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by childintime | 2025-10-11 13:54:57+00:00
About EV motor homes: battery capacity for domestic use is plenty in any EV. Powerwalls have much less capacity. So I'd buy a EV motor home with minimal range, like 100 miles. When stationary the capacity is only limited by the solar panels on top (~1.5kW peak). Then again, maybe my use isn't typical.

I'd wish for solar panels mounts as standard for EV vans, with potentially full roof coverage.
by dj_mc_merlin | 2025-10-11 13:55:12+00:00
My point was that this is just the same tactic that corporations have been using for decades. For example, rather than fix systemic issues that cause them to dump mass amounts of greenhouse gases or toxic waste, they instead reframe the issue so that the consumer is at fault: "you don't recycle enough". This is the same, it's just reframing corporations cutting costs wherever they can as the fault of the consumer rather than just plain entshittification. For the record I agree with your point about eating meat and such, it's just not relevant to the discussion at hand and used just as a cheap appeal to emotion/shame.
by mustafiz8260 | 2025-10-11 13:55:24+00:00
Hi HN, I built this because I was constantly frustrated with AI image generators. I'd get a great background image, but the text would be garbled or I'd spot a typo. My only option was to re-roll the whole image and lose the background I liked. My tool solves this by separating the two things. It generates the background with AI, but it adds the text as an editable layer on top (it's a DOM element, not part of the flat image). This means you can change the text, fonts, colors, etc., without regenerating the background. I built it solo with the MERN stack. It's completely free, and there is: No login or signup required No ads or trackers No watermarks The goal was to see if I could build a tool that felt like it combined the speed of AI with the control you actually need. I'm here to answer any questions and would love to hear any feedback you have. Thanks for checking it out!
by pjmlp | 2025-10-11 13:55:44+00:00
I was already enjoying VMware Workstation and Virtual Box, depending on private vs corporate laptop, since returning to Windows as main on with Windows 7.

What WSL has brought is that now it is one thing less to install.

However what got me started with Linux back in 1995, was the not so great support of POSIX in Windows NT.

Had Microsoft kept selling Xenix, or done Windows NT POSIX subsystem property, Linux would most likely never taken off.

Quite ironic given how Bill Gates used to talk about Xenix taking over.
by benrutter | 2025-10-11 13:55:48+00:00
I don't pretend to be an expert in Brazil's politics, but to my knowledge, Bolsonaro is in jail for money laundering and abuse of office for financial gain - is there genuine doubt about him being guilty? If not, it doesn't seem like a fair claim to suggest he's a political prisoner?

I think the point I was trying to make was, a few years ago, it looked like Brazil might all out stop being a democracy. It now seems more likely that democracy will continue, and the process of that de-escalation is an important one to watch.
by analog31 | 2025-10-11 13:55:49+00:00
I learned BASIC in high school, so I'm mentally mutilated, but with that said, my dad got me a copy of Turbo Pascal for my birthday, in the early 80s. He knew virtually nothing about computers, but had read an article in the Wall Street Journal about it. And my older brother was learning Pascal in college.

The manuals were a joy. I read them cover to cover. I think I only skipped one update, up through version 5, and was still using it long after MS-DOS was obsolete.

Today, in my rare moments of writing good code, I program like a Pascal programmer. I think you can easily do worse, but it's hard to do much better. One of the ideas that was prevalent at the time, was that as you learned programming, you should also be learning good programming practices.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-11 13:56:05+00:00
That's just not efficient. AAA games will use AI to pre-render assets, and use AI shaders to make stuff pop more, but on the fly asset generation will still be slow and produce low quality compared to offline asset generation. We might have a ShadCN style asset library that people use AI to tweak to produce "realtime" assets, but there will always be an offline core of templates at the very least.
by mackeye | 2025-10-11 13:56:07+00:00
apologies, i probably should've written `fmt` there (which does the same thing). `reflow` is a `fmt` clone i wrote, without the knowledge `fmt` existed --- that was a bit embarrassing for a friend to eventually point out, that my idea was already in coreutils :D i use `fmt` now because i figure it's far better tested (i think it's posix), but i still think of the action as a "reflow", and that's also the term helix uses.
by rpdillon | 2025-10-11 13:56:15+00:00
Yes, I have an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ chip with memory set to allocate 96 gigs to the GPU and 32 gigs to the CPU. I got it last week, and I've been running gpt-oss-120b at q5 at 40t/s. I run Linux with llama.cpp compiled against ROCm 7.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-11 13:56:50+00:00
> You especially notice the compression on gradients and in dark movie scenes.

That's not a correctly calibrated TV. The contrast is tuned WAY up. People do that to see what's going on in the dark, but you aren't meant to really be able to see those colors. That's why it's a big dark blob. It's supposed to be barely visible on a well calibrated display.

A lot of video codecs will erase details in dark scenes because those details aren't supposed to be visible. Now, I will say that streaming services are tuning that too aggressively. But I'll also say that a lot of people have miscalibrated displays. People simply like to be able to make out every detail in the dark. Those two things come in conflict with one another causing the effect you see above.
by Zak | 2025-10-11 13:57:27+00:00
> Revealed preference shows that American eaters value price above all-else.

I've thought quite a bit about revealed preference in the context of recommendation algorithms. It's tempting to believe what people do in a given situation reveals what they actually prefer despite claims to the contrary, but psychology has long theorized it's more complicated than that. There's a complex interplay of conscious preference, subconscious impulses, information availability, and executive function.

The hard part is quickly convincing someone of the value proposition when there's an option that will ultimately be more satisfying than the quick and familiar.
by khaledh | 2025-10-11 13:58:26+00:00
Agreed. The methodology needed here is something like an A/B test, with quantifiable metrics that demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool. And to do it not just once, but many times under different scenarios so that it demonstrates statistical significance.

The most challenging part when working with coding agents is that they seem to do well initially on a small code base with low complexity. Once the codebase gets bigger with lots of non-trivial connections and patterns, they almost always experience tunnel vision when asked to do anything non-trivial, leading to increased tech debt.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-11 13:58:28+00:00
> And the experience has been that civilisational collapse is much more likely for the people who don't use fossil fuels

I don't understand the reasoning behind that. Obtaining fossil fuels, refining and delivering them to where they are needed all requires a substantial number of systems working together. Disruption to e.g. refineries will stop people from being able to use fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, alternate sources such as solar and wind are cheaper and require far less civilisation to make workable (e.g. setup your own solar cell and plug it into your isolated supply).
by keyringlight | 2025-10-11 13:59:44+00:00
If anything I think PC has been a prototyping or proving grounds for technologies on the roadmap for consoles to adopt. It allows software and hardware iterations before it's relied upon in a platform that is required to be stable and mostly unchanging for around a decade from designing the platform through developers using it and recently major refreshes. For example from around 2009 there were a few cross platform games with the baseline being 32bit/DX9 capabilities, but optional 64bit/DX11 capabilities, and given the costs and teams involved in making the kind of games which stretch those capabilities I find it hard to believe it'd be one or a small group of engineers putting significant time into an optional modes that aren't critical to the game functioning and supporting them publicly. Then a few years later that's the basis of the next generation of consoles.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-11 14:00:04+00:00
I agree, I'm sure I've seen instances of where it's worked but the problem is that when it messes it up it's much more annoying than any benefit it brings when it does work. Some of us don't want to be reminded that tech is full of hubris, overconfidence, poor judgment, and failure about what can/should be abstracted and automated.
by tom1337 | 2025-10-11 14:00:23+00:00
It depends. For really niche questions I still find StackOverflow and similar platforms miles ahead of AI. For generic / beginner questions AI surely works and unfortunately it seems like people think it’s a good idea to just post a question they find online into a LLM and copy the answer straight back to the platform to gain internet points (without even understanding the solution or validating if it actually works).
by muststopmyths | 2025-10-11 14:00:44+00:00
Fascinating.

Pricing, if I am reading the site correctly: $7k-ish for a server (+$ for local disks, one assumes), $2-5k per client. So you download the movie locally to your server and play it on clients scattered throughout your mansion/property.

Not out of the world for people who drop 10s of thousands on home theater.

I wonder if that's what the Elysium types use in their NZ bunkers.

No true self-respecting, self-described techie (Scotsman) would use it instead of building their own of course.
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 | 2025-10-11 14:00:50+00:00
Of course I don't. Life is a short, temporary experience, and I don't want to spend this time wondering what others think of me. It does not matter at all. I am nothing, just a briefly conscious lump of cells. I will die and turn to dust, just like about 100 billion of others before me. Nothing that I say, think, dream, experience, do, or how I act or look like will ever matter.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-11 14:02:59+00:00
It is absurd because it places subjective opinions over objective goods. This is the vice of “human respect”. Human beings do not have a final say about others. They can opine, but opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one.

Sure, it is nice to be remembered well, if you deserve it, but I do not live for the opinions of others. This is slave mentality and pathetic. I care about being good, and if I am hated for that, then so be it. Sad, but better to be hated for being a good person than loved for being a mediocrity or a knave.

And to off yourself out of concern with how people remember you is a condemnation of our society, our lack of charity, our lack of magnanimity, and our selfish prioritization of convenience. Full throttle consumerism.
by walkabout | 2025-10-11 14:03:55+00:00
There’s one major benefit to separating your gaming and work machines, if you aren’t also using a lot of graphics horsepower for work[0]: NVidia and AMD graphics cards tend to ~double major problems on a machine (or halve system stability, to put it another way). This was even true of Macs, back when they were on x86.

Now, this won’t help if you play a lot of new games at launch (and aren’t ok playing them on a console instead of PC) or lots of multiplayer games with heavy-handed anti-cheat, but otherwise, Linux as a gaming OS has become pretty damn viable lately. Windows hasn’t been for anything but gaming for me since somewhere around the turn of the millennium, and I’ve just finally been able to ditch it completely. Which is really nice.

What I’m getting at is all-Linux (if you have more tolerance for Linux on the Desktop jank than I do) or Mac-for-work, Linux-for-play are now both non-terrible combos for having gaming available, and unless you need Nvidia or AMD graphics on your work machine (in which case, sure, may as well share that hardware for both roles), there are real benefits to work-system stability you can get by separating those.

(I do agree with you that running Linux under virtualization on either Windows or Mac is the only non-crazy-making and/or non-professionally-embarrassing way to work in Linux on a laptop, and I write that as someone who did run Linux on a laptop as my primary serious OS for most of a decade)

[0] nb. depending on what “a lot” means, Apple Silicon with a lot of system memory might still be a really good option.
by sokoloff | 2025-10-11 14:04:28+00:00
I don’t think age of copper itself matters (assuming it supports TV already), other than what might come along with that.

https://en-us.support.motorola.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1... will give you some additional info.

My house had quite old (likely 1980s) coax home runs and it worked flawlessly. All I did was change out the entry (root)splitter for one that had a point of entry filter. I’m not sure that was even needed, but it seemed sensible and was not expensive or difficult.
by Noaidi | 2025-10-11 14:04:34+00:00
> What if he tried that, but every day just got worse than the last day?

Anyone can say that about their life right now, can't they? How many people struggling today think that their life will get no better? Look at all those who made it through slavery, what hope did they have? Their hope came from their faith.

Suffering has a purpose, this is something your grandmother understands through her faith. Buddhists understand this as well. Maybe the problem is not our suffering, but our lack of faith in others and in in something bigger than ourselves.
by darkmighty | 2025-10-11 14:05:07+00:00
It's not like life stops when someone (with a grave an irreversible condition that causes suffering) dies. It goes on with the young generations (i.e. the billions of them!). I think too much clinging to a single life causes the whole (which is more important) to suffer. That's not to say we shouldn't value and respect elders, but clinging to life excessively is ignorant and potentially cruel, in my humble opinion. I defend the right to die in the face of incurable diseases that cause a lot of anguish and suffering.

I think clinging to life is partially rooted in an egoist/solipsistic metaphysics that you yourself are all that matters (to yourself at least, of course). Relax, we're just a small part of the cosmos. Ancient and immortal :)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-11 14:05:10+00:00
I have only worked as a contractor where I was officially working for a third party company and they had a contract with the client. But I didn’t get paid when I wasn’t on contract and working full time for consulting companies (or departments) where I was a full time employee with benefits and got paid regardless of whether I was on the bench.

Either way, I have never known clients to pay in advance and now I’m high enough up the food chain to know that every company has trouble from time to time getting clients to pay. But that’s never been a “me problem”. The company I work for has sales, accounting and legal to worry about it. I get paid on time regardless. The trade off in getting paid less per hour is well worth it.

I still wonder if most people doing “independent consulting” wouldn’t be better off taking your bog standard enterprise dev job working 40 hours a week or working full time for consulting company.
by prmph | 2025-10-11 14:05:10+00:00
Just register a subscription [1] with z.ai (company behind the GLM models), get an API key [2], and then put something like this in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, etc:

alias zcc='ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic" ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="your z.ai api key" claude --model GLM-4.6'

1. https://z.ai/subscribe

2. https://z.ai/manage-apikey/apikey-list
by mdasen | 2025-10-11 14:05:14+00:00
I'm not surprised they don't offer an even higher tier. When you're pricing things, you often need to use proxies - like 1080p and 4K. It'd be hard to offer 3 pricing tiers: 1080p, 4K, 4K but actually good 4K that we don't compress to hell. That third tier makes it seem like you're being a bit fraudulent with the second tier. You're essentially admitting that you've created a fake-4K tier to take people's money without delivering them the product they think they're buying. At some point, a class-action lawsuit would use that as a sort of admission that you knew you weren't giving customers what they were paying for and that it was being done intentionally, both of which matter a lot.

Right now, Netflix can say stuff like "we think the 4K video we're serving is just as good." If they offer a real-4K tier, it's hard to make that argument.
by LogicFailsMe | 2025-10-11 14:05:19+00:00
My brother likely exploited his power of attorney to accelerate our mother's demise and may have injected her with insulin to get the job done. So there's your first datapoint.

What's definite, however, is that he made ~75% of her estate vanish into thin air before throwing her into a low-end nursing home where he wouldn't pay $6/day to have her bathed so she died in her own filth. Nevermind she had a 6-figure pension and longterm care for life. He wanted her gone because dementia had made her unmanageable to him yet he wouldn't let her go to live with any of her other children because he feared he would lose control of the estate through his PoA.

And because he had that PoA, no one could dispute his choices in time to save her. The courts and Adult Protective Services were useless bordering on complicit. The day we finally got a positive court verdict was absolutely 100% coincidentally no connection whatsoever you see 2 days before she suddenly passed.

Lesson learned: when you grow old, don't give anyone on the inheritance train any sort of PoA or they'll instantly become a PoS.
by kragen | 2025-10-11 14:05:42+00:00
This is great. I'd like to know more about how it feels subjectively to use it and how the author prefers to position it for readability. My batteryless version of this setup, using smaller screens and a subthreshold microcontroller, is still not yet working.

I'm glad to see that the very frustrating vogue for glossy computer screens finally ended after many years, making regular, nonreflective screens much less unusable outdoors. (I date it to the wide adoption of IPS, which might be a coincidence.)
by richliss | 2025-10-11 14:05:49+00:00
It seems to me like they need to massively improve Homekit adoption first into far more different types of devices. That's when Siri becomes useful to me personally.

I want to at least be able to say "Hey Siri, I'm heading home now", and my heating turns on so it's warm when I get back, my lights turn on 2 minutes before I arrive, any robot cleaning to have finished, oven turns on 5 minutes before I arrive so it's ready to have something thrown in it, my indoor plants are automatically watered so they don't die etc. etc.

Or how about "By the way, it's your best friend's daughter's 18th birthday in 10 days time, would you like me to find some options?"

Start with removing chores and friction from my life. If I had a human personal assistant that's what they'd be doing.
by JadeNB | 2025-10-11 14:06:08+00:00
> You mean, is there any state funded system in which the primary drive of the system is to elrotect and expand itself, even at the expense of providing the good ir service for which it was created?

> History says no...

Aside from the obvious typos, I think that there is a crucial 'not' missing in the first sentence.

Also, why single out state funded systems? I don't believe that private enterprises have been a great model for provision of goods or services over self enrichment. (I now see that stouset said the same hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546268.)
by kstenerud | 2025-10-11 14:06:19+00:00
Because if max is a calculated value, it could silently wrap around and leave index to cause a buffer overflow.

Or if index is counting down, a calculated index could silently wrap around and cause the same issue.

And if both are calculated and wrap around, you'll have fun debugging spooky action at a distance!

If both are signed, that won't happen. You probably do have a bug if max or index is calculated to a negative value, but it's likely not an exploitable one.
by dijit | 2025-10-11 14:06:35+00:00
Office is the true killer.

Games are pretty much there for linux, reasonable stress about anti-cheat aside; but the network effects of Microsoft office are the real poison pill.

The irony of course is that if it wasn’t for games you could have a good time using office on MacOS with their cut down versions: but no such version exists for Linux and FreeBSD.

Since its purely network effects, I’ve taken to trying to promote Google Docs usage; since their tools anywhere with a modern browser, which is practically every modern desktop environment.

I know its pushing another US tech giant, but somehow the network effects are less egregious.
by c-smile | 2025-10-11 14:06:47+00:00
Problem with <output> is that it is half-baked making its usage almost useless.

It would be significantly more practical for the output to have "type" attribute in the same way as in the input.

I did experiment with oputput|type in my Sciter and added these:

type="text" - default value, no formating type="number" - formats content as a number using users locale settings, type="currency" - formats content as a currency using users locale settings, type="date" - as a date, no TZ conversion, type="date-local" - as a date in users format, UTC datetime to local, type="time" - as a time type="time-local" - as a local time, value treated as UTC datetime.

This way server can provide data without need to know users locale.
by sotix | 2025-10-11 14:07:34+00:00
Any specific apps? I'm not having performance issues on an iPhone SE 3, which should be a lot less powerful, but perhaps I haven't bumped into them. Or maybe apps use different resources on a less powerful phone?

Siri was broken for me for the first few days but suddenly began working again! That was frustrating, but I'm happy it's back. I have no clue what fixed it because it wasn't a software update.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-11 14:07:54+00:00
As I said, I think the streamer services have too aggressive settings there. But that doesn't change the fact that the a lot of people have their contrast settings over tuned.

It should be noted, as well, that this generally isn't a "not enough bits" problem. There are literally codec settings to tune which decide when to start smearing the darkness. On a few codecs (such as VP1) those values are pretty badly set by default. I suspect streaming services aren't far off from those defaults. The codec settings are instead prioritizing putting bits into the lit parts of a scene rather than sparing a few for the darkness like you might like.
by pcurve | 2025-10-11 14:08:07+00:00
"Tragically, 60 people were killed during construction.

During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders"

That is unusually high number of death during construction.

After 25 years, I still get emotional looking at these imageries. The emotion is raw. I'm still mad that this happened.