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by palata | 2025-10-29 09:49:53+00:00
> Back when software came on physical media we still had patches. We had patches that came through the internet and we had patches that came through physical media.

Did you live at a time where Internet was not a thing?

I remember very clearly buying software on physical media and never, ever "receiving" a single patch. I don't even know how that would have looked... "buy this floppy disk, it's a patch for a bug in the other floppy disk you bought recently"?

I remember being able to buy "the next version", though. But the expectation was that I was buying a "finished" version, not something unfinished that required me to buy all the next versions.
by xorcist | 2025-10-29 09:50:18+00:00
You will probably run some kind of community Android distribution on that phone, like Lineage or Graphene, and those will likely not include this limitation. The world will be worse off, but you and I will be unaffected. Worst case is that future Google will decide to kick us out of the Play Store, but there has been plenty of workarounds for that before.
Have Big Cap companies ruined the world?
by luckydonkey | 2025-10-29 09:51:06+00:00
It seems there is over reliance on the jobs and productivity centered around the activity of a handful of companies.

There are 8B people in the world, but only a handful of countries with good rule of law, good universities, and businesses which support local productivity; some countries maintain low unemployment because of immigration to a handful of productivity centers.

Better than cramming 8B world population into a handful of countries, there needs to be more investment in local rule of law, local infrastructure, local R&D, local education, local universities, and local businesses. Successful countries have a strong sense of community and culture, and so are less likely to become corrupt.

For some places, does that mean more open source investment and buying locally? I think so. Rule of thumb should be buy local as much as you can.

Why am I saying this now? Because the reason behind the recent mass layoffs isn’t AI, it’s increased cost of doing business due to US tariffs. But no one will say that because of fear of retaliation.

The effect from American job losses will trickle out as American consumer demand lessens, and then there will be layoffs in other countries at massive scale. So I can only conclude that the parasitic relationship some economies have developed with Big Cap is the problem. Your main import shouldn’t be workers. Build local, buy local, stay local. But that will only result in a better quality of life on average if there’s rule of law and manageable levels of corruption.

Maybe some of this means making things more low tech. Are big caps ruining the world more than the value they provide? I am undecided. Maybe only Big Pharma has been useful for improving quality of life on a global scale.
by loktarogar | 2025-10-29 09:51:21+00:00
> Rocky's first release happened in 2021. It's presently on its 10th.

I'm going by the text on the page and didn't dig any deeper. On that page it says it's unreleased. Looking at the other comments it's not even the main site. No idea what this site linked is at all - maybe an older version where it was previously hosted, or some sort of malicious attack.

> Any system that can respond to HTTP requests can be used as a web hosting system.

By this I mean its primary function is as a web host, or some kind of software that has a primary purpose of hosting websites. It's not Nginx, or Render or Vercel. An OS can host web software that can host websites, but not specialised for that purpose.

I would not be shocked that a website for general purpose software (like an OS) was hosted on a platform that removed the operations work from their plate, like Github pages or Vercel. They don't need it to be a demo of their work, and it's frankly not a good one if it were.
by jve | 2025-10-29 09:52:40+00:00
Remember firesheep? [1] [2] Go to a cafe with open WiFi, fire up extension and click on user who you want to impersonate.

Now imagine if we still lived in a world like that. Someone visits UN meeting and the rest is your imagination.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/cybersecurity/glossary/firesheep/?srslti...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
by misnome | 2025-10-29 09:53:16+00:00
We accidentally ordered a load of “Generic brand” 100G QSFP from FS. Everything worked and appeared fine from the perspective of the switch and cards, reported OK status for everything, _except_ the lasers never turned on. Switching to an Extreme switch made the switch end work fine, but not the server.

Turns out Mellanox/NVIDIA hardware are _really_ picky about their cards. We bought a box from FS that reprogrammed the compatibility firmware and they worked instantly (FS also offered to return and reprogram but we needed it fast).

This was a big shock after dealing with nothing but CAT5/6/RJ45 that has been stable and common for decades (?).
Ask HN: How do you daily drive your Linux phone?
by hecanjog | 2025-10-29 09:53:20+00:00
If you've managed to do it, what have you learned?

I've personally given up on the pinephone pro as a portable device, though I'm still curious if I can make the uconsole + 4G modem work as a clunky portable.

In the intervening years of experimentation (since ~2014) I have been hopping from flip-phone to flip-phone, first as newer models began to gain better support for MMS messages, then more recently when 3G began to phase out.

The best thing for me personally seems to be to just avoid the whole smartphone lifestyle altogether. Is that the only way, or are there still niches of possibility with linux phones?
by Johanx64 | 2025-10-29 09:53:34+00:00
This is not what a Japanese swordsmith or any craftman does, they obsess over the end result, polishing it until it reaches perfection.

Riced out Neovim/emacs setup doesn't and hasn't ever led to quality software in any shape or form, neither it ever will.

If it did, world would be full of polished, high quality software, what instead we have is endless sea of garbage produced by these cough, cough "craftsmen" - that obsess about everything else, but the actual end product.
Show HN: I built a free alternative to FutureMe after greed ruined it
by mrayushsoni | 2025-10-29 09:53:35+00:00
I've been using Futureme since I was 16, it was this pure, simple corner of the internet where I'd write letters to my future self, getting those time-capsule emails that hit like a gut punch of nostalgia and growth. It was free, and ran on the founder's goodwill for 20 years, costing him peanuts compared to the joy it brought to millions.

After being acquired, it they slapped it with a $9/year subscription or a $120 lifetime fee for storing text and sending an email? It's a total scam. As a founder who's built multiple companies from scratch, I know the real cost is pennies per user. This isn't innovation, it's lazy, soul-sucking greed turning our personal promises into a "luxury item." I'm gutted, offended, and pissed off. Hell no, I'm not accepting this.

So, I channeled that rage into building FuturePost.app, not some half-assed copy, but a superior, free-forever beast designed to outlast us all. It's my legacy: ultra-efficient, no ads, no data selling.

I'm using the old school tech stack - Ruby on Rails with Postgres hosted on Heroku that will outlive most of us.

It hurts to see a project soo good getting destroyed overnight, I've used it for everything, birthday wishes to my kid self, pep talks during tough times. Now it's "premium"? If you've ever felt that sting of a beloved free tool turning greedy, share your story. I promise FuturePost will stay here forever without looting you.
by LandR | 2025-10-29 09:54:58+00:00
This is my thinking with photography, I love photography but I'm still not very good at it. So I use a D7100, which is probably considered a shitty relic nowadays compared to more modern stuff. But right now, the camera isn't the bottleneck for me getting good photos, it's me. The camera is still way better a camera than I am a photographer.

I'll get a better camera, when I'm a better photographer and the camera is actually the limiting factor, but I expect that is very very very far off.
by ZuLuuuuuu | 2025-10-29 09:55:09+00:00
No, there were quite a few Symbian models which used capacitive touch, combined with a modern Qt based Symbian OS. Check out "Symbian Belle" and the phone models released with that OS version. I loved my Nokia 603 :)

But I think they only released such models with Symbian for a couple of years, before switching to Meego and then later Windows Mobile OS.
by submeta | 2025-10-29 09:55:09+00:00
Well, very valid points you made. I must admit.

Edit: But why do you believe that my super polished and streamlined WezTerm is less worth than a japanese sword? :) Which value has a perfectly made sword in a world today? Which value has a perfecly made machs tea? And other things only the maker or a few select people value?
by invisibleink | 2025-10-29 09:55:25+00:00
The point is, every new technology attracts its share of romantic skeptics, and every time they fail then they retreat to the same tired line:

"Just because all those other inventions didn't wreck humanity doesn't mean this one won't"

But that’s not an argument, it’s an evasion.

Given past inventions didn’t destroy us despite similar concerns, then the burden is on you to show why this one is fundamentally different and uniquely catastrophic.
by jimmySixDOF | 2025-10-29 09:55:57+00:00
AI-RAN is the strategic play here because it's unknown (outside of research lab NDAs ?) what potential real-time physical AI/ML implementation will have on the future of edge processing like organizing the low-layer 6G spectrum contention mechanisms. It's a near certainty that custom AI accelerators are a part of every radio base station in the near future so this is not cash investment but a new product line Joint Venture similar to the Intel story.
by tb8424 | 2025-10-29 09:56:17+00:00
+1 on this. There's a big difference for some between the 15 dollar whiskey and the 35 dollar whiskey, probably another jump between 35 and 80 dollar whiskey, and then after that it starts getting into crazy marginal gains. If you drink 15 dollar whiskey you'd get 90% of your gains from just bumping it up to 35 versus going straight for the 300 dollar bottle.

Same it was with me for coffee, I enjoy single origin vs supermarket coffee, but after that it got to a point where I couldn't realistically make up the difference.

There seems to be an 80/20 effect here on how much you should deep-dive into these tangent domains in your life.
by luis_cho | 2025-10-29 09:56:24+00:00
This reminds me o sharp knifes argument. In programming you may want to provide tools that can shoot you in the foot, if the alternative is not as powerful. here is a conversation with DHH about it [0]. For instance, you may consider dynamic languages if the alternative is too much type gymnastics.

The first time I've seen the argument was in the prag-prog magazine that sadly is not active anymore.

[0] VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vagyIcmIGOQ&t=8396
by drcxd | 2025-10-29 09:56:54+00:00
Also tried that, but I did not noticed the memory leak problem, since I only played about 1 hour. There are other minor issues about using Linux, for example, my input method does not work in the Steam chat window, but works everywhere else. Anyway, Linux is much more cleaner than Windows and it is a overall better development environment, I prefer it over Windows now.
by berkes | 2025-10-29 09:57:07+00:00
> Consumer protections strong, pro business not so much.

That's not the reason the EU has no unified capital market.

The reason is that member states are reluctant to hand over control and power to EU. Just look at e.g. Eurobonds and the shitshow around that. Especially the rise of populist anti-EU parties all over, are causing this.

Ironically, the parties that "freedom lovers" like Musk are funding and pushing, are the ones causing the EU to not function as a single capital market and "not having a business friendly environment".
by kace91 | 2025-10-29 09:57:23+00:00
An issue is that it’s not only the corpos, there’s also an increase of individuality that has become the norm.

For example, try to learn from an online resource and you’ll see that the most popular sources (YouTubers, twitchers, etc) are all preparing a rug pull to a non free resource, slipping undisclosed ads as content or straight up selling snake oil.

I grew up assuming that a random guy on the internet had always genuine intentions, even those who were assholes. Now the default is either a paid account, a bot, or someone trying to grind for personal gain. Everything’s adversarial.
by drcongo | 2025-10-29 09:57:29+00:00
Nobody realy talks about the knock on effects of the attention economy. I opted out of it a long time ago, I despise YouTubers, TikTokers etc. because of the world they're shaping, and it's not just the injection of mindless rubbish into people's brains, it's real world effects like you outline in your second paragraph. It amazes me when I see seemingly smart people on HN talking about how they're addicted to YouTube "Shorts", it's like being addicted to labotomies.
by xxs | 2025-10-29 09:57:43+00:00
Jigsaws make rather poor cuts (can use router afterwards but that's significantly more involved than a circular saw). Personally, I'd not use the jigsaw for pieces I'd hang on the wall, esp. not use jigsaw free hand. On hardboard - no direct experience with, yet I'd expect it doesn't like moisture, so it has to be properly sealed.
by avadodin | 2025-10-29 09:58:13+00:00
Forgive me for not putting in the effort this deserves, but the description of pointers in this thread reads a lot like the current description of Fil-C pointers from the main site.

What is the 64-bit-presenting representation of pointers in Fil-C?

That is, what does %p return and how does that work as a pointer?
by fcpk | 2025-10-29 09:58:14+00:00
But this is changing. Already in multiple countries(and soon possibly EU wide) there will be only play integrity(strong verdicts) to enforce availability of many services(if not using ios, which is the same locked in syndrome).

Yes some banks still allow classic clunky 2FA(sms, card readers, sometimes SIM generators) but it'll all eventually go away in favor of "locked and favored" os unless legislation fights against it.
by kleiba | 2025-10-29 09:58:30+00:00
Also, re: "a tiny handful of incredible nerds" - page 20 of this [0] document lists the sales figures for Infocom titles from 1981 to 1986: it sums up to over 2 million shipped units.

Granted, that number does not equal the number "nerds" who played the games because the same player will probably have bought multiple titles if they enjoyed interactive fiction.

However, also keep in mind that some of the games in that table were only available after 1981, i.e., at a later point during the 1981-1986 time frame. Also, the 80s were a prime decade for pirating games, so more people will have played Infocom titles than the sales figures suggest - the document itself mentions this because they sold hint books for some titles separately.

[0] https://ia601302.us.archive.org/1/items/InfocomCabinetMiscSa...
by coffeefirst | 2025-10-29 09:58:37+00:00
Yep. I was playing around with both Atlas and Comet and, security and privacy issues aside, I can’t figure out what they’re for or what the point is.

Except one: it gives them the default search engine and doesn’t let you change it.

I asked Atlas about this and it told me that’s true, the AI features are just a hook, this is about lock in.

Make of that what you will.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-29 09:58:39+00:00
The water is hotter in a commercial dishwasher. I forget the exact numbers but it's substantially more. What the commercial dishwasher doesn't have is an "oven style" heating element running around the perimeter of the bottom (or somewhere thereabouts) to dry the dishes. Most residential dishwashers have this. This is why some dishes say "top rack only". The water coming out the top isn't any different. It's that you're moving the dish farther from the hot element. So a dish that goes through a commercial dishwasher sees higher average temp but substantially lower peak temp.
by npteljes | 2025-10-29 09:59:15+00:00
Funny that they do that after the purchases have been made. Goes to show how much bundled services upset the user-manufacturer relationship, to the detriment of the user.

Using a service is an ongoing relationship, and relationships change over time, sometimes for the worse. This needs to be factored in as risk, every time someone makes a purchase that includes a service.
by b112 | 2025-10-29 10:00:55+00:00
I think you're missing my point. Your code is your resume. It's also an advertisement for whether your product is worth donating to, helping with, buying, and whether you are an excellent coder and project maintainer or not.

A CVE, bogus or not, needs to be handled. If you don't, it reflects upon you. Hands down. No amount of "but it's for free" works to negate this. Ever. No one can demand anything of you, but your reputation will 100% be graded upon how you deal with such things.

This is the way the world works. This is how reputation works. Get over it. Deal with it. Understand it. No, you're not going to ever change this, unless you genetically engineer new humans. This is how humans, and human society has existed for millennia. You will never, ever, ever, change this. You will never explain an alternate to anyone. Ever.

Even if the CVE is bogus, you need to set the record straight, and it's almost akin to libel against your project and you. My suggestions about having a page listing all CVEs are fairly clear and to the point.

These suggestions help people asses your project and your reliability and competency. Yet at the same time? They reduce your effort and work!

Instead of debating endlessly on a mailing list, and instead of repeated bug reports, a well placed security page will take the lion's bulk of such things, answer them, and leave the project team free to not deal with questions on each CVE.

Such a list gives you an authoritative reason why the CVE is triaged as it is, you can point mailing list inquiries at it, WONTFIX bug reports at it, and you can even put your project's stance at the top of the page!

What I've been saying in these posts, is that organization overrules chaos. And that even if some weirdos disagree with you, or have silly expectations, you're crystal clear on things.

I think this is what you want. Your concerns about what people should expect, are dealt with via this method. I actually think we're aligned here, except (perhaps?) you think doing this is work.

It's not. It's the opposite of work. It's saving time.

Why?

Because you will never, ever, ever change human behaviour. Ever. Literally nothing has ever changed in, for example, how commercial transactions occur. This exact complaint could happen today over a used car:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/537889-ol...

Every problem you've had with humans has been done endlessly billions of trillions of times. Just because it's a software project, doesn't mean it's any different than any other project. There have been volunteer, for free works since the inception of humanity. There have been people with unrealistic expectations, and the tug and pull therein.

I'll reiterate my original stance, just make it clear. Make it clear that you're dealing with CVEs. Part of this makes it eminently clear that the fly in the ointment is the persistent person with crazy expectations. Not your project.
by hunglee2 | 2025-10-29 10:01:29+00:00
"the media" indeed has a credibility crisis but I suspect the rise of alternative narratives about the world (social media) is the main factor behind rise of a sense of generalised distrust, which I'm sure we're all feeling right now.

What we call 'truth' is really just consensus (hence the importance of cancelling / de-platforming / downvoting etc - techniques to secure that consensus) and narrative violations from competing versions of truth which are able to persist is deeply disturbing. We're going to have to get used it - certainty is one of things 'the media' once provided to us but will never be able to do so again
by jonathanstrange | 2025-10-29 10:02:58+00:00
> The fact that mobile phones aren't yet just a standard type of portable computer with an open-ish harware/driver ecosystem that anybody can just make an OS for (and hence allow anybody to just install what they want) is kind of wild IMHO.

It is worth mentioning that the push against open phones never came from big tech but from governments everywhere in the world. Tightly controlled communications was and still is the status quo. People sometimes forget that e.g. in Germany telecommunication used to be a government authority and it was prohibited by penal law to even open a telephone. Things like weak encryption standards and tightly closed down proprietary communication chips inside phones were always intentional.

None of this justifies or explains Google's actions but it puts things into perspective. Personal computing is an outlier, and if home computers had been connected to a network from the start they would probably have been as tightly controlled as all other communication devices have always been.

Unfortunately, the control authorities still exist and seek to gain more power over computing devices and their goals mostly align with the commercial interests of large tech companies, who have basically just become alternative telco providers. So, I estimate that personal computing will be more or less eradicated relatively soon.
by 0x0 | 2025-10-29 10:03:01+00:00
I'm sure there's lots of x86_64 specific code in the macOS userland that is much more than just a recompile - things like safari/javascriptcore JIT, various quartz composer core animation graphics stack and video encoder decoder stack libraries, as well as various objective-c low level pointer tagging and message passing ABI shenanigans and so on. This is probably why 32bit intel mac app support was dropped pretty hard pretty fast, as the entire runtime and userland probably required a lot of upkeep. As just one example, 32bit intel objective-c had "fragile instance variables" which was a can of worms.
by kkan | 2025-10-29 10:04:51+00:00
I think that is the main issue. 90% games is a lot, but is not nearly enough when the most popular multiplayer titles simply do not work due to usage of anti-cheat. For example you cannot play the new Battlefield 6.

As for GIMP, while I understand it can do many things as Photoshop, it is not close in terms of features and the UX is unfortunately terrible.