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by msandford | 2025-12-05 20:42:55+00:00
There was a time when one of the virtues was not to brag about how virtuous you were. I think that's why a lot of folks have a problem with virtue signalling. In their minds if you're signalling by doing something publicly it karmically negates what you're doing and almost alchemically turns it into something resembling vice.

I'm merely trying to explain how it is that people can have a problem with virtue signalling and to them it doesn't really contradict what is to them true virtue where you do something good and stay quiet about it.
by RustySwarf | 2025-12-05 20:43:02+00:00
As Charlie Munger pointed out, our economy does not run on greed, it runs on envy. Why? Because advertising discovered insecurity as the most effective crowbar. Advertising is the bedrock of the consumer value system, which has been the basis for the US economy since the end of World War II.

What can we as individuals do about it? Recognize advertising as hostile and banish it. Most of us, instead, are trying to assemble a worldview out of mismatched pieces of advertising, which is not working out very well. When we write and think, we are often thinking in units of advertising, which is a horrifying realization.

Even the fact that this discussion is being framed in terms of Happiness and Satisfaction is downstream of those qualities being centered by the consumer value system. Previous societies might have considered integrity or duty primary.
Show HN: Bible Note Journal – AI transcription and study tools for sermons (iOS)
by tfreebern2 | 2025-12-05 20:43:13+00:00
I got back into church a couple years ago and would try taking notes with Apple Notes. It was a struggle trying to type notes while focusing on the sermon. Honestly, it would have been easier to write it in a notebook but in the end I built this iOS app to solve that problem.

You can record audio during a sermon (or upload files), and it transcribes using Whisper, then generates summaries, flashcards, and reflection questions tailored to Christian content.

The backend is Spring Boot + Kotlin calling OpenAI's API. Instead of deploying the backend through one of the cloud providers directly I decided to go with Railway. Users are notified with push notifications when their transcription and summary are completed. The iOS app uses SwiftUI and out-of-the-box SwiftUI components.

I worked with Spring Boot + Java a few years back when in fintech so it was cool to try writing something in Kotlin. I'm also a full-time Flutter dev that has been trying to get into Native iOS development and felt like I found a good use case for an app.

Currently only available in the US/Canada App Store. There is a free 3-day trial that you can use to give the app a go.

The goal was helping Christians retain more from sermons and build stronger biblical literacy.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, AI prompting approach for Christian content, or anything else.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bible-note-journal/id675227330...
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-12-05 20:43:35+00:00
That's why Rust was introduced into Firefox piece by piece. The goal wasn't to rewrite firefox in Rust - just to migrate the scary bits over to a memory safe lang. You can feel a lot of that in the servo codebase, weird pointer semantics as a result of needing to be API compatible with the C++ adapters.

If I were building a company around a new browser, I'd reach for the solid stuff that can be pulled in. Our whole blitz project is designed to be modular exactly for that use-case.
by Zambyte | 2025-12-05 20:43:38+00:00
I have been writing small Zig projects for a couple of minor releases now, and this is no joke. They are not afraid to change core features in breaking ways. However, they do a good job with migration guides, and the breaking changes always feel like a very thoughtful step in a good direction. I'm very excited to see where Zig lands when it stabilizes.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-05 20:43:55+00:00
They are. You're mad that Valve isn't militantly enforcing Linux-native games, which is nonsense. The OG Steam Machine did that and was DOA.

Thousands of game studios are gone now, and supporting their software is important legacy work. You don't have to appreciate that, but I do. I do not give the faintest fuck about the opportunity cost you bemoan towards native UNIX games when I do this. That's your problem, not mine.
by jtbayly | 2025-12-05 20:44:03+00:00
Your claim is contradicted by several first-hand accounts on this page, as well as by the current documentation on the TSA website:

> Passengers who present a state-issued identification that is not REAL ID compliant at TSA checkpoints and who do not have another acceptable alternative form of ID will be notified of their non-compliance, may be directed to a separate area and may receive additional screening. This includes TSA PreCheck passengers.

> Don’t Have Your Acceptable ID?

> The TSA officer may ask you to complete an identity verification process which includes collecting information such as your name and current address to confirm your identity. If your identity is confirmed, you will be allowed to enter the screening checkpoint, where you may be subject to additional screening.

> You will not be allowed to enter the security checkpoint if you choose to not provide acceptable identification, you decline to cooperate with the identity verification process, or your identity cannot be confirmed.
by AStrangeMorrow | 2025-12-05 20:44:33+00:00
I feel like to some degree, things have gotten less affordable. And I have seen a big push of the idea that “a job is just making money, find your happiness somewhere else”. Which led to more and more people looking for a job that pays well with less thought about whether they enjoy it at all. Many professions had an influx of people in for the money, not the passion.

Now of course you I can’t blame people for wanting more money and better standards of living, and that’s always been a thing. But many jobs that used to afford you a middle class life don’t anymore for young people.

I saw my engineering school software engineer department going from the least sought after specialty to the most in one year. The number of people passionate about tech didn’t suddenly jump, but each year we have a report about the last promotion average starting salary and software engineering was at the top for the first time.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-05 20:44:34+00:00
> 800b valuation on 13b of revenue in 2024. That's a 61x multiple

From about $9bn in 2023. 40%+ growth yields a PRG ratio (modified PEG [1]) of about 1.5x.

Boeing managed to increase its revenue in 2025 about 10%, putting its similar ratio at around 0.2x. SpaceX trading around 7x where Boeing trades doesn't strike me, at first glance, as unreasonable.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pegratio.asp
by dr_kretyn | 2025-12-05 20:44:41+00:00
Horses for courses. A decent terminal emulator solves most of it. But I'm guessing there's a reason why there's so many terminal emulators and multiplexers.

Until a few months ago I used to use tmux + foot (tiny terminal), and I enjoyed the setup because I could copy over my tmux config to remote hosts and work as if nothing changed. As I'm mainly working local now, I'm now mostly using Kitty.
by jacobgkau | 2025-12-05 20:45:04+00:00
I noticed this outage last night (Cloudflare 500s on a few unrelated websites). As usual, when I went to Cloudflare's status page, nothing about the outage was present; the only thing there was a notice about the pre-planned maintenance work they were doing for the security issue, reporting that everything was being routed around it successfully.
by kyboren | 2025-12-05 20:45:06+00:00
Right, like imagine if the Fed gave you some sort of preferential access and sweetheart low rates. Then you could borrow money from them at a low rate, lend it out at a higher rate, and profit from the difference. It would be like some sort of modern day alchemy: Creating money from thin air.

Of course, if you become very large and there are widespread delinquencies that threaten your solvency, your chums at the Fed will happily give you infinite liquidity for collateral at sweetheart valuations. Or maybe they'll just start buying up debt in market operations to put you in the black again.

Now, getting this kind of special treatment while mom and pop get foreclosed on their ARM and evicted seems a bit unfair. And, with the help of onerous zoning and permitting codes, it would tend to inflate house prices, with the perverse effect of forcing people to take your loans in order to own a home before your scheme inflates their prices even more--effectively becoming a private tax on home purchases.

That's why we've made this obviously corrupt business illegal.
by danielvaughn | 2025-12-05 20:45:15+00:00
I don’t know much about AI, but I have this image test that everything has failed at. You basically just present an image of a maze and ask the LLM to draw a line through the most optimal path.

Here’s how Nano Banana fared: https://x.com/danielvaughn/status/1971640520176029704?s=46
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-05 20:45:41+00:00
> where the one who are supposed to refund banks will get the money?

Liquidating other assets. The point of the banks using SRTs is to push the default risk off of the bank and onto investors.

So now, instead of banks failing, private credit gets to bear the risk of the bubble popping. Since they can't sell the (now bad) AI debt, they will need to liquidate all of their other assets to pay the banks.

That's why a potential AI bubble burst can cause the markets to enter a death spiral and bring down a bunch of other, unrelated markets.

If private credit can't cover the losses by liquidating everything else, well, then they fail, and we either let it all crumble or do bailouts again.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-05 20:45:48+00:00
> Europe and China are both working on reusable rockets. Blue Origin is doing the same

China and Blue Origin are Europe may be funding the research, but Arianespace ensures it's more than a decade away from matching today's Falcon Heavy.

> Assuming the US continues to alienate its allies, I assume spaceX will be limited to the domestic market in 5-10 years. Why buy from the US when you can buy from more reliable players

Because it's cheaper and more frequent.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-12-05 20:45:56+00:00
I use https://karakeep.app/ to subscribe to RSS feeds; not only can I view the content in the app, but it also captures the content and stores an archive of it. It uses generative AI to create tags (but also supports full text search of everything archived). You can also create RSS feeds with criteria, with it acting as a bus for your content; perhaps it can enrich your RSS feeds while you continue to use your existing RSS reader. I hope this is helpful for your problem statement.
by azemetre | 2025-12-05 20:46:29+00:00
People need to realize that these companies only exist because of work that the public openly shared with society at no cost (transistors and the internet). All they want to do is extract as much wealth as possible before dying.

There should be regulations that tax big tech enough to pay out billions to support a public jobs programs toward open source development.

They're destroying the most precious thing in the known universe, our planet, to chase a fictional good.

It's insanity.
by smj-edison | 2025-12-05 20:46:37+00:00
I see people say that if you like C you'll like Zig, and if you like C++ you'll like Rust. I kinda disagree, since both languages take a lot from C and C++.

Rust feels like "let's take the best safety features from both", while Zig feels like "let's take the best transparency from both". In a way, Rust's traits are more foreign to C++ than Zig's comptime, as Zig has similar duck typing (though the ergonomics are much cleaner, especially with @compileError).
by danny_codes | 2025-12-05 20:46:39+00:00
Starlink is not going to be a monopoly. The other big countries won’t allow it.

Like Tesla, SpaceX was ahead of the game by making big bets on new technology. Over time, that lead erodes when other players start competing. Tesla is now a declining player in EVs rapidly falling behind market leaders in AV and battery tech. I suspect spaceX will have a similar trajectory
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-12-05 20:46:52+00:00
If you’re watching something from the 70s, sure. I would hope synthesized grain isn’t being used in this case.

But for anything modern, the film grain was likely added during post-production. So it really is just random noise, and there’s no reason it can’t be recreated (much more efficiently) on the client-side.
by cratermoon | 2025-12-05 20:46:55+00:00
The court will do as European countries did after the first world war: people of certain backgrounds and having some kind of stateless or refugee status will be deprived of any birthright. Left unchallenged, this will eventually lead to mass de-naturalization and deportation or, for those with no country or whose country refuses them, indefinite detention in some kind of "displaced persons" camp.
by kelnos | 2025-12-05 20:47:06+00:00
> early tests show that the SoC already draws about 16 watts at idle

Ooof. I feel like power efficiency would be the main reason I'd take the plunge and switch from x86_64 to arm64, given that there would be difficulties and trade offs software-wise to do so.

My 13th-gen Intel board in my Framework 13 sits at around 11W semi-idle (Firefox constantly burning 35% of one core for reasons that are my fault). And this is with Linux, where power management isn't always the best.

Regardless, I'm happy to see something like this. It might not be something I want today, but it's a step in the right direction.
by dalmo3 | 2025-12-05 20:47:28+00:00
Funny you mentioned Disco Elysium. I played the game when it was first released and had no audio dialogue. I read moderately fast, but I never skipped any dialogue and always explored all branches my skills allowed. It took me 40 hours to finish.

When audio dialogue was released I played it again and I couldn't stand the slower pace. It'd have probably taken 150h to finish the game again like that. So I switched to another language that was text only. (Btw, having a hotkey to switch between languages on the fly is AMAZING design).

All I'm saying is I'm agreeing with GP, going fast didn't mean I didn't care, quite the opposite as going faster meant I could explore more options.
by kachapopopow | 2025-12-05 20:47:30+00:00
I got assulted with a youtube ad recently I couldn't believe how bad it made me feel and I don't really know why. At least the ads on twitter are generally amusing in a way where it's some ai furries that look like kids or some outright scam, but having an ad pretend to be my friend / relate to me felt so offputting that it doesn't even make sense.
by atmavatar | 2025-12-05 20:47:33+00:00
Precisely. The phrase is exclusively intended to handle both foreign and US diplomats.

Diplomatically, embassies count as the soil of the country they represent and thus subject to the jurisdiction of said country. As a result, a child born to a foreign diplomat present in the US would not be granted citizenship. Similarly, a US ambassador (to Germany, for example) is treated as still subject to US jurisdiction, and by extension, any children of theirs would automatically become US citizens.

A person who entered the US illegally is still subject to US jurisdiction (or else they couldn't be violating US immigration law), so any children they have are citizens. The proper ways to address that are to a) prevent them from entering illegally in the first place, b) fix immigration law so they don't have to enter illegally, and/or c) add a constitutional amendment modifying the 14th amendment to explicitly deny citizenship to children born to parents who are here illegally.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-12-05 20:47:35+00:00
Very US-centric POV. The herbicides that would be used in the US to replace glyphosate, that are potentially worse (paraquat/diquat, atrazine, and 2,4-D), are are already banned in the EU.

If the EU were to officially ban glyphosate, their food supply would increase in quality as a result, since these worse pesticides are not available.

The US needs to catch up. Eliminating glyphosate is not a one-shot kill for human health and never meant to imply that
by bigyabai | 2025-12-05 20:47:38+00:00
My experience was less good. Starlink suffered from intermittent outages, and enough bitrate jitter to make video calling a distraction. Latency was good but still higher than advertised, and the average download speed felt noticeably slower than wired broadband. It wasn't uncommon to see 50% dropped packets while playing a game or watching live content, which is more than I saw with Hughesnet.

It's preferable to 3G or being stranded in the woods, but there are definitely points where I wondered if a 4G LTE hotspot would have been faster for home internet.
by Barrin92 | 2025-12-05 20:47:44+00:00
>Most CLIs also follow the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well,

basi cli tools yes, but software like the one we're commenting on has a TUI so complex they simply emulate graphical user environments and widgets but on a text rendering stack, akin to web apps pretending to be graphical applications on top of a markup language, except they do it out of necessity because that's how the web works.

If you want to draw graphical user interfaces on an operating system just use the... actual graphics stack. There's terminal apps with widget frameworks now that painstakingly try to reproduce what every OS ships with just because it's.. cool to be a terminal hacker or something?
by ben_w | 2025-12-05 20:48:24+00:00
Advertising either does or doesn't cause an increase in spending on whatever is advertised.

If it does increase spending on things being advertised, the absence leaves us with more money for all those other things that are currently ad-supported.

If it doesn't, it's a scam.

If those things supported by ads would be literally unaffordable by the consumers if not for those ads, because the consumers are so poor they have no money to spend, the fork is still true; it's just that if those ads work then they push those already-poor consumers into debt for things they'd otherwise not buy because they couldn't afford, making them even poorer.
by fooker | 2025-12-05 20:48:32+00:00
> Why is the US an open economic zone

Do you know of the fable of a goose that laid a golden egg once a day?

You are proposing to kill the goose to see if you can get multiple golden eggs at once.

> country with an identity

Like it or not, the identity is 'land of opportunities' and not 'land of anglo-saxons who emigrated before ~1850'
by array_key_first | 2025-12-05 20:49:06+00:00
It's not even contrarian, it's just true. Money has always been a proxy for real value, which we created because real value can be hard to measure.

> If you have a better understanding than the idiots in charge, then go be rich!

Doesn't work this way because most markets are dumb as rocks.

> If you have a better model for real value, you'll outcompete them.

Doesn't work this way because most markets are dumb as rocks.

Look, after a certain point you have to detach from what you're being told and look at the world around you.

Prime example: tobacco. For humanity, Tabacoo has a negative value. You should be getting paid to smoke. Why? Because it kills you, and that's very expensive.

But that's hard to measure, right? So we just sell the cigarettes and say their value is what they're sold for. But that's not their actual value.

Their actual value, in the real world, in your hands and in your lungs, is negative. That's not an opinion. That's objective. That's just what it is.

When you look around our markets, almost all products are like this to some degree. The value we're creating is not necessarily real value.

Ads are another prime example. Do they enrich the world? Do they help consumers? No. They have zero real value. They just move money around via manipulation. That's not my opinion. That's just the objective reality.

Eventually, the real world catches up to la la land. You can't just say "well do ads and you make money". When there's no more money to move around, then even our fake value estimates of ads approach zero.
by Analemma_ | 2025-12-05 20:49:22+00:00
This "what if it gets truncated in the middle of the download, and the half-run script does something really bad" objection gets brought up every time "curl | bash" is mentioned, and it always feels like "what if a cosmic ray flips a bit in your memory which makes the kernel erase your hard drive". Like, yes, it could happen in the same way getting killed by a falling asteroid could happen, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
by WD-42 | 2025-12-05 20:49:36+00:00
The parent's cable is so bad. First of all, the ratio is way off. Like 60% content to 40% advertisements, and I'm being generous. Then it's SO LOUD. Maybe the decibels aren't actually higher (I think that was outlawed?) but these ad firms employ some top notch sound designers that make their ads almost impossible to tune out.

I have no idea how this is still a viable product. Coasting off Boomer's 50+ year old habits I guess?
by psunavy03 | 2025-12-05 20:49:42+00:00
Starliner leaving astronauts stranded after first not making it to the space station.

737 MAX crashing and killing people due to slapped-together flight control integration.

737 MAX having windows blow out due to sheer manufacturing incompetence.

KC-46 deliveries being rejected due to literal tools being found in fuel tanks.

Boeing HAD an over 100 year history of delivering. You can build a thousand bridges. No one's calling you a bridgebuilder after you shag just one sheep.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-05 20:50:39+00:00
Ubisoft made games people wanted to play. It's not a ton of leverage, but more than you can say for Microsoft studios.

What can Microsoft even threaten? No more Fallout 76 and Halo Infinite? Linux is banned from Bedrock Edition? They'll re-cancel the Perfect Dark reboot? Every punishment I try to imagine is like death-by-pillow-fighting.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-05 20:50:46+00:00
> Blue Origin has beat SpaceX to Mars

As you said, not especially relevant to a financial discussion.

> as for profitability

SpaceX is profitable.

> US government cannot risk having SpaceX as a single option to get to orbit, so it has no choice developing a publicly funded rocket program

Being the U.S. government's prime contractor while it keeps ULA on life support is a great deal. Same for Europe and Arianespace.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-05 20:50:53+00:00
Really, where was the anger? When did it happened?

I see trash talk. We trash talk microwaves, for example, and that doesn't mean we hate them.

I do believe this supposed anger is fabricated. Not conspiracy style fabricated, just fabricated.

It's just attractive for a technology still full of problems to have an enemy. You can blame stuff on this imaginary enemy. You tell yourself that the guy trash talking your new toy is not right, he's just angry because he's going to lose his job soon, and you sleep better.

I also believe some people buy the existence of that enemy. There idea that people are anxious about losing jobs was repeated ad nauseam, so it stuck. But there is no real world evidence of this anxiety to the levels that it is attributed to.