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by sgc | 2026-01-04 03:03:58+00:00
I have about the same amount of experience with Linux, more on the tinkering and sysadmin/full stack side than custom building (although of course I have to use custom kernel module loading etc), and I still learn a lot more from research on a specific new-to-me problem than from my bank of knowledge. When it's new to me and Vantablack opaque as is the Linux way, I ask rather than waste my time.

What grinds my gears on Linux even more than that is that is is fundamentally unsafe [1], and you can only approach mitigating it. And nobody really cares. I use it because it's the least bad of the major 3 OSes, and I do want a community that can help. But I don't pretend to love it unreservedly. Perhaps I should move to a BSD, but the ecosystem keeps me here.

And I understand if you are certain there are bugs that will be ignored based on your past experiences, I too would be poorly motivated. I am not trying to convince you that you don't know what you know you know. But you can understand that my first take when reading a comment on the internet, even on HN, is that there is always more annoying-and-almost-impossible-to-discover config work to do.

[1] See https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html and https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/guides/linux-harden...
by wolvoleo | 2026-01-04 03:04:20+00:00
It seems to be the same with the immersed visor. Lots of promises, one barely functional demo in 2024 and they said mass production was delayed to "after summer 2025" but still nobody has one yet.

I was thinking of backing it and I'm so glad I didn't. Immersed has a great app so I don't think this was a blatant con but I do think they bit off more than they could chew.
by kelnos | 2026-01-04 03:04:28+00:00
> I could generate some weird 70s sci fi art, make an Instagram profile around that, barrage the algorithm with my posts and rack up likes. The likes will give that instant dopamine but it will never fill that need of accomplishing something.

The value, I expect, to some people, is that if they can monetize that, then it's worthwhile to them, while letting them spend less time on it than if they had to do it themselves (or maybe they aren't artists and couldn't do it themselves, period).

I personally find this kinda dishonest, uncreative, and not something I'd care to look at, but that's just me.
by linesofcode | 2026-01-04 03:04:56+00:00
I think some of the best engineering leveling up one can do is to become an expert in other domains completely unrelated to what you’re working on now.

Furthermore, build more and read less. Programming books, while a great resource, are detached from the everyday realities for software engineering. The skillset comes from applying concepts by doing the work.

If you really want to read something, pick a popular project on GitHub in Elixir or Zig and read through its source code.

Finally, if you haven’t augmented your workflows with AI-tooling, strongly consider doing so (and I don’t mean asking ChatGPT and copy/pasting answers, but actually full on agentic programming)

The skill gap you’re concerned about now is only going to increase if you’re not using every tool to your advantage. Simply knowing a few programming languages is not enough, in fact it should barely even matter once you’ve hit a certain level of experience.
by komali2 | 2026-01-04 03:05:00+00:00
This is a point worth discussing imo. To what extent is the state of a nation and the conditions of its people, the responsibility of the people itself, even if they're oppressed?

The Russians were oppressed and had a revolution about it. Then they didn't like Communism anymore and broke up the USSR about it. Taiwan had a military dictatorship that was killing and jailing people in the thousands, and managed to overthrow it with absolutely zero outside intervention in the 90s, all while the PRC salivated over taking the country even back then.

I'm not sure I think "citizens should just be left to suffer under brutal regimes," but I also want to avoid a prejudice of low expectations. I also wonder, to what degree do citizens bear shared responsibility for the crimes their government commits against others? How responsible for the invasion of Ukraine are Russians for not deposing Putin? How responsible are Americans for the destabilization in southeast Asia, the middle east, south America?
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-01-04 03:05:05+00:00
I have a degree in Computer Vision, and, whether Pickle is lying about various capabilities or not, this guy is talking completely out of his ass and a whole lot of what he says is just extremely idiotic.

> tracking blah blah 6DoF blah blah IMU

This whole section is just wildly false. Tracking like shown in the video is easily done with just a camera, 1980s-era corner feature detection, and basic fucking geometry. People have been doing far more complex and stable motion tracking with no more input than single camera video for literally decades. And this device doesn't just have a camera; it has two HD stereoptic cameras, so they also get a depth map. You can absolutely do what they show with the hardware that Pickle claims is in the glasses.

(If you want a fantastic example, see the intro sequence to the movie Stranger Than Fiction from 2006.)

> It would take time to affix an open source SLAM pipeline and even more for them to build their own.

And this is a complete non sequitur, as SLAM is also not needed for what they show in the video.

> blah blah This would indicate either the software is using real-time depth tracking blah blah

The glasses have fucking binocular cameras in them!

> But in the photos of Pickle 1, there is no sign of any spot to charge the device.

There is zero reason whatsoever to believe that those images are photos of the final product and not renders or props. It's like he's never seen marketing material before.

This guy's LinkedIn bio says "Aug 2022 - Mar 2023: Attended UVA as a first year studying economics and commerce before dropping out to build in VR full time." So it seems he's a child with zero background training. That explains a lot tbh.
by bhouston | 2026-01-04 03:06:04+00:00
I've run into similar companies like this in the past in a few different niches and what they were doing are just repeating specs from Chinese OEM suppliers. They were not making their own hardware at all, just reselling it with custom branding and sometimes styling.

It could be the case here? What would explain the accelerated development timeline, it is possible because it isn't their timeline at all, it is someone else's who started a long time ago. And it may be they are talking about their supplier's two year roadmap or something similar.

PS. One of the companies (or more specifically its owners) that was doing did was eventually charged with fraud.
by aristofun | 2026-01-04 03:06:14+00:00
You know that greek democracy had very little to do with what we called democracy in the west right?

Show me other religion that taught to love your enemies and survived to these days at the same time. Just a tiny example of why you totally miss the point by not seeing how innovative was his ethical approach for that time. And yes, one of his great achievements is that he succeeded to make those simple and already existed ideas popular. This is novelty by itself.
by schmuhblaster | 2026-01-04 03:06:22+00:00
Hi, I stumbled on this article in my twitter feed and posted it because I found it to be very practical, despite the somewhat misleading title. (and I also don't like encoding agent logic in .md files). For my side project I am experimenting with describing agents / agentic workflows in a Prolog-based DML [1]

[1] https://www.deepclause.ai
by abigail95 | 2026-01-04 03:06:40+00:00
They extradited a guy for crimes also illegal in Venezuela. What would the point of sanctioning actions like this be?

This is about the cleanest extraterritorial action you can take. A guy probably did some seriously illegal stuff in your country and his, who was probably illegally elected, who probably had people killed.

Why not do this? Why not say to Venezuela, hand him over or we'll take him ourselves?

He's not going to gitmo, he'll have the same due process that every other American gets. Rights Maduro denied to millions. If you asked me to describe "justice" - I have to give this as a good example. He's going to die in prison like Noriega, after a fair trial.
by Terr_ | 2026-01-04 03:08:17+00:00
My own minor attempt to hold back this tide involves urging everyone to imagine LLM exchanges a theater-play script document. The character's lines are not the author.

Just imagine how different all this would be if every prompt contained something to make the character(s) obviously fictional, ex: "You are Count Dracula, dread lord of the night, and a visitor has the following question..."

We hopefully wouldn't see mindless reports that "vampires are real now" or "Draculabot has developed coping mechanisms for the dark thirst, agrees to try tomato juice."
by twerka-stonk | 2026-01-04 03:08:51+00:00
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by rmunn | 2026-01-04 03:09:16+00:00
If it's a loan, it must be repaid. At that point, the debtor is going to either sell some stocks, thereby actually acquiring real income (and paying capital gains taxes), or use some other source of cash and not touching the stocks. In the former case, he will pay tax on that income at the time when he actually sells the stocks. In the latter case, he paid taxes on that cash at the time when he received it as income, so it's already been taxed and shouldn't be taxed twice. (Which is why inheritance taxes are immoral — they're double-taxation — but that's a totally separate subject).

As for retirement accounts, same principle applies. Collateral is collateral, it's a contingency. It might or might not ever be touched. If it's touched, then there will be real income involved. If it isn't touched, then there was no income.

But as for the idea of paying taxes on things used as collateral for a loan, that only makes sense if you consider money received as a loan as income. And if you do, you're going to get yourself in serious trouble. LOANS ARE NOT INCOME. They have to be repaid, and they actually cost you money in the long term because you also have to pay interest. If you treat loans as if they were income, you'll quickly find yourself neck-deep in credit card debt and in serious financial trouble. On the other side of the equation, if the IRS were to treat loans as if they were income and tax them (or the collateral used to secure the loan), they would do immense damage to the economy.
by themaninthedark | 2026-01-04 03:09:17+00:00
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old United States citizen who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, a country with which the United States was not at war with.

Please let me know what was the established precedent for allowing extrajudicial assassination of American citizens is.

Edit add:

He was a boy who was still searching for his father when his father was killed, and who, on the night he himself was killed, was saying goodbye to the second cousin with whom he'd lived while on his search, and the friends he'd made. He was a boy among boys, then; a boy among boys eating dinner by an open fire along the side of a road when an American drone came out of the sky and fired the missiles that killed them all.

A 16-year-old American boy accused of no crimes was killed in American drone attack

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a14796/abdulrahma...

So please, I would love to see the precedent.
by qblink_techno | 2026-01-04 03:09:20+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re a small team of developers and wanted to share something we’ve been building: SurveyReflex.

We built it out of frustration with survey tools that require monthly subscriptions and charge extra per team member just to collaborate. For many teams, surveys are occasional, but the pricing is permanent.

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The product is designed to be simple, fast, and practical. You can create surveys in minutes, publish when ready, and get actionable results without long-term commitments or per-seat costs.

We’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community, especially around pricing, usability, and missing features.

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by refulgentis | 2026-01-04 03:09:23+00:00
"in the past the government wouldn't have been so honest"

I'm 37, so I was young at the time of Afghanistan/Iraq, about 14. I recall thinking the adults who said it was "for the oil" were dangerously naive: neither had significant oil resources that would alter supply dramatically, gas prices weren't high, the administration had 0 to say on that front, and it wasn't even close to a focus once fighting settled.

This leaves me curious about conclusions drawn from that.
by Philpax | 2026-01-04 03:09:35+00:00
The second answer cites Lippert's pre-existing blog post on the subject: https://ericlippert.com/2009/11/12/closing-over-the-loop-var...

I agree that there will be some degradation here, but I also think that the developers inclined to do this kind of outreach will still find ways to do it.
by laconicmatt | 2026-01-04 03:09:59+00:00
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by viccis | 2026-01-04 03:10:05+00:00
I hadn't even looked at the floral pattern. It's awful.

I wonder how pissed Apple was when they realized they had paid him a few thousand (going by his posted rates) for "art" that used gen AI to a significant enough degree to have nonsensical components.

>for example, the sharp outline around an out-of-focus xmas tree feels like a human-made artistic choice

If I had to guess, it looks like he did the components of it separately and then just pasted them all in together. For example, you'd expect the light on the plate to brighten the milk carton near it. And the shadow on the plate doesn't line up with the bright light shining on the carton's side. These are just classic sloppy bad artwork mistake.
by peteforde | 2026-01-04 03:10:40+00:00
Yeah. I'm a life-long Canadian leftist. I think everyone involved in the Trump cabinet should be tried for war crimes.

I also simply do not see even tepid support for this attack in the top comments, to the degree that I seriously wonder if we're looking at the same comments.

I do not want to put words in your mouth, but it really seems as though you're ignoring the fact that multiple things can be true at the same time; Maduro is a sack of shit, the US is demonstrating that they have no interest in the post-WW2 order, and many Venezuelans might be quietly or openly thrilled that he's gone.

But seriously: this is HN. It's a place where people hope to have intelligent conversations and polite debate. I'm not sure what you actually expect people to say which would satisfy your need to see sufficient outrage.

Absolutely nothing about that makes this place slant MAGA. This discussion between us simply wouldn't happen if this place slanted MAGA.
by syn-nine | 2026-01-04 03:10:46+00:00
To be honest, my favorite language is my own language Tentacode [0], closely followed by my recent experimental language Gar [1]. Tenta is not publicly released yet, but the source can be downloaded on github [2]. I've been experimenting with making games in a bunch of languages to inform the design of Tenta by seeing how much I can strip away and still successfully, efficiently make a meaningful game.

[0] https://tentacode.org/docs/language/basic_types/

[1] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/gar-lang

[2] https://github.com/Syn-Nine/tentacode/tree/llvm
by kazinator | 2026-01-04 03:11:40+00:00
That's odd. The date on the article is now April 10, 2025. In the text it refers to the publication date of The Great Gatsby as being 100 years ago. That is correct; the novel was evidently published on April 10, 1925.

I see in the Internet Archive that they revised the text. Originally the article was published Feb 9, 2021, and the wording was:

"Almost a century after he was written into being, F Scott Fitzgerald's doomed romantic has become shorthand for decadent flappers, champagne fountains and never-ending parties. "

The article was clearly occasioned by Nick by Michael Farris Smith being published later that same month, delayed until 2021 due to copyright issues.

Someone at the BBC simply made a note (or dug it up) to republish the article on the centennial of The Great Gatsby publication date, with some minor wording adjustment.
by throwaway17_17 | 2026-01-04 03:12:33+00:00
I understood the sibling comment recommending Ocaml and to a lesser extent Borgo, but OP is looking for a high level functional programming language based on giving Gleam as the reference point. How does C# fit here.

I do think the compilation speed and runtime is at least in the same ballpark, but C#, while a perfectly fine language, is definitely not a functional language in syntax or semantics.
by okanat | 2026-01-04 03:14:01+00:00
WPF is pretty complete and used widely in various engineering, finance and corporate applications. It is HiDPI compliant. It is mature (developed since pre-Vista). It supports modern look too (can even look like Win-11, they officially support it!). Some of the beloved Microsoft late programs like Windows Terminal are written in it. If they use it and keep improving it, it has a huge potential.

But no. We cannot have nice things. Microsoft has lost the ability and management capability to release nice things. For some reason, Microsoft is trying to reinvent the wheel with UWP (aka WinUI2) and WinUI3. They are trying to replace everything with these half-arsed libraries when very complete and well-thought, future proof stuff already exists in Windows' DNA. They are shitting on the work of their earlier engineering.
by apparent | 2026-01-04 03:14:13+00:00
I agree that most people who vote for other candidates come from uncompetitive states. But this doesn't necessarily prove your point. If there were more other-candidate supporters who would have voted for Kamala (if they had to vote for one of the two main candidates) than Trump, then that would mean he wouldn't have won the popular vote if it was just between the two of them.

Regardless, I think it's important to be precise about claims like this, since there is actually a difference between winning the popular vote and winning a plurality of it. Imagine making the claim if 10% of the popular vote went to third-party candidates, or even 20%!
by matheusmoreira | 2026-01-04 03:14:30+00:00
It's not "my" way of life. I'm not american. I'm just saying that it's a basic geopolitical fact that anyone who's actually foolish enough to declare war on the USA is going to get killed.

Military response means men in uniform battling for their country. Terrorism is not a military response, it's one of several ways to cope with the enemy's superior military forces. They can't overtly bomb america back to the stone age, so they resort to tradecraft and clandestine operations.

It actually works, which is why governments pull all the stops when it comes to fighting terrorists. Even this plays into their ideological objective of forcing america to compromise on its founding principles, thereby corrupting it from within.
by aeyes | 2026-01-04 03:14:38+00:00
They got lucky, the economy needed to be rebuilt and the Pinochet government had no idea how to do it and not much interest in it. So they put the economists who wrote the "Ladrillo" in charge because it sounded like a good plan. This combination of a stable government combined with libertarian economic policies lead to the success. Usually you don't get this combination under dictatorship.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-01-04 03:14:52+00:00
i would love to see a sveltekit/svelte version of this article and yes i read the disclaimer "The examples use React, but the principles are universal and apply to component libraries built in Vue, Svelte, Angular, or any other framework. " I would love to see a breakdown of login, signup, forgot and reset password forms. They only look simple on the surface but are actually complicated. What happens when social login fails? What happens when user captcha times out vs captcha expires. Lots of questions but nobody ever covers these
by toomuchtodo | 2026-01-04 03:15:23+00:00
Definitely soaking up some folks, but something to note is these megachurches are mostly non denominational, an average congregation size of 3500, and remain third spaces for people who are not as rigidly religious. They are “religious light” seeking community (imho, based on everything I’ve read on the topic, I am happy to be corrected). They mostly cater to young families with children, who are also on the decline in the US (~18% of US households, 25.4% if you include single parent households). Extrapolate out from US TFR (total fertility rate) of 1.6 (and declining).

Admittedly, it’s hard to predict far into the future what this looks like as the US population shrinks over the next several decades.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1187460517/megachurches-growi...

https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/megachurch-geography-w...

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-american-households-hav...
by hutao | 2026-01-04 03:15:24+00:00
Today, we tend to see The Great Gatsby as a work of historical literature, as it gives a window into the Roaring Twenties. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald did not set out to depict the past; he was depicting his own present. Similarly, Proust's literature is seen as a window into the French high-society of the Belle Epoque, a society in which Proust lived.

Which works today do you think future generations will see as the classics of the 2010s and 2020s? Such may not even necessarily be works of literature; they could be other storytelling mediums, such as film.
by tdeck | 2026-01-04 03:16:10+00:00
While that might certainly be true in the abstract, it isn't worth much.

Most people would probably eat less meat if they knew exactly what was happening to the animals in that process. We'd eat less chocolate if we really thought about the slavery in the chocolate supply chain. We'd not buy certain products because of the environmental impact and working conditions.

But instead we just mostly deliberately avoid learning and thinking about those things. And I count myself as well. The incentives all push Americans to be OK with this.
by abigail95 | 2026-01-04 03:16:10+00:00
Wtf kind of dumbass answer is this. It's not even out of character for the USA to do this.

The brain-rot seeping from this comment.

The guy committed crimes in Venezuela and USA. Now he's going to be tried for him. They could have just killed him - they didn't. He will be tried and spend the rest of his life in prison.

And for cleanly executing that we have people talking about an emperor and disbanded congress.