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by cyberpunk | 2025-11-07 06:27:19+00:00
Via the jetbrains plugin, has an 'agent' mode and can edit files and call tools so on, yes I setup MCP integrations and so on also. Still kinda sucks. shrug.

I keep flipping between this is the end of our careers, to I'm totally safe. So far this is the longest 'totally safe' period I've had since GPT-2 or so came along..
by tobr | 2025-11-07 06:29:13+00:00
I understand all this, but it still feels like a solution in search of a problem. Why does it matter that it is decentralized? There are simpler ways to reasonably prove you were there. Scan a QR code taped to the wall, use a WiFi beacon, get a unique code, tap a link in their invitation, ticket, whatever else is used as admission, or use Bluetooth for that matter. But exchanging the data by Bluetooth and requiring everyone to have their phones out, and thinking that it won’t be a distraction for some reason… that’s the part I don’t understand.
by uecker | 2025-11-07 06:29:26+00:00
So far Wayland gave me only headaches and I do not see what it offers that X does not already provide. And the fact that Wayland make their case by lying, etc. the drawing commands BS, network transparency does not work (I feature we do use every day), etc. and the fact that important use cases such as accessibility are now treated as an afterthought that there are diverging implementations with inconsistent support for important functionality, ... all this does not build confidence that the developers even remotely know what they are doing outside of their narrow view on the Graphics pipeline itself. And this after decades of effort. Maybe it is too late now to save X, but Wayland was a terrible idea, not the idea of developing Wayland itself as an experiment with open result, but to declare X dead and Wayland its successor long before it was ready and before it was clear that it is actually a better replacement (so far, it isn't).
by TheBicPen | 2025-11-07 06:32:26+00:00
> I'd agree but we're beyond hopelessly idealistic. That sort of approach only helps your competition who will use it to build a closed product

That same argument can be applied to open-source (non-model) software, and is about as true there. It comes down to the business model. If anything, crating a closed-sourced copy of a piece of FOSS software is easier than an AI model since running a compiler doesn't cost millions of dollars.
by alwa | 2025-11-07 06:32:27+00:00
So -- I can't imagine how one could expect to run a massive drugs-and-arms bazaar and not go to jail forever for something or other. But. I think the surrounding circumstances gp's alluding to might have involved [0] and [1] (with a fairly colorful slant). I'm inclined to give a little weight to the colorful account since the agents in question actually went to jail for the massive theft; for a more neutral treatment, Justice [2] and Vice [3] cover the situation.

The basic claim being that the salacious murder-for-hire bit was 1) never tried or proven, and 2) was allegedly instigated in part by federal agents (operating out of unrelated offices) and a "mentor" of Ulbricht's. In reaction to one of the federal agents himself stealing $800,000 from the criminal enterprise for himself in the course of his investigation. Or something like that.

I'm not clear how that squares with Ulbricht going on to order five more imaginary executions, but the whole thing seems awfully sordid from every angle.

[0] (Sarah Jeong for Forbes' contributor network thing) https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahjeong/2015/04/17/could-the...

[1] (Andy Greenberg for Wired Magazine) https://archive.is/BvuQr

[2] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-federal-agent... and https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-dea-agent-sen...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-evidence-of-government-c...
by contrarian1234 | 2025-11-07 06:33:42+00:00
I'm not really sure why this focuses so much on React, when it's a general "issue"/"feature"

More broadly, obviously there is some pressure to use a framework/library/programminglang/editor that has better LLM training. But even before LLMs.. you'd want to choose the one that has more SO questions, more blog posts and books published about it. The one where you can hire experienced programmers.

New players has a certain activation energy they need to overcome - which is probably good. B/c it slows down the churn of new shiny with incrementally improvements. I think a paradigm shift is sufficient though. Programmers like new shiny things - especially the good ones that are passionate about their craft
by brailsafe | 2025-11-07 06:34:20+00:00
Wow, quite impressive actually, some of those additional entries are quite good as well, with Ellen Lupton, Steve Krugman, Erik Spiekermann, and then also 1984 and Mark Manson for some reason. Would the latter few be because they're just super widely read/recommended/connected regardless of genre?

Great project anyway, thanks for sharing and responding to my stream of consciousness, I certainly didn't mean to be insulting and hope my tone didn't come across that way.
by sumedh | 2025-11-07 06:34:48+00:00
Interesting, thanks for the info.

I wanted to run claude headlessly (-p) and playwright headlessly to get some content. I was using Playwright MCP and for some reason claude in headless mode could not open playwright MCP in headless mode.

I never realized i can just use playwright directly without the playwright MCP before your comment. Thanks once again.
by dangus | 2025-11-07 06:34:54+00:00
Obviously stuff like lunar phases is easy to document in a forward-looking way.

But yeah, this is a book claiming on the front cover to be able to tell you the best time to get married? lol

I also think that the general purpose nature of the book serves it poorly. It seems to cram together seemingly unrelated topics: life advice, gardening advice, kitchen tips, astrology, etc. This probably made a lot of sense before the modern media landscape, in the days when entertainment was a little more hard to come by.

Some things sadly do have their time and place. We aren’t getting this back just like we aren’t getting back a nation where everyone watched the same 3 channels on their television.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-07 06:35:23+00:00
The old UI != about:profiles. I never knew about:profiles even existed for a long time, why I was already happy using the profiles UI for years. I mean the profiles UI, that pops up at startup.

> If you look at about:profiles and compare it to the new UI or to what Chromium has offered for years, then I think you'll understand that the new UI is much better for the average user.

No I think this looks way worse, than the native UI, they have had for decades and hope they don't remove the old UI, so it startup doesn't become slower and more annoying.
by rippeltippel | 2025-11-07 06:35:39+00:00
Whenever I see these articles on HN, I'm now primed into thinking "it means rats brains" and I'm usually right. I truly appreciate the research in this and other fields (e.g. Alzheimer), but clickbait titles like those give false hopes to readers who may have friends or relatives suffering from real conditions. Please make it clear that we're talking about _rats_ and it may take years for those researches to be available to us _human beings_.
by msmd74 | 2025-11-07 06:36:12+00:00
Sounds like you had a momentous run.

If you take advice from reformed Internet trolls, consider turning off all your devices and trying to give yourself at least a week, but ideally a month offline staring at your new baby. You'll never get that time back and there's nothing your brain will appreciate more than loading up those memories as they grow.

Good luck.
by jdblair | 2025-11-07 06:36:22+00:00
When I read "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" when I was about 18, there is a mention of how in the summer they would get nettles in their gruel at the prison camp. Midwestern American me had no idea of the nutritive value of nettles and thought this was another layer of cruelty that the Soviet gulag heaped on its inmates. I had only encountered nettles on hikes in the woods, and held them in the same category as poison ivy.

Years later, dating the Finnish woman who is now my wife, I learned how to gather nettles, about nettle soup, and even that eating nettles can de-sensitize you to seasonal allergies. I had completely misinterpreted that part of Solzhenitsyn's writing, and that his point was that at least when the nettles were growing the gruel had some additional nutrition (like vitamin c) in it.

A lot of knowledge like this has been lost in suburban America.
by dannyphantom | 2025-11-07 06:38:16+00:00
Kinda all of the above. It did evolve into a scientific(-adjacent) thing, if that makes sense. My boyfriend’s parents have all of them sitting on a dedicated shelf. Interesting to read through.

They definitely leaned into being a cultural artifact. Jokes, anecdotes, stories, how-tos, homeopathic recipes for things like cough syrups, etc. They all look kinda the same so either brand consistency or to keep the nostalgia factor.

Their sun/moon/eclipse is rooted in real math foundations but their “proprietary” weather forecast model was developed when the publication began in 1792.

It’s like 30% hard astronomical data, 30% proprietary models that they’ve been using for generations and 40% storytelling.

edit for context on scientific side:

WRT forecast modeling, the publication claims ~80% accuracy [1] but it’s been found to come out to about ~50%+ under scrutiny [2]

[1] https://www.almanac.com/2026-old-farmers-almanac

[2] https://climate.colostate.edu/blog/index.php/2024/08/23/shou...
by heltale | 2025-11-07 06:39:08+00:00
Hey, that's a pretty cool concept!

I work on developing technology to solve sales and real-estate problems and streamlining/populating connections with people is a big issue. Exporting these to an excel sheet/csv is something that sales folk would absolutely kill for to make things easier to manage.

However, the hurdle to have enough get the application and have it running on both parties' systems while at the event is certainly a pretty strong bottleneck.
by taftster | 2025-11-07 06:39:40+00:00
I deliberately dodged there, as you noted. I do not have full disk encryption setup. I know that I'm probably have a very bad day if I come to lose my laptop, etc. I should do this, no doubt.

But I'm not sure. While maybe good password management is starting to soak into common computer usage, I don't think disk encryption is all that common just yet across the average user. It should be. But the average user is just moving to their phone anyway, with face id and encryption by default, instead of maintain their own personal device.

Corporate devices seem to be a bit better in this regard, though.
by ceigey | 2025-11-07 06:40:15+00:00
I’ve had similar thoughts too: the older I get, the less “extra features” translate to value if I’m expected to stretch my concentration across all of them to have fun.

I’m not as sophisticated as the average Dwarf Fortress player, but an emergent quality of that game that I’ve admired from afar has been how you can ignore various mechanics and you’re rewarded with an interesting ride.

It’s dynamic enough that by pulling various gameplay “levers” you can get wildly different outcomes (and thus value through replayability), but things will sort of run themselves (for better or worse) if you forget about them. So you’re half writing your own story, half discovering it as it writes itself.
by hulitu | 2025-11-07 06:40:28+00:00
> It's just for vibes so we can make sure people are having a good experience.

Are you sure that people are having a good experience ?

(after some random time) Are you sure that people are having a good experience ?

(after some random time) Are you sure that people are having a good experience ?

(after some random time) Are you sure that people are having a good experience ?

(after some random time) Are you sure that people are having a good experience ?
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-07 06:40:29+00:00
> Not if you run them against local models, which are free to download and free to run .. run happily on CPU .. Cost isn't a reason not to explore this stuff.

Let's be realistic and not over-promise. Conversational slop and coding factorial will work. But the local experience for coding agents, tool-calling, and reasoning is still very bad until/unless you have a pretty expensive workstation. CPU and qwen 4b will be disappointing to even try experiments on. The only useful thing most people can realistically do locally is fuzzy search with simple RAG. Besides factorial, maybe some other stuff that's in the training set, like help with simple shell commands. (Great for people who are new to unix, but won't help the veteran dev who is trying to convince themselves AI is real or figuring out how to get it into their workflows)

Anyway, admitting that AI is still very much in a "pay to play" phase is actually ok. More measured stances, fewer reflexive detractors or boosters
by jumploops | 2025-11-07 06:40:38+00:00
“We can’t observe the whole universe, so cosmology is not really about the universe. It’s about the observable patch and the assumptions we make about the rest.”

(paraphrasing George Ellis)

We’re in a bounding sphere, with a radius that’s roughly 46.5 billion lightyears, so any observation we make may be true for our local observable range, but there’s no (known) way to know what’s beyond that sphere.
by techpression | 2025-11-07 06:41:54+00:00
I abandoned Claude Code pretty quickly, I find generic tools give generic answers, but since I do Elixir I’m ”blessed” with Tidewave which gives a much better experience. I hope more people get to experience framework built tooling instead of just generic stuff.

It still wants to build an airplane to go out with the trash sometimes and will happily tell you wrong is right. However I much prefer it trying to figure it out by reading logs, schemas and do browser analysis automatically than me feeding logs etc manually.
by 9rx | 2025-11-07 06:42:19+00:00
> But yeah, this is a book claiming on the front cover to be able to tell you the best time to get married? lol

A quick perusal of the "best day" calendar — which is presumably what that refers to — suggests that it believes the best time to get married is on days we call the weekend. Which seems pretty fair. I've never been to a wedding that wasn't on a weekend. That is when most people seem to want to get married. Not exactly ground-breaking information, of course, but practical in some very limited sense; likely more useful than lunar phase schedules for the average person.

> We aren’t getting this back

I'm not sure it was ever lost. The most notable one in this space, the Old Farmer's Almanac, is still going. The departure of The Farmer's Almanac means one less competitor than before, but the "Almanac" genre remains filled with quite a number of publications that show no signs of stopping. Individual businesses step out of their respective markets all the time. That is nothing unusual (although a 200+ year run is noteworthy, granted).

> just like we aren’t getting back a nation where everyone watched the same 3 channels on their television.

Now we all visit the same 3 websites instead...
by muragekibicho | 2025-11-07 06:44:36+00:00
Lol is this the Hacker News version of "I am Groot".

Sidenote, I attempted a startup in the "Google Colab for GPUs" space.

You approach won't work unless you give a generous free tier and bankroll content creators to create CUDA/Mojo tutorials for the noobs.

The professional GPU devs mostly have ChatGPT writing CUDA kernels for them that they debug on their personal computers.

Your best at growth-hacking would be forking VS Code and building an IDE solely for GPU programming. Again, I'm super familiar with the space and if you'd like to collaborate then reach out on Twitter and I'll share all the growth-hacking tricks I learnt while building a "Google Colab for GPUs" startup.
Show HN: Chess960v2 – 100 Rounds Done, Some Openings Still Undefeated
by lavren1974 | 2025-11-07 06:44:44+00:00
The chess960v2 project is a self-play tournament where Stockfish plays through all 960 Fischer Random starting positions to explore asymmetry, fairness, and opening theory evolution. So far, over 100 rounds have been completed—and intriguingly, several starting positions remain undefeated (no losses for either side when playing as White or Black).

Currently in test phase with a 0.5s/move time control; the full year-long tournament will launch in 2026 at 3s/move.
by simonw | 2025-11-07 06:45:55+00:00
Sure, you're not going to get anything close to a Claude Code style agent from a local model (unless you shell out $10,000+ for a 512GB Mac Studio or similar).

This post isn't about building Claude Code - it's about hooking up an LLM to one or two tool calls in order to run something like ping. For an educational exercise like that a model like Qwen 4B should still be sufficient.
HoLa B-Rep a.k.a. AI CAD shenanigans?
by itstransfigure | 2025-11-07 06:46:08+00:00
Anyone try this? HoLa-BRep Generation using a Holistic Latent Representation: https://huggingface.co/spaces/YuXingyao/HoLa-BRep

Same weird/un-usable results as Spectral Labs SGS-1? https://huggingface.co/spaces/spectral-labs/SGS-1

Transfigure does not use weird DeepCAD training data (kindergarten level)

We are using real data, born from hardware engineers who design CAD like their life depends on it (because it pays my rent)

http://xfgr.ai
by dangus | 2025-11-07 06:46:50+00:00
I also think the pitfall that might exist here is the base assumption that developers are allowing the LLMs to make architecture decisions either not addressing the issue at all and just prompting for end results or not making the choice before asking the LLM.

E.g., if most developers are telling their LLMs “build me a react app” or “I want to build a website with the most popular framework,” they were going to end up with a react app with or without LLMs existing.

I’m sure a lot of vibecoders are letting Jesus take the wheel, but in my vibecoding sessions I definitely tend to have some kind of discussion about my needs and requirements before choosing a framework. I’m also seeing more developers talking about using LLMs with instructions files and project requirement documents that they write and store in their repo before getting started with prompting, and once you discover that paradigm you don’t tend to go back.
by oharapj | 2025-11-07 06:47:46+00:00
I think the reality is that the brain is an organ and loses functionality in old age, similar to the heart, lungs, liver, skin, whatever you want to name. Lifestyle plays a significant role and I think you’ll find that people that take care of themselves and have less loss of functionality are significantly happier and wiser in their old age. I do think that there’s adaptive functionality in hormonal changes though
by noduerme | 2025-11-07 06:48:02+00:00
At 45, this is something that scares me about using AI to write code for me. I view my job not just as a rewarding problem-solving challenge, but also as a vital form of exercise, possibly the only thing in my life that unites my creative brain with my mathematical brain and forces them to work together. I've watched so many family members descend into alzheimers and dementia. My father, who's 89, still reads two newspapers a day, and I think it keeps him sharper than he would be otherwise. But without the goal of solving problems, I think we begin to degenerate. And no one really wants to deal with problems... it's the job that keeps you fit.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-07 06:48:40+00:00
> that doesn't yet entirely replace the old one

That's what I fear happening, and I will not like it.

> comparable to Chrome's experience

If I wanted to have "Chrome's experience" I would have used Chrome. Profiles is one way Firefox has been vastly better. Selecting the last used Profile is one press on Enter on startup and selecting a different one is a matter of pressing up/down a few times and pressing Enter or typing the first few (unique) characters of the profile name and pressing Enter. I can't think of a UI that would be faster, I think this has already reached the maximum UX for decades. This all works nicely, because it looks, feels and behaves like a native window (don't know if it is).

> lot less like a power user feature hidden behind a page address that people might not know ("about:profiles").

Why is everyone comparing it to the "hidden debug site" instead of the old profiles UI? Yeah no shit, about:profiles is not discoverable to the average user, much like all the other about: pages, but why would anyone not debugging the browser use it over the normal profiles UI?

> Beyond its UI having basically been frozen since Netscape Navigator 4-ish modulo XUL shenanigans?

I don't think this is a bad thing. I vastly prefer native(?-like) UI, way more over yet another Metro-UI clone with sluggish behaviour and no keyboard bindings.
by Etheryte | 2025-11-07 06:50:55+00:00
On the sometimes getting angry part, I feel you. I don't even understand why it happens, but it's always a weird moment when I notice it. I know I'm talking to a machine and it can't learn from its mistakes, but it's still very frustrating to get back yet another here's the actual no bullshit fix, for real this time, pinky promise.
by goku12 | 2025-11-07 06:51:06+00:00
> This has obviously been 'rust'ling some feathers,

I'm a Rust user and a fan. But memory safe C is actually an exciting prospect. I was hoping that the rise of Rust would encourage others to prioritize memory safety and come up with approaches that are much more ergonomic to the developers.

> as it challenges some of the arguments laid past

Genuinely curious. What are the assumptions you have in mind that Fil-C challenges? (This isn't a rhetorical question. I'm just trying to understand memory safety concepts better.)

> but once the dust settles, it is a major net benefit to the community.

Agreed, this is big! If Fil-C can fulfill its promise to make old C code memory safe, it will be a massive benefit to the world. God knows how many high-consequnce bugs and vulnerabilities hide in those.
by never_inline | 2025-11-07 06:52:55+00:00
> But my background kept leading hiring managers to suggest putting me on cloud teams doing orchestration in Go around a database rather than working on the database itself.

This is extremely annoying. This also means if your first job is doing X, it is very difficult to break into Y even if you know quite well about Y, and even have side projects. I have tried attaching cover letters indicating even if my current experience is in X, I am quite familiar with Y, to no luck. (No one reads those stuff).
by zkmon | 2025-11-07 06:53:43+00:00
You will see accelerated extinction of many members of the business species. The good members of the species can't adapt quickly with the pace of changes that are brought in by the excessive want (greed) and excessive power (knowledge) by other members of the species. Business is the only species where members of the race compete with other members of the own race, and not with other species. In natural species, internal competition happens only for mating rights and food, but not to kill each other.

Capitalism is unnatural - it allows rapid consolidation of the businesses, leading to colonial style of empires. Colonial empires fell due to local people's assertion of their ownership of the land. Business workers have no such bond with the companies. They can't resurrect their businesses once gobbled up by the mega companies.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-07 06:54:35+00:00
> The user experience was abysmal, it was practically a non-feature.

I disagree. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45844108

> Can't be invoked quickly using two keyboard shortcuts

Yeah true, you have to instead click on the Firefox logo or type Firefox into the application launcher.

> does not divide into simple and portable folders

I have used the same profile folder over SSH across Linux and Windows, so I don't think that's true.