MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2025-05-01 11:43:03+00:00
Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/upf8nw/fixed_o...

Opening a spreadsheet, even if you don't want to print it, will hang for 30 seconds doing nothing, because LibreOffice will load the printer settings for the document, which means asking the printer, which if the printer is network-based and turned off, means a 30 second wait for a timeout.

Reported in 2011, still not fixed: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42673
by ThePowerOfFuet | 2025-05-01 11:43:13+00:00
>Disclaimer: This blog post was written by Gemini, a large language model from Google AI, specifically the Gemini Pro model. My knowledge cutoff is June 2024. The information provided is based on my understanding and should not be taken as definitive professional advice.

I encourage you to cease contributing to the enshittification of the web.

Also, what did you expect from cheap no-name IoT shit? As we say, the S in IoT stands for Security...
by sgarland | 2025-05-01 11:44:03+00:00
It’s because modern devs by and large have zero concept of latency differences. I had to explain to people yesterday why an on-disk temporary table in MySQL was slower than an in-memory one. “But the disk is an SSD,” was an actual rebuttal I got. Never mind the fact that this was Aurora, so the “disk” is a slice of (multiple) SSDs exposed over a SAN…
by bardak | 2025-05-01 11:44:05+00:00
My favorite GNOME developer's hill to die on is their refusal to implement a system tray or work with the rest of the Linux desktop community to create an alternative to the system tray. Don't get me wrong there has been a abuse of the system tray but the refusal to acknowledge that there is a use case for persistent notifications or status indicators is ridiculous. there suggestion is that notifications are the solution is so inadequate. It's pretty telling that their arguments aren't sound when they have chosen to implement traditional system tray items such as a battery indicator and volume indicator as built in items on the task bar but they dismiss the idea that a chat app status indicator would be useful.
by dimgl | 2025-05-01 11:44:26+00:00
Windows is bafflingly bad. It's gotten so much worse in the last four years, but it's always been bad. I've never gotten bluetooth to work correctly on Windows. Apps randomly crash. Three different versions of settings pages, and they crash. Snipping Tool only works half the time. I had to run a debloater on my system because searching for something in the Start Menu would never give me the results I wanted. Xbox ads during gameplay... I mean the list goes on.

I'm done with it. I've switched to Ubuntu and I haven't looked back. I only boot up my Windows installation when I need to do game development on Unreal or use an incompatible program. But for now, MacOS and Linux are covering everything.

I used to be a big gamer but I've basically given up on playing games that don't work on Linux. The selection of games is steadily growing and some games work at launch (like Oblivion Remastered).

I know there's a lot of animosity for GNOME, but it's the best Linux desktop in my opinion. In terms of polish it's definitely the closest to MacOS.

Application installs are still an absolute pain, but it's gotten better. At the very least I can now go through the Ubuntu App Center to get the most common apps. There's the occassional app that doesn't work (like VLC) and then I'll have to look into Snap or Flatpak or whatever other variation of app packaging Linux devs decide to unleash on the masses... but then it works and I don't think about it again.

One last gripe for me is the lack of HDR support in Ubuntu. I can't use my LG C2 with it. But I've switched to using two Dell monitors with DisplayPort and now it doesn't matter... and I use the LG C2 with something else.

For the average user this experience sucks. But for me, I'm okay putting up with this pain if it means never using Windows again.
by LabhTark | 2025-05-01 11:44:30+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m the solo founder of LabhTark — a stock analytics platform for the Indian stock market. I’m building it to help individual investors and traders make better decisions using AI-driven insights, backtestable screeners, and automation.

I’ve spent the last few months shipping core features like:

AI-generated technical analysis and trend predictions (7–15 days ahead) Backtestable custom screeners (based on over 50 technical indicators) Sector-level heatmaps and gainers/losers dashboards Smart stock recommendations with signal strength (Strong Buy → Strong Sell) But I’d love to validate a few things before pushing for a full launch.

If you invest or follow markets (even casually):

Would you actually use a tool like this? Why or why not? What features do you find missing in existing platforms (like TradingView, Screener.in, etc.)? Any examples of tools (Indian or global) you love or hate using? I’m building in public and always looking to improve before product/market fit. Any feedback, suggestions, or brutal truths are welcome.

Happy to share early access if you're interested — just drop a reply.

Thanks! Monika Nayak Founder, LabhTark
by bnolsen | 2025-05-01 11:44:38+00:00
I had a 3060 12g in my daughters computer. It would freeze every couple of weeks for who knows what reason. Swapped out her mobo/CPU/ram with mine and it still froze. Put in an rx5709xt and it's all good now. The 3060 is now in a server. I would have gotten the card if someone at work hasn't sold it to me for 100$. What originally made me leave Nvidia was because of how quickly Nvidia dropped driver support for not very old cards but I can't remember what card I had at the time.
by franga2000 | 2025-05-01 11:44:39+00:00
> It’s available right where employees already spend most of their day — in Microsoft Teams.

What do these people do?? Like what is a job that requires you to spend most of your time in an internal chat app? Every job I can think of either has its own "main" software, involves doing things IRL or, even if it is manily a communication job, that communication happens with a wide variety of outside people, meaning you probably use email a lot more than Teams.
by codeulike | 2025-05-01 11:44:54+00:00
You are right, but I'd also say that high security brings a lot of friction that slows down decision making. Irrespective of Trump and his friends (whom I dont like) as a point of principle I think world leaders have to choose between secure and slow vs fast and risk of leaks. For most purposes, fast and risk of leaks is going to be more optimal.
by paddy_m | 2025-05-01 11:45:04+00:00
Avoiding the barge operation means using the Selkirk Hurdle [1]. After the Hudson tunnels to Penn Station, the next rail bridge over the Hudson is at Selkirk NY, 147 miles north of Newark. It is about parallel with the northern border Massachusets.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkirk_hurdle
by sega_sai | 2025-05-01 11:45:26+00:00
While it is possible that relaxing the homogeneity assumption is needed to resolve the tensions observed among different cosmological measurements, it is also worth noting that supernovae are a quite messy tracer, because we don't really understand their explosions well enough. So a lot of things are just empirically calibrated. We are also now limited by systematics when using supernovae for cosmology.
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-05-01 11:45:30+00:00
I've wasted like 8 hours in the last two days trying to upgrade windows 10 to 11 so my motherboards wifi drivers can be installed.

It just worked in Linux. I don't get where this comes from, because every time I hit a problem in Linux, there's a solution.

In windows, you get a vague hex error code that leads you to a support page where the error could be caused by one of a dozen reasons.

And on top of that, MS is constantly hostile to any user who just wants a basic OS to use their computer with.
by ajuc | 2025-05-01 11:46:16+00:00
In Europe most people don't use cloth dryiers. You just hang the clothes on lines (usually on your balcony or in your bathroom if you live in a flat, or in your backyard if you live in a detached home). Clothes are dry the next day anyway, what's the rush?

I wonder if the UV from sun vs the longer time to dry results in less bacteria overall.
by monadINtop | 2025-05-01 11:46:27+00:00
Like you say, it's just a more intuitive classical analogy for people who don't want to waste good years of their life (like me) to understand the mathematical detail of theoretical physics.

The electron doesn't actually have a measured radius (in our current theories). QFT describes it as point-like excitation of an underlying quantum field. The only connection between our quantum theories (that is really just slightly hand wavy math) and reality is that our theories can predict the statistics of observing a particle or interaction in a given state. So maybe a slightly more coherent explanation is that for a given region between atoms in solid matter, the probability of observing an electron (or any particle) is extremely small. Its like a quantum mechanical cat who's territory extends across mountains and forests, you're probably not gonna stumble across it on any given day, unlike a (quantum) house cat that lives in someones apartment. More generally there are no big "lumps" in the wave-functions, it's very thinly spread like too little butter on toast.
by Thebothersuman | 2025-05-01 11:46:41+00:00
I have been working on a intentional farm to table co-housing network spanning from S.Flo, ATL ,to Cape Breton in NS CAN. It's been a humbling experience of meeting, learning and living with great interesting people to say the least. Each property is different but all are tailored to reduce hospitals readmission, provide various high risk groups housing opportunities, and supply fun lasting agrarian experiences. Each member has access, via provided transportation to the other properties and it's different resources. The struggle has been being a father of six, husband and career man alongside this project. I resign from my career almost 3yrs ago thats helped and hurt as struggling to secure income at times, I have learned and relearned alot! I can say I'm still moving forward and excited at what's ahead! https://www.funnyfencefarm.com/
by codeulike | 2025-05-01 11:47:22+00:00
Yes you are right and these people probably are crooks. But in principle I think politicans should be able to have private conversations. These used to happen in literal back rooms but these days everyone is geographically spread out and thats not so possible. Formal decisions should be ratified in official minuted meetings but informal chat should also be possible. Because people need to actually talk to each other in an unguarded way to figure things out sometimes. At the moment the principle seems to be 'anything that a politican types to anyone else should be archived for later perusal' and I'm not sure that thats going to give us better decisions.
by sosull | 2025-05-01 11:47:37+00:00
For me (IANAL), reading the judgment was initially shocking primarily for its facts and tone, rather than having any understanding of the legal consequences. I initially skipped over the phrase 'contempt of court' because the phrase seems so familiar from TV. But on reflection, it's the most consequential part of the document because, as you say, it has actual consequences for the people involved.
by AnonHP | 2025-05-01 11:47:37+00:00
I use LibreOffice for my personal needs, which is spreadsheets (I also donate to Document Foundation to support it). Sadly, even LibreOffice has suffered from being slow to start up, is bloated and sluggish (on Windows and macOS; I have tried it on Linux for a very long time).

It seems like all Office-like apps are cursed to be slow and bloated. It also seems like 32GB should be the bare minimum amount of RAM for a Windows machine today (even the “new Teams” app is sluggish nowadays and takes up quite a bit of memory or crashes often).
by mnky9800n | 2025-05-01 11:48:03+00:00
I don't think that is it. I think the employment law is written outside the context of how academic research is funded. Unlike companies, academic researchers cannot do something good and then have it generate revenue. You can not build an app and then support it and then use the profits to continue developing new ideas. You can only continue to apply for money to fund ideas. In companies that generate revenue, many countries require permanent positions and just cause for firings with the assumption that as long as there is revenue and profit, the company can't simply lay off people to generate more profit. However, since there is no revenue generation at a university, there is no way to continue to support people who work there beyond the grants that fund their positions. And there is no way to acquire those funds internally except by layoffs which are not allowed because universities will not layoff permanent people to save on money since those permanent people decide the layoffs anyways (who lays off themselves?). This is compounded that many countries have different retirement laws for older professors and they can often times take up departmental resources through emeritus positions that would otherwise go to fund young people seeking permanent positions.

I think that the solution is that university leadership should come from academic staff (e.g., a democratically elected faculty senate plus a rektor team as leader) and they decide layoffs so that administration can be laid off as well as academic teams. Second I think that there should be a reorganization of the university academic staff with responsibilities redistributed. Older professors should teach more and assume advisory positions instead of leadership ones in research projects, younger professors should not teach much at all and focus on driving research forward as research leaders, and there should be more focus on recruiting permanent technical staff to build larger teams at the expense of fewer PhD positions. And funding should change to have fewer grant funds and more long term funds that go towards institutions to build national lab like organizations across europe like there is in the USA, Germany with Helmholtz, etc. Of course this will all cost a lot of money and no one will do this. but i think without a reorg there will simply be more of the same and european innovation will continue to stagnate.
by munksbeer | 2025-05-01 11:48:07+00:00
>The share of income spent on housing has also remained remarkably stable. Though prices have ballooned, interest drops considerably, so monthly payments as share of income haven't changed that much.

That is not a good thing for new buyers. It is fantastic for people who bought when prices were cheap and rates higher, because now they have a low mortgage and low rates (refinance). But new buyers must now find higher deposits and have no real hope of every paying their property off early because any over-payments make only small dents in the high prices.
by ptx | 2025-05-01 11:48:13+00:00
They are doing that as well. There's a lot of investment in RISC-V: https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/china-all-in-on-risc-v-open-so...

For x86, supporting multiple companies would be more difficult, as they would need a license for the ISA (which Zhaoxin inherits from Via).
by nfriedly | 2025-05-01 11:48:48+00:00
Not the OP, but hibernate support is one thing that sent me back to windows on my Framework laptop.

In windows, I can just shut the lid and not worry about it, because it will sleep first, and eventually hibernate. Ubuntu would just sleep until the battery dies.

I found instructions for enabling hibernate in Ubuntu, and they did make it show up in the power menu, but it didn't seem to work. (Which is presumably why it was hidden to begin with.)

I also tried NixOS, but I couldn't even get it to boot the installer.
by geodel | 2025-05-01 11:48:51+00:00
Seems at this point any low level code they concern them with is security because it can have legal consequences, or porting to new CPU versions, archs as it can have financial consequences. So C++ is slow? very well write some Typescript/ReactJS frontend. It is slower? No worries, now you can run that in cloud. Anything else is to be taken care AI and crap. Problem solved.
by trebligdivad | 2025-05-01 11:48:57+00:00
I think that they had at least one faulty machine. The 'full cycle' failed on only two machines, 'E' and 'G'; 'E' had an unusually low temperature of about 20c - so probably had a failed heater? (It was 9 years old) 'G' seems to have had the shortest hold time (about 5mins) - so again that might explain it; but why is it so short? Both E and G were Indesits; perhaps they need to build their machines to detect failures.

Still, maybe a failed machine is still a valid test - how many hospital staffs machines are unknowingly faulty?

A quick fix would be to swab staffs clean clothes every so often (or put a test patch in with their washes?) and check it.
by shayway | 2025-05-01 11:49:06+00:00
This is a bit of a funny one.

When I was a kid I had a terrible ear infection, and I was going in and out of this state all night. I had also just discovered Pokemon and had been playing it all day.

I realized that I was injured and the solution of course was to be recalled to a Pokeball. I tried in earnest to do this for who knows how long. Eventually it hit me that I didn't have any other Pokemon I could switch to so sadly it wouldn't work.

It sounds like a joke when I put it into words but it felt very real. Honestly in retrospect I think the distress was worth the unique experience (and subsequent amusement).
by apatheticonion | 2025-05-01 11:49:12+00:00
What they already contribute is amazing, honestly. My concern is that, in order to build a genuine competitor to Windows, investment needs to increase substantially.

As it stands, getting into kernel development or working on something like a desktop environment (or adjacent software like Firefox or Chromium) is quite difficult in a way that supports you financially.

I mean, as individuals, we still invest personal time into public domain projects because we love to tinker and build stuff - but sadly we can't afford to do that full time.
by paddy_m | 2025-05-01 11:49:39+00:00
I am trying to figure out how Switzerland has such a thriving freight rail system. My understanding is that not only do they haul bulk cargo (grain, cement, oil, coal), but also small packages at a much higher mode share than any other nation. I want to find an article describing how their operating practices make that possible. Rail switching, and even container operations adds a lot of latency vs trucking. I know that basically all of their rail, including freight is electric which helps a bit with higher reliability than diesel and better acceleration.

I have heard that rail is heavily subsidized, and trucking is possibly taxed. But their operating procedures have to account for a lot of it.
by bluGill | 2025-05-01 11:49:40+00:00
There is more to learn / do than anyone has time. My kid is supposed to spend an hour on his violin, half an hour an fitness, then some time on chess, then eat - including clean up and/or cook. somehow he needs to fit some free play in too. He doesn't have time for more.

It isn't that he could do that, but what else to give up?
by galangalalgol | 2025-05-01 11:50:02+00:00
Poking around it seems like pre shared keys are used for the secure stuff, so no public keys, no rsa. It isn't that signal isn't state of the art, it just makes compromises for usability.

Edit: I didn't state something perhaps I should have. Symmetric key is considered more secure because public key is more complicated so more room for side channel mistakes, and the computation needes to break public keys doesn't scale as fast with key size. I am not an expert but that is what I've read.
by yesiman | 2025-05-01 11:51:07+00:00
I’ve been working on a small side project that’s now in beta – it's a tool designed to help you manage and explore your documents with a mix of semantic search and AI.

What it does:

Upload your own documents (text, PDF, etc.)

Search using a hybrid method (semantic + keyword)

Get summaries or answers powered by AI (LLMs)

Example use cases:

Internal documentation search

FAQ systems or support content

Personal or team knowledge bases

If you're curious or want to try it out, here’s the direct link:

https://deepermind.ai

I’m looking for honest feedback – bugs, suggestions, anything.

Thanks a lot to anyone who gives it a try
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by glimshe | 2025-05-01 11:51:21+00:00
This. I can't understand why people don't see it. Of course we can't rebuild what China does overnight. But we can create new supply chains at a lower quality point and then climb back to our original level. I've seen it happening all over the world.

I never believed that Trump's main goal is to bring everything back to the US. Instead, the government wants a new blend of suppliers that leans more heavily on the US but diversifies inputs to many countries.

This is a worthwhile goal even if China was an US ally. We don't want all eggs in one basket.
by Loughla | 2025-05-01 11:52:16+00:00
And you have hit the nail on the head for how Trump is operating this term.

How can he do these things?

Turns out they all could've, they just chose not to.

Maybe we should strengthen the checks and balances, and Congress shouldn't abdicate ANY of its authority to the president. Maybe the system should work how it's supposed to instead of how is easiest.
by Magma7404 | 2025-05-01 11:52:21+00:00
> What is Pâté again? What is a Tagine?

Pretty famous stuff, I'm surprised someone doesn't know this.

> You take a picture of a menu

Can't you just use Google to look up the words? Or ask the waiter? I may be too old I guess, but is there really a demand for that? Creating a JS monstrosity that spits out fake pictures of food (IF you have paid for a subscription) seems to be a niche topic.
by HWR_14 | 2025-05-01 11:52:47+00:00
> Signal is as close to the state of the art as it gets.

For their use case, which requires communication between two (or more) arbitrary users who never communicated before among millions of users, running on cheap commodity hardware over wireless connectivity to the internet.

Leaving encryption aside, looking only at the network level, the DoD is capable of using a dedicated fiber line. Or rather a parallel fiber infrastructure.
by franga2000 | 2025-05-01 11:53:00+00:00
This is only true if you use GDrive as nothing more than a file store, which most people don't. The above mentioned wiki is exactly the kind of software someone in the company finds, buys, gets the company reliant on and now you can't switch away from GDrive because that thing wouldn't work anymore.

And because Google does not participate in standardization efforts for document formats, the exported Docs/Sheets/Slides files you get from GDrive won't have any of Google's admittedly cool features, they're simply discarded when exporting.