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by Shorn | 2025-10-31 03:56:43+00:00
This, with TypeScript strictness cranked all the way up. MUI for the component library, plus Playwright for integration-testing and hoverfly to stub/fake/mock the backend, and Open-API to define the APIs between app -> bff -> backend.

This stack, plus claude-code, with the whole project fully automated (i.e. claude-code run all the parts easily) - is a literal productivity super-power. You can crank out entire complicated LoB apps, 10 - 30 pages of distinct, medium-complicated functionality in about a week, if not less - instead of weeks or months. Fully tested, production-ready codebase, not prototype-tier/vibe-code.
by Cleonis | 2025-10-31 03:57:50+00:00
The rewrite of section 2 of the article is now pushed out to the web page.

Repeating the links: Page dedicated to the case of a potential proportional to the cube of the displacement: http://cleonis.nl/physics/phys256/stationary_action.php

From F=ma to Hamilton's stationary action: http://cleonis.nl/physics/phys256/energy_position_equation.p...

There are other demonstrations available that go from the newtonian formulation to Hamilton's stationary action. I believe the one in my resource is the most direct demonstration. (As in: a more direct path doesn't exist, I believe.)

(If you are interested, I can give links to the other demonstrations that I know about.)
by econ | 2025-10-31 03:58:29+00:00
To needlessly elaborate a bit more.

Any query string may prevent caching in some browsers (not sure which or if they still do)

File paths in my view are to organize files hierarchically not for hash or version numbers.

Html like <img src="logo.jpg"> looks neat and sophisticated. You can teach it in 5 seconds. If more characters are needed I expect something huge in return. For example styling it individually or as a group of things is a huge benefit. lazy loading is also HUGE.
by lynndotpy | 2025-10-31 03:59:11+00:00
There is no reason it could not happen, our country (the United States) has rapidly and radically changed in the past 10 months and 10 days. The only longer shutdown was in 2018-2019 during Trump's first term, and this shutdown is looking to blow past that milestone.

I'm happy these posts aren't getting flagged any longer, though. For the centrality of the United States in the tech industry (and vice versa), US politics are unfortunately also the most relevant story in the tech industry for any time horizon of a month or longer. Even Trump's "Long Live the King" announcement from near the start of his term was not taken seriously. It was quickly flagged here.

It sucks, but Trump is just the biggest tech story of the day every day, by virtue of being the latent factor.

There is no reason that can't happen. But consider also what it will mean if the government does re-open. I think it's much more likely than not that it reopens under Republican terms.

It sounds dramatic but it is worth describing plainly: This administration is destructive, and it has already been the end of many things as we know it.
by pseingatl | 2025-10-31 03:59:21+00:00
Tsk, tsk: the author of this piece fails to mention the long-lost--but recently found--Joan Anderson letter, written by Neal Casady. Kerouac himself attributed Casady's style in the letter to helping him find a style appropriate to Road. Kerouac considered the letter to be a literary masterpiece in its own right and arranged to have Ginsberg, then affiliated with Ace paperbacks, to submit it for publication. Ginsberg sent the only copy to a friend in San Francisco to be submitted to a little press in San Francisco and then invented a story about the letter--at this point legally a manuscript?--being lost overboard off a houseboat. The little press went out of business. Ginsberg’s lie probably discouraged any effort to find the letter. When the little press went out of business, the landlord dumped its office’s contents left behind in the building’s lobby. An accountant working in the building went through this garbage and carried some of it home, where it found a place in his attic.

Fast forward forty years. The accountant dies. His daughter comes to clean out her father’s house. She asks a friend to help. They find a box and an envelope: Casady’s Joan Anderson letter.

The Kerouac Estate is quite a legal mess. A Florida court found that a purported will was fraudulent, but I'll leave that issue aside because the Estate has been a good steward of Kerouac's writing--unlike the Joyce Estate.

Complicated rules attach to letters. A physical letter is the property of the recipient, but IP rights remain in its author, as J.D. Salinger found out when his letters went up for auction. Salinger was saved by Peter Norton--you may have heard of his "Utilities" who bought the letters and gave them to Salinger. Casady's heirs have a claim. Other rules apply to manuscripts. This one was thrown in the trash and California has rules that vest ownership in anyone who finds treasure in someone else’s disposed-of trash, such as the accountant. A Sotheby’s auction was halted at the last minute. A settlement was reached among the parties and the letter now is archived at Emory University.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-31 03:59:32+00:00
Capitulate? That sounds like rhetoric that somehow blames democrats for the state of this mess, but the truth is that there aren't enough democrats in congress for them to matter.

There's enough republicans in the House of Representatives for a vote amongst party lines to pass a budget there. That's not a problem for them

There's also enough republicans in the Senate to make it happen with a simple majority, which they posess. They surely know this.

Republicans can end the debate and vote on a bill -- including one that can temporarily get things moving -- any time they want to. They've got the numbers to do that.

It's not a theory. There's precedent. They've made that shift previously[1] in the not-so-distant past.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option
by thephyber | 2025-10-31 04:00:21+00:00
I suspect this shutdown will last a while, but I don’t think Republicans will have enough votes to open anything without Democrat buy-in. R needs 20% of the Ds to vote for R bills to get anything budget-changing passed (except the 1 Reconciliation per year that only requires a simple majority). Short of Dems feeling some insane pressure (eg. Military threats or somehow defunding of core government tasks like police, education, medical, Social Security), I don’t see that happening right now.
by Figs | 2025-10-31 04:00:34+00:00
If this continues for much longer, local/state governments can, should, and eventually will commandeer the taxes that currently go to the federal government. There is no point in paying federal tax if the federal government is no longer functional. States are already trying to step up with emergency declarations to enable financial support to work around SNAP being unfunded; passing state laws to redirect useless federal taxes to fund state food programs in order to prevent the alternative of immediate violent revolution as millions of people go hungry is an obvious course of action when they exhaust that capacity...
by atmavatar | 2025-10-31 04:01:49+00:00
Yes.

As the majority, the Republicans in the Senate can unilaterally eliminate the filibuster rule, then pass anything they like. They don't need Democrats' votes at all. Republicans have already done this in the past when they wanted to ram through a bunch of judicial appointments and again when they wanted to get several Supreme Court justices through without any Democrat support.

The only thing stopping them is that the Republican party wants this shutdown to happen. It gives them another example to point to when they want to claim that government never works, license to harm government workers they don't like, an easy way to have government workers leave on their own, an excuse to fire government workers they want to get rid of, and another thing to blame on Democrats (because their base doesn't know any better).
by mmis1000 | 2025-10-31 04:02:06+00:00
Sometimes I wonder, why people ask AIs to validate their output by performing tool search. But not do the search or even open the reference AI provided by themselves.

In any case, whether it is real person or AI do the task for you. It's the user who submitted the result to be responsible for it. Why do people think it's bad to do this with real human and suddenly be OK to do this with an AI?
by agentcoops | 2025-10-31 04:02:48+00:00
The _absence_ of visual imagery is binary: you cannot see images at all or, to whatever extent, you can. Those who do have any mental imagery at all, however, fall on a scale. There are numerous studies of certain real downsides to aphantasia, notably tied to episodic memory, which don't seem to be present in those simply with diminished visual imagery.
by kerabatsos | 2025-10-31 04:03:11+00:00
Many great authors are deeply flawed people. Tolstoy was not a good person, and Steinbeck was a complete a-hole. The list is long. But the classics they create are no less classic.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/books/fea...

https://www.rbth.com/history/330411-why-leo-tolstoy-was-terr...
by musicale | 2025-10-31 04:04:35+00:00
Hershey's standard milk chocolate bothers me (and many others) because of the spoiled milk/butyric acid smell, which is due to their original manufacturing process.

However, some people in the US enjoy Hershey's, are not sensitive to the smell, and want the chocolate they grew up with (they might also like the acidic/tangy taste.)

But certain varieties of Hershey chocolate (Symphony, Special Dark) do not bother me as much.
by usernomdeguerre | 2025-10-31 04:05:37+00:00
The issue is that there is a place where this model ~is working. It's in China and Russia. The GFW, its Russian equivalent, and the national security laws binding all of their tech companies and public discussion do exactly these things in a way that has allowed their leadership to go unchallenged for decades now.

The rest of the world isn't stupid or silly for suggesting these policies. They're following a proven effective model for the outcomes they are looking for.

We do ourselves a disservice by acting like there is some inherent flaw in it.
by tombert | 2025-10-31 04:06:23+00:00
I didn't say it was the only reason to take a job, and I clarified that even at the time. It's perfectly fine to factor in other benefits to the job, (e.g. how much you like the work, how much you like your coworkers, etc.). I actually quit that BigCo and took a paycut to work at a different company because it was soul-draining. When I say "we all do this for the money", I'm saying that this is a necessary component for the job, and ultimately if they stopped paying me then I would not work there anymore, even if I otherwise love the work and environment.

Again, to be clear, I said all this at the time.

I don't think the hot girlfriend analogy applies in this case; if I had a hot girlfriend and she stops being hot, if I liked her I probably wouldn't up and leave her. If a company stops paying, I will absolutely leave.
by jmtulloss | 2025-10-31 04:07:43+00:00
A lot of commenters are focusing on the legalities and likelihood of backpay, which is relevant but I tend to agree with you… it’ll get paid because it’s in the interest of both parties to pay their employees what they’re owed.

We’re staring down the barrel of two missed paychecks though. If you're living paycheck to paycheck you’re getting desperate. If you’re living with about 1 month of emergency buffer… that buffer is one paycheck away from gone. It’s a cash flow issue
by agentcoops | 2025-10-31 04:07:53+00:00
No, certainly not. I was trying to pose a thought experiment that draws one's attention to the how of their thinking more than "think of an apple." Even if you can't figure out the person's eye color, did you bring to mind a blurred workplace image that just didn't have enough detail in the right place? For an aphantasic, especially if you don't even know this person's name, it's really a sort of experience of an empty thought in the way that thinking about an apple isn't.

It's hard to write about these things...
by R_D_Olivaw | 2025-10-31 04:08:55+00:00
I just finished watching the Animatrix, so forgive me if this is slightly off but,

This strikes me as precisely how we get ai companies that will build, run, and market themselves all while maintaining a consistent "narrative brand arc" that makes us root for them.

I do see your usage cases, but would probably do better in Saleslandia packaged and narrowed down for each particular niche.

I'm curious of this might be beneficial to Writers/world builders.
Show HN: Dwellable – The app I built after waiving home inspection during Covid
by rkrishnan2012 | 2025-10-31 04:08:56+00:00
When my wife and I bought our first home in 2020, it was peak COVID. Our agent actually asked us to waive the home inspection, which was terrifying. I ended up walking through the house myself with a set of handwritten notes: “check if Kitchen outlets are GFI,” “make sure toilet flushes”, “test the bath fan”, etc.

That experience became the seed for Dwellable, a home maintenance and inspection app for homeowners like us who didn’t know where to start (both before and after buying).

The app automatically pulls your property records (square footage, year built, fuel type, etc.) and uses AI to recommend reminders and seasonal maintenance tasks. It’s free right now, built entirely native on iOS and Android.

On the side, I’ve been experimenting with VLMs (vision language models) to analyze photos that users take during inspections, for things like spotting corrosion or damaged caulking.

If you’ve ever felt lost after closing on a house, this might resonate.

Tech stack:

- Backend: Python + gRPC, RabbitMQ

- AI: Perplexity + OpenAI

- iOS: SwiftUI

- Android: Fully compose

Would love feedback!
by jrockway | 2025-10-31 04:09:21+00:00
Something burned into my brain is "call 836-7000 or visit transitchicago.com" which was an announcement that played seemingly every 30 seconds on CTA buses back when I lived there. I was in California once and tried 312-836-7000 as the loyalty card phone number at Safeway and it worked. So I guess I'm not the only one. (847- 773- etc. would probably also work. That's why I thought the message was so cool... they got the number in every Chicagoland area code!)

I have shared this story on Reddit before and I got banned from r/AskReddit for "doxing". That phone number is super secret and must not be publicized! Whoops!
by electroly | 2025-10-31 04:12:05+00:00
The other replies covered the answer about immutability well, but I have the further question: why isn't this built into languages as syntax sugar, so that OP's suggested line would work with immutable structures?

As a dilettante at programming language design, I have my own toy language. It uses exclusively immutable data structures (C++ "immer"). I present it to the programmer as simple value semantics. `obj.foo[5].bar.a = 2` works and sets `obj` to a new structure where the path through `foo`, `bar`, to `a` has all been rewritten. Since I put it in as a language feature, users don't have to learn about lenses. Why isn't this technique more common in programming language design? Is it so offensive that the syntax `obj.a = 2` ends up rebinding `obj` itself? The rule in my language is that assignment rebinds the leftmost "base" of a chain of `.` field and `[]` array index accesses on the LHS. I'm ignorant of the theory or practical consideration that might lead a competent designer not to implement it this way.
by ottah | 2025-10-31 04:12:28+00:00
Man, just no. You not getting it is absolutely the reason children need independent access to knowledge. Growing up as a gay kid in the 90s was not easy, and I seriously doubt I would have managed it without finding community online. Life can be very isolating if you don't have the machinery to fit in, and you can't rely on parents to understand. People like me tend to find their own exit, the internet was a life line.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-31 04:12:47+00:00
If somebody built a service to try out planetscale or the fact that planetscale was constantly hyped around / sponsored some big names atleast in the youtube scale, I am pretty sure that some people went there thinking about the free forever and everything...

I do think it was a little bad move because now you can't even test planetscale and the memories of its free stuff still might haunt some people
by collingreen | 2025-10-31 04:13:46+00:00
Is the Air Force still being paid? We've seen a complete willingness to have the military turned against the people and the tech gap between us citizens and the fully equipped military is staggering. A couple drone swarms and even hungry folks will have to take permanent cover and that's just the stuff declassified. It's an interesting time where a very small number of folks can effectively hold off the entire citizenry for long enough that the "millions of people go hungry" problem solves itself. Pick which regions get food first and you wont even have to bother with things like gerrymandering anymore.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-31 04:15:10+00:00
Dang, that's mind boggling - especially if I keep in mind that a book series like lord of the rings is mere kilobytes if saved as plain text.

Having 86 TB of plain text/source code - I can't fathom the scale, honestly

Are you absolutely sure there aren't binaries in there (honestly asking, the scale is just insane from my perspective - even the largest book compilation like Anna's isn't approaching that number - if you strip out images ... And that's pretty much all books in circulation - with multiple versions per title)
by aytigra | 2025-10-31 04:15:20+00:00
For me visualization by itself is mostly useless, it is more of a concept of something arousing happening and vague visual flashes of something similar I have seen. It somewhat works, but nowhere near as effective as real pictures.

What works for me - is imagining sensations, they could enhance both real and vague pictures, and I feel them directly in the body which makes them very effective.
by lynndotpy | 2025-10-31 04:15:21+00:00
As others have pointed out, this has gone on for a full month and this is increasingly unsustainable for people.

Essential employees were already guaranteed backpay, but in 2019, on day 26 of the 35-day shutdown during his first term, Trump signed GEFTA into law, guaranteeing that furloughed employees also got backpay.

But earlier this month, the White House issued a memo contradicting that, saying furloughed workers aren't entitled to backpay, and the OMB edited articles to delete references to the GEFTA.

Even though the GEFTA is law, we're seeing the Trump administration break laws all the time with no accountability, and so a broke federal employee would reasonably not anticipate a realistic, timely, and achievable legal recourse for a GEFTA violation while they're just trying to feed their family.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-10-31 04:15:43+00:00
Is it some sort of "hacker" thing to use hexadecimal numbers even in small for loops?

> for (let i = 0x0; i < 0x3; i++) { document.title = t + i; // Each burst performs 3 sequential updates } this.counter += 0x3;

I suppose the thing is AI generated anyways. Oh well
by somenameforme | 2025-10-31 04:16:11+00:00
And we're back to framing. LBJ didn't teach. He was immediately assigned as principal, with no relevant experience at all, as a gig to earn some cash for school. In other words - connections. And he was so moved that he quit after his first year never to return to anything education related ever again.

There's been a large effort to reimagine LBJ because having an exploitative racist as the progenitor of many of these things (which you mentioned) is kind of awkward, but reality is always so much more interesting than fiction, precisely because of such things.

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In the future you'll see something similar with the Amish. There's about 400k Amish in America growing at about 2.5% per year, thanks to healthy fertility rates. And they do, when they see it as necessary, vote (as they did for Trump). As their population continues to swell, and election margins continue to narrow, they're going to be capable of deciding elections in the US in the foreseeable future.

And so you're going to see a Republican suddenly become a hero for everything the Amish care about. Is it because he cares about the Amish? No, but that's certainly how it'll be framed. As an aside, I find the idea of the Amish as kingmakers hilariously appropriate. I guess the meek truly will inherit the Earth!
by marcus_holmes | 2025-10-31 04:16:20+00:00
Yeah, this is always the response. But it's wildly impractical - there are only so many developer hours available. The budget is limited, so not everyone gets what they want immediately. This should be obvious.

Part of the problem is that the novices that create these applications don't consider all the edge cases and gnarly non-golden-path situations, but the experienced devs do. So the novice slaps together something that does 95% of the job with 5% of the effort, but when it goes wrong the department calls in IT to fix it, and that means doing the rest of the 95% of the effort. The result is that IT is seen as being slow and bureaucratic, when in fact they're just doing the fecking job properly.
by bruce511 | 2025-10-31 04:16:21+00:00
I agree, people can learn and appreciate if given the chance. But they've more important things to do so changing OS is just a distraction.

I know, techies love to love or hate the OS. Here there are endless threads waxing lyrical about Windows, MacOS or say dozen Linux installs. But 99% of users could care less.

It's kinda like cars. Petrol heads will talk cars for ages. Engine specs. What brand of oil. Gearbox ratios. Whereas I'm like 99% of people - I get in my car to go somewhere. Pretty much the only "feature" a car needs is to make me not worry about getting there.

So for 97% of people the "best" OS is the one they don't notice. The one that's invisible because they want to run a program, and it just runs.

The problem with switching my mom to Linux is not the OS. It's all the programs she uses. And while they might (or might not) be "equivalent" they're not the same. And I'm not interested in re-teaching her every bit of software, and she's not interested in relearning every bit of software.

She's not on "a journey" of software discovery. She has arrived. Changing now is just a waste of time she could be gardening or whatever.

The reason it'll never be the year for Linux Desktop is the same reason it's always been - it's not there already.
by charcircuit | 2025-10-31 04:17:03+00:00
I think they are different in that:

1. People are not harassing traffic enforcement, like they are harassing immigration enforcement.

2. Waze's information incentivizes people to follow traffic laws more deligently than they would which results in safer driving conditions for other people driving. ICEBlock did not have the benefit of making people follow immigration law better, or turn themselves in faster.
by pickledish | 2025-10-31 04:17:08+00:00
Sadly I don't think it works this way, at least IIUC -- the state can't withhold taxes from the federal government, because those taxes (from biweekly paychecks anyway) don't go through the states -- they go directly to the federal government. Some states are trying to pass laws to still make headway in this area, for reasons like you suggest, for example NY:

https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2025/10/state-lawmaker...

(it's a really interesting situation since I think I read somewhere that the reason federal income taxes are directly remitted to the federal government today, is specifically to disallow this kind of state retaliation)