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by gf000 | 2026-01-29 05:34:31+00:00
> operating system only provides screen mirroring or app window mirroring on an external monitor

That's not true. It's probably written that way, because this is still an experimental feature so it is indeed not "supported", but it does work, you just have to toggle a few settings inside developer options.

And in this desktop mode it could make use of my 2k desktop screen, though it is quite buggy (it is a pixel 8 device, for reference)
by ethbr1 | 2026-01-29 05:35:24+00:00
Well said! I'd also add that a critical function of middle management in healthy companies is bidirectional information communication: sharing what their teams are doing up and sharing leadership priorities down.

Having worked at some dysfunctional companies where that didn't happen (and a few companies that were amazing at it), it makes a difference at scale.

Nothing is more disheartening than working your ass off as an IC, shipping, then finding out that your VP pivoted approach and your project won't be used.
by Foobar8568 | 2026-01-29 05:36:13+00:00
For a government contract we budgeted somewhere between 50k and 100k to change a deployment script.

I was against it, but "you know, if they don't do it, they no longer give a warranty on the solution", type of bullshit. Yeah 60md of warranty? My client are a bunch of fools.

Like ONG, bribes and extracting public money is the first target.
Show HN: A hiring tool that ranks candidates by job-specific criteria
by psovit | 2026-01-29 05:36:16+00:00
Hi HN,
We’ve been building a hiring tool that ranks candidates using multiple job-specific criteria rather than keyword matching (traditional ATS-style filtering).

For each job listing, the system generates hiring criteria and sub-criteria, then analyzes and ranks candidate CVs based on how well they meet those criteria.
The original target users are hiring agencies, HR teams, and recruiters.

Our current challenge is early adoption. Agencies are hard to onboard without seeing real results, and real results usually require usage at some scale.

So we’re running an experiment:
We added a candidate-facing tool where job seekers can paste a job link, upload their CV, and get an analysis showing which hiring criteria they meet and which they’re missing.

The hypothesis is that candidate usage and data can act as a bottom-up wedge to eventually attract agencies and recruiters.

We’re early and unsure whether this approach will work but let's see.
Show HN: Expo Playground – Open-source React Native components and screens
by thomino | 2026-01-29 05:37:31+00:00
Open-source Expo playground to serve as starting point or just playground for React Native projects.

The Tech Stack:

- Framework: Expo

- Styling: NativeWind v4 (Tailwind for Native).

- Animations: Reanimated

Components and screens:

- Product tooltip

- Glassy dropdown

- 3D Card flip

- Expandable image tabs

- Product grid with animated filters

- Theme carousel & picker

- Onboarding introduction slider

- Toggle switch

- Parallax scroller

- Weather app interface

- Masonry/Staggered grid

- Card counter

- Earnings chart

- Expandable video card

- Bottom bar switcher

- Journal cards
by protocolture | 2026-01-29 05:37:47+00:00
>This kind of behavior would not be tolerated any more if it targeted other work environments. Harassment (and that's the most generous interpretation) is not free speech.

"Work Environments" jfc. Harassing harassers is morally ok in anyones book. That they get paid for harrassment is irrelevant. People dont need to endure oppression because the oppressors are on the job.
by tombert | 2026-01-29 05:38:13+00:00
My dad found it extremely amusing that Elon said "we just have to solve the 'AI problem' and we'll have robots doing shopping for us", or something like that. I can't remember the exact verbiage, but that was the gist.

The word "just" is doing a lot of work there. Going by that logic: We "just" need to figure out cold fusion to have effectively infinite energy. We "just" need to develop warp drives to travel across the galaxy. We "just" need to figure out the chemo problem to cure cancer.
by Snild | 2026-01-29 05:39:50+00:00
I bought it in late 2013, so 12 years from purchase.

Intel lists the launch date of the CPU (Atom D2500) as Q3'11, making it 14 years old when OpenSUSE Leap 16 was released.

It looks like Intel was releasing Atom CPUs without SSE4.1/4.2 up until 2013, e.g. Atom Z2420.
by arjie | 2026-01-29 05:40:00+00:00
Everyone has their own objectives for life, but I actually don't think that the purpose of a state is to provide the instantaneous highest quality of life, safety and health to its citizens. Some might argue that it is to provide those things not at a sampled time but over a duration, but if so which generation should experience that? And if optimized over generations then surely some people must lose so that future others must gain, or the future others must lose to that the present ones may gain.

Personally, I think a higher goal for the state is to provide a substrate of sufficient physical safety, law and order, and infrastructure so that its citizens may have the ability to pursue their aspirations. I think human thriving is very important. And I want the ability to try at a ridiculous thing and achieve commensurate reward. In many ways, I don't even want that for me. I want that for others. When I see someone take a crack at something that most thought impossible and make it happen, I love it.

It isn't that those of us who have this opinion are temporarily embarrassed billionaires. It's that we like that someone took a crack at something absurd and became billionaires for it. People who don't get it always say these things out of misunderstanding: "Why do the poor in the US vote so often against their own interests?". The obvious answer is "because they are principled and not purely self-interested".
by DangitBobby | 2026-01-29 05:40:07+00:00
I mean if you see anything in that video other than an ICE "officer" that needs to be in jail I'm very sad to presumably share a country with you. You can argue with me about how cool it is to mace a guy trying to keep a goon from manhandling a woman (don't give a fuck what you think about an "arrest" you are probably incorrectly assuming will happen, he should be in jail for that alone) all you want, but I'm not licking boots with you.
by faxmeyourcode | 2026-01-29 05:40:24+00:00
I've lobbied to replace our internal tool with a django admin panel. I prototyped it and it showed that it would reduce our code by > 15k lines.

Any internal webapps I need to build like this will 100% be set up with django in the future due to this. I don't need it to be pretty, I just want the UI, database migrations, users, roles, groups, etc for free
by pstuart | 2026-01-29 05:40:55+00:00
As far as her vehicle was concerned, I've seen elsewhere that she had been parked earlier and had pulled out but was letting other vehicles go through first, waving them on.

Not complying with a masked men with guns who gave conflicting info (leave now/get out of the car) who were going to mess her up as much as they could? Really? She was trying to leave.

You should watch the video where Alex Pretti tries to protect and aid a women who was pepper sprayed by ICE officials approaching them, and then tackled and shot multiple times, and then more for good measure.

> I'm not a fan of anything that's going on, and it appears that people are trying to make things worse, not better. Why?

If you are a rationalist, you should be taking in all possible information and be prepared to change your mind as compelling evidence is presednted.

Let's work backwards from the situation: Why is ICE in Minnesota in the first place? Ostensibly because of financial fraud (not their area of interest), and more so, as a show of strength and intimidation.

Steven Miller has publicly stated that ICE has zero accountability and freedom to act as they see fit. 1st Amendment and 4th Amendments are doormats to these people. And with Alex Pretti, they now declare that 2A is null and void too.

So your position is kneel and comply regardless of why?

Edit: I didn't downvote you because I wanted to answer with dialog instead. You send some very mixed messages about not liking what's happening but also blaming the victims for their fate.
by ajkjk | 2026-01-29 05:41:56+00:00
In this case we're debating whether one of the purposes of AI is to scan the elderly. Probably 'purpose' is not quite the right word, but the point would be: it is not the purpose of AI to not scam the elderly (or it would explicitly prevent that).

(note: I do not actually know if it explicitly prevents that. But because I am very cynical about corporations, I'd tend to assume it doesn't.)
by CobrastanJorji | 2026-01-29 05:42:39+00:00
It was pretty much guaranteed to happen at some point. This is the author whose kickstarter for four ebooks that made $40 million.

Plus the universe just begs for an arbitrarily large number of seasons and spin-offs. There's something for everybody. You almost certainly start with multiple series of Mistborn. From there, you can go in dozens of directions. And there's a built in huge audience. It practically begs for high budget TV adaptation.
by falkensmaize | 2026-01-29 05:42:57+00:00
Just today I had Claude Opus 4.5 try to write to a fictional Mac user account on my computer during a coding session. It was pretty weird - the name was very specific and unique enough that it was clear it was likely bleed through from training data. It wasn’t like “John Smith” or something.

That’s the kind of thing that on a large scale could be catastrophic.
by gf000 | 2026-01-29 05:43:59+00:00
The pixel 8 costs that much now. Give it a few years and check back on it later (when this feature actually drops) and the phone might end up being much more affordable.

Nonetheless, I do agree with you that simply getting a used low-end laptop is cheaper, but being poor in a GDP/capita way is not the only kind of blocker. Being poor in a "my family can buy me a phone because it's a necessity, but we don't have a computer" is not uncommon, and many people end up developing on their phone, simply because that's what they have.
by 6510 | 2026-01-29 05:45:17+00:00
The analogy is a good fit. I'm at level 0 because no way in hell I'm going to die from cruise control.

I imagine there should be two levels above: 6: The AI designs the product and 7: A market where AI (now completely autonomous) sells incomprehensible products to other AI's. Like a project Dwain factor enhancer where Dwain is a fictional character coined by an onlyfax DND bot.
by mywittyname | 2026-01-29 05:45:24+00:00
> Tesla is trying to create self driving taxis to make the rest of the auto industry obsolete.

This is a pretty baffling take. Most people in the world operate their own cars, and even if taxis were free, a large portion of them would continue to operate their own cars because it's convenient.

Taxis also don't replace a good chunk of the new vehicle market. People driving fleet trucks aren't going to work out of taxis. The top selling vehicles in the USA are pickup trucks, and it isn't even close.

Lastly, even if they succeed, competition will catch up and the market will be saturated.

In 20 years, people will still be buying the humble Civic. While the next 20 years at Tesla will probably be a string of market failures and wacky promises of personal space craft or some shit.
by CobrastanJorji | 2026-01-29 05:46:50+00:00
Yeah, the books are formulaic, but it's a good formula. "Act 1: Okay, here's a neat magic system with well defined rules. Act 4: surprise, there was an extra rule you didn't know about! Act 5: we killed God with the surprise, extra rule."

It's hard for me to fault Mistborn. It has the tightest ending to a fantasy trilogy I've ever seen. And then, as an afterthought, Sanderson somehow managed to end the Wheel of Time, which frankly I don't think Robert Jordan could have managed to do.
by runako | 2026-01-29 05:46:52+00:00
> getting squeezed out of the high end by legacy automakers where their lower cost batteries don’t matter as much. They are absolutely fucked on the low end as soon as Chinese cars enter the picture.

The deep irony here is that after ~15 years of trying ti differentiate from the legacy American automakers, they land in a very similar competitive position. Chinese EVs are in the process of running the table outside the protectionist markets of the EU + US/Canada.

Eventually those protective barriers will fall as they protect a relatively small number of citizens by taxing the majority. It remains to be seen whether the US and European domestic producers will survive.
by nout | 2026-01-29 05:46:56+00:00
My (user) solution would be to use Patreon on the web, or on Android. No one is forcing you to use specifically the native Apple app.

On top of that Patreon is a closed centralized platform that's bound to have issues like this and that's where I very much prefer using protocols (vs platforms) that enable the same. There are very similar solutions to Patreon, but based on nostr and related protocols.

What is your solution to the government that you may not like using previously established "regulations" against people? My point is that you ask for regulation hoping that it will prevent this type of issue, but the regulation that you actually get will be barely having any effect and it will enforce ID + picture verification, it will enforce downloading specific government sanctioned keylogger app, it will enforce specific US state association, etc. New systems, new complexity, harder for newcomers to start business... Things like this are always added in the fine print. It will just lead to excluding so many people from using the service and making the overall space so much worse. That's why I'm encouraging people to think twice before immediately asking the government to expand its overreach via new regulations.
by rmunn | 2026-01-29 05:47:07+00:00
> The fact that the licence cost is hidden in the hardware price doesn't make it free.

I appreciate manufacturers who make this obvious. For example, when I bought the Framework laptop I'm using now, the OS choices were preinstalled Windows 11 (default selection), preinstalled Linux (-$150), none/I'll install my own (-$150). Made it clear exactly what I would have been paying for the Windows license if I had chosen Windows.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-29 05:47:55+00:00
whenever there is T there is map from diffelent to same-same

--surely not Wyndham Lewis, even by way of Hugh Kenner (FH la HN!!)

Q1: what do pros name this geometry ?

Q2: How do you score this exercise!?

Btw mid-low telegu p(r)op > mid Franco p(r)op?? (On account of stronger dyadic links ONLY)

https://youtu.be/7tTfL-DtpXk

(If you didn't figure the source; that was not a core part of the ex)

Dark polycarbonate: for enlightenment by non-enlightenment XD
by rjh29 | 2026-01-29 05:48:22+00:00
Pretty simple: the pleasure I get from solving the puzzle is not always higher than the pain of trying to solve it. There is a limit and it's different for everybody.

When I do the New York Times crossword too, I'll try to figure it out without hints. If no progress for 10-20 minutes, I'm opening google. I enjoy it more this way.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-29 05:48:33+00:00
> So why the car company?

How else was he going to become wealthy? Wealth is unelected power. Show me evidence he’s after anything but power.

> Also I was told there is no voter fraud. Is that just because nobody’s looking?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud_in_the_United_...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp...

https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/vote-s...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/debu...

There is no material voter fraud. It is a red herring to disenfranchise voters.
by moring | 2026-01-29 05:48:48+00:00
He doesn't give the chairman due credit, IMHO. The chairman collected information to help solve the problem AND it actually was the information needed. Without it, the author might look for "randomly unreachable servers" for a long time.

It's almost raw data -- exactly what you would wish for. By lecturing people that "email does not work that way", next time you either get no data at all because people don't even try, or no data because people hide it thinking email doesn't work that way, or a misguided conclusion when a layman tries to make a better guess at the cause of the problem.
by apical_dendrite | 2026-01-29 05:48:56+00:00
One wonders if a German in 1600 would have cursed the invention of the printing press. The printing press accelerated the reformation, which led to over a century of bloody religious wars. Something like a third of the German population died as a result. From the perspective of 2025, the printing press was undoubtedly positive for humanity. But millions of people suffered.
by cherrycherry98 | 2026-01-29 05:50:15+00:00
I also like the idea of sales taxes over income and especially wealth taxes for a number of reasons.

1. It limits the opportunities for the government to use force on the general population. Today, if you do not file your annual taxes, men with guns come and put you in jail. A sales tax does not require this level of enforcement to be inflicted on the average citizen.

2. It's voluntary to a degree. Today if you don't like what the government is doing and want boycott paying taxes you cannot practically do so because of point 1 above. With a sales tax you can decide to defer unnecessary spending as a form of protest.

3. In theory it's vastly simpler to reason about and plan for. The myriad of tax advantaged accounts that have proliferated over the years in the US is daunting: IRAs, 401k/403b, 529s, FSAs, HSAs, Trump Accounts, Roth variants. We ask citizens to best guess how to allocate investments between these vehicles for goals decades in the future. If you need emergency access you're often looking at paying penalties. Not to mention the poor user experience baked into many of the designs. 401ks put the burden on your employer to restrict your investment options to their curated choices and their chosen plan administrator. You have to leave your job and roll it into an IRA to finally have the freedom to pick your own investments and who you have the account with. FSAs have the annoying use-it-or-lose-it rules. 529s are bizarrely state sponsored but you can choose a plan from any state. Like your state's plan but want to have the account at your broker? Too bad, you have to use the administrator your state chooses.

4. It's widely understood that if want less of something you should tax it. By taxing income and wealth it discourages work and saving. A sales tax discourages consumption instead, which encourages saving and is also pro environmental.

5. Changing asset allocation is free. Today, changing investments in a taxable account, where there are gains, triggers a taxable event. This discourages the movement of that capital to other investments.

6. In theory it's harder to dodge taxes as the simpler system has less loopholes.

7. On average, people with more wealth should have more expensive lifestyles which translates to them paying higher taxes.

I understand the arguments that sales taxes are regressive, let rich people dodge taxes by living frugally, etc. I accept all that may be true and I'm ok with it. Many seem fixated on using the tax code as a mechanism to level inequalities, as if that were its primary function, and a sales tax doesn't advance that goal enough for them. I think I can accept that some people are going to be vastly wealthier than me and are going most likely live a much easier life because of it; much like I can accept that some people are going to much prettier than me, taller than me, less genetically disposed to certain medical conditions, have been born to better families/circumstances and those things can all provide significant advantages in one's life.
by rmunn | 2026-01-29 05:50:38+00:00
I'll note that sunken cost is not always a fallacy, or perhaps I should phrase that as "things that look like the sunken cost fallacy aren't always that fallacy". In your specific case, for example, you didn't feel like starting from scratch, because that would involve paying a cost (in terms of time learning a new system) that you didn't want to pay. So it's not actually "I sunk so much time into this, I want to get my money's worth" as it is "cost of learning something new: high. Cost of sticking with what I know: zero." So not exactly the same as the sunk-cost fallacy.
by vinnie856 | 2026-01-29 05:52:08+00:00
Company: SCAB Protocol
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Notes:
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by hakfoo | 2026-01-29 05:52:16+00:00
We're missing a part of the case though: why do you need to be a car-maker to be the vanguard for self-driving taxis?

The best case scenario for a self-driving company would be to target software and sensor solution packages that they can sell or license to other manufacturers. Such a vendor can focus on the self-driving problem and not have to bother with things like "we found a surprisingly big market niche for a 11-passenger minibus, but no platform for it" or "to sell it in the EU we need the headlights to be 5cm lower". I'd expect the margins are also a hell of a lot higher if they don't have to include two tonnes of steel with each auto-driver license they sell.

Maybe they build a small number of test mules, or just chop-shop a few off-the-shelf cars as a R&D fleet, but they hardly need to be a seven-figures-per-year manufacturer to be supplying those needs.

That's even assuming they come out green in the competition to deliver robotaxis. Right now the leading player in the US market is a company who is neither Tesla nor a legacy vehicle manufacturer. It's an adtech who started gluing the contents of a Radio Shack onto the worst cars you could possibly think of (Chrysler Pacificas and Jaguar i-Paces? Really?) and turned it into something that's an everyday thing in several major cities.

Tesla FSD story reminds me of the fracas that was early OS/2. IBM sold people 286 hardware on the promise of it running OS/2, so they had to waste a lot of effort building a 286-capable OS/2 that was clunky and almost immediately obsolete. No matter how talented Tesla's R&D team are, they're walled in by design choices made on existing vehicles (i. e. relying on cameras instead of lidar). I wonder if they'd be better off being ran as an arm's length startup to address the problem more generically, and then they can sell it to other firms if it turns out that the best solution won't work on existing Tesla hardware.