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Ask HN: Am I the only person who hates mobile apps but adores computer software?
by adinhitlore | 2025-09-21 23:31:38+00:00
Be it as a user or a programmer I can't stand android/ios or anything that runs on a phone. The lack of keyboard, small screen, retarded cpu, horrible ecosystem android/ios is just too much. In a way i'm happy the "mobile craze of 2010-2020" is long gone (followed by the blockchain era and these days the ai era...thank god) but even so people continue to use java and make angry birds, i guess? I so miss the linux vs windows years when you only had nokia 3310 and people used to play "snake", literally no one thought of get-rich-quick schemes with lame apps on an "appstore". I also hate when Altman said on Theo Vohn "if you have an idea for an app"..no hell no - i hope no one will be having an "idea for an app" ever again. I mean "ai" today mostly falls in the SaaS category which could even cover google and youtube (it's a software after all but you use it as service through website frontend) and i don't mind it at all. It's very powerful and very lightweight this way, much better than the absurd constraint of dumb apps on ARM processor or whatever. In ideal world everyone would be using debian-based linux on "mobile pc stick" which projects 5000 lumens projector on extandable projector plane with laser projection keyboard...but laptops are cool too (i know...projectors are noisy, cpus on pc sticks suck - i have one haven't used it in years but in theory "it works/should work" + lamp fails etc, which is why i said 'ideal world').
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-09-21 23:31:47+00:00
That gives you an idea of how much I enjoy buses and airports.

I complained, but it wasn't that bad. Mostly I was pointing out that the "premium" line is in disrepair. This is why they're replacing them.

I've ridden plain old Amtrak many times before, and it can be hit or miss but is invariably better than a bus or a plane, in my opinion. Big seats, plenty of room to walk around, a dedicated lounge car, big windows, no TSA.

If the train shows up, that is.
by lordofgibbons | 2025-09-21 23:32:54+00:00
How many people here actually write custom cuda/triton kernels? An extremely small hand full of people write them (and they're all on one discord server).. which then gets integrated into Pytorch, Megatron-LM, vLLM, SGLang, etc. The rest of us in the ML/AI ecosystem have absolutely no incentive to migrate off of python due to network effects even though I think it's a terrible language for maintainable production systems.

If Mojo focuses on systems software ( and gets rid of exceptions - Chris, please <3 ) it will be a serious competitor to Rust and Go. It has all the performance and safety of Rust with a significantly easier learning curve.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-09-21 23:34:24+00:00
You had to write your own shaders in C that would often bsod your computer and possibly brick your 3dfx voodoo card.

Less taught in CS degrees, but still definitely a huge part of computer graphics courses. Interestingly that was one of the key things you learned if you went to FullSail or DigiPen in the late 90s

Also please recall, windows development and DirectX was kind of the only game in town for PC graphics. Unreal engine made 3D indie dev realistically approachable to learn.
by lovich | 2025-09-21 23:34:53+00:00
I don’t know why Tostino’s reply to yours was flagged. This admin is literally backing away from defending against non competes just a few weeks ago[1]

What evidence is there, that this admin would be doing anything to push against or stop non competes?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-administratio...
by nine_k | 2025-09-21 23:35:18+00:00
«The UK does not directly import Russian crude oil, refined products, or gas, having imposed a ban in late 2022 and early 2023 to counter the war in Ukraine. However, fuel derived from Russian oil is still indirectly imported into the UK through a loophole that allows Russian crude to be refined in other countries, like India and Turkey, and then sold to the UK.» (Gemini, but I'd have written the same.)
by mbesto | 2025-09-21 23:35:23+00:00
Sort of. C rate discharge is just another (confusing) way of state CDR. You might as well just say the CDR in amps. C rate is really just to give a comparison on battery chemistries to illustrate how performant different chemistries can deliver power at a normalized value (to illustrate how the battery chemistry could in theory scale up)

For example, 1C is rated continuous discharge amps, which means a 1C rated battery will provide 1 * Ah. So if a 20,000 mAh battery is rated for 20,000 mAh @ 1C, it will (in theory) discharge 20,000 mAh at 20A in one hour.

> You can of course estimate the battery capacity in watt hours, but it’s not how the battery is classified (eg in a data sheet)

You're right but this is irrelevant because real life usage highly varies. Data sheets are just guides.
by asveikau | 2025-09-21 23:37:09+00:00
> Either you add a compatibility hack to the OS or you drop support for that app.

It isn't really a binary choice like this in real life. This really depends on the specifics of what the breakage is. The best way is to not break the caller's expectation to begin with.

Anyway, my point is that patching on the vendor side is way more common than it would be in the days before internet updates were common.
by yodsanklai | 2025-09-21 23:37:27+00:00
Yes, more training will invariably give better outcome for a given individual. But some people are just incredibly more talented than others due to genetics alone.

If you want to build an elite sport team, I don't think you want to artificially put less athletic kids for the reason they had to work harder.

I think the question is why do we need elite higher education at all. Maybe we don't. In my view, we want to funnel the brightest people there and make sure they get access to the best resources.
by lapcat | 2025-09-21 23:37:36+00:00
> History includes articles with out of date information.

Yes, but a lot of out of date information is of no historical interest. That's the distinction I was getting at when I said that history is not the same as out-of-date-information.

What's distinctive about history is that we recognize it as history. In other words, when we take an interest in a document as historical, we don't assume that it describes the current state of affairs. Nobody is misled in that respect.

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6276961

Notice that this submission has the year (1991) appended, which is all we wanted in the first place. It's simply standard practice on HN and has nothing to do with whether the information included is out of date, contrary to what rahimnathwani was arguing. Indeed, someone could publish a blog post in 2025 that includes out of date information (of no historical interest), but it wouldn't receive a (2025) label on HN, because the label is not an indicator of out of date information, just the publication year.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2025-09-21 23:37:41+00:00
Cloud flare have a pretty long history of not acting as the Internet police, including kiwifarms. That’s a GOOD thing. A private company is not responsible for acting in that way, and when they do it results in fascism. VISA and Mastercard have recently threatened steam over games a bunch of Karen’s didn’t like, and have also put pressure on onlyfans and pornhub. VISA and Mastercard have no business telling other companies what they can and can’t do, that’s the job of police and the courts. Otherwise, how long until visa, Mastercard, cloudflare etc give in to pressure and stop doing business with websites deemed ‘unacceptable’ by some invisible party. Abortion advice? Lgbtiq health issues? Options which dissent from government? Legal/‘illegal’ protests?
by kulahan | 2025-09-21 23:38:11+00:00
Mars, interestingly, was just determined to have a core almost identical to Earth’s as I understand it. This is not the sole determinant of course - you still need enough volatiles, enough gravity to maintain a hold on the lightest elements across billions of years, and tectonics to keep refreshing the atmosphere. Unfortunately for us all, Mars has none of those. There may be other significant factors as well.
by mindslight | 2025-09-21 23:38:11+00:00
You can run down the policies of either major party and find topics where they advocate against government intervention, or at least a light touch. So the idea that we could have less government intervention isn't really a unique or rare one.

It's not a matter of imagining some "truly libertarian" government, as that is an artifact of US "Libertarianism" which is itself fallacious (it mostly just renames "government" to "corporations"). It's a matter of which ideals to strive towards.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-09-21 23:38:19+00:00
With due respect I assume you believe these papers are somehow relevant and that you're making a point, but these papers aren't the evidence you think they are. You are also promoting outright cranks in other comments.

Psychohistory, Freudianism, repressed memories, and multiple personalities are all debunked ideas. Dissociative amnesia is just the rebranding of the repressed memory hypothesis. Anxiety and grief are not trauma.
by rapind | 2025-09-21 23:39:15+00:00
> If someone is spending a bunch of time on code that Claude could have done and easily verified it was correct, they are going to move slower and produce less useful things of value.

This is the future fellow greybeards. We will be shunned for being try-hards, and when it turns out we were right?... Well no one likes a know it all.
by rvz | 2025-09-21 23:39:33+00:00
> I like Chris Lattner but the ship sailed for a deep learning DSL in like 2012.

Nope. There's certainly room for another alternative that's performant and portable than the rest without the hacks needed to meet it.

Maybe you caught the wrong ship, but Mojo is a speedboat.

> Mojo is never going to be anything but a vanity project.

Will come back in 10 years and we'll see if your comment needs to be studied like the one done for Dropbox.
by Jugurtha | 2025-09-21 23:40:08+00:00
What are you trying to accomplish? Say it's a start-up or a profitable business, you need to test your hypotheses, validate/invalidate the idea, etc. The risk is not technical, it's a business risk, so you ought to get to the truth as fast as possible, and you get there using what you're most productive in. The goal is to discover if it's "desirable, feasible, viable", not to optimize prematurely.

>Say, i want to build tcp client for check connection and can deploy anywhere without install any dependency

Why? What are you trying to accomplish? Where do these constraints come from? Where does the no dependency constraint come from? Where does deploying anywhere come from? Where does checking the connection come from? What is the real problem you are trying to solve?

These questions are to avoid the XY problem, to avoid the trap of solutionism, and to get to the "Job to Be Done".

Someone once asked me how to solder a thick copper wire to a thin steel plate. When I asked him why, I listened in disbelief as he answered that the fuse blew out and that he was going to get a thicker wire and solder it so it doesn't blow out. His solution comes from an incorrect diagnosis of the problem at hand, and he asked me about the solution framed as problem, not the true, root, problem.

To answer your question: it depends.
by turtleyacht | 2025-09-21 23:40:11+00:00
How do you refute your manager? Not only are they now biased to the answer, but without their own aesthetic (experience), it will cost you double: once to try the AI solution, and then another to try your version.

Suppose you're wrong versus the machine; they will think you are less consistent, even though every problem context carries its own nuance.

Having to, in good faith, try both avenues every time sounds exhausting.
by Jensson | 2025-09-21 23:40:57+00:00
> We have several recent real-world examples of that not working out for the military.

Only when the military is not serious since they are not fighting for their own lands and the civilians are backed by another country. When the military is fighting civilians in its own homeland the civilians stand no chance unless they get massive help from foreign powers.

> Besides, I've always hated this argument, because why fight the military when they can just target the politicians directly.

Even if you do that its still the military that gets to decide the next leader, killing their leader does not lead to democracy. Nazism didn't end with Hitlers death, it ended with the country being taken over. Oppressive Communisms didn't end with Stalins death etc. There are always enough likeminded people that you can't end a horrible reign just by killing the leader.
by tymscar | 2025-09-21 23:41:06+00:00
Majority of your comments are nothing more than just bashing Apple with things that aren’t even the case.

Nobody, especially not the title of this post, says anything about this being “innovative” or “omg”.

I think you are right that there is an Apple mental field that controls people, but I actually think the effect is on the other side.

Most Apple fans just comment on something new and go like “hey, look how neat this”. The haters, on the other hand, respond with more or less the same thing multiple times even in the same thread.

I understand if a kid does it, it’s innate to humans to side with Pepsi or Cola, with Xbox or PS, but for an adult, it’s just sad.

If you love tech, just appreciate new things regardless of who the company that makes them is. And if you don’t, then why waste your time on hating it all the time? Just get a hobby.
by Archit3ch | 2025-09-21 23:41:15+00:00
The argument against Mojo is that it replaces CUDA (that you get for free with the hardware) with something that you need to license.

By itself, that's not so bad. Plenty of "buy, don't build" choices out there.

However, every other would-be Mojo user also knowns that. And they don't want to build on top of an ecosystem that's not fully open.

Why don't Mathematica/MATLAB have pytorch-style DL ecosystems? Because nobody in their right mind would contribute for free to a platform owned by Wolfram Research or Mathworks.

I'm hopeful that Modular can navigate this by opening up their stack.
by ics | 2025-09-21 23:42:13+00:00
I’m from the US but a “floor sleeper” and have never camped with a pad like these even in near-freezing temperatures. I’m sure it helps but these days I get the impression from people around that they just like gear, don’t like being uncomfortable, and any other benefit is just a bonus to rationalize spending money. Maybe I’ll try it some day and be a convert, until then…
by arkaic | 2025-09-21 23:42:37+00:00
I used to invert them but realized two things: 1: anyone can adapt to any control scheme given enough time (which isn't much) 2: majority of games default to, and people play with, non inverted controls. If you don't see yourself playing flight sims constantl y, it's just easier for everyone involved to learn the noninverted controls so that no one has to constantly change control mappings
by throwaway2037 | 2025-09-21 23:47:01+00:00
I would like to hear from pro-crypto folks what they think about this scenario? Specially, I would like to compare the equivalent from "old school finance". Imagine that your phone is stolen, then someone gains access to your plain old bank account. They drain your account. You can make a police report, then share with the bank. In most cases, you will get your money back. What about crypto? AFAIK: It is gone. Unless it is a huge amount, probably your national police force won't try to hunt down the thieves. And, the crypto exchanges will be of little help.
by hamandcheese | 2025-09-21 23:47:18+00:00
From the readme:

> Local Task Runner - I love make. However, I also hate repeating myself. With act, you can use the GitHub Actions defined in your .github/workflows/ to replace your Makefile!

This is ass backwards. Throwing out a tried and true build system in favor of a vendor-specific yaml format? Wtf? Just invoke make from your actions ffs.
by guizmo | 2025-09-21 23:49:07+00:00
It's very fortunate that they didn't change from being Israel allies to Hamas allies.

However, they recognized a state while the previous position was that they would not recognize one until an agreement is found with Israel.

The Hamas and the people that celebrated October 7th in the West will celebrate this as a victory and for a good reason because of the timing (in fact, they already did...).

You made the best case that I read so far on a recognition though from a diplomatic point of view. I just think it's wishful thinking given the force in presence in the palestinian society, and that it evacuate too casually the optics of a recognition before any condition is met, which will be seen as an unconditional recognition by many (most?) people.

What happens when Hamas or an a similar faction kill any reformist and take back control for example? Not exactly an implausible scenario given the relatively recent history.
by Jensson | 2025-09-21 23:49:17+00:00
What do you mean? That is exactly what they are trained for, you just do the same thing but even more aggressively. US cops are already pretty aggressive but you can dial that up a lot, they are already trained for this.

Tell the cops that they can shoot anyone looking aggressive and not get questioned and they will happily go out and quell any resistance, don't you think? Tell them they can put people in prison without lawyers getting in their way, that they can torture people to speak without anyone stopping them etc.

US police is very close to a fascist police already so very little has to change. Remember that the US police culture roots came from policing slaves.
by addaon | 2025-09-21 23:50:18+00:00
I don't carry a battery, but I do carry a solar panel that weighs around 300 g. I use my phone when backpacking as a GPS receiver, map, flashlight, and eBook reader. Phone + solar panel weighs less than paperback + paper map + flashlight, gives me more flexibility for adjusting plans, and doesn't leave me out of novel after a few days.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-21 23:52:17+00:00
Yes, other motives are possible. Though "get ahead in our attention economy" provides a strong positive feedback loop. And if the trope is very widely circulated, it will find and activate most of its potential Apostles - people who will both strongly believe it, and also zealously try to spread it.

Bigger picture - I see AI as just another bale of straw on the camel's back. Sure, it's possible that AI will end up looking like the fatal bale. But that could come from so much money being invested in AI that we get a global financial meltdown when the AI bubble bursts, leading to a nuclear WWIII.
by easton | 2025-09-21 23:52:33+00:00
> Why would I care whether the Node runner has a security vulnerability?

I’m guessing they know you don’t care, but the big company customers cant have a CVE anywhere and won’t accept a EOL node version so they can check a box on something.

(I guess there’s also people with self hosted runners, who might be running them inside networks that aren’t segmented.)
by nerdponx | 2025-09-21 23:54:06+00:00
> My only question who is pushing the messaging and who does it benefit?

You get 0 "both sides gotcha" points for this one because there is a clear answer when it comes to right wing messaging, and it has been the same since the 19th century, long before modern conservatism existed. It's big business owners and anyone else who stands to gain from an oligopoly economy backed by an authoritarian state that punishes and suppresses anything that could destabilize said oligopoly. There's no conspiracy theory here.

Meanwhile who is pushing the horrible left wing messaging that racism is bad? A bunch of professors and kids on social media?
by defrost | 2025-09-21 23:54:10+00:00
Immediately after the first executive order declaring some "state of emergency" that 'legally' justified sweeping POTUS orders on tariffs US Republicans passed a bill with a rider clause that (I kid you not) "stopped time" (Congressional time).

Legally, in the US, once a POTUS makes such an emergency order Congress must vote on it's continuance within 30 (? short fixed time period that I don't recall ATM) "congressional days".

Legally (and this is very weird, I don't exactly know how this is being accounted for on the books) exactly zero "congressional days" have passed since then.

Legally, Congress has had no clock run out on any required vote, legally there has been nothing amiss to appeal against and for Courts to rule on.

Yes, this sounds crazy, bizarre, abnormal, made up. Yes, it's true.

Reference: HN 6 months past: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358343
by ajross | 2025-09-21 23:54:31+00:00
> You putting "language" in scare-quotes is completely unnecessary, as that's not what she's arguing at all.

... then why is it in the headline?!

I'm not discounting the possibility that someone somewhere underneath this has done something approximating real science[1]. I'm saying that the link I clicked on, and the hypothesis it's pushing, is garbage. And I stand by that.

[1] Though "I made a database" might not rise to the level of clickworthy.
by codedokode | 2025-09-21 23:56:34+00:00
There is a difference between a programming language support and having complete GUI framework, set of libraries and applications. Also what would you use to write GUI for Linux? Non-reactive libraries are not an option due to being outdated and inefficient programming style.

It is one thing if AOSP has some fundamental issues that cannot be patched/fixed, and another thing if someone just doesn't like it.
by ponector | 2025-09-21 23:56:50+00:00
>> but they seem hellbent on 3 as per how Israeli people post here on HN and the actions of their democratically elected government.

Considering how many times Arabs started and lost wars against Israel, how many atrocities they did to Israel people it's not a surprise your #2 is not a popular option there.

Need to mention nothing can justify current levels of destruction in Gaza.
by scorpioxy | 2025-09-21 23:58:06+00:00
That's a good question that I sometimes ask myself. But if you want the money, you have to do what it takes. There's a limit of course and lines that I do not cross(illegal, unethical etc). There were plenty of times where I had to say that this is not going to work and chose to end the relationship with a handover. During those times, the technology wasn't the problem.
by owenversteeg | 2025-09-21 23:58:59+00:00
Wow, this is a terrible interview. The interviewer repeatedly references his book Inferno. I like the Telegraph review of it, "Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown", available here sans paywall: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...

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by nunez | 2025-09-22 00:00:30+00:00
Amtrak is amazing, but it is horrendously slow outside of the NE corridor (due to freight priority) and routes that should exist don't (Dallas to Houston, Toronto to NYP diagonally across New York instead of via Albany).

Apparently it takes 8h to do DFW to Little Rock despite this being a 6h trip by car. That's not great.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-22 00:02:34+00:00
> The low-hanging fruit is regional rail.

Amen!

I recommend taking a look at Newsom's proposal for a regional program unifying San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento, and the Bay Area into a single unified rail system along with expanding ACE to Modesto a couple years ago - that would have been a game changer, but the purists struck along with other more politicially palatable options.

> Too many rail projects seem to have been prosecuted by purists who are anti-car or anti-plane

Exactly! And a la Tsebeleis, they are a significant veto player that are functionally turning a stag hunt into a Nash equilibrium.