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by simonw | 2025-12-01 05:41:39+00:00
You're right. Here's the full context:

> At one point, an ebullient engineer had declared the entire rewrite could run on two servers and, our minimalist QA environment being much larger to the contrary, we got remarkably close to launching with two servers as our most accurate estimate. The week before launch, the capacity planning project was shifted to Rich and I. We put on a brave farce of installing JMeter and generated as much performance data as we could against the complex, dense and rapidly shifting sands that comprised the rewrite. It was not the least confident I’ve ever been in my work, I can remember writing a book report on the bus to school about a book I never read in fourth grade, but it is possible we were launching without much sense of whether this was going to work.

> We had the suspicion it wouldn’t matter much anyway, because we weren’t going to be able to order and install new hardware in our datacenters before the launch. Capacity would suffice because it was all we had.

Given that description I'm not ready to blame the capacity problems exclusively on Will!
by mtoner23 | 2025-12-01 05:41:59+00:00
I'm confident a surgeon in America is paid more than 100$ for a surgery. They are paid about 400k a year on average. Do the math yourself.

On the other hand you provided no details as to where the money actually goes. It's not a simple proble, and part of the problem is that our doctors are paid a lot more than in peer nations
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-12-01 05:42:11+00:00
I don't know, but I do know that on my web browser I can add and remove various of the buttons and right-click menu options. And on linux I can skin my desktop environment in a variety of ways (Unity stopped working, I went to Gnome which was glitching, and now have something very much like Unity used to be in XFCE and unlike a commercial product I paid nothing for this.).
by ggm | 2025-12-01 05:42:58+00:00
The important word being mammal. Ants outweigh all mammals and birds combined.

Feral pigs are an ecological disaster. They are smart enough to learn to avoid most direct methods of baited poison, they avoid behaviours which make hunting easier. they breet prolifically, and they destroy the landscape.

Yes, modern farming destroys the landscape. Feral animals are much, much worse.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-12-01 05:43:09+00:00
I think eventually 32 bit hardware and software shouldn't be supported. But there are still plenty of both. We shouldn't get rid of good hardware because it's too old, that's wasteful. 16bit had serious limits but 32 bit is still valid for many applications and environments that don't need >3GB~ ram. For example, routers shouldn't use 64bit processors unless they're handling that much load, die size matter there, that's why they use Arm mostly, and that's why Arm has thumb mode (less instruction width = smaller die size). I'm sure the tiny amounts of money and energy saved by not having that much register/instruction width adds up when talking about billions of devices.

Open source isn't where I'd expect abandonware to happen.
by mysterymath | 2025-12-01 05:43:30+00:00
Hey, llvm-mos maintainer here. I actually work on LLVM in my dayjob too, and I don't particularly want llvm-mos upstream. It stretches LLVM's assumptions a lot, which is a good thing in the name of generality, but the way it stretches those assumptions isn't particularly relevant anymore. That is, it's difficult to find modern platforms that break the same assumptions.

Also, maintaining a fork is difficult, but doable. I work on LLVM a ton, so it's pretty easy for it to fold in to my work week-to-week. And quite surprisingly, I used AI to help last time, and it actually helped quite a lot!
by gyomu | 2025-12-01 05:43:56+00:00
It is kind of wild that not that long ago the general sentiment in software engineering (at least as observed on boards like this one) seemed to be about valuing systems that were understandable, introspectable, with tight feedback loops, within which we could compose layers of abstractions in meaningful and predictable ways (see for example the hugely popular - at the time - works of Chris Granger, Bret Victor, etc).

And now we've made a complete 180 and people are getting excited about proprietary black boxes and "vibe engineering" where you have to pretend like the computer is some amnesic schizophrenic being that you have to coerce into maybe doing your work for you, but you're never really sure whether it's working or not because who wants to read 8000 line code diffs every time you ask them to change something. And never mind if your feedback loops are multiple minutes long because you're waiting on some agent to execute some complex network+GPU bound workflow.
by Insanity | 2025-12-01 05:45:31+00:00
You should go tell that to the waiters who are working for tips.

Reads a bit like you’re in a bubble. I have friends in the States who work in education, construction, and hospitality. I similarly have friends working in those fields in EU. I’d say the ones in EU are better off _and_ don’t worry about healthcare.

Not to mention you get actual vacation time in Europe and a higher standard of living generally.
by OCTAGRAM | 2025-12-01 05:45:40+00:00
Locked bootloader was making sense when PC was a huge investment, and the whole household was sharing it. Windows XP introduced fast account switching. And Windows still has it, but do you remember when was the last time you left your session active locked out and allowed someone else to log in to the same PC? Is there any other user at all on your current home PC? PC was standing for personal computer long before it was, but then it became. We don't share PC anymore in average.

Not only we don't share PC anymore, but PCs started to share us. We possess several PCs per single person, and we needed Dropbox to manage files on multiple PCs. Dropbox can be perceived as second turning point in time, and it was more than decade ago. Now it's one goal = one device era. We buy device and we sincerely don't intend to install anything else on it. We don't risk our data using NTFS shrinking tools to make spare room for another filesystem. We don't dual boot losing access to programs in another partition. There are ways to mount NTFS in other OS and vice versa, so documents may stay accessible, but programs are not runnable. This is now ridiculous. We just buy two, three, whatever devices and have all programs runnable simultaneously.

If we need something from another OS, we'll precisely buy compatible hardware without locked bootloaders or any other possible obstacle which are numerous. To name a few.

For DOS retrogaming we need DOS ISA DMA sound, and we pick PC with ISA slot and making sure motherboard chipset has DMA on ISA, which is not true on latest chipsets. For another DOS retrogaming option we consider VDMSound, but last OS to support it was Windows XP, and we choose hardware that is Windows XP compatible. Most likely UEFI-only boot will be a problem for Windows XP. For Mavericks Forever we are not going to look for random incompatible Mac. That is going to be either real compatible Mac selected from known list, or else compatible Hackintosh. On Hackintosh there was a big problem with software upgrade, but there will be no upgrades for Mavericks Forever. Tim Cook drives company away in direction we don't appreciate, and Mavericks Forever stays forever the same version.

Nowadays people are not using OS anyway. Nowadays people are using browser. I wish I could drag and drop documents in Mavericks Forever like I did in 2007. But document is now likely to be draw io, rectangular embedding for browser that cannot support drag and drop outside its rectange. And so messenger is also rectangular embedding for browser, not respecting Mac OS X multi-window paradigm, not supporting previously established gestures. In 2007 I thought that Qt programs on Mac were ugly. Those happy days I have not seen Electron yet.

People I know often report that they got rid from "dust collector", the PC. They are now all-Android. As time goes by, it is harder and harder to find someone with PC. So whatever Microsoft preinstalls or bootlocks on PCs, it goes to people less and less.
by shagie | 2025-12-01 05:46:08+00:00
I understand how that goes. In 2009 I lost my job making $85k (it would now be $130k in 2025 dollars)... and I was unemployed for a little under a year. I got a job where I made $25 an hour (40h a week with time and a half overtime) as a software developer (in a city where the median per capita income was $36k/year - and yes, I verified that with the federal reserve stats - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/3008 ). In 2015, with no meaningful raises and a bit of burnout I got a job in the public sector for $80k and have since been promoted and am making a little bit over $100k (different city, median per capita income is $75k/year).

Salary-wise, I'm making less than I did when I lived in California in '09 (and that's salary - stocks were a nice bit more and public sector doesn't exactly have an ESPP).

It may be necessary to move to get a job that pays $80k a year with 100% in the office expectations. Yes, it sucks. It's hard. Finding a job in '09 was not fun and I expect that similar conditions are to be found today. However, there are jobs out there when one considers what would be D tier companies and presents themself as someone isn't going to leave in a year for a higher salary somewhere else (before the implicit ROI of onboarding has been paid off). With the prevalence of job hopping and the "this resume does not match the applicant" issues, companies have become very risk adverse.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-12-01 05:46:21+00:00
Wow, definitely one of the most unfounded opinions I've seen in HN in a long time. The video driver situation is stellar if you're on a recent kernel and not using hybrid Nvidia, but even that story is decent now. Bluetooth has worked reliably for me for years, and I appreciate being able to use SBC-XQ for my nice headphones, which is noticeably better than LDAC or AptX and not an option outside Linux. Not waking from sleep is usually a hardware problem these days.

Windows is a well documented hellscape of advertising, tracking, poor performance, and disregarding user will. Some people may pay to upgrade to a guilded cage from Apple, but trying Linux on the hardware you already have doesn't cost a dime. I've given Linux to multiple mostly tech illeterate friends now, and they are all happier and asking for less help on those systems. Amusingly, the help they've asked for wasn't even Linux specific and they would've asked the same things on Windows.
by hilbert42 | 2025-12-01 05:47:40+00:00
They're a bit iffy on mine but I'm surprised they've held out so long. Fortunately, the printer's on an ancient XP box dedicated to a single task that doesn't require much printing. There's one spare cartridge, after that I'll likely call it quits.

BTW, I've heard there was a problem with fusers in LaserJets but never experienced it myself in any I've used.
by dhab | 2025-12-01 05:48:11+00:00
Could someone help me understand. I looked at: https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/s... it seems to support multiple modes.

I didn't quite get if Automatic TLS (https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/origin-configuration/s...) could use plain transfers.

So:

* Is it insecure by default or you have to be intentionally insecure?

* Why would anyone pick the flexible/potentially-insecure option?
by anonymouskimmer | 2025-12-01 05:48:45+00:00
There are a couple of ways you can do this:

1) Have this law only apply B2C.

2) Stop having rolling feature updates except on an opt-in basis. It used to be that when I bought an operating system or a program it stayed bought, and only updated if I actively went out and bought an update. Rolling security updates are still a good idea, and if they break UI functionality then let the end customer know so that they can make the decision on whether or not to update.

For hosted software, such as Google office, is it really that much more difficult to host multiple versions of the office suite? I can see issues if people are collaborating, but if newer file formats can be used in older software with a warning that some features may not be saved or viewable, then the same can be done with a collaborative document vis-a-vis whatever version of the software is opening the document.

My wife recently went 0patch and some other programs to cover her Win10 when Microsoft stopped updating it. She still got force updated two updates having to do with patching errors in Windows' ESU feature that blocked people from signing up for the 1-year of ESUs. She let those updates happen without trying to figure out a way to block them as they have no other impact on her operating system, but it would have been nice if Microsoft have been serious about ending the updates when it said it was.

I am not a programmer, but come on. This was done in the past with far less computational ability.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-01 05:48:52+00:00
This is not specifically just a lapse in subsidies for high earners, this is for everyone which is telling how little people actually understand what will happen when the subsidies expire.

The enhanced subsidizes made it so people earning more than 400% FPL were also eligible for subsidies, but also more importantly increased the cap on how much income insurance could cost. In reality, most people would see their insurance costs double if the subsidys expired [1].

[1] https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/aca-marketplace-prem...
by chickensong | 2025-12-01 05:49:18+00:00
If you have any substantial codebase, it will write a massive file unless you explicitly tell it not to. It also will try and make updates, including garbage like historical or transitional changes, project status, etc...

I think most people who use Claude regularly have probably come to the same conclusions as the article. A few bits of high-level info, some behavior stuff, and pointers to actual docs. Load docs as-needed, either by prompt or by skill. Work through lists and constantly update status so you can clear context and pick up where you left off. Any other approach eats too much context.

If you have a complex feature that would require ingesting too many large docs, you can ask Claude to determine exactly what it needs to build the appropriate context for that feature and save that to a context doc that you load at the beginning of each session.
by nradov | 2025-12-01 05:49:25+00:00
PE is a convenient whipping boy but it's not the main problem. There has been so much consolidation of health systems and other provider organizations in some regions that they now effectively have monopolies, allowing them to jack up prices. The effect is largely the same whether the owner is a PE firm or a non-profit foundation. In order to counteract that we would need much more vigorous antitrust enforcement, which doesn't seem politically likely.
Show HN: CurioQuest – A simple web trivia/fun facts game
by mfa | 2025-12-01 05:49:35+00:00
I've been working on CurioQuest, a simple, clean trivia/fun facts game. It started as a little project for my friends and family and they've encouraged me to clean it up and make it public.

I'd love to get feedback from actual web game enthusiasts before adding the next batch of categories and questions!

This is not a commercial product; it's a labor of love that's still in development. It doesn't have all the planned categories yet, but there's reasonable content: little over 2600 questions, 7 categories, 4 levels of difficulty per category, 2 languages (English and Portuguese), PWA so you can "install" it on your phone or desktop.
by theevilsharpie | 2025-12-01 05:49:49+00:00
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all.

I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a Radeon RX 9070 XT (currently the most recent and highest-end discrete GPU that AMD makes), and it works fine, both functionally and in terms of performance.

> I run Arch and my 9070 xt experience was poor for several months after release. I can't imagine modern gaming on an lts release.

Maybe instead of imagining it, you should just try it?
by tehwebguy | 2025-12-01 05:50:15+00:00
If you have a high paying job in the US it usually comes with legitimate health insurance paid for by your employer, meaning most of the cost of most healthcare is covered.

If you don’t you pay a lot. Before ACA non-group plans generally didn’t cover any health conditions that predated your coverage.

ACA was just good enough to cool down demands for a true public health plan while also being just shitty enough to turn everyone else off to ever wanting one. Essentially the perfect way to prevent a public option for generations.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-12-01 05:50:38+00:00
I’m one of those retirees. It’s OK. I was prepared for this, and can afford it, but a hell of a lot of others on a fixed income, are totally screwed.

> Give the money to someone who actually needs it.

Like billionaires. They are the ones that really need it, and they get it; every time. Those yachts don’t pay for themselves.

If anyone thinks poors will be getting any help, they are fooling themselves. Helping poor people is quite unpopular, in the US (where they conveniently forget that most of them are born in the US white, but politicians make it seem as if they are all dark-skinned immigrants). Many of the hardest-hit states will be ones that enthusiastically voted for this.
by programjames | 2025-12-01 05:50:52+00:00
Again, I think you don't understand: your "healthy mindset" here is a vice. I do not think it is healthy to drink away your woes. I also do not think it is healthy to cope by treating your life like a big lottery. As I have said several times, the reason I do not consider it healthy is it does not actually help you get what you want, and statistically will leave most people worse off. Finally, from a societal perspective, just like drunk driving hurts everyone around you, this coping behavior also hurts everyone around you.

I would be okay with people spreading beliefs that only hold themselves back, especially if it made them happier. However, I draw the line when they endorse antisocial behavior. I've personally been negatively effected by these hustlers' acions. Almost everyone has, whether or not they can articulate why it seems impossible to get interviewed for a job these days.
by rmunn | 2025-12-01 05:51:44+00:00
Oops. Double-checked everything (I thought) before submitting but missed that one. Well, that explains why I didn't see it on the https://news.ycombinator.com/ask page.

... And I don't seem to have the ability to edit the title of my own post? Huh. I would have expected to be able to edit it. HN's UI is deliberately simplistic, which is nice most of the time, but either I'm missing something obvious or there's a bit of functionality missing.

Shrug. Well, if there's no way to fix it then I'll wait a while and re-submit with a correct title.
by GaryBluto | 2025-12-01 05:51:56+00:00
How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse.

The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too.

It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-01 05:52:44+00:00
> My pet theory is that we are experiencing stagflation, but only people >70 years old have ever really experienced it before, so most people are just scratching their heads wondering how it’s possible that stocks keep going up (inflation) while jobs are disappearing (stagnation).

We do not seem to be technically experiencing stagflation,ir really either half of it, on a national scale, as we appear to still be in a weak aggregate economic expansion and inflation, while higher than the 2% target, is fairly mild at around a 3% annualized rate [0], and, in any case, stocks going up is not inflation (unqualified inflation, which is the inflation part of stagflation, in consumer price inflation, not asset value inflation.)

OTOH, we are in a very weak economy especially outside of the leading AI firms, and there are quite likely both wide regions and wide sectors of the economy which, considered alone, would be in recession, and while inflation is fairly mild, it is high for the last couple decades and being in near-recession conditions. So, for a lot of people, the experience is a something like stagflation (and there are lots of signs that the economic slowdown will continue alongside rising inflation.)

[0] though as economic statistics are only available after the fact, either of these could have changed, but the real defining period for “stagflation” in the US is the 1973-1975 recession, years which saw a minimum of 6.2% inflation (the term was actually coined in the UK for conditions which saw a massive drop in GDP growth rate, fron 5.7% annually to 2.1% in successive years, but not an actual recession, alongside 4.8% inflation.)
by BrouteMinou | 2025-12-01 05:53:16+00:00
I believe it's an effort to promote Linux, to get more market share.

Linux users aren't interested to see potential adopters go for BSD instead of joining their ranks.

On every forum, every discussion, there is at least one guy saying he runs that game on Linux, or that other OS is somehow inferior to Linux, or this problem would never happen on Linux...

It's all about marketing, if you will...
by ted_dunning | 2025-12-01 05:54:05+00:00
I think from what you say that you are not familiar with the content of the No Free Lunch theorem.

It says that averaging over all possible objective functions that no optimization algorithm is better than median.

If you don't know anything about the objective, then the probability that Timefold is better than a randomly chosen optimization algorithm is 50%.

The key is the point about averaging over all possible objective functions. You don't presumably expect to be even close to successful on such a general set.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-01 05:54:08+00:00
If we start to think about who "actually needs" things, we need to question whether any of the very wealthy "actually need" their wealth. I would be fine with seizing all of anyone's income (including unrealized capital gains) in excess of, say, $20 million just to give everyone else some cute stickers and lollipops. The giant flow of wealth to those at the top is a far greater misallocation than any amount towards the healthcare of anyone not at the top.
by fzeroracer | 2025-12-01 05:54:46+00:00
What you're, essentially, advocating for is a massive increase in premiums for families so that people without children can get a tax cut. Which would objectively benefit me, but would be incredibly disastrous for American society in general which is already struggling with insane family care costs. I would really hope you could see why the second order effects on such a change would be a bad idea.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 05:54:51+00:00
I've started just going to more things in person, asking friends for recommendations, and reading more books (should've been doing all of these anyway). There are some niche communities online I still like, and the fediverse is really neat, but I'm not sure we can stem the Great Pacific Garbage Patch-levels of slop, at this point. It's really sad. The web, as we know and love it, is well and truly dead.
by runako | 2025-12-01 05:54:55+00:00
There's a third piece too, which is that insurers are ramping price much faster than inflation. Our (unsubsidized) premiums increased 20% year-over-year, after also increasing faster than the rate of inflation the last few years.

Since premiums never decrease, one can pretty easily plot out that in the next ~decade we will see family premiums larger than the median salary. The economics of all this are going to get very weird in the near future.