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by Telaneo | 2025-12-22 06:30:27+00:00
> The start menu in 10 is a lot more customizable vs. Windows 7 which I think is a good thing.

I installed Open-Shell day 1 when I got Windows 8, and continued with that on 10, since the new start menu did not convince me, so I can't really vouch for that. I don't see a need in having tiles and such in my start menu.

> Task View (virtual desktops) were added in 10.

Never used it in Windows. On my Mac I use it to put individual apps in full-screen, so they're easy to switch to with 3-finger swipe. Then again, I have three screens, so the demand for more desktop space is close to zero on what would be my Windows machine.

> Task Manager is so much better, that one is probably objective.

Technically a Windows 8 addition, but I'll give you that one. I'll have the old task manager back if I could get the old photo viewer back though. I can manage with the old task manager. I couldn't manager with the Win10 Photo app, and had to install Irfanview to get a usable picture viewer (at least before I went to Linux).
by briefcasememoir | 2025-12-22 06:30:28+00:00
Author here. This is the mathematical framework underlying the upcoming transmission: Gaia Synthesis - The Awakening of Planetary Consciousness.

The Codex synthesizes network science, dynamical systems, and information theory to measure collective coherence across planetary-scale networks (ecological, technological, social).

Built on peer-reviewed foundations: - Kuramoto oscillator dynamics - Ollivier-Ricci curvature - Multilayer network theory - Shannon entropy

Key features: - Explicit falsification criteria (Section 12) - Computed thresholds with confidence intervals - Reference implementation specifications (Appendix C) - Plain language guide (page 5) - Honest limitations (Section 15)

What it measures: Synchronization patterns across Earth's distributed systems

What it doesn't claim: That measurement proves consciousness exists (that's philosophical, not scientific)

GitHub: https://github.com/BriefcaseMemoirs/Codex-of-Living-Numbers

Seeking technical review. What did I miss?
by tomhow | 2025-12-22 06:31:58+00:00
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter who or what you're replying to. You've taken a flamewar 15 comments deep. That's exactly what we're trying to avoid here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by kube-system | 2025-12-22 06:32:07+00:00
You need memory hooked up to the GPU. Apple’s unified memory is actually one of the cheaper ways to do this. On a typical x86-64 desktop, this means VRAM… for 100+ GB of VRAM you’re deep into tens of thousand of dollars.

Also, if you think Apple’s RAM prices are crazy… you might be surprised at what current DDR5 pricing is today. The $800 that Apple charges to upgrade a MBP from 64-128GB is the current price of 64GB desktop DDR5-6000. Which is actually slower memory than the 8533 MT/s memory you’re getting in the MacBook.
by tverbeure | 2025-12-22 06:33:04+00:00
AV1 is not about throwing away more data that the human can’t see. It’s about having better tools.

1. the prediction tools of AV1 are better than those of h265. Better angular prediction, better neighboring pixels filtering, an entirely new chroma from luma prediction tool, an intra-block copying tool, more inter prediction tools, non-square coding units.

2. If the prediction is better, the residuals will be smaller.

3. Those residuals are converted to frequency domain with better tools for AV1 as well (more options than just DCT), so that you have a better grouping of coefficients close to the DC component. (Less zeros interleaving non-zero values.)

4. Those coefficients compress better, with a better entropy coding algorithm too.

You can have exactly the same video quality for h265 and AV1 yet still have a lower bitrate for the latter and with no additional decision made to “find out what humans can’t see.” The only place in the process where you decide to throw away stuff that humans can’t see is in the quantization of the frequency transformed residuals (between step 3 and 4) and the denoising before optional film grain synthesis.

To be clear: you can of course only go down or stay equal in quality when you transcode, due to rounding errors, incompatible prediction modes etc. That’s not under discussion. I’m only arguing about the claim that AV1 is better in general because you throw away more data. That’s just not true.
by jjaksic | 2025-12-22 06:34:08+00:00
Linux has made an insane amount of progress in recent years. Atomic distros like Bazzite and Aurora are so polished, modern, easy to use, and virtually unbreakable. Even most Windows games work perfectly out of the box (often better than on Windows). Anyone who tried Linux in the past and wasn't happy, should take another look. These distros are so incredible it's hard to believe.

Meanwhile Windows has been getting worse and worse. Completely unreasonable and unnecessary hardware requirements, spyware, constantly running antivirus and other processes you don't want, forced updates and reboots, shoving AI down your throat. In other words, you pay money to have a worse experience and less control over your own PC.

I've been ideologically opposed to Windows for a while, but a few years ago Linux required many trade-offs and compromises, to the point I wouldn't have recommended to most people. But now things are completely different and I would happily recommend it to anyone except those who have a hard requirement for MS software (or Adobe).
by MrJohz | 2025-12-22 06:34:45+00:00
I would generally caution against doing toggles with CSS. While it can be done, it often has surprising effects, and can be difficult to make properly accessible (for example in the case of opening the navigation, I don't believe it's possible to set the correct aria tags to indicate that the toggle is a button that is showing/hiding another element on screen).

Instead, for a brochure site like this, I'd rather have the links just always visible, because this is the reference site for Ruby and I imagine a lot of people find them by searching "Ruby", coving l clicking the homepage, and scanning for the link to the docs/downloads/etc.

Alternatively, if the show/hide feature is really that important, right now I would (a) explore whether it can be done accessibly using the new invoker API, so you don't need JavaScript at all (with a JS fallback), or (b) just do it in JavaScript directly, but with an accessible default if the JS doesn't get loaded properly.

But yeah, the rest I largely agree with. There's a bunch of stuff here that would have been simpler, and arguably also easier, if they'd taken a slightly different approach.
by echelon | 2025-12-22 06:35:29+00:00
Great video!

What a weird setup.

I love all of this crazy stuff we've been finding recently. And not that this planet could support it, but I also love what this unexpected diversity in planetary bodies means for the possibility of weird and unpredictable formulas for life.

I hope we keep finding crazy stuff like this. I hope it accelerates. I hope we find life soon. I need it.
by jshier | 2025-12-22 06:36:40+00:00
Even without autoland, I've never understood why there wasn't an emergency system to handle depressurization events when it detects no pilot input. There have been enough ghost flights, even in the last 20 years, that such a system could've saved hundreds of lives. (Helios Air 552) Automatically dropping altitude, or even just changing the transponder to some automatic value, would help.
Show HN: I built a retro gaming site that doesn't feel like a spam trap
by retrogamesnexus | 2025-12-22 06:37:53+00:00
Hi everyone,

I enjoy retro gaming, but I got frustrated trying to find a reliable place to play online without navigating through deceptive download buttons or intrusive pop-ups.

So, I built Retro Games Nexus.

The goal is simple:

Instant play in the browser (WASM-based emulation).

Clean, modern interface.

Mobile-friendly controls (especially for dual-screen games).

I'm focusing heavily on SEO and structure to make games easy to find, but the user experience is my priority. Let me know if you run into any bugs with the save states or audio syncing!

Link: https://retrogamesnexus.com/
by manmal | 2025-12-22 06:39:11+00:00
Our kids‘ school received some old surface laptops for free through some initiative. I‘ve been tasked to take care of them. And of course, WiFi mysteriously stopped working for all of them, after ca 1 week of use.

It turns out that a recent Win11 update bricked the network adapter. After some digging, it is this problem: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4378104/...

I‘ve tried:

- Uninstalling the update and disabling updates for 5 weeks. But Windows just decided to reinstall the update after 2 days. Bricked again.

- Disabling fast start. This reactivated itself the next day.

- What finally worked, was disabling hibernation entirely.
by smcleod | 2025-12-22 06:39:31+00:00
This was an interesting read, thanks for sharing. I've recently been building something that uses Parakeet v2/v3 models, I'm using the parakeet-rs package (https://github.com/altunenes/parakeet-rs) which has had a few issues running models with CoreML (unrelated to the linked post), e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/26355
by noja | 2025-12-22 06:39:44+00:00
“ According to three people familiar with the command, Musk told a senior engineer at the California offices of SpaceX, the Musk venture that controls Starlink, to cut coverage in areas including Kherson, a strategic region north of the Black Sea that Ukraine was trying to reclaim.” — https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown...
by oatmeal1 | 2025-12-22 06:42:38+00:00
As someone with treatment resistant depression, it is odd people are against medication. Medication is proven safe and effective for treating depression. Therapy and medication should be used immediately in conjunction because 1. therapy is most effective when paired with medication, and 2. depression is a vicious cycle. The longer someone spends depressed, the more likely they will spiral into deeper depression, isolation, unemployment, etc.

No one should delay any part of depression treatment.
by NathanaelRea | 2025-12-22 06:43:06+00:00
Easy fix :)

function f(n){n.childNodes.forEach(c=>{c.nodeType===3?c.textContent=c.textContent.replace(/(^|[.!?]\s+)([a-z])/g,(m,s,l)=>s+l.toUpperCase()):c.nodeType===1&&f(c)})}f(document.body)
by lodovic | 2025-12-22 06:44:21+00:00
I actually get more mileage out of Claude using a Github Copilot subscription. The regular Claude Pro will give me an hour or up to 90 minutes max, before it reaches the cap. The Github version has a monthly limit for the Claude requests (100 "premium requests") which I find much easier to manage. I was about to switch to the max plan but this setup (both Claude pro and Github Copilot, costing 30 a month together) was just enough for my needs. With a bonus that I can try some of the other model offerings as well.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-22 06:47:05+00:00
>My bias is that talking about how unfair it is for Gen Z (or whomever) is the worst kind of advice because they can't do anything about it. It's not their fault.

But that mentality is part of the issue. "they" can't do much about it. "we" as a collective can. have our representatives at the very least penalize ghost job postings and that's already a big step. And then from there we could make disincentives for outsourcing and reel in the abuse of the H1-B program. You'd be surprised how quickly things can change when politicians have a fire under their butts to do something.

But all that first requires awareness, and then empathy. Something that some of this community clearly lacks.

>I think advice that gives people hope (that things get better) and agency (that they can make moves on the game board) are more likely to improve the situation.

I feel issue #2 is that there is such thing as "toxic positivity". Giving hope instead of recognizing that things are bad only enrages those who feel bad. People don't like having their lived experienced invalidated, especially by those who haven't lived it themselves.

Advice needs to be tailored as such too. Saying "just keep interviewing" is technically realistic advice, but not one that gives much agency if the issue of burn out is applying for jobs.
by baconner | 2025-12-22 06:49:07+00:00
There are a couple of decent approaches to having a planning/reviewer model set (eg. claude, codex, gemini) and an execution model (eg. glm 4.6, flash models, etc) workflow that I've tried. All three of these will let you live in a single coding cli but swap in different models for different tasks easily.

- claude code router - basically allows you to swap in other models using the real claude code cli and set up some triggers for when to use which one (eg. plan mode use real claude, non plan or with keywords use glm)

- opencode - this is what im mostly using now. similar to ccr but i find it a lot more reliable against alt models. thinking tasks go to claude, gemini, codex and lesser execution tasks go to glm 4.6 (on ceberas).

- sub-agent mcp - Another cool way is to use an mcp (or a skill or custom /command) that runs another agent cli for certain tasks. The mcp approach is neat because then your thinker agent like claude can decide when to call the execution agents, when to call in another smart model for a review of it's own thinking, etc instead of it being explicit choice from you. So you end up with the mcp + an AGENTS.md that instructs it to aggressively use the sub-agent mcp when it's a basic execution task, review, ...

I also find that with this setup just being able to tap in an alt model when one is stuck, or get review from an alt model can help keep things unstuck and moving.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-22 06:49:20+00:00
If you are referring to Hagerty+Srinivasan:

They certainly didn't think that a better fit => "truer".

They used the term "truer" to describe a model that more accurately captures the underlying causal structure or "true" relationship between variables in a population.

As for the paper I linked, I still haven't read it closely enough to confirm that D-Machine's comment below is a good dismissal.

I'm inclined to think it's more like "interpolating vs extrapolating"
by p0d | 2025-12-22 06:49:22+00:00
The Bible. Through it, I see the connection from the fall of man, the redemption of the cross and the future return of the King to restore all things. I also see connection from wisdom shared 2-3 thousand years ago through the Psalms and Proverbs. This has rewired my understanding of how ancient men and women were pretty awesome and got me over chronological snobbery.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-12-22 06:49:31+00:00
I am retiring next year. So that should solve my problem :). I don’t know how other medical device companies are working but in mine leadership is dominated by people who know medical devices from a sales or medical perspective. Software is kind of secondary to them although it’s becoming really important. A lot of our processes aren’t very good for software so we end up doing a lot of work that makes no sense and makes the product actually worse. It’s better not to fix bugs because a new release will take months of paperwork. The requirement structure doesn’t map to software but the SOP isn’t written by people who known software. It feels a little like the development speed of NASA with the SLS vs SpaceX who are basically doing everything faster and cheaper while still having high reliability . My company is NASA here. Just very frustrating
by Telaneo | 2025-12-22 06:50:34+00:00
No, I think you've understood me just fine, but rather found at least part of the core problem.

For most of my opnions, I don't consider myself to be an extremist, and anyone claiming that I have an extremist in those areas can have their opinion dismissed on the same grounds anyone calling me a literal Hitler or Stalin. A good example I recently saw someone calling people who use adblockers terrorists. The absurdity is obvious and there's no point in considering their opinion on the matter. I don't care about those people calling me an extremist, just as I don't care about them calling me a literal Hitler or a literal Stalin.

There are a select few areas where I probably would be validly called an extremist. I myself don't consider myself that, but I can understand why people would think that. And this is probably a big part of the problem. Most extremists probably don't consider themselves that, at least not without a decent amount of introspection, so the number of people who have at least one asinine opinion, on the same level as some of my own, is probably fairly large.

So both I and some random on the internet, even if both of us are out there with our full names, can post asinine opnions and get in arguments, and see each other as the idiot who isn't prevented by their full name being out there from posting stupid shit on the internet, and we'll thus see each other as the extremist, but ourselves as the sane party of any discussion.
by nis0s | 2025-12-22 06:50:36+00:00
I understand your point, and despite what my (hastily-typed) critique shows, I find there are valuable kernels of truth in all types of ideas. The walled-gardens for AI are more to do with recouping the cost of model training, and there are currently no incentives for open sourcing some types of models. The new tool has knowledge of more than one type of domain, so its content is different from its source material, more or less. So while creators have a point, they lose it when it turns out the tool is capable of multi-faceted information synthesis. But what’s interesting to me is that creators are not precluded from using AI tools to develop more content, and that makes all the difference.

That said, I think it would be better if more models were open sourced, or if FOSS non-profits would buy GPUs and start their own model training program based on the currently released open source models. The commons argument doesn’t apply here if there are multiple open source models which contain information from hundreds of hours of GPU training which someone else has already done, and thus can be picked up by any open source organization to train on additional content for whatever is of interest. Some orgs have tried that already, but didn’t gain traction due to poor marketing and lack of funding, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EleutherAI. Maybe if there were government subsidies to encourage open source model release, or non-profit funding for setting up and paying for GPU farms for training models which could be used by everyone, then this type of organizational behavior would become more productive.
by reissbaker | 2025-12-22 06:52:09+00:00
I don't know where you read that fair skin is a diet adaptation and not a sunlight one, but that's wrong: fair skin is an adaptation to northern latitudes due to reduced sunlight. The majority of people of African descent in America are vitamin D deficient, but in Ghana — where there is much poorer nutrition, but more sunlight — they're not. Meanwhile, the majority of white Americans are not vitamin D deficient. [1]

Getting sufficient vitamin D takes 6x longer sun exposure for black people than for white people. [2] In northern latitudes that's pretty difficult.

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7913332/

2: https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2011/09/20/vitamin-d/
by shkkmo | 2025-12-22 06:53:09+00:00
> There’s little reason to avoid prescribing medication alongside other approaches.

There absolutely are downsides and risks. There is a reason the SSRIs carry a "blackbox" warning for youths due to increased suicide risks. There's a reason they should only be used under supervision of a doctor and need to be tapered off of.

That is not to say they aren't useful and necessary for some/many people but they aren't and shouldn't be a catch-all treatment.
by Walf | 2025-12-22 06:56:56+00:00
>The terms and conditions are simple. Every time you perform any network access, you have to send a copy of the payload and response back to my server. Either that, or you're in breach of my terms.

That's not how contracts work, at all. MS hasn't bought anything from him, nor was he able to require them to agree to anything in order for him to install the OS.
by madaxe_again | 2025-12-22 06:57:16+00:00
This is why I always used a clunker on the tube - early 2000s, you’d find me with a mid 90s monochrome Toshiba 386 laptop, cranking out code in vim - one handed, because the other hand supported the laptop - there are rarely seats on the tube.

Anyway. A) it was ancient and worthless and B) if anyone tried anything it was heavy enough it could do serious damage.
by godelski | 2025-12-22 06:57:38+00:00
I wouldn't say "super easy" but if an autonomous vehicle isn't programmed to handle:

1: streetlight with no lights 2: streetlight with blinking red 2.5: streetlight with blinking yellow

Then they are 100% not qualified to be on the road. Those are basic situations and incredibly easy to replicate, simulate, and incorporate into the training data.

That is to say, they are not edge cases.

Dealing with other drivers in those settings is much harder to do but that's a different problem and you should be simulating your car in a wide variety of other driver dynamics. From everyone being very nice to everyone being hyper aggressive and the full spectrum in between.
by sheepscreek | 2025-12-22 06:59:59+00:00
I got it to try Atlas, their agentic browser, before it was open to Plus users. I convinced myself that I could use the additional capacity to multi-task and push through hard core problems without worrying about quota limits.

For context, this was a few months ago when GPT 5 was new and I was used to constantly hitting o3 limits. It was an experiment to see if the higher plan could pay for itself. It most certainly can but I realized that I just don’t need it. My workflow has evolved into switching between different agents on the same project. So now I have much less of a need for any one.
by rovr138 | 2025-12-22 07:01:18+00:00
Very interesting, and you can define multiple already,

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/walletpasses/showi...,

{ ... "locations" : [ {"latitude" : 37.3229, "longitude" : -122.0323}, {"latitude" : 37.3286, "longitude" : -122.0143}, { "altitude" : 10.0, "latitude" : 37.331, "longitude" : -122.029, "relevantText" : "Store nearby on 3rd and Main." } ], "relevantDate" : "2014-12-05T09:00-08:00" }
by unsigner | 2025-12-22 07:02:14+00:00
Peacetime technology from people who ignore the shooting war next door. Do you really want to build your energy system on huge soft targets? This looks much more vulnerable than solar arrays or battery installations to small-to-medium warheads (i.e anything from $500 FPV drones with an RPG round to $100k middle strike drones with 100 kg of payload).
by alexjplant | 2025-12-22 07:02:50+00:00
I had to look up what this was a reference to. Several months ago a cat ran underneath a Waymo and the vehicle's rear tire ran over it while pulling away from the curb. The NYT has a video [1] of the incident.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/us/waymo-kit-kat-san-fran...