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by sofixa | 2025-10-08 15:05:43+00:00
> and I am far from sure its a good thing.

Why? It's good for consumers (more practical) and the planet (less ewaste).

> Right to privacy in various forms far predates the EU.

Online? As a concept yes, but as a legal framework, not really.

> A copy of a policy of a country that has left the EU, and is far from popular there, and looks like being reversed there.

The UK system isn't actual competition though. There are concession that get local monopolies. So for the vast majority of trips, there is one private company that operates these trains on that route. It's the worst of all worlds. In the EU, anyone can start operating on any route.

> The US was very good at that historically, and there are plenty of regulators around the world with the same concerns.

And which one has done anything? The only recent one I recall is the UK's blocking Faceboo's acquisition of Giphy.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-08 15:05:43+00:00
Time to move on from Synology. They already showed their sociopathic middle finger to everyone. Now that they are walking it back they will just do the same thing they all do now. They will slowly reintroduce this restriction by removing a few compatible drive models at a time until its too inconvenient not to buy their drives.

I hope they go out of business even though I used to like their product.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-08 15:05:49+00:00
Monetizing a debt of this magnitude would be disastrous, but agreed this appears to be the path we are going on by default - given that we are consistently above the inflation mandate yet still lowering rates.

It's no longer the early 20th, there are other competitive & well-run jurisdictions for creditors to dump their money in if they lose faith in the US.
by krychu | 2025-10-08 15:06:31+00:00
It’s great to read in the comments about experiences of others with vibe coding. But I also feel like lots of opinions are not coming from actual experience, or “serious” attempts at vibe coding, and more from theoretical deliberations. I might be wrong.

Here are some of my own high-level experiences / thoughts:

- Perhaps contrary to popular belief I think vibe coding will bring the best software / system architects. This is due to massively shortened feedback loop between architectural idea and seeing it in action, easiness with which it can be changed, and the ability to discuss it at any moment.

- We’re not really coding anymore. This is a new role, not a role of a senior dev reviewing PRs of junior devs. Devs are just best suited (currently) to take on this new role. I came to realization that if you’re reviewing all generated code in detail you’re doing it wrong. You just shifted bottleneck by one step. You’re still coding. You should skim if the code is in line with your high-level expectation and then make LLM maintain an architecture doc and other docs that describe what and how you’re building (this is the info you should know in detail). You can do audits with another LLM whether the implementation is 100% reflecting the docs, you can chat with LLM about implementation at any moment if you ever need. But you should not know the implementation the way you know it today. The implementation became the implementation detail. The whole challenge is to let go of the old and embrace and search for efficiency in the new setup.

- Connected to the above: reading through LLM outputs is a massive fatigue. You are exhausted after the day, because you read hundreds of pages. This is a challenge to fight. You cannot unlock full potential here if you aim at reading and reviewing everything.

- Vibe coding makes you work on the problem level much more. I never liked the phrase “ideas are cheap”. And now finally I think the tides will turn, ideas are and will be king.

- Devil is in the detail, 100%. People with ability to see connections, distill key insights, communicate and articulate clearly, think clearly, are the ones to benefit.

Hope this is helpful for others.
by bgwalter | 2025-10-08 15:06:37+00:00
I like that the Bank of England spells out the "sudden correction" this time.

In 1996 Fed Chair Alan Greenspan warned about irrational exuberance, in 1999 he warned Congress about "the possibility that the recent performance of the equity markets will have difficulty in being sustained". The crash came in 2000.

The warning seems to have gone unnoticed. AMD just behaves exactly like Juniper in 1999.
by robocat | 2025-10-08 15:06:38+00:00
> I would assume TXSE would want quick access to that order flow

Perhaps Texas could use a different trading model that doesn't require ultra high speed trading.

Matt Levine often mulls the idea of a system with a trading window that doesn't let the fastest connection to the order book win. Perhaps an order book that works at human speeds so humans can trade too (I can think of a few ways to do it - but would need modelling to try and figure what actually works). He points out that most trades are done in the last hour, so really trading only needs to occur once a day.

The issue is whether a market trading system can be designed with suitable restrictions that beats the current market design (for listed companies and for traders).

Designing markets is hard because you have to assume every player is selfish and only cooperates where it is to their benefit and will defect or cheat if the incentives of the market encourage that (Enron in the California energy markets).

Unlikely since SEC would need to approve of a different system of market trade incentives.

Edit: Personally I would like to see an exchange that was more international. I'm from New Zealand and our good businesses often list on the Australian exchange rather than the NZSX. The system of ADRs for other countries feels like a massive hack.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-08 15:06:44+00:00
Sadly, it won't matter. Governments/electricity companies have already somewhat adapted:

1) a big part of your energy bill is "connection charge" or similar. Not related to usage but just to be connected at all.

2) they don't allow disconnection

3) most of what you pay in electricity bills is effectively a tax, not for the actual electricity, and isn't really per-kWh. This is masked by the government loading the grid companies up with debt in the past, getting the money and then "making them independent companies", then voting in a levy on tax.

Note I call this masked because the government can't let these companies succeed (it'd be a political disaster if they make real profits, and they can just raise the levy), and they can't let these companies fail (that would mean no more electricity grid for some regions). So it's a matter of time before the government is forced to buy these companies back and all netted out this will just have been a really expensive loan for the government (that past administrations got to spend, and present (it's already begun) and future administrations have to pay)

In some countries there's already talk of giving the grid company the right to charge a connection charge ... when there's no actual grid connection (in Australia), and there isn't even the theoretical option to deliver electricity to an address. Don't worry, they "have plans" to connect everyone (but some of those plans have been there for 80 years and still aren't implemented. But you'll have to pay for just being in the plan)

So the problem is that the government won't let you save money by lowering your usage from normal levels. That would screw up the government budget.

And all they have to do is make connection charge 90%+ of your bill, with some "free" included electricity and your solar installation no longer saves you money.
by tzs | 2025-10-08 15:07:15+00:00
Oh wow...I'm surprised at 500 MB/s NVMe.

I've got an RPi 4 with a Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1 TB NVME SSD in an external USB-C enclosure connected to one of the Pi's USB 3.0 ports, and get 280 MB/s.

I would have expected going to an RPi 4 with an NVME SSD not going through USB to do a lot more than just boost storage speed by 80%. I had been thinking of getting an RPi 5 and moving my RPi 4 stuff to the 5, freeing the 4 to replace the 3 that is current running Home Assistant, but for what I'm doing on the 4 I'm no longer sure the 5 would actually give much noticeable performance improvement. It may be better to simply get another 4 to replace the 3.
by spoiler | 2025-10-08 15:07:28+00:00
And you think slapping ActiveRecord to a Ruby class doesn't hide thousands of lines of code?

Do you need a truly holistic and in-depth understand of every piece you use? How in-depth does you understanding need to be to use ActiveRecord/ActionCable/etc? What about underlying libraries? Protocols? Engine internals?

Do you need an in depth and holistic understanding of React and all its dependencies to write () => <div>Razzle Dazzle</div>? Nah, surely not
by sachinneravath | 2025-10-08 15:07:47+00:00
I built this project about 10 years ago just to learn JavaScript. For a long time, it was a completely free, and I lost interest in it after a while.

Later, when I quit my full time job to build my own startup, I needed something for survival. The first project I picked up again was lightGallery. It was already quite popular back then, so I decided to rewrite it from scratch and implement dual licensing.

So, basically the trust and adoption were built over years when it was free. The monetization came much later.
by oompydoompy74 | 2025-10-08 15:09:04+00:00
This wasn’t a religious comment. I was simply saying that he fits an archetype that has existed in western thought for quite some time. Apparently it’s too spicy to say that a radical fascist billionaire who runs a surveillance company fits a mold because it got flagged lol. Can I say that Peter Thiel is duck typed as Antichrist?
by looping__lui | 2025-10-08 15:09:25+00:00
I’m far more concerned about a government led by people who have no formal education beyond high school, have never worked outside of politics, lack subject-matter expertise in the fields they oversee, and can’t even speak a foreign language — yet are sent abroad to represent the country — than I am about a self-made millionaire serving as chancellor.

Germany’s economy feels like a freight train rolling downhill — momentum without direction, and no one in the cabin who knows how to steer.

And no, the health care system is not “working.” It suffers from systemic distortion and ideological decision-making. Doctors face strict budget caps and fixed, low reimbursement rates for treating regular patients, but those limits don’t apply when treating certain publicly funded cases — where compensation is higher. That incentive structure inevitably leads to unequal treatment. I’ve experienced it firsthand with my own child and couldn’t believe it. As in: they denied taking my kid in but took in two “publicly funded cases” while I was there.
by bilbo0s | 2025-10-08 15:09:26+00:00
Not if it didn't end.

US travel blacklists are now maintained by the TSC at FBI.

What the Trump admin did was political sleight of hand. Calculated specifically to please people who, because we make it intentionally complex, are unable to understand the full spectrum of our military, law enforcement, and intelligence infrastructure. Politically speaking, these kinds of people could be made to believe we got rid of travel blacklists. When in actuality, the lists today are even longer.

Slightly off topic, but this is one of the primary reasons independents will never win an election by the way. The liberals and conservatives can always say, "you're lying", and it would take longer than the average voter is willing to pay attention for an independent explain why they're not lying.
by johnea | 2025-10-08 15:09:41+00:00
> updates that make Thunderbird feel fresher

This is coded language for screwing around with the UI again 8-/

I've used thunderbird for decades, I wish they'd stop changing the UI, and make the basic IMAP fetch functionality work.

Having a true maildir storage format would also be nice.

I don't want _any_ software that I use in my workflow to "feel fresh". I want the UI to remain stable, so I don't have to retrain my muscle memory.

The scroll bars that disappear still annoy me. along with the recent changes putting their buttons across the top of the window...
by Esophagus4 | 2025-10-08 15:10:07+00:00
> But it's not trillion-dollars useful, and it probably won't be.

The market disagrees.

But if you are sure of this, please show your positions. Then we can see how deeply you believe it.

My guess is you’re short the most AI-exposed companies if you think they’re overvalued? Hedged maybe? You’ve found a clever way to invest in bankruptcy law firms that handle tech liquidations?
Show HN: TypeMyVibe – Find your Personality type from Reddit, X, or chat data
by hritik1999 | 2025-10-08 15:10:07+00:00
TypeMyVibe analyzes your Reddit or X profile (just by username), or you can upload a WhatsApp/Instagram chat to get a personality report with MBTI, Enneagram, Big 5, and more.

I built this because I’ve always been fascinated by personality theories, but also frustrated with how easily they’re biased. Most tests depend on self-perception, which changes with mood. I wanted to see if analyzing real language could reveal a person’s true type.

What made me to actually build it was when my sister got the same MBTI as me (INTP). I knew she wasn’t, so I built a system that could prove it using our chats. I got INTP and She got ISTP.

For privacy, nothing is stored — I only keep a temporary dictionary in memory that’s cleared after analysis. It runs on GPT-OSS-120B, so no big AI companies ever see user data.

I’m curious: are most people here INTPs, INTJs, or ENTJs? And how common are Enneagram 3s and 5s among founders? Would love if a few of you tried it out and shared what type you got — I’m hoping to get some insight into the HN crowd.

https://typemyvibe.ai
by j45 | 2025-10-08 15:10:27+00:00
I'm not a customer of Synology. I don't agree with justifying forced purchase of a relabeled product.

They deserve the result of their decision and not understanding their customers - they could just start a separate enterprise line if they didn't have one already for whatever they wanted to force.

Enterprise brands like HP, etc, to my last experience, do sell white-labelled drives, but don't bar you from using those same drives yourself.

My lack of trust remains with the parts that will fail the most - hard drives.

Hard Drive manufacturers don't have the best history, whether it was Western Digital lying to their customers about CMR when it was actually SMR. That would be my reason for never accepting a forced labelling of a drive.
by balderdash | 2025-10-08 15:10:36+00:00
I worked for a very successful multinational that I think was relatively moral (at least very moral vs average - e.g. we at least stood by our commitments and contracts and didn’t try and re-trade them if they went against us) and they took the approach that they were never going to be a “soft target”: nuisance law suits - litigate don’t settle, unethical behavior by vendors or customers - we’ll see you in court. It was probably more expensive for a decade or so, but over the long run it saved a ton of money and hassle.
by alphazard | 2025-10-08 15:10:38+00:00
> either increase taxes or reduce spending

I see this sentiment a lot, they are not equivalent. The US must reduce spending, if it wants to protect the dollar. Tax increases may also help.

The relationship between tax rates, GDP, government revenue, the market value of new US debt, and the value of the dollar, is complicated and depends on uncertain estimates and models of the economy. Increasing taxes can reduce GDP, which needs to increase to outgrow the debt, there is an optimal tax rate, more doesn't always help. Decreasing spending is a more straightforward relationship, no new debt, no new dollars.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-08 15:10:39+00:00
I feel like many HN'ers have been in this situation.

I was once in a confedential "back out" of a system. There was some shared code base with the other company. One of our devs made a comment that was something like "Reversing Migration Script" in the code.

In less than an hour from that commit(I didn't know at the time) I was in stuck in a firestorm WTF DID YOU DO battle between the two CEO's of the companies. It turns out that the other company was ACTIVELY spying for such terms in the code so they could react if we tried to leave. It was going to be an honest non renewal at the end of the contract so not even anything shady. I didn't find out till later about how they were spying out so there was this huge witch hunt about who was the rat and such. It was awful.

It seems this level of sociopathy is just the norm these days and I'm just an old fuddy duddy doing regular honest work without having a Machiavellian scheme running in parallel no wonder places only want to hire 20yo's /s /sorta.
by kaycebasques | 2025-10-08 15:10:54+00:00
The story about the "aha!" moment inspires me to find ways to physically play with ideas more:

> When the workshop returned the wooden balls, he tested building some molecules. This was when he had a moment of insight: there was a vast amount of information baked into the holes’ positioning. The model molecules automatically had the correct form and structure, because of where the holes were situated. This insight led to his next idea: what would happen if he utilised the atoms’ inherent properties to link together different types of molecules, rather than individual atoms? Could he design new types of molecular constructions?
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 15:10:58+00:00
I know of no legal system that doesn't fail in some way. Some are much worse than others, but all have flaws. Often correcting the flaws is worse than living with them.

Don't take the above as we should just accept the flaws. We should not. However what to do about them is a hard problem and we should not do something that makes things worse.
by conductr | 2025-10-08 15:11:29+00:00
Not sure I understand your point. If someone wants to open an exchange there, what’s stopping them?

I’m a Dallas resident and this has been a large coordinated effort that has a lot of banks relocating here. Not going to debate the good or bad of it, but Texas tends to go after these types of things and creates a favorable environment for it from a business/tax/political standpoint. I don’t know what California does, but I know a whole bunch of Californian corporations have moved here citing similar reasons. So again, what’s stopping something similar from happening in California? (If it doesn’t already exist)
by beAbU | 2025-10-08 15:12:33+00:00
So initially I wanted to give you a knee-jerk response about how Synology could have gone with a warning rather than an outright ban. Then I read the article...

It seems that this was never an outright ban, but non-blessed drives either generated a warning or they had reduced functionality. What TFA fails to mention is what this "reduced functionality" is.

If it's something like RAID rebuilds take longer because other drives might not have the requisite SMART attributes or some other function that's required is one thing. But halving the drive speed just because it's not a Synology drive is another. This knowledge would put me in a better position to know if I should harshly judge them or not.

I think it's totally fair to raise a warning that a particular drive has not been tested/validated and therefore certain guarantees cannot be met. I can fully respect how challenging it must be to validate your product against a basically infinite combinatorial collection of hardware parts. I've learnt long ago that just because a part fits does not mean it works.
by psunavy03 | 2025-10-08 15:13:00+00:00
West Point is only one of three service academies, and it needs to teach only enough of the higher level of war to produce a reasonably competent Second Lieutenant. In fact it's arguable the service academies are a waste of resources as currently implemented as opposed to OCS and ROTC.

What matters is what is taught to the Majors, Lieutenant Colonels, Lieutenant Commanders, and Commanders 12-15 years later at the War Colleges. And as a graduate myself (if only by correspondence) I can assure you that Clausewitz and Sun Tzu were very much still on the books in the 2010s.
by boringg | 2025-10-08 15:13:23+00:00
These are long lived relationships -- they may have outmaneueverd at some points, and also restrained at others.

China runs a precarious political situation which is only as strong as the country is economically stable - which currently it is veering to unstable. It goes without saying the US is also in a precarious situation - it is much more publicized due to the nature of the US airing all its dirty laundry publicly.
by cykill | 2025-10-08 15:14:26+00:00
I know this is going to be super controversial, but I genuinely find illustrations of mathematical concepts below a minimum threshold of complexity totally useless and frequently detrimental.

Below a certain level of complexity the human brain is much faster and efficient operating on abstract symbols, like 'x' and 'y'. You can solve equations and figure things out in a fraction of the time it takes you to visualize bananas, goats, coins, bread, milk, etc.

Visualizations have a role in developing intuitions about complex structures, such as what the a matrix does to a vector or what cosine similarity means, and so on.

But in recent years, everyone and the next man has suddenly assumed that visualizing the number 1 or 2 in terms of every day objects somehow helps learning. It doesn't.
by kevin_nisbet | 2025-10-08 15:14:35+00:00
Yup, even for smaller business stuff. For a non-profit I'm on the board of, the staff wanted a more useful printer/copy machine than just a store bought thing, it's a small office, so I said sure find something and let us know.

So I get a contract and am told it's been vetted and I should sign it. What I found was outrageous.

- If we cancelled for any reason, including if they just didn't do any of there terms in the contract, we owed the full price of the remaining contract immediately.

- The way they structured it was also as a rental, so we were paying full price for purchase of the equipment embedded into the term of the contract, but it was the vendors equipment, so if we cancelled we still paid them full price for the equipment, and they got to keep it.

- If there were any legal disputes, no matter which party was at fault, my side would pay for all the lawyers.

I said nope, can't do it. And my staff were pissed at me for like a year because everyone just signs those things.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-08 15:14:52+00:00
Humans. There are arrangements of atoms that if constructed and activated, act perfectly like human intelligence. Because they are human intelligence.

Human intelligence must be deterministic, any other conclusion is equivalent to the claim that there is some sort of "soul" for lack of better term. If human intelligence is deterministic, then it can be written in software.

Thus, if we continue to strive to design/create/invent such, it is inevitable that eventually it must happen. Failures to date can be attributed to various factors, but the gist is that we haven't yet identified the principles of intelligent software.

My guess is that we need less than 5 million years further development time even in a worst-case scenario. With luck and proper investment, we can get it down well below the 1 million year mark.