skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do have a small number of initiatives, e.g. WinRT (a replacement for Win32), and they're introducing Apple-style sandboxing for apps distributed using MSIX, their "new" packaging technology. However, this tech is hard to use out-of-the-box. I have a company that sells a cross-platform tool which makes shipping code that uses new technologies for cross-platform apps much easier [1], and in particular, lets you ship from non-Windows platforms like Linux CI machines or Mac developer laptops.

There's DirectStorage, a new API for games developers which I think is a port of tech developed for the Xbox.

But otherwise, not really no. Windows appears to be in maintenance mode. Large parts of its development were outsourced to India, the higher level executives are disengaged. Their social media is full of left-wing Current Thing viral sharing rather than anything about developing Windows apps (see the bsky links in another post for examples). They are in some core tech areas nearly 20 years behind Apple. If there's any kind of strategy, it's not widely known. They seem to be faced with two intersecting problems:

1. Nobody targets the Windows API anymore directly, the only app that matters is Chrome and if the Chrome guys don't add support for something then that API will just go unused. Browsers have a policy of not exposing tech that's platform specific. So this dynamic is killing all desktop operating systems, not just Windows. Nobody is investing much in desktop Linux anymore, Apple do still invest in macOS albeit not at a huge level, I think because there's still an ecosystem of Apple-native apps out there. But even so they've focused on initiatives like Catalyst. Microsoft have tried to fix this by forking Chrome into Edge, but the Edge team seem reluctant to add any unique Windows features, perhaps because the Chrome codebase just isn't set up to handle that kind of extension.

2. The Windows codebase has reached end of life, IMO. It's notable that the new APIs or changes they make to existing APIs are all very buggy or have obvious design problems, and that Microsoft's own stable of apps don't get rewritten on top of them at any kind of speed. The core Win32 API is what nearly everything uses but was abandoned years ago, and if you use it your app will by default still look much like a Windows 95 app would. They seem unable to change it in any meaningful way, and also unable to design a sufficiently compelling competitor to HTML.

It's still amazing to me that Marc Andreessen said in the mid 90s, "Netscape will reduce Windows to a poorly debugged set of device drivers" and that prediction actually came true.

[1] https://hydraulic.dev/
Allrightie, at least I don't have millions of people telling me anything, that sounds really uncomfortable

Excessive smartphone use can lead to mental injury btw,

take care
I think Google leaders were smart to not take on Excel, especially after it was clear Microsoft was moving things to the cloud and spinning up Office 365.

There is no way a competitor could sustainably price a competing product against a low monthly or annual cost Excel/Office/OneDrive SAAS option, since the majority of the workforce was already trained on Office products, and everyone is using an edge feature that a new competing product might be missing.
'No medical evidence' to support Lucy Letby's conviction, expert panel finds
This article is ignorant to the political reality that America's sole-hegemon era is ending and China will be allowed to capture Taiwan.
Potentially quite a lot, although it is hard to tell with how fast they have been moving and the dubious legal claims they have been making to support it.

DOGE is not a department authorized by Congress to exist. Elon's appointment at the head of it was not confirmed by Congress, usurping its right to 'advise and consent' to the executive. All government employees have strict rules they have to follow about conflicts of interest, which Elon's companies many government contracts would put him in violation of. Congress dictates what and how the government spends its money, and the Executive is tasked with carrying that out; Elon has placed himself in the middle of that, and has been saying he will now be the one that chooses how that money is spent. There are many laws in place on how the government is to handle personal information, and there is no indication or oversight of DOGE to verify those laws are being followed. Elon was locking employees out of their workplace, despite having that authority (since he was not confirmed to Congress to be in charge of that department).

There are probably quite a lot of other ones too. A lot of the strategy seems to be moving faster than the courts can keep up.
If France is bacon, maybe England is a sausage /s
Homes there are going for at least 500k now, I think…
I'm surprised you have to provide that much context manually. Cline (as do many other agentic coding assistants) uses treesitter to build a syntax tree and uses that to navigate the codebase and request which files it should open and load into the context. That in my experience works quite well. On the other hand, every codebase is different, so YMMV.

It's definitely not great when it comes to giant files. Now granted, those are an antipattern anyway, but sometimes it's just the way it is, and having diffing fail and then waiting while it burns through tokens trying to write out the whole file is a little meh.

That being said, I'm quite impressed overall. When it works it's quite wonderful, how it will use function calling to effectively hand VSCode control over to the LLM for spawning commands, reading the diagnostics etc.

For the multi-taskers among us, this is gold. Kicking off small atomic feature implementations in parallel, and hopping between Cline sessions is.. interesting.
So you're saying that new AAA game companies use macs or linux?

I can't resolve the cognitive dissonance of that making a ton of sense or none.
no there's 2 from what I can see; there's the computer back up which is $99/year and then there's the b2 backup which is $6/TB/Month
Considering the projects that USAID pays for, what they are doing is just and correct. The US executive bureaucracy is bloated beyond belief and needs to have major cuts. We are spending almost 2 trillion dollars more than we are bringing into the government. So many things need to stop being paid for.
You understand of course that you can replace psycho in your sentence with either party and it just describes the others beliefs.

There are living citizens of both countries that have shot at each other in a hot war. It’s not unreasonable in that case yo think it will happen again.
In this scenario, AI companies are frozen in time while personal electronics improve.

Ten years is a long time, make all forecasts with the confidence that you're likely wrong for reasons that haven't emerged yet.
> Microsoft had, in 2007, 18% presence share in console gaming. Today they have 65%

Source for this ? Also what do you mean by "presence" ? I had the impression that Sony was in a way better position than Microsoft, and they were both dwarfed by Nintendo by a substantial margin.

(not that this invalidate your overall point).
This is awesome. JIRA migrations are a massive headache, and the fact that you open-sourced a working solution is solid. OpenProject isn’t the prettiest, but it gets the job done, and cutting out Atlassian’s costs is a win.

Turning this into a paid service makes total sense—plenty of teams don’t have the time or patience to deal with migration. You could probably gauge demand by reaching out to OpenProject users directly or posting in places where people rant about JIRA (which is… a lot of places).
I noticed this maybe a week or so ago. I used that functionality extensively for computers without network access and was very confused. Saw some SO answer about it being a Windows vs Linux thing, which is stupid for a browser but whatever. That wasn't the case. I did find a way to do it, I forget off the top of my head. At the end of the day I just used vscodeoffline and ran the python server directly (getting docker up and running for basically just a venv was a large hassle).
Yeah for Americans:

In some countries things like pollution and noise matters.
And China went all in on batteries.
The problem with "all use Macs" is that Apple has always been a great hardware company with an underfunded software side.

MacOS has so many problems or unsupported features it isn't funny, while Windows was fine.

>> I never used Microsoft software, so it only affected me indirectly

Hmm. The lesson here is probably don't assume you understand a competitor's strengths and weaknesses via secondhand experience.

And the things MacOS historically did better, having a shell and integrating with unix-like software, have been evened with PowerShell/.NET, WSL2, and HyperV.

Furthermore, a few companies started making Windows laptops that weren't bricks. While Apple's software budget is now mostly iOS/device-focused.
> But a voice is not just a sound.

It is just a sound.

> And I’d like to think that no matter how much an A.I. version of Moe or Snake or Chief Wiggum will sound like my voice, something will still be missing — the humanness.

And AI-generated photos will always have six fingers and an extra limb.

Humans are amazing and machines are amazing and machines can emulate whatever sounds humans make and whatever emotions human can convey. That's the least of what they can do.
Thanks for sharing. That was a great story.
Well linux has obviously failed this—their abi is notoriously unreliable and relative to the distro you're using. There's a reason why game development is so reliant on wine.... microsoft actually has a stable ABI.

Linux: permanently stuck in the shittiest part of the nineties.
Trying to use Reels after experiencing the (superior) UX of TikTok was hard enough, but trying to use Reels after experiencing the UX of XHS is pretty much impossible for me.
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Wouldn’t an AI be able to be fixed to not break in the same way though, thus meeting the requirement?
It’s already wise to establish a shared authentication word or phrase with family and colleagues, because AI can now convincingly mimic a person’s face, voice, gestures, even their gait during video calls or phone conversations. A bot won’t know the secret passcode when you ask for it.

Within the next 20–25 years, you may need that same safeguard in face-to-face meetings, since Replicants will be lifelike enough to fool anyone.

Voight-Kampff Test: https://youtu.be/IbBfONITYNg
I definitely read that as "gam3 do1". I never heard "doe1" for this character, there is always something more to learn ;).
Sure: if I buy today, I’ll be richer tomorrow.

Ergo, the exact reason it’s a horrible currency for the system.

It’s really just the infamous libertarian inability to consider the needs of the system as separate but still important and sometimes in tension with the desires of the individual.

It’s just a particularly goofy one because a deflationary currency very obviously cannot support an economy.
Different UI/UX is a massive differentiator that is enough to justify it.
"insulate the US shipbuilding industry from international competition, leading to them resting on their laurels"

This is what I don't get.

The Jones Act is about keeping ship building at home, in the US. So protective. By locking out foreign competition. It's a 'protective' law, to isolate and protect US industry.

How will opening the US to buy and operate foreign ships, somehow make the US build more US ships?

Look at other Industries that have been outsourced.

Once markets are open, the manufacturing "leaves" the US.

So how will repealing the Jones Act somehow reverse what is seen in every other industry.
Does anyone still need more proofs that climate change is good and benefits living beings?
The mob was inside for really only 45-50 minutes. There was hours of video because there’s obviously a huge amount of video evidence from all the devices seized by FBI and from the many cameras inside the Capitol. The prosecution showed us video only relevant to the accused, but there was a lot of it.
Yeah, this pretty much sums up the Windows 11 experience—bloated, slow, and packed with features no one asked for. The fact that Microsoft is doubling down on hardware requirements despite clear pushback just shows how out of touch they are. TPM might have some theoretical security benefits, but for home users? Totally irrelevant.
It's not even that. It's a proof-of-concept example for generating continuous LOD meshes, which is something that Nanite does, but it isn't all that it does.

"This library serves as a quick placeholder or learning tool, demonstrating the basics of creating continuous LOD data."
Yeah nah.

In this context it reads as a verb (nvidia has open sourced nanite) not a noun (this is an open source version of nanite).

“Entity open-source project” is not an ambiguous statement.

It would need to be “Entity’s open source nanite clone” imo.

As it stands the title is pretty misleading.
I already posted it in reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/jira/comments/1ihgps1/switching_fro...

do you know other places that I could post at?

thanks for the feeback btw.
The lying is the most incomprehensible to me. I actually had a conversation with a family member about RFK's lies (including lies about Bernie Sanders! Which everyone around seemingly tried to suppress him from defending himself on!).

To give an example of what the process felt like with another case I made the mistake of talking about (makes a better story than just the pure lies of the rfk conversation, where said family member just lied constantly and started making things up about bernie sanders):

- elon musk probably didn't do a nazi salute multiple times
- and if he did it was misinterpreted
- no i don't want to see the videos
- and i don't care anyway

For context btw, this family member literally had their grandparents suffer under nazi occupation in ww2.

It's also wild that this family member has already actively been harmed by trump's policies including the forced RTO, and literally just ignores it. They just ignore painful examples when they're brought up, or claim it's all part of trump's plan and the only way it could possible have been done. Yes, as if it was just an inevitable occurrence like a natural disaster and thus not trump's fault.
Google Says "Links Matter Less"–We Looked at 1M SERPs to See If It's True
No matter what happens to any of us personally writing messages here is going to change the situation for those who have ignored the writing on the wall for so long.

People will have hard choices to be made, doubly so for those who have avoided making them. It's great that you seem to now be questioning things you have thought unquestionable; things unfolding now are no surprise to me, and i expect things to get worse, even beyond the current administration or the next until I see people make hard decisions globally.
Also true, but the arxiv version is often (in my experience) containing the entire paper. Indeed, many conferences ask people to submit the full version to arXiv.
https://archive.ph/Y7kUR
Thanks! Yeah linux network namespaces are a powerhouse that we're only just starting to fully utilize (outside of containerization).
Is there an explicit carveout? The GDPR has been used against governments.
" referring to “Chinese shipbuilding capacity is over 230 times greater than _ours_”"

Is it not?

Why do we need to be careful not to offend the Chinese? Unless we are worried they are tracking HN accounts?

Or maybe you are saying, it should be more specific, and say "US" instead of "_ours_".
So far, there's no proof that it "was never going to work", and ample circumstantial evidence that it does, in fact, work.

There have been no serious technical obstacles, and no actual incidents where maintenance has become harder because of it.

This looks 100% like personal resistance, rather than technical.
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>Everything is a speculative asset.
>Your marriage is a speculative asset that your wife doesn't cheat on you in future and actually loves you.

Spouses are not very fungible though, not that I've ever tried ! ...
I was wondering why the title said "Nvidia open source" instead of "Nvidia open sources". Now it makes sense :D
No salary reviewal in the past 3 years, from full-remote to 80% in presence with 1 weekend of advance notice, 2.5-3 hours of commute each day, impossible to find a place to park the car around the office... so yes... fire me please or perhaps I'll find something else before that happens.
I have a tiny skinny female 3.5 kg cat who regularly brings home rats that look half her size, my other fat male cat 7.5kg never catches anything nor does my huge 54kg Doberman.
"Too many headaches with traditional file converters"

first thing I try gives me an error

"File conversion failed: undefined"

try again with different format as the target

"File conversion failed: undefined"

Trying again, but this time with a JPEG to PNG.

"File conversion failed: undefined"

TIFF? error. BMP? error. WEBP? error. ICO? error. m4a to mp3? error.

I don't have a weird setup or browser or anything like that, just regular chrome.
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The Internet Is Unusable
As it should; people would use it to make life-or-death decisions, so that application is high-risk.

We already have ways to predict avalanche risk that are well understood and explainable. There should be a high threshold on replacing that.
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Do you consider all taxes to be theft? Then yes, your money is being stolen from you. Maybe you should move to a country with no taxes.

On the other hand, most people accept that taxes are necessary in order for the government to provide services. The disagreement is fundamentally over which services are necessary. In considering this, know that keeping other Americans able to work, live, get health care, life in safety, etc, is beneficial for everyone, even you.
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> But the TPM nonsense potentially marks even rather new and ultra-powerful computers as unsuitable for the upgrade.

TPM has been built into processors for what... 5-7 years now? What mythical "new" x64 is this individual talking about?

When I see someone arguing against TPM, it's fairly easy to write their argument off. They don't understand what it's used for or why, which is fine, but like those gamers discussing fixed page files, their opinion is just wrong.

> There's another piece of self-contradiction in that article - BitLocker uses TPM 2.0 for encryption key storage. Amazing, except, again, HOME users cannot even run this BitLocker thingie, even if they want.

The author is uninformed. Microsoft calls the Win 11 Home version "Device Encryption", essentially an unconfigurable version of Bitlocker. It's still BL under the hood.

> ut then, when you think about it, if the system has TPM and encryption, and it's configured in a "clever" way, then you can't have this lovely freedom of deleting unnecessary stuff, now can you?

Author isn't aware of dislocker. But keep on being smarmy.

Anyway, this article is hardly worth HN's time.
A one-off terrorist attack (one that required years of planning) isn't a war, and cannot scale to a war.
It's interesting to read comments about this today, written through the lens of the present. I suspect many commenters were too young to really understand the level of dominance Microsoft had in the market circa from 1995-2005. Just look at this chart:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/143277-microsofts-shar...

In 2004, outside of education and desktop publishing it was extremely rare to see an Apple computer at all. Apple was the iPod company by that point. Almost all software of note ran only on Windows, and Office was required for all documents.

That Microsoft is dead, killed off by antitrust remedies and the web. That today Microsoft is a giant company is irrelevant...it's not the same company at all. In fact, there is no company today even fractionally as dominant. Google's search monopoly or Apple's App Store monopoly just don't compare.

It appears all the critical commenters think PG was unaware of these facts, but they critically misunderstand the truth on the ground. There was no way for PG to not know that Microsoft was dominant everywhere because Windows ran everything (even digital signage) and Word documents were a more accepted interchange format than even PDFs. He was invoking Gibson's observation that the future is unevenly distributed, and he was right: The movement of almost all applications to the web absolutely annihilated Microsft's ability to dictate what software smaller companies could or could not publish.

Edit: Also, it seems unthinkable today, but back then we all had a large number of devices like printers and digital cameras that only shipped with Windows drivers. Microsoft essentially dictated what hardware you could buy too.
Wait until the programs you need to run only work on w11.
Not arguing your main point, but why wouldn't you compress a backup?
After using my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine for several years, I gave it away to someone else where I worked when I was able to put a faster Motorola processor in my 1984 Mac, bought Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp, and ported utilities like ISI Grapher that I needed. Great programming environment that I used for many practical projects that were financially impactful for my company.
> Would you consider releasing some model weights, and publishing some research?

> i personally think we have been on the wrong side of history here and need to figure out a different open source strategy; not everyone at openai shares this view, and it's also not our current highest priority.

The "different open source strategy" is going to be copying other peoples homework more
r/selfhosted – Perfect for people ditching proprietary tools.
OpenProject forums/GitHub discussions – You already got their attention, but engaging with their community directly could bring in more users.
Indie Hackers – If you’re thinking of monetizing, good place for insights.

Good luck! Hope it takes off
I remember reading this at the time, and thinking how much of a bubble he seemed to be in.

Macs weren't something I saw that often at this time, just like now most computers were PCs.
“Move Fast and Break Things” really does only apply to the scenario where you have to clean up your own messes.
> very few people other than dedicated miners download a full blockchain

I'm gonna have to ask for evidence on this one, I strongly believe most full nodes are not mining pools. http://bitdash.io/ says there are ~10,000 running full nodes, yet there are only ~100 mining pools that have produced a block in recent history: https://miningpoolstats.stream/bitcoin

> 1TB is already too large to keep on your phone or laptop

On your phone, sure. But my desktop already has a few TB of storage. But not 8. And Bitcoin Cash supporters usually seem to indicate that they'd increase it beyond 8 if the 8mb blocks filled up.
> Why getting richer and richer becomes something bad when we go crypto?

Is that sarcasm? It discourages any type of economic activity.

Why would someone invest into or try to start a business when you can become richer by just sitting on your money pile with no risk.

Artificially constricting the supply of money in a non static economy is a bad idea. Like the gold standard just much worse.
Is he reselling them or why so many?
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#bless. this is probably the more interesting story

Edit: after reading, not that interesting. The headline is the whole story.
I didn’t think an Apple Silicon port would ever happen.

I would love to be wrong about that!
It's like a regular Decathlon but with a bigger screen.