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by SuperNinKenDo | 2025-11-28 10:10:04+00:00
The why not is that they'll constantly be wrestling with, and limited by the generalist nature of a tool like VS Code. While generalism has its benefits and its drawbacks, what it most definitely does not give you is a fully bespoke experience, by its very definition, and I'm simply bemoaning that specific loss, because I like to see specialised tools sometimes.
by trailbase | 2025-11-28 10:11:08+00:00
You won't get any argument here. PocketBase's is very polished and friendly. I fell back onto a popular pre-existing UI component system called shadcn (which does look a bit like bootstrap), not only because you gotta start somewhere but also because I'm not the caliber of UX designer Gani is :bow:. If you have the time, I would appreciate any feedback on how to improve.

I'm a bit surprised on the mobile comment, since last I checked PB's UI wasn't responsive, i.e. you had to scroll a lot horizontally on mobile. Despite it's missing polish, I tried to make TB's at least work well on mobile. Could you elaborate? - thanks
by flakeoil | 2025-11-28 10:14:13+00:00
> But "stable" isn't really want they want or need.

Yes, that is exactly what they need. They need stable energy over let's say a 1-2 week period. A windy week is often followed by a non-windy week. So if they can store the energy from the windy week and use it in the following week then they can rely on wind power as a stable energy source.
by abigailphoebe | 2025-11-28 10:14:23+00:00
i'm at an ai summit for my work, we're doing a hackerthon on abusing ai agents we develop.

i attempted to fork the dummy repository and was met with "You are unable to fork this repository at this time"; after this my co-worker went to view my profile and found that it 404s to anyone who is not logged in as my user.

went to submit a ticket to support.github.com & it redirected me to a specific reinstatement request support flow; wonderful.

i yearn for the day my company moves away from github and uses literally anything else, likely will be soon after this.
by stressback | 2025-11-28 10:14:30+00:00
I'm with you on everything except "it was terrible" :) The only problem with 300+ping, at the time, was when those damn LPBs connected

In-match comms between teammates is my favorite memory. The ease of voice chat in MP games since then is underappreciated. Feeling like a dinosaur writing this but...

... before discord/mumble/ventrilo/teamspeak, the only choice to gain an edge in competitive online gaming was to be physically in the same space or team text chat binds. The binds would cover 10-15 common situations so we could communicate while playing.. In hindsight, when things got hectic, reading the team chat text spam hindered us more than helped us. But we had good intentions with those binds and boy we had a blast competing. And let's be real, that's all that really matters.
by hnarn | 2025-11-28 10:14:51+00:00
I feel like there should be ”abandonware” legislation for both software and hardware. Like, if you’ve written code or built hardware (or both) and you’ve sold that to consumers, and you end up dropping support for that thing but the company still exists, you should be legally obligated to provide code and schematics to people that have verifiably purchased it.

The code or schematics doesn’t even have to be freely licensed and distribution could still be restricted, patents still apply and what not, but programmers could develop their own ”patch sets” on top of the proprietary code that can only be used by people who already have the code, extending the lifetime and adding features.

Obviously it’s not perfect but I think it’s a pretty reasonable compromise between companies IP interests and the rights of consumers and fighting e-waste, because the way this is set up today is in my opinion quite absurd. There’s no natural law forcing us to accept planned obsolescence.
by chaidhat | 2025-11-28 10:14:51+00:00
Thank you for the reply! Good luck with your app too! I heard of Claude Code filling out PRs but in my experience I haven't been able to successfully pull that off, as it creates errors and doesn't see it themselves. I am trying to experiment with a pipeline which it can find the feature it created by writing a frontend integration test and take a screenshot, using Playwright MCP, to verify whether it successfully or did not successfully execute the task. If it did not, then it loops until it does. This removes the human-in-the-loop and probably (I need to want internal evals to prove this out) increases its correctness per run. The bottleneck then becomes code review and making sure the code it did write isn't hot garbage.
by westurner | 2025-11-28 10:15:08+00:00
What do other models trained on the same problems score? What about if they are RL'd to not reproduce things word for word?

Why do you think that the 2024 Putnam programs that they used to test were in the training data?

/? "Art of Problem Solving" Putnam https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Art+of+Problem+Solving%22...

From p.3 of the PDF:

> Curating Cold Start RL Data: We constructed our initial training data through the following process:

> 1. We crawled problems from Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) contests , prioritizing math olympiads, team selection tests, and post-2010 problems explicitly requiring proofs, total- ing 17,503 problems.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-28 10:15:14+00:00
This 100x. I used to work for one of those startups. You need something crazy like a 10x performance advantage to get people to switch from Nvidia to some here-today-gone-tomorrow startup with a custom compiler framework that requires field engineer support to get anything to run.

The outcome is that most of custom chips end up not being sold on the open market; instead their manufacturers run them themselves and sell LLM-as-a-service. E.g. Cerebras, Samba Nova, and you could count Google's TPUs there too.
by breve | 2025-11-28 10:15:23+00:00
Europe is the second biggest EV market (China is the biggest, North America third). Tesla's market share has seen a steady decline in Europe:

https://eu-evs.com/marketShare/ALL/Groups/Line/All-time-by-Q...

At a time when the overall EV market share is growing in Europe:

https://www.acea.auto/pc-registrations/new-car-registrations...
by dusted | 2025-11-28 10:16:16+00:00
This is true, but it is generally true. Even for UV-EPROMs the retention time can be as low as a 25 years, if kept warm, even with the window sealed correctly. Magnetic drives are quite a lot better, around 50 years.

CD-RWs are somewhat wider in their stability, I have ~20 year old discs that are becoming unreadable because the actual foil is delaminating from the plastic disc. Meanwhile I have ~40 year old DS-DD floppies that are still fully readable even though their medium is in physical contact with the read/write heads (although here, again, storage conditions and especially the different brands/batches seem to make a difference).
by vidarh | 2025-11-28 10:16:39+00:00
Yeah, you're right regarding the environmental concerns.

Most of Norway's hydro dams were built a long time ago when there was little focus on the environmental effects.

The last major plant went live in 1993. Most of the focus now is on far smaller schemes, that doesn't really add up to a lot compared to Norway's established generating capacity (which outstrip the total electricity use anyway), but which also meet far less opposition.

Part of the reason for that was growing local opposition to larger plants, and sometimes national opposition, culminating with the Alta controversy[1] in the late 70's that were some of the largest civil protests in Norway since the end of WW2. The protests eventually failed, but it had a lasting effect on Norwegian politics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_controversy
by hans_castorp | 2025-11-28 10:18:43+00:00
The German Wikipedia page[1] about the Z1 also contains a quote from Kurt Pannke, who Zuse told about his plans for the computer.

"Oh, Mr Zuse, there is absolutely nothing left to invent in the field of calculating machines. But you are a nice young engineer, I'll give you 1,500 Reichsmarks and when you have come up with something, show it to me." (Translated by Deepl)

I like the "640K ought to be enough" vibe of that statement :)

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(Rechner)#:~:text=Ach%2C%20...
by rfc2324 | 2025-11-28 10:18:59+00:00
I'm a huge fan of Pocketbase. Backing up the sqlite though had me more stressed than I'd prefer, and I wanted a plug-and-play way to sqlite3_rsync a backup while Pocketbase was running: so I've been working on this: https://sqlrsync.com. MVP works. Billing isn't being checked yet (be gentle but it's Cloudflare Durable Objects underneath so it should be local, fast, and resilient.) Would love feedback from anyone open to trying it.
by koziserek | 2025-11-28 10:20:25+00:00
> That of all the humans that have ever lived, the majority lived under some kind of autocracy, with the rest distributed among tribal bands, chiefdoms, failed states, and flawed democracies, and only something like 1% enjoyed free elections and the rule of law and civil liberties and minimal corruption, yet we endured and today that number is closer to 10%, and so if you find yourself outside that set, do not lose heart.

according to V-Dem Institute [0], 72% of population live in autocracies.. does it include the US nowadays?

https://v-dem.net/publications/democracy-reports/
by aprilnya | 2025-11-28 10:21:30+00:00
I’ve heard stories of people using the Meta smart glasses to help with reduced vision, i.e. asking the LLM assistant what you’re looking at, asking it to read a label, etc. The LLM assistant can see the camera feed so it is capable of doing that.

However things like the urgent warnings you mentioned don’t exist yet.

Hearing about the way people with bad vision use these glasses kind of changed my viewpoint on them to be honest; for the average person it might seem useless to be able to ask an LLM about what you’re looking at, but looking at it from an accessibility standpoint it seems like a really good idea.
by willguest | 2025-11-28 10:23:28+00:00
This piece feels like an AI-generated effort because it’s not so much an exploration of leadership challenges, but rather a series of surface-level observations that lack depth. It's not just a general overview, but a collection of familiar tropes without any original or nuanced analysis, and the sentences aren't just simple, but lack the complexity and emotional depth that would make the piece feel truly human.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-11-28 10:25:01+00:00
Archive: https://archive.is/j1XTl

I cannot help but feel that discussing this topic under the blanket term "AI Regulation" is a bit deceptive. I've noticed that whenever this topic comes up, almost every major figure remains rather vague on the details. Who are some influential figures actually advancing clearly defined regulations or key ideas for approaching how we should think about AI regulation?

What we should be doing is surfacing well defined points regarding AI regulation and discussing them, instead of fighting proxy wars for opaque groups with infinite money. It feels like we're at the point where nobody is even pretending like people's opinions on this topic are relevant, it's just a matter of pumping enough money and flooding the zone.

Personally, I still remain very uncertain about the topic; I don't have well-defined or clearly actionable ideas. But I'd love to hear what regulations or mental models other HN readers are using to navigate and think about this topic. Sam Altman and Elon Musk have both mentioned vague ideas of how AI is somehow going to magically result in UBI and a magical communist utopia, but nobody has ever pressed them for details. If they really believe this then they could make some more significant legally binding commitments, right? Notice how nobody ever asks: who is going to own the models, robots, and data centers in this UBI paradise? It feels a lot like Underpants Gnomes: (1) Build AGI, (2) ???, (3) Communist Utopia and UBI.
by qubex | 2025-11-28 10:25:28+00:00
About a month ago I had a rather annoying task to perform, and I found an NPM package that handled it. I threw “brew install NPM” or whatever onto the terminal and watched a veritable deluge of dependencies download and install. Then I typed in ‘npm ’ and my hand hovered on the keyboard after the space as I suddenly thought long and hard about where I was on the risk/benefit curve and then I backspaced and typed “brew uninstall npm” instead, and eventually strung together an oldschool unix utilities pipeline with some awk thrown in. Probably the best decision of my life, in retrospect.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-28 10:25:51+00:00
I have a nephew with bipolar. He has chosen to “go public” about it, on LinkedIn. His reasoning, is that it helps remove the stigma. He seems to be doing fine, but he also has a very good background, and a lot of advantages, not available to others (I come from a fairly Ivy League family, and my sister has a lot of resources).

For myself, I have been in Recovery from drug addiction, for over 45 years. I was once a Very Bad Boi. I quit at 18, so never got a[n adult] record.

It’s not something that I have chosen to reveal, while I was working. I know, damn well, that it would not have worked in my favor (even though the Recovery process has conferred significant advantages). I never explicitly told my employees or my employers. My last employer was a Japanese company, and drug addiction suffers a great stigma, in most Asian nations. It would not have gone well. As it was, they kept me for decades, and I enjoyed an “inner circle” level of trust (a significant part of my path of Recovery is rigorous Honesty, Personal Integrity, and self-Discipline. I’m a very trustworthy and hard-working person). They never knew it, but they got a great deal of benefit from my addiction and subsequent Recovery.

In fact, I guarantee that some folks, after reading that, now suddenly hate me (in addition to the ones that already do, because they think I’m a stuck-up boomer). There’s a great deal of emotion, in mental illness and Recovery, and there’s a very good reason that folks don’t reveal it. I’ve watched it happen, for a long time. It’s a real thing.

As it is, I still don’t mention it often, though it’s a primary fact of life, for me. It’s not relevant to most of my interactions, and most people have no understanding of Recovery (and shouldn’t be required to, either). It’s very much a “If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand” thing. It’s my problem, and my responsibility to manage. I have to understand others; they don’t need to understand me.
by vidarh | 2025-11-28 10:27:02+00:00
The problem is where to store it.

10 billion liters of water is 1,000 m^2 * 10m deep. There is no suitable location for that that is both elevated enough and near enough to Mjøsa to be financially viable.

Norway also existing hydro reservoirs with a capacity equivalent to around 6-8 months electricity supply, so it's not really a major need for Norway, anyway, but this is a fairly general problem: Finding suitable locations that are close enough to a water source, and provides a large enough potential reservoir is hard.
by nilirl | 2025-11-28 10:27:33+00:00
Your argument hinges on getting the design right, upfront. That assumes uncertainty is low or non-existent.

Time spent, monetary cost, and uncertainty, are all practical concerns.

An engineering problem where you can ignore time spent, monetary cost, and uncertainty, is a privileged position. A very small number of engineering problems can have an engineering philosophy that makes no mention of these factors.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-28 10:28:06+00:00
This doesn't sound like a technical problem to me. Even my throw-away bash scripts call to `secret-tool lookup`, since that is actually easier than implementing your own configuration.

Also this is a complete non-issue on Unix(-like) systems, because everything is designed around passing small strings between programs. Getting a secret from another program is the same amount of code, as reading it from a text file, since everything is a file.
by cube2222 | 2025-11-28 10:31:29+00:00
Funnily, AI already knows what stereotypical AI sounds like, so when I tell Claude to write a README but "make it not sounds like AI, no buzzwords, to the point, no repetition, but also don't overdo it, keep it natural" it does a very decent job.

Actually drastically improves any kind of writing by AI, even if just for my own consumption.
by mejutoco | 2025-11-28 10:31:30+00:00
> What would be a good example of the kinds of things a 100 line function would be doing?

If you have a shopping list with 100 items, that does not mean the complexity of that is high.

Longer functions are worse, everything else being equal, but sometimes they have very low complexity.

To answer your question: if you have, for example, a function that returns for a key a certain value (basically a dictionary) for example for some translations that can be a very long function. Of course you could take the data out of the code into a data file, etc. but there is nothing wrong on principle about a function like that. A function like that is closer to extract state into data than one where that gets refactored into many small functions.
by abenga | 2025-11-28 10:32:01+00:00
It feels like this would be a very tricky problem, seeing as it seems most large planes have "it's much lighter when landing than taking off" as part of the design constraints, seeing as maximum takeoff weight > maximum landing weight for most airliners (generally speaking, I think). It's probably not insurmountable, but it seems unclear how we fix this when takeoff weight == landing weight for electric planes.
by ssivark | 2025-11-28 10:33:13+00:00
Interesting question. I don't know much about WebGPU, but I'd posit (heh!) that the GPU on the client devices doesn't matter too much since folks will likely be working over the network anyways (cloud-based IDE, coding agent connected to cloud-hosted LLM, etc) and we also have innovations like Modal which allow serverless lambdas for GPUs.

As long as silicon is scarce it would make sense to hoard it and rent it out (pricing as a means of managing scarcity); if we end up in a scenario where silicon is plentiful, then everyone would have powerful local GPUs, using local AI models, etc.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-28 10:33:50+00:00
> A small shop has own cctv to catch intruders = one thing. Local company installing cctv everywhere = different thing.

But that's the thing you were implying couldn't be distinguished. Every small shop having its own CCTV is different than one company having cameras everywhere, even if they both result cameras all over the place.

> "Malware exists and nobody can unexist it now because it's just code and data"

Which is accurate. Even if you tried to ban malware, or LLMs, they would still be produced by China et al. And malware is by definition bad, so you're also omitting the thing that matters again, which is that we should not ban the LLMs that aren't bad.
by olalonde | 2025-11-28 10:34:03+00:00
I can't speak to the political or legal aspects, but technically, Ledger firmware updates are closed‑source binaries delivered from Ledger's servers. That centralization makes it possible for a state actor—or anyone with access to Ledger's signing keys and servers—to slip in a backdoor. Even if the firmware were fully open source, a backdoor could still be inserted during the build process and never appear in the repositories. Avoiding it would require building the firmware yourself, which most users don't do.

As a side note, Bitcoin Core mitigates this risk with deterministic builds and multiple independent developers verifying and signing releases. But this option isn't available for Ledger as most of the firmware is closed source.
by 7bit | 2025-11-28 10:34:18+00:00
Our CEO does this. She talks to a lot of people. Once you start talking business, she clearly doesn't care about your opinion, unless you're praising something. If it's remotely critical or a suggestion to change something, you can see in her eyes she's not even processing the words anymore.

I rather have her not talking to me, because it's much worse knowing she fakes her openness, than actually just not showing up.
by 1718627440 | 2025-11-28 10:36:13+00:00
> blindly installing dependencies at compile-time is something that many projects will do by default nowadays.

I consider this to be a sign that someone is still an amateur, and this is a reason to not use the software and quickly delete it.

If you need a dependency, you can call the OS package manager, or tell me to compile it myself. If you start a network connection, you are malware in my eyes.
by veunes | 2025-11-28 10:37:41+00:00
The funniest thing about this story is that NVIDIA has essentially become a TPU company. Look at the Hopper and Blackwell architectures: Tensor Cores are taking up more space, the Transformer Engine has appeared, and NVLink has started to look like a supercomputer interconnect. Jensen Huang isn't stupid. He saw the threat of specialized ASICs and just built the ASIC inside the GPU. Now we have a GPU that is 80% matrix multiplier but still keeps CUDA compatibility. Google tried to kill the GPU, but instead forced the GPU to mutate into a TPU
by figmert | 2025-11-28 10:38:02+00:00
Perhaps. But I wouldn't be so sure. It has functionality to replace the following tools:

- make (via its tasks feature)

- direnv (via its environments features)

- Just about most package managers (via it's dev tools features)

It has backends for just about anything (aqua, cargo, asdf, gem, github, go, etc).

It allows for locking your tooling similar to a package.json lock file.

And the nice thing is that it does it a lot better those tools (I recently found out make gobbles up any error codes and returns 2).
by osbulbul | 2025-11-28 10:38:12+00:00
I really like this project too! But i think there is some misunderstanding between pb users and creator. As far as I understand creator making it as complete backend solution and users should write all backend by extending pb.

But a lot of user (including me) use pb as database layer only, not as backend. I still write my backend on my project and pb is just like database as a service for me. And much happier than using it as only backend.
by jasonsb | 2025-11-28 10:38:48+00:00
> I cannot help but feel that discussing this topic under the blanket term "AI Regulation" is a bit deceptive. I've noticed that whenever this topic comes up, almost every major figure remains rather vague on the details. Who are some influential figures actually advancing clearly defined regulations or key ideas for approaching how we should think about AI regulation?

There's a vocal minority calling for AI regulation, but what they actually want often strikes me as misguided:

"Stop AI from taking our jobs" - This shouldn't be solved through regulation. It's on politicians to help people adapt to a new economic reality, not to artificially preserve bullshit jobs.

"Stop the IP theft" - This feels like a cause pushed primarily by the 1%. Let's be realistic: 99% of people don't own patents and have little stake in strengthening IP protections.
by PaulRobinson | 2025-11-28 10:39:23+00:00
I have been told this. I know men who have been told this. It doesn't help when you have low self-esteem.

Confidence is sexy. Smiling faces are more attractive. That does not mean you have a right to say that to somebody as if they "owe you" sexiness or attractiveness. Negging somebody who is feeling crap about themselves is not going to make them want to be with you.