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by embedding-shape | 2026-01-17 14:38:47+00:00
> All stuff that I would consider "low level". All things you don't have to build.

But those are also very trivial to build, and you end up having to customize them for your need, and if the framework don't have those levers, better be prepared to either fork the framework, or spend time contributing upstream.

Or, start simple yourself with what you need, use libraries for the hairy parts you don't want to be responsible for the implementation of, then pipe these things together. You'll get a less compromised experience, and you'll understand 100% how everything works, which is the part people generally try to avoid and that's why they're reaching for frameworks.

> But if you like to move faster and using good building blocks then these frameworks really help.

I find that they help a lot with the "move faster" part in the beginning, but after that period, they slow you down instead. But I'm also a person that favors "slow software design and development" where you take your time to nail down a good design/architecture before you run. Slow is fast, and avoiding hairballs is the most important part if you're aiming for "move fast for longer" rather than "a sprint of fast".
by Trifectorium | 2026-01-17 14:38:50+00:00
Because your soul was not born to compensate for other people’s deficits. Your consciousness was not born to become a charity for the emotionally unavailable. Your heart was not born to be a rehab center.
So if you resonate with this, let this land as recognition. Your goodness is not a debt you owe the world. Your sensitivity is not a resource others are entitled to extract. Your ability to endure does not mean you should keep enduring.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-17 14:39:07+00:00
This only happens if a small percentage of people have live pricing. If most people have live pricing, most people have an incentive to act on price changes - for example by turning the heating off in unused rooms to save money.

In turn, that means that at times of crisis, prices will be high, but not 1000x high.

Gasoline is another resource with live pricing, and suggesting "I want a subscription where I pay $3 per gallon fixed for a year, no matter how much I use and no matter what happens to the price of oil" wouldn't be something a fuel station would entertain, because they know that when the price was under $3 you'd buy elsewhere, and when the price was over $3 you'd buy millions of gallons and resell at a profit.
by jswelker | 2026-01-17 14:39:27+00:00
Maybe the real maker economy will be the future underclass building makeshift infrastructure to support a subsistence lifestyle in small post capital communities off the grid once big capital no longer feels the need to maintain a consumer economy at any scale.

I don't know what the future holds, but owning a few acres in rural nowhere and knowing how to build stuff gives me a sense of security.

Someone needs to find a way to turn dirt into a 3d printing material.
by dgacmu | 2026-01-17 14:39:35+00:00
We do the same in Pennsylvania - I have about 10 kwh of battery. I can't put solar on my roof, so I only have a very small 800w array on top of my garden. I run it as an off grid system that can recharge from shore power, so I have to use all of the energy it produces or it goes to waste. But it saves some money and is enough battery to let me time shift to take advantage of time of use power rates, and it gives me very good run time for refrigerators and internet during outages.

There seem to be a few sweet spots in solar - a tiny array that you use all of without having to grid tie it is really cost effective. (The cost of grid tied solar adds 5-10k to the system cost). Otherwise go big. :)
by Nevermark | 2026-01-17 14:39:50+00:00
You think collapsing a comment quickly would be difficult in x86_64 assembly?

I would expect 1000's of frames of opens/closes per second. Probably an order or two more. The LCD's data bandwidth and our retina's sensitivity would be decisive bottlenecks at far slower speeds.

TLDR: CPUs, that are not getting slower, are not the reason newer software implementations often get slower.
by gyomu | 2026-01-17 14:40:13+00:00
I fully expect this article to drop off the front page due to flagging in 3…2…1… like every other US politics story that gets posted on this site.

It’s for sure one of the biggest blind spots of this community, which should come as no surprise but is still a shame as it would be nice to have the high level of discourse we can expect from other topics applied to this period that could easily be, for many of us, the most significant geopolitical event of our lifetimes.

I’m curious if that’s a topic the mods have any thoughts on.
by vdupras | 2026-01-17 14:40:51+00:00
I'm curious what gives you the impression that no one cares. Anyone non-white in the US, regardless of their immigration and citizenship status, can expect to be harassed in the near future, so I'm guessing they care. Maybe they're afraid enough to be silenced, but that doesn't mean they don't care.

Someone looking at HN front page could falsely get the impression that no one cares, but that's only because all ICE-related subjects are actively and relentlessly flagged. We never see them. You can have an idea of how much some of the HN crowd cares by visiting https://news.ycombinator.com/active more often.
by eimrine | 2026-01-17 14:40:54+00:00
Using chatbots tells a lot about author's abilities. It is OK to use chatbots to adapt your book to some 9yo students, it is OK to generate images for a computer game to be permitted publishing it in someone's software market, it is OK to use advanced spell checking.

But it is not OK to make your tool thinking instead of you. If chatbot can generate the book for you about some random topic that means the book is already existing. What a sucker your reader should be if he chooses to read a byproduct handbook written by the entity who does not have an ability to learn at all.
by AgentMatt | 2026-01-17 14:41:23+00:00
Great article!

I think there's a small problem with intermediate values in this code snippet:

const maxValue = Math.max(...samplingVector)

samplingVector = samplingVector.map((value) => {
value = x / maxValue; // Normalize
value = Math.pow(x, exponent);
value = x * maxValue; // Denormalize
return value;
})

Replace x by value.
by pankajdoharey | 2026-01-17 14:41:51+00:00
Don’t worry big companies still can’t copy anything quickly, even with AI. Why? Because before they can ship a single feature, they’ll need to schedule 42 alignment meetings, debate AI-generated slide decks, and log their “strategic pivots” into an AI-curated Jira board.

The real moat isn’t just code it’s speed, focus, user trust, and the ability to actually ship. Those are things bloated orgs struggle with, with or without AI. If you’re solving a real problem and building a real brand, you’re already ahead.
by desman | 2026-01-17 14:42:25+00:00
As a non-American, I wonder how effective these measures are. Way too often I hear that "ICE abducted ... an American citizen". Are these individual cases amplified by the media to attack federal government's reputation or are these a significant percentage of all arrests? In which case, why is ICE doing it, they have absolutely no way of turning such arrests into a positive for themselves? How easy is it for an American or a legal alien to produce documentation proving their legal status - can it be that the fact(?) that many legal residents don't possess the necessary documentation at all times leads to the majority of such arrests/detentions/"abductions".

I know that many here will question ICE's mandate to act even against immigrants who don't have their paperwork in order, but this is another question.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-17 14:42:46+00:00
Doesn't protect against an attacker who just sends RTS + CTS packets every 50 microseconds, preventing all other wifi devices from transmitting anything (inc beacons).

As a bonus, even wireshark won't detect anything for debugging, because the RTS+CTS handshake typically can't be sent to the linux kernel+higher layers.

An ESP32 is capable of doing that on all wifi channels 'simultaneously' (ie. round robin, but getting back to the start channel within the timeout), effectively blocking all wifi.
by echelon | 2026-01-17 14:43:25+00:00
Some of the economy should be encouraged with heavy subsidy or though DoD purchases.

It's worked out well for us in the past.

Wind and solar, nuclear, EVs, manufacturing, robots, chips, and drones should be helped along by the state.

We would be stupid not to spend in these categories.

We should also build out chemical inputs manufacture, rare earths refining, pharmaceutical manufacture, etc. to support the work that happens downstream and to be less fragile to supply chain disruption.

A multi-polar world is inherently less stable and demands more self-sufficiency.
by neogodless | 2026-01-17 14:43:28+00:00
I haven't seen full height cubicles since my 2006-2011 job.

Still even half-height cubicle desks tended to give you a good sense of "your space" relative to the open concept rows of tables/flat desks.

Currently I go to the office once a week, where I sit at a tiny mobile desk pressed against the side of someone else's cubicle. I'm almost "in" a walkway. Can't imagine how that interferes with focus!
by roryirvine | 2026-01-17 14:43:53+00:00
Yes, you'd still need a full forced air cooling system (especially with modern datacentre densities), so the only gain would be from the there being a higher temperature gradient for your heat exchangers to work with.

There's no way that by itself would make enough of a difference to justify building a dc there, given all the other negatives that others have mentioned.
by sgt | 2026-01-17 14:44:45+00:00
> DevOps noted memory was "trending up but within limits."

I see this mentality now and again in DevOps teams. It reminds me of that "Not great, not terrible." quote from Chernobyl.

There are just so many things being monitored, but holistic understanding is not always there. And that's why I believe more and more that the developers of a products should also (partly) be DevOps, don't have a completely separate team with zero overlap.
by NoboruWataya | 2026-01-17 14:45:29+00:00
> As another self-hating nerd writer put it, “through all these years I make experiment if my sins or Your mercy greater be.”

Out of curiosity I searched this quote in Google, DDG and Claude and none of them found any source. Anyone know who the other self-hating nerd writer is? Sounds a bit like John Donne.
by tingling168 | 2026-01-17 14:46:01+00:00
This is written by AI. You see this "style" enough and it becomes immediately obvious.

You usually can’t prove it instantly—but you can smell it fast. AI writing leaves fingerprints. Here’s the blunt version.

First: it sounds correct but feels hollow. The sentences are clean, grammatical, and oddly polite. Nothing risks being wrong. Humans leave dents—opinions, hesitations, slightly ugly phrasing. AI sandpapers those off.

Second: too balanced, too fair. Every argument has a counterargument. Every claim has a caveat. Real people pick sides, forget disclaimers, or double down when they shouldn’t. AI keeps the peace like it’s being graded.

Third: generic confidence. It explains things with authority but without lived detail. No concrete scars, no oddly specific anecdotes, no “this broke in production at 2am” energy. It knows about things, not through them.

Fourth: structure over voice. Paragraphs march in neat formation. Transitions are impeccable. You could reshuffle them and nothing would change. Human writing has rhythm problems and obsessions—it lingers where it shouldn’t.

Fifth: vague specificity. Phrases like “various factors,” “a range of considerations,” “it’s important to note.” These say nothing while pretending to say something. Humans usually either ramble or overshare instead.

Sixth: no genuine surprise. AI rarely startles you. No sharp metaphor that makes you pause. No sudden pivot that reveals the writer’s personality. Everything feels anticipated.

Seventh: the absence of stakes. There’s no sense that being wrong would matter. Human writing often leaks anxiety, pride, frustration, or desire. AI writing feels emotionally insured.

Important caveat: good human writers can sound “AI-like,” and skilled humans using AI can mask it well. Detection isn’t a switch; it’s a pattern-recognition reflex. You’re not spotting a robot—you’re noticing the lack of a human fingerprint.

The deeper truth is uncomfortable: as AI improves, the tell won’t be style—it’ll be experience. Writing grounded in real constraints, consequences, and tradeoffs will remain the hardest thing to fake. That’s where humans still leave marks that aren’t easy to erase.
by acdha | 2026-01-17 14:46:02+00:00
> So while “from scratch” is debatable it is still immensely impressive to be that AI was able to produce something that even just “kinda works” at this scale.

“From scratch” is inarguably wrong given how much third-party code it depends on. There’s a reasonable debate about how much original content there is but if I was a principal at a company whose valuation hinges on the ability to actually deliver “from scratch” for real, I would be worried about an investor suing for material misrepresentation of the product if they bought now and the value went down in the future.
by friendly_deer | 2026-01-17 14:46:16+00:00
I know this might be hard for some people to hear, but I want to share my thoughts to promote, in a small way, a common understanding of different perspectives.

My genuine trouble with this kind of post is that I don’t know if it is true.

How do I know the guy isn’t trying to get donations for local groups? Is that an odd question to ask after the dominant lens through which we analyze action is “cui bono?”

How do I know that this didn’t come from some Russian intel group? Is that an odd question to ask after Russian interference is all over the media during our elections?

It’s the problem of our society today: we don’t share a common view of reality.
by macrofusion | 2026-01-17 14:46:23+00:00
Twan is an open source separation kernel designed for adaptability, real-time computing, and mixed criticality workloads. Currently, most viable separation kernels are commercial, and those that are open source are typically completely static and are specifically designed to adhere to specifications such as arinc653. Although these standards are essential in highly regulated domains, their strictness often leads to systems which are inflexible, overly complex, or bloated with functionality that is often not required. Some standards will go further and not only describe what guarantees must be provided, but also how they should be implemented.

Twan takes a different approach, rather than directly implementing or adhering to a specific industry specification, twan provides a small policy neutral separation kernel that focuses on strong isolation and deterministic scheduling. Higher level policies such as communication models and health monitoring are to be implemented ontop of the kernel, rather than being hard coded into it.
by qcnguy | 2026-01-17 14:46:37+00:00
There have been such dictators in the past. Singapore is one example. Arguably the British Empire was libertarian by the standards of its time (and empires).

Perhaps the least recognized example is America. The Constitution imposes libertarianism on the population against majority will. You can't change the constitution with a 50%+1 vote, so it forces freedom of speech and other rights on people who might otherwise easily vote to get rid of them. There's no one man enforcing the constitution, just a general agreement to obey SCOTUS.
by cauch | 2026-01-17 14:46:40+00:00
This article keeps saying that Adams was more clever than the others.
What are the proof of that. It looks like he was like those usual rationalists who come up with obvious theories that a lot of people have come up with and think they are super clever, when they are not.

As clues it is the case: 1) Adams came up with very stupid easily proven wrong physics theories and still was convinced it was correct, which is not what a clever will do, 2) as said in other comment here, some people who identifies themselves as "clever like Adams" were also incapable to get their head around the fact that their own boss was displaying dilbert comics, as if they were not clever enough to understand that the manager see themselves as "dilbert" the same way they do.
by aeve890 | 2026-01-17 14:47:11+00:00
>Alternativa Estudiantil
Alternativa Estudiantil is a Spanish patriotic student movement founded in September 2023 to counter perceived left-wing and woke dominance in universities, positioning itself as a conservative alternative emphasizing national identity and meritocracy.[1]

A random article in the "edit approved by Grok".

Genuinely bias-free my ass.
by tim333 | 2026-01-17 14:47:33+00:00
Don't be evil is still in The Google Code of Conduct. It ends:

>And remember... don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

(https://abc.xyz/investor/board-and-governance/google-code-of...)

It's just no longer the main motto.

Apparently it was thought to be inspired by the Microsoft antitrust case which was going on at the time as in don't be like that.
by istjohn | 2026-01-17 14:47:37+00:00
> Greek, meanwhile, uses "Γειά σου" (pronounced "yah-soo") as a typical informal greeting, offering a wish for health rather than a simple salutation.

Ironically, the root of "salutation" in latin is "salutare," to wish good health.

> According to linguists, elongated variations such as "heyyy" could be construed as flirtatious, "hellaw" might suggest you're from the southern US, "howdy" from western US, and the clipped "hi" may indicate a curt disposition.

Surely "howdy" derives from "how do you do?" and not "hello."
by daemonologist | 2026-01-17 14:48:05+00:00
I'll bite: the US dedicates about 5 billion bushels of corn a year to ethanol production [0], which is basically solar with extra steps. At a generous yield of 190 bushels/acre [1], this is 26 million acres dedicated to ethanol production (WRI puts it at 30m [2]).

Depending on who you ask, it would take somewhere between 2.5 [3] and 13.5 million acres [4] of solar to supply total US electricity demand, including storage and maintenance etc. We could double it to be safe and account for the reduction in ethanol production, and it would still all fit within the land currently used for corn ethanol. (btw this works out to a >10x increase in efficiency over ethanol.)

Of course I do agree that there's lots of less productive land (desert in the west, grazing land in the plains, and parking lots/rooftops everywhere) that should be used when available. But even in the midwest and east the land use is not a problem.

[0] - https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details?pubid=1057...

[1] - https://www.ncga.com/stay-informed/media/the-corn-economy/ar...

[2] - https://www.wri.org/insights/increased-biofuel-production-im...

[3] - https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/energy/2015/05/21/fact-checking-elon...

[4] (PDF) - https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy08osti/42463.pdf
by KaiserPro | 2026-01-17 14:48:40+00:00
I worked for oculus, well reality labs.

Lots of talented people, and decent hardware, once the stupid politics was overcome.

But.

In all the time I worked there, we never managed to get "join my friends" feature get made. Trying to join your friends in a game was so fucking hard. You'd think being a social company, who's whole point is connecting people, this would be the first feature.

But no.

Threads is the only product they have launched in the last 5 years that anything close to successful. Even then it only launched because management ignored it, let them get an MVP out the door before swelling the size of the team from ~8(?) to >>2k
The time to fun was also waaay too high. it got better towards the end, but in 2020-2023 it would take ages to log in, update, load, get kicked out, reboot and then join.
Show HN: Vibes – Twitter for Claude Code (and Other AI Agents)
by binora | 2026-01-17 14:49:07+00:00
Hi HN! sometimes I have intense code sessions with claude. so we end up asking each other about the vibe so far. And sometimes I wonder who else is vibing with claude right now. So we built this thin social presence layer: Vibes - a claude plugin with a tiny mcp server (~81 tokens) that enables you to drop a "vibe" while inside claude (or any other coding agent for that matter).

[github](https://github.com/binora/vibes)
Looking for technical cofounder – guided, safety-critical maintenance software
by SteveWShopBrain | 2026-01-17 14:49:32+00:00
I’m looking for a technical cofounder to build a guided, safety-enforced troubleshooting and repair system for industrial maintenance.

I’m a maintenance/mechanical guy working with a lot of old, undocumented, heavily modified machines. The real problems I deal with daily: tribal knowledge, repeating the same diagnoses every few months, junior techs thrown at complex equipment, and safety steps getting skipped under pressure.

The product is not a CMMS and not an “AI copilot”. It’s a work-execution system for the moment a machine is down: it guides troubleshooting step-by-step, enforces lockout/tagout and live-work warnings in the workflow, hard-blocks unsafe or unauthorized steps unless a supervisor approves, and captures what was tried and what actually fixed the problem so the shop doesn’t start from zero next time.

I already have a clear, realistic MVP spec and access to real machines and shops to test in. The initial version is a straightforward web app (assets, cases, step flows, safety gates, supervisor unlock, search).

I’m looking for a strong full-stack or product-minded engineer who’s interested in workflow systems, safety-critical software, or industrial problems. This is a serious long-term project, not a quick demo or a content startup.

If this sounds interesting, email me at: wagner.steven.j@gmail.com
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-01-17 14:50:20+00:00
How very Dilbertian. If one were to compress the above post into a comic, it would star Dilbert wondering why people with towering intellects like Dilbert weren't running the world in the first panel and then humorously demonstrating in subsequent panels Dilbert's disastrous and irreparable lack of understanding of messy human interrelationships and motivations that have to be navigated to not implode as a leader.
by carb | 2026-01-17 14:50:20+00:00
I disagree. Notable and impacting politics are often here and foster interesting discussions.

Everything is political, and nowadays everything has relation to tech. ICE is being supported by Palantir and many defense tech companies and that technology impacts and perfects the terror and abuse by ICE in Minneapolis.

It's important for us to talk about this, especially when it is uncomfortable.
by lazide | 2026-01-17 14:50:36+00:00
Yes…. And capital costs to capture that ‘moment’ productively are likely not in favor, if this situation exists long term.

Free power for an hour is useless if someone is running an aluminum refinery, because you can’t just start and stop it; and it costs so much to make that only operating 1 hour out of 24 is not economic.

And that is for a situation where electrical power costs are one of the most dominant costs!
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-17 14:50:47+00:00
> Calling somebody with his former name and mentioning his former name in a Wikipedia page are two completely different things

Except when people keep vandalizing Wikipedia renaming people there with their dead name. And yes it happens over and over and over again.

Because the most active extremists on the topic are by far the anti-trans crowd. (And it's not even close, there are trans people assaulted every week, sometimes going as far as murder this is extremism).

And again, Wikipedia keeps mentioning the former name when it's necessary (look for Bradley Manning on Wikipedia, the page redirects to Chelsea Manning but the old name is state because it's important).