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by throw_m239339 | 2025-10-20 08:04:57+00:00
If someone could help me reverse engineer the Zoom ARQ96 firmware in order to fix the stupid LFO mod amount implementation (LFO is basically unusable), add velocity note control to the step sequencer, and why not, add basic USB MIDI Input recording support, and ideally, a chord mode, it would be great...

https://zoomcorp.com/en/us/digital-instruments/digital-instr...

For the LFO mod amounts I imagine the values are hardcoded somewhere, so it shouldn't be that hard. Adding a new UI for velocity levels or a chord mode would be more complex though. Even better if there was a Zoom engineer around here who could guide me a bit...
by tromp | 2025-10-20 08:06:20+00:00
I implemented the Calculus of Constructions in untyped lambda calculus in order to shorten the 643 byte C program computing Loader's Number to 1850 bits (under 232 bytes) [1], as one of the milestones reached by my functional busy beaver function [2].

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-a-n...

[2] https://oeis.org/A333479
by veltas | 2025-10-20 08:07:16+00:00
Have you tried collaborating with Forth? There's a lot of documented history of people doing so in industry when it was actually used, and more recently I've usually found Forth codebases approachable and easy to follow.

Personally I think this is the pay-off for writing the code in the first place because Forth is very difficult to write in a clear way, if you actually manage to do it you've probably made it very clear to follow because otherwise it's hard to finish your project and make it work at all.
by happymellon | 2025-10-20 08:07:16+00:00
Check the URL, we had an issue a couple of years ago with the Workspaces. US East was down but all of our stuff was in EU.

Turns out the default URL was hardcoded to use the us east interface and just by going to workspaces and then editing your URL to be the local region got everyone working again.

Unless you mean nothing is working for you at the moment.
by atoav | 2025-10-20 08:07:30+00:00
A very wide used command line program that prints out the contents of a file on a terminal. Chances are pretty high cat is installed on your system already.

Example: If you're navigating to the folder of a git repository in your terminal and quickly want to see what the readme says without having to open a file manager or going to the website on github/gitlab/codeberg you can run:

cat README.md

Which shows the text stored in that file directly in your terminal window.

bat does essentially the same, only fancier, with syntax highlighting, some formatting and colors.
by lproven | 2025-10-20 08:09:02+00:00
Are you sure? Your earlier comments expressed uncertainty if it was WordPerfect at all.

WordPerfect on the PC was a very niche app before version 4.2 which was the big hit. I knew a tiny handful of places that had copies of the older version but they weren't running it.

It is on the edge of before my time -- I started my first job in late 1988 -- but before WP 4.2, WordStar still dominated, with some specialist users running DisplayWrite or MultiMate. I'm not American and I think the US market was different with shareware taken slightly more seriously, so more presence of PC Write, and maybe XyWrite or other tools little seen in the British Isles.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-20 08:09:08+00:00
> 3) MSRP meant something

I'm not in the market for a 5090 or similar, but the other day I was looking at a lower-end model, an AMD 9060 or Nvidia 5060. What shocked me was the massive variation in prices for the same model (9060 XT 16 GB or 5060 Ti 16 GB).

The AMD could be had for anywhere from 400 to 600 euros, depending on the brand. What can explain that? Are there actual performance differences? I see models pretending to be "overclocked", but in practice they barely have a few extra MHz. I'm not sure if that's going to do anything noticeable.

Since I'm considering the AMD more and it's cheaper, I didn't take that close a look at the Nvidia prices.
by dijit | 2025-10-20 08:09:24+00:00
this is very true, and honestly troubles me that it’s been flagged.

Even I’m guilty of focusing on the technical aspects, but the truth is that the social campaign was significantly more difficult to understand, unpick and is so much more problematic.

We can have all the defences we want in the world, but all it takes is to oust a handful of individuals or in this case, just one: or bribe them or blackmail them- then nobody is going to be reviewing because everybody believes that it has been reviewed.

I mean, we all just accept whatever the project believes is normal right?

It’s not like we’re pushing our ideas of transparency on the projects… and even if we were, it’s not like we are reviewing them either they will have their own reviewers and the only people left are package maintainers who are arguably more dangerous.

There is an existential nihilism that I’ve just been faced with when it comes to security.

unless projects become easier to reproduce and we have multiple parties involved in auditing then I’m a bit concerned.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-20 08:09:34+00:00
Not just any Informants -- MS-13 that this admin was supposedly interested in taking down

>ongoing U.S. investigation into [El Salvador] government’s relationship with MS-13

>The deal would give Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged deals his government made with MS-13 to help achieve El Salvador’s historic drop in violence

>Bukele’s government [...] had agreed to give them financial benefits and less restrictive prison conditions in exchange for their promise to reduce the number of MS-13’s “public murders,” so it would appear the country’s homicide rate was decreasing

>U.S. authorities suspected Bukele’s government had used U.S. Agency for International Development programs to benefit MS-13’s leaders

>Canales Rivera [among the lead negotiators of MS-13’s pact with the Bukele government] offered to hand over recordings, photos, videos and other documentation [..] that would implicate the Salvadoran government in dealmaking with MS-13.

>He agreed to a confidential plea deal, and provided investigators information central to an investigation they had been building for years — one aimed at exposing how the deals struck between MS-13 and the Bukele government used U.S. resources and put Americans in harm’s way.

US develops task force late in Trump 1.0. Bringing "...the nine men into U.S. custody was among the most significant gang prosecutions undertaken by the Justice Department in years." High level members of the gang who are currently working with the US to expose MS-13 operations in the US and also how El Salvador is using US resources (our tax dollars) to pay off MS-13 in exchange for them to do their killing and other business privately.

Rubio/Trump made a deal to blow up the investigations by giving important assets back to be disposed of (or released back to MS-13) -- all to feed that temporary dog and pony show, earlier in the year, to their base supporters. This says it best:

“The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate and help dismantle the MS-13 gang.
by IlikeKitties | 2025-10-20 08:10:42+00:00
> Now the silicon manufacturers hate that they even have to sell us their scraps, let alone spend time on making unique designs for their boxes.

I genuinely don't believe this to be true for AMD. I bought a 6600xt on Release Day and by the time I was able to build my complete PC, it had upstream linux kernel support. You can say what you will about AMD but any company that respects my freedoms enough to build a product with great linux support and without requiring any privacy invading proprietary software to use is a-ok in my book.

Fuck NVidia though.
Show HN: Hank – Simplest CLI tool to get errors in plain English
by dillondesilva | 2025-10-20 08:10:55+00:00
Hey folks,

Here's a quick tool for anyone who wants a way to simplify error messages with AI without needing to switch to a fully agentic terminal solution. Simply add hank before compiling/running your program to get a clear, readable explanation of any errors that occur.

You can think of this as just another system utility like grep, ls or echo that is at your fingertips for debugging a program. It uses local models as well so your code outputs don't go into online LLM services.

Excited to see what gets thrown back, hope it helps someone. Feel free to add onto it as its pretty raw at the moment.
by aa-jv | 2025-10-20 08:11:00+00:00
Great work, ajxs, been following you for years.

I hope you get a chance to work on some other synths in the future .. would be fun to see you apply your skills to, for example, the UNO synths, or the Arturia *Freaks' .. would be hilarious to see custom firmwares for those modern synths, some day.
by account42 | 2025-10-20 08:11:49+00:00
I think you are just refusing to acknowledge that we really haven't improved all that much as a society. It's easy to define slavery in a way that you can say we got rid of it so you can pat yourself on the back for being enlightened and then proceed to not care about any working conditions close to it. Fact is that many people are forced to do jobs that no one would want to do.
by aa-jv | 2025-10-20 08:12:44+00:00
These guys are awesome .. their interaction with Kemper&co, about their amazing emulation work, not so much.

There's a hard lesson for hardware manufacturers to be learned in this drama.

If Kemper were supportive, they'd have a very clear road to a next-gen Virus TI (a "Proton"?) on the horizon .. but the word on the street has it that they're hostile to the effort of emulating the Motorola DSP ...
by ta1243 | 2025-10-20 08:13:12+00:00
Never choose a single point of failure.

Or rather

Ensure your single point of failure risk is appropriate for your business. I don't have full resilience for my companies AS going down, but we do have limited DR capability. Same with the loss of a major city or two.

I'm not 100% confident in a Thames Barrier flood situation, as I suspect some of our providers don't have the resilience levels we do, but we'd still be able to provide some minimal capability.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-20 08:13:18+00:00
For those downvoting: we sell fighter jets to many countries, including the UAE. They send pilots here to train on flying these jets. Those pilots need a place to stay.

For their own security protocols, among other reasons, many partner nations prefer to have a small area set up, think of it like a consulate, where their people stay within their own jurisdiction, rather than a hotel. The UAE is setting up such a place for its pilots.

That is all.

This isn’t a force-projection military base on US soil.
by rob74 | 2025-10-20 08:14:21+00:00
I think the idea behind this was less to showcase an actual space elevator and more to showcase what's going on at different altitudes. And above the Kármán line it would have become pretty boring, especially if you want to go up to GEO and beyond where the counterweight of a space elevator would be located - the Kármán line is at only 0.28% of the way to GEO. Using a logarithmic scale would have maybe helped, but not sure...
by KronisLV | 2025-10-20 08:15:05+00:00
I think it was put pretty well by describing things as accidental complexity (of which you want as little as possible) and essential complexity, which is inherent to the problem domain that you're working with and which there is no way around for.

The same thing could sometimes fall into different categories as well - like going for a microservices architecture when you need to serve about 10'000 clients in total vs at some point actually needing to serve a lot of concurrent requests at any given time.
by bradhe | 2025-10-20 08:15:30+00:00
us-east-1 was, probably still is, AWS' most massive deployment. Huge percentage of traffic goes through that region. Also, lots of services backhaul to that region, especially S3 and CloudFront. So even if your compute is in a different region (at Tower.dev we use eu-central-1 mostly), outages in us-east-1 can have some halo effect.

This outage seems really to be DynamoDB related, so the blast radius in services affected is going to be big. Seems they're still triaging.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-10-20 08:15:34+00:00
could you please tell what's the difference between VirtualBox and VMWare ESX? I mean what's the VirtualBox lacking as compared to ESX? I've never used an enterprise VMWare so I can't imagine what's different there? Especially if Hyper-V is proposed as an alternative...

--- EDIT ---

I've made some research and now understand that Hyper-V runs alongside the Windows Server (i.e. it is not an in-windows app). Therefore it would be hard to achieve the ESX performance close to ESX or Hyper-V even when deploying on linux. Or wouldn't it? Maybe considering a partition as disk for virtualbox? Idle Linux overhead isn't this much, is it?
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-20 08:15:52+00:00
Entities equiped with two limited light sensitive captors encode through a network of carbon based chemical emitters a representation of what its flawed vision system manages to grasp biased towards self preservation.

What's the real world? I'm still puzzled by this reaction I see to LLM, not because I think LLM are undervalued, because most people seem to significantly overestimate what is human intelligence.
Show HN: I made a RAG agent for the leyman
by freddieboy | 2025-10-20 08:16:22+00:00
Hey HN!

I got tired of AI agents being a pain to set up, impossible to customize without a PhD, and only viable if you're some Fortune 500 company. So I built something different, a chatbot you can literally drop onto your website with a single script tag.

Create an account, add your domain, customize literally everything (theme, icon, welcome message, suggested responses, whatever), and you're done. The bot scrapes your site once a day to understand your business, or you can just upload docs-pricing sheets, policies, FAQs, you name it. That's your chatbot's brain right there.

It only works on the domain you assign it to, so there's no security weirdness. And yeah, I know the next logical step is hooking it up with Zapier, email, Zendesk, that kind of stuff. Not totally sure what makes the most sense yet though.

Anyway, come kick the tires. Free to mess around with even without a subscription.
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by bananapub | 2025-10-20 08:17:31+00:00
you can't possibly know that?

surely you mean:

> I find it interesting that AWS services appear to be so tightly integrated that when there's an issue THAT BECOMES VISIBLE TO ME in a region, it affects most or all services.

AWS has stuff failing alllllllll the time, it's not very surprising that many of the outages that become visible to you involve multi-system failures - lots of other ones don't become visible!
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-20 08:18:05+00:00
Love the article thanks. to me it reads really reasonably. i work in a verbose language (C) and there its too easy to try and optimise things away to 'save typing' to a point it becomes actually more of a burden than an optimization.

Some good advices in here on what balance to strike with some clear examples. Always a good reminder :). thanks for the writeup!
by pndy | 2025-10-20 08:19:13+00:00
Maybe I'm in the minority but I consider religious text books, prayer tracking/reading apps as the low-effort ones - doesn't matter which religion it is. These will eventually show up in the "store" in countless versions.

But I get it at the same time - some people may want them on their devices.

I'm more concerned in this case that NSFW section contains "political incorrectness". Who's going to decide here what's incorrect and what's not in some cases? A "committee" of experts on discord?
by t1E9mE7JTRjf | 2025-10-20 08:21:32+00:00
Great, but why? For some things I want to think, but for some things I want the information with subjectivity taken out of it. I think it depends on intention. For newspapers and other sources with known biases, I think there's value. As with many things, information rarely exists in a vacuum. In this case if we don't think with intention about the framing of such an article, then we've already outsourced part of our thinking to the authors who intend to shape it.
by HarishSush | 2025-10-20 08:22:11+00:00
The Twilio outage appears to be linked to an ongoing AWS service disruption — as noted on the AWS Health Dashboard (https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status). The downtime is impacting several regions and dependent workloads, which aligns with Twilio’s degraded performance across multiple APIs. Monitoring both AWS and Twilio status pages for correlated recovery updates.
by kamikazechaser | 2025-10-20 08:22:51+00:00
F-Droid are in the FA stage of FAFO. If they don't reverse this, they will find themselves in the FO stage. Anyone can hold the opinion that "religion or its texts are ruinous" but you can never apply it in practice in a liberal democracy (even in secular states) simply because religious and expression rights are legally protected.

Don't moral police people especially on something that is as controversial as this.
by sannysanoff | 2025-10-20 08:23:19+00:00
while both versions are O(N^2), your version is slower because comparison operation, which affects execution speed. This is suboptimal.

q)x:1000 q)\t:1000 sum (til x)=/:(til x) 889 q)\t:1000 sum (til x)=/:(til x) 871 q)\t:1000 sum (2#x)#1,x#0 602 q)\t:1000 sum (2#x)#1,x#0 599

upd: in ngn/k, situation is opposite ;-o
by mumber_typhoon | 2025-10-20 08:23:55+00:00
>Oct 20 12:51 AM PDT We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause. We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share.

Weird that case creation uses the same region as the case you'd like to create for.
by jaggederest | 2025-10-20 08:24:11+00:00
Only for Earth. We already have materials that can do it on the Moon (Zylon, for example), though not with great tether-to-payload ratios (200:1 or more), and Mars isn't too huge of a stretch (huge like the mass of the tether, which would be in the thousands to one tether-to-payload ratio. Shipping 50,000 tons of Zylon to Mars is a different beast)
by the_black_hand | 2025-10-20 08:24:33+00:00
I work on social apps. The central issue with dating apps is incentives. The incentives to form long-term relationships go directly against profit. The incentives for the individual go against what's best for the group. There's a lot of prisoners dilema issues.

The only way I think to have a dating app that works is to have it run by non-profit with rational matching algorithms not geared towards profit maximization.
by serial_dev | 2025-10-20 08:24:36+00:00
I wanted to log into my Audible account after a long time on my phone, I couldn't, started getting annoyed, maybe my password is not saved correctly, maybe my account was banned, ... Then checking desktop, still errors, checking my Amazon.de, no profile info... That's when I started suspecting that it's not me, it's you, Amazon! Anyway, I guess, I'll listen to my book in a couple of hours, hopefully.

Btw, most parts of the amazon.de is working fine, but I can't load profiles, and can't login.
by ghoul2 | 2025-10-20 08:25:17+00:00
well, Jio (Indias largest ISP, with ~300M customers) has cloudflare r2 blocked. And for a while even. I am sure its due to some bucket serving out pirated movies, but this is a bit insane. And neither Jio nor Cloudflare seem to want to figure this out.

I have stuff on R2, I don't personally use Jio, and the office has multiple ISPs but not Jio. Customers had randomly complained that some of the icons were broken/some files could not accessed, but never followed up our request for browser console/network snapshots, and our testing always showed everything working fine (we were very small with a handful of customers, at the time).

Finally, purely by chance, office network was having issues, so one of my QA people switched to their mobile hotspot, and they were on Jio. And then they could see all the broken stuff, but weren't sure why. Stuff escalated to me, and it finally clicked!

Easy to work-around by using a custom domain, though painful if you want to do access control/signed urls/etc as CF still only supports them on the r2.cloudflare urls. Had to put a worker in front.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-20 08:25:44+00:00
> This had the accidental benefit of forcing me to study and discuss the material more (which led to better understanding) so that I could help coach others.

The few times when someone tried to explain things to me live, lead to my brain just kinda blanking because of the time pressure and whatnot and it wasn't very useful for me.

Instead, if I wanted to learn something properly, I'd have to just dig into the material myself and iterate on it. Consulting others worked better over text, in a group chat or forum or whatever.

I could only discuss a topic when I already had good grasp of it and felt confident about it. At that point it was more for the benefit of others, outside of finding niche cases that I didn't run into myself.
by 0xCaponte | 2025-10-20 08:26:52+00:00
Yes, the steps in between made it all clear hahaha

I honestly have mixed feelings about what you said. I can see how that’s happening, but at the same time, I feel like it’s been going on for the last 5-10 years, especially during the dev boom on 2020 when anyone with a bootcamp could land a job. But market conditions aside, being non-terrible is, in my opinion, a personal decision based on what makes you happy, fulfills you, and meets the needs of your job. I’ve had periods and jobs where being non-terrible, but totally average was enough, and as you said, I wasn’t going to do more for free. In others, I wanted to go above and beyond because I was motivated or properly compensated. I guess it depends on the situation.

My main goal with the post, though, is that even if it covers some generic points, it can still help people who are trying to improve but failing. In most cases because they’re investing their effort in the wrong things. Lately, I’ve seen many newcomers and juniors trying to respond to the current job market by becoming “better” developers, but they’re just chasing the latest AI buzz word and stacks, not being great at any and also failing at the basics. I think that’s the key takeaway I wanted to share: if you take care of the basics and avoid overcomplicating your work or your team’s life you’re already above average and a non-terrible engineer.
by asaws | 2025-10-20 08:26:56+00:00
I’ve been working on a small side project called Wealth AI, focused on helping individuals automatically organize and visualize their finances. It categorizes income and expenses, shows insights by category, and provides a clean dashboard to understand where your money actually goes.

The goal isn’t to replace advanced accounting tools — it’s to make everyday financial awareness simple and visual.

Would love feedback from anyone interested in personal finance tools, dashboards, or data visualization. What features would make a tool like this genuinely useful for you?