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by fifticon | 2025-10-02 17:01:04+00:00
my favprite notfavorite win11 feature is that they broke keyboard layout switching, permanently. It has been reported as an unsolved bug for nearly two years now :-/. in 25+ years, I had been taking it for granted to work correctly. Apparently nobody in Redmond uses the feature.. I am european, and (try to) use it minutes apart. As an extra bonus, MS Teams regularly either ignores keyboard switch, or switches 50% broken, half the keys. But what can you expect, from an app which is a selfupdating web server that installs itself with squirrel :-/
by monocasa | 2025-10-02 17:01:16+00:00
> We don't know much many of the interceptions Hamas was behind, but that isn't really important.

Sure it is when Israel is funding other groups that are known for stealing aid. It changes the entire narrative.

Israel backs an anti-Hamas armed group known for looting aid in Gaza. Here’s what we know

https://apnews.com/article/gaza-armed-groups-hamas-israel-lo...
by dangus | 2025-10-02 17:01:23+00:00
- Telemetry doesn’t affect end users in terms of functionality or performance, and every commercial OS has telemetry. People cite telemetry as a reason not to upgrade to 10/11 but even Windows 7 had telemetry. It isn’t even really that much of a privacy issue if you really dig in to what Microsoft collects and you’ve spent ten seconds in the privacy and security settings. People just like to complain.

- Right click menu latency is such a non-issue and that issue is specifically in file explorer and not other applications. I do think they need to make improvements to that experience like having the legacy right click behind the new one but it’s not a big deal day to day.

- Everyone likes to complain that you can’t move the taskbar. Can you move the menu bar on Mac? Can we not just accept that this is a design decision and move on?

- Is search garbage? Seems to work fine for me and seems identical to Mac and Linux quick searching functionality, and if I need something more powerful I just use Everything.

It actually is a pretty great OS, but like every OS it’s not perfect and never will be.
by wobfan | 2025-10-02 17:01:58+00:00
I don't want to motivate anyone to switch back to Windows (because Microsoft), but for anyone who doesn't want to or can't switch, but also doesn't want to endure Microsoft's chosen way of entirely ignoring user needs but instead focusing on squeezing money out of them through ads and the collection of user data in Windows 10 and 11, check out the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC version! It's still supported 'til 2031 iirc. Plus, as it's meant to Enterprises and IoT systems, it's stripped from all the ads, bloatware, and what not. When I installed it first one year ago, I was just sad that I didn't know it earlier. It's everything I ever wanted Windows to be: lean, fast, and (somewhat) minimalistic, at least compared to stock Windows 10.

Can't 100% say whether Windows 11 IoT LTSC is equally good, but from what I've read it also is worth considering.
by abeppu | 2025-10-02 17:02:04+00:00
I did _not_ make that assumption. I specifically called out the possibility that some hospital care may not be necessary. Regarding hospital care, the two sentences describing hypotheticals where spending is or is not improvable specifically included clauses:

> and if good data suggested that people aren't in hospital unnecessarily

> if ... some significant share of patients could be served just as well through less expensive clinical services, maybe that's too much
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-02 17:02:35+00:00
I have the same experience, but would like to clarify that almost everything on this list is mostly only true of middle class employment. You absolutely can "fail" if you are on the bottom rung of the political-economic ladder -- this looks like a life in and out of prison, homelessness, despair, and an early death. You don't get endless chances from your landlord or your parole officer. If your area of weakness is "money" (earning enough of it, knowing how much to spend and how much to save, etc.), then you are still fucked. To someone with a poor education, filling out a job or EBT or WIC application is indeed a high-stakes test with disastrous consequences for failing. Your boss in the restaurant kitchen does not want you to question their methods of dishwashing -- he will fire you instead for being lippy if you try to negotiate around it.
by nemomarx | 2025-10-02 17:02:37+00:00
am I missing something or is the alien though experiment not obviously scary? There's only 30 of them and they don't reproduce much faster, and they don't have a tech advantage. This seems like it has some potential concerns but not existential civilization and humanity ending problems and I'm not even worried those aliens will take my job.

AI is riskier in a lot of ways from that so it doesn't scan to me as a good thought experiment.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-02 17:03:25+00:00
Parts of this gist have been updated in May, but sections date back to 2022 and earlier. Some of the links I clicked are no longer relevant, such as the sections about upstreaming parts of code. Since they didn't link the actual patches (just a search query for their author name) I don't know exactly which patches they were referring to or what their status is.

Does anyone have a more up to date resource?
by daft_pink | 2025-10-02 17:03:31+00:00
Again, we are just debating how to actually fund schools. These are just really extreme statements, where the state or local government would need to step up, because schools are a basic service provided by the government and these children aren’t going to be denied access to public education.

It’s not a mainstream view that we are privatizing the public education system in the United States. It’s just a choice being offered where schools are severely mismanaged that is essentially political because of teacher’s unions.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-02 17:04:09+00:00
I think we should 5% be worried about AI safety, and 95% be worried about climate change. Despite all the progress in green energy, every year brings record high carbon emissions and record temperatures. It's possible we'll upset planetary systems and create millions (billions?) of migrants, upending global politics, and driving more countries to ethno-nationalist authoritarianism.

Not saying AI safety issues won't happen, but I just think we have far bigger fish to fry. To me AI Power consumption is more worrisome than Safety per-se.
by happymellon | 2025-10-02 17:04:10+00:00
The fact that this is even brought up as a solution really speaks to how bad Windows is.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-...

> after you install Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC Evaluation, you won't be able to use the recovery partition on your PC to go back to your previous version of Windows.

Yikes.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 17:04:41+00:00
Not really.

The main difference is that we don't immediately institutionalize kids with severe autism, which does save a lot of money.

For my kid with severe autism, about the only real impact of more people getting therapy is that sometimes it's harder to get an appointment (triage is more first come first serve and less needs based).

Realistically, that simply translates into a month to a half year waiting for an opening.
by reducesuffering | 2025-10-02 17:04:44+00:00
Not one person?

Here's Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Bill Gates, Vitalik Buterin, Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Peter Norvig, Ian Goodfellow, and Rob Pike:

"Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statement_on_AI_Risk
by NoahZuniga | 2025-10-02 17:05:22+00:00
I don't agree. Just because AI doesn't have 300 IQ now, doesn't mean its completely impossible that it won't get there in 30 years.

Do you think there's at least a 1% chance that AI will get this smart in the next 30 years? If so, surely applying this allegory helps you think about the possible consequences.
Show HN: Developer Portfolio Inspiration
by yeahimjt | 2025-10-02 17:05:29+00:00
For the last year I have been curating a website for developers across all fields (frontend, backend...) to browse portfolios for inspiration.

Common search queries often lead to outdated blog posts that only show the same few designs making finding inspiration for a portfolio annoying.

It's a pretty well argued topic whether a portfolio matters enough to bother creating one, but a common ground for the issue is that it shouldn't be a task that you spend any meaningful amount of time on if you're not taking the freelancing route.

Feel free to share your portfolio on the site to get some exposure!
by davydm | 2025-10-02 17:05:49+00:00
I love the bit where Klarna has to rehire their staff because AI doesn't meet expectations.

I'm less fond of the bold statement: """ The jobs most affected by AI share some commonalities, said Zarifhonarvar. They are especially vulnerable because they involve tasks such as data processing, writing, analyzing information, and providing advice, all of which AI can now do better and faster than humans """

Faster? sure. Better? PFFFT HAHAHHAHA are people not paying attention to what these bags of words are spitting out? Every time I look at an "ai summary", I either find nuggets of pure bullshit in there, or, if it's actually accurate, it's "well duh", like telling me that the "WiggleFrobnozzle function wiggles a frobnozzle". Thanks machine. Really helping.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-10-02 17:05:59+00:00
When I read “we consider nread == 0 as reading a byte and we shouldn’t” I immediately think of all the things that look like bugs but are there because some critical piece of infrastructure relies on that behavior. AI isn’t going to know about that unless you tell it, and the problem is that there’s plenty of folks who have job security precisely because they don’t write that down.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-10-02 17:06:27+00:00
> The overloading of the term autism

I have a former friend who listened to too many podcasts and self-diagnosed himself as autistic right around when his relationship was falling apart. The guy couldn't handle his girlfriend asking him to step up on some things so he decided his "out" socially was to call himself autistic to garner sympathy. The dude isn't autistic, he is simply terrible at accepting any responsibility for himself and doesn't care how that affects others. That was my first exposure to how out of control autism labeling was about to become and it's gotten a lot worse since then.
by Enginerrrd | 2025-10-02 17:06:56+00:00
Yes, I'm aware. And that's my default minimum starting place which works until you realize that google maps routed you through a private gated road and you need to readjust and reroute while out of cell-range. Or a large section of the road is passable only on foot or perhaps with a quad, but certainly not even a 4wd truck. Or it's convinced that you should simply "turn left!" off a cliff numerous times.

All of which happened to me just last week here in rural CA.
by condensedcrab | 2025-10-02 17:06:58+00:00
Don’t cross the quantum and AI streams!!

On a more serious note, I’m not convinced that solving NISQ scaling with ML can overcome interconnect scaling. Interconnects are needed to make logical qubits, but introduce increased error rates.

Even with better hardware, the scaling problem remains hard. It’s like getting LLM agents thru complex agentic paths and the hard problem of decreasing error rates.
by gregates | 2025-10-02 17:07:14+00:00
Anyone who's watched an episode of Star Trek can recognize that, if you give non-zero probability to the chance that we develop artificial intelligence smarter than us, that carries some risk.

The part of the argument that people disagree with is what we should do about that, and there it can actually matter what numbers you put on the likelihoods of different outcomes.

It's the conclusion "We should dump trillions of dollars into AI research, something something, less risk" that people disagree with. Not the premise.
by alasdair_ | 2025-10-02 17:07:16+00:00
Personal hot take: China is forbidding its companies from buying Nvidia chips and instead wants to have its industries use China-made chips.

I think a big part of the reason for this is that they want to take over Taiwan and they know that any takeover could likely destroy TSMC and instead of this being a bad thing for them it could actually give them a competitive advantage vs everyone else.

The fact that the US has destroyed relationships with so many allies implies it may not stop a Taiwan invasion when it happens.
by mikestew | 2025-10-02 17:07:18+00:00
I do on occasion, because the navigation gets thrown onto the HUD of our Ioniq 5. That said, our new camper van (ProMaster chassis) apparently interfaces with CarPlay, and so the navigation gets put on the dashboard (no HUD) without using the built-in nav. That seems to be the optimal solution for me, interface with what I'm going to use anyway. But that doesn't pull in those sweet subscription dollars, I guess.
by mmmore | 2025-10-02 17:07:22+00:00
If you have not heard of one person worried about AIs taking over humanity, you're really not paying attention.

Geoff Hinton has been warning about that since he quit Google in 2019. Yoshua Bengio has talked about it, saying we should be concerned in the next 5-25 years. Multiple Congresspeople from both parties have mentioned the risk of "loss of control".
by lunar_rover | 2025-10-02 17:07:23+00:00
Compatibility and tightly coupled legacy components tech debt catching up, ads to get revenue from free users, half baked new UIs made out of slow web tech and more.

No serious effort went into consumer desktop Windows in the past 10 years, most of the upgrades are for Windows Server, Azure and Xbox OS. Windows 8 was their last real attempt and they gave up immediately.
by dingnuts | 2025-10-02 17:07:31+00:00
I'm still faster than the cheap bots.

The creative part for me includes both the implementation and the design, because the implementation also matters. The bots get in the way.

Maybe I would be faster if I paid for Claude Code. It's too expensive to evaluate.

If you like your expensive AI autocomplete, fine. But I have not seen any demonstrable and maintainable productivity gains from it, and I find understanding my whole implementation faster, more fun, and that it produces better software.

Maybe that will change, but people told me three years ago that we would be at the point today where I could not outdo the bot;

with all due respect, I am John Henry and I am still swinging my hammer. The steam pile driving machine is still too unpredictable!
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-02 17:08:04+00:00
the only solution is not yo consume things that operate on the model. the difficulty there is that the model is generally adopted. so a massive amount of users will go from 1 to another system only to get rug pulled out from under them again and again.

this can be a business model, economic circumstance, mgmt change. a lot can trigger such a shift in services up to then just fine to use.

most companies did not start out on these premises, and its really hard to tell what service will turn next.

i hope maybe ISPs could handle it and offer it as a service. like an ad free internet. but then they will just more deeply embed the ads and it will still get past. changes in designs of the apps will lead to blocking being ineffective.

so really then all that is left is not to use anything that has potential to identify you and your use of it. thats not a lot of things currently. most are frowned upon if you use it in a lot of regions.
by marcon680 | 2025-10-02 17:08:45+00:00
Currently no, it's just the three options (free vs. $2500/month vs. larger enterprise plans). We do usually offer 2-3 month ramp up periods for the $2500/month plans that are usage based.

To be transparent, we're an early startup, and a big part of that is user validation. We've been lucky to have companies as small as 5 people sign onto our $2500/month plan -- it shows some commitment on their side and helps us understand whether it's a real problem for our users. That's the same reason the $2500/month plan isn't self serve (you have to talk to us first).

We're definitely thinking of adding a pay as you go plan! But we aren't there yet re: our understanding of the market, if that makes sense.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-10-02 17:08:55+00:00
You shouldn't think of these aliens as literally having 300 IQ, the author is just using that as a simple way to communicate the idea that these beings are really smart. You might prefer reading this article by replacing 300 IQ with "2x as smart as the smartest human".

Sidenote: Personally I don't like that you're using > ... with text that does not actually appear in the article.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-10-02 17:09:08+00:00
You can't pin a folder to the start menu and have it list the items in the folder as you could since XP.

The right click menu in explorer is oversimplified garbage that's missing most of the important options without an extra, unnecessary click.

The settings systems still aren't unified, meaning you have to check AT LEAST two places before you find the right settings menu half the time. Sometimes 3.

It takes double the memory it should for something so simple.

Windows explorer in task manager still needs to have the special "restart task" option, specifically because they know it's going to crash a high percentage of the time you use it.

It spies on you with over-intrusive telemetry.

It advertises to you, even though you are (ostensibly) the customer.

It tries to force the Microsoft account.

It tries to force OneDrive.

It tries to force Edge.

Every update resets half my settings that I spent hours configuring.

The updates are often forced on you. I'm not a child. Let ME decide my risk appetite.

It forces their crummy AI into EVERYTHING, and makes you opt out if you don't want all your data hoovered up.

Everything is named poorly and confusingly on purpose. How many damned things are named "Copilot" now? What is Office even called these days?
by hollerith | 2025-10-02 17:09:44+00:00
You are cherry picking the single most absurd event in a history of over 20 years of public discussion of AI catastrophic risk.

Only about .0003 of all public discussion of AI catastrophic risk over those 20 years has invoked or referred to Roko's basilisk in any way.

I don't know of anyone worried about AI who is worried mainly because of the basilisk.

Next you'll mention Pascal's Mugging, which likewise is the main worry of exactly zero of the sane people worried about AI -- and (despite the representations of at least one past comment on this site) was never even a component of any argument for the dangerousness of continued "progress" in AI.
by bri3d | 2025-10-02 17:09:49+00:00
A gist is such a weird way to run a project like this!

Basically what this seems to be about is adding full native acceleration support for Mac OS hosts to QEMU (audio, GL, etc.), to enable running a desktop Linux guest effectively, but it's so hard to follow what's going on that I'm not certain what to actually do to get the Best Possible QEMU on OSX Host.
by in_cahoots | 2025-10-02 17:09:55+00:00
Social media is not disconnected from society as a whole. Influencers are called that because they have actual influence. You only need to look at and truly understand the MAHA movement to know this. It's not a movement by RFK; it's a movement of people (often moms) who are dissatisfied with their current situation and trying to do something to change it. They may be flat out wrong, but they have influence nonetheless.

Did the diagnostic criteria in DSM 5 change as a result of social media, was it the other way around, or was it hidden variables affecting both? Regardless, the money and attention tend to follow what the common people are saying. See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
by pfdietz | 2025-10-02 17:09:55+00:00
How are they not scalable? And realize that even in the fantasy of an all-nuclear world, electrolyzers are still required: they are needed to make the hydrogen that's the feedstock for synthesis of ammonia, without which world agricultural yield would be much lower.

Given that this all-nuclear world has electrolyzers, what then prevents these from being driven by renewables (perhaps buffered short term by batteries), and the hydrogen then stored (as has been done for decades in underground storage caverns, just like natural gas is stored)? And once that is done, what prevents some of that hydrogen from then being profitably used to drive turbines when electricity prices are high? Gas turbines burning hydrogen are nearly identical to ones burning natural gas (just minor differences in the combustors) and have been available industrially for decades.

Using reasonable projections for cost (some of which have already been superseded by lower figures), we can estimate the cost of providing synthetic baseload from wind/solar/storage in Europe, using historical weather data. It comes in cheaper than nuclear.

https://model.energy/
by Spivak | 2025-10-02 17:10:12+00:00
It would be exactly the same thing people expect from people with mental disorders. You must manage your disorder in such a manner that to the outside world it appears as though you don't have it. Which is totally not an unreasonable ask and definitely not exhausting and untenable to have to fight against your own body for 16 hours a day.

You can't blame your disorder so no turning down plans because you don't have the energy today—better take another dose of stimulants and power through! And don't you dare ask for or expect any kind of accommodation because that's just using your diagnosis as an excuse to be lazy.
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-02 17:10:21+00:00
I have mixed feelings about subscriptions - in some cases, they can actually be good for customers (mainly power users, whose usage is subsidized by other subscribers).

I have 4000 songs on my Spotify. That would be $4k on iTunes. With Spotify being $11/month, it would take me 30 years of Spotify usage to break even with the iTunes model if I never bought another song. For every additional song I listen to, that subscription becomes worth even more.

With cars, I hope 1) customers have the option to pay up front 2) it allows for cheaper production with assembly efficiencies 3) it lets people granularly pick which options are on their car, as opposed to being stuck with whatever options come with a given trim package 4) there are always non-subscription cars around to keep manufacturers from rent-seeking behavior.

I haven’t bought a car in a long time, so I don’t know if any of those are true.
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-02 17:10:34+00:00
Jellyfin is the answer. Free, open source, marginal difficulty to fork. Save everything you watch. Can't save it? Use OBS studio to capture it or find another site; Vote with your wallet.

Within a few years you will find your own collection has more of what you want than any single streaming service. Then Automate your music and video downloads, encode streams to disc, record HDTV. Self host it all. Eventually you will have no need for a streaming service and instead will opt for far more valuable 512gb micro SD cards.

Now, if I could bring back Napster era and make ripping disc media mainstream again.
by seam_carver | 2025-10-02 17:10:40+00:00
I recently added Windows 7 support to an open source app I run, Kindle Comic Converter.

It was as easy as downgrading a bunch of dependencies (PySide6, numpy) and created a legacy build, and the Windows 7 version got like 2% of downloads (~200). I assume it works since I've gotten no complaints and I don't have a Windows 7 machine to test haha, Windows 7 in UTM crashes a lot for me on macOS ARM.

Man people are still using this. I really only did this since I added macOS 10.14 support (prior minimum was macOS 12) and most of the work needed was already mostly done by that. In theory I could even get macOS 10.10 support, but that would require downgrading Qt6 to Qt5