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by pdimitar | 2025-10-08 11:33:27+00:00
I don't know why people love Pi-s so much. They filled a niche, once, years ago, and were quickly outcompeted not even a year and a half after.

Get some old i7 or Ryzen, get a big case, put 12-18 HDDs, spend a little extra on quality cooling solution if you have the server in your bedroom / living room, install modern Linux, tinker to your heart's content.
by Melonai | 2025-10-08 11:33:35+00:00
Yeah, there's always a twinkle of conspiracism that lights up inside me when I see something like that, and I do try to think rationally about it, but I end up coming to the conclusion... that it may not actually be that unlikely!

Naming things is easy: Why not hold a talk about the Antichrist when people have been calling you one? Why not name a single song (or even write one from scratch) to cover up some controversy. Or, of course, why not name a movie "Frozen" when there are rumors about what happened to your founders body.

I feel like the PR benefit, even if maybe intangible or purely hypothetical, is so easy to justify given the low amount of effort involved in it.

Though I do think it's rather gauche to hold a public talk about the Antichrist in Thiels situation, I think that doesn't really dispell the rumors, it just brings him and the topic closer together? No? Maybe he's just trying to tell us something. :)
by pknerd | 2025-10-08 11:34:27+00:00
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by darkwater | 2025-10-08 11:34:48+00:00
Came here to paste the exact same quote with a very similar comment. I expand it by adding that Gruber is probably the archetypal "Apple fanboy" made flesh. They don't look like fanatics - as in sports fan or politics discussions in a bar over a beer - they just made their point with a subtle superiority and an "obviously Apple made the best choice here, as usual" spin to all of his posts. I should also add that I stopped reading him time ago though, things might have changed (also it feels like his posts are not so present on the HN frontpage like they used to be)
by GrumpyGoblin | 2025-10-08 11:35:07+00:00
At my company there is a team like this who are solely responsible for a significant piece of internal infrastructure.

People bring them ideas. They reject them out of hand. "Can't be done" "We'd have to rewrite the whole thing" "That's not how it works". Even if you write all the code and show them exactly how to do it and that it does work.

Then they come back three moenths, six months, a year later and have a big demo showing the cool thing "they thought of". Yep, the idea they previously rejected, usually pretty close to exactly. They live by the ole adage NIH.

They're a fun bunch.
by badsectoracula | 2025-10-08 11:36:18+00:00
You can install Linux in well supported hardware (AMD really) in less time that it'd take you to write most comments in HN.

If you really want to buy something, there is https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/ - they've been around for a long time, though personally i never used them since i prefer to build my own desktops.
by simonw | 2025-10-08 11:36:25+00:00
Something I really appreciate about LLMs is that they make a whole bunch of much more sophisticated reliable tooling acceptable to me.

I've always been fascinated by AST traversal and advanced refactoring tools - things like tree-sitter or Facebooks's old codemod system https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod

I never used them, because the learning curve in them was steep enough that I never found the time to climb it to the point that I could start solving problems.

Modern LLMs know all of these tools, which flattens that curve for me - I find it much easier to learn something like that if I can start from semi-working examples directly applicable to what I'm trying to do.
by pknerd | 2025-10-08 11:37:27+00:00
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by shizcakes | 2025-10-08 11:37:33+00:00
Suggestion for the site: it references “no navigation” a few times, but I am having a hard time understanding what that means. What kind of navigation is meant here? What are the boundaries of the navigation limits?

Various definitions of “navigation” I can think of: - no switching tasks in the app - some sort of phone-wide parental control - maps is disabled ;-)
by falcor84 | 2025-10-08 11:37:56+00:00
I don't understand, how can you acquiesce to a situation whereby "As a developer everything changes every week"? Not even the most "on the bleeding edge" JS developers can switch frameworks every week, and the pace is continuously accelerating. As I see it, the only way to stay sane and productive is to specialize to a sub-area where you can stick to a technology for at (the very) least 3 months.
by Animats | 2025-10-08 11:38:41+00:00
They've been mentioned before. They've been at this since at least 2012, and they've only built a few prototype machines. Productivity seems low.

The whole set of machines looks like something China's ministry of agriculture would have come up with around 1980 or so. There are some standard items widely used in rural China and India, manufactured by many manufacturers. Here's a small Diesel engine.[1] This thing is brutally simple - one cylinder, non-recirculating water cooled (you have to add water when you add fuel), hand crank start, no emission controls. Costs about US$300. There's someone who has a YouTube channel of fixing discarded engines of this type. There seem to be a lot of them lying around, all very similar but from different manufacturers. It's the AK-47 of Diesel engines - it's crude, it Just Works, and it can be fixed. It's mass-produced, because making metal parts in quantity is very efficient, while one-offs are too labor intensive.

Here's a basic tractor, the Wuzheng TS, costing around $6,000. "Mature technology", the maker says. There are hundreds of thousands of those things in the Third World.

That's how this gets done in the real world. Mass produced machines of similar design that's proved itself. That's how the US did it, back when the Fordson tractor [3] was popular. Ford produced low-end tractors until 1964.

You can still buy low-end farm equipment cheaply. It's not cost effective for a commercial farm, but it's still available. Sometimes it's all you need.

[1] https://toppower.en.made-in-china.com/product/kmtRnxhrTvpB/C...

[2] https://chinawuzheng.en.made-in-china.com/product/ovGERBPVaa...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordson
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-08 11:40:05+00:00
I think having a mail just seperately for bank can be good thing instead of having it on your own @mydomain I suppose?

Also can we have things like 2FA in banking apps? I am pretty sure...

Like my idea of thinking is to create a new proton account just for banking and doing the thing as in the article and not really ever linking the two of them or maybe even having a google account if proton causes any issue for my banks.
by Melonai | 2025-10-08 11:40:08+00:00
Evil is so hard to quantify, but I do believe him a sociopath, who's also comically bad at hiding it, in comparison to a lot of other C-Suite people.

I do not really think Peter Thiel fits the "Antichrist" description though, I think the biblical figure is supposed to be quite charismatic and a leader that people love, Thiel's just... not good enough at that...

...maybe just for some tech bros?
by chickenbig | 2025-10-08 11:40:14+00:00
> The extension of the German reactors was estimated at 3B+ if i remember correctly. And that does not include if any issues are found.

https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restarting-german... is for restarting the German reactors, with buckets of < 1B EUR and < 3B EUR for quicker restarts.
by teekert | 2025-10-08 11:40:59+00:00
I think stuff like this can be countered, but it would require a step in the other direction, becoming more open, ie open source some important component (or make ssh work normally?). Show that you do really listen. Repent.

It seems like Ubuiqiti is back in our collective hearts after they accidentally showed other peoples camera footage in people apps. Now their tag line is "Building the Future of IT. License Free". So that's more in-touch.

I personally avoid Synology because of my experiences with poorly supported Tailscale (and abismal performance using Samba over Tailscale), and their crazy stance over ssh and ssh-keys. Only admins can use ssh. So there go all your options of quickly sharing stuff with people after getting their ssh key. I really regret our Synologies, should have gone with a normal Linux server and a ZFS array. Of course, I just had wrong assumptions at the start (and someone else made the call actually.)
by latexr | 2025-10-08 11:41:45+00:00
What’s your point? That you should just give up and invite the squatter in? Serve him a cup of tea while you’re at it, and give him the house?

That brand of defeatism has been spewed every step of the way every time. If everyone thought like you, the first version of Chat Control would have passed. But it didn’t. And even if it eventually does, later is better than sooner. Later is worth fighting for.

Look, it’s fine if you yourself want to personally give up, this is tiring. But please don’t rub your despondency on the people who are trying to fight for something which benefits you. You’re not helping. On the contrary, you’re making it worse for everyone, including yourself.

Every time you make that sort of comment, you’re helping those who want to oppress you. Either join the fight or move aside.
by limbero | 2025-10-08 11:41:55+00:00
Isn't this an egregious headline for such a neutral article? I guess it's just clickbait, but I haven't previously found Politico to be this extreme.

And the article itself describes the actual setup accurately in one of the opening paragraphs, so clearly the author knows the facts:

> The site lets visitors compile a mass email warning about the bill and send it...

And most of the other headlines on their current front page are quite boring and descriptive.
by rickdeckard | 2025-10-08 11:42:12+00:00
Yes, but it's not support wagging the dog, If they sell a NAS, the customer adds drives to it and already runs into issues requiring support, it creates cost which becomes part of a product problem.

In B2C that's a legal warranty-issue in many countries, because if the product didn't provide the advertised core-functionality the customer has the right for a full refund of the purchase price (within the EU for a period of 24 months!)
by throw0101d | 2025-10-08 11:42:25+00:00
> As a kid in the UK, Argos catalogues were magical.

In Canada it was Consumers Distributing (also Eaton's, Sears):

* 1992 catalog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTXbe9Mw17Q

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumers_Distributing

* https://www.tvo.org/article/what-happened-to-consumers-distr...

You could buy something via mail or phone, but there were also shops: you would go there, fill out a form with tiny pencils (like an old school bank form), give it to the clerk, and they'd bring it to the cashier 'from the back'.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog_merchant
by dangus | 2025-10-08 11:43:02+00:00
You should still look at alternatives. A NAS company that is willing to consider a move like this even once is not a trustworthy company.

It shows you that their management is probably not making the right decisions in other areas as well.

I'm quite happy with TrueNAS SCALE Community Edition and I find it easy to install/configure/maintain. I just watched a YouTube video on configuration with sensible basic setup like snapshots and other maintenance.

On a tangent, I don't really think that purpose-built NAS hardware makes sense for home use unless you really have a serious amount of data. Standard desktop hardware makes a lot more financial sense and is a lot more flexible.
by Arcterus | 2025-10-08 11:43:03+00:00
There is more substantial overhead translating to a different instruction set than in converting API calls to another API. Looking at basic benchmarks should be enough to demonstrate this. IIRC it's like 80% of the performance or something when using Rosetta as compared to native.

Also, Rosetta is more like a transpiler, since it basically recompiles the binary, whereas the others are literally layers that basically take calls in one API and translate them to another. They're pretty much the same thing as ANGLE.
by 542354234235 | 2025-10-08 11:43:27+00:00
While slavery exists in various forms (wage slavery, prison labor, etc.) it is still important to make the distinction between those and the extreme form of chattel slavery that existed from the 16th to 19th century. People, and all their descendants, being literal property, able to be tortured, raped, and murdered with the same legal status as a couch tossed in a dumpster, is not the same as modern versions of slavery.
by Lumoscore | 2025-10-08 11:43:27+00:00
We're past the "is this going to survive?" stage and fully into the "how do we integrate this efficiently?" stage.

The most tangible evidence isn't the price of Bitcoin, but the massive effort going into solving the interoperability problem. When you see every major financial institution and tech company grappling with multi-chain infrastructure, that's the real sign of mainstream adoption. They aren't asking if they should use blockchain anymore; they're trying to figure out how to manage it all (which is what makes platforms focused on tooling and connectivity, like Lumos Core, so necessary right now).

The challenge now shifts from building the chain itself to building the user experience and compliance layers on top of the chain, making it invisible and seamless for regular users. That's the final step to true, everyday mainstream use.
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-08 11:43:34+00:00
Based on my experience dealing with SFPs I highly suspect they looked at their bug tracker and concluded that 13% of the sketch-ass mystery drives were causing 50% of their labor expenditure.

And by "issues" I mean highlighting all the little cases where they had a) coded to spec with no ability to handle out of spec but foreseeable if you're cynical (which the fresh out of school junior engineers who typically wind up handling these things aren't yet) conditions b) failed to code to spec in some arcane way that shouldn't matter if the thing on the other end of the cable isn't questionable.

Of course, the money side of things almost certainly motivated them to see it one way...
by twoodfin | 2025-10-08 11:43:36+00:00
Yeah. With the benefit of perfect hindsight, that was probably the best possible strategy. Go end-to-end in the low- and mid-range market, branding increasingly cheap panels with your UX & services. Continue to offer standalone boxes targeted at the “prosumer” who wants a Sony OLED.

No idea if TiVo ever had access to the capital to pull this off. Certainly you’d need to eat thin or negative margins on billions in hardware.
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-10-08 11:44:02+00:00
As always, Simon knows what he is talking about and neatly describes the whole situation.

However, it's not the "coding" part of "vibe coding" that is the (semantic) problem, it's the "vibe" part.

Replacing "coding" with engineering, but keeping the "vibe" part, still conveys the meaning of not really knowing what you do, but now in an even larger surface area.

It's a lot more boring, but I'm fine with "AI-assisted software engineering" as the other-end-of-the-spectrum name opposite of "vibe coding".
by hinata08 | 2025-10-08 11:44:04+00:00
I'm wondering a lot about the value of food and agricultural products in a consumerist society these days

Just a few days ago, in a TV show about the car industry in France, a car dealer was mocking the rednecks who came to buy new cars despite eating wholefood.

Now this article describes how social media find wholefood can be a cheaper alternative to Ozempic for weight loss, when you are otherwise healthy and don't need it as a prescription.

A nutritionist finds that YES IT IS and his peers have been telling that for decades.

I love that part in particular :

``` Ultimately, a diet that encourages natural production of GLP-1 diet is full of whole foods, including fruit, vegetables, legumes and nuts, says Damman. That people could be discovering this by attempting to mimic the effects of weight-loss drugs is an irony not lost on some nutritional scientists, including Damman.

"The journey has come full-circle," he says. "All roads lead back to eating whole foods – there's no substitute for them." ```

Why do people consume and eat according to their income, instead of caring about their health ? Do they think high income earners are a different bread ?
by reactordev | 2025-10-08 11:44:10+00:00
Around 200-270MiB/s is what has been publicly benched. I’m sure there’s someone squeezing 300 out of one.

The PCIe bus in an RPI is Gen 2 so it’s not that fast. The point isn’t whether an RPI is a Synology device. The point is there are other ways of having a cheap NAS other than Synology.

Hell, a Beelink with an external USB 3.0 HDD rack would also do just fine.
by munksbeer | 2025-10-08 11:44:23+00:00
Citing articles is tricky because people have agendas. I cannot take any of them at face value because we both know that the writing will skew to push the narrative they want.

There is a long history to CSAM, long before your 2021 date. If we want to keep it fairly recent, here is a straight from the source link for you (no journalist or blogger added their skew). This is 2019 where The Council (elected ministers of member states) are deciding for push this forward. This is how the EC (commission) usually get their mandate.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-12862-2019-...

Research also tells us that various NGOs and Europol have been pressing the commission to act on this (side stepping national governments), but ultimately The Commission goes through the Council to get their mandate.

And keeping it more recent, this is being pushed (again unfortunately) through elected ministers of member states onto the Commission.

I'm not saying that the commission are not involved, but your message is trying to make this complicated scenario down into "evil unelected beurocrats" coming up with schemes to spy on us. It is narrow minded and directs people the wrong way.
by jdietrich | 2025-10-08 11:44:39+00:00
>Steam power wasn't feasible until the Bessemer process and rolled sheet steel made the creation of pressure vessels a reliable and repeatable process.

Also precision boring to produce tight-fitting cylinders. James Watt spent nearly a decade trying to build a viable steam engine, but only succeeded after John Wilkinson invented a machine to bore cannon barrels in 1774. It turns out that making a hole that is straight, deep and round is fiendishly difficult without specialist equipment and expertise.
by swah | 2025-10-08 11:44:44+00:00
In Brazil its getting better and better. I even feel bad because I question myself what are we going to do outside if everything can arrive next day and cheaper than anywhere else... local business can't compete etc.

(Another nice thing is that I can buy (some) imported goods (say a Peak Design pouch) directly on my local Amazon site and feel confident they will arrive. Not sure exactly what makes items appear listed on the local store.)
by incomingpain | 2025-10-08 11:45:51+00:00
>encouraging them to make lists of accounts that could be automatically blocked or labeled—and thereby removing itself as much as possible from moderation decisions

and thereby reinforcing their echo chamber with efficiency.

This week one of the youtubers I like, Canadian auto mechanic who typically focuses on canadian politics. He decided to join bluesky. I commented that he's going to be banned by the end of the day. He replied that he is avoiding usa politics and controversial subjects. He ended up banned on the second day. No specific example, just that his account was reviewed and he's banned. I saw his posts, they were all tongue in cheek jokes poking fun. Absolutely no valid reason to ban him.
by b3lvedere | 2025-10-08 11:46:23+00:00
Meh.. i do kinda forgive them. They tried, they lost, they reveserd their decision and hope to keep their customers (read:sales) happy. There are plenty of companies which would double or triple down their bad decisions and flatly tell the customer is the problem.

Our customers usually want nice, but monitor/manageble NASes and Synology was quite acceptable. It got annoying when we could not put in any harddisk we'd wanted, but most of our customers did not really care, so we didn't as well. If you absolutely need superb storage you should stop using NASes anyway and get a far better (but more expensive) solution.

Then again if i myself want some NAS functionality, i'd fire up a Debian with Samba using any hardware i want.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-10-08 11:46:24+00:00
And they might only be backtracking to get a few more sales until re-applying the restrictions, feeling justified because that's how the devices were originally advertised.

The key word in the article being "quietly" - they didn't apologize or even announce the change, it seems. The update also "Added an option to postpone important DSM auto-updates for up to 28 days after the first notification.", suggesting mandatory updates (not sure if those already existed beforehand, or if this is a hidden way of saying "introduced mandatory updates, but you get 28 days before we brick your device if you catch it in time").
by darkwater | 2025-10-08 11:46:30+00:00
> And it doesn't open up anything new in phishing. I already get emails like this from health care providers, asking me to open the email contents on their site. Obviously you need to figure out if the URL is legitimate, the same way you always have.

Yes it does. If sending an almost empty mail with a link to somewhere else becomes the norm, a link that must be clicked because it's most probably going to contain an important message, you are just making it much more of a routine to open links like that. And those could be phished (yeah, like everything else, that's obvious)
by duxup | 2025-10-08 11:46:34+00:00
I’ve worked in tech support at all levels. At most companies it doesn’t matter what customer service is happy or sad about, their job is to deploy the policy given. Customer support as an organization’s opinion isn’t generally valued at most companies.

Even when I worked tech support for some high end equipment I would have to explain to high ranking sales teams “It doesn’t matter what I think. If I break the policy it gets me in trouble even if you make a big sale because of it. If you can get my boss or someone up the chain to tell me to do what you’re asking then I’d be happy to do what you’re asking.”