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by sirwhinesalot | 2025-11-13 13:42:59+00:00
Yup, though I wouldn't even say they "fixed it" with XAML islands since they lock you into .NET core 3...

They also keep doing boneheaded decisions like the new DWriteCore, which is a reimplementation of DirectWrite, and some features are only available in DWriteCore, but DWriteCore is not a strict superset and doesn't even interoperate directly with Direct2D like DirectWrite did.

So once again, either stay on the "stable" as people like to call it version, which is effectively frozen, or use the new one and rewrite half you app!

And then people wonder why nobody uses Microsoft APIs if they can avoid it.
by bko | 2025-11-13 13:43:12+00:00
Because great wealth is accumulated through a series of bets. Moderate wealth (6 zeros) could be single or few transactions.

For instance, you could have bought $1,000 worth of Bitcoin in 2010 much like people bet $1,000 on a sports game. You got lucky and became a millionaire.

To become a billionaire I guess you could have bought $100k on Bitcoin as a gamble but that requires much higher conviction and discipline. If you're the type of guy to gamble $100k on random crap you're likely not going to be rich for long.

But realistically people become billionaires by building businesses. And this requires a series of decisions. Picking the field, raising money, picking co-founders, hiring, product development, sales, etc.

In other words its like flipping a coin to determine if there is bias. One flip doesn't tell you anything. Multiple flips tells you more. And the more flips, the more confident you are on bias. Getting to a billion usually requires a huge number of decisions so that the outcome tells you a lot more about bias (in this case real skill or insight of the individual)
by mafuy | 2025-11-13 13:43:15+00:00
The year is 2041. Google announces that only a negligible fraction of users acceses websites outside of the clean pool. These users are at risk, they claim, due to "all the bad stuff on the free web". They refuse to clarify if this refers to malware or to content not aligned with The Party doctrine. However, they draw the consequence that "free web" sites will no longer be supported by Chrome, to protect the users. Less than an hour later, Mozilla releases a new version of Firefox that also disables access to websites that were not whitelistet by The Party, using the same reasoning.
by benchly | 2025-11-13 13:43:53+00:00
You don't see how preventative maintenance such as implementing a policy to remove old accounts after N days could have prevented this? Preventative maintenance is part of the forethought that should take place about the best or safest way to do a thing. This is something that could be easily learned by looking an problems others have had in the past.

As a controls tech, I provide a lot of documentation and teach to our customers about how to deploy, operate and maintain a machine for best possible results with lowest risk to production or human safety. Some clients follow my instruction, some do not. Guess which ones end up getting billed most for my time after they've implemented a product we make.

Too often, we want to just do without thinking. This often causes us to overlook critical points of failure.
by gpderetta | 2025-11-13 13:43:54+00:00
As a comparison, before proton, you could run steam with wine under linux. Wine directx implementation was sufficient to make a quite a few games work just fine, but the experience was atrocious. You either had to install a new instance of steam per game or install everything under one bottle which didn't work well as you had to tweak the install per grame. Personally I used it just for one or two of games that I really wanted to play and could actually run outsisde of steam after installation.

In comparison the proton experience is seamless.
Ask HN: Is there a market for niche aesthetic AI generators?
by Yreminder | 2025-11-13 13:44:07+00:00
I built a free Y2K horror image generator (dreamyy2k.app) mostly as a weekend project, but usage has been surprisingly steady. Now I'm wondering if this niche approach actually makes sense vs. trying to build "another Midjourney".

Context: it generates images with early 2000s digital horror aesthetics - think Blair Witch Project stills, early creepypasta, that specific low-res dread from when internet horror was new. No login, completely free, uses Gemini for prompt enhancement and Replicate for generation.

What I'm seeing: - People seem to prefer constrained tools for specific use cases - "Generate anything" tools are overwhelming for most users - Niche aesthetics can't be easily prompted in general-purpose models - Artists want consistency, not infinite options

But the economics are weird. API costs mean I can't really monetize without adding the exact friction (logins, credits) that makes the experience worse. The value is in it being immediate and free, but that's not a business model.

Questions: 1. Do specialized aesthetic generators have actual staying power, or is this just novelty? 2. How would you monetize something like this without ruining the UX? 3. Is there technical merit in building domain-specific image models vs. prompt engineering general ones?

The technical side interests me more than the business side - getting period-specific aesthetics right required digging into camera sensor specs from 2001, JPEG compression algorithms, CRT color profiles. That knowledge feels weirdly valuable but I don't know what to do with it.

Current cost is maybe $50/month in API calls. If it 10x I'd have to change something, but I also don't want to kill it by adding payment walls.

Anyone else built niche creative tools? What happened?

Link if you want to try it: https://dreamyy2k.app
by jack_tripper | 2025-11-13 13:44:23+00:00
>as a German because growing up in the 90s exorbitant wealth was not seen as inherently good

That perception didn't prevent anyone in Germany from amassing obscene wealth, often due to their political connections during and post WW2. They're just very discreet and hidden and don't flaunt it publicly.

What's needed to prevent wealth inequality is laws and enforcement, not relying on the perception of the masses since billionaires don't care what people think about them.
by lillecarl | 2025-11-13 13:44:42+00:00
Kustomize can render Helm charts. It's "very basic" as in Kustomize will call the Helm binary to render the template, ingest it and apply patches.

I wrote a tool called "easykubenix" that works in a similar way, render the chart in a derivation, convert the YAML to JSON, import JSON into the Nix module structure and now you're free to override, remove or add anything you want :)

It's still very CLI deploy centric using kluctl as the deployment engine, but there's nothing preventing dumping the generated JSON (or YAML) manifests into a GitOps loop.

It doesn't make the public charts you consume any less horrible, but you don't have to care as much about them at least
by jcon321 | 2025-11-13 13:45:04+00:00
You have no issues with handing over your cell phone to a police officer who pulls you over? I imagine you'll say "all I have to do is present an ID", but what if the officer cannot read it, so he wants to hold it? Okay you wont let him hold it, so he bends down and gets real close to your phone? You know he must verify the address against his database, so you're going to make him write down your address as he walks back to his car? Yea some people cannot afford this type of friction when dealing with police officers.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-13 13:45:23+00:00
It's possible that 'adding Linux support' would take the form of just making the anticheat optional.

Maybe playing with the anticheat enabled makes you immune to being reported for cheating (because they can verify down to the kernel level that you aren't), but you can still play without it (but without the immunity from being reported).

Obviously they wouldn't do this in today's market because there's no incentive to do so, but if a significant portion of gamers moved to Linux, offering a Linux solution might become a reasonable choice for game studios.
by pragmatic | 2025-11-13 13:45:25+00:00
Hacker News just recreated startups from first principles! /s

But seriously folks, this is why there will always be room for startups.

Megacorps are slow lumbering beats that suffer from entropy and signal loss at every edge on the graph.

The example here is that some marketing function gets the signal from Zuck to put Lego duplo characters everywhere because metaverse. Of course 90% of the company knows its dead on arrival so they are going to drag feet and try to work on their actual problems (or their local feifdom mandate) and wait for the latest fad to blow over.

Super wasteful, super inefficient but hey ads make an insane amount of money so Zuck can do whatever for a loooong time.

This is why Warren Buffet advocated dividends. Companies and people have few good ideas. Management however uses this money from the good ideas to fund boondoghles (see metaverse). The thinking here is that the money would be better utilized returned to investors to fund other good ideas.
by vel0city | 2025-11-13 13:45:29+00:00
A physical ID can, depending on the validation process.

Digital ID doesn't have to report your location either, depending on the implementation. It's not like it's a given a digital ID system has to give your location.

An SSH key is a digital ID. Does it report your location when you use it? A GPG key can be a digital ID. Does it report your location when you sign something?
by pzo | 2025-11-13 13:45:46+00:00
what I wish this device had:

1) front speaker instead of this magnetic panel that is only for esthetic

2) wireless charging pad on top

3) home router functionality - just attach 4g modem to usb-a

4) matter hub for smart home

They could advertise you getting 7in1 devices for the same price:

- game console

- smart speaker like alexa

- smart tv (miracast, google cast, airplay)

- smart home hub for matter devices

- home router

- wireless charging pad

- mini home server (private cloud, home backup, vpn, pihole)

Then with software wish it could easily have app store like umbrel: https://umbrel.com
by Rochus | 2025-11-13 13:45:54+00:00
And was it worth it? What were you able to achieve with the LLM-support you payed for? How much time did you save?

I did experiments with Claude Sonnet and Opus and also with Gpt-5, the latter via my Perplexity subscription. My experience with Claude was mixed; most output required significant re-work which mostly consumed the time savings enabled by Claude. In contrast, Gpt-5 was able to generate code for several complex problems and made different transpilations for me, and the generated code usually compiles and correctly runs up front, all covered by my Perplexity subscription.
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-13 13:46:03+00:00
I think current LLM chatbots are too predictable to be conscious.

But I still see why some people might think this way.

"When a computer can reliably beat humans in chess, we'll know for sure it can think."

"Well, this computer can beat humans in chess, and it can't think because it's just a computer."

...

"When a computer can create art, then we'll know for sure it can think."

"Well, this computer can create art, and it can't think because it's just a computer."

...

"When a computer can pass the Turing Test, we'll know for sure it can think."

And here we are.

Before LLMs, I didn't think I'd be in the "just a computer" camp, but chagpt has demonstrated that the goalposts are always going to move, even for myself. I'm not smart enough to come up with a better threshold to test intelligence than Alan Turing, but chatgpt passes it and chatgpt definitely doesn't think.
by Lord-Jobo | 2025-11-13 13:46:34+00:00
It’s so interesting to see the explosive fractal of the Internet collapse back into these singularity super apps in different cultures all over the world.

Obviously many in this community see that as a generally bad thing(me included) but the wide audience of none-tech people clearly gravitate very strongly towards it.

I throw it on the pile for evidence of “meaningful friction”, a concept that someone else has definitely already coined: that “some degree of friction or restriction brings positive benefits for things like art or community compared to unlimited easy access. For example very small data limits creating unique art or music in early game bit products.”

Quick research indicates that Jerry Hirshburg has coined it Creative Abrasion and MARTIN WEIGEL has blogged about it, but neither specifically bring the idea to the concept of communities.
by igravious | 2025-11-13 13:46:56+00:00
> You can prompt for that though, include something like "Include all the sources you came across, and explain why you think it was irrelevant" and unsurprisingly, it'll include those. I've also added a "verify_claim" tool which it is instructed to use for any claims before sharing a final response, checks things inside a brand new context, one call per claim. So far it works great for me with GPT-OSS-120b as a local agent, with access to search tools.

Feel like this should be built in?

Explain your setup in more detail please?
by hylaride | 2025-11-13 13:47:16+00:00
Mitchel Hashimoto was a genius when it came to opinionated design and that was Hashicorp's biggest strength when it was part of their culture.

It's a shame Nomad couldn't overcome the K8s hype-wagon, but either way IBM is destroying everything good about Hashicorp's products and I would proceed with extreme caution deploying any of their stuff net-new right now...
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-11-13 13:48:26+00:00
> They know this, it’s why the fall guys that voted to end the shutdown are not up for reelection during the midterms.

And, to be clear, is why Chuck Schumer is getting called to step down. It's beyond clear this was a coordinated effort orchestrated by leadership. Not only are they ineffective, but they seem to think their voting base is brain dead that such a strategy would work?

But hey, I just saw some of my fellow countrymen asking why child rape is wrong in a debate over Trump's presence in the latest Epstein files leak. So maybe I just have too much faith in people.
by simoncion | 2025-11-13 13:48:48+00:00
> in case anyone needs a reminder of Microsoft's org chart: ...

To be a little glib:

As someone who has worked for a few Big Software Companies, I guarantee that Microsoft's org chart has changed significantly at least once in the last fourteen years.

Re-organizations aren't referred to as "shuffling the deck chairs [on the Titanic]" by the rank and file for no reason, yanno?
by DoctorOW | 2025-11-13 13:48:59+00:00
> Nowadays though it feels like the label has a negative tinge; not quite a bad thing, but not something that feels like a universal benefit either. This change probably tracks with the rise of populism.

I feel like it is specifically income disparity and like most things, the ever presence of information. When you're working as hard as you can just to scrape by paycheck to paycheck, you're often told it's just because everyone is hurting. That message is undercut however, by the ever presence of people who have more than they know what to do with amassing more and more without even trying.
by kamranjon | 2025-11-13 13:49:17+00:00
I think the crux of this is that wealth is equated with success at the expense of all other qualities or accomplishments.

As a result of this perspective, hoarding of wealth has become the norm and even the goal for many.

If wealth means success, then make number go up = success, even if that incentivizes bad behavior. If wealth means success, our role models become degenerates.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-13 13:49:17+00:00
Well, that’s a fine ideal and I agree with you. But let’s not pretend that with your ideal you aren’t leaving money on the table.

I can afford to leave that money on the table at 51, grown kids, downsized to a condo in central Florida with just me and my wife. But in my case, it’s not even a trade off between not grinding leetcode and not getting (back) into BigTech. It’s just that I refuse to ever work in an office again.

The “goal” is to make a lot of money in cash + RSUs (public BigTech), if I were younger I would definitely do it and I encourage all new grads to do whatever it takes to get into a high paying tech company and then give them advice on how to play the game once they are there.
Show HN: Solve logic puzzles while waiting for AI
by zknowledge | 2025-11-13 13:49:20+00:00
A small project pushing back against the trend of products engineered to prey on short attention spans for ARR.

Instead of brainrot or casino-style engagement while your AI is thinking (hi Chad IDE), this extension gives you logic puzzles so your brain stays switched on and sharp.

look up "anti-brainrot ide" by zedkay22 on Cursor extensions. Click the button on the bottom right and play some mentally stimulatin games.
by bko | 2025-11-13 13:49:33+00:00
Sure, that could be what results in billionaires. But I guess you would have to identify what opportunities you would have to take to become a billionaire that you don't take because it would be too mean.

What's the model here? I hear billionaires "exploit" people, but anyone that's ever had to manage people, especially low wage employees, quickly realizes you can't just treat people like crap. Not for moral reasons, but it doesn't work. People will just quit on you on the spot.

I've never heard any business owner espouse this theory because they're faced with the reality that building a business is hard and just being a dick doesn't work.
by colin_myers | 2025-11-13 13:49:50+00:00
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by rpdillon | 2025-11-13 13:49:54+00:00
> then suddenly nobody read my paper anymore

This is the part that Times won't talk about because people stopped reading their paper long before AI, and they haven't been able to point to any credible harm in terms of reduced readership as a result of open AI launching. They just think that people might be using ChatGPT to read the New York Times without paying. But it's not a very good hypothesis because that's not what ChatGPT is good at.

It's like the people filing the lawsuit don't really understand the technology at all.
by spaceman_2020 | 2025-11-13 13:49:59+00:00
Only reason I even had a windows machine too. I got rid of it because I realized after a long tiring day sitting upright, I really did not find sitting even more upright and playing games relaxing. I wanted to plop down on the couch and do it. And it was a gigantic tower that was taking up too much space in my office

If I could have a machine like this instead, I'd happily buy it instead. Windows has zero use for me other than playing games
by nthypes | 2025-11-13 13:50:42+00:00
I've asked Sonnet 4.5 (Cursor) to generate some stats based on my cursor CSV file usage. Here it is the output:

Key Findings from Your Cursor Usage Here are the most interesting insights from your usage data:

Cost Summary

Total Cost: $928.45 over 70 days

Average per Request: $0.06

Cost per Task (Request): Ranges from $0.00 to $2.78, with 65.7% costing under $0.05

Projected Monthly Cost: ~$416 (based on average daily spend of $13.86)

Request Patterns

Requests per 5 Hours: Average 70.7, ranging from 1 to 451

Average Time Between Requests: 6 minutes 33 seconds

Median Time Between Requests: Just 13 seconds (shows bursts of activity)

Peak Activity: 1-2 PM (10.4% of all requests at 1 PM)

Busiest Day: Saturday with 21.7% of requests

Token Efficiency

Average Tokens per Request: 83,371 tokens

Median Tokens per Request: 38,342 tokens

Average Output per Request: 876 tokens

Cache Hit Rate: 88.8% (excellent! saves money)

Cost per 1,000 Tokens: $0.0009 (very efficient due to caching)

Cost per 1,000 Output Tokens: $0.14

Notable Stats

Most Expensive Request: $2.78 using 6.8M tokens (mostly cached)

Total Hours of Active Usage: 1,692 hours (~9 requests/hour)

Most Used Models: claude-4.5-sonnet-thinking, claude-3.5-sonnet, and others

Your cache hit rate of 88.8% is excellent and is saving you significant costs! Without caching, your costs would be much higher.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-11-13 13:50:43+00:00
The relevant difference here is that these companies have actual security standards on the level that you would only find in the FAA or similar organisations were lives are in danger. For every incident in Google cloud for example, they don't just apologise, but they state exactly what happened and how they responded (down to the minute) and you can read up exactly how they plan to prevent this from happening again: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

This is what incident handling by a trustworthy provider looks like.
by kibwen | 2025-11-13 13:51:13+00:00
But even if it's double the price of the PS5/Xbox, it's still likely to be less than the price (at the time of purchase) of the mean PC in the hardware survey. For every gamer out there struggling along on a $500 mini-PC, there's another who plunked down $5,000 to play Cookie Clicker at 8K/240 FPS.
by r_lee | 2025-11-13 13:51:29+00:00
It seems like they're following the footsteps of Claude, as Claude was able to do this correcting thing (I.e. "no wait, actually it's...") in the midst of replying

But somehow I don't see that in Sonnet 4.5 anymore too much.

But yeah it seems really similar to what was going on in Sonnet 4 just like a few months ago