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by jayasurya2006 | 2025-11-10 06:33:07+00:00
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by ofalkaed | 2025-11-10 06:33:16+00:00
I can't recall the last book I read where the main character or anyone "wins." I watch a couple movies a year and those also tend to lack the hollywood ending. HN is probably the closest I have ever come to social media and my news intake mostly stops at the headline. I don't see these choices improving my life much over the lives of most people I interact with and I don't see those people being deluded by their happy endings.

I do think life is a narrative, but I am not sure if we are using narrative towards the same ends.
by caconym_ | 2025-11-10 06:33:23+00:00
First DJI, now TP-Link. What is the endgame here? What will the American consumer technology market look like after all the best and cheapest products have been banned because they are Chinese, or have alleged links to the Chinese government? What will be the impact on the next generation of American engineers and scientists after growing up in an environment deprived of tech the rest of the developed world freely enjoys?
by Dylan16807 | 2025-11-10 06:33:40+00:00
> 1. Who else would document a company's restructure if not the company itself?

If the company wants to give numbers, I'll listen to them. But the company made vague/unproven claims and that's not enough. Journalists can investigate.

> 2. Yes, not reading an article and commenting on it is bad faith.

Commenting on something talked about in the article doesn't require reading that specific article. You can use other sources.

> 3. So you have no evidence of it not being as the company says, just the vibes of others on this thread, okay Senator.

Other people brought objective numbers. Not vibes.

Why should I not use those numbers? You have not claimed any of those numbers are wrong, you're just calling people's conclusions wrong.
by vaxman | 2025-11-10 06:34:33+00:00
OpenAI will go to zero unless it agrees to be acquired because they're messing with public company stock valuations using funky purchase orders leaving those public companies no choice but to cancel their credit (at least unless they get a "government backstop" that they say they don't want or need). Those who compete with OpenAI will also "take a hit" if/when that happens, so they would be wise to be looking to make a deal to acquire OpenAI. Dude was from Y Combinator and liked to bank on hope, focusing on capturing market share and worrying about profits later, which is fine in software startups playing with Monopoly money, but when it impacts vendors that are publicly traded companies (to the point that one is now valued at $5T), post-1929 rules come into play. Anthropic has a similar issue, but there, the issue is that their C-suite is making outrageous public statements that are suspected of intending to manipulate the stock values of both private and public competitors and of the publicly held vendors to all of these players. I hope they both go away quietly and someone declares victory rather than the stock market crashing!

As far as xAI, I doubt it will go to zero or run afoul of any of those market manipulation issues because it owns Twitter/X and I think it powers the realtime Tesla cloud, but betting on it is fraught with peril because of the high likelihood that it will wind up under the control of some less capable conglomerate (ergo, GM acquisition of Hughes Aircraft and resale to Raytheon, Boeing and News/DirecTV).

Google, Meta, a handful of B actors and China are where we have to place our bets, but only if we ourselves need (or want to invest on the theory that others need) trillion parameter models (and want to risk having the valuations lowered if/when adverse actions are taken against the above competitors).
by rand17 | 2025-11-10 06:34:36+00:00
I wouldn't dare to call an app with a webview approach (be that tauri or electron), react, typescript and the whole frontend Pandora's box "sleek", but each to his own. I find using the adb bridge for such operation a bit of an overkill, but fortunately I don't own Apple made devices this year so I don't face such problems; maybe drastic times call for drastic measures: Apple's and Google's hatred towards end users is palpable these days. I took a quick look at the source and the naming convention is not "conventional" and the lack of eslint/prettier made me raise my eyebrows (raised it high enough to not want to touch this project with a ten foot pole), just like the 2452 line main App.tsx and the rampant useEffect abuse in it - but again, I'm not the target audience, maybe this is super useful for the poster and aesthetics have always been subjective.
by al_borland | 2025-11-10 06:35:33+00:00
People also need to remember that fancy mocktails aren’t their only option. There are plenary of basic non-alcoholic drinks people have been ordering for decades. Most amount to some sort of bubbly bar water with a bit of citrus for flavor. There is also normal water.

There is also the very large category of soft drinks. People seem to forget, because they are so ubiquitous now, but soft drinks are named soft drinks, to contrast the alternative “hard” drinks that contain alcohol. As someone who drinks water 99% of the time, if I went out to a bar and had a Dr Pepper, it would be a bit of a treat. I may only have a few per year. I have gone 10 years without having any at all in the past. It will be a lot cheaper than a mocktail.
by patrulek | 2025-11-10 06:36:06+00:00
Polishing my dashboard for tracking profit on Solana blockchain for set of wallets: https://imgur.com/813aQsO

I want to extend it with a simple overview of most recent profitable wallets to look for new "metas" that i could profit on. This project may or may not end as open source eventually, but i currently keep it private.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-11-10 06:36:16+00:00
When I graduated from college in 2013, the common advice was to keep your resume to one printed page. Because people realized that job applications were all online and people rarely handled physical resumes anymore, that advice started to shift to "you can go onto a second page, if it is warranted." (My personal opinion at the time was that if an employer wasn't willing to expend a staple on my resume, then they probably won't worth working for).

I'm of the opinion that a two page resume is fine. Three pages would probably be fine if you needed to elaborate on something really niche like research, but at that point we're getting into CV territory (note that in the US, resume and CV are not the same and a CV is used primarily in academic or scientific settings; a CV is supposed to be exhaustive; a resume is not).

Funny that we're having this conversation here, though, because based on this particular example: the author's resume is fine. It needs punching up, and he should probably turn some of those paragraphs into bulleted lists, but I don't think it's too long.
by varshith17 | 2025-11-10 06:37:15+00:00
It’s definitely dense, but not as wild as it looks. The mental model was: take the core building blocks from FAISS and Milvus, make them composable in Python, and expose everything clearly.

The “vibe” part came from trying to make it feel like a system that could run in production, not just a toy. So yeah, it’s a little heavy, but it earned the vibe honestly.
by heng30 | 2025-11-10 06:37:38+00:00
### Introduction This is a screen recording tool for `Linux` `Wayland`, which uses the `wlroots` extension protocol to capture screenshots. Commonly used desktop environments include `Sway` and `Hyprland`. It is based on `Rust` and the `Slint` GUI framework.

### Features - Single screen recording - Single input device audio recording - Desktop audio recording - Microphone noise reduction - Cursor tracking
by kkarpkkarp | 2025-11-10 06:38:17+00:00
How big of a threat is AI to your career? Upload your CV and it will be analyzed. You'll also get steps on how to reduce this risk.

https://www.isairisk.com/

Still working on this and some things will definitely change, but IMO the system prompt is already solid, so that the response isn't unnecessarily scary on one hand, but not too general on the other
by visarga | 2025-11-10 06:39:01+00:00
> Great article, well written.

>> The question is no longer whether a model can cover the job that was going to exist anyway. The question is whether a human can justify their presence next to a stack of models.

>> The central question for future labour markets is not whether you are clever or diligent in some absolute sense. It is whether what you do is ordinary enough for a model to learn or strange enough to fall through the gaps.

Well written by GPT? Besides a few telltale signs, it has a very uniform structure and cadence that is not natural. Apparently AI is automating the AI automation cry as well.

The article is well written. I think it is a LLM discussion with the author, where the author made his case, then rewritten as an article by the LLM and revised manually for signs of LLM
by leodavi | 2025-11-10 06:40:07+00:00
A visual editor for creating video games on the browser and on Linux desktop: https://stickyfingies.github.io/g2ngine

I've done this with C++ in the past, but ran into substantial friction with the CMake toolchain, specifically w.r.t:

- cross-platform compilation with large dependencies (vcpkg ports)

- running multiple compiler chains in the same build step

That second point is necessary if, for example, there's some AOT asset processing work that uses a native tool, and you're building for web. Expressing that some targets should use the emscripten toolchain while others should use the native toolchain, and interleaving between them, was a mess. TBF, I haven't done that with cargo or build.rs yet and it may prove to be equally frustrating.

Other features:

- undo/redo using a stack of swappable states

- serialization to disk (native) and LocalStorage (web) with some integration tests in progress but I am not satisfied with the correctness of my implementation: I want to *guarantee* that all information is preserved round-trip, but I also want a Patek watch.

- OBJ, GLTF, GLB models are loaded as "blueprint scenes" which are distinct from the "world scene." I made this distinction at the type-level because "scenes" are groups of entities that use newtype IDs (`LightId(u64)`, `MeshId(u64)` etc.) as primary and foreign keys to refer to each other, and I wanted to make it impossible for an entity in scene A to hold an ID for an entity in scene B. Instantiating a blueprint requires creating new IDs for every object.

- W.I.P. Alpha rendering, depth sorting, overhauling the material system to support multiple shaders (tough) that may be compiled after the engine itself (even tougher, a lot of runtime dynamic state and schema validation stuff), physics, scripting - oh yeah!

- Scripting using JS on both web (runs in browser itself) and desktop (uses a packaged JS runtime `Boa`) but Boa doesn't perform well on desktop in debug mode so I'm exploring other options.
by Parazitull | 2025-11-10 06:40:37+00:00
Working on a phone app that streamlines household management for unmotivated losers (like me) so that they stop wasting money (wasted food) and time (procrastination)

Working on an app that helps me (and other people) do household management on autopilot. It helps me manage things, food, expiration dates, shopping, chores, and I get notified periodically to review my lists. I waste way less food and I actually do my chores instead of procrastinating. https://okthings.app
by rcbdev | 2025-11-10 06:41:19+00:00
In the EU, this is not possible. Public Sector accounts are unable to be staffed with Bangladeshi/Indians/Pakistanis etc. developers due to strict time zone requirements and GDPR regulations. They are also highly reluctant to near-shore, as they're dependent on people implementing local laws and regulations - meaning if you don't know the language, you're usually out.

The result of this is that Accenture and co. staff with local people on-site for public sector accounts.
by turkyilmazeymen | 2025-11-10 06:41:41+00:00
Location: Istanbul, Turkey (UTC+3) Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, React, SQL, HTML/CSS, Node.js (basic), Power BI, REST APIs, Git/GitHub

Résumé/CV:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c0GfW4azWWYEY_cgfeVuyAWHD5d...

Email: turkyilmazeymen2@gmail.com

Why you should hire me:

Recent MIS graduate passionate about software development and automation. Experienced in building Python and SQL-driven automation systems and web apps with React. Developed an AI-based decision support system for ethical reasoning and created several workflow automation projects integrating APIs and dynamic forms. Skilled in data analysis and process improvement. Seeking a remote junior software developer role to contribute and grow in a collaborative environment.
by michalbilinski | 2025-11-10 06:41:45+00:00
I’m working on a games website called https://minigames.world It’s really low budget, but the idea might be interesting to you. It’s a Laravel app that’s solely interactable through a TUI application, so Claude Code can help me operate it. To support my decision-making, I analyze collected data with Jupyter notebooks. I’ve been working on this since early October 2025.
by continuational | 2025-11-10 06:41:57+00:00
Working on a programming language for webapps!

https://www.firefly-lang.org/

Speed is not an optional feature on the web. The site above is written in Firefly, uses hydration, and scores 100% on PageSpeed Insights.

The language is largely complete, and we're now working on DX: Got a language server, a devserver, and some essential libraries.
by escapecharacter | 2025-11-10 06:42:15+00:00
I love the intense concentration for martial arts, but I had to stop because of this.

I never had a serious injury. Instead it would be minor injuries, that would make my ring finger 20% less responsive, that would totally mess up my typing cadence.

I tried capoeira, a non-contact martial art, for a while. This wasn’t as good for me as Taekwondo.
by kalasoo | 2025-11-10 06:42:15+00:00
I’ve been working on an idea wishpool.

https://anyidea.fun

Anyone can post an idea for something they wish existed — an app, a game, a tool, or anything else — and share it. When more people back an idea, it gains momentum and starts getting built, either by AI or by community makers. The goal is to turn crowd energy into real progress.
by Twirrim | 2025-11-10 06:42:21+00:00
Yup, using this approach it's possible to build/use aarch64 containers on an x86 machine. This technique means that a much smaller set of operations are being emulated (doesn't have to emulate the entire kernel etc)

For something I was building, it enabled me to get a full aarch64 compilation done, with a native toolkit, without having to run a full emulation layer. The time savings of doing it this way vs full emulation were huge. Off the top of my head, emulated it was taking over an hour to do the full build, whereas within a container it was only about 10-15 minutes.
by Animats | 2025-11-10 06:43:35+00:00
> Not to mention, Waymo is moving from Jaguar to Zeekr for its next-gen fleet, meaning 100% import tariffs on those Chinese-built base vehicles before it even begins the expensive retrofit process.

Isn't Waymo going with Ioniq 5 vehicles built for them in the US by Hyundai, with all the vehicle sheet metal and other mods installed at the factory? That was the story a few months ago.
by transitivebs | 2025-11-10 06:43:38+00:00
hosting a month-long residency for indie hackers in Da Nang, Vietnam!

we invited 10 of the best indie devs from around the world to live & build alongside us for a month at a beautiful villa. for free. (we have sponsors like OpenRouter, Cognition, n8n, and CodeRabbit!)

https://x.com/HackerResidency

we're 10 days into our first batch – would love feedback :)
by yanhangyhy | 2025-11-10 06:44:09+00:00
I've read a book called Four Hundred Years In America before; I don't know if its English version is popular. It points out that one core reason for the South's defeat in the Civil War was how vital the cotton trade between the American South and Britain was to both sides. So the North used their fleet to blockade the South's cotton exports to Britain right away, leaving the South without the trade revenue to import steel and other materials needed for building railroads—basically sealing their fate. Britain just pivoted to sourcing cotton from places like India, still not relying on local production. This example really drives home how Britain's industrial foundation was way too dependent on raw material inflows from the colonies.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-11-10 06:44:21+00:00
Seems about right.

> I can see a future in our lifetimes where a significant amount of our capital expenditure and energy consumption is used, quite simply, to produce garbage.

If you squint your eyes right at the shelves at Target or in the Amazon delivery trucks, or honestly just look around you most anywhere, you may not have to wait for the future to see it.
by martin-adams | 2025-11-10 06:44:35+00:00
I’ve gone old school. After reviewing a few people’s CV’s the easiest format was for me to record a video with the feedback, so I put a site together for that:

https://resume.fail/

No AI, you just buy my time.

I’m also looking to do a couple freebies if anyone wants to anonymise their CV and let me use it for a promo example.
by solaire_oa | 2025-11-10 06:45:36+00:00
You say that you can't really agree [about the resume being poorly formatted from having too much text?], but then you agree that there's too much text (if all you need to see is the 1 item of "Google", then you're saying there's firmly too much text, like 95% of the resume is useless).

Also consider that the resume has too much text in a pre-LLM world (e.g. this submitter doesn't structure documents for consumption very well, but I'll still read it). Post-LLMs, using an essay-format would make me suspect that the submitter didn't even write it (taking the time to read it is a big gamble).

Not to detract from the article's palpable despair. I genuinely can't say for certain that "well if they made their resume less verbose they'd definitely get hired", because I suspect there's a good chance they still might not. But it probably wouldn't hurt.
by maxdamantus | 2025-11-10 06:46:49+00:00
Sounds like the right intent to me. To pinpoint your existing quote from the documentation:

> The finally block always executes when the try block exits. This ensures that the finally block is executed even if an unexpected exception occurs.

The intent of the transaction code is that the consistency is checked (using `tx.commit()`) "even if an unexpected exception occurs".

I'm not sure how else to interpret that to be honest. If you've got a clearer way of expressing this, feel free to explain.
by muzani | 2025-11-10 06:47:11+00:00
I call it the antibody effect. My favorite example is clickbait headlines like, "Five things you MUST do if you're doing this thing. You'd never guess #3!" It used to be everywhere and now it's nowhere.

AI is starting to show this effect - people stay away from em-dashes. There's that yellowish tinge and that composition which people avoid on art. Some of this is bad, but we can probably live without it.
by rramadass | 2025-11-10 06:47:34+00:00
The most charitable thing i can say about your comment is;

who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities." -- from "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe.

To dismiss you/your comment;

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than Itself; but Talent instantly recognizes Genius.” -- from "The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle.

To deflate your claim of Dijkstra's Algorithm being "self-evident";

Students Struggle with Concepts in Dijkstra's Algorithm -- https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3632620.3671096

Edsger Dijkstra contributed to;

1) Algol60 language/compiler 2) THE Operating System 3) Graph Algorithms (shortest-path etc.) 4) Concurrent Algorithms (semaphores, CSP etc.) 5) Distributed Algorithms (dining philosophers etc.) 6) Fault-Tolerant Computing (which he called "Self-Stabilizing Systems") 7) Programming Language Design (GCL etc.) 8) Structured Programming Techniques. 9) Program Correctness Methodologies based on Predicate Calculus to derive Programs (weakest-precondition etc.) 10) Essays giving insights into "How to Think and Reason Systematically" using commonsense and mathematical Tools.
by al_borland | 2025-11-10 06:49:37+00:00
I heard of a study just the other day that tracked people over a couple decades in Scandinavia somewhere, if I remember correctly.

They found people who didn’t get outside had a significant shortening of their life compared to those who got outside more. Smoking, being something that gets people outside, ended up being a bit of a wash. Spending all your time inside is about as bad as smoking… it may have even been slightly worse. I tried finding the study quickly, but it wasn’t coming up.

For what it’s worth, I never got COVID in the last 5 years either, despite testing every time I got a little sick. But I also spent a considerable amount of time indoors and away from people. I’m not a smoker. I’ve been supplementing with vitamin D on and off for years, but mostly off during the Covid years. More recently I’ve been pretty consistent with it, but covid finally got me. I have it right now. I thought I was out of the woods.
by snvzz | 2025-11-10 06:50:02+00:00
I am currently playing Phantasy Star, on a Japanese Master System. Note Phantasy Star supports FM sound. Unlike the Mark III and the export Master System, this console has FM sound and 3d glasses support built in.

I am not playing the original, but a recent re-translation effort[0]. It is amazing for that "generation" of consoles.

0. https://github.com/maxim-zhao/psrp
by lpln3452 | 2025-11-10 06:50:16+00:00
The large number of Chinese products currently permitted in the U.S. demonstrates that the bans were imposed not because of their nationality, but because confirmed security risks were identified.

The company's issue is not its country of origin, but its history of installing backdoors and its public declaration to abandon fixing security flaws for numerous devices still in use.

The issue started to be pointed out by numerous independent tech news outlets and communities far more than a year ago. Do you have a basis to argue otherwise?
by bawolff | 2025-11-10 06:50:49+00:00
Governments have finite amounts of money. Both of these things (water infrastructure and fighting proxy wars) are capital intensive projects. Its reasonable to conclude less money spent on one would allow more money spent on another.

Even without that factor, Attention does matter. Governments can do multiple things, but in more dictatorial regimes, doing things well often require prioritization at the top, and there is a limited number of things the top can prioritize. Its one of the main failings of dictatorships in general: the top is afraid to appoint too competent middle management lest they rise up, so everything becomes very top down managed.

Additionally some of the issues causing this seem to be related to corruption in their military, like diverting water in unsustainable ways to support farming projects that have ties to people well connected to irgc. (To be fair, i dont know how true that is, i dont have a good source for that)