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by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 08:23:08+00:00
>The RP2xxx also comes with excellent documentation and libraries

Are they more in number and easier to use than the Arduino libraries?

>If anything, with the drag-n-drop flashing it is even easier to work with than an Arduino.

Why do you think the Arduino is more difficult than "drag-n-drop flashing" by comparison? Do you think one click is more difficult?
by kburman | 2025-12-15 08:23:45+00:00
My rule for modern TVs:

1. Never connect the TV panel itself to the internet. Keep it air-gapped. Treat it solely as a dumb monitor.

2. Use an Apple TV for the "smart" features.

3. Avoid Fire TV, Chromecast, or Roku.

The logic is simple, Google (Chromecast) and Amazon (Fire TV) operate on the same business model as the TV manufacturers subsidized hardware in exchange for user data and ad inventory. Apple is the only mainstream option where the hardware cost covers the experience, rather than your viewing habits subsidizing the device.
by Stratoscope | 2025-12-15 08:24:29+00:00
> their sexuality came from the bodies their brain was put into? So the brain essentially transforms too after that surgery.

Yes! And of course it's a mix of their previous memories and experiences, and their new bodies with all the hormones flooding into their brains. They don't stop being who they were, but they also become someone new.

Some of the stories deal with this very question. One in particular I'm trying to remember involves two guys who are best friends and buddies. One of them has a Change, and then they go camping in an inflatable bubble on the Moon... And things get awkward and interesting!

(If anyone remembers this specific story, please do tell.)

Since you are someone who has thought about these issues, I have a feeling you will enjoy these stories.
by penetrarthur | 2025-12-15 08:25:19+00:00
Great article!

On a sidenote, what is this new style of writing using small sentences where each sentence is supposed to be a punchline?

"And most of those sequences? They don't fold into anything useful. They're junk. They aggregate into clumps. They get degraded by cellular quality control. Only a TINY fraction of possible sequences fold into stable, functional proteins."
by vjk800 | 2025-12-15 08:25:22+00:00
We moved this year and couldn't get my old(ish) Roomba i5 to work in my new wifi easily. I've been meaning to debug the problem further, but if it can be confirmed that it's an iRobot issue and there's nothing I can do, it would save some effort.

It sucks, though, that I can use my fucking vacuum cleaner because a remote server of the manufacturer has decayed. Does anyone know if there are robotic vacuums that work fully locally without remote servers?
by jongjong | 2025-12-15 08:25:59+00:00
I cannot say what I'm working on because it will be downvoted. Only pointless gimmicks which do not compete with the tech oligopoly can get any traction nowadays.

If I make a really good AI coding platform which saves people hours compared to existing platforms and provides more security. The chance of success is 0 because it's competing with incumbents.

If I make an app which allows cats to order food and back massages from their owners, this has a high chance of success.
by yieldcrv | 2025-12-15 08:26:08+00:00
gender identity and sexual orientation are different concepts, that have been married by European Christian dogma. harmonization in missionary work included harmonizing into a binary gender paradigm alongside a binary sex. many cultures across the Americas and Oceania had and have non-binary systems, before the swell of representation seen in the last decade or so.

although gender and sex is used interchangeably - even in the most progressive circles - gender is a reference to a set of cultural behaviors and roles, a form of expression, while sex is functional and 99.9999% chromosomal and binary in humans

you are familiar with this, for example, when someone says "be a man" in response to someone's lack of assertiveness, this has nothing to do with whether they have a penis and the binary male contributions to reproduction, it is referring to a behavior expression that is indeed arbitrary but shared

swapping genders therefore has nothing to do with what sex you are attracted to, when adopting that paradigm, especially when adding genders outside of the binary cultural behaviors

hence being "straight" doesn't change and is only a problem for someone else
by coldtea | 2025-12-15 08:26:21+00:00
Motor vehicles that break off the road by themselves and can suddenly start mowing pedestrians?

Yes, nobody should.

The very idea that a quite recent and still maturing technology, that is known to hallucinate ocassionally and frequently misunderstand prompts and take several attempts to get it back on the right track, is ok to be run outside a container with "rm" and other full rights, is crazy talk. Comparing it to driving a car where you'r full in control? Crazy talking chef's kiss.
by dgfl | 2025-12-15 08:26:36+00:00
For once, the Italian fascination with grammar and sentence analysis comes useful.

For some context, when moving abroad I felt that most other countries don’t really teach grammar and language analysis to the point that we do in Italy. I did attend a language-focused school, which obviously leaned even more towards this tendency; but I get the impression that most competent teens graduating italian schools have a more extensive grammar-related vocabulary than other cultures.

It makes sense then that Italian learning books would be more focused on grammar compared to other languages. I felt it extended to how we were taught English as well (i.e. the opposite direction). I don’t think it is the absolute best tactic for language learning, but perhaps it is the best one when restricted to purely written exercises.

I’d be curious to know whether you had a similar impression. My evidence is all anecdotal, mostly from talking to various people around Europe.
by goku12 | 2025-12-15 08:26:54+00:00
An aerial refueler flying so close to Venezuela [1] can't have been there with the best intentions. I don't think that they're too keen on advertising their presence or whereabouts.

I know that some here absolutely hate any suggestions that the US military is capable of any evil. But you're getting very sanitized news. Even otherwise, they have already murdered 80+ Venezuelan civilians in international waters and we don't even know if they were actually guilty of drug trafficking, since those were extra-judicial executions. And at least two of them were murdered in a double tap attack, which is an international war crime, regardless.

[1] It was Curaçao to be precise, but it's still oddly close to Venezuela.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-15 08:28:00+00:00
> product developers can't build it into the kinds of small embedded Linux systems

Are you sure about that? Because if you don't ship binaries, but whole devices, than only AGPL might demand what you think GPL does. Also I don't see what the issue is with "distributing" software from somebody else. If you designed things modular, the GPL software can be updated without the user needing to touch any of your proprietary code.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-15 08:28:13+00:00
Yeah this article is garbage. The real problem with protein-folding is not compute, or training on known configurations only, but figuring out a differentiable loss that is related to the energy configuration of generated new sequences / molecules, and iterative folding and all sorts of other things. It is very much NOT just a "throw lots of data at GPUs" problem.

This is all covered cursorily even by Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaFold#AlphaFold_2_(2020).
by rcarmo | 2025-12-15 08:28:16+00:00
Hobbyists don’t get full exposure to this, but the reality is that the embedded space is still very much a binary blob landscape. Even relatively popular SDKs like Expressif and Nordic’s are full of weird proprietary stuff, and it just gets worse as you go into beefier hardware (Rockchip, I’m looking at you).

But yeah, Arduino is in a weird place right now. I knew people there (kind of lost track), quite liked their IDE and how accessible it made a lot of things, but the recent turn on events is just… weird.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-15 08:28:43+00:00
I think I am fine with taking an approach to that that is just brutally tilted against large values and brutally tilted in favor of transparency. So like, you can't do anything with your ownership share in that privately-held company --- can't use it as collateral for a loan, can't present it to investors to get more funding, can't trade it, can't sell it, can't in any way derive any benefit from it --- without committing yourself to a valuation and paying a tax on the increase in the valuation since the last such assessment. Also you can have a "sound dues"-like system where committing yourself to such a valuation also gives the government the right to immediately compel you to sell them the asset at your valuation. Any inaccuracies or procedural missteps in these calculations will incur minimal penalties until the amounts in question rise above a threshold (maybe like $50 million), at which point attempts to conceal or misrepresent the value of an asset is punishable by an increasing share of the asset, scaling up eventually to total forfeiture. All in all it should be excruciatingly painful to accumulate anything approaching the large wealth holdings we have today. Most of the large privately-held companies simply should not exist with the opaque valuations they have today. Either open the books completely, or lose everything.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-12-15 08:28:56+00:00
Loistavaa, what a perfectly tailored comment for me, I have like 80% the thing for you at https://finnish.andrew-quinn.me/ . Unfortunately I'm all in on Anki but maybe these will sway you nonetheless.

Every 6 months I create around 5000 Anki cards out of the last 6 months for reading practice of the YLE Selkouutiset news, on a sentence by sentence basis: https://github.com/Selkouutiset-Archive/selkokortti

For raw isolated vocabulary my finfreq10k Anki deck can't be beat! https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1149950470

But in your case, and for writing practice, you may also like https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/finyap , which is self-hosted in the sense that a new deck is just a CSV file in "scenarios".

Tsemppiä vaimollesi!
by tmountain | 2025-12-15 08:28:59+00:00
I built a language app when it first became viable with GPT and also went the avatar as UI route. It presents a unique set of challenges nd constraints, but I spent the most time just trying to get the mouth to sync with the audio. Fun experience for sure. Regarding learning languages, I have stopped building and relying on apps, as I spend too much time mucking with the app and not enough time on the language. The highest potency practice I have found is transcribing podcasts. It’s a major headache, but it really pushes you forward regarding listening, writing, and spelling.
by archerx | 2025-12-15 08:29:46+00:00
>Adafruit’s Torrone had also said Arduino’s new documents “introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license over anything users upload.”

Yea that's gonna be a hard pass for me. Thank goodness for the Pi Pico which means I'll never have to use Arduino ever again. On a side note, the new Arduino IDE based on Monaco looked nice but made development so painful I just stopped. I had to keep disconnecting and reconnecting devices all the time to upload sketches when before with the old IDE that was never an issue. Everything Arduino feels like a regression.
by dlubarov | 2025-12-15 08:29:49+00:00
Thanks for the added context, that sounds reasonable to have wanted the product to continue under Dutch ownership.

> I never wrote it was created as a front. I don't believe anyone asserted that.

There seem to be vague insinuations of a conspiracy floating around, rather than an explicit conspiracy theory, so I may have mischaracterized it. But for example, you mentioned elsewhere that "Mossad's way of operating is aggressive". Could you clarify what you're insinuating, if anything?
by alin23 | 2025-12-15 08:29:51+00:00
Thank you for the kind words! Do try to finish your cup, it's a great experience both to drink from something made by your hands, and to drink from a wooden cup if it's finished well.

Make sure you do water popping after finishing the carving and sanding process. It's what makes the difference between wood that catches your lips and wood that feels like ceramic. The process is simple: sand with 600 or 400 grit, whichever you have, then get all the wood wet with water (faucet is fine), let dry completely (hairdryer helps), sand again with 600/400 grit and repeat about 3 times until wetting the wood no longer makes it feel rough.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-15 08:29:52+00:00
> I saw some stuff about literacy dropping because they went from teaching to sound out words, to, as I understand it, basically just showing the word and teaching how it's said, hoping kids would naturally pick up the rules.

I've read a lot on this; it's "phonetics" vs "look-see".

For a really depressing read, read "Why Johnny can't read", then the sequel "Why Johnny still can't read", and then look at the dates of those two essays.

We already knew decades ago that some methods never worked in the past, and don't work now, but we still hope that they will work in the future, so we keep them around because there are powerful and mostly invisible (to the parents) interests in keeping these discredited methods around.
by forgotpwd16 | 2025-12-15 08:30:21+00:00
Some seeings:

- C++ unsurpassable king.

- There's a stark jump of times going from ~200ms to ~900ms. (Rust v1.92.0 being an in-between outlier.)

- C# gets massive boost (990->225ms) when using SIMD.

- But C++ somehow gets slower when using SIMD.

- Zig very fast*!

- Rust got big boost (630ms->230ms) upgrading v1.92.0->1.94.0.

- Nim (that compiles to C then native via GCC) somehow faster than GCC-compiled C.

- Julia keeps proving high-level languages can be fast too**.

- Swift gets faster when using SIMD but loses much accuracy.

- Go fastest language with own compiler (ie not dependent to GCC/LLVM).

- V (also compiles to C) expected it (appearing similar) be close to Nim.

- Odin (LLVM) & Ada (GCC) surprisingly slow. (Was expecting them to be close to Zig/Fortran.)

- Crystal slowest LLVM-based language.

- Pure CPython unsurpassable turtle.

Curious how D's reference compiler (DMD) compares to the LLVM/GCC front-ends, how LFortran to gfortran, and QBE to GCC/LLVM. Also would like to see Scala Native (Scala currently being inside the 900~1000ms bunch).

* Note that uses `@setFloatMode(.Optimized)` which according to docs is equivalent to `--fast-math` but only D/Fortran use this flag (C/C++ do not).

** Uses `@fastmath` AND `@simd`. The comparison supposedly is for performance on idiomatic code and for Julia SIMD is a simple annotation applied to the loop (and Julia may even auto do it) but should still be noted because (as seen in C# example) it can be big.
by savolai | 2025-12-15 08:32:15+00:00
AI automates tasks. Governments carry responsibility. That gap matters even more in welfare states.

Social work demands judgment, trust, and moral accountability. Teachers shape citizens, not outputs. Health care relies on responsibility under uncertainty, not pattern matching. States run on legitimacy and human obligation, not efficiency alone.

Even if AI boosts productivity across these sectors, someone still funds universal care, education, and social insurance. Remove taxes and the welfare state collapses long before any ”AI government” appears.

Claiming AI replaces government skips the core question: who guarantees care when systems fail, people fall through cracks, or outcomes turn unjust? Algorithms can advise. They can’t answer politically or ethically.

Tax the concentration of wealth and power they amplify. Without that, automation doesn’t liberate society. It hollows it out.
by tete | 2025-12-15 08:33:08+00:00
I think this is very silly. I dislike the whole AI hype as much as any other. But by that standard you could also ask "Should Photoshop also pay taxes?" or "Should printers also pay taxes?"

If we are oh so productive that people can make oh so much money then A) finally do collect taxes from wealthy people/companies/families and B) use those taxes to do obvious things that benefit everyone including the wealthy, like good infrastructure, healthcare, stuff that creates a stable society and seduction to face all the big problems that exist.

There are huge problems in every country and since the claim of AI is gonna create so much more productivity and wealth we should make use of the freed resources to finally tackle them instead of pushing everyone into dumb bullshit jobs.

We live in a world where rich people (and it doesn't really matter which country) use their companies to essentially live off taxes. "Oh that computer/car/jet/travel/video game/TV/house/...? I need for work. Look I have to fly to customers and oh I also have that social media thing for advertisement". Oh and then they claim they'll just leave the country if they have to pay taxes which would be oh so bad for the country they don't contribute much to.

And then the employees are essentially asked to pay the taxes to compensate. For them tax reduction means that they have to pay for things like infrastructure that largely benefits corporations themselves. But hey it looks great on the paycheck when the money you have to pay anyways isn't subtracted.
by lazzurs | 2025-12-15 08:33:13+00:00
Sir Leon Bagrit covered this topic in the first BBC Reith Lecture and it’s worth a read/listen if you’re interested in this topic.

https://archive.org/details/ageofautomation0000sirl/mode/1up

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hbdmj
by jandrewrogers | 2025-12-15 08:33:26+00:00
We don’t prospect too many years beyond current requirements, the economics don’t warrant it. We also consider development costs and regulatory overhead when deciding where to prospect. Copper mining is capital intensive, ore grade contributes less to the calculus than you might think. No one has exhaustively scoured the globe for copper, the incentives to do so aren’t there.

Companies have strong incentives to sandbag reserve estimates from existing mines. Anecdotally I’ve heard rumors that whisper reserves for copper specifically have materially expanded in recent years, driven by market demand that justifies that effort.
by teyc | 2025-12-15 08:33:49+00:00
I read a story about Dreame. The founder worked in aerospace, but wanted to make a mass-produced motor with aerospace standards. So he modelled air flow using aerospace tools, built the motor to tight tolerances. Conventional vacuum motors run at 30k rpm, his runs at 100k rpm. Then he standardises on a single motor, for all his devices, robovacs, stick vacs etc, so he gets scale.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-15 08:34:34+00:00
>there's always one controversy after another online these days in software communities and I think rather than trust the latest mob I'm going to trust the guy who's been serving me well for more than a decade. These openness purity tests are really not for me.

Thanks you! Sad that HN gets ideologically captured in the same mob behavior instead of thinking logically and practically.
by lelanthran | 2025-12-15 08:34:59+00:00
> Avengers end game is also art. I engage with this type of art. I don’t consider opera the art of our modern culture. It is unfortunately a niche.

That's the thing, though - in English literature class, there is nothing stopping the teacher from using popular media to introduce things like tone, ambiance, character motivations, arcs, etc, and then ask for parallels to the set works.

They don't do it though, the system is not set up to produce a bunch of critical thinkers from English Lit.
by rcarmo | 2025-12-15 08:34:59+00:00
I just built myself a DYI TRMNL (https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2025/12/13/2200), decided to hack together my own server for it, and (serendipitously) got asked if it could be an official contribution: https://github.com/usetrmnl/byos_fastapi

Then I decided to hack my own ZigBee power meter (to keep track of my meter’s LED pulses) and fought with CMake for eight hours straight, because embedded.

It was a nice weekend.
by commandersaki | 2025-12-15 08:35:00+00:00
I had discussed on the OFTC IRC channel at the time which looks like around 2025-06-09, the last issue seemed to have been nasty. I think while you said it was fixed, I couldn't un-eff my specific situation, and I think I gave up.

I am grateful that you make accessing support quite easy by being available on the #bcache IRC channel with a lot of community support as well, but it is sometimes hard to fix these issues -- in my case I was usually in a VGA console without network access, so I couldn't simply export information/logs/diagnostics to show you without pulling out my phone camera etc. and that becomes a bit tedious in itself. It is partly my fault for using bcachefs for the root filesystem, with encryption etc. but I also knew what I was in for and I wanted to help provide the feedback and experience needed to help out.

It is just that, after awhile, I felt like I kept running into issue after issue, and I kind of just gave up. I do run bcachefs for a secondary drive that is used for storage purpose and it has been great. But yeah, I think running as root fs is just a scary proposition, especially if you don't want to put in the hard yards to diagnose and fix issues as they come and be on top of them. I used Arch, so I was at the time getting the latest version of bcachefs and upgrading constantly.
by vpfaiz | 2025-12-15 08:35:09+00:00
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by Joker_vD | 2025-12-15 08:36:08+00:00
What... what are those "development effort estimates"? They seem to assume an average rate of approximately 11 lines of code written per day which seems a bit too low if you ask me.

Besides, once a C compiler is written for one platform, porting it to another one takes significantly less time than writing from scratch (especially if the compiler is written with portability in mind).