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by samesurfai | 2025-10-01 17:13:02+00:00
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by zhengyi13 | 2025-10-01 17:13:23+00:00
I think that a lot of very basic LLM use cases come down to articulating your need. If you're not the sort of person who's highly articulate, this is likely to be difficult for you.

I'm personally in the habit of answering even slightly complex questions by first establishing shared context - that is, I very carefully ensure that my conversational partner has exactly the same understanding of the situation that I do. I do this because it's frequently the case that we don't have a lot of overlap in our understanding, or we have very specific gaps or contradictions in our understanding.

If you're like many in this industry, you're working in a language other than what you were raised in, making all of this more difficult.
by mellosouls | 2025-10-01 17:14:04+00:00
Like many others I was very pro cursor a year or so ago, but unfortunately since then 3 significant things have severely impacted its appeal:

VS Code accepted the challenge and upped its game.

Claude Code changed the game.

Cursor's own heavy value decrease (always part of the strategy but poorly communicated and managed) hit Cursor users hard when the cheap premium tokens honeymoon ended in recent months.

Existing users are disappointed, potential new users no longer see it as the clear class leader, because it isn't.
by jwr | 2025-10-01 17:14:17+00:00
The world is not binary, nor black & white. There is an entire spectrum of solutions between a spreadsheet and a highly-structured app. Sure, you can use a spreadsheet for anything, it's quick, and provides nearly no structure. You can also use a specialized application, tailored for the particular processes at hand, that does error checking on input, validates data integrity, and does not let you break data structures. And there is a whole spectrum in between.

One thing to note is that a spreadsheet (OPs insistence on calling it "Google Sheet" is amusing after years of hearing people call it "excel", it's a spreadsheet, people!) is a poor-man's relational database, with most spreadsheets having a single table, or multiple tables but modeling no relations. And you can't model relations in a spreadsheet in any meaningful way (imposing constraints, checking integrity, etc).

Written from the perspective of someone who makes a living providing a SaaS for (among others) inventory control, for which a spreadsheet is a direct competitor. Also, from the perspective of someone who has seen a lot of customer spreadsheets with inventory, not one of them in any way correct or containing good data.
by seanbeever | 2025-10-01 17:14:34+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-10-01 17:14:35+00:00
In America, even most poor people have cars. In the bottom income quantile, 70% of households own a car: https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Transportation-Cost-Burden-Tr.... In the bottom 20-40%, it’s 88%. And in the lowest income quantile, households spend over $6,000 per year on transportation. It’s not “financially disastrous,” because the alternative is paying much more money in rent and losing the flexibility to pursue job opportunities in different places. Lack of geographic flexibility to pursue housing and jobs is a huge burden on carless people, and traps people in failing communities.[1]

The middle income quantile spends $11,000 per year on transportation. The median US car payment is $749 new and $529 used. The sooner we force middle class people and up move to EVs—which they can afford to do—the sooner we can create a robust market for used EVs for the bottom quantile.

[1] One of the biggest differences I noticed between Baltimore, where I lived, and rural Oregon, where my wife’s family is from, is that people in Baltimore are trapped in dangerous neighborhoods with no job prospects. Their lack of mobility turns them into wards of the state. People in rural Oregon are just as poor, but they can move around looking for housing and work. E.g. someone who loses their job can move in with family in the middle of nowhere and still commute to find part time work or pursue job leads in the towns.
by MisterTea | 2025-10-01 17:14:40+00:00
The AT tiny is not needed at all. You have a digital signal coming right out of the serial cable which can drive the laser using a buffer and a Schmitt trigger on the receiver.

Eliminating crosstalk is the tough part and requires some modulation to ensure the transceiver isn't accidentally listening to itself via reflections or picking up interference.

Look up point to point laser links. They have been around for quite some time.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-01 17:14:49+00:00
People are tired of being forced to do bullshit meaningless or net negative stuff, obey people they don't respect on a deeper level etc. People live in a way like captive animals in a zoo. Everything is urgent, the sky is falling, but all behind a glass screen.

But the only vocabulary they have to express all this is therapy speak and mental health. So everyone has ADHD, autism, PTSD, anxiety, depression, bipolar and more. When it's often actually a lack of purpose, a lack of enduring value, being a standardized cog in a machine, ripped of context and roots, atomized, etc. But this is not valid vocabulary, we are modern people, we have chemical imbalances and not nonsense medieval concepts. Medical labels still have power even in a lifeless bureaucratic corporate HR hellscape. Medical diagnoses and credible claims of unsafe work environments. Anything else, they sleep. These two and they listen.
by g413n | 2025-10-01 17:14:59+00:00
yeah we're very interested in trying toploaders, we'll do a test rack next time we expand and switch to that if it goes well.

w.r.t. testing the main thing we did was try to buy a bit from each supplier a month or two ahead of time, so by the time we were doing the full build that rack was a known variable. We did find one drive lot which was super sketchy and just didn't include it in the bulk orders later. diversity in suppliers helps a lot with tail risk
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-01 17:15:35+00:00
TIL misophonia.

I’ve realised in recent years that I’m quite far on the spectrum. Very obvious when I was young but am exceptionally good at masking now so most people don’t realise.

Nowadays I experience misophonia in “attacks” that just come on. Recently I was on public transport and the noise was suddenly so unbearable that I had to get the hell out of there, hadn’t really felt like that since I was a kid. Fight or flight feeling. When I was a kid I had a lot of hearing tests as a result, ASD was not on anyone’s radar.

Didn’t realise this had a name.
by unfitted2545 | 2025-10-01 17:15:44+00:00
Yeah I suppose so, most comments on this kinda thing are not really discussing the technology in a vacuum. I imagine it's due to the quite cynical nature of HN at this particular time period where society is fundamentally shifting, in arguably a negative direction, with this kind of technology as one of the main reasons. I haven't been on HN for that long, what was it like 5-10 years ago? I'm curious how it will be in 5-10 years.
by mlhpdx | 2025-10-01 17:15:52+00:00
If you want to avoid “long polling” then MQTT isn’t the answer (it’s still a long held TCP connection waiting for messages). UDP would be the way to go, and with WireGuard as a carrier you don’t have to worry about NAT traversal issues (and get privacy as a bonus).

Love the project - would have been great when my kiddos were that age.
by debba | 2025-10-01 17:16:02+00:00
I built a desktop app for Storytel using Electron and React

Since Storytel doesn't have an official desktop application, I developed one using Electron to fill that gap.

The app provides a native desktop experience for listening to audiobooks and reading ebooks from Storytel on your computer.

Key features:

Native desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux Can also be used as a web app Built with Electron for cross-platform compatibility

If you're a Storytel user who prefers a dedicated desktop app over the browser, feel free to check it out!
by Insanity | 2025-10-01 17:16:15+00:00
Unlike the author, I think that the value of writing code in my free time (or well, the joy more than the value) has diminished greatly.

I took a lot of 'pride in the craft', and I used to really enjoy hacking away on new projects with languages that I normally wouldn't use in my day-to-day. But now whenever I start something I think of how much faster I could be if I just used an LLM. Which takes away some of the joy.

I'll be honest, I struggled with this for many months.. actually years at this point (since ~GPT3.5). I hardly code in my spare time now, and am spending more time on other hobbies. I think I've kinda come to terms with the fact that I won't really enjoy coding anymore.
by mallowdram | 2025-10-01 17:16:18+00:00
Isomorphism invariance applies to neural assemblies or syntax, not to mere symbols. The problem in math is it models. Brains do not model. Heraclitus was right if math never enters the picture to add its arbitrariness. "A man in the night kindles a light for himself when his sight is extinguished; living he is in contact with the dead when asleep, when awake he is in touch with the sleeper."
by jmull | 2025-10-01 17:16:57+00:00
I do understand about enterprise decision-making.

I think it's the pengiun approach to risk management -- they know they need to jump in the water to get where they need to go, but they don't know where the orcas are. So they jostle closer and closer to the edge, some fall in, and the rest see what happens.

BTW, I probably shouldn't have only commenting on the small part at the end that annoyed me. I'm fascinated by the idea that LLMs make highly custom software feasible, like your "claudsidian" system... that people will be able to get the software they want by describing it rather than being limited to finding something preexisting and having to adapting to it. As you point out, the unix philosophy is one way -- simple, unopinionated, building blocks an LLM can compose out of user-level prompts.
by Bender | 2025-10-01 17:17:00+00:00
If the server has been attacked somehow by ransomware then the sftp backups will be fine. sftp to a chroot sftp-only configuration and rsnapshot running on the remote end means one would have to not notice this for a very long time before all backups are corrupted. I am happy to demonstrate this if need be.

Adding to this time between backups can be shortened by using a different cronjob to utilize inotifywait in a loop and back up to a different or same sftp account achieving both scheduled and ad-hoc snapshots.
by pfraze | 2025-10-01 17:17:30+00:00
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by larrik | 2025-10-01 17:17:48+00:00
I'm surprised at the negative comments about Python here. Python has been my favorite language since I learned it, and nothing else has come close to it.

I'm currently on pure JS project (node and vue) and I'm constantly fighting with things that would be trivial in python or django. Also getting into .NET world and not impressed with that at all.

I know folks like Go, but in decades of being a software consultant I've come across zero companies using it or hiring for it.
by yieldcrv | 2025-10-01 17:18:30+00:00
These fiat-default takes are uninspired

Simply having possession of the bitcoin is valuable. You can borrow against, for other cryptos assets and for fiat. You can invest with it to someone else that also won’t sell it, either at all or all at once, you can obtain goods and services from people that wont sell it, and you can also sell it. Treasury companies are buying billions of BTC per week, for now.
by roxolotl | 2025-10-01 17:18:33+00:00
That’s why the self reports seem valuable to me. If someone says “I’ve never seen something in my minds eye” and then they do dmt and say “oh shit I can see things in my minds eye now I totally get what people mean now” it seems to imply there’s a spectrum of visualization capabilities. There’s also people who’ve gone in the opposite direction due to injury.
by theideaofcoffee | 2025-10-01 17:18:46+00:00
I'm not op, but thanks for this. Like I mentioned in another comment, the wholesale move to the cloud has caused so many skills to become atrophied. And it's good that someone is starting to exercise that skill again, like you said. The hyperscalers are mostly to blame for this, the marketing FUD being that you can't possibly do it yourself, there are too many things to keep track of, let us do it (while conveniently leaving out how eye-wateringly expensive they are in comparison).
by mrtksn | 2025-10-01 17:18:59+00:00
You know what, I hope it works out. However Hamas gets a "trust me bro", Netanyahu gets a "Behave!", Palestinians in general get "You poor thing :( " so its not really a resolution, there are no guarantees that it will hold but it is a good starting point to discuss the thing in a civil manner. IMHO that's needed now for this fascinating country of Israel and the aggrieved people of Palestine.

Once the bloodshed ends there are so many things to discuss. The world will need to come to terms with genocide and ethnic cleansing, is this how it going to be from now going on or will Israel pay for their deeds? Is terrorism an OK tool now or will Hamas pay for its actions? Will the world recognize that the issue didn't start out of the blue on October 7 attacks? Will there be a fair resolution or at least credible attempt for such a thing?

This is going to be a defining moment for the West. If the western societies accept that It is OK to use mass surveillance on the population to target enemies of the state and it is OK to kill 10 civilians people for every combatant or of it is OK to label everyone a fair target if they are not in complete submissions. Whatever the outcome is, it will come home. Communications monitored(Chat Control), mass surveillance enemy of the state detection and pushing people to their best behavior(Palantir and Larry Ellison's position on the matter) and military on the street are the seeds that will grow if it is normalized in Palestine and Israel.

Also, on Twitter I keep getting relentless antisemitism and anti-muslim stuff from white nationalist(self defined) accounts so something else is also brewing. Can't tell how much of this is Elon's choice and how much of this is some interaction profiteers defeating the algorithm but it is relentless.

Anyway, interesting times ahead.
by clickety_clack | 2025-10-01 17:19:00+00:00
True, but you are arguing about the merit of the actual product, which neither I nor the comment I responded to were talking about at all. Marketing tactics can be applied to good and bad products, and FOMO is a pretty common one everywhere, from "limited remaining" to "early adopters lock in at $10/mo for life" to "everyone else is doing it".
by ocschwar | 2025-10-01 17:19:23+00:00
It's things like having a grating monotone, and having to pause before speaking and willing yourself to adopting the right tone for your state of mind and the effect you want to have on your audience. Every. Time. You. Speak.

It's like being an actor, except the whole world is your stage, and you have to be conscious of your character, lines, and motivation, the entire time you're awake.
by Arwill | 2025-10-01 17:20:29+00:00
Who does even run Netweaver Java AS today? Apparently some do, but that was a bad idea from the start. It is an optional server component letting Java applications run in the SAP server. In my eyes it was always an unnecessary additional source of complexity, they added it to the portfolio back when Java was the hype. Now its been pwned by an unchecked upload.

But i know that HN does not have an appreciation for SAP anyhow.
by em-bee | 2025-10-01 17:20:37+00:00
"not trying to shill SES specifically"

i didn't assume that. obviously you can only talk about the one that you are using, and while the general setup applies to other such services, i can now file SES as an option that works. and with that price point i am probably going to be to lazy to look for alternatives. (although i should check if the email service i am already paying can do that too without requiring me to send all emails through them)
by cthalupa | 2025-10-01 17:21:14+00:00
High LDL or Lp(a) on its own causes enough localized inflammation to continue plaque deposition. We can’t drive down every cause on inflammation to 0 to the point that there is zero plaque deposition at all in the presence of high LDL, there are just too many causes. Even temporary increases in inflammation from natural processes can deposit plaque is you have high amounts of atherogenic particles. And once they deposit, they begin to cause inflammation independently. Not all inflammation can be measured by hsCRP.

Inflammation is an important causal factor for sure, and persistent high levels of inflammation will drive even more deposition of plaque.

Your body does not need serum LDL in significant quantities. I’ve commented in this post multiple times with studies that show that even driving LDL down below 20 has no impact to the systems that use LDL that people are concerned about. All of the related organs can do de novo synthesis, make use of HDL instead, etc. People that do not produce LDL at all that ends up in the bloodstream still produce all of their necessary hormones at normal rates, the brain still produces it locally de novo, etc.

No one thinks LDL and Lp(a) are the sole factors in heart disease. We know of plenty that are unrelated - blood pressure, LVH, etc. etc. etc.

But lowering LDL is one of the most powerful and broad spectrum tools we have at our disposal.
by cassianoleal | 2025-10-01 17:21:14+00:00
I read much of that guide. I was initially led to believe that I have aphantasia. I certainly don't see things that don't exist - that would be an hallucination. I can imagine and describe it in vivid detail if I want, but it's not there - I don't see it in the same way I see the physical reflection of light on surfaces.

Similarly I don't hear sounds that are not produced by difference in air pressure hitting my ear drums. Again, that would be an hallucination. But I can certainly imagine sounds, again in great detail, including musical melodies and different instrument timbres.

Then, I get to the part about dreaming. I don't dream often, which also seems like a sign that I have it. That said, on some of my dreams, all sensations feel very real. Images, sounds, conversations, faces, colours, emotions... Those are hallucinations for all practical purposes though.

Except the fact that I have those vivid dreams seems to say I don't have aphantasia.

Not that it will make a lot of difference in my life, but where does that leave me? :D
by rhubarbtree | 2025-10-01 17:21:36+00:00
Not sure your reply warrants any further expenditure of effort on my part, but for the benefit of other readers:

The bootcamp (actually, evening classes in coding run in cooperation with the public sector) regularly placed graduates with employers.

They’ve seen a big hit in this since AI, and companies have explicitly cited the fact that AI can complete the same tasks that these junior devs used to perform.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-01 17:21:50+00:00
I never really took Python seriously, but lately I've been programming almost all of my personal projects in Python. The way I see it: For any kind of project I might take on, Python is never the best language to do it in, but is almost always the second-best language to do it in. This makes it a great default, especially if it's just a little one-off tool or experiment.
by __jl__ | 2025-10-01 17:22:36+00:00
Since we have cursor people joining, let me bring up my constant problems around applying code changes. For background, I mostly work with "chat":

1. The apply button does not appear. This used to be mostly a problem with Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5 but now sometimes happens with all models. Very annoying because I have to apply manually

2. Cursor doesn't recognize which file to apply changes to and just uses the currently open file. Also very annoying and impossible to change the file to which I want to apply changes after they were applied to one file.