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by tomhow | 2025-11-13 01:17:57+00:00
Your comment was flagged by several members of the community who all have a solid track record for flagging things due to being in breach of the guidelines (rather than due to disagreement, spite etc). So I'm not out of step with community standards here.

> Leaving one sided statements up like the GP is not a discussion.

Other comments in the subthread have also been flagged and killed, and I may reply to them also. I replied to yours because I saw it before the others and because its's clearly a party-political, inflammatory comment, and you are a repeat offender when it comes to guidelines breaches. In just the past 18 months, dang or I have asked you five times now to improve your conduct on HN.

> It's a political discussion, either allow it fully or don't.

> Referencing the morals of the same justification for slavery is a valid point.

The validity of an argument is a separate matter to whether it is expressed in an inflammatory way. We want to be able to discuss difficult topics on HN, and that can only happen if people are going to respect the guidelines and make the effort to discuss things with sensitivity and curiosity, rather than combativeness.

If you are only able to discuss difficult political topics in a combative style, HN is not the right place for you to participate.
by LexiMax | 2025-11-13 01:17:58+00:00
> It's far more plausible that the popularity owes to its viral success as a "glue" language in data analysis and "scientific" applications

I actually agree with you on this point. It's just that I believe that Python's focus on outreach is why it caught on in those applications in the first place. Without it, I feel like Python would probably occupy the same amount of mindshare of something like Ruby, and those niches it currently occupies would probably have been eaten by JavaScript.

It's certainly not because of any merits of the language itself as being newbie-friendly. I've had enough non-programmer friends and family asking me to explain why whitespace is used for blocks and the difference between using `==` and `is`.....okay I'm going to stop now before I start ranting.

> Also, the updates were not "poorly conceived", although they were initially released half-baked. If anything, they didn't go nearly far enough.

One fun little anecdote I love to throw around is that in the span of time that Python underwent a single seismic update, PHP underwent two, and did a much better job of enticing developers to make those jumps.

The difference is that PHP didn't break the entire universe at once, it just made small, backwards-incompatible changes that you could either shim, or rip through your project and do in-place fixes for. On the other hand, it also gave developers enormous carrots to entice them into upgrading - 5.3 had namespaces which allowed for clean code separation, and 7.0 was *significantly* faster. I hear PHP 8 now has a JIT compiler.

Meanwhile, it took forever for Python to give developers enough tooling to cleanly support Python 2 and 3 in one codebase, and it also lacked enough of a carrot to entice developers to upgrade. Projects like Mercurial thought that the upgrade was a complete waste of time and wish they had switched languages instead. The first Python version I was actually excited about was 3.5 because of type hinting and async/await, and there were still Python 2 holdouts up until the point when 2.7 was finally EOL.

So...."not far enough"....I beg your pardon? I feel like that would've gone even worse, and ended up in a repeat of Perl 6/Raku.
by jojobas | 2025-11-13 01:18:38+00:00
Well it's the point isn't it? It wasn't new, but unlike classic vaccines there wasn't a decades safety data. Manufacturers knew it and demanded to be exempt from normal vaccine injury schemes, governments agreed and introduced mandates.

My wife and I got the shots as soon as we could, she got a kidney complication, like quite a few people. Too bad, says govt.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000296292...
Show HN: Guardian for Wild Mushroom Safety
by kakco-AI | 2025-11-13 01:18:54+00:00
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by zahlman | 2025-11-13 01:19:32+00:00
Interesting.

I don't know what to make of the idea that I'm "not valuing my time" by carefully considering my purchases and caring about security. Or that the seconds I take on this are so important to both myself and others, compared to the time spent browsing the store shelves, getting to and from the place, etc. Heaven forbid I choose the cashier instead of a self check-out this time, and try to strike up a conversation.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-11-13 01:19:47+00:00
I don't think there is any reason a game _needs_ more. I don't think there is any gameplay experience that couldn't be enjoyably delivered on this hardware. And it's a massive disappointment that minimum requirements bloat has been out of control lately.

With how PC part prices have exploded after AI data center buying, I think we will see developers suddenly discover that you don't actually need half these specs to run games.
by rtkwe | 2025-11-13 01:20:59+00:00
The number of sticks and inputs hasn't changed much since the XBox and PS1 days either though, it's not just that the 360 and XInput became a default. Outside of Nintendo's experimental time in the Wii and GameCube era it's been the default for several decades and even Nintendo has basically given up and come to the same format since about the Wii U days.
by natch | 2025-11-13 01:21:12+00:00
But he seems to like pretending that we can’t reconfigure that straw of tokens into 4096 straws or a couple billion straws for that matter. LLMs are just barely getting started. That’s not to say there’s no other or better way, but yucking our yum he fails to acknowledge there’s a lot more that can be done with this stuff.
by ghayes | 2025-11-13 01:21:13+00:00
Whenever I see these and play with models like this (and the demos on this page), the movement in the world always feel like a dolly zoom. Things in the distance tend to stay in the distance, even as the camera moves in that direction, and only the local area changes features.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom
by themafia | 2025-11-13 01:25:35+00:00
> Keeping users safe on Android is our top priority.

I highly doubt this is your "top" priority. Or if it is then you're gotten there by completely ignoring Google account security.

> intercepts the victim's notifications

And who controls these notifications and forces application developers to use a specific service?

> bad actors can spin up new harmful apps instantly.

Like banking applications that use push or SMS for two factor authentication. You seem to approve those without hesitation. I guess their "top" priority is dependent on the situation.
by Aachen | 2025-11-13 01:26:39+00:00
Edit: be sure to read geoffschmidt's reply below /edit

The buried lede:

> a dedicated account type for students and hobbyists. This will allow you to distribute your creations to a limited number of devices without going through the full verification

So a natural limit on how big a hobby project can get. The example they give, where verification would require scammers to burn an identity to build another app instead of just being able to do a new build whenever an app gets detected as malware, shows that apps with few installs are where the danger is. This measure just doesn't add up
Show HN: Made MadLibs-style game to play with my kids
by ronbenton | 2025-11-13 01:26:41+00:00
I have a couple young kids and they always want to play mad libs. I only really found ones riddled with ads online so I made my own here. I'm a backend guy so go easy on my UI skills. Definitely used Cursor for help on the UI part of it. Anyway hope you play this with your kids too!
by J_McQuade | 2025-11-13 01:26:51+00:00
Absolute bullshit title. The USA has stopped making one-cent coins, and they don't even call them pennies in any meaningful way.

The "last-ever" penny will not be minted until that final coin has been minted by:

The United Kingdom

Gibraltar

Man

St Helena & Ascension Island

Guernsey

The Falklands

and probably a good few of others I've forgotten. Like Jersey.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-13 01:27:50+00:00
> assuming the people you employ as "developers" weren't actually also doing the dev management and product management roles was wrong.

Also in the mix: Stuff involving B2B customers and integrating systems, where "developer" blurs a bit with sales-engineer or consultant, ex:

* Be on a call to ask significant questions (grounded in reading the code) to determine what the customer's real problem is.

* Help craft diplomatic but accurate explanations of what's going wrong.

* Explain what bugs or changes you can do for them versus which parts are fully on their end, sometimes with "here's what I think your engineers should consider doing" advice.

Not always fun, but sometimes enlightened self-interest means I'd rather spend an 1 hour being "one of our developers" in a customer-meeting, as opposed to 6 hours discovering everything is actually working as-intended and the customer just misunderstood what feature they were using.
by xtracto | 2025-11-13 01:27:55+00:00
Several members of my family are into glp-1 both for glucose control and for weight loss. Taking different brands (wegovy, ozempic and others.) They all mention.th terrible secondary effects when you eat something "forbidden" (tacos, cake or icecream e.g.) .

Also It causes constipation apparently, which for most of them is not that much of an issue, but given that I've IBS-C, I'm happy to not have to take it.
by techgnosis | 2025-11-13 01:28:19+00:00
I like this idea but I fear the population, in the US at least, is not able to process something like a debate effectively. Any given debate, if won decisively enough, could shutdown any discussion on the topic for a long time. Imagine if you got Jordan Peterson and he absolutely shut-down someone else. I don't think the audience will accept the idea that the other person may have just been a bad debater, or that the ideas that they debated still have merit. It would effectively end the discussion.

People love winners, not ideas. It's just more us-vs-them. Especially because the US population only ever sees the word "debate" when it comes to a political debate on a stage, and those are not debates.

Again, I love this idea in theory but I fear it's time has come and gone already.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-11-13 01:29:12+00:00
Not so "primitive" NLP. Watson started with what its team called a "shallow parse" of a sentence using a dependency grammar and then matched the parse to an ontology consisting of good, old fashioned frames [1]. That's not as "advanced" as an LLM but far more reliable.

I believe the ontology was indeed implemented in Prolog but I forget the architecture details.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(artificial_intelligence...
by echelon | 2025-11-13 01:29:28+00:00
There are lots of hypotheses, but this is one of my gut feelings for why there are no aliens in view. It's hard to escape your local solar system.

When will we need more resources than exist here? We'll be mining the sun to run future simulations. Do we need more compute? Seems like we'll just stay inside.

Most life is probably similarly bound up to their origin. That and life is hard by many, many, many hard steps. Earth life is nearly 30% the age of the universe and it took us this long to get here.

It'd be near impossible for aquatic life to have an industrial revolution without aqueous chemistry control. Can't do that when you're stuck inside water. It's also hard to evolve reasoning when you can't see far ahead. Little evolutionary pressure on reasoning over time and distance.

And it's hard to leave water. You need to evolve new eyes and lungs to live on land. And then you need an energy source like O2, which tends not to stick around.

So many reasons.

The distances of space are certainly one holding us back now.
by hyperhello | 2025-11-13 01:29:33+00:00
Let's consider strategy. There are two variables: P, the price, and Q, the quantity. Of course by reducing P you increase Q, and vice versa, so besides being dependent on each other, they have an inverse relationship. At some pair, PQ is maximized.

Apple knows this. So of course they did not set the price P to maximize Q. They set the price P to maximize PQ.

The question should be why P maximizes PQ. I submit that it is because of dopey articles that create a luxury effect around the product. I believe that if necessary, Apple would (and may even already) write and publish these articles themselves.
by 0_____0 | 2025-11-13 01:29:49+00:00
If a gram scale and a grinder that has one knob and one button is too much to deal with then I guess you do need K-cups after all.

300g of water over 17g of freshly ground beans will pretty much always beat the K-cup on quality, is cheaper and produces less waste. You don't even need fancy beans, my go-to is the store brand bean from the supermarket.
by lisbbb | 2025-11-13 01:30:57+00:00
I think doing away with cash is a terrible idea. That said, I'm using it less and less since 2020. Inflation is the real problem--we need a stable currency and make the small denominations valuable again. All this tracking and surveillance is bad for a free society and it ends with "programmable money" where the government can tell you what you can and can't buy with your money. That's sick and evil, particularly when we know that people in government are the most immoral, pernicious, and downright evil people who ever lived.
by amosjyng | 2025-11-13 01:31:09+00:00
> that person would likely lose his/her license and potentially face criminal penalties.

What if it were an unlicensed human encouraging someone else's delusions? I would think that's the real basis of comparison, because these LLMs are clearly not licensed therapists, and we can see from the real world how entire flat earth communities have formed from reinforcing each others' delusions.

Automation makes things easier and more efficient, and that includes making it easier and more efficient for people to dig their own rabbit holes. I don't see why LLM providers are to blame for someone's lack of epistemological hygiene.

Also, there are a lot of people who are lonely and for whatever reasons cannot get their social or emotional needs met in this modern age. Paying for an expensive psychiatrist isn't going to give them the friendship sensations they're craving. If AI is better at meeting human needs than actual humans are, why let perfect be the enemy of good?

> if waymo is better than the average driver, but still gets into an accident, who should be held accountable?

Waymo of course -- but Waymo also shouldn't be financially punished any harder than humans would be for equivalent honest mistakes. If Waymo truly is much safer than the average driver (which it certainly appears to be), then the amortized costs of its at-fault payouts should be way lower than the auto insurance costs of hiring out an equivalent number of human Uber drivers.
by nixpulvis | 2025-11-13 01:31:10+00:00
I once lived in a place that had a bathroom with mirrors that faced each other. I think I convinced myself that not only is my attention to detail more concentrated at the center, but that my response time was also fastest there (can anyone confirm that?).

So this gets me thinking. What would it feel like to correct for that effect? Could you use the same technique to essentially play the further parts early, so it all comes in at once?

Kinda a hair brained idea, I know, but we have the technology, and I'm curious.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-13 01:31:40+00:00
> True for computers, but every cheap radio has a CD player and it's very common to have one in the car.

There are only 9 car models as of 2024 that ship with CD players and not even all trims of all of those models come with a CD player

https://www.kron4.com/news/national/which-new-car-models-sti...

And people don’t walk around with boom boxes like in the 80s.

> Ripping them from a CD.

Most new computers don’t come with CD drives and you think that people are syncing music from their computers to their phones in 2025? The last computer I bought with a CD drive was around 2012. Do any of the major PC sellers sell laptops with CD drives? Apple stopped around 2012.

> Because Facebook and Google insert themself into unrelated websites, their monopoly is not just search

> Because Facebook and Google insert themself into unrelated websites, their monopoly is not just search

That has nothing to do with the laws the EU is passing and none of the remedies say anything about it Google Analytics or ads on third party sites.

> Nobody is going to tell you to use Spotify, because it screams "cheap"! That might fly for hobby musicians, but professionals will ruin their reputation.

Well two issues, selling CDs at concerts is a horrible method for mass distribution and CD sales are plummeting.

https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/07/cd-revival-hopes-crash-...

During the past year I’ve been to a dozen concerts. Most of them classic Hip Hop artist, two classic R and B, and two pop - Maroon 5 and Justin Timberlake. I’ve also gone to a see a punk rock band where my friend is the lead singer. They sell merch but definitely not CDs
by zelphirkalt | 2025-11-13 01:31:41+00:00
Maybe they were, but these days everything must be in JS syntax. Even if it is longer than pure CSS, they want the CSS inside JS syntax. They are only ultimate polyglot as long as all the languages are actually JS.

(Of course this is an overgeneralization, since obviously, there are web developers, who do still remember how to do things in HTML, CSS and, of course JS.)
by mapontosevenths | 2025-11-13 01:31:59+00:00
> That's the point of the case.

No, its not. See the PDF of the actual case below.

The case is largely about OpenAI training on the NY Times articles without permission. They do allege that it can reproduce their articles verbatim at times, but that's not the central allegation as it's obviously a bug and not an intentional infringement. You have to get way down to item 98 before they even allege it.

https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec20...
I tried to pay for Grok, but was told to "wait 2 weeks for Black Friday."
by ssssj | 2025-11-13 01:32:17+00:00
I'm a developer based in South Korea, and I was genuinely excited to pay for and use Grok today.

But when I tried to subscribe, I was actually told to "wait 2 weeks for Black Friday" and just use the free version. This was a fascinating (and shocking) customer experience.

It's especially interesting because while I'm being told to wait, Grok's competitors are aggressively capturing the South Korean market:

ChatGPT is integrating directly into "KakaoTalk" (our #1 super-app monopoly) with cashback promos.

Perplexity is partnering with local telcos to give away 1-year subscriptions.

Grok's GTM (Go-to-Market) strategy here seems to be "nothing," while simultaneously turning away customers who are trying to pay them.

Being late to launch is one thing, but being late to market share because you're telling eager customers to wait seems like a huge, unforced error.

Just wanted to share this observation from the ground.
by rvz | 2025-11-13 01:32:47+00:00
> Probably more accurate to say the specs are from 2020, which is when the PS5 and XSX launched.

In 2026, those specs are significantly underpowered and close to outdated.

> Does the M4 Max run SteamOS and your Windows steam games very well?

Even if it does with Asahi Linux [0] it would still run over the Steam Machine in performance alone, especially with 2024 specifications.

We both know that neither of them can run DRM'ed games on Linux on Day 1 on Steam.

> I guess this Steam Machine is going to be embarassingly underpowered if it also costs $3500.

Not even the original Steam Machine sold well even though the lowest priced model was at ~$450 with the highest priced one was at $1,110 and was still also behind the state of the art console specs at the time.

> On the other hand, if it is a mass-market 'console' PC priced at ~$500-750 then I think it's okay if it's 'no better...than a Macbook Pro with M4 Max'.

Then there would be no point for Windows PC gamers or console players at all to switch. It only appeals to hardcore Linux users and at least competes against a Framework laptop running steam which is a very low bar to beat.

[0] https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/