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by rpdillon | 2026-01-10 17:35:03+00:00
I think what you're running into is that you have a different attitude than some of us do about technology. I've been using computers for a very long time as well, but I don't feel a sense of entitlement to the latest and greatest features because it often comes with other compromises regarding freedom and control. Because Linux is several years behind Windows and Mac in terms of adopting those technologies, there is an evergreen argument in every thread about Linux which boils down to "Why can't it do this thing from the last four years?"

This is uniformly tiring and uninteresting. I've been using 1920x1080 displays for 25 years and they're just fine. A retina display is not necessary to do anything that I need. Similarly with these requirements about particular thermals and particular battery lifetime. I can buy a battery and I can find a wall outlet.

You're comparing not having those features to having your husband assassinated during a play. But I don't think a lack of those features ruins the computing experience the way having your husband assassinated would ruin the play. The thing that ruins the play for me is when they chain me to my seat and tell me I have to watch the whole thing while they pin my eyelids open. And that's how I feel about using Windows or Mac OS.

So to turn your original comment around, Windows and Mac OS can call me when they allow me to configure my system as I see fit, and not shove ads for their auxiliary services in my face every time I try to start a program or modify a setting.
by einpoklum | 2026-01-10 17:35:30+00:00
> after about a day with gnome actually said it's the first desktop environment that he liked more than Windows 95.

You have to choose that?

I'm a long-time Linux user, and I don't like GNOME better as a desktop environment. I'll take a Windows 95-like desktop UI over GNOME any day of the week...
by conartist6 | 2026-01-10 17:35:35+00:00
To reply more directly to the difference in philosophy around merging diffs, I think the git philosophy on preferring to expose potential conflicts rather than glossing over them is basically exactly right, because it creates a system to resolve ambiguity by capturing user intent. If I have any complaint it's that some types of ambiguities are not captured because they are not the result of textually overlapping changes. The canonical example would be a scenario where one developer renames a function and another adds a new usage of it. Git can see no text conflict and so it glosses over the semantic problem. A semantic system would be able to expose not only all the potential conflicts/ambiguities that git can see, but also some that it cannot. And in the case of an add/rename conflict the system should just handle it because the semantic intent of each change was recorded in the system: not "change these 8 call sites" but "change every site that calls this function."
by schmuckonwheels | 2026-01-10 17:35:59+00:00
>including the framework schizophrenia, as Microsoft shifted between Win32, UWP, WPF

Ah yes, and the solution being presented is Linux, with Xlib, Motif, Qt, GTK, and your choice of 167 different desktop environments. Don't forget the whole Wayland schism.

Mac is no better, shifting SDKs every few years, except Apple goes one step further by breaking all legacy applications so you are forced to upgrade. Can't be schizo when you salt the earth and light a match to everything that came before the Current Thing.
by MegaDeKay | 2026-01-10 17:36:12+00:00
> What I think could really push Linux desktop forward is if various PC gaming influencers started doing content on how to game on Linux. Given that it is not just viable now but actively sometimes better than on Windows it would make for good content AND show people an alternative.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but Gamers Nexus at 2.57M subscribers is working on Linux Gaming Benchmarks with help from Wendel at Level1Techs [0]. Steve bemoans the shitshow that Windows has become all the time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovOx4_8ajZ8
by pico303 | 2026-01-10 17:36:37+00:00
As a software engineer who has developed on Macs (and Linux) for most of my career and has recently started a job that requires me to use Windows again, I can tell you from experience that Office on the Mac is far, far more stable, easy to use, and considerably faster than on Win11. Microsoft’s macOS team are really good at their jobs.

But then I don’t find macOS to be slow or a buggy mess, so mileage may vary.
by kazinator | 2026-01-10 17:36:49+00:00
Right we need some additional state for ampassan and whether counseling is available and such, not just the raw position.

However, am I mistaken? The article appears to be neglecting to record one bit of information: whose turn is it for this board position, black or white? If you're going to care about whether castling is available and other such game state, that is not complete without knowing whose turn it is for that position.
by palata | 2026-01-10 17:36:54+00:00
> From an American perspective, it’s not the “rhetoric,” it’s just “noticing.”

Yes, but that does not go against the parent comment. When you grow up in it, you have it in you, and it's difficult to question it. If you ask Americans who live abroad, they often have a more nuanced perspective.

Apart from American finding it better in the US than everywhere else in the world (your "noticing"), there is this tendency from Americans to genuinely believe that the rest of the world agrees with that. "Everybody wants to live in the US because it is the best country in the world".

And this is very, very far from true. It's not just about money. The US have a lot of fossil energy, which is good for their economy, which is good for their military. The US is a big and rich country, which makes it powerful. But that is bad for the countries and people who are threatened by the US (and recently the US have been militarily threatening countries who until then were seeing the US as an ally or at least a friend), and it is bad for our survival (through the climate and biodiversity issues).

Tons of people outside of the US wouldn't want to live in the US, even if it meant earning more money. And on top of that, tons of people outside of the US feel threatened by the US, for good reasons.
Show HN: 15 Years of StarCraft II Balance Changes Visualized Interactively
by stared | 2026-01-10 17:37:04+00:00
Hi HN!

"Never perfect. Perfection goal that changes. Never stops moving. Can chase, cannot catch." - Abathur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw_GN3v-0Ls)

StarCraft 2 is one of the most balanced games ever - thanks to Blizzard’s pursuit of perfection. It has been over 15 years since the release of Wings of Liberty and over 10 years since the last installment, Legacy of the Void. Yet, balance updates continue to appear, changing how the game plays. Thanks to that, StarCraft is still alive and well!

I decided to create an interactive visualization of all balance changes, both by patch and by unit, with smooth transitions.

I had this idea quite a few years ago, yet LLMs made it possible - otherwise, I wouldn't have had the time to code or to collect all changes from hundreds of patches (not all have balance updates). It took way more time than expected - both dealing with parsing data and dealing with D3.js transitions.

Pretty much pure vibe coding with Claude Code and Opus 4.5 - while constantly using Playwright skills and consulting Gemini 3 Pro (https://github.com/stared/gemini-claude-skills). While Opus 4.5 was much better at executing, it was often essential to use Gemini to get insights, to get cleaner code, or to inspect screenshots. The difference in quality was huge.

Still, it was tricky, as LLMs do not know D3.js nearly as well as React. The D3.js transition part is a thing that sometimes I think would be better to do manually, and only use LLMs for details. But it was also a lesson.

Enjoy!

Source code is here: https://github.com/stared/sc2-balance-timeline
by snek_case | 2026-01-10 17:37:12+00:00
Ubuntu also tried this with Unity. They were hoping that Ubuntu would become more popular on tablets if they had a more tablet-friendly UI... They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it and basically nobody used Linux on a tablet. It was kind of a disaster. Ubuntu is a commercial entity though, so yeah, prone to the same kind of bad management decisions. as Microsoft and Apple. At least with Linux you have options. Personally I just want Linux to keep becoming more reliable over time, and have better support for energy-saving features on laptops. It's sad that Ubuntu still has issues waking up from sleep mode in 2025. Somehow those problems haven't been fixed in 20 years.
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 17:37:20+00:00
Dark Sky almost always over predicted rain for my area. I think that was kind of their strategy. That said, I very much miss Dark Sky on android.

Also I really like a tool called Forecast Advisor. https://www.forecastadvisor.com/ . It shows you the accuracy of various forecasting services for your area.

I use it whenever I travel. I don't stick with one forecast site because depending on the terrain/location their accuracy changes drastically.

Certain models are better for certain geographical features depending on the location. I tend to hangout around a lot of mountains and the difference in forecast models makes a huge difference.
by davemo | 2026-01-10 17:37:24+00:00
I swapped to Bazzite on my gaming rig (5800x3D, 64gb DDR4, 4080 Super 16gb) and it's been fantastic. I tried going with Omarchy for a bit to try and have that machine do double duty as a dev/gaming machine, but I felt like the gaming experience on Omarchy is a second-class citizen compared to what the Bazzite experience is optimizing for, and I realized that the Hyprland setup and tiling window manager adds a lot more friction for my normal gaming needs. (I just want to have a few Path of Exile 2 windows open to tab between while gaming, and the tiling window setup in Omarchy had me hitting more hiccups between fullscreen and windowed mode than I care to troubleshoot on my gaming rig).

Immutability in OS updates is also something I didn't know I needed until I experienced it on Bazzite; pretty advantageous as a gamer using Linux with nVidia hardware these days.

This is my second go around on Bazzite, YMMV but I opted for Gnome over KDE this time and have had zero issues running the games I am into (WoW, PoE2) and no funky window management issues that I seemed to run into with KDE.

I'm considering a move to a Framework machine in the very near future, and still need to settle on a distro for dev; most of that is done on an M3 Max Macbook these days.
by crazygringo | 2026-01-10 17:37:58+00:00
Got it. Yeah, where I am it's usually pretty obvious that it's probably going to rain in the next hour or two, so I look at the chart to see exactly when. I don't rely on notifications. So for me the accuracy seems the same. But if you're basing it on notifications then I could totally see why you could have a different impression.

I think -- and I might be wrong, since this is from over a decade ago -- that when I first used Dark Sky, I ended up disabling notifications because it would constantly warn me of precipitation, but then when I checked the graph there was none because the model had since updated, and I wound up turning them off. So notification thresholds are probably something hard to get right, and what is appropriate for one geographic area might not be optimal for another.
by anal_reactor | 2026-01-10 17:38:01+00:00
Taskbar icons in the middle are a symbol of general direction Windows is going towards. It's the tipping point where we say enough is enough. We're tired of anti-consumer changes. It's different from Vista or 8 which failed despite MS believing in it. This time MS gives us shit and they know it and they don't care. Microsoft doesn't hold the entire PC OS market hostage like it was the case only ten years ago, and if your use case is development + video games + porn, then Linux is a viable option, which definitely wasn't the case ten years ago.
by mattlondon | 2026-01-10 17:38:05+00:00
I know it's a joke, but if you clip a curb or even a slightly chunky branch at 15mph in one of these EVERYONE DIES (...only partially joking)

In a crash it'll fold up like the tin can it is, even against a car of a similar vintage and size (no comment on the cows). Up against even a modern supermini and you're literal mince meat, let alone a modern SUV. At least you won't suffer long.

So if you are off roading or on a snowy road, hopefully you won't slip into a tree or roll over. Modern cars - even "small" ones -are heavier partly because they are substantially safer. A crash that would have had to have you cut out of the wreckage by the fire brigade (potentially losing a limb or two in the process) is now the sort of thing you can walk away from. Yes even in "small" modern cars (you do not need a SUV for safety).

It's night and day really - just go look at the archive on EuroNCAP.. In the crash tests that left 90s and early 2000s cars as unrecognisable mounds of broken and twisted metal (e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9a8PTeFDaYU which was a car that was probably 10 years more advanced than the c15 in terms of safety...) now barely even break the windscreen of modern super-mini cars (e.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NaWVepTJTGw&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB). Amazing.
by sedawkgrep | 2026-01-10 17:38:25+00:00
> I get all of that... but it just sounds like you're arguing that either using RFC1918, or someone's inability to route to your router, is a firewall.

Yes and no. The effect is the same; packets are dropped. If you have no path to a target and no way to create one, it's a security barrier.

> Neither of these things are NAT!

You're right. They're a *result* of having a NAT boundary.

> They can run `ip route add 10.5.5.5 dev vpn`/`via <next-hop>` just fine if they happen to be in the right place to do it, and your NAT won't help you.

'If they happen to be in the right place to do it' is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here. You'd have to have root access on a compromised host, e.g., a linux system, immediately adjacent to the router/firewall/VPN doing NAT. And boy would that be a stupid design for an enterprise, and it would never happen at the Internet edge. So we're talking about the edgiest of edge case unicorns.

Even if you had all that go right, return packets are going to be addressed wrong (NAT) so you'd have to figure out how to deal with that.

Your stance seems to boil down to security being an active security measure - e.g. packet filter policy. My stance is that NAT and the reality of network design naturally results in preventing unwanted traffic flows, effectively producing the same result.

I'm not saying firewalls aren't critical, just that NAT does create a barrier, and v6 advocates always blare on that it doesn't.
by bwb | 2026-01-10 17:38:31+00:00
The trainer was a godsend, got me to ~95% pain-free, and taught me all kinds of things. He is amazing.

But 2025 was maybe down to 90% pain-free, and I want to get stronger. So I did a big rewrite of my entire workout plan and checked everything. AI wasn't perfect, but it was amazing when you already know some.

It is still a tool I had to direct, and it took a few days of work. But I'm amazed at where it got me to. It took the injury into consideration and my main sport, and built around that. In the past I tried do this online and couldn't do it given the numerous factors involved. It was not perfect, but over the course of a few days, I was able to sort it out (and test with a trainer on the approach a few weeks after).

I've been 100% pain free for 6 weeks in a way I haven't felt in a long time.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-01-10 17:38:48+00:00
Good. I fully believe that a Ketar class SCP object is real which is responsible for keeping billions of humans okay with living in a world where we mass Circumcise hundreds of millions baby boys in countries like the USA.

It is mutilation.

Also, this issue is how the left gets men back to vote for it again. If the left is unwilling to throw men a bone with this issue, they will lose men as a majority left wing voting bloc forever.
by mongrelion | 2026-01-10 17:39:09+00:00
I ran Archlinux as my main driver on both PC and Laptop for more than a decade but after having the opportunity to use a Windows machine with WSL and eventually WSL2, I felt like I had access to the best of both worlds: a Linux terminal for development (bash + tmux + vim, now bash + zellij + neovim) without the hassle of updates breaking things every few months and a out-of-the-box native gaming experience.

But with the enshitification of Windows (first all the spam and ads on the Start menu, then Microsoft forcing you to have an account to be able to use the machine and the expensive license for Windows Professional if you want access to Hyper-V, which I did), I did some research, tried a few new distros (Manjaro, Bazzite and CachyOS) and settled for CachyOS (gaming support was the main driver, based on Archlinux was secondary).

I do everything I did on Windows and some more: all the terminal stuff plus browsing, CAD modeling, 3D printing / slicing, Office stuff... I miss nothing. No more double partition to boot into Windows when I want to game.

My RX 9070 XT runs smoothly with no driver issues whatsoever. I even have tested the waters running some LLMs with LM Studio and that also worked out of the box.

The only thing that has been a bit meh are Teams and Slack and I believe that has to do with the fact that I ran them in Firefox. Once I ran Slack on Chromium, noise canceling was again available.

2009 was the year of Linux on desktop for me.
17 years later, after going back and forth between macOS and Windows, it feels good to be back home.

One last note in my random ramble is that I do not have as much spare time as before, and I had heard this from other people back in the day whenever I'd say I ran Archlinux on my machines, so I am going to repeat what others have said to me: it's really nice to not have to worry about much, be able to sit down and get productive right away. To me, CachyOS and KDE have made that idea my actual experience and for that I am grateful.
by anticodon | 2026-01-10 17:39:44+00:00
Which exactly weapons are supplied by China? Even ever lying news sources like Bloomberg and CNN never made such unfounded accusations.

Also, how and why some "spy" would work both for China and Russia? Two very different countries from every point of view: culturally, economically, and in every other way also.

The only thing in common is that USA wants to destroy both Russia and China and that because of that reason US controlled media (like 90% of media in the world) publish scary fakes about both countries.
by izacus | 2026-01-10 17:39:44+00:00
Yeah, so you admit there's no real legal basis for those kind of restrictions.

Which anyone of us who worked with banks, mobile, banking security and their legal already knew. They're a source of greatest security hits like "let's use SMS for only auth for web banking" after all.

But what's really hiding behind all your fluff is something else:
Abusing users with root lockouts is EASY for the programmers at banks. The auditors have a checkbox "root lockout" and they tick the box. Legal ticks the box. CISO ticks the box. All happy, who cares about user. That's what this is all about. The insulting thing is trying to sell it like some kind of security feature.
by palata | 2026-01-10 17:39:45+00:00
> An incredible lack of depth.

A more diplomatic way to say it would be that it is a different culture. And I would agree that Americans struggle to see that other countries have different cultures and different priorities.

If you believe that the goal in life is to live like an American, then obviously the best at doing that are... the Americans. The mistake is to not recognise that other people may have different beliefs.
by lkbm | 2026-01-10 17:39:53+00:00
I'm not saying it is. I think there's a pretty broad agreement that those sites are bad, and less of them is good.

It's much less obvious that we want private corporations (or governments) picking and choosing which sites are good or bad. And from Cloudflare's position, a policy of "we don't police content" is more defensible than "we don't police content, except of this one in particular". These definitely aren't the only two horrible, racist websites Cloudflare has hosted.

IIRC (and take this memory with a grain of salt), one thing that angered eastdakota about Stormfront was that they kept saying something like "Cloudflare hasn't kicked us off, so they're okay with us" or something like that. And obviously that doesn't hold water, unless Cloudflare has chosen to kick of some sites, it lends some credence to the remaining ones.

I'm undecided where I stand on it. I'd like them to take actions like this in a principled way. (And I'm happy to accept that there's no clear line to draw, nor that it can be enforced with 100% accuracy, but if you're drawing a line, do it thoughtfully and broadcast it so you know ahead of time if you're in their gray area.)
by chrneu | 2026-01-10 17:39:53+00:00
checkout forecastadvisor.com and see what's the best for your area.

I've sort of transitioned to using Ventusky and Windy to checkout the big picture stuff, then I make up my own mind about precipitation. I live in the PNW of the US and our terrain is so varied that forecasting services are kind of meh in general. They're decent for "it might rain for a while today" but anything hyperlocal tends to get bad because of the terrain in Oregon.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-01-10 17:40:08+00:00
DACA are just dreamers, by that measure most DACA holders are probably South Korean (left over from babies who came here in the 80s and early 90s, and can’t go back because to South Korea of harsh conscription rules). I’m not sure what you think DACA has to do with real illegal immigration (actual adults coming to the USA and overstaying their visas, not just babies).
by calebh | 2026-01-10 17:40:53+00:00
I bought the 6K ProArt on launch, replacing an older 4k 27" Dell monitor. The new monitor is definitely an upgrade, but not as great as I was hoping. Like you said, the matte coating is by far the worst part of this monitor. I would say that it isn't bad enough to return the monitor, but it's definitely noticeable on white windows.

I've definitely enjoyed having the extra screen real estate over the 27" monitor, and the extra resolution has been very helpful for having a bunch of windows open in Unity.

This year at CES there were a number of new monitors unveiled that compete in this space. There's a new Samsung monitor (G80HS) that is a 32" 6k with a higher refresh rate than what you'd find with existing offerings. Unfortunately it has the matte coating instead of glossy, so clarity will suffer.

Also of interest are the new 27" 4k offerings with true RGB stripe subpixel layout. This should fix text rendering problems, especially on Windows. Both Samsung and LG are making these OLED monitors with the true RGB layout. There will almost certainly be glossy coatings offered with these panels, and they'll have higher refresh rates than IPS. The main downside will be brightness for full screen white windows. I think the Samsung panel is a bit better than LG in terms of brightness.
by ancillary | 2026-01-10 17:41:05+00:00
I did a theoretical computer science PhD a few years ago and write one or two papers a year in industry. I have not had much success getting models to come up with novel ideas or even prove theorems, but I have had some success asking them to prove smaller and narrower results and using them as an assistant to read papers (why are they proving this result, what is this notation they're using, expand this step of their proof, etc). Asking it to find any bugs in a draft before Arxiving also usually turns up some minor things to clarify.

Overall: useful, but not yet particularly "accelerating" for me.