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Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
No customer would buy Apple's products, which they sell with large profit margins, if Apple would not invest in its operating system and maintain a way for developers to distribute apps. Therefore I would challenge the idea that it is fair for developers to pay Apple a 15/26% commission for the privilege of distr…
South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North
> The countries that have provided military and economic aid and training are members of NATO ... So when you say "NATO funded, NATO trained army", you're vastly overstating the NATO-ness of the UA. No, sounds about right - if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. NATO "members" are funding U…
Show HN: Building a full agentic harness around a 4B model is hard
Around 3 months ago, we were thinking why none of the iPhone apps running an LLM are built as a full harness (as in inference + agentic loop + context management + tools + MCP servers and etc.). It became more interesting when we noticed even the new Siri is not fully on device (and not available in EU for that matter…
Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
Ignoring the possibility of plain ol' management incompetence, when things are changing as fast as they are the problem becomes one of lead time. Hiring competent people does not happen at the click of a finger, nor in the current climate does getting new hardware resources. Hardware probably isn't going to do a lot w…
Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
> Your thoughts does not go deep enough...for example I have thought about this for literally decades, so I have to disagree. > “important" just mean that you hope that it will, implicitly lead to a better outcome. No, as I said, this is not true, at least not always. Here’s a counter-example: I have known many people…
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
I saw a story recently about a school in Kentucky that published student agendas with AI and apparently no human supervision, and it had hallucinated states and elements on the periodic table and the like[0]. This shouldn't happen, even with the most optimistic estimates of AI's capabilities being true, yet there is a…
Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
> Helping me find new music to enjoy? Is it helping you find new music or is it feeding the same thing it has been feeding you in a reinforcement loop? Are you really searching or are you mindlessly taking what's on offer? > Spotify recommending new music to me or continuing to play music suggestions when my playlist…
Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows
"However, more than 90% of battery storage applications rely on LFP batteries that are almost exclusively supplied from China, which accounts for almost all global manufacturing capacity and the associated technical expertise. Korean producers are investing to scale up LFP battery production that can offer an alternat…
Rethinking Database Programming
SQL engines already had have multiple languages support for stored queries for at least 30 years. C, C++, Perl, Java, CLR at least. GraalVM was originally designed as repurposing the MaximeVM ideas into a new Oracle SP engine. You can even use Oracle or SQL Server as application server, having a Web frontend calling i…
OpenLogi
So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago but when a language model does it it's suddenly offensive? We should be instead celebrating how we have a mini software company at our fingertips ready to fix the broken hobbyist shit we've never had time for. OpenLogi is a…
Cerebras CS-4
At 250w when it's working (I understand), and it works for tiny amounts of time per query...
OpenLogi
I think this sentiment deserves its own serious discussion. It probably won't happen for another few years when the emotions and defensiveness settle, but there's a separate problem happening from quality. Quantity is its own problem. Whether or not any of these hourly new product announcements are any good, nobody ca…
Cerebras CS-4
In the case of Taalas, the pipeline was said to be 2 months: > From the moment a previously unseen model is received, it can be realized in hardware in only two months ( https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/ )
Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
> Who says it needs to be desktop for proper memory management, servers and embedded can crash willy-nilly with OOM? The context of the thread is about the UX. And the OS crashing isn’t a better option than an OOM killer. Frankly, there’s no good automated options. That’s why modern desktop OSs present users with a wa…
Rethinking Database Programming
Agreed, however it gets easier when using SQL plugins on IDEs, instead of raw cmdline admin tooling.
Cerebras CS-4
In Taalas HC2 a chip embeds 20b parameters, and the declared idea is linking the chips. A card with two of them chips and you can already have a dense Qwen at staggering speeds.
Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
> JTFC why are you arguing minutiae? The analogies aren't the argument. I'm replying to someone who themselves argued the analogies. > Having a DC in your community has no appreciable personal benefit, only negatives. To the extent that statement is true, it applies equally to most primary and secondary economic activ…
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
This article is painfully shortsighted about Egypt's moment in the Arab Spring. (1) the problematic Vodafone message in question is presented as "without attribution" but it very clearly starts with the words "The Armed Forces asks"! (2) it makes it seem like the government was naturally unpopular in Egypt and clingin…
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
And because of this, no browser of mine is allowed to send notifications, and also no app by default - they have to prove themselves useful first. Sorry fellow developers working on notifications, your work goes to the drain (mostly).
Being ambitious and being a dad
I for a change am happy I had my kids in late 30s / 40. I am certainly wiser, way more experienced with world, humans, got to be successful and in much better financial position which also helped my parents to have better retirement. I wasn't a full adult in my 20s, too naive, too trusting, undefined for the lack…
CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling
I was wondering why the author was using braced initialization like size_t i{0}; instead of the more common size_t i = 0; Apparently, braced initialization does not allow narrowing conversion, so you'd get a compiler error for e.g. casting double to float size_t i{0.0}; and a warning for double d = 0.0; size_t…
Cerebras CS-4
I love how instead of comparing a Ferrari (fast and expensive) to some average car (not fast, not expensive) to make your point..you went for public transport where your comparison cracks from multiple angles.
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Most people consider the iPhone as a "phone", not as a "computer". It's even in the name. So it fits your definition for devices which only run code that the vendor had specially packaged.
Being ambitious and being a dad
It's very frustrating that behind every "you should be eternally grateful for every child no matter what" warm fuzzy message is an implicit "and if you ever express regret for having a kid who wound up non-verbal and violent and destroyed your marriage and your relationship with your other kids you're a horrible perso…
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
> In a market with healthy competition (no collusion), this generally can't happen. We're talking about the memory market here. The "healthy competition (no collusion). Every single vendor is incentivized to lower their prices slightly at all times, with a floor at cost plus margin" is the fairy-tale version they teac…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Seriously? I have a custom Android app that I use. It's mostly vibe coded now, which I'm a bit embarrassed about, but demonstrates that the bar for custom software is very low at the moment and getting lower. I considered getting an iPhone to replace my S-series Samsung, the only reason I stayed with Samsung is for th…
I don't enjoy the Internet any more
And HN is full of the same hundred low-effort circular arguments, logical fallacies and pointless fence-painting debates being endlessly recycled in slightly different variants, along with people desperate to come up with some witty retort or outlandish extrapolation in order to appear intellectual and ahead of the cu…
OpenLogi
I think the discussion about AI-generated content is interesting. While I understand some find it distracting, I'd argue that what matters most is the substance of the project itself. OpenLogi seems to solve a real problem (local-first log management without telemetry), and the website effectively communicates its val…
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
The UK has a "universal system" as does Germany and the inevitable reality is that if administration does not limit/deny overuse of the system then it requires setting prices artifically low to limit costs. --> Causes Doctors to earn less wages and be overworked (many med cases). Ultimately, less doctors. =(
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
> In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with unfair price raises.[3] Although monopolies may be big businesses, size is not a characteristic of a monopoly. A small business may still have the power to raise prices…