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by gwd | 2025-10-11 08:47:26+00:00
> to extract the maximum power from htmx an HTML library that's embedded directly in your programming language is much more powerful.

I'm actually using gomponents, but the maintainer doesn't like the vibe of adding attributes to existing nodes.

https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents/issues/276

(I don't really understand his argument, but in general I'm in favor of maintainers doing what they think is the right thing; and in any case I'm using his work without paying, so not gonna complain.)

But even if I had an easy way to add the attribute, the fact that I need to think about that extra step is a bit of extra friction HTMX imposes, which datastar doesn't.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-11 08:47:36+00:00
> "While you have a large potential energy buildup at a higher altitude, you cannot "bank it" / "save it" on descent. There is no way to store it in batteries or convert it back into fuel."

An electric fan aircraft absolutely can recharge it's batteries on descent. The fans simply act as turbines, creating drag to slow the aircraft and electricity to charge the batteries. Large commercial airliners already have a small turbine that works this way, the Ram Air Turbine (RAT) which is used to generate electrical power in emergencies.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-11 08:47:56+00:00
I think what he's saying (and what I would at least) is that again all you're doing is the exact same thing - tuning the weights that drive the correlations. For an analog, in a video game if you code a dragon such that its elevation changes over time while you play a wing flapping animation, you're obviously not teaching it dragon-like behaviors, but rather simply trying to create a mimicry of the appearance of flying using relatively simple mathematical tools and 'tricks.' And indeed even basic neural network game bots benefit from RLHF/SFT.
by Vespasian | 2025-10-11 08:51:23+00:00
I would bet a little bit of money that this is still illegal because you cheated yourself access to a service that is clearly meant to be paid and usually requires agreement (as indicated by the captive portal). Sounds like fraud to me.

As far as I know courts in most jurisdictions are allowed to look at a case in its entirety and that won't look good for you.

A defense like "I thought it was just an config error and couldn't possible imagine that someone would want payment" doesn't sound very plausible to me in particular if it comes from an IT expert who just used sophisticated means to surgically circumvent the block.

In this particular cases of course they confessed the "crime" while bragging about it in their post.

Now what if a random person downloaded an app called "Internet anywhere" from their store and it justed worked? Much muddier because they wouldn't even know it was circumventing anything. For all they know it could be a deal between Air Canada and the app vendor.
by KronisLV | 2025-10-11 08:51:32+00:00
No comments? I thought that an all-in-one development tool would get at least some admiration (or opinions that would be educational to me) from the lovely people on HN.

Like, getting MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite and Redis/Valkey support out of the box alongside a bunch of other web stuff that you'd otherwise have to rely on something like Express.js for seems pretty good, when you don't want to have too many dependencies that are loosely scattered around!

Now this might be a more personal opinion, but that's also why I think there is some value in something like Angular for front end development vs the complexity of Next.js / Nuxt.js and the library like nature of React or Vue (even if in general I much prefer the ergonomics of using Vue to everything else).
by nchmy | 2025-10-11 08:51:52+00:00
I'm a user of datastar, nothing more. And I'm defending the developers against all of the baseless slander here.

And now Im forced to defend myself against your baseless slander. If you cared to read, you'd see that I said it was a simple task to update the pre-pro versions of the tiny plugins to be compatible with the current api, because it would be. And they replied on that basis.

The rationale has been shared many times - here and elsewhere. And the pro features are not "hidden" - they're right there in the header. And it's not for any nefarious reason - precisely the opposite, in fact. They don't want to appear to be flogging something. Similarly, they don't advertise any of the pro features as being free, anywhere.

But, I brought this all up with the devs earlier and suggested they add a small link or banner or something to the pro license and they said they would. But not because it's a good or necessary idea, but instead just so all the trolls won't have even the wobbliest leg to stand on in the future on this topic.

Please take some constructive criticism - you have no idea what you're talking about here, in any regard. It is childish. Please inform yourself in the future, especially when you want to try to correct someone.
by pols45 | 2025-10-11 08:54:02+00:00
Its not comparable to the past. Difference being you can go back and forth with ChatGPT. And I push the probationers I supervise to do that, cause people are very different.

Some are curious, some are anxious about getting things wrong, some are doing the bare minimum and ya some are full of themselves. Each one exploits the tool differently. But I get them to ask it about these things too (are there things I am missing cause I want to get this right/why is my boss saying I am full of myself/my boss told me he doesn't have time to teach me about X but if I am curious thats something I should look into etc) which you couldn't do with them in the past.
by tim333 | 2025-10-11 08:57:18+00:00
I use crypto for speculation/gambling. It may not be a noble use but the market for that is huge. Las Vegas and Wall Street have been around for a while.

Some iffy figures are maybe 560 million holders globally and about 28% of Americans including of course the president and family.

Trading volume in the last 24 hours was $1.37tn which is a lot for something with hardly any adoption.

The Bitcoin bubble of course crashed in 2013 from $1k, 2018 from $19k, 2021 from $65k and has just fallen to $111k and will probably crash further.
by MedAzizBenSalem | 2025-10-11 08:58:52+00:00
It's this gorgeous mixing of innovation and nostalgia. I love how you tied the haptic joy of finding music with modern tech the NFC + PlexAmp partnership. It's amazing how streaming gave music to everyone's fingertips but reduced it to something less personal, and your solution restores that sense of ownership and ritual. I'd love to see this be a bit of an open source kit or community project I suspect lots of parents and music nerds would leap at it.
by chrismorgan | 2025-10-11 08:59:09+00:00
I came to this article expecting to see <output> misused, and was pleasantly surprised. :-)

(Actually, the dodgy GenAI calculator image at the top primed me for even more failure, making the excellent content that followed even more surprising. But I soon forgot about it and only remembered when I scrolled back to the start for no particular reason when done.)
by davydm | 2025-10-11 09:01:43+00:00
The real issue I see raised here is one I experience myself:

You're hired as an expert. But when you use your expertise, people with the power to make decisions ignore you. You're told you're important to the company, blah blah yakkety schmakkety, but at the end of the day, you, like me, are just a cog in a machine. And there's a critical mass at which that machine becomes a grumbling corporate mech-tank, blundering across the terrain with nary a thought for the people inside or outside the tank - all eyes are on PROFIT.

I don't know how to fix this. I have just resigned myself to the understanding that this is how it is, and I'm paid for my time, so if they want to waste it, that's their prerogative. The sheer number of times I've heard someone raise in a point in a meeting, and devs that I work with all shout out "that's what he's been saying for 2 years", and then the surprise from the bean-counter muppets.

The only real solution is to found your own company (which runs the same risks of going down the technical toilet, and which I personally detested - I'm not a financial guy, and I didn't have the money to hire someone for books and chasing down people who aren't paying. I just wanted to build ): )

Or, do what I'm doing - resign yourself to the fact that the people at the top, whether or not they have technical expertise, over-estimate their technical abilities and use their social capital to push their confident wrongness. Sometimes you can step in the way. Other times, it's just a reason to keep you hired as you fix the mess.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-11 09:01:43+00:00
So there are two issues here. One is, you buy a Wi-Fi device at the store and it spies on you and sends all the data to somebody else's cloud. That one's quite solvable with open source firmware. The other is, they're not using your device, they're using their own.

Restricting someone from having a device that can do that is basically a lost cause. Anyone could make one using a variety of existing commodity equipment or use SDR with multiple antennas. It doesn't matter what some future Wi-Fi device does in that respect because if it's their device they can do whatever they want. If that's your threat model you either need a law that bans them from doing that or a Faraday cage around your building.
by guenthert | 2025-10-11 09:01:44+00:00
I'm pretty sure that there were such drives more than twenty years ago (not popular though). I have to ask, what's the point today? The average latency goes down at most linearly with the number of actuators. One would need thousands to match SSDs. For anything but pure streaming (archiving), spinning rust seems questionable.

Edit: found it (or at least one) "MACH.2 is the world’s first multi-actuator hard drive technology, containing two independent actuators that transfer data concurrently."

World's first my ass. Seagate should know better, since it was them who acquired Connor Peripherals some thirty years ago. Connor's "Chinook" drives had two independent arms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Peripherals#/media/File...
by KronisLV | 2025-10-11 09:02:12+00:00
> Second, they should be using the public suffix list (https://publicsuffix.org/) to avoid having their entire domain tagged. How else is Google supposed to know that subdomains belong to different users? That's what the PSL is for.

How is this kinda not insane? https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

A centralized list, where you have to apply to be included and it's up to someone else to decide whether you will be allowed in? How is this what they went for: "You want to specify some rules around how subdomains should be treated? Sure, name EVERY domain that this applies to."

Why not just something like https://example.com/.well-known/suffixes.dat at the main domain or whatever? Regardless of the particulars, this feels like it should have been an RFC and a standard that avoids such centralization.
by Reason077 | 2025-10-11 09:04:54+00:00
Less cobalt would certainly certainly be a win. But note that the majority of the world's EVs shipping today already have cobalt-free batteries in the form of LFP.

But even if they're not cobalt-free and not cheaper, if Toyota have managed to combine NMC's energy density with LFP's safety profile and cycle life, that's a win already.
by atoav | 2025-10-11 09:07:50+00:00
My guess would be that most people just copy (mimic) what is already there. I sometimes work as a freelance web administrator and I can assure you 95% of people who create websites for a living have never read through a list of HTML tags, have only a slight idea of the semantic web and in the end they are more like people who cobble existing things together and are out of their depth pretty quickly.

Not that this is problematic per se, everybodies milage may vary and we're all out there to learn. But if I told one of them about the output tag thry probably wouldn't even understand why that would be important.
by NoahZuniga | 2025-10-11 09:08:30+00:00
Also, this doesn't resolved the non sequitur in the OP. It claims there might be DNS blocking, not deep packet inspection. Also cloudflare has encrypted client hello turned on by default and the only domain that shows up for https connections in this case is cloudflare-ech.com, so if any Cloudflare website is whitelisted it would have to allow this domain, and consequently any other Cloudflare website.
by ffsm8 | 2025-10-11 09:09:49+00:00
You got a very "interesting" history there, it certainly not particularly grounded in reality however.

PS3s edge was generally seen as the DVD player.

That's why Sony went with Blue Ray in the PS4, hoping to capitalize on the next medium, too. While that bet didn't pay out, Xbox kinda self destructed, consequently making them the dominant player any way.

Finally:

> PS5 has been practical, it's just the technology/approach ended up adopted by everyone, so it lost its novelty later on.

PS5 did not have any novel approach that was consequently adopted by others. The only thing "novel" in the current generation is frame generation, and that was already being pushed for years by the time Sony jumped on that bandwagon.
by Too | 2025-10-11 09:10:11+00:00
This article doesn't even mention the worst part of the update. Frame rate has dropped remarkably. iOS used to have flawless smooth animations, with 0 dropped frames, setting the industry standard. Now every interaction with the phone yanks at least once, it feels like some cheap entry level Android phone from 2008. I don't even mind the translucency, i just want my FPS back.
by Kon5ole | 2025-10-11 09:11:27+00:00
>aren't 8K displays just becoming a thing? Your perspective sounds like they are a dying breed. In the meantime, for me, they are still prohibitively expensive.

I'd say yes and no - they are becoming a thing - again. And you're right that they are prohibitively expensive this time.

Some 5 years ago 8K tv's were heavily marketed and displayed in many electronics stores, but consumers apparently didn't bite - basically no 8K content available and for "normal" TV use you can barely see a difference between 4k and 8k anyway.

So these TV's were very cheap for a short while before they basically disappeared.

And they make for great PC monitors. At normal working distance from a monitor you definitely notice the difference between 4k and 8k.

The screen area is basically the same as a 2x2 grid of 27" 4k monitors, but in one screen. For productivity work it's absolutely glorious, text is super-crisp.

I think there is a market structure problem that blocks progress here. Most people who work all day at a monitor would love to have such a screen, but the people paying for screens buy what the producers are selling, based on price.

So we end up with dual or triple small-monitor setups even in the wealthiest companies. If a few of the FAAMGs started asking for a 50" 8K maybe something would happen, but it hasn't yet. :(
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-11 09:13:07+00:00
And also, previously: In the dark times when end-user wireless network bandwidth very low and glitchy (and most home users didn't care much), and before "mesh" became a term associated with a single-box collection of items that could be bought at Wal-Mart, Sonos devices were able to mesh together and form their own wireless network that Just Worked.

In software-land, they even solved latency inequalities well-enough to keep things properly in-phase at 20KHz between different devices, to allow stereo imaging to work correctly betwixt two wirelessly-connected speakers. (This seems very passe' in these modern enlightened times of seemingly-independent wireless Bluetooth earbuds, but it was a tough nut for them to crack back in 2002[!].)

It wasn't all smiles and rainbows, of course, because the world never properly settled on one, true, universal implementation of something like Spanning Tree Protocol and agreed on how to use it. It was very possible for a person to really hose up their network by connecting Sonos gear the "wrong" way -- by connecting "too much" of it directly to the LAN.

But those potential problems were broadly mitigable by picking exactly one Sonos device to bridge the wireless SonosNet into the home's LAN: Ideally, a Sonos Bridge would -- uh -- provide that bridge, but any random Sonos speaker (or subwoofer!) would do just as well. This worked, but it involved some aspect of wifi.

And yeah, the problems could also be mitigated in other ways if they showed up: A person could certainly plug in their Sonos sub, sound bar, and surround speakers into Ethernet -- which was really quite neat and tidy if it worked, and it often worked. But it was a pickle if it didn't work because STP implementations can be an unadjustable boondoggle in the consumer space.

They had a really neat and rather unique thing going for quite a long time before the market shifted to make their products apparently be fickle, outdated, inferior, and expensive. ("What, no Bluetooth?" people once said, even though, being an independent network-based streamer, it doesn't have Bluetooth problems like a person walking to the other side of the house with their phone where everyone but them can hear it noisily glitch out until they wander back.)

Nowadays, SonosNet seems to be mostly dead, and the STP problems died with it. Common home wifi has also grown up a lot since 2002. 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.

It was pretty neat. It's still pretty neat today.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-10-11 09:14:33+00:00
Looks like Bun is moving towards "production readiness" as a focus, and adding a ton of tooling that ends up being inevitable for creating automation-friendly projects.

I'm not sure I want all of what normally are external libraries coming out of one place (bun internals), but I do admire the willingness to rewrite the world (and get impressive performance, etc) and own the stack -- they're delivering some differentiated DX/perf/etc.

Also impressed by the strength of their test suite for NodeJS interop.

Deno "feels" like the more grown up NodeJS alternative to me, but maybe that's going to change soon (or already has and my intuition is wrong).

Great humor in the video as well!

Does anyone have opinions/takes on Deno vs Bun informed by usage?
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-11 09:14:49+00:00
I imagine everyone involved know that they are doing dangerous things, not taking a drop more fuel than is legally required for profit, knowing that none of that is going to change unless there is a major accident... They keep[1] landing these planes with X minutes of fuel left, but it doesn't do anything, until some plane falls from the sky with 0 minutes of fuel left then everyone knew all along and the rules are changed and nobody is held accountable.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19267153
by Ntrails | 2025-10-11 09:16:30+00:00
>aren't enough to deliver smooth immersive graphics

I'm just not sold.

Do I really think that BG3 being slightly prettier than, say, Dragon Age / Skyrim / etc made it a more enticing game? Not to me certainly. Was cyberpunk prettier than Witcher 3? Did it need to be for me to play it?

My query isn't about whether you can get people to upgrade to play new stuff (always true). But whether they'd still upgrade if they could play on the old console with worse graphics.

I also don't think anyone is going to suddenly start playing video games because the graphics improve further.
by roryirvine | 2025-10-11 09:19:58+00:00
And to be clear, DHH was deliberately aligning himself with Tommy Robinson - a British street agitator who rose to prominence after being kicked out of an avowedly fascist party because of his insistence on prioritising violence over electoral politics (the party's "political soldier" leadership at the time sought to give equal weight to both).

Using the term "fascist" in that context isn't about cancelling someone, or targetting them unfairly - it's an accurate description of the specific ideology that they're advocating.
by psychoslave | 2025-10-11 09:20:30+00:00
>Last time i checked this was not an option in helix, and some very trivil things was impossible, like populating the quickfix (is it a thing n helix?) from a makefile command.

Not sure what "trivial" is trying to convey here, but in any case personally I would put quickfix list as a rather advanced feature. Like in the excellent book Practical Vim[1] its covered in chapter 17 on 21 chapters.

[1] https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/practical-vim-2nd/...
by pjmlp | 2025-10-11 09:21:19+00:00
Being an old dog that still cares about gaming, I would assert many games are also not taking advantage of current gen hardware, coded in Unreal and Unity, a kind of Electron for games, in what concerns taking advantage of existing hardware.

There is a reason there are so many complaints in social media about being obvious to gamers in what game engine a game was written on.

It used to be that game development quality was taken more seriously, when they were sold via storage media, and there was a deadline to burn those discs/cartridges.

Now they just ship whatever is done by the deadline, and updates will come later via a DLC, if at all.
by gtani | 2025-10-11 09:22:15+00:00
There's all kinds of text keyboard mappings including some like court reporter's input devices.

i don't actually know a lot about split/ergo/mech's and don't know of any non-rabbit-holey info sites but you can learn a bit about 1 and 2 handed split ergo's and ZMK/QMK firmware mappings at https://old.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/

ZMK's docs are pretty good https://zmk.dev/docs/keymaps
by astrobe_ | 2025-10-11 09:24:51+00:00
Maybe Mill' CPU [1] or GreenArray's CPU [2] ?

The sad thing is that nobody is going to buy these chips aside from niche products. You won't see them run a desktop or a smartphone, because if a CPU doesn't have a C compiler or a Javascript JIT "out of the box" so to speak, it has no hope to enter mass market products.

Even Java had no chance. Some older ARM CPUs used to support for "Java bytecode execution" [3] but it never saw adoption.

Your comment makes me think that there is some truth in TFA's title: a trait of many mental illnesses is that the person is not aware they have it - the Stockholm syndrome is probably not a mental illness, though. See what you are doing: "gatekeep" alternatives that don't play by the rules of the dominant architectures ("pipelined, superscalar SIMD RISC design").

[1] https://millcomputing.com/

[2] Website currently has a certificate problem. IIRC, GA144 is a 144 cores asynchronous CPU. The cores' ISA is based on the primitives of the Forth language: next to no registers, instruction manipulating data on a data stack instead, separate from the call/return stack.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
by lentil_soup | 2025-10-11 09:24:57+00:00
Dude, now you're just being racist. So the only true Venezuelan for you is the one that can't actually stand on it's own and speak to the world? I'm privileged because I speak English?

You have no idea who I am, you're making assumptions based solely on the language I use to speak to you.

And once again, no one is talking about war, you're the only one going on about it. No one wants a war and we want Maduro out, not mutually exclusive by a long shot.

And what's Iraq got to do with this? Stop making everything about the US
by uecker | 2025-10-11 09:25:42+00:00
I agree that the first reaction usually is only about what one is used to. I have seen this many times. Still, of course, not all syntax is equally good.

For example, the problem with Vec<Vec<T>> for a 2D array is not that one is not used to it, but that the syntax is just badly designed. Not that C would not have problematic syntax, but I still think it is fairly good in comparison.