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by jasode | 2025-10-07 16:07:00+00:00
>I doubt it’s going to happen, but a part of me prays that people will eventually get sick Microsoft’s increasing bullshit and it really can become the Year of the Linux Desktop. [...] I suspect, though, people will realistically just migrate to Chromebooks,

Most people will stay on Windows... even with all the increasing annoyances from Microsoft... because there's too much important software that runs only on Windows.

And workarounds such as Linux Wine emulator or QEMU virtual machines are still not enough because lots of Windows software won't run in those environments for various compatibility reasons.

E.g. I can't migrate a friend to Linux because her embroidery software for her sewing machine has a USB hardware dongle for DRM. It doesn't work by passing it through as a USB device to a "Windows virtual machine" under Linux.

Other examples are Adobe Photoshop, CAD software like SolidWorks, etc. Too much inertia out there with Windows-only software.

If one does everything in a web browser (e.g. Google Sheets, Google Docs, etc), that's the type of usage profile where switching to Linux desktop is an easy no-brainer.
by rpcope1 | 2025-10-07 16:07:10+00:00
Honestly it feels like we could very well see a microcosm of what happens on big trucks where a certain vintage get sold as "gliders" and get perpetually rebuilt. I don't understand how the market for trucks sustains itself, how many people are there really that want the king doodoo ranch 150k cadillac truck that has engine and transmission problems at 3 years out? I won't be surprised if the government basically bans cars older than 15 years old and totally bans "street rods" and kits meaning we will have no choice but to bend over for an inferior pile of shit truck.
by naldb | 2025-10-07 16:07:30+00:00
That the way the parent comment is written evokes fear unnecessarily.

There are no definite provable effects of exposure of PFAS - in fact our current knowledge of them is so bad that if you use google and find a list of effects on the body from exposure of PFAS the list is endless and full of things that are unrelated, which is obviously impossible and nonsense.
by jerlam | 2025-10-07 16:07:34+00:00
It's some kind of awful compromise to allow more car traffic because it's less disruptive than a full four-way signal. Except it seems to have added a lot of behaviors that drivers don't expect or pay attention to.

In isolation, the lighting modes make sense. A solid red is always stop. A flashing red is equivalent to a stop sign. The yellows means changing to red. Confusingly, the lack of a green seems to be an issue because drivers misinterpret that to mean the light is inoperable or can be ignored.

It seems like the issue is related to stroads, where drivers only look for green and red lights, and nothing else:

> The researchers also found that the type of roadway impacted how drivers interacted with the beacon. On four-lane roads, there was less premature stopping, but also lower rates of stopping during the red-light phases: 29% drove through the solid red and 69% drove through flashing red. [...] Driver performance for correctly stopping during the solid red phase was best at urban, two-lane roads: only 11% of drivers failed to stop. There was still some stopping confusion in the other phases, but generally more compliant than other sites.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-10-07 16:07:35+00:00
While I’m not a big fan of chiropractors there it’s important context that few understand. In the US medical malpractice is deviation from the standard treatments, and the standard treatments are heavily influenced by insurance companies which creates a substantial misalignment of interests and often leads to very poor outcomes. Similar to how researchers should be paid to teach and not research because paying them to research pollutes the research with a misalignment of interests. With chiropractors their version of teaching is spinal readjustment, while they’re paid for doing that they can explore other things. Obviously not the best way to organize society but it’s an emergent behavior and a product of history. I did get my PRP treatment done by an enterprising chiropractor long before it became a standard of care, I had researched prolotherapy which was having great success in France for a long time but was unable to find a MD in the US that would do it for me. I had a serious injury that wouldn’t heal for 8 years, 3 months later it was gone.

Take for example in Germany a huge percentage of doctors are into homeopathy and other alternative treatments. I think this is a byproduct of the germ vs terrain school of thought and the revolution of microscopes, antibiotics, and the fact that the Allies won WW2 meant that germ theory won and terrain theory largely was brushed aside. Though not all German doctors are willing to give it up yet. Terrain theory is not always wrong, Japan figured out that lack of B1 was killing a large number of their sailors and fixed that with diet.

My focus is on genetics and dysautonomia, which if you do not have the statistical tools we have today will often look like subtle imbalances caused by environmental factors supporting the Terrain theory. A substantial percentage (~5%) of the population has some level of undiagnosed dysautonomia, probably due to an undiagnosed inherited genetic anxiety disorder. These are exasperated by environmental factors. There is an assumption that humans are generally healthy unless perturbed but for this subset of the population they really should be medicated and stay medicated. The problem is the lack of skill in systems engineering and statistics means doctors are usually unable to find the right medications (they tend to prefer stronger ligands and I think weaker ligands should be preferred) or the right dosing (I think patients should generally be in charge of their dosing and take medication based on how they feel once educated on how the feedback loops work).

The fact that some subsection of medical science can know the right answers but medical science as an institution does not, it has evolved in the past and it will continue to evolve, should indicate that what is currently believed is not based entirely in scientific discovery but massively influenced by schools of thoughts, artifacts of history, fashions, and luminaries. Much like humanities, individuals can inhibit exploration of alternative ideas and science can’t progress past them until they’re out of the way.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-07 16:07:37+00:00
To put this somewhat in perspective ("why is Germany not installing 700km² of PV panels right now?"):

Grid operators project costs of around €250 billion [1] (within 2045) for grid expansion alone, and NIMBYism is a big problem everywhere in Germany.

Battery storage to allow going full PV (1 week) would be at least twice that [2].

There is also plenty of "anti-green" sentiment in Germany generally and the current government coalition is in a somewhat precarious position, discouraging long-term investments like that.

[1] Source for grid costs (this is what grid operators are planning, so take it with a grain of salt): https://www.netzentwicklungsplan.de/sites/default/files/2023...

[2] Battery cost is just assuming full power for 1 week at 50 €/kWh (IMO quite optimistically).
by nilstycho | 2025-10-07 16:07:38+00:00
I think there are only two US rocket stages in LEO that were launched in the past 21 months:

1. 2024-125H — Firefly Alpha FLTA005 Stage 2, launching demo cubesats for NASA

2. 2025-077C — Orbital Minotaur IV (8) Stage 4 (Orion 38), launching a few spy satellites

Fun fact: the first stage of the latter rocket was manufactured in 1966.
by gruez | 2025-10-07 16:08:47+00:00
I couldn't find any publications when searching for "bls ordinary expenses" and google's AI says you probably meant "Consumer Expenditure Surveys". However after looking at some of the data, I'm not sure it's as rosy as you make it out to be. For instance if you look at consumer expenditures by income[1], you see that the average across all consumer units is $87.9k of post-tax income against $77.3k of "average annual expenditures". That sounds okay until you look at some of the lower income groups. The $50k-69k group has $56.5k of post-tax income against $59.5k of expenses, which implies they're getting into debt to finance their lifestyle. That's true for every income group under $69k.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cex/tables/calendar-year/mean-item-share...
by arilamstein | 2025-10-07 16:08:48+00:00
I recently published a blog post analyzing 25 years of U.S. Border Patrol data, sourced from the Department of Homeland Security. Using Python and Plotly, I visualized long-term trends in encounters across different border sectors. One striking pattern: the number of people who attempt to cross the border appears to change based on the immigration policies of each administration. Includes code snippets and interactive charts. Should be of interest to people who care about civic data, visualization, or public policy analysis.
by magtux | 2025-10-07 16:08:55+00:00
The issue is that their corporate culture does not support it. Arduino will be too small to matter. This is the same issue as with Coral, the Google TPU. They are not refreshed as they are too small. They are too small cause they are not updated or supported widely.

People need mainline kernel support and regular refreshes to reliably build projects based on it. This will require some level of building their BSPs in open and providing APIs for people to take advantage of the QCOM specific features. A QCOM that won't talk to anyone without an NDA cannot adapt to this.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-07 16:08:58+00:00
> Qualcomm could simply offer this option on their own and save the acquisition cost.

No they can't. That's like suggesting "the aircraft carrier could simply turn around." The cheap and simple way for a multi-billion-dollar secretive semiconductor manufacturing behemoth that doesn't know how to write a contract for less than a million dollars or to publish documents for the public is not to just change that. It's to write a contract for millions of dollars to buy someone else that can already do that.
by mattkrause | 2025-10-07 16:09:07+00:00
The timeline (short vs. long ) doesn't matter at all.

The current shareholders have chosen the management (e.g., by voting for the Board) and are consequently agreeing to follow their plan. If you don't like that plan, you have other remedies: sell your stock, run for a seat on the board, etc.

As you note, the future is uncertain, so courts don't want to be in the business of second-guessing facts and competencies.
by ak_111 | 2025-10-07 16:09:08+00:00
I always wonder why gold going this high is seen as bearish to the dollar as the US currently holds 8,133.46 metric tons of gold, more than the next three top holders combined (Germany, France and Italy) and almost twice as much as China and Russia combined (although no one really knows how much China holds).

So I would be far more concerned on the impact of gold price going high on other currencies that are not backed by as much gold before worrying about the US.
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 16:09:14+00:00
Generally true, but not always! There are often very real bottlenecks on education too. We need a ton more electricians but it's nearly impossible to get into schools. Or you need union apprenticeships and their are not enough slots.

Pay is part of it, but for most skilled professions there's big bottlenecks on the training for the skills.

Or look at police officers in places like San Francisco. The pay is actually fantastic but the process of getting hired is hellish and takes a year or something ridiculous.

Or doctors, there's a massive shortage because there aren't enough residency spots, something controlled by the AMA. Pay is amazing (hours suck) and there are people clamoring to do it, but the bottleneck is structural, not because of pay.
by mzmzmzm | 2025-10-07 16:09:30+00:00
I've used Win 11 for years and never had an MS account. If you just get the right European/enterprise/education image the first time you don't even have to do anything to skip OOBE. But it feels like the walls are closing in, and the day I finally can't do anything without an MS account, I'll finally daily drive Linux. Hopefully the part of my Steam library that will still need Proton will run smoothly--that's the main thing I'm scared of.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-07 16:10:04+00:00
I think we'll see a small uptick in Linux desktop usage, but nothing massive. Gamers are one of the biggest windows holdouts, and Linux is much better for that now (outside of kernel-level anti-cheat games, which we should be pushing back on anyway even on Windows - no game should require that level of rootkit to play).

More likely though, it's going to be "Eh, do I really need a laptop?" and we'll see even more people than we do already just using their phones and maybe an iPad.

I already see it with the non-tech employees at my work. Very few even have laptops at home. They have an iPad, maybe, a gaming console, and their phone. Sooo many people do almost all of their computing from their phones now.
Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
by mholt | 2025-10-07 16:10:22+00:00
Hey HN -- thanks for showing interest in this. Happy to collaborate on this project. I'm hoping to get it stable soon so my own family can start using it.

I've been working on this for about 10+ years, nights and weekends. It's been really slow going since I only have my own personal data to test it with.

I just don't love that my data is primarily stored on someone else's computer up in the cloud. I want my own local copy at least. And while I can download exports from my various accounts, I don't want them to just gather dust and rot on my hard drive.

So, Timelinize helps keep that data alive and relevant and in my control. I don't have as much worry if my cloud accounts go away. Hopefully you'll find it useful, and I hope we can collaborate.

(PS. I'm open to changing the name. Never really liked this one...)
by Neywiny | 2025-10-07 16:10:37+00:00
Yes this is all anticipated. They're starting to move the money around in circles to keep the bubble inflated. Think of it this way: 10% of AMD value was spent, 23% was gained. In a bit we'll hear of AMD, directly or otherwise, investing back into OpenAI. This is what happened with nvidia through Oracle. Where does the money come from? Whoever buys stocks. Our retirements, mostly.
by csomar | 2025-10-07 16:11:30+00:00
> DJI Mini 4 Pro. I love flying DJI drones. Never traveled with one due to size. This solves that.

And here is that. As someone on an indefinite backpack + small luggage travel for 4 years, I am suspicious of anyone claiming to only own the small backpack of the OP. It's not impossible but either 1. you go for a large backpack. the ones backpackers carry. or 2. the OP has somewhere where they can store stuff.

The reality I've come to as I kept downsizing is: 1. either
by numpad0 | 2025-10-07 16:11:57+00:00
(psa: Arduino IDE 1.x works flawlessly for tons of non-Arduino boards, including Pi Pico, ESP32 devkits, etc. Most Arduino users aren't even able to consider processor implementation specifics, never signed an NDA in life, and don't even know where generated binaries go, so those boards are almost "binary compatible" with each others, all in _very_ positive sense)
by TheJoeMan | 2025-10-07 16:12:19+00:00
I think it might be related to them charging say $100 instead of $5 for the device and providing "lifetime" (read: "indefinite") access to their IoT Cloud. Except there are no guarantees on the duration of that access.

As a side note, I don't get why they can't find the NPV of actually lifetime cloud compute. Compute costs are decreasing rapidly, so a $5/yr perpetuity has a NPV of $185 assuming 2.7% inflation?
by arun057 | 2025-10-07 16:12:29+00:00
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What is a coding language that is easy to learn for a beginner?
by The_MeatMaster | 2025-10-07 16:12:50+00:00
I've been thinking about creating my own app and want to know what coding language is easy to learn and work with. Me having no coding experience other than a half-assed class in middle school, I would like to learn basics of coding and other essential skills for app coding. Any tips?
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-07 16:13:01+00:00
> I don’t know if it’s ever going to change either because of it being a chicken or egg scenario

We don't even need native games. Proton, when it works, is amazing. Win32 is effectively now the stable ABI that Linux always needed but never had.

The real problem is kernel level anti-cheat, which will never happen on Linux, but more importantly, gamers should be pushing back against it even on Windows. It's invasive. The latest of which you can't even enable virtualization support in Windows if you want the anti-cheat to run, which also means you lose virtualization based security, no WSL, etc. It's completely obnoxious and I hope Microsoft cracks down on it, because if they do then more games will run on Proton.
by simonw | 2025-10-07 16:13:04+00:00
I had a similar anecdotal experience a few weeks ago.

I was working on a blog entry in a VS Code window and I hadn't yet saved it to disk. Then I accidentally hit the close-window keyboard shortcut... and it was gone. The "open last closed window" feature didn't recover it.

On a hunch, I ran some rg searches in my VS Code Library feature on fragments of text I could remember from what I had written... and it turned out there was a VS Code Copilot log file with a bunch of JSON in it that recorded a recent transaction with their backend - and contained the text I had lost.

I grabbed a copy of that file and ran it through my (vibe-coded) JSON string extraction tool https://tools.simonwillison.net/json-string-extractor to get my work back.
by gooob | 2025-10-07 16:13:06+00:00
fully automated with robots. the AI designs thousands of experiments and deploys them at scale. idk, i'm not an agriculture expert. it was just one example. what other possibilities are there?

electronics recycling, disassembling old computers to get the raw materials into a form that can be used again. we'll need programs to automate the production and testing and analysis of the robots that will recycle the components.
by xg15 | 2025-10-07 16:13:25+00:00
I wonder if even inside the hobbyist space, Arduino got obsoleted by the Raspberry Pi and its clones/compatible devices.

Basically, if you already got the skills to work with "bare" microcontrollers, you won't need all the simplification and handholding that Arduino provides and you can just buy the individual chips and fully utilize the tiny form factor and low power requirements.

If you want to learn programming microcontrollers, then locking yourself into Arduino's abstractions is probably counterproductive.

On the other hand, if you do want to just combine different ready-made modules, focus on programming and don't want to worry too much on the low-level stuff, you will probably use a raspberry pi or similar: The form factor is only slightly larger than an arduino, but you get a full-fledged PC instead of a microcontroller.

So I don't really see a niche there.
by realharo | 2025-10-07 16:13:37+00:00
What specifically do you think would be better? Lua shares many of JS's quirks (like the relationship between arrays and non-array objects, the behavior of undefined for non-existent object properties, metatables are somewhat similar to JS prototypes, etc.) and adds a bunch more (lack of continue statement, 1-indexing, cannot have nil values in tables).

I can see people liking or disliking Lua and JS both, depending on taste, but it's hard to see someone liking one and disliking the other.
by nymanjon | 2025-10-07 16:13:41+00:00
I advocated for intercooler.js/HTMX at work and to better understand HTMX I built this library.

This library takes an HTML-standards-first take to hypertext programming. Because of this it makes it easy to build progressively enhanced MPAs.

I've successfully built offline-first applications with it using service workers.

I recently did a rewrite (inspired by fixi) cleaning the code up and making it tinier and moving parts to extensions.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-07 16:13:48+00:00
The fatigue is that everyone keeps telling everyone will crash and it cannot last, for a what, a decade now? But especially the last few years. And then it just doesn't happen. Crypto will crash, gold cannot last, S&P is overheated etc and yet everything I have and other people have is going straight up. It has to go down, but at least when people said in 1998 a bubble is coming and will crash, it only took 2-3 years for it to blow up. Now it just goes and goes and goes. I think that gives fatique. I am spread, including local real estate and companies, but I missed a lot of money listening to people (and my own feelings) to think we were too high. Everything has to actually crash very hard to still not make a good profit and that it won't, at least not when we don't see it coming.
by nlh | 2025-10-07 16:14:26+00:00
Background: I’m a full-time rare coin dealer (and software engineer, which is why I’m here haha).

One of the fascinating things happening in this market is that there’s a massive disconnect between the spot price of gold ($4000), which is driven and set by massive trades and hedges on international commodities exchanges, and the supply and demand for actual physical gold - the kind that’s sold at Costco in bars or by the US mint in 1oz coins.

Since so much activity is driven by futures contracts online (without physical settlement), this disconnect means that the average consumer more or less is either holding physical gold they already have or selling physical gold they already have to cash out at these historic levels. There just aren’t a lot of regular people out there who are saying “yeah I want lots of gold at $4000/oz”.

So brick and mortar dealers are being flooded with gold in their shops these days, and the supply chain looks pretty wild - tons of that physical gold is going to refineries who are melting it down and shipping it off as physical collateral for the futures contracts - but the big buyers out there don’t actually want or need all this expensive physical gold. The price spike isn’t because all of a sudden there’s increased demand for physical gold - it’s just a financial instrument at this point that happens to have a physical counterpart.

None of this is to say there’s a problem with this - it’s just fascinating that net result of this huge spike is lots of jewelry and old coins being melted into bricks of gold that will sit quietly in secure warehouses and vaults around the world.