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by eek2121 | 2026-01-03 23:37:07+00:00
Absolutely 100% this. I've used them on and off throughout the years. The community became toxic, so I took my question to other platforms like Reddit (they became toxic as well) and elsewhere.

Mind you, while I'm a relative nobody in terms of open source, I've written everything from emulators and game engines in C++ to enterprise apps in PHP, Java, Ruby, etc.

The consistent issues I've encountered are holes in documentation, specifically related to undocumented behavior, and in the few cases I've asked about this on SO, I received either no response and downvotes, or negative responses dismissing my questions and downvotes. Early on I thought it was me. What I found out was that it wasn't. Due to the toxic responses, I wasn't about to contribute back, so I just stopped contributing, and only clicked on an SO result if it popped up on Google, and hit the back button if folks were super negative and didn't answer the question.

Later on, most of my answers actually have come from Github,and 95% of the time, my issues were legitimate ones that would've been mentioned if a decent number of folks used the framework, library, or language in question.

I think the tl;dr of this is this: If you can't provide a positive contribution on ANY social media platform like Stack Overflow, Reddit, Github, etc. Don't speak. Don't vote. Ignore the question. If you happen to know, help out! Contribute! Write documentation! I've done so on more than one occasion (I even built a website around it and made money in the process due to ignorance elsewhere, until I shut it down due to nearly dying), and in every instance I did so, folks were thankful, and it made me thankful that I was able to help them. (the money wasn't a factor in the website I built, I just wanted to help folks that got stuck in the documentation hole I mentioned)

EDIT: because I know a bunch of you folks read Ars Technica and certain other sites. I'll help you out: If you find yourself saying that you are being "pedantic", you are the problem, not the solution. Nitpicking doesn't solve problems, it just dilutes the problem and makes it bigger. If you can't help, think 3 times and also again don't say anything if your advice isn't helpful.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-01-03 23:37:49+00:00
As someone that spent a fair bit of time answering questions on StackOverflow, what stood out years ago was how much the same thing would be asked every day. Countless duplicates. That has all but ceased with LLMs taking all that volume. Honestly, I don't think that's a huge loss for the knowledge base.

The other thing I've noticed lately is a strong push to get non-programming questions off StackOverflow, and on to other sites like SuperUser, ServerFault, DevOps, etc.

Unfortunately, what's left is so small I don't think there's enough to sustain a community. Without questions to answer, contributors providing the answers disappear, leaving the few questions there often unanswered.
by skissane | 2026-01-03 23:38:08+00:00
International law is real. It has discernible content, people who professionally study it, and it does influence (however incompletely) the behaviour of the world’s governments

This idea that law can’t exist if it doesn’t have a clearly identified enforcer is very modern-a lot of traditional/customary law (e.g. the Pashtunwali in Afghanistan or the Kanun in Albania) never had a clear enforcer but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist, people sometimes paid attention to it, it influenced how people behaved even if they sometimes got away with ignoring it
by beshrkayali | 2026-01-03 23:38:08+00:00
https://corefeed.app

I'm working on an iOS app called Corefeed, a feed reader that mixes articles, podcasts, and YouTube channels into one timeline.

The initial idea was a feed reader where entries are not just sorted chronologically but also grouped into time buckets (last hour, today, last week, last month, etc...) so it's easy to show/hide entries in a bucket, mark entries in it as read/archived, and keep up with new posts even when subscribed to many feeds. I also wanted an excuse to play around with Foundation Models, so I added optional AI Digest and Briefing generated from whatever is currently filtered.

The idea evolved a bit as I worked on it though, and now it reads RSS, Atom, JSON feeds, podcast feeds (legacy and Podcasting 2.0), and YouTube channel feeds. It includes a podcast player, automatic tagging with Apple Intelligence when available, feed groups, and various other small touches. It's still very much in alpha and in need of testing and polish, so it probably won't hit the App Store anytime soon.

(If anyone is interested in testing https://tally.so/r/D4kdB5)
by throwaway-11-1 | 2026-01-03 23:38:42+00:00
The US is completely cooked man, the right has fully committed to mashing the gas pedal towards fossil fueled 'based' racist authoritarianism while the so-called-left is writing strongly worded op-eds. Even if Dems win again, they've proven to be way too cowardly to fix anything, this democracy is 100% done. Personally I just hope California is able to secede and do a Nordic Model before the entire country becomes Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but I'm pretty doubtful anything good can ever happen here. Good luck everyone.
by neilv | 2026-01-03 23:38:49+00:00
I think this post is about enthusiasm for using an LLM.

One of the problems is that, if you use an LLM like this, and then post the output, you've probably just laundered at least one other person's copyrighted work (about how to do this kind of thing) through an LLM, and then put your name on it.
by Alupis | 2026-01-03 23:39:05+00:00
People in this thread are missing another key component in the decline of StackOverflow - the more experienced you become, the less useful it is.

The harder the problem, the less engagement it gets. People who spend hours working on your issue are rewarded with a single upvote. Meanwhile, "how do I concat a string" gets dozens or hundreds of upvotes.

The incentive/reward structure punished experienced folks with challenging/novel questions.

Pair that with the toxic moderation and trigger-happy close-votes, you get a zombie community with little new useful content.
by paganholiday | 2026-01-03 23:39:06+00:00
The example wasn't even finding a right answer so I don't see where you got that..

Searching questions/answers on SO can surface correct paths on situations where the LLMs will keep giving you variants of a few wrong solutions, kind of like the toxic duplicate closers.. Ironically, if SO pruned the history to remove all failures to match its community standards then it would have the same problem.
by mihael | 2026-01-03 23:39:12+00:00
I just released Swift Stream IDE v1.17.0, which now supports full native Android app development entirely in Swift. You can build apps without touching XML, Java, or Kotlin.

Under the hood, projects are powered by SwifDroid, a framework I built that handles the Android application lifecycle, activities, fragments, and UI widgets (Android, AndroidX, Material, Flexbox) while automatically managing Gradle dependencies. The IDE compiles Swift, generates a full Android project ready for Android Studio.

This is the first public release. Both tooling and framework are open-source and MIT-licensed.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-01-03 23:41:00+00:00
> Tax deductibility is only a very minor reason why most private insurance is employer provided; the much larger reason is that employment is a decent way to get a reasonably distributed group

From what I saw, the combination of "no exclusions for pre-existing coverage" and "penalty for not having health insurance" worked pretty well to balance the risk pools without nationalized healthcare.

I would still like nationalized healthcare, but I think there are other ways to fix the problem at hand of people being dependent on their jobs for healthcare.
by ben_w | 2026-01-03 23:41:00+00:00
> Why don’t you just go ahead and tell me what specs you think Slack should run on

1 Ghz processor, 512 MB RAM (might even manage 256 MB), 1080p monitor, and "a graphics accelerator" and "a sound card".

> and link me to an example program that has 100% feature parity that stays within those specs?

Windows 2000. Or XP.

That's the point. The OS supports all the apps needed to do whatever.

Making Slack into a monolithic blob to do all is just an example of the inner platform effect.

But if you insist: IE 7 would have been able to do all this. It's an app. It's also an example of the inner platform effect.

> Showing me a black and white <10FPS group video call with no other accompanying software running simultaneously in the 90s is pointless.

You should've thought of that before trying to "well akshually" me about which versions of FaceTime support multi-user video calling.

You want video calling? We had that 30 years ago on systems with total RAM smaller than current CPU cache, with internal busses whose bandwidth was less than your mobile's 5G signal, on screens smaller than the icon that has to be submitted to the App Store, with cameras roughly comparable to what we now use for optical mice, running over networks that were MacGyvered onto physical circuits intended for a single analogue voice signal.

Out of everything you list that Slack can do, the only thing that should even be remotely taxing is the video calling. Nothing else, at all. And the only reasons for even that to be taxing is correctly offloading work to the GPU and that you want HD.
by accounting2026 | 2026-01-03 23:41:43+00:00
For me I wanted to know how much I'm spending spend in different categories - not just for the phone bill where you can just see what it is every month, but for more irregular expenses: travel, repairs, appliances etc.

So why is this interesting to know? It gives you a better picture of where your money goes, what your bur rate is, how much of your spend is on mandatory stuff (food, rent/mortage etc.) and how much is on things you could potentially cut if need be. It makes it possible to know how far you are from various levels (/lifestyles) of financial independence. I have a pretty good idea that I could make it to retirement even if I permanently lost my job and I know what that lifestyle would roughly be like.

This also makes it possible to do proper budgeting by setting aside realistic amounts even for irregular expenses, so you're essentially 'saving up' for the irregular expenses. Done right, your "expenses" (money set aside in budget) are exactly the same month after month even though your actual money outflows in some months may be much higher. This is both true for the irregular expenses like travel, but also for semi-regular expenses that may come due only annually or every three months (mortgage etc.).

For me personally, it made me feel much more comfortable about spending larger amounts on travel etc. because I've already saved up the money via budgeting and I've never seen it as savings that goes away. Savings are per definition the difference in monthly income vs month set aside in budget. I make sure to be a bit conservative, so I actually also build a buffer on the savings account, usable for truly extraordinary expenses.

But your current situation sounds healthy - and if you have amble cushion, and you're confident it will continue that way and you have no desire to change it yourself, the above is of course less relevant.
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-03 23:41:48+00:00
(1) It's hard not to think about angry people for me and not get angry because I am involved in humanity and emotions are contagious. It's why I have to limit my exposure to angry people.

(2) I've had phases of my life where activism has been 30-100% of my activity so I've had a lot of experience talking to people door to door, tabling, giving speeches, convincing people to run for public office, going to meetings of different groups to build bridges, etc.

I've given many talks where the crowd was excited and other times been showed the door early and got harsh corrections. I know how people respond to messages when I deliver them and when others deliver them. For that matter I work in the social sciences department with survey data and I'm well read in political science even if I have to defer to the experts at work about it.

So I know if you're going to talk about "white privilege" you might as well mortgage all your future earnings and give them straight to the Ku Klux Klan. I'm deeply offended when "woke" people act as if teaching elementary school students the difference between "equity" and "equality" is going to do anything about a difficult problem such as racism. And I think strident transgenderism has made expressing your gender in any unconventional way more and not less dangerous in the last 20 years.

I'm angry about left-wing slacktivism precisely because I care about the things that they say they care for.
by LanceH | 2026-01-03 23:43:00+00:00
I'm sitting here from the perspective of having 2 adult children -- both graduating early, and my youngest who enters high school next year. They all got phones starting with 9th grade (14 at the start of the school year). Generally speaking they charged the phones downstairs.

I literally addressed the problems of missing out for high schoolers. The social event they'll miss on its own may not be a big deal. But the missed opportunities to make and deepen friendships is a big deal.

As an adult, you have your friend/peer group already. You and your friends are far less likely to do things spontaneously and far more likely to be courteous and thoughtful to invite someone along. A high school teen has middle school friends and is probably discovering their peer group. A huge portion of that discovery becomes unavailable without a phone.

Say they just finished up with band and everyone chats online, "hey meet up at the pizza place." Your kid will be left out. That's the firm reality. They won't know about it. It's the opportunity cost of meeting and learning other kids which will be missed, not the riveting conversations themselves.

> They are not required, despite what you may have been told.

Required? no. Central to the social fabric that binds them, unfortunately yes.

I'm fairly confident in my methods as I'm 2 for 2 graduating conscientious adults from college.
by austin-cheney | 2026-01-03 23:43:43+00:00
I learned to write my own WebSocket library more than 2 years ago. Last year I learned to write a web server that did HTTP and streamed redirection from the same ports as WebSockets. This past year I learned to do everything else, like all the OS related things, in my personal app:

https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio?tab=readme-ov-file
by chadcmulligan | 2026-01-03 23:43:47+00:00
It's funny seeing the problems with C Niklaus Wirth pointed out originally still trying to be solved. He solved them with pascal and its OO successors, though for some reason it's not cool still.

I suppose it has less of the ability to blow your foot off and so isn't a very dangerous way to code, therefore not cool. If any of you younger folk haven't looked at it, I'd suggest having a look, there is Delphi - a cross platform dev environment that addresses all these problems and compiles in less than a second, or there's the free, open source alternative Lazarus. They also compile to mobile platforms and even the raspberry pi (Lazarus) or Arduino.

If you like contracts then ADA is the way to go, but I haven't used this for many years, so not sure what is the state of the compilers.

[1] https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

[2] https://www.lazarus-ide.org
by adagradschool | 2026-01-03 23:43:53+00:00
Yes! Contrary to the anthropomorphized subagents, I view them as ways of managing context primarily. I'm exploring this idea in Scope[0] to have observable subagents that recursively break down the task to avoid having to compact. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to evaluate/improve this planning step. I am using markdown files to encode heuristics for planning but it feels too unstructured for me to measure. Would love it if someone pointed me to some existing literature/projects around this idea!

[0] https://github.com/adagradschool/scope
by PaulHoule | 2026-01-03 23:43:59+00:00
What gets me is that they get certain things wrong about Arknights, for instance none of them get it straight how Scavenger recovers DP. And I really want help with Arknights because the guides suck, though I guess LLMs are bad at Arknights questions because... the guides suck.

The thing is that LLMs are not moral subjects, they don't feel bad the way you feel or the way a dog or a horse feels when they let somebody down. I worked for a company developing prototypical foundation models circa 2018 and one of the reasons that I didn't invent ChatGPT is that I wouldn't have given a system credit for making lucky guesses.
by scotty79 | 2026-01-03 23:44:06+00:00
Local people in town 2 share the same fate that people in town 1 alread had. If there's not enough imported workers, from town 1 or elsewere people from town 2 will need to be trained and employed.

More and more data centers (and power sources) are going to be built at the same time so more and more workers will be needed. This is going to be THE job. I think there are going to be many similarities with the age when railroads were being developed. Hopefully with less worker deaths this time.
by tim-tday | 2026-01-03 23:44:09+00:00
Note differences in the two reported experiences:
1) small dose in a clinical setting with psychiatric support.
Result positive treatment for depression.
Vs
2) large dose taken recreationally without support. Result negative experience including long term damage due to the trauma of the experience.

Conclusion? Don’t overdose on psychedelics, they probably work to alleviate depression when taken in safe and controlled settings. Also. Don’t overdose.
by krapp | 2026-01-03 23:45:27+00:00
Because that's what LLMs do. They don't give "answers", they don't know what "works" and what doesn't. They create text based on a heuristic you provide and a token matching algorithm. That's it. That's the trick.

It isn't returning code, because it doesn't know what "code" is. It's returning language, essentially "code-shaped text." It only happens to work as well as it does when it does because the model is trained on examples of existing working code supplied by humans, therefore whatever it returns is likely to at least mostly be correct, at least for common cases where a high probability match is likely.
by lucacs | 2026-01-03 23:45:28+00:00
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by eek2121 | 2026-01-03 23:45:35+00:00
No DRAM manufacturer I know of uses ASML. DRAM is several years behind on lithography due to complexity/differences.

Outside of that, I hope China can manage to obtain a foothold in silicon, the world, especially NVIDIA, Micron, Hynix, etc. definitely needs a wake up call. The AI world was spooked when China released an MIT licensed LLM model that outperformed others in many metrics at the time, let us hope that others can follow on this success.
by Leftium | 2026-01-03 23:45:36+00:00
https://weather-sense.leftium.com

- The first half was all manually coded, no AI.

- Claude Opus 4.5 helped add several features I had been planning.

Some features were added on a whim because AI makes experimenting so cheap. Like the UI color gradients reflecting the color of the sky based on time of day.

Just needed to point Claude at https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/44846281. Then we worked together to tweak the palette colors and UX (like smoothly transitioning between colors, tweaking more vibrant sky colors)

Open source: https://github.com/Leftium/weather-sense
by walterbell | 2026-01-03 23:46:02+00:00
https://www.semiconsam.com/p/why-did-the-memory-chicken-game...

Chinese memory makers are the product of massive state backing, with tens of billions of dollars in subsidies and the full weight of the Chinese government behind them. Could Samsung win a power struggle against the Chinese government? .. The market that [Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron] created by surviving is completely different from the past. When there were ten players, even if I cut output, someone else could simply increase theirs. But now that only three remain, everyone knows all too well that if anyone recklessly expands supply, everyone goes down together.. the market paradigm has shifted from a “market share (M/S) war” to “profit maximization.”

https://x.com/semianalysis_/status/2005458750296256654

The key to (CXMT) achieving 10nm-class DRAM mass production at a speed that seemingly defies physics lies in its complete acquisition of Samsung’s PRP process roadmap—a project that took Samsung five years and 1.6 trillion KRW to develop.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/samsung-engi...

South Korean prosecutors indicted multiple individuals in a case alleging that a former Samsung engineer leaked advanced DRAM manufacturing process data to [CXMT] .. shedding light on how leaked trade secrets may have accelerated China’s push into 10nm-class memory.. engineers in question allegedly took note of detailed critical manufacturing steps in handwritten notes taken over five years.. handwritten notes remain difficult to track or audit. Investigators say the accused engineer exploited this gap by memorizing and transcribing process flows, which is virtually impossible to police effectively.
by conno1220 | 2026-01-03 23:46:08+00:00
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by immibis | 2026-01-03 23:46:27+00:00
Anticheat blocks Linux deliberately. Its whole point is to check if you're running an unmodified copy of Microsoft Windows. Linux is not one, so unless it gets really good at deception, it won't pass those checks.

It doesn't just check if a cheat process is running, because obviously cheats know not to let themselves be discoverable that way. Heck, there are hardware cheats now that simulate various PCIe devices but with extra sneaky DMA operations. (I bought one because it's a cheap way to have an FPGA in my computer)

It's a political problem, though. They don't pass Linux because few people are avoiding buying their games just because they refuse to run on Linux. If people did do that, they'd have to change the anticheat, no matter the consequences. Probably higher cheating, since there is no true official blessed unmodified Linux system to compare against.