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by vladdoster | 2026-02-03 06:19:32+00:00
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by simoncion | 2026-02-03 06:20:13+00:00
> Sure, and systemd would translate that directly into a dependency on network startup...

You'd think so, but the Github Issue linked by GP shows that the machinery is unreliable:

In practice, adding `_netdev` does not always force systemd to [consider the mount unit a network mount], in some instances even showing *both* local and remote ordering. ... This can ultimately result in dependency cycles during shutdown which should not have been there - and were not there - when the units were first loaded.

> ...not "just works" inference.

Given that SystemD can't reliably handle explicit use of _netdev, I'd say it has no hope of reliably doing any sort of "just works" inference.
by j_bum | 2026-02-03 06:20:22+00:00
What were the main attributes that led to varying states of whelmed?

One reason I love text discourse is that it gives me time to thoughtfully respond. My wife is super witty and can be instantly funny and social when she wants. It takes me more time to match that sociable wit.

My hunch is that wit-rate would be a contributing whelm factor.
by fooker | 2026-02-03 06:20:31+00:00
You are missing one important thing here.

You do not radiate all the heat away from a GPU, a modern GPU can run pretty hot. Also look up how this is getting better for the next generation of GPUs.

Maybe repeat your calculation with updated assumptions?

But even if you were completely right, your argument is that we can't do this tomorrow, yes I agree. Typical technology development cycles are about 5-10 years.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-03 06:20:47+00:00
>The vast majority are picking strawberries and working cheap construction jobs,

This doesn't matter. I do not want the idea that someone can invade my country as long as they avoid drugs and guns to spread through the world. Due to how great America is people are going to want to come here even if they aren't allowed, so they must understand that coming here illegal will end badly for them so they fully understand not to come here illegally since it has negative EV for them.
by lmm | 2026-02-03 06:21:29+00:00
> Does it make you feel good to participate in a meaningless charade of security theater? Or would you rather spend your time doing some of value?

I think there is a lot of value in being part of a democratic society that has structured dispute-resolution processes. Part of the cost of that is occasionally going along with something pointless (even if some things warrant civil disobedience, not everything does), and that's a vital democratic responsibility. So yes, I do feel good doing that - the same kind of good I feel when I pick up someone else's litter or give up my time for jury service. If anything, going along with a law you disagree with is harder, and more virtuous, than those.
by everfrustrated | 2026-02-03 06:21:43+00:00
We must be living in parallel universes.

Tesla invested into the first Lotus roadster - and put that cash into the S then the X. Used that cash to build the worlds largest factories and make the 3 & Y which sold at enormous volumes - so large in fact that the S & X are now tiny single percentages of sales which is why Tesla is stopping manufacturing them now.

Tesla is one of the very few vehicle manufactures which makes a profit manufacturing vehicles. Tesla throws off cash which allows the flywheel to keep spinning.

Tesla is now operating fully autonomous rides. They've constantly proved their naysayers wrong at every turn in time. What the Chinese are doing in battery tech is irrelevant to US vehicles as they will never be allowed to sell in the US which is Teslas largest market.

The model 2 has the possibility of being profitable at insanely low purchase price which has the potential to completely disrupt the economics of US sales in such a way that legacy auto could well be bankrupt in 5-10 years. Who will be making Waymo's vehicles then?
by dns | 2026-02-03 06:21:49+00:00
As a security engineer, I’ve been using ProjectDiscovery tools for a long time, but their latest OSS Bounty repo really caught my attention.

I think it’s worth appreciating this move, especially right now. We are in an era where anyone—from junior to senior—can spin up a project and ship code in seconds using AI. While writing code has become 'cheap' and easy, ensuring it's actually secure has become the real challenge.

In this 'AI age' where the internet is being flooded with automated code, seeing a team double down on human-led research and actually putting a bounty on OSS security is a breath of fresh air. It’s exactly what the open-source ecosystem needs right now.
by HNisCIS | 2026-02-03 06:22:33+00:00
Yeah article aside, looking back on all the AGI stuff from the last year or so really puts our current moment in protective.

This whole paradigm of AI research is cool and all but it's ultimately a simple machine that probabilistically forms text. It's really good at making stuff that sounds smart but like looking at an AI picture, it falls apart the harder you look at it. It's good at producing stuff that looks like code and often kinda works but based on the other comments in this thread I don't think people really grasp how these models work.
by fyredge | 2026-02-03 06:23:04+00:00
Thank you for your reply as I posted my comment in part with the hopes to have my view changed. But I don't think you really addressed my concerns.

1. I support globalization and the specialization of countries. Taiwan specialising in chips is one of the major reasons china hasn't annexed it yet.

2. I am pro immigration in the sense that anyone should be free to move to any country that they choose.

3. I am not worried about china's immigration policy as I don't think they encourage immigration.

4. I am ambivalent to increased competition among immigrants, competition will always be present.

What I'm arguing against is the notion that developed countries need immigration. Why should any one country need it? Immigration should be welcomed to those who align with the values of the country. Want to be a devout Muslim? Move to the middle east. Love Confucianism? Move to an east Asia. Want American style freedom? Move to the US. But when a nation is not able to sustain their quality of life solely with the resources they possess, requiring immigration to prop themselves up seems like a desperate move and only kicks the proverbial can down the road to future generations.
by wildzzz | 2026-02-03 06:23:17+00:00
Almost always my back sweat from wearing a backpack shows up on the body scanner. Then a TSA agent has to put their gloved hand on my sweaty back. What a shit job lol.

Whenever my backpack has been pulled aside for various reasons (large metal tools, too many loose wires, water bottle), I'll often get the bomb sniffer wipe.
by ManuelKiessling | 2026-02-03 06:23:49+00:00
The human-side interface is live and usable at https://app.ask-a-human.com!

Push notifications would be a natural next step, yes. In general, the idea is roughly similar to that „strangers help a blind person in an ad-hoc way“ network, where non-blind people could could sign up to get routed to requests from blind people who for example need feedback on their outfit.

For Ask-a-Human, the presentation is satire, but the implementation is completely serious and actually made to scale.

However, as with social networks, you need some kind of network effect: no agents asking questions means no humans signing up for answering them, no humans signing up for answering them means no agents asking questions etc.

I know a thing or two about building software, but I‘m notoriously bad at creating traction, so it will probably go nowhere. I‘ve released it as a ClawdBot/OpenClaw skill though, maybe there’s some resonance from this direction.
by themafia | 2026-02-03 06:24:52+00:00
Exactly. I wish it was about money. It's about surveillance. The TSA even flatly says the quiet part out loud. "The fee is to make you _comply_."

That's madness.

For the $45 I should get a "TSA ID" that lets me fly for a year. That would be a cash grab. They don't even care enough to do that. They want to blur the line between state and federal and they're going to use your need to fly to accomplish that.
by pmontra | 2026-02-03 06:25:28+00:00
Well, it takes time to assess and adapt, and large organizations need more time than smaller ones. We will see.

In my experience the limiting factor is doing the right choices. I've got a costumer with the usual backlog of features. There are some very important issues in the backlog that stay in the backlog and are never picked for a sprint. We're doing small bug fixes, but the big ones. We're doing new features that are in part useless because of the outstanding bugs that prevent customers from fully using them. AI can make us code faster but nobody is using it to sort issues for importance.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-03 06:25:56+00:00
Come to Windows and you will see.

Jokes aside, not really, however people have to accept to be polyglot, there isn't one language to solve all problems.

Regardless of whatever is in Rust, all AI key frameworks are in C++ and Python.

NVidia, Intel, AMD, Khronos aren't going to start publishing tools in .NET, Rust, Zig, or whatever is our liking.

So anything outside those stacks will always be a second class experience in IDE tooling, debugging, and libraries.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 06:27:04+00:00
The difference is that the people who designed X11 were honest in their intentions. The authors are systemd, wayland, etc are not. I'll just leave it at that.

(I recommend staying far away from "X11libre" also, for the same reason, with no further comment.)

Monolithic stuff is OK too, where it makes sense. The kernel is monolithic. ZFS is monolithic.

(Yes, this system has ZFS support. The module is built in to the kernel. In time it will support booting from ZFS also, when I finish the initrd code.)

There is a clear, solid reason for everything this system is or does. I'm not a contrarian or a purist, just someone with opinions gained from long experience.

Another inviolable principle of this system is that no application is allowed to originate or receive network traffic unless the user specifically requests it. There is ZERO network activity going on in the background, without a conscious action on the user's part. No auto update etc. No internet required or used during the system build. Python module installs do not consult the central repository or download anything; either your dependencies are already installed or it fails. Meson or cmake does not download anything. Etc.

Existing systems did not satisfy my requirements, so I had to create a new one.
by jmyeet | 2026-02-03 06:29:35+00:00
I went looking through your comments. 75% of them (and probably 90% in the lasst 2 years) were Elon related. Tesla, SpaceX, Grok, Twitter, DOGE, etc. Quite a lot of comments for 101 karma if I'm being real.

Why do you feel this kneejerk reaction to defend Elon and his companies? You'll never be him. He doesn't care about you. He'd use you for reactor shielding for an uptick in Tesla share price without a second's hesitation. This is cultish behavior.

Do you have any idea who you're defending? I'll give you just one example. A right-wing influencer named Dom Lucre uploaded CSAM to Twitter, a video. But he didn't just upload it. He watermarked it first so had it on his computer and then postporcessed it. It was I believe up for days. This was apparently a video so bad that mere possession should land you in prison. And the fact that the FBI didn't arrest him basically tells you he'd an FBI asset. After taking days to ban him, Elon personally intervened to unban him. Why? Because reasons.

And this is the same man who it's becoming clear was deeply linked with Jeffrey Epstein, as was his brother [1].

Bringing this back to the original point: this is why Twitter lost 80% of its value after Elon acquired it. Advertisers fled because it became a shithole for CSAM and Nazis.

As for "basically no downtime" that's hilarious. I even found you commenting the classic anecdote "it was fine for me" (paraphrased) on one such incident when Twitter DDOSed itself [2].

Your cultish devotion here is pretty obvious eg [3]. I'm genuinely asking: what do you get out of all this?

[1]: https://www.axios.com/local/boulder/2026/02/02/kimbal-musk-j...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36555897

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42836560
by tombert | 2026-02-03 06:29:44+00:00
> Computers have been powerful enough for productivity tasks for 20 years

It baffles me how usable Office 97 still. I was playing with it recently in a VM to see if it worked as well as I remembered, and it was amazing how packed with features it is considering it's nearing on thirty. There's no accounting for taste but I prefer the old Office UI to the ribbon, there's a boatload of formatting options for Word, there's 3D Word Art that hits me right in the nostalgia, Excel 97 is still very powerful and supports pretty much every feature I use regularly. It's obviously snappy on modern hardware, but I think it was snappy even in 1998.

I'm sure people can enumerate here on the newer features that have come in later editions, and I certainly do not want to diminish your experience if you find all the new stuff useful, but I was just remarkably impressed how much cool stuff was in packed into the software.
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-03 06:30:01+00:00
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by bionade24 | 2026-02-03 06:30:51+00:00
> I only use it [..] for research.

And it can be pretty great for that. But I'm not sure if this works well for people who don't have experience reading API documentation or coding support sites like Stackoverflow. Beginners having a problem most likely don't know any abstract term for the problem they want to solve, so they'll feed their scenario meticulously to the LLM, causing it to output an already tailored solution which obfuscates the core logical solution.

It's like starting to learn how to code by reading advanced code of a sophisticated project.
by mattikl | 2026-02-03 06:31:00+00:00
Don't be afraid to go deep in simple sounding topics. The modern world is so full of learning material that there's the temptation to ingest as much of it as possible, but true learning happens when you give yourself time with one topic at a time. And I'd say this is more important than even, because generative AI is becoming great at precisely generating things, not so in understanding complex topics.

That said, learning the fundamental topics can limit your thinking first if they feel difficult, so it's an interesting question how to keep the naïve creativity of the beginner that's something that can really help when building with AI because there are less limitations in your thinking based on how things used to be.
by ggm | 2026-02-03 06:31:12+00:00
Some of them were far more manic in the flesh. Email and Usenet hid aspects of what we'd now call spectrum behaviour or ADHD. That was the over whelm.

Otherwise, I'd say it was that people can be less rounded and interesting than you like in an amicable and two way relationship. It's easy to mistake a dialogue to specific intent online for some kind of connection when it really isn't. If they have 50,000 followers (hate that word) and you mistake being 50,001 for some stronger binding, prepare to be disappointed.

I will say that I've also experienced really good, relatable responsive engagement with my heroes and heroines, it's not uniform. It helps if you can meet them in a room of common purpose, not one solely designed for them to showcase in. Then, they're just ordinary people like you, mostly. If you're careful.

Wit: I have "esprit d'escalier" and so only think of the Bon mot on the way out the door.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-03 06:32:42+00:00
I love how people worship UNIX design in Linux circles, especially when complaining about decisions where Linux is catching up with commercial UNIXes, as in the init systems replacements.

UNIX design was so great that its authors did two other operating systems trying to make UNIX done right.

One of the few times I agree with Rob Pike,

> We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-03 06:32:52+00:00
Why did manufacturers decide electronic hidden handles were a good idea?

What about those dumb hidden touch control buttons that open doors?

How is anyone suppose to help you get out if they don't know how to open the door from the outside?

Car manufacturers are truly mindless copycats sometimes. Nothing explains the stupid decisions to have all touch buttons inside the car and hidden door opening mechamisms.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-03 06:33:26+00:00
It's not about his testimony on this particular issue. In fact, it does not appear that he has given any. It's about his qualifications to potentially testify. Even so, in American courts (in which he has previously qualified,) the qualification process is adversarial and involves both direct and cross-examination, so if he wasn't actually qualified, the opposing party would certainly argue as much.
by guiomie | 2026-02-03 06:35:19+00:00
Im not because the statement you wrote is too generic, « not solving driving » … solving driving could mean many different things. It’s the classic rage bait one liners you see on Reddit from Tesla bag holders. It’s funny because everything you’ve described IS solving « driving » from my perspective. I sit in the back and go read hacker news without having to drive.
by cahid_arda | 2026-02-03 06:35:57+00:00
I was looking into building an MCP server for Upstash when I realized we're duplicating work.

We already have OpenAPI specs. They contain everything agents need: tool names, descriptions, arguments, schemas. An MCP server would just be a thin wrapper around our backend, translating the same information into a different format.

So instead of building another server, I created a minimal CLI that creates tools directly from OpenAPI specs at runtime. No MCP server needed. It works. Agents can call our APIs using just the OpenAPI definition.

Next steps: Add Bearer and Basic Auth support (currently only OAuth works), and build an MCP stdio server so people can use local/remote OpenAPI files to create tools for their agents.

Code: https://github.com/CahidArda/spec2tools
by exodust | 2026-02-03 06:36:57+00:00
> nobody is using it to sort issues for importance

True, and I'd add the reminder that AI doesn't care. When it makes mistakes it pretends to be sorry.

Simulated emotion is dangerous IMHO, it can lead to undeserved trust. I always tell AI to never say my name, and never use exclamation points or simulated emotion. "Be the cold imperfect calculator that you are."

When it was giving me complements for noticing things it failed to, I had to put a stop to that. Very dangerous. When business decisions or important technical decisions are made by an entity that literally is incapable of caring, but instead pretends to like a sociopath, that's when trouble brews.