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by anonymous908213 | 2026-03-08 14:02:45+00:00
> by directly letting people modify the source code (Unreal Engine, Godot).

Unreal is not open source, and while Godot is, I would wager 90% of its users never even look at the source code. It very specifically attracts people who want an easy way to make games without prior expertise.

> Players do not care about that.

Users don't care about much when it comes to software quality, honestly. They accept 20 FPS, slow loading, bug-riddled games that consume +20gb ram and +100gb more disk space than necessary. They may complain about a game if it gets bad enough, but they still buy and play those games. My games are significantly more optimized than most. They aren't perfect, but they don't need to be. They don't even need to be as optimized as I have made them, it's mostly just a point of pride and making the kind of software I want to see in the world. I think the only way you lose a player on technical points is if they literally cannot boot your game, but those issues plague engine games too. I had driver issues myself crashing on boot with an UE5 game two weeks ago.
by mpweiher | 2026-03-08 14:02:53+00:00
Yes.

In fact, LLMs have shown that we really, really need new programming languages.

1. They have shown that the information density in our existing languages is extremely low: small prompts can generate very large programs.

2. But the only way to get that high information density now (with LLMs) is to give up any hope of predictability. I want both.
by hubab | 2026-03-08 14:02:59+00:00
Streaming transcription is something I’m working on. The main challenge so far has been accuracy. Streaming models, especially cloud ones, often drop enough quality that the tradeoff isn’t always worth it. Local models look more promising, so streaming will likely land there first.

On multimodal input, the UX you’re prototyping where you switch between dictating and typing while composing is interesting. I haven’t really seen that approach before.

The direction I took is a bit different. Instead of mixing modalities mid-composition, dictation becomes context-aware during post-processing. Selected/Copied text or surrounding field content can be inserted into the post-processing prompt so the spoken input is interpreted relative to what’s already on screen.
by echelon | 2026-03-08 14:03:26+00:00
Modern American middle class norms are that babies cost a fortune.

The best nutrition, daycare, early childhood learning, classes, tuition, etc. Extreme expenses.

All throughout history, children have been cheap, and if you look back far enough - disposable. And even parents viewed kids as a free source of labor.

Kids used to be left to roam the woods, streets, and neighborhoods. Now a lone child will get a call from CPS, fines, and jail time.

The parents that favor strong government intervention and high expense parenting basically set the rules for all other parents.

In developing countries, children do not cost this much. Those countries are growing and do not face generational collapse with the younger generations being too small and inadequate to pay for their elders.

We did okay for hundreds of thousands of years. Did Big Advertising get the best of us and make us needlessly devote expenses and energy?
by cowpig | 2026-03-08 14:03:27+00:00
I feel like the time demands of modern life are the main culprit here. Today families mostly need two working parents, which means nobody to take care of the baby full-time.

If you have someone taking care of them full-time, toilet training early is usually easy and a net time save.

But if you can't ever invest that time because of the time version of the poverty trap, you are in diapers until the kids are developed enough to make the transition themselves or by seeing other examples (at daycare, etc), or are just old enough that it can be explained to them.
Tesla FSD exceeds Starlink Mini speed limit
by daly | 2026-03-08 14:04:36+00:00
I bought FSD in September 2025. Since that time every trip has been
on FSD. The only exception was during an ice storm with black ice.

I bought Starlink Mini in January. I installed it in my Tesla.

I just got a notification that I exceeded the Starlink Mini speed limit.

Apparently FSD "hurry mode" goes too fast for Starlink.That's annoying.
by josh_p | 2026-03-08 14:04:43+00:00
We tried with "hybrid" diapers for all three of our kids, a cloth shell with a disposable liner. They worked, but they're still a lot of extra work. We always kept disposables on hand for when we couldn't keep up. Our second and third kids are twins (2 for 1!!) and that was a lot harder to keep up with. And I ran into problems where I didn't set the diaper right and they would leak overnight, making more work.
We had to give up on cloth just to stay sane.
I guess my point is, yes, try it if you're able to. But also when you've got a new baby, do what you gotta do for your health, physical and mental, so you can take care of your family.
by kencho | 2026-03-08 14:04:43+00:00
one use case we're handling right now is for a large online auction marketplace. they needed to automatically categorize 40,000 newly uploaded images per week. no tags, no metadata from the sellers, just raw photos. elasticsearch can't look at an image and tell you it's a vintage rolex or a mid-century lamp. they needed search that understands visual content, not text

that's the kind of problem where keyword search doesn't apply at all, no matter how good the engine is
by sillysaurusx | 2026-03-08 14:05:32+00:00
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone. I read every comment, and your help has been far more than I'd hoped for.

If anyone feels like chatting (about anything, really), I'm "theshawwn" on Snapchat. Email is shawnpresser@gmail.com. You can text or Signal me at 314-324-1248. Any other app is fine too if you email me your info. I'll respond to everyone; I like hearing about your life, so feel free to talk about whatever you'd like, or just say hello.

You're all so kind. I grew up on HN (I think I was 19 when it first launched as Startup News) and the community never fails to amaze. Thank you for taking the time to try to help. I owe you all.
by anovikov | 2026-03-08 14:05:49+00:00
End of 2022: 1,783,232 apps

End of 2023: 1,870,119 apps

End of 2024: 1,961,596 apps

Now: 2,150,612 apps, after 1.18 years.

+160k apps a year, that's only 84% above pre-AI era (safe to say that apps were not routinely built with AI in 2023 yet). Noticeable increase but doesn't feel dramatic, especially since yes, majority of those new apps are low-effort trash like those described in this thread.
by noemit | 2026-03-08 14:05:56+00:00
My mom toilet trained me at 3 months. She had me on a schedule and she would hold me one toilet during the determined times and I would go. This was right after communism fell so she only had access to cloth diapers, and cleaning them was so annoying she did it as early as she could. She was shocked at how long my kids stayed in diapers. I asked her how, and well there is a slight difference between us. She had 2 years of parental leave. I had 1.5 weeks with my second. I did a board meeting from the hospital with my first. Let's just say I don't have the time to dedicate to it. It takes 2 weeks of dedicated focus, repeatedly putting them on the potty, rewarding them, and cleaning up. I know it's possible. Modern life tends to build on these conveniences and efficiencies until it's no longer possible to go back.

I have tried "underwear weekends" with my 2nd so he seems what it's like to pee himself but it's just not enough. He needs 2 full weeks and I'm sure he'd get it. By the end of the weekend he's just starting to grasp it, and then on Monday I put a diaper on him again and it's more confusing than helpful.
by benbojangles | 2026-03-08 14:05:57+00:00
I'm running Qwen3.5:0.8b locally on an Orangepi Zero 2w using llama.cpp, runs just fine on cpu only. If I want vulkan GPU I have run qwen3.5:2b locally on a meta quest 3 with zeroclaw and saved myself hundreds of $$$ buying a low power computer. I recommend people stop shopping around for inflated mac minis and look at getting a used android phone to load local models on.
by Lerc | 2026-03-08 14:06:04+00:00
This is something that I have been wondering about. SuperIntelligence or not, it's clear that significant change is going to happen.

There are a lot of people working on the cause of the change.
There are a lot of people criticising the nature of the change.
There are a lot of people rejecting the change.

How many are there preparing the world for the change?

Some form of change is coming, how are we preparing society to deal with what is happening?

Job losses due to technology have happened over and over again. Rendering particular forms of employment redundant (typing pools, clearing horse manure, Video rental store workers, and of course, the loom). Most agree that the world is better when those are jobs that need to be done. It's the livelihood of the workers that is the concern.

Instead of fighting the change we need to address the inevitability of change the responsibility to those who it will affect.
by DrewADesign | 2026-03-08 14:06:33+00:00
What percentage of companies that use salesforce employ software developers? Many don’t even have IT workers.

It’s easy to assume the conditions in software companies are generalizable to everyone else but they’re really not. For the majority of companies, which have no software development expertise, it would be a catastrophe. Hiring someone to do it, and managing the initiative, would cost more than salesforce.
by cid435 | 2026-03-08 14:06:47+00:00
Industrialization is all about standardization and predictability. But let’s be clear: predictability doesn’t mean 100% perfection. Every industrial process has a defect rate; the goal is simply to drive that rate low enough to be manageable.

While LLMs are probabilistic, their accuracy in specific domains—like Tool Calling—is already hitting near-100% reliability. That is where industrialization happens.

Also, I’m highly skeptical of your claim that LLMs were 'originally designed for things that don't matter.' That’s a massive oversimplification of the field's trajectory.
Show HN: Kaeso, an OAuth hub for AI agent integrations
by devinoldenburg | 2026-03-08 14:07:12+00:00
Hi HN,
I’m building Kaeso, an OAuth hub designed for AI agent integrations.
The idea came from noticing that many AI agents need to connect to services like Google, Slack, GitHub, and others. Each integration requires OAuth flows, token storage, refresh logic, and permission management. Developers often end up rebuilding this infrastructure repeatedly.
Kaeso tries to simplify that by allowing services to be connected once and then accessed through a unified API designed for agents.
Still early and I would love feedback from developers building AI agents or automation systems.
Website
https://kaeso.ai
by throwaway2037 | 2026-03-08 14:07:12+00:00
> I have heard that Japan has a very negative connotation of foreigners

To be clear, Japan is much larger than most people realise -- slightly larger than Germany. In 2026, if you work in tech or finance, you are 99% likely to work in Tokyo. (I don't write that to look down upon any other places in Japan where foreigners live and work!) In the central area of Tokyo (roughly the Yamanote loop train line and about 1-2 km outside it), you won't find any issue being a visible foreigner. They are just too many shops and hotels that now employ overseas workers. IMHO, the OP (@petterroea) is talking about a very specific way of life in central Tokyo. Most of his valid points would not apply if you live in a suburban town in a northern prefecture. I have said this many times on HN before: "In all rich (non-micro-state) countries, outside of big cities, they are all driving nations."

All of the reactionary screed that you are seeing on YouTube or reading from low quality news sources about negative reactions to foreigners can be generally ignored. It is not the reality on the ground. Yes, there will be isolated incidents by assholes, but they are far, far less than 1% of common interactions. Also, if you speak even a tiny amount of Japanese (100+ words) and make an effort to speak Japanese and be polite, they will immediately see that you are not some annoying tourist and treat you better.

> I am able to see some similarities with Japan within my own country as well, namely the idea of everything being close. I can't speak about food but being vegetarian, and my country primarily being so too. I actually love our own cultural cuisine.

Can you share your home country/culture? I am curious.
by dangus | 2026-03-08 14:07:24+00:00
Of course, $10,000 workstations for a corporation working on AI products might just be a necessary tool.

Just a guess, but I think it’s entirely possible that Apple sold through the full production run that they intended for this generation of the machine and they don’t want to order a new batch before the next generation of processors come out.

I have to think that Apple is close to replacing the M3 Ultra with an M5 Ultra or something of the sort.
by echelon | 2026-03-08 14:09:04+00:00
Kids should have jobs in high school. It's a fantastic way to learn budgeting, work ethic, entrepreneurship, and gives them a drive to study harder.

For kids without two stable parents, it soaks up their time and keeps them out of trouble.

Since when did we start viewing this as bad?

I worked at 14 doing lawn work for neighbors to save money for video games. It taught me a lot. There's nothing wrong with that.
by ritlo | 2026-03-08 14:09:11+00:00
No, this goes beyond that. A well-written article or book doesn’t need to be padded with junk to cater to bad readers, or to preempt trolls, because they can’t scrawl all over it such that it disrupts others’ experience. You have to go to e.g. the Amazon reviews to find people complaining that an author didn’t address something that they very definitely did, or claimed something they certainly did not, that stuff doesn’t show up on the page in footnotes or turn into flame wars on the page where everyone sees it.
by colmmacc | 2026-03-08 14:09:13+00:00
Our two year old is potty training right now, and this was definitely a factor for us. We had to wait until it could be explained. Another factor is that diapers are now so absorbent that the kid feels no real discomfort from a pee or a poop. His main motivation is peer pressure and to be a bigger kid; concepts he's only recently caught.
by fluxusars | 2026-03-08 14:09:20+00:00
> I have a great psychiatrist who has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers

Disclaimer: this is not medical advice, but have you considered being on less medication? I have seen a close family member become absolutely numbed from being on antidepressants, and although I have personally never been on them, I am highly skeptical that the amount of drugs the average American is being prescribed is healthy. My preferred choice of self-fixing is by quiet introspection, though I've had some useful experiences from therapy sessions as well.
by gmiller123456 | 2026-03-08 14:09:30+00:00
No. With the old style you had to draw every pixel, and you'd have to develop primitives for drawing a point, a line, or a triangle. With a GPU you essentially give the GPU a bunch of data and tell it to draw points, lines, or triangles for you. You then create "shaders" which are functions that the GPU calls to ask where to position a vertex, or what color to make a pixel, with some "magic" that passes data between the two. It's best understood by looking at the code for the almighty gradient triangle: https://webgpufundamentals.org/webgpu/lessons/webgpu-inter-s...
by abustamam | 2026-03-08 14:10:15+00:00
Wow, it took some time for me to dig the interview out(0). I think it's stupid that Atlantic did not link to it, and that they misrepresented the context.

I agree that company info being leaked is whatever. No one is hurt by knowing that Apple is working on a foldable phone; maybe an exec loses his million dollar bonus and can't upgrade his yacht this year, and the market can operate off of that knowledge.

But the flip side is that there's no way to distinguish between leaked company info and leaked government info, and up until this era of history, there was rarely financial incentive for anyone to leak govt info, and even if there were, it was almost impossible to do so completely anonymously.

I'm not necessarily agreeing with the article. Who knows if that actually happened? But the incentives make it more plausible than ever.

(0) https://www.youtube.com/live/t647EWQst5A?si=TPNx7RbxWvn9wVdn
Show HN: I built an app that blocks social media until you read Quran daily
by kalyfacloud | 2026-03-08 14:10:44+00:00
Hey HN, I'm a solo developer from Nigeria. I built Quran Unlock - an app that blocks distracting apps (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) until you complete your daily Quran reading.
The idea came from my own struggle with phone addiction. I wanted to read Quran daily but kept getting distracted. So I built this for myself, then shared it.

Some stats after 3 months: - 200K+ users - 64.9% returning user rate - 31M events tracked

Tech stack: - React Native - Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Analytics, Cloud Messaging) - RevenueCat for subscriptions - iOS Screen Time API + Android UsageStats

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/quran-unlock/id6754449406

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.quranu...

Would love feedback from the HN community!
by LoganDark | 2026-03-08 14:11:03+00:00
I really hope Ternus gets the next CEO spot. I haven't seen much of him, but I watched part of an interview with him and he seems very reminiscent of Jobs, in the good way. Reportedly Tim Cook is preparing runner-ups from all the top-level divisions, not just engineering:

> But Mr. Cook is also preparing several other internal candidates to be his potential successor, two of the people said. They could include Craig Federighi, Apple’s head of software; Eddy Cue, its head of services; Greg Joswiak, its head of worldwide marketing; and Deirdre O’Brien, its head of retail and human resources.

Personally I wouldn't like to see any of these. Especially services needs to calm the fuck down and stop giving into the temptation to milk their captive audience; that's absolutely not what Apple is supposed to stand for.
by Terretta | 2026-03-08 14:11:16+00:00
Regret on a $10k desktop rendered obsolete for purpose (the 512GB of RAM only has so many applications) months later is not a great look. It's good long-term brand value thinking to close the regrets window earlier.

Definitely “Caution” stage: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/mac-studio/
by wvlia5 | 2026-03-08 14:11:18+00:00
Games, hobbies, meds are not good. Those are like candy, you need real food.

There are 3 aspects to the issue you need to tackle:

# existential, deep

What you need to do is to get a glorious vision of 1- who you are and 2- what you are doing, aka. the plan.

Examples:

1- I am a scientist, 2- I'm getting a phd to then change the world with my research.

1- I am a father/husband, 2- I am raising a happy family.

1- I am a skinny/fat guy who will have an impressive transformation to bodybuilder, 2- I am targeting to raise my lean body mass by 2kg/year.

1- I am a guy with troubled emotions that feel like hell, who will overcome his suffering and find happiness, 2- I am becoming a buddist monk.

# physiological, shallow

Your negative emotions will be a burden in your journey to glory.

You need to feel comfortable being alone. You need to be able to be alone without intense negative emotions about it. It is like getting used to feeling cold/hot, hunger. Like adapting very hot sauna or marathons. You need to physiologically adapt to solitude.

The root solution will be what I explained before. Short-term, it would be good to have a break and to restart fresh (next time recognizing you didn't do it well the 1st time with your games, and that you need to work on a glorious plan). Options to get a break:

- move back with your parents for 1-2 years

- go to some cheap and nice destination and live in hostels, shared room. Change hostels every few weeks. Chat with guests. Just having a 'good morning' goes a long way.

# practical solution

While you have to adapt to solitude, you can also work on getting relationships.
In order to do this:

- go out and talk to people physically (Internet doesn't count). You can actually go to a stranger on a park/mall and talk. Try it. Also explore bars, courses, events. When you go to those, you have to talk to people, you get 1 point for each person you talk to, otherwise 0 points.

- make a list of people you have known and see if you can get back in touch and deepen the relationship. Include in the list people you currently have some relationship with. Yes, even the cashier that always gives you a good smile when he says: 'debit or credit?'. You can deepen the relationship over several days in this sequence: polite smiles -> trivial chit-chat -> personal talk -> invitation to hang out.
by orwin | 2026-03-08 14:11:56+00:00
I think for myself, it's close to 25% if I only take my role as a dev. If I take my 'senior' role it's less, because I spend way more time in reviews or in prod incident meetings.

Three months ago, with opus4.5, I would have said that the productivity improvement was ~10% for my whole team.

I now have to contradict myself: juniors and even experienced new hires with little domain knowledge don't improve as fast as they used to. I still have to write new tasks/issue like I would have for someone we just hired, after 8 months. I still catch the same issues we caught in reviews three months ago.

Basically, experience doesn't improve productivity as fast as it used to. On easy stuff it doesn't matter (like frontend changes, the productivity gains are extremely high, probably 10x), and on specific subjects like red teaming where a quantity of small tools is better than an integrated solution I think it can be better than that.

But I'm in a netsec tooling team, we do hard automation work to solve hard engineering issues, and that is starting to be a problem if juniors don't level up fast.
by EspadaV9 | 2026-03-08 14:11:59+00:00
I was genuinely surprised just how easy it was to get a fully working RAG set up with Postgres. It was a few hours over a weekend to get something "working" and then probably a bit less time a following weekend to have a nicer database structure and rebuild it learning from the mistakes during the first attempt. The harder part comes next, because that involves multiple tables of user provided data, multi tenancy with a shared core vector schema, and all the actual business logic, so I've put it all on hold for a real breakdown now, but I wouldn't expect it to be much of a problem with what I've found so far with pgvector, and Postgres in general.
by echelon | 2026-03-08 14:12:27+00:00
> The average person can't afford to raise a kid

Yes they can, they just choose not to.

I think the reason people aren't having kids is that they're on their phone all the time.

I'm serious. Phone use is a dopamine sink and removes pauses throughout the day otherwise spent on relationships and thinking about the future.

I'm not the only person to think this.

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/405376/pronatali...

Furthermore, people in past times were historically more budget-conscious and stressed than we are - yet they had lots of children. And developing nations are typically much pooerer than our lower class, yet they're also having lots of children.