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by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-03 18:43:28+00:00
I was also delighted to see Steam has an effort underway for Android on Linux, allegedly a fork of Waydroid, that they are working on. Tentatively delighted because it's unclear if this really will be open source, but hopefully! https://steamdb.info/app/3029110/info/ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valves-version-of-andr...

I don't need Android apps that often, but it would be neat for the options here to expand and improve. I want to say much as Proton has accelerated things, but man, I am pretty lost now tracking which projects Proton encompasses and the history of where Valve backed/helped these efforts.

I still really want to believe it's collaborative. That good work is going to flow upstream, to collaborated Valve + crowd spaces.
by bangaladore | 2025-12-03 18:43:49+00:00
> There are DDR4 interposers you can buy for 50$.

Indeed, you can buy a piece of fiberglass shaped correctly for 50$. That's not the hard part. Just the probe you are supposed to connect to such a PCB is > 1k USD per pin you need to sample. The oscilloscope / logic analyzer to sample it is likely 6-7 figures.

> Or you can use an FPGA to interpose the RAM and intercept the network traffic for a couple hundred bucks.

What FPGA solution do you have for a couple hundred bucks could interpose DDR4 RAM at any frequency? This number seems completely made up to me.
by gradus_ad | 2025-12-03 18:43:50+00:00
When I'm building out a new feature, I can churn through millions of tokens in Claude code. And that's just me... Now think about Claude code but integrated with Excel or datadog, or whatever app could be improved through LLM integration. Think about the millions of office workers, beyond just software engineers, who will be running hundreds of thousands or millions of tokens per day through these tools.

Let's estimate 200 million office workers globally as TAM running an average of 250k tokens. That's 50 trillion tokens DAILY. Not sure what model provider profit per token is, but let's say it's .001 cents.

Thats $500M per day in profit.
by CamelCaseName | 2025-12-03 18:43:57+00:00
After reading the article, this is actually a great thing for Americans?

Previously, if you didn't have your "Real ID" (which, is a terrible name IMO) or passport, you were just... denied. And presumably that would cost far more than $45.

This seems like an extra step to help you get through airports and prevent delays.

Also, $45 for 30 minutes of a TSA agent's time + their software seems very reasonable? That could even be operating at a loss.

I get it, the median person flies 0 times a year, the average person flies 1.5-2 times a year, there's a huge number of people who fly 0-2 times a year. Mistakes happen and they should result in seizing the whole system.

...but it's just insane to me that someone could go to an airport and not have an ID, let alone a passport. Come on.

Edit (didn't realize the article continued):

> American travelers were still permitted to fly without this updated form of ID with no penalties; they simply had to undergo additional screening, including handing over current addresses, per the TSA's website.

I'm speechless.
by catigula | 2025-12-03 18:44:02+00:00
Regardless, presenting AI generated content without the disclaimer *I AI GENERATED THIS CONTENT. IF YOU THINK MY MOST LIKELY BRIEF AND LOW-EFFORT PROMPT JUSTIFIES YOU READING POTENTIALLY LARGE AMOUNTS OF AI OUTPUT, CONTINUE* as if it's worth reading is something a lot of people aren't okay with.

I actually find it an insulting imposition on my time. I don't think this is unreasonable or even unusual.
by hollerith | 2025-12-03 18:44:07+00:00
Microsoft gets a lot of its revenue from the sale of licenses and subscriptions for Windows and Office. An unreliable source that gives fast answers to questions tells me that the segments responsible for those two softwares have revenue of about $13 and about 20 billion per quarter respectively.

In contrast, basically no one derives any significant revenue from the sale of licenses or subscriptions for web browsers. As long as Microsoft can modify Chromium to have Microsoft's branding, to nag the user into using Microsoft Copilot and to direct search queries to Bing instead of Google Search, why should Microsoft care about web browsers?

It gets worse. Any browser Microsoft offers needs to work well on almost any web site. These web sites (of which there are 100s of 1000s) in turn are maintained by developers (hi, web devs!) that tend to be eager to embrace any new technology Google puts into Chrome, with the result that Microsoft must responding by putting the same technological capabilities into its own web browser. Note that the same does not hold for Windows: there is no competitor to Microsoft offering a competitor to Windows that is constantly inducing the maintainers of Windows applications to embrace new technologies, requiring Microsoft to incur the expense of applying engineering pressure to Windows to keep up. This suggests to me that maintaining Windows is actually significantly cheaper than it would be to maintain an independent mainstream browser. An independent mainstream browser is probably the most expensive category of software to create and to maintain excepting only foundational AI models.

"Independent" here means "not a fork of Chromium or Firefox". "Mainstream" means "capable of correctly rendering the vast majority of web sites a typical person might want to visit".
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-03 18:44:08+00:00
> October 27, 2025 disclosure and November 4, 2025 email confirmation seems like a long time to have their entire client file system exposed

I have unfortunately seen way worse. If it will take more than an hour and the wrong people are in charge of the money, you can go a pretty long time with glaring vulnerabilities.
by Romario77 | 2025-12-03 18:44:32+00:00
There are already insider trading laws which almost everyone has to comply with, congress people being an exception. They specifically allow insider trading for themselves while prohibiting it for everyone else.

If you work in a financial company which does trading often times you are very restricted in what you could do. You also have to report all of your accounts plus close relatives accounts.

And if you have an insider info and give it to someone else, no matter how remote from you it's still against the law to trade based on that and it's not "fully compliant with every letter of the law"
by jijijijij | 2025-12-03 18:45:07+00:00
What do you think is flagged here, your name, or banking info? Name pattern matching seems a bit unlikely/incompetent since sometimes people got identical names. Same phone? Maybe the IMEI part is flagged. Have you tried a residential IP?

Just in case you are on some greater shit-list (maybe by accident, by someone else's doing), I would take a moment to make sure you know how to behave when searched, got nothing too incriminating at home/your car (i.e. illegal drugs), your drives/backups are encrypted and your master password isn't pinned on a post-it. If your existence is bound to local data, make sure to have remote backups anticipating your devices getting confiscated.
by dcel | 2025-12-03 18:45:57+00:00
The Ayn Rand quote ("Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon") neatly distills precisely what worries me the most about an AI dominated future: that those in control of our destiny seem to have swallowed her misanthropic philosophy that (to paraphrase Rand again) "he is not a social animal".

Man, in fact, cannot survive without society. You don't have to be a communist to realise this. Until now the stratification of society has had certain unavoidable limits - everyone has a finite lifespan, everyone has an upper bound of intelligence and physical ability - as well as self imposed limits of regulation through states or unions. When kings and empires have come to dominate, revolutions have at least attempted to reform the social order, if not reset it. I fear that with AGI in the hands of the likes of Musk and Thiel we may soon be entering an age when men with Rand's worldview have the kind of power that makes them utterly untouchable and any chance of building a just and democratic future becomes impossible.
by ljm | 2025-12-03 18:46:12+00:00
Given the fairly shoddy security story with NPM, I genuinely don't understand the hesitation to publish a binary and have a README instruction to curl/wget it into `/usr/local/bin` or `~/.local/bin`. If it's going through NPM that publishing step has to be done already, unless the NPM build is pulling down rust to compile it all as a native extension.

Eventually it'd wangle it's way into homebrew or the unstable branch of another package registry.

But that's me, because I really dislike installing binaries via a language's package manager, because they don't get updated unless I frequently run the upgrade commands for each package manager.
by sc68cal | 2025-12-03 18:46:23+00:00
That's what they did. If you read the article, it discussed the whole program as being a change from an in house developed system, to an off the shelf system.

> The program launched in 2018 to replace the aging computer system used across VA’s health care network, which serves more than 9 million veterans, with an off-the-shelf product that could handle many of the same tasks: organizing important information including appointments, referrals, prescriptions and patient histories.

> David Shulkin, the secretary at the time, announced that VA would negotiate a contract to buy the records system from Cerner without competitive bidding. VA leaders said they selected the program because the Pentagon already had purchased a similar Cerner system for the military’s more than 700 hospitals and clinics.
by hogu | 2025-12-03 18:46:30+00:00
We (Saturn Cloud) published a write-up on the architecture and setup process for running our platform on Nebius. The goal was to make it straightforward for teams to use GPU-backed environments without having to spend much time dealing with Kubernetes operations.

The article walks through how resources are provisioned, how environments are created, how GPU jobs are scheduled, and what abstractions we use to keep the system flexible while hiding most of the complexity of the underlying cluster. It also includes some of the design decisions we made along the way and a few of the tradeoffs we ran into.

Since we built the system, I’m happy to answer questions about the architecture, decisions, limitations, or areas we are still iterating on.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-03 18:46:37+00:00
Valve has said they want at least double the capabilities, while still fitting in a similar power envelope. Unsaid is that it also needs to fit in the same price budget, but I tend to believe that's their intent. It's gonna be a while. Valve got a stellar deal on some somewhat unusual Zen2 APUs, orginally built for Magic Leap; finding a similar good deal is going to take time. I sort of hope Valve isnt going to put out a $1600 Halo system (but probably would buy such a next-gen Gorgon Halo system). Maybe Gorgon Point is good enough for them, in which case yeah 2026H2 is reasonable.

Are you aware that the year is 2025, and that it is 92.2% over? There is next to no chance of a Deck2 this year. I would really really not hold my breath for 2026 either.
by enaaem | 2025-12-03 18:46:39+00:00
Of course such laws are ridiculous, but it does lead to an interesting thought experiment.

One of the principles of Libertarianism is equivalent compensation for damages. What is a fair compensation if someone causes death? A life for a life? Code of Hammurabi? Such laws have existed before, but there is indeed no apatite for that in modern times.

So if the government is going to be arbiter of fair compensation, the best it can do is to prevent harm from happening as much as possible. Claim that as a society we did our best to prevent the death, and assign victims and token amount of money. But this also means that not doing everything you can to prevent deaths goes against Liberatarian principles, because you allow for more unfair compensation.
by listenallyall | 2025-12-03 18:46:40+00:00
His primary dislike for cable television was the amount of "garbage" it offered, while seemingly ignoring that Netflix also has plenty, if not more.

> But it doesn't matter... they're all available at once

I'm sorry but streaming everything is not a panacea. The spigot of worthwhile content is not endless. Ok great you binge-watched the entire season of Stranger Things over two nights. What will you watch tomorrow? And the day after? How much of the show do you actually remember? You lose out on the fun of discussing each individual episode with like-minded people, the wondering about how the next episode will resolve the last episodes drama, maybe watching an episode a second time and catching some additional detail.

I can assure you that watching great television - Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Larry Sanders Show, Homicide: Life on the Street - one episode per week is vastly superior to binge-watching it, even if it feels inconvenient in the moment. (Of course this is with the convenience of DVR so you can time-shift occasionally)
by paulorlando | 2025-12-03 18:46:50+00:00
The 2001 telecoms crash drove benefits for companies that came later in the availability of inexpensive dark fiber after the bubble popped. WorldCom, ICG, Williams sold off to Verizon, Level 3, Teleglobe, and others. That in turn helped future Internet companies gain access to plentiful and inexpensive bandwidth. Cable telephony companies such as Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Time Warner, used the existing coaxial connections into the home to launch voice services.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-12-03 18:47:00+00:00
for a really illuminating look into some of the more "social" aspects of this field of study, i would highly recommend the book "Musicking" by Christopher Small [0].

it dives into many ways that humans interact with and experience music, using the foil of classical western concert music against many other forms of traditional and popular music (including the popular phase of what's now considered classical).

really interesting stuff!

[0]: https://www.weslpress.org/9780819572240/musicking/
by babypuncher | 2025-12-03 18:47:30+00:00
I think the problem is that, until recently, there was little impetus to actually run Windows on devices where ARM actually has a meaningful advantage over x86. The Windows ARM laptops out there today don't impress, not just because of the software, but because the hardware itself isn't "better enough" than Intel or AMD to justify the transition for most people the way Apple Silicon was, especially for games. That is to say nothing of desktops, where battery life isn't even a concern.

Valve is using ARM to run Windows games on "ultra portable" devices, starting with the Steam Frame. At least right now, there isn't a competitive x86 chip that fits this use case. It also feels like more of an experiment, as Valve themselves are setting the expectation that this is a "streaming first" headset for running games on your desktop, and they've even said not to expect a great experience playing Half-Life: Alyx locally (a nearly 7 year old title).

It will be interesting to see if Intel/AMD catch up to ARM on efficiency in time to keep handhelds like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally from jumping ship. Right now it seems Valve is hedging their bets.
by hinkley | 2025-12-03 18:47:35+00:00
I would classify my work as “shouting into the tempest” about 70% of the time.

People are more likely to thank me after the fact than cheer me on. My point, if I have one, is that gaming has generally been better about this but I don’t really want to work on games. Not the way the industry is. But since we are in fact discussing a game, I’m doing a lot of head scratching on this one.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-03 18:47:54+00:00
> analogy is quite misleading, because, in addition to California, there is also Wyoming, with a population of less than <600k

Wyoming has the population of Malta [1][2] but the GDP/capita of the United States and Norway [3][4]. It should be expected we'd have a different optimal solution from California.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming 588,000 in 2024

[2] https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by... 545,000

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... $90,000 in 2024

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... $90,000 and $92,000, respectively
by garciansmith | 2025-12-03 18:48:01+00:00
It won't be for a while, since Valve is releasing the Steam Machine next year and has commented that they are waiting until they can build a Steam Deck successor that is significantly better than the original.[1] My guess is 2027.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23884863/valve-steam-deck...
by chollida1 | 2025-12-03 18:48:02+00:00
Well they'll hit the requirements for company size and country of domicile, but aren't yet at the other requirements, of profitability and a minimum of 12 months after an IPO so they have a chance of being added.

As to the size of the bump they'll get there isn't a single rule of thumb but larger cap companies tend to get a smaller bump, which you'd expect. I've seen models estimate a 2-5% bump for large companies and a 4-7% bump for mid level and 6-12% for "small" under $20 Billion dollar market cap companies.
by matrss | 2025-12-03 18:48:04+00:00
It's just how straightforward it is. With GitHub's fork-then-PR approach I would have to clone, fork, add a remote to my local fork, push to said remote, and open the PR.

With agit flow I just have to clone the repository I want to contribute to, make my changes, and push (to a special ref, but still just push to the target repo).

I have been making some small contributions to Guix when they were still using email for patches, and that (i.e. send patches directly to upstream) already felt more natural than what GitHub propagates. And agit feels like the git-native interpretation of this email workflow.
by jsheard | 2025-12-03 18:48:31+00:00
A funny detail is that Microsoft's mostly fruitless ARM efforts unintentionally ended up being a boon for Valves ARM effort. From MSVC 2019 they started augmenting x86 binaries with undocumented metadata specifically to assist the Windows x86-on-ARM emulator, but then the FEX team figured out how that works and implemented the same optimizations in their emulator, greatly increasing the performance of most recent Windows games on ARM Linux.
by ryuuchin | 2025-12-03 18:48:39+00:00
The browser isn't exposing it to websites. It's simply due to the fact of playing media that it's lowering the minimum timer resolution on Windows. In the past it would also do this when just scrolling among other things if I remember correctly, I'm not sure if it still does this.

Firefox uses a different method that doesn't require lowering the minimum timer resolution.

Either way the global behavior of this is no longer true on modern Windows 10/11 machines (as of Windows 10 2004) as each process must now call timeBeginPeriod if it wants increased timer resolution: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/windows-timer-r...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/timeapi/...
by kevin42 | 2025-12-03 18:49:34+00:00
My wife works for a small distributor of memory (not modules, just the chips), and their manufacturers won't even provide prices or take backorders.

I understand why they did it in the current market, but Micron's exit is going to cause retail prices to go even higher.

I used pcpartsbuilder to spec out a machine I was thinking of building a few months ago, and the DRAM that was $109 for 32GB is now $399. It's crazy.
by fallinditch | 2025-12-03 18:49:53+00:00
Try a band called Thantifaxath - not to everyone's taste I'm sure, the music is pretty disturbing. But if you can handle the heaviness, the energy is conducive to programming. I think this is because your brain has to (more) actively filter out the heavy sounds and then the music takes on a kind of ambient quality, but at the same time the manic energy invigorates your cognitive programming activities. Give it a go and let me know how you get on!
by baranul | 2025-12-03 18:49:57+00:00
This situation has a strong scam smell. Zig has many thousands of open issues on GitHub (nearly 3,500 issues) that appears ripe to get mostly ignored, closed without resolution, or plain disappear from public view. As pointed out, it is correct to shine a light on and review the situation of issues at Zig's GitHub.

The issues for this language are particularly and unlikely to be followed up on or re-posted at Codeberg. Deceptions or smoke screen claims, can trick the public and sponsors or create false impressions about how far away Zig is (after 9 plus years) from actually being production ready and reaching 1.0.
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by nliang86 | 2025-12-03 18:50:25+00:00
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by msarnoff | 2025-12-03 18:50:25+00:00
I was very surprised that GCC could optimize NEON SIMD intrinsics. After spending hours trying to optimize my vector code, trying to get the spacing between register dependencies right to reduce stalls, breaking long reduction operations into intermediate results, messing with LLVM-MCA, etc., I realized that I just couldn’t beat the compiler. It was doing its best to allocate registers and reorder instructions to keep the pipeline filled.

I don’t think it always did the best job and saw a bunch of register spills I thought were unnecessary, but I couldn’t justify the time and effort to do it in assembly…
by ewzimm | 2025-12-03 18:50:32+00:00
Valve's only official statement as far as I know is that it will come when they see a significant enough hardware upgrade to warrant a new system. If they don't move to ARM, AMD's Medusa APUs are their next architecture with major upgrades, so I would guess that Valve would order another custom AMD chip but based on Medusa, which won't release until at least 2027. I would guess at least H2 2027 but probably early 2028 for an AMD-based Steam Deck 2.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-12-03 18:50:50+00:00
Here in the EU cybersecurity is actually being regulated, with heavy fines to come (15 million euros or 2.5% of global turnover!), if it wasn't already. Look up the CRA and the NIS2.

Things may well reach a point elsewhere in the world finding out that some software is for sale in the European Union is itself a marker of quality, and therefore justifies some premium.
by alemanek | 2025-12-03 18:51:15+00:00
Apples biggest weakness is games. But it has a pretty large install base when compared to Linux (not counting phones or servers here).Seems like a win/win. Apple gets to address their weaknesses and Valve gets a large target market.

I actually see it as the reverse. Valve might be going for the whole pie and want to carve out a niche for their Steam Box. Inviting Apple to the party might detract from that effort. Or at the very least distract from their main focus.