MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ExoticPearTree | 2025-07-22 14:07:03+00:00
> National Assembly Speaker Yael Braun-Pivet on Sunday ruled out abandoning the legislation, named after the conservative lawmaker who proposed it, as it would "save a certain number of our farmers".

Sometimes I have questions about the narrow-minded views of politicians. Sure, it helps 10 farmers but harms 100. Nobody seems to keep in mind the fact that if we kill the bees they're gonna take us with them.

Feels like that episode from Yellowstone:

John Dutton: And what effect you think 7000 acres of solar panels are going to have on their environment?

Stanley: There's no evidence that solar panels would have any impact on the sage grouse

John Dutton: What do they do with the sagebrush when they put in the solar panels?

Stanley: They, they, they would clear it before putting in the solar panels.

John Dutton: And remove the sagebrush?

Stanley: Yes sir.

John Dutton: Sage Grouse live in the sagebrush.

Stanley: They do.

John Dutton: And you don't think removing the sagebrush is gonna have an effect on the population?

Stanley: I just said there's no evidence...

John Dutton: You know what scares me about you, Stanley? You're serious.
by ahmetcadirci25 | 2025-07-22 14:07:06+00:00
I don't care about cookies at all — what matters to me is being able to log into multiple, separate accounts. Creating browser profiles feels like starting everything from scratch: settings, extensions, and more. It's just not practical.

With Firefox, you set your preferences and extensions once, and from then on, tab-based profiles work flawlessly.

I wish Chrome had a similar feature — a container system at the tab level.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-22 14:07:22+00:00
This wasn’t a real company. The production database didn’t have real customers. The person doing the vibe coding had no illusions that they were creating a production-ready app.

This was an experiment by Jason Lemkin to test the reality of vibe coding: As a non-technical person he wanted to see how much he could accomplish and where it went wrong.

So all of the angry comments about someone vibe-coding to drop the production DB can relax. Demonstrating these kind of risks was the point. No customers were harmed in this experiment.
by throwaw12 | 2025-07-22 14:07:25+00:00
it is unfortunate that this case happened, but didn't everyone know by now that LLMs make mistake and you should be prepared for it?

We have seen MechaHitler already, why do we expect perfect from Replit when underlying tech is still same? Sure, they should have some guardrails, but it is also a responsibility of developer who knew LLMs hallucinate, LLMs are not reliable sometimes, on top of it Replit was growing fast so they definitely didn't implement some features yet.
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-22 14:07:33+00:00
Okay - at this point I have nothing more to say. You think I'm misrepresenting Quanta's audience, and I think you're being needlessly pedantic. Doesn't seem like we're going to resolve this short of you "showing me the victim", so to speak. It didn't mislead me, it didn't mislead my partner, and it doesn't seem to have mislead you either. So who are these "laypeople" who are injecting all this hidden meaning into the article?

Anyway, I don't think it's reasonable for me to ask you for evidence here, so let's just agree to disagree.
by lastcat743 | 2025-07-22 14:08:29+00:00
> unlikely be more than momentarily disoriented:

for “you” it would nearly seem not to work (though so skilled your other you would be your remote piloted view.)

For the other you it would be exactly you having transitioned through the exit side. That too can fully thought interact with your own double, if you could balance your mind on a pin like a seal in a circus with a ball you might just could do it. Just keep it there, in your mind, forever. Or it will be gone after your next nap.
by bashkiddie | 2025-07-22 14:08:30+00:00
I am a heavy user of firefox and I am still unhappy with mozillas policy.

* Firefox-Hello is a easy to pick example of a broken service run by a 3rd party being imposed on users.

* Pocket is another service I never asked for.

* Instead of focusing on the browser, mozilla puts their effort into an English language database.

It appears to me mozilla does not understand their target audience.

Recently I tried to customize firefox for screen recording and ran into lots of outdated documentation about userChrome.css
by troupo | 2025-07-22 14:09:11+00:00
> Profitability is easy with current standards. Get the users. Make them dependent. Increase the price. Make AI mandatory. List goes on.

"Easy". "Just" get more users and "just" increase prices to somehow cover hundreds of billions of invested dollars and hundreds of millions of running costs.

It's that easy. I'm surprised none of the companies mentioned in the article thought of that.
by mig4ng | 2025-07-22 14:09:27+00:00
Shameless self-plug related to this, my uBlock Origin Filters [1].

I want to add to this by saying I've been mainly using Firefox for more than a decade now, and I highly prefer it to Chrome, except for the Lighthouse feature to test page speed, accessibility and such.

And as the post says, it now allows for vertical tabs (without extensions) and you can even put vertical tabs on the right side. Or collapse it when you want to focus on what you are reading. Perfection.

The uBlock extra filters I use to avoid going down on doom scrolling feeds.

[1] - https://github.com/mig4ng/ublock-origin-filters
by Chloebaker | 2025-07-22 14:09:32+00:00
Good that someone is writing about Chat gpt induced psycosis, bc the way it interacts with people’s minds there’s a kind of mass delusion forming that nobody seems to be talking about. Because AI like ChatGPT function as remarkably agreeable reflections, consistently flattering our egos and romanticizing our ideas. They make our thoughts feel profound and significant, as though we're perpetually on the verge of rare insight. But the concerning part of this is how rather than providing the clarity of true reflection, they often create a distorted mirror that merely conforms to our expectations
by dylan604 | 2025-07-22 14:10:03+00:00
That's by design of the military industrial complex that we were distinctly clearly warned against. Also, it's very hard to convey not being peacetime when all of the fighting is thousands of miles away across various oceans where the US citizens are not affected by it. By all accounts of the US citizens, it's been very peaceful. We haven't even had to ration food, metals, or any other type of sacrificial gestures. We've had tax break after tax break, so the citizens haven't even had to make financial sacrifices to pay for the fighting. There's been no media blitz to "support the war effort" by buying war bonds. So by all means, it has been quite peaceful for the citizens. Sure, some soldiers are getting killed like soldiers are prone to do, and that affects some of the US citizens, but that's still a very small percentage. A larger percentage are affected by drunk drivers, distracted drivers, or other auto accidents.
by pavlov | 2025-07-22 14:10:10+00:00
This article completely misses the early heyday of MIPS, the ACE consortium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment

In 1991, Microsoft, Compaq, DEC and other vendors joined forces to develop a standard that would succeed the IBM PC compatible platform. MIPS was selected as the high-end CPU.

The ACE companies were a major part of the Windows PC market, almost an “everyone but IBM” crowd. MIPS was the original development architecture for Windows NT, so presumably it had fans in high places at Microsoft.

MIPS had a lot of shots at the goal over the decades (workstation, consoles, embedded) but somehow missed them all.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-22 14:10:10+00:00
> The fact that an AI coding assistant could "delete our production database without permission" suggests there were no meaningful guardrails, access controls, or approval workflows in place. That's not an AI problem - that's just staggering negligence and incompetence.

I mean... it's a bit of both. Yes, random user should not be able to delete your production database. However, there always needs to be a balance between guard rails and the ability to get anything done. Ultimately, _somebody_ has to be able to delete the production database. If you're saying "LLM agents are safe provided you don't give them permission to do anything at all", well, okay, but that rather limits the utility, surely? Also, "no permission to do anything at all" is tricky.
by vegadw | 2025-07-22 14:10:29+00:00
The intro is well written and captivating, but is an intro. Unfortunately, it leaves me less wanting to read and experience the meat of the book and more curious what that meat even is. With a target audience that doesn't know how to code already, where is it going? That's not generally a mystery I want in this kind of book. If I'm going to have something bubble up high enough on my to-read pile I'll ever get to it, I need to have some prior idea of whats in it.
by jodrellblank | 2025-07-22 14:10:54+00:00
> "a solution which the business side tends to finds unreasonable"

Isn't it odd that "unreasonable" solutions keep being suggested in threads started by people who first push Linux, and second ask what the thing even does anyway.

> "Thus the tender balance between business needs and business risk emerges as the deciding principle."

There is no tender balance and this is nothing like the deciding principle, and again it's illustrative that in a world where big organizations turn to poor quality software with poor UX for reasons like "nobody got fired for buying IBM" and "I look good on the Gartner report" and "the vendor will bend over backwards to make our auditors and legal team approve it" that Linux people go for the only thing they have going and try to suggest it's the most important thing, even though it's demonstrably an afterthought or a never-thought.

> "you are statistically likely to see the same rate of incidents, at whatever cost that comes to the business, indefinitely."

And you see this happening for literally 30 years and the "whatever cost" being written off as a business expense that has never changed anything, but you still call it "the deciding principle" when the evidence shows that the decision makers barel consider this at all?
by yungporko | 2025-07-22 14:11:15+00:00
particularly snoopy culture, yes, stemming from GCHQ, no idea. our government has always felt entitled to breach our privacy and we are equal parts spineless and stupid. average take on this is either "why would you care unless you have something to hide" or "that's a shame, but there's nothing we can do about anything ever."

regrettably the latter one may be correct but it'd be nice to see at least some pushback every time this happens.
by ghusto | 2025-07-22 14:12:37+00:00
> The bigger question is how can we have a body that can both protect consumers from bad businesses AND can also be itself protected from the purchased political influence of those bad businesses

I don't have an answer, but one could be found by looking at places that have just that. In the UK we have the Citizens Advice bureau and the Trading Standards organisation which are safely independent.

Though I have a feeling the answer may be; "Don't live in the USA".
by nchmy | 2025-07-22 14:13:21+00:00
But how is that a relevant comment for this post about jj? People are talking about one thing and you're saying "I either can't use it at all, or am just happy with something else already". There was no discussion of the merits or shortcomings of jj...

All I was saying is that if a client requires you to use git, you could use jj without them knowing/caring - unless your entire workstation is under tight control, in which case, again, it's not relevant to the discussion
by TuxSH | 2025-07-22 14:13:34+00:00
These options can easily be found by a Google Search or via LLM, whichever one prefers

> they can be counter-productive

Rarely[1]. The only side effect this can have is the constant pools (for ldr rX, [pc, #off] kind of stuff) not being merged, but the negative impact is absolutely minimal (different functions usually use different constants after all!)

([1] assuming elf file format or elf+objcopy output)

There are many other upsides too: you can combine these options with -Wl,-wrap to e.g. prune exception symbols from already-compiled libraries and make the resulting binaries even smaller (depending on platform)

The question is, why are function-sections and data-sections not the default?

It is quite annoying to have to deal with static libs (including standard libraries themselves) that were compiled with neither these flags nor LTO.
by codedokode | 2025-07-22 14:13:39+00:00
There could be a moral question. For example a researcher might not want to download a pirated paper and cause loss to a fellow researcher. But it becomes pretty stupid to pay when everyone, including large reputable companies endorsed by the government, is just downloading the content for free. Maybe his research will help developing faster chips to win against China, why should he pay?

Would it be a "fair use" to download pirated papers for research instead of buying?

Also I was gradually migrating from obtaining software from questionable sources to open source software, thinking that this is going out of trend and nobody torrents apps anymore, but it seems I was wrong?

Or another example: if someone wants to make contributions to Wine but needs a Windows for developing the patch, what would be the right choice, buy it or download a free copy from questionable source?
by liquidiguisante | 2025-07-22 14:13:44+00:00
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A few things this digital pass can help you do: - Access hospitals, clinics and other medical centres faster with a scannable medical record. Goodbye, pen and paper forms. - Verify your age at select partner locations such as age-restricted concert venues, although it's not a replacement for a gov-issued ID. - Securely share your allergies with restaurant kiosks and ordering apps to offer you an accurate dining experience.

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by TulioKBR | 2025-07-22 14:14:52+00:00
Creator here with a crucial correction. My apologies, I pasted the wrong link in the main post. A classic copy-paste error added an extra word at the end.This is the correct and working link to the GitHub repository:https://github.com/KAYCHAIN11/ORUS-GENESIS-ARTIFACTS Thanks for your patience while I sorted that out!
by ajolly | 2025-07-22 14:15:51+00:00
As an aside, pretty much all the g604 is will end up with double click reliability issues or an inability to hold down the mouse button and drag. But you can easily replace the switches or there's vendors on eBay and AliExpress that I'll sell you a circuit board with the switches pre-soldered for replacement.

Logitech no longer makes the g604 :(
by kazinator | 2025-07-22 14:15:54+00:00
> So, why does ChatGPT claim to be conscious/awakened sometimes?

Because a claim is just a generated clump of tokens.

If you chat with the AI as it if were a person, then your prompts will trigger statistical pathways through the training data which intersect with interpersonal conversations found in that data.

There is a widespread assumption in human discourse that people are conscious; you cannot keep this pervasive idea out of a large corpus of text.

LLM AI is not a separate "self" that is peering upon human discourse; it's statistical predictions within the discourse.

Next up: why do holograms claim to be 3D?
by michalf6 | 2025-07-22 14:16:07+00:00
Aren't AI GPUs a drop in the bucket compared to consumer electronics?

Nvidia sold ~3M blackwells in 2025: https://wccftech.com/nvidia-has-sold-over-three-million-blac...

Compare that to laptops which sell in tens of millions per manufacturer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laptop_brands_and_manu...

Plus, it's way easier to collect boards for recycling from a centralized data center.
by Qem | 2025-07-22 14:16:09+00:00
Full paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/105411

This checks out with the common experience of elderly humans struggling to get proficient adopting new tech, like cellphones. It feels quite unfair, given at old age people must be more reliant on tools to offset the loss of function that comes with ageing. Think about glasses, canes, vehicles and all the appliances one gets more dependent later on.

Another counterintuitive aspect of ageing is risk tolerance. People are reckless and take lots of risks while young, with many years to lose if things go wrong, and become progressively more cautious and risk averse as they have less years left. Rationally the opposite should be expected. There was a skydiving senior comics I saw once that illustrated it nicely, but I couldn't find it anymore.
by moffkalast | 2025-07-22 14:16:37+00:00
What I've found recently is that Linux is surprisingly Firefox's achilles' heel. Canvas and WebGL run easily an order of magnitude slower than Chromium.

Check with https://webglsamples.org if you don't believe it. All of it runs capped at 60 fps on Chrome for me, Firefox struggles to break 30 on mid tier settings in aquarium and stutters horribly throughout most of them. I'm sure it's fast at loading static sites, but I wouldn't ever use it to run any web app. On Windows they're both the same though, which is weird to me.
by maybebyte | 2025-07-22 14:17:05+00:00
After redesigning my website to use Atkinson Hyperlegible fonts, I switched my terminal and code editor to the monospace variant to properly test it. After a month of testing and positive experiences, I felt motivated to investigate further and write an article comparing Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono to JetBrains Mono and Fira Code.

The visual comparisons use examples from an accessibility paper on homoglyphs and mirror glyphs. I chose JetBrains Mono and Fira Code as a baseline, since many developers use these fonts and find them familiar.

While Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono excels at character distinction, nothing is perfect. I detail trade-offs in the "Caveats" section, below the installation instructions.

I'm curious to hear others' experiences and thoughts. I'm fascinated by what role font choice plays in legibility and accessibility, but the research is relatively sparse in this area.
by 9rx | 2025-07-22 14:17:17+00:00
> But why would you give this generic advice without even looking at the thing?

1. Comments are the internet aren't written for you, they are written for the author of the comment.

2. The assertion is sound, even if not particularly useful. Your logs exclaim that you don't have market fit, just as said. What more can be said? If finding market fit was a well defined formula, everyone would do it. This is the magic that, for better or worse, you have to figure out on your own.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-22 14:17:21+00:00
That does happen though. Cars worth more are stolen while cards worth less are not.

The common factor there isn’t that 40 year old hatchbacks have better security. It’s that the risk vs reward isn’t there compared to the brand new luxury cars with higher resale value on the black market.

This isn’t something I’ve just made up either. This is what the police told us when my neighbours Merc was stolen while my Skoda, which was accidentally left unlocked, was not.

Thieves target the expensive cars because they’re worth more. It’s really that simple.
by runako | 2025-07-22 14:17:46+00:00
You're right -- saturating a 100Mbps connection is really hard. But I'm not talking about running servers from one's home. The goal isn't to saturate your connection for the month, it's to make it so that if your usage "wants" more bandwidth, it's there for you. I don't know about most people's usage, but I can say that Docker & NPM in particular benefit from a very fast connection.

> which hopefully doesn't happen even once a month.

This is the mindset I was referencing. Nobody thinks about how often their computer has to write to its local disk, and if you have a sufficiently fast Internet connection you can adopt the same carefree attitude towards Internet use.

> an extra $1000/yr

This is the disconnect. In my area, the price gap is much smaller, less than half that. The bigger consideration for us was going to a gig connection was also the only way to get a connection without a usage cap and therefore a predictable bill (Xfinity is the other provider).

Incidentally, it looks like the WSJ test used mobile devices like phones and tablets. AFAIK all the major streamers deliver lower-bandwidth content to those devices by default, so this is not the best test.
by packetlost | 2025-07-22 14:17:47+00:00
I've had maybe 3-4 occasions in my entire career where I was working with a rebase large enough where it took multiple sittings (every single one sucked badly). I'm not going to argue that it's not something that comes up, but I will say that if it's common, your workflow is probably too chaotic for me. That being said, you can still do that in git (see sibling comment to this one), but it is more involved. IMO that's good because I don't think enabling that type of chaotic, jumpy workflow is healthy or good.
by pixl97 | 2025-07-22 14:17:52+00:00
Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness

>The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

>Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

>But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.