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by pipes | 2025-10-12 18:53:22+00:00
You probably have a point and it's not something I believe completely. My main problem I think is I have seen nothing new in games for 20 years at least.

Gunpei yokoi said something similar here:

https://shmuplations.com/yokoi/

Yokoi: When I ask myself why things are like this today, I wonder if it isn’t because we’ve run out of ideas for games. Recent games take the same basic elements from older games, but slap on characters, improve the graphics and processing speed… basically, they make games through a process of ornamentation.
by Spivak | 2025-10-12 18:53:32+00:00
It's not naive, it's literally what the artists did in the article.

The trade you make is reach, you can't benefit from being discovered on Spotify, it's harder for prospective fans to become fans when they can't listen to your music. You could upload your music to other places but they seem to largely be against "uploading it online and giving it away for free."
by bri3d | 2025-10-12 18:53:49+00:00
There’s a strong air of grantware to it. The notion that it could be end-to-end auditable from the RTL up is interesting, though, and generally Wireguard performance will tank with a large routing table and small MTUs like you might suffer on a VPN endpoint server while this project seems to target line speed even at the absolute worst case routing x packets scenario.
by danabramov | 2025-10-12 18:53:50+00:00
I think partially it's because momentum is picking up in the AT ecosystem.

Since all data lives in a single conceptual space, you start seeing community services like https://constellation.microcosm.blue/ (backlinks without running your own index), https://slices.network/ (indexes data you want and gives you a GraphQL/REST endpoint), independent relays (https://atproto.africa/), and so on.

To give you an example, https://slices-teal-relay.bigmoves.deno.net/ is a demo of Slices showing the latest teal.fm records (like Last.fm scrobbles). The thing is, teal.fm is not even launched as an app. It's just its developers already listen to music through it, the records get created in their repos, and so any other developer can aggregate their records and display them.

It's a web of realtime hyperlinked JSON created by different apps. That's exciting.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-12 18:54:33+00:00
My nearly 30-year-old Range Rover is fully ULEZ compliant nearly everywhere in Europe except Paris, because it can run on propane which only really emits water and warm carbon dioxide when it burns - no "smog", no NOx, no HC, no CO, none of that.

Annoyingly in post-Brexit Britain I need to wait two years until is *is* 30 years old to drive in ULEZ zones. It was fine until Brexit kicked in - yet another Conservative disasterpiece.
by didibus | 2025-10-12 18:55:10+00:00
It was in the context of the argument. What's more real about Bitcoin than bonds, options, or stock?

It felt like "real" referred to the physical: gold, food, energy, minerals, real physical things that people have a constant demand for.

It was funny to spot the odd entry, where bitcoins are fully digital and have a very socially dependent agreement and entire digital infrastructure required to keep them functioning.

Gold has a bit of a social agreement as well, but it's social agreement dates thousands of years and even if it broke away still has value as a physical material.
by joduplessis | 2025-10-12 18:55:22+00:00
> “I find it pretty lame that we put our heart and soul into something and then just put it online for free,” Rose says.

How absolutely entitled. Almost 20 years ago I would have killed for a distribution platform as slick as what there is today. Is it a generational thing maybe? I don't know, but just because you create doesn't obligate people to consume.
by vidarh | 2025-10-12 18:56:01+00:00
I've had Claude write ~50+ commits of compiler code over the last week, and I've mostly not even read it yet. I will review the end result at some point, and I do spot checks, but for the most part I review whether or not the number of specs that passes is going the right way, and occasionally butt in when I glance over and spot it doing something silly.

I fully get why people won't trust it, but I'm leaning more and more on reigning it in with specs and tests and process, and then letting it run for extended amounts of time, and then giving it instructions to fix obvious issues, before finally reviewing the result, and letting it fix whatever comes up.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-12 18:56:39+00:00
Interesting, though I wonder what they propose as an alternative for allowing discoverability. Do they just want platforms that give artists better terms, like Bandcamp? Or are they proposing moving away from online platforms altogether, in which case I guess we would go back to radio to find new stuff?

As a consumer, my primary objection to streaming platforms is that you don't own any of the stuff you pay for. That's obviously different to these artists' main objection, but if the solution they propose (whether it's switching to Bandcamp or something else) also addresses that concern I could get on board with it (and will always have sympathy for artists who want a bigger cut vs the middle man).

I do still pay for Spotify despite that objection. I find it provides just enough value to justify the cost. I have found it good for discoverability and, unlike other streaming services, Spotify gives me access to pretty much any music I might like to listen to. (Others with more niche tastes might disagree.)
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-12 18:57:04+00:00
That literally isn’t what pipelining is about in general nor is it relevant to this benchmark which is an insertion workload. The performance benefit observed literally is the ability to start executing the second request even though the ACK for the first one hasn’t fully ACK’ed.

It’s also not true pipelining since you can’t send a follow up request that depends on the results of the previous incomplete request (eg look at capnproto promise pipelining). As such the benefit in practice is actually more limited, especially if instead here you use connection pooling and send the requests over different connections in the first place - I’d expect very similar performance numbers for the benchmark assuming you have enough connections open in parallel to keep the DB busy.
by leakycap | 2025-10-12 18:57:34+00:00
What a gross assumption

Did you spend 3 seconds googling, or just assume because you're uninformed and someone says something you don't know, that person must be a racist?

Here's ONE example. You know how to find more if you want to know:

> The Brazilian authorities found that the [BYD] workers could not leave their dormitories without permission, [BYD workers] were forced to work long hours without weekly breaks, and [BYD workers] were deprived of wages and passports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYD_Brazil_working_conditions_...

> [BYD workers] living quarters were overcrowded and lacked basic amenities, including sufficient toilets and refrigeration for food. Brazilian labour authorities stated that the [BYD] workers are victims of human trafficking.

Your comment didn't deserve a reply, but I hope you learn some critical thinking skills so everything isn't just racism to you, as that won't get you anywhere.
by projectazorian | 2025-10-12 18:58:01+00:00
> It kind of proves it is a scam. You tried it, it did not work. But for some reason you lived experience is invalid, and you should keep trying again and again!

This is like saying dating is pointless because you dated a half dozen people and didn't end up marrying any of them. (That attitude is also increasingly common these days I've found, maybe because we've all been spoiled by the conveniences provided by the internet and modern consumer capitalism.)
by jfengel | 2025-10-12 18:58:04+00:00
18 is exactly what he number I mean by overvalued. It corresponds to an interest rate of about 4%. You can do better in zero risk bonds. And that's for 18; 27 is just not reasonable.

And the S&P.has been going up much faster than 4%. If there was ever a point where it was properly valued it must be overvalued now.

The S&P index isn't the whole story, especially in an expanding tech economy. But still, I'm looking at it as an absolute, rather than a relative number, and it strongly suggests that earnings cannot justify these pricings, even when we're not at the top of a bubble.
by INTPenis | 2025-10-12 18:58:11+00:00
I like the idea, but obviously it's a bit verbose, you must be aware.

But I enjoy the idea so much that I'd like to see a useful version of it. When you think about it, most programming languages already read in your head like language, even if you're using operators.

So there's no need to be that verbose, if you want to print something just go whisper "hello", or even just wh "hello".

When a programmer reads a spellscript it will still sound like a spell in their head, it doesn't have to look like a spell to non-coders.

To expand further on that. Declare is already a great spell word, just use declare for variables.

I think summon should be used for importing libraries.

Just imagine if you wrote a game in this. "Summon orc from creatures".
by chrisldgk | 2025-10-12 18:59:39+00:00
It is. And it’s also the fairest platform for musicians pay-wise. Though Epic apparently acquired Bandcamp[1] recently (presumably to stuff its IP catalogue for Fortnite Festival, so who knows how long that will be true for.

[1] https://pitchfork.com/news/epic-games-sells-bandcamp-amid-la...
by ta12653421 | 2025-10-12 19:00:23+00:00
I never understood why noone built a Copycat (like "bgr" -> "better google reader :-D) There would have been a clear change to fill this vacuum?

The thing is: I guess they didnt see a good way to monetize it (according to their "metrics"), while the product itself had somehow relative high OpEx and being somehow a niche thingy.
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-10-12 19:00:33+00:00
> None of those things are present during a border crossing, for which you want to "pass" a "port".

> but again, why a passport?

Passport isn't only for crossing the border, but to identify for the whole duration of the visit. Travellers don't have national ID documents by definition, and the passport serves this purpose.

E.g. I don't know about your country, but if someone is travelling to my country, he or she is required to keep the passport in the pocket at all times and present to authorities on demand if s/he is stopped on street[1].

So when accessing women-only spaces, like applying for international sports tournaments held in other countries, this will be the document checked.

If you'd like an example involving border crossing, again I don't know much about your country, but if one attempts to cross the border of mine, one of the results might be that you'd be interned in a facility for illegal migrants that for some reason won't be getting political asylum, but can't be deported to the home country either. It would then matter if the person is a man or a woman. Just asking the person is not sufficient, because we can't just allow men to identify themselves into women's wing, as that would violate rights of the women kept there and not free to go elsewhere.

[1] this is contrary to citizens, who aren't generally required to have any ID on oneself, and can just say the name and number if stopped)
by parineum | 2025-10-12 19:00:39+00:00
> We've really lost the plot of why anti-trust regulation was passed in the first place.

I don't personally have any knowledge of the answer to this question but, hundreds of people had to vote for it and they rarely all have the same things in mind when they do.

It's better to focus on what legislation does and says rather than what it was meant to do.
by vkou | 2025-10-12 19:01:30+00:00
As a very casual music listener, I have spent ~5x more on music through subscription services than I have before they existed.

If they went away tomorrow, that spend would not magically be transferred to a more artist-friendly form or platform. I'd just not pay for new music. There's already more than enough old music I own/free music than I would ever need.

I can't imagine I'm an outlier.
by jmclnx | 2025-10-12 19:01:36+00:00
> Ripley defeat the alien queen

What is it with "queens" in SF ? Off to a rant :)

IMO, adding a queen to the Borg destroyed the Borg. I was really intrigued by the Borg as presented in their first appearance. If you remember, they had a nursery with Baby Borg and a collective conscience, no individuality. Then came the queen, the ruler of all with some people having a "higher rank". Totally made the Borg irrelevant to me.

There was a TV show about an invasion of Earth, it went along fine until the last season, a queen was added, I could tell it was rushed and doing that changed its direction.

Same can be said about Independence Day, even though I did not like the queen addition, it did not take away from the whole movie and in a way a "queen" in that context made a bit of sense. The only thing is, if the Queen was killed, wouldn't that end these Aliens ? To me, a queen should not leave the home planet.

Alien movies were too much for me, things popping out of someone's belly would be a "close my eyes" type scene. But I really liked Promentheus. I did not realize until much later that was a prequel to Alien :) And I still think it is a good movie.
by master_crab | 2025-10-12 19:01:43+00:00
Oh yes, you can definitely get away with much less for something like that or an ARM, Ryzen embedded chips, etc. The 4U is more for full scale desktop CPUs like the i9-12900k I am running (like an NH-D15 sink/fan). You may even be able to get away with passive cooling at the 65W range.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-12 19:01:58+00:00
> If you are writing a book today, you want to keep in mind that you are primarily writing it for AIs. They are the ones who are going to read it the most carefully. They are going to read every page word by word, and all the footnotes, and all the endnotes, and the bibliography, and the afterward. They will also read all your books and listen to all your podcasts. You are unlikely to have any human reader read it as thoroughly as the AIs will. After absorbing it, the AIs will do that magical thing of incorporating your text into all the other text they have read, of situating it, of placing it among all the other knowledge of the world – in a way no human reader can do.

[...]

> The value of an author’s work will not just be in how well it sells among humans, but how deep it has been included within the foundational knowledge of these intelligent memory-based systems. That potency will be what is boasted about. That will be an author’s legacy.

The fact that nominally "sane" humans with sizeable followings can publish megalomaniac articles like these and present them as anything other than descriptions of a dystopian hellscape makes me quite pessimistic about our future.
by quotemstr | 2025-10-12 19:02:13+00:00
Perhaps by the time someone's at the shitting at the seat phase of a gambling habit the neurological feedbacks arising from the intermittent reward schedule have become too strong for him to resist on his own.

But who made him start gambling in the first place? It's not like people who start gambling don't know how it ends. The most addictive slot machine in the world can't compel someone to sit at it for the first time. People KNOW these machines are addictive and choose to use them anyway.

It used to be cultural common knowledge that the wages of sin is death.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-12 19:02:18+00:00
Since MS is making the office UX web based, I'd suggest people try just loading 365 in a browser like edge (It's generally flawless for MS products). Especially apps like Teams.

Once you realize that the dedicated app is basically just a browser shell, using a real browser becomes somewhat of a no brainer.

Edge even supports PWAs on linux which can give you the "app" experience without the app.
by zwnow | 2025-10-12 19:02:20+00:00
People dont care about their operating system. Most Mac users never learn Mac and most Windows users never learn windows. They use their computers for emails, some presentations and occasional gaming. They dont want to learn different kinds of software. Which is fine. For most people its just a power tool they never read the manual for. They dont even know what other tools there are so they dont know that life could be better, by not using windows.
by bkrein | 2025-10-12 19:02:23+00:00
I've been using emacs for the last 10 years or so (used Sublime Text before that). I use vim as well from time to time for quick file edits here and there or on remote servers and thought it's fine for that purpose, but I didn't really see the need to use vim exclusively. I'm pretty well settled on emacs now and have my own carefully written modules and functions to get the right setup for me.

I tried helix last month and was immediately hit by how simple it is to get started. It still doesn't come naturally to me, but I managed to quickly get used to the basics: jumping around code, search, yanking/pasting stuff, and switching buffers and windows. I have no idea about its history, but Helix is a very well designed piece of software. Global search is particularly nice, lsp integration just works, it's also exceptionally fast. It feels very nice and comfortable when a software has sane, coherent, and actually-helpful defaults.

I'm definitley going to keep using it and getting myself more accustomed to this way of editing, I will keep emacs as my default, but helix is just so fast it might become my go-to over time for editing code.
by gchamonlive | 2025-10-12 19:02:49+00:00
"Jeep just pushed an update that was catastrophic to all 2024..."

"Jeep just pushed an update that was a total failure to all 2024..."

Idk... Doesn't have a very good ring, because "catastrophic" and "total failure" in the realm of tech usually means something that if you try again it could possibly work.

As I said, I agree that "brick" is a good word, I just don't think any of the alternatives are any better.
by the__alchemist | 2025-10-12 19:03:26+00:00
My 2c. I agree with the parent and article: OneDrive can be a major problem with Windows. They push it on you, your personal documents can be moved to OneDrive without your permission etc. Confusing and user-hostile design.

Linux has its own idiosyncrasies, which may or may not make it worth. E.g. ABI diaspora, installing things can be inconsistent and high-effort, the cycle of copy+pasting CLI commands and system file edits from old forum posts or these days LLMs to fix something, treating your PC like a multi-user system that has an admin by default, etc. My general experience is that installation and things work smoothly with the built-in or package-managed software, but gradually degrade as you start installing software and drivers.
by fallinditch | 2025-10-12 19:03:50+00:00
There was a study that looked at the economics of this [1]: user centric (UCPS) vs market centric (MCPS) payment system. In short: UCPS would transfer some revenue from the top artists to the middle rump of popular artists, but the small and obscure artists would not be affected much since they hardly make much in the first place.

My take on this: of course the top artists should not be taking a disproportionate cut at the expense of the less popular artists, a UCPS is not a panacea but it would be an improvement.

[1] https://legrandnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/02/user-centric-mod...
by tptacek | 2025-10-12 19:03:54+00:00
The 'potatolicious rebuttal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44978319

(They're not an LLM fan; also: I directionally agree about "prompt" engineering, but the argument proves too much if it disqualifies "context" engineering, which is absolutely a normal CS development problem).
by barbs | 2025-10-12 19:04:01+00:00
I've been running mostly Linux (with some macOS) as a daily driver for the past 15 years and have seen more and more articles like this pop up on HN over time. I've felt for a while that Linux is more user-centric, but it seems like Windows 11 is a whole other level of user-hostile, to the point where even average users seem to be catching on. My own father managed to set up Linux on his computer without any prompting or help, and I didn't even suggest it to him. It's a dual-boot setup, but he boots into linux nearly every time and prefers it. It's starting to feel like a turning point.

I'm wondering if there's a market out there for helping regular computer users switch to linux?
by monitron | 2025-10-12 19:04:14+00:00
This is fantastic, thank you. Recently when trying to sleep away from home, I went looking for a noise app and was grossed out by the state of the available apps, just like you said.

BTW One unfortunate feature that many noise apps/websites have (including Apple Music's official noise buttons) is that after a few minutes, they fade out and back in or have some other jarring transition when repeating. This is far from ideal for sleep, meditation, etc. So this is an enhancement request, if your app doesn't already solve this ;)

I'm also curious: do you think that the cost of maintaining the app (keeping it up to date with newer iOS versions, for instance) will eventually dissuade you from keeping it available in its pristine state? I've wondered why there seem to be ZERO free apps by hobbyists on the App Store in categories like this...
by Fire-Dragon-DoL | 2025-10-12 19:04:59+00:00
To me the reason is the right-on-red rule. I still find it insane, and I have been in Canada for 9 years.

In my driving classes, I have been clearly explained that a right-on-red must be treated like a stop sign and that to turn, there needs to be two lanes free of cars: the one you are getting into and the next one (if one lane is available,this doesn't apply).

Many,many drivers treat the red light like a green light for turning right and that's the root of the issue.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-12 19:04:59+00:00
Amusingly, a lot of people have always been convinced that doing 10 Gbps is impossible on VPN. I recall a two-year old post on /r/mikrotik where everyone was telling OP it was impossible with citations and sources of why but then it worked

https://old.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/112mo4v/is_there_...
by leakycap | 2025-10-12 19:05:00+00:00
Interesting. I can see how those metrics could be arrived to, I'm just not sure how you are even remotely sure you're not throwing out good reviews and focusing on the fake ones.

I worked in an online marketing for a company that mostly served asian take-out restaurants and the competitive review-bombing, at least around here, was out of control - even on Google.

It might be better than the alternatives, but if you're seeing G Maps as truth you're taking a lot of fake reviews along for the ride.

I'm interested in this type of product, but have yet to see one that had a cogent way to separate the chaff from the wheat.
by danhor | 2025-10-12 19:05:06+00:00
What are the benefits of SV for multi-clock design? I found migen (and amaranth) to be much nicer for multi-clock designs, providing a stdlib for CDCs and async FIFOs and keeping track of clock domains seperately from normal signals.

My issue with systemverilog is the multitude of implementation with widely varying degrees of support and little open source. Xsim poorly supports more advanced constructs and crashes with them, leaving you to figure out which part causes issues. Vivado only supports a subset. Toolchains for smaller FPGAs (lattice, chinese, ...) are much worse. The older Modelsim versions I used were also not great. You really have to figure out the basic common subset of all the tools and for synthesis, that basically leaves interfaces and logic . Interfaces are better than verilog, but much worse than equivalents in these neo-HDLs(?).

While tracing back compiled verilog is annoying, you are also only using one implementation of the HDL, without needing to battle multiple buggy, poorly documented implementation. There is only one, usually less buggy, poorly documented implementation.