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by tempaccsoz5 | 2025-12-21 21:10:36+00:00
I once tried to try Raku years ago, but I was left really confused by the website and docs.

Clicking through the code examples on your new website, I kept being amazed at some of the great things Raku does. It's night and day in understanding the uses and purpose of the language! Thank you.

Unfortunately, as soon as I click into the "introduction" section of the docs I'm abandoned to a wall of links and am once again lost. I'll try persevere this time, but I think you could do adoption of Raku a great favour by working on organising your docs site a bit more clearly. Astro's docs are an amazing case-study on best-in-class docs layout and writing: https://docs.astro.build/en/getting-started/
by yoan9224 | 2025-12-21 21:10:44+00:00
The key insight from this benchmark is using "human-equivalent hours" rather than actual AI execution time. It's measuring capability complexity, not speed.

What's interesting is the 50% vs 80% reliability gap. At 50% success rate on a 4-hour task, you're essentially gambling. If it fails, you've potentially wasted the 4 hours plus the time debugging why it failed.

This is why I think the current "agent" paradigm needs human checkpoints at regular intervals. Let the AI work for 30 minutes, then review progress. Repeat. This way you catch drift early before it compounds.

The other thing missing from these benchmarks: recovery ability. When the AI gets stuck on hour 3 of a 4-hour task, can it recognize the problem and backtrack? Or does it confidently continue down the wrong path?
by aruggirello | 2025-12-21 21:10:57+00:00
Right, but it's a minor annoyance, get rid of it with:

sudo apt-get remove --purge unattended-upgrades

(doesn't trigger removal of anything else, and you'll enjoy 420kb of additional disk space).

OTOH the real issue with Ubuntu is snap(d). Snap packages definitely do auto-update. You may want to uninstall the whole snap system - it's (still?) perfectly possible, if a little bit convoluted, due to some infamous snaps like firefox, thunderbird, chromium, or eg. certbot on servers

Or just use Debian or any snap-free fork for the matter.

Edit: fixed
by dragontamer | 2025-12-21 21:11:26+00:00
But then you look at flashback scenes and wonder where the noise has gone.

A lot of movies have purposeful noise, blurriness, snow, and fake artifacts to represent flashback scenes. One level of compression often keeps them okay-ish (like you can tell side by side that it's different, but only when you know what to look for). But these are the scenes that get especially ruined by two layers of compression.
by yoan9224 | 2025-12-21 21:11:48+00:00
Logs were designed for a different era. An era of monoliths, single servers, and problems you could reproduce locally. Today, a single user request might touch 15 services, 3 databases, 2 caches, and a message queue.

If a user request is hitting that many things, in my view, that is a deeply broken architecture.

I'm building an analytics SaaS and we made the conscious decision to keep it simple: Next.js API routes + Supabase + minimal external services. A single page view hits maybe 3 components max (CDN -> App -> Database).

That said, I agree completely on structured logging with rich context. We include user_id, session_id, and event_type on every log line. Makes debugging infinitely easier.

The "wide events" concept is solid, but the real win is just having consistent, searchable structure. You don't need a revolutionary new paradigm - just stop logging random strings and use JSON with a schema.
by Pavlinbg | 2025-12-21 21:11:55+00:00
Valuable feedback, thank you.

Regarding the prompt for language and theme: I actually received similar feedback via email. Instead of adding a popup, I decided to make it seamless—I just updated(locally) the app to automatically detect your OS settings for the Theme (Light/Dark) and Time Format (12h/24h) and apply them by default. This way it should "just work" for most users without needing an extra click.
by rcxdude | 2025-12-21 21:12:10+00:00
I'm well aware that there are multiple options for public transport, but none of them are actually as flexible or as far reaching as cars/taxis. To me this 'but why not trains' on every article about self-driving cars is a tired meme that fails to address that these are not equivalent options. I might as well say "Well, why don't we get rid of these expensive rails and fixed timetables and just lay down some cheap concrete and let people navigate how they want" in just as condescending a tone and be equally as unconvincing.
by gijoeyguerra | 2025-12-21 21:12:41+00:00
Persisting a data schema that represents business events is a great idea. That’s more about Event Sourcing though and doing that can answer a ton of questions about the system without doing it in log messages.

Wide events as a strategy is expensive, even with sampling, and doesn’t address the fundamental problem - why do we log messages?

I was hoping the article would enumerate why we log messages. Nailing down those scenarios first will lead to a happy life.

Why do we log? - proof of life - is the system running? - what is the state (in memory) when an error occurred? - when did an error occur? - do I need to get up at 2 am and fix something? - what do I need to fix?

I feel like every team operating a system has their own reasons for logging.
by paulpauper | 2025-12-21 21:13:42+00:00
(and I do believe this is validated by the science, because you wind up with more fat cells when you first gain weight, which I guess is both relieving and terrifying.)

the data is pretty clear . the vast majority of dieters fail, even when the bar for success is set really low, like a 2-5% long-term weight loss of starting body weight for an obese person is considered a success.
by filoleg | 2025-12-21 21:13:50+00:00
> It feels like gaining weight is incredibly easy and losing it is incredibly hard

I feel like there is more to it.

Obviously, I sympathize with you, and I noticed that when I switch from a bulking cycle to a cutting cycle, it is a bit difficult to adjust for the first couple of weeks as well.

But by god, I truly am struggling to switch the other way around, and it takes me months to adjust to the bulking cycle, even with the help of stuff like weed. And when I don’t work out aggresively and don’t keep track of my cycle, it feels just natural for me to default to eating way less, as opposed to the other way around.

To be clear, this isn’t meant to be a dig at your take. All I mean is that, I feel like the whole issue is a bit more complex.
by 0x3f | 2025-12-21 21:13:57+00:00
At least in my place of work, my non-technical manager is actually on board with my crusade against complex nonsense. Mostly because he agrees it would increase feature velocity to not have to touch 5 services per minor feature. The other engineers love the horrific mess they've built. It's almost like they're roleplaying working at Google and I'm ruining the fun.
by wwweston | 2025-12-21 21:13:58+00:00
Can you provide an example of someone who outright denies thermodynamics?

I’m familiar with people who believe that there are details of how a body metabolizes fuel , expends energy, and generally operates that escape analysis focused on fuel volume and physical activity. I am familiar with people who characterize this as denial of the laws of thermodynamics, but I am not familiar with anyone who seems to believe that there are situations in which the laws of thermodynamics are outright suspended.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-21 21:14:24+00:00
There's a lot of very visible and conscious messaging about losing weight.

There's an equal and opposite level of messaging to keep eating, which is less conscious and runs under the radar.

Snacks are literally designed to be addictive. TV ads start from birth. Most restaurants have huge portion sizes. "Family" and "Festival" events assume overeating is expected. Junk food is cheap and quality food is expensive. Overeating is framed as being "naughty" but also indulgent and nurturing.

All of this is a huge social problem that's not acknowledged at all.

It's very, very hard to Just Eat Less when there's a constant barrage of messaging encouraging you to do the opposite, and you're not even aware of it.

The contradictory messaging is actually a classic crazy-making psychological double bind. So of course it's very difficult to make a dent in this, and even harder to permanently change habits so all the contradictions no longer influence you.
by zen928 | 2025-12-21 21:15:03+00:00
Intentionally misinformed citizens continued to charge the streets demanding "essential services" like barber shops need to be reopened and to intentionally dismantle and resist against all government protections on public safety during the pandemic (like wearing a mask during an active spreading event), literally while their grandparents and relatives slowly and painfully died on respirators in hospitals largely agreeing with the same notion of covid prevention measures being "pointless". They then attacked the institutions that provided either medical treatments or provided assistance, and continue to promote that culture. Lemmings to a cause they dont understand for a message they know is false.

That is to say, there's always someone ready to make zealots die for a cause. IMO, that change would only shift in favor of the most radical extremists who see human life as expendable rather than cause anyone in power to think twice about pushing their ideologies onto masses.
by throwaway613745 | 2025-12-21 21:15:09+00:00
Ultimately, I didn't switch to Linux because I wanted to. I switched to Linux because Microsoft became so actively hostile to me I felt like I didn't have any other choice.

No Microsoft, I'm not buying new hardware just to get the new OS. No, I'm not going to let you nag me every single day until I get pissed off enough to. No, I will not tolerate all the little things in your OS that piss me off everyday. Your software sucks. Your filesystem sucks. Your constant nagging sucks. I don't want your cloud TPM security bullshit and I DEFINITELY don't want Copilot or Recall.

Seriously Microsoft: fuck you.

Giving up being able to play certain games - which require me to install malware into my computer anyway - is a small price to pay to have my sanity and freedom back. I own my computer, not you. Goodbye and good riddance.

I already used MacOS and Linux for work anyway. But don't worry Apple, you're riding that line pretty dangerously too - you're gonna be next on the chopping block if you don't get your act together. Framework Desktop is looking like a mighty capable replacement for my Mac Studio.
by randallsquared | 2025-12-21 21:16:04+00:00
> outright thermodynamics deniers

I've heard people say this before, but when reading those arguments it mostly turns out to be people who think there's something more complicated going on with digestion, excretion, or metabolism such that eaten calories are more efficiently used for some, and burned off or passed through without full processing to some degree for people who self-reportedly "can't gain weight".
by Pavlinbg | 2025-12-21 21:16:24+00:00
Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding the arrival times: Yes, that is definitely a bug I need to fix :D I will update it to format properly into hours/minutes.

As for the icons, I am actually using the official SVGs from the BDZ website. I stuck with those because I assume most users will be Bulgarian, and I wanted them to have that familiarity with the official symbols.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-12-21 21:17:09+00:00
just admit you have no idea about indie games. for many years now it has been clear what is NOT an indie game and 7 figure production budget (marketing not included, most indie games don't even have those outside of social media) with hundredth of people working on it is exactly that. just compare them to any other indie game before if you want to educate yourself about something before posting.

they had a whole orchestra of the size of whole indie game studios for the music alone, does that seem like indie?
by jojomodding | 2025-12-21 21:17:12+00:00
They also prefix every PDF with a useless page telling you the authors (which are already listed on the first (now second) page anyways) and a list telling you which of the author's universities were members of ACM Open and paid for the publishing via flatrate.

The latter is of course the actual reason for this extra page, but it is also entirely useless information since the people reading the paper don't care. The people writing the paper are also usually annoyed by this (source: I'm an author of one such paper)
by dluan | 2025-12-21 21:17:30+00:00
I think it's simpler to just appeal to every entrepreneur's spider sense - go where the great people are. It really does feel a bit like how Silicon Valley and San Francisco felt in 2000s-2010s. Caveat of course, which is even before 2008, aware insiders of SV were trying to warn that the Goodness of the internet was being squeezed too hard, that VC was turning to rent seeking too soon, the cart is way too far ahead of the basic research pipeline, etc. And of course, there's corruptible people, terrible overwork, insane competition, bad stuff etc in China too.

But there's a determined, undeniable sense of "we're going to make the world a better place", and you can physically see and touch it in China. Once you take a big inhale of that air, you realize just how much you missed it and needed it.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-12-21 21:17:40+00:00
> This is why I think the current "agent" paradigm needs human checkpoints at regular intervals. Let the AI work for 30 minutes, then review progress. Repeat. This way you catch drift early before it compounds.

The problem with this approach is that in 30 minutes, an agent is able to produce a massive amount of stuff. Reviewing all this is a nightmare, in the sense that on the surface it seems fine and it often works, until it doesn't. The bugs introduced are often subtle and their effects manifest later, if ever.

So, for stuff that matters (to me), I prefer not to use agents at all.

Maybe things will change in a year, or 5, or 10. I will be giving it a try. but for the moment it's just not worth it, and the upside-down workflow it pushes on me is just making me tired and lose satisfaction from doing my job.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-12-21 21:17:57+00:00
> Fix the problem the proposal tries to fix, and the proposal goes away.

Only it doesn't. Even if you completely solved CSAM, authoritarians would still be proposing things like this to go after "terrorists" or copyright infringers or what have you. Claiming that people can't have privacy unless there is zero crime is just claiming that people can't have privacy, and that'll be a no.

Moreover, this proposal wouldn't completely solve CSAM. If the standard is that it has to be 100% effective then this won't work either.

Whereas if the standard is that something has to be worth the cost, then this isn't.
by VitalKoshalew | 2025-12-21 21:19:46+00:00
There is no free support, e.g. call center agents for Windows 10 users. As for security vulnerabilities in Windows 10, Microsoft is going to continue fixing them until at least 2032 (probably longer with extended support) anyways, as Windows 10 1809 LTSC end-of-life is 2029 and Windows 10 21H2 IoT LTSC is supported until 2032.

Microsoft isn't that into you either. With Windows 11 you are not a customer, you and your data are the products.
by paulpauper | 2025-12-21 21:19:51+00:00
But by god, I truly am struggling to switch the other way around, and it takes me months to adjust to the bulking cycle, even with the help of stuff like weed

You could just have good genetics in which your body is resistant to weight gain or you have a low appetite to begin with. As shown by the worldwide obesity epidemic, this is apparently quite an uncommon problem. 75% of country overweight or obese.
by cryzinger | 2025-12-21 21:20:02+00:00
When you restart taking it after an "off" period, do you immediately resume whatever dose you were at before? Or do you taper up each time? (Curious because I know for many people, side effects level out after they've been at a given dose for long enough, but temporarily return whenever they increase their dose; not sure how "off" periods affect that kind of tolerance.)
by KomoD | 2025-12-21 21:20:15+00:00
> 10,000+ lines of Go - Production-quality codebase

It's definitely not "production-quality", in fact it seems AI generated.

https://github.com/Jery0843/TorForge/blob/42ffdb75da28c40456...

This isn't a websocket, it's SSE. Also lol: "// Simplified - in production use gorilla/websocket"

https://github.com/Jery0843/TorForge/blob/42ffdb75da28c40456...

"Test" functions that do nothing.

https://github.com/Jery0843/TorForge/blob/42ffdb75da28c40456...

"in production would be more sophisticated" - but this was supposed to be "production-quality"?

https://github.com/Jery0843/TorForge/blob/42ffdb75da28c40456...

Ignoring errors (also in so many other places)
by throw1235435 | 2025-12-21 21:20:36+00:00
Its simple. Given the trajectory of these things people feel under threat and defend themselves accordingly. They say what they hope for given a number of factors (bad workplaces generating slop they have to deal with, job losses, identity redefinition, etc). You know the things that happen when a profession is disrupted in a capitalist system where 'what you do' is often tied up with identity, status, and livelihood.

People will go from skeptic to dread/anxiety, to either acceptance or despair. We are witnessing the disruption of a profession in real time and it will create a number of negative effects.
by themafia | 2025-12-21 21:20:48+00:00
> Perhaps they haven’t fully thought through the ramifications of it though.

There is a chorus of voices here on HN that have tried to do this openly, obviously, myself included. It seems to be almost universally derided by people who apparently assume that we're just trying to hurt a start up out of anti-environmental sentiment and jealousy.

There are more ways to get "self-driving cars" wrong than there are to get it right. Driving is far more complex than the hackers here on Hacker News seem to want to concede, and even if that wasn't the case, I'm not sure where the sentiment that a trillion dollar corporation is naturally going to implement this system with the best interests of society in hand comes from.

It's a genuine frustration here.
by dotancohen | 2025-12-21 21:21:33+00:00
My daily desktop is mostly 2012 vintage. This hardware is still in use and works fine.

For what it's worth, that machine is being used while I upgrade my 2001 Computer Of Theseus once more. It's now getting it's third motherboard with CPU - this one salvaged from a 2018 or 2019 gaming machine. It's on its second case, and has seen more hard drive and memory upgrades than I can count - all of them piecemeal. Other than perhaps the motherboard screws and hard drive screws, I'm not sure if anything actually purchased in 2001 still survives in there. Maybe the power cable and pc speaker. And I don't remember ever replacing the rear case fan now that I'm looking at it.
by scoofy | 2025-12-21 21:22:10+00:00
There are plenty of foods with vitamin D. You don't actually need to supplement it unless you're a vegetarian, you just need to actively include those foods in your diet.

The current argument I've read for why fair-skinned people even evolved near the North Sea and not anywhere else near the arctic is exactly that the Gulf Stream allowed a cereals-based diet rather than a meat based diet, which led to vitamin D deficiencies which caused problems in pregnancy, leading to people with fairer skin being the most likely to avoid those problems.

You definitely don't need to get your vitamin D from the sun.
by paulpauper | 2025-12-21 21:22:45+00:00
A constant issue here is that we keep calling this a 'weight loss drug' and society views being fat as a moral failing ant that you 'just don't have the will power' to overcome. We need to stop. If this is a lifelong drug it is worth it compared to the relatively ineffective, and just as lifelong, alternatives out there.

I have noticed much less moralizing over the issue now compared to 2-3 years ago. I think more people realize these drug are safe and effective and not 'taking the easy way out', but rather a treatment for a medical problem than just blaming laziness or gluttony.
by detritus | 2025-12-21 21:22:47+00:00
What a bubble you exist in. I'm self-employed and my entire suite of software is either windows or apple only and I have 'been a pc' for nearly thirty years and have pc hardware that fulfills all my requirements and can't run apple software.

I'm eyeing up a shift to apple when my current hardware fails me, but it's impossible for me to just go Linux.
by randallsquared | 2025-12-21 21:23:27+00:00
Before GLP-1s, there was rarely any such thing as "satiation" for me. Getting full was something that happened without the feeling of having had enough. The main effect of wegovy, for me, was having a feeling of not needing to eat rather than just feeling too full to eat. It was quite an experience, and one I am not sure I had had in more than 30 years.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-12-21 21:23:30+00:00
> Sad to look back years ago when the first mobile apps started adopting this "Remind Me Later"-only dark pattern and is now festering everyday drivers like your OS.

I can offer a slightly different perspective. I remember Microsoft from the 90s and early 2000s. And while technical details differ, their attitude towards users didn't change that much.
by druskacik | 2025-12-21 21:24:09+00:00
Funny coincidence, these are the exact sci-fi books I read this and previous year, in the exact order I read them (I read some non-sci-fi books in between to not get overwhelmed). I finished Project Hail Mary literally one hour ago. All the books were great, but Remembrance of Earth's Past series was literally life-changing, truly a masterpiece.

I'm guessing you plan to read Dune next? ;) I plan to start with it during Christmas break.
by moomoo11 | 2025-12-21 21:24:23+00:00
There is a person thinking about how to solve actual problems at the bus/rail stop. The other person is totally reactive (someone FaceTimes them), mostly glued to doomscrolling (consuming non stop). There are disproportionately more of the latter than the former.

There’s nothing wrong with that it’s just how humans are wired. It’s pretty obvious.
by flumpcakes | 2025-12-21 21:24:40+00:00
They'll probably take it to court in the regions within the EU where this would be illegal, for example Germany. This is kind of what I meant by this law would be ignored/repealed as it goes against member nations own laws. I would expect there would be a lot of civic push back too. This law hasn't passed before, I'm not confident it will pass this time either. The real issue here is that the EU is not good at handling band faith actors - the same law in different wrapping should not be allowed to persist.
by Melatonic | 2025-12-21 21:24:43+00:00
Switch to Win10 LTSC iOT if you want to keep getting security updates for many years

Bonus is it strips out all the crap and is super fast

Downside is a few specific pieces of software refuse to install (for no good technical reason). Adobe Photoshop for example

There is also win11 LTSC iOT which I believe might actually install on older hardware that normal win11 will not (don't quote me on this)
by dyogenez | 2025-12-21 21:24:57+00:00
One game that changed my life was SimCity 2000. It shaped how I think about building products - before I even knew the term. Just published a new blog post about how it impacted me.

Lately I've been thinking about how the feeling I get creating products is chasing the feeling I had building my first city. When I thought more about it, I was amazed at how well the ideas from the game related to building products.