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by manquer | 2025-09-26 02:34:12+00:00
If you want role over then you could specify ^2.5.0 or 2.5.x if you want to pin then it would be 2.5.0

This is all solved for a long time now , llm vendors seems to have unlearnt versioning principles.

This is fairly typical - marketing and business wants different things to do with version number than what version number systems are good at .
Show HN: Macscope – I decide to built a better Cmd-Tab replacement for macOS
by gprok | 2025-09-26 02:34:16+00:00
Hi HN,

Macscope is a new window manager and and app switcher for macOS built on the philosophy of enhancing, not replacing, your existing muscle memory.

It works by augmenting the familiar Cmd+Tab workflow. A quick tap of your shortcut instantly switches between recent apps, just like you're used to. A slightly longer hold, however, opens the full Macscope interface where you can manage all your open windows and tabs.

You can also use modifier shortcuts to enter Placement Modes, which let you instantly snap a selected window to the left/right/top/bottom/ half of your screen.

Here are some of the key features:

- Unified Search & Switch: A single interface to instantly find and switch to any window, browser tab (Safari, Chrome, Arc, etc.), or application just by typing.

- Live Previews: See a real-time preview of what's inside each window so you know exactly where you're going. You can also disable previews for a more minimal experience.

- Advanced Window Management: Go beyond just switching. Select multiple windows and arrange them into layouts like vertical/horizontal splits or grids.

- Scopes: Save collections of app windows as a "Scope" and instantly restore that entire workspace later. It's ideal for quickly switching between different projects or tasks.

It’s a native macOS app built with Swift and supports both Apple Silicon and Intel machines.

Launch Offer for HN:

There's a free trial with 250 actions. For the Hacker News community, I'm offering a 50% discount on the lifetime license.

Website: https://macscope.app

Discord Community: https://discord.gg/ehktEWr97K

I'll be here all day to answer questions and would be grateful for any feedback. Thanks for checking it out!
by Manuel_D | 2025-09-26 02:34:30+00:00
What court? Presumably you're taking about the ICJ? It only stated that allegations of genocide is "plausible". The grandparent comment is about a human rights commission, not a court.

Also, the ICJ only has jurisdiction when states consent to its authority. And the UN security council can veto any decision. It's essentially a show court.

And again, people endlessly debate what is and isn't rape and murder. Judges and juries make the decision at the end of the day, and people still debate whether their decision was correct. If anything, drawing parallels to murder and rape only serve to highlight how subjective it is.
by kristianc | 2025-09-26 02:35:23+00:00
Except that's not how humans work. No one is itching to try Gemini 2.5 Flash when Opus 4 is on the table.

They will go to wherever they can get the best model, driving whoever is crazy enough to offer for them for 20/mo almost immediately out of business.

There's no flat pricing model that can sustain what developers try to throw at it.
by ModernMech | 2025-09-26 02:35:39+00:00
> There isn’t even any evidence that DOGE was more aggressive about cutting things related to Elon vs other government waste.

I mean, they were scraping the signage off USAID offices on day one of DOGE, while Musk walked away with $0 of his own grants cut. There was no process at all for determining whether any of his billions were waste fraud or abuse. Surely all the money he's getting from the government is well-deserved and prudent.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-09-26 02:35:54+00:00
The fundamental reason why I fear a tyrannical corporation less than a tyrannical government is that generally speaking, for a tyrannical corporation, you can just stop using their products if you want.

My understanding is that Apple's proposed approach to CSAM prevention (which was subsequently abandoned) made significantly greater attempts to protect user privacy compared with the current EU chat control proposal.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-26 02:36:05+00:00
It's not a "banal claim" it's the foundational property of language that excludes it from any biological specificity (direct relationship to survival).

“There is nothing red about the word red, and the word big is itself rather small.” (Cuskley, Simner, & Kirby)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00033...
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-26 02:36:19+00:00
Various:

Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45299170

A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45325792

I'm leaving Ruby Central

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352432

Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45371061
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-09-26 02:36:41+00:00
Is this the latest draft

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10131-2025-...

This legislation appears to be aimed at "services" offered to the general public that provide encrypted messaging, particularly the facility to share URLs, images and video

This proposed legislation does not appear to contemplate internet service providers as encrypted chat/messaging service providers

It stands to reason that internet subscribers who do not use encrypted chat services offered to the public by third party intermediaries, aka middlemen, would not be affected by this legislation

The legislation imposes an obligation on encrypted chat service providers, i.e., non-parties to the communication, to scan _someone else's_ private messages

Obviously, this obligation to scan someone else's messages would not apply to internet subscribers communicating with each other peer-to-peer, i.e. it would not apply to the parties to the communication

It is interesting how HN commenters seem to assume that if this legislation were enacted, Europeans would continue to use these third party services, e.g., for planning the next revolution (the top comment is hilarious)

The legislation is only targeting "Big Tech" and wannabe Big Tech "platforms", it is not targeting encryption per se.^1 It is targeting _those companies'_ use of encryption

1. Law enforcement use of encryption is explicitly excluded

It was never a good idea to let "Big Tech" intermediate communication over the internet. These companies are not a source of "privacy". Their "business model" is based on mass surveillance. As mass surveillance data collectors, "Big Tech" is an alluring and easy target for any government, a "one-stop shop" for law enforcement. There is less need for government surveillance when "Big Tech" is doing it for them
by amluto | 2025-09-26 02:36:43+00:00
Hmm, couldn’t Apple solve this properly with better technical measures? Right now, we have “Apple swears that its first-party AI system won’t exfiltrate data even though the OS doesn’t stop it from doing so” and “Apple doesn’t trust other vendors to pinky swear not to exfiltrate data”.

But Apple could instead have a sandbox that has no Internet access or other ability to exfiltrate anything, and Apple could make a serious effort to reduce or eliminate side channels that might allow a cooperating malicious app to collect and exfiltrate data from the translation sandbox. Everyone, including users of the first-party system, would win.
by gprok | 2025-09-26 02:37:15+00:00
Just to add a bit more context on the personal motivation behind this project:

For years, I've felt this low-grade friction using macOS. I live on the keyboard, but managing windows always felt like a mouse-first task. Cmd+Tab is great until you have more than couple of apps open, and then it's just this endless, frustrating cycle. Mission Control is a visual puzzle that offers no keyboard-driven way to filter the chaos, forcing you back to the trackpad every time.

Coming from tools like the terminal and code editors where you can jump between anything instantly with a few keystrokes, the OS layer felt slow and inefficient by comparison.

That's really where the ideas for Macscope came from. The "tap vs. hold" mechanic was born from wanting to keep my Cmd+Tab muscle memory but add more power on top. The "Scopes" feature came directly from my frustration of manually rearranging the same 5-6 windows every single time I started working on a specific project.

It started as a tool just for me, but I'm hoping it resonates with others who feel the same way about their workflow. I'm really curious to hear if others share these frustrations and what your own workarounds have been.

Thanks again for all the feedback so far!
by ink_13 | 2025-09-26 02:38:28+00:00
Dismantling USAID has condemned hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) to literal death through a loss of famine relief and life saving medications for diseases like HIV and tuberculosis. It has diminished the soft power of the United States, destroyed the credibility of the country for a generation or more, and didn't even save that much money. It has profited the average American not at all and likely made everyone less safe.

I have no idea what kind of person thinks that was a good idea.
by godelski | 2025-09-26 02:39:22+00:00
Also, remember that time that Cloudflare didn't take down a Nazi website because they didn't want to be arbiters of the internet but then everyone accused Cloudflare of supporting Neo Nazis. That this led to boycotts so they ended up taking down the site and wrote a blog post being like "fine, but this is dumb"

That didn't really have to do with the law. You could segue it was a free market action. Though there were definitely legal threats as well. (There's even people here in this thread making similar claims of Cloudflare supporting specific groups/content)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
by ulrikrasmussen | 2025-09-26 02:39:33+00:00
We also didn't have AI models that politicians believed could detect bad behavior on a mass scale. Implementing Stasi level mass surveillance would be very expensive back then, even if there was full access to all communication. Now the proposal is to make a model try to categorize your messages and flag you.

I believe that politicians believe that AI models can do this well without negative consequences. But I also think they forget that a model with 99.99% specificity applied to ten million messages will still falsely label 1000 as harmful.
by ziml77 | 2025-09-26 02:41:39+00:00
The AI automod can't even tag images correctly. I've seen perfectly innocent drawings get marked as adult or graphic. If it can't figure those out, there's no way it understands enough about what's going on in the images to automatically provide alt-text. At least not well enough that anyone should rely on it when they can just enter proper alt-text themselves.
by tdb7893 | 2025-09-26 02:42:20+00:00
Are those examples at all indicative of what conspiracy theories are anymore, they seem stuck in the last century? The only one of those I've literally ever seen, even online, is aliens (and just UFO videos). On the other hand I personally know a lot of people who consistently buy into medical and political misinformation (and social media pushes it to me at least weekly, no matter how much I try to say I'm not interested).

I know a lot of people who have had to cut off family members because they got too deep into conspiracy theories and it's pretty much always weird political ones.
by ryukoposting | 2025-09-26 02:42:21+00:00
> Personally, I think it really shines at doing the boring maintenance and tech debt work.

It shines at doing the boring maintenance and tech debt work for web. My experiences with it, as a firmware dev, have been the diametric opposite of yours. The only model I've had any luck with as an agent is Sonnet 4 in reasoning mode. At an absolutely glacial pace, it will sometimes write some almost-correct unit tests. This is only valuable because I can have it to do that while I'm in a meeting or reading emails. The only reason I use it at all is because it's coming out of my company's pocket, not mine.
by monocasa | 2025-09-26 02:42:50+00:00
> interracial marriage isn't going anywhere

The legal argument for in Loving v. Virginia was the same argument that was rejected when Roe v. Wade overturned in Dobbs. Thomas actually calls out the other major cases, basically asking for a chance to overturn those as well, specifically Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. He's not going to overturn Loving given that hes in an interracial marriage himself, but whoever replaces him when he finally retires might, and he would have done all of the work getting case law to that point.
by dwattttt | 2025-09-26 02:44:23+00:00
> I would have thought of the Linux kernel first and foremost. It's a truly massive architecture, built by a huge number of developers in a distributed fashion, with many intricate and highly optimized parts, impressive concurrency, scaling from very small machines to the biggest machines on the planet.

This is what the Linux kernel achieved, and when it started C was definitely the right choice for its (primary) implementation language. That doesn't mean C made the job easier, or that if Linux started today it would follow the same trajectory.

I would say Linux succeeds and has good abstractions due to strong discipline, in spite of what C provides it.
by unlikelytomato | 2025-09-26 02:44:52+00:00
I can see how these things are convenient, if it succeeds. I struggle because my personal workflow is to always keep two copies of a repo up at once. One is deep thought vs drone work. I have always just done these kinds of background tasks whenever I am in meetings, compiling etc. I haver not seen much productivity boost due to this. oddly, you would think being able to further offload during that time would help, but reviewing the agent output ends up being far more costly (and makes the context switch significantly harder, for some reason). It's just not proving to be useful consistently, for me.
by drdeca | 2025-09-26 02:45:08+00:00
I agree that the law of the excluded middle is true, but it is actually useful in a number of contexts to have equality types, and witnesses for two given terms being equal.

Of course, in some contexts when one has those types, it may be better to forget any distinction between different ways a witness to an equality can be produced, leaving identity types with at most one element.

Just because the LEM is true doesn’t mean intuitionistic reasoning that avoids the use of the LEM isn’t sometimes useful.
by acdha | 2025-09-26 02:45:29+00:00
Let me clarify my point: I’m not saying every Republican is the same on every one of those issues, I’m saying that the people who disagree are not standing up to the people rejecting the idea that certain groups deserve full rights.

I have a number of family and a few remaining right-wing acquaintances (all of the libertarians I knew are voting straight-ticket for Democrats against MAGA) – not “kinda liked Reagan” but people who’ve had worked published in national media or been invited to dinner at Rupert Murdoch’s estate. Privately, people express concern or distaste for anti-liberty actions - but not in public, never to the point of standing up for a group being targeted. Like the Mexican woman who cleans their house, she’s great even if her husband was originally undocumented, so of course ICE shouldn’t go after them – but they won’t speak up on behalf of anyone they don’t know personally, even just to call for due process.

I left the Republican sphere during the Bush years when it became obvious that for all of the talk about ethics and the rule of law during the Clinton administration, there wasn’t a desire to hold their fellows to that same standard. Sadly, it’s only gotten worse since then – as we can see from the blatant lawlessness this year where even people who might share goals like reducing government spending or reconsidering industrial policy should feel safe saying there’s a better, legal way to do it.
by tom_mc | 2025-09-26 02:45:29+00:00
Nice work, Marco! I'm glad to see emulators being built for DESI. I worked on emulators for DES.

Emulators have existed in astrophysics long before ML became part of the zeitgeist. The earliest cosmology emulator paper that I'm aware of is from 2009 here: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0429. IIRC the method came from fluid dynamics. It just so happens that the interpolators used under the hood (clasically it was GPs but is NNs latelys) are also popular in ML, and so the method gets lumped into the ML pile.

The key difference between emulation and typical ML is that emulation is always in an interpolation setting, whereas typically predictive ML is extrapolating in one way or another (e.g. predicting future events).

Congrats to the authors!
by adamtaylor_13 | 2025-09-26 02:45:34+00:00
I don't believe that the FCC threatening ABC's broadcasting license has anything to do with free speech. There were murmurs about lawsuits for defamation of character all over Twitter. I'm no lawyer, I don't claim to know if that's even possible.

But it's clear that with the emotional tension of the situation, ABC wasn't about to get itself in legal trouble over a second-rate, late-night show host.

So, while the FCC may have been threatening, we have a legal system designed to prevent such over-steps of power, should they occur. It seems pretty clear ABC wanted no part of the storm that was brewing.
by lvturner | 2025-09-26 02:45:49+00:00
It gives me somewhat more Amiga A500 and A500+ vibes... ;)

I see it as a spiritual successor to my much loved childhood Amiga A500 which partially spurred my life long love of computing.

The GPU pins on the back are nice, as is the fact that all IO is cleanly at the back of the device.

That being said, my only real desk is almost entirely consumed by workstation/gaming PC and it's associate monitors that ironically this more convenient form-factor is less convenient for my use cases.

I have a bunch of Pi4s at home they work well as I can power them over PoE, don't spit out too much heat, have a well supported stable OS and are great for running small personal projects and workloads. (Home assistant, DNS, a few other docker containers that power things internal to my network) - sure a NUC would be more powerful, but then I have to find a way to route power in to it, and I'm running out of wall sockets!!
by saguntum | 2025-09-26 02:46:24+00:00
You are assuming that each school shooting is in a separate district in the calculation. That is not necessarily the case, especially with some large school district serving many more students than a small rural district.

But I agree with you that it affects the school and community deeply, even in surrounding communities. I live in Texas, and the whole state was deeply affected after Uvalde. A relative's school got evacuated a few weeks later out of what happened to be a false alarm, with the relative forced to exit the school hands above their head to show they didn't have a gun. They were on the complete other side of the state, probably like a 6 hour drive away.
by jcranmer | 2025-09-26 02:47:31+00:00
Some of the examples:

* Itanium has register windows.

* Itanium has register rotations, so that you can modulo-schedule a loop.

* Itanium has so many registers that a context switch is going to involve spilling several KB of memory.

* The main registers have "Not-a-Thing" values to be able to handle things like speculative loads that would have trapped. Handling this for register spills (or context switches!) appears to be "fun."

* It's a bi-endian architecture.

* The way you pack instructions in the EPIC encoding is... fun.

* The rules of how you can execute instructions mean that you kind of have branch delay slots, but not really.

* There are four floating-point environments because why not.

* Also, Itanium is predicated.

* The hints, oh god the hints. It feels like every time someone came up with an idea for a hint that might be useful to the processor, it was thrown in there. How is a compiler supposed to be able to generate all of these hints?

* It's an architecture that's complicated enough that you need to handwrite assembly to get good performance, but the assembly has enough arcane rules that handwriting assembly is unnecessarily difficult.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-26 02:48:33+00:00
Nobody stops it because it's not worth it, for whatever you want to measure "it" by.

Israel-Palestine used to be really important, because it was a surrogate conflict for Western vs Arab control of the Middle East, and what that is really about is of course oil.

The Arab-Israeli wars of the 1950s/1960s were direct conflicts, but it became apparent that the West wouldn't let Israel lose because Israel represents the latent threat of Western invasion if the Arabs ever really turned off the oil spigot.

So the Palestinians became the thorn for the Middle East to keep Israel at bay, so you get strange bedfellows of Iran and Qatar (Sunni and Shiite) funding them, and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

But a funny thing happened over 75 years of relative stability of borders and global trade: the status quo established itself, oil price and supply was managed and stabilized, security agreements established and backed up (with the Iraq invasion of Kuwait). Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel in fact are effectively allies against Iran and Turkey.

And the US has its own supply of oil with Dakota shale oil. A FUCKTON of it. So strangely, the Arabian peninsula isn't afraid of the US. They are afraid of Iran and Turkey. And who has the best army to counteract Iran and Turkey?

Israel.

The Palestinians don't have a geopolitical use anymore. The Palestinians used to number around 400,000. Now? They number 4,000,000. That is ... not good. The Palestinians have no economy, and rely almost entirely on external aid. So the scope of a humanitarian burden on Arab sponsors has risen from 400,000 people to 4,000,000 people. AGAIN: the humanitarian burden has risen by a factor of 10, while their geopolitical value has DECREASED, almost evaporated.

And that is without the decreasing value of oil from EVs/alt energy and the long term specter of global warming.

That is NOT GOOD for the Palestinians.
by userbinator | 2025-09-26 02:48:38+00:00
I immediately recognised many of the commands, both their names and byte values, as exactly the same as those of the Philips PCF8833 from 2 decades ago, an extremely common LCD controller for the tiny displays on mobile phones of the time.

The displays have 320 x 320px square addressable pixels, but only the circular portion is displayed - that is to say you can draw pixels as though they were there in the lower corner, past the radius of the circle, but nothing gets drawn.

Always thought round LCDs (and rounded corners on displays and now GUI windows) were stupid, and this explains exactly why. What would otherwise be perfectly usable pixels are missing, and the panel itself is still square.
by tootie | 2025-09-26 02:49:12+00:00
A large portion of the electorate do not have an accurate sense of how big the government is or what it spends money on. DOGE is a living example. They believed (and musk boasted) they'd find trillions in wasted money. I think a lot of people just believe this must be true because they've heard stories in the past. In fact, DOGE found zero waste. Programs they cut were programs they just didn't like. And they fell short of their goals by multiple orders of magnitude. And are now rolling back some of those cuts because they were either illegal or hastily done. The bulk of federal spending goes straight back to constituents in the form of entitlements or to the military or to debt service. Discretionary spending is a fraction of total spending and covers hundreds of vital services. IGs already look for fraud which is pretty rare.