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by finaard | 2025-12-08 08:46:07+00:00
> But, I thought Arduino had become officially evil once it joined Qualcomm.

They have - but for less technical users their IDE is not too bad, and there are way too many bits out there relying on it, including lots of stuff not arduino, plus it's open source. And as it reloads files on changes can be used with a real editor as well. So for the software side I'm inclined to stick with that thing.

For hardware side it's different - but every interesting arduino has shitloads of clones available. In the past I've been buying those only for special use cases where there were no genuine arduinos to support the project - now since they got crazy it's only clones, and whenever I touch any of my old projects I'm updating the list of materials to recommend buying clones. You can still get nano clones for just a bit over 1 EUR each, so for projects where that is enough that's hard to beat value for the money.
by rob74 | 2025-12-08 08:46:19+00:00
Ok, those are valid examples (also, how about free roads for everyone? Everyone seems to take that for granted and wouldn't dream about calling it "socialist"), but in your original post you wrote about "a flat benefit for everyone" that doesn't reduce with income level, and the examples you gave are either non-income or not for everyone (e.g. not for families with less than two children, not for people who didn't pay social security taxes for at least 10 years etc.).
by another_twist | 2025-12-08 08:46:23+00:00
Java running in the browser is unlikely as typescript has largely tamed the mess of Javascript. Java requires a JVM and shipping an entire JVM so its runs atop another VM is kinda redundant. Except if JVM itself gets compiled and cached as a WASM bundle and Java compilers start accept WASM-JVM as a target. That will just be distraction tbh, Java has its strength in large scale systems and it should just focus on those rather than get caught up in Frontend's messy world.
by unwind | 2025-12-08 08:46:31+00:00
The article touches on this:

All told, 69 of the 300 items came up higher at the register: a 23% error rate that exceeded the state’s limit by more than tenfold.

This implies that an error rate of perhaps 2% would be legal. I haven't checked, but I guess Europe has something similar even though I'm quite certain that retailers have to sell things at the posted price if there's a mistake.

Part of the problem seems to be that the maximum fine (at least in the state in the article) is "too low", so retailers don't have an incentive to keep price tags correct since they profit from the error and even if they're fined it's still better (economically) for them to charge more than the price tag. I wonder how much lobbying has happened to keep fines low ...
Show HN: CloakProbe – A privacy-first IP and client debug service
by drmckay | 2025-12-08 08:46:37+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve built CloakProbe, a small Rust-based “What is my IP?”-style service that is designed to be privacy-first and self-hosted, sitting safely behind Cloudflare.

Why I built it ---------------

Most “what is my IP” sites are overloaded with trackers, ads and 3rd-party scripts. I wanted something I can put behind Cloudflare that:

- doesn’t track visitors,

- doesn’t log more than absolutely necessary,

- and still gives deep technical info for debugging clients and Cloudflare setups.

What CloakProbe does --------------------

- Shows your public IP, IP version and basic geoinfo.

- Resolves ASN info from a local ip2asn-based database (no external lookups).

- Parses Cloudflare headers (CF-Connecting-IP, CF-Ray, CF-Visitor, etc.).

- Works for both IPv4 and IPv6.

- Has a minimal, dark, no-3rd-party frontend.

- No analytics, no external fonts, no 3rd-party scripts.

Tech details ------------

- Written in Rust with Axum.

- Designed to sit behind Cloudflare; trusts only Cloudflare IP ranges and headers.

- Local ASN DB built from ip2asn-combined TSV via a small Rust builder binary.

- Nginx example config + ASN update script included.

Repo & demo -----------

GitHub: https://github.com/drmckay/cloakprobe

Landing page: https://cloakprobe.dev/

I’d love feedback on:

- security assumptions

- ideas for additional leak/fingerprinting/debug tests that still respect privacy,

- rough edges in the setup docs for self-hosting.

Happy to iterate if people find this useful.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-08 08:46:57+00:00
Like preventing the Hezbollah attack on Israel for example. And yes, an Irish soldier died. Pte Rooney.

I hope the other missions went better ...

Btw: Lebanon convicted someone to a death sentence over this killing. He wasn't in court however and the conviction remains without any actual consequence for the killer, he hasn't ever been arrested. The Irish government had no reaction, other than hiding that this happened, and that nobody was actually punished is not well known in Ireland.
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-08 08:47:15+00:00
It comes from a UK case, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain vs Boots Cash Chemist (southern division) from memory.

If the price on the shelf were an offer to sell, then you would be contractually obliged to buy everything you picked up. The offer comes instead from when you pass it to the cashier, which is why I'm saying for the third time on this thread, if you don't like that price walk out and leave the goods at the checkout...see if they find it more fun to put all your goods back, or put the correct prices on the shelf! If a group of people did this at every till the store would be effectively closed.
by Terr_ | 2025-12-08 08:47:50+00:00
> can be as severe as psychological delusion

Much worse, when insufficiently skeptical humans link the LLM to real-world decisions to make their own lives easier.

Consider the Brazil-movie-esque bureaucratic violence of someone using it to recommend fines or sentencing.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07856-5
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-08 08:48:31+00:00
The only real world problem is probably solved by low chain fees where I can hold usdc or gold coins and then pay or recieve payments without too much hassle

But that again, is such a low niche and something that includes exchanges fees too

Recently I wanted to get a domain name on black friday so I went to namecheap and paid them 10 $ in crypto, I had to pay 80 cents to an exchange to convert my usdc polygon to btc to then + some btc fees because namecheap just accepted that

I am a teenager so technically buying this domain pseudo-anonymously (yes I know I can do things with monero too so thus anonymously too) is the only real use case

I think stablecoins have potential to atleast remove this stripe/paypal/visa/mastercard etc.'s monopoly and allow cheap payments

Honestly I wish UPI from India or Pix from brazil were implemented at a global scale, they are so good.

My thoughts are nuanced but since I am a teen and yes I have a bank account but it cant be operated fully until I turn 18 by me, its all just complicated and crypto kinda solves some aspect of it

But this whole field is niche too and most people who build on these primitives basically build gambling as the author said

Here are my thoughts on crypto that one time I was on HackerNews on a similar thread and wanted to give a proper space to my thoguhts: https://justforhn.mataroa.blog/blog/most-crypto-is-doomed-to...
by sam_bristow | 2025-12-08 08:48:48+00:00
One key point that people overlook with that paper is that they were applying the coding standards retroactively. Taking an existing codebase, running compliance tools, and trying to fix the issues which were flagged. I think they correctly identified the issue with this approach in that you have all the risks of introducing defects as part of reworking the existing code. I don't think they have much empirical evidence for the case where coding standards were applied from the beginning of a project.

In my opinion, the MISRA C++ 2023 revision is a massive improvement over the 2008 edition. It was a major rethink and has a lot more generally useful guidance. Either way, you need to tailor the standards to your project. Even the MISRA standards authors agree:

"""

Blind adherence to the letter without understanding is pointless. Anyone who stipulates 100% MISRA-C coverage with no deviations does not understand what the are asking for. In my opionion they should be taken out and... well... Just taken out. - Chris Hill, Member of MISRA C Working Group (MISRA Matters Column, MTE, June 2012

"""
by davedx | 2025-12-08 08:48:52+00:00
> Many people invest for ideological reasons, myself included, and that's fine.

It's fine if you don't mind losing your shirt.

For us normal people, we invest to try and grow the money we've saved for the future (in my case, for my retirement), so investing in a company whose stock is insanely overvalued is a great way to blow up my pension pot.

I don't understand the rationale behind "investing for ideological reasons", can you explain it?
by hamburgererror | 2025-12-08 08:48:55+00:00
I heard some people were talking about using crypto to build a full State on it, this is doomed to fail.

Let's say you loose your wallet. What do you do next? You call your bank to block your credit card and to take an appointment with the administration to make a new ID, driving license etc. The cash in your wallet is gone but everything else isn't. The process is annoying but at the end of the day you'll be fine.

Now if all this is based on a private key and you loose it, you're completely done, you're just not part of society anymore.

No one will ever embrace this because humans are messy and make mistakes all the time. Crypto and blockchain are so resistant to mistakes that for this specific case it's just not good at all.
by manquer | 2025-12-08 08:49:18+00:00
Less demand these days, In 2015 when it launched there was lot more drive to move to the cloud, lift and shift was the industry mantra. By 2024 the kind of orgs with >100 PB have already moved to cloud or have no plans to do so.

The current solution is we can bring our own devices and reserve ports on a AWS Data Transfer Terminal. It costs $300-500/hour USD for a 100 GbE bandwidth so not really cheap.

While AWS is stopping doing devices for migration (not economical at low volumes these days). They however still support physical transfers so customers can pack their own planes so to speak with hard disks to the AWS terminal.
by nperson | 2025-12-08 08:49:51+00:00
I recently spoke with the head of a local police station in Schleswig-Holstein. This was an informal conversation, so feedback was quite unfiltered.

We mainly talked about the state's transition to open source. I tried to show him the outside perspective, how much international attention the move is getting and why many see it as a bold step toward digital sovereignty, how much positive (side) effects it has.

His reaction was not that enthusiastic: He described his everyday frustrations, which anecdotally align with the points made at the end of the article.

Especially at the leadership level their workflows are heavily email-driven, with the mail client acting as a universal everyday tool for e.g. team scheduling.

Migration from Outlook to Open-Xchange felt rushed, with seemingly limited upfront analysis of how officers actually use these tools and ensuring use cases were adequately covered. The idea of User Interviews was new to him or - if conducted - didn't reach anyone in his circles.
by piva00 | 2025-12-08 08:50:00+00:00
> Obamacare is of no use at all for the wealthy. So why do those in power support it?

They... Didn't? It's been defanged and reduced to the aberration it is right now, instead of being single payer, universal healthcare.

> Everybody says that money buys elections. But consider that Hillary outspent Trump 2:1 and lost, Harris outspent Trump 3:1 and still lost. Bloomberg poured money into his presidential bid, and he didn't garner enough votes to be a blip on the radar.

> Campaign money does buy you a stage, but it doesn't buy the votes.

Without campaign money you have no chance at all, could you run a successful presidential campaign on 1/10th or 1/100th of the budget given you had a hypothetical bright candidate, someone that could objectively be a much better president than any of the moneyed ones? No, hence campaign money does buy votes, it just doesn't buy them completely but without campaign money you have absolutely no chance.
by zkmon | 2025-12-08 08:50:07+00:00
I started with Applets in 1996, moving from Borland/Turbo C to Java. The Applet UI was never as smooth and rich as the OS-native stuff such as Windows GUI apps. But it was a great developement that brought applications to the web. IE+DHTML with a massive DOM API and VBScript+ASP took over soon, from 1997, to produce HTML-native interactive experience. People wrote ActiveX code to handle button clicks.

Servlets on the server-side survived a bit longer than applets, by evolving into JSP.
by itake | 2025-12-08 08:50:33+00:00
Jobs functions will change over time. Not everyone will be able to do research roles, but robotics is far away from replacing human hands in any meaningful way. Humans need plumbers, home construction, healthcare professionals [0], teachers, judges, relationship driven roles (sales, account managers).

[0] - if robotics/ai can replace healthcare, healthcare costs would drop to zero...
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-08 08:50:47+00:00
> Obamacare is of no use at all for the wealthy. So why do those in power support it?

Health insurance companies love it.

> Campaign money does buy you a stage, but it doesn't buy the votes.

You literally just talked about how the people everyone got to select from are those that could raise billions for a campaign. Hell the current president is a billionaire - literally the wealthy - and staffed important posts by other wealthy people. Congress is stacked by wealthy people, in no small part because the salary for congress is not commensurate with the responsibility it has.

Also, your numbers seem off for the Harris v Trump campaign (not what I’m seeing looking online) but it doesn’t matter (I highlight where you may have made the error below).

> Nobody has ever bought my vote. How about you?

No one serious about this issue suggests that they hand out money for votes. Well Elon actually did engage in that in this prior election cycle in swing states so there is that undermining your rhetorical comment.

But it’s also the height of naïveté to either not believe advertising/marketing (aka propaganda) works (you know, the trillion billion dollar companies of Google and Facebook) or to believe that politics is somehow immune from its effects as well (which requires ignoring how political movements work or what we learned about propaganda and its efficacy in WWII). And all of that takes big $. Of the 1.2B Kamala raised, 40% was small dollar donations. Of the 400M Trump raised, only 133M was small dollar donations (28.8%). Note: if this is where you’re getting the 3:1 number you’re not reading the data correctly - democrats spent ~1.9B total vs Republicans 1.6B and Trump directly spent >900M (presumably carrying over the donations from the previous campaign? Not sure).

And again - I’ll refer you to the research showing the general popularity of a proposal is irrelevant to it getting passed. How popular it is among wealthy does have that effect. And it again, you seem to struggle when I say this and try to point out some particular piece of legislation - it’s percentages. It doesn’t matter if it’s not an absolute. You don’t need to win every battle to win the war.

Anyway, Walter you’re a smart guy. I expect more from you than rudely dismissive comments that insinuate committing a crime is the only way money and wealth can influence and “buy” politics (and ignoring that Republicans did attempt to do so this past cycle)
by maxloh | 2025-12-08 08:50:56+00:00
The "walled gardens" he referred to are in fact based on open standards and open source, while the Applet runtime is not.

Not all of Java is open source. The TCK, the testing suite for standard compliance, for instance, is proprietary, and only organizations with Oracle's blessing can gain access. AdoptOpenJDK was only granted access after they stopped distributing another Java runtime, OpenJ9.
by pritesh1908 | 2025-12-08 08:51:10+00:00
Hey HN, sometime back someone on HN asked for an open-source alternative for Vapi or Retell and we replied there (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45884165) That thread just confirmed otehrs running into the same problems we had been dealing with. Now Dograh is more mature.

We are happy to share some technical details for anyone interested. A lot of Dograh’s internal work went into extending the functionality of the pipeline by including custom Frames and Processors, creating a ReactFlow based visual agent builder and creating an Engine that can parse that Agent JSON and call conversational LLM loops with function calling. Also we enhanced the functionality by creating easier access to extracted variables, call transcripts and recordings - things that are needed in any production deployment.

One thing we are still trying to understand better: how teams handle long-running conversations while keeping context tight and cheap. Would love to hear how others have approached that.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-08 08:51:21+00:00
> Yes you still have a shadow sector where you can use bitcoin to buy drugs or dodge the taxman. But all the other supposed benefits have gone.

You use monero to do those things or zano or freedomusd and similar things for these but I didnt understand the conclusion of this statement

Basically you are saying crypto is just an less regulated fiat nowadays?

A legal curry of tech jargon just meant to replace laws and regulations?
Show HN: I built MonumentValley3Wiki.com – a fan wiki for Monument Valley 3
by WanderZil | 2025-12-08 08:51:53+00:00
Hi HN — I made MonumentValley3Wiki.com (https://monumentvalley3wiki.com). I built this because Monument Valley 3 just returned to mobile (App Store / Google Play) and launched a new free DLC expansion.

What you can do on this wiki: • Read and share game info: levels, story, characters, puzzles. • Find help for the new DLC chapters and older ones. • Add or improve pages yourself — everyone can contribute.

If you like Monument Valley 3 — check it, enjoy it, or help build it.
by bux93 | 2025-12-08 08:52:12+00:00
There's precedent for this; the Federal False Claims Act lets you sue on behalf of the government if you spot someone defrauding a federal program (in this case, perhaps if they take SNAP?). If your suit is succesful you get 15%-30% of the recovery for your troubles. There are "private attorney general" rules on the books at a state level too. I think it's kind of elegant, we can all see that inspections are understaffed, but non-compliance is often not that hard to spot and document. I'd propost that employees should have some whistleblower protection (and relief from NDAs and such) for building dossiers with supporting documentation of criminal fraud.

These provision are called "qui tam" from "qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur", or “who sues in this matter both for the king and for himself.”

I think they suit well with the US's history of bounty hunting, much like class action suits.
by yfontana | 2025-12-08 08:52:24+00:00
> I’m downplaying because I have honestly been burned by these tools when I’ve put trust in their ability to understand anything, provide a novel suggestion or even solve some basic bugs without causing other issues.?

I've had that experience plenty of times with actual people... LLMs don't "think" like people do, that much is pretty obvious. But I'm not at all sure whether what they do can be called "thinking" or not.
by anthk | 2025-12-08 08:52:47+00:00
This. Nowadays I just use Zukitre for GTK/Qt and the Tango icon theme, it suits TWM/CWM and any other minimal WM without tons of effort. A dull gray theme combines with everything, even with my Cyan titlebars for TWM (they make a great contrast with red borders and wheat yellow icons/menus). You know, I want to use my computers and the titlebars stand out like crazy. And, actually, I've just borrowed an old color config used from a university.

The background?

xsetroot -solid gray20

I never understood the trend on dark/bright modes; the gray themes from my childhood/early teens with W98SE (and used by Mac OS 7/8 too) are just neutral and barely 'sit there'.
by epistasis | 2025-12-08 08:53:31+00:00
There's zero sarcasm in my comment.

The JVM is quite different from Java language features or Scala language features. I've written entire programs in JVM bytecode, without a compiler, and I see very little of value in it. A stack based machine? Why? Not a huge blocker, it's weird, but usable. The poor engineering around the JVM for many use cases? That's a blocker for me, and where are the alternatives in implementation that don't have the atrocious launch performance and interface for specifying class path and jars?

Java may be used a lot, but so is Windows. It's an accident of history, of early adoption and network effects, rather than being inherently good technology. Java, the language, made a very wide and broad swath of programmers productive, just as Windows lets a very wide and broad set of IT people run IT systems, without having to learn as much or know as much as they would need to with, say, Linux. But Java's low-barrier-to-entry is quite distinct from the weaknesses of the JVM...
by vlovich123 | 2025-12-08 08:54:10+00:00
Oh and I suggest you look at how advertising works. It’s classic 0 sum game. If you and I spend 0 on advertising, the outcome is the same as if we both spent $100 on advertising (assuming equivalent efficiency of conversion). However if you spend $100 and I spend 0 you capture the market. If you outspend 2:1 you’ll get 2/3 of the market (roughly). Obviously efficiency of the spend is also important, but it’s literally a 0 sum information war between competitors. If you didn’t think it mattered, you’d have to explain why companies spend hundreds of millions on advertising - that would be money more efficiently invested somewhere else.
by whstl | 2025-12-08 08:55:54+00:00
This is a strawman.

They can (and will) switch off individual accounts from the US if the government asks them, and this has been demonstrated earlier this year.

No, they haven’t coded a “country-wide kill kill-switch” but having the ability to kill individual accounts, and being in a jurisdiction that demands accounts to be disabled from time to time is equivalent to having such a thing.

Also: Remember that several US organizations, including Github, have disabled thousands of accounts from eg Iran in the past is such maneuvers.

So: definitely feasible and has definitely happened in the past, with or without the mythical kill switch you talk of.
by omnimus | 2025-12-08 08:55:54+00:00
No. Thats the point. There nothing groundbreaking except their branding and lobby. Every other enterprise sofware company has data analytics platforms similar to Palantir - including the big microsoft / google. Palantir might even be best by a big margin but none of that matters. Nothing would justify this valuation. But what matters is that govs around the world will buy Palantir to show their alliance to US/Trump/Thiel. European far right politicians will happily push Palantir everywhere.
by npoc | 2025-12-08 08:56:20+00:00
The thing is - the world young people are accustomed to is just a carefully managed matrix. There are glitches.

"Why do house prices endlessly rise?"

"Why am I working so hard in such a technologically advanced world yet can't even afford to raise a family?"

Once you see the reason, you can't unsee it.

We also have Gresham's and Thier's Laws on our side.