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by WJW | 2025-10-13 12:29:46+00:00
The GVCS is a totally different beast than open source software. It's been around for at least two decades now, and has been making very little progress in the last ~15 years. It's trying to reproduce the most visible products of mechanical engineering without having a firm grasp of what is needed to get the supply chain working.

Notably lacking from their toolkit is anything large (no refineries, no blast furnaces, no glassworks for making window panes, etc) or anything needing high precision or high purity (medicine, ball bearings, optics, high quality metals, etc). It still assumes the rest of society will be around to source those materials from.

The GVCS is like if FOSS only ever produced leftpad libraries and never a linux or a postgres.
by Anamon | 2025-10-13 12:29:52+00:00
"stop calling it 'the future,' AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed"

She has found some very good words to boil down all this AI slop nonsense. I sometimes struggle to explain to non-tech folks why GenAI "art" is and always will be entirely and fundamentally worthless to me. Why I will never waste a second of my time looking at it, and kick it to the bin the moment I notice what it is. She did a better job, the hotdog and centipede create some appropriately gross images.
by pj1115 | 2025-10-13 12:30:09+00:00
I wish you the best, but you do not have a product to monetise yet.

IMO: if your goal is to attract users or to make money, you have too many strong free competitors to be using ads like this, especially if your audience read Hacker News. It's not the right business model. Any amount of time spent making these ads 'smoother' is better spent on the product, because you won't earn enough ad revenue to make it worth it.

If you need revenue to pay for hosting, you'd be better off making it open source or self-hostable.

If your goal is getting feedback, you have to recognise that people are doing it for you, not for them. Don't make them pay you to do it.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-13 12:30:17+00:00
Thanks for sharing a video blaming Trump for the Ukraine war.

I don't think that's a fair assessment. I believe Russia is primarily to blame, on account of it repeatedly invading Ukraine.

I believe NATO also encouraged it.

I don't recall Trump ordering American troops to invade Ukraine. Don't see how you're negating my point?

(fwiw, I am not a Trump supporter at all, I just try to see both sides and not hate trump because "he's the other team" - politics is not football)
by olooney | 2025-10-13 12:30:17+00:00
For me, as for a lot of people, lack of sleep is the big one... if I build up 4+ hours of sleep debt over a week, I'm at risk. So anything you can do to make that easier to log, like integration with a sleep tracker, would be good.

Also, a plug for Oliver Sacks's Migraine which taught me a lot about migraine with aura.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-13 12:31:28+00:00
>Swiss Army knives seem to be as popular as ever.

It isn't as popular as ever, at least not in the Western world. I don't know what your frame of reference is, but it is positively non-existent compared to a couple of decades ago. Approximately zero kids, give or take a few, put one on their Christmas list, where when I was a kid it was many kid's dream item. I would say the most common buyer today are middle-aged men who buy it just as a thing to own because they remember how desirable they were when they were in Scouts in their teens.

>A tool of "last resort" seems to miss the point

It is quite literally a tool of last resort, and in practice people who actually own one (such as myself) have often never, ever actually used any of the options available on it because they're terrible options and we always have something better available.

Like a legitimate folding camping knife, which we all have in our camping supplies. An infinitely better knife. A tiny multi-screwdriver kit. The Leatherman brand went big by making a legitimately good, well constructed pair of pliers that they add some "in a pinch" options.

Serious campers who portage and go deep country have a proper assortment of gear and never lean on their SAK. The rest of us usually get there in a car and have a...proper assortment of gear.

But again, if you're in a situation where you have to use one of the tools on a SAK, you probably screwed up and it's a serious compromise. It just isn't a compelling metaphor for software tooling.
by vasco | 2025-10-13 12:31:40+00:00
Math is just a standardized way to communicate those concepts though, it's a model of the world like any other. I get what you mean, but these intuitive or visualising approaches help many people with different thinking processes.

Just imagine that everyone has equal math ability, except the model of math and representations of mathematical concepts and notation is more made for a certain type of brains than others. These kind of explanations allow bringing those people in as well.
by newpavlov | 2025-10-13 12:31:47+00:00
>If they had invented a separate code point for I in Turkish, then when converting text from those existing ISO character encodings, you’d have to know whether the text is Turkish or English or something else, to know which Unicode code point to map the source “I” into. That’s exactly what Unicode was designed to avoid.

Great. So now we have to know locale for handling case conversion for probably centuries to come, but it was totally worth to save a bit of effort in the relatively short transition phase. /s
by itchynosedev | 2025-10-13 12:31:56+00:00
I really loved jujutsu for the few weeks that I used it. However, I did find all my tools that rely on Git (eg Gitlab CLI that can open merge request from the current branch) breaking because JJ operations result in detached head in Git.

In addition, mixing Git and JJ will result in your repos becoming really slow when you do need to run some Git operation.
by fidotron | 2025-10-13 12:32:04+00:00
A lot about this story hinges on this paragraph:

> The statement did not detail why it thought the firm's operations were risky. A spokesperson for the minister of economic affairs told the BBC there was no further information to share.

It is asserted, on trust, that the NL government are acting within the terms of the contract, but there is no transparency at all about the basis for this happening.

> The Hague said it took the decision due to "serious governance shortcomings" and to prevent the chips from becoming unavailable in an emergency.

This strongly implies they think some event will occur involving them cutting supplies.

I half wonder if this is a similar situation to that which unfolded at that steel plant in the UK. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg17g39x41o
by netdevphoenix | 2025-10-13 12:32:12+00:00
> if it can produce the exact same output as some Chinese speaker, then I don't see by what non-spiritualistic criteria anyone could argue that it is fundamentally different from a Chinese speaker.

Indeed. The crux of the debate is:

a) how many input and response pairs are needed to agree that the rule-provider plus the Chinese room operation is fundamentally equal/different to a Chinese speakers

b) what topics can we agree to exclude so that if point a can be passed with the given set of topics we can agree that 'the rule-provider plus the Chinese room operation' is fundamentally equal/different to a Chinese speaker
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by IAmBroom | 2025-10-13 12:34:11+00:00
You must believe in a quasi-Platonic world of only one truth.

There are many truths. Cleveland is two hours away from me. Cleveland is 40 hours away from me. Both of these are true, but there is not enough detail in them to ascertain exactly what they mean. The same can be said of any statement outside of formal, logic-based language constraints.

The point your statement keenly misses, however, is that the truth is nowhere near as obvious as you make it seem. Darwin's theories were preposterous to people who were just as certain of "one truth" as you are.
by simonw | 2025-10-13 12:34:46+00:00
I grew up in London visiting Cabaret Mechanical Theater in Covent Garden as often as my parents would take me. I was heart broken when it closed in ~2000. Novelty Automation is mainly just Tim's work (the chiropodist dates back to CMT) but it turns out the larger organization still exists and has occasional touring exhibits... and I just found out a new permanent exhibit in Hastings! https://cabaret.co.uk/
by account42 | 2025-10-13 12:37:39+00:00
You can write slow unmaintainable brittle garbage in any language though. So even if your competition is literally written in Bash or whatever you should still say what your implementation actually does better - and if it's performance, back it up with something that lets me know you have actually measured the impact on real world use cases and are not just assuming "we wrote it in $language therefore it must be fast".
by ghaff | 2025-10-13 12:37:42+00:00
I don't do much sports or concert photography these days--or indeed a lot of photography outside of my iPhone--but I observe that while I still have some photos from film days that I think are pretty decent, being able to just shoot thousands of photos of some event helps to get the few keepers.

Getting expressions/the way people are aligned/etc. is just so unpredictable that, even if you're in the a reasonable location to shoot and the light is generally good, high-speed shooting and maybe thousands of frames helps to beat a few rolls of film. Even pros with motor drives were relatively constrained.

As others have observed though, there's also planning and just spending the time. The favorite photo I've taken in Death Valley over many visits is a fairly standard location/view but the sky is just really unusual for the area. I suppose these days (or really at the time given enough skill and imagination), I could just have done a photo-composite.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-13 12:37:43+00:00
Really curious as to the downvotes here. I'll take it step by step:

- Obama was embassed by the peace prize. You can read this in his memoir, in his own words.

- If peace is achieved in the Middle East, it will be the greatest peace negotiation since the end of WW2. I'm unsure how anyone can dispute that.

- Netanyahu has a vested interested in prolonging war and crisis, as his own political survival is at stake. Context if anyone is not aware of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Israeli_judicial_reform_p... - this makes it very unlikely the 20 point plan will be completed.

- Russia has indeed played Trump for a fool. Putin has bought plenty of time, they now have the upper hand in drone and missile attacks and Ukraine has lost the financial support of America. In return, Putin has conceded absolutely nothing.

- Trump does genuinely seem to want to avoid foreign wars. Good examples are his chastisement of Israel for breaking the earlier ceasefire, and its bombing of Qatar. He also did instigate negotiations with Russia, although he failed. His interventions in other conflicts are also genuine.

- Norway was reported to be bracing itself for retaliation https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-09/norway-on...

I am really unsure why I'm being downvoted here.

Full disclosure: I am not a supporter of Trump, at all. I am a close follower and wide reader around current affairs and politics.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-10-13 12:37:49+00:00
I don't see anything wrong with someone suggesting similar apps on Android or being disappointed they can't use this because they don't use the same OS as the author.

Comments suggesting an iOS developer who made a free iOS app for his own use and then shared it should go and make them an Android app can only be described as entitled ###holes.

Why didn't the author use cross platform tools? They weren't making a cross platform app. They did not need those tools. It wouldn't be "better" if they did, it would be unrelated to the requirements the author had for the project.
by thrance | 2025-10-13 12:38:56+00:00
You forgot the stuff that actually matters:

- Universal healthcare: I have never needed to pay for my medicine, and I can rest assured that my family won't go bankrupt if I ever get cancer or something.

- Extensive paid leave: I have 1.5 month of it every year.

- Retirement age: 62 years here (for now, at least).

- Public education: I have two masters from public schools, that I got essentially for free.

Americans suffers from many things that would be hard to imagine in the EU.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-13 12:39:08+00:00
See my other comment for its popularity statistics. Victorinox is literally the #1 multitool brand by market share. These are facts.

Your take is idiosyncratic. Using a SAK doesn't mean "you probably screwed up". That's truly a bizarre thing to say.

A SAK is a perfectly fine metaphor. That's why it's a popular one. It's a small tool that does lots of things. I think you're overthinking this.
by dotneter | 2025-10-13 12:39:22+00:00
https://fooqux.com/ - an experimental tech article aggregator. For several years now, I've had a routine of collecting articles on topics that interest me throughout the week and then reading them over the weekend. To help organize and streamline this process, I created this website.

The main idea is to gather tech articles in one place and process them with a LLM — categorize them, generate summaries, and try experimental features like annotations, questions, etc.

I hope this service might be useful to others as well. You can sign up with github account to submit your articles as well.
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-13 12:39:48+00:00
To avoid hallucinations, you, a human, need two things: you need to have an internal model of your own knowledge, and you need to act on it - if your meta-knowledge says "you are out of your depth", you either answer "I don't know" or look for better sources before formulating an answer.

This is not something that's impossible for an LLM to do. There is no fundamental issue there. It is, however, very easy for an LLM to fail at it.

Humans get their (imperfect, mind) meta-knowledge "for free" - they learn it as they learn the knowledge itself. LLM pre-training doesn't give them much of that, although it does give them some. Better training can give LLMs a better understanding of what the limits of their knowledge are.

The second part is acting on that meta-knowledge. You can encourage a human to act outside his knowledge - dismiss his "out of your depth" and provide his best answer anyway. The resulting answers would be plausible-sounding but often wrong - "hallucinations".

For an LLM, that's an unfortunate behavioral default. Many LLMs can recognize their own uncertainty sometimes, flawed as their meta-knowledge is - but not act on it. You can run "anti-hallucintion training" to make them more eager to act on it. Conversely, careless training for performance can encourage hallucinations instead (see: o3).

Here's a primer on the hallucination problem, by OpenAI. It doesn't say anything groundbreaking, but it does sum up what's well known in the industry: https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate/
by ctrlp | 2025-10-13 12:39:57+00:00
Warmed over esotericism. Ficino, Mirandola, some others, were picking up an esoteric tradition dating back thousands of years. The neoplatonism, kabbalah, magic... it's all of a kind. The common thread being that all is one, that man is God, that the body is a prison, that we are properly seeking a return to the godhead from which we came, and that this can be achieved through transcendental practices. It's the same gnostic heresies that the early church was contending with and has roots in Persian mystical religions that are very, very old. I would argue that it is the dominant religious vibe of many Christians today and is the belief system that we might call "spiritual" today. It's also the same basic idea of progressive liberation theology (both religious and secular varieties) including transhumanism.
by febin | 2025-10-13 12:40:00+00:00
I’m writing a beginner-friendly 2D game development series with Rust and Bevy.

The first two posts are live: 1. Let There Be a Player — player movement and camera control (https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-...) 2. Let There Be a World — procedural world generation using Wave Function Collapse (https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-...)

Next up: adding physics, collisions, and interaction to make the world feel alive.

From there it’ll grow into combat, UI, sound, polish, and AI-driven NPCs.
Ask HN: What are some of your favorite documentaries?
by itdude | 2025-10-13 12:40:01+00:00
This question has been asked several times before (see below), but looks like the most recent was about a year ago.

Thoughts on why are also appreciated.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18085765 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537512 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18271167 4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799789 5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41906454
by tamnd | 2025-10-13 12:40:17+00:00
Another reason for writing the book is that many developers see "algorithms" as something only needed for FAANG interviews, not for real work. For beginners and even seniors, learning algorithms often just means doing LeetCode problems, which most people dislike but feel forced to do.

I want to change that view and show that algorithms are beautiful and useful beyond interviews. They appear everywhere, from compilers to databases to the Linux kernel, where I found many interesting data structures worth exploring. (i will share more about this topic later)

I hope to share more of these insights and connect with others who enjoy discussing real world algorithm design, which is what I love most about the Hacker News community (except for the occasional trolls that show up from time to time).
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-13 12:40:27+00:00
"But the time of "making people care" about things is gone. They don't care. They never will with all this noise going on."

Tragically, that's very true. But society and societal issues being what they are nowadays we should not expect anything else.

Most of the world's addicted users would be bereft and suffer severe withdrawal without their regular dose of Social Media. Same would apply if those 'amazing' apps provided 'freely' by that wonderful magnanimous benefactor Google were to disappear or ever be under threat.

Any notion that their treasured online ecosystem could be disrupted or their 'free' apps might be replaced with FOSS equivalents would cause outrage. With their attention spans already severely reduced, uses would never stop to consider the true benefits of FOSS, instead they'd actively fight against it.

Like a parasitoid wasp taking control of a catapillar's mind/body to benefit its offspring, Big Tech has parasitized the minds of much of the world's population before anyone realized the fact.

That this outrage has actually happened without any effective opposition is a true tragedy, to expect FOSS to reverse the situation without some cataclysmic event intervening is just a fanciful pipedream.
by subjectivationx | 2025-10-13 12:40:37+00:00
I am not a software engineer but I am using my own vibe coded video efx software, my own vibe coded audio synth, my own vibe coded art generator for art. These aren't software products though. No one else is ever going to use them. The output is what matters to me. Even I can see that committing LLM generated code at your software job is completely insane. The only way to get a productivity increase is to not bother understanding what the program is doing. If you need to understand what is going on then why not just type it in yourself? My productivity increase is immeasurable because I wouldn't be able to write this video player I made. I have absolutely no idea how it works. It is exactly why I am not a software engineer. Professionals claiming a productivity boost have to be doing something along the lines of not understanding what the program is doing that is proportional to the claimed productivity increase. I don't see how you can have it both ways unless someone is just that slow of a typist.
by account42 | 2025-10-13 12:40:41+00:00
Some of this just makes me think that they are compared against the wrong tool though. E.g.

> cat clone with syntax highlighting and git integration

doesn't make any sense because cat is not really meant for viewing files. You should be comparing your tool with the more/less/most family of tools, some of which can already do syntax highlighting or even more complex transforms.
by neeban | 2025-10-13 12:40:46+00:00
I'm currently building an order queueing and sales recording web app for small coffee shops: SellerMate [https://sellermate.neilvan.com]

Made primarily for my friend's coffee shop. Data is stored locally, and the app is fully functional when offline. There is an optional "syncing" feature to sync your data with multiple devices which requires a sign up. This is a Progressive Web App built with Web Components. The syncing is made possible with PouchDB/CouchDB.

I still have to write (or screen record) a Getting Started guide but the app is ready for use nonetheless.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-13 12:40:56+00:00
Ironically, this reply was the only one downvoted against my downvoted post, but I do agree that sketicism is the right attitude here.

Settlements are continuing in the West Bank, which are widely regarded as illegal by the international community.

There is little doubt amongst international experts that what Israel has done is genocide, and the parallels with South Africa are justified.

I'm hopeful that the genocide won't continue. However, I also think it's unlikely that peace will be achieved. Some form of violence or occupation is more likely, driven by Netanyahu's political interests.
by tim333 | 2025-10-13 12:41:01+00:00
Technically he's the head of the armed forces, and also can dissolve the government.

In practice with a Hitler type he could dissolve the government and there'd be new elections. I guess if the people voted the same guy back that might be the end of it but it's a bit of a failsafe to this kind of thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42943973