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by mmooss | 2025-11-08 21:24:10+00:00
It's not just computers. The movie industry has been the same, and that is an artistic field - there's little obsolescence: Afiak there's no system to preserve films.

Even essential films are lost; some burn up in fires; only some private groups have tried to save and restore the most important ones. For example, I read about one legendary American silent film thought lost forever and then was found somewhere in Spain, in a library IIRC (they had to translate the Spanish titles back to English).

It happens in music and other fields. Perhaps the artists and businesses are focused on the present, not seeing their work as historic, and move on to the next thing. What happens to old projects you work on - do you preserve them carefully or are they just kind of left in whatever state they were at the end?
by afavour | 2025-11-08 21:24:56+00:00
Maybe just me but I actually think building web apps is already fun. I’ve got a hot reloading instant dev environment, I can publish to users in an instant… it’s great!

Looking at the Marko examples I feel the same way I do whenever similar stuff gets showcased: it’s trying to focus too hard on brevity and/or cutesiness and doesn’t seem like it would scale well to a full, complex web app. But maybe it’s not supposed to and maybe that’s fine.

React and Svelte and the rest can read clunkily at times but they have a clear separation of concerns and I’m glad for that.
by eden-u4 | 2025-11-08 21:25:07+00:00
Not OP, but I guess based on your comment:

> But the extent and the way in which Zig specifically puts it to use -- which includes, but is not limited to, how it is used to replace other features that can then be avoided (and all without macros) -- is unprecedented.

That MrWhite wanted to knkw an example of Zig's comptime that is not merely a "macro", rather the usage as a replacement of other features (I guess more complex..)

PS just interested in zig, I'd like some pointer to these cool feature :)
by nilslindemann | 2025-11-08 21:25:25+00:00
Honestly I don't know... I'm somewhat skeptical about these "next big thing that will fix all your pains in web development". There is so much fragmentation in JS libraries / frameworks. Angular, React, Vue, Angular, Asto, SolidJS, NextJS, Nuxt, Qwik... The list is so overwhelming. Almost each one claims that it fixes a problem in other framework, a year later the other framework fixes an issue... I think it's better to stick to a big old player, such as Svelte.
by techblueberry | 2025-11-08 21:25:31+00:00
I have this weird question which is like - is capitalism dead?

Certainly the left would argue it is, but it feels like more and more people on the right are arguing something along the lines of - the kind of capital investments necessary for the next stage of development, basically require central coordination. To compete with China, you can’t be subject to the whims of the market.

The way there is consolidation in the stock market, and businesses get bigger and more vertically integrated, it feels more and more like there’s not enough creative destruction / new businesses / competition.
by molticrystal | 2025-11-08 21:25:36+00:00
I wonder if this would actually make vision worse, increasing nearsightedness or causing the condition. It seems that dark words on light backgrounds can cause your eyes to elongate over time[0] or other conditions to form, and it seems it is no coincidence that many readers require glasses.

Would the same occur with dark mode on a transparent background? While I am not saying that it would negatively effect the eyes, I am skeptical of this claim of letting the eyes relax, it seems like marketing.

[0] Wagner, S., Strasser, T. Impact of text contrast polarity on the retinal activity in myopes and emmetropes using modified pattern ERG. Sci Rep 13, 11101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38192-9
by pron | 2025-11-08 21:25:43+00:00
Ok, so a primary goal of comptime in Zig is to avoid needing certain specialised features while still enjoying their functionality, in particular, generics, interfaces, and macros. I'm not aware of any language that has been able to eliminate all of these features and replace them with a simple, unified partial evaluation mechanism.

In addition, there's the classic example of implementing a parameterised print (think printf) in Zig. This is a very basic use of comptime, and it isn't used here in lieu of generics or of interfaces, but while there may be some language that can do that without any kind of explicit code generation (e.g. macros), there certainly aren't many such examples: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.15.2/#Case-Study-print-i...

But the main point is that the unprecedented use of partial evaluation is in having a single unified mechanism that replaces generics, interfaces, and macros. If a language has any one of them as a distinct feature, then it is not using partial evaluation as Zig does. To continue my analogy to the novel use of a touchscreen in the iPhone, the simplest test was: if your phone had a physical keypad or keyboard, then it did not use a touchscreen the way the iPhone did.
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-11-08 21:26:51+00:00
My ISP shares its residential IP pool with a middle east country (I can't remember which) users. God knows what those users are doing, but whenever "our" part of the pool is switched with "theirs", I get many more captchas, blocked websites and strange content suggestions.

"We" could pay for VPN access, but paying for the connection twice (local ISP and vpn ISP) adds up. And now the ball is in the VPN provider court.
by zmmmmm | 2025-11-08 21:26:57+00:00
Is it local though?

I'm so confused, they have a whole page that starts with how they run everything on device[0]. But the page ends telling you how great it is that you can choose your AI service which then leads to a page where ... all the options are hosted AI providers and half the page is about you have to read their terms of service and they all invade your privacy[1]. I stupidly enabled Gemini at some point and now there's no obvious way in the UI to disable it. I can only switch to a different hosted service provider.

I searched in settings for AI, model, LLM, nada.

Whatever good things they did here they totally screwed up the comms and UI execution of it.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/ai-browser-fe...

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ai-chatbot
by waiwai933 | 2025-11-08 21:26:59+00:00
I can't speak to the first question, but as to the second, correct, US air traffic controllers are not currently being paid.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/travel/shutdown-air-traff....

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/shutdown-air-....

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/air-traffic-...
by jleyank | 2025-11-08 21:28:54+00:00
FWIW, I've got backups of stuff from the 80's and early 90's. Would have to be transliterated into new languages or versions of languages but the stuff's been copied from medium to medium so as to remain readable. But it's not my stuff that's important - would have been amazing seeing what the MIT hackers did (as they created hacking) or the Bell Lab people, etc. There's bazillion lines (and who knows how many star trek or 4x4x4 tictactoe games) in BASIC out there :-).

Hell, perhaps it's good it's "forgotten" as it's what's powering the latest versions of Windows and other proprietary O/S.
by wumms | 2025-11-08 21:30:12+00:00
> Remote touch allows the detection of objects buried under granular materials through subtle mechanical cues transmitted through the medium, when a moving pressure is applied nearby.

> These findings confirm that people can genuinely sense an object before physical contact

So, it’s just touch, relayed through grains of sand.

Less clickbaity title: Humans have 'remote' touch like sandpipers, research shows
Show HN: I built a website to visualize company financial data
by eadanlin | 2025-11-08 21:30:42+00:00
Hi HN, I built a website myfinsight.com that aims to make complicated company financials easy to understand.

The problem: The go-to place for financial data such as revenue, sales, net income is Yahoo finance. However, their data is usually wrong and very limited. The numbers are hard to digest to get insight quickly. There are also numerous websites that provide much better data for a very expensive monthly fee.

Solution: a website that provides free diagrams and charts that visualize important financial data, such as income growth rate by date, revenue breakdown etc. It is free because the financial data process is highly automated without manual input and correction.

I used to send the finance infographics to friends and family. I found it easier just to make a website and they can grab the data from it.

Next steps: there is a long tail of companies that don’t file their reports correctly. I am trying to make it more accurate somehow, and maybe add live stock prices to the website. I am also looking for feedback! Please play around with it and let me know if something is wrong.
by pstuart | 2025-11-08 21:31:01+00:00
Obviously we all differ in how we respond to medications -- apparently it's 10% - 15% that have issues with statins.

I think a pragmatic approach would be to try them if warranted by testing and be prepared to stop or change them if it has issues.

We're learning more and more about the mechanisms of cholesterol and there's a variety of medications out there: https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/cholesterol/preventio...

And that doesn't address the role that fiber plays in managing it (and the virtues of fiber for health in general that are coming to light at a rapid clip)
by zmmmmm | 2025-11-08 21:31:04+00:00
It's boggling my mind that FireFox is 2% of the browser market now. I'm hoping that includes mobile where it makes a lot more sense. But even so, really sad. It is actually a great browser (putting aside this issue of AI features being pushed) and I actually do have much greater trust that it is respecting my privacy over Chrome and Edge.
by hermanzegerman | 2025-11-08 21:31:19+00:00
> When I see that it is widely accepted that ApoB is better to measure than LDL-C, but the industry continues to measure LDL-C, but not ApoB, I wonder why.

That's pretty simple to explain. No conspiracy.

LDL-C is much much cheaper to measure. ApoB costs 36x times as much, so Insurance Companies don't like to pay for it
by casenmgreen | 2025-11-08 21:31:32+00:00
It seems to me exactly the same.

An arbitrary group has been selected as being an enemy, they are used to present justifications for breaking law and due process, you then develop a large organization (Gestapo/ICE) accustomed to following orders and ignoring the law - if you're going to subvert the political system, you need to possess the means to force you will on the population. You need a large group of men who will perform violence when ordered to do so, regardless of law and due process.

I mean we all know where this is going. There are not going to be free and fair elections again. This isn't a blip, it's a plan.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-11-08 21:31:47+00:00
> Let's stick with the whole "adaptive ecosystem" model, rather than a "government planning" model

1. Every "adaptive ecosystem" has limits.

2. Without proper government regulation, which includes some "government planning", an "adaptive ecosystem" cannot and will not exist.

3. Abusing 1 and lacking 2, things not only don't "turn out better every time", they turn out really bad every single time.

With that said, abusing immigration enforcement in order to habituate disregard for due process is deceptive and over the limits and it leads to worse consequences than immigration itself.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-11-08 21:32:18+00:00
Right? Just in a car, we know that talking to someone in the car itself has adverse effects on situational awareness, and talking to someone on a phone is much worse than that. But even after all the research and training that goes into human factors in aviation ... we can't do better than confusing, poor quality, AM band party lines during critical phases of flight?
by galangalalgol | 2025-11-08 21:32:37+00:00
Violent resolution of the situation would almost certainly result in a society with even fewer freedoms. That is the historical lesson. Violent resistance to authoritarian takeovers gives them an air of legitimacy they need. That is the whole point of chicago and the attempt in Portland. They want violent resistance to justify crack downs. Instead they look like storm troopers. I am in awe of the restraint of those living in Chicago. Ice hasn't done half as much in Texas and they are getting ambushed with assault rifles. That doesn't work with their narrative of lawless blue states though. The ability of Chicagoans to resist peacefully, endure, and document these events may well be what gives the US another chance at being a democracy.
by davnicwil | 2025-11-08 21:32:47+00:00
It seems a bit of a stretch to separate this from the ordinary sense of touch.

I mean, feeling sand compress in subtle ways and being able to map that mentally to an object that might be hidden in the sand seems like literally touch plus normal world modelling / reasoning.

Couldn't you describe that effect where you can reliably guess the size and other features of things by sound without seeing them as a seperate sense? Well, it's not, again it's just a combo of a sense plus mental modelling / pattern recognition.
by encrypted_bird | 2025-11-08 21:32:56+00:00
If you are a terrible being, yes.

Succeeding at business does not alone make you a billionaire; that's a whole new level above "successful business owner". Most successful business owners are millionaires but not billionaires. As I said, no one becomes a billionaire without doing horrible things because said horrible things are exactly how you amass such a large amount of wealth amongst a single person.

Also, winning the lottery to the extent of becoming a billionaire is neither common (that's the understatement of the millennium) nor a business. It is a gamble, and a gamble millions of people lose every day because they refuse or fail to understand the sheer improbability of "getting the big one" and the sheer degree to which said gambles are stacked against the "player".
by billy99k | 2025-11-08 21:33:00+00:00
If a company gets 0% response from a certain group, why should they have to pay for ads, when the likelihood they will find a candidate is next to nothing?

This also only ever goes in one direction. A friend of mine works for a company run by and employs 100% women.

In any other context, it would be illegal. Instead, it's considered 'diverse' and 'empowering'.

Based on statistics alone, it's obvious the company is hiring women based on choice.

Tech companies, like Duo, touted the fact that they had all women development teams a few years back. When discrimination like this is an accepted practice, I stop listening.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-11-08 21:33:13+00:00
It's possible something got lost in HN's formatting.

The line should look like this: https://i.postimg.cc/VLHfF4H3/commandline.png

If it's correct, I'd like to know some specifics, if you don't mind. Current OS and ISO you're working with.

I've never had this fail and if there's an instance where it will, I'd like to know about it.
by crooked-v | 2025-11-08 21:33:16+00:00
They use weapons extensively because they're overwhelmingly barely physically capable of the role (https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-responds-report-ice-recruits-fa...) and get 8 weeks of training with no military or law enforcement experience required (https://old.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/comments/1mrdh6r/fyi_ice_...).
by Smaug123 | 2025-11-08 21:33:40+00:00
This is aphyr's standard policy. https://blog.woof.group/announcements/updates-on-the-osa summarises the reasoning, which basically boils down to "the legislation is broad enough in scope to cover most of what he wants to do online in theory, the guidance about what will happen in practice is nonexistent, the punishments if they choose to go after you are extremely severe, and the costs of complying with the regulation are very onerous, so it's not worth complying", which seems fair enough.
by rvnx | 2025-11-08 21:34:32+00:00
Keep in mind that these advertising algorithms are never 100% pushing jobs catered for a specific group, they keep a % of exploration.

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/machine_learning/machine_lear...

This is exploration vs exploitation dilemma. For example let's say that 10% of ads are thrown randomly, and from these random rolls these patterns are discovered:

> [Denver+<40-50> years+men]: mechanics +10%

> [Denver+<40-50> years+men]: nurse -5%

Then the system can apply these coefficients on 90% of the other traffic.

If you are making 100% exploration (so 100% random), then it means the people are going to miss their relevant job opportunity (having a net negative impact on the society).

Increasing exploration is a solution that would legally actually reduce biases of previouses patterns, but at the cost of less relevant content.

In all cases, if the bias is real, exploration discovers them and the coefficients already naturally adjust.

One exception, advertisers can artificially restrict saying "I want only men between 30-40" in their targeting filters.

Then what Meta can do ? Not much.
by reducesuffering | 2025-11-08 21:35:04+00:00
"This means regular exercise (both strength training, ideally 3x per week, and cardio training that helps to improve V02 max like Zone 2 training)"

Actually, V02 max is best improved through High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) like doing 400m sprints 8x with a couple minutes rest inbetween. V02 max is famous for being one of the best predictors of longevity.

Zone 2 training (light jogging) is important in tandem (80% of exercise ideally), especially for overall cardiovascular health and lowering heart rate.

Best thing I ever did for my health was start running (mostly jogging) 4-5 times a week. It's amazing how much your health can be improved with 4x 45 minute jogs (just 3 hours/wk). I can consume practically any caloric food for needed energy and all my health metrics have been substantially linearly increasing since I started.

"the stuff that’s not good for you: pasta and pizza and bread."

Tell that to the paragons of fitness in marathon running or olympic swimming. There are none of them on low carb. The best cardio health requires cardio exercise and cardio exercise requires carbs as energy. Of course if you're not going to exercise and are okay with 50th percentile health, ya carbs will hurt you then because youre not using them.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-11-08 21:35:32+00:00
Spotify offers lossless now. But before that the highest quality was 320 kbps AAC, and if you’re able to differentiate between that and lossless even on state of the art equipment under perfect conditions, for the vast majority of songs, you’re an extreme outlier (and in that case, sure - go for the lossless option)

You can also download up to 10,000 songs per device for offline use, which should be enough for a plane ride

I can see other issues one might have with Spotify, but I don’t really think those are among them. I’ve had it for about 15 years, and I’ve been consistently happy with it for my own use
by nolanl | 2025-11-08 21:35:41+00:00
As someone who has actually worked on JavaScript frameworks, I think Marko is criminally underrated. The compile-time optimizations are extremely impressive: https://markojs.com/docs/explanation/fine-grained-bundling

I was not surprised for example that Marko came out very well in this performance comparison: https://www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanban-boards
by mcswell | 2025-11-08 21:36:03+00:00
I found a fix to the problem, although I never quite pinned down why it was necessary. It wasn't a commit problem, but rather had to do with two objects pointing to the same third object as its "parent", whereas the third object only pointed to one of those other two objects as its "daughter". When queried from either object about the third object's daughter, it gave an answer pointing to that object, despite the parent pointing to just one of the two objects. The fix was to make the non-owned object point to a different owner. But I still am not clear why that was necessary.
by kace91 | 2025-11-08 21:36:08+00:00
Honestly, the XPS I bought second hand works close enough with kubuntu that I might not mind.

So far I get enough unplugged gas for a worrylesss morning/evening session, with lid movement causing instant sleep/wake and night battery drain of ~6%. Fans stay silent 90% of time, there is sometimes a weird sound on usage like a hdd read but it’s very subtle.

As a plus beyond the software, I get a touchscreen 4k display, larger storage, and disks/battery that can be replaced if it shits the bed. Considering that the device cost me less than one third of the price it’s not a bad deal at all.

Important to say, I tried 5 distros and only Ubuntu managed this. Fedora put fans on full blast, couldn’t wake from lid down and refused to talk to my external monitor, arch had weird scaling issues and popos desktop was working weirdly.
by EnPissant | 2025-11-08 21:36:36+00:00
You are arguing to discredit a study that contradicts your previously stated religious belief. I would be very surprised if anyone found me bringing it up off-topic. I think anyone debating you is entitled to know you think it is impossible that a study could find genetic intelligence differences between races and you wont even consider any evidence. If you have changed that belief, it’s easy to state that now.

Btw, I just remembered that comment from reading that thread recently. I obviously didnt pour through 10 years of one HN’s most prolific posters.
by jvanderbot | 2025-11-08 21:36:43+00:00
I want you to very carefully consider the better options.

Perhaps they type instructions? And hope someone reads them?

Perhaps they drag and drop vectors? Then what, a radial menu with emergency modal screens?

Or maybe they click some buttons, forcing the occasional look away from the screen?

Maybe AI could do it all?

For this, voice is perfect. We have been following instructions by voice since humans could grunt. We do not require anyone to look away from the screen (ATC) or look down from the window outside (pilot) for any reason.

We do not require rebroadcast because everyone can hear and take initiative if required.

By what interface, specifically, should someone required to fly an airplane interact with ATC while flying that airplane? By what interface should someone who needs to see where everyone is all the time be able to contact that pilot that cannot look away from the world outside ever and cannot use their hands for anything but flying at a critical time?

Chesterton's ATC.
Show HN: Code Typer – a type racer for programmers (with cool IDE-like behavior)
by mattcer | 2025-11-08 21:37:13+00:00
I built Code Typer, a type racer for programmers that uses real code from open-source GitHub projects instead of lorem ipsum. It currently supports 8 languages and includes IDE-like features such as auto-closing brackets and editor shortcuts.

Built with Next.js, Tailwind, Zustand, and Prisma.

Feedback is welcome!
by ChadNauseam | 2025-11-08 21:37:17+00:00
Of course, there are some definitions that reference themselves that are not circular, or alternatively, some circular definitions that are useful. For example, the definition of "ancestors" might be "your parents and your parents' ancestors" (with the implication that if you don't exist, you don't have any ancestors). But I agree that this is not a useful definition for "tensor".
by _aaandrew | 2025-11-08 21:37:26+00:00
The participation trophies of the 80s and 90s were for the parents, not the children. (See sibling comment with 'tae kwon do tournament.') Perhaps it made parenting easier, "Be proud you tried, this shiny bauble is all the proof you need!" Or, IMO more likely, the parents liked the affirmation it awarded them for their effort and/or they made for easier status signaling when displayed in a pile for house guests to admire.

I know as a kid I never gave two poops about 'em. They felt condescending.