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by sergiotapia | 2025-10-11 16:02:55+00:00
Graphics could stand to get toned down. It sucks to wait 7 years for a sequel to your favorite game. There was a time where sequels came out while the games were still relevant. We are getting sequels 8 years or more apart for what? Better beard graphics? Beer bottles where the liquid reacts when you bump into it? Who cares!

| Game | Release Year | |-------------------------------------------|--------------| | GTA III | 2001 | | GTA Vice City | 2002 | | GTA San Andreas | 2004 | | Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus | 2002 | | Sly 2: Band of Thieves | 2004 | | Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves | 2005 | | Infamous | 2009 | | Infamous 2 | 2011 |

We are 5 full years into the PS5's lifetime. These are the only games that are exclusive to the console.

| Game | Release Year | |-------------------------------------------|--------------| | Astro's Playroom | 2020 | | Demon's Souls | 2020 | | Destruction AllStars | 2021 | | Gran Turismo 7 | 2022 | | Horizon Call of the Mountain | 2023 | | Firewall Ultra | 2023 | | Astro Bot | 2024 | | Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | 2025 | | Ghost of Yōtei | 2025 |
by jfengel | 2025-10-11 16:03:36+00:00
The market has been overvalued for decades. Even the biggest corrections only take it down to a reasonable valuation. There is never a rational buying opportunity... except that people have lived their entire working lives without seeing a reasonable price. (Maybe... 1987?)

It's very likely that Tuesday the market will see a buying opportunity and send it right back towards record territory. Which is insane.

I think there is a genuinely new factor at work: so much money flows into the market that it has bought up all of the possible future earnings.

That was all following reasonable advice, but that advice assumed that the market could absorb all of that money. If too much flowed in new capital opportunities would arise. But even before the AI bubble, that had ceased to hold.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-11 16:03:42+00:00
This comes up every so often, and I always post something like this :)

It still exists with Gemini protocol and gopher:

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2021/245/The-Rise-of-t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

https://geminiprotocol.net/

https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=gemini_site_setup_and_hosti...

https://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher

I have moved my site to gemini (and gopher), maintaining both is far easier than what I had to go through with the WEB/htmp.
by phil21 | 2025-10-11 16:03:55+00:00
> So a person can hard-wire their Sonos sub, soundbar, and surround speakers into the LAN without fear of badness -- or use one or more of those wirelessly, instead. All without problems.

Eh, I just had to go through and disconnect all ethernet from a bunch of Sonos devices in my house a couple months ago due to issues. It's on my list to go through and connect everything to the LAN when I get the time to make another couple ethernet drops - but mixing wifi/ethernet connected Sonos devices is not a great experience even in 2025.
by pydry | 2025-10-11 16:03:58+00:00
>Looking at graphs with clear improvements on many metrics straight after privatisation, you might think the change would be universally acclaimed. High fives all around. Instead, it's one of the UK's most hated things the government has ever done.

I could tell at the time that they were itching to tell a narrative like yours coz they sent me a survey asking me about every aspect of the service except price and value for money, the one thing I and everybody else who routinely used the service was most furious about.

As a narrative shaping device it does seem to have not been completely wasted though.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-11 16:04:36+00:00
Sure you did. And the link at the top of the page was just a coincidental "banner ad" that you had nothing to do with. If you simply wanted to share that content without the link, it's just plain HTML. Trivial to do.

It's not ethical for you to be doing this kind of submarine advertising on HN without disclosure. Please just admit what you're doing rather than pretending.
Show HN: OpenRun - Deploy web apps declaratively
by ajayvk | 2025-10-11 16:04:39+00:00
I have been building OpenRun, a declarative web app deployment platform https://github.com/openrundev/openrun. It is an open source alternative to Google Cloud Run and AWS App Runner, running on your own hardware.

OpenRun allows defining your web app configuration in a declarative config using Starlark (which is like a subset of Python). Setting up a full GitOps workflow is just one command:

openrun sync schedule --approve --promote github.com/openrundev/openrun/examples/utils.star

This will set up a scheduled sync, which will look for new apps in the config and create them. It will also apply any config updates on existing apps and reload apps with the latest source code. After this, no further CLI operations are required, all updates are done declaratively. For containerized apps, OpenRun will directly talk to Docker/Podman to manage the container build and startup.

There are lots of tools which simplify web app deployment. Most of them use a UI driven approach or an imperative CLI approach. That makes it difficult to recreate an environment. Managing these tools when multiple people need to coordinate changes is also difficult.

Kubernetes is the standard for declarative deployment. OpenRun supports only web apps, there is no plan to add support for deploying databases or queues etc with OpenRun. That makes OpenRun much simpler, a single binary which implements the web server and application server with GitOps driven deployments. Deploying and managing stateful database type services is much more complex. Declarative web app deployment is much easier.

The goal with OpenRun is to support declarative deployment for the web apps while removing the complexity of maintaining multiple YAML config files. See https://github.com/openrundev/openrun/blob/main/examples/uti... for an example config, each app is just one or two lines of config.

OpenRun currently runs on a single machine with an embedded SQLite database or on multiple machines with an external Postgres database. I plan to support OpenRun as a service on top of Kubernetes, to support auto-scaling. OpenRun implements its own web server, instead of using Traefik/Nginx. That makes it possible to implement features like scaling down to zero and RBAC.

OpenRun makes it easy to set up OAuth/OIDC/SAML based auth, with RBAC. This makes it possible to share your apps securely, see https://openrun.dev/docs/use-cases/ for a couple of such use cases. Outside of managed services, I have found it difficult to implement this type of RBAC with any other open source solution.
by ad133 | 2025-10-11 16:04:39+00:00
This is my take as well. I haven’t felt that graphics improvement has “wowed” me since the PS3 era honestly.

I’m a huge fan of Final Fantasy games. Every mainline game (those with just a number; excluding 11 and 14 which are MMOs) pushes the graphical limits of the platforms at the time. The jump from 6 to 7 (from SNES to PS1); from 9 to 10 (PS1 to 2); and from 12 to 13 (PS3/X360) were all mind blowing. 15 (PS4) and 16 (PS5) were also major improvements in graphics quality, but the “oh wow” generational gap is gone.

And then I look at the gameplay of these games, and it’s generally regarded as going in the opposite direction- it’s all subjective of course but 10 is generally regarded as the last “amazing” overall game, with opinions dropping off from there.

We’ve now reached the point where an engaging game with good mechanics is way more important than graphics: case in point being Nintendo Switch, which is cheaper and has much worse hardware, but competes with the PS5 and massively outsells Xbox by huge margins, because the games are fun.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-10-11 16:04:57+00:00
I guess I would like to see defining your global object in a real use case and adding some functions to your global object that make sense, which admittedly once you ask someone to do the creative work of making a use case that is sensible as they start implementing it they might find it is more useful to complete the implementation of that use case rather than releasing a starter tutorial.
by swat535 | 2025-10-11 16:05:00+00:00
This is a heartbreaking story to read. But I think that pushing for assisted suicide as a "fix" like you're suggesting misses the bigger picture. We have a responsibility as a society to support people through these diseases, not cut their lives short because it's tough on everyone else.

The real issue is our broken systems for handling dementia and underfunded homes, overworked staff, no real community nets. Fixing that honors the full life someone led, instead of saying their value drops when they need help. Assisted suicide opens doors to abuse, like pressuring people who feel like burdens.

We owe better to people like your teacher.
by breadislove | 2025-10-11 16:05:15+00:00
Thats actually not correct. Embeddings can handle relationships like “without” or “not.” when trained for it. You need to scale up the training massively to make it generalize it well. The current version of Mixedbread Search supports negatives like "tshirt without stripes". You can check it out on our launch video [1]. We are working on a way more generalized model, which should be able to capture relationships, emotions and much more. The current models are just limited.

[1]: https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/mixedbread-search
by SeanAnderson | 2025-10-11 16:05:21+00:00
I agree that, over a long enough timespan, human innovation is the key driving factor of the overall growth of the stock market and that maximizing exposure to this is the most reliable way to increase wealth.

There's absolutely no guarantees other than that. Yesterday's dip could be the start of the United States' "lost decade." The market could mirror the performance of the Nikkei 225's last 35 years where everyone is underwater for over a generation.

The recent overperformance of the US tech market is an exceptional scenario. People should not be encouraged to believe that if they buy into an exceptional scenario, and continue to blindly hold as their investments go underwater, that it's a sure thing that they will have more money at the time they are forced to exercise for life events. Especially in a time where many investors aren't picking broad, overarching index stocks.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 16:05:28+00:00
Heath centers pay unreal amounts of money for these kinds of commercial products, but in my experience the health centers themselves have very few technical resources. So the real "value" being delivered by the commercial software providers is often the setup, support, and hand-holding provided to customers who pay the crazy amounts.

I imagine there will be a niche but high-paid market integrating these GNUHealth products with existing commercial systems, and ongoing opportunities in supporting health centers using the software with planning, upgrades, and lots of phone & email support.
by carefulfungi | 2025-10-11 16:05:52+00:00
In my experience having had a parent suffer this way, you lose them before they are dead and you grieve along the way. I can understand the "souring" phrasing - in that there is less affection for the altered person in the present even while feeling a duty for their care and a deep love for who they were.

I'm grateful for this story - it's powerful to see examples of autonomy at end of life - and contrasts starkly with the experiences many of us have with aging parents. End of life, at least in the US, can be deeply flawed and misery for all.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-11 16:06:17+00:00
Your claim is almost true if, by “logical argument”, you mean specifically a deductive argument, and you expand “ad hominem” into “irrelevant”.

Bust most real-world news stories and other interesting claims of material fact (and even moreso, claims of things being good or bad) are not syllogisms where the major and minor premise are trivially verifiable and the conclusion either follows of logical necessity or not, but are, to the extent they can be framed as arguments, inductive arguments.

You are also wrong about what ad hominem is (there are plenty of counterarguments to a logical argument that are neither on point not ad honinem), but the bigger issue is that the subject here is mot a logical argument in th sense that would make your claim correct insofar as rejecting all counterarguments that do not falsify the argument by logical necessity.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-11 16:06:36+00:00
Younger generations seem attached to internet access over wifi in an unheallthy, irrational way

Proliferation of consumer hardware that lacks ethernet ports is probably a contributing factor

IMHO, the greatest utility of wifi is wireless keyboards and monitors, not wireless internet access

The ability to remotely control multiple computers not on the same network from the same keyboard, for example

But I've always had a bias for using a (mechanical) external keyboards over built-in laptop keyboards, even before there were wireless keyboards
by username332211 | 2025-10-11 16:06:43+00:00
> You absolutely have lost money. You haven't realized the losses, but you are definitely poorer and should re-evaluate your risk tolerances based on your current worth.

They say long ago somewhere far away an astrologer managed to cause a panic by predicting a devastating volcano. People didn't just flee, they sold their homes for nothing, because they were convinced their homes would be under 3 feet of lava soon.

And that brings us to the key question - is your home worth less, just because everyone on the same streat is selling their houses for pennies? Isn't the opinion of the USGS slightly more important than the opinions of the real estate market?
by phil21 | 2025-10-11 16:06:55+00:00
It's way less about device count, and more about AP density - especially in RF challenging environments.

I pretty much just deploy WiFi as a "line of sight" technology these days in a major city. Wherever you use the wifi you need to be able to visually see the AP. Run them in low power mode so they become effectively single-room access points.

Obviously for IoT 2.4ghz stuff sitting in closets or whatever it's still fine, but with 6ghz becoming standard the "AP in every room" model is becoming more and more relevant.
by pols45 | 2025-10-11 16:07:01+00:00
Simple. No one can predict where the next breakthrough will come from or what it will be, but everyone feels it will come.

This is also not like the other bubbles. It feels more like working on nukes or CRISPR but without the barrier to entry and constraints on rate of change. Market loves fast feedback loops. They can actually feel and touch this stuff unlike other game changers.
by superfunny | 2025-10-11 16:07:05+00:00
I grew up in a small town in New Jersey, about twenty miles west. From the highest point in our town, you could make out the outline of the WTC, far off in the distance.

In 2001, I lived in Chicago, and I took a trip to Italy in September of 2001. I remember flying into Newark airport early that month, and marveling (as I always did) about the New York skyline, including the Empire State Building and the WTC.

I returned eight days later, on the first day that flights resumed after 9/11, and I remember flying into Newark again, and there was still smoking climbing into the air around where the WTC once stood.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 16:07:56+00:00
Death happens to all of us. I’m 51 and as far as I know have no terminal illness. I stress to everyone that I focus on “living a good life. Not a long life”. My wife and I balance living every year like it might be our last and saving for a long life. We don’t put off traveling, concerts, hanging out with friends and other experiences so we can “retire rich”. If we can’t afford expensive travel in our 60s because we spent our younger healthier years traveling - so what? Statistically we won’t be healthier in ten years than we are now and we are both gym rats.

I “retired my wife” at 46 in 2020, eight years into our marriage so she could enjoy her passion projects and I have turned down more lucrative jobs that would have required me to work harder and be in an office so I could work remotely from anywhere - but realistically in US time zones.

Everyone who knows me, knows that I would die with no regrets. As far as my wife who loves me and my grown (step)kids who I know also love me, I don’t owe physical suffering to anyone. Assisted suicide because of Alzheimer’s is more tricky than something like cancer though. What can you do? Sign something in advance where once you can’t pass a cognitive test three months in a row - kill you?
by prmoustache | 2025-10-11 16:08:19+00:00
Dementia and Alzheimer is not something that can simply be managed throught treatment. It is an inexorable descent into suffering for both the person and its entourage with absolutely zero hope of getting better. At best in the last stages you get very short glimpses of normality within hours of confusions, frustrations, anger and pain.

If I am ever diagnosed with one of those, I absolutely want the chance to end my life before I reach a stage I become a burden to my loved ones and can't give a trustable consent. I'd rather go too soon than too late.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-11 16:08:35+00:00
The phrase “cost of living increase” is used to refer to an annual salary increase designed to keep up with inflation.

Typically, you should be receiving at least an annual cost of living increase each year. This is standard practice for every company I’ve ever worked for and it’s a common practice across the industry. Getting a true raise is the amount above and beyond the annual cost of living increase.

If your company has been keeping your salary fixed during this time of inflation, then you are correct that you are losing earning power. I would strongly recommend you hit the job market if that’s the case because the rest of the world has moved on.

In some of the lower wage brackets (not us tech people) the increase in wages has actually outpaced inflation.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-11 16:08:48+00:00
> If he'd been run over by a car, or died of a heart attack at the age of 80, people he knew would remember him as that nice old guy who had a dog and made a lot of art, and was friendly to everyone. Instead he was that 83 year old guy who pissed off everyone, nearly blew up the neighbourhood, and drove like a maniac.

I've really thought about this a lot after seeing a number of family members and friend's family members go through dementia, and it seems like it can go two ways: like this, which is how it went with my grandmother (whose hoarding behavior increased aggressively, and she started slapping people), or how it went with my grandfather on the other side (he became quieter and quieter, watched tv every day while understanding less and less of it, and when you caught his eye would repeat how much he loved you and how much seeing you "made an old man feel good.")

It has something to do with how you feel about the nature of people in general, and whether you feel they are all suspicious and possibly conspiring against you, or that you think they are basically good and want the best for you. When you have all of your mind, you can beat the demons or the angels back with your reasoning enough to have the personality that you want. My grandmother was very loving, and my grandfather was very shrewd and practical. But when that higher function can't regulate you, what shows is if you were someone who taught yourself how to see the good in people, or someone who taught yourself how to see the bad in people.

I suspect I'll end up like my grandfather, as much as I think of myself as like my grandmother. Deep down, I've always been crippled by the feeling that everyone is a wonderful person. My aggression and judgemental nature on a lot of things can really, embarrassingly, be interpreted as me looking for excuses for everyone's behavior.
by techblueberry | 2025-10-11 16:08:52+00:00
I don’t love this argument and I think it comes down to - and maybe this is an elitist anti-populist argument or whatever but, like consequentially - one could say about Walmart that Walmart didn’t destroy small-town American main streets, consumer preferences did. And of course, this is loosely speaking true, but this is tangentially similar to “Fentanyl didn’t ruin small-town America, consumer preferences did.”

Like - consequentially, one can see that before Walmart there were more locally owned stores in small towns. And I think we can argue about whether or not people were happier then. I would guess most people, particularly younger people are just happy to have a place where they can buy more stuff cheaper.

But all those negative externalities still happened. We can still be mad about that; and I think to a certain extent, like fundamentally is our goal to optimize dopamine hacking at the cheapest possible price point? Is there ever an argument to be made that maybe we design a system that doesn’t entirely feed into this pattern? Antitrust law is almost entirely a set of laws that exist to stop the system just doing its thang. Anti-drug and anti-smoking laws as well. Should we stop praying to the altar of consumer preferences in more cases? especially in the growing metaverse/character ai/brain-computer interface era.
by theptip | 2025-10-11 16:09:06+00:00
It’s a useful intuition pump for value investment (check out Benjamin Graham), it pre-dates meme trading. Due to loss aversion humans are irrational about negative price movements, so you need some cognitive strategy to counteract.

Here’s one example: if you have a 401k, CD, bond, or investment fund your investment is illiquid for some lockup period. Therefore you don’t have to mark-to-market every day.

As a matter of accounting facts, you are not forced to book the loss in this scenario.
by cyphar | 2025-10-11 16:09:19+00:00
My understanding is that the SOP for low fuel is that you need to declare a fuel emergency (i.e., "Mayday Mayday Mayday Fuel") one you reach the point where you will land with only reserve fuel left. The point OP was making is that the entire system of fuel planning is designed so that you should never reach the Mayday stage as a result of something you can expect to happen eventually (such as really bad weather). If you land with reserve fuel, it is normally investigated like any other emergency.

Flight plans require you to look at the weather reports of your destination before you take off and pick at least one or two alternates that will let you divert if the weather is marginal. The fuel you load includes several redundancies to deal with different unexpected conditions[1] as well as the need to divert if you cannot land.

There have been a few historical cases of planes running out of fuel (and quite a few cases of planes landing with only reserve fuel), and usually the root cause was a pilot not making the decision to go to an alternate airport soon enough or not declaring an emergency immediately -- even with very dynamic weather conditions you should have enough fuel for a go-around, holding, and going to an alternate.

[1]: https://www.casa.gov.au/guidelines-aircraft-fuel-requirement...
by echelon | 2025-10-11 16:10:00+00:00
I'm sure the horse whip manufacturers had similar things to say about steam powered horses. We just don't think about them much anymore.

The whole world is changing around us and nothing is secure. I would not gamble that the market for our engineering careers is safe with so much disruption happening.

Tools like Lovable are going to put lots of pressure on technical web designers.

Business processes may conform to the new shape and channels for information delivery, causing more consolidation and less duplication.

Or perhaps the barrier to entry for new engineers, in a worldwide marketplace, lowers dramatically. We have accessible new tools to teach, new tools to translate, new tools to coordinate...

And that's just the bear case where nothing improves from what we have today.