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by OJFord | 2025-12-02 12:38:16+00:00
Linux works with updates however you want it to - e.g. Arch is a 'rolling release' distro, so compatibility is always expected at the latest of all packages; any update to any package is expected to have been tested with the latest at that time of any other relevant package. Of course bugs occur, sometimes something will be missed, but then it's just an update away to correct it. Or say Debian is not; a release is cut, tested, beta'd, and then made generally available - arguably more testing and a higher chance of finding a compatibility issue, but a slower cycle, potentially harder and slower to fix when something is missed.
by fingerlocks | 2025-12-02 12:39:24+00:00
Did you know that if you have any Apple hardware, like anything at all with a screen, this is a 0-step process? You’re already signed into the device, and the AppleTV.app is pre-installed. It’s one tap.

I have sympathy for you, that sounds hellish. But. You are aware that Apple has never been in the web content business, right? And I’ve never heard of anyone watching Apple TV from a browser. I didn’t even know that was possible. I thought the channel existed as a means to sell Apple hardware, because it does work beautifully on their devices
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-02 12:39:35+00:00
They say every second version of windows is bad. 8 was so bad they skipped straight to 10. But given the current priorities of Windows i'm not holding my breath. They seem to have abandoned the idea that "things should work" as a key principle. 10 was around for an extraordinarily long time but 11 has very few good ideas.
by gclawes | 2025-12-02 12:40:33+00:00
It's not really that a digital ID can be used to spy on people (governments can already do this to a pretty large degree without needing spyware). It's that it's a permission system that can be instantly updated and centrally managed by people that have legal authority to spy on you.

If your digital ID is controlled centrally by the government (the guys that are watching most things you do already), and you need your digital ID to do most commercial interactions (banking, buying things, travel, etc), it means the government can revoke your ability to do any of those commercial interactions (or even other things that aren't strictly commercial, think "travel papers" for driving out of state).

And it doesn't even have to be in response to criminal actions. You too too many trips this year? Well, you've used up your CO2 budget as a citizen, have fun not buying CO2-intensive food (meat). Said something racist online? Well we certainly can't let a person like you buy a car now, can we?

And yes, things like credit cards and credit scores are centrally managed to a degree, and Visa/Mastercard can deny transactions for somewhat-arbitrary reasons (they're actually fairly legally limited in how they can do this, it's not totally arbitrary). But these things are not tied into every aspect of your life (your bank doesn't necessarily know how many miles you've driven this year), whereas states can (or can invent the legal authority to) tie a digital ID into everything.
by AwkwardPanda | 2025-12-02 12:40:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I posted the first version of OnlyRecipe here about four years ago [1], and the response was incredible. The feedback in that thread shaped a lot of what I wanted to build next. That initial momentum proved that the core problem (ads, life stories, and clutter on recipe blogs) needed a solution.

Progress since then has been slower than I hoped — I had some health issues and was building on and off — but I kept coming back to this project because I genuinely love working on it. I’ve been working on the project on and off, fitting development in whenever I could. This post represents a huge personal milestone.

Here’s what’s new after all this time:

Import from Videos: Import directly from TikTok, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook videos

Import from Handwritten recipes: Import from handwritten notes and screenshots

Unit Conversion: A highly-requested feature. Instantly convert US Customary (cups/oz) to Metric (grams/ml) for any extracted recipe.

Grocery Lists: Consolidate ingredients from multiple saved recipes into a single, clean shopping list.

Meal Plan: Plan your weekly meals in advance

Controls: Full recipe editing, PDF export, printing, and cross-device sync

Mobile-First Design: While the web view (linked above) is great for quickly seeing the result, the mobile apps have dedicated native controls for cooking mode (e.g., screen stay-awake, timers, and offline access).

In-App Browser: Directly import from any site within the app and many more...

To see these features in action quickly (small gif/videos), check it out on the landing page [2]

The link above is a deep link to a live demo on the web app.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the new utility features and the performance of the parser! Try it out here [5]

[1] Original post from Jan 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795482

[2] Landing Page: https://get.onlyrecipeapp.com

[3] iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/only-recipe/id1602130759

[4] Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nsqr.onlyr...

[5] Web app: https://onlyrecipeapp.com
by theshrike79 | 2025-12-02 12:41:00+00:00
The difference between email and chat is 100% psychological. It's just text over a transport method.

Some people consider email something you MUST answer ASAP, others can have 9000 unanswered emails without an issue. They'll get around to it.

And with chat, some think it's real-time and expect an answer in seconds, others will check $chat_app a few times a day like email and reply.

I personally prefer chat, because you can use it asynchronously, BUT you can escalate to near real-time if everyone is present at the same time. You can have an actual "conversation" via chat - you can't do that with email.
by pardon_me | 2025-12-02 12:41:02+00:00
Another aspect is using HN as an early seed for wider advertising.

Company blog/announcement -> developer blog -> HN front page -> Twitter -> small tech blogs -> YT niche videos -> Reddit -> PR newswire -> bigger (paid content) blogs -> YT general/news videos -> Facebook -> local news -> national news.

Meanwhile, newer developers who think they're early on groundbreaking tech news are spreading this to their friends via Discord and Whatsapp etc.

Yet all of this media is controlled, just to generate buzz and boost stock prices.
by iaz | 2025-12-02 12:41:02+00:00
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by juanpabloaj | 2025-12-02 12:41:55+00:00
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by lowkj | 2025-12-02 12:42:59+00:00
Why would you need to get on the subway to go to the grocery store? When I lived in Paris I was within a five minute walk to at least three general grocery stores plus various speciality shops. Always plenty of parents all around. This is not uncommon in properly designed non-car dependent cities. Not to mention deliveries are just that much easier and all without a car.
by Draiken | 2025-12-02 12:43:52+00:00
And what exactly are grants then? Tariffs? All the lobbied laws that benefit specific corporations or industries? Aren't they state backed advantages?

Banks created their oligopolies and then who saved them when they fucked up?

Isn't Tesla a state backed monopoly in the USA because of grants and tariffs on external competitors? Isn't SpaceX? Yet nobody treats then as state backed.

I don't understand this necessity to put companies in a pedestal and hate on states. Capitalist propaganda I guess?

Market forces are manipulated all the time. This distinction is nonsense. Companies influence states and vice-versa.
by imtringued | 2025-12-02 12:44:10+00:00
If you've ever attended a German public university you would realize that they strongly operate on Darwinist principles with every incentive to kick students out with hard exams because the students aren't a direct source of funding.

During my bachelor degree the average exam had a 30% failure rate and the first semester exams almost 55%. If you fail an exam three times in a row, you're not even allowed to shop around universities, because you're banned from studying that degree for life. Instead, you're forced to find a similar degree that doesn't have course overlap on the exams you failed, which means you can only transfer some of your credits to the new degree. It's do or die.
by josephg | 2025-12-02 12:45:49+00:00
> Now if you wrote a small piano piece, there is no way you could predict if it will become a hit or not. It depends on factors that are really far from being limited to "the piece in question".

This is where I think we really disagree. If I want to make music people like, I’m pretty sure piano lessons would help me. Theory. Rhythm. Learning to sing. Then I need to practice! Making a smash hit isn’t predictable, but it’s not random either. Luck is a necessary but not sufficient quality. As the saying goes, most overnight successes are 20 years in the making. Watch the early stuff from Louis CK. From Trey Parker and Matt Stone. It’s not as good. They got better over time.

You can learn to write better. To be more charismatic. To connect better to an audience. You’re not in control of whether or not an iOS app is successful. But you can’t make it at all if you don’t know how to code. And if you’re bad at design it probably won’t make it. It’s not simply a coincidence that some blog posts get read and others are ignored. Ask anyone successful. By honestly any metric of success. Practice, skill and hard work won’t guarantee anyone cares about your craft. But if you don’t try? Don’t listen to your audience and improve? Good luck.
by scientator | 2025-12-02 12:46:57+00:00
The idea of rent suggests that you're paying a use fee to an owner. But if you live in a house that you own, and therefore lose the potential rental income, who are you paying that use fee to? Is the loss of potential income really the same as rent? Because in that case almost every choice/action in life involves a potential loss of income. There's probably always something more profitable one could have done with time/money.
by chrismorgan | 2025-12-02 12:47:59+00:00
https://aloisdeniel.com/blog/i-changed-my-mind-about-vector-... seems fairly clearly to be talking about icons of known sizes, in which case that advantage disappears. (I still feel the article is misguided and that the benefit of runtime-determined scaling should have been mentioned, and see no benchmarks supporting its performance theses, and I’d be surprised if the difference was anything but negligible; vector graphic pipelines are getting increasingly good, and the best ones do not work in the way described, and could in fact be more efficient than raster images at least for simpler icons like those shown.)
by jaffa2 | 2025-12-02 12:48:59+00:00
I this related to when you are scrolling and selecting within a document, and you wiggle the mouse, it scrolls faster ? I always thought it was just a nice UI optimisation, but I could believe it's actually some accidental side-effect at play.

(like make a 20 page word doc, and start selecting from the first page and drag through - it wil go faster if you jiggle. same in excel and nearly every windows app, even windows explorer)
by 0xEF | 2025-12-02 12:50:21+00:00
Interesting. And worrying. I see a good number of those Kamrui (and competitor) Mini PCs from Amazon replacing a lot of the far more expensive and lower-powered industrial PCs for various uses in smaller machine shops. I was not surprised since they're inexpensive and have a decent kick to the hardware, but I've noted that the version of Windows they ship with is fairly free of a lot of the usual bloat, so I assumed they were just using one of the available scripts to remove it...which likely included the KMS38 work-around? And I can tell you first-hand that most of the smaller shops are far too busy penny-pinching to spend even a few hundred dollars a year on licensing one or two of those machines properly.

I never looked that deep into it since nobody came to me with any issues about it, but you have me wondering. I don't personally use Windows, either, despite my HN handle (it's just a reference I thought was funny), and I am finding myself more and more ignorant to what Microsoft is actually pushing. Thanks for the heads up. Will spend some time looking at this deeper.
by pardon_me | 2025-12-02 12:50:53+00:00
I agree. Thank you for pointing out a skeptical view.

It's unfortunate that considering supposedly only "seasoned" participators of HN can downvote, it runs deeper than a surface issue. You will be downvoted without comments replying with the counterarguments.

Scientific viewpoints often make way to hope and cope engineering here. This will only work as long as the people involved are insulated from the direct effects of their actions.

It's a shame. HN felt like one of the last bastions of the old internet where techies came to discuss tech, science, and occasionally important worldwide news, in a technical and objective way.
Show HN: ex_actor – New C++ Actor Framework Based on `std:execution`
by lixin_wei | 2025-12-02 12:51:40+00:00
Hi everyone, I built a new actor framework based on `std::execution`.

This framework turns your C++ class into a stateful async service by one line of code. All method calls to it will be queued and executed sequentially, you don't need any locks in your class. It offers a simple way to build highly concurrent programs - just write plain classes.

Compared to other C++ actor frameworks, it has cleaner non-intrusive API, pluggable scheduler, and can compose with everthing in the `std::execution` ecosystem.

It only requires C++20, the core functionality is tested in our company's production, feel free to have a try.

I'll appreciate it if you could have a look. Any question/feedback/criticism is appreciated. Leave a star if you find it's interesting, it'll encourage me a lot :)
Ask HN: Seeking advice in how to deal with frustration against big corps as dev
by _nhh | 2025-12-02 12:52:13+00:00
I am working with technologies provided by big corps like apple, microsoft and google.

Especially painful is the iOS Development from the perspective as a freelancer. (I do stuff for my customers given I use my own personal account and they need to give me the right permissions to do stuff)

Everything in apple seems to not work, is purposly complicated and just plain evil against everyone that uses their portals.

I am at really bad place mentally and dont know how to cope with this. Deadlines are stressing me out because seemingly small things like creating a new app in an existing account causes me to call five people googling forums what errors messages from apple could mean.

This is so frustrating because it is so far away from code and I dont want to deal with it.

Every year it gets worse and worse and I wonder how others stay sane with this?
by Protostome | 2025-12-02 12:53:49+00:00
What am i missing here? physics hackers, please explain.

does their claim of reaching 8 km/s in earth's atomsphere make sense? how is it possible without an insane amount of energy?

Besides, how are you going to deliver this energy in such a short time without frying the entire system, we're talking probably 1000A+ currents flowing in insane voltages.

You'd rather use TNT or some high explosive, that's what is usually done with artillery, and even then you don't get close to 8 km/s as far as i know.
by torginus | 2025-12-02 12:54:43+00:00
What I don't get is why is it that Node is dog slow. Seriously it seems borderline unusable.

In terms of perf, Node has a pretty snappy JIT, and seems to perform OK in the browser, but this seems like something's not right here.

~200ms requests even in the light case are on the very brink of barely acceptable.

On the other hand, Python performs very well, but it's alarming to see it gets slower in every release by a significant margin.
by mollusc-engine | 2025-12-02 12:54:52+00:00
A lot of the work done when making games in Unreal is done in the editor, not in source code.

Also, Unreal source code will be the very last thing LLMs understand. This is the most complex software ever.

There’s an algorithm called Nanite for automatically reducing the triangle count on geometry that’s far from the camera. As in there are not manually made separate level-of-detail models. The algorithm can modify models, reducing quality as they get farther.

This one algorithm is a tiny piece of the engine yet has a 1,000 page white paper.

Also, even when I don’t know how something works algorithmically, usually I at least have some intuition about where to start. I haven’t the slightest idea how to approach this problem.

No way. Take baby steps. Write an operating system first. Write a compiler first.
by sensanaty | 2025-12-02 12:54:58+00:00
I wish there was a way to fund nothing but Firefox development without the rest of the bloated mess that is Mozilla getting a cent from me. I don't want their moronic CEO who is chasing trends like this LLM idiocy to get a fucking dime while the browser itself is starved of money and resources. Fuck, I'm more than happy to pay a monthly subscription fee for FF, and I'm sure I'm not the only one, just look at something like Kagi!

I'm still a happy Firefox & Thunderbird user because ultimately it's still the only one that has at least a modicum of respect for its users, but all the recent AI pushes is making me annoyed with Mozilla because it's just so pointless.
by inejge | 2025-12-02 12:55:10+00:00
It will help that side of the process (although, as a sibling has noted, you can CNAME your way into a better-controlled update service), but the challenge of automating cert changes for various non-HTTP services, including various virtual or physical boxes with funky admin interfaces, remains. I don't expect that vendors will do much about that, and it will end up on admins' plates, as usual. There will be much grumbling, but fewer solutions.
by cjs_ac | 2025-12-02 12:55:30+00:00
Last week I bought my first iPhone, having been previously been only an Android user. The iOS gestures have this physicality to them; as described in TFA, it's clearly designed around a coherent metaphor for physical objects. In Android, gestures feel much more like easy-to-perform actions that have been mapped directly onto actions from desktop computers.

I'm not sure which I prefer yet, but I definitely know which is more comfortable, intuitive and premium-feeling to most users.
by Quarrel | 2025-12-02 12:55:40+00:00
To give a more nuanced reply versus the "you're wrong" ones already here, the difference is that UDP adds send and receive ports, enabling most modern users (& uses) of UDP. Hence, it is the "User" datagram protocol.

(it also adds a checksum, which used to be more important than it is nowadays, but still well worth it imho.)
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-12-02 12:55:43+00:00
All of this is true. “Invitation to guess” is the key phrase in my comment. CLIs present as cryptic, which is a UX _advantage_ over chat wrappers because the implied call to action is “go do some reading before you touch this”.

An AI wrapper typically has few actual capabilities, concealed behind a skeuomorphic “fake person” UX. It may have a private list of capabilities but it otherwise doesn’t know if it knows something or not and will just say stuff.

It really needs to be 100% before it’s useful and not just frustrating.
by macleginn | 2025-12-02 12:55:54+00:00
As a foreign national living in the UK on a long-term visa I can only say that the decision to discontinue physical BRP (residence permit) cards in favour of eVisas is singularly idiotic and harmful. One piece of evidence being that there are still things you can only do using expired BRPs, which will be in a some kind of zombie mode until mid 2026. After that, eternal misery.

But this is basically nothing compared to what they are doing with their justice system, which mostly affects British citizens, so who am I to complain.
by Thorrez | 2025-12-02 12:56:47+00:00
>However, in this case it doesn’t matter; those top bits5 are discarded when the result is written to the 32-bit eax.

>Those top bits should be zero, as the ABI requires it: the compiler relies on this here. Try editing the example above to pass and return longs to compare.

Sorry, I don't understand. How could the compiler both discard the top bits, and also rely on the top bits being zero? If it's discarding the top bits, it won't matter whether the top bits are zero or not, so it's not relying on that.
by gizmo | 2025-12-02 12:57:28+00:00
Google is the favorite to win AI by a mile. Not only do they have some of the best AI people, they have absolute unmatched distribution with youtube, search, gmail, docs, chrome, and android. As impressive as OpenAI is they don't have anything except for their brand. It should be clear by now that nobody has a strong lead in training. Nobody has a strong lead in access to compute. Nobody has a killer app because the interface is just chat or voice. And what happens when you can't compete on product? Distribution wins. And Google's advantage here is almost insurmountable. Google can fumble the next 2 years and still end up on top.
by grvdrm | 2025-12-02 12:57:39+00:00
> Writing a blog is like talking in the town square. Except because it’s digital, we seem to forget how communication works. If you just start talking in the town square, you’re standing alone talking. Sure a person who passes by might pause, but the odds you’re saying something really relevant to them are low, so they’ll move on.

An optimist take on your statement is this: we need MORE folks writing/talking in town square. More chances to encounter something valuable (to you).

Otherwise, I first read your statement the other way: too many people communicating into the ether with no audience and no feedback. But I suppose I prefer people practice that communication somehow rather than not...

Is your point that people do not understand how to present themselves and a point of view (on anything) in front of anyone? Work presentation to executive. Writing a coherent email. Running a meeting. Etc.