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by rendx | 2025-09-21 19:58:16+00:00
Maybe not exactly what you're after, but you might like

https://www.traumaandphilosophy.com/ and https://traumatheory.com/

Other writings: For example the books by Vivian Broughton, a UK therapist: https://www.vivianbroughton.com/my-books/ Her latest book ("You were just a child...") contains critical essays, which you might enjoy.

Essential reading: The books by Judith Herman, who coined the term "Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" and lobbied to get it added to the DSM. Her latest book is all about justice for victims (and how the system is failing them).

The most famous critical essays about modern society from a therapist are by Sigmund Freud. You may want to start with "Civilization and Its Discontents" (1929). Quote:

"The present cultural state of America would give us a good opportunity for studying the damage to civilization which is thus to be feared. But I shall avoid the temptation of entering upon a critique of American civilization; I do not wish to give an impression of wanting myself to employ American methods."
by jitl | 2025-09-21 19:58:54+00:00
(I work at Notion)

Notion has transclusions. In the product we call them “synced blocks” (https://www.notion.com/help/synced-blocks), but the implementation type name is transclusion_container and transclusion_reference.

We also have backlinks. These used to be to prominently feature featured but these days they’re still supported but collapsed by default when viewing a page.

It would be cool to build Xanadu style multi-pane view but users tend to be a bit confused by horizontal scrolling content containers.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-21 19:58:59+00:00
It doesn't really make sense to call it vendor lock-in when you're learning a platform's native API and idiosyncrasies.

That would apply more to React Native since you are stuck with its vendored abstractions and you can't just swap out React Native once you've built with it.

I think you're commenting on how iOS development is a less portable skill than a toolkit than runs on all platforms. Or that your iOS app is stuck on one platform. That is certainly true. But don't overlook the value of expertise in a native platform instead of just one set of abstractions that run on top of it. There are things you can do on the native platform, like optimizing performance, that you can't do using something like React Native.

It's all just trade-offs.
by QuiEgo | 2025-09-21 19:59:02+00:00
Everyone learns differently.

Lectures were all over the place for me - some useful, some awful. Professors really vary a lot in skill here. Same with tests - some helped me learn, some were rote memorization.

Labs were incredibly, incredibly useful. 4 years of practice doing coding problems made me a way better programmer.

I feel I got value out of the degree, even if there were some silly games to play.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-21 19:59:26+00:00
I haven’t had that level of issues with CIFS on Apple platforms in general.

For most of iOS 18 there was a bug where iOS and iPadOS simply couldn’t connect to Samba shares on Linux but that has since been resolved.

Apple does implement some custom functions that make CIFS (Samba or Windows based) shares less performant than Apple platform served shares in certain situations. Especially for server side copy. TrueNAS has recently patched this so that it works.

Adopting/inheriting a CIFS-backed Time Machine share is needlessly precarious.
by mapotofu | 2025-09-21 19:59:29+00:00
I live in a very walkable small town with lots of young families also biking and walking with their young children, as I am, and couldn’t disagree with you more about cars. It’s so nice to walk to the market instead of loading and unloading a car seat, to have the option of walking or taking a short bus ride to school, to walk to parks and playgrounds. I had the opposite reaction you did when I actually lived in a place that was kinda similar to what Europeans describe.
by jampekka | 2025-09-21 19:59:37+00:00
Or 300 chances! First homo sapiens was born around 300k years ago, and their culture rose and declined many times in many places. Around 40k years ago it did start to "monotonically accumulate" though.

See e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3049097/
by danlitt | 2025-09-21 19:59:57+00:00
When I was there (maths, 2010s) it was 1 supervision per course per fortnight. You had 4 problem sets in an 8 week course (for long courses). 16 lectures meant 3 sets, 12 lectures meant 2. I never heard of a college doing more than 2 students in a supervision.
by AlexCouedelo | 2025-09-21 20:01:12+00:00
Yet another NPM artefact breach! What are the missing pieces in our software supply chain to decrease exposure to those attacks?

I am convinced that SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artefacts) is the standard we have been waiting for. SBOM and vulnerability scanning can only get us so far; a standard for interoperability and validation is needed for the build process.
by bentt | 2025-09-21 20:01:19+00:00
Great post and thanks for the perspective. You have to be open minded to even try, and so that selects for only some devs. Then among the open minded, you need to be skeptical and careful, which again selects down. So the devs that are having positive experiences are likely in a minority.

Balance that against the threat AI poses to livelihoods and it's not a shock that overall sentiment is negative. But I would guess it will shake out in the direction we are pushing, at least in the nearer (3yr) term.
by fennecbutt | 2025-09-21 20:01:44+00:00
As someone who uses both sides (android phone, mac book and a few other apple products), I'll shit on everything that needs to be shat on.

Samsung's new notification bubble that is laggy, gets in the way and is hard to dismiss without launching the app it was for? Moronic.

Apple's "superior UX" of app installs via app store, oh wait but to uninstall it, you have to go to finder and delete it aka breaking the UX flow (should be same place). Idiotic.

Apple do make some of the best laptops tho, the m series is great, best touchpad imo.

For all these things it just sucks that all the companies suck. Focus is on shareholders and growth across every domain now. There's a reason companies can chuck billions at the AI bubble for fun - which is hilarious and all those billions and they still haven't solved problems with models that have been solved locally, got the vibe coders on it I guess.
by matrixswarm | 2025-09-21 20:02:47+00:00
We just shipped MatrixOS v0.1.0 — a swarm operating system built on file-native agents. Agents boot from encrypted directives, spawn, die, and resurrect themselves. Runs as a Linux daemon (`matrixd`) with both runtime (tmpfs) and static (archival) universes.

GitHub: https://github.com/matrixswarm/matrixos Docs: https://matrixswarm.com Discord: https://discord.gg/CyngHqDmku
iOS 26 Liquid Glass is awful in many ways
by apavlinovic | 2025-09-21 20:03:11+00:00
I was not sure whether to post here or not, but after a full day with the Liquid Glass UI, I had to express myself somewhere.

It is incredible how much worse my experience with the phone has become. I am 34, and I am struggling to read the text in the notifications, my eyes are constantly trying too hard to make out what it says.

The buttons look cheap, not interactive, and just plain strange. I don’t see anything better here than we had before, absolutely nothing is better in terms of UX.

And it’s ugly, I cannot be the only one, but it feels like someone forced me to look at those glass bricks that were popular in the 80s.

The performance feels worse, the battery life is in shambles, no idea why. iPhone 13 Pro user.

Not frustrated enough to switch to Android yet, but seriously considering that as an option. This is not the UI I want to use.
by bitwize | 2025-09-21 20:03:22+00:00
The whole point of Rust is that C, and all the code written therein (or as much as is feasible), be eventually replaced and abandoned. The potential costs of continuing to use C, and all the memory and concurrency bugs that come with it, runs in the billions worldwide if not more.

Besides which, in 2025 all the real ones are using jj, which is 100% Rust, not git—so if git wishes to remain competitive it needs to catch up.
by egorfine | 2025-09-21 20:03:33+00:00
That is true. I have no new arguments.

Today I have learned about PrivateTmp and added that thing to the evergrowing list of things to get rid of on fresh Debian instances. Yes, I did think for ten seconds and I am pretty sure I don't want that at all at any of the servers I am managing.

As for systemd-resolved, it was broken beyond repairability many years ago right at the start. At first I have tried to read manuals and play along with it. All I needed was OS using my resolvers only. Simple as "nameserver 1.1.1.1" in resolv.conf. Unfortunately, no matter how much I read the documentation, I couldn't make it do that one simple job. Oh, and manually editing resolve.conf was not an option as well because it randomly overwrote it. On a server with a static ip, mind you, no dhcp. Maybe my memory is serving me wrong but I think systemd-resolved was so bad that even +x on /etc/resolv.conf did not work, it would still overwrite it. Incredible piece of shit, just incredible. I am now removing it from all instances by default for years and I refuse to learn whether they made good or not. Clearly systemd-resolved provides negative value to the world.
by sokka_h2otribe | 2025-09-21 20:03:41+00:00
No, it's not actually understandable to me.

I don't believe the person with PTSD of your definition benefits from gatekeeping an understanding of ptsd.

It also just flatly does not correspond to the research. Modern PTSD and cptsd concepts exist because the existing concepts didn't work, and the patients fit classic outcomes.

Put another way,

If someone was assaulted in church, maybe they had a more "real" PTSD If someone was different in their head and felt constrained at church everyday and their heart rate goes up every time they enter a church to the same degree as the assaulted persons does too....that's the outcome being similar (with some simplifications).

Trauma is the bad thing and being unable to do anything about it, and what that can do to your psyche.

People develop trauma not just because of how bad the experience was, but the circumstances before and after.
by TRiG_Ireland | 2025-09-21 20:03:46+00:00
Yup. And it's refreshing to see this thread, as so much of HN seems to be entrepreneurs. I was laid off over two years ago. There were so many other tech layoffs at around the same time that finding a job has been very difficult. I ran into a colleague who was laid off a few months after me, and he's now working in retail. I'm still unemployed, as I cannot cope with the idea of dealing with the public.

I've gone back to education, having found a free course in computer hardware. (I really know only software and web, and have till now kept away from hardware.) However, taking the course for some reason interferes with my unemployment benefits, so I'm going to have to juggle some stuff. Apparently one option is to take the one-year course part time over two years. The other option, of course, is to find a job that pays enough to get by on without taking up too much time.
by dahart | 2025-09-21 20:03:48+00:00
Yes! You’re talking about the space between the application’s output and the display, and I’m talking about capture, storage, and processing before tone mapping. In many HDR workflows there are a lot of things in between camera and tone mapping, and that is where I see most of the value of HDR workflows. The original point of HDR was to capture physical units, and that means storage after the scene hits the camera, and before output. The original point of tone mapping was to squeeze the captured HDR images down to LDR output, to bake physical luminance down to relative colors. Before just a few years ago, tone mapping was the end of the HDR part of the pipeline, everything downstream was SDR/LDR. That’s getting muddy these days with “HDR” TVs that can do 3k nits, and all kinds of color spaces, but HDR conceptually and historically didn’t require any of that and still doesn’t. Plenty of workflows still exist where the input of tonemapping is HDR and the output is SDR/LDR, and there’s no swapchain or PQ or HDR TVs in the loop.
by draebek | 2025-09-21 20:04:18+00:00
Are you sure of that? For years now I think Amazon and Apple have an agreement where only Apple or Apple-approved third-party vendors can sell Apple products on Amazon?

https://9to5toys.com/2018/11/09/apple-and-amazon-deal-iphone... https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-pumps-up-its-amazon-l...

(I think there may be a few other top-tier brands who get this special treatment from Amazon.)
by WombatsRiots | 2025-09-21 20:04:40+00:00
A completely underrated author on trauma is C. Fred Alford. PTSD morphed from a diagnosis for soldiers returning from Vietnam to encompass everything. Life is traumatic. Everyone you know and love will die, and you will die. We also individually react differently to traumatic experiences, and a life changing positive moment for one person could destroy another.

https://traumatheory.com/time-to-drop-ptsd/
by wlesieutre | 2025-09-21 20:04:41+00:00
Across many Apple devices, the only thing I've had break in the last 5 years is a watch that is 5 years old, and if I were picking which 3 devices to put on an Apple One plan that wouldn't even have been one of them (Mac, iPad, and phone all cost more). I think I'll try my luck without it.
by dang | 2025-09-21 20:05:03+00:00
Even if all that is true, "you're being obnoxious to the highest degree" counts as name-calling in the sense that we use that term here and it's not a borderline call. You can make your substantive points without that kind of thing, so please do, regardless of how bad other comments are or you feel they are. Everyone always feels like the other person started it and did worse, so if we rely on those perceptions. we're guaranteed to end up in a downward spiral.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-21 20:05:04+00:00
There's a section in Yes, Prime Minister where Humphrey Appleby makes some comment about preserving England's great universities. Then pauses a beat and adds "both of them." (referring, of course, to Cambridge and Oxford.) It's obvious there are other very good universities in the UK and I don't doubt the LSE has programs that surpass the others. But I spent a couple months on a research project at LSE (and even delivered a few lectures) but most people hearing I was a guest lecturer there were like "meh. whatever." (Oddly, the guy I knew from Cambridge was "oh! they have some very good programs there.")

So... yes... despite consistently ranking high on surveys, Durham and LSE are not "sexy" in the way Cambridge and Oxford are.
by em-bee | 2025-09-21 20:05:24+00:00
it's not only that. trauma also hits differently if you are the only one experiencing it vs everyone around you. the group experience itself makes trauma easier to handle.

i believe (i don't know enough about this) a big factor is also how your peers treat you after you experience trauma. think about veterans coming home, friends and family don't understands what they went through. they can't talk to anyone because nobody takes them seriously, even to the point of disbelief, or they blow things out of proportion, make them into bigger thing than what the person actually experienced. maybe the veteran doesn't feel any pain, but they tell him that he should. either way, the veteran is completely misunderstood. (again, this is not backed by any knowledge of psychology, just a guess based on some personal experience)

so because in the past everyone experienced the same brutal life (except the land lords or otherwise well off), it wasn't as traumatic as it would be today.
by sakopov | 2025-09-21 20:06:20+00:00
I did not do the northern route which I hear has spectacular views. I did the "French way" which I liked so much I did it again in 2017, however, it ended up being a completely different experience than the one I had the first time and I ended up finishing it in just 20 days. Did you end up doing the entire northern trail or just parts? When did you go?
by serial_dev | 2025-09-21 20:06:39+00:00
If you want to develop mobile apps and you want to have users, there is no way around vendor lock in and walled gardens. By supporting Android, too, the only thing you’ll achieve is that you’ll be the abused in two abusive relationships instead of one.

Adding more abstractions on top will not significantly improve the fact that you are at the whims and mercy of companies that don’t care about you, so I don’t see RN as an improvement.

If you want to avoid vendor lockin, don’t do mobile apps, go to web. Then, you can also just switch RN to React simply or any other framework.
by beameup10 | 2025-09-21 20:07:43+00:00
My perspective is different than the two versions that are presented. I do not believe rich people's intentions to be pure, knowingly or unknowingly, their solutions will gravitate towards whatever brings them more power/control. Thus most of them will be in favor of AGI development. They can depend less on humans, and that desire was always obvious.

On the other hand, not developing AGI puts you at the risk that your enemy will, so it's not really a choice, it must be done or else.

The real problem, as I see it, is that once AGI is achieved, and robotics is up to par, human work is not needed anymore, which puts most people in a strange position, something that never happened before, useless for people in power. We were never in this particularly strange position, historically speaking.

And I do not believe people who are looking to get AGI's power, and remove dependence on humans, are objective in their ideas about what must be done. Thus their thoughs should always be taken with a grain of salt.

The only out I see for most people to stay alive, post AGI powered robotics, is if AGI completely takes power and control from the hands of the people up top. Else the people in power will have a very dark incentive, which I believe will inevitably (sooner or later) result in a massive population loss across Earth.

I'd rather risk AGI's conclusions than psychos in power starting to see me as a "useless eater". The latter has a guaranteed outcome.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-21 20:07:53+00:00
I've seen much bigger, though technically that wasn't valid json, but rather structured logging with JSON on each line. On the other hand, I've seen exported JSON files that could grow to such sizes without doing anything weird, just nothing exceeding a couple hundred megabytes because I didn't use the software for long enough.

Restricting the input to a reasonable size is an easy workaround for sure, but this limitation isn't indicated everywhere, so anyone deciding to consume this random project into their important code wouldn't know to defend against such situation.

In a web server scenario, 2GiB of { (which would trigger two overflows) in a compressed request would require a couple hundred kilobytes to two megabytes, depending on how old your server software is.
Show HN: Free biological-age calculator from standard bloodwork
by zsolt-dev | 2025-09-21 20:07:59+00:00
Hi HN — first-time poster here!

I’m Zsolt. I build blood-interpretation tools used by longevity clinics and try to make everything public.

I built this biological-age calculator with help from one of the study authors. It is based on Bortz Blood Age model, which is currently the best public model on standard lab tests (beats PhenoAge). Trained on actual mortality (not chronological age) and validated on 300k+ participants. Validated on similar dataset.

On top of calculating bioage, it shows biggest levers to focus on.

There a video explainer about the calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VHIfouvcYE

It is 100% free - no email or sign up required 100% private - runs on client side, nothing is sent to server and I have no 3rd party scripts on the site, not even analytics.
by n4r9 | 2025-09-21 20:08:11+00:00
Not OP, but I've taken an interest in Gnosticism since watching youtuber Alex O'Connor interview various scholars about them.

Basically, by around 200CE the early Christians were an extremely diverse lot with a broad range of beliefs and world systems, only a little of which would seem that familiar to us today. Alongside the four canonical gospels, there was a large number of so-called Gnostic gospels. Gnosticism itself is quite diverse, but there are a few common threads: the material world is a sort of cosmic accident, the being that created it is not the supreme heavenly being, and it is only with the help of secret knowledge that we can escape it. The status of Christ within this worldview varies a lot - some gnostics saw him as little more than an apparition, whilst for others he was a mortal man.

Gradually, church fathers such as Iranaeus campaigned to wipe out gnostic practices and scriptures and unify Christianity under a standardised set of beliefs. This was likely political and a way to help expand and convert the religion.

This can be surprising because it's tempting to see modern Christianity as being a faithful reflection of what Jesus did and said. But in fact the scholarly consensus is that Jesus claimed neither to be divine nor the son of God. The main evidence that he claimed either of these things is the gospel of John, which was written second-hand maybe 50-100 years after his death, and happened to be the gospel that Iranaeus wanted to canonicalise.

I wrote some more details in a previous post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44198811
by soulofmischief | 2025-09-21 20:08:31+00:00
You've misunderstood my comment. The War on Drugs created these problems, it is not the solution to them.

We've done it here domestically too at least as far back as Prohibition. Prohibition ended in 33, we banned automatic weapons in 34, add in the racially-motivated disenfranchisement of Irish and Italian immigrants and ghettoization of their communities, and you got an unprecedented level of domestic organized crime and subsequent retroactively justified restriction of civil rights. [0]

The same happened again in the 80s with the Iran-Contra affair. [1]

The same continues to happen in my city and in many other cities every day, justifying racial and immigration-focused discrimination and allowing institutions to extract wealth from poor communities while ensuring their continued generational poverty.

I would recommend checking out Jack Herer's seminal The Emperor Wears No Clothes [2], especially chapters 5, 13 and 14. I'd also look into William Randolph Hearst [3], his involvement in drug prohibition, and the racially-motivated tactics used to make it happen, by first convincing Americans they should be racist against Mexican immigrants and then connecting these "dangerous" Mexican immigrants to cannabis.

Now, we're using fentanyl, etc. as an excuse, when the entire fentanyl trade thrives on the fact that secure, regulated facilities and distribution networks do not exist for many recreational drugs. The failings of the War on Drugs are perpetually used to circularly justify its existence, and it's shameful.

[0] https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/gangsters-pr... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca... [2] https://www.jackherer.com/emperor-3/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst#Critic...
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-09-21 20:08:36+00:00
Is this the same across all classes? (legit asking, not trying to make a snarky comment.) I grew up in the states so the UK class system is a little weird to me and I don't quite get it. But if you told me Cambridge and Oxford are still very popular amongst upper-middle and upper class types, but everyone else just goes to where they can get the best education and be in close proximity to the most impactful researchers, I would completely believe it. But what the heck do I know... I went to grad school at Liverpool.