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by gabrielgio | 2025-11-14 12:43:43+00:00
x11 is in maintenance mode at this point and Gnome is not going anywhere. Gnome is used (and financed) by major distributions.

Nothing new is being created with x11 and the people from freedesktop don't seen to be thrilled to maintain it. I don't think should change just for the sake of changing, but I'd start looking to migrate whatever you use that depends on x11.
by alexpotato | 2025-11-14 12:44:34+00:00
This article is very timely as I was just thinking about margins given that I run a couple small websites that use Amazon Affiliate marketing.

The margin on most items is 4% (some lower, some higher e.g. luxury items are 10%).

4% is not terrible in and of itself.

But then you factor in:

- advertising costs

- conversion rates on clicks from the above

- taxes

and you get a real appreciation for how hard it must be to run high volume/low margin businesses.

Sure, you can do organic marketing etc but then you are just trading time for dollars.
by throw_away_341 | 2025-11-14 12:45:55+00:00
> If a company sets this up correctly developers can create tooling incredibly fast

I find that it has its place in companies with lots of micro services. But I think that because it is made "easy" it encourages unnecessary fragmentation and one ends up with a distributed monolith.

In my opinion, unless you actually have separate products or a large engineering team, a monolith is the way to go. And in that case you get far with a standard CI/CD pipeline and "old school" deployments

But of course I will never voice my opinion in my current company to avoid the "boomer" comments behind my back. I want to stay employable and am happy to waste company resources to pad my resume. If the CTO doesn't care about reducing complexity and costs, why should I?
by crowbahr | 2025-11-14 12:45:59+00:00
> There was a post from trailofbits blog recently about how passport crypto works. Kind of related here. > > I wonder if this is some zero knowledge proofs here or what? Reading the passport and its chip implies some terminal authentication capabilities coming from Apple devices. Passport would not allow reading sensitive data from the chip unless the terminal is valid. > > Another question is if Apple is allowed to read your biometric data?

Passport chips aren't that complex, especially not American ones. You just need to transmit part of the MRZ to unlock them (Other ICAO compliant passports have slightly different requirements, still all easily doable for any smart phone with NFC transmit)

The Apple ID isn't a ZKP - IIRC they're doing a CBOR representation of the claims which is signed with their own cert.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-14 12:47:52+00:00
It is really no different than music. Millions of people play guitar but most are not worth listening to or deserving of an audience.

Imagine if you gave everyone a free guitar and people just started posting their electric guitar noodlings on social media after playing for 5 minutes.

It is not a judgement on the guitar. If anything it is a judgement on social media and the stupidity of the social media user who get worked up about someone creating "slop" after playing guitar for 5 minutes.

What did you expect them to sound like, Steve Vai?
by fallingfrog | 2025-11-14 12:48:08+00:00
"Given that The Paris Review portrayed itself as studiously apolitical—recall William Styron’s famous anti-manifesto in the first issue, fashioning it as a home for “the non-drumbeaters and non-axe-grinders”—Matthiessen’s CIA involvement has raised questions and eyebrows since its revelation in the seventies."

This is actually a bit of a tell, because the best way to make ideology palatable is to make it seem like common sense (which is easy if that ideology is already in power). As zizek said, it is when you believe you have stepped outside ideology that you are most fully ensnared by it.

A lot of people think, "I am not ideological, I just use common sense, I am apolitical." Sorry but this is a game you must play whether you want to or not- trying to avoid making a choice is still making a choice.

Its like with fashion, for example- you may think that by wearing khaki shorts and sandals with socks that you are avoiding making fashion choices, but what is actually happening is that you are simply making very bad fashion choices.

I rather think that one of the psychological principles beneath authoritarianism is that making choices requires effort, and so people try to avoid it, and the easiest way to do that is by copying whatever everyone else is doing. When a person in this mode sees other people doing things that are different or unusual or out of place, they are reminded that in fact they have free will, and that other choices were always possible, and that is a disturbing and uncomfortable thought.
by Retric | 2025-11-14 12:48:26+00:00
A narrower definition is fine, but now you need to define why those specific differences were important and the timeframe + geographic limitation on those specific differences must match what you’re describing.

In other words on paper patents worked like you described in some places well before things kicked off, but the rule of law was more fluid. So you could make the argument that progress depended on some specific level of integrity in the legal system, but that’s now a very arbitrary line which looks like a true Scotsman argument when you try and pin down a specific date for a transition. Similarly you run into issues of which countries what what levels of innovation etc.
by viraptor | 2025-11-14 12:48:44+00:00
The comment was stating the reality. This happens and has happened for a long time. Here's an incomplete list of groups and targets from around the world. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H9_xaxQHpWaa4O_Son4G... APTs have been normalised in media for many years now. Lamberts group (CIA) did hack targets in China. It's a very "we know, they know that we know" situation.
by danielstocks | 2025-11-14 12:49:03+00:00
Happy Encore customer here! I’m kind of surprised they haven’t gotten more attention. It’s like the DX of Vercel for backend and infra, but open source and you can connect it to your existing cloud provider (we use GCP, but also works with AWS). We rarely have to think about about infra or CI/CD things. It just works, and on the rare occasion it doesn’t the team has been super quick to resolve it.

It’s like having a in-house 24/7 dev ops infra team but for a fraction of the cost!

Disclaimer: Our infrastructure needs are not super complex: Web services, SQL, key-value store, pub-sub and few other parts, your mileage may vary depending on your needs.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-11-14 12:49:14+00:00
You just need to vibe configure your server too so that it matches your application.

Seriously, I think for most services Hetzner is the better option. No provider lock-in, easier configuration (you cannot tell me AWS/Azure configuration is easier than system administration, these services change every 3 months and use non-standard tools).

Most services can stomach a technical fault. Recoverability is more important. There are some exceptions to this and that highly depends on the nature of the service. Nobody here described the nature of their services, so we can only speculate.
by stego-tech | 2025-11-14 12:49:19+00:00
And this is where the strengths of LLMs really lie: making performant ML available to a wider audience, without requiring PHDs in Computer Science or Mathematics to build. It’s consistently where I spend my time tinkering with these, albeit in a local-only environment.

If all the bullshit hype and marketing would evaporate already (“LLMs will replace all jobs!”), stuff like this would float to the top more and companies with large data sets would almost certainly be clamoring for drop-in analysis solutions based on prompt construction. They’d likely be far happier with the results, too, instead of fielding complaints from workers about it (AI) being rammed down their throats at every turn.
by nathanaldensr | 2025-11-14 12:50:33+00:00
You're searching for authenticity in a world with almost none left. I 100% empathize with you. View it through a lens of authenticity; this goes beyond social media or even the internet. Find authentic people and have authentic experiences and your spirit will be lifted.

You can tell I've been through a lot to be able to give you this advice here.
by Hikikomori | 2025-11-14 12:51:12+00:00
Not really. On linux you can just load your cheat as a kernel module and its undetectable by userspace anticheat.

On windows with kernel anti cheat you would need to find some vulnerable driver, sign your own driver, or use external cheats like DMA or vision based. This funnels cheat devs into using a few methods that anti cheat devs can focus on for detection. Is it perfect? Clearly not as there's plenty of cheaters anyway. But its much more effective than what these anti cheats can do on linux.
by andreww_young | 2025-11-14 12:51:38+00:00
Being a copilot for Excel is an extremely challenging task. I've read many papers on this subject and feel that current technology is still far from achieving 90% or higher accuracy. If you frequently use ChatGPT to analyze Excel, I believe you also often encounter situations where it fails or makes mistakes, and this feature of ChatGPT (Code Interpreter) has been out for over two years now. Of course, ChatGPT is quite naive when handling Excel; it doesn't even bother to analyze how many tables are actually in a sheet, always foolishly treating each sheet as a single table.
by sausagefeet | 2025-11-14 12:53:06+00:00
How does Encore handle the following scenarios?

1. I want to deploy to a testing environment where I may want to use different users, different sized services, or even mock services so I don't have to pay for them? 2. I want to develop in an isolated environment (maybe without internet or simply I'm trying to develop a narrow feature that doesn't require the rest of the infrastructure)? 3. How does it handle security elements like VPCs, IAM roles, all these things that are the context my application runs in that I don't necessarily want to couple to my application code?
by mk_stjames | 2025-11-14 12:53:47+00:00
Ever since 802.11ah devices started appearing I've thought it would be perfect for partnering inside wireless IP cameras... and hell, make them mesh together with something like this so each one configured on your network extends the range of the others in it's area. Streaming 720P H265 is easily doable at the speeds the networks achieve for a few cameras, and the range would be perfect for perimeter monitoring most properties ala farms & industrial parks.

This device however - an entire Raspberry Pi + hat for a router to do..? ... seems like a solution in search of a problem to solve.
by roody15 | 2025-11-14 12:54:33+00:00
Exactly. This pattern I think accurately describes the state of the US economy in general over the last few decades. Wealthy extracting wealth from what’s left of the middle class and further extracting wealth from the already poor. The decline of the US is now openly visible and attempts to hide this through economic language / indicators / propaganda etc are now openly not reflecting reality and often come off as in a dark way comical. This applies to some other western nations like France, England and perhaps Germany.
by api | 2025-11-14 12:54:38+00:00
I’m not saying there aren’t attempts to control society. It’s what governments, think tanks, ad agencies, activist groups of all stripes, etc do for a living. There’s just tons of them and they’re at each others throats half the time.

There are groups of people who think they run the world. They’re delusional. There’s people who aspire to run the world who are also delusional. They can do a lot of damage sometimes before they fail.
by pjmlp | 2025-11-14 12:55:10+00:00
What I see in posts like this is that it becomes clear to me that I am not their target demographic.

I work with IDEs and low-code/no-code tools, VSCode is kind of unavoidable in some scenarios as it has become the only programmers editor that some companies bother to provide tooling support for their SDKs, and that is it.

For bettr or worse, everyone and their dog that used Eclipse forks for their SDKs, now is doing VSCode forks.

For historical UNIX purposes vi and Emacs, and then any editor will do when changing some bunch of configuration files, in case nothing else is installed.

In no project I would be able to make Zed our office, that is what stuff like Monday, Jira, Confluene, Trello, Workfront, happens to be.
by gabrielgio | 2025-11-14 12:55:24+00:00
I don't think I understand what you mean. Do you mean wayland is not usable with nvidia proprietary driver? I remember that being annoying but possible many year ago (with sway --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia thingy).

But if you use really old nvidia gpu you can have a mixed experience with wayland. Which is a fair problem to complain, but you can't blame that on wayland and call that lack of freedom. That problem was caused by the lack of freedom coming from nvidia gpus and how locked down they are and how nvidia for many year has been hostile towards linux desktop.
by layer8 | 2025-11-14 12:55:41+00:00
> That's when I learned the difference between burnout and disillusionment. Burnout drains your body; disillusionment erases your purpose.

That isn’t quite right, burnout is generally connected to a lack of perceived purpose. It’s not just overworking.

I’m also not sure about the claim of creating meaningfulness out of thin air. Surely the author is learning Sumerian because they find somehing interesting about it. And while one can find something interesting in many things, you can’t force yourself to find any arbitrary thing interesting if you just don’t.
by WillAdams | 2025-11-14 12:56:07+00:00
This is actually touched on in the webcomic _Freefall_, which ultimately hinges on a trial of an attempt to lobotomize all robots on a planet.

It's a bit of a rough start, but well-worth reading, and easily read if one uses the speed reader:

https://tangent128.name/depot/toys/freefall/freefall-flytabl...
by ur-whale | 2025-11-14 12:57:04+00:00
> X11 is not going anywhere. If anything it's Gnome adding another nail to its coffin

Yup, my feeling as well.

Wayland was sold as a sorely needed fix to X11 long-standing problems.

The fact that X11 had problems that sorely needed to be fixed is indeed true.

The fact that Wayland is the solution is unfortunately not.

Just because something is the next gen project does not mean it actually succeeded in fixing what it planned to.
by GuB-42 | 2025-11-14 12:57:46+00:00
I think the EU dropped the ball on reusability. But Ariane 5 was an excellent expendable heavy-lift launcher and Ariane 6 follows on the same track.

Not great for mass commercial launches, but good enough for sovereignty and science missions. Why compete with SpaceX? They can already provide more than what the market demands, so much that they have to create their own demand in the form of Starlink.

Europe could join the space race but it is an extremely expensive endeavor and the EU has other priorities. Now the question is which ones. As a French, I am all for nuclear technology, for which France was at the forefront and it seems to get back some traction after decades of neglect.
by bell-cot | 2025-11-14 12:58:49+00:00
Kinda? Obviously WWII left the eastern half of Europe as Soviet vassals. (And far more, if you count the European parts of the USSR.) But some important countries in Western Europe were still trying to be independent for a decade or so after. Though one might question the competence of the British & French attempts.

Instead of "invaded", I'd say the US mostly moved into a power vacuum in WWII Europe. Europe's leaders had catastrophically failed the "long-term strategy" thing from 1900 to 1940, and gotten themselves into a couple of utterly ruinous internal wars. Well, d'oh, Europe - the rest of the world wasn't a bunch of NPC's, and God hadn't granted you Eternal Prima Donna status. If you bleed yourselves white, then other folks will happily take the opportunity to replace you atop the global pecking order.
by adammarples | 2025-11-14 12:59:05+00:00
I think the entire point of the article (reading forward a bit through the linked redshift files posts) is that almost nobody in the world uses datasets bigger than 100Tb, that when they do, they use a small subset anyway, and that 650Gb is a pretty reasonable approximation of the entire dataset most companies are even working with. Certainly in my experience as a data engineer, they're not often in the many terabytes. It's good to know that OOTB duckdb can replace snowflake et all in these situations, especially with how expensive they are.
by Kinemaniacs | 2025-11-14 12:59:17+00:00
The PDKracer Fidelity technology delivered exactly what we promised - and the European sim racing community felt it:

1.4ms latency that responds faster than thought 21-bit precision encoders capturing every micro-movement Professional 6DOF motion in a compact 1m² footprint Rally simulation fidelity that professionals recognize as authentic Vertical motion realism that creates genuine airtime sensation Crash physics that convey every impact with accuracy
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-14 12:59:22+00:00
Whenever medicine is discussed on HN, there is a knee jerk response to assume physicians are incompetent and that search engines replace their training. We’re on the same path here. Is lying bad? Yes. Does that mean that a liar can’t be a good physician? Exercise left to reader.

Regarding your supposedly ‘ethical statements’ that aren’t actually arguments meant to draw emotion:

> People holding your current naive viewpoint is why we have professional societies with the power to remove licenses/disbar.

Where’s your argument? Also, total elision of the actual panel of the professional society that did not remove licenses. I don’t see ethics, or logic. Appeal to emotion.

> Someone who takes the hippocratic oath and then behaves in this manner is not fit to be a caregiver .

You don’t even know what the Hippocratic oath is, friend. And on your incorrect premise, you make some grand statement that does not follow (nurses don’t take this oath, so they clearly can’t be fit to be caregivers? Oh wait, that’s absurd. So is the oath important or not?)

> Medical care is about more than technical competence.

Emotional argument all day. And not even something in contention.

> I’d hate to see the state of the flattened world you seem to be arguing for. Please go read about the origins of professional standards.

Analysis left as an exercise for the reader.
by mmcnl | 2025-11-14 13:00:26+00:00
Things weren't simpler. The complexity was simply not visible because different teams/department were all doing a small part of what now a single team is doing with Kubernetes. Yes, for that single team it is more complex. But now it's 1 team that does it all, instead of 5 separate teams responsible for development, storage, networking, disaster recovery, etc.

Kubernetes is a gift.
by tyleo | 2025-11-14 13:01:31+00:00
I bounced off Cursor. I even liked it. I just don’t want another new IDE. I changed to a copilot subscription.

I actually find the in-editor chat window to really suck. Most of my AI use is pasting code into ChatGPT and asking questions (another subscription). The killer feature of the IDE integration is just the autocompletes. I hope a local model can do them eventually.
by chromehearts | 2025-11-14 13:02:01+00:00
Very interesting tbh! + I have never heard from kagi until now & I just decided to check out following link

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

Now tell me why the whole article has been written by AI? It's literally AI slop itself

> # The hidden price tag

> In 2022, advertisers spent $185.35 billion to influence your search results. By 2028, they'll spend $261 billion. This isn't just numbers - it's an arms race for your attention.

> Every dollar spent makes your search results:

> More cluttered with ads

> Harder to navigate

> Slower to deliver answers

> More privacy-invasive
by chrismorgan | 2025-11-14 13:02:29+00:00
Just so it’s clear:

The X Window System (X11) is a protocol with multiple implementations. Sure, the X.Org Server (Xorg) was the most popular by a huge margin, but there were quite a few others (e.g. XFree86, Xming, XWayland), though over time most were discontinued for one reason or another.

X11 and Wayland do differ in an important way: in X11 window managers (GNOME, KDE, i3, whatever) all sat atop the Xorg server; whereas in Wayland there’s only the compositor, so GNOME, KDE, Sway, whatever, all essentially include their own equivalent of Xorg (which could be fully integrated, or factored into a library, such as Mutter, KWin, wlroots).
by kakacik | 2025-11-14 13:03:39+00:00
Don't allow HTML rendering of <a> element where href links to another URL than shown, don't allow any (java)scripts to run, or at least give user a warning that he is about top open a new window into domain XYZ.

This is how I found out quite a few scams (apart from obvious ones with improper wording or visual formatting, but those are on purpose so bad to catch only most unskilled or gullible, ie your grandma)
by pjc50 | 2025-11-14 13:04:10+00:00
Crucially, this is:

- text classification, not text generation - operating on existing unstructured input - existing solution was extremely limited (string matching) - comparing LLM to similar but older methods of using neural networks to match - seemingly no negative consequences to warranty customers themselves of mis-classification (the data is used to improve process, not to make decisions)
by pessimizer | 2025-11-14 13:04:13+00:00
They're literally like "there's not really any evidence of this" in a thread about the millionth piece of evidence of this. And since it's the Paris Review doing a limited hangout about the Paris Review (the minor detail that the co-founder was a CIA agent), it somehow ends up admiring him for his love of nature.

The shame is how easy it is to do this now, not that it has been done for a century. Western elites have gotten so stupid and authoritarian that you don't even need to hide the seams anymore, you can joke about them and ban people who don't laugh.

edit: also notable about the Paris Review itself is that nobody reads it, most of what was published in it at its peak was horrible and turned out to be completely ephemeral. You won't have ever heard of most of the writers in it, who went on to university appointments (or never left them.) It was a tool for providing an income to particular writers and justifications for other initiatives; a thinktank. Comic books had more staying power.
by gizmo686 | 2025-11-14 13:04:53+00:00
> Isn't it Wisconsin law that lets the Governor change any numeric digits in a law while it's on his or her desk?

Pretty close.

> (b) If the governor approves and signs the bill, the bill shall become law. Appropriation bills may be approved in whole or in part by the governor, and the part approved shall become law.

> (c) In approving an appropriation bill in part, the governor may not create a new word by rejecting individual letters in the words of the enrolled bill, and may not create a new sentence by combining parts of 2 or more sentences of the enrolled bill

https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/constitution/wi_unannotated

The big limitation here is that it is limited to appropriations. Further, the constitution goes out of its way to try and prevent creative vetoing.

Unfortunately, the court decided that numbers are not words.

As a result, the governor changed "for the 2023–24 school year and the 2024–25 school year" to "for 2023–2425"

https://statecourtreport.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/wisco...