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by ndiddy | 2025-12-30 17:48:58+00:00
I think the situation has flipped in the past few years. Since Pipewire came out, I haven't had any problems with audio on Linux and I can dial the latency down to single-digit ms. Meanwhile, on Mac audio has gotten far worse, especially since Tahoe. The latency is tens of ms and I get crackling and skipping when there's high CPU usage.
by mikestorrent | 2025-12-30 17:49:33+00:00
I did love that era, in terms of it providing a young frugal person with the opportunity to buy upgrades piecemeal. It felt like there was more generational overlap, as you describe, so it was possible to just go out and buy a new CPU, or a new graphics card, for a few hundred carefully saved dollars of birthday and christmas money, and get a sizeable upgrade in performance. That era is over, especially with the current pricing crunch.

What I am hoping for is that this leads to a resurgence for all those used computers out there... plenty of great machines from the last decade that should have no problem being competent workstations for 90% of people's needs for the next decade onward if treated well. This is where open standards and open source truly shine.
by alwillis | 2025-12-30 17:49:39+00:00
> Apple is very much welcome to push for signing off of software that appears on their own store.

Just to be clear, apps have to be notarized/signed to run on an Apple device. For macOS, notorized apps aren't required to be distributed in the App Store. Due to sandbox restrictions, some dev tools are distributed independently.

Or there are two versions: a less capable version for the App Store and a more capable version distributed independently.
Show HN: A tiny CLI to find broken CloudWatch alarms
by wrybakiewicz | 2025-12-30 17:49:59+00:00
In my day job I kept noticing CloudWatch alarms that were technically there,
but in practice didn’t help much anymore - no actions, disabled actions,
or alarms sitting in ALARM / INSUFFICIENT_DATA for weeks that everyone just got used to.

Once you have a lot of services and a lot of people touching things over time,
it gets surprisingly hard to tell which alarms still make sense.

I ended up hacking together a small, read-only CLI that just lists alarms across regions and highlights those kinds of cases.

This isn’t meant to fix anything automatically — mostly a way to see what you actually have.
Curious if this matches what others see in real setups, or if you approach this problem differently.

Repo: https://github.com/wrybakiewicz/cw-alarm-audit
by sarchertech | 2025-12-30 17:50:21+00:00
Every useful CRUD app becomes its own special snowflake with time and users.

Now if your CRUD app never gets any users sure it stays generic. But we’ve had low code solutions that solve this problem for decades.

LLMs are good at stuff that probably should have been low code in the first place, but couldn’t be for reasons. That’s useful, but it comes with a ton of trade offs. And these kind of solutions covet a lot less ground than you’d think.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-12-30 17:50:24+00:00
I love stories like this! Neil Stephenson has a great wired magazine article about information technology of that time, and telegraphs. The article is kind of a precursor to the ideas in his excellent book cryptonomicon. You should stop what you are doing and read that wired article. And then cryptonomicon if you haven't already done it. Best book to read over the rest of our holidays.

Article in paywall at
https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

The book and the article are fascinating explorations of the impact of technology and cryptography on the world. The people who did the work to invent and build these worldwide systems were just like us (hackers, inventors, technologists), and we are just like them in a way. We all stand on the shoulders of giants.

Also I can't believe that article is 30 years old, boy I'm old.
by pchristensen | 2025-12-30 17:50:38+00:00
I always have to recommend Mother Earth, Mother Board by Neal Stephenson[1] if the thought of undersea cables sounds at all interesting. I'll also second andyjohnson0's recommendation of The Victorian Internet[2] - it blew my mind how much of modern digital culture existed on telegraphs prior to voice.

[1] https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46433901
by tuetuopay | 2025-12-30 17:50:38+00:00
That would be true, except even in calm scenes in movies it's an issue. Unless I turn the volume high enough, in which case music and sfx become neighbor-waking loud. To be clear: I'm not talking about scenes where characters speak over an explosion. The overall mix does not allow having the same volume for all scenes of the movie, pick your poison: wake the neighbors or don't understand dialogues.

Somehow youtube videos don't have this issue. Go figure /s
by masklinn | 2025-12-30 17:51:15+00:00
> My claim is simple and narrow: compilers should internally model such values as unspecified, not actively choose convenient constants.

An assertion you have provided no utility or justification for.

> The comment I replied to cited an example where an undef is constant folded into the value required for a conditional to be true.

The comment you replied to did in fact not do that and it’s incredible that you misread it such.

> Can you point to any case where that produces a real optimization benefit, as opposed to being a degenerate interaction between UB and value propagation passes?

The original snippet literally folds a branch and two stores into a single store, saving CPU resources and generating tighter code.

> this critique

Critique is not what you have engaged in at any point.
by npodbielski | 2025-12-30 17:51:16+00:00
They, like 7kids and 4 adults, I did not bother to count, did attack military base, with actual military trained personnel with military equipment. And they did succeed. This is not bad? They just stroll in upside down and nothing ever attacks them. Where the swarm of bats disappeared? When demogorgons attack to kidnap kids they come from upside down. But in upside down they nowhere to be seen. Military general could disappear from the series and it would have no impact. Maybe they just wanted woman in position of power? Demogorgons attack entire military base personnel and kill dozens of people but then they are killed by hospital patient. When and why she setup that trap exactly? And how she now can speak? How white goo is easy to brake but also solid enough so it does not brake under the pressure of the entire building ? How and why it just appears and solidifies in the exact right moment? And excuse me.... But wormhole? Could not they thing of something else? Oh and Vecna killing a guy. And we did not even see what was in the case. They are under strict quarantine but have personnel smuggler that can just bring them everything they want. It is not bad it is terrible.
by enether | 2025-12-30 17:51:21+00:00
+1.

Bluesky is a left-leaning political mess - I strictly follow tech-only accounts yet get posts on the timeline about what this week's monstrous White House act was. This is not a judgement against the left, but rather against Bluesky.

As another example - the Bitcoin/cypherpunk community went to Nostr. Nostr today is the same slop as Bitcoin Twitter was before. It has a tiny bit more of an organic feel to it - but it basically spiralled to the same cookie-cutter attention-grabbing content. Things like mindless cat videos.

X as we know is already problematic.

Basically the current state is that all platforms suck
by dundarious | 2025-12-30 17:51:43+00:00
Yeah I was wrong and admitted it and explained the genesis and nuances of it. "And yet somehow"... why say "somehow" as if it's a mystery now? "outright opened" is a very poor construction as well. "direct" in "direct falsehood" is not doing much there either. Please work a little harder at your scolding and condescension, the quality is somewhat low. Better yet, engage thoughtfully and charitably instead.
by the_af | 2025-12-30 17:51:43+00:00
> When I was a child, there used to be a black bear in the zoo, pacing back and forth in its cage all day long. Then came the accident involving a little girl named Yanzi (meaning ‘Swallow’). She had gotten too close to the railings. The bear licked her leg through the bars. A bear’s tongue is covered in backward-facing barbs. That lick tearing off a chunk of flesh and severing her tendons instantly.Yanzi ended up in a wheelchair, never able to stand again.

Bear tongues don't work like this. While they are rough, much like a cat's or a dog's, they don't have barbs large enough to "tear off a chunk of flesh" or "sever tendons".

If this anecdote is not an embellishment, it must have been the bear biting the girl's leg, which is not at all unheard of from bears in zoos (we had such a case in Argentina in '88, a bear tore off a boy's arm through the cage bars in "Cutini's Zoo". The zoo was shut down as a result. I don't know what happened to the bear, but maybe it was put down like in your story).
by hansmayer | 2025-12-30 17:52:10+00:00
He/she is probably one of those poor souls working for an AI-wrapper-startup who received a ton of compensation in "equity", which will be worth nothing when their founders get acquihired, Windsurf style ;) But until then, they get to threaten us all with the impending doom, because hey, they are looking into the eye of the storm, writing Very Complex Queries against the AI API or whatever...
by vintagedave | 2025-12-30 17:52:31+00:00
In Tasmania, you can still see at least one semaphore station on Mt Nelson, which is above several suburbs on the south of the city of Hobart. I believe there was a semaphore route from the capital to Port Arthur (convict prison) and possibly other routes over the state too.

https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_histo...

Sadly the semaphore pole itself is gone. The building is still there and was used until 1969.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-30 17:52:39+00:00
Whether you agree with it or not is besides the point. The point is it’s happening.

Your initial stance was disbelief. Now you’re just looking down at it as unprofessional.

Bro, I fucking agree. It’s unprofessional. But the entire point initially was that you didn’t believe it and my objective was to tell you that this is what’s happening in reality. Scoff at it all you want, as AI improves less and less “professional” people will be able to enter our field and operate at the same level as us.
Show HN: I got tired of Googling in thrift stores, so I built an AI pricing tool
by fkratzer | 2025-12-30 17:52:39+00:00
Every reseller knows the feeling: you find something that looks valuable, but you're standing in a crowded thrift store trying to decipher a signature or Google model numbers while someone else is eyeing the same item.

I built Underpriced AI to make this faster. Snap a photo → get identification + pricing + eBay listing copy. The vision AI is particularly good at the stuff that's hard to Google: pottery marks, artist signatures, vintage brand variations.

What surprised me: Claude often provides useful context about WHY something is collectible ("This is Blenko glass, handblown in West Virginia, the crackle finish indicates 1960s production..."). Buyers appreciate that info in listings.

Free tier available. Would love feedback from the HN community.

https://underpricedai.com
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-12-30 17:52:45+00:00
I once created a pomodoro multiplayer application after being frustrated by https://cuckoo.team (although good software, nothing against the team) just not working/actively glitching

spocklet-pomodo.hf.space/

I created it as a single main.go with just a single main dependency (gorilla websockets iirc) and I think It's pretty successfull between me and my friends and I am not thinking of monetizing it ever

There is also https://spocklet-beta-pomodo.hf.space/ which has some more features to make it more user friendly that I got suggestion for so yeah

I made it out of complete frustration and the first prototype was built in <30 minutes but I guess I won't really take credit of it because I am just pleasant that I can now use such a software and perhaps other might too.

I don't know but I am very gloomy about AI mostly but prototyping in domains I don't know too much about to create a "just good enough" for my own use case is the only valid use case I find of it I guess.
by peter_d_sherman | 2025-12-30 17:53:57+00:00
Brilliant!

This may just become my next most favorite project on GitHub!

For anyone who would create their own OS, or just experiment with other OS'es, this could be a godsend!

The set of ideas which gives rise to this tool are brilliant, and while I haven't reviewed all of the code for potential security implications (as I would want to if I were deploying it to a production server in a business environment) -- it looks very well thought out at first glance!

Extra kudos for having a flake.nix (for us Nix users!)

(If you're using NixOS or the Nix package manager, you can download it here https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=quicke... , i.e., "$ nix-shell -p quickemu")

And extra extra kudos for having Alpine, Nix, ReactOS, TinyCore and OpenBSD as downloadable OS choices!

In the future, I'd love to see Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT too (assuming that Microsoft would permit that!) -- but that would just be the icing on the cake!

Short review: There's potentially something for everyone here! (Well, any OS person! Could Minix 3 be added in the future? :-) )

Long review: Will definitely have to watch this project in the future, to see where it goes!
by pas | 2025-12-30 17:54:04+00:00
yes, but that's not de-banking. it's banking being shitty.

(it's the same problem as healthcare and construction, a shitton of regulation, some competition, but no real big differences, and a lot of global dependencies [from generic pharma producers to HVAC/heatpumps and global commodity prices for construction materials and patents and prefab systems and ...], but ultimately local bottlenecks.)

obviously it sucks that FATCA compliance is hard, but it shouldn't be, and ... it's on the banking industry that it's not using some kind of common reporting backend ... oh wait, it does! (CRS!)

(okay, I'm being probably unfair here, of course it's still more work, more support requests, more papers to push, than the counterfactual, but banks already have their reporting systems integrated to the various tax and financial-authority agencies) ... and FATCA is implemented in part through intergovernmental agreements (IGAs), and the "model 1" is a reciprocal tax info sharing between the parties, the bank reports to the local tax service, and that's it.

see also https://www.deloitte.com/us/en/services/tax/articles/common-...
by Night_Thastus | 2025-12-30 17:56:09+00:00
I...guess? But once you know of a good library for problem X, you don't need to look for it anymore. I guess if you have a bunch of developers and 0 control over what they do, and they're free to drag in additional dependencies willy-nilly, then yes, that part isn't deterministic? But that's a much bigger problem than anything library-related...
by Lionga | 2025-12-30 17:56:23+00:00
Why do I read about all the vibe coders claiming to be 20X engineers in LLM threads and replacing many departments. Yet here is not a fking single commercially successful thing here?

Funny also how Loveable and the like are hiring engineers like crazy, yet think engineers are not needed anymore. Why not just vibecode Loveable itself? Oh wait I can tell you why.
by zorobo | 2025-12-30 17:56:26+00:00
Ah, I kept that BP6 for 10 years before selling it.
It meant I could write multithreaded concurrent software and run it at home with LinuxThreads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxThreads) then NPTL (native Posix threading lib).

Mine was not very stable under even moderate overclocking though!

Good times!
by somenameforme | 2025-12-30 17:56:27+00:00
There were ~10 years after the great depression where convertibility was suspended. One decade out of nearly two centuries is not "much."

The amount of currency need not, and arguably should not, scale with the size of the economy. Everything is relative in an economy. When the amount of 'stuff' in an economy grows faster than the amount of currency, then prices decrease - your money becomes worth more - deflation. Vice versa, if the amount of currency in an economy grows faster than the amount of stuff in that economy, then prices increase - inflation.

Inflation is undesirable, but it's in a constant tug-of-war with governments and fiat currency. When governments give themselves the power to print infinite money, they end up doing exactly that, often to the point of destroying their own economy. This is precisely why the Founding Fathers chose the US currency to be coins made of precious metals. It limits the government's ability to damage the country through reckless monetary policy.

Think about how fragile everything is already seeming being glued together by massive fed involvement, quantitative easing, and ever more archaic economic ideas like zero or even negative interest rates. And we're only 50 years into this experiment which, on the scale of something like a broad monetary concept, is barely a blink, and it's starting to come apart at the seams. And this is all during extremely stable years compared to the World Wars and other such events that we overcame in the past.
by Supermancho | 2025-12-30 17:56:56+00:00
I think I can hear your point through the unnecessary snark. You're implying the field is narrowed to a kind of social engineering, rather than the screen itself.

Why does the study say screen time when the effects are, ostensibly, not about the screen? Again, a conclusion/agenda in search of evidence necessarily makes biased assumptions. THIS study (as with others) mischaracterizes itself. Seems like a questionable study from the outset. This is a poor approach to analysis.
by hxtk | 2025-12-30 17:57:38+00:00
If you did that, Bazel would work a lot better. Most of the complexity of Bazel is because it was originally basically an export of the Google internal project "Blaze," and the roughest pain points in its ergonomics were pulling in external dependencies, because that just wasn't something Google ever did. All their dependencies were vendored into their Google3 source tree.

WORKSPACE files came into being to prevent needing to do that, and now we're on MODULE files instead because they do the same things much more nicely.

That being said, Bazel will absolutely build stuff fully offline if you add the one step of running `bazel sync //...` in between cloning the repo and yanking the cable, with some caveats depending on how your toolchains are set up and of course the possibility that every mirror of your remote dependency has been deleted.
by vovavili | 2025-12-30 17:57:45+00:00
Very little of what you're claiming is relevant for FastAPI specifically, which in terms of speed isn't too far from an equivalent app written in Go for writing a web app. You need to research the specifics of a problem at hand instead of making broad but incorrect assumptions - https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=7...
by cauch | 2025-12-30 17:58:11+00:00
"Everyone can cheat" is not making the poor equal to the rich, not at all.
The rich gets 2 things: they can pay for stuffs and they can get away for stuffs just because they are rich. The fact that no one is paying does not mean that magically the poor can get away for stuffs.

The things they can get away with includes, for example, the fact that they don't get fired when they don't know their job. The poor still gets fired, the fact that they can now cheat more easily just mean they are shooting themselves in the foot.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-30 17:58:29+00:00
Pretty sure I had a Pentium 4 mobo that was kind of like that in 2002-2003 timeframe. Was still rocking my old ISA Sound Blaster 16 (the big ass one with the connector for a CD-ROM drive) alongside a Radeon 7500 in the AGP slot.

It wasn't much but I could run Alice, Max Payne, GTA 3, Dungeon Siege on there, all at like mid settings, so I was a pretty happy camper for a high school kid putting paper route money into my own PC.
by brysonreece | 2025-12-30 17:58:44+00:00
A couple of recent software additions to my ‘23 MY:
* Dynamic speed profiles for Autopilot/FSD
* The ability to specify individual drop-off locations for FSD arrivals (curbside, parking lot, driveway, etc)
* Grok as a voice assistant for the infotainment system
* iOS live activity viewer for the Dog Mode camera feed
* Speed/steering/control statuses being overlaid on dashcam footage
* “Santa Mode” which revamps the UI with Christmas theming for the holiday season
* Automatic HOV lane routing based on vehicle occupancy status
* Vehicle alerts/chimes when exiting, if leaving your phone within the vehicle
* Location-based individual charge limits
* 3D visualizations of supercharger locations, synced with active availability/occupancy per stall
* The SpaceX docking simulator ported as an in-vehicle game, playable on the infotainment screen

These are all additions from just the most recent update, and I can confidently say this is the only vehicle I’ve had that consistently gets better and better in terms of its software features over the course of ownership. Each update takes anywhere from 20-45 minutes during which, unfortunately, you’re not able to utilize the vehicle at all.
by dangus | 2025-12-30 17:58:49+00:00
Why don’t you just go ahead and tell me what specs you think Slack should run on and link me to an example program that has 100% feature parity that stays within those specs?

Showing me that a proof of concept black and white <10FPS group video call with no other accompanying software was possible in the 90s is pointless.

I’d also like you to show my a laptop SKU sold in the last 10 years that is incapable of running Slack.

Finally, I’ll remind you that Slack for mobile is a different application that isn’t running in the same way as the desktop app. The latest version of it will run on very old phone hardware, going all the way back to the iPhone 8 (2GB RAM), and that’s assuming you even need the latest version for it to function.
by andsoitis | 2025-12-30 17:59:17+00:00
> At the core of this vision lies a proposed economic framework Lore calls equitism. In this model, land would be owned collectively by the city rather than privately hoarded. Individuals and businesses could own buildings and enterprises, while land value increases would cycle back into public services such as schools, transit, and social programs. Supporters see equitism as a potential antidote to extreme wealth inequality and runaway real estate speculation that plague many modern cities.

No major city has successfully completely banned private land ownership as an enacted law. Most real-world initiatives are partial restrictions like limiting ownership by foreigners, restricting certain uses such as short-term rentals, or experimenting with collective/commons land stewardship.

Will be interesting to see this experiment play out.
by aziaziazi | 2025-12-30 17:59:26+00:00
This results is achieved by feeding the cows with fish-sourced nutriments. The same DHA increase is observed in milk sourced from human that consume a lot of see food.

Can we conclude diary is a source of DHA ? I’m not sure but will stick to the ocean for my source of that nutrient, no need for an intermediary here.

Ps: just skimmed the original article but didn’t read I’d. Does it mention DHA?
by eszed | 2025-12-30 17:59:57+00:00
I've recommended that book on this board before. If you read it, I'd be curious about how you think it hits now, because part of its interest - I'd say insightfulness, at the time, but it now might risk anachronistic "charm" - was noting similar emergent behaviors between telegraph operators and early internet adopters. The technical content won't have dated, but the social parts may have.