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by cobertos | 2025-12-01 04:59:12+00:00
Re: 6. ... Github Actions

Github Actions left a bad taste in my mouth after having it randomly removed authenticated workers from the pool, after their offline for ~5 days.

This was after setting up a relatively complex PR workflow (always on cheap server starts up very expensive build server with specific hardware) only to have it break randomly after a PR didn't come in for a few days. And no indication that this happens, and no workaround from GitHub.

There are better solutions for CI, GitHub 's is half baked.
by iteria | 2025-12-01 04:59:15+00:00
Google+ lost because when they launched, they didn't let everyone join. That means that people joined and couldn't bring their friends over, so they bounced off of it. By the time they opened it up to everyone it had a bad reputation of being "dead". And then of being obnoxious when Google refused to allow it natural growth.

I think they intended to be like Facebook and have a selective group of people join, but they just allowed any random set of people to join and then said tou can bring 5 or some low number with you. That was never going to work for the rapid growth they wanted.

I liked Google+, but it Google really mismanaged it.
by moleperson | 2025-12-01 04:59:52+00:00
Again, I think you've completely misinterpreted the post as well as what I'm trying to say. A "healthy mindset" is simply one that gives you a framework to navigate the world without falling into despair when things don't go your way. Learning to accept that things won't always go your way, and that in some cases they might not go your way the majority of the time, but that they don't have to, is one component of that.

I'm not making any recommendations on how people should actually go about finding wealth, or success, or happiness, or whatever it is you're looking for in life; only how to deal with it when they don't get those things immediately.
by nettalk83 | 2025-12-01 05:00:02+00:00
This article explores a speculative model for understanding why modern civilization often feels "low-resolution" — using the metaphor of JPG (lossy compression) vs. PNG (lossless layers).

It's not a prediction or a claim of truth, but a conceptual lens for thinking about meaning, context, trust, identity, and AI in a period of rapid discontinuity.

The piece introduces three speculative frameworks: • OntoMesh (8-layer structure of meaning + civilization), • PTI (Phase Transition of Intelligence), • HPE (Hybrid Process Ecology), a metaphor for adaptive civilizational systems.

Posting here to invite critical discussion: Is "lossy vs. lossless" a useful metaphor for technological civilization? Where does the analogy break? What alternative models make more sense?

Curious to hear perspectives from engineers, researchers, systems thinkers, and skeptics.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-12-01 05:00:44+00:00
For most people, Google Docs, Zoho, M365 Online, Proton Docs, or some web hosted instance of OnlyOffice or Collabora Office handily meets the majority of needs.

As someone that is 100% on Linux and is occasionally forced to use Teams (where a fat client is no longer possible and was worse than the browser version when it was), I'm curious what that 5% was for you.
by iJohnDoe | 2025-12-01 05:00:52+00:00
I agree with this point. I hate it when they say, for example, “Ford lays off 11,000 employees.” It really should say, “Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, lays off 11,000 employees.

Companies and employees are truly an enigma when the shit hits the fan. It’s extremely rare to show any loyalty to anyone. People put their heads down and pretend like nothing is happening.
by danilafe | 2025-12-01 05:01:40+00:00
I've had a reMarkable 2 since 2020 or so. To be honest, the only area of the device I have ever wanted to be hackable was the sync API. I am completely satisfied with the gestures, e-reader and pretty much everything else. But what I'd love to be able to do is to access my files, stored in the cloud, automatically. My use case in particular would be something that passively converts my scribbled annotations into other things.

The API hacking scene is very much dead. Most API implementations have been unmaintained for years now and no longer work. It's a real shame.
by swyx | 2025-12-01 05:02:10+00:00
somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head

(wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher signal than ai-origin ones)
by mattclarkdotnet | 2025-12-01 05:02:44+00:00
Presumably you mean a “trolley” not a “stroller”, because strollers are for moving children not luggage

But yeah, free airport trolleys are are an easy marker of evolved civilisations, and the USA fails this test.

Countries that have passed this test for me that I can recall: Australia, Greece, Singapore, China, UK, Thailand, Italy, Spain…
by rglynn | 2025-12-01 05:03:11+00:00
I think the attack vector most are considering are going to be government-sourced mass-targeting of individuals based on data triggers rather than any particular interest in the individual. The current example being many of the 12,000 annual arrests in the UK for online speech, many based on private messages. For many of those cases, these were private individuals in whom the government had no prior interest.

It's not difficult to imagine something like pandemic restrictions, where a digitally-enabled government could fine/arrest people based on location data, either because they travelled outside an allowed area or into a restricted one. Or they have data showing they were in close-proximity with too many people etc etc.
by digi_wares | 2025-12-01 05:05:33+00:00
Hey HN!

I built Tera.fm because I wanted to catch up on HN while commuting but never had time to scroll.

It fetches top stories, summarizes them with key points from the comments, and reads everything aloud like a radio station.

How it works: - Pick a channel (Top, New, Best, Ask, Show) - Hit play - Listen while commuting, cooking, or at the gym

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Would love feedback on the summaries and audio quality. What other channels would you want to hear?
by mkl | 2025-12-01 05:05:39+00:00
These replies prompted me to go looking. Firefox Android (which I'm using) does have an option in the settings under Accessibility called "Zoom on all websites". It works!

Chrome has a similar option, which also works on this site. I expect this might break a few pages, but Google Maps and OpenStreetMap work fine, with pinch zoom zooming the map when you do it on the map.
by RossBencina | 2025-12-01 05:07:31+00:00
.wav files are RIFF containers of type 'WAVE'. These files can contain many different types of RIFF chunks, but the required chunks are a 'fmt ' (format information) and 'data' (audio payload). The format chunk describes the encoding of the audio payload data, among other information (channel count, sample rate).[0]

Although .wav files are, today, typically used for non-compressed PCM data (WAVE_FORMAT_PCM), even the original 1991 RIFF specification allowed for three compressed formats: mu-law, a-law, ADPCM.[1] These are all efficient to compute and I don't find it completely implausible that such low quality compression would be used. Modern .wav files may use the WAVEFORMATEX or WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE chunk, which uses GUIDs to identify formats. It supports the original compressed WAVE formats,[2] but also more modern compressed formats. Here is For example, here is Microsoft's list of sub-format GUIDs (includes MPEG formats and AC-3):

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/a...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV

[1] https://www.aelius.com/njh/wavemetatools/doc/riffmci.pdf heading "WAVE Format Categories".

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-01 05:07:31+00:00
> So you read nothing about how graduates during 2008 pretty much had forever stunted careers?

Myself included. Graduated in '08, had to work various minimum wage jobs in retail for several years because no one was hiring. I'm just now at a point in my career, nearing 40, where I should have been at 28.

Degree doesn't matter much when your only work experience is 5 years of working at Starbucks, and you barely have personal projects because you're too busy working 2 jobs to just to survive.

Those of us who suffered through that time period barely recovered, and many didn't recover at all. It shaped an entire generation.
by geerlingguy | 2025-12-01 05:09:19+00:00
I was paying around $1200/month last year (a little under that with subsidy).

This year I'm paying $2100/month for a family of five, on a roughly equivalent plan. Except, none of the options in my state allow me to visit the PCP I switched to this year (since none of the plans last year covered my PCP from the year before).

So I guess I'm on a primary care physician merry go round :D

I am at least able to have my main specialty doctor and the drug I take to keep me in remission from Crohn's disease, and my kids' pediatrician is covered.

But I can't imagine what people have to sacrifice to keep any kind of coverage (with high deductible and horrible coinsurance and prescription drug coverage) for their families if they don't have a decent income :(
by duxup | 2025-12-01 05:09:28+00:00
On sorta the same topic:

In the programming world I feel like there's a lot of info "for beginners" and a lot of folks / activities for experts.

But that middle ground world is strange... a lot of it is a combo of filling in "basics" and also touching more advanced topics at the same time and the amount of content and just activities filling that in seems very low. I get it though, the middle ground skilled audience is a great mix of what they do or do not know / can or can not solve.

I don't know if that made any sense.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 05:10:38+00:00
You have it backwards. Layoffs these days increase stock value because everyone is hedging that bad job numbers will force the feds to lower interest rates. Something Powell has hesitated to do in order to keep inflation in check.

It's a very screwed up incentive to be rewarded for breaking the system, but that's 2025 in a nutshell.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-01 05:12:45+00:00
You're half correct. H1Bs in your own city aren't working half your wage.

However, engineers in developing countries will work half your wage, remote from their home, where that's a great salary where they live. When the average annual salary in India is the equivalent of $4,200 USD/year, there are a lot of talented engineers there that if they don't win the H1B lottery, will end up working for big tech remote.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 05:14:58+00:00
>Ftfa (the part I could read)

You did in fact not rtfm?

>Black Friday sales set records and it not even cyber Monday.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/business/black-friday-us-econ...

I don't know where you're seeing "record numbers". 2024 wasn't a great year and you can argue spending was flat from that after inflation. I think the more relevant factor is "who" is spending the money in such a k-shaped economy. .
by godelski | 2025-12-01 05:15:24+00:00
Break it down by degree. You're losing some important information in the aggregate. Going to degree you see that Computer Science has the 7th highest unemployment rate: anthropology, physics, computer engineering, commercial art & graphical design, fine art, sociology, computer science, chemistry, information systems & management.

Of course you also need to look at underemployment too. Which CS is on the lower end of that. So you have to consider things like that even though there's a higher unemployment rate than performing arts (2x) there is far lower underemployment because people expect to get jobs in their field for CS.

There's more you need to look at too. It's not so easy and you shouldn't just use such a high level approximation if you want to make sense of the data.

Hiring lab has some more interesting information to like the number of postings. CS is way down from "prepandemic" levels, but unfortunately only goes to 2020 (hence the quotes).

https://data.indeed.com/#/
by JustExAWS | 2025-12-01 05:16:48+00:00
Most of my work these days are around the AWS SDKs and Terraform. I always just say “verify the APis on the internet”.

Now, AWS has a documentation MCP server that can integrate with ChatGPT.

https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/tree/main/src/aws-api-mcp-ser...

I haven’t used it.
by d--b | 2025-12-01 05:17:53+00:00
Well, my point, if it wasn’t clear, was that I simply don’t find those problems fun.

I enjoy programming a lot, but most of it comes from things like designing APIs that work well and that people enjoy using, or finding things that allow me to delete on ton of legacy code.

I did try to do the advent of code many times. Usually I get bored half way through reading the first problem. and then when I finally get through I realize that these usually involve tradeoffs that are annoying to make in terms of memory/cpu usage and also several edge cases to deal with.

it really feels more like work than play.
by madars | 2025-12-01 05:18:13+00:00
Date displayed in Google Search results is often the self-described date from the document itself. Take a look at this "FOIA + before Jan 1, 1990" search: https://www.google.com/search?q=foia&tbs=cdr:1,cd_max:1/1/19...

None of these documents were actually published on the web by then, incl., a Watergate PDF bearing date of Nov 21, 1974 - almost 20 years before PDF format got released. Of course, WWW itself started in 1991.

Google Search's date filter is useful for finding documents about historical topics, but unreliable for proving when information actually became publicly available online.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-01 05:19:51+00:00
> The end result is we all have Cadillac plans that most people don't need.

That's right, those pesky things the ACA says should be covered like emergency services, ambulances and prescription drugs is definitely the issue here. You've definitely found the problem.

I can't believe people keep repeating this lie. Did no one live prior to the ACA where you could easily go bankrupt because your insurance decided it didn't cover things like hospital bills? Because I sure as fuck remember, considering that's what bankrupted my parents.
by aeontech | 2025-12-01 05:20:19+00:00
You don't need it until you need it, and needing it often comes in the form of a lightning strike from blue sky. The counterargument is that having everyone pay a higher amount makes it feasible to actually have this coverage available, when needed, without bankrupting the insurance companies, because the rare astronomically expensive care is covered by the premiums paid by the vast majority of people who are relatively healthy and are unlikely to need it.

Now whether the on-paper prices for medical care in this country actually have any relationship to objective reality is an entirely separate question of course. In general coming from an outside perspective, combining healthcare and for-profit motives in a single system seems particularly likely to lead to all kinds of perverse incentives, but, it's the system that exists, and it seems unlikely to change any time soon.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 05:20:21+00:00
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2025/0...

Most population growth was due to immigration for a while, and immigration (for obvious reasons in 2025) is way, way down.

https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-us-population-could-shri...

what's your report?

>you'd have to nuke LA

Let's not give this administration ideas, please.
by Retric | 2025-12-01 05:20:32+00:00
> laundry list of

That’s a meaningless statement, look for an actual percentage here.

Healthcare costs have been spiraling for decades in the US, the ACA didn’t impact the long term trends to a noticeable degree. Actual healthcare reform could drive down costs massively, but that would mean a fuck load of people in medical billing getting laid off. Instead you’re paying for your doctor to talk with your insurance provider often for longer than they spend working with you, that’s the ultimate issue with US healthcare costs. Inflation adjusted “healthcare” spending is up from 2,100$/person in 1970 to 14,570 in 2023.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spe...
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-01 05:22:29+00:00
Mine has tripled, but last year, I was actually getting some govt help. Not this year. I am fortunate to be able to afford it, but it’s just less than my mortgage.

This month is when all hell breaks loose, because people will get their first invoice at the new rate. They already know how much, but seeing it in the form of a demand, will drive it home.

Obamacare is like the NHS, in the UK. Everyone likes to bitch about it, but woe unto the politician that messes with it.
by svachalek | 2025-12-01 05:23:03+00:00
Minutes really, despite what the article says you can get 90% of the way there by telling Claude how you want the project documentation structured and just let it do it. Up to you if you really want to tune the last 10% manually, I don't. I have been using basically the same system and when I tell Claude to update docs it doesn't revert to one big Claude.md, it maintains it in a structure like this.
by dogemaster2028 | 2025-12-01 05:23:29+00:00
This is factually incorrect and in fact the opposite of what a Cadillac plan means.

Obamacare plans are actually the opposite: they are high deductible with limited networks.

Obamacare plans typically have deductibles between $5,000 to $9,000, with a narrow selection of networks, and high premiums if unsubsidized.

This is the opposite of what a a Cadillac plan is (or used to be).
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-01 05:23:31+00:00
No, Advent is the liturgical season preceding Christmas, beginning the fourth Sunday before Christmas (which is also the Sunday nearest November 30), it is a period of at least three weeks and one day (the shortest period that can start on a Sunday and include four Sundays.)

The 12 days of Christmas start on Christmas and end on January 5, the eve of the Feast of Epiphany.

12-day advent calendars are a fairly recent invention that mirrors the 12-days of Christmas, but has no direct correspondence to anything in any traditional Christian religious calendar (the more common 24-day format is also a modern, but less recent, invention detached from the religious calendar, that simplifies by ignoring the floating start date of advent and always starting on Dec. 1.)
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-01 05:24:26+00:00
> Easy, mandate that any UI changes be revertable for the life of the product, or until the company goes bankrupt

I'm aware people are annoyed with big UI overhauls that seemingly do nothing, but I don't think you understand what it would take to support what you wrote. You're describing something that gets exponentially harder to maintain as a product ages. It's completely prohibitive to small businesses. How many UI changes do you think are made in a year for a young product? One that is constantly getting calls from clients to add this or that? Should a company support 100 different versions of their app?

I understand a small handful of companies occasionally allow you to use old UI, but those are cases where the functionality hasn't changed much. If you were to actually mandate this, it would make a lot of UIs worse, not better.

As much as people want to act like there's a clear separation, a lot of UI controls are present or absent based on what business logic your server can do. If you are forced to support an old UI that does something the company cannot do anymore, you are forcing broken or insecure functionality. And this would be in the name of something nobody outside of Hackernews would even use. Most people are not aware there is an old.reddit.com.
by tombert | 2025-12-01 05:24:29+00:00
Nothing "against" FreeBSD, but I've never been able to really use it as a desktop OS.

Don't get me wrong: ports is pretty cool and jails are cool, but every time I've tried running FreeBSD on a laptop I end up spending a day chasing problems with drivers or getting things like brightness or volume controls working. Basically, FreeBSD on laptops (as of the last time I tried it about two years ago) feels like Linux on laptops about fifteen years ago. Linux on laptops nowadays generally works out of the box, at least with AMD stuff. I didn't have much issue getting NixOS working on my current laptop, but I am not sure that would be the case with FreeBSD, even still.

That said, FreeBSD on servers is pretty sweet. Very stable, and ports is pretty awesome. I ran FreeBSD on a server for about a year.
by thethimble | 2025-12-01 05:25:00+00:00
> Running CI/CD pipelines can use significant amounts of energy. As much as it is tempting to have green checkmarks everywhere, running the jobs costs real money and has environmental costs.

> Unlike other giant platforms, we do not encourage you to write “heavy” pipelines and charge you for the cost later. We expect you to carefully consider the costs and benefits from your pipelines and reduce CI/CD usage to a minimum amount necessary to guarantee consistent quality for your projects.

So much pretentiousness
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-01 05:25:33+00:00
> What was the historical trend?

No, it is not normal for 10% of the coountry to power half the spending. Just think about that statistic for a second. Spending includes groceries, services, and other continual needs. A few private jets can't outspend millions of people buying food.

But here's your chart: https://preview.redd.it/2pcvmm0u3jpf1.png?width=798&auto=web...