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by qweqwe123 | 2025-09-18 21:31:23+00:00
I wish someone mentioned DMT here (N,N-DMT). It's really that powerful that you can't ignore that.

Look up DiMiTri ladder protocol, or even without a protocol. The thing is that DMT enthusiasts have advanced quite a bit. Now you don't need to smoke DMT to get a "breakthrough". The entire "breakthrough" moment is somewhat overhyped.

But you can extract the molecule by yourself, and create your own vape, and experience the safest way known so far to overcome years of grief in weeks, sometimes days.

The idea is inhaling every minute relatively small dose to keep yourself here in this world without any breakthroughs, and maintaining this control for the next 60 minutes, while healing the trauma. So in total 60 relatively easy inhales. And it works.

It's definitely underestimated in HN community.

PS and "breakthrough" moments might allow you to see the person and talk to them
by MatveyF | 2025-09-18 21:31:46+00:00
Yes, you’re right! Our roadmap and tools are focused on helping non-technical users who build apps with platforms like Lovable, v0, etc. The “bug” isn’t just about clicking a link and it not working. For example, we’re also working on things like: 1. Branding analysis and design drift detection (this happens a lot in vibe-coded designs — e.g., one page uses a purple gradient, another uses a completely different style, which breaks consistency). 2. checking how a new user would actually interact with your app, to see if the flow makes sense.

A crawler alone is just a static check. Our north star is trying to fix the last step from vibe coding to the production, like spawning a browser user agent that actually navigates through the app like a first-time user. Another roadmap idea is to build a browser agent that connects with coding AIs (like Cursor or Claude) to provide automated testing right after a feature is implemented. For example, when we use Claude to build something, we constantly have to flip between the terminal and browser to keep design consistent. The thought is: what if Claude’s code had “eyes” to test what it just built in real time?

Overall, thanks so much for your response. honestly I didn’t expect anyone to reply. This is my first time on HN, and it’s been an awesome interaction!
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-18 21:31:59+00:00
One thing that would help, but only help, not solve, is to train the people writing requirements. I've seen so much overfitting. "We developed on a Dell 1234ABC, so that's what we need 200 of when we deliver this to the field." That's not how computers work, but that's how they end up writing requirements. That can even make it into the TO for systems so now they have a drawing of the back of a Dell 1234ABC and the front, showing how it's installed at a desk and cabled up.

Once that happens, if the system lasts more than a year, they have to start sourcing Dell 1234ABCs with the same specs. However, that's an item that's no longer sold. So then they switch to maintaining the ones they have, which means a support contractor is hired to staff locations to handle these repairs (because the local IT staff is already responsible for a lot of things, and maintaining obsolete hardware is not their priority). When what's needed is any computer with X GB of RAM, X GB (or TB these days) of storage, and so on. Set the minimum specs, go acquire it from whatever vendor, and move on. It'd cost a fraction of the amount of that multi-million support contract whose entire job is to maintain obsolete computers.
by diarrhea | 2025-09-18 21:32:02+00:00
Not the OP but I’m a big fan of this pattern as well.

At work we generate both k8s manifests as well as application config in YAML from a Cue source. Cue allows both deduplication, being as DRY as one can hope to be, as well as validation (like validating a value is a URL, or greater than 1, whatever).

The best part is that we have unit tests that deserialize the application config, so entire classes of problems just disappear. The generated files are committed in VCS, and spell out the entire state verbatim - no hopeless Helm junk full of mystery interpolation whose values are unknown until it’s too late. No. The entire thing becomes part of the PR workflow. A hook in CI validates that the generated files correspond to the Cue source (run make target, check if git repo has changes afterwards).

The source of truth are native structs in Go. These native Go types can be imported into Cue and used there. That means config is always up to date with the source of truth. It also means refactoring becomes relatively easy. You rename the thing on the Go side and adjust the Cue side. Very hard to mess up and most of it is automated via tooling.

The application takes almost its entire config from the file, and not from CLI arguments or env vars (shudder…). That means most things are covered by this scheme.

One downside is that the Cue tooling is rough around the edges and error messages can be useless. Other than that, I fully intend to never build applications differently anymore.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-18 21:32:26+00:00
No way, man. Peak consumer Intel was from Core 2 up to Skylake-ish. That was when they started coasting and handed the market to AMD. Right now they're losing market share to them on mobile, desktop, and server. If we ignore servers, most PCs have an AMD CPU inside.

The GPUs might be competitive on price, but that's about it. It's pretty much a hardware open beta.
by famouswaffles | 2025-09-18 21:32:52+00:00
RDD2, Ghosts Of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong. These games will play at 40 to 50 + fps at 1080p low to medium on the intel ARC igpus (no AI upscaling).

To anyone actually paying attention, igpus have come a long way. They are no longer an 'I can play minecraft' thing.
by golem14 | 2025-09-18 21:33:08+00:00
There's a _huge_ cottage industry of edu apps and programs that are both hugely expensive and not better at teaching, consuming a lot VC and end user $$$. As a first step, this seems not bad at all.

I do agree that it would be better to dial in on a pupil's interest than the grade level (my kid may be 7th grade in English but 9th grade in Chemistry, for instance.)

[Edit: fix typo]
by chicagojoe | 2025-09-18 21:33:23+00:00
Buying an Oculus actually did allow me to successfully restore my wife's Facebook after it was hacked, thanks to finding probably the same thread you're referencing.

The amount of emotional capital held in various platforms is terrifying when you consider how easy it is to be locked out.

I now regularly "takeout" all of our actively used platforms and store them on physical media.
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-09-18 21:33:46+00:00
That's absolutely not true. Kids get trained how to ask questions very quickly from a very young age. Good responses to those questions fundamentally shape the entire developmental journey for kids and extends to their academic abilities in school.

Because questions are fundamentally about knowledge differentials, which will always exist for individual human beings. We can't at any point know everything.

Know how to know what you don't know and get a good grasp of what it means to know in the first place.

Knowledge isn't absolute.
by clusterhacks | 2025-09-18 21:33:56+00:00
"Out-of-order" and non-conventional explanations are interesting to consider. For both, I would expect LLMs to do poorly when there isn't much (or any) material for those approaches in the training data. My intuition would be the learner is going to have to be more exploratory via prompt engineering and still struggle against the tendency of the model to lean into classic or conventional explanations.

I don't particularly expect models to be dependable in responses, but I see how that presents a much larger problem in a learning context. I'm ok with bad responses that I can fight back against, but I also wouldn't reach for an LLM for a new field by default either.

For me, I do like using an LLM as a supplemental learning aid along with other traditional resources. I haven't tackled a deeper, new-to-me field yet with one. Maybe it's time for that . . .
by stopachka | 2025-09-18 21:34:10+00:00
Huh, that's a lot of creativity from the LLM! I am always surprised by it.

I was curious how GPT-5 would do with your prompt. Here's what it got:

http://noble-orca-yq331e.manyminiapps.com/

It got something, but _much_ less creative then Claude in this instance.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-18 21:34:24+00:00
> who seemed to want to separate money and its control from government? ... I wouldn't call him a prophet nor even agree with his views on money,

I wouldn't agree either, and that, together with the sheer impossibility of asking him about important aspects of his views is enough to render him irrelevant.

If he wanted to be relevant, he'd be here answering questions...
by Zaheer | 2025-09-18 21:34:24+00:00
I was hopping between a few canvas tools recently. Primarily tldraw & excalidraw for some quick spec work. Was surprised to see that both don't have better support or even apps for iPad. Feels like a missed opportunity given how many people on iPad would want to use this sort of tool. I know the website still works but it's just a bit clunkier. Another feature request: shape detection.
by keeda | 2025-09-18 21:34:48+00:00
When my friend drove me to pick up my new Model 3, we made sure to find and test the alternative release mechanisms. The worst part is that the company and the car itself warns against using that in non-emergencies because it can damage the window trim. So basically you are strongly advised against trying out a critical safety feature because of poor design.

But we did it anyway, because a) I believe the engineering philosophy "if it's not tested it doesn't work," is especially pertinent for safety critical systems; and b) my friend told me of a couple of youths who had died just a couple days earlier in a burning Tesla because the electronics shut down and they could not figure out the alternate release mechanism.

Then he said, "Welp, enjoy your new car!" and drove away in his Tesla.
by parenwielder | 2025-09-18 21:35:00+00:00
The type system isn't set up to be "required" today. You can run code without typechecking, and if you used the demo or just ran the `luau` executable, that's what happened. In an embedded context, you could choose to e.g. require all code to typecheck before running the compiler on it, and then you'd get more of the experience you're probably expecting here, i.e. refusal to run because it didn't typecheck. This is part of how we exist in a world where we had millions of lines of Lua 5.1 code in the wild written by hundreds of thousands of developers that we suddenly, overnight, turned into Luau code.
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-18 21:35:24+00:00
I just got burned by that, it compacted and then immediately dropped what it was in the middle of working on to redo something it had already finished half an hour earlier. Which, predictably, sent it into "systematically destroy the entire working codebase" mode because the code it was now reading didn't match expectations of the original instructions. So it started extrapolating like "huh, it looks like the function already exists, therefore, user must have meant [bizarre completely out of left field guess] instead" in an escalating loop of confusion and code mangling.
by perrygeo | 2025-09-18 21:36:11+00:00
My favorite is the Dymaxion projection created by Bucky Fuller. It shows all seven continents as one roughly contiguous chain of islands from Australia to Antarctica, surrounded by a giant ocean. It's no more or less correct than "north up" projections.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Dymaxion...
by pogue | 2025-09-18 21:36:15+00:00
> Weirdly, from their help page[1] they mention needing to "Have a high performance computer" as a requirement, and that

>> When you turn on "History search, powered by AI," in addition to the page title and URL, the page contents of the website you browse at that time are stored locally.

> and that the contents are even encrypted at rest, which makes you start to think they did it the right way, but then, no

AI is like a beast that has to be continuously fed forever to keep growing, and of course Google knows this. So, they're always going to take your data so they can feed their beast to try and stay, at least abreast, if not ahead of the competition.

I'm sure Google is also getting the message from publishers that they're getting sick of having their websites scrapped by GoogleBot only for those results to wind up in the AI Summary & not lead to any actual traffic.

So, what could Google do? What if they made everyone who ran Chrome scrape that data for them vicariously just through normal browsing? Not only that, what if in addition to having them scrape that data, but to also process it locally on your computer to save on cloud computing costs?

Just a theory... ;)

> FWIW this has been shipping for a long time. Try doing a reservation through google maps. If there's not open table support or whatever, it'll make the phone call for you.

That's cool about placing the call. Does it actually talk to the person on the other end, set up times & all that kind of stuff like they showed in the demo?
by rhetocj23 | 2025-09-18 21:36:22+00:00
"OpenAI claims that they would be profitable if they weren't spending on R&D "

Ermmm dude they are competing with Google. They have to keep reinvesting otherwise Google captures the users OAI currently has.

Free cash flows matter. Not accounting earnings. On a FCFF basis they largely in the red. Which means they have to keep raising money, at some point somebody will turn around and ask the difficult questions. This cannot go on forever.

And before someone mentions Amazon... Amazon raised enough money to sustain their reinvestment before they eventually got to the place where their EBIT(1-t) was greater than reinvestment.

This is not at all whats going on with OAI.
by tavavex | 2025-09-18 21:36:39+00:00
I agree, I'm not the most representative of HN users, so I can't gauge how willing one of them might be to pay the higher price. Maybe someone making six figures in the US (the average user on here?) wouldn't mind it, but I imagine that if we look at all techy people and not just HN, things would be closer to the mean.

For me, a $100 purchase is something I can probably justify if I think I'll enjoy it a lot. $250 is still a 2.5x upcharge, and I consider these expenditures for a long time, making sure that I really actually need it.

And then, the $100 is just an example reference. It's sold by Adafruit, whose selling point is trading some value in exchange for reliability, convenience and compatibility. When you look at the market in general, I can find countless cheap pre-built Geiger counters at prices that are a lot closer to $50. I can't vouch for their accuracy, but there are so many unique options that I imagine that at least a few will be pretty decent.
by olekskw | 2025-09-18 21:37:07+00:00
I assume everyone here knows BVP or Meritech or F-Prime indexes

I've built similar but replicated across multiple sectors / geos / categories (e.g. online dating, European SaaS etc.), so you essentially can have an index for a custom-made comps selection

If you're a VC or if this is interesting to you, what other indexes would you like to see? I'm working on extending this list quite a bit so any ideas welcome
by jraph | 2025-09-18 21:37:47+00:00
All these things have keyboard shortcuts If the context menu bothers you, it would seem worth it to use them for frequent actions. CTRL+Shift+T opens a new tab for instance. It's way more efficient anyway in an app that's so keyboard centric.

I don't find that context menu so bad to be honest. If you use it often you should know where things are anyway.

Overall I'm quite surprised at the hate Konsole receives in this HN thread. Removing the toolbars is two clicks away and only needs to be done once. Even the menu bar can be hidden. Such a konsole window would be just the terminal, no cruft, no UI elements. To me we are in the "some people will never be happy for no clear reasons" territory.

I've been using it for years I'm very happy with it. Its search feature is awesome, and its ability to have infinite scroll history is very nice too, it has decent performance.

The one terrible thing I have seen about konsole is that the toolbar buttons were highjacking the keyboard bindings in the terminal, but it was a bug, I think this is now fixed and a workaround was to remove the toolbar.
by toast0 | 2025-09-18 21:37:57+00:00
Small files suck on normal filesystems too. There's reasons to have them, but if the stars align and you can go from M directories of N directories of O files to M directories of N files with O sub-files, it can make a lot of operations way faster, but probably not updates to individual sub-files (but if you're updating all the files and can update all of the M/N.db at once, then that probably is faster)
by mystraline | 2025-09-18 21:37:58+00:00
I think this is a spot on definition and discussion of the different aspects of fascism.

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

#6 Controlled Mass Media

> Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
by topspin | 2025-09-18 21:38:17+00:00
> I don't know why so many distros use Gnome by default.

There is a lot of history there. Back in the day, Linux and the open source BSDs had a plethora of different window managers and DEs. Everything from simple and old-fashioned MWM to the happy chaos of Enlightenment. By the late 90's KDE emerged from among all of this as a popular, if not dominant, choice. However, there was a serious problem. The Qt toolkit license was not GPL compatible. GNOME was founded, in part, as a true open source alternative to KDE.

Linux got big enough that the major distros felt the need to pick a standard DE. GNOME was solid by then, with no license issues by design, and there was a strong preference for GNOME among the open source thought leaders at the time. KDE had actually solved its license problem by then, but there were some strong feelings about the license controversy. So GNOME became the "standard."

But not really. SUSE, for instance, stuck with KDE.
by D-Machine | 2025-09-18 21:39:08+00:00
I'm not sure your claim is correct, nor particularly precise. Skip connections do propagate feature maps from earlier to later/deeper in the network, and one can model this mathematically as using an identity function to do this, but I wouldn't say that this is "about preserving identity". Also, the reason the identity is useful here is because it prevents vanishing gradients (due to the identity function having an identity tensor as the gradient). Arguably, preventing vanishing gradients is exactly about numerical stability, so I would in fact argue that skip connections are there to make gradient descent of certain architectures more numerically stable.

EDIT: Just to provide some research support: https://arxiv.org/html/2405.01725v1#S5.SS4.5.1.1. I.e. skip connections do a lot of things, but most of these things boil down to making gradients better conditioned. Insofar as as one problem of poor conditioning is gradient vanishing, and vanishing is really only a problem because of the limited precision of floating point, it is hard for me to not think skip connections are primarily there for numerical stability, broadly.

One case supporting your point, though, where one might argue the "main" reason for skip connections is propagating information rather than for stability, is in LONG skip connections, as in U-Nets. There, since feature maps shrink with network depth, long skip connections are needed to bring high-resolution information from earlier layers to deeper ones.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-09-18 21:39:11+00:00
A better question is why does it take any time to maintain a tool like this? I spend zero time maintaining my open-source browser (Firefox). It just periodically updates itself and everything just works. I maybe spend a bit of time maintaining my IDE by updating settings and installing plugins for it, but nothing onerous.

A tool like this is not fundamentally more complex than a browser or a full-fledged IDE.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-09-18 21:39:38+00:00
Technology can help, but in recent history, there's a track record of bogus pedagogy that insists on incorporating technology without any sound justification. Some of this was motivated by corporations trying to sell shit (like computers), some by silly or clueless teachers and administrators. Some of it is informed by dubious pedagogical methodologies like gamification.

For the most part, it's a matter of clear presentation, student engagement, and effort. A well-written textbook (many suck) and a good teacher (same) and a properly disposed student (which presupposes things like certain virtues; parents are responsible for teaching and supporting these for the most part). Technology won't get around the basic human reality, and sometimes, there's nothing to fix. Some people aren't interested.
by timeinput | 2025-09-18 21:39:55+00:00
I find the new text color easier to read. I hope everyone else shares my opinion since you put some work into catering to it.

Math notation is not great generally. There are canonical notations for somethings, and some times they're overloaded. Not much to do about it other than know about it.

Annoyingly you have to "know your audience" to get your math notation right for who you're presenting to. (You can never really do that on the Internet)

As an electrical engineer who's done a lot of DSP and worked with mathematicians I can point out some things that look either odd or normal depending on who I'm talking to. You can never really win with notation -- you'll always be wrong to someone =), but there are choices that are maybe less wrong for one discipline or another.

All that to say keep writing! You're doing pretty well!
by nirvdrum | 2025-09-18 21:40:11+00:00
> Microsoft/GitHub has no model training. How do you think Copilot works?

I'm sure if you used that big, smug brain of yours you'd piece together exactly what I meant. Here's a search query to get the juices flowing:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Whether you agree with why someone may be opting to self-host a git server is immaterial to why they've done so. Likewise, I'm not going to rehash the debate over fair use vs software licenses. Pretending like you don't understand why someone that published code under a copyleft license is displeased with it being locked in a proprietary model being used to build proprietary software is willful ignorance. But, again, it makes no difference whether you're right or they're right; no one is obligated to continue pushing open source code to GitHub or any other service.
by steveruizok | 2025-09-18 21:40:23+00:00
Small teams are so hard to price for. When we first launched we had a non-commercial license and I was spending forever negotiating these tiny deals with teams where that was already a huge expense. The watermark solution we brought on last year fixed that problem but then anchored our price low for bigger companies. I’m sure half this forum has been through this. It’s so hard!

I expect we’ll do extended trial licenses for teams that are serious but just getting started, or are pre-revenue pre-funding; and there’s a hobby license for non-commercial projects. Pricing… never ends.