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by mechanicum | 2025-09-02 14:04:37+00:00
I think they mixed up their sources. The jeep/ox comparison appears to be from the 1944 US Navy report: https://archive.org/details/APracticalExperimentInSimplified...

(Typewriting Behavior, for the curious: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74878/page/n11...)
by nathan_douglas | 2025-09-02 14:05:28+00:00
As I creak and grunt into my mid-forties, I find a major concern of mine is my mind growing stale and stiff like an old slice of bread, and a good random deep dive into cheesemaking or the different uses of tofu in traditional Chinese cooking might help stave that off. Or it might just make me boring in a different way, IDK.
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-02 14:05:35+00:00
I am a strict atheist, but we cannot know. I faithfully believe that, finding no proof whatsoever, and the existence of a metaphysical/spiritual world coexisting with ours incredibly unlikely without some evidence, there is no god.

But, just like my faith in the supremacy of the speed of light, that's just my opinion, man... based on the combined knowledge of the human race and thousands or millions of experiments.
by onionisafruit | 2025-09-02 14:05:55+00:00
It’s a bit of a step down from cursor and vscode in terms of AI integration, but I still prefer my jetbrains ides (goland and rubymine). GitHub broke most aspects of their extension for jetbrains last week and didn’t seem to notice. That wouldn’t have happened for vscode (they might break it but they’ll also be in a hurry to fix it). I haven’t tried jetbrains own AI though. It might be fantastic for all I know.
by tyteen4a03 | 2025-09-02 14:06:20+00:00
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by HankStallone | 2025-09-02 14:06:43+00:00
I went with buying and colocation because I found I sleep better this way than when I used to rent servers in a distant datacenter and have to count on techs I'd never met working on hardware I'd never seen if anything went wrong. In my case, I live near the datacenter, so I can be hands-on fairly quickly if something goes wrong that I can't handle remotely.

And I can do whatever I want with the hardware. When I bought my servers, they came with disk controllers with non-optional RAID, as almost all of them do. I wanted to run RAIDz2 in FreeBSD/ZFS, so I swapped in non-RAID controllers. They were just a few bucks, but having that ability meant I could choose from a wider range of servers.
by gpm | 2025-09-02 14:06:51+00:00
My understanding of the theory that they're advocating is that the AGPL requires that when you modify AGPL software you modify it to provide an offer of its source.

And that you can comply with that completely, run the software, and then have a proxy in front that strips that offer without violating the letter of the license.

And if that theory works I think "substantial features" of the code could be directly (but for the indirection of that proxy) exposed.
by reactordev | 2025-09-02 14:06:59+00:00
So you’re saying if I buy a computer, I don’t own that computer?

This is what it is. I own this device in my pocket. I should be able to install, tinker, take apart, said device - granted voiding its warranty - without a company bricking the device intentionally or removing software from the device simply because I chose a p2p network over a centralized one.

Stop defending this. Once you sell something, it’s sold. It’s no longer yours. You may have made it, you may support it, but it’s no longer yours.
by captaincrisp | 2025-09-02 14:07:04+00:00
100%. I think the article makes space for this, too. In 3, 4, and 5 the author describes the experience of bouncing off of something despite trying to like it as well as _thinking_ you like something despite not _really_ liking it. Both types of experiences resonated with me.

I think the key here is that you did try, you gave cooking and sports an honest chance, and it turns out that you're not into them. It doesn't feel like many people would put the effort in to really figure out if they _would_ like something that's initially uncomfortable or difficult. I think that's what the article is responding to - I read the overall thesis as "you might actually end up liking something that you don't like initially" rather than "you will like anything given enough effort".
by a2tech | 2025-09-02 14:07:08+00:00
The non-profit works in Africa and is all about using local resources when at all possible. They knew some people that worked with a group out of Nairobi that talked a good game and they liked the people they met and the non-profit folks are NOT technical, they jumped on it. It's a classic story really--I've been on this side of the table many times before with outsourced work.

If they had brought me in before hand I could have saved them a lot of work by asking the hard questions and reigning in the tech overspend.
by rorads | 2025-09-02 14:07:09+00:00
Google basically invented modern AI (the 'T' in ChatGPT stands for Transformer), then took a very broad view of how to apply broadly neural AI - AlphaGo, AlphaGenome being the kind of non-LLM stuff they've done).

A better way to look at it is that the absolute number 1 priority for google since they first created a money spiggot throguh monetising high-intent search and got the monopoly on it (outside of Amazon) has been to hold on to that. Even YT (the second biggest search engine on the internet other than google itself) is high intent search leading to advertising sales conversion.

So yes, google has adopted and killed lots of products, but for its big bets (web 2.0 / android / chrome) it's basically done everything it can to ensure it keeps it's insanely high revenue and margin search business going.

What it has to show for it is basically being the only company to have transitioned as dominent across technological eras (desktop -> web2.0 -> mobile -> (maybe llm).

As good as OpenAI is as a standalone, and as good as Claude / Claude Code is for developers, google has over 70% mobile market share with android, nearly 70% browser market share with chrome - this is a huge moat when it comes to integration.

You can also be very bullish about other possible trends. For AI - they are the only big provider which has a persistent hold on user data for training. Yes, OpenAI and Grok have a lot of their own data, but google has ALL gmail, high intent search queries, youtube videos and captions, etc.

And for AR/VR, android is a massive sleeping giant - no one will want to move wholesale into a Meta OS experience, and Apple are increasingly looking like they'll need to rely on google for high performance AI stuff.

All of this protects google's search business a lot.

Don't get me wrong, on the small stuff google is happy to let their people use 10% time to come up with a cool app which they'll kill after a couple of years, but for their big bets, every single time they've gone after something they have a lot to show for it where it counts to them.
by zarzavat | 2025-09-02 14:07:10+00:00
Don't you still have imperative constructs if you use Svelte? It's not like any web framework can remove the need to render things conditionally.

If you have `{#if cond}`, that's imperative programming, not declarative, it's just imperative programming using a different syntax.

Using a different syntax for a conditional/loop depending on the type of the data is odd when you think about it. Why should vnodes use one syntax and every other data type use another syntax?

I will grant that the C ?: ternary operator syntax is ugly. If C had had expression based if/else like Rust then maybe people wouldn't mind JSX so much.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-02 14:07:25+00:00
No, I'm not trolling, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, try this C++:

https://godbolt.org/z/zM3oxjrfn

and contrast this Rust:

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/1rMYcqY65

In your unique_ptr<T> example what you'd hidden (from me? Or perhaps from yourself) was that we're not destroying the unique_ptr, we're just destroying the Foo, and since the unique_ptr is null the destructor for that will be silent when the scope ends.
by coldpie | 2025-09-02 14:07:39+00:00
> constant anger due to the stupidity of other people (when reading comments on news articles as an example)

Holy cow dude, cut this one right the fuck out. Absolutely eliminate that portion of your day. Cold turkey straight to zero. Right now. Reading Internet comments that make you angry is like choosing to stick your face in the exhaust of a diesel truck. There's no reason to do it. Just don't.
by ndriscoll | 2025-09-02 14:07:41+00:00
You still don't need a network connection. Put a drive or SD card with all of your music in the player itself. You could put several hundred CDs worth of music in FLAC on a device for like $20, or up to like 4,000 CDs with a 2TB card (or 16,000 with an 8 TB drive), so probably more than anyone could reasonably own (or manage for a physical collection). Pennies of amortized storage cost per album even if you have multiple devices. It's nothing next to the cost of legally acquiring the music.
by Groxx | 2025-09-02 14:07:51+00:00
There are some (the article's author builds a pretty sophisticated one: https://github.com/destel/rill ), but the ecosystem spent a very long time vilifying abstraction and generics and we're going to be paying that price for another decade at least. Possibly forever.

Generics in particular are rather important here because without them, you are forced to build this kind of thing from scratch every time to retain type safety and performance, or give up and use reflection (more complicated, less safe, requires careful reading to figure out how to use because everything is an `interface{}`). This works, and Go's reflection is quite fast, but it's not a good experience for authors or users, so they're rather strongly incentivized to not build it / just do it by hand lol.

Now that we have a somewhat crippled version of generics, much of this can be solved in an ideal way: https://pkg.go.dev/slices works for everything and is fast, safe, easy to use, and reasonably easy to build. But there's a decade of inertia (with both existing code and community rejection of the concept) to turn around.
by intervolz | 2025-09-02 14:08:31+00:00
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by layer8 | 2025-09-02 14:08:39+00:00
Counterpoint, understanding alone isn't enough either if you don't have an affinity.

There's a few classical and jazz pieces that I like, but that doesn’t mean that I like classical music and/or jazz, even though I do get why other people do.

Same for your church architecture example. I can appreciate it on an intellectual level, but in the end I still find it mostly boring and not my kind of aesthetics.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-09-02 14:08:47+00:00
> Montreal has a similar system, while Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Houston have systems that resemble the Path in some respects. A few European cities also make considerable use of pedestrian tunnels, including Helsinki, Stockholm and Munich.

Japan's northernmost major city, Sapporo, has a very extensive one -- of those I've seen, it's the one that's most comparable to Toronto's.

The other Japanese tunnel/undercity complexes are mostly subterranean malls around subway stations. (This also applies to all of the ones in Hong Kong.) But Sapporo's is seriously huge.

I think the common denominator is that people would rather walk in a heated underground space when it gets cold.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-09-02 14:08:50+00:00
I believe there has been 0 deportations of people who are citizens or held valid visas or green cards. In cases where the government has made mistakes or failed to follow the law or the constitution, it has followed the court instructions for correcting it — as far as I know, that was 1 case.

The founders of the US did not intend for the US Constitution to be a suicide pact for the US. Thomas Paine and his books is not mentioned one single time in the US Constitution, and he was excluded from the constitutional convention.

Instead of making allegations to systemic infringement of constitutional rights, be specific, cite evidence, give statistics. One ruling against a government is not sufficient evidence for these claims.
by j4hdufd8 | 2025-09-02 14:09:06+00:00
> ... only ever results in people making fun of you.

Why would I care about people making fun of me or IRC/Reddit etiquette or whatever? What kind of an argument is that? I thought on HN we seek the truth about the topic, not social approval right? Maybe you are projecting your own insecurities about discussing things online?

I firmly believe I added helpful indications that the arguments could be fallacious. It is up to the readers of the thread to keep my indications in consideration or not. I would advise you to focus on _other_ arguments, instead of the potentially fallacious and baseless argument.

I really don't understand the issues with using. You're all okay with using Cursor and Lovable to aid and speed up coding tasks right? Seems like such a weird double standard to me. More interestingly it seems to come from an emotional place, not a place of logic.
by seanhunter | 2025-09-02 14:09:23+00:00
> All in all, once an organization gets big enough, power does what power wants,

There is an interesting hypothesis for this in the book "The Evolution of Civilizations" by Carroll Quigley[1]. Basically his idea in the book is that as organizations (or civilizations) get beyond a certain critical mass, people start to lose connection with the collective goals that originally united them and start to coalesce around internal goals related to their smaller unit. So this in a company is when you go from everyone devoting all their efforts to the shared mission and instead working on team goals or (worse) internal politics that may or may not be aligned with the bigger goal.

It's a very interesting book. He's a controversial figure because some of his (other) writings are popular among conspiracy theorists. I haven't read that stuff, but this certainly made sense to me at the time that I read it.

[1] https://ia801601.us.archive.org/4/items/CarrollQuigley-TheEv...
by techpineapple | 2025-09-02 14:09:54+00:00
Something’s I’ve noticed are better in a context; or similarly, I choose not to like them because time / my life has gone a different way.

Like I like going to state fairs, and I like country music in that context, even if I wouldn’t choose to put it on the radio at home. I don’t watch snarky reality tv like the real housewives, but I might enjoy it surrounded by my snarky gay friends or put another way - if people I like like like something I can appreciate it with them.

Cross cultural experiences when traveling fit into this category too. Lots of things I wouldn’t sort of pursue in my own but leave fond memories with strong emotional resonance in retrospect.
by nemomarx | 2025-09-02 14:10:45+00:00
for me I'm interested in the preview so I know where the link goes in a general sense, not what it looks like. i would use it for shortened or redirected links to see where a random anchor is pointing before I actually open it?

It already seems to basically grab the text from reader mode. What might be more useful is a way to just open a link directly in that to avoid paywalls or annoying uis though
by inkyoto | 2025-09-02 14:10:52+00:00
That is not how a VMM subsystem works, irrespective of the operating system, be it Linux, or Windows, or a BSD, or z/OS. The list goes on.

Access to a page that is not resident in memory results in a trap (an interrupt), which is handled by the MMU – the CPU has no ability to do it by itself. Which is the whole purpose of the MMU and was a major innovation of BSD 4 (a complete VMM overhaul).
by vjerancrnjak | 2025-09-02 14:10:56+00:00
I recently remembered a question I had a decade ago.

Why 1 nostril is always clogged up when breathing and it seems to switch now and then?

It's magnificent that I can finally get an answer for that and would never imagine it is completely natural. Never learned about it at school.

No way I can find this via search engine as it just gives me SEO garbage or anecdotal silliness.

I've been going back and getting answers to many questions I previously couldn't.
by alpaca128 | 2025-09-02 14:11:22+00:00
That key makes up about 15% in English text, and it could be covered by 10% of fingers but instead it's 20%. Meanwhile every use of shift, return, backspace, ctrl etc is done with the weakest fingers and often include some hand stretching to reach those keys. Altough I haven't looked at actual keypress stats and how those are distributed across fingers. Might be interesting to look into.

On my keyboard I cover six keys with my two thumbs. It eliminates almost all hand movement and guess what, I feel a difference in my pinky fingers but not in the thumbs. I'm not saying every keyboard should be like this, but I think on a large scale you can probably improve wirst and hand health in the population by making a few small tweaks in how keys are arranged.
by matfile | 2025-09-02 14:11:54+00:00
Due to the specific ISP environment in China (massive NAT abuse, very limited public IP access, ISP actively dropping anything that does not look like HTTPS to ensure QoS), any P2P based protocol in China is generally unusuable. They are not blocked per se, but they are mostly non-existent.

Yes, I know BitTorrent network in China is huge thanks to the weak DMCA law enforcement towards individuals, but having no practical legal consideration does not mean it's enjoyable to use.
by andrewl | 2025-09-02 14:12:13+00:00
And if I were making prodigious amounts of money I'd be happy to go back and pay JetBrains the $274.8 a year that RubyMine costs per person for a company license. Aside being the decent thing to do, I'd like to contribute to JetBrains so they continue updating a tool that helped me build my company.
by s1mon | 2025-09-02 14:12:18+00:00
This.

Also every encyclopedia is full of things that are wrong. People seem to be forgetting this basic issue. Any given authoritative, well respected source will contain mistakes, errors of omission, and downright lies. Part of a proper education used to be that when writing things, you need to site your sources, and the sources can't just be an encyclopedia. I use LLMs a lot, but if anything is really important, I'm going to fact check it and look for other sources.
by lizknope | 2025-09-02 14:12:25+00:00
I started this part of the thread and mentioned Trainium but the person you replied to gave a link. Follow that and you can see Amazon's chips that they designed.

Amazon wants people to move away from Nvidia GPUs and to their own custom chips.

https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/inferentia/

https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-02 14:13:01+00:00
If you are defining "pivot" as "abandon all other lines of business", then no, none of the BigTechs have ever pivoted.

By more reasonable standards of "pivot", the big investment into Google Plus/Wave in the social media era seems to qualify. As does the billions spent building out Stadia's cloud gaming. Not to mention the billions invested in their abandoned VR efforts, and the ongoing investment into XR...
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-02 14:13:10+00:00
> Who in his sane mind uses CRLF even under windows? All my source codes are in UNIX format (aka LF only) and I use it consistent under Windows, Cygwin and UNIX.. Why make your life harder?

Why would you use LF if the focus of the application that you develop is Windows? You make the life harder for these users. :-)

Seriously: your argument typically comes from developers who consider GNU/Linux as a first-class citizen as a development or deployment platform, and Windows only as a second-class citizen (assuming that a Windows port actually exists).

I can accept an argument like "I, as a developer, don't care about Windows and its users, so all my source code is in UNIX format." This is a conscious, though quite political decision.

But an argument like "not using LF makes lifes harder" without a relativization on which premises this claim is build (such as "GNU/Linux and macOS users are much more important for as, and if there exist any users or developers who use Windows, we consider them to be undesired, because they make everybody's lifes harder") is intellectual ignorance.
by mbork_pl | 2025-09-02 14:13:13+00:00
Thanks, that's an interesting option! It requires trust in the bank (of course), but I'm not that paranoid. However, I have a feeling that it's a bit expensive - it can be cheap (say, ~$10 per month, which is not as cheap in my country as it is in the US, but still), but frankly, I'd prefer a homebrew solution.
by sp1982 | 2025-09-02 14:13:32+00:00
I did a similar experiment and found that GPT5 hallucinates upto 20% in domains like cricket stats where there is too much info to memorize. However interestingly the mini version refuses to answer most of the time which is a better approach imho. https://kaamvaam.com/machine-learning-ai/llm-eval-hallucinat...
Show HN: God Mode for Desktop Apps – Creator Browser
by tangramdev | 2025-09-02 14:13:44+00:00
The Creator Browser Wakes “God Mode” for your Desktop Application app.exe.

After installing Creator, you get a tiny 180KB application launcher proxy.exe. If your desktop app is app.exe, simply copy proxy.exe into the same folder as app.exe and rename it appProxy.exe.

Launch app.exe for normal mode; launch appProxy.exe to enter God Mode. proxy.exe launches app.exe as the Creator Browser’s Browser Process, then exits immediately, playing no further role. In God Mode, your application becomes an application content ecosystem interpreter: It can transform web pages, XML, or LLM content descriptions into dynamic interfaces. Native windows (such as Chromium browser windows, WinForm, MFC CView, etc.) are treated as tokens, dynamically composing the UI like a webpage.

No changes to the original code or recompilation are needed—your app instantly becomes a super composite UI generator.
by tananan | 2025-09-02 14:14:12+00:00
I like this post.

What I find a practical, related advice is “If you want to get good at something, you have to make yourself glad that you’re doing it.”

This involves reminding yourself why it is that you want to get better at it, perceiving the process of learning as an interesting challenge, and in general generating interest.

There is a lot of creativity in how you actually do this. It is a skill in itself, and a very useful one, especially for skills where you find yourself lacking patience and motivation.
by coredog64 | 2025-09-02 14:14:36+00:00
I can make a case: Building their own models like Nova and Titan allow them to build up expertise in how to solve hyperscaler problems. Think of it like Aurora, where they have a generally solved problem (RDBMS) but it needs to be modified to work with the existing low-level primitives. Yes, it can be done in the open, but if I'm AWS, I probably want to jealously guard anything that could be a key differentiator.