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Show HN: A mobile app that generates mobile apps in 30 secs
Hi HN! Daniel from YC S21 here, launching a project called aSim (https://asim.sh/), which lets people generate/simulate usable native apps (called Sims). Describe an app you want and aSim will generate it. Then, edit and refine it to better suit your needs. Sims are also shareable via links, and basic app functionality is also available through web (though mobile is much more feature complete).

A couple of my favorite Sims so far:
- Doom demo: https://asim.sh/@zymaric/s/18665
- Star wars idle game: https://asim.sh/@jojaspero/s/29102
- Hotdog or Not Hotdog: https://asim.sh/s/3748
- Height guesser: https://asim.sh/@dli/s/2741
- 2048: https://asim.sh/@dli/s/388

Would love feedback around the experience and additional functionality you'd like surfaced!
Game power efficiency and GPU compute power efficiency aren't necessarily highly correlated. Game power efficiency is often achieved with highly tuned drivers, and of course Nvidia has a massive lead on Intel for that.
dozens to hundreds !== large percentage
>I maintain that "100x better" is an understatement for teflon eggs vs eggs fried in butter.

I can't imagine this being true for any holistic metric "taste". The only way is if you used some contrived measure like "amount of caramelized particles from frying pan" (in which there's 0 from teflon pan and non-zero from butter eggs, so it's infinitely better), or you use a non-linear scale (eg. slightly better = 10x, slightly better than that = 100x, etc.)

>The old studies linking fat to heart disease are complete bunk.

Fats are at the very least, calorific. And studies showing weight gain to all cause mortality are robust. According to the USDA a tablespoon of butter is 100 calories. An egg on the other hand is 155. Even if you use some optimistic estimates (eg. 3 eggs, half the butter remains on the pan), that's still 10% extra calories. I'd rather spend my calorie budget on other delicious things than slightly more buttery fried eggs.
People still haven't quantified the value of compilation and curation. Putting a bunch of related things together results in something that is a product of its parts, not the sum. You'd think that LLMs would have drilled that into our heads by now.

Still, somehow, online archives are just document databases of mixed content. Just bags of crap and treasure that can be picked through using search engines if you can guess the correct magical incantation and the engine hasn't been told to selectively ignore what you've said. Archive.org and books.google.com are said to be valuable archives (and they are), but try to find all four volumes of a four volume set, or all of the works of an author in chronological order. I'll give you an hour.

This could be solved by giving users the ability to add those connections, and providing a deliberative system to edit and cultivate those added connections. They'll do it for free. It mostly works on wikipedia, even when as they dramatically fail in other ways.

Let people add links to content, and come up with deliberative procedures to avoid problems such as spam. "Community Notes" is a good attempt on Twitter. Wikipedia has a process for auditing references and links.

Instead of using public deliberation, we have random drones or execs hardcoding "Jonathan Turley" into secret LLM prompts because somebody saw him on TV complaining about LLMs libeling him. Ad hoc authoritarianism is not the answer, but somehow it's the only solution we ever use because deliberation is hard and requires relinquishing a bit of control.
Did the cinephiles even like all of those "extra features" that the rest of us ignored? All of that stuff is (as it should be) free on the internet for anybody who cares.
Feel free to participate if you feel that strongly about it: https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/community
This is the the talk by Dr de Frutos—Fernandez that Dr Buzzard mentions at the end: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QCRLwC5JQw0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915555
Honestly, that mostly only matters if you haven't yet learned how to use this stuff responsibly.

LLMs have incomplete world knowledge and frequently make mistakes. The challenge is learning how to use them anyway.
I am, and you're welcome :-) It very briefly passed 6k, AFAIK. (The interest during Carlsen–Caruana was much higher, but that's just a natural fact of who's playing.)
I'd hope for Meta to support these new Jetpack APIs for the Quest / horizonOS, as their SDK is currently basically limited to Unity / Unreal / Native, with no primitives for building regular apps.

Two competing XR platforms build on Android may not be too bad if apps just run on both.

There are some warts on horizonOS for true XR experiences like the guardian system effectively locking you into a predefined/scanned room or the camera feeds not being accessible (would be useful for scanning QR codes or copying IRL text), hopefully some competitive pressure can move Meta here.

Right now there are quite a few Quest 2 & 3 devices on the market and not a single new Samsung XR glass. Any developer building a new XR app would want their app to run on Quest
A safe deposit box works well for me.
Last thing I want is Google, Qualcomm and Samsung looking over my shoulder all day.
Call me an idiot, but nowhere on the home page does it say it's for JavaScript. The code samples looked like JS, but I don't know every language, so I wasn't sure. It's not until I got into the docs and saw "npm" was a sure we were talking about JS...
The prescriptions may be for multiple doses per day, to reduce GI irritation.

I found a few cases of oral potassium chloride causing heart attacks, though at levels at least an order of magnitude greater.
I often wonder whether there's a correlation between the reduction in a company's profitability and quality with its decision to hire cheaper offshore workers, or insourcing cheaper workers from abroad. I wonder if the smart money did any type of internal studies regarding this type of correlation.
Cybersecurity's IPO Pipeline: 2026 and Beyond
AI helps ID paint chemistry of Berlin Wall murals
We routinely underestimate the factionalism that exists in the collective US 'deep state'.

The CIA vs Pentagon vs FBI vs whatever else natsec department that was once set up for a singular purpose before expanding scope into everything else.

There isn't a central controller seeing everything - just a President (whoever that is) sitting on top of a herd of out-of-control broncos desperately trying not to fall off. These drones are almost certainly US origin, but the departments don't talk to each other, so when one says they don't know anything about it, I'm inclined to believe that it is actually the case
I love the visualization of early human presence over time. Good job!
… and did a massive pivot to copy the iPhone when that launched in 2007. It made sense from the perspective of protecting search but let’s be honest about the real motivation.
Denial-of-service attack on Bluesky causes targeted users to become unviewable
Yes. Once you hit "JM" for example, you see a subgrid with more letters (these are standardized for all the character pairs, so you only have to remember them once). You can just press space or hit one of the additional letters for additional precision.
+1 - Shared with my wife, who is also a DPT(Southeastern US) and she agreed with all of these points.
Funnily enough, I was on my St John Ambulance First Aid Training Course annual update just last week.

would you believe me if I said there was an actual self driving car taking the course.

you should have seen it trying to do CPR with no arms. Us humans laughed and laughed.

The Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was particularly hilarious
The parent isn't being sarcastic about it being underhanded; they're implying that "AI-Enhance Professional Writing" and "enhanced content" regarding LLMs rewriting your resume isn't necessarily desirable, especially at the expense of losing control of your data.
I beg your pardon? This is actually a thing?

Jesus, how horrifying and absurd. No wonder it seems like nothing makes sense if only 13% of decisions are publically vettable.
Perf/watts is a deal breaker when used to "hide" lackluster performance. Intel did this with the 11th and 13th CPU gen and it showed a lot.

I don't think it makes much sense here because the gap is not that large. The B580 consumes more power (let's say about 50W though it seems to be a smaller delta in a lot of cases) than a RTX 4060 but it's also faster and 50$ cheaper.

Even at a fairly high electricity rate of $0.32/kWh, you are looking at 20 hours of play to get 1kWh consumed. That means you need to game a whopping 3125 hours to get to breakeven.
This article is a CPU benchmark and a PCI express bandwidth benchmark. It's masquerading as something else though.
Google wraps 'blue links' test, asks for less maximalist application of EU's DMA
In spite of claims to the contrary there is luck in chess. Your form (and your opponents') varies significantly over time, the outcome of competitive opening prep, or even just how well you're sleeping.

The stars really aligned for Gukesh in countless ways, his form and openings hit when and where they needed to, and he was left playing a very out-of-form world champ who wasn't even in the top 20 in the world.

I suspect his record (world champ at 18) will remain intact for many decades yet to come. He attributed much of his success to God, and even as an agnostic - I'm inclined to agree!

Notably he's still nowhere near the strongest player in the world - he's not even the strongest Indian! The world championship in chess can be an odd beast at times.
- I wish I could double-click a card to automatically move it up to its respective suit stack (if possible)
- This is the first Solitaire game I've played where I was able to move a card from its suit stack back onto the board (or maybe I just didn't try before). Either way, I like that :)
> but to truly provide all the details would make papers far, far longer.

I think what we need in math is that eventually, a collection of frequently cited and closely related papers should be rewritten into a much longer book format. Of course some people do that, but they hardly get much credit for it. It should be much more incentivated, and a core part of grant proposals.
Need OpenAI realtime api for voice apps
What is the reason to drop openvpn? Honestly, I wouldn't even consider any provider that doesn't support it. Like what's even the point.
I'm looking at a sample of well over a thousand companies across multiple years where the vast majority (~90%) do not have a forced rotation and now ~100% of them do not. You can safely extrapolate that out to a general statistic.

Where are you getting your numbers from? What data are you reviewing?
Stop trying to make VR happen, it's not gonna happen
Yeah but a finished textured model is quite different from a low-poly untextured model even though the llama meshgen approach is quite interesting and promising.
Photographer Brings 113-Year-Old 3D Camera Back to Life with 3D Printing
For navigation to work in VR, location services have to accurately know where you are and which way you're facing, which they don't. Compasses don't work in most urban situations because there's too much magnetic metal around you. Visual localization does work but the map has to be up to date.
I could see that value being chosen so people have no incentive to game the cert expiry. For whatever peace of mind it gives them to rotate certs only at low traffic times of the week.
Sure, but it's a start on adding nuance to eval beyond minmax
You're welcome to make a throwaway gmail account if you want "truly free". And don't try to argue that your time still has value, because then that means nothing is truly free.
All tablets are dying. The pixel watch 3 has excellent reviews, what's botched about it ?
Last thing? So you prefer Horizon OS (Meta) or visionOS (Apple) instead?
Well, because we're curious and this is a place where curious critical technology enthusiasts gravitate. If it doesn't do anything novel _at_all_ or if there's no story to elaborate on, go to Reddit.

Plus, many are probably tired of seeing the same thing being made repeatedly that just proxys requests to chatgpt and makes them look pretty.
Tauri offers Dioxus as front-end framework when you create a new project.
Which is fine, right?

IMO one of the major problems of the very online era is that we hypothesize about what somebody might find objectionable, and then act like it really matters. Some people might find anything creepy and objectionable. But we managed to get by—even with the knowledge that some people didn’t like is—before we invented all these theories.
Why would you loudly proclaim "youngest world champion in history" in the headline and then never mention his age at any point? I clicked the article specifically looking for the answer to "how old is he" and was thoroughly disappointed. Author is fired from journalism permanently.
I just use a strong PascalCase passphrase (as strong as feasible if they have a stupidly short limit) and the year & month of the last password change. Something like `PascalCasePassphraseButRandomlyGeneratedProperly2024-12` for one this month. Fits many composition rules (those are also recommended against) by having uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and punctuation. Doesn't repeat previous passwords. And the entropy of the actual 7-word diceware passphrase is about 90 bits, which is pretty decent.
Why is there no pictures of the actual headset anywhere?
It may depend on what we mean by "dead." I'm thinking hobbyists may still use just about anything just to tinker with things, but I don't think that's particularly interesting in this context. What's more interesting is whether it's still being used in a commercial context?

In a commercial context there's different stages of dying, right?

Terminally Ill - the programming language is descending down the TIOBE index and is being used for fewer and fewer new projects.

Dying - the programming language isn't being used at all for new projects but is still being used in existing deployments. Minor modifications may be made, but nothing requiring a significant effort.

Dead - the programming language isn't being used at all for new projects nor is it being used in existing deployments.

Using these terms, I don't know if there are any Dead languages, but if there were, I'd imagine it would be Basic from the 80s (Apple, Commodore, Atari) and UCSD Pascal. I'd love to know if I'm wrong or what other languages would be "Dead" in the way I've defined it.
Well, it's a great opportunity for this century's Upton Sinclair at least.
> has been detected by our systems as being spammy, fake, or inauthentic

Looking at his profile page[0], virtually every single post is a link to an external site. Very few replies or reposts or plain text posts. Compare that to his Twitter profile[1]. I could easily see this as being detected as a spam bot.

> I’m also not one to post stuff to chase cheap clicks

I disagree given this article.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/michaelkruse.bsky.social
[1] https://xcancel.com/michaelkruse/with_replies
To be fair the Android they bought was trying to be a Blackberry clone, Google did the legwork on turning it into an iOS clone.
The fact that the trademark doesn't merely describe the product is what allows for protection. That's why Apple can be trademarked for a computer product but not for a fruit, as the latter would be merely a description of the product.
My local ISP offers VOIP.

For a long time the area was serviced by AT&T, who probably started with phone lines and then progressed over time to dial up and then more modern cable / broadband. They probably bundled in home phone service for many years.

When the local ISP built out all their gigabit fiber infrastructure they probably felt they had to offer some kind of phone service to compete, and went with VOIP since they weren't going to build out a whole telephone network infrastructure. I'd bet most people don't use it, but they need to offer it to be viable for certain older customers that don't want to give up their home phones.

I briefly set up a home phone on the provided VOIP, just for fun and nostalgia, but it was pretty annoying with sometimes getting disconnected and needing a manual power cycle to reconnect so I stopped using it.
Because it's necessary for the thing you do own.
Not everything has to have a purpose.

That most of the society thinks so is a failure of our systems.
Huh this looks cool, like vimium but for the entire UI vs. just the browser.
HeroDevs Throws .NET 6 Users a Post-Deprecation Lifeline
I doubt it. If things today were just as tough as they were 20 years ago, then we wouldn't be having such a massive loneliness and mental health epidemic.

Sure, some of it is due to more awareness on mental health than in the past, but a lot of it is also due to things just being worse and more difficult.
boy the press really wants to make this a thing that gets people all worked up
I don't know about that, but there are a few things they could use to make it fall out of the sky and become available for forensic examination.

The tepid response from the governments involved makes me suspect that they know perfectly well where these are coming from and have some reason why they don't want to say that.
I'm not sure why you could infer that from my answer. Last thing is a figure of speech not an ordered set with my point being the tail item :)
Get your Year in Review from Sentry's first ever "Rollback"
[Edit] - https://rollback.sentry.io is the correct link. HN is updating it for some reason.

Mike from Sentry.io here. Our team put together a cheeky Spotify Wrapped type experience for your Sentry usage this year.

We classify your usage into 11 different personalities all with custom art and backed by AI generated tunes. Compare with your coworkers and enjoy.

Happy holidays from Sentry!
Every drug, no matter how well designed, can become dangerous with poor quality control during production. Inadequate sterilization, mis-dosing, cheaping out on ingredients, wrong temperatures/times for chemical reactions, broken mixers, you name it.

And verifying that a factory has adequate QC doesn't just mean walking the factory floor to check everything is correct (although that is a good start). It also means checking that the factory has a QC program: that management has implemented quality checks and acts on quality issues; that staff are able to flag issues (without retaliation and with reports that get acted on); that they demand the same from suppliers etc etc.

We absolutely need the FDA going to factories, not (just) to observe the actual technicians but to inspect the overall way the factory functions wrt quality.
I am not happy with this result (quite the blunder deciding this match) and in general who played for the crown here. Ding is not in the top for a while now and Gukesh has rarely played in Top GM tourns. The silent champ (Magnus) is still around, winning tournaments.

"World champion" currently means "some lucky Top GM" and not "the undisputed number one".
The Government's Disturbing Rationale for Banning TikTok
My dad can identify fighter aircraft by engine sound alone, he is/was just really really into military aircraft. He gave me a CD once of mp3s of just the sound of jets flying by. To me, it was just a headache generator hah.

I don't doubt for one second you can identify an Apache by sound.
This is not a new request; many people, including engine authors, have suggested it throughout the years. The problem is that it's seemingly very hard to reliably quantify something like this and propagate it throughout the game tree.
All the problems mentioned in the blog post are due to the providers not following what the spec clearly said.

If you have an example of where that's not the case, I would also love to hear as I work in this area (perhaps you're thinking about how OAuth does not specify at all how authentication happen? But that was a good call, OAuth 1 did and it was too limiting... also OpenID Connect is pretty widely adopted now, and it fills that gap well).
For a while there, most desktop PCs came with two optical disk units, one player and one player/burner.

So the original disk could be copied to writable media.

There definitely would "occasionally" be a movie lover who wasn't actually buying those copies.
Make It So – Agentic AI Single Binary
Make it So allows for you to issue orders to your computer. The idea was to make a textual interface resembling how you would interact with the main computer on the Star Trek series.

Makes thing like "ffmpeg convert this file.mov to a gif" childs play without looking at a man page.
I do feel like "Don't hate the player, hate the game" is used to shield folks from criticism about actively participating in a societal ill in exchange for money. I realize that sex work and its presence in society goes all the way back to antiquity, and technology is only going to make it more prevalent. Some folks with compartmentalized morality may as well think "Life is short. Why work a crappy 9-5 when I can make a ton of money doing this other stuff instead?" I get the appeal.

That said, if shame were brought back into the mix on a large scale, a lot of this profiteering would evaporate away, and push this industry underground.
How did you get to a tablespoon of butter?

Also, calories is why you're eating in the first place. The butter is part of the breakfast. If you're getting fat, that's not the fault of the butter per se, but of all the calories put together, and plain chicken breasts are a better option.
Bald–Hairy
Texas House introduces bill to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve
I saw a video of some pentagon rep commenting on these sightings over military bases. They basically said ‘we say we don’t know because any old joe shmoe can fly a drone suddenly next to a military base and have it enter restricted space and in that moment no one knows what it is.’ Then they went on to mention how if they respond with force e.g. shooting down a drone like this there is risk of where missed bullets land. And if it turns out to be some kids air hogs plane that blew into a base then that’s a really sorry excuse for using ordinance. So they are taking a position that there is no threat and no response needed until there is indeed a threatening action. And just flying around is not deemed as that.
Blockchains Simplify Transactions
I'm not sure I trust Google enough to walk around my home wearing their cameras. The last thing I want to see are ads based on the contents of my home or specific details of my family.

The police might like it though. They could find out from Google the layout of a home or see if they know of any guns in a home before they SWAT it.
I can't think of a single one, now that you mention it.
I've always assumed that they charge you for publishing.
I think something like game/30 would be better, but I’m not terribly edumacated on the intricacies of classical chess time controls.
> Project Moohan felt like a mix between a Meta Quest 3 and Vision Pro headset.

> In the Moohan headset, I can say, “Take me to JYP Entertainment in Seoul,” and it will automatically open Google Maps and show me that building. If my windows get cluttered, I can ask it to reorganize them. I don’t have to lift a finger. While wearing the prototype glasses, I watch and listen as Gemini summarizes a long, rambling text message to the main point: can you buy lemon, ginger, and olive oil from the store? I was able to naturally switch from speaking in English to asking in Japanese what the weather is in New York — and get the answer in spoken and written Japanese.
"To play chess is the mark of a gentleman. To play chess well is the mark of a wasted life"