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BYD Bets on Budget EV Boom with Atto 1 Debut in Indonesia
Link: https://jakartaglobe.id/business/byd-bets-on-budget-ev-boom-with-atto-1-debut-in-indonesia
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665928
Will Python 3.14 be called π ?
@jpmens In French, it will be π-🐟
The designers of this headlamp, have made sure that you have full rights to repair
It's easily disassembled, when closed up it has the same amount of water resistance and the screws and sockets are in such a way that you can open it safely multiple times
Rights to repair done right
Lumo: Privacy-first AI assistant
Link: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44657556
MFA = Master of Fine Arts
2FA = Two of Fine Arts
Back to the hospital for the fourth time this week. CT scan.
'Advancing Digital Accessibility with W3C WAI' recording available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWOiKSLIn58&list=PLhDEeYUfW02QhGrDOHxLM9ZNZnQiLiFuZ&index=1
From this interactive keynote at AccessU 2025, you can learn about WAI resources to help promote that accessibility is about improving the user experiences of people with disabilities, and to support you in planning, managing, designing, developing, and training for digital accessibility. Q&A includes the WCAG 3 approach and timeline (years away). Find out how you can contribute to W3C accessibility work.
China develops new method to mass-produce high-quality semiconductors
Link: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-07-19/China-develops-new-method-to-mass-produce-high-quality-semiconductors-1F8iTEyEwVi/p.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44630901
Show HN: TheProtector – Linux Bash script for the paranoid admin on a budget
Link: https://github.com/IHATEGIVINGAUSERNAME/theProtector
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662497
Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
Link: https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/surprising-science-how-electric-cars-quietly-transform-urban-air/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666157
Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org
Link: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2025/07/22/vector-tiles-are-deployed-on-openstreetmap-org/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44653136
Steckschwein 8-bit homebrew computer https://lobste.rs/s/uvwlip #retrocomputing
https://www.steckschwein.de/about/
Remember how everyone freaked out about Microsoft’s Recall feature (spyware) in Windows 11? And Microsoft said it would be fine because it’s all processed locally?
Guess what’s not processed locally anymore. https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/23/microsoft_copilot_vision/
Draw a fish and watch it swim
L: https://drawafish.com
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666719
posted on 2025.07.23 at 23:50:52 (c=1, p=3)
Trans activists honestly need to start demanding stuff that’s not in the Overton window. Give me those ideas that should be reality but feel unhinged to even suggest:
HRT over the counter and free
Puberty blockers free at every school nurse
All transition surgeries and hair removal free
Prosecute “conversion therapy” torturers
Strip nonprofit status from any org which refuses to allow trans people to use the correct facilities
Hit me with your best shot
CVE-2025-54090: Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true https://lobste.rs/s/w3aknz #security
https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/8abb3d06b23975705ebcf4bf4476464fd0b9bd0b
Custom mechanical keyboard: OS-specific custom RGB lighting with QMK https://lobste.rs/s/15hetb #c #hardware
https://quantum5.ca/2024/06/30/custom-mechanical-keyboard-os-specific-rgb-lighting-qmk/
I'm digging this new Featured tab on profiles, I hope more people use it to share cool people they know 😄
BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem
Link: https://bgp.tools/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665815
Draw a fish and watch it swim
L: https://drawafish.com
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666719
posted on 2025.07.23 at 23:50:52 (c=1, p=3)
It's not music; it's GNUsic! 🎶😆
I'm Unsatisfied with Easing Functions
Link: https://www.davepagurek.com/blog/easing-functions/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44584830
It's not music; it's GNUsic! 🎶😆
Checklists are hard, but still a good thing
Link: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ChecklistsAreHardButGood
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44626359
Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars
Link: https://modernengineeringmarvels.com/2025/07/22/surprising-science-how-electric-cars-quietly-transform-urban-air/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44666157
A small web July
Link: https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/a-small-web-july/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665984
Zoosexual short story, anthro-mare/woman, sexual references
Candy Floss is a pink pony mare, and she’s an erotic dancer at the Pink Pony club. Tonight, she’s in season, and wants a human woman to come home with her. Candy meets Lucy before the show, so she ensures that Lucy has the best view of everything she has to offer when the show heats up.
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I am now being required by my day job to use an AI assistant to write code. I have also been informed that my usage of AI assistants will be monitored and decisions about my career will be based on those metrics.
I gave it an honest shot today, using it as responsibly as I know how: only use it for stuff I already know how to do, so that I can easily verify its output. That part went ok, though I found it much harder to context switch between thinking about code structure and trying to herd a bullshit generator into writing correct code.
One thing I didn't expect, though, is how fucking disruptive it's suggestion feature would be. It's like trying to compose a symphony while someone is relentlessly playing a kazoo in your ear. It flustered me really quickly, to the point where I wasn't able to figure out how to turn that "feature" off. I'm noticing physical symptoms of an anxiety attack as a result.
I stopped work early when I noticed I was completely spent. I don't know if I wrote more code today than I would have normally. I don't think I wrote better code, as the vigilance required is extremely hard for my particular brand of neurospicy to maintain.
As far as the "write this function for me" aspect, I've noticed that I tend to use the mental downtime of typing out a function I've designed to let my brain percolate on the solution and internalize it so I have it in my working memory. This doesn't happen when I'm simply reviewing code written by something else. Reviewing code and writing it are completely separate activities for me. But there's nothing to keep my fingers and thoughts busy while I'm coming up with what to write next.
I didn't think we were meant to live like this.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
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Read more →i started trying out https://helix-editor.com/ and I've been liking it more than I expected to, it's fun to have an editor that Just Works without any config
going to stick with it for a bit even though there are some things I don't like compared to neovim (different syntax, it crashes sometimes, it doesn't auto-reload changed files, no GUI, I don't like the way :reflow works compared to `gq, I think `Ctrl+C` for commenting code is weird)
my stance on the current interest in forbidden sorcery
My stance on the current trend of using The Lesser Key of Solomon at work and in one's personal life:
1. There's no evidence these evil spirits really are the 72 princes mentioned in The Lesser Key (and their innumerable minions). They only started telling us their "names" after someone incorporated the text of Ars Goetia in a (poorly-worded) binding ritual.
2. There's also no evidence that anyone's binding rituals actually work. It's always the same thing: Belial is asked to clean someone's house but burns it down instead and then everyone blames the binding ritual, summoning circle, wand, chalice, etc.
3. While most wizards report that making dark pacts with imps improves their spell-casting ability there are plenty of other familiars that are safer and more trustworthy.
4. There's a trend of reassuring people about this by asking spirits like Asmodeus the Prince of Lies if they are being truthful. This feels naive at best and actively malicious at worst.
5. It's not clear to me that risking your immortal soul to make your boss a bit richer is a good idea, to say nothing of risking your immortal soul to do a better job keeping up with email.
6. Just because everyone else has already torn innumerable holes in reality and brought forth legions of demons into our universe does not change my own feelings about it, though it certainly motivates a heightened level of interest in exorcisms and abjuration magic.
re: my stance on the current interest in forbidden sorcery
@d6∴ esoterik ∴ It truly saddens me how many wizards nowadays have simply accepted needing to perform a ritualistic sacrifice _every_ lunar cycle just to keep their imp happy and there to help them work on spells.
Nearly any common woodland creature can be trained to become a Lesser Spellcasting Partner (LSP) that will serve as a wizard's faithful companion, that not only won't demand any sacrifices beyond needing to be fed and cared for the same as any other familiar, but is also _far_ more thorough than any demonic imp when it comes to helping to write and proofread newly designed spells. Plus they do so much more quickly! But they don't do nearly as much of the work _for_ you so Imps Are The Future!
my stance on the current interest in forbidden sorcery
My stance on the current trend of using The Lesser Key of Solomon at work and in one's personal life:
1. There's no evidence these evil spirits really are the 72 princes mentioned in The Lesser Key (and their innumerable minions). They only started telling us their "names" after someone incorporated the text of Ars Goetia in a (poorly-worded) binding ritual.
2. There's also no evidence that anyone's binding rituals actually work. It's always the same thing: Belial is asked to clean someone's house but burns it down instead and then everyone blames the binding ritual, summoning circle, wand, chalice, etc.
3. While most wizards report that making dark pacts with imps improves their spell-casting ability there are plenty of other familiars that are safer and more trustworthy.
4. There's a trend of reassuring people about this by asking spirits like Asmodeus the Prince of Lies if they are being truthful. This feels naive at best and actively malicious at worst.
5. It's not clear to me that risking your immortal soul to make your boss a bit richer is a good idea, to say nothing of risking your immortal soul to do a better job keeping up with email.
6. Just because everyone else has already torn innumerable holes in reality and brought forth legions of demons into our universe does not change my own feelings about it, though it certainly motivates a heightened level of interest in exorcisms and abjuration magic.
Ghostty on Linux has a new icon that generally fits in better with Linux desktop ecosystem while preserving the Ghostty identity across platforms (no one on macOS is going to misidentify the icon on Linux and vice versa). I think it looks beautiful on my Linux systems!
We just released cibuildwheel 3.1, which builds Python 3.14/3.14t wheels by default (with yesterday's RC 1)! Also we added Android support, 
@pyodide 0.28 (3.13), 32-bit modern manylinux, riscv64 defaults, and beautiful new summaries! https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/releases/tag/v3.1.0 #python #release
테슬라 2분기 어닝 쇼크…AI·로보택시로 반전 노린다
테슬라가 월가의 전망치를 모두 밑도는 2분기 실적을 발표하면서 어려운 시기를 이어가고 있다는 신호를 보냈다. 테슬라의 분기 매출은 225억 달러로 전년 동기 대비 약 12% 감소했으며, 이는 최근 10년 사이 가장 큰 하락폭이다.
테슬라 2분기 어닝 쇼크…AI·로보택시로 반전 노린다
GM도 못 버틴 관세 폭탄
미국 자동차 제조사 제너럴모터스(GM)가 올해 2분기에만 관세로 인한 손실이 11억 달에 달했다고 밝혔다. 실적은 전망치를 웃돌았지만, 관세 부담이 커지면서 순이익은 뚝 떨어졌다. GM뿐만이 아니다. 스텔란티스를 비롯한 다른 완성차 업체도 “수출국이 아니라 미국 기업과 소비자가 관세 비용을 부담하고 있다”고 입을 모은다.
GM도 못 버틴 관세 폭탄
전기차 격전지서 흔들리는 테슬라
미국 최대 전기차 시장인 캘리포니아에서 테슬라의 지배력이 약화하고 있다. 캘리포니아 신차 딜러협회(CNCDA)가 공개한 최근 보고서에 따르면, 올해 들어 테슬라 등록 건수는 전년 대비 18.3% 감소했다. 반면 혼다는 9.9% 증가, 도요타는 8.5% 증가했다. 포드는 10.5%, 쉐보레는 무려 21% 성장했다.
전기차 격전지서 흔들리는 테슬라
“슈퍼인텔리전스 시대, 전기가 없다” 에릭 슈미트의 경고
에릭 슈미트 전 구글 CEO는 ‘슈퍼인텔리전스 시대’가 빠르게 다가오고 있지만, 이를 뒷받침할 전력 인프라가 절대적으로 부족하다고 경고했다.
“슈퍼인텔리전스 시대, 전기가 없다” 에릭 슈미트의 경...
+1 to indiedevuse.com thanks to Christopher Woggon. Anyone else interested in adding themselves, please DM or send a PR
Itch.io is quietly scrubbing adult games, likely due to pressure from payment processors. If you’re angry about it, sign this petition! It’s not a fix-all, but it’s a step toward pushing back.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy
This is incredible. The Clorox company is suing their MSP Cognizant for allegedly allowing hackers to gain access to their systems.
The lawsuit claims that Cognizant's staff were grossly negligent and submits what it says are transcripts of the hackers simply asking for password and MFA resets with no ID verification.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26025404-clorox-versus-cognizant-complaint/
![and MFA resets would effectively open the gate to the Clorox network. Instead of taking caution
to verify the caller's identify in any way, the Agent simply proceeded with the MFA reset.
My Microsoft MFA isn’t working.
Oh, ok...
Can you reset my MFA? It’s on my old phone
[inaudible] old phone.
[Following a brief hold]. So thanks for being on
hold, Alex. So multi-factor authentication reset
has been done now. Ok. So can you check if you're
able to login ...
Alright. It let me sign in now. Thank you.
47. Shortly thereafter on the same day, the cybercriminal called the Cognizant Service
Desk a second time, again
Masquerading as Clorox Employee 1. Again, the cybercriminal](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/906/072/341/989/163/original/1039acf1a748dd90.png)
![54. First, the cybercriminal, now posing as Clorox Employee 2, called the Service Desk
and requested a password reset. The Agent duly complied, without following the required
authentication procedures.
How can I help you today?
Um my password on Okta was not working ...
I'm going to have your password reget from my end
right away. Ok. And we’ll gee how it’s going to
work. Ok. [Following a brief hold] Thank you
I'm extremely sorry for the long hold. So ...
password is going to be Clorox@l23.
What's that?
Yeah it was Clorox@123...0k.
Yep.
Want me to wait over the phone while you are trying
it?](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/906/072/744/527/579/original/77ad23885a9cb58c.png)
I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.
I ran an incident retro today that was more like what I want to do generally than what the org has been doing. I spent several days interviewing people and writing the deepest timeline I could find time to write.
We then spent an hour discussing the timeline, and going into more detail, including some surprising things even from people I'd interviewed. I enjoyed that aspect of a lot, even if I'd had to, well, work extra to get it done.
The best feedback I got was that the deeper timeline made for a better quality discussion. The AI summaries from our incident management tool produced shallow discussions, in the feeding-back-person's view.
This made me happy.
The suggested next actions were in the spirit of resilience engineering as well, because people were focused on *getting more information* both in development and during incidents. So I was happy with the results.
Many thanks to 
@norootcauseLorin Hochstein 
and his blog, which is where I first learned about the Howie Guide. It's been influential on my approach here! Even if I didn't have time to go all the way on it.
my stance on the current interest in forbidden sorcery
My stance on the current trend of using The Lesser Key of Solomon at work and in one's personal life:
1. There's no evidence these evil spirits really are the 72 princes mentioned in The Lesser Key (and their innumerable minions). They only started telling us their "names" after someone incorporated the text of Ars Goetia in a (poorly-worded) binding ritual.
2. There's also no evidence that anyone's binding rituals actually work. It's always the same thing: Belial is asked to clean someone's house but burns it down instead and then everyone blames the binding ritual, summoning circle, wand, chalice, etc.
3. While most wizards report that making dark pacts with imps improves their spell-casting ability there are plenty of other familiars that are safer and more trustworthy.
4. There's a trend of reassuring people about this by asking spirits like Asmodeus the Prince of Lies if they are being truthful. This feels naive at best and actively malicious at worst.
5. It's not clear to me that risking your immortal soul to make your boss a bit richer is a good idea, to say nothing of risking your immortal soul to do a better job keeping up with email.
6. Just because everyone else has already torn innumerable holes in reality and brought forth legions of demons into our universe does not change my own feelings about it, though it certainly motivates a heightened level of interest in exorcisms and abjuration magic.
I'm pretty sure we have a problem when one of the most notable voices in the community responds to a "well, you could hire folks to implement things for you" like this:
And folks wonder why I'm on burn out leave at the moment. Like, we really need to have a serious conversation about just how much free and unpaid labour we're all relying on here. If I can't pay my rent, then I can't contribute to open source, it's that fucking simple.
I should also note that I'm not the only frequent contributor to various fediverse projects who is struggling to make ends meet. I know of at least a half dozen other independent developers who do a tonne of work in standards and figuring stuff out for the fediverse who don't have stable income from well-paid jobs to rely upon.
So my comment wasn't me asking for money from someone, but rather, just saying that there's folks that have expertise in making changes, and they could be hired to make the changes you want to see in a reasonable manner.
We cannot rely on free labour to advance the fediverse. We live in a capitalist society, so folks need money to pay their rent, buy food and frankly exist.
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❌ "adding decimal functions to the math library"
✅ "going to pownd town"
Hugo van Kemenade
Jan Lehnardt 
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MJ+
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Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 