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Re:Radiation Map of the World on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:51AM (#50325167)
The changing scales and meaning while zooming in and out makes it hard to derive conclusion from these measurements.

Sometimes it looks like somebody just used a more sensitive or uncalibrated device or is carrying a nuclear warhead around during an entire route of measuring.

Re:OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:51AM (#50324418)
This ticket tries to explain it: https://github.com/l0ng-ai/openidea/issues/568

Building consistent frontends for all platforms isn’t easy in rust, so they use web standards for that.

Re:OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:45AM (#50324379)
It didn’t, there are a few (shallow) replies which are downvoted to the bottom of the page. But perhaps when you looked at the page these comments were new and you were just unlucky.

The discussion about IP with these reverse engineered products in itself is interesting, although a bit repetitive with new clones every day.

Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:15AM (#50323850)
You said somewhere it is vibe coded, but the prompts / requirements are fun to keep and follow :) might save a day or two of writing prompts
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:07AM (#50323811)
Great idea and works really well. Super easy to find interesting stuff!

If you ever add a link section to other sane video platforms, you might want to add media.ccc.de which has talks of nearly 500 hacker conferences. Also without spam.

Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:45AM (#50270358)
Years ago there were frequent crashes (kernel panics) i could directly relate to IntelliJ (PHPStorm, etc), so it might sound dull but upgrading to the latest versions is the first thing I’d check. In this case even a manual check on their website instead of relying on the auto updater to work.
Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:33AM (#50270289)
The “on-device AI” with the standard M6 seems to be slightly faster than the M1 Max of five years ago. All the rest seems to more or less match. Hope the M7 Max is yet another leap that serves many users for years to come.

The M1 Max MacBook with 64 gigabytes is still a great machine and fairly affordable on the second-hand market.

(Returning an i9 to wait a few more years on the M1, any M1, was absolutely worth it)

Re:Retired decorator's Pokémon cards sell for £1.5M on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:59AM (#50240539)
Pokémon cards do not have security features. They can easily be copied by any two-bit counterfeiter.

Also, the Pokémon Company can print as many as they like.

Seeing high value in them seems like a risky investment to me.

Re:Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:50PM (#50227457)
Thanks, it partially works as some sites are wide. Great selection of sites :)
You and I, my friend, are the only ones in this thread not being sent to work in the glitter mines of south Arkansas as enemies of God's Country. SI has the best names, other intelligence is vastly inferior, using it is worse than many schisms of -isms combined.
Please don’t sign up with burner accounts for one snarky reply: take responsibility for your words. You could also respond with something nice that inspires the author and other readers.

Provide food for critical thinking instead of accusing people of not being critical thinkers.

For example, tell us what new media from the US is actually great today. What do the arts offer that is next level and worth watching? Is there a rise in arts in other counties that we are missing? What could Facebook boomers need that leads to more and higher quality arts and movies?

Re:Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:45PM (#50214366)
Feedback: doesn’t work here. Swiping barely works on an iPhone 11. Swiping with one hand with the left thumb on the left part of the screen does not work at all. Swiping in the horizontal center from right to left can take some time and sometimes does two swipes. If I swipe back I might swipe back in safari and land on hacker news again. Hope this helps, would like to try :)
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=looker

“Looker is Google Cloud agentic business intelligence and embedded analytics platform.”

Something of the past according to the author.

> Pace makers, dialysis machines, brake lines.

That’s fair, including insulin pumps over Bluetooth with known vulnerabilities. Many vulnerabilities might be fixed or formally verified if they are part of the architecture.

> Do you know how elevators work now? Their safety mechanisms? Planes are 10x more likely to cause death.

Both rely on inspections, routine maintenance, procedures, and fail-safe hardware afaik. Just like climbing gear.

Would formally verified software add anything? For example, could it cut the need for inspections or software maintenance? I think neither is going to change.

But what might change is that the specific spelling error on an elevator display is formally verified. It becomes about coziness with impressive amounts of paperwork that only a few people can understand.

Just changing one statement requires new verification, which is why formally verified code currently is not touched but ported verbatim into new projects and “rewrites”. That cost may decrease, which is nice but also not nice: the systems you currently want to formally verify are systems you might not want to alter without high friction in the first place.

I’m hopeful it will produce more robust software, and I’m by no means against it, but I’m skeptical of producing more when we might want to produce less.

Code needs to run on physical devices, which are prone to undervolting, bit flips, hardware bugs in specific batches, radiation, deterioration, and the like.

Preferably, I wouldn’t trust my life to a calculating device running on AA batteries while dangling from a rope.

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026) on Thursday October 22, 2026 @07:58PM (#50202780)
Did I accidentally make you a ton of money on one of the betting apps? :)
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026) on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:09PM (#50187667)
Thanks for the reply. Maybe it’s an iOS or version thing.

Just to document my experience with the DarkReader solution in this thread:

After using DarkReader for a day, I find it to be an unsatisfying solution. Not only does it mangle the HN UI, but worse, it shows the light interface for 5 to 10 seconds before switching to dark. Every time. This just partially solve reading HN at night.

Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026) on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:35AM (#50163008)
Thanks for the suggestion.

Just bought and installed it as an iOS extension :) All themes and all custom themes remove the upvote button. Does it do the same for you?

Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? (2026)

The 2020 thread does a lot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966It shows 100 solutions in light of Parkinson’s Law of Triviality. Intense opinions and discussion.It teaches about alligator energy and how they can live without food for up to two years.It teaches that this site should look like top, yet I’ve rarely seen top on a white terminal in the past two decades. This does exist,...

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Re:Neckbeard – a DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @03:21PM (#50093488)
Sometimes the name of a product makes me want to use it, even if I don’t have uses for it. This is such a name, I just keep on grinning.
Previous alternatives for discord never included video, so they were no alternatives. So: great to see this!

Nitpick: the bottom row on the front page shows a discord link, but not their own strafe link. I hope they can add this because of dogfooding.

Re:Programming Isn't Special on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:27PM (#50048587)
Thanks for your insights.

We might call LLMs non-deterministic transpilers / intention guesstimators. But how much mileage can we get out of them?

Being able to somehow describe what is needed in a natural way allows me to solve more problems, to the point of jokingly calling myself and my programming colleagues “product owners”. So your management conclusion isn’t far off.

To me, the interesting part is that I’m actually writing down what I want and designing how it should work in a mix of natural language and code.

This was previously done mostly in code / comments, where it was easy to lose sight of the big picture as working on decent code just took so much time. This was especially true of refactoring after gaining new insights. That type of refactoring (in our codebases) is now nearly free. The code generated is of dubious quality, so this approach only goes so far. Of course, we’d look for $framework / $library to shave off many hours of work. This is what we still do, but mostly faster.

I am, and have been, mostly building on top of an existing pyramid with the benefit that an LLM can consume mountains of documentation, RFCs, bug reports, and so on.

I wonder if the lower layers of the pyramid require more engineering and whether that can also be done properly by being more of a manager. Are LLMs management generators?

I’m not hating on Excel, it’s a formidable tool. I’ve had some less fun with dates and times in the past and called it quits.

There are plenty of stories, some of them:

Pasting old dates: https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2015/aug/excel-d...

Low row limit: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/excel-specificatio...

Conversions: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4994289/

I’d be thoroughly impressed if all the weird quirks of Excel also make the cut.
Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:03AM (#50041508)
I’m not able to find this citation in the human rights watch link you reply to, nor elsewhere on this page nor the Yandex page.

Are we looking at the same thing? Was it deleted somewhere?

Re:Programming Isn't Special on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:55AM (#50017883)
We’re in automation. The point of programming is not to do the same thing again.

The role of a developer (and most IT roles), at its core, is to make yourself obsolete, move on, rinse and repeat.

Feature / scope creep may have blindsided some.

I’m happy most programming is going away. I was capable but now I’m even more capable at creating solutions. The art will stay.

Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:03AM (#50003078)
Is the page about intelligent UI made with Intelligent UI? It should be.

First thing to ask is a design teardown of AI Slop images into individual artistic choices.

Jokes aside: always having the right UI on a dataset is a very cool promise and this looks like a leap in that direction.

Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:28PM (#49967785)
True. In a highly tweakable / customizable OS you only get what you want. But you first need to understand what that means.

If you understand what that means, you can strip down any OS to the bone and will still be productive with it.

Local LLM’s take up a bunch of space today, where Apple believes this is valuable for their users. 12 GB is still smaller than the regular coding models, so they are trying to keep disk space usage in check.

Re:Remove and Disable Apple Macos27 AI Models Tool on Sunday October 04, 2026 @06:19PM (#49958503)
“Some people” arguments always hold true.

Old classmates back in the day used to hate the 128 × 128 px icons macOS shipped. A waste of space for eye candy.

12 GB is at most 4.68% of your Mac. Improving on Apple Intelligence is something of value, as is consumerizing local-first AI.

We’re not talking adware here.

Re:Clipboard Normalizer on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:49AM (#49918500)
Thanks, this is one of these small things I’m used to working around instead of finding a solution.

Countless times I’ve used the browser address bar to reduce text to plain text. Which in some browsers doesn’t work anymore (feature): which could be worked around by pasting more, then removing a character. - It was fast and always in view. The real issue is that I usually don’t want formatting… until I do. :)

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