skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely not true in my experience (MLB, NFL, NBA). It’s very very common for one person to buy tickets for their whole party (this is how you make sure you’re sitting together) and there’s no part of the purchase or checkin flow where you’re even asked for the names of the people in your party.

Maybe for Taylor swift tickets or something they have stronger rules but it’s definitely not true as a matter of course in American major professional sports that each ticket holder needs to have their identity on file
Originally Android apps could draw over top of any other app though which is a phishing nightmare. It took them a long time to make that a permission, and then everyone granted it until they finally added the bubbles API recently.

Permissions are difficult to get right, and Android is unfortunately pretty slow to react.
Naivety has layers. You either die a normie who doesn't care about privacy, or you live long enough to become a schizo who knows how bad things really are. Try bringing up at the dinner table the NSA dragnet or always-on backdoors embedded in consumer routers and CPUs.

Everything is tracked, everything is logged, its been this way for a long time and there's nothing you can do about it. You have zero privacy in the internet and you're an idiot if you think otherwise.
About vibe coding: I'm not feeling it. I've spent too many hours reading code to track down Heisenbugs to believe vibe coders can just wish that away because LLMs take care of such things
Amazon MGM is like that too
I have flatpaks from several years ago that no longer work (Krita) due to some GL issues.
Nessie Games: How much their first Indie game made; no marketing [video]
Gaia is a about 4 times farther out from Earth than the Moon, there's little reason to fly it back to Earth.
> Note that this also underlines that the post's premise of Windows having a simple stable ABI - win32 sure is stable, but that's not what applications are coded against anymore.

It's true, but this touches on another point they made: what apps code to is other dynamically linked libraries. The kind that wine (or other host environments) can provide, without needing to mess with the kernel.
Depends. Proton and CrossOver are dead easy, especially for the supported apps.
Wait, isn't Steam OS Arch based now?
I actually made a comedy of errors when I went back and edited my first estimate ("about 300 m/s").

For debris to become a problem to us ground people, it really just needs to make it to LEO–the atmosphere will take care of it from there. So I was trying to estimate the Δv for L2 to LEO, which is about 200 m/s according to Table 3 on that source. So probably not 3 km/s. But 320 is too precise given the handwavy math I am doing.
MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway (Jan'24)
If you change a lot of things about a Linux system, then you're making a new distro.

Half of this incompatibility is because Linux is flexible, anyway. My system is different from your system, and did anyone test on both? If you want a more stable ABI then you need a more stable system.
How does that address the problem? Does F-Droid do some sort of additional screening to keep out apps that do this?
> You can install the game without the launcher, but don't expect it to be compatible with most servers.

How so? More specifically, if I compile the same version as the launcher, can I play on most servers?
I have one of these, they are quite effective.
This for MCUs and low powered devices with barely any memory.
32kb of ram and 128kb of flash memory requirement (and some extra space for rendering buffer and framebuffer). Even this is not an insignificant amount for various MCUs.
You can. Compile to DVI then use dvipng. There's not much reason to do it anymore. PDFs take up less space, you can copy the text, do hyperlinks.
I'm not sure why there are so many naysayers. I've been having the same thought ever since the initial release of the steam deck and think it's a great idea.
In my vision no trace of Linux is discoverable by the user.
> as it's a good loss leader

Brand maker is hard to argue with because it's so vague, but how does Apple TV function as a loss leader? Isn't the idea of a loss leader that it's supposed to help sell whatever actually makes money?

How does Apple TV sell hardware for Apple? The only person I know with a subscription has an Android phone and Windows laptop and signed up just long enough to watch Severance.
Apple famously does not track profits by division but profits overall-
If they just audited apps and banned companies from the app store for abuse it would do a lot to curb this behavior. This is feasible, there just aren't THAT many popular apps at any given time.
Question, from an application developer's perspective: What is the implication in regards to cross-platform Vulkan applications? I.e., my 3D applications all use Vulkan, and they compile and just work on both Windows, and Ubuntu. Does this mean that on other or older distros, they might not work?
The concept of containers for Windows applications running in WINE is called "bottles."

https://support.codeweavers.com/en_US/2-getting-started/2-in...

I believe it started with Cedega, but I could be wrong. That's where I first recall encountering it.
First computer with integrated brain-computer interface to control PC via mind
U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, spent $100K+ designing parts
> how close his house of cards is to falling around him

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Primarily for the shareholders obviously.
Prolog and Lisp would shine here refactoring code and writting and veryfing unit tests by themselves. For obvious reasons. Lexical parsing it's an exercise for Common Lisp programmers, and ditto with Contrain Satisfaction Problems under that language.
That’s fair :) Guess I’m just scarred.
This is not getting any federal grants.
Being a jerk in response to other people's work is not allowed here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. It's not allowed in general, either, but treating other people's work like this is particularly bad. There's nothing more destructive of the spirit of curiosity and welcome which we want on this site.

Edit: you've unfortunately been posting a great deal like this. We can't have that, so I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that (1) it won't happen again, and (2) you want to use HN in the intended spirit in the future.
Elon Musk Merges AI with X: Implications
This is awesome. Now do stock options and every other derivative.
I used Claude 3.7 Sonnet for the Cursor Agent when building the demo. Happy to hop on a call to walk through your experience, as I'm surprised the agent performed so poorly. daniel AT getzep.com
They don’t really need more customers, they just need to keep the ones they have
> If you want to run a Mac in the cloud, it has to be a full machine in most cases.

If cloud companies have the opportunity they will divide the resources of that Mac into 30 vms and then meter access to the point where it would have been cheaper to go out and acquire the hardware yourself.

Unpopular opinion, but Apple should stick to its guns and maybe create a physical Mac rack server with legal and technical restrictions on maximum tenancy.

Otherwise what is the point of doing it on a mac?
I disagree. I think targeting running models on end user devices is a good goal, and it's the ideal case for user privacy and latency.

The human brain consumes around 20 watts, while of course there are substantial differences with implementation I think it's reasonable to draw a line and say that eventually we should expect models to hit similar levels of performance per watt. We see some evidence now that small models can achieve high levels of performance with better training techniques, and it's perfectly conceivable that acceptable levels of performance for general use will eventually be baked into models small enough to run on end hardware. And at the speed of development here, "eventually" could mean 1-2 years.
Tesla stock is worth a ton because it has a cult following. No the company, not the leader, the actual stock. The ticker TSLA has a cult following. It is the bread and butter star stock of every day trader, crypto peddler (its basically treated as one by crypto bros), get rich quick with my guide hustler. Tesla goes up because Tesla goes up. It's been in a perpetual self-fulfilling prophecy cycle that is -completely- divorced from reality....but damn, if you played Tesla dips for the last 5-6 years, you almost certainly have done very well.
Maybe this is, because more and more websites fight back ai-crawlers and also ban google.
However, meta search engines like searxng or ecosia might be an alternative. Diverse search results with the cost of prioritising them yourself.
The AI stuff is mostly easy to ignore, just don't end your queries with a question mark. Image search is more annoying, though, because you have to click a button every time to remove AI results. You can't set a persistent preference.
This Far Side Gallery comes to mind: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/57843176441267398/

Any large slice of humanity will contain lots of jerks; but our progress over the past couple of thousand years has been too widespread and consistent for me to think that they'll hold us back permanently.
At this point nobody is going to learn a new system. People already know how to write and package exes which is the whole point.

> but the hacks used to make one app work can break others and vice versa

I think a lot of these problems could be avoided with a singular OS with the sole goal to support windows exes.
And insufficient fuel.
That's a fair question. She has no interesting online activity besides that op-ed, so hard to see what else it could be.
There are definitely potential security issues with memory for coding agents, which apply to not only Cursor but also Windsurf. Looking forward to more research in this area.
Ok, what exactly does this zeitgeist leveraging get for Apple?

Not brand recognition, the brand is well known. Is it some goodwill with…who exactly?

For instance I can see why big corps underwrite public television programs. The audience says “That’s a good company,” and the company talks up its community investment anytime it can.

What is Apple getting for the billion it is spending on TV? Maybe the CEO gets to rub elbows with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon? I’m not seeing what that does for the company, but seriously, sometimes that kind of ego nonsense drives decisions.
There is three things here:

- Steam Runtime: A set of common libraries Linux native games target for multi-distro compatibility, I believe this still uses Ubuntu as the upstream

- Steam OS: An arch based distro pre-configured to run Steam out of the box, used by the Steam Deck, comes with extra stuff like gamescope to smooth over various issues other distros have with VRR, HDR, etc.

- Proton: Runs Windows games on Linux
As long as it's opt-in, sure. Otherwise it's be an illegal GDPR breach.
Buy once, use forever A directory of one-time purchase software
> Without fuel, one can orbit L2 erratically

It takes an infintessimal amount of energy to detatch something from L2.
Any thoughts about option 5?
The only currently maintained generally available engines used by major studios are Unreal and Unity. Maybe you could count CryEngine, but afaik only one major developer besides Crytek themselves use it. Some indies use Godot, but that's hardly "major studios".

Also, no, the Rust tools are not there. Unreal and Unity both have entire ecosystems around them that are at least as important as the engines themselves. Plus asset stores, support staff, console support, and all manner of other stuff you want when your headcount enters the triple digits. You can download an open source fork of CryEngine (O3DE - complicated story) right now. It's free, and no one uses it, because it lacks the non-code extras.
What is Apple TV doing to accomplish that goal, though? Are you saying there are some fraction of Apple customers who would switch to Android or Windows if Apple didn't have a streaming service?
I haven't had Windows on a computer I own since 2009. I only use it on the work computer as it's the garbage they install and lockdown. The best thing you can do for your life is go Microsoft-Free. Don't do drugs, don't do MICROS~1.
Chess324 – A Chess Variant to Reduce Draws
I was surprised to learn this. "Worldwide, the Irish Republic, Singapore and New Zealand are the only countries which implement mandatory water fluoridation."

I live in New Zealand and my town doesn't put fluoride in the water but it seems like they'll be made to do so fairly soon. I don't really care one way or the other from the point of view of ingesting the stuff, but I do consider it a bit of a waste of money. People who brush with toothpaste don't need this and people who don't are probably drinking too much soda. A more useful thing to do might be to subsidize toothpaste for people who can't / won't buy it for their kids.
Steve Jobs had Pixar and iTunes; Tim Cook had Apple TV+, I guess. Apple couldn’t possibly be Apple without some play at cultural significance.

I know old Stevenotes in the heyday of iTunes would make a habit of bringing in musicians to show they could - John Mayer etc. - and I guess Ben Stiller and Adam Scott may be up next.
> viruses can't timetravel yet

_Windows Recall to the rescue!_
> I know someone in adtech and I'm pretty sure Apple allows a similar app manifest that allows you to check for specific apps. I could be wrong.

On iOS an app developer will need to register in advance which external applications their app intends to query, and the list needs to be very short and motivated. [1]

Incidentally, “I have a friend who says...” isn’t really a good citation anywhere outside Reddit - which HN resembles more and more each day.

[1] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/system/how-to-...
make it into a system dialog?
Yes, just that server and client are very much tied, and we have a release cadence of one new version per week. So, you would need to track the release of each week and compile it, to be able to connect to the official server.
Definitely not “good” but I’m still to see anything remotely resembling the complete disregard for privacy and security typical for the adtech-driven android ecosystem.

Just a different business model, not a display of moral values.

Sure, Pegasus exists but I don’t think it is commodified yet.
thank you, I dont use atop but probably should check all my servers, I am gonna check my custom routers they may have it.
Well, things are particularly more complicated on my case: I don't use google services and only install apps from f-droid.
Thank you! Zep, our commercial memory service, utilized Graphiti as it's internal memory store.
People don't want to pay a monthly subscription to watch 5 good shows (all drama, btw). Apple TV lacks breadth for the average consumer, at least relative to the competition.
> Much like The Man himself, we believe that truth is merely an option, and often a burdensome one. Our mission is to provide discerning readers with a tasty blend of fake news, alternative facts and shameless misinformation.

As an Onion subscriber, I like some good satire. Some of the articles I sampled have some hits and misses. This line is pretty good too.

> “I love Elon’s MAGA spirit,” said Trump to reporters in the Oval Office, “but most of all I love his money and his 300 million followers.”
>So it doesn't surprise me that their video editing tools are designed for a single user at a time.

The editors of Severance are actually using Avid. For music composition they're using Albeton. Neither are Apple products. The remote desktop product they're using is Jump Desktop.

While the show is an Apple TV+ show, and they happen to use to Macs in the process, this has shockingly little to do with Apple tools or products.
And lets you determine what counts as "crap", by telling Kagi which sites you prefer and don't prefer to get results from.
Is there a fluoride article in that barrage of links?
Can Musk put people on Mars?
Steam OS is clearly not what the blog is proposing, I can't just pop over the desktop mode and install Firefox via a MSI.
https://archive.ph/lFulW#selection-1127.0-1130.0
Sounds like bad scifi-creepypasta, I know, I wish it didn't.
Vinyl elitism is a bit of a problem but amongst the DJ community it is increasingly seen as old-man-yells-at-the-cloud. For most everything else CDJs are the superior choice; vinyl is a pain in the ass when I could just walk in with a USB drive and slot in. Plus it is a lot easier for producers to demo new tracks and test out WIPs with USB.

That said if you're good at it vinyl is still a lot of fun! And people respect it in a way that digital DJs may never experience. There is something to be said for doing some actual disc jockeying... the 'real DJ' cred is pretty great and a good way to differentiate oneself.
(2012) https://archive.ph/8OBgp
> Is sample size even relevant here?

There are two sample sizes. Kids who put things in noses. People who use cash. One is vastly larger than the other. Drawing conclusions from one about the other _purely retrospectively_ is nonsense.
Thanks for ruining my productivity. This is awesome!
Related. Others?

Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39876804 - March 2024 (17 comments)

Five Years of Veloren - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36259635 - June 2023 (1 comment)

Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496414 - Nov 2022 (4 comments)

Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30667022 - March 2022 (177 comments)

Veloren – Open-source MMORPG written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037461 - Feb 2021 (143 comments)

Veloren: An open-world, open-source multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20347286 - July 2019 (1 comment)
Does any artist exist that hasn't suffered, at the very least, from the various limits—technical, physical, psychological, or otherwise—standing in the way of the perfect materialisation of their artistic vision?

I believe this is undoubtedly a part of the human struggle of creation that Nick wrote about.
Do you know many families? I can’t really think of one in my bubble without an Apple One subscription at this point except for the Spotify holdouts.

Bundling the new HBO with Apple Music has got to be very easy to sell.

Apple TV 4K boxes also stream TV+ at a much higher bit rate than any other service but that’s a bit enthusiast.
Learn by Doing (2006)
It was marked dead, probably automatically for some reason that would be hard to decipher. At a glance, it seems like an appropriate use of Show HN. I vouched for it and gave it an upvote. Good luck!
Er.... sounds cool and everything but the main conern I'd have is "does this protect me legally"

AI generated and legally air tight don't sit in the same room for me right now. But not sure about your target audience. Have you asked them?

Or is your target audience AI investors ;) ?

Also I associate PH with "Is Beta" even though that may not be a fair assumption.
Pretty sure if they just don't you use the software without opting in then it isn't a GDPR breach... You aren't entitled to use the software.
First, f-droid only accepts OSS apps, so the incentives for spyware is simply not there. Second, anti-features are explicitly marked on f-droid. Third, f-droid apps are curated like a very rigorous linux repo.
For people unfamiliar with the meme chosen as an example (なんで春日影やったの？)

https://dic.pixiv.net/en/a/Why%20did%20we%20play%20Haruhikag...
> I still like Outlook, and it works good enough as a web app. Same for OneNote.

This I find baffling. Outlook and One Note are some of the worst applications known to man. Clunky interfaces and confusing messes to navigate.
Isn't that mostly just a function of it being newer? All the other streaming services focused on being prestige loss leaders in their early years too.

Apple TV+ started in 2019. Hulu and Netflix streaming in 2007. HBO Go in 2010. Etc.
Thanks for the information.

I suppose a more appropriate term of phrase would've been "I'd heard anecdotally...", but I agree I was lazy with my original reply. I appreciate the feedback.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Problems with the heap - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485980 - March 2025 (93 comments)

You might want to stop running atop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057 - March 2025 (139 comments)
I completely agree about the buggy bloated software but all I’m saying is that it’s the best bet compared to actual consumer alternatives which are generally a frankenmix of the lowest cost components sourced from the lowest cost vendor with minimum effort spent to ensure and maintain any semblance of security.
> Also glibc (contrary to the author's false claims) and properly designed libraries are backwards compatible, so in principle just adding the debs/rpms from an older Debian/Fedora that ships the needed libraries to the packaging repositories and running apt/dnf should work in theory, although unfortunately might not in practice due to the general incompetence of programmers and distribution maintainers.

Got it. So everything is properly designed but somehow there's a lot of general incompetence preventing it from working. I'm pretty sure the principle of engineering design is to make things work in the face of incompetence by others.

And while glibc is backward compatible & that generally does work, glibc is NOT forward compatible which is a huge problem - it means that you have to build on the oldest bistro you can find so that the built binaries actually work on arbitrary machines you try to run it on. Whereas on Mac & Windows it's pretty easy to build applications on my up-to-date system targeting older variants.
> Or maybe Google thinks it's better to show no results than results from low traffic domains?

Google's poor search results drove me away years ago, so I wouldn't know if they changed this since then, but one of the many things that drove me away was that Google search refused to admit when it had no results and would instead just start including blatantly irrelevant results.
For what it's worth, I've used it on a real "desktop os" albeit on the framebuffer to make a couple full screen (1900x1200 resolution) applications and it worked really well. Biggest issue is lack of native support for multiple mouse buttons, but it was easy to hack that in myself.

You can run it under sdl in a regular windowing desktop environment too, but as stated, that's really not what it's best suited for. It's really meant for the small embedded stuff, for which I personally think it's excellent.

I also thought they were trying to make it capable of talking advantage of some of the accelerated graphics capabilities on some of the small/embedded boards (nxp maybe?), but it's been a while since I was paying attention and I'd have to dig through the GitHub issues/posts again.