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by whatcha | 2025-10-01 16:03:19+00:00
Created a PWA that’s lets you track your calories and macros with:

-Simply taking a picture of your food -Scanning a nutrition label -Typing a description of your meal -Searching out food database

It’s dead simple and IMO (biased) it’s the easiest way to keep an eye on your calories.

There is also a macro calculator so you know exactly how much you should be eating based on your goals
by lelele | 2025-10-01 16:03:46+00:00
>> From an OOP perspective, lambdas are just syntactic sugar for a special form of objects.

Indeed Smalltalk - a pure OOP language - had `Block` objects fifty years ago.

>> I'm convinced that imperative programming will endure alongside functional code, because being stateful is how the real world works, and most programs have to repeatedly interact with the real world over the course of their execution.

That, and also who wants to wrestle with monad transformers to make a stateful computation work when they have to fix a bug in production ASAP?
by RiverCrochet | 2025-10-01 16:03:48+00:00
If you don't really need the PDF but just want to archive pages, SingleFile is better. It'll capture the entire page to a single HTML file and I find this is better than the PDF if I don't want to print it. It's a browser extension, but there's also a command line version (https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli) that uses Chrome or Chromium's headless mode.
by mindslight | 2025-10-01 16:03:53+00:00
Sorry, I didn't meant to imply that either of things were prohibitive. In fact, quite the opposite.

The article goes on about how compliant structures are "hulking" and "larger", with a quote even referencing "McMansions", but then shows a picture of the same type of small house just 6 feet in the air. And the assetized values in coastal communities have to be at least a half of a million dollars, right? So getting a $100k equity loan shouldn't really be hard, and if one really just bought the house (no equity) then declare it the bank's problem and move on.

Although I'm wondering if the article is even describing these things correctly. It seems to be an emotional hit piece, the kind that plays loose with facts, drumming up support for some kind of bailout I'm sure. Cribbing is generally a temporary thing for the process of lifting, and I wouldn't think it would be very good at withstanding side hits from moving debris in rising flood waters. Also there are no stairs up to the entrance, making it seem like very much a work in progress.
by tptacek | 2025-10-01 16:03:54+00:00
A very, very big problem we have with LLM discourse is that LLMs have changed radically since the beginning of last year. If you're making an argument about modern foundation models based on the idea that they can't generate reliably correct answers to whether 5.11 is greater than 5.9, your mental model is completely out of date.

You don't have to believe me on this, just your own lying eyes. Go try this for yourself right now: ask it dy/dx of h(x)/g(x) where h(x) is x^3 + 1 and g(x) is -2e^x. That's a random Math Academy review problem I did last night that I pulled out of Notes.app. Go look.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-01 16:04:07+00:00
While I'd bet that the 'had a personal "epiphany" after' is a polite fiction - that doesn't matter. The Important, Real Leadership thing is that Farley is talking about this problem at such a high-profile event.

Suggested next move: Farley talks smack about cost of living reasons why his factory workers need 2 other jobs to scrape by. And publicly favors areas with lower CoL's, when Ford is deciding where their factories will be located.
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by e-khadem | 2025-10-01 16:04:09+00:00
There is a simple (unofficial?) test for aphantasia, and I have tried it on many of my peers, it seems to be accurate.

_Close your eyes and ask someone else to read the instructions for you. If you really want to take it stop reading here._

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Imagine a room with a table in it. Someone comes in, puts a ball on the table and the ball falls down from the table.

- What age was the person that came in?

- What hairstyle did they have?

- What was that person wearing?

- How big was the table? Describe how it looked like.

- What color was the ball?

... and similar questions.

In my experience, people with aphantasia will say "I don't know" or "I didn't pay attention" to almost all of these questions. For me personally, everything is "blank." There was no ball to see there, and the person did not have a face. I just experience "feelings" or "sensations" of the scenario, like in the matrix movie. At most some wire frames. Most other people would say, for example, there was a big brown table with metallic legs in the middle of the room, and the person that came in had a blue T-shirt.
by alephnerd | 2025-10-01 16:04:25+00:00
Is Ithaca representative of the American consumer? Conversely, is Tulsa?

Using a single regional data point does not provide proof that there is a financial reason to start building Honda Fits again.

And before the pandemic, the HRV began outselling the Honda Fit in the US by 2016 [0]

[0] - https://www.honda.com/-/media/Honda-Homepage/PDF/DFB_2024_US...
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-01 16:04:54+00:00
Humans are evolved creatures that are very resilient across environments.

Any species that has this trait must not get stuck in local maximums, at an extreme that's why the koala is just not a resilient species, over confidence.

We are an anti-niche species, to avoid this we must have a certain percentage of our population that has doubt, existential crisis that shakes us out of a well worn path.

This always amazes me. If you deeply, emotionally _know_ that life has meaning, there will be some existential nights where you you will think "but maybe life doesn't have meaning", and if you _know_ life is meaningless you will sometime find yourself thinking "maybe there is meaning", our brains try to keep us from getting stuck.

Humility in the face of the unknown. As a species, just amazing stuff.

The cycle of confidence and doubt is absolutely amazing, it's kept us from getting stuck.

Keeps us from having "target fixation" and lawn darting into the ground.

Some individuals have these values tuned at extreme ends, the full distribution is represented by humanity.

The most overconfident and the most anxiety ridden, this is all in our spectrum, and it turns out better or worse for each individual.

The great thing is that we can share ideas and examine our priors.

I used to believe that "nothing" was a real thing, but it's only an abstraction, nothing has never been observed it's only "real" in our imaginations. There's no such thing as nothing as far as anyone has observed or proven.

Same thing with meaninglessness, nothing is meaningless, there are just bits of meaning maximally un-complex and decohered. You can use photon emissions from stars for RNG, humans have made even RNG have rich meaning and high practical utility.
by bluGill | 2025-10-01 16:05:13+00:00
You miss the real problem: what I need doesn't exist. My local big city newspaper doesn't normally send reporters to the local things I care about. They paste the meeting minutes of the city consul meeting, but those are "debated a proposal from some business, voted, then passed" - what was the proposals, what points were debated, who votes which way (if they can tell). I need this information because in a month there is an election and I want to know who to vote for/against, but without going to the meetings I don't know who is worth voting for. (these meetings are the same night as the school board, and other city meetings so it isn't even possible for me to attend them all even if I didn't have other things I also need/want to do in life)
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-01 16:05:25+00:00
If every aircraft has such pitch up tendencies, why did only the 737MAX violate regulation?

That reg says:

>No abnormal nose-up pitching may occur. The longitudinal control force must be positive up to and throughout the stall.

(how do airbus planes pass that I wonder....)

I guess most planes are "not abnormal" but the behavior of the MAX crossed into "abnormal"
by eitland | 2025-10-01 16:05:56+00:00
Using the same arguments people used (use?) against IDEs and I think also against compilers and stuff back in the punch card days.

I am not a researcher, but I am a techlead and I've seen it work again and again: IDEs work. And LLMs work.

They are force multipliers though, they absolutely work best with people who already know a bit of software engineering.
by jorangreef | 2025-10-01 16:05:59+00:00
Hey Dan, appreciate the compliment.

Do you think it would be more fair to suggest that OLTP workloads have 0% contention? That debit/credit sets never intersect?

In practice, we're seeing that our customers are already some of the largest brokerages, wealth managements or exchanges, in their jurisdictions, even national projects, and all of them with decades of Postgres etc. experience, some even running installations with 200 Postgres/MySQL machines backing their sharded core ledger.

They're not junior engineers. For example, they know about stored procedures, but the problem of concurrency runs deeper, into the storage engine itself.

At least for our customers, for the seasoned payments engineers, OLTP contention is a killer. They're tired of scaling outside the DBMS, and the complexity of expensive reconciliation systems. Several of them are even leaving their Chief Architect positions and starting TB-related startups—I know of at least 4 personally, from fintech brands you will recognize, and probably use.

I hope the spirit of our talks, trying to get the big ideas across, to make people aware of contention and Amdahl's Law, is clear, and that you take it in good faith, to the extent that we show it ourselves.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-01 16:06:10+00:00
I am sure that I can't explain a lot of feelings I am feeling and neither am I comfortable to share this on a forum for all people to see and judge which is why I was scared in the first place to write that comment as now me backing up can be seen as something weird :/ when all I want to do is stay in touch with you and other people and create a community centered around open heart discussion of foss and how to spread the word now and to have a plan of action that I/others can implement when I once get into college or maybe something different, I am not sure.

I hope you can keep in touch with me on signal if the mail isn't working, its on my about me in HackerNews.
by disregardless92 | 2025-10-01 16:06:19+00:00
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by cnity | 2025-10-01 16:06:33+00:00
My gut feel has always been that it is just a language thing where some people think that when others imagine things that they literally see it right in front of them _the same way_ they see real things.

Like, when I imagine a scene or object in my head, I am not literally seeing it. It's like some vague in-between thing. And that people who claim to have aphantasia just have a higher bar for what it means to "see" something.

Though I'm open to being corrected if there's some concrete experiment that can be performed that shows definitively that some people can not imagine things _at all_.
by boredumb | 2025-10-01 16:06:37+00:00
I've done exactly this with MCP { "name": "unshare_exec", "description": "Run a binary in isolated Linux namespaces using unshare", "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "binary": {"type": "string"}, "args": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}} }, "required": ["binary"], "additionalProperties": false } }

It started as unshare and ended up being a bit of a yakshaving endeavor to make things work but i was able to get some surprisingly good results using gemma3 locally and giving it access to run arbitrary debian based utilities.
by tylerzey | 2025-10-01 16:07:01+00:00
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by drcongo | 2025-10-01 16:07:11+00:00
I'm quite strongly aphantasic, I can, for a split second, hold the essence of a thing in my brain, but it's not even vaguely visual. I have though, several times, experienced almost exactly what you decribe - also while laying in bed trying to get to sleep. Every now and then I can kind of see a room, sometimes the room I'm in, sometimes not, even though my eyes are closed. I love it. I can't switch what I'm seeing though, but possibly because as soon as it happens I'm just laying there marvelling at being able to see something with my eyes shut, and staring intently at the details.
by continua | 2025-10-01 16:07:42+00:00
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by leakycap | 2025-10-01 16:07:43+00:00
Writing on pen and paper - away from a screen

Screens include your phone/tablet/laptop, TVs, and even your smartwatch - so if you want to listen to music while you journal, just start a playlist beforehand

There are great journaling tools on devices today, but your brain stays somewhat engaged with using the device and you don't get to that blissful peace of mind dumping and introspective journaling and teasing out ideas
by robotresearcher | 2025-10-01 16:07:50+00:00
The title here and the first image in the article are annoyingly misleading.

The authors report being able to detect populations of many microbes that they genetically engineered to produce lots of detectable molecules and they sprayed in patches on top of the soil.

So this could be a valuable thing. But the damn article shows an aerial image inlaid with a microscope image with individual organisms resolved, which is very very far from what is reported here.

It’s science reporting. Science is cool already. There’s no need to give misleading hyperbolic impressions. Bah.
by chrisco255 | 2025-10-01 16:08:16+00:00
In reality though, feudalism was just one notch above pastoral slavery. You had no rights, most people were trapped into poverty and bound to a plot of land to work on the rest of their lives. The vast majority were not nobility so were given breadcrumbs. Wars were brutal and constant, bows were as deadly as firearms for a couple centuries, as evidenced by the Commanche even into the 1800s (they took more skill to train though). Only after capitalism and factories did anyone get empowered to improve this situation.
by shykes | 2025-10-01 16:08:24+00:00
Right. But you need tooling to manage those dependencies, and an ecosystem of content to avoid reinventing the wheel. That's what containers provide. Since Bazel predates the modern container ecosystem, it had to invent its own tooling. The user experience is very rough, and the ecosystem tiny. As a result most Bazel users do not run their builds in a controlled environment - see the parent blog post.

Adopting containers would solve this, but it seems to be a major blind spot for the Bazel community. My theory is that for them to adopt container technology, they will have to reinvent it themselves, hence my tongue-in-cheek comment.
by sealeck | 2025-10-01 16:08:55+00:00
> I think OpenAI is actually doing a great job at easing people into these new technologies. It's not such a huge leap in capabilities that it's shocking, and it helps people acclimate for what's coming. This version is still limited but you can tell that in another generation or two it's going to break through some major capabilities threshold.

This is a truly _wild_ way to describe "this version isn't much better than the previous one". Would you say "Apple's latest iPhone is a pretty small marginal improvement over the previous one, but it's useful to help peopel to acclimate for what's coming".
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-01 16:09:13+00:00
> Dreamweaver and Frontpage said you won't need to know HTML because you can just build a website by clicking and typing.

The ability for people to express themselves online on their own domain has regressed immensely since WYSIWYG editors were taken off the market. I don't know who to blame, but the way it is now that you have to learn to code and to be a Linux server admin just to have a website is very damaging.

WordPress does not help much at all in that department, it only makes it worse for people who aren't database admins and PHP developers and want to have a functioning website. I think it only became the "standard" because it was free. Same thing for Linux as the host OS.

I hope things turn around. There's some small hope with services like Fastmail offering an easy interface for publishing your webpage and Wix and the likes which are at least something.
Show HN: Claude Code 2.0 router – preference-aligned routing to multiple LLMs
by adilhafeez | 2025-10-01 16:09:15+00:00
Hi HN — we’ve been working on a small project that routes between different LLMs based on user-defined preferences rather than just benchmarks or latency. The earlier version (Arch-Router [1]) was a 1.5B model that matched queries to domains (e.g., travel, creative writing) or action types (e.g., editing).

We’ve now applied the same idea to coding workflows, packaged into a CLI agent via Arch Gateway [2]. The tool gives:

Unified model access — use Claude Code, Grok, Mistral, Gemini, DeepSeek, GPT, or local Ollama models from the same interface.

Task-specific routing — assign different models for tasks like code generation, reviews, debugging, or system design.

Instead of relying on public benchmarks (MMLU, MT-Bench, etc.), routing is guided by user-defined criteria. This helps capture subjective quality, task relevance, and individual developer preferences that generic metrics often miss.

Links:

[1] https://huggingface.co/katanemo/Arch-Router-1.5B [2] https://github.com/katanemo/archgw
by sneak | 2025-10-01 16:09:23+00:00
Donating to Wikileaks is entirely legal. The blockade undertaken by Visa and MC at the behest of the USG was extralegal; there were no charges against anyone at the time.

Even had there been charges, donating would still have been legal.

Furthermore, your criterion was “not better served”; please don’t move the goalposts.

Remittances and cross-border donations are way better served by cryptocurrencies than any other mechanism, full stop. It’s faster, cheaper, and way more reliable than any other method.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-01 16:09:52+00:00
It seems to me that as for a lot of things... things boil down to the economics.

I had thought about bringing attention to it but now I am not even sure what it would mean.

I doubt that I could be a person who can advocate for open source full time while someone pays me, that's the main issue. I am okay with just enough to satisfy and I am even satisfied with less but to me, atleast right now, Advocacy for open source does seem to be part time unless I want to take a massive gamble of my life which I thought of but I am just not comfortable right now, its definitely complicated and I am not sure
by bippihippi1 | 2025-10-01 16:09:55+00:00
he's saying that the label Autism includes different traits that various people have or don't have. He's falsely using that semantic manipulation to imply that people use it as an excuse not to deal with the conplexities of life.

saying "that's insulting" doesn't impact his assertion. you have to meet their logic where it is to disagree. lucky this case was so easy.