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by BSTRhino | 2025-11-09 22:37:32+00:00
https://easel.games

I'm making Easel, a 2D game programming language designed to match how humans, not computers, think about game logic. It also has automatic multiplayer. I've been working on it for 3 years!

Easel feels like a declarative programming language even though it is imperative, because lots of useful game-oriented features are first class. Like behaviours - you just say `on Pointer { ... }` and you have a concurrently-executing coroutine that's lifetime is managed. But you don't think about any of that complexity, you just think of your entity as having a behaviour and go forth and make your game.

It also happens to have automatic multiplayer. Normally with multiplayer you have to worry about doing everything in a "multiplayer safe" way (i.e. be deterministic and only modify the things your side has authority over). My idea was to put all the multiplayer stuff in the programming language itself, underneath all your lines of code. This way, anything you write in that programming language can just be made multiplayer, automatically. So you can just pretend all your players are in one shared world, like a singleplayer game, and the engine does all the multiplayer for you. It was really difficult to make but it makes multiplayer so easy for you now.

Easel is my idea of how games should be made, or at least as close to the idea as I can achieve with 3 years of work, and I would love for more people to try it out.
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-09 22:37:52+00:00
Sanctuary city laws were largely driven by local law enforcement and community services agencies and the way fear of being targeted (personally, or family, or community members) by immigration authorities in the event of law enforcement or other government contact complicated enforcement of local enforcement of non-immigration laws and delivery of local services in communities with significant immigrant populations; mitigating that fear related to contact with local government and leaving enforcement of federal law to federal authorities improved the ability of local governments to serve their own priorities.
by zipy124 | 2025-11-09 22:39:25+00:00
More recent analysis has many things that imply the EMH is weak if it exists at all.

2008 at it's core is a rather good example that the market was not efficient at all, as was the dot com bubble. And then you have the behavioural side where investors are not rational such as meme-stocks. Even COVID was a good example. It was clear to most value investors for instance that Zoom was over-priced, when you had teams already included in your bundle, and that school wasn't going to stay remote forever. The failure of MOOCs in the previous decade proved that. There are many examples like these.
by cb3po | 2025-11-09 22:39:27+00:00
I am working on a web app that doctors/NPs/PAs can use to automatically rewrite complicated and verbose medical progress notes. The amount of time medical providers spend on documentation is ballooning, and only a small portion that time is actually spent doing medical decision making. The rest of the time is spent incorporating (ie copy editing) data as it comes in from imaging/bloodwork/consultant advice. The goal is for the app to be:

entirely self service, without needing EHR integrations

able to persist and reuse the user's writing style, without actually saving any of the notes

HIPAA compliant (obviously)
by jader201 | 2025-11-09 22:39:35+00:00
> As computer security expert Ben Laurie has stated, Sudoku is "a denial of service attack on human intellect". […] I thought maybe this would demonstrate that [my wife doesn’t] need to spend any more time on Sudoku.

The same could be said about every logic puzzle, or other types of puzzles.

People don't do them so actually solve any sort of new problem, or achieve some sort of productivity.

The same reason people don’t jog to get from point A to point B, or to learn how to get around more quickly.

Logic puzzles are exercising parts of our brain that don’t get exercised regularly.
by Uptrenda | 2025-11-09 22:39:45+00:00
In network code: most people just let the OS choose a default adapter. It works fine, but it makes it hard to write software that works across machines with either (1) multiple NICs (and/or networks they point to.) or (2) multiple external Internet IPs. Look at STUN, for example.

A STUN server that lets people test what type of NAT they have uses two IPs. For such a server you have to manually specify the addresses to bind on to make for sure its setup right. As it goes, writing network software to do simple things like "bind on all local addresses", "bind publicly", "bind on all", is harder than it sounds. There are edge cases on different OSes and address families, so manually managing IPs is hard to do.

My network software lets devs easily manage NICs and routes they support without guessing about addressing. Additionally, I've written a bunch of software with the library already to do things like NAT traversal. So its really my own redesign of how to do networking on the Internet. Designed to hide a lot of the messiness. I'm still improving code quality so it's not ready yet. But I've been dog fooding with a lot of software written in it and smashing bugs every day.

Project page: https://github.com/robertsdotpm/p2pd Built this recently with it: http://ovh1.p2pd.net:8000/servers (server monitor for public STUN, TURN, MQTT, and NTP servers. Only checks every 4 hours to avoid spamming them though.)
by tzs | 2025-11-09 22:40:29+00:00
That's because there isn't a significant "far left" in the US. Democrats today are not too far from where they were in the 2000s.

Republicans on the other hand are way farther right than they were then. For a good illustration go read Republican Party Platforms from then.

The 2008 Platform for instance talked about the need to greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels to reduce climate change, and called for the government to push for electric and alternate fuel cars and for making gas cars more efficient, and for pushing for renewable energy.
by hokumguru | 2025-11-09 22:40:35+00:00
I just got off of a few years at a FAANG and perhaps my greatest learning is that code is just table stakes. That is, it hardly matters and for a well functioning business it is best for it to be malleable and to not get too attached. It’s just code, the product is what actually matters.

Really just a long winded way of saying no one cares. Anybody who is looking at your portfolio is going to care more about what you built than how you built it. Anyone trying to rip you off it’s just hurting themselves more than anything
by awillen | 2025-11-09 22:41:04+00:00
I buy and operate e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon, and I'm working on handing as much of the operation of the business off to AI as possible. Doing this both for actual time savings for myself and also as my big-picture eval of new AI models + products as they come out.

I also started a Substack to document it - here's a recent post on using Gemini to screen inbound emails with prospective acquisition targets via a Google Apps Script that evaluates the listings in those emails daily: https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/p/screening-inboun....
by parineum | 2025-11-09 22:41:18+00:00
No, I'm saying that the slide didn't start with Trump. I also don't think much of what Trump is doing is much, if at all, worse than his predecessors but he has zero shame about it.

Since he's in the news and it's on my mind, I'm not sure the Cheney and the whole Iraq/Haliburton situation has been topped since then. Then there's ever member of Congress suddenly becoming a multimillionaire after they get into office.

The only norm Trump is breaking is that he doesn't care to sweep it under the rug
by dingnuts | 2025-11-09 22:41:58+00:00
Manufacturers should be required to actually take back anything with that logo. You can buy so much stuff that becomes a serious problem to dispose of and that stupid logo is all that's required of the manufacturer. Cost of disposal would then get added to the price of the object, as it should to begin with!

Everything with a sealed, soldered battery makes me furious on this front. Every item with a battery that recharges through the device instead of having a battery door like a Game Boy is on a timer, and for no good reason other than planned obsolescence.
by catherd | 2025-11-09 22:42:20+00:00
A new ping pong paddle design.

My backhand is OK but my forehand sucks. Grip styles for standard handles usually end up favoring one side or the other. I'm making a handle shape that's easier to get the blade angle right on both sides. Hopefully a couple more iterations on the 3D printer and then I can have a functional prototype made.
by deepdarkforest | 2025-11-09 22:42:23+00:00
I'm working on Flavia, an ultra-low latency voice AI data analyst that can join your meetings. You can throw in data(csv's, postgres db's, bigquery, posthog analytics for now) and you just talk and ask questions. Using cerebras(2000 tokens per second) and very low latency sandboxes on the fly, you can get back charts/tables/analysis in under 1 second. (excluding time of the actual SQL query if you are doing bigquery).

She can also join your google meet or teams meetings, share her screen and then everyone in the meeting can ask questions and see live results. Currently being used by product managers and executives for mainly analytics and data science use cases.

We plan to open-source it soon if there is demand. Very fast voice+actions is the future imo

https://www.tryflavia.com/
by burnt-resistor | 2025-11-09 22:42:27+00:00
There's an oft-repeated factoid that recognizable organized civilizations last about 10 generations or 250 years on average. And then there's Strauss–Howe generational theory. There's no magic formula or universal fate except it's risky to have lots of corrupt, stupid leaders, injustice, inequality, and/or bad circumstances that do everything to avoid rare, effective leadership with integrity and labor wealth growing faster than capital wealth. Late stage capitalism is omnicidal and suicidal because the greedy fools involved tend not to care about or plan for the future, including a cognitive dissonance to deny anticipation of domination by externalities like changes in youth public sentiment, demographic shifts, geopolitical balances, and climate change. The current richest people in the world are drug addicts, warlords, pedophiles, and those who erroneously believe public beaches belong to them personally.
by throw234234234 | 2025-11-09 22:43:03+00:00
We shall see. Most automations didn't automate the "controller/intelligence" part - they automated the actual task's labor (even if it was clicking for hours on a computer screen). Someone still needed to make all the decisions at every decision point. AI is fundamentally different if it approaches what AI proponents want; it surpasses human intelligence and has "agency/agentic".

On a side note this is why I find proponents that state people with agency will thrive in the AI world puzzling -> isn't the whole point of "agentic AI" to have "agency"?

With no advantage left (e.g. strength, intelligence, agency, etc) even if new industries come about why not use the AI for those too? Unlike previous industries where new domains needed more "brains" to drive/direct it, we have AI now. AI isn't a tool; it can for example deploy and can make decisions for itself. That's what the obsession with "agentic" is all about - replacing agency which at the moment was the very general domain that you still needed humans for.

This strongly favors the economic means of production remaining that are still scarce (capitalism rewards the scarce, not the efficient). Land, capital, social connections/nepotism, etc. Logically people without these will be less economically and socially valued in general - I hope I'm wrong. The current productive class have the most to lose from AI.

AI IMO breaks meritocracy and skilled based work long term assuming they succeed. Even if not in the next decade, and not the current crop of companies pushing it I'm sure AI will eventually cause this outcome.
by smartmic | 2025-11-09 22:43:36+00:00
Here is more information from German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung[0] (use your browsers language translation feature), some excerpts:

> In Germany, however, such images—US soldiers at food banks—are unlikely to be seen. The list of supply tips quickly disappeared from the website. Why food banks were mentioned there in the first place remained unclear at first.

> The more than 30,000 US soldiers in Germany are unlikely to have encountered any major financial problems anyway – according to the IMCOM spokesperson, they received their October salaries as normal despite the shutdown.

> This is in contrast to the approximately 11,000 civilian employees of the US Army in Germany. The US has not released their pay, which is processed by the German “Wage Office for Foreign Armed Forces” in Rhineland-Palatinate. For the time being, the [German] federal government has stepped in and paid the logisticians, cooks, and firefighters their October salaries totaling around 43 million euros, as a spokeswoman for the [German] Federal Ministry of Finance announced on Thursday in response to a query from the SZ.

[0]: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/deutschland-us-army-solda...
by Aurornis | 2025-11-09 22:43:48+00:00
> A 12 year old i7 server runs my NVR, home automation setup, web server, and network router (not to mention a small handful of other services) without even breaking 25% CPU usage. We could replace so many data centers with old desktops.

Replacing concentrated and highly optimized data center servers with 10-1000X as many old desktop computers idling away at 50-100W or more would be a terrible tradeoff. That would explode the energy usage by orders of magnitude.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-09 22:44:05+00:00
Definitely! I've worked on the design of these types of systems, there is more subtlety to the security models than people assume. Some of the designs in the wild have what I would consider to be notable weaknesses.

The most interesting subset of these systems are high-assurance bi-directional data paths between independent peers that are quasi-realtime. Both parties are simultaneously worried about infiltration and exfiltration. While obviously a misnomer, many people still call them diodes...

The entire domain is fascinating and less developed than you would think.
What's the one onboarding "hook" that made you try a new tool?
by gbukat | 2025-11-09 22:44:34+00:00
I’m building a small monitoring and task automation tool, I’d love to learn from you:

What’s the one thing during onboarding that made you actually give a new tool a try?

Was it a pre-filled demo with fake data? A “1-click” setup? Importing from Prometheus or Grafana? Or maybe just really good defaults and copy that made it feel effortless?

I’m especially curious how developers and ops teams decide if something is worth testing. Would love to hear your examples — good or bad — of onboarding moments that worked.
by nopassrecover | 2025-11-09 22:44:45+00:00
Accepting a little exaggeration (“works” vs “works well”), for a segment, almost certainly.

Particularly when they know that people like the commenter above are making sure it ultimately “works” by covering the incompetence of their colleagues.

The comment you are replying to is in my view a superb observation of the challenge of maintaining quality against systemic pressures to appear to be performing.

Most senior leaders in organisations cannot (or care not to) measure quality. Few (outside big tech I assume but wouldn’t be surprised to also see overlook this?) are even usefully measuring benefits realisation tied back to activity (such as software releases).

What they can measure and are systemically incentivised for is “what does it take to get the approval of the next leader above me”, and most of the time a plausible report that the software has been delivered to/ahead of schedule is the real objective to achieve this goal.

That doesn’t mean morally motivated managers aren’t out there driving quality. But it is at odds with these org systems, at the detriment (or risk of detriment) of their own careers compared to peers who optimise more for what the system rewards, and at the expense of greater energy as they effectively have to hide their pursuit of better outcomes for the organisation under a veneer of performing as the organisation expects (that is, serve two goals simultaneously, one covert and one performative).

Something like this is a good exploration of the subject: https://spakhm.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted
by bradly | 2025-11-09 22:45:46+00:00
https://recipin.com Recipe extraction and archiving to avoid link rot and blog spam. No tracking, no JavaScript, no AI[0], and just a dusting of CSS. Source available to run your own server if you’d like (https://github.com/bradly/recipin).

I’d like to add importing from a Pinterest account and continue adding support for all the creative implementations of the schema.org recipe format that different sites use.

[0] My partner has a bunch of handwritten family recipes, so I’m trying out an optional extract from a photo of a hand written or magazine recipe that uses AI. Not required and I may pull it out into its own service that spits out schema.org recipes. We’ll see.
by j-bos | 2025-11-09 22:46:09+00:00
At the fortune 500 I work at there's no sweeping layoffs that I've seen. There is a big emphasis on AI, but more relevant to the concerns, there are scoped hiring freezes for US workers, new offshore hires are greenlit though. And I can't help but wonder, what happens to a state when most of its critical infrastructure directly depends on another external state.
by throw0101a | 2025-11-09 22:46:10+00:00
> Yeah, and those have underpermed historically […]

Huh? Underperformed what, exactly? A globally-diversified portfolios of stocks have underperformed …a globally-diversified portfolios of stocks? …tech stocks? …consumer staples? …utilities? …Treasuries?

1/3/5/10/20-year annualized returns are available at:

* https://canadianportfoliomanagerblog.com/model-etf-portfolio...

> […] and it's definitely not recommended by most people.

Again: huh? Who is not recommending index funds for most people? And what is recommended "by most people" if not index funds?
by watwut | 2025-11-09 22:46:19+00:00
First when you have combination of factors, this can happen.

Second, old people were more likely to die on covid. Kids were getting covid too, just not dying and long term covid consequences were observed in then. It can easily be that where old person died, young ended up with long term consequence.

There is no reason to assume the effect would be uniform accross generations.

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Either way, cell phone obsession and "rewiring of biology" claims are wven further from anything shown in the article. They are both purely what HN and the blogger want it to be.
by laegkos | 2025-11-09 22:46:27+00:00
https://linog.ph

LINOG.ph is a live earthquake tracker for the Philippines.

The Philippines deals with thousands of earthquakes a year. Whenever the government volcanology and seismology department detects earthquakes, they post it on their official website.

When a major earthquake happens, a huge number of people try to visit the site, causing downtime for up to an hour.

LINOG.ph caches earthquake data from the official government website and the U.S. Geological Survey site, and makes them highly available to the public.

I built this after seeing friends and family donating and providing support for affected families after a major earthquake in Cebu. This was my way of helping out.

Two super typhoons have hit the Philippines in the past two weeks, so I'm also considering adding in typhoon tracking.
by userbinator | 2025-11-09 22:46:29+00:00
It seems that they're all focused extremely precisely on tiny efficiency gains in standardised tests and stuffing in unwanted hostile "smartness" at the expense of longevity and simplicity. At least the former is mostly due to regulations; and there have been some good changes recently in that area, although it's hard to tell whether they'll have any effect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43065757
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-09 22:46:51+00:00
> but seldom see headlines about ‘far left’ things.

Because we have far right domination of the party currently enjoying a trifecta in the federal government, while the far left in the US is split between a tiny minority of the opposition party and various politically-irrelevant minor parties.

Before its recent sharp right turn, it was widely argued that the US was a "center-right" country; it is now, by government if not necessarily popular sentiment, a far right one.
by Fwirt | 2025-11-09 22:47:03+00:00
Unless you count in the effects of distributed solar and the environmental effects of building said datacenters in the first place. Many homes with solar produce more than they consume, and many homes pay for heat. Instead of new construction (concrete is another huge CO2 contributor) and AC units or pumping surface water for cooling, putting a server in your house is basically free heat and making use of an existing, underutilized resource.

I could run my entire rack off of one to two solar panels (decommissioned ones from a power farm might I add). Even that would take a few years to pay for itself (when you factor in the costs of mounting and permitting) and my power company over 80% renewables the last time I checked anyway.
by collingreen | 2025-11-09 22:47:03+00:00
> the common way that's implemented is a either a whole lot of strange brainwashing courses or active discrimination against "old white guys"

Are the common, strange brainwashing courses in the room right now?

This is obviously a bad faith take - trying to prevent anyone from even saying, let alone promoting, diversity because sometimes people discriminate (which is already illegal) is absurd even without acknowledging that discrimination happens already. This argument looks a LOT like "keep discriminating against people that aren't like me".

Constructive criticism for good faith people out there reading this who are concerned about "DEI" causing discrimination -- acknowledge all discrimination is bad and take a real stab at working on it as a whole. If your only "attempt" to prevent discrimination is speaking up against people trying to include more diverse sets of people in programming communities then you're doing it wrong (and showing your ass).
by asah | 2025-11-09 22:47:10+00:00
New (open source) PostgreSQL index type for analytics workloads, which is a read-only drop-in replacement for B-trees. Smol is multiplicatively faster than B-Trees and radically smaller.

https://github.com/asah/smol

Help, alpha testers, etc all welcome. Sorry RDS/Aurora users: smol is for embedded and self-hosted pg instances only for the foreseeable future.
by koeng | 2025-11-09 22:47:43+00:00
I've been working on a sillier project lately. Green teeth!

Lumina has made a probiotic strain that is able to, theoretically, prevent cavities. I don't care that much about, but I do think it is a neat strain that can likely colonize your mouth. I'm genetically engineering it to express sfGFP, which would theoretically make my teeth fluorescent green under black light. Would be fun at raves! Also, if I make out with anyone, you could theoretically see changes in microbiome composition just from green-ness. I do wonder how much microbiomes are shared while kissing: this would be an example of a way to directly measure that, instead of just measuring on proxy like much microbiome research