MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cpburns2009 | 2025-07-18 13:14:40+00:00
I've been running Manjaro (Arch derivative) on my System76 Galago Pro (galp5) for 3 years and it runs great. It's 14", light weight, quiet, and has a decent battery. You won't beat Mac's battery life, and if it's Mac's software that you want, Linux cannot provide that. I prefer the Linux ecosystem personally, and cannot stand Mac's interface and window management.
by zerolayers | 2025-07-18 13:14:50+00:00
The authenticity apocalypse is here: AI agents shape-shift between human and machine identities, deepfakes surge 3,000%, and digital identity becomes quantum uncertain. From birth-to-blockchain biometrics to post-quantum cryptography, we're witnessing the collapse of knowing who's real. When machines outnumber humans 17:1, authentic identity becomes irrelevant.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-18 13:15:06+00:00
The issue with relying on placebo effects is not that they aren't real/don't work (everything you said also applies to e.g. a painkiller), but that they are very context-sensitive. Deploy that drug to an individual or population with a different belief framework or contextual information about the therapy or their condition, and you won't get the desired results.

The design you mention is really interesting! Have you seen this done anywhere?
by veidr | 2025-07-18 13:15:13+00:00
I forget, and I was on my phone (and am still whooooooooo Friday niiiight!!!) but there are definitely at least two more in some stage of development (but we'll see if they actually ship to a prod-ready 1.0). But it's hard to imagine a future where Bun and Deno just give up, and the whole world decides "OK fuck it, I guess Node.js is the end of the line!" (Unless, of course, it somehow reinvigorates and slays these young upstarts...)
by immibis | 2025-07-18 13:16:40+00:00
SGX on the server is breakable if and only if SGX on the client is breakable. You can either own other people's computers, or you can prevent other people owning your computer. You can't eat your cake and have it.

Yes, it might be good for ass-covering as you indicate. A lot of ineffective technical solutions are effective legal liability shields anyway. But if this becomes mainstream, the NSA will develop something they can covertly (or not) install on any such server to break SGX, so make sure you have a backup plan anyway.

Also note that Intel removed SGX from their processors because it was breakable and underused.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-18 13:16:49+00:00
Anecdotally, I know several people who have tried mushrooms and/or ayahuasca for depression in recent years and their results are nothing like the glowing Internet reports.

The worst case is a friend who became disconnected from reality for a very long time. Went from atheistic to believing in mystical ideas. He thought he was able to see and sense things that we could not, like auras and secret messages. He was getting better last time we checked but he’s hard to get in contact with now. No prior hints of psychosis or family history, just a psychedelic induced mental illness.

The other anecdotes were not as dramatic, but also not as positive or free of side effects as studies like this one would make you think. Multiple stories of extended periods of derealization or anxiety attacks that started after the trip. There are similar comments here throughout this comment section.

There was a time when sharing these negative stories was met with disbelief and downvotes. I think as it’s becoming more common people are realizing that the interaction between psychedelics and depression isn’t as great as it seemed for a few years when they were virtually being promoted by podcasters and social media influencers as a novel cure for depression.
by goodspc | 2025-07-18 13:17:05+00:00
This chaos actually proves superintelligent AI hasn't achieved monopoly yet - it's still in rapid development phase.

True AI monopoly would be seamless and undetectable. If AI had real dominance, we wouldn't even notice identity deception - it would perfectly manage information flow.

The visible "authenticity crisis" (deepfakes surging, identity uncertainty) shows AI systems are still competing, not coordinating. This looks more like a messy transition period than ultimate control.

The 17:1 machine-to-human ratio creating identity chaos suggests we're in the storm before the calm, not the final state.
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-18 13:17:49+00:00
Technically not quite, because even in the EU, you don't have to provide the audit log for someone's data specifically and you as a subject have to make specific requests to delete or retreive your data, it's not make transparent to you as a default position. But yes, you can't just dump it out anywhere you want.

How it should be is that personal data's current and historical disposition is always available to the person in question.

If that's a problem for the company processing the data (other than being fiddly to implement at first), that sounds like the company is up to some shady shit that they want to keep quiet about.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear should apply here, and companies should be fucking terrified with an existential dread of screwing up their data handling and looking for ways to always avoid handing PII at all costs. The analogy of PII being like radioactive material is a good one. You need excellent processes, excellent reasons to be doing it in the first place, you must show you can do it safely, securely and if you fuck up, you'd better hope your process documentation is top tier or you'll be in the dock. Or, better, you can decide that actually you can make do by handling the nuclear material only in some safer form like encapsulated vitrified blocks at least for most of your processes.

The data processing industry has repeatedly demonstrated they they cannot be trusted and so they should reap the whirlwind.
by kaaaate | 2025-07-18 13:17:56+00:00
As a self-taught software developer, yeah, it's kinda true. I've encountered developers that are older than me, have more experience as me, has multiple degrees, yet they're dumb as bricks when it comes to anything remotely related to problem solving (or not using genai to do all the work for them, which I think is absolutely disgusting).

I learnt everything I know about programming from buggering around, and just making cool stuff. Then you'll get annoyed how past-you wrote it, and then you'll rewrite it and you'll learn how to make better code & better projects. Most engineers/devs I know that was taught at a university or college can't really do that, and most I know take ages to make anything that can be used (or even shown off as a demo to your boss). Some of this could also just be that there's usually a higher chance for self-taught engineers/devs to be neurodivergent of some sort (adhd/autism), because I am myself and I know that my different perspective does give people a breath of fresh air when working on projects.
by WASDAai | 2025-07-18 13:18:12+00:00
tl;dr: The article explains that 2025 marks a pivotal leap from passive chatbots to *agentic AI*—autonomous digital coworkers that anticipate needs, coordinate multi‑agent “swarms,” and are poised to permeate 75 % of enterprises within a year—while four allied trends amplify the shift: (1) multimodal AI fusing text, vision, audio and video for richer, voice‑search‑ready experiences; (2) reasoning‑centric and small language models that think step‑by‑step, run on phones, and slash costs without billion‑parameter bloat; (3) intensified focus on ethical, transparent and green AI, with new EU rules, copyright fights, pro‑human labor safeguards and nuclear‑powered data‑center plans; and (4) an open‑source and Web3 wave that releases models like Grok‑1 and Kimi K2, experiments with blockchain data royalties, and democratizes cutting‑edge capabilities worldwide—altogether urging businesses and individuals to master these tools, embed responsible design, and seize the productivity and creative dividends of an AI‑first economy. ([Medium][1], [Medium][1])

[1]: https://lightcapai.medium.com/the-explosive-rise-of-agentic-... "The Explosive Rise of Agentic AI in 2025: Trends That Will Redefine Your World | by Faruk Alpay | Jul, 2025 | Medium"
by trelane | 2025-07-18 13:18:40+00:00
If Linux users had "stepped up to the plate" and demanded their own separate PKI, nothing would be different, except that every system that shipped with Windows would be locked to Windows. Dual booting would not be a thing.

I mean, your statement is self contradictory. Linux users demanded no signing etc. So, had the industry listened to Linux users, there would be no signing. We do not live in that universe.

There are some vendors that don't have secureboot. They are e.g. System76. You can enable your own SecureBoot if you want[1], though some things may not work, like checking GPU firmware signatures, because they are signed by Microsoft only (there are other issues, depending on how deeply Microsoft is assumed in your system, see e.g "On some devices, removing either of these keys could disable all video output.")

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Secure_Boot
by staticman2 | 2025-07-18 13:18:40+00:00
>The false belief that there were fewer female aspies was pervasive, for example, and that was troublesome for many girls.

I'm gonna push back on this. There isn't an objective way to diagnose someone with autism like there is with, say, a vitamin B deficiency.

What we do know is the medical community continues to diagnose boys with this condition at a much higher rate than girls.

This would not appear to imply a "false" belief.
by aziaziazi | 2025-07-18 13:18:49+00:00
I don't want to enter a battle of reference, but let's agree it's not so "clear":

> The oldest evidence of the production of soy milk is a Chinese mural carved into a stone tablet. It shows a kitchen scene, proving that soya milk and tofu were produced in China in the period 25-220 AD.

https://www.soya.be/history-of-soy-milk.php

> it first appeared in A.D. 82

https://www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/soymilk1.php

Soy milk is a byproduct of tofu, which is not fundamentally more difficult to produce than cheese and others animal milks products. It can even be made without tofu: grind some seed and let them soak in water. I'm not an expert on ancient technologies but it doesn't seem more complicated than taming a squeezing the nipples of a wild animal.
by 44520297 | 2025-07-18 13:19:29+00:00
From reading your comments, it appears you value physical activity over sedentary activity and disagree with the disease model of addiction because of your own experience and belief system. Frankly, individualized belief systems that don’t exhibit generalizable or interrogatable attributes aren’t very interesting. You’re absolutely free to put up walls around your beliefs and experiences and tell us to keep out, but don’t be surprised when the intellectually curious start knocking on other doors.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-18 13:21:06+00:00
This happens in every depression study: Placebo effect is extremely strong for depression.

You can even collect depressed people, do nothing at all, and when you survey them 6 months later the average scores will improve. This is because depression is, on average, an aberrant condition and the average patient will tend to revert toward the mean.

However, psychedelic studies have a bigger problem: Psychedelics trigger false feelings of amazement and wonder, feeling like something magical has happened. This is like turbo placebo when you tell people that it’s a depression treatment. Maybe that’s a valuable therapeutic effect, or maybe not. There’s a lot to explore, but from all the studies I’ve read I’m not as bullish on mushrooms for depression as the headlines would indicate.
by jtrn | 2025-07-18 13:21:15+00:00
In therapy, I love the thought experiment of "What could he have said instead?" and WHY did he choose THIS exact phrasing, out of the millions of approaches he could have chosen?

Say that he is concerned about the time required for the project and only wants to safeguard the project. The post could convey the exact same message like this:

--- Alternative fictional answer by maintainer--- Confirming that code folding is a planned feature. It's a high-impact addition, but the implementation is non-trivial and requires careful design. The primary blocker is technical: our current buffer and positioning logic (see src/core/text_object.rs). A correct implementation requires a significant refactor of how we map logical buffer lines to visual screen positions.

Because core dev time is focused on xxx, a community-led effort is the most realistic path forward for this feature. I can provide review and guidance, but won't have the bandwidth to drive the implementation myself in the near term. If anybody want to contribute, Analyze the groundwork in PR #6417.

I'm keeping this issue open for high-level implementation strategies. Please take detailed design proposals to a new thread in Discussions to keep this focused. Off-topic comments will be removed. --- end of fictional answer ---

Basically, it all comes down to the vibe each response gives off. The real post is a classic "Do Not Enter" sign. The maintainer acts like the only one with the keys, essentially saying, "This is too hard for you, so don't even bother." It shuts the door on anyone who might want to help, which means the project is stuck waiting for that one person to have free time.

My rewritten version is more like leaving the door open for other smart people. The attitude is, "Look, this is a tricky problem and I'm swamped. If you're up for a real challenge, here’s the map to get started." It respects other developers' skills and invites them to be part of the solution.

I think the key to a great open-source project is that you have to actively build a team you can trust. You do that by giving people a real chance to contribute, learn the hard stuff, and eventually share the load. That's the only way a project grows beyond a one-person show and actually sticks around for the long haul.
by ninkendo | 2025-07-18 13:21:39+00:00
I wonder how it performs against an NFS server with lots of files, especially one over a kinda-crappy connection. Putting an unreliable network service behind blocking POSIX syscalls is one of the main reasons NFS is a terrible design choice (as can be seen by anyone who's tried to ctrl+c any app that's reading from a broken NFS folder), but I wonder if io_uring mitigates the bad parts somewhat.
by lostlogin | 2025-07-18 13:21:46+00:00
One of the criticisms of Yandex is that it sanitises its results to align with Kremlin wishes. If accurate, how does that help you?

For what it’s worth, I went to Yandex and tried searching Bucha, Navalny and a few other topics and the results seemed inline with Google, so I’m wondering about the accuracy of that claim (or is it a geographic thing?).
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-07-18 13:22:15+00:00
I've stopped trying to fight to install things on Linux. Anything with kernel level anticheat it seems is torment. They okay Fortnite, and quite a bit of Marvel Rivals (which initially worked, then stopped, I see reports suggesting it's working again but I don't have time to be full-time support to keep things running smoothly).

We do use Kubuntu for games that run in it without drama - Risk of Rain, Roblox (via Sober), browser games, CS2.

They also are expected to use Microsoft Office for school (UK), it's possible to work that online, but the experience is worse, slower, more prone to issues it seems.

Fwiw, I've been a Linux distro user for decades and was Linux only until the first child got to highschool. Microsoft's "educational" policy works for them!
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-07-18 13:24:10+00:00
Really interesting, the difference is real though I would just hope that some better coloring support could be added because I have "eza --icons=always -1" command set as my ls and it looks really good, whereas when I use lsr -1, yes the fundamental thing is same, the difference is in the coloring.

Yes lsr also colors the output but it doesn't know as many things as eza does

For example .opus will show up as a music icon and with the right color (green-ish in my case?) in eza whereas it would be shown up as any normal file in lsr.

Really no regrets though, its quite easy to patch I think but yes this is rock solid and really fast I must admit.

Can you please create more such things but for cat and other system utilities too please?

Also love that its using tangled.sh which is using atproto, kinda interesting too.

I also like that its written in zig which imo feels way more easier for me to touch as a novice than rust (sry rustaceans)
by lsaferite | 2025-07-18 13:24:19+00:00
Do you clean your USB-C ports? I used to get frustrated thinking the port was worn as cables would come out easily. I used a plastic dental pick to clean the port and it felt brand new afterward. Lint and fine debris gets in the port and then a cable insertion compacts that debris/lint. Over time this compaction layer builds up and cables no longer have enough depth to properly lock onto the port. It was shocking how much debris was compacted into the port.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-18 13:24:19+00:00
I work at a medium company that is in a comparable sector implementing comparatively performant and externally constrained things pretty much wholly in C and pretty much wholly with our own dependencies with external dependencies being mostly located in ops, testing/qa and other stuff not in the critical path of what the people who pay us want the products to do. For us it's not about "built here" it's about control and uniformity. The company is a decade old and very profitable for its headcount though not subject to wild delusions about future hockey sticks because of what we build and for who.

So the approach clearly can work. It won't kill you. But it's also unclear the degree to which this approach contributed to vs detracted from our success since it's not like there's a control company that did it the other way you can compare to. It takes constant effort to do things this way, but so does managing dependencies. While unilateral control, and the responsibility for that, that comes with writing your own dependencies is a key aspect of how we do what we do with the headcount we do it's not like it's part of our marketing. It's just a decision that was made that we're sticking to because it seems to work for us. It's not some silver bullet, it takes effort to do well, like anything else done well.

I have worked at huge companies where they were biased toward using existing stuff where it existed and tweaking it just the bare minimum needed and that worked very well for them too and definitely had its pros too.
by madcaptenor | 2025-07-18 13:24:31+00:00
It is rare in most states, I believe. It is very common in South Carolina (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_South_Caro...), which has counties named things like "Greenville" and "Spartanburg" after their largest cities - it feels to me like those should be "Green" and "Spartan". And then there are states like Georgia where there are counties, and cities with the same name that are in different counties, because the county-namers and the city-namers were pulling their names from the same pool of well-known people but weren't talking to each other.

Also, in California: San Luis Obispo, Riverside, Sacramento, Fresno, Santa Barbara.
by bigfishrunning | 2025-07-18 13:25:14+00:00
> I've been building and promoting digital signatures for years.

I agree with this wholeheartedly, and yet I do get the following question a lot "What's all that nonsense at the end of your emails". Any explanation is met with eye-rolls and 1000 yard stares. Have you managed to get laypeople on-board with any kind of client-side cryptography? how?
by alephnerd | 2025-07-18 13:25:44+00:00
VFX studios don't have a sufficient monopoly of talent - it's overwhelmingly piecework outsourced to multiple studios, and most jurisdictions give MASSIVE tax subsidises for VFX production (40-70% of total production cost).

The issue for a lot of productions is the budget per episode is low. For example, the show mentioned in the article has a budget of $15M to produce 6 episodes that heavily rely on shooting on location, significant set design, VFX, somewhat high profile actors, and a significant reduction in tax incentives by the Millei government at a moment when countries like Vietnam, India, Philippines, Colombia, and China are creating a second VFX production subsidy war.

Choosing to use GenAI to automate the creation of secondary scenes can become fairly cheap and is the lowest hanging fruit.
by OisinMoran | 2025-07-18 13:27:24+00:00
I think Sasha Chapin's perfume reviews were my gateway into this wonderful world! I got Ganymede from his recommendation (think it was a tweet saying his last two taxi drivers asked him what he was wearing), and I'm not sure I've received more compliments for anything in my life. He's got good taste!

https://airtable.com/appwvvqqF1fxLQKSy/shrmlkXEHooxFCB8i/tbl...
by ryukoposting | 2025-07-18 13:27:42+00:00
I think the closest thing you'll get to an origin story is this: https://100r.co/site/why_a_boat.html

I'll defer to Occam's Razor: they probably had enough money at the outset that they don't have to worry about consistent month-to-month income.

That's not meant to be a diss. Though, given their politics, I could understand if they took it that way.
by chuckadams | 2025-07-18 13:28:15+00:00
I think a lot of the negative reception to negative anecdotes were because they were often in the context of legalization. "I know someone who went crazy after trying $foo so we should still lock people into iron cages just for the crime of possessing it." Debate tends to get polarized when doors are being kicked down. Academic studies that are disconnected from culture wars don't tend to provoke such responses, probably because they don't tend to reach the general public in the first place.
by MaxikCZ | 2025-07-18 13:28:15+00:00
"Basically the same keyboard" but the Mac one has light comming only trough letters on keycaps, while my HP zbook is leaking more light around them, even worse when viewed from an angle.

Speedy failures of several tousand units when they are selling millions. + having it repaired is not a dreadful experience as with other PC makers (have horrendous experiences with HP, Asus and LG).

Multiscore? Sure, the laptop that sounds overshadows my robot vacuum can do slightly more work in a short timespan, id rather not have to deal with uncomnfortable temperatures when its just sitting on a desktop, doing who knows what (probably not indexing my files, as the search function just have no idea the file I opened 20x in the last 2 weeks exists). Which bring us to software: is it more closed and do I hate it for it? Sure. Is it worse overall? Not a chance.

Repairability is "bring it to an applestore and possibly come out with a new device right away, or wait a week. Miles ahead than any other brand. Sure, you can change the battery yourself, but you either get shafted for oem battery, or wonder why that cheap battery from shady shop runs just as bad as your old one. What good is repairing 5 year old HP thats breaking apart, overheating at idle, with screen burning out, hinges having a play, with speakers of a joke quality, with so many bad memories, when you can have non-repaired 10 year old macbook and it still feel like new.

For work I have windows machine because I need to use windows apps, but at home I am m1 macbook air (costing less than 1/4 of my zbook workstation), and apart from raw power its better in every. single. way.