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by gigatexal | 2025-10-11 22:05:06+00:00
Yes Apple has been a bit two faced about things. App Store ads? Yuuuup. Their own ad network? Come on!

But their privacy stance is still far better than that of Meta or Google. (I guess I could be wrong and I’d be happy to see a study or something that says that.)

It is an interesting hypothesis to posit that the Trump administration is just calling everyone on their shit and in the case Apple blinked. Or, you could see the Trump administration and he himself for what I think he is trying to be: a king, a despot, and a tyrant and the whole project 2025 retribution cult is just following the play book and attacking woke companies like Apple.
by taffer | 2025-10-11 22:05:51+00:00
> htmx is HTML-driven, Datastar is server-driven

As far as I understand, the main difference between HTMX and datastar is that HTMX uses innerHTML-swap by default and datastar uses the morph-swap by default, which is available as an extension for HTMX [1].

Another difference is that datastar comes with SSE, which indeed makes it server driven, but you don't have to use SSE. Also datastar comes with client-side scripting by default. So you could say the datastar = integrated HTMX + idiomorph + SSE + Alpine.

[1] https://htmx.org/extensions/idiomorph/
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-11 22:05:58+00:00
I don't have a beef with the ACA, it just happened to be Obama's priority, not the voters'. Occupy wallstreet wasn't about health care. You hit on the nail about his advisors,etc.. that's why maga keeps using "deep state" as a rhetoric.

Obama ran on change, he shouldn't have been "listening to advisors" like bush did with Iraq.

If he jailed bankers for example, both the left and right would support that, except the corporate ruling class and other politicians. The ACA on the other hand, there is a lot of misinformation around it that made it a partisan thing, and we still don't have universal health care, despite all the work he put into it.

I'm not saying it's fair, but even most on the left expected him to be a force of change, and that's mostly because he's black. The thing is, democrat presidents spend their first term cleaning up after the previous guy anyways, so I get it isn't realistic. But look at how trump is basically trampling on the constitution, long established norms and institutions,etc.. Obama didn't need to do all that, but he tried to be moderate and safe. Racists were going to hate on him no matter what, he needed to piss them and his own party off enacting change. Moderation and stability was not why he was elected.

And I think the democratic party lost its head a bit because Obama became president, they started operating as if America is now a liberal utopia, which caused a lot of moderate people, and even younger gen-z voters who're losing out on opportunities because of extreme liberal ideals to revolt against the left.

All that said, I have no idea what can be done to fix things. I just wish I knew how to brace for the fall.
by kvemkon | 2025-10-11 22:06:08+00:00
> drive has like millions of hours left of it's life.

It doesn't apply for the single drive, only for a large number of drives. E.g. if you have 100000 drives (2.4 million hours MTTF) in a server building with the required environmental conditions and maximum workload, be prepared to replace a drive once a day in average.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-10-11 22:07:19+00:00
Lots of discussion of the morality of assisted suicide in this thread, and the circumstances under which it should be legal.

In the cryonics community, it's a common complaint that they have to wait until the patient is legally dead in order to cryopreserve, which can make it difficult to cryopreserve under ideal circumstances.

I like the idea of allowing individuals to opt for cryopreservation over end-of-life care. End-of life care costs so much money, it could even be neutral from a financial perspective.

Since cryopreservation lacks the finality of other forms of death, it could also address some of the ethical dilemmas around assisted dying. After all, a lot of end-of-life care seems to be motivated by a futile attempt to somehow delay the inevitable. From my perspective, cryopreservation seems slightly less futile.

If medical technology continues to advance, maybe in the year 2500 there will be people walking around who were born in the 1900s and can give talks about their experiences. Wouldn't that be cool? It would help a lot if just a single country to made it possible to get cryopreserved before you're legally dead.
by ben_w | 2025-10-11 22:07:54+00:00
If it were not for all the competition, I could see them getting multiple hundreds of billions in revenue each year worldwide. As a business expence, $200/seat/month is alredy worth it in a lot of cases, but it's borderline if there's the ~100e6 such cases they'd need for $1e12 in 4 years.

But there is competition driving down profit margins, and my first paragraph said "revenue" not "profit".
by cerved | 2025-10-11 22:08:02+00:00
Is that with ZFS or something else?

Mainly I wouldn't do it because of there's space and SATA ports it seems stupid. Hotter. Worse HW.

Can't really see much good reason to do it tbh except it's in a small hot case which is relatively easy to move around. Maybe if you do occasionally backups and you don't care about scrubbing and redundancy? Otherwise why not shuck them and throw them in a case?
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-11 22:08:35+00:00
In case the reference doesn't click[1]:

> Twenty-five years ago this month, all hell broke loose in my country, which is tucked away in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Hordes of members of the Hutu ethnic majority, armed with machetes, spears, nail-studded clubs, and other rudimentary weapons, moved house to house in villages, hunting for Tutsis, the second largest of Rwanda’s three ethnic groups. The radio station RTLM, allied with leaders of the government, had been inciting Hutus against the Tutsi minority, repeatedly describing the latter as inyenzi, or “cockroaches,” and as inzoka, or “snakes.” The station, unfortunately, had many listeners.

> The promoters of genocide used other metaphors to turn people against their neighbors. Hutus, by reputation, are shorter than Tutsis; radio broadcasters also urged Hutus to “cut down the tall trees.”

> In urban centers, government soldiers and well-armed members of the Interahamwe militia affiliated with the ruling party set up roadblocks filtering out Tutsis and killing them by the roadside. It was an easy task to pick them out. Ever since independence from Belgium in 1962, national identification cards specified ethnicity.

> Within 100 days, an estimated 1 million people, the overwhelming majority of whom were Tutsis, lay dead. The worst kind of hatred had been unleashed. What began with dehumanizing words ended in bloodshed.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/rwanda-sho...
by im3w1l | 2025-10-11 22:09:42+00:00
> I'm looking for a better way to teach "real" RSA without needing the students to be math majors or to spend a whole semester on it. Does anybody have any suggestions?

Start and end with a reminder to use padding.

Actually if you want to make it not-so-mathy, talking about about how to be compatible with other programs could be nice. How do you import/export public key in pem or der? How do you (de)serialize ciphertext?
by prein | 2025-10-11 22:10:05+00:00
Once, after we had an application go live, we started getting reports after a few hours that new users were unable to log in.

It turns out, somewhere in the auth path, a dev had used `==` to verify a user's ID, which worked for Longs under (I believe) 128, so any users with an ID bigger than that were unable to log in due to the comparison failing.
by whartung | 2025-10-11 22:10:32+00:00
I get the attraction to var, but I, personally, don't use it, as I feel it makes the code harder to read.

Simply, I like (mind, I'm 25 year Java guy so this is all routine to me) to know the types of the variables, the types of what things are returning.

var x = func();

doesn't tell me anything.

And, yes, I appreciate all comments about verbosity and code clutter and FactoryProxyBuilderImpl, etc. But, for me, not having it there makes the code harder for me to follow. Makes an IDE more of a necessity.

Java code is already hard enough to follow when everything is a maze of empty interfaces, but "no code", that can only be tracked through in a debugger when everything is wired up.

Maybe if I used it more, I'd like it better, but so far, when coming back to code I've written, I like things being more explicit than not.
by bigbuppo | 2025-10-11 22:12:43+00:00
There is a big rationale behind it. If their AI investments don't pan out, Microsoft will cease to exist. They've been out of ideas since the late 90s. They know that the subscription gravy train has already peaked. There is no more growth unless they fabricate new problems for which they will then force you to pay for the solution to the problem they created for you. Oh, your children were kidnapped because Microsoft sold their recognition and location data to kidnappers? Well you should have paid for Microsoft's identity protection E7 plus add-on subscription that prevents them from selling the data you did not authorize them to collect to entities that they should know better than to deal with.
by theshackleford | 2025-10-11 22:13:06+00:00
> Is the difference between 100fps and 240fps noticeable though?

Yes.

> The OP said "somewhere between 60hz and 240hz" and I agree.

Plenty of us dont. A 240hz OLED still provides a signifacntly blurrier image in motion than my 20+ year old CRT.
by _wire_ | 2025-10-11 22:13:10+00:00
Luna Schlosser: I absolutely do not want to hear about it, Herald. This world is so full of wonderful things. What makes people suddenly go berserk and hate everything anyway. I mean, why does there have to be an underground? After all, there's the orb, and there's the telescreen, and there's the Orgasmatron. What more do they want?

Herald Cohen: It's hard for us to understand the criminal element. We're artists. We respond only to beauty.
by stavros | 2025-10-11 22:13:57+00:00
I'm the opposite, I find getting started easy and rewarding, I don't generally get blocked there. Where I get blocked, after almost thirty years of development, is writing the code.

I really like building things, but they're all basically putting the same code together in slightly different ways, so the part I find rewarding isn't the coding, it's the seeing everything come together in the end. That's why I really like LLMs, they let me do all the fun parts without any of the boring parts I've done a thousand times before.
by cerved | 2025-10-11 22:14:05+00:00
I own this and it's worth it's weight in gold https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/A2SDi-H-T...

Yes. It's pricey but it's never been a problem. It can connect like 12 HDDs with 256GB ram and has 10GBe and runs at a tiny TDP. Has IPMI. Fits in a tiny case.

The only issue I had with this motherboard was that it was difficult to find someone who sold it. Love it

Also I don't see the built-in UPS. The external drives still use external power
by gyomu | 2025-10-11 22:14:55+00:00
There are two main threads I keep going back to when thinking about long term AI and why so many investors/statespeople are all in:

1) the labor angle: it’s been stated plainly by many execs that the goal is to replace double percent digits of their workforce with AI of some sort. Human wages being what they are, the savings there are meaningful and seemingly worth the gamble.

2) the military angle: the future of warfare seems to be autonomous weapons/vehicles of all sorts. Given the winner takes all nature of warfare, any edge you can get there is worth it. If not investing enough in AI means the US gets steamrolled by China in the Pacific (and other countries getting steamrolled by whomever China wants to sell/lend its tech to), then it seems to justify most any investment, no matter how ridiculous the current returns seem.
by tomhow | 2025-10-11 22:15:34+00:00
> it's not clear if you know what environmental regulations are or if you are just shilling for polluting billionaires.

Please don't comment like this on HN. The guidelines ask us to "assume good faith" and avoid accusations of shilling. Commenting like this poisons discussions, and we're trying for something better than that here. Please observe the guidelines and make an effort to do better in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-11 22:15:44+00:00
I generally get frustrated about this type of framing because it’s myopic and narrow.

We are in geopolitically fraught times. Money alone is not capital.

We have been living in an era where financial capital has dominated.

We are entering an era where computing capital, intellectual capital, and military capital will dominate.

The people in control of those when the game changes are the ones writing the rules.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-11 22:16:11+00:00
> I still think they could fulfill that requirement and call it the "Windows Linux subsystem" or something, but what do I know?

Your name is bizarrely better considering how small the difference is.

> The explanation they give is they need to put their trademark, Windows, before Linux. Sometimes they say this is advice from the legal department.

It feels like they have some strange internal naming policy. Maybe it is called the “Policy Product for Naming.”
by travisgriggs | 2025-10-11 22:16:23+00:00
Ah Java. The language I never got to love. I came of coding age during the “camps” era of object oriented stuff: Eiffel, Smalltalk, CLOS, C++, etc. Java, from 95ish to oh 98ish, was like a giant backdraft. Completely sucked the air out of the room for everything else.

Does anyone remember the full page ads in WSJ for programming language, that no on quite yet knew what it really was? So my formative impressions of Java on were emotional/irrational, enforced by comments like:

“Of Course Java will Work, there’s not a damn new thing in it” — James gosling, but I’ve always suspected this might be urban legend

“Java, all the elegance of C++ syntax with all the speed of Smalltalk” - Kent Beck or Jan Steinman

“20 years from now, we will still be talking about Java. Not because of its contributions to computer programming, but rather as a demonstration of how to market a language” — ??

I can code some in Java today (because, hey, GPT and friends!! :) ), but have elected to use Kotlin and have been moderately happy with that.

One thing that would be interesting about this list, is to break down the changes that changed/evolved the actual computation model that a programmer uses with it, vs syntactic sugar and library refinements. “Languages” with heavy footprints like this, are often just as much about their run time libraries and frameworks, as they are the actual methodology of how you compute results.
by 827a | 2025-10-11 22:16:39+00:00
> the industry is spending over $30 billion a month (approximately $400 billion for 2025) and only receiving a bit more than a billion a month back in revenue.

I suspect that this revenue number is a vast underestimation, even today, ignoring the reality of untapped revenue streams like ChatGPT's 800M advertising eyeballs.

1. Google has stated that Gemini is processing 1.3 quadrillion tokens per month. Its hard to convert this into raw revenue; its spread across different models, much of it is likely internal usage, or usage more tied to a workspace subscription rather than per-token API billing. But to give a sense of this scale, this is what that annualized revenue looks like priced at per-token API pricing for their different models, assuming a 50/50 input/output: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: ~$9B/year, Gemini 2.5 Flash: ~$22.8B/year, Gemini 2.5 Pro: ~$110B/year.

2. ChatGPT has 800M weekly active users. If 10% of these users are on the paid plan, this is $19.2B/year. Adjust this value depending on what percentage of users you believe pay for ChatGPT. Sam has announced that they're processing 6B API tokens per minute, which, again depending on the model, puts their annualized API revenue between $1B-$31B.

3. Anthropic has directly stated that their annualized revenue, as of August, was $5B [2]. Given their growth, and the success of Claude 4.5, its likely this number is more around $6B-$7B right now.

So, just with these three companies, which are the three biggest involved in infrastructure rollouts, we're likely somewhere in the realm of ~$30B/year? Very fuzzy and hard, but at the very least I think its weird to guess that the number is closer to like $12B. Its possible the article is basing its estimates on numbers from earlier in 2025, but to be frank: If you're not refreshing your knowledge on this stuff every week, you're out of date. Its moving so fast.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/1o3ex1v/gemini_is_pro...

[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-...
by genghisjahn | 2025-10-11 22:17:20+00:00
I read this suggestion a lot. “Make clear steps, a clear plan of action.” Which I get. But then instead of having an LLM flail away at it could we give to an actual developer? It seems like we’ve finally realized that clear specs makes dev work much easier for LLMs. But the same is true for a human. The human will ask more clarifying questions and not hallucinate. The llm will role the dice and pick a path. Maybe we as devs would just rather talk with machines.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-11 22:18:55+00:00
People need to treat PR like they do AIs. "You utterly failed to answer the question, try again and actually answer the question I asked this time." I'd love to see corporate representatives actually pressed to answer. "Did you actually do X, yes or no, if you dodge the question I'll present you as dodging the question and let people assume the worst."
Show HN: Benchmark AI on your actual code (GPT-5, Claude, Grok, Gemini, o3)
by codelensai | 2025-10-11 22:19:31+00:00
I built CodeLens.AI - a tool that compares how 6 top LLMs (GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3) handle your actual code tasks.

How it works: - Upload code + describe task (refactoring, security review, architecture, etc.)

- All 6 models run in parallel (~2-5 min)

- See side-by-side comparison with AI judge scores

- Community votes on winners (blind voting)

- Each evaluation gets reflected in the overall AI model leaderboard, showing us best ones

Why I built this: Existing benchmarks (HumanEval, SWE-Bench) don't reflect real-world developer tasks. I wanted to know which model actually solves MY specific problems - refactoring legacy TypeScript, reviewing React components, etc. It's also similar to LMArena, but their evaluations are not entirely transparent.

Current status:

- Live at https://codelens.ai

- 23 evaluations so far (small sample, I know!)

- Free tier processes 3 evals per day (first-come, first-served queue)

- Looking for real tasks to make the benchmark meaningful

- Happy to answer questions about the tech stack, cost structure, or methodology.

Currently in validation stage. What are your first impressions?
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-11 22:20:36+00:00
> it’s been stated plainly by many execs that the goal is to replace double percent digits of their workforce with AI of some sort

Even if we grant that this is possible, have any of these execs actually thought through what happens when their competitors also replace large chunks of their workforce with AI and then begin undercutting them on price? The idea that "our prices will stay exactly the same, but our salary costs will go to zero and become pure profit instead!" is delusional even if AI can actually replace large numbers of people, which itself is quite doubtful.
by stavros | 2025-10-11 22:20:55+00:00
Yeah, definitely. I do agree with the skeptics to a point, as I don't let the LLM write code without reviewing (it makes many mistakes that compound), but I'd still rather have it write a function, review and steer, have it write another, and so on, than write database models myself for the millionth time.

It's not that I find it hard, I've just done it so many times that it's boring. Maybe I should be solving different/harder problems, but I don't mind having the LLM write the code, and I'm doing what I like and I'm more productive than ever, so eh!
by chubot | 2025-10-11 22:20:58+00:00
I believe Google has earned the most revenue of any business ever [1]

So if the idea is to unseat Google, and make LLMs that are monetized by ads -- well that would be a lot of revenue!

The problem is obviously that Google knows this, and they made huge investments in AI before anyone else

---

I guess someone wants to do to Google what Apple did to Microsoft in the mobile era -- take over the operating system that matters by building something new (mobile), not by directly trying to unseat Microsoft

The problem seems to be that no one has figured out what the network effect in LLMs is. Google has a few network effects, but the bidder / ad buyer network is very strong -- they can afford to pay out a bigger rev share than anybody else

Google also had very few competitors early on -- Yahoo was the most credible competitor for a long time. And employees didn't leave to start competitors. Whereas OpenAI has splintered into 5 or more companies, fairly early in its life

[1] at least according to the Acquired podcast, which is reputable

edit: oops, it was profit, not revenue

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/google

Google with this business model makes more profits than any other company, ergo tautologically, is the most magical business model ever discovered.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 22:21:09+00:00
> We are entering an era where computing capital, intellectual capital, and military capital will dominate

These are bullshit terms. Capital is capital. Military production, IP production and yes, AIs running in datacentres and on the grid, are all subject to economic forces. (Folks argued railroads were a different form of capital in the 19th century, too. And fibre optics. And tulips. And dot-com companies. And computer-assembled American mortgage instruments.)

We might be investing for a golden future. We might be the Soviet Union baited into unsustainable spending commitments. The answer to these questions isn't in pretending this time is different, or that economics can be suspended when it comes to certain questions of production and return.
by Sophira | 2025-10-11 22:21:34+00:00
While I don't disagree that Google are going to be targetting GrapheneOS and other OSes, the decree you're referring to only applies to "certified Android devices" - devices which run a Google-vetted version of Android and that come with Google Play pre-installed. OSes like GrapheneOS are not currently affected by this, as any device running it is not a "certified Android device" by definition.

This is not a reason to sit idly back, of course. GrapheneOS is in danger, as you say - it's just not necessarily from this particular decree.
by saltypal | 2025-10-11 22:23:04+00:00
I hadn't yet seen it when I wrote this, but 2 is pretty much exactly what Arko says:

> Worried about the possibility of hacked accounts or some sort of social engineering, I took action as the primary on-call engineer to lock down the AWS account and prevent any actions by possible attackers.

https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci...
by tptacek | 2025-10-11 22:23:33+00:00
I was just talking about this in a chat today, because 'simonw had at some point talked about getting to the point where he was letting go of reviewing every line of LLM code, and I am nowhere close to that point --- I'll take Claude's word on Tailwind classes as long as the HTML looks right, but actual code, I review line-by-line, token-by-token, and usually rewrite things, even if just for cosmetic reasons.