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by lunar_rover | 2026-01-29 02:41:28+00:00
> what does Windows 11 even do that KDE Plasma 5 wasn't doing a decade ago? How did it take this long to get a tabbed file browser?

Management features like application based firewall. Dedicated views in explorer tailored for common file types, automatic view type based on content, plus tile view. Proper title bar customisation. Contextual Ribbon toolbars and to be honest, good menus in general. Have a professional UI designer try KDE and I'm pretty sure they'll have a migraine. Also Win32 in general, Wayland still has a loooong way ahead of it.
by jimmydddd | 2026-01-29 02:41:32+00:00
I remember in the 1980's, some rich guy gave a commencement speech in which he said he would pay for college for the entire graduating class in some high school in NJ. He got great press from this. But then it turned out in the fine print that the kids had to max out student loans, and he would cover the difference for tuition, but not including room and board. :-)
by prakhar897 | 2026-01-29 02:41:42+00:00
> Half will come 20 years after their first qualifying Olympic appearance or at age 45, whichever comes later. Another $100,000 will be in the form of a guaranteed benefit for their families after they pass away.

The terms are atrocious. imo dude will move money into a his own charity which will hold onto it since no athlete qualify for the next 20 years. After a few years, he will quietly cancel the grant and use it elsewhere.
by bdangubic | 2026-01-29 02:43:34+00:00
> Saying that, I wouldn’t be too surprised if robotaxi replaces 90% of taxis and Ubers in the next 5-7 years.

How about we start with 0.00076% first before we start throwing insane numbers like 90% (chance of which happening are in-line with me marrying Beyonce)
by winddude | 2026-01-29 02:43:43+00:00
> So his goal is to prevent money issues from being a thing getting in the way of athletes achieving. But he has structured it in a way that prevents the money from helping this goal.

Yup, the biggest challenge faced by most olympic athletes, and those doing an Olympic campaign, is affording to train, travel, gear, etc, especially in more niche sports, bobsleigh, etc.
by gamblor956 | 2026-01-29 02:43:55+00:00
I had a former coworker who loved letting the FSD drive him places. He used to love driving people for lunch, ignoring all the crazy red flags like the car's inability to consistently detect other vehicles on the road around it or stay in the (clearly marked) lanes.

Then one day on the way home from work FSD nearly killed him.

He survived, but he will be crippled for life.
by jonfw | 2026-01-29 02:44:08+00:00
I love ASCII diagrams! The fact that I can write a diagram that looks equally wonderful in my terminal via cat as it does rendered on my website is incredible.

A good monospaced font and they can look really sharp!

I will definitely give this tool a shot.

I will also shout out monodraw as a really nice little application for building generic ASCII diagrams- https://monodraw.helftone.com/
by defrost | 2026-01-29 02:44:40+00:00
Speaking of motives, The Economist asks a simple question

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_DWKIugWvY

Why are ICE agents targeting Minneapolis? - the current estimate is 3,000 ICE agents that outnumber the Minneapolis-St. Paul police, sworn officers, 3-to-1 in a state with damn near the lowest actual numbers of actual undocumented immigrants.

Clearly this MN deployment is not about efficiency in rounding up criminal immigrants, it's a political power move designed to intimidate that has already been (unsuccessfully) used to leverage access to vote rolls, etc.

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minneapolis-trump-immigration-i...

As I'm not an American can you refresh my memory as to what the US founders had to say and felt about Federal over reach into state territories?

On a related note, are you aware of the initial moves by both Stalin and Hitler before they each became infamous?

To quote a US historian:

In a constitutional regime, such as ours, the law applies everywhere and at all times. In a republic, such as ours, it applies to everyone. For that logic of law to be undone, the aspiring tyrant looks for openings, for cracks to pry open.

One of these is the border. The country stops at the border. And so the law stops at the border. And so for the tyrant an obvious move is to extend the border so that is everywhere, to turn the whole country as a border area, where no rules apply.

Stalin did this with border zones and deportations in the 1930s that preceded the Great Terror. Hitler did it with immigration raids in 1938 that targeted undocumented Jews and forced them across the border.

* https://snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-lawlessness
by decimalenough | 2026-01-29 02:45:38+00:00
It's an international thing, down to the neverending "Closing now fr fr" sales. There was general bemusement in Sydney when one shop notorious for this actually closed down, but only because the building was demolished to make way for a highway interchange.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/rozelle-rug...

In many countries, "carpet salesman" is equivalent to "used car salesman" as the least trustworthy occupation imaginable.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-01-29 02:45:55+00:00
> They have not used the same force in other states, because the resistance to their presence and purpose has not been so strong as to motivate it.

The resistance to their actions is lesser in other states because they are more subdued. The propaganda that Minnesotans are not working with ICE is flipping the narrative from the reality that ICE is not working with Minnesotans.

> Narratives surrounding this are ignoring clear causes of action that are not in fact constitutionally protected, instead pointing at things protesters did that are constitutionally protected but not in fact related to arrests.

Counter-narratives ignore clear use of tactics which have been documented as intentional escalations, instead pointing at the officers' emotions that were direct results of said escalations.

> The judicial system takes time.

https://thefederalnewswire.com/stories/673148305-fbi-announc...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/fbi-agent-ice-shooting...
by nunez | 2026-01-29 02:47:18+00:00
Apparently Tesla dropped 4680 battery production for the CT by 99%, so the CT isn't long for this world either.

But that's okay! They have the Cybercab that will 100% drive itself For Real This Time, $99/mo Autopilot/FSD subscriptions and robots that will theoretically wash your dishes in an age where most people have an adversarial relationship with anything AI, so.
by mrwaffle | 2026-01-29 02:47:34+00:00
This seems to be a touchy subject for YC people with 500+ karma. Not a repudiation but an 'invisible hand' downvote to avoid a response or exposure of an opinion. My ancestors fought in the revolutionary war and like them, I'll die on this very subtle rolling hill of a question. I loved you all as brothers, this may be the end for mrwaffle.
by gamblor956 | 2026-01-29 02:47:34+00:00
If by that you mean in terms of fatalities, then you would be accurate. Tesla advanced-driving systems have more recorded fatalities than the entire rest of the automotive industry worldwide combined.

It does not matter how you dice up the statistics (i.e., miles driven, risk levels of the drivers, by year, by location, etc). Tesla AP and FSD are the most dangerous driving systems on the road.
by code_duck | 2026-01-29 02:48:39+00:00
The whole upgrade to Windows 11 was forced on me by Microsoft, basically using trickery. I opened windows update and it said there were some updates… Did not make it clear at all that it would be taking my system from Windows 10 to 11. I thought it was just installing security updates. I would’ve had to change it anyway when 10 support ended, but I still had about four months and wanted to wait.
by the_sleaze_ | 2026-01-29 02:48:41+00:00
It's called a grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT) and more than beng able to retain the initial investment at the end of a period of time, he would be able to take loans against the principal itself in the meantime (LALs).

However -

> The USPOC currently supports ~4500 athletes, or ~$22,222 each.

Machinations of the uber rich and the morality of them aside, they would've gotten nothing and now they're getting something.
Show HN: Intent-Aware RAG – Moving from Vector Matching to 5W1H Accounting
by nickhuang99 | 2026-01-29 02:49:32+00:00
Most developers treat RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) as a "Black Box" of semantic similarity. We’ve been told: If the vector distance is small, the answer is there. This is a lie. Vector matching is Static Fact Comparison, while user queries are Dynamic Intent Solves. This repository deconstructs why pure vector RAG hits a ceiling and proposes a transition to 5W1H-Structured Intent Routing.
by NoPicklez | 2026-01-29 02:49:53+00:00
The model 3 performance model does 0-100 in 3.1 seconds, the model S does that in 2.1, it is therefore faster by a second but 3.1 will beat most cars off the line quite comfortably. The Supra for context does that in 4.1 seconds.

Nothing wrong with keeping a sport and luxury model, however I would argue that the latest models are quite sporty and luxurious in their own right.

Companies like Ford constantly discontinue models, but they don't get the level of attention Tesla does.

If Tesla aren't seeing the Model S and X being sold to anywhere near the degree of the 3 and the Y, then why continue making them? They aren't as globally available and its clear people don't want them as much as the others.
by NotNerdz | 2026-01-29 02:50:44+00:00
InfiniaxAI Is running a promotional push today in which they are giving out free access to Claude Opus 4.5 + Gemini 3 Pro + GPT 5.2 etc with extremely high limits! I Have been using it all morning virtually and its pretty straightforward.

https://infiniax.ai is the link if you want to test it out
by zenoprax | 2026-01-29 02:50:50+00:00
Seems like both "show your working" and "make it easier for us to review" are the reasons. Seems reasonable to me.

"Commit 1: refactor the $THING to enable $CAPABILITY"

"Commit 2: redirect $THING2 to communicate with $THING1"

"Commit 3: add error handling for $EdgeCase" --- long explanation in commit body

A single commit with no commentary just offloads the work to the maintainers. It's their project so their rules.
by heftykoo | 2026-01-29 02:51:11+00:00
When Google Gemini started adding a watermark to generated images (including Nano Banana images), I wanted a way to download the original outputs without cropping or post-processing.

Over a few iterations I tried three approaches:

1) OpenCV heuristics
Fixed-position detection + color estimation + inpainting.
Fast, but fragile: works on flat backgrounds, fails on textured images.

https://geminiwatermarkcleaner.com/changelog/v1-1-0.html

2) LaMa inpainting
High-quality reconstruction using a local LaMa model.
Very accurate, but slow (~30s/image on CPU) and heavy to ship.

https://geminiwatermarkcleaner.com/changelog/v2-0-0.html

3) Lightweight watermark-specific algorithm
Inspired by community implementations and optimized for Gemini’s logo pattern:
geometry-aware detection + edge-preserving fill, no neural model.
• Binary < 2MB
• Millisecond latency
• Runs fully locally in browser

https://geminiwatermarkcleaner.com/changelog/v3-0-0.html

I packaged this into a Chrome extension and a local web Gemini Watermark Remover tool:
https://geminiwatermarkcleaner.com/gemini-watermark-remover....

Everything runs locally; images never leave the machine.

I also used this as a small experiment in building a paid micro-utility: payments, licensing, and basic marketing turned out harder than the algorithm itself.

Happy to answer questions about detection, inpainting tradeoffs, or browser-side image processing.
by rayiner | 2026-01-29 02:51:20+00:00
> At the end of the day, there'll still be a need for highly skilled technical experts, whatever that job looks like.

Why? There was a time when there was a need for highly skilled seamstresses. And we never developed the technology to do their jobs as well as they could. But people just learned to deal with mass produced clothes that didn’t fit perfectly because it was so much cheaper.
by mschuster91 | 2026-01-29 02:51:53+00:00
> they could get the same data with more reliability by just running their own ADS-B receiver, without having a dependency on a third-party.

Setting up an ADS-B receiver is indeed very cheap. Less than 100$. That's what many people, both aviation enthusiasts and ham radio operators, do for fun.

The problem is, do that on an airport? You'll now need permits to install the antenna (needs to be covered in the lightning protection system and even if it's just a passive receiver probably someone needs to sign off on an antenna being added). Fire code means you'll need approval and specialized people to run the cable (you need to drill holes in fire walls). Maybe there's some law or regulation requiring approval or causing a paper trail (e.g. in Germany, all electrical appliances have to be isolation-tested and visually inspected every two years by an electrician). Doing that the proper way is an awful lot of work. And by that point, someone will notice "hey, a Raspberry Pi? An RTL-SDR stick from eBay? No way that is certified to be used in a safety critical environment", killing off the project or requiring a certified device costing orders of magnitude more money.

In contrast, a privately owned laptop, tablet or phone with the Flightaware app? No one will give a shit about it unless someone relies on FA too much, causes an incident and that is found out.
Show HN: AI-Generated Trading View strategies with no lock in
by irasigman | 2026-01-29 02:52:04+00:00
Hello! I've been working on a systematic query language (SYSQL) for some time as a personal tool to enable my daily crypto-trading. I enabled US equities and added some AI to help use it. Then I found out I could easily output Pine Script (TradingView specification format for signals) from my SYSQL deterministically while only squashing a few of my languages nice to have features like range optimization. Anyways, check out SYSQL and get your TradingView game up!
by derbOac | 2026-01-29 02:52:07+00:00
My impression is that Apple as a corporation is really sensitive to their public image. I happen to believe that some corporations are actually highly sensitive to dollar losses but I also think what Apple worries about is a kind of downstream effects of brand image being lost.

I don't think that's all it would take but I kind of see Apple worrying that their products will start to be like fur in the 1980s or something... something that gradually fades and loses its brand value.

I guess in the end I sort of agree with the OP that boycotts can work and fretting about numbers initially leads to this kind of chicken and egg problem. If you try it it might work, if you try it repeatedly it's more likely to work, but if you never try it will never work.
by heftykoo | 2026-01-29 02:52:22+00:00
For clarity: the final algorithm isn’t novel research — it’s inspired by watermark-removal implementations shared in the community, then adapted specifically to Gemini’s logo geometry and optimized for browser-side execution.

The main engineering challenge for me wasn’t detection quality, but finding a point that balanced:

• reliability on textured images
• millisecond latency
• small binary size
• zero server-side processing

I also made the extension paid mostly as an experiment to understand pricing, payments, and distribution for small developer tools. Building the payment/licensing flow took more time than the algorithm itself.

If anyone is curious, I’m happy to share more details about the detection heuristics and fill strategy.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-01-29 02:54:32+00:00
> As a contrast: truly successful products obviate complaints. Success speaks for itself.

Makes me consider: Dotcom domains, Bitcoin, Blockchain, NFTs, the metaverse, generative AI…

Varying degrees of utility. But the common thread is people absolutely begging you to buy in, preying on FOMO.
by djbon2112 | 2026-01-29 02:54:37+00:00
This has actually come up in our internal discussions while we were drafting this, and the truth is, yea, this applies to "normal" PRs and such as well. But we weren't having any sort of problem with someone who has no understanding of the code at all coming in and making extensive changes. That simply wasn't possible. But LLMs enable someone with no knowledge to submit an extensive, on-the-surface-sensible PR that then needs literally hours of review work and testing.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-01-29 02:54:50+00:00
Tech is the most set apart area of innovation ever.

First you have tech's ability to scale. The ability to scale also has it creep new changes/behaviors into every aspect of our lives faster than any 'engine for change' could previous.

Tech also inherits, so you can treat it as legos using, what are we at, definitely tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of human years of work, of building blocks to build on top of. Imagine if you started every house with a hundred thousand human years of labor already completed instantly.

And tech's speed of iteration is insane. You can try something, measure it, change it, and redeploy in hours. Unprecedented experimentation on a mass scale leading to quicker evolution.

It's so disingenuous to have tech valuations as high as they are based on these differentiations but at the same time say 'tech is just like everything from the past and must not be treated differently, and it must be assumed outcomes from it are just like historical outcomes'. No it is a completely different beast, and the differences are becoming more pronounced as the above 10Xs over and over.
by gnabgib | 2026-01-29 02:55:52+00:00
https://archive.is/3qot3

Related (same company) on this recycled post from econo:

Wooden satellite heads to space in Mars exploration test (105 points, 2024, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051687

Japan to launch first wooden satellite to combat space pollution (55 points, 2024, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414641

Related - different company:

Woodsat: A Space Agency Will Launch a Tiny, Wooden Satellite (105 points, 2021, 18 comments)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27549097
by cmcaleer | 2026-01-29 02:56:03+00:00
You could have contracted 5 small firms for £400k each (which, for this project seems frankly seems excessive) and even if a couple failed to deliver you'd have gotten 3 separate products to choose the best quality one from, £148k to legally chase up the firms who failed to deliver, and still had £2 million left over.

I agree a good solution isn't easy to come up with, but the status quo is certainly an outrageously awful one.
by vitorbaptistaa | 2026-01-29 02:56:53+00:00
That looks great! Any plans on allowing exports to OpenTelemetry apps like Arize Phoenix? I am looking for ways to connect my Claude Code using Max plan (no API) to it and the best I found was https://arize.com/blog/claude-code-observability-and-tracing..., but it seems kinda overweight.
by djbon2112 | 2026-01-29 02:56:57+00:00
Exactly. We never had a problem with spammy PRs before. Even at the height of Hacktoberfest, the vast majority were painfully obvious and confined to documentation. It was easy and obvious to reject those. But LLMs have really changed the game, and this policy was explicitly prompted by a number of big PRs that were obviously purely vibe-coded and we felt we really needed to get a defined policy out that we could point to and say "no, this is why we're rejecting this".
by sixo | 2026-01-29 02:57:48+00:00
What people feel about things is almost an entirely a function of their information environment, rather than the facts of the events themselves. Almost nobody truly aware of the number of slaughtered and starved Palestinian children would be "okay" with it; the people defending it are more-or-less viewing these events in terms so different from that that those basic facts cannot reach their understanding at all.
by Wavesonics | 2026-01-29 02:57:50+00:00
Last year I wrote a free and open source encrypted camera app: SnapSafe
https://snapsafe.org/

It was recently featured in the latest issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
https://store.2600.com/collections/2020-2021/products/winter...

It provides the strongest possible encryption for photos. However it did not support video, as video presents significant technical challenges due to the volume of data.

Last weekend in the United States we saw a painful example of how important video is as evidence.

Sunday I started tackling the problem, and after some crunching the last few days, have now released version 4.0 of SnapSafe supporting video capture.

I created a simple but effective encryption container format for the video that is streamable and seekable with minimal overhead on mobile devices. It allows for playback, random-access, and scrubbing of videos, without having to decrypt anything to disk. You can read my spec on my SECV file format if that's interesting to you.
https://github.com/SecureCamera/SecureCameraAndroid/blob/mai...

You can install from either GooglePlay or FDroid:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.darkrockst...
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.darkrockstudios.app.secu...

(Although, F-Droid takes a couple days for the new build to release)
by consumer451 | 2026-01-29 02:58:13+00:00
I use various agentic dev tools all day long, mostly with Opus. The tools are vary capable now, but when planning mid-complexity features, I find the time estimates hilarious.

Phase 1: 4 days

Phase 2: 3 days

Phase 3: 2 days

4 hours later, all the work is done and tested.

The funny part to me was that if I had an AI true believer boss, I would report those time estimates directly, and have a lot of time to do other stuff.
by JuniperMesos | 2026-01-29 02:58:29+00:00
> And every time you decide to cut on services, you are just moving money elsewhere: more inequality -> more social tensions and criminality, you just end up paying way more to live in a safe place and pay for private and public security and prisons.

There's no reason to think that the amount of taxpayer-funded services in a political jurisdiction has inversely proportional relationship with amount of crime that that happens there (nor any particular relationship with what kinds of crime, how serious the specific crimes are, and so on). Same thing with social tensions - social tension are caused by a lot of things, many of which aren't particularly related to the raw amount of taxpayer-funded services that exist. Would a more redistributive welfare state have made the partition of India between (mostly) Hindus and (mostly) Muslims less likely, for instance?
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-01-29 02:58:49+00:00
So... what's the OS situation? From a glance at https://github.com/mecha-org/linux -> https://github.com/mecha-org/linux/commits/imx/lf-6.12.20/ it looks like they're starting from a 6mo-old kernel (6.12.20 vs current LTS 6.12.67 and current stable 6.18.7). Is there any reason to expect upstreaming or even just consistent updates, or is this yet another device that will ship with an old-ish kernel and never get updated again?
by estearum | 2026-01-29 02:58:58+00:00
Huh? We have no reason to believe e.g. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was non-compliant in any way with anything, and he was sent to a foreign torture prison without access to a lawyer, without being charged with a crime, without being afforded basic rights that everyone (citizen or not) has under the US Constitution.

We have numerous examples of people who have followed all legal procedures and have legal status in the US who were likewise denied basic Constitutional protections.

Here are a few relevant sources:

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2025-04/FIRE%20Ozt...

https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salva...