Top 29 stories from Hacker News. Top 10 include comment highlights. Compiled at 20:10 UTC.
735 points by mcgin · 486 comments
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devonsolomon: The thing I miss most, and the thing we’ll never get back was the cultural buy-in and network effects. My music discovery then was different friend groups incrementally amassing large collections of albums in whatever sub-culture that friend groups had doubled down on.
eisa01: It's important to remember that to this day, streaming sites do not have a full archive of the music out there. There is still a need for music piracy Even albums mentioned in the Norwegian business magazine D2 can be impossible to find in legit channels.
CoolestBeans: One thing I miss about the iPod era is that Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music. It doesn't take much look at how much music an iPod could store, how much music cost, and how much people had in disposable income to spend on music to realize that music had...
postalcoder: This is a wonderful piece. I really appreciate the author for writing this – I thought I lost the ability to read longform on the internet. What.cd was so vast a resource that it means something different to everyone. I personally lament the loss of the forums the most.
669 points by vincent_s · 369 comments
Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.
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dovin: Just in case you were thinking of signing up directly with Moonshot to use the service, they appear to train even on API use: > We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, support, and improve the Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, and kee...
Tiberium: More details: - https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/guide/kimi-k3-quickstart - https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat-k3 1M context, pricing is $3/$15 for 1M tokens (cache $0.
ekojs: > In our evaluations, Kimi K3 delivers frontier-level performance. Among the models tested, its overall intelligence ranks second only to Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. For the complete benchmark results, see our tech blog.
simonw: Pelican: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht... - rendered via the OpenRouter API: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3 95 input, 16,658 output = 25 cents! https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=95&ot=16658&ic=3&oc=15 (13,241 of those were reasoning tokens.
478 points by nekusar · 293 comments
In all of our discussions about how the digital revolution has created a system in which people don’t actually own the things they think they’re buying, I get particularly frustrated by…
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goldenarm: IANAL, but is it illegal to have a "Buy" button that is just a disguised "Rent" button? If not, should we change the law?
WalterGR: For more recent takes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747389 - "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For" (reclaimthenet.org) 636 points | 15 days ago | 304 comments https://news.ycombinator.
not_your_vase: This has happened dozens of times, and it will keep happening as long as people don't care about it. Long live offline physical media, and The Pirate Bay.
runamuck: Is there any way to buy long (decades) lasting physical media?
467 points by pilililo2 · 261 comments
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
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adamsmark: I worked for OnePlus a few years ago, managing its Amazon account. The culture leaned heavily toward 996: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week. I was there during a particularly tumultuous period, and by that point a lot of the staffing had already been hollowed out.
freedomben: OnePlus is one of the saddest stories out there. It was the hacker's choice for a while. It was originally the "Never Settle" phone that ran mostly stock android, had specs maxxed out, price was great, and bootloader was unlocked plus they provided factory images.
mellosouls: Editorialised! No new products, not halts operations. Please be more careful. OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America. The difference matters for those of us on OnePlus devices: Though we will no longer launch new products in Europe, our c...
rock_artist: I'm not sure as others why others feel this is a major change. OnePlus was always a subsidiary by Carl Pei [1] who eventually left the brand to create a new gadgets/tech company.
315 points by jervant · 77 comments
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outintospace: Hi, I'm Robert Standefer, the guy who made this happen, with lots of support. I'm excited to see the enthusiasm about Comic Chat being open sourced. How this came to happen is a very interesting story that spans a six-year period with success that hinged upon being in the right p...
JeremyHerrman: Comic Chat has a special place in my heart because it inspired my first startup back in 2008, a comic creation web app called Chogger. The site grew to 30K monthly users, mostly K-12 educators who wanted to give their students a fun way to write stories.
Athas: Comic Chat is a piece of Internet history, but I remember that it was somewhat reviled when I first started being active on IRC. This was around 2002, so it was probably due to some cultural memory rather than anyone having actually used it in years.
ok123456: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/237170.237260 Related: The authors wrote a paper on their design of the layout engine.
303 points by jorangreef · 167 comments
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steveklabnik: I think this is a fine post. But one comment: > remember that for compilers which emit machine code, like roc and rustc, doing memory-unsafe things is a big part of the job I don't really think that this is true, in the way that it's written.
landr0id: >ReleaseSafe catches use-after-free errors through runtime checks which panic if the program tries to use freed memory. I don't know Zig so maybe they know something I don't, but I have seen no evidence that it catches any type of use-after-free including double-free? While writi...
overgard: Compile times are a really underrated thing. My #1 gripe with C++ is waiting 10 minutes on a build, it absolutely kills flow.
arthurbrown: Interesting that OCaml was flexible and expressive enough to be used as a prototype testbed but not chosen as the implementation language, especially given the maturity of both. I would be surprised if Zigs incremental builds could be meaningfully faster than dune's.
229 points by gslin · 45 comments
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ilt: Direct link to the library instead of the blog: https://www.c82.net/naturalists-library/
chis: I admire the effort but it's hard to get excited about looking at some ancient illustrations which have been partly filled in by AI. I want to see the work of an actual specific artist, and be briefly transported to the times they lived in.
HelloUsername: Source posted some days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850978 and blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850987
felineflock: Wow, why haven't LLMs been trained on the content of this site instead of Reddit and other less reliable/litigious sources?
197 points by Sherex · 71 comments
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
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gortok: This is one of those vanity blog posts, a “look at us, we’re open” blog posts without actual openness, or rather, limited openness where it helps their image and not openness that could backfire. Businesses don’t operate based on revenue. They operate based on profit.
alberth: Buffer.com is famously open as well, if you like this kind of stuff. Revenue: https://buffer.com/metrics Expenses: https://buffer.com/transparent-pricing Salaries of every employee (which seems like PII to me): https://buffer.com/salaries And more: https://buffer.com/open
pseufaux: I have been impressed with Ente products and customer service. It's good to see they are growing. That said, revenue information is not entirely helpful in a vacuum. I'd be more keen on seeing profit (even at a lower timeline resolution).
speak_plainly: Kinda unrelated, but the art direction on Ente's site is really top-notch.
193 points by ray__ · 68 comments
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
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OsrsNeedsf2P: Is it useful? No. Does it stop AI from reading it? Also no. But is it cool? Yes, it is very cool.
gilesvangruisen: Sol (high) "[screenshot] there's a hidden message in this text what is it" "The hidden message is “HAPPY HUMAN.” The visible outlines say “SORRY ROBOT,” but if you blur or squint at it, the shading underneath reads “HAPPY HUMAN.”"
Dwedit: This is just level of detail. Gemma E4B reads the sharper text until you resize down to 150x150, then it reads the other text.
192 points by speckx · 89 comments
The recent end-of-financial-year sales were rather interesting – I found myself spending a lot more time browsing AliExpress than I did Amazon or eBay this year which is something I wouldn…
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avhception: Well, of course there is the "buy cheap, get trash, duh!" talking point. But if I pay more, who's to say I'll get a better product? The OEM or some middleman or whoever might just pocket the difference and push crap anyway.
kj4ips: The trend of slapping two STT 4-port hubs together is so common, that even name-brand hubs for reputable brands are often this, including the back feed issues. I purchased hubs form a solar-named company, and one that has a similar name to a large US department store, and they we...
rickdeckard: My first thought whenever I come across such a badly-engineered no-name device is "oh great, another bad reference design which will poison the pool of all the available devices out there" It helps a bit to spot and avoid that exact exterior design, but often those devices are de...
Klaster_1: Wow what an unexpectedly useful article! I have exactly this hub and wondered if I was imagining things. It absolutely has issues beyond that, for example I somehow managed to make a couple of ports unusable for micro-controller flashing even though they used to work just fine.
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