MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-14 19:37:43+00:00
> Doesn’t seem like they use the OS themselves.

Watch any of the MS BUILD or Ignite conference sessions, and take note of how many MS employees are using MacBooks - there's still Windows & Surface there, but I swear it's becoming less and less every year as Microsoft keeps acquihiring, and moved all in on the MS <3 Open Source campaign.

There used to be a huge culture of dogfooding in MS and I don't see it anymore (granted, I'm not an insider - just speaking from public perception). Also see any new open source stuff they put out - very little of it is using their own stack. Good for the community at large, but it speaks volumes to Microsoft's priorities.

Even on the business side - InTune (their MDM) will happily manage macOS, Ubuntu, Android, iOS almost as well as Windows (there' still deficiencies compared to competitors like JamF). Office is on Mac, EntraID doesn't care what OS you use, Defender EDR doesn't care what OS you use, etc.

It's clear that Windows is no longer a priority. Microsoft doesn't care what OS you use as long as you are using Azure, Office, and M365's suite of services. Definitely a better strategy for them to reach more customers, but it does spell the death of Windows long term.
by greatgib | 2025-07-14 19:38:04+00:00
Guys in Android are so disconnected from reality, it's no wonder that Android did not get anything interesting released in years. As an user it is more the opposite, you are kind of hope that no update to your phone will come to crappify it. Unsolicited AI, useless interface rework, battery crippling...

Like seriously they are so self centered in US, they didn't realize that no one in the rest of the world care or want RCS. We want simple texts that will not go through Apple or Google, and for the rest, for our social life, we prefer indépendant cross-os chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, ...
by 9dev | 2025-07-14 19:38:25+00:00
Nothing really bad happens for sure. The term engineer just looses its meaning, becoming a generic way to refer to someone doing… something. I like language that's precise, expressive, and succinct. If someone says they're a baker, I know what they do. If we start to apply that label to anyone working in a bakery, even if they just operate the coffee machine, that holds no longer true, and more explanations are needed, more opportunities for misunderstandings arise, things become less efficient and more error-prone. How can that be desirable?
by linkage | 2025-07-14 19:38:46+00:00
The lead dev, Hector Martin (marcan), stepped down a few months ago after a row with Linus about a few kernel patches. Other high profile devs also left the project shortly thereafter.

Asahi doesn't work on M4-series Macs and it doesn't look like anyone will be able to make it work in the next few months at least.
by programjames | 2025-07-14 19:38:52+00:00
> and fundamentally, we don't want a hierarchy of classes, even if we claim the higher rankings/elites have merited it.

What do you mean by this? What creates a hierarchy of classes? Different social groups? Differing amounts of wealth? Different amounts of power to get stuff done? I think, in the end, it's got to come down to power, but I feel like it's good for society to distribute more power to people able to get better things done.

I agree with you that the term 'merit' now has a connotation of 'you deserve everything you can get'. It feels like a misappropriation of stewardship to take $100m to buy a yacht. If a government official did that, they would go straight to jail, but we somehow justify it under capitalism because maybe the CEO really wanted a yacht, and that's the only reason they started the business (in which case, I'm actually kind of fine with that $100m going to a yacht, as long as they were in the business of creating, not extracting, wealth). I don't think this is really a solvable problem, because to measure who's good at creating wealth, you kind of have to use wealth. Maybe we could have government-assigned stewards over pots of money, but that might have even bigger problems.
by int_19h | 2025-07-14 19:39:16+00:00
NFL stuff is actually a pretty good example of largely pointless law considering that what it does is effectively just make the items in question more expensive by taxing them and artificially limiting supply. If you want to own a machine gun, a grenade launcher, or even a fully functional tank in US, you still can so long as you're rich enough to afford it (unless your state has laws banning it). There are no additional restrictions on who can and cannot own that stuff beyond the requirement to pay the tax.
by breuleux | 2025-07-14 19:40:22+00:00
> A training program that acclimates new members to the system. If terms are say, six years long, then the first year can be entirely devoted to training.

A more organic version of this would be to select at random from people who already served at a lower level. Pick random citizens for city council, then for state you pick from the pool of people who have been city councillors in the past, then for country you pick from people who have already served at the state level. You could, in addition, add past picks to a "veteran pool" to ensure a small percentage of the legislature has been there before and can suffuse their experience.
by mtalantikite | 2025-07-14 19:40:28+00:00
Same. Just looking at my last 8k run from the other day I was in Zone 5 for 22 minutes and Zone 4 for 16. I run very infrequently, but I find it very difficult to just do steady state Zone 2 runs, it feels like going for a walk. I prefer to pick up the tempo and just really focus on my breathing/stride.
by jancsika | 2025-07-14 19:40:35+00:00
> the subtle and not subtle ways it can affect you

In Manufacturing Consent they measured column inches in the NYT-- IIRC it was something like measuring the total that support the relevant U.S. administration's official position on given policy vs. inches that went against the gov't position. In any case, they were measuring column inches.

What were you measuring to come to your conclusion?
by robbomacrae | 2025-07-14 19:40:40+00:00
This is a really interesting setup. If it's not too forward to ask, how is the team structured in terms of incentives? Is Kiro fully within the AMZN comp / RSUs structure, or does it operate more like a spinout with potential for more direct upside? I’m always curious how teams balance the tradeoff between the support of a big org vs having more control over your fate by going fully independent.
by RyukuLogos | 2025-07-14 19:40:47+00:00
Thank you sincerely for your deeply thoughtful and precise critique. To be honest, I did not expect to encounter someone online who could truly grasp this theory at such a profound level. Your identification of the formalism's weakness shows not only intelligence but genuine understanding — I genuinely appreciate your engagement.

I want to begin with a small confession: I am not academically trained. I never received higher education, and I am not familiar with advanced mathematics or formal academic frameworks. I also don't speak English fluently, nor have I read many academic papers.

Three months ago, I encountered AI for the first time. I was astonished by its capabilities, and that curiosity led me to explore how it might work. But something didn’t sit right with me — especially the assumption that cognition must begin with high-dimensional vectors. It felt too abstract, too disjointed from our intuitive experience. So I began a long dialogue with AI itself, day after day. Over time, a hypothesis started to form: perhaps rhythm — not space — is the true foundation of perception.

This idea was inspired, in part, by the notion of "shared fate" — that things moving in sync belong together. In vision, I imagined: if multiple pixels pulse with the same timing, they likely belong to the same object. That was the beginning.

But how could rhythm describe shapes, not just sensory flows like sound or touch? That's when I had an intuition: when you trace a geometric figure, you repeat the same angle rhythmically. This insight became the seed of the concept I now call “closure.”

As for the formalism you critiqued — I now believe it can be clarified. The edges' ratios should be expressed as logarithms, and the angle θ(t) may be understood as a phase, akin to auditory phase. Your observation helped me crystallize this.

Also, I want to apologize for the aggressive or overly dramatic tone of my presentation. In truth, I’ve shared several theories before online, but received little to no feedback. That made me lean toward provocation, just to be heard. For that, I am sorry — and grateful that you looked past the tone to the essence.

Lastly, I sense that you were offering not only critique, but also personal insight — a subtle warning, perhaps, against becoming trapped in a closed self. You may be partly right. But I want to emphasize that I see closure not as isolation, but as a necessary step for meaning to emerge. In my view, the ability to “close” — to recognize a bounded, resonant whole — is what allows us to feel anything is “real” at all.

Thank you again for taking the time to truly engage. It means more to me than I can easily express.

With deep respect, https://zenodo.org/records/15876279
Ask HN: DAO governance beyond crypto treasuries?
by peterkeller | 2025-07-14 19:41:13+00:00
I've been following the DAO space for years. Most of what I see is focused on treasury diversification for crypto projects, NFT communities, or small-scale grant programs. It's interesting, but it feels like we're still in the first inning.

I'm interested in the next layer up: using a DAO as the primary governance structure for a complex, private, multi-generational entity.

Think of the real-world use cases:

A family office managing diverse global assets across multiple jurisdictions.

A private foundation aiming to execute on a founder's mission for centuries, immune to the shifting priorities of future boards.

A sovereign trust for a private group of principals to manage joint ventures and strategic capital allocation.

The legal and regulatory hurdles are obviously immense, and I'm not ignoring them, but I'm more interested in the technical and governance models. How do you structure voting to prevent capture by a single party in a high-stakes environment? How do you handle succession? How do you build a system that is both resilient and adaptable over a 100+ year timeframe?

It feels like the technology is almost there, but the strategic application is lagging.

Has anyone seen serious attempts to model this? White papers, academic research, even well-documented failed projects (post-mortems are often the most valuable)? Curious what the HN community has come across.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 19:41:23+00:00
At the prompt: "I have extensively used Copilot, Continue, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Roo Code, and Claude Code. I do not want to move my files over again for Kiro [even if it's as simple as dragging and dropping files]. Do it for me"

Kiro will do it for you automatically.
by bcrl | 2025-07-14 19:41:27+00:00
I'm not doing CGNAT. We were able to get enough IPv4 addresses directly from ARIN a few years ago after being on the waiting list for a couple of years. It's a pity that widespread fraud depleted that pool faster than it should have been.

CPE support for IPv6 has generally been garbage with it taking 15-20 years before the bare minimum was supported by mainstream router vendors. Even today there are still vendors that assume only IPv4 support. In my opinion the IETF really screwed up when they made IPv6 more complicated than just IPv4 with more address bits. The incumbent in my area generally uses PPPoE in their access network, but routers that supported PPPoE and prefix delegation basically didn't exist in 2010, and only started being available circa 2015 (in part due to the required bits not existing in OpenWRT and the hardware vendors' software development kits for their chipsets). Sure, we're 10 years further on now, but there remain a number of vendors that only support IPv4 for management of devices (cough Ubiquiti cough) in parts of their product line.

That said, there are features of IPv6 that are absolutely awesome for carriers. The next header feature that pretty much eliminates the need for MPLS in an IPv6 transport network is one such item that makes building transport networks so much cleaner when using IPv6 than IPv4. No more header insertion or rewriting, just update one field and fix up the delta on the checksum and CRC. They just aren't really applicable for smaller networks.
by codyb | 2025-07-14 19:41:48+00:00
How would one find out what data brokers knew from their cash purchases?

Do banks sell this information? This bill was pulled from this ATM in Georgia by one Claudius McMoneyhands, and then deposited by one CashMoneyBusiness LLC in South Carolina three weeks later

Seems like there could still be intermediaries and a lack of what you actually bought with it at least?
by grafmax | 2025-07-14 19:41:53+00:00
With a wave of a billionaire’s hand, officials are elected, the constitution undone, a dictator installed, a new political party formed. This political structure is oligarchy not democracy.

Due process, on the other hand, is a fundamental right of democratic systems. Yet this feature too is being curtailed - in favor of concentrations camps.

Billionaires have made scapegoats out of a racial minority. Basic humans rights are violated. Our democracy is in shambles thanks to this group - through their subversion of democratic processes and the undermining of democratic rights. What we are witnessing is not democracy - quite the opposite.
by tuveson | 2025-07-14 19:41:54+00:00
How much of an improvement does SIMD offer for something like this? It looks like it's only being used for strings and comments, but I would kind of assume that for most programming languages, the proportion of code that is long strings / comments is not large. Also curious if there's any performance penalty for trying to do SIMD if most of the comments and strings are short.
by kube-system | 2025-07-14 19:41:57+00:00
Those aren't mutually exclusive things. Even if 99.9% of Comcast customers are pretty good with technology, and only 1 in 1000 customers are illiterate enough that they have trouble selecting the correct input on their TV... with 32 million customers, that means you might get tens of thousands of calls about it.

But really, internet (and digital TV) services are pervasive enough that they are no longer just for technologically inclined and resourceful people. All aspects of society are now using the internet, even the homeless, impoverished, disabled, and institutionalized.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-14 19:41:59+00:00
Having used SOAP and GraphQL, I really disagree with this characterization.

The problem I have seen at most organizations is they simply want their APIs to reflect their database schema, even if its not a good or useful idea. They throw junk over the wall.

They carry this practice over from REST to GraphQL and of course its horrible, its not a good way to use the technology.

Now organizations that understand GraphQL allows you to create a data schema unbound by its sources, they leverage GraphQL quite well, and its very pleasant to use. Unfortunately not enough organizations do this, or do this well.

SOAP was and is still simply a bad protocol and had tons of issues ranging from security to payload size to parsing issues between different clients
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-14 19:42:18+00:00
Far from it. On one occasion, when the DA in question went after a notorious fence (buyer for stolen goods), he had to rent a u-haul truck because the SFPD would not supply a vehicle to transport the arrestee.

https://missionlocal.org/2022/05/the-case-for-recalling-da-c...

You have to look past the hype. Media on a national scale ran a character assassination program against that DA for trying to rebalance his organization's efforts against the organizers of crime instead of individual delinquents.
by jasim | 2025-07-14 19:42:47+00:00
Parquet files include a field called key_value_metadata in the FileMetadata structure; it sits in the footer of the file. See: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/mai...

The technique described in the article, seems to use this key-value pair to store pointers to the additional metadata (in this case a distinct index) embedded in the file. Note that we can embed arbitrary binary data in the Parquet file between each data page. This is perfectly valid since all Parquet readers rely on the exact offsets to the data pages specified in the footer.

This means that DataFusion does not need to specify how the metadata is interpreted. It is already well specified as part of the Parquet file format itself. DataFusion is an independent project -- it is a query execution engine for OLAP / columnar data, which can take in SQL statements, build query plan, optimize them, and execute. It is an embeddable runtime with numerous ways to extend it by the host program. Parquet is a file format supported by DataFusion because it is one of the most popular ways of storing data in a columnar way in object storages like S3.

Note that the readers of Parquet need to be aware of any metadata to exploit it. But if not, nothing changes - as long as we're embedding only supplementary information like indices or bloom filters, a reader can still continue working with the columnar data in Parquet as it used to; it is just that it won't be able to take advantage of the additional metadata.
by genghisjahn | 2025-07-14 19:43:07+00:00
I don't think this is as accurate as you are making out. Wawa (a connivence store in the Philly area) isn't tracking each $10 that goes in and out of the register. It could float all over the city before hitting a bank, and even then banks typically track serial numbers for large demonizations and we when there's a suspicion of illegal activity. Happy to learn more about this if I have it wrong.
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-14 19:43:16+00:00
> I think if behavior needs to be regulated by government in order to be moral, then it's immoral behavior by default

Regulation is creating rules for businesses to run within. This goes back to rule of law. You can't tell a group of children to "behave" and walk away and expect good results and then call the children "bad" when they fail to behave.

Rather, you must give them systems to understand, to channel their energy, productively, in a way that matches the desires of the parent (government) and their strategies. Then you have to meaningfully punish those who intentionally break the rules in order to give those behaving the knowledge that they have chosen the good path and they'll be rewarded for it.

Free markets are not about "morality"/"immortality", its about harnessing an existing energy to make a self-sustaining system. A system a state is less good/interested at keeping going or unable to act quickly enough to move in. But part of creating that system is putting in guard rails to prevent the worst sort of crashes.
by tpmoney | 2025-07-14 19:43:22+00:00
That whole paragraph also seems completely unrelated to the issue as well. It doesn’t sound like water supply is the issue so much as sediment in the water breaking pumps and clogging the infrastructure.

I guess the theory here is that the amount of water being cycled is stirring up sediment somehow? But if that’s the theory they don’t really say that or talk to anyone who says why or how that’s happening. Is the consumed water being returned to the aquifer somehow and churning up sediment with a lot of added turbulence? Is the volume being consumed creating some sort of suction effect that’s pulling sediment up? Was this project one of the ones that required “dewatering” as described in the article? Is the theory that is the thing that caused the problem and if so, does that mean the approving process for that needs an overhaul?

Not to say there aren’t issues to be addressed here, but the big “gallons of water” number seems to be tossed around a lot in these discussions with no quantification about what that actually means. The solution to the problem is different if that means gallons of water being pulled from the ecosystem entirely , or if it means gallons of water being heated and having effects on the ecosystem, or it means gallons of water burning through processing and treatment plant resources faster.
by thewebguyd | 2025-07-14 19:43:40+00:00
It's expanding beyond the valley, at least I can only speak for the PNW which is admittedly still a minor tech hub but not the level of the Bay Area. My own company I work for included (a change driven by myself) has switched almost everyone to macOS, as have many of our peers and competitors (non tech companies).

I'm also starting to see a lot of Macs pop up in smaller private practices - most dentist offices around here are on Macs, a few dealerships have moved over, etc.

Windows is still the majority by far, but its marketshare is slowly being eroded away. It'll be a while before F500 enterprises move over, if at all, but small-medium businesses are definitely growing their macOS usage.
Show HN: Pentra Desktop – Local pentesting tool for automated report generation
by bmunteanu | 2025-07-14 19:44:11+00:00
We built Pentra Desktop because existing pentesting tools are bloated and messy.

What it does: - Complete local deployment - no cloud dependencies, no data transmission

- Real-time logging of CLI commands and Burp Suite network requests; no more terminal screenshots for evidence collection

- AI-assisted vulnerability documentation with structured outputs

- Custom Word template system for client-specific report formatting

Why local matters: On-premise solutions are essential for security professionals handling sensitive client data. Cloud-based alternatives introduce unnecessary compliance risks that most teams can't afford.

Technical approach:

Desktop application that captures CLI outputs and Burp plugin which registers network requests and responses from the proxy, then structures findings into proper vulnerability reports: title, description, proof of concept, remediation steps, and CVSS scoring. The templating engine supports custom Word documents with placeholders - design your reports in Word, automate them in Pentra.

Current features:

- Cross-platform (Windows/Mac/Linux)

- Burp Suite integration for HTTP request capture

- Customizable vulnerability templates

We're actively incorporating feedback from penetration testing teams to refine the workflow integration before our July 21st release.

— Alex, Remus, Bogdan
by czhu12 | 2025-07-14 19:44:31+00:00
I'm not sure how to think about this. It doesn't make sense to me that the only alternative is one in which traffic laws get brazenly ignored, and shoplifting and property crime is endemic, to prevent any more data gathering by law enforcement.

At some point it seems like we have to trust that governments can act responsibly, in the interest of voters -- in this case local voters, or we should all just pack it in.

The other thought: I get the thought that people will always care more about local concerns of car break ins, shoplifting, and quality of life than larger ideas like privacy and law enforcement abuse. It seems to convince people to care about the larger issues, the local things have to be solved, and not just ignored.

I've lived in San Francisco for over 10 years now, and it's been disappointing to see the lack on progress on basic quality of life issues.