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Show HN: Richpixelvid – Play videos in your terminal using rich-pixels
by pj4533 | 2025-09-03 13:26:43+00:00
I saw a recent post from Simon Willison where he discussed the python library rich-pixels, written by Darren Burns.

Basically, rich-pixels renders using a Unicode lower half block after setting the color to convert an image.

I have a background in video, so after seeing this, I immediately wondered if I could get it to convert an MP4 into the same format in the terminal.

Vibe coded it up in about 15 minutes or so. For now, all it does is direct playback of the MP4 in the terminal. It does this by using FFmpeg to extract the frames, convert them using rich-pixels, and then play back at the specified frames per second. Next steps will probably be to allow exporting as another MP4 or possibly converting to a GIF. Something like that, but that's all for the future.
by runlaszlorun | 2025-09-03 13:27:44+00:00
Good on Switzerland.

It's easy to bash governments but, given that LLMs process basically all of human recorded knowledge and run on top of the collective efforts of 60 years of Moore's Law, we should look at them as a collective asset and need more good actors creating and improving them.

I can't picture any path forward that doesn't involve more customized versions with more agency in shaping them.

LLMs as we have them now are like mainframes compared to the PCs to follow but even more so as they have their own worldview and biases.
by sipofwater | 2025-09-03 13:27:45+00:00
* "Windows 11 Update KB5063878 corrupted my 8TB Seagate drive (RAW, data loss)": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5534282/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5534282/windows-11-update-kb5063878-corrupted-my-8tb-seaga)

* "Potential SSD Detection Bug in Windows 11 24H2 Following Update KB5063878 (August 12, 2025)": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5536733/... (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5536733/potential-ssd-detection-bug-in-windows-11-24h2-fol)
by tqwhite | 2025-09-03 13:28:12+00:00
What a load of crap. I don't believe it for one second. Also, AI has only been an important influence for about twenty minutes.

Here's what I think: AI causes you to forget how to program but causes you to learn how to plan.

Also, AI enhances who you are. Dummies get dummer. Smarties get smarter.

But that's not proven. It's anecdote. And I don't believe anyone knows what is really happening and those that claim to are counterproductive.
by DamonHD | 2025-09-03 13:28:16+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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by sipofwater | 2025-09-03 13:28:20+00:00
Comments by whmxtra (https://www.youtube.com/@whmxtra) posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc ("BEWARE! Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration" video by JayzTwoCents)

* whmxtra, "It goes even deeper": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgxOFAkpMCaks... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgxOFAkpMCaks_ANsv14AaABAg&pp=0gcJCSMANpG00pGi)

* whmxtra, "And a new problem": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugwg2WrjpvM2e... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugwg2WrjpvM2epZ1Rn54AaABAg)

* whmxtra, "And another update. Just did a quick check in linux": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy6GoefcNaic... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy6GoefcNaic_iR4TB4AaABAg)

* whmxtra, "And mystery partly solved": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgyXcnwyWqy9M... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=UgyXcnwyWqy9MMVFfIN4AaABAg)

* whmxtra, "Ok another update (and possible solution). I called up 20 of my local customers and asked if I could swing by and test their systems to see if they had issues. Out of those 20 PC's half of them had the space missing issue.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy2W5D-KDtpN... (www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbFIUu_7LIc&lc=Ugy2W5D-KDtpNk-BE3R4AaABAg)
by pineaux | 2025-09-03 13:28:24+00:00
Yeah i made a small app to sell my fathers books. I scanned all the books by making pictures of the book shelves + books (collection of 15k books almost all non-fiction). Then fed them to different AI's. Combining mistralOCR and Gemini worked very very good. I ran all the past both AIs and compared the output per book. Then saved all the output into an SQL for later reference. I did some other stuff with it, then made a document out of the output and sent it to a large group of book buyers. I asked them to bid on individual books and the whole collection.
by jajko | 2025-09-03 13:28:26+00:00
Misuse or not, who cares about labeling.

Internet was supposed to be this wonderful free place with all information available and unbiased, not the cesspool of scams and tracking that makes 1984 look like a fairytale for children. Atomic energy was supposed to free mankind from everlasting struggle for energy dependency, end wars and whatnot. LLMs we supposed to be X and not Y and used as Z and not BBCCD.

For what population loses overall, compared to whats gained (really, what? a mild increased efficiency sometimes experienced on individual level, sometimes made up for PR), I consider these LLMs are a net loss for whole mankind.

Above should tell you something about human nature, how naive some of the brightest of us are.
Show HN: Tradomate.one – A Stock Screener with Backtesting
by askyashu | 2025-09-03 13:28:34+00:00
Tradomate combines technicals, price actions, fundamentals, and news-based filters to create an all-in-one stock screener. Tradomate goes beyond filtering - look at historical performance by backtesting your screen and gain insights into what stocks work well within your screen.

Would love your thoughts and feedback on this.
by ada1981 | 2025-09-03 13:28:36+00:00
It’s your choice if you’d like to publicly discuss your marriage issues, and no obligation to respond, but I’d be curious what about so called ADHD was going to result in a divorce.

I imagine there was some behaviors, communication issues, emotional disconnection, etc. that lead to your wife not feeling supported or understood?

In other words, how does it make you a “better person.”

Also, I’ve yet to encounter any medications that aren’t without risks or long term issues.

And again, no obligation to reply. But I would be curious about:

How much time do you spend in actual nature / wilderness each week?

How often do you fast and for how long?

Are you part of a men’s group?

Do you meditate daily?

Do you do HIIT daily?

Do you have training in somatic and emotional awareness and conflict communication with your wife?

Do you avoid overly processed foods, sugar and eat all or mostly plant based foods?
by sunir | 2025-09-03 13:28:38+00:00
All true if you one shot the code.

If you have a sophisticated agent system that uses multiple forward and backward passes, the quality improves tremendously.

Based on my set up as of today, I’d imagine by sometime next year that will be normal and then the conversation will be very different; mostly around cost control. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a break out popular agent control flow language by next year as well.

The net is that unsupervised AI engineering isn’t really cheaper better or faster than human engineering right now. Does that mean in two years it will be? Possibly.

There will be a lot of optimizations in the message traffic, token uses, foundational models, and also just the Moore’s law of the hardware and energy costs.

But really it’s the sophistication of the agent systems that control quality more than anything. Simply following waterfall (I know, right? Yuck… but it worked) increased code quality tremoundously.

I also gave it the SelfDocumentingCode pattern language that I wrote (on WikiWikiWeb) as a code review agent and quality improved tremendously again.
by stripe_away | 2025-09-03 13:28:55+00:00
and to be blunt, I learned similar things building analog synths, before the dawn of LLMs.

Like you, I don't like watching videos. However, the web also has text, the same text used to train the LLMs that you used.

> When something doesn't work like I thought it would, AI helps me understand where I may have went wrong, I ask it a ton of questions, and I try again until I understand how it works and how to prove it.

Likewise, but I would have to ask either the real world or written docs.

I'm glad you've found a way to learn with LLMs. Just remember that people have been learning without LLMs for a long time, and it is not at all clear that LLMs are a better way to learn than other methods.
by infecto | 2025-09-03 13:29:12+00:00
You asked a question I tried to give you a reply. Most of the industry will classify it as a virtual generator. Happy to argue but not sure why you post a question and then refute answers.

There is both a load and generator resource for a battery and is some markets it will register as such. So no it’s not creating net new but will often but bucketed in a generator category for the purposes of looking at mix.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-03 13:29:31+00:00
Learning and habit formation are not "reprogramming". If you define "reprogramming" as anything that updates neuron weights, the term encompasses all of life and becomes useless.

My point is that I don't see LLM's effect on the brain as being anything more than the normal experience we have of living and that the level of drama the headline suggests is unwarranted. I don't believe in infohazards.

Might they result in skill atrophy? For sure! But it's the same kind of atrophy we saw when, e.g. transitioning from paper maps to digital ones, or from memorizing phone numbers to handing out email addresses. We apply the neurons we save by no longer learning paper map navigation and such to other domains of life.

The process has been ongoing since homo erectus figured out that if you bang a rock hard enough, you get a knife. So what?
by jonhohle | 2025-09-03 13:29:41+00:00
Pioneer provided fixes to some things, but for such a niche system there is virtually no way to get them now.

A few years ago I made a support to avoid board sag - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5993459

These are actually a pleasure to work on, but their rarity makes everything a bit more stressful.
by charlie-83 | 2025-09-03 13:29:54+00:00
It feels like all this is because the point of school/college/university is just to get a piece of paper rather than to earn skills. Why wouldn't you get chatgpt to write your essay when your only goal is to get a passing grade.

My optimistic take is that the rise of AI in education could cause more workplaces to move away from "must have xyz degree" and actually determine if the candidate has the skills needed.
by lurk2 | 2025-09-03 13:30:11+00:00
“Now” implies that this wasn’t being done before. It has always been legal to deport a green card holder over criminal convictions. Are you suggesting that ICE is rounding up these green card holders for the crime of being Mexican and throwing them back over the wall? This seems to be what you want people to believe. I’m aware of at least two cases where naturalized citizens were deported without having their status revoked, but in both cases these deportations were found to be illegal and damages were awarded. This might look like an indication of malice on the part of ICE until you realize that there is something like 40 million immigrants living in America.

If you have any concrete figures demonstrating the systematic abuse of the deportation process, I’ll encourage you to share them.
by johnisgood | 2025-09-03 13:30:42+00:00
It works for me, so I would rather not have it taken away from me. Take it away from people who misuse it.

If it is a human nature issue (with which I agree), then we are in a deep shit and this is why we cannot have nice things.

Educate, and if that fails, then punish those who "misuse" it. I do not have a better idea. It works for me quite well for coding, and it will continue to work as long as it is not going to get nerfed.
by infecto | 2025-09-03 13:31:01+00:00
Haha you nailed it. Walking around and experiencing the world I can now ask a vague question and usually find an answer.

Maybe there is a movie in the back of my head or a song. Typical search engine queries would never find it. I can give super vague references to a LLM and with search enabled get an answer that’s correct often enough.
by tobylane | 2025-09-03 13:31:29+00:00
I see 16% now, and my own panels have jumped up to 400w since your comment, with a peak of 1500 earlier today. https://imgur.com/a/HOX6YJu

While domestic installations are counted, they aren't in OP's link. https://www.projectsolaruk.com/blog/latest-uk-solar-photovol...
by judahmeek | 2025-09-03 13:31:42+00:00
First, the war on drugs did have spec ops operations against cartels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snowcap

Second, there's no reason to trust that using the military will work out better: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/14/fort_bragg_cartel_set...

Wars on drugs are basically fighting laws of economics themselves. The only option that actually works is legislation & regulation. Why we think that we can't regulate cocaine the way we regulate alcohol, weed, or cigarettes is beyond me.
by rogerkirkness | 2025-09-03 13:31:47+00:00
Based on various studies about things like acetaminophen toxicity, effects of screens on nervous system and eye health, effects of eating ultra processed foods, etc. we know that anything that harms kids tends to harm adults, just less acutely. I think realistically energy drinks are just not healthy for humans. But it's interesting how we moralize harms to kids while enabling them for adults.
by JohnnyRebel | 2025-09-03 13:31:57+00:00
Fair point—though to be clear, the LLM isn’t doing the math, just the interface. The numbers come from structured data, so accuracy isn’t left to chance. Where this really helps is for small business owners who are overwhelmed by QuickBooks data entry and classification. Our goal is to continually improve the experience, making bookkeeping as simple as possible.
by goosedragons | 2025-09-03 13:32:10+00:00
Yes, firmware on the Advantage 2 (what I have) does allow some QMK type stuff like mod-tap. They call it "tap and hold". It's more limited than QMK from my understanding (e.g., only 1 layer, tap and hold only on certain keys) but for my uses cases it's been fine.

While it's not a true split, the key wells are ~6" apart which is plenty IMO. They do have the similar Advantage 360 Professional which is a true split and uses ZMK for more programmability.
by derbOac | 2025-09-03 13:32:55+00:00
Out of curiosity I looked to see if there were more recent empirical papers and there are. For example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43493-0

It's a bit murky though and might reflect imprecision in BMI as an indicator of adiposity:

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/44/13/1136/707226...

In reading these later papers, it occurred to me the paradox might be spurious?

High BMI is generally a risk factor for cardiovascular disease — thus the paradox — but it suggests that if someone has low risk by BMI and still has cardiovascular disease, there might be something more insidious or systemically advanced going on. In this case, it's not that adiposity protects, it's that the presence of disease in the absence of a risk factor suggests that other etiologic factors might be more advanced.

I guess collider bias is probably a different version of this explanation:

https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2013/05000/The__Obe...
by cube00 | 2025-09-03 13:33:06+00:00
> servers hosting LLMs, which I wouldn't even consider a huge security concern

The new problem is if the LLMs are connected to tooling.

There's been plenty of examples showing that with subtle changes to the prompt you can jailbreak the LLM to execute tooling in wildly different ways from what was intended.

They're trying to paper over this by having the LLM call regular code just so they can sure all steps of the workflow are actually executed reliably every time.

Even the same prompt can give different results depending on the temperate used. How security teams are able to sign these things off is beyond me.
by lazide | 2025-09-03 13:33:25+00:00
I’d consider it similar to always using a GPS/Google Maps/Apple Maps to get somewhere without thinking about it first.

It’s really convenient. It also similarly rots the parts of the brain required for spatial reasoning and memory for a geographic area. It can also lead to brain rot with decision making.

Usually it’s good enough. Sometimes it leads to really ridiculous outcomes (especially if you never double check actual addresses and just put in a business name or whatever). In many edge cases depending on the use case, it leads to being stuck, because the maps data is wrong, or doesn’t have updated locations, or can’t consider weather conditions, etc. especially if we’re talking in the mountains or outside of major cities.

Doing it blindly has led to numerous people dying by stupidly getting themselves into more and more dumb situations.

People still got stuck using paper maps. Sometimes they even died. It was much rarer and people were more aware they were lost, instead of persisting thinking they weren’t. So different failure modes.

Paper maps were very inconvenient, so dealt with it using more human interaction and adding more buffer time. Which had it’s own costs.

In areas where there are active bad actors (Eastern Europe now a days, many other areas in that region sometimes) it leads to actively pathological outcomes.

It is now rare for anyone outside of conflict zones to use paper maps except for specific commercial and gov’t uses, and even then they often use digitized ‘paper’ maps.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-03 13:33:31+00:00
The other thing to note is "AI" is being used in place of LLMs. AI is a lot of things, I would be surprised to find out that generating images, video and audio would lead to cognitive decline. What I think LLMs might lead to is intellectual laziness, why memorize or remember something if the LLM can remember it type of thing.
by garciasn | 2025-09-03 13:33:42+00:00
Populist strongmen are rising everywhere; this is a fact. The People have short memories and seemingly have forgotten those who rose to power in the first half of the 20th Century and whom the Americans fought against for the remainder of it.

Apparently now it's time for the world to return to populist authoritarianism and isolationist policy in order to bury our heads in the...sand...until we have to collectively rise against them again. Except, this time, it may be America who bears the brutal brunt.
by tikhonj | 2025-09-03 13:33:51+00:00
One way is for senior engineers to give junior folks well-defined areas of responsibility, and then not worry about assigning and tracking small tasks within that. The more senior folks explain and motivate what we need and talk through what the interfaces around the area are and how it fits into the broader work of the team, then help as-needed.

Instead of trying to "track" work in terms of tasks, you keep up with the state of the system by understanding the state of each area. Which is pretty natural to do since you'd be helping with design discussions, code review and some pair programming and debugging.

You can get a lot done by talking and by looking.
by somenameforme | 2025-09-03 13:33:57+00:00
In general I agree with you regarding the weakness of the paper, but not the skepticism towards its outcome.

Our bodies naturally adjust to what we do. Do things and your body reinforces that enabling you do even more advanced versions of those things. Don't do things and your skill or muscle in such tends to atrophy over time. Asking LLMs to (as in this case) write an essay is always going to be orders of magnitude easier than actually writing an essay. And so it seems fairly self evident that using LLMs to write essays would gradually degrade your own ability to do so.

I mean it's possible that this, for some reason, might not be true, but that would be quite surprising.
by siva7 | 2025-09-03 13:34:04+00:00
> Sure, knowing CAP theorem does not imply you are a good engineer, but being a good engineer DOES imply you know CAP theorem.

Eh, no it doesn't? I guess it's one of those questions - what makes a good software engineer - that people will never universally agree on like many other topics in the field but still think their own truth is universal.
by bambax | 2025-09-03 13:34:45+00:00
> "Magi" were priests of Zoraster

That's the etymology of the word, but there is no indication in the gospel of Matthew (the only one to even mention this) that it's a reference to Persia.

That would be like saying when anyone who mentions "algorithm" is really talking about Uzbekistan, because al-Ḵwārizmī means 'the man of Ḵwārizm' (now Khiva).
Show HN: Text2SQL with a Graph Semantic Layer
by danshalev7 | 2025-09-03 13:35:25+00:00
Built QueryWeaver, an open-source text2SQL tool that uses a graph to create a semantic layer on top of your existing databases. When you ask "show me customers who bought product X in a certain ‘REGION’ over the last Y period of time," it knows which tables to join and how. When you follow up with "just the ones from Europe," it remembers what you were talking about.

Instead of feeding the model a list of tables and columns, we feed it a graph that understands what a customer is, how it connects to orders, which products belong to a campaign, and what "active user" actually means in your business context. We used FalkorDB for the graph part because it handles relationship mapping better than cramming table schemas into prompts. Graphiti tracks the conversation so follow-ups actually work. Final notes: Your data stays in your databases. We read from existing schemas, never migrate data. Standard SQL outputs you can run anywhere. We've built an MCP and you can generate an API key to take it for a spin. Please, tell us how it’s working out for you!
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-03 13:35:26+00:00
It's been a little over a decade since I lived there, and yes, it was not all that crazy.

As a foreigner I was generally expected to stay away from big protests when they flared up, and internet connectivity sucked (though this was also a time when the world was less dependent on near-constant internet access). Otherwise it was pretty much like any other "middle-tier" country.

I was a teenager back then, so it was especially nice in certain ways: Tehran was pretty safe, so I had a lot of freedom to get around unsupervised that I later did not have in some other "more free" places.