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by zahlman | 2026-01-04 07:10:36+00:00
The meta post describing the policy of banning AI-generated answers from the site (https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/421831) is the most popular of all time. Company interference with moderator attempts to enforce that policy lead to a moderator strike. The community is vehemently against the company's current repeated attempts to sneak AI into the system, which have repeatedly produced embarrassing results (see for example https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425081 and https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425162 ; https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/427807 ; https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425766 etc.).

What you propose is a complete non-starter.
by jmyeet | 2026-01-04 07:11:32+00:00
My interest in literature lies at the intersection with politics and society.

I resonate with the principle that art asks questions. In decades and centuries past, art was particularly important to the masses to question society at a time when that was often forbidden, forcing the use of metaphors. Literature, plays, opera and so on.

So a result of this is that as a general rule conservative political movements cannot produce art because they don't want people to ask questions. They want to give them answers that they take unquestionably in a similar way to how religious dogma is propagated.

So you see how fascist movements, most notably the Third Reich, have treated art and have sought "objective" beauty in an acceptable aesthetic and have denounced actual art as degenerate, even subversive, leading to such terms as "cultural Bolshevism".

So I see the Great Gatsby as questioning the very society of the Roaring Twenties where you might otherwise see it more superficially as simply depicting that era. It's historically noteworthy that it was released in 1925, well before the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that was (IMHO) the inevitable consequence of an era of great inequality where wealth was accumulated, even then, through financialization. Lest we forget Nick was a bond salesman.

And on top of this system we have Tom and Daisy who are essentially parasitic, who float through life with no regard for the consequences of their actions, who produce and give back nothing in spite of their wealth and status. Other, most notably Gatsby himself, pay the price for their reckless disregard.

I first read the Great Gatsby before the dot-com bust but it seems like you can draw many parallels with the post-GFC tech boom. This is why, for me at least, the Great Gatsby is inherently anti-capitalist.
by nunez | 2026-01-04 07:11:37+00:00
A more accurate metaphor comparing the gym to LLMs IMO is using cable machines in place of old-school barbell and dumbbell work.

You can --- and people have --- built strength-focused programming around cable machines. "They're safer and work target muscle groups more efficiently" is usually the argument. A Life Fitness Synergy system is also much more practical to own inside of one's house than a power rack and 1000+ lb of plates that will make quick work of most home flooring.

This strategy works. It's sure as shit better than doing nothing. But quadriceps, delts and lats don't work in isolation. They rely on secondary and tertiary muscles and entire kinetic chains to help them accomplish tasks.

Cables do hit muscle groups directly, but they also lead to diminishing strength and physique returns much more quickly than boring traditional weight training. They also lead to problematic muscle imbalances that, ironically, can cause overuse injuries later in life (super heavy leg extensions with improper knee flexion comes to mind).
by realusername | 2026-01-04 07:11:43+00:00
You can't be serious, Xcode is the worse IDE I ever used, while Android Studio isn't great, it cannot be compared to that.

Xcode is so sluggish it's slower than an electron app despite being native, the xcode app upload is so broken even Apple released a third party tool to bypass their own IDE and its undocumented config files look like from the 90s and do not work well with git.

The UI is sort of okay but that's not going to cut it. You can feel the decades of cruft in this IDE, it feel like using Borland.
by chrischen | 2026-01-04 07:12:50+00:00
This doesn't mean that it's over for SO. It just means we'll probably trend towards more quality over quantity. Measuring SO's success by measuring number of questions asked is like measuring code quality by lines of code. Eventually SO would trend down simply by advancements of search technology helping users find existing answers rather than asking new ones. It just so happened that AI advanced made it even better (in terms of not having to need to ask redundant questions).
by Bayram | 2026-01-04 07:13:09+00:00
2 thoughts:
1) they are, but they wont catch unique patterns very specific to your project
2) privacy - afaik they only train if you have model improvement enabled.

here is their privacy policy: https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10023580-is-my-data-u...

but, again, in my case this is more about my project/user specific corrections and preferences
Show HN: Website Blocker – browser extension that raised my productivity
by sergey_commit | 2026-01-04 07:13:40+00:00
The solution concerns work/life balance. Many procrastinate during working hours, getting distracted by entertainment content and social media, or work on work-related sites during their free time instead of resting.

This extension helps control work/life balance by setting time limits for accessing websites. Simply put, it's a Website Blocker with a focus mode and a timer.

I use all my products myself, and this one is no exception. The results in numbers:
1. Sleep. I started going to bed 2-3 hours earlier = + 1 hour of sleep on average.
2. Peace of mind. Since I no longer access work-related sites during my free time
3. Efficiency. Now, a strict schedule for access or a timer limits entertainment content during work hours, increasing concentration during work hours and rest during free time
4. Eco. Limiting access to unnecessary sites - can be used as a "Parental Mode"

In my opinion, the usefulness is super obvious!
by zahlman | 2026-01-04 07:14:28+00:00
> Question can be marked as duplicate without an answer.

No, they literally cannot. The only valid targets for closure are existing questions that have an upvoted or accepted answer. The system will not permit the closure (or vote to close) otherwise.

If you mean "without writing a direct answer to the new question first", that is the exact point of the system. Literally all you have to do is click the link and read the existing answers.

> it feels insulting because the other is asked in such a weird way, that no-one will find the old when they search for the new

Sure. But someone else knew about the old question, found it for you, and directly pointed you at it so that you could get an answer immediately. And did all of this for free.

And, by doing this, now everyone else who thinks of your phrasing for the question, will be immediately able to find the old question, without even having to wait for someone to recognize the duplicate.
by peter_d_sherman | 2026-01-04 07:15:31+00:00
That's true.

Coke and Pepsi dominate the worldwide drink market, but due to the immense size of the market, there are always up-and-coming competitors.

Go to your local superstore, supermarket, or your local convenience store.

You'll find Coke and Pepsi, lots of it, but you'll also find no-name drinks and sodas from drink companies that are not as well established yet or well known.

That those exist is a good thing, at least for consumers, at least for those that consume, because the root of all consumer prosperity brought on by capitalism (global trade = capitalism, regardless of the names of countries involved) comes from the relentless competition brought on by two or more companies, ideally as many as possible...

We would not have the super high performing desktop computers we have today if it were not for the historic early competition between AMD and Intel (later entered by other CPU manufacturers), and we would not have choice if it were not for competition.

Getting back to DRAM manufacturers, The first three do dominate 95+% of the market as of 2026.

But there might be some interesting up-and-coming smaller companies to watch...

Let's remember that OpenAI came from basically nowhere -- to give Google a run for its money -- as did Google with Microsoft's behemoth 20+ years ago...

What new DRAM manufacturer might be the next up-and-coming DRAM manufacturer in the space?

Well, we don't as-of-yet know... but the space is an interesting one to watch, to be sure!

But you are correct!

The first three do currently dominate 95+% of the market as of 2026...
by transitorykris | 2026-01-04 07:15:42+00:00
Spreadsheets can work but get clumsy really fast. Bottle cost can vary as costs change (case discounts, price changes.. and holding inventory of an item across multiple purchases), audit logging (spelunking into the undo history), multiple staff interacting with the system.. All solved problems, just not at the price point or UX we need at this scale.
by gusgus01 | 2026-01-04 07:15:50+00:00
Estimates of health insurance fraud is also around $30 billion, so same order of magnitude, and considering the margins of error and the fact that they are estimates, by definition, it makes it hard to say public health insurance is more fraud ridden then private. Plus due to the inherent differences there are probably differing avenues of research and estimating possible between private and public insurance, and heck whole different forms of draining money that might affect ease of uncovering the level of fraud between private and public, which would make it have an even larger margin of error.
by avidiax | 2026-01-04 07:16:53+00:00
The proposal is that IPv4+ would be interpretable as an IPv4 packet. Either the IP header is extended, or we add another protocol layer for the IPv4+ bits (IPv4+ is another envelope for the user payload).

DNS is like today: A and AAAA records for IPv4 and IPv4+ respectively.

Core routers do not need to know about IPv4+, and might never know.

The transition is similar to 6to4. The edge router does translation to allow IPv4+ hosts to connect to IPv4 hosts. IPv4 hosts are unable to connect to IPv4+ directly (only via NAT). So it has the similar problem to IPv6 that you ideally want all servers to have a full IPv4 address.

What you don't have is a completely parallel addressing system, requirements to upgrade all routers (only edge routers for 4+ networks), requirements to have your ISP cooperate (they can just give you an IPv4 and you handle IPv4+ with your own router), and no need that the clients have two stacks operating at once.

It's essentially a better NAT, one where the clients behind other NATs can directly connect, and where the NAT gradually disappears completely.
by stephenbez | 2026-01-04 07:18:58+00:00
The meta analysis is inconclusive. I would not use that as evidence to back up the idea that you should avoid any UV exposure. I’d describe this as a complicated situation where reasonable people could disagree.

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What did we find?: Our findings are mixed. Exposure to sunlight has been reported both to increase and to decrease your risk of dying. Alongside its harmful effect on skin cancer, sunlight may help prevent other types of cancer. However, there were issues with the amount of data available, as well as the quality of some of the data that was available, so we can’t be certain about the findings. Currently, there is not strong enough evidence to alter sun exposure advice and so people should continue to follow the guidance.
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I’m not the original poster but one thing I look at is recommendations from bodies in other countries that have more experience with the issue. During COVID I found countries that had experience with SARS had better guidance than the US.

Similarly Australia has more than 2x higher skin cancer risk. The American Academy of Dermatology recommends even people with dark skin wear sunscreen daily, even if they don’t go outside. Australia doesn’t recommend this noting the tradeoffs of having higher risk of vitamin D deficiency.
by trvz | 2026-01-04 07:19:44+00:00
Making the site mobile friendly would take about five lines of HTML/CSS changes, but I recall him snubbing someone somewhere who asked for it.

Whenever I listen to one of his podcasts, I notice audio quality being worse than appropriate for someone who has been making a chunk of their living from podcasts for years.

I've found unsubscribing to be a remedy.
by gmarcon | 2026-01-04 07:19:45+00:00
We have been using Odoo for some specific processes in the company in the past.
There are some bright ideas based on strong fundamentals.

Regarding the strong fundamentals:
- A clever, extremely flexible, roles/permissions system. It is based on giving CRUD permissions to user roles, allowing to define access rules based on the fields (for instance a READ access with a record rule [('user_id', '=', user.id)] would allow to read only own records). In most of the software permissions are expressed in the code, in Odoo they are abstracted and enforced at ORM level.
- The custom ORM system is very strong and allows to create objects and fields at runtime. You can create a model and its fields and start using it right away without restarting the server.

Some of the smaller bright ideas:
- Records navigation is rather smart: the pagination system allows to manually define the records range to be seen avoiding the usual "records per page" dropdown; standard filters can be defined using the same domain syntax from access rules above (the filter for "My records" would be [('user_id', '=', user.id)]).
- Many views use kanban, I find them extremely practical to get a good overview, in particular for CRM opportunities and candidates screening processes.
by yanhangyhy | 2026-01-04 07:21:35+00:00
Personally, aside from Russian literature, I now prefer American literature, which I think is underestimated in China. I really like that film adaptation, but what the film expresses is something else, not the same as the novel’s core theme.

My own understanding is that American literature has at least three themes that are very distinctive and different from Europe. One is the depiction of desolation and human loneliness before the American continent was developed into a prosperous land. Another is the pursuit of the American Dream, where people achieve success through relentless struggle. The third is what this novel expresses: what happens after success? Money and career cannot solve all problems; people need more to fill an entire life.

I think this kind of contradiction is expressed most clearly in American literature and is also most worth articulating within the American cultural context. This is because its commodity economy and social transformation have been too successful, and it lacks the kind of historical entanglements that Europe has to dilute these problems. As a result, this sense of emptiness stands out even more sharply and demands a more urgent response.

I don’t know if there are horror films like this, but I once saw something similar in the TV series WandaVision. She creates an illusion in which she and Vision are a standard middle-class couple, well-fed and well-clothed, with the visuals in black and white. This made it feel like a horror story to me. Why? Because you feel as if they lack nothing, yet they seem like empty shells: their lives are filled with commodities, and all their actions seem stripped of a spiritual dimension.

Of course, I don’t think that America’s secular success means it has no spiritual world; rather, the former has been so successful that the latter has been greatly neglected. The purpose of American literature should be to depict, under the success of this commodity economy, what people’s inner lives have actually become, and what they ought to pursue. This, to me, is its most distinctive quality.
by amrocha | 2026-01-04 07:22:07+00:00
Yes, I am, and yes I don’t particularly mind the immigrants.

Even if I did mind them, venezuelan immigrants are preferable to the US military invading my neighbours.

The TIAR? The one that says an attack on one is an attack on all, which both USA and Venezuela are members of? Fat lot of good that did to protect them.

But I don’t know why I bother to reply to you when given your “farmers with sticks” comment it’s clear that you’re a racist asshole.
by zahlman | 2026-01-04 07:22:22+00:00
> Moderators used to edit my posts and reword what i wrote, which is unacceptable. My posts were absolutely peaceful and not inflammatory.

99.9% probability the people who made those edits a) were not moderators; b) were acting completely in accordance with established policy (please read: "Why do clear, accurate, appropriately detailed posts still get edited?" https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/403176)

Why do you think you should be the one who gets to decide whether that's "acceptable"? The site existed before you came to it, and it has goals, purposes and cultural norms established beforehand. It's your responsibility, before using any site on the Internet that accepts user-generated content, to try to understand the site's and community's expectations for that content.

On Stack Overflow, the expectations are:

1. You license the content to the site and to the community, and everyone is allowed to edit it. (This is also explicitly laid out in the TOS.)

2. You are contributing to a collaborative effort to build a useful resource for the programming community: a catalog of questions whose answers can be useful to many people, not just to yourself.

3. Content is intended to be matter-of-fact and right to the point, and explicitly not conversational. You are emphatically not participating in a discussion forum.
by auntienomen | 2026-01-04 07:22:36+00:00
There is a good ending to Game of Thrones: evil wins, everyone dies. All the fools who pursued their own interests rather than face an annihilating threat get annihilated. It's right there in the show's motto. "Winter is coming."

The writers just lacked the courage to do it. They tried to tack a Disney ending onto a tragedy.
by matsemann | 2026-01-04 07:23:04+00:00
Had a similar experience. Asked a question about a new language feature in java 8 (parallell streams), and one of the language designers (Goetz) answered my question about the intention of how to use it.

An LLM couldn't have done the same. Someone would have to ask the question and someone answer it for indexing by the LLM. If we all just ask questions in closed chats, lots of new questions will go unanswered as those with the knowledge have simply not been asked to write the answers down anywhere.
by ulfw | 2026-01-04 07:23:58+00:00
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by sedatk | 2026-01-04 07:24:55+00:00
SO has lost against LLMs because it has insistently positioned itself as a knowledge base rather than a community. The harsh moderation, strict content policing, forbidden socialization, lack of follow mechanics etc have all collectively contributed to it.

They basically made a bet because they wanted to be the full anti-thesis of ad-ridden garbage-looking forums. Pure information, zero tolerance for humanity, sterile looking design.

They achieved that goal, but in the end, they dug their own grave too.

LLMs didn’t admonish us to write our questions better, or simply because we asked for an opinion. They didn’t flag, remove our post with no advance notice. They didn’t forbid to say hello or thanks, they welcomed it. They didn’t complain when we asked something that was asked many times. They didn’t prevent us from deleting our own content.

Oh yeah, no wonder nobody bothers with SO anymore.

It’s a good lesson for the future.
by johnwheeler | 2026-01-04 07:26:17+00:00
I created the UI and the internal circuits but it's a hundred percent DSP. The SST206 is a recreation of the SST282 (in DSP) and he expanded the bandwidth from 7 kHz to 22 kHz, so it doesn't produce distortion but it can get dark like the original. But yeah so the SST206 it's not grungy like the original so it lacks some of the character. It makes up for it in delay time.
by why-o-why | 2026-01-04 07:26:32+00:00
create a new account every few weeks and don't forget to mix you you'er writin' style to fakeout stylometrics. its all against the rules but i disagree with HN terms. internet points don't mean crapola to me. but i like dropping in here every now and then to chit caht. i should have the right to be anonymous and non-deidentifiable here and speak freely. of IP address ---are--- tracked here and you can easily be shadowbanned. but i don't say anything awful, but i am naturally an asshat and i just can't seem to change my spots. 90% of the time i'm ok, but 10% i'm just a raving tool.
by costa_b | 2026-01-04 07:26:52+00:00
Sorry, I'm not impressed much. First of all, their presence has a huge impact on the existing infrastructure, and let's face it, these corporations are not doing improvements out of their goodness of their hearts and because they care about the people that live in those areas. They do it because, pragmatically, they need those upgrades to function in a longer run. Secondly, it is indicative of the state of the current infrastructure and the fact that cityhalls don't have money to improve the infrastructure just for the sake of the locals. I've seen a documentary with a family affected by a datacentre built by meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3_YYf0ty4s

I totally identify with Rob Pyke's reaction, because that's how I feel about generative AI every day, especially when more and more articles are published about the negative impact generative AI has on the normal people and especially kids who are very vulnerable to manipulation detrimental to their very own existence. The tech bros don't give a rats tail about us. You can reason and analyse all you want about who does what and whose fault is it, but at the end of the day it would not have happened if this technology didn't exist or it was not pushed so aggressively by all the big corporations. Personally, I hope the bubble will burst and generative AI will crawl back into the hellhole where it came from.
by pjmlp | 2026-01-04 07:26:59+00:00
Kind of, because this always has to go via JNI in the end, given that 80% of the API surface is only exposed via Java.

These efforts are always to celebrate, however they always end up with leaky abstractions.

Just like on the other way around one needs to be aware of Objective-C for success, or .NET/COM on Windows.