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by _betty_ | 2025-11-12 03:34:30+00:00
Daniel Pink's book "Drive" explains that true motivation comes from intrinsic factors: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. It’s not about external rewards or doing every task yourself, but about having the freedom to direct your work, the drive to improve your skills, and a meaningful purpose behind what you do. In programming, AI can free us from routine tasks, letting us focus on creative problem-solving and realizing our ideas - this aligns perfectly with what Pink calls the deeper, more fulfilling motivation to get things done in a way that matters. So, it’s less about losing fun and more about shifting to meaningful engagement and impact.
by robot-wrangler | 2025-11-12 03:34:47+00:00
Emacs user of a highly customized and well-loved setup for over a decade before I gave up the habit ;) But this illustrates my point perfectly. That's a huge list of stuff that all needs to be turned on or configured in various ways. Some newbie who is shopping for a new terminal-emulator saw this, gave up immediately, and decided to download kitty because it looks like an app and not a platform.

To successfully argue that it's just perfect as a terminal emulator, I think you need to find a way to ship it in exactly that configuration. That would mean that you open it up to a shell prompt with a dollar sign, you can hit ctrl-t to get a new terminal tab. Clicking URLs should open them in a browser without having to copy/paste. Speaking of copy/paste, that should work too, and ctrl-e, and ctrl-a, etc, etc.
by wmonk | 2025-11-12 03:34:59+00:00
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by canucker2016 | 2025-11-12 03:36:25+00:00
Kelly Johnson, head of Lockheed's Skunk Works, worked on the P-38 (as well as U-2, Blackbird, and the F-117A).

He had a list of rules for managing the design of aircraft. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)#Kelly....

There's an unwritten 15th rule (from the above-mentioned webpage):

"Starve before doing business with the damned Navy. They don't know what the hell they want and will drive you up a wall before they break either your heart or a more exposed part of your anatomy."
by samdoesnothing | 2025-11-12 03:37:25+00:00
Systematic widespread slavery is obviously different from using the threat or application of violence to compel unpaid labor in smaller-scale scenarios, but both are de facto slavery and both are direct violations of the amendment. If you wanna argue that there is a concept of a "lesser violation" and that it makes some forms of slavery OK, be my guest but even children don't buy arguments like that.

It's like trying to argue that a little murder is fine because really, the laws are set up to prevent mass murder.
by jjav | 2025-11-12 03:38:37+00:00
> My credit cards, both the physical ones and the ones on my phone, work without an internet connection.

Of course not. I guess you haven't been to shops that say their network is down, so it's cash-only until it comes back online.

It used to be shops had those credit card imprint sliders to handle payments when phones lines were down, but nobody has those anymore (many credit cards don't even have the raised numbers anymore).
by ecshafer | 2025-11-12 03:38:48+00:00
To steelman this: I've never worked at any of the companies you listed but most likely Red Hat and IBM employees (Is there still a difference?) are being paid specifically to work on Openstack, as they get money from support contracts. When Walmart of Chase use Openstack there is a rather small team who is implementing openstack to be used as a platform. They are then paying IBM/Redhat for that support. There probably isn't really the expertise in the Openstack team at Warlmart to be adding patches. Some companies spend a different amount of money on in house technology than others, and then open source it.
by nuuuwan | 2025-11-12 03:39:40+00:00
GHOST STARTUPS: Why solving non-existent problems feels productive, but isn’t

Have you ever seen a beautifully engineered app that no one asked for?

Think of that friend who built a social network for goldfish owners, or a to-do app that tracks moods, money and meditation in one. It works beautifully, looks professional and syncs across every device, but when you ask who’s using it, the answer is usually, “Not yet, but people will.”

These are Ghost Startups — technically impressive, often built with genuine passion and competence, but missing one thing that matters: a real, validated need. The code runs, the design shines, but no one is waiting for it.

MEDIUM: https://medium.com/on-technology/ghost-startups-0fa2670211f0

SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/ghost-startupsGHOST STARTUPS Why solving non-existent problems feels productive, but isn’t

Have you ever seen a beautifully engineered app that no one asked for?

Think of that friend who built a social network for goldfish owners, or a to-do app that tracks moods, money and meditation in one. It works beautifully, looks professional and syncs across every device, but when you ask who’s using it, the answer is usually, “Not yet, but people will.”

These are Ghost Startups — technically impressive, often built with genuine passion and competence, but missing one thing that matters: a real, validated need. The code runs, the design shines, but no one is waiting for it.

MEDIUM: https://medium.com/on-technology/ghost-startups-0fa2670211f0

SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/ghost-startups
by steveharrison | 2025-11-12 03:40:20+00:00
I think this article misses the fact that the native date and time pickers look ugly in Chrome, and that a lot of websites are ultimately an extension of a brand, not just a tool where function > form. The Airbnb date range picker looking on-brand makes the experience seem a lot more slick. There are more things to optimise for than just accessibility.
by GauntletWizard | 2025-11-12 03:44:44+00:00
I found the opposite problem. I tried to hang out with non-tech people, I spent a lot of time hanging out with non-tech people. The kinds of people who I ended up hanging out with, and I recognized that this might just be a me problem, though I certainly tried to avoid pigeonholeding myself, were not great people. The great non-tech people I met didn't stay very long.
by wredcoll | 2025-11-12 03:44:47+00:00
I haven't personally implemented one but I'll quote someone who has spent a lot more time on it:

> Many of these implementations are ad-hoc, one-off solutions. They aren't using any shared library or codebase.2 Terminal emulation is a classic problem that appears simple on the surface but is riddled with unexpected complexities and edge cases.3 As a result, most of these implementations are incomplete, buggy, and slow.4 [1]

(I mean, it's possible html/css deserves to be called horrible also but they produce an undeniably superior result)

[1] https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming
by yencabulator | 2025-11-12 03:45:36+00:00
Car manufacturer warranty recall letters are probably a good example. I get them even though I've never done business with the car manufacturer -- I bought the vehicle from a private party.

But that still sort of connects (at least in my mind) to health warnings etc.

What do you think of this angle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45892680
by lpln3452 | 2025-11-12 03:45:47+00:00
If it runs on Avalonia anyway why choose MAUI? If you have the option just use Avalonia. MAUI is unfinished and its docs is awful.

Do you want to build an app using MAUI? Unless you build an app that barely deviates from the template, expect to desperately search through decade old Xamarin documentation and figure out the details through painful trial and error.

Good luck.
by hyperadvanced | 2025-11-12 03:46:16+00:00
I agree, I think that AI is not some “new” thing - we’ve had machines for a long time, and we just so happened to invent really good ones. Similar to how the machine of the Industrial Revolution laid waste to the social order of the landed aristocracy and what you might call “late stage feudalism”, so too does AI destabilize and outmode the core mythos of our time. We’re rapidly shedding an illusion of a world of free and equal, yet fundamentally different men who must learn to work together by technocratically solving issues that Capital (the machine) fails to solve. As Capital approaches its logical zenith (becoming machine incarnate), it finds fewer and fewer uses for these Last Men in the making. AI is the final stage of enlightenment thought, enabling its promises: an abolishment of differénce, a homogeneous civilization, an order which maintains equality by stripping individual freedoms.
by PantaloonFlames | 2025-11-12 03:47:33+00:00
This is a golang variant of the already released “agent development kit” in Java and python.

And… none of them are Gemini specific. You can use them with any model you like, including Gemini.

I’m not an expert but comparing it to langgraph, it’s more opinionated , less flexible. But, easier to get started for basic agent apps.

Worth a spin.
by sien | 2025-11-12 03:48:00+00:00
Fair point. I didn't mean to imply people's politics means they are creative or not.

But surely the bar to being creative is higher than putting stickers on your laptop. No doubt many of the people here are creative and code creatively, write creatively, draw creatively or make music.

If you said to someone who is a comedian or a writer that you were 'creative too' because of your laptop stickers. Well. C'mon.

The politics shown is interestingly similar. No doubt many and probably most lean left. But not all. I've been worked with many people who code and a significant number are conservative. But I've never seen anyone with a right leaning laptop sticker. Tattoos you see exhibit more variety than these laptop stickers.

I should have added that I have stickers on my laptop. But that is orthogonal to whether I'm creative or not.
by derbOac | 2025-11-12 03:48:09+00:00
Interesting read and interesting links.

The entry asks "why the square root?"

On seeing it, I immediately noticed that with log-likelihood as the loss function, the whitening metric looks a lot like the Jeffreys prior or an approximation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffreys_prior), which is a reference prior when the CLT holds. The square root can be derived from the reference prior structure, but also has the effect in a lot of modeling scenarios of scaling things proportionally to the scale of the parameters (for lack of a better way of putting it; think standard error versus sampling variance).

If you think of the optimization method this way, you're essentially reconstructing a kind of Bayesian criterion with a Jeffreys prior.
by randerson | 2025-11-12 03:48:39+00:00
Ex-CTO here. A CTO doesn't have to be a people manager. It certainly makes it easier to staff pet projects if you have direct reports (rather than having to convince a VP Engineering to give you resources). But just know that many CTOs (especially co-founder CTOs) focus on technical vision & strategy, being the engineering representative in the C-Suite and vice versa, overseeing architecture and innovation, and perhaps even write code. As the CTO you should be able to decide how many meetings you need to be in, and for that matter you could set policies that eliminate pointless meetings across the board.
by strken | 2025-11-12 03:48:40+00:00
I'm annoyed by the political stuff. I haven't always worked at 100% left leaning companies and I find it really uncomfortable when someone e.g. calls the centre-left party I voted for a pack of communists. I don't like encouraging a norm of political self-expression because I have direct experience being on the other side of it and feel that it leads to both a less effective workplace and a more polarised society.
by capyba | 2025-11-12 03:49:33+00:00
Is this sort of thing widely known ahead of time before purchase, ie signing some T&C’s?

My car is >10 years old, which feels like a lifetime right now, given the rapid pace of change in car tech (notice I didn’t say “progress”). It doesn’t even have a backup camera. I’ve done all sorts of basic maintenance on it by myself. In some ways I’m terrified of buying a newer car today because it seems like I won’t be able to do that and I’d have to deal with an always on modem and other owner-hostile features (note that I didn’t say “user”).

I want to drive a car, not rent a computer on wheels. It pains me when I see people write things like “CarPlay didn’t work, this vehicle is trash” like they forgot what the thing was supposed to do for them in the first place.

Are there manufacturers that don’t widely do this?
by ehnto | 2025-11-12 03:49:50+00:00
I am not even that old, but already seeing need to take some things into my own hands. I find going to a GP is more or less just a semaphore for specialists, and those specialists have wait times measured in months to years. I would be insane to just do nothing for that timeframe.

Although I think you need to be quite critical to have such a mindset, and assume you are wrong rather than right.
by runesoerensen | 2025-11-12 03:50:16+00:00
Might be more confusing when you consider that ".NET 5" is actually the continuation of ".NET Core 3.1", not ".NET Framework 4.x"[0].

Microsoft has historically been pretty bad at naming stuff (sometimes hilariously so, see Microsoft PlaysForSure[1] for an example - spoiler: it surely didn't play for long).

The rebranding from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5, and from .NET 4.x to .NET Framework, did make sense to me though - and increasingly so as development continues on ".NET > 5" with yearly releases, while ".NET Framework 4.x" is in maintenance mode.

[0]:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/whats-new/dotn...

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 03:50:25+00:00
Right, but how is that a benefit here? The bug report was a valid report, ffmpeg is objectively better for it having been filed. Google contributes to ffmpeg on a regular basis according to the git history. They also buy consulting services from the ffmpeg maintainers according to the maintainer's own website. If ffmpeg was banned from Google, all of that would probably stop.

So not only would ffmpeg have multiple uncovered vulnerabilities, they would have less contributions and patches and less money for funding the maintainers. And for what? To satisfy the unfocused and mistaken rage of the peanut gallery online?
by wredcoll | 2025-11-12 03:51:05+00:00
> First, the US and Russian governments did spend decades researching these abilities and in the US they CIA, DIA, Army, and other agencies all used psychics. Perhaps they are still using them, or maybe they found satellites and drones easier to work with.

Yeah, and they all stopped using "psychics" because, shockingly, they were worse than useless. (Please don't tell me the US military has somehow managed to keep actual psychics a secret for multiple decades despite people like trump being involved).

> but this culture of skepticism boils down to “psi isn’t real because psi can’t be real”

No, it boils down to asking for proof when people make claims. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs.

Like, you can believe that stock brokers use psychic powers to get stock tips all you want, people believe in gods and demons and all sorts of things, but if you want this to actually be useful you need to find some way to demonstrate it in a repeatable way.
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-12 03:51:18+00:00
See also: RBI’s “.bank.in” Initiative: A Concept Lacking Verification and Security Compared To .Bank - https://register.bank/insights/rbi-requires-domain-change/ (by .bank, who lost 2 indian clients due to this regulation). The State Bank of India too must have lost some money, as they had registered their own TLD .sbi and had been using that ( https://onlinesbi.sbi ).
by turnsout | 2025-11-12 03:51:22+00:00
A 4000 DPI scan of 135 gives you 21 megapixels. So 36MP with a good lens will easily resolve just as much detail. There is not 60-70MP of information in a 4000 DPI scan, period.

For most films, anything beyond 4000 DPI is just going to help resolve the grain particles or dye cloud shapes. You have to be shooting slow fine grained BW with the best lenses to need more.
by totallymike | 2025-11-12 03:52:21+00:00
I mean, why do people like doing those wine and painting evenings, even if they’re all going home with similar paintings? Why do people perform at recitals when they’re performing music that already exists? Why do people share any art, even if it’s not guaranteed to be the most original, profound, or technically proficient expression of creative intent?

Sometimes it’s fun to just enjoy something, and to share that you enjoyed it. These pictures aren’t here to impress anyone, they’re here because each one is a record of someone who had a bit of fun decorating their laptop, and an invitation to share in the fun. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.
by ekidd | 2025-11-12 03:52:31+00:00
The actual real alternative is that the ffmpeg maintainers quit, just like the libxml2 maintainer did.

A lot of these core pieces of infrastructure are maintained by one to three middle-aged engineers in their free time, for nothing. Meanwhile, billion dollar companies use the software everywhere, and often give nothing back except bug reports and occasional license violations.

I mean, I love "responsible disclosure." But the only result of billion dollar corporations drowning a couple of unpaid engineers in bug reports is that the engineers will walk away and leave the code 100% unmaintained.

And yeah, part of the problem here is that C-based data parsers and codecs are almost always horrendously insecure. We could rewrite it all in Rust (and I have in fact rewritten one obscure codec in Rust) or WUFFS. But again, who's going to pay for that?
by huevosabio | 2025-11-12 03:52:55+00:00
I love this experiment and am surprised that the Claude models performed that much better than the competition. Opus was particularly impressive both in the quality itself and the ability to iterate meaningfully.

Now... Was this article LLM written?

This part triggered all my LLM flags: ``` Adding a bicycle chain isn’t just decoration—it shows understanding of mechanical relationships. The wheel spokes, the adjusted proportions—these are signs of vision-driven refinement working as intended. ```
by jjcm | 2025-11-12 03:53:57+00:00
> Instead, the real problem is the either 1) lack of knowing who makes the final decision or 2) requiring everyone must agree to a final decision. You will move a lot faster if you know who the final decision maker is, ideally have fewer (or only one person) making that final decision, and encourage people to make decisions quickly (most decisions are reversible anyway)

I'll add one more to this - not knowing how set in stone any decision is. I'm a PM, and I'm often the one charged with making the final call on many things. One thing I've often seen go wrong is a PM or an exec will say something like, "we should do x" in some review, and the team moves heaven and earth to achieve x, only to find out later it was just a drive by comment from said person, not something they deeply cared about.

One thing I've started doing is adding a GAF score (Give A Fuck score) to many of my decisions that have engineering ramifications, especially for anything that affects platform or architectural aspects. IE I might say something like, "this needs to have less than a 200ms round trip, this is a GAF-10" if something is direly important, and if we should commit significant engineering effort to making the decision happen. Or I might say, "I think we should go with approach A instead of B, but this is a GAF-2, so come back to me if you feel like A becomes untennable".

This way the team can move forward, but wont overindex on decisions that become bad decisions.
by digi59404 | 2025-11-12 03:54:12+00:00
My BP at home? 140/90. I walk into my cardiologists office, do my BP? 107/60.

It’s not the cuff position as I used multiple positions, cuffs, and sensors. All 140/90. Plus I feel it.

It’s wild. My BP/HR fluctuates alot outside of clinical, but inside clinical it drops.
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-11-12 03:56:34+00:00
FaceID works a very few angles with glasses. Won’t work if my glasses have been exposed to rain (it rains like 70% of the year where I live). Struggle to work with face masks and glasses. I have to hold the phone at eye level to unlock it (ie: can’t unlock it discretely). If I’m lying in bed and the phone is lying in front of me, I can just tap to unlock with TouchID, but need to shuffle it around and raise my face for FaceID.

I rolled back to TouchID after a few months, it was intolerable.

I have an impression this gets worse the more correction your glasses have.
by skydhash | 2025-11-12 03:56:46+00:00
I think we went past each other at some point. I was not arguing that you can use Emacs as a terminal emulator. I was talking more about terminals and shell being a way of computing. Emacs is an alternate way of computing.

With terminals, you have the escapes sequences, the alternate screen, the shell capabilities. With Emacs, you have a lisp VM with a huge library of functions and buffers. I still use a normal terminal like xterm and Terminal.app, but I have eat installed and it's working great.
by lisdexan | 2025-11-12 03:57:00+00:00
I like Curtis work but I still find the whole theory kinda weak-sauce. Correct, the revolution can be repackaged and sold to you via hip marketing. So what? What's the counterfactual? If someone was an entirely superficial anti-system person and you retroactively deleted all shiny trinkets would they become the perfect freedom fighter?

John Q. Left is just one step away from doing effective change because his water bottle has "Punch Fascists" sticker or his hobby is cosplay. Not the captured media landscape, the digital panopticon, the razing of public space or the destruction of most grassroots political organization in the workplace or education. They weren't exactly giving out stickers in Kent State.

>Totally individualistic self-expression acts as a release valve for frustrations against the system. It attracts narcissists, who counteract any meaningful goals.

In the good old times the release valve for frustrations against the system was getting shitfaced on the cheapest alcohol. Narcissistic power struggles also predate all this shit.

>In the old world, when you got a tattoo or something it showed you were a member of a community of people who knew each other. A society of people who were organized and could precipitate some change. In the new world, you get a tattoo or something to signal you are a member of a demographic.

Sailor tattoos are exactly the type stuff you are decrying. People precipitating change in the past didn't tattoo themselves like Bond villains to identify each other.

>The kind of person who expresses themself through "be gay and do crime" stickers does not seriously threaten the system through crime.

If we go by threatening the system I find it highly likely that Maia Crimew⁰ has done more of that than both of us, and they are the most "be gay and do crime" sticker human ever.

[0] https://maia.crimew.gay/