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by badLiveware | 2025-11-13 12:50:39+00:00
ArgoCD + Helm

But really any kind of reconciler, e.g. flux or argo with helm works very well. Helm is only used as a templating tool, i.e. helm template is the only thing allowed. It works very well and I've ran production systems for years without major issues.

I dont really understand how people have so much trouble with Helm, granted yaml whitespace + go templating is sometimes awful, it is the least bad tool out there that I have tried and once you learn the arcane ways of {{- its mostly a non-issue.

I would recommend writing your own charts for the most part and using external charts when they are simple, or well proven. Most applications you want to run arent that complicated, they are mostly a collection of environment variables, config files, and arguments.

If I could wish for a replacement of helm, it would be helm template with the chart implemented in a typed language, e.g. TypeScript, instead of go template but backwards compatible with go template.
by cartoonworld | 2025-11-13 12:51:17+00:00
There is a little more than that.

A guitarist who plays electrified isn't just playing the guitar; the entire signal chain becomes the instrument. Everything from the room to the fingers of the player alter the sound and how a person plays their instrument and for some even the temperature of the room makes a concrete, quantifiable difference.

Music appreciation is largely cultural as well. The history of music is full of people hearing sounds, becoming accustomed to them and reproducing them with a novel variation. This is exemplified by many recent genres like hip hop, rap, jazz, rock, folk music and so on. There were and are entire genres of music and specific artists that revolve around certain tools. For example the Sunn brand of amplifier, especially the Model T which is venerated by some subgenres of metal or Jimmy Hendrix and his Fuzz Face pedal (and his wah and octaver and amp, and .....)

Naturally, musicians seek to pay homage to and recreate the atmosphere and feel of a specific song, instrument, artist, genre or time period. Until fairly recently, modeling and digital tools had a lot of trouble replicating the sound and interaction of these vintage, analog circuits and even today the most straightforward way to achieve a specific style is often to simply buy or clone the old-school original instruments and equipment.

While digital modelling has come a long way, arguably surpassing most of the original equipment, the rarity, variation and uniqueness leads players to continually seek out the Real Deal in order to achieve an authentic style or sound.

An example of this entire idea is the DRUMETRICS collective, whose entire purpose is to write and record new and modern performances with original vintage instruments and recording equipment. Heres a link to one: "Pale Horse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZqoFf859Xw
I spent $638 on AI coding agents in 6 weeks.
by nthypes | 2025-11-13 12:51:24+00:00
I just got my Cursor invoices and I'm genuinely shocked. Between October and early November, I've burned through $638 on AI coding assistance. That's more than some cloud bills.

Context: I'm an Founder & CTO building an AI-First CRM product.

Here's what happened:

October: Started the month thinking "I'll stay within the Pro limits, no problem." By mid-month, Cursor hit me with a $280 invoice. By month end? $348.56 total in on-demand charges. I literally maxed out the $400 limit.

November: It's only November 12 and I've already been invoiced $289.38:

Cost per request: Claude 4.5 Sonnet Thinking ranges from $0.02 to $0.06 depending on context size. Doesn't sound like much until you realize you're hitting it 200+ times per day.

I tried 7 different models (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Cheetah, etc.) thinking I'd save money. Claude still ate 85% of my budget because, honestly, it's the best.

Am I more productive? Absolutely. Is it worth $638 every 6 weeks? Idk. That's $5,500+ annually just for code assistance.

So I'm curious:

What are YOU spending? Am I an outlier or is this the new normal?

Have you changed behavior to cut costs? (Using faster models? Being more selective? Bringing your own API keys?)

At what price point would you stop? $100/month? $500? $1000?

Is anyone actually staying within the included limits? Or is that just marketing?

I feel like we're in this weird phase where the value is obvious but the pricing model hasn't stabilized.

Would love to hear how others are navigating this.
by postalcoder | 2025-11-13 12:52:16+00:00
I've been actively developing https://hcker.news, a replacement for the hacker news frontpage. It does its best to be familiar with the hn reading experience while adding a lot of missing features.

A lot of people use it on the regular and I have been lucky to have a lot of their feedback since I shared it here a few months ago.

I just added support for comments too! I'd love to know what folks think.
by antonyh | 2025-11-13 12:52:53+00:00
I don't think they meant OXCIS, that seems to be a centre for Islamic Studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Centre_for_Islamic_Stud...

I can't quite work out who they donated to - it seems there are a number of Oxford Uni cybersec/infosec units. Any idea which one?
by dangus | 2025-11-13 12:52:57+00:00
I don’t think that’s a reasonable expectation at all. That’s like saying “oh well we landed on the moon with a turd burger of a computer so that means I shouldn’t need more than 8kb of memory!”

Okay but I’m not trying to land on the moon, I’m trying to have an HD group video call and maybe play Cyberpunk in 4K later.

Let me ask you, how much did that 8MB of RAM cost you back in the day? I bet it was more than the $100 it costs to get 32GB of RAM or the $200 it costs to get 64GB. Before you apply inflation!
by amelius | 2025-11-13 12:53:26+00:00
> Typically, companies wouldn't really pay an actual ransom like unmarked bills stacked in a paper bag and thrown out from a bridge onto a passing barge.

Yes, that's why cryptocurrencies are a gift from heaven for these hacker groups.

Therefore, even if paying ransom money (somehow) must be legal, maybe it should be illegal to use crypto for it. You don't want to make it too easy to run this type of criminal business.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-13 12:53:49+00:00
> It argues that the American economy has reached a historical technological plateau and the factors that drove economic growth for most of America's history are no longer present. These figurative "low-hanging fruit" include the cultivation of much free, previously unused land, technological breakthroughs in transport, refrigeration, electricity, mass communications, sanitation, and the growth of education. Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University, theorizes that these factors have contributed to stagnation in the median American wage since 1973.
by meV1 | 2025-11-13 12:54:53+00:00
It ridiculous for OpenAI to attempt to claim some moral high-ground here. They're a company that has demonstrated zero respect for the copyright or data privacy regulations of other organisations. I think they take users dignity and rights with a grain of salt.

Their statements are all aspirational, "we're working toward de-identifying" etc. They've built one of the most powerful AIs ever seen and now they're claiming it's difficult to delete, de-identify / anonymize. Maybe they should ask their AI to do it :-)

It's impossible to take this company seriously. They're nothing but a carny barker stealing everything of value that they can lay their (creepy) hands on.
by pjc50 | 2025-11-13 12:54:57+00:00
The chart has Hinkley Point as "being defuelled", while Hinkley Point C is still under construction.

To me, that's the real test of nuclear power: can it actually be switched on, on time, and on budget? Too many projects fail that.

At least building at the Wylfa site avoids the need for grid upgrades.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-11-13 12:55:03+00:00
The reason why you can write parsers with Prolog is because you can cast the problem of determining whether a string belongs to a language or not as a proof, and, in Prolog, express it as a set of Definite Clauses, particularly with the syntactic sugar of Definite Clause Grammars that give you an executable grammar that acts as both acceptor and generator and is equivalent to a left-corner parser.

Now, with that in mind, I'd like to understand how you and the OP reconcile the ability to carry out a formal proof with the inability to do reasoning. How is it not reasoning, if you're doing a proof? If a proof is not reasoning, then what is?
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-11-13 12:56:17+00:00
> Indeed, it seems unlikely that the underlying reason for the situation is really 'health'.

Why is that your conclusion based on nothing? In the last 5 years, is there any reason why population health might have declined? Does anything come to your mind at all?

Did you miss the whole COVID thing entirely? People did and still do get COVID, it's not (entirely) gone. And it does frequently have long-term health consequences.

Another likely causal factor is the decline in the NHS.
by bko | 2025-11-13 12:56:44+00:00
> Think of being a billionaire as a rare disease, though far less rare than it was a few decades ago—except that it’s a disease that’s self-inflicted, deserves no sympathy, and is easily cured by dispersal of the huge bolus of money choking their empathic awareness.

I don't think people are a disease. I think of billionaires as people who mostly started businesses that were very successful. The fact that they started a successful business suggests they know something about the world that others don't (some insight). Millionaires can be lucky (happen to invest in Manhattan real estate or crypto) but to accumulate a billion is a different thing all together and a high signal that the person is extraordinary in some regard.
by soraminazuki | 2025-11-13 12:56:55+00:00
> nixpkgs maintainers are hardline purists

On the contrary, Nixpkgs is generally made by the most pragmatic people and takes a flexible approach to a lot of issues. For instance, very few package managers have packages for proprietary software like 1Password in their official repositories. Nixpkgs also doesn't insist on building everything from source when it's hard to do so. As a result, Nixpkgs contains many packages for NPM or Maven projects. Other package managers insist on packaging all its dependencies from source, which is why they're struggling to package software written in modern programming languages.

As for 1Password, it works fine on NixOS. When installing proprietary GUI apps like 1Password on macOS, I just use Casks. I suspect many people do the same, which might lead to the 1Password package not working as well on macOS because fewer people bother with it.
by InterlooperX | 2025-11-13 12:56:58+00:00
I still wonder how Steam generally handles Linux' multi user setup.

When I last looked into it, it seemed like Steam gets installed into the user's space of the linux user that did the installation.

As in, you have two Linux accounts and each would not only have to install their own Steam client. They would also have to download their own copy of the games they play into their own steam library.

And if the game is like 100GB in size that would mean you would have to se aside 200GB if both linux accounts would buy this game.

I feel like having to muck about with symlinks and stuff just to get both steam installations to believe this path is their library seems like a bit cumbersome.

Especially since I dont know how steam generally reacts when "someone else" aka not them makes changes to that library. I'd hate having to "repair" the library everytime I play just because my steam detected the changes from my brothers steam to that library as suspicious.

Windows does a lot of things wrong. So much that I would love to switch but the way it handles two windows accounts with their own steam account and one steam installation/library is at least working the way i would expect it to.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-11-13 12:57:03+00:00
I think AI could do this in principle but I haven't seen a convincing demonstration or argument that Transformer based LLMs can do it.

I believe what makes the current Transformer based systems different to humans is that they cannot reliably decide to simulate a deterministic machine while linking the individual steps and the outcomes of that application to the expectations and goals that live in the fuzzy parts of our cognitive system. They cannot think about why the outcome is undesirable and what the smallest possible change would be to make it work.

When we ask them to do things like that, they can do _something_, but it is clearly based on having learned how people talk about it rather than actually applying the formalism themselves. That's why their performance drops off a cliff as soon as the learned patterns get too sparse (I'm sure there's a better term for this that any LLM would be able to tell you :)

Before developing new formalisms you first have to be able to reason properly. Reasoning requires two things. Being able to learn a formalism without examples. And keeping track of the state of a handful of variables while deterministically applying transformation rules.

The fact that the reasoning performance of LLMs drops off a cliff after a number of steps tells me that they are not really reasoning. The 1000th rules based transformation only depending on the previous state of the system should not be more difficult or error prone than the first one, because every step _is_ the first one in a sense. There is no such cliff-edge for humans.
by gchamonlive | 2025-11-13 12:57:08+00:00
What makes you think they won't get the money and sell the database in the dark web?

This is like falling victim to a scam and paying more on top of it because the scammers promised to return the money if you pay a bit more.

I see no likelihood game to be played there because you can't trust criminals by default. Thinking otherwise is just naive and wishful. Your data is out in the wild, nothing you can do about that. As soon as you accept that the better are your chances to do damage reduction.
by mnky9800n | 2025-11-13 12:57:30+00:00
I just use claude code max (125/month flat) with no problems like this. I constantly have multiple agents doing things on clusters figuring out problems, writing codes, or otherwise doing research for me (I am a scientist). Maybe you should swich from loser Cursor to winner Claude? Haha. And anyways, you are a founder, is 638$/6weeks affordable in your budget? It is up to you to decide what you think is a reasonable expense on your adventure towards profitability.
by throw0101c | 2025-11-13 12:58:31+00:00
This is a short (60pp) work, but a fuller treatment (780pp) of how all the low-hanging fruit in improving health and technology / efficiency has run its course is in:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_American_...

Since the 1970s we had computers go mainstream, and since the 1990s (Internet) connectivity, but according to the productivity numbers, those technologies ban been played by the mid-2000s:

> "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
by max-leo | 2025-11-13 12:58:36+00:00
After commenting i looked up the actual capabilities of the port and it turns out while the port is officially only HDMI 2.0 it actually still supports 120Hz, HDR and VRR anyway. So basically it only doesn't support Display Stream Compression for 144Hz and beyond.

I quickly tested this by connecting my PC running Linux with a RX 6800 to my TV (LG C4). 120Hz, VRR and HDR were all available.
by esskay | 2025-11-13 12:58:43+00:00
IMO something like:

We are truly sorry for the impact this has no doubt caused on our customers and partners businesses. This clearly should never have happened, and we take full responsibility.

Whilst we can never put into words how deeply sorry we are, we will work tirelessly to make this right with each and every one of you, starting with a full account of what transpired, and the steps we are going to be taking immediately to ensure nothing like this can ever happen again.

We want to work directly with you to help minimise the impact on you, and will be reaching out to every customer directly to help understand their immediate needs. If that means helping you migrate away to another platform, then so be it - we will assist in any way we can. Trust should be earn't, and we completely understand that in this instance your trust in us has understandably been shaken.
by zitsarethecure | 2025-11-13 12:59:12+00:00
Sorry for your loss, but this experience is not universal in Toronto. I was visiting my (sick) older brother about a year ago when he woke me up calling out about chest pain. I called an ambulance and they were there within about 10 minutes and saved his life, for which me and my family are so very grateful. Had he been visiting me here in Ohio when he had his heart attack, the results may not have been as good.

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/i-team-more-people-waiting-30-m...
by beowulfey | 2025-11-13 12:59:50+00:00
You can do this with State taxes too, but I think your impression that people just ignore it is correct. A good example of this is gas prices. Gas in CA is 70c per gallon, vs about 25c per gallon in the Northeast. This gets baked into the price, and is way more expensive in CA, but people need to buy gas. So you just have to pay. And since it is everywhere in the state, most people don't notice the difference.
Show HN: Verse AI – Catch the AI failures your evals miss
by 4thabang | 2025-11-13 13:00:01+00:00
Our AI recruitment pipeline was auto-rejecting anyone who'd worked at companies founded after 2023. It didn't recognize names like Harvey or Snorkel AI, or didn't realize how important they'd become because of training data cutoffs.

We had traces, evals, Langfuse dashboards - everything looked fine - but we kept finding failures we should have caught earlier.

The pattern kept repeating:

- ship an improvement - it works for a while - hit an edge case that breaks it - don't notice until we've lost good candidates

That's when we realized - the problem wasn't just our recruitment pipeline - almost every AI product has blind spots that evals miss.

So we built Verse, a tool that surfaces issues directly from real AI interactions - whether that's candidates talking to your recruitment pipeline, users interacting with your agent, or any AI making decisions.

Instead of relying solely on evals, we cluster conversations, identify the key ones to review, and flag the ones that show failure patterns. We use OpenTelemetry for trace ingestion, so it's compatible with Langfuse, Langsmith, Braintrust, and other AI observability tools - you can add it right alongside your existing setup.

I'm posting this because I'm curious whether other teams are hitting the same wall. If you want, I'm happy to audit your AI implementation for free and show you where things commonly break - even if you never use Verse.

Happy to answer any technical questions.
by dangus | 2025-11-13 13:00:40+00:00
I agree about this potential of most WhatsApp users residing in markets with less powerful median hardware.

Still, I think the experience reported is very similar to running Chrome, and I think any laptop with 8GB of RAM can handle the application plus Excel and a web browser (or just run WhatsApp in the browser) just fine.

A complete mini PC with 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, and a relatively modern processor goes for like $240 on AliExpress. And that’s before you consider used hardware.
by Timpy | 2025-11-13 13:00:50+00:00
Yes but I think it's a good virtue to signal considering the circumstances. If they paid the ransom that would signal that ransoming this company works, incentivizing more ransoms. If they refuse to pay the ransom it might signal that they care more about money than they do integrity. Taking the financial hit of the ransom, but paying it to something that signals their values, is about the best move I can imagine.
by jll29 | 2025-11-13 13:00:56+00:00
Ex-paramedic here. Happy to here your son is fine.

But either you mistold the story, or the paramedics made a mistake: ambulances are not supposed to transport a dead person - the paramedics are first to resuscitate and stabilize the patient, and only then initiate transportation.

(I understand you may not care, because the outcome of their action incidentally was one you like.)
by blenderob | 2025-11-13 13:01:00+00:00
Wow! Just wow! Just as I think the situation cannot get any worse, the OP reveals even worse things going on. I know the UX of this blog and the lack of capitalization is going to turn many people off! But I urge you to power through and read the whole OP anyway.

Use reader mode, block Javascript or whatever it takes. Give the author a break. They're a teenager. What kind of websites were you making as a teenager? I'm sure one of those dark background websites with MARQUEEs and BLINKs with glaring contrast colors! So give them a break. Behind the annoying UX is an article about serious and appalling privacy and security issues.

Like read this:

> i raised this with chris, who's a full-time staff member (not a teenager), and he insisted that exposing physical addresses and sensitive info was "just a vuln" not a breach. said he's "never heard the term 'data breach' used that way" and... also relied on chatgpt instead of actual legal advice.

Actually this Chris guy has a point. I don't call it breach either. It's PII data exposure but it is a serious exposure. So I don't 100% agree with the OP but the cavalier attitude towards security coming from the staff of a legitimate organization is appalling.

It's just mind boggling that an organization handling PII data has such appalling privacy and security lapses and they still remain arrogantly indignant about it making bold claims about laws they don't understand, why, because ChatGPT told them so? Cherry on top is they are employing teenagers to answer legal questions! Not kidding! Just read the OP! Unbelievable!
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-13 13:01:06+00:00
> there are plenty of info available on the status of HL3 (code named HLX) and all point to it not being a VR title

Anything besides rumors? AFAIK, there is absolutely zero official information beyond the rumor mill.

> Also I don't think ARM is really a thing for them, even now.

I mean, then you're just looking the other way intentionally, they're quite literally adding support for ARM now, https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/codeweavers-launch-a-n... That's not something you do on a whim, it's a calculated step towards something.

And they're clearly setting up the new VR head to both do standalone gameplay for people without PCs, and to do streaming from PC.

None of the Steam hardware seems to have only a single use in fact, all of them are multipurpose, not sure why the VR headset should be any different, especially when what we know points to it also being multipurpose, quite explicitly so at that.
by Benjamin_Dobell | 2025-11-13 13:01:07+00:00
If they're ignoring GDPR because they're in the US, you can potentially flag these as COPPA violations. COPPA is serious stuff. Courts can fine over $50k for each violation, where each individual impacted can be considered a unique violation. COPPA applies to under 13s, I'm not sure if there are age restrictions in place to join Hack Club, but if there isn't even a privacy policy, I doubt age restrictions are properly enforced.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-11-13 13:01:52+00:00
There's so much happening in the mobile app space that a lot of westerners aren't aware of, it's kinda crazy when you think about it. Line has 178 million active users across its largest markets (and hundreds of millions of accounts), WeChat has 1.3 billion users (and 3.7 million apps on its platform), QQ has hundreds of millions, etc.

Granted, Facebook apparently has 3 billion active users per month.