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by cactus2093 | 2025-12-04 16:30:45+00:00
I've always kind of expected it to work this way, with people being cutthroat and stealing credit for other people's work.

What I have seen in reality is a lot more nuanced. There are a lot of good ideas that will simply die if nobody pitches them the right way, i.e. if no one gets the rest of the team/org/company to understand and agree that it solves an important problem.

There are also very few novel ideas in a mature business or technology space. Every time I think I've come up with one, I search the internal company docs and often someone had mentioned the same thing 5 years ago in some long-forgotten design doc or something.

I've come to realize that the hard thing and the bottleneck for a good idea to have real impact is not the idea itself or the execution, it's pulling the right strings to make space for the idea and get it accepted. At a small scale, in your own team or ownership domain, this isn't necessary and you can just build things and let the results speak for themselves. But the amount of impact that thing has on the broader company will be limited if you don't pull the strings the right way.

Some people despise this idea and in that case, a big company is probably not the right place for you. But most of the cases I've seen of "brilliant engineers passed over for credit" were people not realizing and not doing this necessary part of the job. If someone else steps in and gets the idea more widely recognized after you had let it stall and moved onto the next thing, then 1. usually you do still some partial recognition for it so it's a win/win and 2. the other person is not really stealing credit, because if they had done nothing the idea would have just died and you wouldn't have gotten credit anyway.
by trjordan | 2025-12-04 16:31:00+00:00
This is a really good article. Don't get caught up in the tone of "anti-politics" or "slow is good." It's describing a brand of politics and impact that is just as mercurial as product development if you do it wrong. Infra and DevEx behaves fundamentally differently, and it can be a really great path if it suites your personality.

For context: my last job was PM for the infra team at Slack. I did it for 5 years. I didn't learn about Slack's product launch process until year 4. Everything until that point was internal work, on our k8s/service mesh and DB infrastructure.

The important insight here is about customer success and shadow management. Every successful engineer (and my own success) derived from figuring out what product engineers needed and delivering it. The "Shadow Hierarchy" feedback was make-or-break for those promotions. It's _hard_ to optimize for that, because you need to seek that feedback, understand if addressing it will actually fix the problem, and deliver it quickly enough to matter in the product org.

If you're willing to optimize for that internal success, you'll be rewarded, but in your career and in stability in the organization. I disagree this is only at Big Tech -- companies as small as 100 engineers have real and strong cultures in the right team, under the right manager.

But don't think this is some magical cheat code to ignoring what's important to the business. It's just a different, perhaps more palatable, route to managing the alignment and politics that are a necessary part of growth at any company.
by chpatrick | 2025-12-04 16:31:51+00:00
TypeScript is a really decent language though, I wouldn't feel happier or more productive using Fortran or whatever. Its type system is actually really powerful which is what matters when it comes to avoiding bugs, and it's easy to write functional code with correct-by-construction data. If you need some super optimized code then sure that's what WASM is for but that's not the problem with most web apps, the usual problem is bad design, but then choice of language doesn't save you. Sure TS has some annoying legacy stuff from JS but every language has cruft, and with strict linting you can eliminate it.

It's also better if there's one ecosystem instead of one fragmented with different languages where you have to write bindings for everything you want to use.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-12-04 16:31:55+00:00
It's not just market forces. Computers are actually too subversive for the powers that be to allow mere citizens to have them.

Give citizens computers and they have encryption. This alone gives them a fighting chance against police, judges, three letter agencies, militaries.

Give citizens computers and they can wipe out entire sectors of the economy via the sheer power of unrestricted copying.

The future is bleak. Computer freedom is dying. Everything then word "hacker" ever stood for is dying. Soon we will no longer have our own systems, we will have no control, we will be mere users of corporation and government systems. Hacking will go extinct, like phreaking.

This fact brings me a profound sadness, like something beautiful is about to perish from this earth. We used to be free...
by staticman2 | 2025-12-04 16:32:03+00:00
For translating webnovels My preference is Opus, followed By Gemini, followed by GPT 5.

This is based on informally comparing samples and counting annoyingly big enough to distract the reader mistakes rather than the error rate overall.

GPT 5 seems to be worse at webnovel translation than 4o or 4.1 was, oddly enough.
by vgeek | 2025-12-04 16:32:14+00:00
Users are broken into two separate buckets: industry and consumers. Industry users keep using the site, based on the number of visitors with 50+ visits coming in directly every weekday. The site also gets cited by organizations with regard to their fees and rankings within geographies. This kind of proves the utility for at least this demographic.

Consumers, for a product such as mortgage, will be fragmented and infrequent users, who will only be in-market for a mortgage for a ~3-6 month window every X years. For this audience, discoverability is what matters-- and they will simply go to a search engine and look for "cincinnati mortgages" for which Google will gladly show 8-12 ads with CPCs of $20. An objective ranking based on rates and fees is useful for the consumer, but not an ad network who would rather drive multiple clicks on paid ads. Being objective and useful isn't enough to play in the space, unfortunately.
by natch | 2025-12-04 16:32:18+00:00
I see more hate and misinformation on Mastodon than I see on X. Here is a very mild one:

[edit: link removed; I don't want to promote that guy but to give the gist he was saying that people who believe in free speech are trash, targeting X users with hate. Mastodon is absolutely saturated with this.]

Most of the criticism I see of X seems completely made up out of malice or is regurgitation of things other poorly informed or resentful people have said.

The supposed FSF in Europe should post links to the sections of the open source algorithm they claim to be criticizing, and show us their PR.
by Atlas667 | 2025-12-04 16:32:23+00:00
Is it a democracy when theres a whole class of people who can take over the political apparatus?

Is it democracy if a group of people totally coopt the electoral process by cultivating all the candidates and their policies behind the scenes and then present a few issues for us to bicker about?

Democracy is supposed to be everybody.

And you may say "but you can pick the person and representatives". But often these are already cultivated by the rich OR the political apparatus has been so corrupted that picking them does nothing.

Not only cause you can't influence policies after you vote, so that voting essentially becomes a pinky promise you make with the candidate. But also because the rest of the govt is so corrupted that an individual candidate, even if independent, is gonna have a hard time working in favor of the people.

You say in between theres an ocean, but for analogy purposes, what can the Millions of us do in an ocean if we don't have a boat?

Where's your think tank and lobbying group?
by WhyOhWhyQ | 2025-12-04 16:32:31+00:00
It is a large amount of luck, obviously. You didn't hard-work your way out of brain damage at birth. You didn't hard-work your way into your geographic location which gave you access to the resources that lead you to where you are, which are unavailable most places in the world. You didn't hard-work your way out of avoiding a draft for a war where you got killed at age 18.
by neilv | 2025-12-04 16:33:08+00:00
The Linux (and LAMP, etc.) adoption happened before YouTube, Stackoverflow, ChatGPT and the other recent ways that people decide what tools to use, when they have a choice.

Agreed, the tools you learned in school influenced what you use in your job (when you had a chance to influence that), and that was understood by marketers since before Linux. I even know one top CS department that was threatened by a major software company of no internships and other sanctions, if they moved to Linux rather than teach classes with that company's software, and the company seemed to follow through on the threat when the department did Linux anyway. (Nowadays, CS departments are run more like vocational schools, or hoping students do startups, and are generally teaching whatever tools they think industry is using at the moment, rather than leading.)

Related: Apple aggressively getting the Apple II series into schools, influencing what's bought in affluent homes, even before the students are old enough to get jobs.
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by pixl97 | 2025-12-04 16:33:18+00:00
>meant that you don't worry about this things

Not at all, that was a confused expectation.

The problem here, at least I think, is you may be very unaware of the expectations of running ones own business. There are far more politics, more being cutthroat, tons of regulations you must be aware of that come with potential later penalties if you are not, legal threats, and more.
by empath75 | 2025-12-04 16:33:18+00:00
Two things can be true:

1) We have barely scratched the surface of what is possible to do with existing AI technology. 2) Almost all of the money we are spending on AI now is ineffectual and wasted.

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If you go back to the late 1990s, that is the state that most companies were at with _computers_. Huge, wasteful projects that didn't improve productivity at all. It took 10 years of false starts sometimes to really get traction.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-04 16:33:21+00:00
The usual hodgepodge of policy and constituent packages that evolve election to election, pasted onto semi-tribal partisan affiliations. Politics (in democracies) is rarely ideologically coherent because the data pull the model, not vice versa.

Like, we can describe the illiberal wings of the right and left, MAGA and academic progressivism, respectively, and it will get readership in the New Yorker and Atlantic, but it’s not going to tell you much about who’s in power and why.

More specifically, complaining about “liberals who typically hate Musk” misses that most of Musk’s antagonism in the last 1 year has come from a different cohort than that which has soured on him since he bought Twitter which is again quite different from the crowd that never liked him at all. There is no “typical” Musk hater, even if we just focus on those who vote blue.
by ossa-ma | 2025-12-04 16:33:52+00:00
The core difference I've seen is that FDEs sell a product whereas consultants sell billable hours.

The Big 4 incentive is to stay as long as possible, build custom code that only they can maintain, upcharge on maintenance while outsourcing it to developing countries.

FDEs sell a product (Foundry, Gotham, GPT, Claude, Databricks). They deploy their platform to solve your problem, then move on. The incentive is to get it working fast, not to embed themselves.

Also, the talent bar is drastically different. Palantir/OpenAI hire top 1% engineers. Accenture... doesn't.
by lunias | 2025-12-04 16:34:37+00:00
People sure are quick to say, "I hope you get to work with better management". Man, me too, but I find that dismissive of a legitimate concern: There is A LOT of incompetent management, especially in enterprise. The sad truth is that it is often the blind leading the sighted. When I was growing up I thought that the manager was someone with experience doing the job of those they managed, but across jobs I've had, this is the case about 20% of the time.
by jfindper | 2025-12-04 16:35:00+00:00
>You can make $11-$13 at what are considered bad jobs, like flipping pizzas at Little Caesars.

Holy moly! 11 whole dollars an hour!?

Okay, so we went from $4.25 to $11.00. That's a 159% change. Awesome!

Now, lets look at... School, perhaps? So I can maybe skill-up out of Little Caesars and start building a slightly more comfortable life.

Median in-state tuition in 1995: $2,681. Median in-state tuation in 2025: $11,610. Wait a second! That's a 333% change. Uh oh.

Should we do the same calculation with housing...? Sure, I love making myself more depressed. 1995: $114,600. 2025: $522,200. 356% change. Fuck.
by adolph | 2025-12-04 16:35:21+00:00
Have you ever confused BlackRock with Blackstone? Despite their similar sounding names, these two financial powerhouses represent distinct approaches to investment management.

https://www.investing.com/academy/trading/blackrock-vs-black...

Major news organizations and sector researchers describe the claim as unfounded and often rooted in confusion between BlackRock Inc. and the private-equity firm Blackstone Inc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock_house-buying_conspir...
by eviks | 2025-12-04 16:35:23+00:00
Because it's not limited to games, forcing updates cuts of a lot of apps that can't invest enough in updating.

Also the barrier to use you're suggesting with alternative install/emulator is pretty high for an average user. It also breaks integration with everything else (e.g., a simple alt-tab will show the VM instead of 2 apps running inside)

Also because a lot of progress is regression, so having an old way to opt out into is nice
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-04 16:35:32+00:00
You reminded me of a stunt/promotion I saw on TV in the 1970's where they drained the oil from a Japanese import and then ran the engine (red-lined it as I recall, perhaps a brick on the accelerator) until they blew the engine.

This was when there was a lot of grousing about those cheap (and fuel efficient!) Japanese cars catching on in the U.S. market.

Hilariously, the Japanese car just kept running and they had to intervene — maybe drain the radiator?

I wish I could find something about it but even ChatGPT comes up empty handed. Maybe it was a half-time stunt? I feel like it was in a stadium anyway.

(My first car was a used 1974 Datsun B210.)
by psunavy03 | 2025-12-04 16:35:42+00:00
This is a main reason why Agile Coaches often end up with such a bad rap, and the role is on the outs.

They're supposed to be people who can work with leadership to ensure the right people are on the right teams working on the right stuff at the right time. And turn around and be able to help teams untangle their QA and CI/CD processes to speed delivery.

Instead, the damn "life coaches" got their foot in the door and started infecting everything. The only time "coaching" is a valid approach is when both you and a coachee agree that the person has what they need to solve the issue and just needs a sounding board or a rubber duck. There's nothing more infuriating that needing help solving a problem and being told "well how would YOU solve the problem?" Idiot, if I knew that, I wouldn't be asking!
by minorole | 2025-12-04 16:35:42+00:00
Hi HN! I built gsx because I got tired of the same routine every day: open Ghostty, split into panes, cd to my project, launch Claude code etc.

Now it's just `gsx myproject` (or just `gsx` for an interactive picker for multiple projects).

It works with any commands — AI coding agents, npm run dev, VS Code, whatever you configure per pane. Layouts include 3-col, 2-col, and main+bottom.

Built with AppleScript (macOS only for now). This is my first project working with AppleScript and Ghostty, so feedback welcome.

Install: brew install minorole/tap/gsx
by troyvit | 2025-12-04 16:35:58+00:00
That's what I was thinking as I was listening to the "be like clippy" video linked in the parent. Those local models probably won't be able to match the quality of the big guys' for a long time to come, but for now the local, open models have a lot of potential for us to escape this power consolidation before it's complete and still get their users 75-80% of the functionality. That remaining 20-25%, combined with the new skill of managing an LLM, is where the self-value comes in, the bit that says, "I do own what I built or learned or drew."

The hardest part with that IMO will be democratizing the hardware so that everybody can afford it.
by celeritascelery | 2025-12-04 16:36:30+00:00
I never visit twitter/X “for you” or homepage, but instead just use the timeline and see only people I follow. This is mostly interesting people in tech or hobbies. It is great for that!

Every platform has their extremists and if you let the algorithm suggest content to you it will be stuff designed to fester hated and rage. However twitter is one of the few platforms that let you curate your feed, and I couldn’t use it without that.
by theamk | 2025-12-04 16:36:33+00:00
The main point in rivalry between "Team Many Worlds" and "Copenhagen" interpretations is that it does not matter for any practical purpose. All of the formulas behave the same, no experiment can tell one from another. That's why it's called "interpretations" and not a "theory".

The author is really on point when they keep talking about "sport fans" analogy.

(If one day someone can come up with an experiment to tell those apart, this would be pretty exciting, and I bet they have a good shot on Nobel prize. But I am not holding my breath on that)
Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the horizon
by EvertonB | 2025-12-04 16:36:33+00:00
I’m working on the intersection of thermodynamics and gravity. I just released this preprint (submitting to Physics Letters B) that proposes a solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem—the famous 120-order-of-magnitude discrepancy.

The Core Argument: Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the cosmic horizon.

Instead of treating it as a vacuum fluctuation (which leads to the UV catastrophe), I derive it from the First Law of Thermodynamics ($dE = T_h dS$) applied to the Hubble horizon.

Key Results: 1. I derive the correct holographic scaling ($\rho \propto L^{-2}$) from first principles. 2. The raw geometric derivation predicts the correct magnitude order ($\sim 10^{-27}$ kg/m³) but overshoots by a factor of 3. 3. I show that requiring dynamic consistency with General Relativity demands a renormalization factor $\xi \approx 1/3$. This same factor precisely corrects the numerical prediction to match Planck observations.

Essentially, the "error" in the geometric derivation is actually the missing efficiency factor needed for GR consistency.

I’d love any feedback on the derivation in Section 5.

https://zenodo.org/records/17807430
by dralley | 2025-12-04 16:36:34+00:00
The "kids" are on average a lot better at driving than most of the "adults" of 30 years ago. Pay drivers barely exist anymore, and even e.g. Stroll is not bad compared to the pay drivers of decades past, who were genuinely terrible.

V10s are overrated. They sound nice, yes, but ask the drivers who have actually driven them and they actually prefer the V6T hybrids in a lot of ways. It turns out that actually sitting inches away from the V10 with the associated noise and vibrations kinda sucks.
by princenocode | 2025-12-04 16:36:44+00:00
We pivoted StayUpAI from a consumer app to a B2B tool because companies struggle to keep teams aligned on fast-moving AI developments.

StayUpAI now aggregates AI news from multiple sources, filters noise, and provides team-shared feeds + Slack integration. We’re adding industry dashboards, competitor tracking, and AI ecosystem insights.

Feedback welcome.
by smazga | 2025-12-04 16:36:50+00:00
UT99 was the first real FPS experience I had. My friend invited me to a LAN party (also first time), and the whole thing was mind blowing.

People all over the house shouting and laughing.

I have a distinct memory of someone attempting what you just described, but my friend just happened to be ready and he sniped the redeemer right as it was shot. Big explosion and nothing left of the player but a scorch mark on the building. I laughed myself to tears. Good times.
by ineedasername | 2025-12-04 16:37:31+00:00
A bunch of the NUC models use laptop RAM, and often have barebones kits. Looks like ASUS has a decent range of kits and prebuilt, but you may be able to find boards. If you want something expandable, look for the "Pro" and "Extreme" range. I had one of the first gaming-oriented NUC's a while back, Hades Canyon, highly capable.
by EvertonB | 2025-12-04 16:37:33+00:00
I’m an independent researcher working on the intersection of thermodynamics and gravity. I just released this preprint (submitting to Physics Letters B) that proposes a solution to the Cosmological Constant Problem—the famous 120-order-of-magnitude discrepancy.

The Core Argument: Dark Energy is the thermodynamic cost of encoding information on the cosmic horizon.

Instead of treating it as a vacuum fluctuation (which leads to the UV catastrophe), I derive it from the First Law of Thermodynamics (dE = T_h dS) applied to the Hubble horizon.

Key Results: 1. I derive the correct holographic scaling (rho ~ L^-2) from first principles. 2. The raw geometric derivation predicts the correct magnitude order (~10^-27 kg/m³) but overshoots by a factor of 3. 3. I show that requiring dynamic consistency with General Relativity demands a renormalization factor xi ≈ 1/3. This same factor precisely corrects the numerical prediction to match Planck observations.

Essentially, the "error" in the geometric derivation is actually the missing efficiency factor needed for GR consistency.

I’d love any feedback on the derivation in Section 5.

https://zenodo.org/records/17807430
by lesuorac | 2025-12-04 16:37:39+00:00
Martha Stewart was convicted of obstruction of justice. The securities fraud (inside trading) charge was thrown out by the judge.

It seems entirely reasonable to me that an individual could mis-remember their dealings of ~49k when they're worth billions.

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> And a similar question is "If we paid the dockworkers to stay home so that we could containerize, would the guys staying home consider themselves striking when we consider automating?"

Alternatively, if we went back to the optimal point of the Laffer tax curve (roughly 75% for top bracket). Then it doesn't need to be the Port of LA paying people to sit at home, it can just be the government providing paid job training and etc so the workers aren't on the streets when they're fired.