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Ask HN: Ultrawide monitors, yay or nay? If yay, what brand?
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 16:32:56+00:00
I've been eyeing upgrading my monitor(s) from two regular 4k 60hz monitors, one vertical and one horizontal, to one large ultrawide with also higher refresh rate.

For the people who've made the move, was it worth it in the end? What brand/model did you end up going with, and what are the current pros/cons of the one you ended up?

I mostly do programming, but also game development, video editing, and various activities linked to those (3D modeling, VFX, etc) and starting to feel annoyed about having two separate monitors instead of one huge one.
by bartread | 2025-11-04 16:32:57+00:00
> the general rule of optimizing for bad reception died.

Yep, and people will look at you like you have two heads when you suggest that perhaps we should take this into account, because it adds both cost and complexity.

But I am sick to the gills of using software - be that on my laptop or my phone - that craps out constantly when I'm on the train, or in one of the many mobile reception black spots in the areas where I live and work, or because my rural broadband has decided to temporarily give up, because the software wasn't built with unreliable connections in mind.

It's not that bleeding difficult to build an app that stores state locally and can sync with a remote service when connectivity is restored, but companies don't want to make the effort because it's perceived to be a niche issue that only affects a small number of people a small proportion of the time and therefore not worth the extra effort and complexity.

Whereas I'd argue that it affects a decent proportion of people on at least a semi-regular basis so is probably worth the investment.
by virginie_d | 2025-11-04 16:33:01+00:00
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by pixl97 | 2025-11-04 16:33:03+00:00
>All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial

Then I suggest you dig ditches with a spoon.

The problem isn't replacing human labor in itself. It's a few hording all the resources and leaving the rest to starve, aka the luddites and why they revolted.

If you had a way to live, then boutique farming, or whatever would be leisure if you chose to do that.
by PEGHIN | 2025-11-04 16:33:04+00:00
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by spwa4 | 2025-11-04 16:33:04+00:00
When was hamas "effectively eliminated as a credible major threat"? Wasn't there yesterday a new item how they have at least 200 fighters stuck in ambush tunnels behind the yellow line and demand to be taken, with their weapons, to safety, in Red Cross vehicles?

They added they would refuse any deal that didn't let them keep their weapons, instead they would keep up attacks, despite agreeing to a ceasefire stating otherwise.

One might add that of the 11 points in the ceasefire agreement hamas signed, this one demand violates 5. Just this one action.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/11/03/hamas-terrorists-dema...

It's sad and pathetic how this very public hamas demand is pretty much to an itemized list of what everybody keeps claiming hamas never does, from hiding behind medical services to having zero intention of abiding by peace agreements.
by jake200 | 2025-11-04 16:33:20+00:00
> People know communism isn't the solution, but they will still vote for it because at least it pretends to stand for equality.

Genuinely curious - why isn't communism the solution? And in your opinion, what are some better solutions? I haven't studied much about political/economic ideologies and at this point don't even know where to start. I do agree with some of what you are saying, but I don't understand why communism wouldn't be be a step in the right direction.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-11-04 16:33:48+00:00
Immigration permission to work legally and tax compliance for the earnings are two completely different topics in probably all countries.

Even mostly law-abiding citizens with full work permission often dodge taxes in certain sectors of the economy - a common US example is restaurant workers underreporting cash tips on their tax returns. Plus, in addition to digital nomads, many freelancers (certainly not all) play as fast and loose with the tax rules even in their home countries as they think they can get away with. And much cross-border employment is disguised as independent contracting in ways that dodge employers’ tax burdens even when the employee has full work permission.

Conversely, there are already cases where even income earned illegally by visiting foreigners can legally be exempt from a country’s taxes. Example: Income earned in Canada by a US resident can qualify for Canada-US tax treaty’s exemption from Canadian taxation if the criteria listed in the treaty are met, regardless of whether the work was legal for immigration purposes. (Canada is actually one of the few countries from which foreign tourists can often legally work remotely for employers or clients abroad, but that depends on a lot of factors, and it can also be illegal like in most countries.)
by rcxdude | 2025-11-04 16:34:01+00:00
It's a sign that they are 'reasoning' imperfectly. If they were just giving responses that 'looked like' chess moves, they would be very bad at playing chess.

(And I would hazard a guess that they are a primarily learning chess from the many games that are posted, as opposed to working things out from the rules. Indeed, if you make up a game and tell chatGPT the rules, it tends to be even worse at following them, let alone figuring out optimal play. But again, it will do so significantly better than random chance, so it's doing something with the information you give it, even if it's not doing so very well. I think it's reasonable to call this thinking, or reasoning, but this mostly becomes an argument of semantics. either way they do it significantly better than random chance but still not tremendously well. If your expectation is that they cannot work with anything novel then you're going to be continually surprised, but if your expectation is that they're as good as a human that has 'learned' from all the material its been given, especially material that's in-context and not in the training data, then you're also going to be disappointed.)
by Ajakks | 2025-11-04 16:34:13+00:00
Im so confused as to how you think you can cut an endless chain at the mouse.

Were mammals the first thing? No. Earth was a ball of ice for a billion years - all life at that point existed solely around thermal vents at the bottom of the oceans... that's inside of you, too.

Evolution doesn't forget - everything that all life has ever been "taught" (violently had programmed into us over incredible timelines) all that has ever been learned in the chain of DNA from the single cell to human beings - its ALL still there.
by brosco | 2025-11-04 16:34:22+00:00
One reason is that it would be like hanging a picture using a sledgehammer. If you're just studying various ways of unwrapping a sphere, the (very deep) theory of manifolds is not necessary. I'm not a cartographer but I would assume they care mostly about how space is distorted in the projection, and have developed appropriate ways of dealing with that already.

Another is that when working with manifolds, you usually don't get a set of global coordinates. Manifolds are defined by various local coordinate charts. A smooth manifold just means that you can change coordinates in a smooth (differentiable) way, but that doesn't mean two people on opposite sides of the manifold will agree on their coordinate system. On a sphere or circle, you can get an "almost global" coordinate system by removing the line or point where the coordinates would be ambiguous.

I'm not very well versed in the history, but the study of cartography certainly predates the modern idea of an abstract manifold. In fact, the modern view was born in an effort to unify a lot of classical ideas from the study of calculus on spheres etc.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-04 16:34:42+00:00
> > The Department of Homeland Security later released a statement claiming that Figueroa was at fault, saying “she crashed into an unmarked government vehicle and violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers.”

Judging by the videos I came across, she seems to be the size and build of an average women, how could she possibly have hurt the two officers? Seems they seriously lack training and if they managed to get hurt in such situation, they have no place in the police force from the beginning.
Ask HN: What is your doomsday plan for your passwords
by ivape | 2025-11-04 16:34:54+00:00
The scenario:

1) The phone is lost

2) No other devices

3) No access to identification (wallet lost)

3) You cannot get 2FA codes from any device

Short of putting another phone that can receive 2FA inside of a bank vault, I don’t know what else one can do.
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-04 16:34:57+00:00
A quick search shows:

- a github repo containing "the original, de-compiled source code for the Morris Worm" - see https://github.com/agiacalone/morris-worm-malware

- a high level report about the worm - see https://www.ee.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/internet-worm.html
by sleepyguy | 2025-11-04 16:35:05+00:00
Manufacturers learned a valuable lesson a few years ago: overproduction leads to lower prices. Samsung was the first to address this issue by scaling back, and other manufacturers soon followed suit (collusion, cough cough). The past couple of years have been extremely profitable for the entire industry, and they’re not about to increase production and risk hurting their profits.

I suspect they would rather face shortages then satisfy market demand.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-04 16:35:13+00:00
> But to say that (some) software bloat without considerations is ok is how we have the fastest machines imaginable and still end up with UI that can't keep up visually with keystrokes.

Is this actually a problem, though? The blog features a section on tradeoffs, and dedicates an entire section to engineering tradeoffs. Perceived performance is one of these tradeoffs.

You complain about UI not keeping up with key strokes. As a counterexample I point out Visual Studio Code. It's UI is not as snappy as native GUI frameworks, but we have a top notch user experience that's consistent across operating systems and desktop environments. That's a win, isn't it? How many projects can make that claim?

The blog post also has a section on how a significant part of the bloat is bad.
by HatchedLake721 | 2025-11-04 16:35:18+00:00
> If you show revenue, people will ask 'HOW MUCH?' and it will never be enough. The company that was the 100xer, the 1000xer is suddenly the 2x dog. But if you have NO revenue, you can say you're pre-revenue! You're a potential pure play... It's not about how much you earn, it's about how much you're worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!
by slowmovintarget | 2025-11-04 16:35:35+00:00
This.

There's an unproven assumption that somehow the inequality of outcome is 1) unjust, and 2) something to be "corrected."

The first has no foundation other than appeal to emotion to create in-group / out-group tribes ("eat the rich!") to then suggest what end up being power grabs that destroy the middle class and do nothing to the wealthy.

The second item requires destroying value. All economic activity comes from exchanges of value, which is intrinsically tied to time; that irreducible finite quantity to which everyone is subject. We've seen over and over again, when you try to destroy the concept of value, which is subjective and circumstantial for each individual, all you end up doing is causing human misery.

This obsession with taking other people's money rather than enabling opportunities to make your own is unhealthy, destructive, and immoral.
by ryandrake | 2025-11-04 16:35:48+00:00
Society and policy makers seem to have a lot of trouble understanding scale and orders of magnitude. We declare some broad principle, like "It's good to make our kids lives easier and better than our own." and we apply it regardless of whether the dollar value is $10K, $10M, or $10B. But someone passing down $10B to their children is totally different than someone passing down $10K, and needs to be handled differently by the law. We have coarse, ham-fisted step functions like "inheritance tax only affects inheritances over $X" but you can't have a single threshold for these things. It has to be progressive with a sliding scale, otherwise you get all the negative issues around wealth accumulation.

Other Example: why can't we have income tax thresholds that go all the way up to $1T/year? Why is the absolute top income tax bracket something like $600K? Really? Are we really saying that we should tax someone who makes $600K exactly like we tax someone who makes $600M? or $6B?
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-11-04 16:36:19+00:00
Now try a different language. My take is hard RL tuning to fix these "gotcha:s" since the underlying model can't do it on its own.

OpenAI is working on ChatGPT the application and ecosystem. They have transitioned from model building to software engineering with RL tuning and integration of various services to solve the problems the model can't do on its own. Make it feel smart rather than be smart.

This means that as soon as you find a problem where you step out of the guided experience you get the raw model again which fails when encountering these "gotchas".

Edit - Here's an example where we see a very tuned RL experience in English where a whole load of context is added on how to solve the problem while the Swedish prompt for the same word fails.

https://imgur.com/a/SlD84Ih
by leptons | 2025-11-04 16:36:25+00:00
Transistor size is not the only metric that matters in computer speed. Maybe you weren't around when 1MHz CPUs were considered fast. Then there were 8Mhz, then 16MHz, then 25MHz, and soon enough it was 250Mhz, then it jumped up to 1GHz, and now we're seeing 4GHz and faster. We're probably not at the end of the GHz that can be achieved. Chip dies got bigger, too. Way bigger. It doesn't matter if a single transistor can't be shrunk smaller than 3nm if the chip size can be increased. We've seen this in Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), which is 12 inches by 12 inches and contains 4 trillion transistors. And then there's the possibility of 3D chip design - if you can't go wider, build taller - but the main problem with all of this is heat and power. More transistors, more GHz, larger dies, all means more heat - and heat is the real limiting factor. If heat and power weren't a concern then we'd have far faster computers.

But all of these advancements in processing power are driven by money, not by some made-up "law" that sounds nice on paper but has little to do with the real world. Sorry but "Moore's law" isn't really a "law" in any way like the laws of physics.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-04 16:36:58+00:00
> because we have no idea how it works

Flagrantly, ridiculously untrue. We don't know the precise nuts and bolts regarding the emergence of consciousness and the ability to reason, that's fair, but different structures of the brain have been directly linked to different functions and have been observed in operation on patients being stimulated in various ways with machinery attached to them reading levels of neuro-activity in the brain, and in specific regions. We know which parts handle our visual acuity and sense of hearing, and even cooler, we can watch those same regions light up when we use our "minds eye" to imagine things or engage in self-talk, completely silent speech that nevertheless engages our verbal center, which is also engaged by the act of handwriting and typing.

In short: no, we don't have the WHOLE answer. But to say that we have no idea is categorically ridiculous.

As to the notion of LLMs doing similarly: no. They are trained on millions of texts of various sources of humans doing thinking aloud, and that is what you're seeing: a probabilistic read of millions if not billions of documents, written by humans, selected by the machine to "minimize error." And crucially, it can't minimize it 100%. Whatever philosophical points you'd like to raise about intelligence or thinking, I don't think we would ever be willing to call someone intelligent if they just made something up in response to your query, because they think you really want it to be real, even when it isn't. Which points to the overall charade: it wants to LOOK intelligent, while not BEING intelligent, because that's what the engineers who built it wanted it to do.
by throw0101d | 2025-11-04 16:37:19+00:00
> Judging by the videos I came across, she seems to be the size and build of an average women, how could she possibly have hurt the two officers?

Devil's advocate: if you're untrained† and flailing around while trying to be restrained, an elbow or knee could smash someone's nose or groin pretty hard.

† I.e., not an MMA fighter or into judo or BJJ, which has a lot of grappling techniques.
by bodge5000 | 2025-11-04 16:37:25+00:00
I've used a few terrain generators before but I think this one might be my favourite. Obviously the fact its a "CSS only" demo project restricts things a bit, but its got enough going for it regardless.

It actually comes at a really good time for me, I'm currently trying to make the transition from 2d game dev to 3d and things like this are really helpful.
by tehjoker | 2025-11-04 16:37:55+00:00
lower prices are ok if they are selling more units, the question is whether the price point * units is Pareto optimal

overproduction means unsold units which is very bad, you pay a cost for every unsold unit

underproduction means internal processes are strained, customers are angry, but a higher price per a unit... can you increase the price by more than you are underproducing?
by xethos | 2025-11-04 16:37:57+00:00
This is just Google doing what they've done for years now: start with the software, partner with hardware OEMs, then build their own hardware. Android to Nexus to Pixel line is one example, Google Now on Tap to their own smart speakers is another (though they may not have hit the third step there yet), and Waymo / Google Maps to self driving is following the same path.
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by deployhq | 2025-11-04 16:38:22+00:00
Author here. Git 3.0 is the first major version in 11 years.

Key takeaways:

- SHA-256 becoming default (brian m. carlson has done ~100 of 200-400 needed patches)

- Rust becoming mandatory build requirement (controversial but necessary for memory safety)

- Reftable format shows 22x performance improvement in benchmarks

- Timeline depends on getting Git forges (GitHub, GitLab) ready with SHA-256 support

The Rust decision is particularly interesting - Patrick Steinhardt's proposal is a "trial balloon" to gauge ecosystem readiness. Happy to answer questions!
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-11-04 16:38:29+00:00
The page represents the consensus view among academics who study genocide, including the leading Israeli academics who study the subject.

Wikipedia has policies around what constitutes a reliable source, and academics who study a particular subject and publish in peer-reviewed journals are generally considered among the highest-quality sources. In this case, they nearly unanimously agree that what Israel has been doing in Gaza is a genocide.

It took Wikipedia a long time to come to this determination. At first, academics were divided, but as time went on and Israel's actions became ever more extreme, opinions shifted and nearly all academics in the field started calling it a genocide. That caused Wikipedia to start calling it a genocide. There was a very long process of discussion and debate on the talk page of the article leading up to this change, centered on an evaluation of the sources.

Jimmy Wales has now come along and essentially ordered the Wikipedia community to change the article. He's effectively ordering them to disregard the usual "reliable source" guidelines and instead represent a view that he personally feels is neutral.

The thing is that Wikipedia editors don't necessarily respect Jimmy Wales that much, and they generally don't think he has the right to dictate what any particular article should or should not say. Wikipedia has been around for more than 20 years. It has well established rules and a community of editors. Jimmy Wales is just the guy who originally set it up, but he's not necessarily an expert on anything.
by graemep | 2025-11-04 16:38:50+00:00
Next.js is a a fully functional backend. Its not Next's fault - I dislike it for other reasons, but this was not a Next problem.

The problem was that the front end developers involved decided to use Next.js to replace the front end of a mostly complete Django site. I think it was very much a case of someone just wanting to use what they knew regardless of whether it was a good fit - the "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" effect.