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by sylware | 2025-11-19 08:52:37+00:00
You are being seriously dishonnest. AI?

cyberpunk has had technical support for windows for ages, look they payed devs to fixed it FOR WINDOWS.

Proton has ZERO, nil, nada, nothing.

Valve has to come clean about this, or if threatening too much big tech market, you are giving them a nice legal leverage... foolish.
by crq-yml | 2025-11-19 08:52:42+00:00
You will still need the tool but the interface to it may start to change.

A lot of the editing functions for 3D art play some role in achieving verisimilitude in the result - that it looks and feels believably like some source reference, in terms of shapes, materials, lights, motion and so on. For the parts of that where what you really want to say is "just configure A to be more like B", prompting and generative approaches can add a lot of value. It will be a great boost to new CG users and allow one person to feel confident in taking on more steps in the pipeline. Every 3D package today resembles an astronaut control panel because there is too much to configure and the actual productions tend to divvy up the work into specialty roles where it can become someone's job to know the way to handle a particular step.

However, the actual underlying pipeline can't be shortcut: the consistency built by traditional CG algorithms is the source of the value within CG, and still needs human attention to be directed towards some purpose. So we end up in equilibriums where the budget for a production can still go towards crafting an expensive new look, but the work itself is more targeted - decorating the interior instead of architecting the whole house.
by Lapsa | 2025-11-19 08:53:15+00:00
and if you wonder why would anyone do such thing - there's a peculiar coincidence: right before voices became annoyingly obnoxious - Russian State Revenue Service got hacked (not to mention there's an ongoing war in neighboring country for quite awhile). I was not intoxicated, kept up fairly healthy lifestyle. besides who's attacking or who's defending, surely enough - there's enough of steam for some casual torture
by ndr42 | 2025-11-19 08:53:32+00:00
The title reminds me of the 5th installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams:

"Further investigation quickly established what it was that had happened. A meteorite had knocked a large hole in the ship. The ship had not previously detected this because the meteorite had neatly knocked out that part of the ship's processing equipment which was supposed to detect if the ship had been hit by a meteorite."

The book ("Mostly harmless") and especially the beginning of the first chapter is worth reading as it describes how the automated systems of the space ship try to resolve the situation.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-19 08:53:35+00:00
I think the agentic idea is worth exploring. It could be useful.

However I would want it running fully locally (on my servers, absolutely not on Azure or any other cloud) and to have full control of where everything is stored and how it works. And have full control whether I use it or not. Absolutely no popups and marketing nudges to use it. That stuff tends to drive me away, it deeply annoys me and I only start hating the product.

But this will not happen with windows. Microsoft is purely a cloud company now and windows is just a sales vehicle for it.

I think that's the core problem more so than just the latest thing they're trying to push. But I'm not on this hype train. I don't need to have it today or have FOMO. Rven at work there's this push to use AI "or else we will become irrelevant soon". Which is partly driven by Microsoft as they are very close to our top dogs. Their "adoption" teams are constantly hounding us with their bullshit and I hate them so much. Also the colleagues who are evangelising AI (constantly shilling on Yammer and LinkedIn) are just working to make themselves irrelevant in the long term because AI is cheaper than colleagues.

I'll try it when it comes to Linux in a workable form and fully under my control. Just like I didn't use chatbots until they had workable performance on my own ollama server. And even then I don't use it that much. It's still early days. I don't get this pressure "keep up our fall out". I've been doing computing for 40 years and all the big things have taken at least a decade to actually "change the game". Like the dotcom crash. Eventually we fulfilled it's promises but it required other things to make it happen. Like the smartphone and the app.
by rootnod3 | 2025-11-19 08:53:40+00:00
Then at least I'd pick something as a project that you are interested in. Think of your favorite Clojure library and do it in Rust. Or think of specific Clojure features that you would love to use in Rust and get cracking on a library.

Or find an existing Rust project and start contributing. JuJutsu for example.
by smyk1777 | 2025-11-19 08:53:41+00:00
Great idea! Have you thought about adding the possibility of installing the app on Android? I know it's a running app, but I would expand it. Sleep, stress, and how much we eat and drink can greatly affect our workout results, so I would make room in the app where you can mark how much you slept, how you feel, and how much you ate, so we can see how one affects the other.
by thephyber | 2025-11-19 08:54:44+00:00
> Nobody's human rights are being actively violated because they're not allow to immigrate here.

US law enshrined both refugees and asylum seekers as separate categories of immigration specifically to deal with human rights issues observed in the 20th century. While that doesn’t mean any person anywhere has a right to be a citizen in the US, it is closer to true than your statement suggests.

“Sanctuary policies” are about enforcing the 10th Amendment. The Federal government alone is responsible for immigration policy. The states should not have to participate, and sanctuary policies are a public declaration that they won’t (usually because local law enforcement knows that it makes their primary job of enforcing the criminal code harder if residents won’t testify).

The reason we haven’t reformed US immigration laws is that everyone agrees it is broken, but nowhere close to a supermajority agree on _how_ it is broken or the steps needed to fix it. See “gang of 8” negotiations circa 2013. This is the inevitable outcome of the founders making Congress slow/stagnant by default. Also damn near half of the voters being propagandized with immigration ragebait for decades.

When my family came over to what is now the USA, immigration was as simple as paying for your own boat trip and passing a health inspection. It was hundreds of years of very “open borders” before Congress decided to go hyper racist and xenophobic in the 1870s.

It’s worth poiting out that Republicans have long insisted that “we can’t reform immigration laws without _first_ kicking out all illegal immigrants. It’s neither a reasonable expectation that we can do that, nor is it a reasonable precondition for reform negotiations. It’s also hilariously false that all recent immigrants vote for Democrats — that demographic is FAR more likely to be Evangelical Christian or Roman Catholic Christian, which heavily vote towards Republicans (not to mention all of the Socialism/Communism haters from Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela who think Democrats are somehow equivalent to “far left”).

Nullification doesn’t harm US law. It is the escape valve people in the US use judiciously when US law becomes unruly and malicious.
by Borg3 | 2025-11-19 08:55:14+00:00
it is very predicatable.. Every call it returns buffer, after 8 calls it wraps. I use such stuff in many places.. GUI programs.. daemons.. Most stuff are single threaded. If threads are used, they are really decupled from each other.

Yes, you should never ever use it in Library.. But small utility functions should be okish :)

This is example from my Ruby graph library. GetMouseEvent can be called alot, but I need at most 2 results. Its Ruby, so I can either dynamicaly allocate objects and let GC pickup them later, or just use static stuff here, no GC overhead. it can be called 100s of times per second, so its worth it.

static GrMouseEvent evs[8]; static int z=0; GrMouseEvent *ev=&evs[z];
Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like a 'manager' now, with AI?
by keepamovin | 2025-11-19 08:55:27+00:00
I've been an "IC" for aages. Now with agentic AI, I basically am the orchestrator, approver, scheduler, big picture planner. I very rarely dive into the code in the weeds now, despite doing that full time for 10+ years (and having programmed as a hobby for 2 decades before that).

I Can get so much more done. I can approach things I wouldn't have taken on before because my natural limitations would have taken me so much longer to overcome. It's changed the entire way I exist. I have more time to think about the big picture things, not just in work, but in life. I feel more like myself, because I get to be in touch with how I actually feel more of the time, rather than having my head in that pure creative flow space. I still get into that, but it's for the planning, orchestation, rarely the code, or it's for something else unrelated to work.

I love the AI revolution. The biggest thing it's given me is time. I can literally move 100 to 200 times faster with current SOTA agentic tools, in my estimation. I feel like I'm "managing" a bunch of high performing, focused, energetic ICs. It can literally turn regular people into their own little labs. I love the AI revolution. It is so cool.

Anyone else feel this way, or can relate, or want to share their own positive experiences?
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-19 08:55:32+00:00
Yes because they were embracing new markets. They've always followed this process but they made a big paradigm change at that point. This is why they suddenly "loved Linux". Because it was no longer a threat but a tool to them, as they were shifting from being an OS vendor to hyperscale cloud vendor.

The same way with other big American tech. Netflix operated for a decade at a loss and now that they saturated the market they are constantly asking more money for less content.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 08:55:40+00:00
2G and 3G networks are dying. 4G+ is entirely packet based. "Phone reception without internet reception" simply isn't a thing once the final analogue networks die out. That's what RCS is built for.

RCS has the advantage of theoretically being able to get priority through the baseband, but if you're using Google's RCS servers rather than your carrier's, that's not going to work.
by jcgrillo | 2025-11-19 08:56:12+00:00
In the article Pichai is quoted saying:

> "It doesn't matter whether you want to be a teacher [or] a doctor. All those professions will be around, but the people who will do well in each of those professions are people who learn how to use these tools."

Bullshit. Citation very much needed. It's a shame--a shameful stain on the profession--that journalists don't respond critically to such absurd nonsense and ask the obvious question: are you fucking lying?. It is absolutely not true that AI tools make doctors more effective, or teachers, or programmers. It would be very convenient to people like Pichai and Scam Altman, but that don't make it so.
by baq | 2025-11-19 08:56:19+00:00
they're tools. treat them as tools.

since they're so general, you need to explore if and how you can use them in your domain. guessing 'they're poorly suited' is just that, guessing. in particular:

> We also found that the models were highly sensitive to seemingly trivial prompt changes

this is as much as obvious for anyone who seriously looked at deploying these, that's why there are some very successful startups in the evals space.
Show HN: I released Steam utility "Sentinel Signal" to manage your gaming time
by sentinelsignal | 2025-11-19 08:56:48+00:00
Hi there!

I recently released my first application to Steam. Its purpose is to keep track of your gaming time, let you set weekly gaming goals and flexible daily play limits. Warn you visually while you are in game if you are approaching to your limit to make your aware including enforcement of your limit if you don't choose to extend your game session as well.

I would be happy to hear your comments and feedbacks!
by AngryData | 2025-11-19 08:56:50+00:00
Farmer's kids are already exempt from 99% of road and licensing requirements if they are on farm business. I was 12 years old driving around in an old truck without a license plate or license, sometimes hauling massive loads, and it was 100% legal because it was for the farm and my parents were farmers. And honestly there were far more dangerous tasks done on the farm than that so I don't see a real problem with it.
by micksmi | 2025-11-19 08:56:58+00:00
For those interested in delving further into LLM Scientific Discovery there is a great github repo grouping research papers on this very topic - https://github.com/HKUST-KnowComp/Awesome-LLM-Scientific-Dis...

Personally I'm a proponent of representing academic knowledge in knowledge graphs, and this site does just that - https://orkg.org/

I've just launched a site to find code repositories linked to academic papers and to summarise key paper attributes. In the future I intend to integrate a hypothesis generator - https://researchlit.com
by bell-cot | 2025-11-19 08:58:01+00:00
> This rise in ultra-processed foods is driven by powerful global corporations who employ sophisticated political tactics to protect and maximise profits. Education and relying on behavior change by individuals is insufficient. Deteriorating diets are an urgent public health threat that requires coordinated policies and advocacy to regulate and reduce ultra-processed foods and improve access to fresh and minimally processed foods.

If you're working in the political or public policy arena, or trying to understand events there, then the "driven by powerful global corporations" perspective can be useful. Ditto if you happen to be dealing with astroturf or other dirty tricks by those corporations. But otherwise - the "powerful corporations" perspective can easily to lead to a bit of performative activism (ranting against the giant evil yada yada)...then shrugging helplessly and changing nothing.

The underlying problem is that humans are designed/evolved[1] for environments where UPF's were (at best) extremely rare...but caloric malnutrition was always a Top 3 cause of mortality. If the giant corporations were handwaved out of existence - but food was still extremely cheap and available[2], we would still have plenty of UPF health issues. Candy, chips, cookies, ice cream, soda, & such are easily produced at very small scale. Ditto their ingredients. And the ancient lizard/snake[1] in the human brain, running algo's brutally selected for avoiding starvation, would still find those foods far too tempting.

So, for 99% of people, you need simple messages about mature individual responsibility. Because being a human in much of the modern world is like having a weakness for strong drink when you live one short block from LiquorMart.

[1] Pick whichever one works for your situation. This is public health - if you get sidetracked into God vs. Science arguments, that's a Mission Failure.

[2] By historical standards, that is the situation in much of the modern world.
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 08:59:47+00:00
Not having to rely on the good intentions of Signal or the corporate interests of WhatsApp/Line/WeChat/Telegram/etc. is a good reason in my book. There's no proof of bad intentions, but if I were the NSA/CIA, I'd set up a service like Signal, tweaked to encrypt in such a way that only I can decrypt its messages.

SMS/MMS is simply terrible to use, but at least it follows the normal "my carrier sends messages to your carrier" approach. The alternative "my carrier sends messages to Facebook to send messages to your carrier" flow adds an unnecessary middle-man, most of which will sell your data.
by Ygg2 | 2025-11-19 09:00:07+00:00
> When Rust got popular, I was a bit confused by people talking about how great Result it's essentially a checked exception without a stack trace.

It's not a checked exception without a stack trace.

Rust doesn't have Java's checked or unchecked exception semantics at the moment. Panics are more like Java's Errors (e.g. OOM error). Results are just error codes on steroids.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-19 09:00:51+00:00
This is an FAQ where each entry has a TL;DR. For question 9 in particular, the list consists of items and explanation, where the author chose to use <ul> / <strong> instead of <dl> / <dt> / <dd>. This is one of the situations where the "sometimes-bolded bullet point headers" formatting is appropriate. (The most semantically-correct formatting would be paragraph headings, as seen in LaTeX; but HTML doesn't have these.)

The <em> tag is used to indicate stress emphasis. This is the intended purpose for which the tag was added to HTML, not "weird italics". (I type by transcribing my speech, so I tend to overuse this: one of my editing passes is removing unnecessary <em>s.) This article only contains 9 <em>s in 10 questions: of these, I'd remove the emphasis from two of three "well-fitted masks", and reduce the other to just "well-fitted".

Unspaced em-dashes are often used to offset parentheticals – though I prefer spaced en-dashes myself – and these are both long-standing conventions (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E2%80%94). Parenthetical dashes are common in formal writing, and this is formal writing.

As someone who frequently wrote in more-or-less this style (where appropriate) before GPT-1 was even made, who's also fairly decent at spotting ChatGPT output, I don't think this is ChatGPT at all. Apart from superficial formatting considerations, it's not the distinctive ChatGPT voice; and the most distinctive part of ChatGPT output is its inappropriate use of voice and formatting, whereas all of these stylistic choices are easily-justified. Perhaps most importantly, it actually says something.
by wparad | 2025-11-19 09:01:11+00:00
The point here is that, it's important to clarify what you mean by "untested code". Some companies release untested code all the time to production by hide their usage behind feature flags. They admit that the code has not been tested.

Code that we release behind feature flags has been tested, the only reason something goes out on a flag is when we don't want to release it to everyone yet, for product reasons, not technical ones.

Again going back to "untested", when code gets merged, no one ever says "well taht was untested". But what does tested mean? Of course it means that everyone who is accountable for the code believes it was tested. It's subjective, so there can be no other answer.
by throwaway290 | 2025-11-19 09:01:56+00:00
> There's lots of things in the world that I don't understand and I don't have opinions on; I trust that the experts in those fields have informed opinions.

Betting money on some stock makes you an expert in some subject? Cmon

This is hacker news, many here are literally experts on this thing, and not experts in finance, and not into gambling.

> I don't think contributing to the net's low SNR to speak "your truth" is a good thing

And you are saying people should only be allowed to say whatever they decide to put money on knowing full well that if enough rich people prop stock up for long enough short attempt will fail even if the company is bullshit hype. This just creates a rich people echo chamber that's all.
by paperplaneflyr | 2025-11-19 09:02:58+00:00
It's just Next.js and just a basic implementation. There is no backend, and I am planning to take it further. It needs an LLM-based response mechanism. I do see some potential for idea validation when paired with AI and a bunch of other tools. But for now it's more of a hobby; hence, I was asking around to see if people are interested before I invest more time into it.
by gspr | 2025-11-19 09:03:16+00:00
I've always wondered: has there been any effort to implement a PoW challenge like that at a lower level? I.e., TCP but the handshake requires solving a challenge, otherwise the connection is just closed? It seems like something that could benefit from being invisible on the application layer.

Edit: To answer my own question, yes: http://www.arijuels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/JB99.pdf

Edit 2: Maybe TLS would be another reasonable place for it?
by jeroenhd | 2025-11-19 09:03:29+00:00
RCS is basically email over HTTP, wrapped in a layer of carrier stuff. The same way Visual Voicemail is IMAP but wrapped in a layer of carrier stuff.

The spec also handles video calls, conference calls, sending/receiving money, and just about anything else a modern messenger does.

It just lacked E2EE for the longest time, which makes sense when you consider that the police and secret service have their tendrils in the standards body that publishes the spec.
by elcritch | 2025-11-19 09:03:57+00:00
I can't read the article unfortunately.

However nicotine also seems somewhat palliative to a range of mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar, anxiety, etc. I once read a paper that said something like 90% of schizophrenics were chain smokers who were self-medicating.

By that lens the widespread amount smoking in the past makes sense in eras before other pharmaceuticals.
by ktallett | 2025-11-19 09:04:18+00:00
I'm extremely upset by her death as she was a real hero of mine. I was homeless in the 00's and could code and it was my way out of being homeless. I used to go to the internet cafe on Tottenham Court Road in London to hone my skills and work on a project I could use to get work. I ended up being lucky that a very kind guy offered me a job after seeing what I was doing and my life changed from that moment. Hearing her story since then made her feel like a kindred spirit.
by duskdozer | 2025-11-19 09:04:21+00:00
I think everything is just way brighter now. We improved LEDs and stuck them in everything and amped them way up. Just going outside at night in a residential area gets your eyes blasted out with unshielded 8000K streetlights and spotlights people put up on the outside of their houses. I have to keep my computer monitors' brightness levels almost all the way down just to be able to use them, and they're not even the ones marketed as ultra-bright.
by bonesss | 2025-11-19 09:04:27+00:00
Alternatively: had MS Embraced and Extended harder instead of trying to extinguish ASAP we’d have a much better internet owned to a much higher degree by MS.

A few decades back Microsoft were first to the prize with asynchronous JavaScript, Silverlight really was flash done better and still missed, a proper extension of their VB6/MFC client & dev experience out to the web would have gobbled up a generation of SaaS offerings, and they had a first in class data analysis framework with integrated REPL that nailed the central demands of distributed/cloud-first systems and systems configuration (F#). That on top of near perfect control of the document and consumer desktop ecosystems and some nutty visualization & storage capabilities.

Plug a few of their demos from 2002 - 2007 together and you’ve got a stack and customer experience we’re still hurting for.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-19 09:05:04+00:00
And had half their fleet offline at the peak of the energy crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...

In Sweden this year we’ve had 2 separate instances of 50% of the fleet being offline. With one reactor having a 7 month unscheduled outage.

I just don’t get where this ”100% reliable!!!!” is coming from.