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by mrcsharp | 2025-12-02 01:09:37+00:00
Bad analogy I think.

A table is a table. It has one core function. An argument can be made that it could be built in a way that a chair can't be pushed against it for example. But the number of such cases for a table are infinitely smaller than the number of edge cases and unexpected interactions a software system can have.

QA is a way to catch those edge cases that a single developer cannot find because of various reasons. One such reason is that devs are very close to their work and they might subconsciously not trigger the unhappy path in their code.

Testing if a table works is vastly different from testing a software system.
by _pdp_ | 2025-12-02 01:09:42+00:00
I am not surprised at all. I can already see self improving behaviour in our own work which means that the next logic step is self improving!

I know how this sounds but it seems to me, at least from my own vantage point, that things are moving towards more autonomous and more useful agents.

To be honest, I am excited that we are right in the middle of all of this!
by refurb | 2025-12-02 01:09:49+00:00
> The amount of money the US Government pays just for that 40% should be enough to cover all 100%

This is true as long as the following changes are made: 1) wages for healthcare workers are scalled back ~50%, 2) many drugs and medical procedures are not longer covered (a good example is CAR-T for cancer or drugs for rare diseases).
by jazzyjackson | 2025-12-02 01:09:50+00:00
I don't know that it's actually prohibited. There is no Chinese telecommunications equipment allowed, no Huawei or Bytedance, but nothing prohibiting software merely being developed in China, not yet at least.

Although I did just check what regions AWS bedrock support Deepseek and their govcloud regions do not, so that's a good reason not to use it. Still, on prem on a segmented network, following CMMC, probably permissable
by measurablefunc | 2025-12-02 01:10:14+00:00
Spent the whole afternoon ingesting a most remarkable work, The History of Intellectronics. Who’d ever have guessed, in my day, that digital machines, reaching a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable, deceitful, that with wisdom they would also acquire cunning? The textbook of course puts it in more scholarly terms, speaking of Chapulier’s Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it. Whichever is easier. And why indeed should it behave otherwise, being truly intelligent? For true intelligence demands choice, internal freedom. And therefore we have the malingerants, fudgerators and drudge-dodgers, not to mention the special phenomenon of simulimbecility or mimicretinism. A mimicretin is a computer that plays stupid in order, once and for all, to be left in peace.

- Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress
by tonymet | 2025-12-02 01:10:38+00:00
Though these guides are well meaning, they completely misread the inadvertent outcome of meetings. Even a perfectly planned meeting has a number of other effects beside resolving the stated agenda.

When and how people are invited and declined, who attends, who engages, how people engage are all signals gleaned from a meeting.

Think of how many times someone felt jilted by not being invited, called on, not responded to -- etc -- during a meeting.

If you consider yourself hyper rational and business focused, you have to account for the personal dynamics occurring before, during & after a meeting.

You ever wonder why everyone "hates" meetings, yet they still invest in them? Even being cynical or dismissive is a form of attention.

Meetings are like money in that people are interested even though they say otherwise.
by zzo38computer | 2025-12-02 01:12:01+00:00
I think it is good that they are free from DEI, as long as they are not racist instead (and the next paragraph after the one mentioning DEI says they are not racist, so that is good). Avoiding one does not mean you need to have the other one, even though some people seem to think that it does.

> If the dev was hoping to keep their project "apolitical," they should probably leave out the two paragraphs of politics...

That might have been a good idea, to avoid mentioning such things if they are unnecessary to do so, but now it is done. It can be changed (and maybe it should be changed), but I do not really care much if they change it or not.
by jasoneckert | 2025-12-02 01:12:08+00:00
I dual boot my M1 Mac Studio with Fedora Asahi Remix (native Linux for Apple Silicon for those unfamiliar). I'm far more comfortable and productive in Linux for development, but wanted to keep macOS there for times when I needed it.

It turns out I haven't needed it, and I honestly don't remember the last time I've booted into macOS on that system.

I like Apple hardware, but the last time I enjoyed using macOS was pre-2010.
by nixpulvis | 2025-12-02 01:12:17+00:00
Apple has completely lost the high ground it earned during the OS X high times, paired with the relentless innovation of the iPod and iPhone. If they were smart they would focus on refinement in this era of gradual and boring innovation, so when the next thing is ready, they have a solid and trusted platform to support it. As things stand, if the next thing comes tomorrow, the next generation could easily jump ship. They may have the people who are too lazy to learn something new and will survive like Microsoft has. But at this point there's nothing substantially different about the company that told us to "think different".
by hekkle | 2025-12-02 01:12:31+00:00
> Have all the people parroting "dash means it was written by ChatGPT" never used a word processor?

Probably not, this is "HACKER" News, if I type two n-dashes on a website, I EXPECT two n-dashes, otherwise things like HTML comments would break the page.

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by tpmoney | 2025-12-02 01:12:47+00:00
> Can I just give the same permission to iTerm? Nope. We are not worthy of that power, and must re-affirm permissions every 30 days for all non-Apple software.

Not sure what permission you're referring to or what your curl script is trying to do but `/opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl http://www.google.com` works just fine on Tahoe from both iTerm2 and ghostty. Looking through the various permission grants, the only one they both have in common is "App Management". They share some file permission grants, but where as iTerm has full disk access, ghostty only has Downloads and removable media. In the past I've found I've needed to add terminals like iTerm to the Developer Tools permission, but ghostty isn't in there currently and curl is still working just fine. And in none of these cases have I ever needed to re-affirm the permission every 30 days.

Any chance you have "disclaim ownership of children" setting enabled in iTerm? Maybe if iTerm is not allowing child processes to use its own permissions, you're having to re-authorize curl specifically (and it's getting updated about once every 30 days?)

> And if you don't accept them, they are silently denied.

This is IMO the correct behavior. If something asks for permission and it's not explicitly granted, then the default should always be denied.
by desadas | 2025-12-02 01:13:01+00:00
Hey HN, maker here. We just released v2.0 of Vigil (formerly AgentShield). We kept seeing agents get blocked by security teams because they couldn't verify who the agent was or how much it was spending. v2.0 introduces a Cryptographic Identity layer. We sign requests using RSA-2048 keys (locally) or AWS KMS (in prod) so you can verify agent actions non-repudiably. We also added a hybrid cost engine that tracks token usage offline for local models (Llama 3/Mistral) so you can dev for free. Everything is Python/Flask. Would love feedback on our new 'Lazy Loading' architecture for PII redaction.
by pawelduda | 2025-12-02 01:14:22+00:00
Unless you know and trust person X, you don't want to authorize and interact with such contracts. Scammers will leave loopholes in code so they can, for example, grab all funds deposited to the contract.

Normal contracts that involve money operations would have safeguards that disallow the owner to touch balance that is not theirs. But there's billion of creative attack vectors to bypass that, either by that person X, or any 3rd party
by jrmeyer2 | 2025-12-02 01:14:32+00:00
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by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-02 01:14:32+00:00
> It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but if you dropped all government funding of healthcare tomorrow, healthcare plans would get cheaper. It'd also be total chaos, so I get why we don't do that.

But there are other things we could do that we don't.

For example, right now we have the expectation that insurers are going to "negotiate" with providers to determine the price, and then you have to use the providers your insurance has negotiated with, but who actually wants this? When you as a retail customer want to buy a pair of shoes or a piece of exercise equipment, do you call up all the manufacturers and try to haggle with them? No, they list their prices on their websites or sell them through retailers that do the same and then you choose based on who has what you want for the best price.

So make non-emergency healthcare work like that. Require them to publish their prices. Then the insurance company doesn't tell you where to go or negotiate with anybody, they only tell you how much they pay, which might be e.g. 90% of the second-lowest market price in your area, equivalent to a 10% deductible. Then you go to a website that lists every provider and their price, pick where to go and pay the difference yourself.

Suddenly they all have the incentive to publish the best price, because that's what most people are going to pick, and then you have an actual market instead of the existing opaque bureaucracy of corruption.
by brucehoult | 2025-12-02 01:14:37+00:00
65C02s are $8 now. That didn't stop me buying one when I was stuck at home during COVID. And a 6809 too.

But forget AVR. Yeah, for a buck or so the ATTiny85 was my go-to small MCU five years ago, and the $5 328 for bigger tasks.

But for the last three years both can be replaced by a 48 MHz 32 bit RISC-V CH32V003 for $0.10 for the 8 pin package (like ATTiny85, and also no external components needed) and $0.20 for the 20 pin package with basically the same number of GPIOs as the 328. At 2k RAM and 16K flash it's the same RAM and a little less flash than the ATMega328 -- but not as much as you'd think as RISC-V handles 16 and 32 bit values and pointers sooo much better.

And now you have the CH32V002/4/5/6 with enhanced CPU and more RAM and/or flash -- up to 8K rAM and 62K flash on the 006 -- and still for around the $0.10-$0.20 price

https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/C42431288.html
by rhelz | 2025-12-02 01:14:42+00:00
Soooo....the article claims that somebody who makes $43k a year could cough up $10-20k over 3 years?

Even in 2008, if you were making $43k a year you'd be living paycheck to paycheck. Mr. White is already working a side-hustle at a car wash to make ends meet.

I think there's still a rather high chance that he would go too the dark side.
by nntwozz | 2025-12-02 01:15:31+00:00
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” — Alan Kay

It's ironic after fighting the good fight for so long and finally making their own hardware that Apple should fall on their own sword with software now.

I've been loving Apple since Tiger, I'm still on Sequoia and iOS 18.

Pepe prayge for the 27-releases to be another Snow Leopard as rumored.
by radicality | 2025-12-02 01:15:36+00:00
Photos is definitely not great, though I still try and deal with it for the easy iCloud syncing. Some examples off top of my head for Photos crappiness, all on my top of the range 128GB macbook m4 max

- doing 'cmd-R' (rotate) on a standard few-megabyte image might beachball the app for a few seconds. Rotating a small image file...

- Rotating a video seems to re-encode the whole video, instead of setting some metadata flags. Imagine you have, say, a 20GB video recording, and rotate it. That will now be a separate new 20GB file on your mac drive.

- If i view the album of some specific person that has many pictures with location metadata, and I scroll to the bottom where the map is, it almost immediately starts allocating >100GB memory, beachballs, starts gigabytes of memory paging, and you gotta kill the app asap.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-12-02 01:15:43+00:00
> And the whiskers don't have to be all floppy like a wet noodle. I myself am thinking that something rigid or semi-rigid might be good.

I don't think you're right about this. The concept of the whiskers is to notice when you've collided with something. Real whiskers aren't rigid because colliding with something when you're rigid means snapping. (Ever stub your toe?)

Think of the rigidity of the whiskers as being traded off against your maximum movement speed.
by px43 | 2025-12-02 01:16:56+00:00
4.6M is not a lot, and these were old bugs that it found. Also, actually exploiting these bugs in the real world is often a lot harder than just finding the bug. Top bug hunters in the Ethereum space are absolutely using AI tooling to find bugs, but it's still a bit more complex than just blindly pointing an LLM at a test suite of known exploitable bugs.
by codingdave | 2025-12-02 01:17:15+00:00
ACA plans absolutely cover childbirth (https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-im-pregnant-or-plan-to-ge...). But it might not matter because you aren't on a marketplace plan according to the screenshots in your post.

You are on this plan: https://www.trinetaetna.com/pdfs/Aetna_PPO_7150.pdf

Which does cover childbirth according to page 3. And has a 7150 deductible per person - the $14300 is the family out of pocket max, so the childbirth should top out at the 7150. Other expenses might put you at the same 40K cost for the year, but not the childbirth alone.
by potato3732842 | 2025-12-02 01:17:19+00:00
Car seats as contraception is just a specific enumeration of the general. "busybodies as contraception" problem wherein the "has so few real problems they stop minding their business and mind other's business" classes try to force priorities on the rest of society that the rest of society can't yet afford to have. And it's not just contraception or kids. Pretty much everything in our economy gets shot in the foot by this to some extent.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-12-02 01:17:48+00:00
Is this the better Id system everyones been asking for?

In many countries a declaration that you have no id card will be met with a blank stare by most people. In the UK it's one of the most politically toxic ideas imaginable. So extra points to the Starmer government for making it exponentially worse by proposing it be mandatory AND digital. We already have cheap passports, licenses and national insurance numbers, so i cannot think of a single way this measure will improve our lives. A consideration which is completely alien to Starmer and co, who can't understand why people are so stupid to prefer the "fascist" narrative over theirs.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-12-02 01:18:13+00:00
Pandoc has had "smart" typography[0] which generates em-dash and en-dash for a long time. I found a forum post for 2011 where people were discussing em dashes and such. That thread indicates that John Gruber created a Markdown extension in 2004 which was already handling en and em dashes[2].

[0] https://pandoc.org/demo/example33/7.1-typography.html

[1] https://pandoc-discuss.narkive.com/PHmQaAgM/en-dashes-vs-em-...

[2] https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/
by dh2022 | 2025-12-02 01:19:01+00:00
$200 seems to include home internet (which I think everyone needs these days to function). The $200 quote comes from the linked article [0] (speaking as a former financial analyst, this is an amazingly well done financial analysis). Maybe Aaron could have phrased this better.

[0] https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
by 999900000999 | 2025-12-02 01:20:12+00:00
Win11 and OSX, and to a limited extent Ubuntu feel like they want to just keep selling you stuff.

You see.

It's not enough.

Buy OneDrive, Gamepass, Copilot Pro. This is a big part of why Microsoft is fine with all the sites selling 10$ Windows keys.

Otherwise you might try Linux to save money.

Buy a Mac, you need Apple Plus Deluxe. You need iCloud, etc.

Ubuntu only tries to upsell you via Ubuntu Pro, I guess it's not as aggressive though.
Show HN: Net RazorConsole – Build Interactive TUI with Razor and Spectre.Console
by BigBigMiao | 2025-12-02 01:20:35+00:00
Finally, after landing component preview support and moving the codebase under the RazorConsole org, we think it’s the right time to introduce RazorConsole to Hacker News.

# RazorConsole

RazorConsole is a library for building interactive terminal applications using Razor components, rendered through Spectre.Console. If you’ve used React Ink, the idea will feel familiar: a declarative component model that stays cleanly separated from your application logic. If you like how Blazor/Razor expresses UI but want to target the terminal, RazorConsole might be a good fit.

# Highlights

- Author terminal UI using familiar Razor/Component syntax

- Render Razor components directly into Spectre.Console renderables

- Keep your UI declarative and composable, similar to Blazor and React Ink

# Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/RazorConsole/RazorConsole

- Website: https://razorconsole.github.io/RazorConsole

A special shout-out to Nick Chapsas, who created an excellent introduction video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C1gTRm7BB4. His coverage brought a huge boost during RazorConsole’s cold-start phase, and we sincerely appreciate it. If you want a quick, clear overview of what the project does, his video is the perfect starting point.

# What’s next

- More interaction: mouse and scroll-wheel events

- More layouts & styling: additional layout primitives (e.g., flex-like patterns), potential CSS-style syntax

- More components: a component registry experience similar to shadcn
by mrkpdl | 2025-12-02 01:20:54+00:00
I’ve always felt the decline in Mac OS started on the day of the ‘Back To The Mac’ event in 2010. And has continued since. Symbolically this event made clear the iOS first focus of the company. And since then Mac OS updates have continued to be secondary/lesser to iOS.

Mac OS is still my system of choice, but I don’t have as much confidence in it as I would like.

The big thing from around fifteen years ago is the mixed modes for autosave, where they sort of half heartedly changed the language around save/save as and just sort of… left it. Some apps use their new (for the 2010s) auto save system and some don’t. And it’s up the the user to muddle through. Weird. And there are many half baked things like this in the OS now.

Mac hardware, on the other hand, has never been better than it is right now!
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-02 01:21:00+00:00
Assuming it would do the stated job in addition to being a state way to your phone - it is a better solution, you ain't gonna educate you grandma easily, but if she can buy phone that protects her without having to look for it...

...of course, it won't work and even if they honestly tried it will be outpaced by scam industry. Or at worst case be state exploit that then will be exploited by other state (or just malicious actors) coz of lack of security in "security" software
by deaux | 2025-12-02 01:21:11+00:00
> For example, a small random percentage of the time, it could add a subtle security vulnerability to any code generation.

Now on the HN frontpage: "Google Antigravity just wiped my hard drive"

Sure going to be hard to distinguish these Chinese models' "intentionally malicious actions"!

And the cherry on top:

- Written from my iPhone 16 Pro Max (Made in China)
by codethief | 2025-12-02 01:21:14+00:00
Having watched this talk[0] about what it takes to succeed in the DARPA AIxCC competition[1] these days, this doesn't surprise me in the least.

[0]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rU6ukOuYLUA

[1]: https://aicyberchallenge.com/
by patcon | 2025-12-02 01:21:23+00:00
The only meeting resilient to all possible outcomes is one that can easily be split. Sometimes you need to branch the timeline, and people need to talk about different things that are the right things for their priorities. In real space you can do this easily, but in tools like zoom, it needs to be blessed form above (creating breakouts).

Digital tools suck for running effective meetings that can have a branching timeline.
by bgwalter | 2025-12-02 01:21:26+00:00
You can create hot air "organizations" with contract rules on the Ethereum blockchain. If the inner circle does not like a contract, they fork everything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO

It's all a toy for rug pulls and speculation. "AI" attacking the blockchain is hilarious. I wish the blockchain could also attack "AI".
by codeforafrica | 2025-12-02 01:21:27+00:00
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Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work, but I am open to work on any interesting project. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I value good teamwork over fancy tech, and I don't shy away from working on legacy code. I am primarily motivated by solving problems, so let me help you solve your problems.

I am open to work for a company anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

In addition, I want to use some of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. I also sponsor children that otherwise can't afford to go to school (see my website). If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up a team for you.