do you actually know the proposed technical approaches or are you just making assumptions?

>>What is not possible?

See my previous comments. I made it quite clear.

>>For example here, you make your argument by stating that these proposal are "stupid". There is no effort that I can see to even try to understand where the other party is coming from. And that is an issue, in my opinion. I think that a productive and honest conversation about a complex issue like this one requires empathy with the other party's position.

In situations such as this your empathy is misplaced. It should not be with the bureaucrat seeking access to your private conversations under the false pretense of "keeping you safe" from w/e today's boogeyman is. It should be with the people who's safety is bolstered by the ability to have private conversations.

If you don't understand why this sort of stupid chat control policy is bad then there is no productive or honest conversation to be had.
by reaperducer | 2025-09-15 17:34:50+00:00
The better thing to get annoyed at Apple for is being slow to implement web standards.

Now that Safari supports the HTML5 date picker (since iOS 14.1 - five years ago), this is more of a meme than fact-based reasoning. Unless you believe Google including something in Chrome automatically makes it a "standard."

I have a list (unfortunately on a device I can't access now) of web standards that are supported on Safari and Firefox, but not on Chrome. I need it because one web site I work on is 100% Safari users (about 800 people), and another is mostly Android (about 70%). So I need a cheat sheet of which does what.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-15 17:34:58+00:00
They're idiots who are throwing good money after bad in order to keep from admitting that they made a mistake.

MAGA voted for revolution, and they got Hillary Clinton (Trump's political idol since the 90s.) No matter who you vote for, you somehow get Hillary Clinton.

Everything that he is doing is what he said that he'd stop, except deportations of illegal aliens, attacks on public sector workers, and closing slush funds disguised as foreign aid, which his base (and others) very much support. The cutting of the public sector turned out to be a scam (barely anyone was cut, they were cut stupidly) and the slush funds were just shifted directly to the Pentagon; and although he closed the border, he was barely deporting. The Epstein failure, the Ukraine failure, and the Israel failure are also painfully obvious, and obviously things he could end at will (except he's obviously implicated by Epstein.)

So what he chose to do was to escalate the public show, the extravaganza of deportations. He tried to do it in the noisiest, most publicity aware way by picking fights with the most dingbat Democrats, creating alligator swamp prisons, and unleashing military in the streets of Democratic cities.

Since his backers (and every politician's backers) in the arms and oil industries want him to overthrow Venezuela, he's tried to somehow link what is overwhelmingly popular (the deportation of illegal aliens) with something stupid and unpopular (regime change in Venezuela) by talking about "illegal alien gang drug terrorists."

Ábrego García was a mistake that he got caught on, that he stupidly made a poster child for this PR strategy, and he's too dumb to let it go.

And to be fair, he sort of can't because it makes you wonder how many other mistakes there are, and then you can't give him the benefit of the doubt to push through the fast deportations he's trying to do to get around deliberately obstructionist judges.

Even worse, García is an illegal alien, and most people who voted for Trump want him deported anyway, no matter how nice he is. But Trump committed to painting immigrants as dangerous when statistically they're less dangerous than American natives. It's the second generation that become criminals, because they catch up to the US rate for people in their economic strata.

He could go back on that dumb claim, but it's not only been his brand since the first election, it's now tied to his excuse for continuing the siege of Venezuela, and escalating it to an outright attack. Also, the conquest of Venezuela would be a real legacy, because the US has become a country of thieves, and Venezuela has a lot to steal.

This is the real consideration. He doesn't care about immigration at all, which is why he isn't deporting, and isn't going after employers (who aren't Korean) but making exceptions and extolling H1Bs to MAGA rage. Attacking Venezuela is just going to lead to more Venezuelans coming in (and is why they're here now), and they'll just get a "legal" process that lets in just as many as the illegal process, in order to kill wages. Whoever you vote for, you get Hillary Clinton.
by masfuerte | 2025-09-15 17:35:13+00:00
The CPU isn't that fantastical for the 1980s. The Archimedes had an 8MHz ARM in 1987. It was expensive though and came with at least 512KB RAM.

P.S. After I wrote that I looked at the Wikipedia page. Which helpfully reminded me that 1987 was 38 years ago :(
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 17:35:17+00:00
I wanted to reply to this in detail because it's a very interesting topic for me, but the result exceeded the HN comment length limit (I don't know by how much) and this is already quite derailed from the original topic, and layers deep beneath a dead comment. I did save my thoughts in a local text file, though. Please feel free to reach out by email (I use this username on the Proton email service) if you're interested.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-15 17:36:07+00:00
There are dual-fuel generators, Ecoflow has a propane+gasoline option [1]. The problem with a pure propane setup is that propane doesn't really want to get gaseous if it's too cold outside - just like your cigarette lighter that you need to warm in your pants pocket before it can actually light a fire.

Diesel plus <any other kind of fuel> isn't available on cheap residential units I'm aware of, particularly as the ignition and fuel injection mechanisms are much more complex than a gasoline/propane mechanism.

[1] https://www.ecoflow.com/us/dual-fuel-smart-generator
by nickff | 2025-09-15 17:36:12+00:00
>" the VP and President of this country making clearly biased remarks on an active criminal case against a resident of the United States"

I am sorry to break it to you, but this happens all the time, and is not a violation of due process. You can find examples of many Presidents declaring opinions on the guilt or innocence of a variety of people before their trials. [1] It makes sense that this is allowed, as the Justice Department is a part of the Executive Branch, so all prosecutions are done with the tacit or explicit approval of the President. It would be more problematic if the judges in the case expressed views on guilt or innocence before hearing the case.

[1] https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/04/25/obama-decla...
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-15 17:36:48+00:00
The article reduces programming to its economic and utilitarian components to make this analysis. It's coherent and valuable for analysing decision-making in the context of programming as a means to an end, where the end is to make money.

However, there are other aspects to programming that can't be quantified, subjective components that are stripped away when delegating coding to machines.

The first most immediate effect I think is loss of the sense of ownership with code. The second which takes a bit of time to sink in and is at first buried by the excitement of making something work that is beyond your technical capability is enjoyment.

You take both of these out, you create what I could only describe as soul-less code.

The impact of soul-less code is not obvious, not measurable but I'd argue quite real. We will need time to see these effects in practice. Will companies that go all-in on machine generates code have the upper hand, or those that value traditional approaches more?
by tritondev | 2025-09-15 17:36:59+00:00
The project has 65k lines of code (plus another 11k of tests and tools), but a lot of the heavy lifting was done by LLMs with me providing them detailed problem statements, reviewing their work, and then having them fix/improve what they'd done. At this point I'd guess LLMs have built about 80%-85% of the code and I've built the rest. I've had to keep the architecture clean, however, because the LLMs have struggled with that.

I built the Metaphor prompting framework first, then worked my way up from there.

The project has been running for about a year, and I probably averaged about 40 hours a week, so something like 2000 hours so far.
by palata | 2025-09-15 17:37:18+00:00
Right, got it.

Though I don't believe that when someone talks about a "disposable" product, they mean that "this is a product that you will dispose of before you die". Usually "disposable" means that it's meant to have a short lifetime.

A laptop or a smartphone are not "disposable" in that sense, even though we don't keep them for our lifetime.