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by umvi | 2025-09-18 16:22:04+00:00
High voltage means nothing if the power source can't deliver the current. You could use a transformer to step up a AAA battery to a billion volts and it wouldn't do anything because a battery can't actually push out 1B/[your body's resistance] amps.

With low voltage battery circuits the main thing you have to be wary of is capacitors because those can push out a lot more current than the battery itself. Usually you can judge how much a capacitor would hurt if you touched it based on its size. If you have a device with 20 batteries charging a baseball sized capacitor, be very cautious (like the DIY gauss guns/rail guns you see on youtube). Even a thimble sized capacitor will jolt you surprisingly hard. One time I touched the charged capacitor of a disposable camera and the discharge gave me quite the zing.
by everdrive | 2025-09-18 16:22:09+00:00
>I don't think this technology introduces anything new to this issue.

This belief shows up time and time and again and is nearly always false. We had the written word before the internet, and before the printing press, so blogs are just like a hand-written letter. Gossip has always existed, so twitter does nothing new. There have always been things which eat at our impulse control, such as sports gambling and casinos, so smart phones are nothing new. etc.

What this view really fails to understand is that the constant here is human nature. Human nature is built more or less the same way as it has been for thousands of years. What changes is how technology allows human nature to play out, whether or not any given technology interacts poorly with human nature. New problems can exist purely based on scope, scale, reach, ease-of-use, lack of friction, etc.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-18 16:22:10+00:00
Nvidia's stake in Intel could have terrible consequences. First, it is in Nvidia's interest to kill Intel's Arc graphics, and that would be very bad because it is the only thing brighing GPU prices down for consumers. Second, the death of Intel graphics / Arc would be extremely bad for Linux, because Intel's approach to GPU drivers is the best for compatibility, wheras Nvidia is actively hostile to drivers on Linux. Third, Intel is the only company marketing consumer-grade graphics virtualization (SR-IOV), and the loss of that would make Nvidia's enterprise chips the only game in town, meaning the average consumer gets less performance, less flexibility, and less security on their computers.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-18 16:22:10+00:00
If it could work marginally, I suspect this would require at least a pair of giant subwoofers right next to the fan, but then I wouldn't expect it work very effectively.

Instead, it's probably a better idea to not create the noise in the first place.

PS: Typed while wearing a pair of fairly tattered Bose QC45 1st gen because I'm intent on repairing perpetually rather than $$$ replacement.
by hajile | 2025-09-18 16:22:20+00:00
Even if you had that environment today, how would you replace the function of JS?

Web development moves faster than any software in history. A lot of this is on the back of JS being ergonomic/fast to code and having very good performance and a lot of what makes it good at this is also what coders familiar with other languages dislike.

What other language has that right combination of really fast development and good performance?

You would probably have to go outside the mainstream to something like Scheme or StandardML to get the ergonomics and performance, but that would upset a whole other group of people.

After that is an even bigger problem. If everyone adopts different languages, different frameworks for those languages, and different user-facing APIs for the WASM APIs, then finding devs for your frontend team who can be productive quickly suddenly becomes impossibly hard.
by imiric | 2025-09-18 16:23:28+00:00
> None of their products are competitive

We must live in different universes, then.

Intel's 140V competes with and often outperforms AMD's 890M, at around half the power consumption.[1]

Intel's B580 competes with AMD's RX 7600 and NVIDIA's RTX 4060, at a fraction of the price of the 4060.[2]

They're not doing so well with desktop and laptop CPUs, although their Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs are still decent performers within their segments. The upcoming Panther Lake architecture is promising to improve this.

If these are not the signs of competitive products, and that they're far from "circling the drain", then I don't know what is.

FWIW, I'm not familiar with the health of their business, and what it takes to produce these products. But from a consumer's standpoint, Intel hasn't been this strong since... the early 00s?

[1]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Radeon-890M-vs-Arc-140V_12524_...

[2]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Arc-B580-Benchmarks-and-...
by cjpearson | 2025-09-18 16:23:38+00:00
> Perhaps Google and Mozilla, leaders in JavaScript standards and implementations, will start developing a real standard library for JavaScript, which makes micro-dependencies like left-pad a thing of the past.

It's not wrong, but this take is kind of tired and well out of date. For about a decade or so left-pad's functionality has been standard in all browsers or runtimes. Plenty of other micropackages have been obsoleted as well and the current zeitgeist is to avoid publishing or using any sort of micropackage.

"Zero dependencies" is now a top marketing term in the frontend world. Unfortunately, their removal is an ongoing process and it's taken way too long already to fully purge the ecosystem of these packages. However, it's not because the JavaScript community has never thought of this issue before. "Add more features to the JS standards and don't use is-number" is not a particularly new idea or valuable insight.

But beyond that, there were plenty of not-tiny packages impacted as well. Continuing to beat this dead horse may be fun, but it distracts from the actual issue here.
by mixcocam | 2025-09-18 16:23:48+00:00
I agree that people like Slack. $CRM did pay over 27B USD for it! I just think it's a case of people not knowing what they want.

> They used the tool that was available at that time. I am sure they use internal chat apps as well in today's environment.

Surprisingly, Google for example uses email + real time chat today. All communication of value, meaning thoughtful "actual" exchange of ideas happens over email. Chat is has auto disappear so it's not used for anything which remains on record, it's for small quick asks. There might be a googler in this thread who could give us more insight.

> Given that Slack has integrations with various tools (incident reporting, various bots, feed submissions, apps of all sorts), video/voice chats, file storage, rich messages, advanced notifications, and, most importantly, seamless communications with clients using it, it is just a tool that has replaced so many different tools.

I hear you on the integrations. There is no shortage of tools which plug into email too though. If the integration doesn't exist, it's typically trivial to set it up since email is just plain text.

> Not sure have you received any of the long quoted emails recently, I have, and it can be a nightmare (and ridiculous that an email client from a USD 3 trillion dollar company cannot render it properly).

For sure! and it sucks. That is why I promote email heavily for *internal* communications where the community itself enforces rules to keep the mailing list sane. That tends to happen organically in most open source mailing lists.

> Given that Slack has integrations with various tools (incident reporting, various bots, feed submissions, apps of all sorts), video/voice chats, file storage, rich messages, advanced notifications, and, most importantly, seamless communications with clients using it, it is just a tool that has replaced so many different tools.

There are few tools which are not integrated to email. But I hear you, if you like working in a monolith that makes sense. I like using the best tools for each piece. Best real time chat, best video chat platform, best asynchronous com, best file storage solution etc.
by raincole | 2025-09-18 16:23:50+00:00
> Yet when this comes round to something you’re good at (music, painting, literature, cooking, sport, …) you immediately recognize that there are in fact timeless elements

The gap between practitioners and bystanders is wide.

There was a "AI art or human art" quiz posted on HN [0]. I got > 90% right while the median score was 60%. I thought I was good at telling AI-generated content and was proud of myself.

Last week I listened to music on a random channel Youtube pushed to me for hours without realizing they're all AI-generated.

In turns out it's not that I have a human's soul or something. It's just that I practiced digital painting before but not music production.

[0]: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-ar...
by 0x000xca0xfe | 2025-09-18 16:24:35+00:00
KDE is great!

After Windows 7 I jumped to various Linux distros but the desktop UX/stability always felt like a downgrade until I ended up with Manjaro+KDE. It just works and gives me peace of mind.

Once I was on a long-distance train and worked on my laptop when some businesswoman sat next to me. She also had a laptop but became visibly enraged over time. Turns out she was fighting with Windows 11 network settings, constant virus scanner popups, cloud sync problems in her office suite and whatnot. This was when I realized how much superior the Linux desktop experience already is.
by rdiddly | 2025-09-18 16:24:39+00:00
Which is probably why religion was developed in the first place, for its comforting effects, as a balm, a bravery-enhancer, a coping strategy for dealing with inevitable death.

I think the way we deal with death nowadays has more to do with arrogance or hubris, coupled with wishful thinking. We're used to thinking we control things, and can get anything we want. One thing useful from the religions was having a healthy sense of your own limitations, or you could say a sense of wonder or mystery or perspective. A reminder that you're not the most powerful thing in the universe. Which is true, and healthy to be aware of, whether any god exists or not.

Edit to add: There are few places where that hubris and certainty tend to be more pronounced than among doctors. Part of what this woman is grieving is probably the loss of certainty, of control or the illusion thereof.
by pchangr | 2025-09-18 16:24:41+00:00
I remember when I was studying for an MBA.. a professor was talking about the intangible value of a brand .. and finance.. and how they would reflect on each other .. At some point we were decomposing the parts of a balance sheet and they asked if one could sell the goodwill to invest in something else .. and the answer was of course .. no… well.. America has proven us wrong .. the way you sell the goodwill is to basically enshittification.. you quickly burn all your brand reputation by lowering your costs with shittier products .. your goodwill goes to 0 but your income increases so stock go up .. the CEO gets a fat bonus for it .. even tho the company itself is destroyed .. then the CEO quickly abandons ship and does the same on their next company .. rinse and repeat… infinite money!
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-18 16:24:50+00:00
Roger Williams and his buddies would (and did) vehemently disagree with this doctrine.

I think you need to remember that Lock and Smith were writing in a century when "they're not using it (by our definition), so we can just go take it" was the legal underpinning by which the english colonies mostly justified forcing the natives off their land and that sort of interpretive creativity had been used for hundreds of years by the various parties in England seeking to get one over on each other.

Now, there's a lot to be said for "default" public access to/through un-posted, unimproved land and there's an even stronger argument in favor of landowners (public included) being required to have some legal access to land they own but the american system where the land owner has fairly unlimited right to kick other people off his property (of course the .gov excepts themselves) arises out of the disputes that the historical english doctrine (there's a word for it but escapes me) causes.

I think people buying up land strategically to block access to other land is obviously bad and the whole corner crossing thing should have been a joke, but this is a very thorny and complex problem.
by mothballed | 2025-09-18 16:24:53+00:00
I think the corner crossing basically said that the owners of corner-corner can't claim the 'airspace' exactly at the corner and there is more or less a de facto low-airspace easement at the corner.

I'm not sure that it created any sort of ground easement.

It basically allows you to 'hop' from one quadrant to the cross quadrant without touching the other two quadrants of the corner. The guy in that case used a ladder to do that IIRC so he only violated their 'airspace' up until that ruling.
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-18 16:25:18+00:00
There will continue to be freedom of expression.

The politicians, in this case Republicans, will continue to attempt to chip away at it, but will find little success in the long run. The First is clear on this matter and only a new Amendment can change it at this point. (Which new Amendment would be certain to fail in the current political environment.)

Now please, everyone, take note, Freedom of Expression doesn't mean freedom from people, companies, or organizations disassociating themselves from you. In fact, Freedom of Expression implies Freedom of Association. So cancel culture will be with us for the long term as well.
by chrismeller | 2025-09-18 16:25:36+00:00
I don't own a Tesla, but I've been a passenger in well north of 100 different ones over the years (Uber/Bolt/etc.) and had no idea there even was a mechanical release. In the event of an emergency I would... not fare well.

Years ago (decades now?) I remember James May on Top Gear doing a segment where he was looking for the first mass-produced car that "looked like a car". Of course there have been tons of changes, but it's also amazing to me how much some things are still the same 100 years later.

Particularly when it comes to safety devices it just seems like you shouldn't mess with that combination of intuitive design and ingrained societal learning from media. It's literally something a child can do...
by nailer | 2025-09-18 16:26:04+00:00
I was reading about this earlier, something like 24% of Democrats and 3% of Republicans support violence against people they see as political enemies - I think it was PEW Research but can double check if someone needs.

More anecdotally, the last violent attack against the left was the Melissa Hortman and her husband that were attacked by a Tim Waltz appointee, and I didn't see anyone on the right celebrating it either.
by hobofan | 2025-09-18 16:26:17+00:00
> If automated scanning were truly effective, we'd see deployments across all major package registries.

No we wouldn't. Most package registries are run by either bigcorps at a loss or by community maintainers (with bigcorps again sponsoring the infrastructure).

And many of them barely go beyond the "CRUD" of package publishing due to lack of resources. The economic incentives of building up supply chain security tools into the package registries themselves are just not there.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-18 16:26:41+00:00
Sounds like you have kids now and that's wonderful!

"Wife being the only woman working" is an odd metric though. My wife went from being an ER physician when we met (fun times during COVID pregnant with our first) to doing telemedicine after we had our second, to doing that part time after we had our third.

Similar to many women in our circle who are highly educated and professional, kids mean "working less" but this decision represents a desired and meaningful tradeoff. My wife loved her work but she (obviously?) loves being there for our children even more.

At the end of the day, I suspect "singing around the piano" is a W not an L. It's funny that if you went to a "normal" party and everyone ended up drunk and scrolling on the phone you'd not posit that as how weird non-religious people are :)
by geye1234 | 2025-09-18 16:27:02+00:00
The UK has a much more intelligent (though far from perfect) approach to land use.

It has public rights of way (if on foot, horse or bicycle) crossing the whole country. You can walk from one end of Britain to the other without trespassing, and without using roads (much). Many of these paths are very, very old, in a few cases Roman or pre-Roman, although more are medieval. Until recently, they were based on common law rights, although they're now in statute. The situation is a happy hangover of the medieval approach to property rights, which is based on custom and usage and negotiation instead of strict statute. The American eighteenth-century enlightenment approach is an attempt to make everything tidy: it's based on the rationalist idea that a thing is its definition and nothing more. So private property is private, that means nobody else can use it: case closed.

The medievals also held in theory (not always in practice, hahaha) that one had a moral duty to use wealth for the public benefit, and that not doing so was theft. So buying up land and kicking everybody off was not only frowned upon, but could also get you into legal trouble, and possibly into trouble with the Church.

EDIT:

A few points since I didn't mean this to be a controversial comment but it seems to have started an argument:

- I should have mentioned the vast public lands in the western US, since they provide a counterpoint.

- The liability issue in the US obviously affects access to land, but could be ameliorated in principle (I would think).

- My comment is not a general defense of British land usage approach. There are huge problems, including but not limited to the tiny number of big landowners. I should have prefaced my first paragraph with "in some respects". Similarly, it is not a general defense of the medieval approach, and certainly not of serfdom.

- The UK's problem with vast landowners got worse in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteen centuries, with the Dissolution, the enclosure acts and clearances. Land becomes far more concentrated at this time, and the social distance between landlord and tenant much greater. Older lords' houses tend to be built very near roads where anyone can talk to them (whether to beg or to threaten), whereas the eighteenth century ones, as well as being much bigger, are far from the road in huge parks, guarded by layers of servants. The historian E.P. Thompson talks about the "triumph of law over custom" -- in other words, "what you and your ancestors have agreed with us and our ancestors up until this time doesn't matter, we've managed to get this law written down that gets you off the land, now get lost".
by everdrive | 2025-09-18 16:27:03+00:00
I think it's perplexing that UX has generally gotten worse subsequent to multiple developments which you might expect would make UX better:

- We now have a plethora of UX logging and can see real time where users struggle. - There are dedicated UX teams whose sole focus is to improve UX. - More people are using technology than ever, and so we have a more representative sample of data to work with.

But despite this, UIs have consistently gotten worse over the past 10-20 years. I think there are a few possible culrpits.

- Mimicking mobile UIs, as eloquently called out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290812 - I suspect there is something of a race to the bottom WRT To UX teams; they're always designing around any pain point, which has a few knock-on effects: - There will _always_ be pain points, and so there will _always_ need to be UI changes. - Designing a product so that the bottom of the bell curve can use it well probably does make an objectively worse product. - There's nothing wrong with needing to learn a UI, and this "learning" could be mistaken as pain point. - UX teams can't exist if there aren't things to constantly change, which increases the UI churn.

In concert, you have a UX which is constantly changing, and never really getting better, and often getting worse.
by shayway | 2025-09-18 16:27:17+00:00
It makes sense both grammatically and logically; I think this might just be a parsing issue.

For example: Alaska and Hawaii are the only non-contiguous U.S. states. Alaska is one of the only non-contiguous states.

The 'only' is part of the group definition, implying the individual 'one' is part of a small subset of some sort.
by MisterTea | 2025-09-18 16:27:24+00:00
> The Bloomberg investigation found numerous instances of passengers who were killed or severely burned by post-crash fires when rescuers on the scene were unable to open the doors.

Have any of these incidents result in major law suits? Seems pretty likely they would and should sue.

Honeslt yI hate modern automotive designs. My one wish for the Chinese EV makers was that one of them just makes a friggin normal car that's an EV without stupid gimmicks abut no, doesn't seem like the industry has the ability to design a reliable car.
by bpt3 | 2025-09-18 16:27:35+00:00
Intel has been making GPUs for over 25 years. Claiming they are just getting started is absurd.

To that point, they've been "just getting started" in practically every chip market other than x86/x64 CPUs for over 20 years now, and have failed miserably every time.

If you think Nvidia is doing this because they're afraid of losing market share, you're way off base.
by hnlmorg | 2025-09-18 16:27:53+00:00
Murex works on a multitude of platforms, including Linux and Windows. But also a variety of UNIXs too.

It was actually first created before Powershell was available outside of Windows. But some of the design philosophies are fundamentally different to Powershell too. For example Murex is designed to work well with POSIX (bar the shell syntax itself), whereas Powershell reimplements most of the stack, including coreutils.
by pocketportfolio | 2025-09-18 16:28:11+00:00
We built Pocket Portfolio (OSS) to track positions, P/L, and news without linking a broker. MVP is live. Looking for honest feedback from devs (UX, DX, perf).

Try: https://pocketportfolio.app/app/?utm_source=hn&utm_campaign=... Tasks (5–7 mins): add 3 trades → switch chart → import CSV (mock is fine). Feedback: https://github.com/PocketPortfolio/Financialprofilenetwork/d...

Repo: https://github.com/PocketPortfolio/Financialprofilenetwork What’s missing? What feels slow/confusing?
by frollogaston | 2025-09-18 16:28:24+00:00
It really wants to show you certain things. You can tell it no, but you have to do it a lot.

YouTube shorts was like this day 1. I didn't even use it, but it saw that my normal recs were music and started showing me music... performed by girls wearing skirts with the camera on the ground. Then I adblocked it.
by barbazoo | 2025-09-18 16:28:34+00:00
> (B) Is a depiction, description, or simulation, whether real, animated, digitally generated, written, or auditory, that includes a disconnection between biology and gender by an individual of one biological sex imitating, depicting, or representing himself or herself to be of the other biological sex by means of a combination of attire, cosmetology, or prosthetics, or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual’s biological sex.

> an individual or entity that violates this subsection is guilty of a felony. Punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years or a fine of not more than $100,000.00, or both.

Am I reading this right, possibly a $100k fine and up to 20 years in prison for a biological man posting a picture of themself dressing in clothing considered "female"?

> (ii) Prohibited material does not include any of the following:

> (A) Material to be used for scientific and medical research or instruction.

> (B) Peer-reviewed academic content.

The bar to publish a paper seems extremely low these days anyway so maybe that's a viable workaround for those folks to protect themselves, just publish it as a paper.