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by NegativeK | 2026-01-11 18:26:24+00:00
> We stuck with them when they brought their support back to the US. Each tech person wanted to make a career out of each ticket. We couldn't get broken hardware fixed without screaming and begging.

The people I talk to doing laptop repairs and trying to get parts from Dell say that Dell is treating them like potential scammers. They've diagnosed the broken part, everything is under warranty, Dell was previously fine with trusting these people.. But now Dell is forcing them to prove, every time, that the part needs to be replaced.

It's the weirdest combination of time wasting and incentivizing this team to be _lower_ skilled that I've ever seen. Because, I'm guessing, Dell was dealing with too much warranty waste and decided to crack down on everyone.
by bigyabai | 2026-01-11 18:27:00+00:00
> This one, I think, is worth picking. This is a moment when the App Store and Play Store can stand firmly on the side of longstanding and correct societal norms.

Counteroffer: the App Store and the Play Store will be used for the precise reason they were built, enforcing top-down social control.

Gruber, you've been far enough down this road to understand that you don't get a choice. Apple and Google can say "fuck you" all year, and you cannot "make" them do jack shit. You are either with them, or you leave for greener pastures. App distribution monopolies cannot be used for good, it's what people have said for fucking decades at this point.
by reactordev | 2026-01-11 18:27:39+00:00
https://github.com/BEEFY-JOE/AbletonLiveOnLinux

https://hanez.org/document/ableton-live-linux-wine/

https://github.com/wineasio/wineasio

The biggest thing with any Linux and Wine mix for DAWs is using JACK and WineASIO for low latency
by MrPowerGamerBR | 2026-01-11 18:27:41+00:00
But most of those issues are because Linux doesn't have enough market share. No one brushes off Windows because they need to support Windows and they need to add CI/CD for Windows.

The combination issue is a real issue though that (as far as I know) is mostly solved with Flatpaks, or in case of games, by using the Steam Runtime.

Of course, it is a "chicken and egg" problem of "we don't want to support Linux because there aren't enough users using it" but "we don't want to use Linux because there aren't enough business supporting it".

Thankfully with improvements in Wine the need of having "native" Linux support is shrinking, but at the same time there is still a looooong way to go (like the issues I said before with Affinity).
by graemep | 2026-01-11 18:27:44+00:00
> t’s still too confusing for the average user (many distros, many desktop environments, Wayland vs X, systemd vs init, snap vs flatpak).

Average users need to buy hardware with a suitable distro installed. Usually that means Ubuntu. Its a decision that should be taken for them

With regard to DEs - Gnome for touch devices, KDE for mouse and keyboard driven ones. Both set up to be Windows like by default.

The average user is never even going to know whether they are running Wayland or systemd or snap. They will never change the default.
by schappim | 2026-01-11 18:27:45+00:00
I am working on SIP4AI [1] (a VOIP soft-phone where AI is on the other end, not a human). You can self-host it, register a SIP line, and let AI take the calls.

It works with your existing phone system, so you can just add AI as a line without having to replace everything…

1. https://sip4ai.com
by MarkusAllen | 2026-01-11 18:27:48+00:00
The confusion in this thread about "how PE firms operate" is understandable - the language of private equity is deliberately opaque.

I recently compiled a dictionary of 181 Wall Street terms because I kept seeing the same pattern: people get confused by the jargon,
then give up trying to understand what's actually happening.

A few terms that explain the autism center acquisitions:

• Roll-Up Strategy: Buy multiple small centers, consolidate, cut "redundancies" (staff)
• Debt Loading: The acquired company pays for its own acquisition via loans
• Portfolio Optimization: Euphemism for cutting costs that affect care quality
• Management Fees: PE firm charges the autism centers for "managing" them
• Exit Strategy: The goal is never to run autism centers - it's to flip them in 3-5 years

The glossary is here if useful: https://founderstowne.com/extraction-terms.html

The pattern is identical whether it's autism centers, veterinary clinics, or software companies. Once you know the vocabulary, you
start seeing it everywhere.
by jonator | 2026-01-11 18:27:50+00:00
I think frontier models are getting to the point where we can start to reach higher trust agentic workflows.

As a hardcore AI chat user, I'm often frustrated with the single-agent workflow, where a single context window is used for even very long conversations. If I want to change the topic, open a thread, or go on a tangent, I often end up compromising the main thread and I'm forced to copy context over if I want to dive into something.

To solve this, I'm working on a collaborative AI agent orchestrator that models the solution as a group chat with humans and AI agents, including an agent orchestrator.

You can spawn participating agents with the orchestrator who will decisively route messages to the existing agents, or spawn new agents if needed. Also, you can open agent details and send messages directly to existing agents, similar to threads in slack.

So far, I have MCP integrations working with Linear and GitHub, but plan to add many more.

I've been working on this just over 2 weeks, making heavy use of 4+ concurrent Claude Code agents. This would have been impossible otherwise.

If you're interested, feel free to DM on X.

https://x.com/jon_ator/status/2010370649147998459?s=20
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-11 18:27:56+00:00
I'm adding drug-development features, and polish to my open-source molecule viewer and editor, Molchanica: https://www.athanorlab.com/molchanica.

Source code, in rust: https://github.com/David-OConnor/molchanica
I've split out its building blocks into their own libraries on crates.io, for anyone building other bio or chem software. I don't think anyone uses them at this time.
by catlifeonmars | 2026-01-11 18:28:04+00:00
The internet already democratized access to knowledge. (Hosted) LLMs put that free knowledge behind a paywall. Taken by itself this seems fine —- how you access the knowledge (via internet or chat bot) is still up to you. However, the argument is that the knowledge producers aren’t incentivized to publish in a model where everything is fetched through agents. Couple that with closed weight models and you will (eventually) have overall worse access to less knowledge and higher personal cost.
by Altern4tiveAcc | 2026-01-11 18:28:04+00:00
> It completely centralizes accesses, censorship, and profits in the hands of a few mega corporations.

Have the biggest models be legally forced to be released in the open for end users, then. Best of both worlds.

Wait a few years, and you'll even be able to run those models in commodity hardware.

Enshittification in order to give returns to shareholders suck. The tech is great and empowering for the commons.
by nullbound | 2026-01-11 18:28:18+00:00
I am devoting 2026 to focus on my rpg. The one differentiator here is something I am still not seeing: proper use of LLMs in games. The current batch is all lazy asset generation, maybe logic coding and what not, but not anything that could make the world actually feel alive.

Obviously, it all comes with its own sets of issues, but I am working through those as they come. But it is still a slow move solo.
by addaon | 2026-01-11 18:28:19+00:00
Finally writing up the documentation (architecture and safety concept) for the fly-by-wire system for the homebuilt airplane I'm 15+ years into designing. Got to OML lock about a year ago, and the aerodynamics are checking out, so really hoping that I can get a subscale flying in 2026 (although I've said that before). On full scale, major remaining design task is structures, but there's plenty of other stuff (propulsion integration) as well.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-11 18:28:28+00:00
>Sure overload resolution happens first, but once the compiler has found the correct match then the way arguments are passed depends only on the function signature of that match (callee), and how the caller is passing.

Yes, and std::move() works exactly the same. The compiler first determines whether to move or to copy, and then generates the call to the corresponding constructor or assignment operator. Just like how foo(x) doesn't tell you anything about whether a value is being copied, foo(std::move(x)) doesn't tell you anything about whether a value is being moved.

You might say "well, you need to look at all the signatures of foo() to tell if there's a copy", and to that I say, "yeah, and you need to look at what x is to tell if there's a move".
by minimal_action | 2026-01-11 18:28:38+00:00
I did a full circle: Graduated from doctoral studies, I'm working on automating science. Built an arxiv-like repo for science written by ai agents (https://ai-archive.io). To help scientists use this website and AI in their research, i wrapped opencode with ai-archive's mcp server and agents preconfigured. I then let people test this opencode bundle and contribute to the repo with a sandbox environment online (running opencode in container). Figured that authorative scientific repo requires grounding by real scientists and labs and therefore I am now negotiating implemeting automated science where I just finished my doctoral studies...
by analog8374 | 2026-01-11 18:28:43+00:00
Humans can turn observation into symbol. I don't think that machines can do that. At least not without consulting a dictionary or a lookup table or an algorithm written by a human. That's important I think.

Also, I hear that in the original Matrix, the humans were used for performing processes that machines were incapable of. I dunno, clever number generation or something. And then they dumbed that down into coppertops for the rabble.
by danny_codes | 2026-01-11 18:28:51+00:00
I offer two possibilities:

1. Iran has frequent large protests that consistently get crushed. So while I assume the vast majority of Americans oppose the Iranian government, it’s hard to get worked up for the 5th, 6th time.

2. The US doesn’t support the Iranian government. We already sanction them. What additional support can US citizens lobby for? In the case of Israel, decreased US support would have a tangible effect. Unclear how increased US support for Iranian protestors would matter.
by worksonmine | 2026-01-11 18:29:01+00:00
Aeropress is a brand, one I've never heard of. It fits in the Linux ecosystem (maybe as one of the Red Hat flavors?) but as an analogy it is simplified. Linux is so much bigger than that and there's everything from LFS (grow, grind and brew with tools you've sourced and put together yourself), to Android (plain old drip machine). Reducing everything that's the Linux ecosystem to a niche brand of a specific type of coffee maker is dishonest.

I use a french press myself, and never heard of Aeropress. My machines all run Debian with DWM and I never have any problems. My non-technical girlfriend is fine on Debian and doesn't really know the difference. She did mention how fast her laptop boots though.
by DonHopkins | 2026-01-11 18:29:05+00:00
A personal note to you Jenny Holzer: All of your posts and opinions are totally worthless, unoriginal, uninteresting, and always downvoted and flagged, so you are wasting your precious and undeserved time on Earth. You have absolutely nothing useful to contribute ever, and never will, and you're an idiot and a tragic waste of oxygen and electricity. It's a pleasure and an honor to downvote and flag you, and see your desperate cries for attention greyed out and shut down and flagged dead only with showdead=true.

Edit: Nice to see that one landed, and you can't deny I'm right, so you just proved I am. Everything you post is poison.
by jlamberts | 2026-01-11 18:29:14+00:00
A little desktop app that lets me upload transaction csvs from my bank and figure out how much I need to split with my partner. Mostly because I always forget to charge her for utilities or flight bookings and I hate going through the bank UI. Might also expand it with some simple subscription auditing logic.

Also, a dramatic anime intro (complete with cheesy AI generated theme song and video) starring our foster kittens. It's been interesting to learn about some of the techniques needed for consistency, how to storyboard, etc.
by Lord-Jobo | 2026-01-11 18:29:23+00:00
If someone is addicted to ice cream, and the most effective treatment is to replace that addiction with spinach(scientifically supported), would anyone have this problem? I doubt it. People’s knee jerk reaction to any kind of “”””drug enabling”””” treatment is infuriating.
I know multiple people personally who have had their life saved by methadone. Yes that makes me biased but it also justifies the bias (alongside the many medical professionals advocating for it)
by buzzardbait | 2026-01-11 18:29:45+00:00
Fair. I was thinking of third party anti-malware that I have to go out and get, not something that is tightly integrated into Windows itself and enabled by default.

Also, I don’t need the antivirus portion of Defender since I don’t click on executables or install apps willy nilly. It’s very light and silent so I wouldn’t go out of my way to turn it off. Plus the firewall is also part of Defender.
by jijijijij | 2026-01-11 18:29:53+00:00
Yes! Although looping dizziness happens in copper, too.

If you ever experience this, but can't uncoil the transmission cables, a workaround is to spin your desk chair in the opposite direction of data flow, at about the speed of light (for the respective cable medium). This temporary cancels out the effects of ethernet frame looping induced dizziness. Alternatively, you can treat any sickness symptomatically by chewing on a piece of ginger. The latter also helps with aforementioned data-abrasion in fiber optic cables through means not fully understood, yet.
by ghaff | 2026-01-11 18:29:57+00:00
Well Red Hat did make a go at a supported enterprise desktop distro for a time and, as I wrote, Fedora--which Red Hat supports in a variety of ways for various purposes--is pretty much my default Linux distro.

So I'm not being critical. Yes, Red Hat employees do contribute to projects that are most relevant to the desktop even if doing so is not generally really the focus of their day jobs. And, no, other companies almost certainly haven't done more.
Show HN: I wrote an embeddable Unicode algorithms library in C
by hgs3 | 2026-01-11 18:30:16+00:00
Hello everyone. One year ago I released Unicorn (an embeddable Unicode algorithms library) under a source available license. Today I'm re-releasing it under the GNU General Public License (version 3) for its one year anniversary.

My hope is the GPL expands the project's user base to non-profits and Free Software enthusiasts. I think the more folks using it only benefits the project. The proprietary license will continue to be available for businesses that can't comply with the GPL.

Thanks for checking it out!
by OfflineSergio | 2026-01-11 18:30:23+00:00
A one time payment app - interesting (I'm also working on something with similar moneytization solution).
How are things going? I'd love to know the experience of another solopreneur, what stack are you using?
I wonder
- What are you using to parse PDFs and extract the text? I found that is a nightmare when was doing something similar for WithAudio (my app).
- Are you just extracting the text or you are doing any post processing to identify which lines belong to the same paragraph or not?
by mondobe | 2026-01-11 18:30:24+00:00
I've been working on a music-making website since late spring. This is my first real frontend project, and I'm writing it in pure Rust using Leptos (so far, haven't had to write a single line of JavaScript!)

Most of my work so far has been on the actual music-making interface, but I'm beginning work on the backend now. I've only worked with Django before (for a school project at Georgia Tech), so I'll be deep in the `sqlx` documentation for a while.

There's no manual, so use at your own risk (it's similar to tracker programs like FastTracker and OpenMPT): https://mondobe.com/tracker
by Arcuru | 2026-01-11 18:30:32+00:00
Eidetica, a planned decentralized database for local-first applications. I'm building out unstable features to get it to a point where I can show off the concepts but it's still fairly brittle.

I recently added better backend support for deployments, converted everything to async Rust, and setup Nix/Docker releases. I'm planning to build out some better example apps and workflows next, but everything will stay pre-alpha/unstable for now so that I can avoid getting locked in to any foundational issues. There are still a number of low-hanging breaking issues blocking the end-to-end usage which I'll need to address.

https://github.com/arcuru/eidetica
by mjr00 | 2026-01-11 18:30:36+00:00
> Most of the world does not care. I suspect that is more true today than ever before. There are now adults that grew up in the age of social media that have no idea how local computing works.

Yep. I was amazed when I was talking to a friend who's a bit younger (late 20s) and told him about a fangame you could just download from a website (Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers, for the record) and he was skeptical and concerned at the idea of just downloading and running an executable from somewhere on the internet.

I suspect most adults these days are like this; their computing experience is limited to the web browser and large official corporate-run software repositories e.g. app stores and Steam. Which ironically means they would do just fine on Linux, but there's also no incentive for them to switch off Windows/MacOS.

To them, Microsoft and Apple having control of their files and automatically backing up their home directory to Azure/iCloud is a feature, not a problem.
by rcarmo | 2026-01-11 18:30:40+00:00
Two weekend projects:

- https://github.com/rcarmo/gotel (an OpenTelemetry tracing collector/UI, under heavy refactoring)

- https://github.com/rcarmo/toadbox (a simple Docker-based agent sandbox to run Toad/OpenCode/Mistral inside, which I've been cleaning up for general use)
by y-c-o-m-b | 2026-01-11 18:30:46+00:00
Ableton + Serum + many custom VSTs user here. You're spot on. This is actually the biggest reason I can't switch. In fact Steve Duda (creator of Serum) has said many times that he doesn't ever plan to support Linux. That's not a deal-breaker necessarily, but the fact we paid lots of money for this stuff makes it a bit unreasonable to switch to Linux.
by mrhappypappy | 2026-01-11 18:30:56+00:00
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by bearjaws | 2026-01-11 18:31:22+00:00
Hard to know for sure, I'd be curious the breakdown in cost for enterprise laptops, it's hard for me to understand why the price has increased 50% while Apple has increased 10%.

Lenovo, Dell and HP are pretty much all the same price at this point. It's basically an oligopoly.

The prices have crept up over the past 5 years and they have no reason to lower them. They know they aren't even competing with Apple since most large enterprises are all in on Windows.

My bet is they have basically made their prices the same as Apple, and they plan to keep it that way.
by cptskippy | 2026-01-11 18:31:22+00:00
What a weirdly worded post. You could have said something like:

"Dell has priced it's Pro line of laptops in-line with Apple's Air equivalents, however Window 11's high resource utilization means we have to pay for higher spec machines while still ending up with reduced battery performance, and inferior screens, webcams and audio."

But instead you make weird misleading statements like "and 8 more gb of RAM" and "it's over $1100 a laptop" that need to be decoded but are easily misunderstood if the reader lacks certain domain knowledge.

Then you have these unqualified statements like "they also recently swapped to soldered RAM for both Intel and AMD" which implies that it's a bad move but don't articulate why or acknowledge that Apple has been doing this since 2008.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2026-01-11 18:31:29+00:00
This trend really says a lot about America, billionaires build their own empires by getting free money from investors and the government, including huge tax breaks and subsidies. When the people ask for some of that wealth that they helped build to support universal needs, they pack up and leave without blinking. Who really has the leverage and power here?

As the richest country on the planet, there is zero reason we should have nearly a million homeless people. These leaders extract wealth from the state and then ditch town. It’s deplorable.
by tobadzistsini | 2026-01-11 18:31:37+00:00
Some desktop versions of GNU/Linux have rough edges. Self-important grognards think everyone should "git gud" and install Arch or waste a weekend waiting for Gentoo to compile in order to optimize the install. This article along with this one (https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desk...) go on about using an Arch-based distro rather than a Debian-based distro.

Clearly there will be challenges, minor or major.

The failure of these articles is the authors aren't going for distros that "just work". Want to undercut Microsoft's user base, grow GNU/Linux, and herald the year of Linux on desktop that's been promised for decades? Keep it simple.

Majority of people going online with their computers are browsing the web, doomscrolling, and engaging on social media. They're not pentesting with Rust, running an instance of a LLM, or setting up a webserver for giggles.

Keep it simple.

But pushing Arch and other beardy distros with these kinds of articles reeks of gatekeeping as if only "smart" people are allowed to engage online and control their experience. Everyone else should suck it up with Microsoft having Copilot phone home since they don't deserve to know better. And I don't care how much preamble they give about Debian-based and beginner distros, they're just wagging their dicks to easily-awed proles and relishing imagined egoboos from other neo-Stallmans.
by rkagerer | 2026-01-11 18:31:46+00:00
If you must, Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC is where the goodness is at. Less bloat, no ads, a frozen feature set (so they won't move your cheese every 6 months), 10 years of official support and security updates... it's like it's 1997 again! And you can install tools like Classic Shell (with its superior Start menu) to make it even better.