skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought the iPad Pro 11 (M4) on its release day and did the same thing you did: throwing out what I knew to adjust to new paradigms. I regret its purchase. It is still fundamentally a device that cannot handle code-based workflows, although it's OK for some media creation.

For software development, the canonical advice consists of excuses that rely on a "Pro" device to be a thin client. Remoting out to a workstation somewhere else defeats the purpose of having an M4 in the tablet itself. I can't even run a VM with native virtualization. A Chromebook with Crostini offers more functionality in this regard.

You are also a consumer in another way: iOS revenue models are optimized for rent-seeking, whereas that is only partially true for macOS - even for Apple itself. As an example, I use Logic on the Mac and I pay for it once - Logic for iPad is subscription based.

I don't hate the idea of the iPad overall - I have an iPad mini I use to read and mark up papers, and it's great for that.
When I took the sophomore-level Computer Graphics class as an undergrad in 2001, the final project was to build a solar system simulator in OpenGL. It didn't have to be especially faithful (all orbits perfectly round, don't care about starting positions, etc). The most complicated part was implementing a view from a planet's surface which would rotate at the proper rate for the given planet. This was not a difficult assignment (for me, can't say anything about my classmates!).

Making it marginally more accurate for a real product would only have been a bit more effort.
I recommend focusing on general design principles and mindset.

- Read "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman - once you understand what makes a good (or bad) door handle, you'll start seeing design patterns everywhere.

- Read "The Art of Game Design" by Jesse Schell. It discusses how to create engaging experiences, and games are particularly unforgiving. While people might tolerate an annoying tax app because they have to use it, they'll immediately abandon a game that's even slightly too frustrating, confusing, or boring.
You talking about something like the issue I linked to earlier? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347909

FWIW I've got a niri IPC / bash / jq abomination that emulates run-or-raise functionality and works probably better than the original RoR. It cycles through windows matching a particular appId and starts one if one doesn't already exist. That, alongside rofi(wayland) as a fuzzy search nav for all open windows, made a huge difference to me.
Fswatch, cross-plaform 'trigger commands in response to file system changes'
Printers start speaking in tongues after Windows 11 update
My understanding is that the post is essentially a complaint about deceptive marketing.

iPads are marketed as capable of "doing all the things you love", how it's "so versatile it's up to any task" and so on - leading to perception that it's like a computer, except in a different form factor. While, in reality, of course it's not.

Personally, I never found any subjectively meaningful use case for iPads except for portable media consumption (aka watching movies on the Porcelain Throne, and even then it's not a great option as it lacks multi-user support). Every time Apple announces a new one, I have this feeling of cognitive dissonance between what the device actually is and how it's marketed.

(I'm sure there are lots of good use cases for iPad - just nothing I personally need or care about. Aka "I'm not in the target market")
Shroud's Spectre Divide and its developer are shutting down
I regret the loss of the illuminated logo.
I’m not sure a single person in this thread actually read the article rather than just taking an opportunity to say how much they like the game.

I read it and I’m not sure I get the point—it seems in the end what they discovered is the simulated sun position in the first two games are based on each other's locations. Not familiar enough with the series to understand what implication that has, but in any case, is it an easter egg or an oversight? It can't be both.
Supercomputer draws molecular blueprint for repairing damaged DNA
There may be a reason for it, but best to understand what that reason is before applying the same approach.
> It seems incredibly unlikely on what basis? Your complete lack of legal expertise and any insight into legal practice?

I worked in the industry for several years, though not in litigation. I've been nothing but courteous to you despite your posts being shallow and dismissive. Review the site guidelines; you are breaking several of them.

> If you draft a complaint in federal court saying you were owed $30,000, you don't get to later change that to a higher amount without amending.

They weren't asking for $30,000. They were asking for more money than has ever existed. Your contention is that this came about from an industry standard practice of multiplying the statutory maximum by the number of infringements. You already stated yourself that a court was never going to award these damages because it would be impossible to pay them, so the idea that they were leaving money on the table by revising down from the the statutory maximum is nonsensical.

You would then ask why they would bother to revise this figure; it's no big deal, right? Industry standard.

Maybe the big shots do things differently but I've seen a lot of money get left on the table to avoid bad press, which is why I find it hard to believe there was no one in the loop here who would have had the capacity to suggest that this was a bad idea. My contention is that this didn't happen, because the whole point of these lawsuits was not to recoup damages but to curtail piracy via a chilling effect.

> The RIAA's settlement amounts are typically in the neighborhood of $3,000-$4,000 for those who settle once they receive a letter from the music industry. On the other side of the balance sheet is the amount of money paid to SafeNet (formerly MediaSentry) to conduct its investigations, and the cash spent on the RIAA's legal team and on local counsel to help with the various cases. As Pariser admitted under oath today, the entire campaign is a money pit.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/10/music-industry-e...
I feel like Tesla is more equipped to be a first-generation brand, when sheer novelty is a big part of the product appeal. You can get away with weird user interfaces and marginal quality when you're the only major mainstream EV brand on the market.

It takes an entirely different product vision to compete in a second-generation market, when customer preferences have solidified and "we're the only product on the market" no longer cuts it.

In 2035, we'll be cross-shopping Corolla and Civic EVs that offer no surprises whatsoever. Will Tesla's atypical design choices be considered whimsical and niche (think Saab or Subaru) or just signs of failing to understand what consumers in a mature market want (like Suzuki or Jaguar)
ChromeOS balances the different paradigms reasonably well with Crostini and the ability to run Linux-based applications with native hardware virtualization. Solves for every power-user case you can't get from Android or the browser.
Any thinner and it would probably be impossible to achieve mechanical rigidity minimums for a consumer product...
Gift link https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/trump-s-f...
My first 'Biology' course in uni was basically quantum chemistry. Not every detail, but we definitely had to learn about actual electron orbitals and stuff.

That was quite some years ago already, mind you.
iPads have always been this way, right? They're an appliance, and only a computer in the technical sense. Did the author just learn how to program and he wants a terminal now?
Could be that Snowden took it to The Guardian, a foreign and international news outlet. The story how British intelligence folks showed up at the Guardian HQ and symbolically destroyed a hard drive, and the way Guardian management used their New York offices to work around restrictions in UK law to publish the story, that's quite a story itself, and of course journalists know how to get coverage and reach.

Mark targeted the EFF, not a news outlet, in contrast. The EFF probably first and foremost had the legal pursuit in mind, not making a story big.

The most shocking things of all for me was how ignorant ordinary people were and still are about both whistle blowers' disclosures and the subsequent pretend fixes by lawmakers. (Cynically, I'm inclined to add there might be more riots and demonstrations if you take Heinz ketchup away from people than theirlegitimate rights to privacy.)
"Open weights" refers to a license that allows you to freely (or mostly freely) copy the model file (i.e. weights). An "open source" model would be possible to build from training data, but those hardly exist.
"Molecular architecture and functional dynamics of the pre-incision complex in nucleotide excision repair" (2025)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52860-y
That, and it would be an FBI van, not an NSA van. But the point holds.
I don't think it was controversial so much as they went out of their way to make it suck as much as possible.

The base model m3 processor was grossly underpowered. They threw money at a retina screen but didn't drive it with any graphics support. And then they charged users a premium to be their guinea pigs with the experimental and deeply awful butterfly keyboard.

In the past ten years, Apple has done a lot of things that are indistinguishable from negligently or maliciously flooding the ultraportable market with pure shit. Honestly, someone should file a shareholder derivative lawsuit for how bad they repeatedly, intentionally fuck up small form factor devices.
There was quite a kerfuffle over these machines, as they were retina (at the time, this means expensive), woefully underpowered, and basically required a dongle (also new then) as they had a single usbc port for all charging and IO. Also the butterfly keyboards failed if you looked at them wrong.

Despite all that, I loved these machines, but many people found them to be just a bit too Apple.
Completed it. Was really fun, thank you!

I wasn't sure how to chain function calls so had to look that up to implement movei, but apart from that was fairly straightforward (it's (do (<func1>) (<func2>) ...)).

My UI was pretty simple and ended up being

(defn looki [] (display-html (look-html (look))))
(defn movei [dir] (do (move dir) (looki)))
(looki)
(movei :south)
(movei :east)
(movei :north)
(movei :south)
(movei :west)
(unlock-function :spoiler)
(stack)
(push :picture)
(push :spoilers)
(peek)
(pop)
(reset)
Hoary old Unix monsters like me have used this platform happily and productively since before it was born. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get on our level.
Ask HN: Which X11 server do you use on Android?
I have a Google Pixel phone. The latest (March) software update included the ability to enable a new 'Terminal' app which drops you into a debian shell.

I looked in the Play Store for X11 servers. I found two:

1. Mocha X11: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.mochasoft.x11

2. RNX XIO X11 GUI: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.awnto.rnx.xio

#2 seems to work only with a specific linux distribution.

#1 seems to work fine, and I trust the company because ~25 years ago I used their 5250 emulator for Windows, and it was great.

I also found an open source one in the IzzOnDroid F-Droid repo:

3. https://github.com/nwrkbiz/android-xserver

That seems less cluttered than the Mochasoft one, but I can't get it to keep an app up for more than a few seconds: the terminal reports the connection to the X server was broken.

I'm curious whether you're using one of these and/or whether there's a better option?
Yes, the iPad is a vending machine, owned and run by Apple, but paid for by you, the customer.
People aren't motivated to change the defaults, unless they're told they should change by "clicking here" in prominent (non-ad) banners. Mozilla cannot buy the OS defaults nor such brand positions.
Also, "Scientists discover an RNA that repairs DNA damage" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313781

"NEAT1 promotes genome stability via m6A methylation-dependent regulation of CHD4" (2025)
https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/38/17-20/915
> The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail

Are they ever?

> They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest academic research on how they looked

Like the one of the age of castles man loading an American civil war cannon by holding another cannon up to it: https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/37e02fea-bbb2-4b88-ae8c-0a3...

I must have missed that folklore.
I think, in part, because we don't have the same level of experience with how things are elsewhere.
This was the link I was looking for. I like this more than the AI version.
one decibel reduction at what reference pressure

The implication is that we're talking about sound pressure level in air, therefore the reference pressure would be 20 µPa.

and for which frequencies?

Again, the implication is annoyance and in that context I'm looking at overall SPL in A-weighted decibels (A-weighted decibels, while not perfect, is reliably correlated with annoyance)

I think you don't really know

For the record I'm an expert [0] in acoustics and noise control. It's how I've made my living for the past 30 years. So yes, I really know.

or you would have specified

I wasn't trying to get into a detailed discussion here, but I'm happy to oblige for anyone that wants to learn.

as with most things relating to acoustics, the truth appears to be extremely complicated

Absolutely. That said, if you look at the link, the author mentions 8-9 dB of excess attenuation with 50 meters of intervening foliage. That correlates to about 1 dB of attenuation per 18 feet of foliage. Again, that demonstrates that a strip of foliage would do almost nothing to reduce sound levels. And for what it's worth, the phonemea the author is describing is not "absorption" - it's a combination of partial cancellation of the reflected/direct wave interaction in porous soil (same reason why snow covered ground makes things quieter) and refraction from leaves/trunks (which is why the foliage needs to be _dense_, otherwise soon waves travel through the gaps and provide no reduction).

[0] By "expert" I mean a) studied the subject as an undergrad at MIT b) worked for 30 years in the field, producing or contributing to several hundred Environmental Impact Statements in the USA, authoring/co-authoring a couple dozen papers and presentations including one peer-reviewed study, c) authored or contributed to acoustics guidance manuals for the U.S. Federal Transit Administration, Federal Aviation Administration and National Academies, d) have been admitted as an expert witness in acoustics/noise control in criminal and civil trials in seven states, e) have certification demonstrating noise control expertise [1], f) been recognized by my peers as having contributed to the field, g) have had research referenced by international researchers

[1] https://www.inceusa.org/board-certification/about/ (sample test questions available at https://www.inceusa.org/pub/?id=6FBAEF10-B2FE-1D7D-AFCA-55D5... if you want to see the type of acoustics knowledge that is tested.
CDroms were a luxury addon when W95 was released - but every machine had a 3.5

I want to say it was in the ~20 disk range...

There were a lot of really fun things that happened with W95 - a lot of "mischevious" cyberwar...

Like taking image of desktop as background came out with that - so nothing was clickable as a prank.

There were several backdoor utils

There were several prank links to something that seemed serious/work -- but then switched to a really loud voice yelling "IM WATCHING P*RN"

(The backdoor utils were really powerful though, and they remind me of a thing I am doing with Cursor/Claude -- Agent mode access to a fresh windows laptop as admin and having the bot fully config my new windows machine to my specs.
The bigger controversy was the MacBook Pro launched a few months later:

- Ditching MagSafe

- Touch Bar (at first without a dedicated escape key)

- Butterfly Keyboard

- Uncomfortably hot to the touch

- Full-sized left and right arrow keys which made it harder to find without looking

- Only USB-C ports

Whoever had the reigns when Apple finally reversed these decisions and made the M1 MBP -- this is the best laptop I've ever owned.
What about the post was incorrect (if that's what you meant)?

I'm also curious, do you think Tesla is correctly valued at the 67 P/E?
Why Some Men Find Orgasms Elusive
Probably because the US empire had deteriorated enough by that point that revoking passports for exposing the blatant lies and crimes of our government was on the table by then.

Of course, it's different these days. These days they'd just kill Snowden. And Mark Klein, for that matter.
ScholarlyArticle: "NEAT1 promotes genome stability via m6A methylation-dependent regulation of CHD4" (2025)
https://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/38/17-20/915
He's complaining because Apple of the year have started to blur the line between a personal computer and a device that you can personally compute on.
Has something changed recently that all of your theoretical concerns are now in play when they weren't for the last 14 years?
A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation (1994)
Warren Buffet said it's a declaration of war.
I just want a device that works as a real-time bidirectional translator by collecting audio-visual input. It’d be great if I didn’t have to waste time learning German or other languages while living in those places.

Being able to order food and handle bureaucracy in these languages while speaking only English would be amazing. This seems like a simpler problem than tackling robots in 3D space, yet it’s still unsolved.
> It's a bit like the police getting a search warrant to look around your home. If there's no legitimate reason to do it, like having reasonable suspicion of a crime that requires investigation, then they're not going to.

Yes, it is a bit like this. Except in this case the police don't need a warrant, they can enter your home for any reason at their discretion. You're putting a lot of trust in a bunch of people you've (I'm assuming) never met working for an agency that has demonstrated a complete lack of regard for the constitution. Either that or you're a really terrible glowie: "How do you do, fellow tech enthusiasts??"
Fasting and prayer are pretty universal. Fasting itself has pretty interesting physiological effects wrt healing.

As a straight up atheist if pushed to make a decision, I'd probably participate. The prayer part id probably just interpret as picking an aspect of this news to explicitly make present in my mind for the day.
I turn this into a design one time. Everything had a different Color scheme too. It was oddly usable with the colors setting the mindset.

It depends a lot who the audience is.
You'd think they'd join many companies and pay a dividend or perform stock buybacks.
I just got a Macbook Pro and it is absolutely an amazing machine. The butterfly key board, touch bar, and no mag safe kept me away. Glad to be back
CO2 was superseded by other refrigerants because it's less efficient (incidentally, ammonia is one of the most efficient), and the (very) heavy equipment required to utilise it due to the extremely high pressures is also costly.
"Supercomputer draws molecular blueprint for repairing damaged DNA" (2025)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349021
It’s rough for the old timers because as consumers of the web, we’re forced to use SPAs that have objectively worse UX. And sites are built that way now “because it’s how everyone does it.”
Yeah, I kinda share their viewpoint that this seems like unnecessary spending, but they can't simply take the money back after it's been paid out.
Nowadays Apple would rather try to convince you the 11" M4 iPad Pro means you don't need a MacBook for that.
Tilers can remove Gnome's overly whitespaced decorations, probably saving 10% in screen pixels alone.

If you want to maximize all windows on run, niri can do that with a rule. It then becomes like a monocle layout where you can use swipes/keyboard/scroll wheel to navigate between maximized windows. I don't know of any DE that will run all windows maximized by default.

Too bad I no longer have an 800x600 netbook. Niri would be perfect for it.
I have the motherboard (i7/16/512) and top and bottom case and a new battery, if you want to assemble one (or pay me to do so). Shoot me an email.
A proof of a long-open conjecture that uses only elementary techniques is typically long and convoluted.

Think of the problem as requiring spending a certain amount of complexity to solve. If you don't spend it on developing a new way of thinking then you spend it on long and tedious calculations that nobody can keep in working memory.

It's similar to how you can write an AI model in Pytorch or you can write down the logic gates that execute on the GPU. The logic gate representation uses only elementary techniques. But nobody wants to read or check it by hand.
"Even though it's not designed to"

It is designed to, though. That's the thing. The line is arbitrarily drawn at not getting CLI/root access to your iPad.

His point is that over the years, Apple has blurred that line a lot. You can use keyboards and mice. You can do all your daily computing on an iPad - email, spreadsheets, YouTube, whatever.

But it's still locked down, for whatever reason, despite being a perfectly capable computer that doesn't necessarily need to be.

It's honestly really obvious what he's saying. iPads have changed over the last 5 or so years, and people on HN clearly haven't used one in a while. The author isn't _wrong_.

Apple spends all this effort to blur the lines between personal computer and a device you can compute on, and it mildly tricks users who don't necessarily realise there's a difference between the computer and the tablet, especially amongst younger generations who grew up on tablets ("iPad kids").
That scripting trick is awesome! One of the really nice things about Elixir and its dependency manager is that you can just write Mix.install(…) in your script and it’ll fetch those dependencies for you, with the same caching you mentioned too.

Does uv work with Jupyter notebooks too? When I used it a while ago dependencies were really annoying compared to Livebook with that Mix.install support.
Great link thanks!
Oh yea I always read about actors during commercial break. Was a bit startled when reading his Wikipedia.
> It doesn't feel right.

Who would you have as CEO?
"we're seeing the death bellows of many large, entrenched bureaucracies right now with DOGE"

DOGE is just Musk bribing Trump into letting him settle scores and shut down agencies that are investigating him or that he doesn't like. Finding and eliminating "inefficiency" is just another one of Musk's myriad lies. I'm shocked at how many people still consider him to have any credibility at all.
First part is true, but how do you define "successful"?
A 94% drop in price to reach parity with Toyota is a bit much, when I did this exercise the other day I aimed for a P/E of 15 to 20 which I think is more realistic as Tesla is an industry defining company and is taking big risks with the robots and taxis.

That being said, it would still be a 60% drop in the current valuation to get there.

I also didn't realize Tesla had so much debt, 45b in debt seems like a lot.
Could you please explain?

All of the (continental) US is in similar enough timezones, that whatever 3 hour window is convenient for one part is still easily accessible for the others.