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by hagbard_c | 2025-09-17 20:11:58+00:00
You get what you make of it and I think your description of what we have is far too negative. You can actually get out of that oppressive world, you might not be able to use the latest hardware and may need to maintain some defence against the data parasites you describe but I'm fairly content with the situation we are in running:

- old off-lease hardware providing our services

- those services are based around free software and keep our data where we can 'see' it. No Apple-Google-Meta-Microsoft-etc accounts needed or wanted.

- older laptops, notebooks, mobile devices running free software

Content filtering takes care of the advertising and other data parasites. As to 'the attention economy' that is up to you as an individual to keep out of your life. Ditch the legacy media and you're already on the right trail, find alternatives where needed and you'll be fine.

If some product is locked down you just have to refrain from using it no matter how enticing it looks, no matter how slick the advertising, no matter how heavy the group pressure. You may have to live with your text messages showing up in a different colour on the screens of those who drank the Kool-Aid, you may have to insist on using a different communication channel than the one pushed by FaceMetabook, etc.

In short there is still a bright future for those who know how coax it from the materials at hand, you'll just have to fight the parasites who always appear in thriving ecosystems. Squash them like the bugs they are and you'll be fine unless you happen to live somewhere where the state uses repressive means to keep everyone and everything under its control. If this is the case you can try to fight it, especially while they have not achieved full control and there is still a chance of turning the ship around. If not you're probably best off by moving out of that state, the world is a big place and there's likely to be some country where your skills are welcomed.
by jmyeet | 2025-09-17 20:12:10+00:00
There are so many comically evil villains in ths one deal.

Example: Silver Lake. Many younger HNers may not be that familira with the story of Skype. To summarize, Skype was a big deal, the first real mass market caller-to-caller Internet voice messaging services. It was founded in 2003, bought by eBay (of all people) in 2005 for several billion dollars. There were plans to spin it out on an IPO but Silver Lake led a buyout for less than eBay paid for it I believe in 2009 (~$2.75 billion).

Now in 2011, Microsoft bought it for ~$8.5 billion. That was great for the employees, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. I believe the new company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands to make it difficult to sue, a bunch of executives were fired before the buyout to avoid paying them out and, most controversially, the options had a clawback option that allowed Silver Lake to forcibly purchase options at the original rather than the buyout price [1].

Larry Ellison is more well known in HN circles as comically evil. Pretty much everything he touches leaves a Grand Moff Tarkin level of stench of evil from his attack on public access to Carbon Beach through his massive property portfolio to his more well known attacks on open source (originally as a threat to Oracle's dominance).

He is a Trump loyalist and true Putinesque oligarch who will probably amass levels of media control well beyond Rupert Murdoch's wildest dreams. You can bet your bottom dollar that every media property he touches will serve the administration and I'd be shocked if one or more of these deals doesn't directly enrich Trump and/or his family.

Welcome to the tleptocracy.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2011/06/skype-silver-lake-evil/
by ototot | 2025-09-17 20:12:11+00:00
Because I'm a ICPC medalist (not this year though) but not a IOI medalist.

Another evidence is that you only have 5 hours to solve 3 problems in IOI, but you need to solve 10+ problems in ICPC. It's impossible to have all 10+ problems to at IOI level in ICPC.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-17 20:12:24+00:00
That’s very interesting, I wonder if the toxicity of the American culture wars can be contained this way.

Also, I see creators, trying to create US based TikTok accounts because they believe that this way their content will be shown to Americans, which are better monetized. If that’s the case, I wonder if international creator will move to the American TikTok for the better payout.

It the international creators stay with the international TikTok IMHO that will be a huge win for China, practically displacing American culture for the younger demographic in the rest of the world.
by program_whiz | 2025-09-17 20:12:37+00:00
Its different because the AI model will then automate the use of that knowledge, which for most people in this forum is how they make their livelihood. If OpenAI were making robots to replace plumbers, I wouldn't be surprised when plumbers said "we should really stop giving free advice and training to these robots." Its in the worker's best interest to avoid getting undercut by an automated system that can only be built with the worker's free labor. And its in the interest of the company to take as much free labor output (e.g. knowledge) as possible to automate a process so they can profit.
by fluoridation | 2025-09-17 20:13:20+00:00
>So, it's not that "all languages" are like that. That seems like a "moving the goalpost" type of logical fallacy.

I think what's mean is that Rust's type system only removes one specific kind of unsafety, but if you're clueless you can still royally screw things up, in any language. No type system can stop you from hosing a database by doing things in the wrong order, say. Whether trading <insert any given combination of things Rust does that you don't like> for that additional safety is worth it is IMO a more interesting question than whether it exists at all.

Personally, I mostly agree with you. I don't much care for traits, or the lack of overloading and OO, or how fast Rust is still evolving, and wish I could have Rust's safety guarantees in a language that was more like C++. It really feels like you could get 90% of the way there without doing anything too radical, just forbidding a handful of problematic features; a few off the top of my head: naked pointers, pointer arithmetic, manual memory management, not checking array accesses by default, not initializing variables by default, allowing switches to be non-exhaustive.
by alabhyajindal | 2025-09-17 20:13:21+00:00
The WebAssembly community should really focus more the developer experience of using it. I recently completed a project where I wrote a compiler¹ targeting it and found the experience to be rather frustrating.

Given that Wasm is designed with formal semantics in mind, why is the DX of using it as a target so bad? I used binaryen.js to emit Wasm in my compiler and didn't get a feeling that I am targeting a well designed instruction set. Maybe this is a criticism of Binaryen and its poor documentation because I liked writing short snippets of Wasm text very much.

1. https://git.sr.ht/~alabhyajindal/jasmine
by barrell | 2025-09-17 20:13:23+00:00
To be honest, I’m more inclined to attribute the rampant use of LLMs just to the dopaminergic effect of using them. It feels productive. It feels futuristic. It feels like an unlock. Quite viscerally. It doesn’t really matter your seniority or skill level, you feel can do whatever is within your wheelhouse, and more, faster.

Like most dopaminergic activities though you end up chasing that original rush, and eventually quit when you can’t replicate it and/or realize it is a poor substitute for the real thing, and likely stunting your growth
by cogman10 | 2025-09-17 20:13:33+00:00
> False equivalence benefits bad actors.

It's not a false equivalence.

I'm sorry but democrats have not and are not trying to clean up messes left by republican administrations. Further, it was the democrats under Clinton that have done the most damage to government function "The era of big government is over". They ushered in the privatization and corporate capture of government. A lot of the Dems are still in congress from the clinton era.

Lina Khan is a really good example of the problem with democrats. She was one of Biden's most popular appointees. I saw her praised from across the political spectrum because she, with the little power she had, was actually doing what a lot of people wanted.

And she is exactly the person that dem donors wanted out [1]. Kamala was week there. Rather than embracing the actions of Khan, she was silent as was biden. It was a real question if she'd keep her on board because the donors were so against her.

That's the problem Democrats have. Republicans would never hire a Khan in the first place. If the donors squeal loud enough, despite how popular a cabinet pick is for the general public, dems will capitulate. Weakening trust that they are actually trying to fix anything.

I could go on. The boarder is another prime example of democrats utterly failing. Rather than make the case for the humanity of immigrants, they adopted the republican narrative and policies. Biden for nearly his entire admin had identical boarder policies to trump. Almost nobody in the Democrat representees is talking about scaling back ICE (certainly not the leadership). I do not think if they get power, they'd even contemplate reducing the new insane ICE budget.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2024/10/18/kamala-harris-lina-khan-ftc
by fabian2k | 2025-09-17 20:13:46+00:00
I really like C#, and I would generally vastly prefer it to NodeJS on the backend. I think one weakness is the library ecosystem, the competitors are stronger there. Most of the time this doesn't bother me as I also tend towards limiting dependencies in general.

There is a positive aspect to this, as it makes decisions easier as well. For many areas there is often a single good choice, there aren't dozens of web frameworks you have to evaluate. There's ASP.NET Core and then nothing else for a long time. And for the most part those are pretty good, so it does not feel limiting.

And C# doesn't have to be too enterprisy and over-abstracted. The community does tend a bit too much towards unnecessary abstractions in my opinion, but you don't have to use it that way.
by gchamonlive | 2025-09-17 20:13:52+00:00
I won't lie that I had HN partially in mind when I wrote the post. It honestly started as a way for me to vent, but I thought what the hell, lemme post there, it prolly won't even survive the New page without getting flagged. Didn't really think it would hit front page (but I really was expecting it to get flagged which it eventually did).
by dflock | 2025-09-17 20:13:58+00:00
- [supply-chain-security · GitHub Topics · GitHub](https://github.com/topics/supply-chain-security)

- [GitHub - safedep/vet: Protect against malicious open source packages](https://github.com/safedep/vet)

- [GitHub - AikidoSec/safe-chain](https://github.com/AikidoSec/safe-chain)

- npm audit
by buzzergfxkjkl | 2025-09-17 20:14:05+00:00
I second this. I run an A1 on a separate IoT wifi network that doesn't have outbound connectivity and using nftables rules for forwarding can send prints from my normal network with minimal fuss.

I did have to play around and use orcaslicer to get the printer set up using the network printing and camera feed working.

The one issue I do have is that it seems I would need to connect the printer to a internet enabled Network to get firmware updates, because the firmware version I have is ironically the one before they enabled SD card updating lol.

Back to the original question, I've had this printer for about a month and have been printing virtually non-stop with very minimal complaints. Coming from an ender 3 it is absolutely night and day in terms of ease of setup and general usage.
by leptons | 2025-09-17 20:14:40+00:00
> without performance concerns?

WASM isn't going to magically make the DOM go faster. DOM will still be just as slow as it is with Javascript driving it.

WASM is great for heavy-lifting, like implementing FFMPEG in the browser. DOM is still going to be something people (questionably) complain about even if WASM had direct access to it. And WASM isn't only used in the browser, it's also running back-end workloads too where there is no DOM, so a lot of use cases for WASM are already not using DOM at all.
by kipchak | 2025-09-17 20:14:48+00:00
I'm not sure if it's so much that most people don't care, but that hand crafted items are more expensive. As evidence of popular interest, "craftwashing"[1] mass produced goods with terms like "artisanal", and "small-batch" can be an effective marketing strategy. Using the example of a bible, a 1611 King James facsimile still commands a hefty premium[2] over a regular print. Or for paintings, who would prefer a print over an original?

There's also the "Cottagecore" aesthetic that was popular a few years ago, which is conceptually similar to the Arts and Crafts movement or the earlier Luddites.

[1]https://www.craftbeer.com/craft-beer-muses/craftwashing-happ...

[2]https://www.thekjvstore.com/1611-king-james-bible-regular-fa...
by jopsen | 2025-09-17 20:14:57+00:00
A counter argument is that the short turn around time with local 3D printing is absolutely a feature.

I've printed small stuff just to get the fitting right, before I finished the part with fillets, etc.

Also there is lots of small fun stuff, small fixes you'd never do with a 3d printer if you had to order prints online.

Example, I designed a printed a M8 nut cap with room for the 3mm sharp rod sticking out. I could probably have gotten a metal file to mill down the sharp edge, but it was hard to get at, and this gave a nice finish.
by sublimefire | 2025-09-17 20:14:58+00:00
My experience as well.

Prompt changes affect output substantially (just look up arxiv), the difficult part is find an optimal structure to yield the best results. It is a bit expensive to do a lot of testing on your own, so it all boils down to feels and experience at the moment. Then you mix up tool calls, other agent calls, client functions and this gets terribly hard to evaluate.

I am still puzzled how distance between policies can have an effect on the output. And how a simple retry fixes everything.
by cityofdelusion | 2025-09-17 20:15:02+00:00
You are sadly getting a lot of answers completely ignoring your requirements.

A Voron or RatRig are right up your alley. They are highly customizable, buy a kit as a base, then upgrade components as needed to do more complex printing. They are completely open source and repairable with no phoning home or any other shenanigans, the GNU/Linux of 3d printers. If you have CAD and machining experience it should be fairly straight forward.

My Vorons are both extremely reliable, I just hit print for 99% of my stuff and it just works with either auto leveling or static fixed offsets (depends on the Voron chosen). If something doesn’t work out, there is an enormous community with many swappable components and the machines are upgradable year after year, or can be kept in a specific older configuration.
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by sfink | 2025-09-17 20:15:12+00:00
Given my own experience with depression, it makes some amount of intuitive sense. For me at least, "sadness" is not wrong, but other than that it doesn't describe the experience very well at all.

When I'm really down, I can't bring myself to care about "aversive events". I might even welcome them a little bit, both because they fit my understanding better (everything is proceeding as it should be, this ant eating my flesh makes sense) and because it's an opportunity to feel something at least. For me anyway, depression is more about absence of affect than feeling "sad", and ironically it is maddening (and yet, in a sense I can't bring myself to care.)

Then again, my explanation suggests that depressed people ought to be better at avoiding harm through inaction, and I didn't see that in the abstract?

Another hypothesis is that you could stop at "Depression Reduces Capacity to Learn". It feels like all mental processing is muted, and especially any forms of change. I guess you could do a study where you have to learn to actively prevent an aversive event for someone else. But the 1st hypothesis may still apply: depressed people may still care less about harm to someone else (than if they were not depressed). But at least you could separate out whether it's only because depressed people don't care what happens to themselves.
by horsawlarway | 2025-09-17 20:15:27+00:00
Yeah... The market is still shifting in response to the X1C.

10 years ago... I would manually level my ender, religiously monitor it, and still deal with a decently high failure rate (esp for anything other than PLA). Tuning the printer took easily as much time as I actually spent printing with it. I upgraded all the things, flashed firmware, ran octoprint, etc...

It was like driving - gotta keep the hands on the wheel and maintain alertness at all times. It was an activity that required my attention and focus.

Then I caved and got an X1C in 2023. It's... a really, REALLY good machine.

It's like flying somewhere. I get on the plane, start up a movie or a book, and someone wakes me up when the flight is over. It's a tool that is doing things for me while I do other stuff.

I'm at the point where I'm not really interested in the "middle" all that much. Either go with a Voron and get the "I'm driving" feeling if that's what you want. Or get a Bambu and get chauffeured to successful print.
by rectang | 2025-09-17 20:15:38+00:00
I don’t think the current state of software development is irredeemable.

Ongoing downstream review of all dependency code is practical for only a tiny fraction of projects; for most projects using publisher reputation as a proxy for package safety is reasonable.

What’s not working is the low-standards package managers where inconveniencing authors is never acceptable because the whole enterprise is built on popularity with authors — you can’t trust that what those package managers give you reflects author intent.
by ashvardanian | 2025-09-17 20:15:39+00:00
My expectation, they will perform great! I’m now mostly benchmarking on 192 core Intel, AMD, and Arm instances on AWS, and in some workloads they come surprisingly close to GPUs even on GPU-friendly workloads, once you get the SIMD and NUMA pinning parts right.

For BioInformatics specifically, I’ve just finished benchmarking Intel SPR 16-core UMA slices against Nvidia H100, and will try to extend them soon: https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringWa.rs
by rickcarlino | 2025-09-17 20:15:52+00:00
Hi Giacomo, I am sorry to hear it did not work out for you and it is great that you can share your experience with others. As much as I love spaced repetition, and as much as I continue to use it on a daily basis for years with great result, I would need to (unfortunately) agree with you on this one.

In college, spaced repetition helped me get ahead, but it felt nearly impossible to convince my peers of this. While I was able to effortlessly remember thousands of vocabulary words in my language program, my peers struggled and failed to heed the simple advice of "just put it into Anki". Spaced repetition is valuable, but much like having a good diet or exercising regularly, it is really really hard to convince people of the benefits. A spaced repetition SaaS can easily become akin to an unused (and eventually cancelled) gym membership.

It seems that most of the apps that make it in this space ultimately need to compromise on their fundamentals in order to get traction. I don't need to name any names here, there are plenty of examples of SRS apps that started as solid tools for learning but evolved down a path of gamification to a point of diminished usefulness.

Anyway, sorry again to hear about this one and best of luck to you on whatever you decide to build next. Like you, I am continuing work on my (noncommercial) SRS and I always enjoy hearing your perspectives. Feel free to reach out if you ever want to bounce ideas around.
by MarsIronPI | 2025-09-17 20:16:02+00:00
I wish more non-free software could be made free and open-source when its creators go defunct or lose interest in it. Another good example that brings a smile to my face is Duelyst[1]. The company behind it went under so they published the code and assets under CC0.

1: https://github.com/open-duelyst/duelyst
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-17 20:16:14+00:00
To be fair this kind of thing is emotionally manipulative.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has done a lot as a private organization to raise standards for automotive safety but the statistics they publish that show that larger vehicles are safer than larger vehicles are frequently wrongly interpreted -- in many of the cases where the large vehicle does better it's not that you die in the smaller vehicle but instead get a broken bone. Once something is seen as "life or death" some people will think they have no choice but to spend another $50,000, spew another 20 tons of carbon pollution, etc.
by keeda | 2025-09-17 20:16:20+00:00
One of the most astonishing things about LLMs is that they actually seem to have achieved general common-sense reasoning to a signficant extent. Example from the thread about somebody ordering 18000 waters at a drive-through: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45067653

TL;DR: Even without being explicitly prompted to, a pretty weak LLM "realized" that a thousand glasses of water was an unreasonable order. I'd say that's good enough to call "common sense".

You can try it out yourself! Just pick any AI chatbot, make up situations with varying levels of absurdity, maybe in a roleplay setting (e.g. "You are a fast food restaurant cashier. I am a customer. My order is..."), and test how it responds.
by measurablefunc | 2025-09-17 20:16:23+00:00
For people interested in explanations of depression that's more than "It's an imbalance in brain chemistry" I recommend looking at the work of Lisa Feldman-Barrett. She explains how brains work¹ in computational & evolutionary terms & it's a lot better than the typical reductionist explanations in terms of chemical imbalances.

¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KliAI9umFyY
by kees99 | 2025-09-17 20:16:39+00:00
> Ctrl+O in MC will switch to a normal prompt

Better yet! (one-line) shell prompt is always available and has some nifty integrations via <Ctrl+X>. For example, one has a bunch of files visually tagged (selected) on current panel, and wants to tar them up as "/tmp/foo.tgz". Well...

tar czf /tmp/foo.tgz <Ctrl+X><T>