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by greatgib | 2025-09-09 18:02:52+00:00
What is funny is again how many "young developers" had fun at old timers package managers like Debian being so slow to release new versions of packages.

But never ever anyone was rooted because of malware that was snuck into an official .deb package.

That was the concept of "stable" in the good old time, when software was really an "engineering" field.
by rgblambda | 2025-09-09 18:03:07+00:00
I'm very pro remote working, but I think people like me need to realize that this is a real issue. It happens in the office too, but it's a bit harder to get away with, and it's really a performance management issue which brings us nicely to your second point.

I agree, managers are always the worst offenders when it comes to this sort of thing. But they do the same in the office by disappearing into meeting rooms for the entire day. I'd love to know how you can effectively manage a team by constantly being in meetings with other managers.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-09 18:03:20+00:00
Why should we all go off of one ranking?

Quartz ranked New Mexico 5th: https://qz.com/early-childhood-education-by-state-ranking-20...

If I look hard enough, I can find a study that ranks New Mexico at every single ranking from 50th to 1st.

In particular, the study you linked ranks on a lot of factors outside the control of the school - which is largely affected by the huge number of poor people in New Mexico (#1 in the country... Which is why they got the rating they did).
Show HN: Paper's Heat Map Shader
by stephenbuilds | 2025-09-09 18:03:39+00:00
Paper is a new design tool. We launched into open alpha today. Anyone can now sign up and use Paper.

We started Paper about 1 year ago with the goal to bring more creativity back into design tools. It feels like the existing options are becoming increasingly corporate.

To celebrate to launch, we published a new shader that lets anyone see their logo in Apple's new heat map animation style. There is no sign-up needed at heat.paper.design.

We're always looking for feedback from anyone who uses Sketch, Figma, Photoshop, or Illustrator, about what they most need in their professional design tools.

Have fun with the new shader and please send me anything you make!
by varispeed | 2025-09-09 18:03:52+00:00
Very much every one I know bought a smart watch, worn it for a couple of weeks, then forgot to charge yet again and then forgot where it is. None wear smart watches today.

People still revert to "dumb" analogue watches or Casio stuff.

For me personally smart watch is pointless. For everything it does I have a phone. Other than that, it's just another thing that I have to babysit - want to measure sleep? Oh no I forgot to charge it before bed. There goes my measurement etc.

It's a cool gadget, but very much useless still.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-09-09 18:03:59+00:00
I think the return to office phenomenon is inevitable because employers externalize transportation costs, but internalize value capture from employees being in presumably a less distracting and more controlled environment. It’s a systems problem where the incentive only goes one way. I think you could have a balancing incentive of providing employers tax credits if they can prove that they are using remote or partially remote employment. I would even extend this incentive to employers that can show that their work hours are not overlapped with peak traffic hours. 20% of traffic volume might be in a single hour, and highway capacity is often built around accommodating need of only 2 hours of the day. Your state DOT is probably a top 3 expense for the state government.
by AfterHIA | 2025-09-09 18:04:16+00:00
I love how there's no discussion-- we're already past utilitarian justifications for the why the overall utility of these systems is somehow worth the theft. Give the code monkeys a new banana and they'll, "oh oh ah" the way you like. This isn't new.

When, "Greed is Good" comes for your kids don't come running to me. Thankfully they already have:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-instagram-dangerous-co...
by deedubaya | 2025-09-09 18:04:31+00:00
It pains me how this comment illustrates how ignorant most folks are of the consequences of installing software off the internet is (even technically inclined folks that hang out on HN). How many of us have non-security software installed on our computers today that do exactly these things... but sell the information? Definitely a non-zero number!

If folks understood this better, there would be less reason for software like Huntress' EDR to exist.
by ghaff | 2025-09-09 18:04:40+00:00
On the other hand, I just use my cheap Timex (with years of battery life) unless I need/want the more advanced features of the Apple Watch Ultra. I've been of two minds about the Ultra (and the Apple Watch generally). When I'm really using it like on a hike, I really like it. For more day to day stuff I mostly have notifications turned off and I rarely get legit phone calls when my phone isn't handy.
by notmyjob | 2025-09-09 18:04:48+00:00
Depends what you use it for. I don’t think email is a single thing in that regard. For example I’ve used it as a backup method for important files and also as 2 factor. Those are wholly different things that warrant different solutions. The majority of email volume is not person to person communication but part of some corporation/spammers/scammers business model who at best, like my bank, is using it to shift liability away from themselves onto consumers and at worst is attempting to defraud me of all I own. It’s still useful in business, maybe, but pretty sure teams/slack/… will win eventually.
by spicyusername | 2025-09-09 18:05:29+00:00
Trump is incompetent at best (a crony at worst), a bull in the legislative China shop, and revels in drawing attention to himself... so it shouldn't be too surprising people are on high alert during his tenure and news headlines get more attention.

Last administration cooked the books on BLS numbers for nearly 2 years

I'm going to need to see a citation for such a claim...
by lotsoweiners | 2025-09-09 18:05:51+00:00
Would love to know where you’re getting this figure from. I worked in the welfare field before moving into tech (and my wife still does) and the payout for TANF plus SNAP for a single mother with like 5 kids would be closer to your $30k than the $100k. Of course that begs the question why work for it if you can get it for free but I believe TANF has a lifetime payout of like 5 years meaning that if the kids get it as a child they will not qualify for that TANF for themselves as an adult.
by hunter-gatherer | 2025-09-09 18:05:59+00:00
So many of the comments here seem to be completely unaware of what an EDR does. Do none of you all work for companies with managed devices? There isn't anything abnormal here...

I work on a REM team in a SOC for a big finance company all you US people know. An employee can't hardly fart in front of their corporate machine without us knowing about it. How do you all think managed cyber security works?
by infecto | 2025-09-09 18:06:20+00:00
Data can show a lot about your health. Anecdotally I find the sleep disturbances (apnea) monitoring to work for me. The trends are a pretty nice, will track general changes in health on the data it monitors. They now can capture high BP to some degree of accuracy. It’s not for everyone but for me it’s one of the more useful devices in my life.

Depends where you are at in life but I found as I have gotten older that some of the data points are helpful to track to see how my body is aging and when/what to adjust.
by adamrt | 2025-09-09 18:06:30+00:00
Are you sure about that? Unless I'm misunderstanding they did fix this: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json

"In v1, a nil Go slice or Go map is marshaled as a JSON null. In contrast, v2 marshals a nil Go slice or Go map as an empty JSON array or JSON object, respectively. The jsonv2.FormatNilSliceAsNull and jsonv2.FormatNilMapAsNull options control this behavior difference. To explicitly specify a Go struct field to use a particular representation for nil, either the `format:emitempty` or `format:emitnull` field option can be specified. Field-specified options take precedence over caller-specified options."
by some_guy_nobel | 2025-09-09 18:06:53+00:00
> They can be upset all they want. Just don't be surprised when economy keeps on tanking and then finding out that Trump administration DGAF about you, just like the soybean farmers that all voted MAGA who are getting royally screwed by the trade war

I agree with that. How people can believe anything from a man who sells Bibles branded with his name is beyond me, never mind everything else.
by gethly | 2025-09-09 18:07:00+00:00
When you are unmarshaling json, empty map/slice is something completely different than a null or no value present, as you are losing intent of the sender, in case of JSON REST.

For example, if my intent is to keep the present value, I will send {"foo": 1} or {"foo": 1, "bar": null} as null and no value has the same meaning. On the other hand, I might want to change the existing value to empty one and send {"foo": 1, "bar": []}.

The server must understand case when I am not mutating the field and when I am mutating the field and setting it to be empty.

On the other side, I never want to be sending json out with null values as that is waste of traffic and provides no information to the client, ie {"foo": 1, "bar": null} is the same as {"foo": 1}.

Protocol buffers have the exact same problem but they tackle it in even dumber way by requiring you to list fields from the request, in the request's special field, which you are mutating as they are unable to distinguish null and no value present and will default to empty value otherwise, like {} or [], which is not the intent of the sender and causes all sort of data corruption.

PS: obviosly this applies to pointers as a whole, so if i have type Request struct { Number *int `json:"number"} then sending {} and {"number": null} must behave the same and result in Result{Number nil}
by mullingitover | 2025-09-09 18:07:17+00:00
I'm in the middle of Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson, where in a not-too-distant future someone's doing exactly this type of geoengineering: shooting sulphur into the upper atmosphere.

The crazy thing is, humans have already been doing geoengineering similar to this, and recently discontinued it[1].

[1] http://archive.today/pD1UW
by mandeepj | 2025-09-09 18:08:02+00:00
First, political commentary should be regulated, especially from these moron podcasters! What the hell do they know? They are angry and out with an agenda!! Just to make their living from barking instead of doing a meaningful/real job.

Also, I'm not sure why it's allowed to have someone come from SA/Zimbabwe and comment on posts of US political candidates.

Now coming to the Right! I believe they are the single biggest reason behind America's current rot. Which problem are they trying to solve? They always contradict themselves.

This is the mindset we are forced to deal with https://x.com/ENERGY/status/1964010741247168958

It should be compulsory for voters to vote and have them go through training to make them understand how the economy, the Fed, world trade, US intelligence, foreign policy, interest rates, and bonds work. One might argue that it should be done in the schools. Sure! But then why are we here? Of course, Right would scream as usual No, my choice. No son! Enough with your damn choices. Not voting should invite severe legal, financial, and civil penalties. That's how we are going to fix this mess!
by pm90 | 2025-09-09 18:08:07+00:00
Richard Hamming. And the essay is here: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html.

As you point out, Its important to note that Hamming makes this observation specifically in the domain of research which requires a lot of collaboration between people, and is enhanced by interaction with other people doing research. Most standard software engineering jobs don’t require that kind of research activity (although it does require some; product development is a creative process).
by ProjectArcturis | 2025-09-09 18:08:18+00:00
It's pretty clear that for-profit entities will optimize to maximize profit at the expense of all other variables, including safety and the environment. We certainly can't trust the CEO class to properly prioritize safety concerns. So we will always need government regulations to keep these tradeoffs balanced.

You seem to be calling for a magical new set of regulations that are just as effective but don't cost as much. That's not going to happen.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-09-09 18:08:22+00:00
Is this not a good use case for AI in your email client (local-only to avoid more opportunities for data to leak)?

Have the client-embedded AI view the email to determine if it contains a link to a purported service. Remotely verify if the service URL domain is valid, by comparing to the domains known for that service

If unknown, show the user a suspected phishing message.

This will occasionally give a false positive when a service changes their sending domain, but the remote domain<->service database can then be updated via an API call as a new `(domain, service)` pair for investigation and possible inclusion.

I feel like this would mitigate much of the risk of phishing emails slipping past defenses, and mainly just needs 2 or 3 API calls to service once the LLM has extracted the service name from the email.
by logifail | 2025-09-09 18:08:44+00:00
> interesting that everyone's immediate reaction now-a-days is to assume incompetence or maliciousness, rather than curiosity at the root cause

I came across this claim last week regarding recent US jobs figures:

> "All jobs gains were part time. Full-time jobs: -357K. Part-time jobs: +597K"

If this claim is true, and I have no means to tell if it is, then - regardless of one's view on whoever is in power right now - do we really expect any elected representatives to be brave enough to say that out loud at a press conference?

I don't :/
by spogbiper | 2025-09-09 18:08:46+00:00
If you work for a company that's bigger than a mom and pop, chances are very good that your IT department has this same level of access to any computer used in the organization. Huntress is basically an outsourced portion of the IT department for smaller companies that don't have their own 24/7 security team. It's a pretty common thing, with many vendors offering this type of service. Your work computer may have a similar product/service installed
by skydhash | 2025-09-09 18:08:50+00:00
I wouldn’t go for painful that much. The main issue is transitive dependencies. The tree can be several layer deep.

In the C world, anything that is not direct is often a very stable library and can be brought in as a peer deps. Breaking changes happen less and you can resolve the tree manually.

In NPM, there are so many little packages that even renowned packages choose to rely one for no obvious reason. It’s a severe lack of discipline.
by noncoml | 2025-09-09 18:09:11+00:00
For my aging eyes, Apple Watch Ultra is the only watch where I can have time and date and read it comfortably. I used to have a cheap casio that would do the same job, but the digits are getting too small for my eyes.

TBH I only use the Apple Watch as a dumb watch. I have disabled all notifications and smart features. Just time and heart-rate when I exercise.
by jasode | 2025-09-09 18:09:14+00:00
>Why can't Apple produce a watch that you don't have to use with an iPhone?

>There's not a shot in hell I'm ever switching from Android to iOS. People rarely do this.

Because the reverse situation helps Apple. A lot of iOS users can't switch to Android because the Apple Watch keeps them tied to the iPhone. It's one of their most effective lock-ins in addition to things like iMessage.

Keeping existing Apple customers may be more lucrative than trying to attract potential Android customers like you.
by sfn42 | 2025-09-09 18:09:16+00:00
That's kind of just how the genre is. You don't really know where to go and what to do, that's part of what makes it magical. You just explore. If you hit a dead end you turn around and go somewhere else. If you get to a spot that's really hard it's up to you whether you want to push on or look around elsewhere. That's why I turned around when I saw the big guard, I figured I have easier places to check out first. And then I found new zones and new abilities and stuff and then I went back.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-09 18:09:56+00:00
For me its:

- Apple Pay (I don't have to take out my phone to pay for things). One really cool feature is that the apple watch maintains your credentials as long as you don't take it off your wrist, so you don't need to unlock anything to pay for something.

- Apple Car/Home Key (I don't have to take out my phone to unlock my front door)

- notifications on my wrist when my washer machine is done

- notifications on my wrist when an unhoused neighbor door checks my car in the middle of the night.

- Apple Health: metrics on my daily workout.

- Screen time: grant kid 15 minutes of Roblox without taking my phone out of my pocket

- Edit: I'm embarrassed to admit that I also use the "find my phone" feature a lot when at home.

I don't really need an ultra for any of that, and I don't see a reason to upgrade my 2-3 year old Apple Watch now.
by bluedino | 2025-09-09 18:10:10+00:00
Our company recently started RTO.

The first 10-15 minutes of every meeting for the first month were people complaining about it. The first 10-15 minutes of every meeting for the second month were supervisors reminding people everyone they need to do it.

The third month, people started coming in, and now everyone complains about how there's no parking, no open hotel desks, no open meeting rooms, and teams are scattered across offices and there's no meeting rooms so all the meetings are still on Teams.
by saltcured | 2025-09-09 18:11:03+00:00
Yeah I resisted gestures but gave up when I found that enabling legacy nav buttons seemed to make things unreliable for me. Maybe when I first switched to Nova?

I also noticed that the widget editing is a bit clumsy with resizing on Fossify Launcher. It seems like there is some hidden state where long-press doesn't quite work the same way after some interaction. But I was able make progress after going through several other interactions like opening the menu via back gesture from home screen, locking and unlocking the screen, etc.

I don't know if it is Android or the launcher itself that makes the widget sizing so annoying. It seems to have a different bounding box for the resizing tool than what is actually rendered, so I end up with way more dead space around the widgets than I wanted.
by lansol | 2025-09-09 18:11:21+00:00
No, you are right. It is absurd. The same government also increased the income tax deduction on renovations both in percentage and amount.

So is the suggestion of less light and more isolation in Sweden. One of the darkest and most lonely countries in the world. There is already no requirement for windows in bathrooms and kitchens, as you can't regularly open windows in winter anyway.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-09-09 18:12:08+00:00
That's clearly not the assumption at all. The idea that we can pick and choose what we pay taxes for is not a reality. That's not how this works. There are tons of subsidies, pork, and other ways my tax dollars get used that don't benefit me at all. Just because you don't have a kid or choose not to use the new system, doesn't mean you shouldn't pay your share of taxes, just like everything else in this country.
by kragen | 2025-09-09 18:12:58+00:00
Yes, but I'm asking about new non-AI products. I agree that lots of people are integrating AI into products, which makes products that wouldn't have existed otherwise. But if the answer to "where's the explosive changes and development of new products?" is 100% composed of integrating AI into their products, that means current AI isn't actually helping people write software, much. It's just giving them more software to write.

That doesn't entail that current AI is useless! Or even non-revolutionary! But it's a different kind of software development revolution than what I thought you were claiming. You seem to be saying that the relationship of AI to software development is similar to the relationship of the Japanese language, or raytracing, or early microcomputers to software development. And I thought you were saying that the relationship of AI to software development was similar to the relationship of compilers, or open source, or interactive development environments to software development.

It also doesn't entail that six months from now AI will still be only that revolutionary.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-09 18:13:00+00:00
See point one.

People very rarely switch phone operating systems.

There is virtually nobody with an iPhone AND an Apple Watch that's switching from iOS and Android any time soon.

The idea that Apple needs to defend that population is absurd.

That's their BIGGEST evangelists.

Why doesn't Apple not let you have a MacBook unless you have an iPhone?

Tons of people have MacBooks that have Android phones.
by daemonologist | 2025-09-09 18:13:18+00:00
The new Pebbles are also claiming two weeks (they're only just now shipping, so we'll see how that pans out): https://ericmigi.com/blog/pebble-2-duo-is-in-mass-production

In any case I agree that it's crazy - particularly for Apple which tends to have pretty good power efficiency in its other devices.
by lawlessone | 2025-09-09 18:13:19+00:00
Think i had this before. had a lump on one eyelid.

Went to GP and asked him if was cancer.

He just recommended a clean warm wet cloth and prescribed me some peroxide eyedrops.

All seems to be working and it's going away.

I think it's worth mentioning that when it started i wasn't eating well and had lost weight due to stomach issues.
by bitpush | 2025-09-09 18:13:27+00:00
Interesting idea, and good job for getting ahead of the obvious criticism and doing a rev share.

However, this wont work. If there's an ad for Coca Cola, the whole reason why Coca Cola is paying the podcast host is so that the message would get to the listener. If anything, the money should be shared with Coca Cola, and not the podcast host - who has been paid already (for sponsored spots).

And at that point, it just becomes user paying Coca Cola directly, with you in the middle.

It is an inefficient system.
by ajross | 2025-09-09 18:13:30+00:00
Now you're playing games with "offer". I've never once seen a Camry with cameras. I'm sure it's on a trim somewhere, but not on dealers lots or at a price people want to pay.

Look, the simple ground truth is that the experience of driving a four year old Tesla (the age of my Y) is simply better than any vehicle I'm going to find anywhere at that price point or lower (or give a bit for inflation, even).

> You shouldn't be taking your hands off the wheel while using systems that require your hands to be on the wheel.

Sigh. I said I wouldn't be trolled[1], but it's a camera-based attention monitoring system now. There's no requirement for the hand on the wheel (well, it will yell at you if it sees you duck out of the camera center and you need a physical input to acknowledge), and hasn't been for more than a year.

The "car gets new features years after purchase" thing is another point in favor, FWIW.

Look, you're just wrong on this. You'll never believe that, because you'll never drive a Tesla. But I do, and I'm right.

[1] You also played the "level 2" game again, pretending that one number defines the feature set when you know very well it does not. That now has moved from "trolling" to simple lying, I'd say.
by spicyusername | 2025-09-09 18:13:47+00:00
My point is that these are accelerating technologies.

maybe they don't actually work for that yet.

So you're not going to see code that wouldn't exist without LLMs (or books that wouldn't exist without Word), you're going to see more code (or more books).

There is no direct way to track "written code" or "people who learned more about their hobbies" or "teachers who saved time lesson planning", etc.