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by echelon | 2025-11-27 23:35:15+00:00
Read this entire thread. There are over two dozen links with Andrew's own words and bullying behavior provided by other commenters.

This is only the billionth time he's said something like this. He's apologized for it in the past and said he'd change, but it clearly didn't stick.

He's a jerk and a bully like Linus.

This is the guy setting culture at Zig, which is undoubtedly why five people responded to me in this thread with homophobic remarks. His community feels emboldened to do that.

When your leader breaks the Code of Conduct and attacks people, it probably feels like a safe space for all sorts of hatred and vile behavior.

Totally toxic.

Andrew has had a chance to read this thread by now. He's had a chance to reflect on the awful things people have said. Ball's in his court.
by gruez | 2025-11-27 23:35:29+00:00
>A perpetual license doesn't mean that Filezilla should be a free hosting provider for installation media for eternity.

It is however, quite reasonable to expect that downloads will be available as long as the vendor is still in business, especially if the cost of hosting is marginal. Apple could theoretically sell you songs/albums on itunes, and tell you to rebuy if for whatever reason you lost your phone and didn't back up the file, but most people would think that's a dick move.
by surajrmal | 2025-11-27 23:36:36+00:00
The android hal situation is tied to binder and a lot of androidisms. It would be a pretty big shift in culture to adopt that stuff into desktop linux. ChromeOS is likely rebasing on top of android in part to take advantage of the bsp layer abstractions android provides. A proper organization needs to be formed to take on this challenge and I'm not sure any of the existing players are well equipped to lead the charge. Valve and other os distributors who want to ship arm products should be sufficiently motivated though. Most just end up choosing to build on top of Android though because it's easier.

The stability layer also doesn't actually let you seemlessly update the kernel. Those userspace binaries are coupled to specific kernel releases, and it requires work on the vendors part to facilitate new kernel version upgrades. Maybe being upstream will force them to actually take backwards comparability with older userspace binaries more seriously though.
by Octoth0rpe | 2025-11-27 23:38:00+00:00
Apologies, I believe I paid $189 for the 20tb. Black friday sale at either microcenter or newegg. WD usb external, not some off brand. That was definitely not the normal price though, and the price looks a lot higher this year :/

There are still deals to be found that are closish.

Microcenter has a 24tb external for $249 right now: https://www.microcenter.com/product/679395/seagate-24tb-expa...

amazon has a 22tb for $229 right now: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expansion-22TB-External-Drive...

Those and my $189 price - which is definitely higher than I originally claimed, apologies - are all around $10/tb.
by SiempreViernes | 2025-11-27 23:38:44+00:00
> "NO" (obviously I mean that nothing passed parliament, I do get that they did work on a couple dozen versions of the actual law too. However the final outcome really is "NO")

The Parliament decided to allow negotiations on the basis of 520 amendments to the commission text (ref: A9-0364/2023), of which around 80 are full deletions. Summarising the full draft as NO is simply not accurate.
by crabmusket | 2025-11-27 23:38:48+00:00
> This is actually based on "The Kernel in The Mind" by Moon Hee Lee.

This looks like a really interesting resource. Can anybody here vouch for its accuracy or usefulness? I can't find a ton about it online. The fact that it's only published as a series of LinkedIn posts, or a PDF attached to a LinkedIn post, does not fill me with confidence - but I guess we can't expect kernel devs to know how to create websites?
by bastawhiz | 2025-11-27 23:39:41+00:00
I don't think what the article writes about matters all that much. Gemini 3 Pro is arguably not even the best model anymore, and it's _weeks_ old, and Google has far more resources than Anthropic does. If the hardware actually was the secret sauce, Google would be wiping the floor with little everyone else.

But they're not.

There's a few confounding problems:

1. Actually using that hardware effectively isn't easy. It's not as simple as jacking up some constant values and reaping the benefits. Actually using the hardware is hard, and by the time you've optimized for it, you're already working on the next model.

2. This is a problem that, if you're not Google, you can just spend your way out of. A model doesn't take a petabyte of memory to train or run. Regular old H100s still mostly work fine. Faster models are nice, but Gemini 3 Pro being 50% of the latency as Opus 4.5 or GPT 5.1 doesn't add enough value to matter to really anyone.

3. There's still a lot of clever tricks that work as low hanging fruit to improve almost everything about ML models. You can make stuff remarkably good with novel research without building your own chips.

4. A surprising amount of ML model development is boots on the ground work. Doing evals. Curating datasets. Tweaking system prompts. Having your own Dyson sphere doesn't obviate a lot of the typing and staring at a screen that necessarily has to be done to make a model half decent.

5. Fancy bespoke hardware means fancy bespoke failure modes. You can search stack overflow for CUDA problems, you can't just Bing your way to victory when your fancy TPU cluster isn't doing the thing you want it to do.
by dijit | 2025-11-27 23:40:17+00:00
On the other hand, people have commented (in real life to me) that my linkedin comments are bold, hilarious and entirely unprofessional- earning me a sort of credibility in their eyes for being authentic and having integrity.

(and probably more privately, they believe I am too outspoken..)

Pro’s/Con’s; just like with all public broadcast information.

Also, its always embarrassing when someone talks about a linkedin comment I have made, not because I am ashamed but because I am sort of used to a semi-anonymous shouting into the void style forum like hackernews.
by LtWorf | 2025-11-27 23:41:01+00:00
> As someone who has spent a fair amount of time developing open source software, I will say I genuinely dislike copyleft and GPL.

GPL: Help the user

MIT: Help some random company screw the users and save money not hiring people.

Then again I see you're a founder at some AI company so I strongly doubt your motives and statement.
by einpoklum | 2025-11-27 23:41:06+00:00
I'm not ruling out Nuclear in general, but let's remember that:

* Energy can also be carried northward from other areas in the same country or neighboring countries, where there are more sunlight hours or more wind.

* Geothermal energy sources, e.g. https://www.rehva.eu/rehva-journal/chapter/geothermal-energy...

* Increase in solar panel farm area

* Improvements in panel efficiency (which continue)

* Improvement in energy use efficiency

... in some combination, and with decent storage, might get even the Nordic countries to cover their needs.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-27 23:42:15+00:00
> if AI generates something that is equal to existing code, then the license of that code applies.

No, it doesn't, if the generation is independent of the existing code. If a person using AI uses existing code and makes a literal copy of it, then, yes, the copyright (and any license offer applicable in the circumstances) of the existing code may apply (it may also not, the same as with copies of portions of code made by other means), and it's less than clear if (especially for small portions of code) that legally such a copy has been made when a work is in the training set.

Copyright protects against copying. It doesn't protect against someone creating the same content by means other than copying.
by fabiensanglard | 2025-11-27 23:43:20+00:00
> My understanding is that a new client coming from the same IP and different port will now be treated as a new player instead of a reconnect

Indeed. It could be a gap of my understanding but I believed that in pre-QuakeWorld there was no "coming back". How would a connect differ from a reconnect from a user experience perspective? Was it expected they keep their previous score/name?
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-27 23:43:30+00:00
I disagree. Hosting licensed copies of software is the norm. Steam does it, Google does it, Apple does it, EA and Ubisoft do it, and all of them host much larger software (including free updates) than FileZilla. Maybe hosting 5GiB image downloads on a dedicated web portal the same way Microsoft does is a bit much to ask, but this is nothing.

We're talking 50 megabytes of storage here, per version. They can save themselves a lot of hosting money by letting lifetime subscribers download the latest version, but that'll cut into their profit margins of course. Even if they don't want to host the setup on their website, providing a 50MiB installer file on request has to be the bare minimum customer support I'd expect.

My experience is that some people do confuse FileZilla with Mozilla. That said, everyone I know just uses the free version, despite the spyware that's bundled with the installer.

Based on this post, I wouldn't buy their professional subscription.
by devnavigator | 2025-11-27 23:43:52+00:00
The landscape of AI is undergoing a meaningful transition. After several years defined by rapid model innovation, proof-of-concept excitement, and widespread experimentation, the next phase is about operational depth. Companies are beginning to prioritize the integration of AI into real workflows, production systems, decision cycles, and day-to-day operations, rather than simply demonstrating what it could do. This shift requires disciplined governance, attention to infrastructure, and a focus on the measurable, business-aligned value AI must deliver. As these demands evolve, the organizations best positioned for success will be those that build the structural foundations around AI, not just the capabilities themselves.
by yoloshii | 2025-11-27 23:44:08+00:00
It prompts the user's agent to audit their network devices and topology first, and research online if it gets stuck. The configs need to be agnostic and contain placeholders. The whole idea is that the agent helps the user vibe code this, which is very doable, and probably the norm when there are so many people looking for solutions like this given the current climate. And netns is for single-host isolation. This is a router forwarding LAN→WAN. Different problem.
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-11-27 23:44:17+00:00
We don't really. Hydro storage requires reservoirs where you can freely adjust the water level. Most of our lakes have shorelines that have been built out, and the property owners get really angry if you suggest frequently adjusting the water level significantly.

The largest planned hydro storage projects are using decommissioned mines, and those are going to run out quickly.
by formerly_proven | 2025-11-27 23:44:55+00:00
> You can switch a file descriptor into non-blocking mode so the call won’t block while data you requested is not available. But system calls are still expensive, incurring context switches and cache misses. In fact, networks and disks have become so fast that these costs can start to approach the cost of doing the I/O itself. For the duration of time a file descriptor is unable to read or write, you don’t want to waste time continuously retrying read or write system calls.

O_NONBLOCK basically doesn't do anything for file-based file-descriptions - a file is always considered "ready" for I/O.
Show HN: Lissa Saver macOS Screen Saver
by johnrpenner | 2025-11-27 23:45:59+00:00
Lissa Saver is a macOS Screensaver Hot off the Demo Scene with Gravity Simullation with Clifford Pickover Fractal and Lissajous animations. BREW INSTALL brew tap johnrpenner/tap; brew install --cask lissasaver
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-11-27 23:46:07+00:00
Is that not also true of human written software that costs more per hour than the monthly cost of a coding agent? Developers are expected to ship enterprise software with defects that would land you in court if you made equivalent mistakes designing a water treatment plant or bridge.

I get the “AI sucks” argument from a programmers point of view. It’s weird looking and doesn’t care about “code smells” or about rearranging the code base’s deck chairs just the way you like. From an owner’s or client’s perspective, human programmers suck. You want big standard CRUD app? Like a baby’s first Django app? That’s going to take at least 6 months for some reason. They don’t understand your problem domain and don’t care enough to learn it. They work 15 minutes on the hour, spend 45 on social media or games, and bill you $200/hr. They “pair program” for “quality” to double their billed rate for the same product. They bill you for interns learning how to do their job on your dime. On top of that there is still a very good chance the whole project will just be a failure. Or I can pay Anthropic $20/month and text an AI requirements on my phone when I’ve got 5 minutes of down time. If it doesn’t work I just make a new one and try again. Even if progress on AI stopped today, the world is now so much better for consumers of programs. Maybe not for developers unless you’re writing the AI and getting paid in the millions. Good for them. I’m glad to see the $200/hr Stack Overflow copy and pasters go do something else.
by dijit | 2025-11-27 23:46:56+00:00
Honestly, all the more reason to just run FreeBSD then. Surprisingly simple and still more robust with ZFS (even if Linux has come a long way in the last 10 years).

Incidentally I actually found Truenas to be a solid upgrade from my old vanilla FreeBSD install; the tuned performance defaults made things a lot better for me after I recovered my volume (the USB stick I was using for the OS died).

So, its sad to recommend something else, or obviating it entirely.
by neilv | 2025-11-27 23:47:31+00:00
> Hardware kill switch - Firewall-level failsafe, not software

I think that firewalling/filtering and routing are software (though they can be accelerated in hardware).

"Hardware kill switch" is a useful pre-existing term, which I've only seen used to mean a user-controlled mechanical switch that physically opens or closes one or more electrical circuit conductor paths necessary for whatever is to be "killed" (electrically disconnected).

For example, let's say your network connector had several pins; a kill switch might mechanically disconnect those pins from wires or PCB traces, in a very simple and verifiable way, which obviously nothing in software/firmware/backdoors/etc. could circumvent. (Well, unless the software could control a robot arm, to go flip the mechanical switch, or solder in a bypass.)

Calling something else "hardware kill switch" seems incorrect. I don't say this to be pedantic, but because it's an important security feature, which this system claims to have, but does not.
by gruez | 2025-11-27 23:48:19+00:00
>Yes, but there is no moral argument for requiring it.

Are you sure you didn't butcher a word here? Yes, Firezilla might be in the clear legally if they told the OP to pound sand, but that's not the same thing as having no "moral argument". In most common law jurisdictions, it's perfectly legal to walk past a drowning child and refuse to save him, even if you'll incur marginal cost (eg. 10 min of your time). However that's not you wouldn't say "there's no moral argument for requiring it"

Similar logic applies here, which is that it costs next to nothing for them to provide downloads to existing owners, because they presumably have the digital distribution infrastructure for new sales. It doesn't make sense for a book publisher to send you new copies after your dog ate your book because postage, ink and paper costs money, and if for whatever reason they have a e-book version, it'll be a pain to authenticate that they actually bought the physical book. None of those excuses work for digital downloads.
by Karliss | 2025-11-27 23:48:25+00:00
Using regular beziers you should be able to get at least G1. Symmetric smooth cubic bezier nodes should be C1. With regards to G2 Inskcape and Coreldraw have b-splines, not an Illustrator user from what I could find seems like Illustrator lacks it.

Blender has tools for at least basic nurbs modeling.

I am slightly skeptical on the need of this in 2d vector drawings (outside few very specific use cases). Big reason for having higher degree continuity of 3d surfaces in industrial design is that looking at reflection in mirror surfaces (like cars) makes the difference very obvious. For 2d drawings you can't really look at the side of it and see 1d reflection.
by 3cats-in-a-coat | 2025-11-27 23:48:40+00:00
Reproduction in time and reproduction in space are connected. If atoms couldn't reproduce (I can sense most readers knee-jerking reading this), they'd be all unique, wouldn't they. And yet they aren't.

You could say "they have no heritability", and not the way you expect, I guess, but they all inherit the same local laws of physics, and they may even impact those laws, thus forming a feedback loop, and clearly there are googols of them in clusters, same weight, same energy, same polarity, same properties, same states, much like you see with any other species in nature, in fact in far lesser numbers.

If robots are made in a factory, does this count as reproduction? If not, why not. Does a mother's womb not resemble a "baby factory". A baby does not create itself. Always something else creates you.

We have clusters of "common sense" about these things, and most of what I said immediately sounds stupid to "common sense". Yet common sense falls apart if you start thinking about it. But Internet is not EXACTLY conductive to "thinking about it". It's all about the hot takes and the current consensus. Then time passes, and that consensus seems truly unenlightened.
by Simulacra | 2025-11-27 23:48:52+00:00
It's cute, and fun, but I disagree. It could make a mistake, but it could go a long time with giving us confidence and a reasonable return of intelligent results. I think that can lull us into dependency. Do we really want to give up decision-making to AI? I don't think so.

With that said, if it's used purely as a tool by a CEO, and overtime has been developed with the optimal parameters for the company with its culture and everything (thank Apple) then the AI can help make decision decisions for the company.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-27 23:48:58+00:00
You could use the ocean for the bottom level and an artificial reservoir for the top level. You're not going to noticeably affect ocean levels.

Or just use a large lake. You're not going to noticeably affect the water levels of a large lake. You might pump 10 billion litres of water, which is .02% of the volume of Mjøsa.
by notahacker | 2025-11-27 23:49:05+00:00
There are a lot of valid business interactions which are basically people in certain niche asking questions or talking about things which are going on which are super relevant to other companies in that niche. These can be informative (most industry insiders who might be interested in your live blog aren't subscribed to it, but most of them have LinkedIn accounts) and even lead to actual collaboration, purchases or funding.

ChatGPT takes on $globalevent are not examples of that. But they seem to be more favoured by the LinkedIn algorithm because of rather than despite how generic they are and how artificial their engagement boosting is.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-27 23:49:15+00:00
I can't help but wonder how the efficiency compares to generating electricity, running that over wires, and having that run heat pumps.

The conversion to electricity loses energy, but I assume the loss is negligible in transmission, and then modern heat pumps themselves are much more efficient.

And the average high and low in February in 26°F and 14°F according to Google, while modern heat pumps are more energy-efficient than resistive heating above around 0°F. So even around 14–26°F, the coefficient of performance should still be 2–3.
by decimalenough | 2025-11-27 23:49:50+00:00
Australia does the same for organizations regulated at the state level, like schools. However, while all other states/territories do $SCHOOL.$STATE.edu.au:

https://www.abbotsfordps.vic.edu.au/

https://southperthps.wa.edu.au/

https://perthprimary.education.tas.edu.au/

https://nthadelaideps.sa.edu.au/

https://www.nightcliffprimary.nt.edu.au/

https://www.forrestps.act.edu.au/

NSW uses $SCHOOL.schools.nsw.gov.au:

https://innersydneyhighschool.schools.nsw.gov.au/

And Queensland for some bizarre reason uses "eq" ("Education in Queensland", apparently) instead of the standard "qld":

https://townsvillesouthss.eq.edu.au/
by RickS | 2025-11-27 23:50:22+00:00
I adore camelcamelcamel and check them often. Does anyone else notice that their data has gotten much lower quality ~lately?

Anecdotally, in ~2018 it felt like CCC was in sync with amazon's listed price (including sale prices) nearly 100% of the time, and often had price data going back 5+ years. These days it's common to see that a sale price hasn't propagated to CCC, and that the chart only goes back 12 to 18 months.

My assumption is that there's hostility / volatility from amazon re data availability, combined with things like sellers delisting and relisting items to get a new ID (and thus a blank slate on price history).

Regardless, big thanks to CCC for the work they do on price transparency.
by rolandog | 2025-11-27 23:51:14+00:00
Sorry if I came off as insulting; I admit I thought your original arguments were too bad-faith to not have been made by a bot or a foreign state actor.

So... We clearly have experienced different things (or rather, the author and I have experienced similar things, and you haven't), and therefore we have very different views on the matter...

You don't have to believe me; I just wouldn't be so dismissive about people sounding off alerts and alarms about increasive abusive and invasive practices, as I've seen different levels of inaccessibility becoming normalized (e.g. you can't access some Spanish governmental services unless you have an Android or Apple phone).

Also, it's surprising to me that — if you're posting in this place — you wouldn't at least be aware of the possibility that ... companies are liars and can abuse or circumvent permissions [0] (e.g. everyone is spying on your clipboard).

So, are you really sure that regular popular apps are on the up and up and only taking what is needed to offer a service, or could they be doing something else and not have your best interest at hand?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634687
by astrobe_ | 2025-11-27 23:53:07+00:00
Thanks for your answer. The fact that the legal framework you suggest aimed at preventing abuse doesn't exist already is terrifying, when you think about it.

The situation is also deeply unfair: wealthy students can keep the device provided by the school in a box and use their own instead, while less wealthy students will have to use the school's device and be spied on. "But that's actually a good thing," some might say, "it's always the poor who cause troubles."

IMO, this spyware shouldn't have been there in the first place, even if it means that in some cases it could have prevented yet-another shooting, or suicide, or drug abuse. The school should have the right to inspect the device anytime (when at school, not remotely) to make sure it is not being misused, and nothing more.

More surveillance won't make those problems disappear - actually quite the opposite I believe; because learning that your classmate has been suspended because he said the wrong words when talking to himself but some forgotten microphone caught them nevertheless is really stressing or depressing, depending on your personality.