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by vladdoster | 2026-01-09 04:31:14+00:00
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by brainless | 2026-01-09 04:32:16+00:00
I know this will sound strange, but SOTA model companies will eventually allow subscription based usage through third-party tools. For any usage whatsoever.

Models are pretty much democratized. I use Claude Code and opencode and I get more work done these days with GLM or Grok Code (using opencode). Z.ai (GLM) subscription is so worth it.

Also, mixing models, small and large ones, is the way to go. Different models from different providers. This is not like cloud infra where you need to plan the infra use. Models are pretty much text in, text out (let's say for text only models). The minor differences in API are easy to work with.
by HWR_14 | 2026-01-09 04:32:56+00:00
> Sea transport isn't going to get any faster - probably ever.

Sea transport could be sped up by 50% with current ships just by turning the engines to full, but that increases the fuel cost dramatically. With an EV ship that fuel cost increase would probably be negligible.

The issue with speeding up sea transport is that the ports at either end are already running close to or at capacity, so increasing the number of ships arriving each day just leads to more time at anchor.
by comrade1234 | 2026-01-09 04:33:20+00:00
Speak for yourself. My mail is usually delivered next-day and I can track it live on the truck. I get annoyed when something I ordered is being delivered by someone other than swisspost. I get notifications the day before and day of delivery.

Swisspost had been cutting its budget back consolidating locations but despite this is delivering even better service using tech.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-01-09 04:33:33+00:00
The idea is that as money gets so concentrated, so does real political power. And with that concentration of political power comes extreme disregard for the opinions of the masses. I think it's a fair argument that the world has always catered to the will of rich people, but the difference now is that rich people are so unfathomably rich, and so much wealth is concentrated in so few.
by mapmeld | 2026-01-09 04:33:34+00:00
I am also frustrated with Wikidata. The one practical use I've seen is a lot of OpenStreetMap places' multilingual names are locked to Wikidata, which makes it harder for a troll to drop in and rename something, and may encourage maintaining and reusing the data.

But I tried to do some Wikidata queries for stuff like: what are all the neighborhoods and districts of Hong Kong, all the counties in Taiwan, and it's piecemeal coverage, tags different from one entity to another, not everything in a group is linked to OSM. It's not a lot of improvement over Wikipedia's Category pages.
by Rendello | 2026-01-09 04:33:42+00:00
Aisatsana, the final track on Syro. For Syro fans, there's a song called "end E2" that didn't make the cut, presumably it would've been the last song.

> Missing track from Syro, didn't make it for technical and personal reasons.

https://soundcloud.com/user21041984001/syro-013-aphex-twin-e...
by duxup | 2026-01-09 04:34:14+00:00
Considering the behavior of ICE, it seems like they hired some folks just desperate to find legal cover to shoot someone. There are numerous videos of them casually drawing their weapons on protesters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Raids/comments/1q7u4kz/ice_agen...

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1q7y43s/cbp_poin...
by super256 | 2026-01-09 04:35:37+00:00
Some thoughts

- secure kernel WILL get hijacked and be completely invisible to anti cheats. Which would be funny.

- Microsoft won't port back the attestation process to win 10 (although secure kernel exists there too), forcing all gamers, where the AC adopts this attestation, to install win11

- trying to lock out Linux for sure, which is a funny coincidence given that Valve is partnering with anti cheat developers (eg EAC and Battleye) to support Linux
by arretevad | 2026-01-09 04:35:45+00:00
I fail to understand how your quote doesn't describe land lords? It is:
1. An act of growing one's own wealth (no other purpose to land lording)
2. It is accomplished by taking advantage of economic conditions (perhaps not "manipulating")
3. Does not create any new wealth.

And a little further down is this:
> Rent-seeking implies the extraction of uncompensated value from others without making any contribution to productivity.

Which to me certainly sounds like someone who's only contribution is ownership.
by WoodenChair | 2026-01-09 04:35:57+00:00
One that would've helped is "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" which is a collection of interviews with startup founders by Jessica Livingston. Even though this was a non-profit it effectively sounds like it was a tech startup (he was building an app that was based on, at the time (late 2000s), cutting edge machine learning technology). I think by hearing other founders' stories building other tech products, he would've learned about how they structured their organizations and led their teams. I liked the book personally, but the interviews will be hit or miss depending on the participant.

Here's the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3N47TG3

Here's a podcast summary of it: https://businessbooksandco.com/episode/1127af729a0d4aec/foun...

But frankly even just a basic textbook or video course on leadership/management would've helped or something like High Output Management by Andy Grove (Amazon https://amzn.to/3NCAZME, podcast summary https://businessbooksandco.com/episode/095f226633d34496/high...).

In terms of dealing with all of the personal conflict between team members, Radical Candor may have helped (Amazon https://amzn.to/4qNa7bf, podcast summary https://businessbooksandco.com/episode/938d044a/radical-cand...).
by transcriptase | 2026-01-09 04:36:07+00:00
More evidence the EU solved the wrong problem. Instead of mandating cookie banners, mandate a single global “fuck off” switch: one-click, automatic opt-out from any feature/setting/telemetry/tracking/training that isn’t strictly required or clearly beneficial to the user as an individual. If it’s mainly there for data collection, ads, attribution, “product improvement”, or monetization, it should be off by default and remain that way so long as the “fuck off” option is toggled. Burden of proof on the provider. Fines exceeding what it takes to get growth teams and KPI hounds to have legal coach them on what “fuck off” means and why they need to.
by ChilledTonic | 2026-01-09 04:37:00+00:00
Fair points, but I think you're responding to an argument my piece isn't quite making.

The complaint isn't that logistics should follow Moore's Law or that we need same-day delivery for everything. It's that we're paying more for objectively worse service than we had a decade ago. Services aren't "adapting to consumer needs", its just objective decay being masked as optimization.

The Lettre Verte example actually reinforces the point: service got slower, then slower again, not because physics demanded it but because maintaining the previous standard became inconvenient. The dedicated sorting train wasn't decommissioned because trains stopped working; it was decommissioned because the institution decided the mail didn't matter enough to run it.

Nobody expects sea transport to break the sound barrier. But when 73% of consumers experience an outright delivery failure in a three-month period, that's not bumping against hard physical limits. That's drivers marking packages "delivered" that weren't, because lying clears the route faster. That's solvable. We're just in a system that doesn't incentive fixing it.

The asymptotic argument would land if we were approaching some theoretical maximum. We're not. We're sliding backward from where we were, while costs rise. I'm not asking for magic, I'm asking where went the reliability we already had, at the prices we're already paying.
by patcon | 2026-01-09 04:37:06+00:00
thanks for reading my message in good faith :)

as someone who co-founded a non-hierarchical community[1] (that's still going strong after a decade of weekly events), co-founded a worker cooperative[2], and experimented with sociocracy (and ALSO fully admit I failed out of it for reasons of misalignment!) -- i just think we owe it to ourselves to not discount that certain things XY can't be built under system Z. There are many ways possible where leaders don't always direct, or maybe only direct in short spurts. This all-or-nothing, lead-from-the-front, only-way-through-is-up perspective of getting things done (and working together), it's not the only way possible :) (respectfully!)

[1]: https://civictech.ca/

[2]: https://hypha.coop/
by weird-eye-issue | 2026-01-09 04:39:03+00:00
That's not up to you or me. I think it's pretty clear by the phrase "Claude Code subscription" that it's meant for only "Claude Code". Why are you confused?

This could be so easily abused by companies who spend thousands of dollars per month for API costs you could just reverse engineer it and use the subscription tokens to get that down to a few hundred
by karakoram | 2026-01-09 04:40:37+00:00
Mario Can you please expand on the comment that you agree with, "the UK Tech scene is dead".

What's actually going on within the UK tech jobs landscape? What about certain sectors like fintech? What about all the recent AI startups hiring? What are your on-ground observations?

Within my LinkedIn feed bubble, things are not that bad in the UK, but what is actually happening?
by mapmeld | 2026-01-09 04:40:40+00:00
The US example that I would give would be the Articles of Confederation being turned over and replaced with our Constitution.

In the article I read this to mean: they designed a power structure thinking it should be fully open and flat, like a company where everyone can do everything on GitHub. But once they had run the project for some time, they acknowledged that the decisions were flowing through the three people.
by _flux | 2026-01-09 04:40:49+00:00
Or call the tool "Read" and it works, according to an issue comment.

But actually the solution is checking out how the official client does it and then doing the same steps, though if people start doing this then Anthropic will probably start making it more difficult to monitor and reverse engineer.

It might not matter, as some people have a lot of expertice in this, but people might still get the message and move away to alternatives.
by sfourdrinier | 2026-01-09 04:40:51+00:00
This article has nothing to do with Apple.

Also, I believe that if Apple is working on blood glucose estimation, it's probably not the way described in this article.

I could be wrong that Apple will do it this way, but the current hardware supports different wavelengths PPG, (as well as the Samsung Watch Galaxy 8), which might be able to use to estimate blood glucose variations. But it's pretty complex, especially to generalize.

I wouldn't be surprised if they start like blood pressure, just estimations as to how it's going up and down.

I know that because I'm literally working on this with https://trackourhearts.com, using an AI model I created to estimate blood glucose, though I'm doing it in a personalized way so I can provide more absolute estimates but it's still incredibly hard from PPG as the wavelengths available aren't the most optimized for this.
by silexia | 2026-01-09 04:41:06+00:00
Let's refrain from personal attacks and harassment. I am a VERY long term member of this forum, since the days it was for entrepreneurs and programmers instead of overrun with far left propagandists who only want to talk politics.

Trying to shut up people who disagree with you is literally the fascism you claim to abhor. Not to mention that fascists themselves were socialists (Nazis is a nickname for National Socialists, who had a 25 point platform half of which matches the Democratic Socialists nearly exactly - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-party...).

Engage on the actual merits of the discussion rather than saying anyone who disagrees with you is supposedly a shill and a bad person.

Am I wrong here? I am trying to share my view, which while unpopular, is valid and backed by the full video and witness accounts. I am getting called a "fascist-cheerleader who relishes in trolling" and that I somehow support "agents of the state executing an American citizen" (which is ridiculous as I am a libertarian).

I am guessing you have spent too much time in the far left echo chamber that is Reddit, where dissenting opinions are purged. Try X.com where everyone from the far left leaders of Minnesota who are glorying in the attention being moved off of their multi billion dollar fraud and forced resignation can share their opinion to anyone else with an idea can share it.

BTW - I come to hacker news to learn about entrepreneurs, programming, etc... not to argue politics. Let's go back to what this forum is for.
by jonhohle | 2026-01-09 04:41:30+00:00
The 13” Trinitron was a TV. Believe it or not, it’s not easy to find the retail package dimensions for CRTs anymore (maybe Crutchfield pages on the Wayback machine have them).

My 25” Trinitron is a TV. It’s no bigger than any other 25” TV of the time (maybe even a little smaller since it’s a late model) I’m being absolute genuine and trying to be as fair as possible.

I’ve spent a lot of time with TVs and monitors. I kept my CRT monitors for far too long because they had better resolution than any LCD panels well into the 2000s. I still have two CRTs for retro games and AV (the previously mentioned Trinitron and a beloved 12” PVM). I have to move them, find space for them, maintain them.

I’m not trying to win anything, just share my experience. I could easily fit inside of a 19” CRT box (curled up). I could barely cover my legs with a 19” LCD box.
by FunnyUsername | 2026-01-09 04:42:02+00:00
1. It's pretty much the same - no press in dangerous areas unless invited and escorted by the military. The only major difference is that Ukraine is >1000x larger, and has safe areas far from any fighting where such press restrictions aren't needed.

2. You're making a bunch of separate accusations without connecting them to the topic at hand, which was press restrictions.
Show HN: Image Scaler – Privacy-focused image resizing with 60-image batches
by nmczzi | 2026-01-09 04:44:02+00:00
Hi HN! I built Image Scaler because I was frustrated with existing free online image tools. They either limit batch processing to a handful of images, require login/registration, or add watermarks. And they usually upload your images to unknown servers.

I originally made this for myself when I needed to resize large batches of product photos. I wanted something fast, lightweight, and privacy-respecting that could handle real workflow volumes without artificial restrictions.

What makes it different:

- Complete client-side processing using Canvas API, so images never leave your browser

- Batch processing up to 60 images simultaneously (most free tools cap at 3-10)

- No login, no watermarks, no usage limits

- Traditional interpolation algorithms (nearest-neighbor, bilinear, bicubic) instead of AI black boxes

- Supports JPG, PNG, and WebP

- Fast and lightweight (built with vanilla JavaScript)

Technical notes: The entire processing pipeline runs in your browser's Canvas API. There's no server upload step, which eliminates privacy concerns and makes it surprisingly fast even for large batches. I chose traditional algorithms over AI because they're transparent, predictable, and work well for most use cases (pixel art, web images, photo preparation).

Feel free to try it out: https://image-scaler.com
by ewoodrich | 2026-01-09 04:45:29+00:00
Ugh, well at least this may be the nudge I need to cancel my Claude Pro subscription... I've already had a bad taste in my mouth watching the rate limits on the plan get worse and worse since I first subscribed and I have a few other subscriptions to fall back on while I've been evaluating different options. I literally never use the regular Claude Chat web UI either, that's pretty much 100% Gemini since I get it via my Google One plan.

OpenCode makes me feel a lot better knowing that my workflow isn't completely dependent on single vendor lock-in, and I generally prefer the UX to Claude Code anyway.
by Rapzid | 2026-01-09 04:45:30+00:00
Anecdotally the people who seem to be most adamant about the efficiency of things like vim or Python are some of the slowest engineers I've worked with when it comes to getting shit done. Even compared to people who don't really care for their preferred tech much lol.

I wonder how many 10x AI bros were 1/10th engineers slacking off most of the week before the fun new tech got them to actually work on stuff.

Obviously not all, and clearly there are huge wins to be had with AI. But I wonder sometimes..
by lemming | 2026-01-09 04:45:31+00:00
This will piss a lot of people off, and seems like a strange move. I get that this was always a hack and against the ToS. But I've been paying Anthropic money every month to do exactly what I would have done with Claude Code, but in another harness that I like better. All they've achieved here is that I am no longer giving them money. Their per-token pricing is really expensive compared to OpenAI, and I like the results from the OpenAI models better too, they're just very slow.

Here's a good benchmark from the brokk team showing the performance per dollar, GPT-5.1 is around half the price of Opus 4.5 for the same performance, it just takes twice as long.

https://brokk.ai/power-ranking?dataset=openround&models=flas...

So as of today, my money is going to OpenAI instead of Anthropic. They probably don't care though, I suspect that not many users are sufficiently keen on alternative harnesses to make a difference to their finances. But by the same token (ha ha), why enforce this? I don't understand why it's so important to them that I'm using Claude Code instead of something else.
by IgorPartola | 2026-01-09 04:46:13+00:00
My favorite is running CC in a screen session. There if I type out a prompt and then just start holding down the backspace key to delete a bunch of characters, at some point they key press refresh rate outruns CC’s brains and it just starts acting like it moved the cursor but didn’t delete anything. It is an embarrassing bug, but one that I suspect wouldn’t be found in automated testing.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-01-09 04:46:46+00:00
>No. The human body actually isn't a 737.

No shit sherlock.

>Let me spell it out then: The mechanisms by which a human body and a 737 work are so vastly different that one may as well be alien to the other. It's quite an apples and oranges comparison.

Should've done this in the first place because no one understands what you're saying otherwise.

The problem internals are different but we are comparing the outcome and that is: human lives. You seem to think this is an invalid comparison. It's not.

>Medicine isn't engineering. Treating patients isn't the same as the design and manufacture of aircraft.

I never said that. The whole point was you made the claim doctors are good problem solvers because they went to medical school.

I said that claim is utter bullshit. They aren't that good and they misdiagnose shit all the time. The point still stands and you delivered evidence to validate that. You said Medicine is fuzzy and engineering exact. You said the problem was vastly more complex as well.

All of this proves the point. The problem is harder, the science is fuzzy. Doctors armed with medical science, which is definitively worse, operating on a problem that is definitively harder will be generally WORSE problem solvers then people in other occupations IF we hold everything else the same. So doctors as a group ARE not good problem solvers. That WAS the point. We are referring to doctors as a group and thus the ONLY point of comparison for problem solvers ARE other occupations.

That's just a given and it follows from your OWN logic.

>That of course doesn't excuse shitty healthcare systems that can clearly do better when stats indicate there's preventable adverse outcomes happening. I just don't think laying the blame at the feet of doctors somehow being too stupid to problem solve is helpful when there's a larger system that's preventing them from doing their best work for their patients. If anything that narrative is counterproductive.

Did I lay the blame on doctors? No. I just said they aren't good problem solvers. That's a fact. That's not blame.

But let's be clear, I agree it's counter productive to lay blame OR call doctors stupid and such a thing WAS not done by me. I was simply making the claim that THEY are NOT good problem solvers. You inserted extra negative sentiment into the "narrative" as an hallucination by your own imagination.

Look, point is you're wrong on every count. Doctors are not good at problem solving period. They're pretty bad at it. The comparison with aviation engineers is apt because those guys are GOOD problem solvers.

And again, it's not the doctors fault that they are incompetent. It's the hardness of the problem and the limitations of the science that make them like this.
by orbital-decay | 2026-01-09 04:47:00+00:00
No, it just leads to subtler cheating. Closet cheaters are much worse than obvious ones, and they thrive in exactly these conditions: the game is not too broken by rage mode cheaters so there's a lot of fair players they're preying on, they have an inconspicuous advantage, and the advantage is gatekept with some entry barrier so there aren't too many of them.

You can have a fully encrypted and attested click-to-photon DRM chain, but it will just a) turn your computer into an appliance and b) will cause even worse cheating.