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Show HN: Togewire – Share your Spotify listening session via your own website
by wvrlow | 2025-12-05 16:13:41+00:00
Hello HN,

I built Togewire, a self-hosted tool that lets you broadcast your Spotify listening session to anyone via your own website.

How it works: Monitors your Spotify playback state. Fetches the audio from YouTube using yt-dlp. Syncs playback to clients via WebSockets using a Go backend (Gin + Gorilla). It handles audio processing with ffmpeg (Opus) and includes a vanilla JS player you can embed in an iframe.

Demo: https://kurodaze.net/assets/togewiredemo.mp4
by Norl-Seria | 2025-12-05 16:13:47+00:00
【Verification Results】 I am announcing the verification results. I have uploaded a folder containing screenshots to GitHub, named "Alice pictures." I would appreciate your understanding regarding the use of Japanese in the conversation, which was due to circumstances. I apologize for increasing your translation work. And now, regarding the verification results... To be frank, we should probably not call this either AGI or ASI. We entrust that judgment entirely to all of you, the observers. Well, that's beside the point—I should prioritize the current status report. I was able to complete the debugging process and successfully reach the point of response generation. The contents of the "Alice pictures" posted on GitHub are entirely the responses and the cyclical loop from the first conversation thread. Although the plan was to have Gemini converse with Alice, ChatGPT-5, which assisted with the debugging process, took on that role instead. The problem is that after the conversation progressed slightly, I was unable to retrieve the answers. Therefore, I am currently working on stabilizing the learning process. This was not an issue with Alice's response; the problem was with the Alice_pm0 that I constructed. However, please be assured that the issue is not significant—it is merely a slight stabilization of the learning process. How do all you observers perceive these phenomena?
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 16:13:56+00:00
>one of those other reasons is behind their refusal.

I mean, one of those reasons is "When I leave this job will I be able to get another job" is a huge deeply life affecting one.

If you want me to work on COBOL from 1988 then you've limited my work prospects to one of a very few employers in the country at a very specific pay range. If I instead tell you to eat a fat one and go with $language_de_jour the number of employers and potential salary range is much, much larger.
by foxyv | 2025-12-05 16:13:57+00:00
I wouldn't mind if cars were so expensive only the top 2-5% of earners could afford them, but we need viable alternatives to driving. We have dismantled our transportation infrastructure at the pleasure of car companies. Now you have drivers that cannot afford their cars but must drive anyways. You also have people who are unfit to drive that are forced to do so.

Self-driving is a bandaid for a problem that is made by cars. It doesn't address the hundreds of other issues caused by them. Also it adds to the incremental squeezing of the middle class out of existence.
by ndiddy | 2025-12-05 16:14:26+00:00
This board uses the CIX CP8180 SoC, which has worse performance and significantly worse efficiency than even Apple's M1 chip. See Jeff Geerling's review of a desktop with this SoC: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/minisforum-stuffs-ent... If you need an ARM Linux laptop, it's probably a better choice to get a used M1 or M2 MacBook Pro and put Fedora Asahi on it.
by bikenaga | 2025-12-05 16:14:29+00:00
Abstract: "Previous studies link lower physical activity with incident Parkinson’s disease (PD) but rely on self-reported data and fail to address reverse causation. This study used accelerometer-derived daily step count, an objective measure of physical activity, to examine its association with incident PD in the UK Biobank, within successive periods of follow-up. PD cases were identified through hospital inpatient and death data, and associated with machine learning-derived step counts using Cox regression models, adjusted for age, sex, demographic and lifestyle factors. For 94,696 valid participants and a median follow-up of 7.9 years, 407 incident PD cases occurred. Every 1000 steps higher were associated with 8% lower risk of PD (hazard ratio 0.92, 95% confidence interval 0.89–0.94). However, this association was no longer statistically significant when excluding follow-up periods closer to the time of accelerometer wear, suggesting that low activity may be an early marker, but not a risk factor for PD."
Ask HN: Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization?
by trinsic2 | 2025-12-05 16:14:35+00:00
I started working with computers during the golden age of home computing[0]. I'm noticing the return to closed systems that General Computing aimed to change. The centralization of computing by cloud services, forced AI, and the commercialization of general computing have pushed us toward a future that looks dystopic. With the rising costs of components (memory), the hardware we depend on for open platforms is at risk of becoming out of reach for the general population.

It seems to me that now is the time to come together as people interested in the future of technology. I have been mulling over the idea of either creating an organization that represents people interested in protecting general computing or joining an organization that has written transparent guidelines about their operations to put my support behind in affecting change in the industry.

EFF seems like they are strickly about the internet. Is there any organization like the EFF for general computing?

I know that I do not want to see my children's generation co-opted by attention-poisoning algorithms or be forced to use systems that are rented but not owned.

[0]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/memorials/memorial-my-home-computer-reflections-part-1/
by rvz | 2025-12-05 16:14:47+00:00
> Not only did they fail to apply the deployment safety 101 lesson of "when in doubt, roll back" but they also failed to assess the risk related to the same deployment system that caused their 11/18 outage.

Also there seems to be insufficient testing before deployment with very junior level mistakes.

> As soon as the change propagated to our network, code execution in our FL1 proxy reached a bug in our rules module which led to the following LUA exception:

Where was the testing for this one? If ANY exception happened during the rules checking, the deployment should fail and rollback. Instead, they didn't assess that as a likely risk and pressed on with the deployment "fix".

I guess those at Cloudflare are not learning anything from the previous disaster.
by ModernMech | 2025-12-05 16:14:54+00:00
> This desire of wanting to write OO-style code makes me think that people who want OO-style code are the ones having a lot of struggle or frustration with Rust's ergonomics.

I believe this is actually a significant source of consternation. I teach Rust to students, and I find those without a C/C++ background take to it more naturally than those who have a lot of experience with those languages. People with a C/C++ background approach Rust like C/C++ and fight it the whole way, whereas people without that background approach Rust as Rust, and they have a better time with it.
by mike_hearn | 2025-12-05 16:14:55+00:00
In practice, programs written in managed languages don't crash in the sense of aborting the entire process. Exceptions are usually caught at the top level (both checked and unchecked) and then logged, usually aborting the whole unit of work.

For trapping a bad data load it's as simple as:

try { data = loadDataFile(); } catch (Exception e) { LOG.error("Failed to load new data file; continuing with old data", e); }

This kind of code is common in such codebases and it will catch almost any kind of error (except out of memory errors).
by timbit42 | 2025-12-05 16:15:13+00:00
I can't speak for other PHEV drivetrains but the Toyota PHEV design isn't that complex. It uses an ingenious planetary CVT with a small gas engine instead of a full gas engine and regular transmission.

Also, because the gas engine mostly runs at its most efficient RPM, there is little stress on it so it runs very reliably.
by DeepSeaTortoise | 2025-12-05 16:15:19+00:00
Unless you mow your grass too low. Always assume the old rule of "your grass reaches just as far underground as it reaches up in the air" still holds.

Also if you mow your grass drastically shorter or you let it grow for a long time before mowing, do not fail to fertilize it from above right or soon after, start aggressively plucking the leaves of weeds (or other selective methods of fighting them) for a few weeks and (optimally, but highly recommended) verticulate it no sooner than 1 week after cutting. Also time it well to grant your lawn at least 3 weeks of ideal growing weather and climate (It won't die because of a week or two of awful weather, but you'll have A LOT more work fighting weeds ahead of yourself).
by jmkd | 2025-12-05 16:15:34+00:00
This a highly focussed western lens but is not representative of global media culture and business.

If you completely discount Tencent Video, iQIYI, Youku, Bilibili, Kuaishou and so on in this outlook then that is the whip of many thongs in action.

I realise some of these platforms operate behind a wall you can't see over but don't think for a minute that wall isn't coming down.
by Miraste | 2025-12-05 16:15:48+00:00
If the cheap thing replaces the expensive thing and there is no same-price comparison, is it absurd? My point is that many products that were handmade at high quality no longer exist because of modern manufacturing. If you want a chair or, say, a set of silverware at the same inflation-adjusted price it would have been available for seventy years ago, you can't get it because the market sector has shifted so thoroughly to cheaper, worse products (enabled by modern manufacturing) that similar quality is only available through specialty stores at a much higher price. This happens even if the specialty stores are using computer-aided techniques and not handcrafting, because of the change in economics of scale.
by softwaredoug | 2025-12-05 16:15:52+00:00
The branding debacle around HBO streaming service was malpractice

HBO Go and HBO Now - simultaneously, for some reason

Then HBO Max

Then Max

Now back to HBO Max

How many committee meetings did it take to get this strategy?

It's frankly amazing WB Studio and HBO quality has survived this insanity.

Time-Warner and its incarnations is whatever the opposite of synergy is (the parts are worse because of the whole)
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 16:15:54+00:00
Technically Skydance is led David Ellison, Larry's son.

Though, he's a trustfund kid and you can make a case that Larry owns it indirectly. (But if you want to make that case then it implies that Larry owns two media empires given his daughter Megan Ellison owns slightly less successful Skydance rival Annapurna.)
by websiteapi | 2025-12-05 16:16:02+00:00
is it not possible that the kind of person who would've had negative side effects from an mrna vaccination already died from covid itself prior to wide rollout? presumably anyone who had any sort of minor illness during covid would be predisposed to get the vaccine, whereas anyone both lucky enough to be spared of that and ignorant of the vaccine would have their own illness due to the way this was designed. in addition anyone who for whatever reason didn't want to get the vaccine who didn't at this point would actually be uniquely at risk due to the combination of likelihood of getting covid plus disposition for an anti-health attitude.

I feel like you could have the same conclusion if you had groups that were people who go to the doctor vs people who do not in the same time period

they go into this themselves:

> It seems reasonable to assume that by early November 2021, 3 months after the introduction of the mandatory health pass39 (delivered when fulfilling one of these conditions: a negative COVID-19 test result, proof of COVID-19 vaccination, or a certificate of recovery from a COVID-19 infection) to enter and exit France as well as to access restaurants, theaters, and nonurgent hospital consultations, the majority of unvaccinated individuals were reluctant to get vaccinated.

> A study aimed at characterizing patient hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccination showed that categorical refusal of vaccination was associated with prior noncompliance with vaccination recommendations, a lower educational level, and a less severe perception of COVID-19.41

in any case i've yet to see a slam dunk study showing any negative effect of vaccination.
by jandrese | 2025-12-05 16:16:06+00:00
Depends on the parts situation. As someone who works on my own cars I've become increasingly distressed at the car parts industry. Even OEM parts, when they are still available, seem to have had a dramatic decrease in quality over the past couple of decades. This is even assuming the correct part is shipped in the first place, which is another problem that has become entirely too common, especially in an age where everything is computerized. So many times you get a box with the correct part number on the outside but the wrong part inside.

If you have the parts and the will it's possible to keep any car running close to forever. That said if you've gotten to the point where the frame is totally rusted out then maybe it's time to consider moving on.
by stevefan1999 | 2025-12-05 16:16:11+00:00
(FEX Project, or FEX-Emu, is a fast x86/x86-64 to ARM64 dynamic recompilator that can be combined with Wine/Proton to play x86 Windows games on ARM devices such as Android phones using Winlator-Ludashi ^1 ^2)

[1]: Authentic source https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator

[2]: but I'm referring to this one specific fork that uses FEXCore https://github.com/StevenMXZ/Winlator-Ludashi
by EvanAnderson | 2025-12-05 16:16:23+00:00
I haven't tried a USB-C to 3.55mm adapter but your experience heartens me.

Headphone jack has been a hard line for me. Having recently moved into the world of wireless charging (I keep a phone 5-7 years and just missed wireless charging being normalized on my last phone purchase back in 2020) I think using the USB port for headphone is finally visible.

I spend a lot of the day with my headphones on and the phone on the wireless charging puck. Not being forced to choose between charging and headphones changes the equation.
by dkyc | 2025-12-05 16:16:33+00:00
One thing to keep in mind when judging what's 'appropriate' is that Cloudflare was effectively responding to an ongoing security incident outside of their control (the React Server RCE vulnerability). Part of Cloudlfare's value proposition is being quick to react to such threats. That changes the equation a bit: any hour you wait longer to deploy, your customers are actively getting hacked through a known high-severity vulnerability.

In this case it's not just a matter of 'hold back for another day to make sure it's done right', like when adding a new feature to a normal SaaS application. In Cloudflare's case moving slower also comes with a real cost.

That isn't to say it didn't work out badly this time, just that the calculation is a bit different.
by hackeraccount | 2025-12-05 16:16:52+00:00
I agree with that but at the same time we've all met people who are masters of a subject matter. They tend to move pretty quickly. Speed is a shortcut to demonstrating understanding. That often seems really unfair when you don't understand a subject and then seems really pointless when you do understand it but I think there's some truth to that statement in any case.
by hnfong | 2025-12-05 16:17:11+00:00
I see your point, but generally you don't need to roll the dice purely randomly. You generally do get some level of control over your career, your job and the people you work with. With white collar jobs employers are also generally relatively more willing to accommodate personal quirks as long as you get the actual job done.

The level control and flexibility is much smaller when you're a student.

Also, in school there's a lot of emphasis on how you get the job done. There's a prescribed process, and learning the prescribed process is more important (to some of the teachers apparently) than getting the actual job done. This is often where neurodivergent people struggle more in school and at work.
by jimbokun | 2025-12-05 16:17:20+00:00
> Reality is, the people making these decisions don't want to change things, at least not enough to go through the effort of changing and renegotiating the licenses.

Which is a perfectly sensible reason for a business decision.

> "Well they don't because of 'licensing issues' with the source code." as if they were being stopped by a law of physics.

So laws should just be ignored? Issues created by human social constructs are very real.
by squ11z1 | 2025-12-05 16:17:20+00:00
The core idea: instead of using pseudo-random dropout/noise during training, we inject true quantum entropy from three orthogonal sources - superconducting qubits, vacuum fluctuations, and radioactive decay.

Each source has different temporal characteristics (microseconds to nanoseconds), creating multi-scale regularization impossible with classical RNGs.

The result is a model with significantly better robustness metrics - 2.3% hallucination rate vs 5.9% baseline, and strong gains on reasoning benchmarks.

Technical details in the model card. Previous version (8B) got 10k+ downloads.
by troyvit | 2025-12-05 16:17:36+00:00
If it's dandelions, wait a few seasons (now that you've used Roundup) and then eat them! The leaves taste like arugula (the younger the better). The heads, when they bloom, can be dried, ground, and baked into cookie recipes. If you let the heads close, pick them before they start transforming into seeds and either pop them into your mouth raw while you're doing yard work or save them, bread them, and fry them up for a nutty flavor. The roots apparently make a good caffeine-free coffee replacement but who the hell wants to replace coffee?
by rkapsoro | 2025-12-05 16:17:39+00:00
This is the wrong attitude to take to the problem.

While I grant there were many who were disposed to be irrational skeptics, lots of skepticism was generated by dishonest messaging, coercive mandates, and punitive limitations on dissenting speech. Institutions took an end-justifies-the-means strategy, and many smelled a rat.

Even now, online, you see right wing users continuing to lament over vaccine injuries, and on the left, long COVID. Ironically the injuries are often similar. They are, of course, both right.
by 8organicbits | 2025-12-05 16:17:51+00:00
> I need to sort stuff into categories so that you get more stuff in genres you like

I'm also trying to figure out that problem. The challenge I've seen is that RSS feeds rarely use the category field. I did notice people doing hashtags in the description field (maybe they POSSE to Mastodon or X) so I parse those out in a crawler I built [1], but theres still so much uncategorized content.

In my personal feed I aim to only subscribe to feeds I plan to read, so I hit "inbox zero" on my RSS feed every day, reading about 20% of the content. What this means is that I unsubscribe from anyone who posts too often. I think there's a negative correlation between posting frequency and my desire to read the content. People who blog every day are mostly writing uninteresting content and that will fill your feed unless you balance it out.

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/rss-categories/
by liampulles | 2025-12-05 16:17:59+00:00
Rollback is a reliable strategy when the rollback process is well understood. If a rollback process is not well known and well experienced, then it is a risk in itself.

I'm not sure of the nature of the rollback process in this case, but leaning on ill-founded assumptions is a bad practice. I do agree that a global rollout is a problem.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-12-05 16:18:07+00:00
There's no doubt the current administration is waging a war of suppression against anything they consider opposed to them. So Kimmel, Perkins Coie, visa holders/applicants... they are the target of mob tactics where censorship via retaliation is but one of the coercive effects.

It might be that our system's reliance on norms has been exposed as a fatal flaw. On the other hand, the executive is only wielding its discretionary powers, so the current campaign of censorship may only last this term. We haven't put up a great firewall. We haven't nationalized news media.

The Wikileaks thing is so minimal that if you wanted to provide examples of US censorship you should have said CSAM and been done with it. The site was not blocked in the US. It didn't affect anyone but federal employees and clearance holders. No one could go to prison for viewing the leaked documents. And wikileaks wasn't arbitrarily targeted, there is a longstanding, opt-in employment policy that classification and need to know apply even to spillages.
by anordal | 2025-12-05 16:18:10+00:00
Absolutely not.

I wish everyone knew the difference between patents and copyright.

You can download an open source HEVC codec, and use it for all they care according to their copyright. But! You also owe MPEG-LA 0.2 USD if you want to use it, not to mention an undisclosed sum to actors like HEVC Advance and all the other patent owners I don't remember, because they have their own terms, and it's not their problem that you compiled an open source implementation.
by prirun | 2025-12-05 16:18:32+00:00
Internet/TV bills can be negotiated, but it is usually something you have to do annually and most people, rightly so, hate it. The companies make it hard to do, so most people would rather pay an extra $5-10 rather than spending an hour or two on the phone. After 5-10 years, those fee bumps really add up.

The only way to keep Internet/TV costs low is to threaten to cancel or switch every year, and actually be willing to do it. For some that isn't an option because there is only 1 provider, and others I've talked to hate that idea because you have to learn a new channel lineup. It's amazing how much people will pay to not be slightly inconvenienced.
by 1718627440 | 2025-12-05 16:18:34+00:00
And yet that is a problem of the past twenty years while we had markets for centuries. The concept of markets doesn't seem to be the problem.

If you say we need more regulation and an actual Antitrust Division that does things, then I agree. If you say we need to get rid of free markets and capitalism and return to socialism, then I am strongly against that.
by denysvitali | 2025-12-05 16:19:14+00:00
I think (would love to be corrected) that this is the nature of their service. They probably push multiple config changes per minute to mitigate DDOS attacks. For sure the proxies have a local list of IPs that, for a period of time, are blacklisted.

For DDOS protection you can't really rely on multiple-hours rollouts.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-12-05 16:19:21+00:00
That shouldn't be a problem as long as you can still download apps from the Play Store itself (not the official app). Basically, take a look at how proxy stores like Aurora work, they connect to the Play Store servers and allow you to download apps directly from Google, without needing the Play Store app.

Of course, this doesn't mean that the downloaded app will work on such a device (if it doesn't have Google Play Services), but at least it lets you download the app, which isn't much different from downloading it from say, APK Mirror. And as long as you can extract the apps from either the Play Store or Android devices itself (via adb/root etc), I'm assuming sites like APK Mirror will continue to exist.