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by cseleborg | 2025-10-11 17:55:13+00:00
> The easiest way to get MyGNUHealth is by installing the package from your favorite operating system / distribution. Many operating system distributions already ship MyGNUHealth.

I was actually curious to try this out on my phone, since they claim to support mobile devices.

If running a command-line package manager is the easiest way to install this on Android, I don't want to know what harder ways exist.

I find this is quite typical for open source projects. The community still hasn't really, truly adopted mobile. I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores? But if it's possible for servers, why is this so rare to have open source projects as app store vendors?
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-11 17:55:21+00:00
After raytracing, the next obvious massive improvement would be path tracing.

And while consoles usually lag behind the latest available graphics, I'd expect raytracing and even path tracing to become available to console graphics eventually.

One advantage of consoles is that they're a fixed hardware target, so games can test on the exact hardware and know exactly what performance they'll get, and whether they consider that performance an acceptable experience.
by Ccecil | 2025-10-11 17:55:42+00:00
The album for "Party Music" from Boots Riley's band "The Coup" was scheduled to be released in September and they had to delay it due to the cover having a picture of the WTC exploding [1]

Tom Clancy's book "Debt of Honor" is very similar in a spooky way as well. Including the hesitation to shoot down commercial airliners being used as weapons. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Music [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_of_Honor
by eimrine | 2025-10-11 17:56:30+00:00
vi (the name) is ergonomical because of shortness (just two letters).

vi (the editor) is ergonomical because I use to touchtype and vi lets me to never put the hands out of the keyboard (typically its 3 rows but vi made me to learn the 4th row with digits).

vi (the system of text moving commands) is ergonomical because it has all what might be needed right from default.

I recommend you to start exploring vi from the following 4 commands to understand at least what kind of operations can be possible - w, b, e, ge. I promise there are some ergonomics in having all the 4 ways of one word iterating problem. After understanding what did I mean you are free to see some logic in _any_ vim command. (hint - pairness, there are almost no command without at least one complement pair).

Also there is a thing called "UNIX way" (all sayings about how one thing has to do only one task) and damn, vi clones are one of the most ergonomic programs on my PC. After mastering touchtyping using keyboard gives me pleasure, after mastering vi motions doing text editing gives me pleasure as well. Achievability of this kind of pleasure is what I call ergonomics.

GUI editors with modal windows and stealing-focus popups have too much power to destroy my pleasure from the dialogue with the keyboard.
by sashank_1509 | 2025-10-11 17:57:27+00:00
I’m young, but I’m at the age where I’ve seen many grandparents pass away and I must say, I support assisted suicide. The helplessness of the last stretch of your life, something that can last a couple of years, where you often need to help to even stand, doesn’t seem like a period of time worth living. Further modern medicines, in my opinion insane focus on extending life of the very old, compounds this situation to something much worse. I know of a relative who had 5 surgeries, 2 ICU admits in his final year, he was 84. First they were convinced his kidney was failing, then his liver, then they thought cancer and on an on that I couldn’t help but suspect whether this was a money grabbing scheme.

I do not know if this was ever widely practiced, but I think the ancient Indian ritual of going to the forest and starving to death in your last days is basically fine. It gives a dignified, sacred end to a life, while the modern medical sciences constant battle against the inevitable ends up distorting and deforming the last days of your life and forces you to leave without dignity clinging to the last vestiges of your humanity that’s left.
by ramraj07 | 2025-10-11 17:57:29+00:00
For some reason youre assuming Im not an engineer which is funny and revealing.

I am an engineer and my vibe coded prototype is now in production, one of the best applications of its type in the industry, and doing really well. So well, I have a pretty large team working on it now. This project was and still is 95% written by AI. No complaints, never going back. That's my experience.

Clearly the eng community is splitting into two categories, people who think this is all never going to work and people who think otherwise. Time will tell who's right.

To anyone else reading and thinking closer to the second side, we're hiring :)
by grafmax | 2025-10-11 17:57:29+00:00
> It also seems likely that if the 30-Year Fixed went away, only the truly wealthy would be able to buy homes … to rent to the rest of us of course.

It’s kind of already been happening. Rising LTVs. A rising percentage of renters. All this means the wealthy own a larger share of housing. Rent and mortgage payments are two ways for those with substantial assets to parasitize cashflows from those without. The article wants to blame the pass through effect of subsidies (the way that each subsidized dollar partially cancels itself out by boosting price some amount between $0.01 and $1.00) but it ignores the elephant in the room of wealth inequality - the structural cause of housing scarcity.
How would you validate a browser highlighter that finds hidden matches?
by artemfi | 2025-10-11 17:57:43+00:00
I am finishing building Highlighter Extension to handle cases Cmd‑F misses: hidden/truncated content and matches inside iframes. - Technically it uses CSS Custom Highlights, ancestor reveal + glow, and cross‑frame assist; tested on Jira/Confluence/Metabase. - I’m looking for advice on validation: which sites/tools would you use to pressure‑test this? What benchmarks matter most (latency, CPU, false positives)? - Happy to share internals or create repros based on suggestions.

P.S. Real smart folks would probably ask way earlier, than when I am already finishing certainly.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-10-11 17:57:59+00:00
There sure is a lot of visionary(tm) thinking out there right now about the future of gaming, But what strikes me is how few of those visionaries(tm) have ever actually developed and taken a game to market.

Not entirely unlike how many AI academics who step functioned their compensation a decade ago by pivoting to the tech industry had no experience bringing an AI product to market, but they certainly felt free pontificate on how things are done.

I eagerly await the shakeout due from the weakly efficient market as the future of gaming ends up looking like nothing anyone imagineered.
by dismalaf | 2025-10-11 17:58:18+00:00
> Tip: I very often use AI for inspiration. In this case, I ended up keeping a lot (not all) of the UI code it made, but I will very often prompt an agent, throw away everything it did, and redo it myself (manually!). I find the "zero to one" stage of creation very difficult and time consuming and AI is excellent at being my muse.

This is pretty much how I use AI. I don't have it in my editor, I always use it in a browser window, but I bounce ideas off it, use it like a better search engine and even if I don't use the exact code it produces I do feel there's some value.
by jancsika | 2025-10-11 17:58:45+00:00
> Who do I sue, and who has insurance, if something goes wrong?

You sue the Red Hat-like support company with whom you ostensibly signed a contract.

If your question is who does the Red Hat-like support company sue if they want accountability for the code they are leveraging, I guess I don't understand the question or its relevance. E.g., with regard to proprietary code, who does Microsoft microsoft when Microsoft microsofts Microsoft? (Fun to write, but I don't think that sentence really makes sense.)
by onedognight | 2025-10-11 17:59:20+00:00
Here’s my solution: clicking four boxes that form the corners of a rectangle will flip them leaving the rest of the board unchanged. Using this move you can find sets of rectangle corners with more white than red and just click them. This will converge to a solution. If you can find a symmetric board where all rectangle corners have equal red and white then this method would fail. I haven’t found one yet.

EDIT: I found some positions where this technique cannot be directly applied.
by dunham | 2025-10-11 17:59:48+00:00
In general, yes, although it's nice to have more than one javascript implementation. And one advantage of JSC is that it implements tail call optimization (per the ES6 spec).

I wrote my own language that targeted javascript. When I made my language self-hosting, I initially used `bun` (based on JSC), so I wouldn't have to implement a tail call transformation myself. It was expedient.

My goal was to run in a browser, so I did eventually add that transformation and found that my compiler was 40% faster running in node (based on v8).
by pixl97 | 2025-10-11 17:59:49+00:00
Dropping or rising. At the borders of the sea and land plates the sea plates are slipping slowly below the continental crust. Pieces of the land crust get caught and dragged down. Over long periods of time you'll see forested land get dragged down below sea level and flooded to die.

The a rupture will occur, and in the biggest earthquakes you can get a fault that can rise 20 meters almost instantly causing trillions of tons of ocean to suddenly have to go somewhere. After the quake and tsunami you'll see the flooded forests can be many meters above land were new forest will grow and slowly start sinking again.
by abraae | 2025-10-11 18:00:57+00:00
My mum died earlier this year. In hospital, she was approved for assisted dying. There is a mandatory waiting period as part of the process.

Many/most of the nursing staff are Filipino and strongly Roman Catholic.

As she lay dying and unable to speak, one of the nurses undertook to convert her at this last minute to their religion. At night, alone, after all visitors had left, she would come into mum's room and press mum, a very committed atheist, to pray for her salvation.

It's hard to describe how vulnerable someone is who is stuck in their bed and dependant on the nursing team for everything, even sips of water.

I will say this was not representative of her care, but it opened my eyes to the lengths religious believers will go to to push their views on others.
by laidoffamazon | 2025-10-11 18:01:40+00:00
> because you can't hang with the IMO kids

Maybe that's true. I'm sympathetic to the fact that these people aren't even interesting enough to be around. But then I see articles like this [0] sympathizing (?) with elite students that don't end up going into public service while still canonizing them and then I fall back into depression

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/elite-ivy-leagu...
by dm319 | 2025-10-11 18:01:45+00:00
> Laboratory Management (Occhiolino)

Laboratory Management Systems, or LMS, is laboratory software which handles laboratory orders, retrieving results from the laboratory equipment and sending back the results to the electronic patient record (EPR). It does a lot more than that of course, but basically it's a big database handling thousands of blood tests, biopsies, tissue samples, as well as worklists for staff, in order to get diagnostics results back to the clinicians.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-10-11 18:02:44+00:00
>It is easy to buy local. Support your community. Go to the local store. Don’t go back to the big corporations who have sold out America.

Is it easy? How many people live walking distance from a record store? Or know of one within 10 or even 30 minutes drive? One that isn't a big corporation (i.e. Walmart, Target, Best Buy*, B&N). Who still owns a CD player?

I do, but not in my car. The 'infotainment' is sophisticated enough to call in an airstrike, but can't play CDs. Okay, so I've got the CD in hand, can't play it yet, just need to rip it and transfer to USB. Grab the MacBook, and... no optical drive.

It's not as easy as the old man purports. I'm reminded of the scene in Austin Powers where he puts a CD on the turntable.

*Best Buy stopped selling DVDs and Blu-Rays, not sure about music.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-11 18:05:09+00:00
>the best picture quality I’ve ever seen was over 20 years ago using simple digital rabbit ears.

The biggest jump in quality was when everything was still analog over the air, but getting ready for the digital transition.

Then digital over the air bumped it up a notch.

You could really see this happen on a big CRT monitor with the "All-in-Wonder" television receiver PCI graphics adapter card.

You plugged in your outdoor antenna or indoor rabbit ears to the back of the PC, then tuned in the channels using software.

These were made by ATI before being acquired by AMD, the TV tuner was in a faraday cage right on the same PCB as the early GPU.

The raw analog signal was upscaled to your adapter's resolution setting before going to the CRT so you had pseudo better resolution than a good TV like a Trinitron. You really could see more details and the CRT was smooth as butter.

As the TV broadcaster's entire equipment chain was replaced, like camera lenses, digital sensors and signal processing they eventually had everything in place and working. You could notice these incremental upgrades until a complete digital chain was established as designed. It was really jaw-dropping. This was well in advance of the deadline for digital deployment, so the signal over-the-air was still coming in analog the same old way.

Eventually the broadcast signal switched to digital and the analog lights went out, plus the All-in-Wonder was not ideal with a cheap converter like analog TV's could get by with.

But it was still better than most digital TVs for a few years, then it took years more before you could see the ball in live sports as well as on a CRT anyway.

Now that's about all you've got for full digital resolution, live broadcasts from your local stations, especially live sports from a strong interference-free station over an antenna. You can switch between the antenna and cable and tell the difference when they're both not overly compressed.

The only thing was, digital engineers "forgot" that TV was based on radio (who knew?) so for the vast majority of "listeners" on the fringe reception areas who could get clear audio but usually not a clear picture if any, too bad for you. You're gonna need a bigger antenna, good enough to have gotten you a clear picture during the analog days. Otherwise your "clean" digital audio may silently appear on the screen as video, "hidden" within the sparse blocks of scattered random digital noise. When anything does appear at all.
by ziml77 | 2025-10-11 18:05:14+00:00
Not to mention that the codec barely tells you anything useful on its own. There are many parameters that affect the quality and file size. And heck it's not even guaranteed that you will be able to watch a video just given its codec. Like an old computer might be able to decode H.264 but only be able to do it in real-time at 480p due to processing requirements for going higher than that.
by zkmon | 2025-10-11 18:05:49+00:00
Nice to see support for Open source. I have seen selling of healthcare data, including medicare and medicaid data to private companies which sliced and diced it and sold to academic and drug research institutions via data marts. ETL jobs would run for months. The data included prescriptions, scans, visits, employee plans etc, for about ~200 millions of American patients. It is anonymized data, but still I always wondered why this was allowed.
by hackthemack | 2025-10-11 18:06:44+00:00
QuickJS is amazing. You can put in javascript code, run it through QuickJS and make little binary utilities to run on their own.

Someone took QuickJS and put it in wasm so you can run QuickJS in the browser or in node.

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten

Fabrice Bellard is on another planet when it comes to programming. He also wrote FFmpeg and QEMU (among other things).
by brucepro | 2025-10-11 18:06:48+00:00
The version history with diffs helps with that. When you store/update memories, the system tracks changes over time. You can query the timeline to see "what solutions did I already try for X problem?" The Memory decay approach (tracking access patterns + importance decay) also surfaces this - if you keep accessing the same memory about a bug that never gets resolved, that's a signal. Not automatic loop detection yet, but the infrastructure is there. Could build a simple heuristic: if similar memory content gets created/updated N times within short timeframe, flag it as potential loop. The poisoning concern is real. Our design mitigates it somewhat - agents explicitly choose what to store (tool-based, not automatic injection), and you can prune/audit memories.
by winterismute | 2025-10-11 18:10:00+00:00
There is no real difference between "Ray Tracing" and "Path Tracing", or better, the former is just the operation of intersecting a ray with a scene (and not a rendering technique), the latter is a way to solve the integral to approximate the rendering equation (hence, it could be considered a rendering technique). Sure, you can go back to the terminology used by Kajiya in his earlier works etc etc, but it was only a "academic terminology game" which is worthless today. Today, the former is accelerated by HW since around a decade (I am cunting the PowerVR wizard). The latter is how most of non-realtime rendering renders frames.

You can not have "Path Tracing" in games, not according to what it is. And it also probably does not make sense, because the goal of real-time rendering is not to render the perfect frame at any time, but it is to produce the best reactive, coherent sequence of frames possible in response to simulation and players inputs. This being said, HW ray tracing is still somehow game changing because it shapes a SIMT HW to make it good at inherently divergent computation (eg. traversing a graph of nodes representing a scene): following this direction, many more things will be unlocked in real-time simulation and rendering. But not 6k samples unidirectionally path-traced per pixel in a game.
by halfcat | 2025-10-11 18:11:09+00:00
Not a scam. It just feels the same as a scam feels.

One time I had a couch delivered. Two guys show up to set it up. One guy says he needs a tool from the truck and walks off, and the other guy starts talking to our dog, and tells us how he used to train pit bulls, and starts doing some weird hand motions and yelling commands to our dog like he’s casting a spell or something.

I think the guy was probably just not all there mentally, like too much former drug use or something. But it was one of those surreal moments where red flags were going off in my head. I went to find the other guy just to make sure he wasn’t robbing us out the back. Because that’s what it felt like: misdirection, social engineering, a performance.

In hindsight, I don’t think there was anything suspicious going on. But the alarm bells in my head were still completely real.

When we see this “everything is an plugin” but “plugin details are internal-only” and “plugin detail is coming” and “1.0 is released” and “but we will have 40 more release candidates before 1.0 final” and “you could support us with pro” and “you dont need pro” and “we don’t recommend pro” and “you can build anything in pro yourself anyway” and “you shouldn’t use this pro feature anyway and should use CSS instead”, and then when people ask a question about any of this inconsistency, we get juvenile responses like “don’t use it then”, “don’t buy it then”, “fork it then”, “my time isn’t free”, and so on. Even though there is no scam, it’s surreal. Like, “is this really happening?” It sets off the same red flags in people’s minds, even when there is no scam.

Datastar seems very cool as a tool, and the developers seem very technically competent. The problems they face don’t seem to be technical problems.
by dotinvoke | 2025-10-11 18:11:51+00:00
My experience with AI tools is the opposite. The biggest energy thieves for me are configuration issues, library quirks, or trivial mistakes that are hard to spot. With AI I can often just bulldoze past those things and spend more time on tangible results.

When using it for code or architecture or design, I’m always watching for signs that it is going off the rails. Then I usually write code myself for a while, to keep the structure and key details of whatever I’m doing correct.
Tell HN: After the US gov shutdown, the Census data website was broken
by NewJazz | 2025-10-11 18:12:07+00:00
The US Census data explorer (https://data.census.gov) is currently broken. A redirect with a warning message that "the website will not be updated due to the shutdown" was put in place at some point. Existing assets such as javascript assets are being redirected to this HTML page, thus breaking the entire website.

This tool is essential for researchers to access US population statistics. The modification in connection with the US government shutdown seems to have done more harm than any good it could have caused.
by musicale | 2025-10-11 18:12:09+00:00
Nintendo is getting it right (maybe): focus on first-party exclusive games and, uh, a pile of indies and ports from the PS3 and PS4 eras.

Come to think of it, Sony is also stuck in the PS4 era since PS5 pro is basically a PS4 pro that plays most of the same games but at 4K/60. (Though it does add a fast SSD and nice haptics on the DualSense controller.) But it's really about the games, and we haven't seen a lot of system seller exclusives on the PS5 that aren't on PS4, PC, or other consoles. (Though I'm partial to Astro-bot and also enjoyed timed exclusives like FF16 and FF7 Rebirth.)

PS5 and Switch 2 are still great gaming consoles - PS5 is cheaper than many GPU cards, while Switch 2 competes favorably with Steam Deck as a handheld and hybrid game system.
by unleaded | 2025-10-11 18:12:18+00:00
There was a guy on reddit a few years ago who started a dental practice with entirely open-source software and his own EHR system. Really interesting stuff, don't think anyone's posted about it here. Can't view his reddit history but he must still be using it, last commit 1 week ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/p5phju/progress_repo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/x2mls1/update_starti...
by hansmayer | 2025-10-11 18:12:23+00:00
Hey no need to prove yourself to a stranger on the Internet. I'll take your word for it, including your "pretty large team working on it", which for some reason is necessary, although you have "vibe coded 95%" of your application. So if you were to be taken by your word, the LLMs are fantastic and you can do 95% production-ready on your own, just using the LLMs, but for some reason, you'll still need a "pretty large team" to work on it afterwards. Yeah, that sounds very consistent with your main line. Also feel free to share your company and product name, so we can avoid it - thanks.
by kristopherleads | 2025-10-11 18:12:27+00:00
I really dislike the focus on graphics here, but I think a lot of people are missing big chunk of the article that's focused on efficiency.

If we can get high texture + throughput content like dual 4k streams but with 1080p bandwidth, we can get VR that isn't as janky. If we can get lower power consumption, we can get smaller (and cooler) form functions which means we might see a future where the Playstation Portal is the console itself. I'm about to get on a flight to Sweden, and I'd kill to have something like my Steam Deck but running way cooler, way more powerful, and less prone to render errors.

I get the feeling Sony will definitely focus on graphics as that's been their play since the 90s, but my word if we get a monumental form factor shift and native VR support that feels closer to the promise on paper, that could be a game changer.