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by mynameajeff | 2025-10-07 14:03:38+00:00
Thanks for mentioning WMR. I was genuinely struggling to remember why I didn't install LTSC previously and that reminded me. Half the reason I'm stuck on 10 even if I wanted to go to 11 is WMR. LTSC would be perfect for me if it wasn't for that little caveat (and a few more if my memory serves correct).

Awesome that they created and then gutted a standard that just bricks my $400 device that they barely even seem to care to support on launch. There's patches that exist for 11 but they're just that, patches, and my WMR experience is already very jank. Nvidia also seems to be the target for most development so I'm not sure where I'll go once this all settles as I have my gaming PC in a nice position where I can just hop on after work and everything just works with no interruptions or issues currently.

11 is a hot mess and I already know that linux/proton simply won't work for the games I tend to quickly hop onto with friends.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2025-10-07 14:03:51+00:00
> most of Lithuania's restrictions have been very common-sense (applying only to people who frequently travel between Russia and Lithuania).

Common-sense like a complete ban for entering the country for red passport holders.

Lithuania is a wonderful, beautiful country and I understand the need to push the hardliner stance in the EU, but their decisions during the conflict have been strictly political, not in the slightest "common-sense".
by atonse | 2025-10-07 14:04:09+00:00
Nah I think the more obvious thing is that most of the code they’re writing (by sheer volume) is the same stuff most programmers write (code that does telemetry, APIs, usage models, billing, product features, react widgets, etc etc.) stuff that the AI coding models do really well.

And even with pure model development, making incremental changes to try different strategies in notebooks etc are probably not that hard to write, when given clear instructions by a data scientist, etc. (I’m not saying these disciplines are easy, I’m saying that a data scientist could more easily describe what they want)

Or the devops stuff. Or the RL UIs.

All that stuff is run of the mill software in service of building the models. And it can be vibe coded.
by tim333 | 2025-10-07 14:04:21+00:00
I think it's unfair to call the theory that a coronavirus popping up next to the world's most active lab experimenting them may have come from the lab a conspiracy theory. I mean did we call people saying radiation from the Chernobyl reactor might have come from an accident conspiracy theorists?

The "conspiracy theorists" include the director of the CDC at the time who was actually in contact with the Chinese CDC and also a virologist, and also the chair of the one official investigation which visited Wuhan in the early days.
by noduerme | 2025-10-07 14:04:37+00:00
Most current system screen fonts in major OSs - as a general group, as a set of letter forms - are not and never were printed fonts. They evolved from bitmap fonts that were created with 90s constraints in mind. They retain some of that aesthetic, and they are not usually the best candidate for the job.

Leaving it up to your user's system font is also an arguably poor choice.
by Oras | 2025-10-07 14:04:43+00:00
> No nation has seen an immigration boom-bust cycle near the scale of the one roiling America. Net immigration nearly quadrupled after 2020 to peak at well over 3mn in 2023, but the backlash led by President Donald Trump sent that figure into freefall. This year only around 400,000 net new arrivals are expected, and that could be the trend in the coming years.

If true, that's <1% of the population?
by magtux | 2025-10-07 14:04:45+00:00
This is a recipe for disaster. Arduino is great for education/tinkering. Qualcomm won't sell you anything even if you are ready to commit to buying 1000s. I tried to source some Qualcomm chips for a startup @ 10k qty and was told there would be no information or support. Qualcomm can have a much bigger market if they simply open up some product lines for distribution like MediaTek do.

China has a way more vibrant, innovative hardware industry simply because you can source everything made by Chinese firms.
by theamk | 2025-10-07 14:04:56+00:00
Note the license is Creative Commons BY-NC-SA - which means non-commercial use only. In software terms, this is not open-source, but rather "source-available" - something like Elastic License,

In practical terms, this means there is no "second supplier" - you can only get the printer or its parts from Open Printer Team; and if the Open Printer Team decides to disband, then the printer will no longer be available. Third parties cannot even sell replacement parts or unassembled devices, the "NC" part of the license explicitly prohibits this. You might be able to print the parts on your own personal 3D printer (if you have one), but sending them to fab house for manufacturing is against the license.

This is great for Open Printer Team's bottom line, but not so great for consumer - don't expect the printer to be available for a long time, and I bet there won't be cheap replacement parts either.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-10-07 14:05:20+00:00
if censorship, subversion and cultural rewriting is not "political" then i don't know what "political" is. stop enabling this behavior by making excuses and assuming good faith when they literally tell you to your face there bad intentions.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220717182807/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20220218214341/https://twitter.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20210410233042/https://twitter.c...
by eagleal | 2025-10-07 14:05:37+00:00
In Italy such devices are known as Pezzotto, because they are like a patch to connect to different streaming, IPTV, etc channels. Of course illegaly.

There was a huge crackdown of both such services providers and their users in the EU (ties between politicians and sports broadcasting lobbies), which was immediately followed with increased pricing from every service, from Sky, DAZN, Mediaset Premium etc to on-demand platforms like Prime, Netflix, Disney Plus, etc.

In addition it seems a cartel has followed up: almost every service has added Ads on top of their lower tier, even though users already paid the increased price in service.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2025-10-07 14:06:08+00:00
it's very easy to setup your own VPN on your own server. I'm using AWS Lightsail because of virtually unlimited bandwidth and the locations I like, but any VPS would work well. I used to have my own scripts but I found this lately which is doing this much better than what I was doing https://github.com/angristan/wireguard-install

The only advantage of professional VPN is the ability to use obfuscation, so to bypass VPN restrictions in countries like Egypt or others.
by silicon5 | 2025-10-07 14:06:10+00:00
AI is not immune to accusations of political bias, as we've seen recently from Grok.

A while back there was a story going around that licensors were replacing human translators with AI to prevent political bias. It seems clear that the real reason they're doing this is to save time and money. Having used Japanese AI translation casually, it's definitely not accurate enough for professional use. Even the unofficial manga scanlators who use it will apologize profusely and use it only as a last resort when a human translator isn't available.

As accusations of translator bias go, other than the Dragon Maid debacle, the big one at that time was the Zombie Land Saga, where they were accused of changing the script to Hoshikawa Lily transgender. What they failed to notice is that the character was always transgender - Hoshikawa Lily being a stage name, her birth name is revealed in one episode to be Masao, a male name.

There are some instances of dubious translations that fail to accurately convey the author's intent, but at the same time, part of what we're seeing is just pushback to increased LGBT representation and feminist themes in anime. Translators are sometimes being blamed for inserting modern or western values into works that already reflected those values.
Ask HN: Is Alphabet High? Can't Turn Off Auto-Dubbing on YouTube Videos? What?
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-10-07 14:06:26+00:00
Sure... I get it... some people might like this. I am not one of those people. I think there are other people who would like to be able to turn auto-dubbing off globally. Recreational cannibus is legal in California, but shouldn't YouTube's product management team just sort of take it easy on the weed?

I'm curious what data they looked at that said people wanted this. It's probably time to build a YouTube competitor that differentiates itself by not giving free THC gummies and psychoactive cacti to their product managers.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-07 14:06:32+00:00
> Rather, [Ive] hopes for them to bring more social good into the world. The devices should “make us happy, and fulfilled, and more peaceful, and less anxious, and less disconnected,” he said.

Teaming up with Altman is not a great indication that this is his actual goal, though. Nor is selling a device that inherent spies on everyone the wearer is near.
by righthand | 2025-10-07 14:07:15+00:00
This is something I don’t get. The general cost of living is sky rocketing, largely due to this push and some of the population thinks there is prosperity for all on the otherside of the meat processing machine we’re pushing everyone toward.

Groceries are going to get more expensive. Every dollar we spend on over building AI infrastructure is a dollar we never get back.

We could use this money for other things such as healthcare and fixing our broken parts of our education system. Instead people are getting ancy to chat with a summarized version of all the garbage on the internet.
by osnium123 | 2025-10-07 14:08:03+00:00
I spent time in UCSB’s physics department and Prof. Martinis was one of those experimental physicists who knew more about electronics and measurements than the typical electrical engineer. He used to have a wiki page containing documentation, cad files, etc of circuits that his group developed for his measurements and he also had open source software for controlling electronics. Very cool prize and happy to see UCSB getting one more Nobel prize!
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-10-07 14:08:45+00:00
Here's somewhat of a counter example. At work our llm project can schedule you time off. Workday already has a dedicated UI for this, so text interface can't be better right? Well it's a very popular feature, people use it all the time. In my opinion it's not better than a dedicated UI, but for some people it's good enough and more convenient (our site loads much faster than workday, they are likely already using it throughout their day, etc.)
by ferguess_k | 2025-10-07 14:08:54+00:00
My first instinct to this piece of news is a five-char word starting with 'S'.

But reading through the news, it seems to be fine?

> Arduino will preserve its open approach and community spirit while unlocking a full‑stack platform for modern development—with Arduino UNO Q as the first step.

> The new Arduino UNO Q is a next-generation single board computer featuring a “dual brain” architecture—a Linux Debian-capable microprocessor and a real-time microcontroller—to bridge high-performance computing with real-time control.

Looks like they want to use the brand to push out their own stuffs, which seems to be reasonable. As long as they don't touch the education/OSS part I guess it will benefit both.
by HappySweeney | 2025-10-07 14:08:58+00:00
> In the sense that you can sue to have the order challenged?

That's a good question. The article doesn't say and I haven't read the bill.

> Were the bank accounts seized before or after the conviction?

Before, of course. That was one of the justifications for invoking the emergency powers, and it wouldn't have been controversial otherwise. This is a digression, though, as there is no mention of any legislative changes to bank account seizures in the article.
by Frost1x | 2025-10-07 14:09:04+00:00
I tried both and the lack of an English UI made a lot of it non-unintuitive, especially when it came to search and finding local businesses walking around. There were some other annoyances, like when I travel for leisure I enjoy researching an area ahead of time bookmarking places to overlay on a map, and being able to organically explore the area as I move around. I found that very difficult on Naver (I don’t recall the details but I know being able to search for types of businesses in English was part of the issue).

I believe performance wise it was also pretty sluggish from what I remember. I’m by no means saying it was unusable, it got me through somewhat functionally but with a lot of extra effort on my behalf. I also had an international data plan and wasn’t able to see if I could precache the map set vs streaming it as needed over wireless.

I often like to look at restaurants, menus, prices, reviews as well to scope out a place quickly before going there. That process was also tedious (to be fair it could be that I’m not familiar with the UI).

The question is why did I have to use Naver or Kakao in the first place. I’d rather just use the system I already enjoy and am quite proficient with using it, not be forced to play with some new app that I need useful information from for some unclear reason.
by matttproud | 2025-10-07 14:09:20+00:00
One of the worst things a developer accustomed to Bazel (and its relatives) can do with a modern language (say Go or Rust) is to model code and organize it through the Bazel concept of a build target (https://bazel.build/concepts/build-ref) first and then second represent it with the language's local organization concepts versus the other way around. One should preferentially model the code with the language-local organizing concept in an idiomatic way (e.g., a Go package — https://go.dev/ref/spec#Package_clause) and THEN map that instance of organization to a build target (e.g., go_library).

When you do this in the wrong order, you end up with very poorly laid out concepts from a code organization standpoint, which is why vagaries like this needed to be written:

* https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/best-practices.html#p...

* https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/go-package-centricity.html

In languages that operate on a flat namespace of compilable units (e.g., C++ or Java), build target sizing and grouping in Bazel (and its relatives) largely doesn't matter (from a naming the namespace and namespace findability+ergonomics perspective). But the moment Bazel starts interfacing with a language that has strict organization and namespacing concepts, this can get rather hairy. The flat namespace practice with Bazel has (IMO) led to code organization brain-rot:

> Oh, I created another small feature; here, let me place it in another (microscopic) build target (without thinking about how my users will access the symbols, locate the namespace, or have an easy way of finding it).

— — —

Note: The above is not a critique of Bazel and such. More of a meta-comment on common mispractices I have seen in the wild. The build system can be very powerful for certain types of things (e.g., FFI dependency preparation and using Aspects as a form of meta-building and -programming).
by webdevver | 2025-10-07 14:09:28+00:00
its cool... but thats not gonna last long at all. soon theyre gonna put their own custom soc into it, just like google did.

especially for such a specific, space/power/thermal constrained platform. itd be weird if meta didnt put their own custom soc into it.

running a big tech company these days, theres enough custom work going around that basically all the big players have internal silicon teams. hell, even fintech shops with ~100 employees are doing tape-outs these days!
by estearum | 2025-10-07 14:09:39+00:00
Do we live in a world of airplanes of all makes and models probabilistically falling out of the sky as a guaranteed characteristic of airplanes?

If so, yes, focusing on debugging a 737-MAX crash that happened to be completely full and hit an occupied building on the ground (therefore extra horrific/attention-grabbing) would be pointless.

Doubly so if the evidence required to root cause it was evaporated upon impact.

Triply so if people decided they had to know what caused that specific crash before they could address the probabilistic falling of airplanes out of the sky.
Show HN: A GUI for Claude Code Settings
by djyde | 2025-10-07 14:09:43+00:00
Hi everyone,

I switched from Cursor to Claude Code about two weeks ago and have been really enjoying it. However, I found it quite tedious to manually edit settings.json and configure MCP every time. So I built a small GUI tool to make it easier — CC Mate.

Here’s how I use it:

I often switch between different AI providers and models when working with Claude Code. In CC Mate, you can create multiple configuration profiles and instantly switch between them — even directly from the menu bar.

It also includes a form-based UI for editing your settings.json, so you don’t have to manually modify JSON files anymore.

I sometimes install and remove global MCP servers. To make this easier, CC Mate includes a MCP management page that lists all your global MCP servers, letting you easily edit or delete them.

When adding a new MCP server, I wanted the process to be as simple as possible. The tool comes with a few preconfigured MCP servers I use frequently — just one click to add. You can also paste your own MCP server JSON. In the future, I plan to integrate an MCP registry, so you can search and add servers directly.

Hope this tool helps you too!

BTW, around 80% of CC Mate’s code was generated with Claude Code itself (I just handled the UI layout manually).
by kragen | 2025-10-07 14:09:58+00:00
Having written a Forth-like native-code compiler (https://github.com/kragen/stoneknifeforth) and also a game in Gforth, I can't claim to be a Forth expert, but I agree. A lot of the weaknesses of the language (such as no compile-time checking of even the number of arguments to a subroutine, much less their types, and its terseness) are shored up by the interactivity of the environment. Some of the short words in Forth like ? only make sense in that context. And some things that might otherwise be weaknesses, like variables being static, become strengths in that context. (If you store into x in a word you're testing, you can see what got stored there with x ?.)

More generally, Forth, considered as a programming language, is not very good compared to other languages of a similar level, such as C or assembly. Its strength is as an interactive environment. (And none of what I've said here implies that you have to use a block editor.)

This is all fairly abstract, but it's not the first time I've talked about it, so I did an ASCIIcast last year demonstrating me writing a square root subroutine: https://asciinema.org/a/621404 I screwed it up in the middle and had to debug it, which is where Forth's interactivity shines. You may want to watch it on double speed, though. You can also get the pleasure of watching me learn that Gforth has readline-like command-line history!

That said, I think you're exaggerating a bit. I haven't seen a Forth compiler that's only a few hundred bytes, and I don't think the blocking PIO in Chuck's IDE driver is a good way to access an IDE disk, although it's adequate for initial bootstrapping.
by m4rtink | 2025-10-07 14:10:06+00:00
I still don't get how people are so fixed on planets - is it because of Star Trek or Star Wars or in general being more consumable for the average human ? Even just the Solar system has resources and energy to build artificial habitats for trilions of people, based just on current and near term technology scaled up & robust in space infrastructure. It's just about getting to it and the necessary time and resource investments to get things running.
by ynik | 2025-10-07 14:10:23+00:00
Using a second partition D: is already twice as fast at small-file-writes compared to the system partition C:. This was on Windows 10 with both partitions using NTFS on the same SSD, and everything else on default settings.

This is because C: has additional file system filters for system integrity that are not present on other drives; and also because C: has 8.3 name compatibility enabled by default, but additional NTFS partitions have that disabled. (so if your filenames are longer than the 8.3 format, Windows has to write twice the number of directory entries)
by database64128 | 2025-10-07 14:10:30+00:00
No, having the bare minimum "HDR support" does not mean it works fine. I have a 27-inch 4K 144Hz monitor with P3 wide color gamut and HDR600. This monitor is connected to 2 PCs, one running Arch Linux with GNOME as the DE and one with Windows 11.

Since Windows 11 24H2, with the new color management feature turned on, I can get correct colors on the monitor in both SDR and HDR modes. So it ends up with HDR on at all times, and mpv can play HDR videos with no color or brightness issues.

GNOME, on the other hand, is stuck with sRGB output in SDR mode, so you get oversaturated colors. With HDR on, SDR content will no longer be oversaturated, but if you play HDR videos with mpv, the image looks darkened and wrong. I've tried setting target-peak and target-contrast to match the auto-detected values on Windows, but the video still looks off.
by guywithahat | 2025-10-07 14:10:59+00:00
> CEOs keep taking (mostly misguided) about how GenAI will replace their people. The thing they miss, and this highlights, is that customers will also expect to pay far less for GenAI produced workloads, which likely more than eliminates any cost savings

Is this bad? This seems good. The end goal being once it's cheaper, you can do more revenue. Also while I obviously don't stand by this Deloitte scandal when done right GenAI work is better
by BirAdam | 2025-10-07 14:11:05+00:00
Intel was in danger because they went from having massive amounts of cash on hand to losing billions per quarter with no roadmap to retake the market in the face of competition from both AMD and ARM. They also didn't have competitive GPUs, they lost the automotive market, they lost the networking market outside of desktop/laptop WiFi, and they'd lost any potential market in handhelds/embedded ages ago. Intel is a company that is massively capital intensive, and they simply cannot afford to be in that position. Looking at the need for billions in investment while burning billions per quarter and no good pathway to profitability, investors leave and the company is forced to make dramatic cuts which furthers the death spiral.
by segmenta | 2025-10-07 14:11:10+00:00
Context: Posting this after yesterday’s OpenAI visual agent builder announcements. The link is not vendor specific; it isolates one design choice in the visual layer: static flowcharts vs runtime handoffs with full history.

Scope: We are comparing a pure visual flowchart to a handoff model built around one primitive: handoff(agent, history). Each agent takes the full conversation history H, updates it, and decides which agent should act next (or halt). The entire history travels with control, so routing happens dynamically.

Takeaways:

• Topology: flowchart = fixed graph; handoffs = graph generated at runtime from H

• State: flowchart stores state in the diagram; handoffs keep it in the shared data (H)

• Routing cost: flowchart needs explicit branches (many edges or a large router); handoffs keep routing as a small function over H

• Extensibility: flowchart adds edges; handoffs add a function

COI: We built Rowboat around handoffs. The code is open source: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat