MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by incomingpain | 2025-06-26 11:34:33+00:00
Using AI code generators. I have been able to get the code base large enough that it was starting to make nonsense changes.

However, my overall experience I have been thinking about how this is going to be a massive boon to open source. So many patches, so many new tools will be created to streamline getting new packages into repos. Everything can be tested.

Open source is going to be epicly boosted now.

QEMU deciding to sit out from this acceleration is crazy to me, but probably what is going to give Xen/Docker/Podman the lead.
by vaxman | 2025-06-26 11:35:17+00:00
Mind. Blown.

On DEC systems, I programmed using FORTRAN, BLISS, MACRO and (on GiGi and RSTS/E) in BASIC for a long time.. then one day the Bell Labs spinoff I worked for bought a Whitesmith’s C license for the VAXcluster (for probably oodles of money) and I was transferred into a group headed by the guy who wrote UNIX’s malloc implementation a long time before I came along. He hated VMS as much as I hated C. He couldn’t use UNIX because it only ran on dogshit computers. I couldn’t use FORTRAN because someone read a book that said C was cool. We all carried around our K&R pamphlet books and the Whitesmith’s manual (which the Indian workers would mispronounce with three syllables lol). The compiler had all kinds of issues on VMS. Eventually, DEC released VAX-11 C (still have my little 5x7” orange book) and that was enough to make me give up (the truly wonderful) VAX FORTRAN and MACRO/BLISS compilers. My home setup (it was not common for anyone to have home setups then, even programmers) was all assembler, FORTH, Pascal and BASIC but with the shift to C at work, I finally sold a kidney and bought Lattice C and later Aztec C and after moving to the Mac (as I sealed my Amigas into the boxes in the garage where they remain to this day), MPW C, THINK C and CodeWarrior C, MS Visual C, before Yggdrasil Linux…GNU C, then GNU Objective C and now (needle scratch silence) Swift? All started with Whitesmith’s C…
by diggan | 2025-06-26 11:36:04+00:00
> Oh, that horrible Electron UI. Under Windows it pegs a core on my CPU at all times!

Worse I'd say, considering what people use LM Studio for, is the VRAM it occupies up even when the UI and everything is idle. Somehow, it's using 500MB VRAM while doing nothing, while Firefox with ~60 active tabs is using 480MB. gnome-shell itself also sits around 450MB and is responsible for quite a bit more than LM Studio.

Still, LM Studio is probably the best all-in-one GUI around for local LLM usage, unless you go terminal usage.
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by ahmadrosid | 2025-06-26 11:36:06+00:00
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by perching_aix | 2025-06-26 11:36:41+00:00
Sure, it just feels like an incomplete justification to completely prevent a drug from entering the market and being used. Also, that was just the hypothesized mechanism at play, it may not have been what was actually happening, which is the other "ugh" part to this.

That said, the article may not be fairly representing what happened in the first place, so...
by bravura | 2025-06-26 11:37:08+00:00
Thanks for building this! The tool shows a lot of promise. Coming from Claude Code, the core functionality feels solid - just needs some permission refinements to match enterprise use cases. This is based upon quickly skimming the current code.

High ROI feature requests:

• Pattern-based permissions - Bash(git:) to allow git but not rm, Write(logs/.txt) for path scoping

• CLI permission flags - --allowedTools "Read,Bash(npm test)" --deniedTools "Write" for session overrides

• Allow/deny precedence rules - explicit deny should override general allow (security principle)

• Config file hierarchy - system → user → project precedence for policy enforcement

Medium ROI improvements:

• Command argument filtering - whitelist git commit but not git --exec-path=/bin/sh

• Multiple config formats - support both simple arrays and structured permission objects

• Runtime permission diagnostics - gemini permissions list to debug what's actually enabled

• Environment variable injection - top-level env config for OTEL endpoints, API keys, etc.

The permission engine is really the key piece - once you can express "allow X but not Y within X", it unlocks most advanced use cases. Keep up the great work!
by Oleksa_dr | 2025-06-26 11:38:57+00:00
Even if we get there, will there be any benefit to civilization, maybe there are no habitable worlds there and it is not possible to profitably extract valuable resources for future travel. In my opinion, the most realistic thing is to come to an understanding of how our body/brain works. Then learn how to transfer consciousness from a living shell to a machine (with an emulsified environment for nerve endings, and so on). To learn how to print bodies, even if it takes as many years as it takes to grow in natural conditions. Between solar systems or even galaxies, our digital consciousnesses will travel, maybe even copies and once in n years, synchronized in some exact or not. That is, to achieve immortality in a “digital” way, then time will not play a role. Another problem is spacecraft, so that they can travel with sufficient autonomy for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years (this is probably the main problem).
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-26 11:39:34+00:00
This is why it's so fascinating to read about this conflict. The back and forth innovations (some obvious, some rudimentary, some very much not) is just incredible to follow.

Early on: Drones in war!

Then: Ahh EW makes them useless!

Then: Fiber optics defeat EW!

Then: But you can follow the cable!

Then: But you can try to respool the cable with a power drill!

Every week it seems is a new move.
by palata | 2025-06-26 11:39:57+00:00
I see a lot of comments saying that "but the technology will improve".

Sure, maybe. Or maybe it will be like Musk announcing what Teslas will be capable of in 6 months. We don't know, and the author doesn't pretend that they do. Don't forget that drones have been used in this war for years, and the vast majority of the drone industry has already pivoted to the military because it's easier to make money there. So it's not exactly "brand new technology".

But my point is that the author just says "from what I've seen, here is how it looks". And it seems like it has value.
by aragilar | 2025-06-26 11:41:21+00:00
Possibly because of the way things are set up (and then the journalist didn't think to clean things up). SLAC (California) is where the US-hosted data will be, but for the UK and France there is more collaboration between HPC/compute centres and so it may end up in different locations (I know for SKA the "UK" "node" is spread across 5 different institutes, so "UK" is a better description than listing 5 different cities).
by Findecanor | 2025-06-26 11:41:43+00:00
Indeed. After my first bowel surgery, I woke up to a wall of pain — because the epidural did not work. The intense pain caused me to throw up, repeatedly, which put strain on the fresh surgery and the stitches.

After what felt like an eternity, I myself noticed a wetness on my shoulder onto which a broken hose adaptor had leaked. After that was replaced, there were no further issues. Thankfully, the stitches had held, and I didn't get a hernia.

Also, I did have to carry a pee-bag while the epidural was in, because the epidural made me lose control of my bladder. And the epidural itself left a scar.
by nick__m | 2025-06-26 11:41:46+00:00
I received Ketorolac after a tooth replacement (airbags packs a good punch) and it was more effective than the 5mg baby sized morphine pills they prescribe nowadays.

It's a NSAIDs but it's not to hard on the stomach but it's somewhat hard on the kidneys. However Ketorolac is a dangerous drug if you don't follow the posology (don't take 2 pills at the same time, the therapeutic index is that narrow) or if your a poor metaboliser, it leads to kindey failure, stomach bleeding and other life threatening side effects. I would be surprised if that new pain killer was superior to this.

I am sure it's less dangerous but more effective I really doubt it.
by polo | 2025-06-26 11:42:06+00:00
Agreed. The AVP works so well as an external monitor. I use it a lot while traveling but I’ve found myself preferring it even at home. Comfort during long sessions can be a challenge. While I’m fine with Apple’s dual strap, my current setup is an Anapro forehead strap and no light shield. It does leave an unsightly mark on your forehead but I find it very comfortable and I like letting my face breathe.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-06-26 11:42:40+00:00
And even if it didn’t treat something now, it can treat things later

For example, a lot of asymptomatic STDs get accidentally cured by people taking antibiotics for unrelated reasons. Less paternalistic countries let people buy very significant drugs over the counter.

Being able to rule out that a simple infection is viral instead of bacterial is a huge boon. Doctors who want to cry about risk of superbugs (while eating McDonald’s during their break) can shove their opinion alongside side their antibiotic doused meat slurry straight down their pie hole.

Every nice pain killer I get I keep for emergencies. You never know when you’ll actually hurt yourself and be very happy to have some extra Vicodin.

Paternialism in medicine has been destructive for the human race and it has led to a lot of very very negative outcomes.
by pancsta | 2025-06-26 11:42:47+00:00
When designing interactions with my agents I've added 3 things to the regular chat window: a static list of stories (for mental navigation), a dynamic list of buttons / progress bars (for structured input) and a narrator (kinda a sys-prompt for the user). There's also an interrupt button, as an extra.

I just launched in on HN, take a look:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44386314
by dakial1 | 2025-06-26 11:44:59+00:00
I love science fiction because they usually try to play these scenarios in a somewhat feasible future. The 3 Body Problem series (more specifically the 3rd book) goes well into what it would take for humanity to be interestellar even without lightspeed or wormholee tech.

Avoiding spoilers it would basically be through hibernation and/or generational ships. Which basically implies of losing all ties to earth and anyone/anything you left there.

But, then again, why would nations invest in such expensive endeavours if there is no prospect of seeing something back out of it. I imagine only an emergency situation would cause this no?
by 4ad | 2025-06-26 11:46:05+00:00
HDR is about, well, high dynamic range images, usually expressed with at least 10 bits of precision (although it can also be float, etc), and often, but not always encoding scene-referred data instead of image-referred data (originally it was supposed to only encode scene-referred data, but then other competing formats ignored that). It has nothing to do with the gamut and with the color primaries, although in practice HDR images use a large color space.

But you can absolutely have an SDR image encoded using a large color space. So I am not sure why the author talks about color primaries when it tries to justify HDR… I still don’t know what kind of HDR images this new PNG variant can encode.
by vaxman | 2025-06-26 11:46:13+00:00
Please consider rebranding to something other than the name of the OG Linux distribution. I do get the Norse mythology tree connection vs STP etc but it’s sort of disrespectful to overload Yggdrasil Linux. After what’s left of RedHat finishes imploding, maybe Son of Yggdrasil will come out.. :D
by diggan | 2025-06-26 11:46:17+00:00
> Europe doesn't "obviously" make much more sense than anywhere else for FOSS. I know of no law in the US that

It's not about laws, but about the community. If you're building a community and organization that is 100% about serving a specific community (in this case FOSS), then it makes sense to be wherever that community is strongest and healthiest, so in this case Europe. Regardless of laws.

> As in: "Yeah, our customers have to pay $30 instead of $20 a year now that we're EU-based, but so what? We're not in it to maximize profits." Excuse me?

That's you're still thinking in terms of "customers" and charging people higher/lower just makes it more obvious how Americans are constantly focused on profits and money. I don't see how that made up argument is even applicable here, care to explain without any more contrived examples?
by kentich | 2025-06-26 11:46:23+00:00
I built Code Mind Map - an extension for Visual Studio and VS Code that links mind map nodes to code.

For many years, I was using FreeMind to create mind maps with a knowledge base of a project I was currently working on at work. Such mind maps included all possible project information, from links to Jira tickets to code snippets, and so on.

When I was getting on a project with a large codebase, I was researching it by copying and pasting pieces of code into mind map nodes creating a mental map of the codebase.

I've always loved this way of organizing project knowledge and analyzing code, but there was no way to navigate to pieces of code from FreeMind to Visual Studio. I had to copy the code from the mind map node and then search for it in Visual Studio.

Well, not anymore.

I've built an extension for Visual Studio and VS Code that allows you to create powerful mind maps with nodes linked to code.

You can select a piece of code in the editor, press Ctrl+2, Ctrl+2, and the selected code will appear as a child node in the mind map.

Then, you can Ctrl+Click on the node and you'll immediately jump to the linked code.

You can use it for analyzing a code base, or as a way of having hierarchically organized bookmarks. It also has all the classic mind-mapping capabilities. You can use it to organize and have your project knowledge base in a single graph in one place.

The auto-save feature will keep your mind map saved.

Please get it out at https://codemindmap.com/ and let me know what you think!
by thimabi | 2025-06-26 11:46:23+00:00
From what I can tell, that was a bug and it has been fixed. I regularly use data with much more than 32k tokens in Gemini with my Workspace account, and context window issues are not a thing anymore.

What does set Gemini via Workspace apart from other offerings like AI Studio is the nerfed output limit and safety filters. Also, I never got Gemini to ground replies in Google search, except when in Deep Research, or to execute code. Finally, Workspace users of Gemini either cannot keep their chat history, or have to keep the entire history for a predetermined period (deleting individual chats is not allowed).
by conartist6 | 2025-06-26 11:46:53+00:00
And because from the outside everything looks worse than ever. Worse quality, no more support, established companies going crazy to cut costs. AI slop is replacing thoughtful content across the web. Engineering morale is probably at an all time low for my 20 years watching this industry...

So my question is: if so many people should be bragging to me and celebrating how much better things are, why does it look to me like they are worse and everyone is miserable about it...?
by jeremy151 | 2025-06-26 11:47:07+00:00
I should clarify: the billing talk would come out when talking about options. “Let’s try X because insurance will need to see that we tried it before we try Y.” I don’t blame the provider. Navigating insurance still comes up with my direct primary care doc, but it’s not most of the visit. The real value I see is a willingness to take the whole picture into account (not just symptom -> med/specialist) and teach me about how things work and why. I have some complexity in my history for which this helps a lot.

Regarding the patient load discussion elsewhere, our entire family uses this doctor, we’re in for $200/mo but if we added up the interaction time even with me (a more complicated customer) it’s maybe 5 hours a year + some text communications with the MA / prescription wrangling. Their model seems to be all about effective scaling, I hope it is worth it for them, because my experience is vastly improved.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-06-26 11:47:38+00:00
Ban insurance coverage for the quack bullshit like chiropractors, most forms of physical therapy , cupping, acupuncture, etc first.

If you’re not willing to do that than don’t try to take a holier than thou attitude against the supplement crowd. At least fish oil actually does help a tiny bit. Certainly more effective than 99.99% of adjustments.
by Neil44 | 2025-06-26 11:47:45+00:00
This is true, but the author also talks about cost e.g. $500 for a drone vs $100 for an artillery shell with far more effect. Surely at the point where the drone has visual on the target you can fire 5 x shells over for massively greater effect on target, and keep the drone flying for the next target, and the next.
by palata | 2025-06-26 11:48:06+00:00
> Many of the issues sound like issues coming from using improvised civilian hobbyist tech

I don't think it's improvised civilian hobbyist tech. They run autopilots that also fly professional drones and can fly planes.

I think it's mostly that it has to be super cheap, otherwise it doesn't bring value (because other weapons are more efficient if you have more money). If your one-way drone costs 10k dollars, maybe it's too expensive even though it can fly during the night.

And then there are fundamental limitations, like flying in bad weather.

> obviously the next stage is a FPV drone with some capabilities of "reusable" drone

But a reusable drone won't go inside a hangar (because at this point it probably won't come out). If your drone can go somewhere, drop something and come back, doesn't it mean that another class of weapons could do this job?
by breckenedge | 2025-06-26 11:48:29+00:00
How can you write an article about this and not mention that software development used to be radically different and better?

I didn’t meet the first full-time designer in my career until 2013. If there were designers around, it wasn’t their only role or they were mostly contract. Before that, developers were intricately involved with the design process. It maybe wasn’t as pretty but it sure wasn’t was buggy.

And project planning used to be done by engineering leads. Now you have specialized PMs who really know nothing about engineering practices. Engineering managers were responsible for whole project plans. We lost a lot when we gave up that role —- there’s a lot more trust and collaboration between an engineer and an EM versus an engineer and PM.

I’ve liked my career less and less over the last 10 years or so because I’ve seen every company go this direction. I think companies do it to de-risk, but it makes the whole process more expensive.
by encom | 2025-06-26 11:48:35+00:00
I've been running a mixed DPI setup for a long time now, with a 4K display center, and a vertical 1080p display on either side (so 3 displays total).

My conclusion from running this and similar mixed DPI setups over many years is that mixed DPI is extremely poorly tested, if at all, by all vendors. KDE Plasma on Wayland finally pretty much gets it right 98% of the time. X11 wasn't a great experience, regardless of what's technically possible.

Windows has so many annoying issues. Apps are often blurry on the low DPI displays. The mouse cursor has no concept of screen DPI, and treats the entire working area as having the same DPI, so you have to hit the "exits" of the high DPI display just right to land on the low DPI ones. Positioning a window across different displays only scales it correctly on one. There's probably more, but I've been 100% Windows free for a couple of years now.

I wonder how OS X handles it. I don't like that OS, but it sounds like the kind of thing Apple would care about getting right.
by kitd | 2025-06-26 11:48:50+00:00
From the Introduction [1]

Many container platforms are available, but Apptainer is focused on: Verifiable reproducibility and security, using cryptographic signatures, an immutable container image format, and in-memory decryption. Integration over isolation by default. Easily make use of GPUs, high speed networks, parallel filesystems on a cluster or server by default. Mobility of compute. The single file SIF container format is easy to transport and share. A simple, effective security model. You are the same user inside a container as outside, and cannot gain additional privilege on the host system by default. Read more about Security in Apptainer.

[1] https://apptainer.org/docs/user/main/introduction.html
by cogman10 | 2025-06-26 11:49:32+00:00
I think you (and others) are misconstruing what I'm saying.

I'm not saying XML is unused.

I'm saying that the specific space where it's use can cause security problems from things like a DDOS are rare.

A legacy backend system that consumes XML docs isn't at risk of a malicious attacker injecting DDOS docs.

When XML is used for data interchange, it's typically only in circumstances where trusted parties are swapping XML docs. Where it's not typically being used is the open Internet. You aren't going to find many new rest endpoints emitting or consuming XML.

And the reason it's being used is primarily legacy. The format and parser are static. Swapping them out would be disruptive and gives few benefits.

That's what it means for something to increasingly become irrelevant. When new use slows or stops and development is primarily on legacy.
by thworp | 2025-06-26 11:49:35+00:00
A big issue with fingerprint-only devices is water. If your finger, the reader or both are sufficiently wet, most readers just don't work. Most touchscreens also don't work too well in those conditions - certainly not well enough to enter a secure alphanumeric unlock code - but enough to pull up a map.

I've had my old iPhone 7+ turn into a charged brick multiple times in the rain. Never happened with the faceID phones.
by oersted | 2025-06-26 11:49:44+00:00
I don’t understand why the author has such a narrow definition of FPV drones.

He talks as if reusable drones are a completely different category, that they are all toys designed for enthusiast racers… Generally he implies that a myriad arbitrary technical details are fundamental limitations of this paradigm, it’s a strange mindset.

Also, as others commenters state, isn’t a 43% success rate exceedingly high? Even if it’s 20% accounting for environmental factors and faults in manufacturing. How likely is it that a mortar does anything? Or a soldier with a rifle? Or anything else?

> When I joined the team, I was excited to work with a cutting-edge tool.

It sounds like he was imagining some kind of scifi adventure, but it’s always been clear that they are using cheap drones with tech that has been commonplace for a decade. And that’s completely fine, it’s intentional.
by jjulius | 2025-06-26 11:50:28+00:00
>Sure, it just feels like an incomplete justification to completely prevent a drug from entering the market and being used.

Clicking "FDA" in the bit you quoted above takes you to a different page wherein the FDA laments the lack of data around the drug (eg, the "hypothesized mechanism"). It also suggests that the companies intend to work with the FDA more on this.

Was the vote against approval a move to "completely prevent a drug from entering the market and being used", or was it a desire to better understand it before saying "okay"?