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by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-12-15 10:47:23+00:00
IMO too many people come to the conclusion that Qualcomm will in some way screw up the Arduino takeover at the expense of the community.

And I think these people are right, but that is not necessary a bad thing.

There is just about no reason a giant like Qualcomm would take over something like Arduino for any other purpose but to acquire resources (talent, customers, community, processes, documentation, ...) they can use to teach themselves how to become more open, to what degree they even want to and to have a trusted platform they can take their initial steps in and will get feedback from.

And the reality is, that someone with little experience will screw up badly, several times. I mean, look at the current state of the major silicon IP holders, the only reason they dont ship brain-chips with their NDAs that explode the moment you mention the wrong part number infornt of a competitor is because the NDAs for the documentation on how to install the brain-chips would get them stuck in recursion hell.

And just as little experience Qualcomm has at making open source a successful business strategy, Arduino has just as little experience at being a corporate Godzilla trying to carefully pet the egg they just adopted. And let's be real: Open source projects OWE it to their community to be financially successful, because it's that financial success that guarantees that the project CAN STAY open and wont force its core maintainers into choosing between their commitment to their community and a fulfilling lifestyle, although for someone like Qualcomm this success can probably be something else but financial in nature (acquiring talent, their products becoming a preferred choice, schools teaching students using Qualcomm products, whatever).

Both Arduino and Qualcomm will end up outside of their domain and it'd be surprising if this would not result in major mistakes being made.

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Qualcomm has to evaluate whether their new talent at Arduino is doing a good job and are suddenly looking at a giant dumpster fire, wondering what could have possibly caused this since their lawyers aren't even half-done sticking on the "by Qualcomm" labels yet.

Right now, instead of trying to pressure Qualcomm into making commitments they do not understand, the community should try to adopt the role of a stakeholder, who prioritizes a long and healthy relationship with a currently struggling contractor over getting the desired product at a reasonable timeline.

The community needs to make a cold day in hell happen, calm down, get together and formalize what they think they liked about Arduino up until now, the fundamental requirements that need to be retained or even developed and what would be nice to have.
by ManuelKiessling | 2025-12-15 10:47:29+00:00
https://github.com/manuelkiessling/Camera2URL

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/camera2url/id6756015636

Camera2URL is, as far as I know, the only iOS and macOS application that let‘s you send the picture taken with the camera directly to any HTTP endpoint the moment you press the trigger.

For example, this makes it possible to trigger an n8n workflow the instant you take a photo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5nCw8NY8zk
by nairboon | 2025-12-15 10:47:46+00:00
> Taxing wealth is much harder on a practical and algorithmic level than taxing income.

I find this argument somewhat unconvincing. Where is most of the wealth? In hard assets, such as real estate and financial assets, such as stocks and bonds. The former are very difficult to hide, for obvious reasons. As for the latter, the ownership of every single share is recorded in large databases (e.g. DTCC, Clearstream and Euroclear). In that sense, the "physical location" of most of the wealth is well known, so in theory it should really not be difficult to tax it.
by mattmanser | 2025-12-15 10:48:18+00:00
I don't know how anyone can agree with this, because it pivots on this outrageous claim:

"Like any tools, they both have advantages and disadvantages"

You cannot make any argument based on such a position. Putting aside anyone's views on TS or JSDoc, tooling is of extremely variable quality, and lots of tools ARE objectively much worse than other tools.

It we can't point at tools and say this one is better than that one, we might as well give up.

I always remember a scene in Will & Grace where Will is trying to get his boss to say one thing is better than the other. He's brought a lovingly hand-crafted sandwich made with amazing, bread, fillings, etc. and a store bought sandwich made with cheap bread/fillings. He asks his boss to try both and say which one he likes more.

His boss says something like the store bought one reminds him of his grandma's sandwiches, so invokes nostalgia, and still can't make a decision.

Don't be that boss.
by dewey | 2025-12-15 10:48:52+00:00
That's true, but not if you want to use HDR which the Apple TV + Plex sadly still don't support. Infuse on Apple TV does.

Some threads:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/1azy0s9/current_st...

- https://forums.plex.tv/t/does-the-plex-app-supports-hdr10/89...
by coldtea | 2025-12-15 10:48:56+00:00
> A futuristic EU soldier stands guard, laser blaster at the ready. European fighter jets zoom through the sky over thumping Eurodance beats. An imaginary map shows a vastly enlarged EU, swallowing everything from Greenland to the Caucasus. Welcome to the wild world of pro-Europe online propaganda, where the EU isn’t a fractious club of 27 countries but a juiced-up superpower on par with China or the United States, only wiser and more cultured.

Yay, a millitaristic EU bureaucracy, after decades of dismal economic and social outcomes, with the typical bureucratic disdain for European peoples, and Germany at the helm. What could possiby go wrong?
by DamonHD | 2025-12-15 10:49:00+00:00
1) Maybe edit "Ask HN: " into your title?

2) As a low-level C++/C/asm/hardware guy I'd like to get into Rust but haven't yet got started because I haven't had a recent project that would benefit. Not quite your question.

3) When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth many many people thought that a sprinkling of XML would fix everything, with similar levels of hype to the current LLM wave. I do regularly use XML (eg as XHTML source for my Web site, and in my RSS podcast feeds), but not for everything. Also see SOAP and WSDL...
by RedNifre | 2025-12-15 10:49:37+00:00
I just finished https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=178450#p , my Signalis themed version of the Regicide card game.

It's mainly a distraction from enterprise programming, but it does have some parts that might be interesting to Lua programmers, like automated test suits, functional programming point free style and deploying to a raspberrypi via justfile.

The git README kinda doubles as a blog post: https://gitlab.com/michaelzinn/replicide
by grvbck | 2025-12-15 10:50:25+00:00
> Gizmodo reached out to Grok-developer xAI for comment, but they have only responded with the usual automated reply, “Legacy Media Lies.”

European here, so perhaps not my place to have an opinion on domestic U.S. legal policies, and I don't want to make this political (although I guess it kind of is…) BUT:

Why are no media outlets on the offense when companies use these kinds of statements? Shouldn't Gizmodo, or its owner Keleops Media, treat this as slander and take it to court? If Grok's behavior can be objectively verified, why is it so easy for a company to get off the hook so easily just by saying "lies" and move on?
by darkwater | 2025-12-15 10:51:33+00:00
You also need to have a spare tire or an inflate kit, that doesn't mean you can throw it at somebody's head or spray them in the eyes. Said in another manner: having eCall doesn't mean that they are authorized to send telemetry back in non-emergency situations or use it to do any other thing unrelated to the main function. Now, if there is not a law that forbids that, car makers are going to exploit that loophole for sure, but that does not mean the EU is evil in this context.
by Joker_vD | 2025-12-15 10:51:56+00:00
To this very day I can't hear the difference between e.g. "sit" and "seat", or "eat" and "it". I can pronounce them no problem, but hearing it? Nope, those two are the same sounds. Well, whatever, the context is always disambiguating enough.

But I can hear the difference between short/long (as in, differing in actual temporal duration) vowels just fine, e.g. in Finnish/Latvian ― although those languages kinda overextend it IMHO.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-12-15 10:52:48+00:00
Yes. This is also why trying to add an AI agent chat into one's product is a fool's errand - the whole point of having general-purpose conversational AI is to turn the product into just another feature.

It's an ugly truth product owners never wanted to hear, and are now being forced to: nobody wants software products or services. No one really wants another Widgetify of DoodlyD.oo.io or another basic software tool packaged into bespoke UI and trying to make itself a command center of work in their entire domain. All those products and services are just standing between the user and the thing the user actually wants. The promise of AI agents for end-users is that of having a personal secretary, that deals with all the product UI/UX bullshit so the user doesn't have to, ultimately turning these products into tool calls.
by hazzadous | 2025-12-15 10:53:25+00:00
i built a small tool that looks at who is starring a github repo by analyzing public data.

it gives aggregate views like role and seniority breakdown, top languages and frameworks, companies represented, where stargazers are located, and an aggregate feed of blog posts from people who starred the repo.

link is here if useful: https://api.yolodex.ai/stargazers

aside from this, daily dingbat style puzzles partially llm generated at https://thingbat.today
by b112 | 2025-12-15 10:54:05+00:00
You stated I was wrong. I am, and was not. This is because I have contextually stated that I am referring to the average person's reality.

I was specific in this point, because yes aosp exists. If you want to discuss conditions outside of those I mentioned, that does not make me wrong.

Instead, that means you are discussing something else.

Aosp existing does not mean the average person may or even can use it. This matters, for consumer protection is aimed at the 99.9%.. not 0.1%.

One sad example, many banking apps won't work without firebase and google play. You cannot, as an average user, even find such apps without the Play store.

A play account, or apple account has serious gatekeeping ramifications for the average person.

Pretending otherwise is ignoring reality.

It lets them win.
by kown7 | 2025-12-15 10:54:21+00:00
The live site has a blogging feature: Title, Text, Picture. Once I'll get to it, it'll be added to the demo site.

Comments is just the text aspect. So it's already working!

The question here though: in a low-trust environment, i.e. the public internet, what do you do with API key for your GitHub Actions/CI pipeline. Can they be narrow enough to be considered public? Can you get rid of the Cloudflare Workers?
by LightBug1 | 2025-12-15 10:54:23+00:00
Yeah, "Chinese companies just copies" was 10-15 years or beyond. No way is that relevant now.

I've been wondering about why this is. With no evidence, I wondered if one of the reasons is the long term result of the many design and engineering graduates (I notice an incredible amount in the industry I work in) who were educated in the "best western uni's" and have now returned home and grown up.

They were a honeypot for said uni's for so long. But the end result may now mean they're kicking all asses in product markets.

It can't just be cheap labour ... or maybe it's the combination.
by nairboon | 2025-12-15 10:54:44+00:00
That would be a highly bureaucratic solution with significant overheads. Would everyone pay extra tax per kWh or just AI computers? Tax it on the producer or consumer side? How would you verify that a particular data center is "bad computation" and needs a different tax rate on its energy usage.

Should an AI data center from pharmaceuticals or biotech startup be taxed extra per kWh, even if the AI is purely used for medical research?
by bloomingeek | 2025-12-15 10:55:41+00:00
If corporations are considered "legal persons", when they break the law, should they go to jail? If a corporation was forced to shut down because of law breaking, which would be a terrible burden to the workers and the customers, would that lead to corporations becoming more responsible "persons"?

https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...
by dotancohen | 2025-12-15 10:56:01+00:00
From the fine article:

> Random values don’t have natural sorting like integers or lexicographic (dictionary) sorting like character strings. UUID v4s do have "byte ordering," but this has no useful meaning for how they’re accessed.

Might the author mean that random values are not sequential, so ordering them is inefficient? Of course random values can be ordered - and ordering by what he calls "byte ordering" is exactly how all integer ordering is done. And naive string ordering too, like we would do in the days before Unicode.
by Ntrails | 2025-12-15 10:56:04+00:00
My uni claimed grading was something like:

~ 40% bookwork. Rote learned facts ~ 30% standard questions. Do in an exam hall standard variants of what was done in class/homework/tutorials. ~ 30% New applications and logical extensions.

I don't know how well they achieved that split, I suspect it was mostly aspirational. Seemed like a reasonable ideal though!
by Fnoord | 2025-12-15 10:56:07+00:00
Hmm, from EU PoV, given many other EU countries rely on it, I believe NL is a reasonable host, but other EU countries could be as well.

I'm no expert on that subject, just following Hubert's assessment that it falls in their M.O. (already linked), following Modderkolk's recent assessment on how Mossad operates [1]. Look at all the flak I get in this thread while I just went with HN rule of 1:1 using title. Problem is all these sources are in my native language. And finally, yes my suspicion is on high alert ever since the Maccabi riots in Amsterdam [2], to which Modderkolk also refers to.

And yes, I am well aware every Israeli adult is ex-military [3]. If it were up to me, we'd restart this practice here in NL.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/hoe-de-mossad-overal-t...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2024_Amsterdam_riots

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036671
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-15 10:56:07+00:00
There is a study in my country where immigrants fear racism less than their white counterparts and it wasn't too close. For me part of left has become a preserve for the very easily offended (mostly by their own vanity). A safe space that can only survive with a clear image of an enemy. Althout old white men is something very similar.

It is far from a cadinal sin to care about racism and getting a bit ahead of yourself, but you have to take care on who you are targeting and in whose name you allegedly advertise changes.
by p0pularopinion | 2025-12-15 10:56:17+00:00
I generally think both attitudes are a too simplistic look.

Basically, the most common pattern with „commodity“ tech seems to be like this.

Western companies go ahead and expend a lot of R&D to establish a new market or validate a market need. Chinese companies go ahead and flood the market with slighly worse but significantly cheaper versions of said product (often forcing the „inventor“ company to take a significant margin hit, reducing new R&D budgets). Chinese companies them spend R&D on iterating on new features of the product (which they also can, because they saved a lot of R&D on the first product iteration).

„Western“ companies mostly created the situation for themselves. They basically consolidated all their manufacturing in China. China has also invested tremendous amounts into education and qualification. So China effectively turned from „the workbench of the world“ into a country where companies have extensive knowledge in product design, development, testing and manufacturing - as well as a mostly local supply chain.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 10:57:18+00:00
>Do you think Lithuania can in any way negotiate on anything approaching equal terms with any of those?

Do you think Lithuania, or other such small countries like Serbia, Albania, Bosnia, Georgia, etc, can negotiate on equal terms with the EU?

I got news for you, when you're small country bordering large empires, you're gonna get absorbed into one or the other, whether you want to or not, because you don't really have a choice.
by GolDDranks | 2025-12-15 10:57:48+00:00
Ah, totally agreed. At least there is a clear auditory / motor part in the tasks that seems quite separate.

However, I find it also unlikely that the networks are totally separate, and I wonder if there are any evidence of areas that encode the "core/abstract" linguistic de/serialization (multidimensional and messy internal semantic information ←→ linear morphophonological information) both ways, or at least mechanism that manages to use gained input network competence to "train" or "manage" output network competence.

Why? Because even though, as you say, there is a differing performance in perception and production, there is also plenty of evidence of gaining linguistic competence from input, and then managing to convert that to performance in output.
by saubeidl | 2025-12-15 10:58:10+00:00
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by risyachka | 2025-12-15 10:58:49+00:00
>> I’m currently working on an in house ERP and inventory system for a specific kind of business

this means if I sell it to your business for the price of < your salary - you will get fired and business will use my version.

Why? because my will always be better as 10 people work on it vs you alone.

Internal versions will never be better or cheaper than saas (unless you are doing some tiny and very specific automation).

They can be better than current solution - but only a matter of time when someone makes a saas equal and better to what you do internally.

Sure almost anything will be better and cheaper that hubspot.

But with AI smaller CRMs that are hyper focused on businesses like yours will start popping up and eating its market.

Anything bigger than a toy project will always be cheaper/better to buy.
by saubeidl | 2025-12-15 10:59:19+00:00
Lithuania doesn't need to negotiate with the EU, they are the EU.

The others can't, of course. That's the point! We become one of the predators instead of staying prey like them.

> I got news for you, when you're small country bordering large empires, you're gonna get absorbed into one or the other, whether you want to or not, because you don't really have a choice.

Exactly! That's why we need to build our own empire based on our own rules instead of letting foreign dictators gobble us up.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 10:59:50+00:00
>Lithuania doesn't need to negotiate with the EU, they are the EU.

Unless the EU gangs up on you and takes away your veto ability "in case of emergency", in which case you have to shut up and take it.

>The others can't, of course. That's the point! We become one of the predators instead of staying prey like them.

Do you not see the irony here?
by moooo99 | 2025-12-15 10:59:52+00:00
> I would happily overpay 3-4x for the good vacuum without the cloud and the need to do some hacking with valetudo, with an official service and support for the device. Yet nobody is willing to take the money. They'd rather go bankrupt..

I feel like you are over estimating market demand based on your own preferences. Been there, done that. Most techies under estimate how little normal folks care about privacy, cybersecurity and stuff like that.

The market for privacy focused vacuum robots (at a significant premium) is probably not even going to pay for the injection mould tooling
by alp1n3-dev | 2025-12-15 11:00:07+00:00
To get a better AppSec perspective, you can always do some more offensive/red team oriented training. PortSwigger (makers of Burp Suite) have their free security labs online, and other places like HackTheBox exist. Familiarize yourself with the OWASP WSTG and take a gander at the OWASP Top Ten + cheat sheets.

There's not going to really be a great "bootcamp", but if you wanted some credentials you could grab a SANS cert if your company is willing to fund it, or HTB has two levels of AppSec certs too. The makers of the OSCP also have the OSWE, but these are all very offsec focused training for pentesters.

In terms of more defensive certs, I think Amazon has some that involve DevSecOps, same with Azure and GitHub, so those might be good things to snag along the way.
by PurpleRamen | 2025-12-15 11:00:20+00:00
> So instead of being in a medical approximation of your new gender, you really were that gender, with your old brain and all your memories intact.

This implicates the brain and experience being genderless, which does not really seem to pass by today's understanding of it. But then again, the brain would probably also experience a very traumatic phase of body-adaption. There are many syndromes with people having strange feelings about the body they were born in, or missing parts of it; how awful would be to switch the whole body overnight and not having a long phase of adapting to it. Not sure if I would really call this elegant. But then again, body switching is quite common in SciFi, and those aspects are usually completely ignored.
by dns_snek | 2025-12-15 11:00:21+00:00
It feels really alien to discuss this in terms of "taxing AI", like an economic abstraction completely breaking down. Ultimately when you take automation to its logical conclusion we have people with needs and we have machines and automation capable of meeting those needs with minimal human labor.

No matter how you try to resolve this economically, it should hold that if something can be produced with minimal human labor, it shouldn't require substantial human labor to buy (in "reasonable" quantities, however you want to define and enforce that).

Without understanding the "end game" of automation (decades+ from now) it feels like we're just sleepwalking into an absurd reality where a few trillionaires own the world's fully automated food supply chain, but buying food somehow requires just as much labor as it does today.
by jwr | 2025-12-15 11:00:26+00:00
Clojure is just better than CL in pretty much every respect. Excellent and well designed standard library, great concurrency primitives, core.async, built-in transducers (CL has SERIES which does a kind-of similar thing, but isn't as well designed and integrated) and the dominant immutability all let me write more maintainable code. Also, I can re-use model code on the client side (ClojureScript), so there is lots of code sharing, and I don't have to serialize to a crippled format (JSON), my data can pass from server to client and back intact (with sets, keywords, and other rich data types).

I used to love CL and wrote quite a bit of code in it, but since Clojure came along I can't really see any reason to go back.