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by WalterBright | 2025-12-22 02:11:45+00:00
As I mentioned elsewhere, the captain figured out what was wrong immediately, but he was too late.

BTW, my dad taught instrument flying in the AF. He said it was simple - look at the instruments. Bring the wings level, then the pitch level. Although simple, your body screams at you that it's wrong.

He carried with him a steel pipe, so he could beat a student unconscious who panicked and would not let go of the controls. This was against regulation, but he wasn't going to let a student pilot kill him.

When JFKjr's crash was on the evening news, he said two words - "spacial disorientation". Months later, that was the official cause.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-22 02:12:07+00:00
YOShInOn gave me three choices for this article including

(2) https://phys.org/news/2025-11-species-consciousness-consciou...

and

(3) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/380/1939/202...

of which I thought the one I posted (1) fit my intuitive model that we don't give animals enough credit for their mental faculties of which I'd say that generically birds and mammals are probably capable of just about everything we are except for language in the Chomsky sense if not the Saussure sense.

(2) is crammed with obnxious ads and is suppressed by a quota of articles from that site that I enforce, I liked the intellectual framework behind (3) a lot. So (2) vs (3) was a tough call for me, I can punch in a manual override to post either one of them or both.
by TZubiri | 2025-12-22 02:13:08+00:00
It's coming together more clearly now.

I guess my experience is more from the role of a startup or even in-house software. So we both develop and operate the software. But in scenarios where you ship the software and it's operated by someone else, it makes sense to have more auditable and restricted logging instead of all-too-powerful ad-hoc debugging.
by SigmundA | 2025-12-22 02:13:10+00:00
A watt of power multiplied by a second of time has an agreed upon name called joule, but a watt second is also a perfectly valid SI name.

A watt is a joule of energy divided by a second of time, this is a rate, joule per second is also a valid name similar to nautical mile per hour and knot being the same unit.

Multiplication vs division, quantity vs rate, see the relationship? Units may have different names but are equivalent, both the proper name and compound name are acceptable.

A watt hour is 3600 joules, it’s more convenient to use and matches more closely with how electrical energy is typically consumed. Kilowatt hour is again more directly relatable than 3.6 megajoules.

Newton meter and Coulomb volt are other names for the joule. In pure base units it is a kilogram-meter squared per second squared.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-22 02:13:18+00:00
I think it's wrong, and either calmbonsai is speculating or just colloquially using "trust fund kid" to mean coming from a wealthy family.

That is, Ferris's family was undeniably well-off. From some quick research it looks like his dad was a pharmaceutical exec, his mom was a small gallery owner, he grew up in East Hampton and went to an expensive prep school. But I couldn't find any evidence that he received a large inheritance or had a literal trust fund. So yes, like a lot of people who become rich, it looks like he could afford to take risks, but his financial success flows from his own work and investments.

People have to stop believing Google's AI overview - it can be a useful pointer to other sources but it still makes shit up all the time. In this specific instance, the overview says "Father's Philosophy: His father, a high school graduate, emphasized simplicity in business, famously describing it as three shoeboxes: money in, money out, and profit." Except the link there goes to a page where Ferris was quoting someone else (Nick Kokonas) about Nick's father, not Ferris' own dad. It's flat out wrong and typical AI slop.
by yesco | 2025-12-22 02:13:24+00:00
Completely agree. Modern computers are basically just web terminals for most people, so a basic Linux distro + browser is all they need.

Windows is actually terrible for non-technical users now. The constant pop-ups, nagging messages, and decision prompts create genuine anxiety. People don't know what they're clicking on half the time. Yet somehow most technical people I talk to haven't caught on to this.

Look at what younger generations are actually using: Chromebooks in schools, Google Drive instead of Microsoft Office. Even people who legitimately need Office aren't on Windows anymore, they're on Macbooks. That's the case at my company anyway.

At this point Windows is really just gamers, engineers who need CAD, and office workers stuck on it from inertia. There's nothing inherently attracting new users to the platform anymore. I honestly don't know who their primary audience even is at this point.
Show HN: I built a zero-config CLI to stop leaked secrets locally
by mrsoltan | 2025-12-22 02:13:33+00:00
Hi HN,

I got tired of reviewing PRs that contained leaked API keys or debug console.log statements, so I built a small CLI tool to catch them at the source (the developer's terminal).

It's called Accord. It wraps standard Git Hooks but makes them zero-config.

How it works:

Run npx accord-governance-cli init in your repo.

It installs Husky and sets up a pre-commit hook automatically.

It scans staged files for regex patterns (AWS keys, logs, etc.).

It blocks the commit if it finds a "critical" violation.

You can configure it with a simple accord.yaml file to change rules from "block" to "warn" (e.g. allow console logs but warn about them).

It runs entirely locally. I'm working on a team dashboard for analytics next, but for now, it's just a simple tool to keep your git history clean.

I'd love to hear what other checks you'd want in a tool like this.

Docs/Install: npx accord-governance-cli init
by Breza | 2025-12-22 02:13:47+00:00
Any political ideology could be bolstered with the heavy handed use of surveillance technology. That's why groups like the ACLU and EFF exist. They both vehemently agree that there's no such thing as a good police state. Even if your team is running it.

If you want specific examples, I'd point to the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. The left wants to throw people in prison for years for protesting while the right wants to pretend it doesn't exist and allow women seeking abortions to be intimidated. I'd also point to the levels of technology deployed to catch the January 6 perpetrators. I live in DC and have a hard time doing a both-sides here since the experience of living in a city under attack is still rather raw; whatever your views, you can't describe the right's response as "enforcing the laws as written."
by Jeremy1026 | 2025-12-22 02:14:09+00:00
It'd be awesome if you could add a location to the pass. Apple allows a pass to automatically pop up on the screen based on the device location[1]. If you make it so the user could pick the point on a map for the pass to pop up at it'd be great. That way for example, if you're at the grocery store, your custom pass could be on your lock screen ready for you.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/walletpasses/pass/...
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-22 02:14:28+00:00
Yeah I saw that post and was going to try to kick off the thread from that very stub.

I do feel the urgency, so a thorough read is warranted.

Thoughts after the first pass, though, "rationalism fails because humans learn that fast-think responses are better for dealing with chaos", what's your succinct summary of the "crisis of object relations"

Instead of relying on real science, magic has become the sole foundation of expertise for the technocratic elite and the professional managerial caste—culminating in the legendary powers of the High Mages of the Central Bank, the Priesthood of Think Tanks and the Sacred Policy Institutes.

There's this sock-puppet on HN who I might have otherwise written off as a conservative but the way he writes is stimulating so he seems to be just one of these technocratic elite according to the above (albeit I credit him for the "insight")

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by deaux | 2025-12-22 02:16:35+00:00
Huge caveat: For the $20/mo subscription Google hasn't made clear if they train on your data. Anthropic and OAI on the other hand either clearly state they don't train on paid usage or offer very straightforward opt-outs.

https://geminicli.com/docs/faq/

> What is the privacy policy for using Gemini Code Assist or Gemini CLI if I’ve subscribed to Google AI Pro or Ultra?

> To learn more about your privacy policy and terms of service governed by your subscription, visit Gemini Code Assist: Terms of Service and Privacy Policies.

> https://developers.google.com/gemini-code-assist/resources/p...

The last page only links to generic Google policies. If they didn't train on it, they could've easily said so, which they've done in other cases - e.g. for Google Studio and CLI they clearly say "If you use a billed API key we don't train, else we train". Yet for the Pro and Ultra subscriptions they don't say anything.

This also tracks with the fact that they enormously cripple the Gemini app if you turn off "apps activity" even for paying users.

If any Googlers read this, and you don't train on paying Pro/Ultra, you need to state this clearly somewhere as you've done with other products. Until then the assumption should be that you do train on it.
by benoau | 2025-12-22 02:16:41+00:00
> author Talia Lavin first searched online for her new book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America,

> The books had titles like Talia Lavin Prosopography: You Need to Have a Wild Faith to Succeed, and, Talia Lavin Biography: Why You Need Wild Faith to Succeed and Tania Lavin Biography: The Wild Faith to Take Over America

This is probably closer to fraud then "AI slop", whether it is written with AI seems an unimportant detail compared to being a deliberate attempt to use the author's name and likeness and book title to sell a different product.
by left-struck | 2025-12-22 02:17:04+00:00
I think it’s more complicated that. LLMs have allowed me to do things that I couldn’t do before which definitely made programming and hacking things together more fun, and massively increased what I could do in my limited free time. It also allowed me to manually do the things I enjoy while making the less fun parts go faster. On the other hand I recently tried doing a larger project in codex and it wasn’t fun anymore because codex quickly created a system that was way beyond my understanding, it didn’t work, and I had no idea how to fix it. So I guess it just depends how you use it.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-12-22 02:17:32+00:00
"How much of the code do you manually write"

I review all of it, but hand write little of it. It's bizarre how I've ended up here, but yep.

That said, I wouldn't / don't trust it with something from scratch, I only trust it to do that because I built -- by hand -- a decent foundation for it to start from.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-22 02:18:11+00:00
You buy gift cards with other purchases and pay people under the table. The gift card is cash-like for stores like Home Depot or Walmart.

You can also do stuff like get paid with someone else’s Cash App (like grandma’s) and then buy gift cards with it. If you hire “independent contractors” for casual labor or construction, many of them do that. The gift card transaction is just another CVS/Mobil purchase.

It’s not just tax evasion, sometimes they are avoiding child support or garnishments. Other times folks are just unbanked for some reason. You get blacklisted from banking you do something stupid.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-12-22 02:18:14+00:00
> Mostly, I am not really trying to compete with C/C++/Rust on speed, but I'm not going to add a GC either. So I'm somewhere in there.

Out of curiosity, how would you compare the goals of Rue with something like D[0] or one of the ML-based languages such as OCaml[1]?

EDIT:

This is a genuine language design question regarding an imperative/OOP or declarative/FP focus and is relevant to understanding the memory management philosophy expressed[2]:

No garbage collector, no manual memory management. A work in progress, though.

0 - https://dlang.org/

1 - https://ocaml.org/

2 - https://rue-lang.dev/
by pfdietz | 2025-12-22 02:21:30+00:00
Utility-scale Li-ion batteries are good for an order of magnitude more than that.

"LFP chemistry offers a considerably longer cycle life than other lithium-ion chemistries. Under most conditions, it supports more than 3,000 cycles; under optimal conditions, more than 10,000 cycles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery...
by nradov | 2025-12-22 02:21:33+00:00
Affording a house is totally within reach if you want to make it a priority. Quite a few US states have both a low unemployment rate and a high homeownership rate. Try Vermont, Alabama, Montana, New Hampshire, Maine, Wyoming, etc. I understand that failed progressive policies have ruined opportunities for youths in some other states and that sucks but nationwide the future is still bright.

https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

https://www.statsamerica.org/sip/rank_list.aspx?rank_label=h...
by kibwen | 2025-12-22 02:22:14+00:00
Sure, I know all of these things because me and all my friends make a tradition to watch it... to laugh at it. It's a hilarious farce. Which advertisers are fine with, naturally, but don't mistake someone admiring the spectacle of a catastrophic trainwreck for someone admiring the engineering of the railway. The actual awards given are a meaningless afterthought.
by dijit | 2025-12-22 02:23:38+00:00
Being critical of MENA migration is not hateful speech.

Hateful speech is stating: you are from a MENA region therefore you are x negative trait.

Being critical of migration is just being critical of migration, which is allowed. His defence ("suicidal empathy" etc;) comes from the situation in the UK where people are being arrested en-masse for "hate speech" for referencing acts of terror[0].

You can dislike what he says, but hateful carries a more specific meaning (to me, at least).

[0]: https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...
by throwthrowuknow | 2025-12-22 02:26:59+00:00
I half agree, but it should be called “Hobbiest” since that’s what it’s good for. 10 minutes is hyperbolic, I average 1h30m even when using plan mode first and front loading the context with dev diaries, git history, milestone documents and important excerpts from previous conversations. Something tells me your modules might be too big and need refactoring. That said, it’s a pain having to wait hours between sessions and jump when the window opens to make sure I stay on schedule and can get three in a day but that works ok for hobby projects since I can do other things in between. I would agree that if you’re using it for work you absolutely need Max so that should be what’s called the Pro plan but what can you do? They chose the names so now we just need to add disclaimers.
by melchebo | 2025-12-22 02:29:50+00:00
Do not connect it to the internet. Problem solved.

Basically anything in a social network needs to learn to defend itself against threats. Make computer a hermit, and it can go without updates for a long time.

(Oh, but you don't like that? Well, Microsoft doesn't like getting in the news for some worldwide botnet of all Windows 10 machines. I bet they'll figure this out sooner or later.)
by jrjrjfhgggg | 2025-12-22 02:30:29+00:00
Disagree, having dealt with +40k LoC rust projects, bottow checker is not an issue.

Async is an irritation but not the end of the world ... You can write non asynchronous code I have done it ... Honestly I am coming around on async after years of not liking it... I wish we didn't have function colouring but yeah ... Here we are....
by satisfice | 2025-12-22 02:30:33+00:00
If you are not required to rigorously test the claims made about AI capabilities, then those claims about how they can do X or Y are more or less barroom bragging.

If you want to be a responsible engineer, instead of a nihilist, then you don’t just make a space shuttle and declare it to be safe until it blows up a couple of times and you shrug and move on to other things.

AI tools have serious problems, today. These problems aren’t secret. They are widely discussed. The fanboys laugh or shrug. I can’t bring myself to do that, because I am a responsible adult.

I do make use of Claude Code to create throwaway tools. It’s great for that. In my circle of friends we have a shorthand for discussing our AI-aided work:

level 0: Slop. Untested, barely tried, unreviewed output. “I slop-coded a tool to track RAM usage”

level 1: Plausible. Sanity checked. But not deeply reviewed. “I created a plausible tool with Claude Code for monitoring RAM usage.”

level 2: Provisional. I trust it for use in my own work, based on reasonable testing and review. “I have a provisional RAM usage monitor that I created with Claude Code.”

Level 3: Validated. Tested to the point I can recommend it to others. I stake my reputation on it.
by roncesvalles | 2025-12-22 02:30:41+00:00
This is true, you only grow when you have nothing to do. At least, nothing that other people are telling you to do. If there's something you want to learn really bad I highly recommend taking a sabbatical and just spending the whole year learning that topic deeply. You can get to the bleeding edge of most topics in one year of study, especially ones adjacent to what you already know. I did this in my 20s and can't wait for the stars to align to be able to do this again.
by CodingJeebus | 2025-12-22 02:31:08+00:00
Everyone can vibe code now, but not everyone can read LLM output and see the bugs they generate.

If anything, job interviews should doubly focus on ability to read and understand code without LLM assistance because that’s becoming the new organizational bottleneck.

The same principles apply to a developer regardless of whether or not they’re using AI. If comprehension ability isn’t a top priority, then your risk of hiring a poser skyrockets.
by zeech | 2025-12-22 02:32:50+00:00
I've found lnk [0] to be a nice tool for this. Similar to GNU Stow as another comment mentioned, but plays a bit nicer with git (and, in my opinion, is nicer to use).

Edit: just remembered there was a good comparison of lnk and stow on the HN discussion of lnk from a few months back [1].

[0] https://github.com/yarlson/lnk

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080514
by ffuxlpff | 2025-12-22 02:33:04+00:00
One more reason to resist the fragile lifestyle that requires constant internet access. Even if you don't live in a totalitarian country where shutting down the net would be easy and probable.

Some time ago someone posted in Twitter a letter of Theodore Kaczynski giving life advice, one point being not to use internet for more than one hour a day. Too bad I couldn't find it anymore.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-22 02:33:31+00:00
Yes but unfortunately it appears that Aider development has completely stopped. There had been an MCP support PR that was open for over half a year, many people validated it and worked on it but the project owner never responded.

It’s a bit of a shame, as there are plenty of people that would love to help maintain it.

I guess sometimes that’s just how things go.
by anjel | 2025-12-22 02:34:05+00:00
Its like everyone's arguing we should optimally live in darkness. As if 1. Humans didnt evolve living outdoors, 2. Everyone ages at the same rate 3. If they did, no one would ever get MM again. Like many things across the universe, too much of a good thing becomes bad. And "too much" varies considerably from one individual to the next. And no one in their 80s who avoided exposure to the sun is without wrinkles.
by SR2Z | 2025-12-22 02:34:11+00:00
In this country, if heart disease or cancer doesn't kill you, a car probably did.

Until "Waymos lessons" are killing people at that rate, I am 100% OK with a Waymo making my trips an extra 5 minutes longer every 50th trip or whatever else the real stat is.

I was curious if Waymo has even been involved with a crash that killed someone, so I looked it up. The answer is yes - there was a Tesla going 98mph in SoMa whose driver died after hitting a Waymo. Clearly the Waymo's fault!
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2025-12-22 02:34:16+00:00
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article/380/1939/202...

It is mainly the ability of having and integrating meta-representations that boosts the function of general alertness, such that it enables new abilities like explicit self-involving and future-directed learning and decision-making

Seems to be more direct the phys org didn't do a good job of summarizing their ALARM theory

Ok a better question is your how your 3 boxes map to macrosocial obj relations. What is the macrosocial version of the "real self"

Is it the ideal gov? Actual gov? Laws that are effectively enforced?
by nfriedly | 2025-12-22 02:34:25+00:00
I used Rufus to make a Windows 11 installer USB drive that bypasses the TPM check and online account setup and a couple of other things. I've been using that along with O&O Shut Up 10++, and Firefox with uBlock Origin to refresh computers for local folks.

With the "requirements" check bypassed, Windows 11 actually runs on the Intel 1st gen Core i-series and newer, as well as any Ryzen CPU and, I think, a couple of earlier AMD generations. (It requires the popcount instruction, which isn't present on the Core 2 and older.)

Anything older gets Windows 10 IoT which gets updates until 2032.
by dangus | 2025-12-22 02:34:31+00:00
Windows 11 came out FOUR YEARS AGO. It’s time to let this subject die.

They’re harassing you because in not too many years, connecting your computer to the internet on their OS will be dangerous. They’re trying to save you from yourself.

And, quite reasonably, they don’t want to patch an OS that debuted 10 years ago so that it supports your hardware that’s even older than 10 years old.

It’s time to get over it. You’re using a commercial OS that you likely haven’t even paid for since Windows 7 debuted 20 years ago and that vendor needs you to at least upgrade to a still-pretty-shitty-and-old used laptop to remain compatible.

You’re free to switch to something else like Linux and, frankly, if you’re at the point of writing redundant blog posts of the same subject we’ve heard all about for the last 4 years, you definitely should. I did! And pretty much all of my Windows stuff runs on Linux effortlessly including and especially games.

Or you can disconnect from the Internet and kill the nags with some group policy stuff. As a bonus, being disconnected from the internet will stop these blog posts.
by cjsplat | 2025-12-22 02:35:01+00:00
So maybe the point was to consider a different store or route.

Or look at the traffic and decide if you REALLY want to spend an hour or more in gridlock for whatever activity you are considering.

And maybe wherever you wanted to go is closed because they don't have power either.

It is a perfectly reasonable request.

The fact that you acknowledge that is was a "crisis" implies pretty strongly that you understand that a priority evaluation might be useful.
by nradov | 2025-12-22 02:35:33+00:00
Be unkind to yourselves, people. I find the best way to prevent depression and burn-out is to be brutally, ruthlessly frank with myself. There's nothing positive in accepting weakness and failure. I always feel better when I hold myself to the highest standards and don't make excuses. Of course, I don't always manage to fully do that but it's something to aspire to.