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compounding_it··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
The good news is that this won't matter much because it's probably out of consideration for pretty much all of the HN crowd. Ferrari is one of those things which the ultra rich and a small sliver of the population can afford to buy brand new, and those not even lurking here. For everyone else it's something they can try out on a track if they are curious.

That being said, I wonder what can be cloned from this by others. The ICE are huge and refined and people can steal that engineering into other cars. With battery and motors, I feel like everyone is now on a level playing field and starts from zero. I wonder what will set apart a Ferrari from others.

compounding_it··on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake
It’s a double edged sword. The computer at this point is 7 years old and had slowed down (planned obsolescence). It’s not exactly going to be anything like a new computer. And Linux for that is perfectly fine for everyday tasks and what you can get from a 7 year old computer before the ARM chips entered the scene. On the other hand if you did buy a new computer you’d probably get to run the latest windows and macOS versions running perfectly fine in which case he’s probably complaining about how bad Microsoft and Apple have gotten over the years which is why he’s giving Linux a try in the first place.

It feels like the author entered with the bias of complaining and frustration no matter what by comparing a weakness with others strength.

compounding_it··on India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
> Sometimes, when I’m with my partner, I feel like a stranger in my own body. I want closeness, but my mind keeps pulling away.

Dissociation. A classic sign of trauma and PTSD.

compounding_it··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
That’s B3 for nerve and dna repair if I understand correctly.

I notice a difference after eating non vegetarian food but since I also have IBS, my absorption can be a hit or miss.

A very balanced and nutrient rich diet with good sleep and exercise is the start to mental health recovery. People often forget how important all this is.

compounding_it··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
The goal is to tackle it in every way. The medicines are supposed to be supportive and not the solution. More often than not people treat it as a solution.

Thats why they are eventually tapered and discontinued once you are able to be on your own.

compounding_it··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
As someone who tried citalopram escitalopram and sertraline, along with venlaflaxine and fluvoximine, I would suggest doing a pharmacological test for psychiatric medications.

I am an intermediate metabolized for the first three and the ones I was on most long. It did not suit me and made my orgasms go from ‘wtf’ to ‘that’s it?’ And they are still not normal 2 years after discontinuation.

I am still depressed and anxious to the point of serious consideration of these medicines to save myself, but you can save yourself the experimentation by doing a simple test and avoiding those medicines.

Anxiety depression panic attacks are something I wish more people studied along with sexual health.

compounding_it··on Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in
Training is really cheap compared to the basically free inference being handed out by openai Anthropic Google etc.

Spending a million dollars on training and giving the model for free is far cheaper than hundreds of millions of dollars spent on inference every month and charging a few hundred thousand for it.

compounding_it··on Some notes on starting to use Django
Significantly complex means when ORM starts to become bigger and bigger and you need multiple threads and more complex processes that run in workers. When you start to run into scaling problems, your solution is within that framework and that becomes a limiting factor from my experience.

Then as a programmer, you have to find workarounds in Django instead of workarounds with programming.

PS: Dealing with a lot of scaling issues right now with a Django app.

compounding_it··on ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions
Recently I got to know at an interview how company A (big western company) acquired another company years ago and are now working on redeveloping code that was an important part of the acquisition which fails to scale beyond the original use case.

This kind of stuff during interviews is a lot of learning in itself especially if you’re working already in the same area.

compounding_it··on The Stable Marriage Problem
The original problem is stable ‘matching’ which used ‘marriage’ as an example iirc.

I’m sure dating apps use plenty of such algorithms and match profiles based on ranking. Like the number of women going out with a shorter guy for example would be quite low on apps because their matching preference would be taller men which can be inferred from their swipes.

The article suggests a rather arrogant tone or maybe frustrated one to defy odds somehow ?

The key thing to note is that take your chances, shoot your shot and don’t take rejections personal.

compounding_it··on Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?
Bloomberg like companies employ thousands of people who’s livelihood depends on their salaries. This in turn helps them pay rent and spend money. The economy is interdependent on a lot of such bad businesses. While on the outside we may think this is a scam it would be very difficult to crack them without having mass effects on the population. What happened in dot com bubble or 2008 when these scams collapsed is an example of what can happen when these unethical and illegal companies collapse.

This is of course a capitalist economy where the government cannot provide simple benefits like free healthcare and subsidized higher education in exchange for high competition and high churn rate of businesses and startups.

So the solution is to tame these beasts from time to time and use that as political agenda to win votes and try to keep things sane.

So far it has mostly worked.

compounding_it··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
>Indian students

Resume glorification and LinkedIn / GitHub profile attention do that.

I am seeing a lot of people coming up with perceived knowledge that's just LLM echo chambers. Code they contribute comes straight out of LLMs. This is generally fine as long as they know what it does. But when you ask them to make some changes, some are as lost as ever.

Torvalds was right, code maintenance is going to be a headache thanks to LLMs.

compounding_it··on Can you slim macOS down?
It's sad to see apple go from customer experience first to investor satisfaction first. There is a lot of pressure on iOS26 and Tahoe being bloated and slow with planned obsolescence clearly taking centre stage.

People can hope that apple takes their operating systems as seriously as their ARM chips, but it doesn't seem likely. A cycle of 'performance and bug fixes year' will happen which gives them an excuse to bloat further operating systems that are in the pipeline. This is the worst part. We will fix now to show you we can do it and then bloat it in subsequent years so that you upgrade your devices.

compounding_it··on SETI@home is in hiberation
The 14 year old me wondering if aliens were being discovered on my pentium 4 feels like the answer maybe out there. BOINC and SETI.
compounding_it··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
NAT is just one slice of IPv4. Granted your private IP is not routable (with CGNAT now your gateway is also no longer routable), but think of other features of IPv6 that are congruent:

SLAAC basically means your routable IPv6 address changes so many times in a day (and there are multiple of those at any given instant) that even if the attackers know your prefix, its going to be very difficult to do anything meaningful. the address space is too big.

And we are assuming here that there is no firewall.

Note : macOS firewall on a new install is disabled iirc.

compounding_it··on Use social media mindfully
I quit (deleted accounts) all social media 5 years ago (before reels and short form media entered) and LinkedIn a year ago. This whole 'there is value in comments and DMs and connections for jobs' is the hook basically. I considered whether it was worth it. The answer for probably most people is 'No'.

Here is something I noticed: More present in the real world (no more head buried in the phone, neck feels better too). Less social comparisons (the worst part of social media that people don't understand). Depression and anxiety got better. Believe it or not but my quality of social interactions vastly improved after quitting social media. I also no longer take my phone out for pictures unnecessarily. There is no platform to show or compare or share. So I just take pictures for myself when I want to remember something and live the experience for just me. This is not selfish, this is just how reality is. But given that I am more present, I actually engage in the world and remember things as they are cause I am not distracted. I am mindful.

I have been an advocate for a while that social media is a really bad thing. My entire family is so addicted to all this. Mindfulness is the most important part. People are subconsciously comparing their lives to this world and it's driving their decision. Children are sitting with phones scrolling. I really find it concerning that people don't see this as a serious problem.

Get rid of it and don't think twice. The people really important and close to you will either call you or meet you for a meal. Everyone else was probably just a casual connection.

compounding_it··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
We are in the transition phase from ICE to an Electric motor. It's too early to call who can nail it. Currently the Chinese cars are cheap and have long range. But in India Tatas and Mahindra makes cheap EVs that may not be as reliable but people are still buying them a lot. In US gas is still cheap compared to income, so hybrids like Camry are always going to be preferred over a low end EV like the model 3.

It all depends on service network and value for money. And now charging network and range. People who find a way to give you value for money will probably nail it.

compounding_it··on The longest Greek word
I was wondering what’s wrong with the HN site on mobile today. I thought something from my other safari settings carried over thinking is this another macOS / iOS problem. Good to know this time Apple is not to blame. Interesting psychology here how easy it was for me to go there.
compounding_it··on If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
My sister is switching to macOS and she won’t be able to tell this is a word app. She won’t be able to notice it with the ink bottle either. These represent the pen when ideally they should represent the document which is what the word app does. I have to admit Microsoft office apps actually have / have had sensible icons.
compounding_it··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
we have become used to retina displays these days so 1080p 24 inch looks 'pixelated'. I sit about 18 inches from the monitor and it looks okay. I find this distance and size most comfortable for me. The 27 inch 4k was too big for my setup and the scaled 2560x1440 is something I would not recommend (was warned about it but didn't listen :P).
compounding_it··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
https://youtu.be/pcz0R6eEWNA?t=345

I think it's called Displaylink. yet to try it with this particular benq but I know it can be done. The total output pixels are limited though so I doubt what the limitation of the Air is. but 2 24 inch 1080p should be doable.

compounding_it··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
I’ve been using a single 24 inch 1080p benq usb c monitor after realizing 4k 27 inch scaling is just terrible and 5k 27 inch is just too pricey. It’s a budget monitor but it’s surprising what 140$ can get you these days cause the quality of the panel is really good. It supports daisy chaining so I can add another monitor to my m1 air (which I can’t otherwise I think). If it was 4k 24 inch I’d buy two as I find that size kinda perfect.

Personally I’ve found that a single monitor is enough 90% of the time while coding. It’s when I need to do something nitty gritty that I need a second monitor.

That being said working with only a laptop is painful and extremely uncomfortable for the posture. I don’t think I can get anything real done without a monitor keyboard and mouse. Going down to an 11 inch iPad sounds impossible.

compounding_it··on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
Is android really iOSs competition ? I feel like the competition is less android more vendors who use android. Every android phone feels different. Android doesn’t even compete on performance anymore the chips are quite behind. The target audience of the two feels different lately.
compounding_it··on CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
I don't really understand this post completely.

>I am spending time using software, learning, and having fun - instead of maintaining it and stressing out about it.

Using software, learning and having fun with with what? everything is being done by Claude here. The part of fun and learning is to learn to use and maintain it in the first place. How will you learn anything if Claude is doing everything for you ? You are not understand how things work and where everything goes.

This post could be written or at least modified by an LLM, but more importantly I think this person is completely missing the point of self hosting and learning.

compounding_it··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
My personal experience with using macOS (m1 2020-) Windows 10 (2018-2020) and Linux (for the last 16-17 years on off) -

If you want to do basic stuff like browsing streaming learning video calls etc, get a non Linux computer with decent specs with some headroom. These operating systems are for people who just want to use that ecosystem and not need to manage anything themselves. Battery life is exceptional. Most people I know need a one or two step process to do things (like backup photos contacts documents etc) and Apple google Microsoft offer you that. It’s not perfect but it’s easy to manage. People really have gotten used to someone managing it for them and these things do fine in that regard. It’s better than people having 5 hard drives with photos and misplacing them imo. I’ve had people in 2000s connect drives to my computers and find private pictures and contacts and files etc I need not be having access to. iCloud and Google Photos offer you that peace of mind. With 2FA you’d rather lose it all than fall into the wrong hands. People have all kinds of stuff on their phones and computers that should not leave their computers and accounts. Imagine having your kids classmates find your intimate pictures on some drive they used to copy something your kid gave them. All this has reduced with cloud managed services with activation locks and 2FA and password mangers built into them. Yes they can lock you out one day, but it’s better than people having access to it.

If you are serious about your personal computer, switch to Linux before you start hating those companies. You are not the target audience anymore and you shouldn’t be disappointed about it.

I use Linux for most things, macOS for streaming and surfing the web (private relay and 4k native works great on M1) and windows when I have to deal with others having windows only accounting software sometime.

compounding_it··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
Devices want to be portable. the competition for weight and size is very high. It's ironic how as usage of phones increased considerably with social apps, people seem to not have a problem with thicker iPhones for larger battery. The current iPhone 17 Pro is a chonk that would probably have been considered bulky and backwards 10 years ago.

The trends decide the standard. Many EVs use 18650 but I can see that for competition and weight reduction they may switch to a more proprietary standard like blade batteries in BYD for competition. It all depends on where the competition is going with it.

For earwear, I would say that portability and weight is a big area for competition.

compounding_it··on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers
The one thing I’d love to have is repairable Bose headphones. I’ve used different ones but Bose with proper EQ settings are extremely good. The comfort levels on those is exceptional. In my entire life I’ve never seen headphones this comfortable. But once the battery wears out getting it repaired seems to include soldering. Should’ve been easily swappable. Also their Bluetooth can be finicky. One more area that needs improvement.
compounding_it··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
I don't know about marketing but if code reviews are done right I would love to know how something like 'AI feature' just slips in.
compounding_it··on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A
If that is the case then it's interesting how intel managed to catch up so quickly.
compounding_it··on IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world
7621 devices include hardware NAT. And anything Qualcomm in the recent past does. Most home WiFi 5 and above routers can do hardware NAT just fine. Hardware NAT allows for using cheap and old cpus for CPE. ISP hardware is a different story. Some decent routers that can do that which don’t cost a lot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/1lopamn/current_hi...

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