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by wahnfrieden | 2026-01-02 17:14:03+00:00
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by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-01-02 17:14:07+00:00
I'd hope not. The math is simple and the concepts are simple. Even if you could trust the LLM to give the right advice or calculations, which you can't, there's the opportunity cost of developing those skills yourself. Would you rather have those primary and fundamental skills for the rest of your life or the more secondary skills that are proprietary to the moment and contemporary tools and models? There's an important difference between self sufficience and dependence.
by almosthere | 2026-01-02 17:14:14+00:00
The funny thing about comments about that - the browser is the most HACKED thing. If you were to compare a web page using HTML/JS/etc... to any app from the 80s/90s/00s/etc... it is light years beyond those technologies. So for people that complain about JS/font sizes/etc.. why haven't you all migrated to some form of browser that works for you, or plugin combination that makes things work for you - so you can just STOP. We have all the COOKIE ACCEPT/OPTIONS MADNESS because of people like you.

I mean for f-sake we even have agentic tools that can summarize the thing for you so you don't even have to visit it.
Show HN: Arctic – a terminal-first TUI aggregating multiple AI coding plans
by femtobusa | 2026-01-02 17:14:19+00:00
Arctic is a terminal-first TUI for AI-assisted coding, launched from a CLI.

It supports multiple hosted coding plans (Claude, Codex, Github Copilot, Gemini, etc.) in a single interface and shows usage limits directly in the TUI.

There is no web or desktop app. The focus is fast, local, interactive coding inside the terminal.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-02 17:14:22+00:00
Your own doctor is as likely to be a quack/have quack-like beliefs as you are. Unironically this is true! Better learn to start reading Pubmed!

Doctors/medical associations don't agree with each other on much, even at the very highest levels. For example, the USA and EU have totally different recommendations related to digital rectal exams for aging men. One believes that finding cancer in old men is important, the other claims it's bad because most of those cancers are benign and sticking a finger up an old mans butt often causes its own complications.
by RSHEPP | 2026-01-02 17:14:28+00:00
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by leptons | 2026-01-02 17:14:43+00:00
>IAAL with experience interpreting Federal antitrust complaints

If so, please provide your bona fides. But you won't.

>Apple employs some of the brightest software and hardware security experts in the business.

16. Apple wraps itself in a cloak of privacy, security, and consumer preferences to justify its anticompetitive conduct. Indeed, it spends billions on marketing and branding to promote the self-serving premise that only Apple can safeguard consumers’ privacy and security interests.

I provided the section of the DOJ lawsuit that states that Apple's portrayal of their security stance is nothing more than posturing and anti-competitive. You seem to think Apple are the absolute best in security, but they aren't even close to that. I don't believe that you are a lawyer and more than you believe that I am a security expert.
by throw310822 | 2026-01-02 17:16:44+00:00
Not sure, after reading so many times that Cursor was cooked, I got a license from my company and I'm loving it. I had tried Claude Code before, though only briefly and for small things; I don't really see much difference between one and the other. Cursor (Opus 4.5) has been able to perform complex changes across multiple files, implement whole new features, fix issues in code and project setup... I mean, it just feels like peer programming, and I never got the feeling of running into hard limits. Am I missing much, or Cursor has simply improved recently (or it depends on the license)?
by noef | 2026-01-02 17:17:18+00:00
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by nagaiaida | 2026-01-02 17:17:49+00:00
> you only really need a large amount of ram if you run with deduplication enabled, but very few use cases benefit from deduplication, so the better advice is to ensure you don't enable dedup

a lot of people parrot this, but you can always just check for yourself. the in-memory size of the dedupe tables scales with total writes to datasets with deduplication enabled, so for lots of usecases it makes sense to enable it for smaller datasets where you know it'll be of use. i use it to deduplicate fediverse media storage for several instances (and have for years) and it doesn't come at a noticeable ram cost.
by lucb1e | 2026-01-02 17:18:02+00:00
This is a very interesting thread to read... I can't help but remember the wishes expressed in other news threads such as 'I wish I could just pay for things to not have tracking built in' / 'This vital software component is so underfunded, no wonder this happens'

Now a company offers it and every 2nd comment has the vibe of 'Why would someone pay a subscription for their "own" phone'. I guess that means the former vibe is not something most people actually want?
by throwaway132448 | 2026-01-02 17:18:30+00:00
That’s not change unique to America though. Why would I be thinking of changes that have affected almost every country, when talking about whether Americans recognize how America has changed?

Whether someone remembers the Apollo missions or not is irrelevant to my point. Quite the opposite: It matters more what people who don’t remember think of it, and how distant their assumptions are from the reality of that time.

It’s also funny how you keep bailing on your previous assertions that we’ve dismantled, and cherry pick different parts of every argument in the hope you might finally get a “win”.
by xorcist | 2026-01-02 17:18:30+00:00
Absolutely Cory Doctorow's, for the showmanship alone. Lovely background slides. The message itself might not resonate with everyone.

The talk "Look Up" about unencrypted data over DVB satellite links was also though provoking, both in presentation and in technical content. If there's that much data unencrypted over a mainstream IP link, imagine how much is still on legacy protocols in 2025.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-01-02 17:18:47+00:00
I agree, and it's also worth pointing out the EV market has been artificially buoyed by the use of state-funded incentives to buy electric cars, and we know this because now that those incentives are ending, EV sales are cratering.

In a vacuum, I don't hate the idea of paying people to switch to EV's who can do it, but the problem is especially in America, those benefits are going not to working class people who really need new cars (and who's cars are the most environmentally problematic) but to solidly upper-middle class buyers of incredibly large and impractical EV's which are either sports cars or suburban panzers, that rip through tires and consume vast amounts of lithium for their enormous battery packs, and beat the shit out of our already deteriorating roads.

Additionally we're finding that EV's have a major, probably unsolvable issue: they age much, much faster than ICE vehicles in one particular area: the battery. EV's have the same problem as cellphones effectively; their cells deteriorate with use, and unlike used ICE vehicles for which parts are widely available and usually cheap, it's not even remotely economically feasible to repair this issue. Replacing a battery costs so much you might as well just replace the entire car.
by MobiusHorizons | 2026-01-02 17:18:50+00:00
It is an interesting thought experiment, but would pretty much make standalone copy able creative work like photography, books, music, or movies impossible to sell. Works could be created on commission, but there would be a strong disincentive for producing any work without commission.

1. People who make money from GPL software typically make their money from support contracts or from running a service. Unlike software, photography, books, music and movies don’t require any ongoing maintenance once created to keep them running or up to date. There is some value in the distribution of physical copies, but digital distribution would have almost no value.

2. Math is pretty much in this boat already. Most math work is either directly paid for by a company that consumes it, or is academic work with incredibly high barriers to entry and constant hustling for grant funding. I wouldn’t wish that on any field, would you?

3. Take for example Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. While the characters are new, they draw upon a rich mythology from the public domain (eg dragons, goblins, wizards, witches, etc).

It is an interesting discussion, but I expect removing the freedom to use public domain works outside of the public domain would was to very bad outcomes.
by eviks | 2026-01-02 17:19:16+00:00
I'm amused by all the plaintext defenders not being able to parse this simplest of the file formats!

> if you view the site on desktop ... , or mobile browser in desktop-mode (for me at least), or the source, the line-breaks form proper paragraphs

Nope. The first paragraph consists of 3 lines (#9,10,11), so has 2 extra linebreaks (both in desktop and source form). The next one is lines #13-21, so has 8 extra linebreaks. Because of that it doesn't reflow properly, so looks bad at most of the screen widths

> not like any text is missing or moved.

It is moved due to linebreaks, here is a simple example: the notation of the numbers is force-moved to the next line instead of being adjacent to the numbers, this hurts your "perfect" readability

> re characters 32 to 126

> (decimal)

There is nothing perfect about readability of the poorly formatted/laid out text! And doing everything "plainly" simply robs you of the ability to reach the expressiveness available even to the cave man
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-02 17:19:16+00:00
As bad as many celebrities/politicians are (I'm waiting/fantasizing for "cheeto in chief" to sit in the same jail cell as "bubba"), the real quacks are organized groups like Chiropractors, "Naturopaths", Multi-level-marketers, etc.

My medical insurance will pay for several literally fake/quack treatments because of this crap. If you want to wage war against Quackery I better see you going after "big Chiropractor" first.
by ComputerGuru | 2026-01-02 17:19:19+00:00
I’m primarily a ZFS-on-FreeBSD kind of guy but I repeatedly had need of doing ZFS-on-Linux recently and after a couple of times wrote it up for others. There are a lot of these guides, the difference is that this one tries to be idiomatic, using “native” tooling (eg systemd, love it or hate it) to do the job as “correctly” on Linux as possible:

https://neosmart.net/blog/zfs-on-linux-quickstart-cheat-shee...
Show HN: I made presets for Darktable which mimic Fujifilm's Film Simulations
by jssfr | 2026-01-02 17:19:36+00:00
Fujifilm cameras make really beautiful JPEGs thanks to their Film Simulation feature (where they mimic the look of certain analogue film types), but sometimes I want to do things for which you need the RAW files (like sharpening or local contrast effects or white balance fixes or whatever else would suffer under 8-bit/channel and/or JPEG artifacts).

darktable is my RAW editor of choice, but it doesn't make your edits look like the out-of-camera JPEGs by default. Quite the contrary, the defaults generally need some love to bring out a nice edit of an image.

To solve (pun intended) that, I wrote a Python tool called dtsolve. It generates a darktable preset (style) from a pair of images (OOC JPEG reference and RAW) and I used that to make styles for almost all Fujifilm Film Simulations.

The linked announcement post includes an interactive widget to try them out in the browser and download links for darktable users to try at home.

Have fun!

(I'm going to write a follow-up post at some point to detail more how dtsolve came to be and how it works.)
by BatonTrucking | 2026-01-02 17:19:52+00:00
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by leptons | 2026-01-02 17:19:57+00:00
Don't tell me what to do.

You completely missed the clues, so I informed you of the context.

>The person I was responding to claimed they were “forced” to do use a “less secure” browser despite the existence of alternatives like Android.

Now you're being disingenuous. So now you seem to think that Android has the best security people? Before you said it was Apple.

But then you keep trying to boost Apple, when they are the tyrants, and they are the ones being sued by the DOJ - notice how Google is not being sued by the DOJ for anything they did with Android? Just Apple for what they are doing with iOS and their app store.
by coder543 | 2026-01-02 17:20:04+00:00
I meant large MoE models are more socially accepted now. They were not when Llama 4 launched, and I believe that worked against the Llama 4 models.

The Llama 4 models are MoE models, in case you are unaware, since it feels like your comment feels was implying they were dense models.
by callumprentice | 2026-01-02 17:20:05+00:00
I agree with an earlier post that asserted "net worth = assets - liabilities" but I'd like to do better at understanding what that really means.

Some are easy like the size of your bank balance. Others are much harder.

For example, one asset we have is our home and there are many websites out there that tell you how much it's worth but they each vary an awful lot and change dramatically - so much so sometimes that any savings you've made in the same period are eclipsed.

Similarly, the 401k I've been building up for years seems like a decent amount but trying to calculate what it's worth after taxes and therefore how much you'll have to spend each month seems unknowable.

I think the same is true of investment accounts. If we seeded one with $500 and it's now worth $250, it's easy to think your net worth has risen by $250 but it really hasn't when taxes, fees and who knows what else is taken into account.
by mzajc | 2026-01-02 17:20:28+00:00
> What happens if I cancel my subscription?

> You can cancel at any time. Without an active subscription, certain core services and privacy features will be limited. To keep your MC03 fully functional, secure, and up to date, an active subscription is required.

Out of curiosity (I'm definitely NOT going to buy a Phone-as-a-Service), what exactly happens when you cancel your subscription? Does the smartphone brick itself? Does it let you flash a sane operating system that doesn't treat you as a cash cow?
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-01-02 17:20:41+00:00
> We already tried out trusting the users and it turns out that a few bad apples can spoil the bunch.

You say this as if they're a guest on your machine and not the other way around.

It's not a symmetrical relationship. If companies don't trust me, they don't get my money. And if I don't trust them, they don't get my money.

The only direction that gets them paid is if I trust them. For that to happen they don't have to go out of their way to support my use cases, buy they can't be going out of their way to limit them either.

> designed in a way that security actually exists

When some remote party has placed countermeasures against how you want to use your computer, that's the opposite of security. That's malware.
by Havoc | 2026-01-02 17:20:57+00:00
> ask it explicitly to separate the implementation plan in phases

This has made a big difference my side. prompt.md that is mostly very natural language markdown. Then ask LLM to turn that into a plan.md that contains phases emphasising that each should be fairly selfcontained. This usually needs some editing but is mostly fine. And then just have it implement each phase one by one.
by ndyg | 2026-01-02 17:21:15+00:00
I'm using fjall v2 in the Rust event streaming store, cross.stream (`xs`) https://github.com/cablehead/xs

`xs` is for personal scale so fjall is fairly overkill performance-wise. marvin_j97's benchmark work and deep dives into different database systems is incredible though. Looking forward to updating to v3.
by theknarf | 2026-01-02 17:21:34+00:00
There's a limited number of resources on the earth. There's limited farmland, limited land for property, commercial properties, etc. Then there is limited amount of water, precious minerals in the ground, oil, etc.

If one group of peoples wealth increases a lot faster than everyone else then that means that over time they end up owning a bigger piece of our limited resources. The natural outcome of this is the same thing that happens in every game of monopoly, some people end up owning everything, while other people have to rent everything and have nothing to own of their own.

Imagine being born into a world very everything (land and other resources) are owned by a small group of people and you have no outcome in life where you could ever own anything? Never buy your own house, never start and own your own company. A world where everything is divided at birth between the people that own this world and the people that don't.
by scottydelta | 2026-01-02 17:21:41+00:00
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by why-o-why | 2026-01-02 17:21:42+00:00
Excellent!

This discussion will proceed as follows: you will present a laundry list of examples, and if I answer NO to any of them, you win. It will play out as the illustration of the fallacy of all or nothing: if I am not 100% pure, then I am 100% wrong.

What you will fail to understand, is that in the real world "doing the best one can" still has an impact. So I might not answer 100% all of your questions, but it doesn't mean my decisions don't have any impact. The absurdity can be illustrated by rewording: "if we can't prevent all crime, we should stop enforcing it", or "if you can't feed all the hungry children, we shouldn't bother feeding any".

Unfortunately for you, I will not play your purity test game so that you can feel smug, but I will say that I do my best and I pay attention, and whenever feasible I vote with my wallet to buy from or invest in companies with stated goals that align with human rights, and I will feel disappointment over not making the "best possible choice" at every opportunity, but that will position me to do better next time. Because perfection is the enemy of progress.