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by ewoodrich | 2025-11-13 02:25:46+00:00
It really bothers me that Apple removed any convenient shortcut to bypass Gatekeeper like the old Control-click [1] hotkey. Apple's relentless ratcheting of the difficulty/annoyance of Gatekeeper has just about pushed me over the edge to completely disable it, despite the risk.

The ridiculous song and dance of "File is dangerous, delete it?"->No->Settings->Security->Open Anyway->"File is dangerous, delete it?"->No is getting ridiculously old after literally doing it a hundred times at this point. And soon enough Apple will inevitably come up with some additional hurdle like, idk, closing Settings three times in a row while reading a fingerprint during an odd numbered minute.

So in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected or accept my own computer that I paid for will deliberately waste my time constantly. It makes Windows 11 seem elegant in comparison where all I need to do is run Win11Debloat once on install and it gets out of my way.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=saqachfa
by cryzinger | 2025-11-13 02:26:20+00:00
They don't even necessarily have to beat the PS5/Xbox. I already own the former but sometimes lament not being able to play the many, many PC exclusives out there (or at least nothing released in the past 10+ years since my daily driver laptop has poor specs). Just recently I was wondering whether one of those all-in-one Lenovo desktop boxes would have decent enough specs to play current-gen PC games at halfway decent settings, and my guess is that they don't, but I don't want to go through the hassle of building a PC and definitely don't want a tower with a huge footprint.

Turns out the Steam Machine is exactly what I'm looking for.
by mulmen | 2025-11-13 02:26:40+00:00
> But, if we stopped minting pennies because they cost too much (3.7 cents), it's hard to imagine we're going to keep producing nickels when they cost 13.8 cents to mint. Dimes are much cheaper than nickels (5.8 cents), and quarters aren't too bad relative to face value (14.7 cents).

Coins aren’t disposable. Why does it matter if the production cost is higher than the face value?
by tiltowait | 2025-11-13 02:27:46+00:00
I've noticed the same. At first, I thought it was Baader-Meinhof, since I recently decided to set up a FreeBSD server after over a decade since I last used it, but it's definitely hitting the news more (15.0-RELEASE comes soon, and a Swift build was just announced), which I guess naturally leads to more discussion.

Would love to see it surge in popularity. Underrated OS.
by txrx0000 | 2025-11-13 02:28:48+00:00
Natural selection has been strongly optimizing for pro-natal genes and cultures since the introduction of the birth control pill. The labor gap is a short-term problem and can be fixed with immigration and maybe AI. Birth rates aren't plummeting around the world at the same time. By the time the birth rate becomes a problem in Africa, America would have long recovered.
by chadcmulligan | 2025-11-13 02:29:19+00:00
Isn't a big part of it knowing what to ask Claude Code - for example I wanted some code to brighten/darken my buttons on mouseover, I asked Claude to make some code to do that, it was a bit wrong, I fixed it. I integrated the code and tested it. Now I know how to do all this, because I've been doing it for years, I could have done it without Claude but it saved me a bit of time.

Now there are a few things I see that affect this

1. The only way Claude knew how to do this is because there was a stack of existing code, but its probably in C, so you could regard Claude as an expert programming language translator.

2. There is no way that Claude could integrate this into my current code base

3. Claude can't create anything new

4. It's often very wrong, and the bigger/more complex the code is, the wronger it gets.

So, what are the areas that Claude excels? it seems that CRUD web app/Web front end is the sweet spot? (not really sure about this - I don't do much web front end work). I write graphics Apps and Claude is handy for those things you'd have to look up and spend some time on, but thats about all.

An example - I asked it to make me some fancy paint brush code (to draw in a painterly style), this is hard, the code that it made was pretty bad, it just used very basic brush styles, and when pressed it went into crazy land.

So my point is - if something exists and its not too hard, Claude is great, if you want something large and complex, then Claude can be a good helper. I really don't see how it can replace a good dev, there are a lot of code monkeys around gluing web sites together that could be replaced but even then they are probably the same people who are vibe coding now.

If you really want some fun ask them to draw a circuit diagram for a simple amplifier, it's almost painful watching them struggle.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-11-13 02:30:07+00:00
> I, and I think most security researchers do too, believe that it would be incredibly negligent for someone who has discovered a security vulnerability to allow it to go unfixed indefinitely without even disclosing its existence.

Because security researchers want to move on from one thing to another. And nobody said indefinitely. Its about a path that works for OSS project.

Its also not about security through obscurity. You are LITERALLY telling the world check this vuln in this software. Oooh too bad the devs didnt fix it. Anybody in the sec biz would be following Google's security research.

Putting you in a spotlight and telling it doesn't make any difference is silly.
by somat | 2025-11-13 02:30:09+00:00
The main problem was the missing second stick. It was well built, but for game where a controller is nice touch pads sort of suck compared to a stick and for games where a mouse is nice touch pads sort of suck compared to a mouse. So the only real advantage a touch pad brings is in an environment where you can't bring a mouse. I really liked the extra back buttons. with two sticks that is where all the face buttons should be, on the back.

Somewhat related, but I enjoy the topic. Is how freakishly good the mouse is for FPS type games. If you asked anyone to design a purpose built controller for a first person game they would not come up with a mouse. But somehow despite all odds that thing designed for moving a cursor around the screen is the best controller yet for looking around. Probably something about the huge throw distance compared to any other controller.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 02:30:21+00:00
And for sure people will buy it. I don't think there is a price point where some people would not buy it. Fashion doesn't make sense, it never has.

There is a great joke about this:

A woman rushes into Yves St. Laurent's studio.

"Oh Yves!" she cries, "you've got to help me, I'm in a panic, I have this gala coming up and I have no hat to wear"

Calmly, Yves walks to the nearest table, picks up some rolls of ribbon and starts draping them around the woman's head, and in 10 minutes flat he has made this fantastic creation.

She looks in the mirrow "Oh, Yves, you've saved me, how much do I owe you?"

He says "make it 2500 euros"

She starts yelling "2500 euros??? are you mad? for a bunch of ribbon?"

Calmly, Yves starts to unwind the ribbons spooling them up as he goes and when he's done he hands the woman the ribbons. "The ribbons, you can have for free."
Ask HN: Help me understand Signal communication blurb
by ajr0 | 2025-11-13 02:30:38+00:00
at bottom of signal communication on cellebrite [0] it states :

>The completely unrelated

>In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage. These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software. Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding. We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files.

can someone help me understand if this is serious or not and what it actually means?

[0] https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
by raincole | 2025-11-13 02:31:24+00:00
Yes. The same goes with payment processing. I hate visa/mastercard as much as the next person. But if the court says they're accountable for people who buy drug/firearm/child porn, then it seems to be a quite reasonable reaction for them to preemptively limit what the users can buy or sell.

The government(s) have to treat the middlemen as middlemen. Otherwise they are forced to act as gatekeepers.
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 02:31:32+00:00
Then this is actually much closer than previous headsets?

There is a lot going on to render the desktop in a tracked 3D space, all that has to happen somewhere. If you're expecting to plug a HDMI cable into a headset and have a good time then I think you're underestimating how much work is being done.

OpenVR and OpenXR are really great software layers that help that all work out.
by jacquesm | 2025-11-13 02:32:12+00:00
True, but that doesn't make it any more ridiculous. It is exactly this 'exclusivity' vibe that has always turned me off from Apple as a company. It's just some gear, and instead they want you to believe it is a whole different world when you're using their devices. People even use it as a filter to determine each others' social worth.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-11-13 02:32:20+00:00
I think that realistically, Valve probably only need to be on par with the top of Sony’s offering hardware wise. The ability to have Steam integration on the machine (including the large amount of subpar but very cheap games) will prompt at least some movement. I’d say $800 is probably the high-end of reasonable for price point. I can certain say I’d rather just buy my kids a StreamBox than have to deal with them want full capability PCs.
by daemonologist | 2025-11-13 02:32:28+00:00
As you lower the IPD you're scrunching the displays and optics closer and closer together and at some point you mechanically run out of room. You'd need to reduce the FOV or add mirrors or something to get the lenses to fit.

There's probably also an element of it not being worth complicating the design to chase users in the long tail of IPDs. (My IPD is about 72, which is slightly outside the range on the other end for this and most other headsets, despite it being less of a mechanical challenge.)
by thefunnyman | 2025-11-13 02:32:59+00:00
I'm surprised no one is talking about the fact that the headset is ARM and that valve has been heavily contributing to the translation layer FEX.

I love my steam deck, but lately find myself reaching for emulation handhelds like the Retroid Pocket 5 more due to smaller size, especially when I'm leaving the house. There's already projects like GameNative that try to hack steam onto these devices, but if valve offers an official client on Android and other arm devices that would be incredible.

Edit: Some interesting insights in the FEX FAQ about why it's not a great fit for Android right now [0]. Interested to see if this ARM version of steamos is installable on other devices though. RP5 can already run alternatives like Rocknix

[0] https://wiki.fex-emu.com/index.php/FAQ
by paulmooreparks | 2025-11-13 02:34:18+00:00
I think it's a generational thing. I used to mow the lawn for an elderly distant cousin, in the hot Florida summer weather. She would invite me in afterward for a snack and a 6.5oz Coca-Cola. I would guzzle mine in a couple of seconds. She would pour half of hers into a glass, over ice, and put the bottle back into the refrigerator.

Wine glasses have also gotten bigger over the years.
by triceratops | 2025-11-13 02:35:23+00:00
Aah a True Bird Lover. Wants to protect birds from windmills. Doesn't care how many bird habitats oil drilling destroys. Hasn't seen any pictures of oil coated birds from the Exxon Valdez or the Deepwater Horizon.

> made out of unrecyclable polymers

Does this mean you support banning plastic straws too? All plastics are essentially unrecyclable.

> Our kids deserve nuclear.

By all means. If it can be done as cheaply as wind and solar.
by throwaway17_17 | 2025-11-13 02:35:36+00:00
Hard agreement from me, but my 16 year old bricked his PC on Sunday trying to enable Valorant’s BS anti-cheat, secure boot required crap. He even knew ahead of time that he couldn’t enable it, but the pull of online gaming turned off his brain. I don’t think we’re gonna win this battle and the war is probably done as well.
by squigz | 2025-11-13 02:35:38+00:00
> I think the hardest battle is going to be with anti cheat. The anti cheat that developers want basically requires dystopian levels of restrictions which are against everything valve has done on SteamOS so far.

If anyone is capable of moving things along in this space, Valve should be it.

> Personally I'd love if we all just went back to playing on personal servers with your real life friends or people you otherwise trust. But I don't think this is would go over well with the average online gamer.

It's not the gamers that don't want this - although, yes, I do also want the option of matchmaking - it's the companies that don't allow dedicated servers, or shut down the servers after releasing that year's full-price version of the same game.
by aboringusername | 2025-11-13 02:35:41+00:00
We really need to banish the term "sideloading". Installing apps on a terminal is just that, and for as long as I remember on windows, Linux it has always been just that.

Google mentions about being on a call, and being tricked into handing over codes. So why not use signals and huristics to decide?

If user is on a call, block any ability to install a shady app. Implement a cool down before that functionality is restored (say 24 hours). It can also detect where the user is based to add additional protection (such as mandating the use of play protect to scan the app before it's activated and add another cool down regardless).

There's lots of ways to help protect the user but it's wrong to ultimately control them. The real world is full of scary dangers that technology is trying to solve but is actively making things worse (such as computerized safety systems in cars).

Ultimately, the user is responsible and whilst it's palpable Google would want to reduce harm in this specific way, we know authoritarian governments would also love to be able to dictate what software people can run. The harm to democracy is simply too great in favor of saving a few people's money.
by iopjgalejandro | 2025-11-13 02:36:01+00:00
Your story is the perfect example of a "first-world problem" for tech adoption.

You're complaining that you can't pay fast enough.

Meanwhile, in China, the problem isn't the payment GTM; it's that the core platforms (X, Google) are fundamentally inaccessible.

It's a bizarre global landscape where companies are optimizing Black Friday deals for one market while being completely irrelevant in another.
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 02:36:30+00:00
You're gonna love where VR is at right now. If you had been holding off until it's good enough, then I think you've timed it well. The Quest 3 from an experience point of view was the watershed headset for me, but the ecosystem being Meta makes it less good from a privacy and ownership point of view.

But this headset solves the ecosystem aspect and brings that visual experience with it.
by easygenes | 2025-11-13 02:36:31+00:00
I use the "Nerdy" tone along with the Custom Instructions below to good effect:

"Please do not try to be personal, cute, kitschy, or flattering. Don't use catchphrases. Stick to facts, logic, reasoning. Don't assume understanding of shorthand or acronyms. Assume I am an expert in topics unless I state otherwise."
by gruez | 2025-11-13 02:37:01+00:00
>The headline example on their site is 'are seed oils healthy?' Assuming an agreed-upon definition of 'healthy', this shouldn't be a debate. Are they good for you in moderation or not? Let's look at the science. Oh, they're fine? Great, debate over.

The problem is that in any contentious topic where the science isn't definitive, each side will latch onto whatever ambiguous studies that favors their position. For seed oils it's various studies showing "inflammation", and ad-hominem on how opposing studies are funded by big oil (or whatever). Or think about how during the pandemic, there was conflicting evidence on whether masks worked, or whether ivermectin cured covid. We now have a much better understanding, but at the start of the pandemic there was weak evidence both ways.
by bigthymer | 2025-11-13 02:39:50+00:00
> Selling (even pre-selling) tickets to debates between people who haven't agreed to participate in your debate is insanely misleading marketing.

When I initially read your comment, I agreed with it. But, on second thought, if the site is presented as a sort of Kickstarter for debates where people are funding something they hope will happen, I think it might work. It is important that this is clearly communicated though.
by gruez | 2025-11-13 02:40:14+00:00
There are already organizations like Open to Debate and The Munk Debates organizing and publishing debates. What are you doing differently than them, aside from allowing users to suggest topics and giving them a cut? I feel like coming up with topics is probably the easiest part of the process. All you need is a vague pulse on what's in the news cycle, or ask a LLM.
by whb07 | 2025-11-13 02:40:22+00:00
Meanwhile, I recently proposed doing the work of updating the runtime versions from .netframework over to even .net5+ to save $millions/quarter.

I ran benchmarks, showing 2-10x+ improvements.

Got told, “lol no, this service is unlike Bing”. For context, Bing has amazing blogs on this*.

This, btw is inside networking for Azure…

Not sure at what point I should stop caring. Could easily improve operating expenses to the tune of hundreds/billions per year if they applied this across Azure.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/bing-com-runs-on-net-c...
by ehnto | 2025-11-13 02:40:29+00:00
> There are, of course, the issues with lootboxes but even there they've kept their hands much cleaner than any other game developer.

They do seem to get a pretty big pass on that. Wonder what it is about.

Almost every other aspect of the company I find great, and I do wish they would release more games. Maybe Alyx 2 will come out with the headset? Could be what HLX has been this whole time, where people think it is HL3.

On sim racing in VR, absolute game changer. I would never go back to screens, it's the perfect application for VR.
by wasabi991011 | 2025-11-13 02:40:56+00:00
Cool research, thanks for being one of the few to bring substantial arguments to this discussion.

For your first point, I would like to add the next sentence for context: "That means that a typical grocery store would receive an additional estimated $157 in revenue just from rounding." I feel like this is negligible.

Also, for the nickel, the seigniorage ratio is 2.something, isn't that lower than the penny? I think there's a decent chance that removing the penny would still be a net benefit for the mint.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-11-13 02:41:37+00:00
$699 (maybe 799 for a more premium model) seems to be a good compromise given what it would take to build a sufficiently similar PC while being close enough to the PS5/Switch. Xbox is practically dead.

I don’t think it needs to compete on price directly, if it can deliver the polish of a console. It can also play up the angle of being a full blown computer.
by alwillis | 2025-11-13 02:41:40+00:00
> Apple loves to change which tools they ship, too, it at least have for the last few years as system updates were routinely breaking our build scripts at work, mostly when Apple would replace a GNU tool with a BSD tool without warning i think.

It's a licensing issue; Apple has never shipped GPLv3 software. This has been discussed dozens of times on HN.

Of course you can use Homebrew to install a GNU toolchain to your heart's content.
by ugh123 | 2025-11-13 02:41:45+00:00
>my dad is dead, because his family members were too naive to know that the thing they were instructed to do by the state was a false thing.

We're told a lot of things by "officials" not because it's correct, but because it holds the least legal liability for official parties involved, especially anything involving healthcare. These officials also sometimes include doctors, who work to protect themselves and the system first, and then patients.
by ewoodrich | 2025-11-13 02:42:14+00:00
I ran into this exact same thing recently with CSVs downloaded from my own app. I tried a few different filetypes and was baffled how seemingly any filetype I downloaded triggered Gatekeeper regardless of the app I set to open it (including stock apps).

I eventually found on Reddit that setting the default via the Get Info dialog was the only path that worked, so now I can click a CSV and open it in VS Code without needing to send Apple my passport and fingerprints. I keep seeing mixed opinions whether it's a bug that Get Info associations work differently vs the right click context menu, or if it's a deliberately obtuse garden path like the Settings/Open Anyway routine and "working" as intended.

Either way I hate it but it would be slightly more forgivable as a bug (assuming it was then fixed).
by tzs | 2025-11-13 02:42:17+00:00
> No to all of that? Passport book (which you don't need unless you travel internationally) cost 165 USD per 10 years.

This won't work for people who don't have a government issued photo ID because you need a government issued photo ID to get a passport. If you can get a passport then you've already got what you need to vote in the states with voter ID laws.
by hugocbp | 2025-11-13 02:42:34+00:00
I agree. Steam's prices on sales are still mostly unmatched by consoles.

Even if it is a "pricier" PS5-like machine, I'd still buy it and I bet I'd make up the difference in less than a year with just the sales games (including older games I can't play on either console).

I think most of the critiques for this are from people expecting this to be aimed at PC gamers.

I don't think it is. I think it's aimed at people that actually DON'T want to bother with building, buying, upgrading PCs, but still want to play cheap games, older games.

To this day, I can't make my PC turn on with a controller (and I've tried). Making a PC wake up as fast as a Steam Deck from sleep? Impossible.

Those little things will all add up to make this a very nice option for the non-hardcode PC game crowd.

Valve is going to steal a lot of users from console, mostly Xbox. Not PC Gaming enthusiast.
by Tyrubias | 2025-11-13 02:42:49+00:00
Two questions:

1. Does this mean it’s a little disingenuous for the Homebrew maintainers to claim that this change has anything to do with app signing, given that they reference the impossibility of unsigned applications in the issue?

2. Does this mean that if a developer self-signs their app but doesn’t notarize it that it will meet Homebrew’s criteria of “passing Gatekeeper checks”?
by Khaine | 2025-11-13 02:43:05+00:00
I took knowability to be, how well you know the properties of a particle? For example, if you could perfectly knew the position of a particle, then you would have no knowledge of its momentum.

I thought Hisenberg meant the more you knew about one property (i.e. the smaller the bound on the position of a particle) the less you knew about the other property.

I'm not an expert on this, so more than happy to be corrected.
by chadcmulligan | 2025-11-13 02:43:32+00:00
> skill of an all-around businessman

So do you imagine that AI will reach the point that a business guy will say make me a web site to blah blah blah, and the AI will say sure boss and it will appear? Sort of what a dev/team of devs/testers/product managers/BA's would do now? the current batch is a long way from this afaik