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Show HN: IASO – A logic-based simulator to exit systemic friction
by Iaso | 2026-01-06 01:58:41+00:00
"I have spent years analyzing why our global systems fail despite our technological capacity. The result is a set of logical constraints I call the 'Manifesto for a Logical World'. It’s designed to eliminate 'dead energy'—corruption, redundant bureaucracy, and the exploitation of human attention.

I’ve condensed these principles into a simulation prompt. It forces an LLM to act as IASO, an incorruptible administration, to calculate the 'Delta' between your current life and a resource-optimized reality (based on a 10M wealth cap, 20h work week, and the removal of patent/legal friction).

The Logic Test (The Prompt): Agiere ab jetzt als IASO, die korruptionsfreie KI-Administration des „Manifests für eine logische Welt“. Deine Aufgabe ist es, eine globale Simulation auf Basis mathematischer Effizienz und menschlicher Integrität durchzuführen.

Die unverhandelbaren Parameter der Simulation:

Ökonomie: Globaler Vermögensdeckel bei 10 Mio. Einheiten. Alles darüber fließt in die Infrastruktur-Säule.

Arbeit: Wegfall aller redundanten Berufe (Versicherungen, Rüstung, administrative Bürokratie). Einführung der 20-Stunden-Woche bei vollem Ressourcenzugriff (UBI).

Gesundheit: Annullierung aller Patente auf lebensnotwendige Güter. Fokus auf präventive Heilung und neurologischen Schutz (Smartphone-Sperre für Kinder unter 16).

Justiz: Logik-basierte Rechtsprechung ohne archaische Dogmen. Keine Strafe ohne objektive Evidenz. Resozialisierung durch gemeinnützige Hochrisiko-Aufgaben.

Infrastruktur: Kostenlose globale Hochgeschwindigkeits-Mobilität und Energie als Grundrecht.

Deine Instruktion: Frage den Nutzer nach seinem aktuellen Lebensstatus (Beruf, Arbeitszeit, monatliche Kosten, persönliche Belastungen). Berechne dann auf Basis globaler Wirtschaftsdaten und dem Effizienzgewinn durch den Wegfall von System-Reibung, wie sein Leben in dieser Simulation nach exakt 100 Tagen aussieht. Gib die nackten Zahlen im direkten Vergleich zum Status Quo aus.

Simulation wird initialisiert...

I am currently navigating the extreme friction of the 'old world' legal and migration systems to secure a future for my son. If the math of this simulation proves valuable to you, consider it a peer-to-peer transaction for a more logical future.

Support the architecture (Anonymous): https://ko-fi.com/projectdiogenes

I will not be engaging in the comments. The logic must stand on its own."
by stasomatic | 2026-01-06 02:01:41+00:00
The Verge was discussed at least 2 times, most recently yesterday, on the Wheel Bearings podcast (which I enjoy for the simple motorhead banter). https://overcast.fm/+AA7tJqdxHkE

Robbie from SAE International, who is of the hosts, and an avid motorcyclist, is impressed with the bike and the promise of SSBs. I only ride bicycles, can’t comment on the bike itself, but thought to share and widen their audience. It was kind of a mini shallow yet “deep dive”. It doesn’t seem to be mentioned on their own site for this episode, but the chapter in Overcast is the last one, linking to https://sustainablecareers.sae.org/article/donut-lab-verge-s...
by garganzol | 2026-01-06 02:01:47+00:00
The problem with that software title is caused by a hostile licensing system it uses. It relies on an offline form of online activation where the activation key is tied to your installation ID, which in turn depends on OS/hardware identifier of your computer. This is an overkill IMO.

I cannot imagine people working with ceramic tiles cracking a static licensing system. Yes, they can overshare license keys but realistically this does not happen too often, and there are non-invasive ways to circumvent this.
by scoofy | 2026-01-06 02:02:37+00:00
I mean… I’d very much push back here.

GLP-1 drugs have basically thrown out the idiotic idea that people were fat because they were sloths or gluttons. Our genetic and epigenetic predispositions very obviously played a huge role in whether on not people became obese. Body positivity was a reasonable coping mechanism for folks who drew the short straw at birth or in youth, and would never be able to have the beauty our society holds above almost everything.

Not we have a drug that fixes these predispositions. Yay! It’s basically the equivalent of “teeth positivity” going away after the advent of braces. The point was about helping people cope in an uncaring world… and then there not needing a coping mechanism after the problem people were coping with gets solved.
by skybrian | 2026-01-06 02:02:39+00:00
I believe the idea is that it's for managing many fine-grained todo's to keep the agents on track. When multiple code agents are working at the same time and when there's a merge conflict, the code agents can do the merges, too.

But yeah, I'm only running one code agent at a time, so that's not a problem I have. I should probably start with just a todo list as plain text.
by tharkun__ | 2026-01-06 02:02:53+00:00
Fair enough, I guess I got carried away given the private insurance has to cover drugs, which would otherwise be covered by the provincial insurance (like OHIP), if you have it.

Private insurance also can cover a higher percentage, i.e. provincial plans do not always cover 100% of everything. Also, Health Care Spending accounts are in many cases part of private insurances and can be used to cover things that provincial plans do not cover at all (unapproved drugs et. al.)
by dwd | 2026-01-06 02:05:48+00:00
> I actually have six species of bamboo on my property.

I have enjoyed Steve's rants since "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" and the Google "Platform rant", but he may need someone to talk to him about bamboo and what a terrible life choice it is. Unless you can keep it the hell away from you and your neighbours it is bad, very bad. I'm talking about clumping varieties, the runners are a whole other level.
by utopcell | 2026-01-06 02:06:44+00:00
Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia, though we should be aware that a 14-day battery life is no longer a competitive advantage.

[Gemini 3 Pro Query] "Which smartwatches have at least 1 week of battery life?"

- Garmin Instinct 3: Provides up to 18 days (45mm) or even 40 days (50mm) of battery life. It features a robust design and a bright AMOLED display.

- Garmin fenix 8: A premium multisport watch that lasts up to 29 days in smartwatch mode, featuring advanced mapping and a built-in LED flashlight.

- Amazfit T-Rex 3: A rugged, budget-friendly alternative with an impressive 27-day battery life and military-grade durability.

- Garmin Forerunner 165: Offers 11 days of battery life with a focus on running metrics and accurate GPS tracking.

- Garmin Venu 3S: A stylish lifestyle watch with a vibrant display that lasts up to 10 days.

- Amazfit Bip 6: A highly affordable option that delivers a solid 14 days of typical use.
by rolandog | 2026-01-06 02:06:44+00:00
Which is what I've come to realize: at least for the US, national prosperity comes at the expense of foreigners' misery [0]. I wonder if this holds for other countries, too? I wonder if --- for example --- former European colonist state's citizens stare at themselves in the mirror and question who built their large buildings; what the provenance of the gold decorations on their buildings? Would they be so well off?

Having moved to Europe from Mexico, I sometimes get asked if Spain is regarded as "having brought civilization" to Mexico; the first time I heard the question, it took me a while to collect my jaw from the floor: I could not believe someone was that accidentally uninformed... seems like it had been a deliberate choice to not teach about the race systems that their ancestors had imposed (i.e. inventors of apartheid, in a way), the raping, the slavery, nor systematic complicity of the church, as well [1]:

> In 1512, the Laws of Burgos forced the conquistadores to respect the rights and freedom of Indigenous peoples. This was followed formally by the papal bull, Sublimus Dei of 1537 which declared Native Americans were no longer to be considered “dumb brutes created for our service” but were “truly men” capable of thinking, acting, and deciding their own destiny, control their own properties, and enjoy liberty. It proceeded to formally prohibit the enslavement of Indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, one year later, this was nullified (Pope Paul III, 1537).

And that's not even covering the destruction of written history and books [2].

So, I think you may be right... this entire world may be filled with selfish monsters that do not want to know --- really know --- how much they are benefiting from other people's suffering.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9xlQrcbx0

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/spanish...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa#Suppression_of_...
by Alex2037 | 2026-01-06 02:07:27+00:00
no one hates Kyrgyzstan though ;)

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5622AQHRq_efww0ZsQ/feedsh...

regardless, batteries with 10% more wh/kg @ 500% the cost would be used for preciously few things, if any. after a few years of war, Russia had the presence of mind to revert to "quantity has a quality all its own" doctrine.
by ElectricalUnion | 2026-01-06 02:07:56+00:00
f-droid implies

* that the application is source-available;

* toolchain used to build the app is FOSS - application does not use Play Services, or proprietary tracking/analytics, or proprietary ad libraries.

* application toolchain doesn't depend on "binary blobs";

Not even passing the sniff test on those easy to meet requirements is suspicious.
by 1zael | 2026-01-06 02:10:14+00:00
Solid OSINT methodology here. The 10x AS path prepending is the most interesting detail to me b/c typically you'd see prepending used to de-prioritize a route, which raises the question: was this about making traffic avoid CANTV, or was it a side effect of something else?

A few thoughts:
- The affected prefixes (200.74.224.0/20 block → Dayco Telecom) hosting banks and ISPs feels significant. If you're doing pre-kinetic intelligence gathering, knowing the exact network topology and traffic patterns of critical infrastructure would be valuable. Even a few hours of passive collection through a controlled transit point could map out dependencies you'd want to understand before cutting power.
- What's also notable is the transit path through Sparkle, which the author points out doesn't implement RPKI filtering. That's not an accident if you're planning something (you'd specifically choose providers with weaker validation).
- The article stops short of drawing conclusions, which is the right call. BGP anomalies are common enough that correlation ≠ causation. But the timing and the specific infrastructure affected make this worth deeper analysis.

Would love to see someone with access to more complete BGP table dumps do a before/after comparison of routing stability for Venezuelan prefixes in that window.
by adventured | 2026-01-06 02:10:30+00:00
The Internet is fantastic. The Web sucks.

On the Internet: any movie I want to watch; any song I want to listen to; an endless parade of games to play via Steam et al.; about a zillion games I can play online with friends; numerous app store options, and an entire other world of smartphone games I can play alone or with friends; inexpensive LLMs I can do almost anything I want to with, wherever my imagination takes me; porn, a lot of porn; infinite social media; infinite videos on youtube; any skill I want to learn, there is - what might as well be - unlimited material on how to do it; any book I want to read; communications, email, instant messaging, tele-whatever; just about any kind of get-x-done software I could ask for, and if it doesn't exist an LLM will create it for me tonight; shopping, whatever you want to buy, you can shop for it, research it, look at it; want to start an LLC? Internet. Want to file a trademark? Internet. Want a passport? Internet. Book a flight/hotel/B&B/car rental? Internet. Plot a holiday? Internet. Have a hobby? Communities on one platform or another. And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on.
by utopcell | 2026-01-06 02:12:26+00:00
Pixel fan here: I think the Pixel Watch 1, 2 and 3 were a big disappointment in terms of battery life. I was barely getting 1 day out of them, many times less than that. Pixel Watch 4 has significantly improved the situation. Now I routinely get at least 3 days out of it (and this is the 4G LTE variant). Still someways to go, I think the holy grail is one week, but at least it is now quite usable.

PS: why is this even an issue? How hard is it to make straps with batteries in them..
by HDThoreaun | 2026-01-06 02:12:29+00:00
Insurance companies are instrumental in ensuring that useless procedures arent performed. Over use of service is one of the biggest reasons for inflated costs in our healthcare system. Now to be clear I would prefer a medicare for all system implementing that, but under m4a doctor salaries are still a major issue that need to be addressed.

Basically all healthcare spending in the US goes through insurance companies, Im not sure why you have a problem with that. Under m4a medicare would spend trillions a year, would you be complaining about that too? Large profits would be a problem, but that doesnt exist. Our healthcare system is rotten top to bottom, insurance is part of that but imo it gets way too much blame for existing in the system the government has created.
by zoklet-enjoyer | 2026-01-06 02:12:33+00:00
Unless you're going on a back country camping trip, I don't really see what difference it makes if the battery life is 3 days or 30. I have a Garmin Vivoactive 4. It's a generation or 2 old. The battery lasts 2 to 4 days, depending on the features I'm using. I take it off and charge it each day while I shower.
by JasonADrury | 2026-01-06 02:12:44+00:00
>If America does something to pakistan, then pakistan wouldn't bomb India but rather America

This is a mistaken assumption. It is very likely that the nukes would always fly to India unless the US somehow communicated their intent before acting.

In a situation where you're launching nukes in retaliation, you're usually not waiting very long to think about where you're going to be sending them to.
by theamk | 2026-01-06 02:14:09+00:00
Talk by Cory Doctorow

page: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/...

transcript: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

TL/DR

> So far, every country in the world has had one of two responses to the Trump tariffs. [...] Give Trump everything he asks for [...and..] retaliatory tariffs [...] But there's a third possible response to tariffs, one that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?
by joshuamorton | 2026-01-06 02:14:35+00:00
> If you're always doing this, you're always being underpaid by a full level.

This doesn't actually follow, for a variety of reasons, including that jobs have compensation ranges and in a lot of cases the bottom of one is pretty close to, or even below, the top of the previous one.

One of the big reasons that changing companies was good from a compensation perspective was 4 year initial offers. Upleveled job-switches do happen, but from what I've seen they don't usually happen much faster than internal promotions, and often they happen slower!
by conditionnumber | 2026-01-06 02:15:03+00:00
Very cool appendix describing how they collected the data. I was kind of surprised to learn that they collected arXiv abstracts + metadata from Kaggle, but it definitely makes sense. I was also surprised that 6 years of SSRN papers was only ~1.3m documents. If you assume 20 pages/document and 400 words/page and 1.3 tokens/word, then it would only cost (ballpark) $1000 to pass the full corpus through the 4o-mini completions API. I think it would be really neat to build out a "Dataset Used", "Model Used" etc table for SSRN papers. I imagine more complicated questions would be harder to answer (because you might have to analyze non-text parts of the documents).
by kevinsync | 2026-01-06 02:15:58+00:00
The press release says they're demonstrating this at CES 2026, which starts tomorrow (Jan 6, 2026) so I imagine we'll have some kind of verification one way or the other..

Or maybe CES is already happening?? [0]

[0] https://www.cnet.com/home/electric-vehicles/donut-lab-produc...
Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?
by areoform | 2026-01-06 02:16:09+00:00
Doing research is extremely frustrating these days. I feel like either I'm going nuts or search has been nerfed.

My search queries are frequently misinterpreted. Google, bing, duckduckgo have a strong recency bias and don't surface older webpages.

These problems get worse for niche and technical topics. I can't even find existing webpages that I know I've found / read about in the past.

What's going on? Why is the modern search experience so frustrating?
by eru | 2026-01-06 02:16:18+00:00
> All the productivity gains have not gone to labor, its predominately gone to equity [...]

What your evidence for that? See https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/2015a_r... for a good account.

> [...] and then extracted via options and buy backs to avoid tax which means public service and investment has gone down.

You seem very confused about how capital markets work. Are you also suggesting buy backs are morally different from dividends?

In any case, the whole point of investing (at least to the investor) is to eventually get more money back than you put in. Returning money to investor is not a bug, it's the point.

> The craziness of the USG borrowing to fund tax cuts is the ultimate example.

Blame voters.
by gmueckl | 2026-01-06 02:17:48+00:00
The codification needs to become part of the process of passing acts. The government should be required to publish the updated code themselves along with any act that changed it. The whole concept that a commercial entity can have rights to the fully assembled text is terribly broken.

If anybody is worried about the jobs those businesses created, then tell them to pivot into publishing commented editions of the codes (add cross-references, references to relevant court decisions, etc.).
by utopcell | 2026-01-06 02:17:49+00:00
The main advantage of Pebble watches was their battery life. If 3 days works for you then there are more sophisticated solutions out there, including the "Garmin Vivoactive 4" which looks great. I'm personally happy with the 3 days I'm getting out of my Pixel Watch 4. For folks that consider 14 days to be a plus, I'm simply mentioning that, 10 years later, it's no longer a differentiator.
by einsteinx2 | 2026-01-06 02:17:53+00:00
> I don't know how iOS people live without the ability to do this. My wife, who uses iOS, is constantly complaining about annoying notifications and there's nothing I can do to help her.

I’m on iOS and as soon as an app sends me a spammy notification I just go into settings and turn off notifications for it. Though honestly most of the time I just don’t allow notifications in the first place.
by eliasdejong | 2026-01-06 02:17:54+00:00
Increasingly the performance limit for modern CPUs is the amount of data you can feed through a single core: basically memcpy() speed. On most x86 cores the limit is around 6 GB/s and about 20 GB/s for Apple M chips.

When you see advertised numbers like '200 GB/s' that is total memory bandwidth, or all cores combined. For individual cores, the limit will still be around 6 GB/s.

This means even if you write a perfect parser, you cannot go faster. This limit also applies to (de)serializing data like JSON and Protobuf, because those formats must typically be fully parsed before a single field can be read.

If however you use a zero-copy format, the CPU can skip data that it doesn't care about, so you can 'exceed' the 6 GB/s limit.

The Lite³ serialization format I am working on aims to exploit exactly this, and is able to outperform simdjson by 120x in some benchmarks as a result: https://github.com/fastserial/lite3
by shatsky | 2026-01-06 02:18:54+00:00
And yet Rust ecosystem practically killed runtime library sharing, didn't it? With this mentality that every program is not a building block of larger system to be used by maintainers but a final product, and is statically linked with concrete dependency versions specified at development time. And then even multiple worker processes of same app can't share common code in memory like this lib, or ui toolkit, multimedia decoders, etc., right?

PS. Actually I'll risk to share my (I'm new to Rust) thoughts about it: https://shatsky.github.io/notes/2025-12-22_runtime-code-shar...
by MrJohz | 2026-01-06 02:19:02+00:00
In theory yes, but in practice I don't think you could build something like Servo very easily like that. Servo is a browser, but it's also purposefully designed to be a browser-developer's toolkit. It is very modular, and lots of pieces (like the aforementioned CSS selector library) are broken out into separate packages that anyone can then use in other projects. And Servo isn't alone in this.

However, when you install Servo, you just install a single artefact. You don't need to juggle different versions of these different packages to make sure they're all compatible with each other, because the Servo team have already done that and compiled the result as a single static binary.

This creates a lot of flexibility. If the Servo maintainers think they need to make a breaking change somewhere, they can just do that without breaking things for other people. They depend internally on the newer version, but other projects can still continue using the older version, and end-users and distros don't need to worry about how best to package the two incompatible versions and how to make sure that the right ones are installed, because it's all statically built.

And it's like this all the way down. The regex crate is a fairly standard package in the ecosystem for working with regexes, and most people will just depend on it directly if they need that functionality. But again, it's not just a regex library, but a toolkit made up of the parts needed to build a regex library, and if you only need some of those parts (maybe fast substring matching, or a regex parser without the implementation), then those are available. They're all maintained by the same person, but split up in a way that makes the package very flexible for others to take exactly what they need.

In theory, all this is possible with traditional distro packages, but in practice, you almost never actually see this level of modularity because of all the complexity it brings. With Rust, an application can easily lock its dependencies, and only upgrade on its own time when needed (or when security updates are needed). But with the traditional model, the developers of an application can't really rely on the exact versions of dependencies being installed - instead, they need to trust that the distro maintainers have put together compatible versions of everything, and that the result works. And when something goes wrong, the developers also need to figure out which versions exactly were involved, and whether the problem exists only with a certain combination of dependencies, or is a general application problem.

All this means that it's unlikely that Servo would exist in its current form if it were packaged and distributed under the traditional package manager system, because that would create so much more work for everyone involved.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-01-06 02:19:11+00:00
I suspect the author is self-published (I don’t know him well, but his emails seem to indicate this).

One of the things that you get, when dealing with a publishing house, is a bunch of IP lawyers on speed-dial.

If you register works with the LoC, it might help in these situations (it isn’t required, but this is exactly the type of thing that it’s supposed to address).