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by arjie | 2026-01-13 06:14:17+00:00
Boy I could not stand Windows 8. Unfortunately, many of their techniques were copied into Linux distribution views and it made my life worse. The new start menu was perhaps the worst.

It created this massive doorway effect where I'd hit Start and the whole screen would whiz and spin and then there'd be all these moving tiles and I'll forget what I hit Start for. Frequently I'd then hit Esc, remember, and Start again. This was compounded by the fact that if you started typing after hitting start it wouldn't just filter to the applications. God knows what it would actually do but not that.

I was one of the people who enjoyed Windows Vista (which introduced sudo to Windows users) and Windows 7 and even Windows 10 after which the i7-4790k machine I had to do the Windows was no longer eligible for Windows 11 so I have no idea what that looks like.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_perception#Relation_to_e...
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-13 06:14:25+00:00
I concur. I've seen a lot of companies outside the techbro world where the entire thing runs on a single VPS/dedicated server with a setup that would make any sysadmin squirm. And yet, it just works and makes them money?

Which isn't too surprising - hardware is extremely reliable nowadays. When's the last time your laptop broke? And that laptop lives a much harsher life than server HW in a datacenter. Obviously everyone is going to have their own anecdotes about this, but I think it's fair to say that overall the failure rates are quite low.

You know why their (often awful) setups work and consistently beat the major clouds in terms of uptime? No moving parts for K8s and all the "best practices", and most importantly, there is nobody "fixing" the working setup until it doesn't work. Ironically they are getting better uptime by avoiding all the things that are marketed as improving uptime.
by halostatue | 2026-01-13 06:14:34+00:00
I'm not vegan, but ovo-lacto vegetarian, so B12 deficiency isn't anything I've ever had to worry about.

With appropriate fortified foods (synthesized bacterial sources adding B12 to nutritional yeast, plant milks, etc.), vegans don't need to worry about it either.

A quick bit of research suggests that as much at 16% of meat eaters have B12 deficiency, so it's a systemic problem.
by harpratap | 2026-01-13 06:14:54+00:00
Dental and vanity surgeries aren't happening in a vacuum. There are baseline costs eg. anesthesia, recovery medications, medical machinery etc which are all bloated due to the rest of industry not being under price pressure (rising tide lift all boats)

It's similar to how AI data center buildout race is raising the prices for consumer electronics in 2026 and beyond. The suppliers have no incentive to sell lower cost products to tiny niche
by hunterloftis | 2026-01-13 06:15:55+00:00
Given the weird take on x86 being inherently "more powerful" and the copy-pasted error from the marketing site (32W vs 32WH) this "article" looks like gently massaged advertising copy:

> Alternatively, HP’s EliteBoard will bring Windows and a more powerful x86 architecture to the keyboard-PC form factor. HP says the EliteBoard will support Windows 11 Pro for Business and an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series processor with an up to 50 TOPs NPU. The device will be sold with a 32 W internal battery and is part of Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC program.
by pedeypops | 2026-01-13 06:15:56+00:00
I agree. I've seen people insist moving to a newer model or fine tuning will make the output more clever, "trust me", sometimes without providing any evidence of before and after for the specific use case. One LLM project I saw released was prettymuch useless, but it wasn't the use case or the architectural limitations that were the problem, nope the next thing on the roadmap was "fixing" it by plugging in a better LLM.
by stephenr | 2026-01-13 06:16:41+00:00
> bg-sky-500 hover:bg-sky-600 active:bg-sky-700 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded-lg

What fresh fucking hell is this? I can't say I've had the (mis)fortune of being forced to work with Tailwind (I've seen the name enough to know it's something vaguely "CSS framework"-adjacent though).

Seriously, though what kind of crack induced nightmare state was required for someone to think up such an abomination, implement it, and then make it public for the world to see?

Furthermore, who in their right mind saw that and said "yep this is fine"?
by lloeki | 2026-01-13 06:17:41+00:00
> The designers are at fault because they prioritized visuals over usability

I bet designers aren't at fault here either because Liquid Glass violates at least three rules of design every second that passes.

https://www.vitsoe.com/us/about/good-design#good-design-is-i...

Instead OP mentioned "visual artists"; I agree. Liquid Glass is an art show; something that belongs in the realm of concept cars, not on the road.
by dfee | 2026-01-13 06:17:47+00:00
> But, field work also brought amazing experiences, I visited the seaside 70+ times over a year, and got an insight into what a time series really means when you cover the tidal and weather and seasonal cycles.

I’m not exactly sure if we share a similar experience, but living on a trail in the Santa Cruz mountains affords me the opportunity to hike the same trails every weekend, year round (or even daily).

I’m not taking measurements, but it’s incredible to witness the effect of seasons on familiar territory just a few miles outside town. The weather changes, the wildlife changes and the air changes (moist to dry and back).

It’s an incredibly special experience to revisit the same place time and time again and witness the impact of … time. I hope you found something else to replace your familiar seaside.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-13 06:19:03+00:00
You could try Cerebras. It's still vastly vastly vastly cheaper than what many people and all companies pay for Opus. And it's absurdly ridiculously stupendously fast. And GLM-4.7 is quite capable!
https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/glm-4-7 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46544047

You can definitely keep tweaking. It's also helpful just to ask it about what your possible concerns are and it will tell you and explain what it did.

I spent a good chunk of 2025 long time being super super careful & specific, using mostly very very cheap DeepSeek and just leading it by the leash at every moment and studying the output. It still felt like a huge win. But with more recent models, I have trust that they are doing ok, and I'm better at asking some questions once the code is written to hone my understanding. And mostly I just trust it now! I don't have to look carefully and tweak to exacting standards, because I've seen it do a ton of good work & am careful in what I ask.

There's other tactics that help. Rather than stare carefully at the code, making sure you and the AI are both running the program frequently, have a rig to test what's under development (ideally I'm an integration test type of way, which it can help set-up!). And then having what good programmers have long had, good observability tools at their back. Be that great logging or ideally sweet tracing. We have such better tools to see the high level behavior of systems now. AI with some prompts to go there can be extremely good about helping enhance that view.

It is going to feel different. But there's a lot you can do to get much better loops.
by ggm | 2026-01-13 06:20:04+00:00
When the cost of deployment drops. And, when their own chip designs are profitable, they'll take the capital hit. Until then, as long as the income split for Gemini backed siri isn't terrible they'll stay an outsource. If they persuade Google to deploy Apple chips into the service I'd say an in-house is within sight.

Apple private relay runs in cloudflare and fastly and I believe one other major. They certainly can and do run services for a long time with partners.
by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs | 2026-01-13 06:20:06+00:00
>How is it authenticated? I went looking briefly but didn't turn up much; obviously there's the ssh auth itself but if you have access to the remote, is there an additional layer of auth stopping anyone from executing code via the daemon?

How many prompts and auth layers do you guys need until you shup up? I swear to God security people have completely lost touch with reality.
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-13 06:20:26+00:00
In excess or a normal body's caloric need, not in excess of what you need to maintain your current weight. The latter would lead to infinite growth.

Once you're 140kg, a sedentary lifestyle requires you to take something like 800 more calories as the same person with the same lifestyle at 70kg, to each maintain your weight.

So excess eating of 500 calories over what a normal bodyweight (say 70kg) needs to maintain, leads to fat people (say 110kg) who at some point stop gaining weight and stay at that fat level (of say 110kg).
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-01-13 06:23:09+00:00
This is absurdly great. 2-3x what you'd pay for input for GLM-4.7 normally, but it's still 1/10th Opus cost, at absurd speeds. And GLM-4.7 is quite good!

Use it to write a ton of tickets then maybe send a cheap Cerebras model like GPT-OSS upon it, if you want to make it cheap. Or use Opus or whatever to build the plan then have Cerebras GLM-4.7 implement.
by spydr | 2026-01-13 06:23:34+00:00
> do you care about who your actions might affect

This one surprises me every time I fly. When I have the aisle seat I can be up and out in 10 seconds. It seems to make like everyone else will plop down , place down 3 different liquids on the tray and then take a nap. When I ask to use the bathroom I end up feeling like a nuisance
by NoLinkToMe | 2026-01-13 06:24:28+00:00
Wdym you were eating healthy for a decade and still obese? How does that work. A diet where you eat to obesity isn't healthy.

And how did surpressing your hunger via GLP-1 drugs (a pure change to a more healthy diet for you) lead to big changes, if you apparently already had such a healthy diet.

Seems to me your diet was unhealthy for a decade and now isn't.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-13 06:25:02+00:00
It's already been done, without the model being aware of it, see https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742. They also made it think it was Hitler (not MechaHitler, the other guy), and other craziness.

It's a relief to think that we're not trusting these things for stuff like financial advice, medical advice, mental health counselling, ...
by Gathering6678 | 2026-01-13 06:28:32+00:00
We live in a big city now (though not exactly close to hospital or government), but my wife's hometown is a smallish rural town, and power outage is also extremely rare (less than once per year?) in the past decade or so. If you need e.g. oxygen ventilation at home, probably safer to have a backup generator or UPS, but I don't think anyone I know would need one at home.

I don't know about "remote rural". But in those places, I don't think anyone could afford an energy storage system even if needed......
by free_bip | 2026-01-13 06:28:52+00:00
What do you mean? I can run English on my computer. There are multiple apps out there that will let me type "delete all files starting with" hacker"" into the terminal and end up with the correct end result.

And before you say "that's indirect!", it genuinely does not matter how indirect the execution is or how many "translation layers" there are. Python for example goes through at least 3 translation layers, raw .py -> Python bytecode -> bytecode interpreter -> machine code. Adding one more automated translation layer does not suddenly make it "not code."
by pyeri | 2026-01-13 06:29:03+00:00
Not a tailwind geek myself but I think how they justify is "better to have a little extra spaghetti in your html code than create a truck load of spaghetti in your app.css stylesheet."

The alternative to using tailwind here is to define the specific style elements for each one in the css stylesheets yourself with something like this:

.bg-sky-500 {
background-color: blue;
}

Tailwind proponents argue that they avoid this "stylesheet hell" by picking ready pre-defined tailwind classes like bg-sky-500, etc. Plus they also argue that this workflow will increase productivity by standardizing "style mindsets" of your dev team who all will think "blue" means "sky-500" (for example).

Maybe it has use cases in deep or professional design work but for most backend or full-stack devs, bootstrap is definitely better than meddling with this structure.
by throwaway173738 | 2026-01-13 06:30:39+00:00
I pressure cook beans. On induction or gas it takes about an hour to make a gallon beans from dry, and then I eat that for one meal a day for a week. You can get a 3 quart pressure cooker and just make less. I’ve also seen people use stainless steel bowls to cook multiple things in the same pressure cooker.
by ggm | 2026-01-13 06:31:11+00:00
We used to have a term for a world where the "cost" of things wasn't measured in money, and abundance implied general living conditions were amicable and mutual.

Somehow I don't think this very stable genius has walked far through the consequences for his personal wealth, freedoms and his influence, in a world where money has no strict meaning.

On the delivery rate for FSD and Mars, I suggest people currently working who can do so, Ignore Musk and continue to contribute to retirement savings and that part of the state savings economy which supports their future retirement well-being. It's arguable their great-grandchildren will still be working, in a money based resources and goods rationing system like we have now.

If Musk paid himself less and paid more tax, we'd all be better off. If most of Musk's endeavours didn't have him, they'd also probably be better off.
by jaggederest | 2026-01-13 06:31:58+00:00
Super responders unite, I'm down 32% and shooting for 36% before I hit maintenance. I only made it about half way up the dosage chart before I had to back off due to losing too rapidly (!!). I took a 3 month maintenance and am back to losing again, it's been life changing.

The other wild thing is general health improvement - all of my bloodwork has gone from questionable to better than standard - closer to ideal values than I would ever expect. Liver values, cholesterol, lipids, blood pressure, everything. I expected them to improve but not to the degree that they have, my LDL has gone down by 60%. Actuarial tables say it's given me another ~10 years of probable lifespan, and even more if you think in healthspan.
by nl | 2026-01-13 06:32:49+00:00
AMD Ryzen AI 300

These are great. The Ryzen AI series are the ones that allow memory to be shared between the GPU and CPU, so you can use almost all your system RAM to run local models.

The AI 395+ MAX is available with up to 128Gb RAM (and I think 256Gb is coming).

The important thing is how much RAM it comes with because it is soldered - and for some reason this doesn't seem to show the RAM!
by plorkyeran | 2026-01-13 06:33:02+00:00
One of the minor weird things about iOS development early on was just how fast the transition was from the simulator being dramatically faster than actual devices to the simulator being slower than devices. When I started out you’d get things working nicely in the simulator and then discover it’s an order of magnitude too slow on a phone. Just a few years later and my phone was faster than my laptop until thermal throttling kicked in.
by tylerchilds | 2026-01-13 06:33:39+00:00
That’s about the inputs going in and even in the first paragraph disclaims other courts may side differently

We’re still not in the legal territory of the outputs on the other side, which is what’s actually more interesting to me.

The technical political maneuvering of to two sides of the accelerationist movement is the fair use bits, which is not even the point I’m debating.

Even there, they are discussing complete bodies of work as source material, which is exactly my point. My stuff can go in, but they still have to cite that I’m in there, which does matter on the other side.

I don’t think anyone deserves to be just weights and algorithms in a dark and shuddered library.

They want this to be a legal laundering device and that’s the bit I’m hung up on.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-01-13 06:34:26+00:00
On an OS like Windows, which does not have a granular permissions model for something like prompting the user to allow a program to hook keyboard input when not focused, literally any binary you run could be a keylogger. One that openly says it analyzes keypresses is not especially more of a security risk than any other binary, which can do all the same things even if they do not announce on their webpage that they do.
by catlifeonmars | 2026-01-13 06:34:52+00:00
> Most projects I've worked on tend to span multiple services though, so I think AI would struggle more trying to understand and coordinate across all those services versus having all the logic in a single deployable instance.

1. At least CC supports multiple folders in a workspace, so that’s not really a limitation.

2. If you find you are making changes across multiple services, then that is a good indication that you might not have the correct abstraction on the service boundary. I agree that in this case a monolith seems like a better fit.
by tuananh | 2026-01-13 06:36:04+00:00
I would much prefer to use RHEL/Fedora image mode for this. Use Dockerfile syntax. Immutable. Easy to update/rollback. CIS hardening baked in.

```

[customizations.openscap]

datastream = "/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-rhel10-ds.xml"

profile_id = "xccdf_org.ssgproject.content_profile_cis"

custom_remediate_script_path = "/your/custom/script.sh"

```
by karakoram | 2026-01-13 06:36:36+00:00
Connections, Connections, Connections. Also nepotism.

The real trick is to not even interview. Just call someone you know and call in a favour. Very unpopular and controversial but this works for certain.

I am not talking about referrals. This is more direct and blunt.

Buddy works at X company : "Hey buddy, I need to join you at X company ASAP, I have been out of work"

Buddy pulls some strings and gets you in the next week.
by lostlogin | 2026-01-13 06:36:49+00:00
> In 2025 alone, it means they added an astonishing 3h of electricity storage (I'm rounding it up for you as a bonus)

That’s really good isn’t it?

It would be unusual for solar to produce zero during the day, and the night is presumably going to be around 12 hours (in terms of solar generation). Energy usage is presumably less at night too.

The storage is already meaningful, with 3 of the 12 hours of zero generation covered (assuming usage is flat over a 24 hour period, which it isn’t), and if they keep adding at that pace it’ll be very significant.

Am I missing something?
by ashishb | 2026-01-13 06:37:48+00:00
> This looks awesome! Do you have a mental process you run through to determine what gets run in the sandbox, or is it your default mode for all tools?

Here's what I use it for right now

- yarn
- npm
- pnpm
- mdl - Ruby-based Markdown linter
- fastlane - Ruby-based mobile app release tool by Google
- Claude Code
- Gemini CLI

Over time, my goal is to run all CLI-based tools that only need access to the current directory (and not parent directories) via this.
by morganherlocker | 2026-01-13 06:37:56+00:00
I designed some parts for an enclosure over the weekend using claude opus to generate an OpenSCAD file, which I then exported to STL and sent to a 3D printer. I was able to get a visually-correct-enough STL off to the 3D printer in about 5 minutes.

I then waited about an hour for the print to finish, only to discover I wanted to make some adjustments. While I was able to iterate a couple times, I quickly realized that there were certain structures that were difficult to describe precisely enough without serious time spent on wording and deciding what to specify. It got harder as the complexity of the object grew, since one constraint affects another.

In the end, I switched to FreeCAD and did it by hand.
by jaggederest | 2026-01-13 06:38:40+00:00
Not the original guy, but down 32%, for a point of comparison:

1) Amazing, like being a decade and a half younger

2) Not before, planning one in the next couple months, but I use skinfold and impedance and they say I've dropped from about 48% to ~20% as I've dropped from 272 to 186, lean mass seems maybe 5kg lower than I started with? Less lean mass loss than I expected.

3) Weight bearing exercise and medium-high protein intake (>80g/d)

4) Per above, starting BMI 37.9 -> ending BMI 25.9
by usefulposter | 2026-01-13 06:38:43+00:00
>With Phind 3, we create a "personal internet" for you

>We think that this current "chat" era of AI is akin to the era of text-only interfaces in computers.

>The new Phind Fast model is based on GLM-4.5-Air while the new Phind Large model is based on GLM 4.6.

So... vaporware that could no longer compete with the big three frontier LLM firms?
by zoe_mnode | 2026-01-13 06:40:41+00:00
This direction is clearly not unique to DeepSeek. Similar ideas have shown up before, like Gemma’s per-layer embeddings, RWKV’s deepembed, and ByteDance’s UltraMem.
From an algorithm perspective, using hash-based n-gram lookup is far from ideal. The same fact phrased differently, or in another language, ends up mapping to different keys. Generalization is weak, and duplication and noise are hard to avoid. UltraMem tries to address this with learnable mappings, but that also brings more parameters and a harder-to-tune structure.
What DeepSeek seems to be doing is making a system-level trade-off. Instead of chasing a cleaner algorithm, they simplify the computation and move it before inference, using raw input tokens for lookup and running the whole step in CPU memory. The cost is lower algorithmic efficiency; the benefit is zero GPU memory usage, very simple logic, and a preprocessing path that can be fully offloaded to CPUs.
Once this runs in CPU memory, the optimization target changes. Parameter efficiency and per-query optimality matter less. Even if the hash mapping is noisy or redundant, the cost is low and it doesn’t touch scarce GPU memory. At the system level, that trade-off can make sense.
by technofiend | 2026-01-13 06:42:40+00:00
The Cray 1-ish machines I had access to at Shell and Chevron were most definitely tucked away in rooms with no visibility into them. In fact the Chevron machine room had pretty stern "no photography" placards, which I took seriously and is sadly why I don't have a photo of sitting on the loveseat of their machine.

Getting access took just short an act of God and I was a sysadmin in the central support group! They didn't want us puttering on the machines, so as far as I could tell it mostly sat idle.
by hattmall | 2026-01-13 06:42:50+00:00
Yeah, as someone else pointed out, the gig-delivery services killed the delivery industry. Sure I can get food from a bunch of shitty fast food places now, but deliveries are way more expensive and take forever. The only place that still does good delivery around me is Jimmy Johns and Dominoes. I used to have 15-20 good quality delivery places that were fast with free delivery. And I'm as talking on the phone averse as anyone but calling a delivery place was just easier than using an app and they could give you updates on when they were out of something or whatever.

Uber eats / Door Dash suck so much I have no desire to order delivery food at all other than the two that run their own delivery and I know it will be a consistent experience. Anything else I either pick it or go without.

It was also shady how they paid for ads to supplant the phone numbers on Google so you were calling Door dash instead of the food place.