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by unfocused | 2025-09-17 23:15:16+00:00
Yeah, we were locking down the phones anyways, so in terms of features, they didn't use much. However, it's interesting you mention email because even in 2019, the Android system was better for email, and supported encrypted emails, Apple did not. We were told it was in the works, and a few months later, we could send encrypted email. We also had some weird bugs to iron out.

I always remind myself, that Apple does not care for corporate clients, just consumers. So I had to assess what we absolutely needed, vs what could be taken away.
by manchmalscott | 2025-09-17 23:15:49+00:00
> I used an LLM for wording

It's incredibly obvious. I'm not doubting the actual information here, it's clearly thorough and well researched. The issue is that I cannot _stand_ the hyper-homogenized cadence and style that all LLMs use. It's "Corporate Memphis" all over again. I don't understand why everyone is so violently afraid of something looking like a human being made it?
by octopoc | 2025-09-17 23:15:50+00:00
I've been wondering if enough people would be single issue voters on the Israel question that we could actually get some sort of candidate who attracts a ton of voters from both traditional parties.

It's ironic because (IMO) people like Ben Shapiro and other pro-Israel people deliberately divide us to prevent us from uniting against them, but the genocide has actually united us[1]. Just the other day I saw a Twitter post from one Cenk Ugyur reaching across the aisle and saying "good job" to right wingers who objected to hate speech laws against people who celebrated Kirk's assassination.

Admittedly, if 68% of Americans are opposed to Israel that doesn't necessarily mean all of them are single issue voters... but I think this is the first issue I've seen in my lifetime that gets this close to uniting Americans.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/692948/u.s.-back-israel-militar...
by westurner | 2025-09-17 23:16:18+00:00
"Researchers get spiking neural behavior out of a pair of transistors" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506198

What are the ways to get spiking behavior out of integrated nanophotonics?

Saturable Absorption (excitable semiconductor lasers, graphene laser cavity,), NDR Negative Differential Resistance (RTD Resonant Tunneling Diodes,), PCM: Phase-change materials (DVD-RW,),

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are probably useful for extreme nonlinear spiking neuromorphic computing with integrated nanophotonics.

What about Optical rogue waves, Supercontinuum generation (color, wave division multiplexing, ); and/or Superradiance (as nonlinear optical effects for a neuromorphic computation platform)? ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684444
by SkyMarshal | 2025-09-17 23:16:32+00:00
This is an interesting insight into the challenges of porting a TSMC fab from Taiwan to Arizona.

There are hundreds of variables that differ, even just based on geography, any one of which can kill nano-scale wafer yields and mean the difference between 90% ("printing money") and 30% ("bleeding cash") yields.

For example, the harder stone bedrock in Arizona has a higher natural resonant frequency than in Taiwan, requiring the fab design to be adjusted to that variable.

Other variables are local air, water, power, suppliers, and culture, all of which differ from Taiwan and require modifications to the original fab design.
by nagisa | 2025-09-17 23:17:22+00:00
That's because with 32-bit addresses the runtime did not need to do any masking at all. It could allocate a 4GiB area of virtual memory, set up page permissions as appropriate and all memory accesses would be hardware checked without any additional work. Well that, and a special SIGSEGV/SIGBUS handler to generate a trap to the embedder.

With 64-bit addresses, and the requirements for how invalid memory accesses should work, this is no longer possible. AND-masking does not really allow for producing the necessary traps for invalid accesses. So every one now needs some conditional before to validate that this access is in-bounds. The addresses cannot be trivially offset either as they can wrap-around (and/or accidentally hit some other mapping.)
by HackerThemAll | 2025-09-17 23:18:25+00:00
Linux desktop has a tiny market share. No reason to invest significant resources for that. Also, by supporting MAUI on Linux, Microsoft would feed their own competition in desktop area, and it's crucial for them to maintain dominance in that area. I think this is why they did not port the great WPF to Linux as well.

And besides, Linux desktop is a mess. I never learned details on how Wayland / X11 / KDE / Gnome etc. work, which is for what. All I know is that some distros switch from one to another, that one is declared the best, and another the worst, and all of it changes regularly. I'm glad someone in Canonical made the desktop mostly working for me in Ubuntu, although it still lacks a lot compared to Windows.

I think when you need that level of cross platform support to cover Windows, Linux, macOS, maybe mobiles, and you do a serious project, you use Qt.
by tptacek | 2025-09-17 23:18:25+00:00
Keep in mind that Kimmel has been hinting about retiring for a couple years now, his contract was up in the air, the "late night television show" category is evaporating (if there's still even a Tonight Show in 10 years, it'll be purely for nostalgia), and this sends Kimmel out in a blaze of glory.

I think it's too easy to sort of anthropomorphize these kinds of conflicts --- Kimmel's show has a large staff, and he's responsible for their livelihoods --- but it wouldn't be totally out of the question that Kimmel steered right into this.

There's nothing new about this, though: ABC also took Bill Maher off the air, 20 years ago, almost identical circumstances. Maher wound up at HBO. Kimmel will wind up on a podcast, and, like Conan, probably gain in relevance.

Moments later

I think some people here might be too young to immediately get the Maher reference, but the point there was: he was forced off the air for political reasons as well.
by jimmydoe | 2025-09-17 23:18:28+00:00
it's been long known tiananmen/falungong will trigger censorship and reject by these models.

"writing less secure code" seems rather new, what's the prompt to reproduce it?

Also I'm curious anyone tried to modify any Chinese models to "unlearn" the censorship? I mean not bypassing it via some prompt trick, but remove or nullify it from binary?
by iamthemonster | 2025-09-17 23:18:43+00:00
I was very surprised at how many statistical methods are taught in undergraduate psychology. Far more statistics than I ever touched in engineering for sure. Yet the undergrads really treated statistics as a cookbook, where they just wanted to be told the recipe and they'd follow it. Honestly they'd have been better off just eyeballing data and collaborating with statisticians for the analysis.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-09-17 23:19:28+00:00
Laptops with the newer nvidia generations that support framegen make this a harder argument. Yes, laptops are always severely power and thermal constrained, but you can run raytraced games at 1440p 240hz on them now. HL2 RTX at that fidelity is a trip. The concept of a high end gaming laptop is a pretty big market, but not when the mfgs and firmware devs can't manage to prevent stuttering that most of their target market would notice and find unacceptable.
by zrobotics | 2025-09-17 23:19:34+00:00
Yeah, I did the printer as a hobby thing when I built my first reprap. It was fun, and I learned a ton, but the state of the art in 2014 just wasn't there for low-end machines to be reliable. I replaced it with a prusa in 2019,and I have had zero issues at all with it. The only print failures I've had were either due to part design or bad filament (pla stored in a humid garage). I've been super impressed with the quality of the machine, and have printed some fairly challenging parts. Plus, the whole machine is open and hackable. I didn't really even consider other printers, since I wanted to support prusa and what they have done for the community. Although I have used a friend's ender 3, and I was pretty impressed with the quality for the price.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-09-17 23:19:54+00:00
>> China is doing well as a country and the standard of living has increased even if it’s under an authoritarian regime.

What do you mean "doing well"?

https://asiatimes.com/2025/05/chinas-economy-on-cusp-of-a-de...

May 2025:

Tariffs are drying up international demand for Chinese goods, and in a bid to keep factories alive, Beijing is urging exporters to turn inward. However, that pivot is compounding the very problem it aims to solve.

Deflation isn’t an abstract threat in China anymore—it’s visible across the economy. After barely holding above zero for much of 2023 and 2024, consumer prices have now dropped for two straight months.

Producer prices have fallen for 29 consecutive months. March’s figures showed the sharpest drop in four months, and forecasts point to an even steeper decline in April.
by westurner | 2025-09-17 23:21:59+00:00
Superradiance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superradiance :

> Superradiance has since been demonstrated in a wide variety of physical and chemical systems, such as quantum dot arrays [4] and J-aggregates. [5] This effect has been used to produce a superradiant laser.

Superradiance in semiconductor optics -> Coherent effects in semiconductor optics > Superradiance of excitons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_effects_in_semiconduc...
by em-bee | 2025-09-17 23:22:01+00:00
maybe some kind of indicator to show which level of acceleration/speed is best would help.

the unintuitive behavior is that it is very difficult to find that balance. if i am to slow i crash into the planet, if i am to fast i leave orbit with no chance to get back in time. being gentle always results in being to slow. in other words there is no gentle way to reach the balance. and if i don't know where that balance is, i don't know what to aim for.

you may argue that finding that balance is the goal of the game, but then i guess the game is not for me. i lose interest if i have to try 10 times and still can't figure out how to do it right.
by 512 | 2025-09-17 23:22:03+00:00
The ICPC has plenty of elite competitive programmers. It's an activity that "peaks" in importance around college, and not many keep training a lot after participating.

Every year there are multiple "Legendary Grandmasters" in the competition. That's >3000 Elo in Codeforces. I'd estimate it takes a similar level of skill/effort as becoming a Chess Grandmaster.

And even those that aren't at that level are very competent at it. The average ICPC participant is likely "smarter" than the average MIT/Harvard CS student for some reasonable measure of "smarter".
by cfallin | 2025-09-17 23:22:08+00:00
No, it's still behind a flag (and so transitively, exceptions are too, because we built exception objects on top of GC).

Our docs (https://docs.wasmtime.dev/stability-tiers.html) put GC at tier 2 with reason "production quality" and I believe the remaining concerns there are that we want to do a semi-space copying implementation rather than current DRC eventually. Nick could say more. But we're spec-compliant as-is and the question was whether we've implemented these features -- which we have :-)
by tguvot | 2025-09-17 23:22:25+00:00
you are moving goal posts. discussion was about gazans electing hamas while been well aware that it's charter calls for destruction of Israel and killing Jews

quoting you "Israel interfered in Gaza politics to ensure they had no option but Hamas".

A few corrections on this topic:

- there was/is no Gaza politics

- Elections were general elections in Palestinian Autonomy

- Both Israel and PA were against elections because they were afraid that Hamas will win but USA forced it because "democracy shall prevail and will resolve everything"

- Hamas won general elections in Palestinian Autonomy in 2006 and assembled government chaired by ismail haniyeh as PM

- USA trained Fatah to coup against legitimate Palestinian government

- Coup succeeded in west bank and failed in gaza in 2007

- During coup, Hamas killed, dragged behind bikes or threw from rooftops those that opposed it

- After coup, Hamas tortured into obedience or killed all opposition

just one example: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/gaza-palestin...

and on topic of how hospitals in gaza used, from same article: " Some were interrogated and tortured or otherwise ill-treated in a disused outpatient’s clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital."
Show HN: Bloom – an open-source alternative to Loom
by vaneyckseme | 2025-09-17 23:22:34+00:00
I’ve been a long-time Loom user, but I often just wanted a simple way to record my screen + camera and share the file anywhere, without being tied to a hosted platform. So I built Bloom.

Bloom features:

* Screen + camera overlay recording

* Saves videos locally (no cloud lock-in)

* Built with Electron (cross-platform support in progress)

* 100% open source

It’s still early — the basics work, but there are rough edges. I’d love feedback on:

* What features you’d expect from a Loom alternative

* Cross-platform testing (I’ve only tried macOS so far)

* Any performance or UX issues you notice

Links:

- Mac OS DMG: https://github.com/thepublicdev/bloom/releases/tag/v1.0.0

- Repo: https://github.com/thepublicdev/bloom

- Demo video: https://youtu.be/ijNySK5FaTI?si=3Sg9FmZeD-hRENMm

More updates coming soon.
by kulahan | 2025-09-17 23:22:44+00:00
Why are we not counting financial reasons? Yeah, it’s a number both creators and advertisers looking to strike a direct advertising/sponsorship deal can use as an easy point of reference, which cannot readily be modified by the creator.

But to your point, the site is borderline social media nowadays when you consider all the features.

Bragging rights for sure. Many channels are parasocial relationships, and that number matters a lot to both the creator and the viewers.

It’s also mildly informational. If I see a completely out-of-whack suggestion in my feed, but it has a billion views, suddenly I know why it’s in my feed.

There are probably other reasons. I remember there was ongoing reporting about a race between two channels on YouTube racing to have… I dunno, the first video with a billion views or something. The number of video views for Gangnam Style was something everyone was talking about.

Plus, it’s nice to have. That’s reason enough imo.
by noosphr | 2025-09-17 23:23:35+00:00
Two days ago I talked to someone in water management about data centers. One of the big players wanted to build a center that consumed as much water as a medium town in semi arid bushland. A week before that it was a substation which would take a decade to source the transformers for. Before that it was buying closed down coal power plants.

I don't know if we're in a bubble for model capabilities, but we are definitely hitting the wall in terms of what the rest of the physical economy can provide.

You can't undo 50 years of deffered maintenance in three months.
by throw310822 | 2025-09-17 23:23:36+00:00
I think you missed that the whole point of this race was:

"did we build a vehicle faster than a horse, yes/no?"

Which matters a lot when horses are the fastest land vehicle available. (We're so used to thinking of horses as a quaint and slow mean of transport that maybe we don't realize that for millennia they've been the fastest possible way to get from one place to another.)
by admiralrohan | 2025-09-17 23:23:44+00:00
Most likely the role of "programmer" will go away as we conventionally know Anyways, we have evolved a lot like from assembly language to using npm packages and we are going to see the next evolution.

On inability to solve hard problems, I think we are going to tackle even harder problems in future with AI in our side, just like corporations manage to handle more complex problems than an individual.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-17 23:23:51+00:00
Yew, Leptos and Dioxus are all pretty decent with their own advantages and disadvantages if you like Rust. It's been a year or so since I last looked at them, to me the biggest missing piece was a component library along the lines of MUI to build useful things with. I'd be surprised if there weren't at least Bootstrap compatible wrapper libraries for them at this point.
by azakai | 2025-09-17 23:24:07+00:00
Sorry about binaryen.js - those JS/TS bindings could be a lot better, and better documented, but priorities are generally focused on improving optimizations in core Binaryen.

That is, most work in Binaryen is on improving wasm-opt which inputs wasm and outputs wasm, so any toolchain can use it (as opposed to just JS/TS).

But if someone had the time to improve the JS/TS bindings that would be great!
by dceddia | 2025-09-17 23:24:52+00:00
Yep this matches my experience pretty well! It’s been a good printer and I haven’t had to do much, and I avoid fiddling and mostly use it as a tool. I’m always eyeing the newer faster printers but I don’t love the cloudiness of Bambu and Prusa’s new stuff seems nice but not quite worth the leap yet. Voron has interested me for a while though.
by mkfs | 2025-09-17 23:25:49+00:00
You're ascribing special significance to Russell having held a position, rather than the position's own merits, which is bizarre given how frequently Russell was known to change his mind. Had he outlived Mosley, I could easily see him having had a change of heart and regretting not having taken up Mosley on his offer.

And the dots, for me, remain unconnected. Are you suggesting Kirk represented such a radical, rightward departure from the Christian conservatism of (for example) Pat Robertson--a fixture of late 20th century American politics--that Mosley is a reasonable point of comparison?

Are you making a point about the protests in Britain, and not realizing that "refusal to engage," at least on immigration, is a major, if not the primary, reason why far right parties have risen in Europe and why Trump is in the White House again?
by _carbyau_ | 2025-09-17 23:26:14+00:00
> Bambu is the difference between 'my hobby is 3d printers' vs 'my hobby is 3d printing'.

My experience was the same. I can just run the thing without having to tweak, tune, calibrate it. It takes care of that itself. I also don't let it talk to my wifi though. I just use the microSD card.

But my purchase was a while ago. While it is possible the industry has caught up, the reputation Bambu built still leads the pack.
by tgma | 2025-09-17 23:26:35+00:00
If you are talking about patronage and other forms of artist compensation, nothing about the economics of that is less robust today than ages ago. NFT craze of yesteryear is proof. So is OnlyFans success. Taylor Swift collects a billion bucks touring the country. AI will not change that; not negatively. If anything it will enrich the customer base and funnel more funds to them. The thing that AI does change is internet-wide impression-based and per-copy monetization.
by alpha_squared | 2025-09-17 23:28:34+00:00
I'm unsure where we as a society go from here. The left's cancel culture resulted in the firing of private citizens from their jobs, or at least some reprimand. The right's cancel culture is the full weight of the federal government brought down against opposition, in stark violation of the First Amendment; that is, until the Supreme Court can find some new carve-out for why this isn't protected speech.

Realistically, how could anyone be okay with the level of power this administration is wielding? I struggle to see a peaceful transfer of this specific set of powers. Unless the assumption is just that the left will always behave "more responsibly."
by kulahan | 2025-09-17 23:29:42+00:00
Man, can you at least elaborate? This kind of comment isn’t what I wanna see HN devolve into.

He’s definitely right with that sentence. Do you not think it’s generally true that the right has been on the defensive with regards to cancel culture, and thus is constantly preaching about how cancelling is wrong?

The few times they’ve gotten to go on the offensive, they play the same game, cancelling whoever it is they’re upset about. It’s horseshoe theory all over again.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-17 23:29:53+00:00
There was an article recently that basically said lots of moves on the right aren’t strategic they’re ideological. So yeah, I think the right really wants to control media, and isn’t worried about the inevitable backlash.

But I do keep thinking about the fact that the move to the right among young men, will probably pretty quickly reverse itself, if they keep going after media/video games/porn, etc.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-09-17 23:30:10+00:00
There's a new skip method for premium members (which I have) where you can skip commonly skipped sections as recorded by other users.

For example- if a video has a section about their sponsor from 3:30 to 4:10 and I press the right seek button twice around 3:30 the jump will be to 4:10. It also displays an alert that it's using the feature.
Is news distorting reality and tearing society apart?
by akitatanomoshi | 2025-09-17 23:30:11+00:00
I’ve been thinking a lot about the gap between reality and the way we consume it as news.

Reality is simple. Something happened. Or nothing did.

But news rarely gives us reality. It gives us a story. And stories aren’t neutral - they spin, they speculate, and they leave things out.

For example: Charlie Kirk's assassination.

What actually happened, at first, was straightforward:

– A person was killed. – Police confirmed it was Charlie Kirk. – No motive was given. – No suspect had been identified.

But the headlines were:

“Assassination sparks fears of political extremism.” “Shooter linked to right-wing groups.” “The rise of campus violence continues.”

The facts were still there, but they became trapped inside the wrapper of story. The wrapper added spin (“sparks fears”), injected narrative (“linked to groups”), and left out what mattered most: no suspect had been named and no motive was confirmed.

Once the wrapper set in, people stopped asking what happened and started fighting over which story to believe. Stories became sides. Right vs left. Us vs them.

This happens every time. The shared ground of truth — what actually happened, what we can all agree on, what could bring us together — gets lost in the distortion of the better story.

I've come to believe that this distortion is dividing us and it's tearing society apart.

Stories are being weaponised by populists who thrive on fear and capitalists who benefit from monetising it. The best storytellers are winning attention and winning power and keeping their power by telling even better stories.

So here is my question.

Is there a way to recover a shared ground of truth? Or are stories too deeply ingrained in how humans process information?

Can we recover from where we are by rejecting news as stories and adopting a different form?
by kelnos | 2025-09-17 23:30:52+00:00
You're asking the wrong questions.

I care about being humane. I care about due process. I care about not assuming someone is an illegal immigrant just because they have darker skin or speak a language other than English. I care about people getting their time in front of a judge before they're flown off to some country that they may not have even set foot in before in their lives. I care about elected officials -- the people who represent me, regardless of whether or not I voted for them -- treating people like people, and not like animals.

To answer your questions, though, I do think we should have open-er borders. I think we should have easier paths to residency and citizenship, for people who want it. I'm sick of the isolationism and xenophobia. It's disgusting. It's unamerican.
by 512 | 2025-09-17 23:30:56+00:00
Are you an ICPC World Finals medalist? Because winning an IOI bronze medal is _way_ easier than even qualifying for the ICPC WF, and less than 10% of the teams at the WF get medals.

I'd go as far as saying that gold at the IOI is probably easier than getting an ICPC medal. (One is individual and the other is in teams, but my point stands).