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by baranul | 2025-11-12 19:00:07+00:00
Agree with your take on Zig, as it's clear their leadership promotes a foul filled war on other C alternative languages. Not just Rust, but others like Vlang, Dlang, C3, etc... HN has become dominated by them, where other languages (outside of Rust and Zig), can get very little shine. When they do, their light often gets snuffed out quickly.
by 0_____0 | 2025-11-12 19:00:27+00:00
If you go through coffee regularly, it's actually quite a nice thing to invest in. There are a really amazing number of craft roasters throughout the country, and simply having a quality grinder is enough. And you don't need a crazy espresso setup to enjoy it. My setup consists of a motorized flat burr grinder, a 20$ kettle from target, and a pour over funnel. The quality is so much higher than anything you can get from a pod that's been sitting around with pre ground coffee, and it only takes a couple minutes while you're waiting for Claude to rewrite your codebase in Rust or whatever it is "Hackers" do these days
by dghlsakjg | 2025-11-12 19:00:28+00:00
Ah. I see.

The MOMA project seems not to be rigid fabric, but it is clear that the description there is not exactly canonical.

In any case the press release was worded so weirdly that it seems inevitable that only superfans would make the connection to a piece of art from the 90s, and the rest of us would just make fun of 'the concept of "a piece of cloth"'
by infamouscow | 2025-11-12 19:00:29+00:00
I’ve yet to meet a single person who claims AGI will happen without recycling the same broken reasoning the peak-oil retards were peddling a decade ago.

Talking to these people is exhausting, so I cut straight to the chase: name the exact, unavoidable conditions that would prove AGI won’t happen.

Shockingly, nobody has an answer. They’ve never even considered it.

That’s because their whole belief is unfalsifiable.
by tinkelenberg | 2025-11-12 19:00:45+00:00
I recently looked into the BSDs for a desktop project before going back to Debian. I love the philosophy but they’re for the initiated.

The onboarding rails just aren’t there these days. Everyone says the BSD documentation is superb, but the man pages are more of a reference than an onboarding guide.

One major challenge is LLMs have a hard time with BSD-related prompts. They’re trained on so much more Linux content, and there’s just enough overlap between both systems that hallucination rates are extremely high in my experience.
by CPLX | 2025-11-12 19:00:46+00:00
I don't drive on the shoulder as a way of getting around people.

However, if I was behind someone who had gone all the way to the end of an exit lane but then was trying to cut back in to the regular flow of traffic, and I was in a car that wasn't willing to go around this person by driving on their shoulder to get around them as they tried to force their way in at the very last second, I would lose massive chunks of my life.

And yes, this is a daily occurrence. For example, drive on the BQE towards South Brooklyn approaching Tillary Street, and see how your life goes if you're not willing to go around the last-minute people on the shoulder.
by toast0 | 2025-11-12 19:01:06+00:00
While young and stupid, I did 100 mph on the 710 once. Driving home from work at 12:30 am on Monday gives opportunity for lots of speed. There's no traffic at that time of day. It was many years ago, and traffic grows with population, but still, I can't imagine there's much traffic then; I visit the area at least once a year for about a week and there's always some opportunities during the trip to travel above the speed limit, even though I'm not out very late anymore.
by vilhelm_s | 2025-11-12 19:01:07+00:00
The F-22 itself was delayed because of the end of the cold war. The original plans were to have it enter service in 1995, and then this slipped by a year or two. They could have had it being pass produced from 1997, but they delayed it because of the peace dividend. (This is from Aronstein et al, "ATF to F-22 Raptor"). So one should not consider the 2005 date as "how long it took".
by zer00eyz | 2025-11-12 19:01:15+00:00
> It's a complete waste of money and time continuing to mint such low-value currency. It can't be used for just about anything.

The problem: the dollar is almost global in its usage. The penny may not be important to the US, but it dam well is every where else where dollars are still in use frequently, along side, or in place of the local/native currency.

Getting rid of the penny will have implications, getting rid of more coins would endanger the use of the dollar globally.

There is still a large portion of the world where 100 dollar bill and a Rolex will get you home safely.
by asdefghyk | 2025-11-12 19:01:36+00:00
Interesting, but my immediate question is - streetlights draw much less power than a streetlight. So if several chargers in a street are to be used , how is overloading the street light circuit managed?

Maybe the available power for the circuit is equally divided between all the active chargers in the street. OR maybe only one charger allowed ?

This question seems not answered in the articale....
by torginus | 2025-11-12 19:01:44+00:00
Whoo - first party support - including a graphics stack on ARM!

I hope this means the GPU and drivers is advanced enough to run fully featured modern video games.

Windows for ARM was kinda sunk by the fact that the GPU wasn't compatible enough due to the crappy drivers and outdated GPU uArch optimized for mobile games.

I'm still kinda on the fence about VR, but I hope ARM + Linux succeeds in a big way and this'll make a truly handheld Steam Deck possible.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-12 19:01:48+00:00
Taxi companies didn't have any apps to leapfrog in the first place. Uber and Lyft created a superior product that people wanted. Doesn't matter whose fault it is, the buyers preferred something that was more convenient.

There was never a situation where uneducated cabbies on shoestring budgets were going to be able to develop an Uber/Lyft alternative.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-12 19:01:51+00:00
And from the company's perspective, that's the right way to operate. Sure, it sucks for the individual hacker-type, but a big enterprise doesn't want "move fast, break things" they want the opposite. Rigidity, proven processes, stability and backwards compatibility.

Working there you aren't building the next Google, you're probably maintaining a some 20 year old order-to-cash ERP process that's boring, but critically important to the business, and is exactly the software you don't want to move fast and break.

Just don't go work for big enterprises if you don't want that environment. It won't matter what language/tech stack, it's just big non-tech company things.

But there's plenty of us out there that don't mind those jobs. Pay can be good enough, and usually offer great work-life balance. I work IT ops for one. I'm remote, I put in my 9 to 5 and I'm done. I'm (thankfully) not on call, I get unlimited PTO, and my personal time is 100% my own to go do non tech things with.
by jacobgkau | 2025-11-12 19:01:54+00:00
> Basically, if something is $1.01 or $1.02, you round down. If it's $1.03 or $1.04, you round up.

So everything's going to be $1.03 or $1.04. Not sure why you think retailers (or any sellers) would ever, ever, ever let this play into customers' advantage.

But apparently pointing out that obvious truth makes me a "moron," because you can think of some clever ways to get around it that retailers surely won't work around.
by The-Ludwig | 2025-11-12 19:02:10+00:00
Please correct me if I am wrong, but couldn't OpenAi just encrypt every conversation before saving them? With each query to the model the full conversation is fed into the model again, so I guess there is no technical need to store them unencrypted. Unless, of course, OpenAi wants to analyze the chats.

The way I see it, the problem is that OpenAI employees can look at the chats and the fact that some NYT lawyer can look at it doesn't make me more uncomfortable. Insane argumentation. It's like saying an investigator with a court-order should not be allowed to look at stored copies of letters, although the company sending those letters a) looks at them regularly b) stores these copies in the first place.
by modeless | 2025-11-12 19:02:33+00:00
Foveated streaming! That's a great idea. Foveated rendering is complicated to implement with current rendering APIs in a way that actually improves performance, but foveated streaming seems like a much easier win that applies to all content automatically. And the dedicated 6 GHz dongle should do a much better job at streaming than typical wifi routers.

> Just like any SteamOS device, install your own apps, open a browser, do what you want: It's your PC.

It's an ARM Linux PC that presumably gives you root access, in addition to being a VR headset. And it has an SD card slot for storage expansion. Very cool, should be very hackable. Very unlike every other standalone VR headset.

> 2160 x 2160 LCD (per eye) 72-144Hz refresh rate

Roughly equivalent resolution to Quest 3 and less than Vision Pro. This won't be suitable as a monitor replacement for general desktop use. But the price is hopefully low. I'd love to see a high-end option with higher resolution displays in the future, good enough for monitor replacement.

> Monochrome passthrough

So AR is not a focus here, which makes sense. However:

> User accessible front expansion port w/ Dual high speed camera interface (8 lanes @ 2.5Gbps MIPI) / PCIe Gen 4 interface (1-lane)

Full color AR could be done as an optional expansion pack. And I can imagine people might come up with other fun things to put in there. Mouth tracking?

One thing I don't see here is optional tracking pucks for tracking objects or full body tracking. That's something the SteamVR Lighthouse tracking ecosystem had, and the Pico standalone headset also has it.

More detail from the LTT video: Apparently it can run Android APKs too? Quest compatibility layer maybe? There's an optional accessory kit that adds a top strap (I'm surprised it isn't standard) and palm straps that enable using the controllers in the style of the Valve Index's "knuckles" controllers.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-11-12 19:02:55+00:00
Have a leetcode desk, shed, garage or whatever. Some place you go every day for some number of hours. Without a phone or a book.

You don't have to do the leetcode there. Can sit there for the whole time staring at the wall if you like.

But if you're doing anything there, it's leetcode. Your brain is a pattern matcher. It doesn't like boredom. Thus you can train it, a bit like a dog.
by fph | 2025-11-12 19:03:01+00:00
Open source is not only about being able to read the code: the open source definition includes "Free Redistribution" (anyone who has the software can give away copies, and get paid if they want) and "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor", among other requirements.

These two requirements combined make it impossible to distribute open source software with the provision that it is only free for individuals.
by dmix | 2025-11-12 19:03:08+00:00
I've had my Steam deck plugged into my tv for the last year and I sometimes use the Linux desktop (just a menu option and it reloads into desktop mode) which has a really nice design is already preconfigured for casual linux use.

I'd look up game review youtube videos and search stuff in between games from my couch. No complaints.

The only downside to SteamOS being linux is the lack of easy mod support. It's either a PIA or not supported.
by TheJoeMan | 2025-11-12 19:03:18+00:00
Do any other countries have/had “penny squish” souvenir machines? You put in 2 quarters + a penny, and it stamps a design onto the penny. My favorite souvenir, small, cheap, can keep in a booklet, and many landmarks have the machines. There are a few machines that take a $1 bill and use a fresh penny blank internally.
by antonvs | 2025-11-12 19:03:31+00:00
> You do have a right to privacy (arguably) but it is outweighed by the interest of enforcing the rights of others under copyright law.

What governs or codifies that? I would have expected that there would need to be some kind of specific overriding concern(s) that would need to apply in order to violate my (even limited) expectation of privacy, not just enforcing copyright law in general.

E.g. there's nothing resembling "probable cause" to search my own interactions with ChatGPT for such violations. On what basis can that be justified?
by Syzygies | 2025-11-12 19:04:18+00:00
"Other than returning the four parts for a refund (which we did) and documenting this behavior here, our only other recourse was to guarantee that these four specific parts were never sold as new again:"

Alas, one can completely remove Sharpie writing from metal with 99% isopropyl alcohol. Did they make a better choice? This looks like Sharpie writing to me.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-11-12 19:04:32+00:00
To me, no company has the customers’ best interests in mind. This whole thing is akin to when Apple was refusing to unlock phones for the FBI. Of course, Apple profits by having people think that they take privacy seriously, and they demonstrate it by protecting users’ privacy. Same thing here; OpenAI needs chats to have some expectation of privacy, especially because a large use case of AI is personal advice on things. So they are fighting to make sure it's true.
by pkolaczk | 2025-11-12 19:04:58+00:00
We don’t need it in Poland. We’ve been using a similar but official government issued app with ID, driving license, car documents for years now. Works both on Android and iPhone. Can be also used for logging into government web apps like taxes, for document signing or for voting. And it reminds me whenever my car insurance expires or it needs the annual check. Pretty impressive IMHO.
by n2d4 | 2025-11-12 19:05:01+00:00
How would a human classify the cancers? I assume the LLM training data does not include a whole bunch of cancer samples, so assumably there are some rules that it follows?

> While there exists several pathology-focused AI models

Would also be curious how the LLM compares to this and other approaches. What's the performance of the models trained specifically on this task, and random guessing, compared to the expert pathologist? Correct me if I'm wrong but this seems like the sort of task where being right 90% of the time is not good enough, so even if the LLM beats other approaches, it still needs to close the gap to human performance.
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-12 19:05:26+00:00
With some 5th grade algebra, one can adjust the total of a transaction to result in a round number after taxes.

Besides that, the law (at least where I live) is that the tax must be paid, but it does not specify by whom. It's completely feasible for a retailer to pay the 2 cent difference in the tax and charge the customer a round number.

Is this really the state of American education where a percentage calculation makes a very simple situation literally impossible? You can think of no other way to overcome the complicated calculations of checks notes x times 1.06?
by antonvs | 2025-11-12 19:05:59+00:00
> The user has no right to privacy. The same as how any internet service can be (and have been) compelled to produce private messages.

The legal term is "expectation of privacy", and it does exist, albeit increasingly weakly in the US. There are exceptions to that, such as a subpoena, but that doesn't mean anyone can subpoena anything for any reason. There has to be a legal justification.

It's not clear to me that such a justification exists in this case.
by munificent | 2025-11-12 19:06:05+00:00
> We eliminated pennies in Canada in 2012 and the transition was a non-issue.

That's because Canada had a plan, thought it through, and rolled it out.

In the US...

“We had a social media post (by Trump) during Super Bowl Sunday, but no real plan for what retailers would have to do,” he said, referring to the president’s February announcement.

We have a deranged old man posting random shit on social media determining federal policy, so of course it's a chaotic shitshow.

We elected a clown, we got a circus.
Show HN: ShellDash – Browser server dashboard with SSH and globe monitoring
by mannders | 2025-11-12 19:06:07+00:00
Hey all. I built ShellDash, an interactive server admin dashboard with shell scripting and an appealing globe UI.

https://shelldash.com

The goal is to provide a global monitoring view of your servers, with shell script access, in a way that feels natural and productive, plus a minimal and appealing UI/UX.

The technology is fairly interesting. This being a browser app, I built a Go WASM SSH client running in the browser, proxied through my server WebSocket endpoints. This means I can provide you a Web UI to access your servers via SSH, without ever needing to see your credentials. I only see secured packets like OpenSSH sends over the open internet. Inspired by https://ssheasy.com/

Whether you have one server and periodically run a few common commands, or administering many scattered geographically, I hope ShellDash can make your experience more productive and fun.
by ang_cire | 2025-11-12 19:06:38+00:00
> Taxi companies didn't have any apps to leapfrog in the first place.

This shows just how badly behind they were. All the large cab companies have had apps for years. No one knows about them.

Here's YellowCab's: https://rideyellow.com/app/

> uneducated cabbies on shoestring budgets were going to be able to develop an Uber/Lyft alternative.

Are you under the impression that most cabs are/ were independent? That wasn't the case since at latest the 1980s. Having a radio dispatcher is a huge necessity as a cab driver.
by fragmede | 2025-11-12 19:07:25+00:00
If you think having a developer mode switch on your smartphone that would enable shell access and a build env is what's stopping "the majority of the public" from "zombifying", either you need to talk with more "majority of the public", or I've been talking to the wrong "majority of the public".

The general public doesn't know how to program. They don't know what variables are, that they have types, they think functions are what rich people call a dinner party or corporate event. On computers, where there are no such restrictions, the majority of the public haven't suddenly become hobbyist programmers in their spare time.

If you're so blinded by hate because there are hoops (which there absolutely are), and you refuse to jump at all, not even a little bit, simply on principle, I mean, you do you. Meanwhile, there are people who aren't the majority of the public, but that want to do things that able to get into tech learning to code despite the epic of Apple vs Google vs Gilgamesh flattening towns. It would be great if it were easier because the phones were more open, but at some point you gotta go with the serenity prayer.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 19:07:27+00:00
The Steam device has a 110W GPU and 30W CPU. The M4 Mac Mini's peak power consumption is less than half of that. Even with the Apple Silicon efficiency, it can't keep up with high power GPUs in graphical loads like gaming.

Mac Mini will throttle itself after sustained full load, especially with the GPU engaged.

A Mac Mini will start throttling well before the end of a 30 minute online gaming match.

A larger volume for better cooling was a good choice for a machine designed to run the CPU and GPU at full load for hours.
by JohnMakin | 2025-11-12 19:07:28+00:00
> CLI Flags renamed

> Some common CLI flags are renamed:

> --atomic → --rollback-on-failure > --force → --force-replace

> Update any automation that uses these renamed CLI flags.

I wish software providers like this would realize how fucking obnoxious this is. Why not support both? Seriously, leave the old, create a new one. Why put this burden on your users?

It doesn't sound like a big deal but in practice it's often a massive pain in the ass.
by dmix | 2025-11-12 19:08:14+00:00
You can do that today with a Steam Deck + a dock. The performance is surprisingly good and most higher end games you buy on Steam will come with pre-configured steam deck settings to downgrade video settings if needed.

I'm going to be buying the box though for the faster AMD chip, as I wasn't able to play some like Resident Evil 2 remake. While the Silent Hill 2 Remake played decent enough.
by smeej | 2025-11-12 19:08:24+00:00
If you buy two things at $1.03 or $1.04, it's $2.06 or $2.07 and rounds down to $2.05 more often than it's $2.08 and rounds up to $2.10. That's not "some clever ways." That's so basic it's absurd. They don't know how many things you're going to buy. They don't know how many things anyone is going to buy. There's no way to game the entire system for every combination of things people might buy.

Never mind this: When was the last time you bought something in person, in cash, and bought only one thing? Just think it through for a second.
by preston4tw | 2025-11-12 19:08:39+00:00
Valve / Steam presumably has good data on what controllers and peripherals people are using, so I'd imagine their port choices are based around that. Here's a June 2024 post talking about Steam Input and controller market share: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail... . At the time of the post they say "59% of sessions are using Xbox controllers, 26% are using PlayStation controllers, 10% are on Steam Decks"
by osm3000 | 2025-11-12 19:08:49+00:00
I studied prolog back in 2014. It was used in AI course. I found it very confusing: trying to code A*, N-Queens, or anything in it was just too much. Python, in contrast, was a god-send. I failed the subject twice in my MSc (luckily passing the MSc was based on the total average), but did a similar course in UC Berkeley, with python: aced it, loved it, and learned a lot.

Never again :D
by SparkBomb | 2025-11-12 19:08:59+00:00
I gave an example of something I remembered from last month. I can't remember the exact name of the account, and I normally block them afterwards or mute them from the feed.

The reason I am complaining about this is I was trying to find some good info to send to a friend. I ended up making my own videos to send to them as I had 3 or 4 different people asking me to show them how to do things on Debian. So I ended up recording how to do it myself.

I will also complain about it in the manner I wish. Since you have no called me a clown, I will now complain about it more vaguely.
by engeljohnb | 2025-11-12 19:09:01+00:00
Valve earned a lot of goodwill from me when I set up my docked steam deck as my main media player & gaming device. It required me to do a lot of little hacks. I was doing stuff the device wasn't meant to do, but it never put up road blocks just because I wasn't allowed to do it. Not like when I want to do simple things on my wife's macbook.
by Sparkle-san | 2025-11-12 19:09:42+00:00
Like many others here, Project Euler was foundational in my education and growth as a programmer.

Leonhard Euler himself is an incredible figure and arguably the most prodigious contributor to mathematics throughout history. So much so that people started naming things discovered by him after the next person to have proved them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_topics_named_after_Leo...
by estimator7292 | 2025-11-12 19:09:49+00:00
Come on, this is not complicated. It's elementary algebra. You sum the rounded prices, then add a credit or surcharge of 2 cents to make the tax come out to a round number.

The tax is on the actual, real amount in your transaction subtotal. You are charged sales tax on the actual, real money you pay for the entire transaction. Then you multiply by 1.06 or whatever the tax rate is. That's how sales tax works.

If one rearranges the equations as we all learned in 5th grade, one can compute the amount that the subtotal must be to get a round number after tax. Then you charge or credit the customer the difference.

Alternatively, the retailer can simply pay the 4 cent difference in sales tax.

That's it. You either do algebra or just pay the difference. It is not complicated.