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by com2kid | 2025-11-13 17:26:07+00:00
Half the time updates require me to restart X (or Wayland, whichever I am using at the moment).

Coming out of sleep is hit or miss. It works more often than I expected but sure as heck isn't 100%.

Graphical corruption slowly sets in with QT based apps over several days and then I have to restart my display server again.

(This actually seems to have gone away with the an update a month ago!)

Not knowing if I'll be able to sit down at my machine and have it boot up I consider buggy as hell.

Oh and certain items in pop shop, just clicking on them crashes the entire app. Every time, 100% reproducible.

Some apps have 2 listings, one of which crashes pop shop to look at, the other of which typically works.

Some apps just cannot be installed through pop shop, just nope, not going to happen.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-13 17:26:09+00:00
>American government is a system of baffles designed to frustrate democratic will

The "democratic will", like the people who manifest it, is so bizarrely stupid that there are no insults strong enough to properly insult it. If it can be tolerated at all, then it is so only when there are brakes strong enough to slow it down and force it to think carefully.

>To be honest, we need a new constitution that promotes democracy.

Why would I (or anyone like me) ever agree to a new constitution that someone like yourself approves of? The whole point of the constitution as written was that people like yourself couldn't easily come in and change all the rules when our vigilance relaxed a bit, but here you are not even trying to hide it: you want to change all the rules in one fell swoop. No thanks. Do it the hard way to prove to yourself (and the rest of us) that a vast majority want those changes.

I think senators should be appointed by the states again, repeal the 17th.
by getnormality | 2025-11-13 17:26:11+00:00
It's not a run-on, it's a normal sentence with a moderately complex dependent clause.

The only problem with this sentence I can see is that we serve people's interests, not their interest. That might be considered a grammar error - we expect plural objects (interests) for plural subjects (youths). It doesn't seem like a catastrophic one, the sentence can still be easily understood.

By the way, I'm aware I'm a comma splicer. I casually break grammatical rules when I feel like making things read more like how I talk.
by tracker1 | 2025-11-13 17:26:11+00:00
As much as I like MongoDB as a developer, the last thing I ever want to do is manage a deployment again.

I feel like some of these articles miss a few points, even in this one. The monthly cost of the MongoDB hosting was around $2k... that's less than a FT employee salary, and if it can spare you the cost of an employee, that's not a bad thing.

On the flip side, if you have employee talent that is already orchestrating Kubernetes across multiple clouds, then sure it makes sense to internalize services that would otherwise be external if it doesn't add too much work/overhead to your team(s).

In either case, I don't think the primary driver in this is cost at all. Because that 90% quoted reduction in hosting costs is balanced by the ongoing salary of the person or people who maintain those systems.
by philwelch | 2025-11-13 17:26:27+00:00
This was the Xbone/PS4 generation.

The Blu-Ray drive is basically no added cost since the games were already distributed on optical disks, it’s like how the PS2 was one of the most popular DVD players. The problem with the Xbone was that, at least judging on their marketing at the time, Microsoft was far more focused on broadening the scope of the device beyond games while Sony stayed focused on gaming. That’s why I bought a PS4 despite previously using an Xbox 360.
by ankit219 | 2025-11-13 17:26:27+00:00
because they put restrictions. now they cannot. because all the restrictions meant saying no to some legit things as well - inevitably. but then they got sued, laws got passed, to not be monopolistic, and still secure the users. this is the aspect of tech saying no when the thing being asked is impossible but people assume because they dont want to do it for whatever reason.
by lrvick | 2025-11-13 17:26:27+00:00
I have only read that single post by that author and it passed my logic smoke test on a first pass. I am not commenting on any other work by that author and this seems like an ad hominem argument rather than refuting any content of that article.

Also I never actually disagreed that PGP as a specification, has a lot of 1990s holdovers given its history and age. Thankfully we have modern tooling now with reasonably secure defaults.

I was mostly arguing against the article you shared whose conclusions I absolutely disagree with.

IMO OpenPGP, however aged the spec design, when used with modern tools in turn using the unified smartcard interfaces, is still a way better choice than a hodge podge of ssh keys, minisign, age, openssl, etc without any standardized solutions for key revocation, rotation, backup, discovery, verification, etc.
by GlobalFrog | 2025-11-13 17:26:49+00:00
Actually, it is not quite the case: the most warmongering country in Europe was the UK since the 1600s (between 16 and 18 times depending on the criterias you use, a war declaration is way less a clear cut decision than you might think). They most often declared war to France, whereas during the same time, France declared war about 13 times (mostly to Spain, Prussia and Austria). There is no single source for those numbers, because some count invasions as war declarations, and some others don't, and some count wars against coalitions as 1 and some detail the exact number of countries involved. If you want to compare that with Germany/Prussia, they declared war about 10 times during the same time. And if you want to know which country was the most declared war upon, it was France (about 20 times), whereas England/UK was declared war to only 10 times. So it would not be far fetched to argue that it was mostly England/UK that was the biggest warmonger of the past.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-13 17:27:24+00:00
I have to retreat my statement then a little bit, in that it's easy to get your data out of Apple, with the exception of Linux. But Linux is usually the exception for any kind of user convenience stuff, and Linux users know what they're getting themselves into.

The point is, that since Apple is providing dedicated tools both for Mac and for Windows to get your photos off your phone, I don't think it's fair to accuse them of trying to lock in people to their devices.

Same with other stuff like bookmarks, passwords, etc.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-13 17:27:28+00:00
Frankly, this wouldn't be possible without the investment/cloud credits. And that is a shame because I think this is something that should exist in the world (even if I'm not the one building it). We're trying to make the most of the system.

I'm honestly not certain myself how we'll monetize this, but I have had a lot of fun building it and using it myself, and seeing how others use it. As you said, if we continue down this path without success, then worst case, what we built will still exist.

Re: local models, I am a big proponent, but they aren't there yet. This task is non-trivial. Try taking raw HTML from a webpage (minified, bundled, abstracted variable names, no comments, etc.) and using it as a basis to make useful edits. It's tough, and very impressive that any model can actually do it reasonably well. It tentatively looks like we're starting to reach a plateau for general models and open-weight is catching up, but I know the big labs/companies are aggressively capturing massive data and squeezing everything they can out of RL for more task-specific tuning. I hope open-weights can continue to compete!
by pphysch | 2025-11-13 17:27:32+00:00
Being successful enough that any amount of downtime is an existential risk is a great problem to have. 99.99% don't have that problem; even huge successful businesses can survive unplanned downtimes (see: recent major outages).

It's far from table stakes and you can absolutely overengineer your product into the ground by chasing it.

"0 downtime" system << antifragile systems with low MttR.

Something can always break even if your system is "perfect". Utilities, local disasters, cloud dependencies.
by JamesSwift | 2025-11-13 17:27:36+00:00
Man, Im like the total opposite in terms of preferring the Zed UI vs claude code. I really try to avoid raw claude when possible. I very rarely pull it up to do concurrent sessions when I have Zed open already working on something else. Or if I need to do something quick while in the CLI in a random directory. Otherwise, I think just the "files modified" feature is worth using Zed as the primary interface.
by amarant | 2025-11-13 17:28:09+00:00
The reason it's not allowed in European roads is that the cold rolled steel is too hard, and the edges are too sharp.

At 55mph perhaps this doesn't matter, but most vehicle-pedestrian collisions occur at far lower speeds than that, and then it absolutely does matter.

I self identify as a Tesla fanboy, the model Y is the best car in the world in my opinion, but even I have to admit the cybertruck has several fatal flaws and just isn't a good vehicle.

On paper it has a bunch of things going for it, for example it is (as far as I know) the cheapest fully electric vehicle with air suspension. In practice it all falls apart (both literally and figuratively)

I wish Tesla would try again and build a new truck, without the cyber and the cold rolled stainless steel. Stick to the design language of the other Tesla models this time. Let Franz do his thing.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-13 17:28:11+00:00
There's also no guarantees that the current president or administration would honor those NATO obligations if Article 5 is called.

The president has repeatedly been vocal about the US leaving NATO as a possibility.

If I were the EU, I certainly wouldn't be counting on the US honoring any of its agreements and I'd be planning with the assumption that they will not join a NATO response.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-11-13 17:28:13+00:00
In Britain there is no Congress. The name of the House of Lords has nothing to do with the United States' Senate. If we are to believe that its form and function were inspired by some other nation's government, then let's talk about its true namesake: the Roman Senate.

I reject your Peel all apples because orange rinds are bitter! nonsense.
by dogleash | 2025-11-13 17:28:49+00:00
>Couldn’t it also work by guaranteeing each state X seats and then the rest Y seats are set according to census data on population?

Yes. If you call the "X" club the Senate and the "Y" club the House of Representatives, this is exactly how our bicameral legislature works.

edit: Their votes count for passage in their chamber, not equally weighted against eachother. If you mean Y seats equal seats by population but with a minimum X, then that's how the House works. Any proposal to make the senate proportional starts to ask why we're not unicameral because then you basically have 2x house of reps but with different voting district sizes.
by utopiah | 2025-11-13 17:28:52+00:00
Excellent questions,

1. I did actually mine Bitcoins back in the days (back when it was still a cryptoanarchist dream not coopted by the finance industry, scammers and destroying the planet... so a while ago) so I had to explain that too unfortunately. It does highlight a trend that, again, non technical expert take marketing terms at face value.

2. they said "maybe just don't include nonsense in the answer?" which does imply that they believe hallucinations are a side effect that can be solved.
by whimsicalism | 2025-11-13 17:29:03+00:00
Yes, in case you didn't notice, everything we are stating is opinions.

I absolutely reject the notion that the senator from Wyoming should have equal political power to the senator from Texas or California, I think it is absurd, I don't doubt that some people in Wyoming disagree.

I think Wyoming joining the US as a state without equal representation as the most populous state would still be a massive win for them and they would have almost certainly taken the deal at the time.
by dmix | 2025-11-13 17:29:03+00:00
Well maybe European countries should have considered that before spending the last 3 decades shrinking the size of their military. Germany's military chief was ringing the alarm bells in 2023 about their inability to defend their own borders, and that was before Trump came back to power. This is the wealthiest country in Europe.

Germany's GDP is twice that of Russia. EU GDP is 8.5 times larger than Russia.

Yet even in the current state Russia would have very hard time fighting Europe. The Russian military hasn't been this diminished in decades. But the real issue is Europe can't easily spare stuff to help Ukraine because they don't have their own security figured out.
by tshaddox | 2025-11-13 17:29:22+00:00
> Here's another old example of a "transpiler" disagreement subthread where all 4 commenters actually know the distinctions of what that word is trying to capture but 3-out-of-4 still think that extra word is unnecessary

Ha. I see this same thing play out often where someone is arguing that “X is confusing” for some X, and their argument consists of explaining all relevant concepts accurately and clearly, thus demonstrating that they are not confused.
by dmitrygr | 2025-11-13 17:29:42+00:00
> after discovering the expiration dates went past when the drivers were legally allowed to be in the U.S

Oopsie. Honest mistake(s) x17,000

.

I-9 verification has been law since .... November 1986

CDL is for work and requires i9 verification.

This is not new. Plenty of time to do it right...
by tejohnso | 2025-11-13 17:29:55+00:00
What part of the stainless exoskeleton did they not deliver on?

https://www.tesla.com/learn/superior-durability-cybertruck-h...

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if promises weren't kept or expectations not met. This is the same company that has a product called Full Self Driving that cannot fully self drive.
by immibis | 2025-11-13 17:30:14+00:00
> they've consistently been told that everything is their fault because they have male privilege.

This is not me. This is not anyone I know. This is not anyone I've ever known. However, this is what I see people say online about other people who they've never met.

Did you grow up consistently being told that every single thing is your fault because you have male privilege, or are you repeating something you read online or in the media?
by ChildOfChaos | 2025-11-13 17:30:23+00:00
Agreed. But there is a fairly large and very loud group of people that went insane when 4o was discontinued and demanded to have it back.

A group of people seem to have forged weird relationships with AI and that is what they want. It's extremely worrying. Heck, the ex Prime Minister of the UK said he loved ChatGPT recently because it tells him how great he is.
by mnutt | 2025-11-13 17:30:47+00:00
> we never had any issues, because we didn't depend on calling AWS APIs to continue operating. Things already running continue to run.

I think it was just luck of the draw that the failure happened in this way and not some other way. Even if APIs falling over but EC2 instances remaining up is a slightly more likely failure mode, it means you can't run autoscaling, can't depend on spot instances which in an outage you can lose and can't replace.
by sharts | 2025-11-13 17:30:52+00:00
In America it seems the pursuit of happiness requires pursuit of riches. Just the fact that there is very little social safety net, people can go homeless due to medical bills, and the whole pull yourself up from your own bootstraps (because socialism and bailouts are only reserved for the wealthy and connected) —it seems obvious that valuing money becomes the main concern.

Without the money you can’t really live let along thrive or be happy without constant anxiety.
by rrwright | 2025-11-13 17:31:00+00:00
This symptom was affecting display of numbers in the TUI, but the real bug/design flaw is using jq or JSON as a transport mechanism between components or between tools. JSON's number range is famously poor and it even architecture-dependent. So if you use jq or JSON to connect components or tools, you will have this same problem silently occurring elsewhere without visibility in the UI.

This is a bigger deal than it seems like! A confidence-inducing fix would include a blog post describing a top-to-bottom audit of jq/JSON used as a transport layer between tools and components. Not just a patch to the most visible problem.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-11-13 17:31:01+00:00
> Cybertrucks are for pioneers.

Well, here in NJ at least, Cybertrucks are not for pioneers, but inevitably for wealth signaling of mostly clueless people to show they have cash to throw away.

There are of course many wealth signaling cars, but the Cybertruck is in a special noisome class all its own.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-11-13 17:31:04+00:00
Senators represent their State government, not the people. Americans didn't even vote for Senators until sometime in the 20th century. Traditionally they were selected by the State legislatures. Similarly, the President is the President of the States, not the people.

If you don't have this then you don't have a Federal Republic.

The House of Representatives, on the other hand, is intended to represent the people.
by whoaoweird | 2025-11-13 17:31:15+00:00
I think that's an extremely ungenerous read here. The thread is about how different size bills and different color bills solve a lot of problems with people who have low vision. Adding braille solves the same problem, but for a subset of people that different sized/color bills solves.

If you have a good, working solution that's widely used worldwide, and someone suggests a worse solution that works for fewer people, it's more than fair to point out that "your solution is worse, less common, and works for fewer people".

Your last sentence is a low effort strawman, I'm not sure why you felt it necessary to include.
by qwerpy | 2025-11-13 17:31:28+00:00
One man’s abomination is another man’s ideal family car :)

There is no other consumer car that can self-drive from start to finish for an entire trip. That alone will keep me on Tesla until the others catch up. Crash tests have shown that it’s excellent at protecting its occupants, which matters to me as a father of two. The cyberpunk aesthetic, whole home battery backup, and large secured truck bed are just icing on the cake.

I had the trim glue issue fixed proactively (it’s now secured mechanically) and I don’t have a light bar so the new issue doesn’t affect me. Granted, it’s not great that they opted for glue for that use case.
by kolja005 | 2025-11-13 17:31:33+00:00
People like to make fun of these models for sounding like a broken record, being over complementary, etc, but I'm actually starting to think that models having a very recognizable style is a good thing because it makes identifying AI-generated content in the wild really easy. Sure, the verbosity is annoying when I'm just trying to get a straightforward, simple answer from it. But I like that I can have a pretty good sense of when content on the Internet is low-effort AI spam. If models become too good at emulating the personality of a real human, then that gets lost.
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Show HN: Sebastian.run – Generate native mobile apps from a single prompt
by HansP958 | 2025-11-13 17:32:06+00:00
Hey everyone

I’ve been working on Sebastian.run , an AI tool that lets you create a fully functional mobile app (React Native) from a single prompt.

The goal is to make mobile app creation as fast and accessible as building a website.

The latest version (V1) now includes:

Built-in Database

Authentication

Stripe integration

Full code generation + instant preview

You can describe your app idea (e.g. “a social app for book lovers with user profiles and comments”), and Sebastian will generate:

The front-end (Expo / React Native)

The backend logic

Auth & DB setup

Payment flow (via Stripe)

The app runs locally or can be deployed instantly. It’s still early (beta), but I’d love feedback from the community — especially on what would make it more useful for devs and indie hackers.

Try it here: https://sebastian.run

Thanks for checking it out!
by graemep | 2025-11-13 17:32:18+00:00
> Therein lies the problem. When dealing with the law, you don't want to be relatively sure that you won't go to prison or won't get sued for $1M, you want to be completely sure.

Not really. Unless you are redistributing it does not affect you at all.

> Something like the GPL is complex and non-standard as far as its interactions with the legal system go

it is widely used, and most people are running some copyleft software anyway, most commonly GPL or a variant such as LGPL. Linux servers, Android phones, routers, web browsers....
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-13 17:33:04+00:00
> lack of effective governance is the hidden crisis here

but privatization makes that worse, by adding profit-seeking (which tends to minimize investments) to the lack of effective governance

the solution is improving governance and public investments, not privatization

(not to mention the problem with infrastructure paid for by the public over decades being sold off on the cheap to private companies who can reap the benefits thereof)