MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by entuno | 2025-06-26 09:46:07+00:00
> No reason to not just host email with any domain provider and manage the rest with a small NAS in the office.

Sounds like even more of a single point of failure, just on your domain provider (who's much more likely to go out of business) than Microsoft. And one with no chat, or phones, or conference calling, or shared calendars, or endpoint management, or SSO, etc, etc.

Just sticking all your data on a cheap NAS in the office works for a few people, although it becomes PITA to do granular permissions when you don't have any proper central authentication. But then it's also a massive single point of failure, so you need to implement a backup solution, and then a way to share files outside of the organisation, and then a VPN so that people can work remotely, and then some monitoring so that you know when a disk fails....and that's getting way beyond what a non-technical person can manage.

It's fine if you're just using it for your hobby. But building your business on top of something like is very likely to come back and bite you in the arse.
by vaxman | 2025-06-26 09:46:27+00:00
TL;DR: The team that destroyed Apple by posing as innovators spun off into Be and took many Apple customers with them. There, the team spent days on end rearranging the icons on their corporate home page and operating system until they ran out of runway. CalPers management team then chose NeXT over Be to save their investment in Apple and Be shutdown, so the team’s cult following moved on to reimplement that horrible Be atrocity on Linux. Some guy who worked on UX code libraries for one or those Be clones took it off the shelf after all this time and is releasing it for Wayland.

I may have added some of that which wasn’t in TFA but is in my lived experience ;)
by relistan | 2025-06-26 09:47:46+00:00
Author here. I know all about POSIX IPC (nearly 30 years UNIX admin here). It's not supported on the BEAM in a sensible way. Not to mention that if it were implemented, it would almost certainly violate the sensible failure domain management of the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem and OTP.

As for GRPC: we don't use it anywhere else. So we'd have needed all of the tooling on two stacks, calling patterns without native error handling that we'd have had to implement, and instead we have a thin wrapper that allows the Elixir app to call Go like native Elixir code. GRPC would have been worse in almost every way.
by otikik | 2025-06-26 09:47:47+00:00
In the context of libxml it does sound that for every hypothetical person like you that there's going to be 20 "security researchers" like the ones the article is mentioning; just running automated tools and trying to use security issues as a way to promote themselves.

If getting rid of your input gets rid of the other 20 issues, I would take it.
by toolslive | 2025-06-26 09:47:50+00:00
> If peeling fails, R10 falls back to solving the system of equations using Gaussian elimination.

I've built a decoder for online codes (very similar) in the past and learned that it's best to just to a Gauss elimination step regardless of the degree of equation/packet/message you get. Also, since the system is very sparse it's best to not have a matrix representation, even if you're using bitvectors, as you'll be scanning rows which have mostly zeros. Just use a representation for sparse sets.

Anyway, just my 2cts
by devill23 | 2025-06-26 09:48:24+00:00
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5322300
by account42 | 2025-06-26 09:48:38+00:00
webm or any other non-gimped video codec would be a much better format for that use case. Unfortunately browsers don't allow those in image contexts so we are stuck with an inferior "state of the art" literally-webm-with-deliberately-worse-compression webp standard.

AVIF is only starting to become widespread so can't be used without fallback if you care about your users. Not sure how it compares to AV1 quality/compression wise but hopefully its not as gimped as webp and there will encoders that aren't as crap as libwebp that almost everyone uses.
by cranium | 2025-06-26 09:49:00+00:00
That's a really good idea! That would handle micropayments that nobody would even bother with (to pay, to process, to receive, ...).

Could even have users select the payment %age or have it set by the contract tier between the app creator and the user (10% for simple user, 20% for pro access with other features, 40% enterprise,...).
by tzs | 2025-06-26 09:49:10+00:00
Aside from heavy use in the healthcare, finance, banking, retail, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, telecommunications, automotive, publishing, and insurance industries, w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶R̶o̶m̶a̶n̶s̶ who uses XML?
by fodkodrasz | 2025-06-26 09:49:31+00:00
Automotive companies pay big buck to vendors who supply certified tools/libraries, because getting stuff certified is lot of work/time. This also means that those stuff are often outdated, and a pain to work with, yet their vendors are not expected to function as charities, as often expected by FLOSS authors, esp. when releasing their code under BSD/MIT licenses and then getting eaten by the sharks.
by beepdyboop | 2025-06-26 09:50:27+00:00
Compare the user experience of exploring the suite of AI products from each company (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, etc).

It is vastly more difficult to understand what Google is offering compared to the others, to what cost, getting an API-key or similar, understanding usage/billing across the suite, etc.

I wouldn't expect any regular person to bother signing up for any of Google's products, let alone understand what they're really offering.
by fgasking | 2025-06-26 09:51:20+00:00
Still hoping we might find something of it in the future. Though Colin binned all his personal disks about 10 years ago.

We were grateful though to recover our other holy grail: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/gtw64/daffy-duck/

There's another due in the next few weeks with any luck :)
by moffkalast | 2025-06-26 09:52:00+00:00
It's easy to get overconfident and not test the LLM's code enough when it worked fine for a handful of times in a row, and then you miss something.

The problem is often really one of miscommunication, the task may be clear to the person working on it, but with frequent context resets it's hard to make sure the LLM also knows what the whole picture is and they tend to make dumb assumptions when there's ambiguity.

The thing that 4o does with deep research where it asks for additional info before it does anything should be standard for any code generation too tbh, it would prevent a mountain of issues.
by shakna | 2025-06-26 09:54:27+00:00
> “I’m 12 years late on this damn novel, and I’m struggling with it,” he said. “I have like 1,100 pages written, but I still have hundreds more pages to go. It’s a big mother of a book for whatever reason. Maybe I should’ve started writing smaller books when I began this, but it’s tough.”

He's averaging a hundred pages a year. Maybe not the fastest, but certainly not the slowest writer. With the size of his books... Cut the guy some slack.
by dspillett | 2025-06-26 09:55:32+00:00
There is a huge difference between inanimate objects/classes and babies. Don't personify inanimate objects, they hate that!

On inanimate objects: Aluminium was first ratified by the IUPAC as aluminium⁰, with the agreement of its discoverer Sir Humphrey Davy¹, yet one huge nation calls it something else…

On people: nicknames are a thing, are you saying those are universally wrong? But yes, when a person tells me that they'd prefer their name pronounced a different way, or that they'd prefer a different name entirely, or that they don't like the nickname other use for them, you can bet your arse that I'll make the effort to use their preferred name+pronunciation in future.

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[0] Though it should be noted that aluminum was, a few years after, officially accepted as an alternate form.

[1] He initially called it aluminum in the first paper.
by andreldm | 2025-06-26 09:55:41+00:00
Valve has done an amazing job turning Linux gaming a reality, I really admire their efforts. Unfortunately I had to switch back to Windows on my gaming rig due to a Steam bug which unnecessarily downloads the shader cache of several game every single day, disabling the cache hurts the performance. That’s been plaguing many users for years and surprisingly Valve hasn’t fixed it: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1028...
by taneq | 2025-06-26 09:55:42+00:00
If you have a long standing, effective heuristic that “people with excellent, professional writing are more accurate and reliable than people with sloppy spelling and punctuation” then the appearance of a semi-infinite group of ‘people’ writing well presented, convincingly worded articles which nonetheless are riddled with misinformation, hidden logical flaws, and inconsistencies, you’re gonna end up trusting everyone a lot less.

It’s like if someone started bricking up tunnel entrances and painting ultra realistic versions of the classic Road Runner tunnel painting on them, all over the place. You’d have to stop and poke every underpass with a stick just to be sure.
by Syzygies | 2025-06-26 09:55:53+00:00
One can find opinions that Claude Code Opus 4 is worth the monthly $200 I pay for Anthropic's Max plan. Opus 4 is smarter; one either can't afford to use it, or can't afford not to use it. I'm in the latter group.

One feature others have noted is that the Opus 4 context buffer rarely "wears out" in a work session. It can, and one needs to recognize this and start over. With other agents, it was my routine experience that I'd be lucky to get an hour before having to restart my agent. A reliable way to induce this "cliff" is to let AI take on a much too hard problem in one step, then flail helplessly trying to fix their mess. Vibe-coding an unsuitable problem. One can even kill Opus 4 this way, but that's no way to run a race horse.

Some "persistence of memory" harness is as important as one's testing harness, for effective AI coding. With the right care having AI edit its own context prompts for orienting new sessions, this all matters less. AI is spectacularly bad at breaking problems into small steps without our guidance, and small steps done right can be different sessions. I'll regularly start new sessions when I have a hunch that this will get me better focus for the next step. So the cliff isn't so important. But Opus 4 is smarter in other ways.
by mkagenius | 2025-06-26 09:55:58+00:00
On M1/M2/M3 Mac, you can use Apple Containers to automate[1] the execution of the generated code.

I have one running locally with this config:

{ "mcpServers": { "coderunner": { "url": "http://coderunner.local:8222/sse" } } }

1. CodeRunner: https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner (I am one of the authors)
by alphaseek | 2025-06-26 09:56:01+00:00
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by moron4hire | 2025-06-26 09:56:45+00:00
You're quoting from their literal, W3C-format working draft, quoting the name of the W3C working group that has been formed to standardized this.

Being "standards track" means the spec is out of draft and has been proposed. It does not mean "we intend to standardize this". It means, "we've put in all of the work to standardize this and are waiting on final acceptance".

I don't know what you mean by "isn't supposed to be enabled by default". There is no mention of when browser vendors may or may not ship features in the standardization process.
by gwd | 2025-06-26 09:57:17+00:00
I experience it pretty regularly -- once the complexity of the code passes a certain threshold, the LLM can't keep everything in its head and starts thrashing around. Part of my job working with the LLM is to manage the complexity it sees.

And one of the things with current generators is that they tend to make things more complex over time, rather than less. It's always me prompting the LLM to refactor things to make it simpler, or doing the refactoring once it's gotten to complex for the LLM to deal with.

So at least with the current generation of LLMs, it seems rather inevitable that if you just "give LLMs their head" and let them do what they want, eventually they'll create a giant Rube Goldberg mess that you'll have to try to clean up.

ETA: And to the point of the article -- if you're an old salt, you'll be able to recognize when the LLM is taking you out to sea early, and be able to navigate your way back into shallower waters even if you go out a bit too far. If you're a new hand, you'll be out of your depth and lost at sea before you know it's happened.
by srvmshr | 2025-06-26 09:57:35+00:00
> Some people living in places that have become tourist areas are putting up signs announcing their home toilets are not for public use.

I read that on r/Tokyo Reddit as well a while back. Quite shocking. It was some person complaining living near a large public park (possibly Shinjuku or Inokashira) about his personal premises being violated because toilet queues were quite long & people kept knocking at their door. Not sure if we both are referring to the same incident?

[For reference to others, there are enough portable toilets in these public parks to deal with tourist surge, but obviously no arrangement can handle 25000+ visitors everyday without having queues]

More ridiculous stories have popped up once in a while in japan tourist subreddits. This sakura blossom season, a British tourist couple were seeking legal recourse to avoid detention and move back to their home country ASAP after running over an elderly woman with the rental car. Some people probably don't take consequences in a tourist destination seriously.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-06-26 09:57:37+00:00
Pre-covid/covid times were great with 8000 yen business hotels in Tokyo. Capsule hotels were meant for salarymen and available for sub-3000. Now they're also part of the country-sized amusement park experience. Capsule hotels now easily exceed 10000 yen and business hotels can be over 30000 (I've seen 45000 for shabby places that would've been half empty pre-covid).

Wages are also not moving and locals are becoming second class citizens in their own country and rapidly. Add it to the entitlement everyone has and the "hospitality" that used to be found everywhere is now rapidly and noticeably going away. People don't know just how different it was before the tourism boom.
by ggm | 2025-06-26 09:58:08+00:00
Colloquially acetaminophen/paracetamol and ibuprofen are "painkillers" but this is in a different class, it's amazing to have something which performs like the opioid pain relief but without at least some of the side effects.

It's the first non opioid painkiller applicable for situations like post operative use.

I'd have loved this after my hernia op, the last thing you need with that is opioid induced constipation.
by taleinat | 2025-06-26 09:59:19+00:00
That approach sometimes does work, but usually very poorly and often not at all.

It can work very well when the higher-up is well informed and does have deep technical experience and understanding. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are great, well-known examples of this. They've also provided great examples of the same approach mostly failing when applied outside of their areas of deep expertise and understanding.
by pentaphobe | 2025-06-26 09:59:29+00:00
Interesting that the author chose that title despite the existence of NSAIDS [^1] and paracetamol(acetaminophen) - the latter of which they even mention (but only in the context of combination with opioids)

Did I miss something?

EDIT: answered in sibling post, thanks @ggm!

[1]: Non Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
by ncruces | 2025-06-26 10:00:10+00:00
Same logic applies to all subscriptions.

This may look fine when it's one sub.

But then you're spending hundreds of €$£ a month on stuff and need to go through a list of dozens of things to figure out which you should continue paying for.

So no. I will continue to donate randomly to stuff, and limit subscriptions to a handful I can mentally keep track of. I'm sorry.

PS: I like, and very much respect, how Kagi handles subscriptions. Not gonna work for donations, but I wish more services handled things that way.
by axegon_ | 2025-06-26 10:00:28+00:00
That is already the case for me. The amount of times I've read "apologies for the oversight, you are absolutely correct" is staggering: 8 or 9 out of 10 times. Meanwhile I constantly see people mindlessly copy paying llm generated code and subsequently furious when it doesn't do what they expected it to do. Which, btw, is the better option: I'd rather have something obviously broken as opposed to something seemingly working.
by herbst | 2025-06-26 10:00:43+00:00
What do people consider as NAS? A Network Harddrive? If you buy a "normal" Synology Nas it comes with shared calenders, office, VPN control, several backup options including Aws and Azure and a lot more. Typical setup and forget setup, thanks to their high package quality.

And I am sure there are even better options than a household Synology.

But putting everything in a cloud and fully depending on a single provider that for the majority of people is in a foreign (and politically dangerous) country is definitely not the obviously better option.
by atemerev | 2025-06-26 10:00:43+00:00
I am a software engineer who writes 80-90% code with AI (sorry, can't ignore the productivity boost), and I mostly agree with this sentiment.

I found out very early that under no circumstances you may have the code you don't understand, anywhere. Well, you may, but not in public, and you should commit to understanding it before anyone else sees that. Particularly before sales guys do.

However, AI can help you with learning too. You can run experiments, test hypotheses and burn your fingers so fast. I like it.
by baxtr | 2025-06-26 10:01:54+00:00
Maybe not humans, what about robots though?

I recently read this in an interview with Juergen Schmidhuber:

> Of course, such life-like hardware won't be confined to our little biosphere. No, variants of it will soon exist on other planets, or between planets, e.g. in the asteroid belt. As I have said many times in recent decades, space is hostile to humans but friendly to suitably designed robots, and it offers many more resources than our thin layer of biosphere, which receives less than a billionth of the energy of the Sun. Through life-like, self-replicating, self-maintaining hardware, the economy of our solar system will become billions of times larger than the current tiny economy of our biosphere. And of course, the coming expansion of the AI sphere won’t be limited to our tiny solar system.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44330850
by shakna | 2025-06-26 10:02:14+00:00
The title... Confuses me. Especially with a handful on non-opiod painkillers sitting in my history. Gabapentin? Heck, ibuprofen?

Especially when the article itself compares it to ibuprofen:

> If paracetamol and ibuprofen are inadequate for pain relief, Journavx can now be prescribed as the next alternative treatment, instead of mild- to moderate-strength opioids.

"suitable for treating post-surgery pain" isn't something to cut, just for a better title. It just makes the clickbait stench of that first line even worse.

This is a better paracetamol. Which is awesome, and something we need. This is not a world first.
by anticodon | 2025-06-26 10:02:19+00:00
This reminds me of my experience. I've worked for one company based in SEA that had almost identical portals in several countries in the region. Portals were developed by an Australian company and I was hired to maintain existing/develop new portals.

Source code for each portal was stored in a separate Git repository. I've asked the original authors how am I supposed to fix bugs that affect all the portals or develop new functionality for all the portals. The answer was to backport all fixes manually to all copies of the source code.

Then I've asked: isn't it possible to use a single source repository and use feature flags to customize appearance and features of each portals. Original authors said that it is impossible.

In 2-3 months I've merged the code of 4-5 portals into one repository, added feature flags, upgraded the framework version, release went flawlessly, and it was possible to fix a bug simultaneously for all the portals or develop a new functionality available across all the countries where the company operated. It was a huge relief for me as copying bugfixes manually was tedious and error-prone process.
by jjcob | 2025-06-26 10:02:49+00:00
I recently got a physical exam, including ultra sound, two urine samples, and bloodwork, at a private doctor in Austria and it cost 150€. You Americans are crazy.

I'm not sure how a physical would be more than 15 minutes of work. Lab techs? Standard blood tests are all automated, the most complicated part is putting the stickers on the vials. Yes, someone needs to calibrate the machine, but the machine processes 1000s of samples per day. I just checked, the price for a standard blood panel at a local lab is 14€. It's really not a complicated procedure.

Drivers? Janitors? What the hell are you paying those guys to justify a $1000 bill? And you really don't need to hire a driver to get a box of samples to the lab at the end of the day.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-26 10:04:19+00:00
> They should be funded by the companies using them. Do you believe any of the fortune top100 would be greatly impacted by funding libxml2? They probably all rely on it, one way or the other.

I agree in theory but it's impractical to achieve due to the coordination effort involved, hence using taxes as a proxy.

> The foundation of the internet is something that gets bigger and bigger every year. I understand the sentiment and the reasoning of declaring software a "public good", but it won't scale.

For a long time, a lot of foundational development was funded by the government. Of course it can scale - the problem is most people don't believe in capable government any more after 30-40 years of neoliberal tax cuts and utter incompetence (California HSR comes to my mind). We used to be able to do great things funded purely by the government, usually via military funding: laser, radar, microwaves and generally a lot of RF technology, even the Internet itself originated out of the military ARPANET. Or the federal highways. And that was just what the Americans did.