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by Aurornis | 2025-11-16 15:26:16+00:00
> Personally, I don’t use it but that is besides the point.

This popped out to me, too. This pattern shows up a lot on HN where commenters proudly declare that they don’t use something but then write as if they know it better than anyone else.

The pattern is common in AI threads where someone proudly declares that they don’t use any of the tools but then wants to position themselves as an expert on the tools, like this article. It happens in every thread about Apple products where people proudly declare they haven’t used Apple products in years but then try to write about how bad it is to use modern Apple products, despite having just told us they aren’t familiar with them.

I think these takes are catnip to contrarians, but I always find it unconvincing when someone tells me they’re not familiar with a topic but then also wants me to believe they have unique insights into that same topic they just told us they aren’t familiar with.
by snowwrestler | 2025-11-16 15:26:16+00:00
It’s more accurate to say that Campbell became a huge presence in science fiction by publishing the stories he did. Their popular success reflected a desire in the culture to read what was being published. Larry Niven is one example of an author who did not go through Campbell but yet had many mental powers in his stories and found huge success.

Many universities had depts to study “parapsychology.” The end of that era is the basis for the opening of Ghostbusters. I’m using popular media as shorthand for how wide-spread these ideas were, but military and intelligence operations seriously studied this stuff too, and in many countries, not just the U.S.

This is the way science goes; people can only work with what is known at the time. Newton was doing alchemy while inventing the basis for modern physics. It’s tempting to look back and condemn people by the standards of what we know today, which is based on additional evidence and theory developed over decades or centuries since. But I think it inhibits understanding of how such knowledge is created over time.
by natebc | 2025-11-16 15:27:05+00:00
It's not about keeping spam out of comments, it's about keeping systems and content safe/operational for normal people and more costly or unavailable for the trillion dollar "AI" companies that are shitting all over everything.

Don't blame this on site operators, this is the fault of careless LLM operators knocking down everybody's walls doors and windows to "learn" from their content.
by kace91 | 2025-11-16 15:27:06+00:00
>Sure it's not ide level, but with proper configuration vim/Nvim is much more powerful than vscode.

I’m not arguing against that, I actually moved to neovim and I enjoy it - plus I can now stop worrying that my daily driver will be rug pulled.

I just don’t agree with the idea that neither nvim or eMacs have similar levels of ability to onboard new users. Not when grokking something as simple as closing a tab will get you through a history lesson on the alternate namings of tabs, buffers and windows for example.
by jorvi | 2025-11-16 15:27:27+00:00
> I built my last company on OpenBSD. It was easy to understand the entire system, and secure-by-default (everything disabled) is the right posture for servers.

That really depends. You could argue a router is a server. OpenWRT has the default of WiFi off for security, which means that if the config is somehow hosed and you have to hard reset the router, you now have an inaccessible brick unless you happen to have a USB-Ethernet adapter on you.

Sensible defaults are much, much better than the absolutionist approach of "disable everything".

Edit: it's so funny to know that all the people slamming the downvote have never hit the brick wall of a dumb default. I hope you stay blessed like that!
by BirAdam | 2025-11-16 15:27:50+00:00
Apple gets a lot of shade, but…

I used Linux for about 25 years. With the rising cost of hardware, I bought an M4 Max MacStudio earlier this year as it was the best bang for the buck on CPU/GPU and the savings on those offset the extortionate pricing on RAM/SSD.

You know what? Despite Liquid Glass being a bit of a downgrade recently, macOS is still good. Do I enjoy it as much as the old lampshade iMac or even 68030 Macintosh? No. Is it absolutely astounding compared to anything else available? Yes. It is. The ecosystem effects with my phone and AirPods is nice, but the computer alone is phenomenal.

I completely understand why people get upset about certain things, but the Macintosh, the iPhone, and even the watch and headset are solid products. Not everyone is going to like them, and I’d be worried if everyone did; yet, I think Cook did okay. No one was ever going to be Steve Jobs, and given Steve’s failings, we should not want anyone to be Steve Jobs. His genius came at a severe cost to his family and to him personally.

Apple is still producing solid products. They have warts, but that was true of every single product that Apple ever released. Nostalgia plays a huge part in making us think things have gotten worse. I have a Mac Classic II, a Performa, a PowerMac G3, an XT clone, and a Pentium machine that I use often… things are so much better now than before.
by rincebrain | 2025-11-16 15:27:58+00:00
I don't think even this is true any more.

Windows used to have a solid technical foundation and was working on improving longstanding historical warts (font processing in the kernel, what could go wrong?), regardless of how off the rails the end user experience was getting.

Now, Windows seems to be rotting from every direction. The user experience is going straight for minmaxing data harvesting and antipatterns, and the technical underbelly is showing horrible problems getting into releases. [1][2], to pick a couple recent examples.

[1] - https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-11-...

[2] - https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/october-...
by gmuslera | 2025-11-16 15:28:03+00:00
It's ironic to use reputation system for this.

20+ years ago there were mail blacklists that basically blocked residential IP blocks as there should not be servers trying to send normal mail from there. Now you must try the opposite, blacklist blocks where only servers and not end users can come from, as there is potentially bad behaved scrapers in all major clouds and server hosting platforms.

But then there are residential proxies that pay end users to route requests from misbehaved companies, so that door is also a bad mitigation
by angoragoats | 2025-11-16 15:28:15+00:00
You're responding in a sub-thread where others have specifically called out the fact that you can't get battery status from AirPods on non-Apple platforms. This is, to my knowledge, a feature that is supported natively by the Bluetooth stacks on every mainstream OS and requires no "apps" at all. For example, I can connect my Bluetooth mouse to my Linux machine and it happily reports the state of the battery.

Care to offer a justification for why this is the case without resorting to "the multi-trillion-dollar behemoth can't be bothered to build an app"?
by mothballed | 2025-11-16 15:28:28+00:00
>Sounds like either someone with very young kids or else someone with a dismissive/naive parenting style.

Increasingly this is what the tyranny of the majority is in the western world. People who don't have kids, or only limited experience with kids, declaring that parents are neglecting or abusing their children because they don't behave the way the hypothetical ideologically pure parent would. Almost every single one of them has a cell-phone and the second they see something they disapprove of they can call CPS at the drop of a hat and make your life a living hell, even if you are 'innocent' of even whatever BS they made up.

As always, it's just a smug attempt at moral superiority. They want the intoxicating power rush from threatening and imposing on parents, with none of the responsibility, and the state is all too happy to provide it to them. Just punish and then rest soundly knowing you have no kids of your own for which you could be prosecuted.
by Closi | 2025-11-16 15:28:40+00:00
> Net result renewables currently save you money until ~80% annual electricity supply. At which point adding more batteries and generation to cover overnight demand is cheaper than adding nuclear to the mix.

Assume you mean more expensive than nuclear in the second point?

Agree with your point although it's about wind in the uk rather than solar, and about being able to last a few weeks if there is calm weather rather than a day without sun, which is when having a nuclear baseload makes sense.
by pxc | 2025-11-16 15:30:33+00:00
I'm also a daily Emacs user. I'm no wizard; I've leaned on starter kits like Spacemacs and Doom my whole Emacs life.

Likewise, I find VSCode overstimulating and, for lack of a better word, rude.

I just tried setting up RustRover for a side project at work on Friday. It's my first time using an IDE since I was a Scala developer near the beginning of my professional career. I only had an hour or two to play, but I ended up unable to get a working run configuration, or at least one that showed me anything at all except sometimes when it failed. It was a lot of clicking around.

I'll sort it out next week, I'm sure. But pointy-clicky turned out not to be as ez-pz as I'd hoped it would be.
by jamesgill | 2025-11-16 15:31:13+00:00
Emacs for programming is definitely one important use case. This tool seems to focus on that use case, though I think I can get 75% of it by just using Emacs keybindings with regular VSCode.

But Emacs is so much more than an ‘IDE’. I realize some don’t like the Emacs approach of ‘here’s a box of parts and tools, build it the way you want’, but that’s the point of Emacs.

Besides the functional approach, of course, there is the philosophical stance: freedom.

Emacs is an elegant weapon from a more civilized age. But some people prefer blasters, and that’s okay.
by matwood | 2025-11-16 15:31:14+00:00
IDK. I find people who really like Apple to be the most critical of Apple. When things don't work perfectly or something is a little off, they complain because their expectations are so high.

No one really cares that Windows has so many design inconsistencies, but Apple makes a change that isn't 100% consistent and people go crazy.

With that said, I'm like the person described to who you responded to. All my Apple things 'just work' better than any other computing devices I've used in the last 30 years, and I go on about my day not really thinking about it.

BTW, Macs made printing sane. There's a reason the old Windows MCSE tests felt they were 90% about printing problems.
by crazygringo | 2025-11-16 15:32:17+00:00
If you forget your ID, then the extra screening will attempt to find existence of the ID in databases. The ID still needs to have been issued in the first place. This is mainly if you lose your driver's license while traveling, it lets you get back home. It is in no way some kind of general-purpose mechanism for flying without ID. And it's a gigantic hassle that may take hours at the airport to sort out, leading you to miss your flight and wait to be rebooked.

You're absolutely being pedantic and argumentative, and I can't even begin to imagine why. I assume you know perfectly well that an ID is required to fly as the general rule. I can't imagine what you think you're trying to accomplish by arguing otherwise.

And if you really want to be pedantic, note that the word used is "may", not "shall":

> In the event you arrive at the airport without acceptable identification (whether lost, stolen, or otherwise), you may still be allowed to fly.

Because it's not a guarantee.
by cubefox | 2025-11-16 15:33:04+00:00
> Based on what? Your arbitrary standards.

Based on a strongly and persistently imbalanced ratio of revenue to expenses, which indicates a form of market inefficiency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent#Monopoly_rent (the mentioned network effects are basically what drives Steam rents)

> I still don't understand what's wrong with 30% for everything Steam provides as a platform. It's perfectly acceptable. It's not making indie developers poorer.

Of course it makes them poorer if a big chunk of what you pay for their games goes to Valve.

> It helping to ensure Valve can focus on the things that matter to them and do things like invest

But they basically aren't doing that. If a company has an extreme revenue-to-expense ratio, it means they are hardly investing any of their revenue. They only have a few hundred employees while making around 6.5 billion per year.

> Every other digital storefront does far less and still takes 15-30%. Why is Valve the big boogey man

Well, Microsoft seems to do 12-15% in the Microsoft Store. And I fully agree Apple is significantly worse than Valve with iOS, because there is no way to circumvent the 30% fee in iOS; indeed, it wouldn't even be possible to offer a software like Steam on iOS. (But it should also be noted that Apple has a much lower revenue-per-employee ratio than Valve, indicating that they reinvest a lot more of their revenue.)
by maeln | 2025-11-16 15:33:08+00:00
> Valve isn't likely to make SteamOS the kind of platform that facilitates intrusive* anti-cheat* or which is locked down in a way to prevent cheating at the client side. This means that a number of competitive multiplayer games will never run on it. I think in this regard, consoles still have an advantage** if you're into those kinds of games.

Depends on just how successful SteamOS gets. If it start to have a significant market share, competitive multiplayer games might start to find it hard to ignore it. Though how they decide to deal with that, I have no idea.

I think Valve see a future for anti-cheat where most of it is behavioral analysis. Client-side anti-cheat is a big game of cat and mouse. It does make cheat harder to develop, but to a point where the customer is impacted. Post game analysis cannot be countered "technically". Cheat would need to mimic a real player behavior, which at the end is a success. If you can't tell if a player is cheating or not, does it matter that they are ? Although for things like wallhacks, it might be harder to detect.
by seanalltogether | 2025-11-16 15:33:26+00:00
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/gpui/...

GPUI is a great example of the insane amount of boilerplate needed to create a component when you don't have inheritance.

My guess is that people don't create a lot of individual components in this framework to handle different business cases, and instead overload a single text input component with a million different options. I would hate to untangle a mature app written under those conditions.
by heddycrow | 2025-11-16 15:33:26+00:00
Look at the history of art itself to find several movements where artists make the point that difficulty in production is not the key feature of art. You might even find proof that human connection and humanity are not the key features. In fact, it's pretty hard to nail down an objective definition of art, but we can say what it doesn't have to be.

Gold doesn't share this nebulous sort of definition. Same with diamonds, what's their price now that we have figured out the "alchemy" for those?

What is it about these sorts of questions that escape those that write articles like these? Better yet, if the authors did ask these sorts of questions, could they write at all? Put another way, must there be a lack of depth in order for these sorts of ideas to be properly viral?

Maybe my feed just sucks. Someone please tell me where I can read what I describe. Thanks in advance.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-16 15:33:37+00:00
I consider reference to be garbage collection, and so do most CS textbooks. However Rc/Arc/shared_ptr are GC facilities used (often sparingly) inside predominantly non-GC'd languages, so, yeah, I wouldn't say Rust "is" or "has" GC. It has facilities for coping with cleanup, both RAII and GC.
by stingraycharles | 2025-11-16 15:34:38+00:00
This is an article that rehashes a fact that has been known for a long time: when you give an AI permissions to do anything beyond read-only stuff to an MCP server, you better be careful.

We’re currently in the “prioritize features/functionality over security” phase with AI, I believe things will get formalized in a few years and this problem will get solved.

In the meantime, be careful.
by Retric | 2025-11-16 15:34:58+00:00
> Assume you mean more expensive than nuclear in the second point?

No, but I clarified the comment. My point is when taken in isolation nighttime nuclear costs less than nighttime batteries on a near zero carbon grid, however the economics operate 24/7/365. Nuclear heavily favors 24/7 operations so gaining 3c/kWh at night while losing 6c/kWh during the day is a net loss. Operating only at night almost doubles nuclear’s cost per kWh so you’d lose money anyway.

> weeks if there is calm weather rather than a day without sun, which is when having a nuclear baseload makes sense.

If you don’t have enough energy for a few days randomly you need peaking power generation not baseload. Nuclear is really bad at ramping up to meet sudden shortfalls.

The scenario you described is one of the very few cases where hydrogen might make sense assuming all fossil fuel use is banned. Without that natural gas is going to win to prevent random outages every few decades.
by lucideer | 2025-11-16 15:36:07+00:00
First time seeing a few of the engines listed here - based on this table I'm surprised Samsung's Escargot hasn't gotten more attention. LGPL, 100% ES2016+ compliance, top 10 perf ranking, 25% the size of V8 & only 318 Github stars.

A quick HN search shows 0 comments for Escargot - is there some hidden problem with this engine not covered in this table?
by xethos | 2025-11-16 15:37:21+00:00
Snap-On is known for nice, warrantied-for-life, but incredibly expensive tools. A 10mm socket is $40, a 10mm wrench is $58.

The cheapest OBD-II reader one can use with the Hyundai, per TFA, is ~$800, and Hyundai's required-for-this-job software subscription is $60/week.

Needing tools is fine, but the cost is ballooning, and the ladder for starting work at home, and learning, is being pulled up.

Sure, one needs tools
Show HN: ICT Model – a framework linking information, time and consciousness
by DmitriiBaturo | 2025-11-16 15:37:37+00:00
I’ve been working on a conceptual model (ICT Model) that tries to unify information dynamics (dI/dT), temporal structure and the emergence of conscious processes.

The core idea is simple but unusual:

Physical energy, conscious experience and the arrow of time may all be different manifestations of the same underlying informational gradient.

The model predicts that:

energy = frozen information interacting with changing information,

consciousness ∝ local dI/dT,

reality’s “levels” emerge from stable mappings between I_fixed and dI/dT.

A full 23-page preprint (with equations, phenomenology and testable criteria) is here:

For discussion, please join us here:

https://www.academia.edu/s/8924eff666#comment_1478583

Doi:

10.5281/zenodo.17584782

I would be grateful for feedback from physicists, cognitive scientists, information theorists and anyone familiar with foundations of QM.
by MegaDeKay | 2025-11-16 15:38:11+00:00
You have to take MLID with a several large grains of salt. He gets a lot wrong, and when he does, he deletes the corresponding videos. There are Reddit subs that won't allow links to his videos for that reason. Valve has also said that it won't be console-type pricing, more like the pricing of a decent SFF PC.

Having said that, it would be great to see the GabeCube come in around the prices he's guesstimating. I hope it finds great success.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-11-16 15:38:25+00:00
Had similar epiphanies some many years ago (ugh, I'm old) when I was playing around writing a garbage collected persistent (in the 'stored on [spinny spinny] disk' sense not the FP sense of the word) programming language / runtime. This was back when it was roughly infeasible to be holding large "worlds" of objects purely in-memory on machines of the style of the time, so intelligently paging objects in and out was imperative. (Aside, I think with the recent doubling... tripling of RAM prices this area of thinking is now again more imperative)...

In any case, if one is doing GC in such a language, a full tracing collector (whether copying or mark & sweep) is madness, as to find live references means walking nearly the entire heap including the portions living in secondary storage, and now you're in a world of pain.

In this case, an intelligent cycle collecting garbage collector in the Bacon style was the answer. You keep in in-memory table of reference counts, and you only trace when you hit cycles. [and hopefully design your language semantics to discourage cycles]
by chickenbig | 2025-11-16 15:38:54+00:00
> its going to take another decade (conservatively) to even build one of these modular reactors.

So nuclear reactors can be built to supply the energy and power as the offshore wind farms get decommissioned. The rise and fall.

> Another is the vast cost of nuclear compared to wind.

What do you mean by cost? Capital expenditure per kW of nominal capacity, or by total energy generated? Plus should we consider other costs (backup, transmission, curtailment)?
by WillAdams | 2025-11-16 15:40:07+00:00
I found myself using Fujitsu tablets for a long while because I prefer using a stylus, and there was a long while they were the best option --- in particular, the Stylistic line and the ST4100 and ST4110 were perfect for my needs, esp. the latter w/ its daylight-viewable transflective display. Still worked last time I needed to scan something.

The Samsung Galaxy Book 12 was a nice replacement (save for daylight viewability), but when it was time to replace it, wound up w/ a Book 3 Pro 360 convertible.

Windows 11 has annoyed me to the point that I am contemplating a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Wacom display, which feels like a much easier way to get a Linux laptop (modulo the need to make a shell and source a battery and wire everything together).
by blibble | 2025-11-16 15:40:34+00:00
the kernel might still be good but the userland is just awful in every way imaginable

they have even managed to screw up file explorer and the start menu

it's so slow I can see it render the interface, like watching compuserve render a webpage on a 2400 bad modem

(high end i9 box)

I bet it's not long until React ends up in the kernel too
What to Learn? CUDA vs. PyTorch vs. Jax vs. Triton/Pallas
by bananc | 2025-11-16 15:40:58+00:00
I am a student getting into ML and for unknown reason chose to learn JAX instead of PyTorch. Get to a point where I need custom kernels and thus my only option is Pallas because I can't use Triton in JAX and never used CUDA/C++. Did I made a wrong decision and should I switch to learning PyTorch + Triton or even CUDA? Also what % of ML labs do you think write custom kernels in Triton at all?
by Dwedit | 2025-11-16 15:41:21+00:00
rand() doesn't do what you think it does. It's a multiply then an add, then return particular bits of the current seed. See "Linear congruential generator" for more information.

On GCC, it's multiply by 1103515245 then add 12345, and return low 30 bits. On MSVC, it's multiply by 214013 and add 2531011 then return bits 16...30.
by gruez | 2025-11-16 15:41:59+00:00
>I wonder if it’s possible to implement anti-cheat as a USB stick. Your GabeCube or gaming PC would stay open by default, but you could buy an anti-cheat accessory that plugs into a free USB port. Connecting that device grants access to match making with other people who have the device.

What does the USB stick actually do? The hard part of implementing the anti-cheat (ie. either invasive scanning or attestation with hardware root of trust) is entirely unaddressed, so your description is as helpful as "would it be possible to implement a quantum computer as a USB stick?"