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by trashface | 2025-12-03 23:02:58+00:00
Bummer. Crucial had a lifetime warranty on memory. So when my 2012 Macbook pro cooked the aftermarket memory I had put in it, they replaced it for free. A few years later same system cooked the new memory chip. Again they replaced it no charge. Got six years out of it before keyboard failed, would have bricked itself far earlier if not for crucial.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-03 23:03:01+00:00
> You can vibe-code a throwaway UI for investigating some complex data in less than 30 minutes. The code quality doesn't matter, and it will make your life much easier.

I think the throwaway part is important here and people are missing it, particularly for non-programmers.

There's a lot of roles in the business world that would make great use of ephemeral little apps like this to do a specific task, then throw it away. Usually just running locally on someone's machine, or at most shared with a couple other folks in your department.

Code doesn't have to be good, hell it doesn't even have to be secure, and certainly doesn't need to look pretty. It just needs to work.

There's not enough engineering staff or time to turn every manager's pet excel sheet project into a temporary app, so LLMs make perfect sense here.

I'd go as far to say more effort should be put into ephemeral apps as a use case for LLMs over focusing on trying to use them in areas where a more permanent, high quality solution is needed.

Improve them for non-developers.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-12-03 23:03:18+00:00
Sure ok. I do think its ultimately just semantic. That is: if you start from the definition of love as a state we can, like, get into or not, if it is more something we do rather than experience, then sure, the state of anger and the state of love are different, and the latter definitely seems more preferable. I only get "dramatic" here insofar as I feel like thats just kind of an unsatisfying definition! Like, love songs are sometimes sad songs too. I just reject this psychological/behavioral starting point and offer that what we call "love" should be a broader, deeper, messier thing is all.

But this is really heady woowoo stuff at this point, and its quite ok to disagree on stuff of this sort! I understand you will probably continue to dismiss all this as sophistry or playing with words or whatever, but know either way that I do recognize and respect your point here! It can probably be seen as a choice: love can be a desirable state or a dramatic raison d'etre. For the former, you're probably a pretty happy monk/stoic type, for the other, you're more like the classic Romantic, the artist, etc.
by JimDabell | 2025-12-03 23:04:05+00:00
I’ll readily admit that I don’t know the first thing about television production, but that doesn’t seem plausible to me. Moving lots of physical objects around takes far, far, far more work than shuffling bits, and a large proportion of that can’t come from sustainable energy sources. Think about things like flying the cast to shoot on location in Lithuania, for instance. Powering and cooling servers isn’t in the same ballpark.
by alphazard | 2025-12-03 23:04:06+00:00
I have yet to see a way that this software is better than leading terminal emulators like Alacritty and WezTerm. Alacritty is simple and blazing fast, WezTerm has a Lua API and is as complicated as you want it to be.

All of the fuss seems to be entirely driven by Mitchell's clout, and maybe some interest in Zig. Given that's the real reason everyone is talking about Ghostty (which I'm happy to be wrong about, let me know), It raises the question: Is crowding out other projects in a space, so that a billionaire can have a side project, really something we should be excited about? Unless the software is actually good, it seems like this is just an attention suck away from better software that could use it.
by henryfjordan | 2025-12-03 23:04:11+00:00
Before SSR (unless you were using PHP I guess) you had to ship a shell of a site with all the conditionals being decided only AFTER the browser has gotten all the HTML + JS pulled down. If you need to make any API calls, you've delayed rendering by hundreds of milliseconds or worse (round trip to your server)

With SSR, those round trips to the server could be down to single-digit milliseconds assuming your frontend server is in the same datacenter as your backend. Plus you send HTML that has actual content to be rendered right away.

A truly functional pageload can go from seconds to milliseconds, and you're transferring less data over the wire. Better all around at the expense of running a React Server instead of a static file host.
by quickthrowman | 2025-12-03 23:04:42+00:00
Turns out you are correct on both points!

My bad, NEMA 14-50R is a 4-wire receptacle with a neutral.

I learned something new today, 200% neutrals are not required by the NEC but can help with non-linear loads, and certain transformers that mitigate harmonics need 200% neutrals.
by AngryData | 2025-12-03 23:05:34+00:00
In my midwest area it seems like you can tell who are the alcoholics right away because they buy and drink cheap beers 90% of the time. Maybe to make themselves feel less like an alcoholic because they aren't drinking hard liquor, and it seems someone is more likely to say something if they see someone down a half+ bottle of vodka themselves, but nobody ever says anything seeing someone down 10+ beers.
by ethin | 2025-12-03 23:05:38+00:00
I'll be honest... I'm not at all surprised that this happened. Purely because it seems like everyone who wants to implement AI just forgot all of the institutional knowledge that cybersecurity has acquired over the last 30-40 years. When you "forget" all of that because you want to rush out something really fast, well, you know what they say: play stupid games, win stupid prizes and all that.
by gretch | 2025-12-03 23:06:38+00:00
>The building and electrical infrastructure are far cheaper than the hardware.

Maybe it's cheaper if we measure by dollars or something, but at the same time we lack the political will to actually do it without something like AI on the horizon.

For example, many data center operators are pushing for nuclear power: https://www.ehn.org/why-microsoft-s-move-to-reopen-three-mil...

That's one example among many.

So I'm hesitant to believe that "electricity is a small cost" of the whole thing, when they are pushing for something as controversial as nuclear.

Also the 2 are not mutually exclusive. Chip fabs are energy intensive. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...
by londons_explore | 2025-12-03 23:07:20+00:00
This.

And they're effectively saying they've had enough of running call centers, tracing lost parcels, weirdo customers who show up at the factory, running marketing campaigns etc.

A consumer facing business is a lot of overhead, and since more and more hardware now has soldered ram, it is a shrinking business too.

Shrinking businesses are super hard to run - it's far easier to grow a business than shrink it whilst maintaining the same margins.
by saghm | 2025-12-03 23:07:28+00:00
FWIW it's fairly straightforward to set up FSR4 with Proton-GE nowadays, assuming you're comfortable with editing one config file or manually specifying an env var for the game[1]. I'm not sure if using an alternate version of Proton would be considered "native" though, or if you mean for the default version of proton (or for Linux builds of games specifically), but setting it up is a fairly straightforward process even for people who might prefer not to use the terminal if you use something like ProtonUp to manage the installation for you. I imagine that the process for using a custom Proton isn't much different on Bazzite and CachyOS, although I'm not sure whether it would be something commonly done on CachyOS given that they have their own Proton distribution.

[1]: I don't think there's a way to link to it directly, but `PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1` (or a specific different version if you'd like) is documented in the README in this table: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom#modifica...
by MostlyStable | 2025-12-03 23:07:42+00:00
As a daily R user, hard disagree. With the exception of ggplot (and this is directly related to why I don't use ggplot and instead use base plotting), most of tidyverse is pretty similar to and consistent with most base R functions.

Tidyverse standalone would be borderline useless, as most of what it's best at is manipulating, transorming, and re-arranging your data in various ways. You still need to _do_ something with your data at the end, at which point, the entire rest of the R ecosystem comes into play.

Tidyverse is valuable specifically because it's the best at doing what it does, and what it does makes everything else easier, more legible, and faster.

Forking it would simultaneously make both R and tidyverse worse off.
by bigger_cheese | 2025-12-03 23:08:06+00:00
The issue is people trying to use these AI tools to investigate complex data not the throwaway UI part.

I work as the non-software kind of engineer at an industrial plant there is starting to emerge a trend of people who just blindly trust the output of AI chat sessions without understanding what the chat bot is echoing at them which is wasteful of their time and in some cases my time.

This not not new in the past I have experienced engineers who use (abuse) statistics/regression tools etc. Without understanding what the output was telling them but it is getting worse now.

It is not uncommon to hear something like: "Oh I investigated that problem and this particular issue we experienced was because of reasons x, y and z."

Then when you push back because what they've said sounds highly unlikely it boils down to. "I don't know that is what the AI told me".

Then if they are sufficiently optimistic they'll go back and prompt it with "please supply evidence for your conclusion" or some similar prompt and it will supply paragraphs of plausible sounding text but when you dig into what it is saying there are inconsistencies or made up citations. I've seen it say things that were straight up incorrect and went against Laws of Thermodynamics for example.

It has become the new "I threw the kitchen sink into a multivariate regression and X emerged as significant - therefore we should address x"

I'm not a complete skeptic I think AI has some value, for example if you use it as a more powerful search engine by asking it something like "What are some suggested techniques for investigating x" or "What are the limitations of Method Y" etc. It can point you to the right place assist you with research, it might find papers from other fields or similar. But it is not something you should be relying on to do all of the research for you.
by carlCarlCarlCar | 2025-12-03 23:08:08+00:00
Ah, thanks; we definitely needed more artisanal, real human social media slop like this.

Improving the lived experience keeping it real! Feels so much more authentic.

More people would love AI if it communicated like an emo *Nix elitist. Train it on Daria, Eeyore, and grunge lyrics! People will love it!
by openasocket | 2025-12-03 23:08:22+00:00
The surprising thing isn’t that physics remain the same from one day to another, it’s that that fact is the reason for conservation of energy. There are lots of different symmetries for the laws of physics: the laws don’t change from one day to another, they don’t change from one part of the universe to the next, and they don’t change based on angles (e.g. if you snapped your fingers and rotated the entire universe by 10 degrees around some arbitrary point, the universe would continue exactly the same as before, just 10 degrees rotated). From Noether’s theorem, you can take any symmetry on the laws of physics, and use that to derive a conservation law. In those examples, that gives you conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, and conservation of angular momentum, respectively.
by AngeliqueB | 2025-12-03 23:08:51+00:00
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by sgnelson | 2025-12-03 23:08:56+00:00
I feel like the "democratization of technology" is on the back slide. For the longest time, we had more and more access to high end technology at very reasonable price points.

Now it feels like if you're not Facebook, Google, OpenAI, etc. etc. computation isn't for you.

I hope this is just a blip, but I think there is a trend over the past few years.
by Merrill | 2025-12-03 23:09:12+00:00
At the time PC's came to market, High Fidelity music systems still were built from components such as preamps, amplifiers, turntables, FM tuners, tape decks, CD players, and speakers.

A PC was similarly a collection of base unit, monitor, printer, keyboard, mouse, and other components connected via interface cards plugged into a standard bus. Memory was also originally on cards plugged into the bus.
by Eisenstein | 2025-12-03 23:09:24+00:00
I think that real honesty works well as long as you have the character to stand up for yourself. An unflinchingly honest self-assessment which shows that you understand the error and rectified it is almost always the path to take.

Acknowledgement of mistakes do not invoke much of a mob reaction unless there is wavering, self-pity, or appeals for leniency. Self-preservation should be assumed and not set as a goal -- once you appear to be doing anything that can be thought of as covering up or minimizing or blaming others, the mob will latch on to that and you get no consideration from then on.
by saghm | 2025-12-03 23:09:47+00:00
> Just get a Steam Deck. it's an incredible value for what you get and for what it can do

I'm still kind of flabbergasted that we're in a world where the cheapest Steam Deck model literally costs less than the Switch 2. Sure, neither of them are exactly powerhouses as far as console hardware goes, but at least on one of them you literally can just use the system however you want as a desktop OS as a bonus...
by Libidinalecon | 2025-12-03 23:09:47+00:00
Many people also program and have no idea what a giant codebase looks like.

I know I don't. I have never been paid to write anything beyond a short script.

I actually can't even picture what a professional software engineer actually works on day to day.

From my perspective, it is completely mind blowing to write my own audio synth in python with Librosa. A library I didn't know existed before LLMs and now I have a full blown audio mangling tool that I would have never been able to figure out on my own.

It seems to me professional software engineering must be at least as different to vibe coding as my audio noodlings are to being a professional concert pianist. Both are audio and music related but really two different activities entirely.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-03 23:09:58+00:00
Micron is chasing AI glory. Their stock valuation has no room for consumer business, which is a distraction.

You can’t think about companies like it’s 2024. We’re in a gilded age with unlimited corruption… Anything can happen. They can sign a trillion dollar deal with OpenAI, get acquired by NVidia, merge with Intel, get nationalized by Trump, etc.
by ramon156 | 2025-12-03 23:10:07+00:00
We actually use this version of never a lot in our code at $WORK

```

export function never(message?: string): never {

throw new Error(message ?? 'Reached an impossible state');

}

const [foo = never()] = dbQueryThatReturnsOne();

```

I guess it's en par with .unwrap()
by henryfjordan | 2025-12-03 23:10:15+00:00
Valve is not building all this Linux Compatibility out of the goodness of their hearts. They are doing it to avoid being shutdown by Microsoft, who effectively had a monopoly on the OS people used to play games.

It's a bit of miracle that Valve beat MS to the punch and built momentum behind Steam as the marketplace for games. They know this.

If gamers move to Linux and all the compatibility issues are solved, Valve is not going to pick a different passion project. Conversely, as long as Microsoft has a monopoly on OSes for gaming, Valve will support linux gaming.
by newyankee | 2025-12-03 23:10:16+00:00
I worked in a job a decade back where I was the only tech guy and had a special 128 GB RAM machine. All the 'Big data' for the team was done by me using R tidyverse, data.table and few libraries and they thought of it as magic as there were few tech people there.

Still feel a lot of enterprises and industries looked over its capabilities then.

With LLMs the challenge of R syntax is a little easier for data analysts to climb, especially the new ones.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-03 23:10:17+00:00
I still put them in the same box as Apple until they fix the price parity and/or adjust their cut. Even Apple is finally having their hand forced there.

They are relatively better, but we still need to keep monopolies accountable. Valve is just smart enough to remember what worked 30-40 years ago compared to the rampant greed these days.
by victormy | 2025-12-03 23:10:43+00:00
Speaking as an open-source enthusiast, I’m actually really digging RustFS. Honestly, anything that can replace or compete with MinIO is a win for the users. Their marketing vibe feels pretty American, actually—they aren't afraid to be loud and proud, haha. You gotta give it to them though, they’ve got guts, and their timing is spot on.
by desireco42 | 2025-12-03 23:12:20+00:00
I have to say... I really like it.

I was settled on NVim and VSCode, then I discovered Zed, which is fantastic.

I guess you should not keep your life closed for new experiences. Everybody loves fast and responsive software, what can I say.

Thank you for your work, I will enjoy using it, it isn't for everything but that is how I started with Zed.
by zqna | 2025-12-03 23:12:29+00:00
Precisely, while LLMs fail at complexity, DSLs can represent thise divide-and-conquer intermediate levels to provide the most overall value and with good accuracy. LLMs should make it easier to build DSLs themselves and to validate their translating code. The onus then is on the intelligent agent to identify and design those DSLs. This would require the true and deep understanding of the domain and an ability to synthesize, abstract and to codify it. I predict this will be the future job of today's programmer, quite a bit more complicated than what is today, requiring wider range of qualities and skills, and pushing those specializing in coding-only to irrelevance.
by maccard | 2025-12-03 23:12:30+00:00
Alacritty is “barebones” and doesn’t have modern features like… tabs.

Wezterm fits the vim/emacs bill of “make it whatever you want”. I want something in between - iTerm2 for 2025. Stuff like secure input on macOS is something that is just nice - it behaves like a real platform app and not jsut the lowest common denominator loosely ported.

They say in the docs it’s not the best at anything, but it’s competitive in performance, features, and extensibility and that combo is a winner for me (personally)
by mhashemi | 2025-12-03 23:12:34+00:00
Yes, extremely, especially for confirming loans: https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/originating-underwriting/...

Patrick McKenzie (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11) has a great deep dive on this: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/mortgages-are-a-manuf...

Closing/switching costs are certainly a consideration still, but the "Truth in Lending Act" (TILA) made it easier to compare the all-in cost by providing a standardized APR number, which is what the dashboard focuses on.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-03 23:12:46+00:00
Business don’t “dislike” Microsoft enough to go with a game developer and revalidatd all of their software over their entire organizations. The people making the decisions don’t go around worrying about nerd wars.

They definitely aren’t going to trust the long term viability of Valve over a company that has been releasing operating systems and supporting business for almost half a century.

$20 a seat is a nothing burger to basically make sure you support every Windows APi forever. You’re not going to tie your horse to valve
by wild_pointer | 2025-12-03 23:12:53+00:00
This guy is doing something else completely. In his words:

> In my testing, it's between 1.2x and 4x slower than Yolo-C. It uses between 2x and 3x more memory. Others have observed higher overheads in certain tests (I've heard of some things being 8x slower). How much this matters depends on your perspective. Imagine running your desktop environment on a 4x slower computer with 3x less memory. You've probably done exactly this and you probably survived the experience. So the catch is: Fil-C is for folks who want the security benefits badly enough.

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090332)

We're talking about a lack of fat pointers here, and switching to GC and having a 4x slower computer experience is not required for that.
by pwdisswordfishs | 2025-12-03 23:13:04+00:00
> ICE, Actions, and Microsoft, not a single complaint about git itself

Codeberg is also a Git-based project host. It doesn't even support other repo types. Why would you be expecting the latter?

If a project announcement or article headline says someone/something is quitting or leaving GitHub, it makes a lot of sense to assume that their issue is with GitHub (and in this case, it would be an assumption they'd be right about).
by saghm | 2025-12-03 23:13:19+00:00
The key difference is that Valve isn't trying to make Windows work, just desktop gaming, which I'd imagine is a large part of why Microsoft's efforts failed. As much as Linux desktops haven't particularly had much polish over the years, there's still an advantage to taking something bare bones and trying to flesh it out in a way that's works well compared to taking something that's already pretty bloated and then trying to retrofit it into something new.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-12-03 23:13:19+00:00
It's rather simple: You don't pay me to write code for 4/8/12 hours per day, you pay me to get a job done. If that job's worth $X to you, you pay me $X, everyone's happy. And that's exactly how it works in office, too. Ever notice that HN's busier during work hours than after?

If don't feel an employee's work output is worth their $X, tell them that. Then, if they suddenly improve, great. If they don't, fire them. It's really that simple. This is America, any obstacles to sacking incompetent employees are of your own design.
by conqrr | 2025-12-03 23:13:53+00:00
They are making lot of enterpise bucks though. And they did start as Open Source. Killing it midway to serve their convenience is the issue.

There's also tonne of Open Source that isn't as popular but serving niche communities. It's definitely harder but not impossible. OS core and paid hosting with bells and whistles has proven to be a good sustainable model.