MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pxc | 2025-07-16 11:51:29+00:00
If the main purpose of topic tags is to allow filtering and aggregation, the tags don't need to be that visible/prominent in the first place.

I'm not saying this is the answer either, because I don't know if it's a great fit for HN, but managing and verifying such tags would fit well into somethingkme the ol' the moderation and Meta-moderation systems from Slashdot.

(Using LLMs to generate initial topic tags once per article instead of having independent implementations burn up compute over it dynamically also seems like a way more reasonable way to use them toward this end.)
by v5v3 | 2025-07-16 11:51:31+00:00
It's 1m Casualties. Not deaths.

The definition of which is quite wide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualty_(person)

>"A casualty, as a term in military usage, is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to any of several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, missing, capture or desertion."
by Macha | 2025-07-16 11:51:36+00:00
> Have you taken a look at Android Firefox user interface

So I opened the same page on both, my comments page on HN.

Firefox Android UI:

Home button, SSL padlock, URL, reader mode, tabs, hamburger menu. URL displays extends from 20% of the screen to 70% of the screen. I see news.ycombinator.com/thre(a) [the a is partially faded].

Chrome Android UI:

Home button, settings icon (shows cert details), URL, new tab button, tab list, hamburger menu. Icons have like 50% more padding that firefox icons, so URL extends from 20% to 60% of the screen. I see "news.ycombinator.com/t"

The only difference in icon count is firefox gives reader mode a dedicated button while Chrome gives new tab a dedicated button. Given how often I use reader mode (as a paywall bypass, or poorly formatted sites) that's... fine?

There is a stylistic difference where the coloured area for the address bar encompasses the reader mode icon so it looks like it's deducting space for the URL but it appears that Firefox actually has more URL space. By like... 3 characters, so it's not a huge difference.

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As for the desktop history example:

Firefox history views:

- Firefox View: Full page view of your account including history, synced tabs, etc.

- Sidebar history: Useful to see with less disruption to browser

- Overflow menu recent items

- Legacy "Manage history" popup

Chrome history views:

- chrome://history as a full page modal (with sync and other stuff, so closest to Firefox view)

- recent history in the overflow menu

- "grouped history" which is a sidebar history with way too much padding.

So the only extra view of history that Firefox has is the legacy one, which is buried in the UI for power users who don't want to let it go (or more likely the bookmark manager that it lives with).
by hollerith | 2025-07-16 11:51:50+00:00
Good question. Most of these headlines about Linux market share ("mind share"?) are completely uninformative about how widespread the use of Linux is in reality.

12 years ago or so, a similar headline appeared, then someone explained that the Chinese government had recently cracked down on Windows pirating (to appease the Americans) with the result that some PC vendors had stopped including (pirated copies of) Windows with the computers they sell (shipping some Linux distro instead of course) but since pirated Windows install media was still widely available, there quickly grew a cultural practice in which the consumer installs Windows (or gets his more technically-inclined cousin to do it for him) as soon as he gets his new PC home. But the headline reported on a statistic that did not catch this cultural practice because it counted only the OSes on computers when they were sold (i.e., "OS shipments").
by totalperspectiv | 2025-07-16 11:51:54+00:00
NF Tower / Seqera would be the selling points. They offer a nice UX for managing pipelines and abstract over AWS.

Technically snakemake can do it all. But in practice NF seems to scale up a bit better.

That said, if you don’t need the UI for scientists, I’d stick to snakemake.
by bshacklett | 2025-07-16 11:52:44+00:00
I’m currently working on migrating Java code from mid-range systems to containers in the cloud. The number of code changes required is near zero. They may not have gotten portability perfectly solved, but it’s pretty darn good compared to many other platforms.

Now, if the industry could just get out of the ridiculous Java 8/11 rut, we’d be in good shape.
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-16 11:52:51+00:00
I disagree.

Instead of looking at where the tax revenues can come from, which I don't necessarily disagree consider what proportion of the nations economic activity is government spending.

I consider govt spending/GDP a much better indicator of economic health. In fact, tertiary_sector/GDP is better still.

The US government has too much presence in the economy and can't even provide health care and free tuition.
by alfiedotwtf | 2025-07-16 11:53:22+00:00
People have said (including me) that I’d pay for Firefox if I could…

Maybe we should collectively put our money where our mouth is!

Would there be any interest in starting a fork or even a new browser that was supported by the community via donations?

What would people actually want in such a thing? IMHO I would like something like that to be the best damn standards adhering browser, minimalistic but configurable, secure and fast.

… to be hones, thinking about how everyone wants something different and you can’t please everyone, the most ideal situation would be something like an Emacs for browsers (yes I know Emacs has browser functionality).

Imagine a JavaScript console that could call functions that ran browser functionality! You could script your own browser, use someone else’s config, build your own plugins, etc!
by nerdjon | 2025-07-16 11:53:47+00:00
I have to wonder how much of this is people switching to Linux vs the larger trend of people not having traditional computers to begin with.

Outside of gamers, I don't know anyone that has a computer at home that is not their work laptop if they have one. At least in my circle everyone I know has moved to their general computing being on phones and tablets which is not captured here. So is a solid chunk of this the people that would have already had Linux desktops continuing to have theirs since they would likely be the same people (more technical, needing to do tasks not possible on phones and tablets) less likely to be making that switch.

Basically if the higher percent is due to less desktops overall instead of a major uptick in Linux desktops, it is not really much to celebrate.

Given these numbers are percents I would be very curious.

Now yes there is a clear uptick thanks to the Steam Deck (however with Microsoft pushing their optimized for gaming Windows it will be interesting to see if that continues or goes backwards). But I would be reluctant to call that Linux Desktop anymore than I would call Android an uptick for Linux.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-16 11:55:32+00:00
I think it will just push creativity more past the boundaries. More avante garde, more uncompromisingly human and personal. I think that may be a neutral or even a good thing.

Most "creative" work in the real world is quite derivative (which AI generated content, by definition, is). This is especially true in the music space, where some genres like rock are so mapped out, and there is such an extreme deluge of content, that most of it may as well be copy/paste. Same instruments, same chords, same production chain, same song length, same themes for song topics. May as well be AI. That doesn't mean it's not "good", what I'm saying is that the sacred aura of creativity may sometimes be played up a bit.

That's not to say there won't be room for, say, great new rock music. There will be, and rising above the AI content will be not much different than rising above the millions of rock bands out there. That usually involves some sort of new novelty, getting ahead of the cultural pendulum, etc. But I mean rising above on a quality level not necessarily a net sales level. Popular music is already manufactured and commoditized.

I do hope that the counter reaction against all of this is more experimentation and breaking out of many of these creative boxes, which can be quite limiting. More proverbial toilets in the art gallery. More cross-discipline collaboration. In a world infested with AI generated music, maybe a small hobby-shop making their own creative instruments that look like Dr Seuss contraptions, and make$ for a cool live show with humans doing cool stuff suddenly has more appeal.
by hnbad | 2025-07-16 11:55:33+00:00
What he calls inevitabilism, Chomsky referred to as "manufacturing consent":

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

Sure, Chomsky was specifically talking about how the underlying systems of US mass media manufacture consent among the governed but inevitabilism lies at its core: a thought-terminating cliché that eliminates all alternatives from even being legitimate subjects of the debate.
by vrighter | 2025-07-16 11:55:44+00:00
Why should they need maintenance? The only maintenance needed is because the OS has zero concern for backwards compatibility.

What do games need? A GL/vulkan context, audio system and user input. They really don't ask for much from the OS itself. It should be able to keep working because it's still doing the same thing. It wasn't broken because it had a bug, but it was broken because Apple decided to break it (and lots of other useful, feature-complete apps). Sometimes, something is just "finished". It shouldn't need "maintaining" to keep running.
by coldtea | 2025-07-16 11:56:59+00:00
Nah, none of them changed coding as we know it.

At best they changed some aspects of coding for some niche or some subset of users. But at best they just introduced a new workflow or paradigm that co-existed with the others.

APL and Haskell are so niche as to not have any impact (Haskell inspired languages like Elm and Rust included) to most working programmers and programming "as we know it".

Same, before SQL there were many query dialects, for both relational and non-relational database engines, and of course many non-relational engines (the norm in the 70s).

HTML+CSS+Javascript still involved ages old coding practices (a C/algol style language, prototypes and scheme-like closures, etc) and UI practices (forms, buttons, dropdowns, textboxes, callbacks, RPCs), plus hefty backend server programming.

AI, on the other hand, has the potential to change coding altogether, end to end (whether one writes C drivers or front-end code or whatever) and even eliminate the field for MOST people.
by grafmax | 2025-07-16 11:57:11+00:00
Billionaires have so much power that they 1) start asking themselves questions like “how can I change society?” and 2) are surrounded by sycophants waiting for crumbs. Besides that they are free to effectively decide the fates of others without their own skin in the game - think Alex Karp vs the immigrants being rounded up in concentration camps. What we have is a potent cocktail that engenders anti-human policies with no brakes whatsoever.
by pawelduda | 2025-07-16 11:57:39+00:00
I installed Ubuntu on my parents' PC back in 2014. Never had to reinstall, only had to upgrade to LTS every few years. The only problems I encountered were with nvidia drivers on update that had to be dealt with but nothing too insane. It's been used almost daily, only migrated to SSD at one point to speed it up. 18~ years old machine.
by namibj | 2025-07-16 11:57:42+00:00
For scalar code that's fair, but keep in mind that with `gather`, you can vectorize it, and there you do worry about integer width as more width means fewer lanes. Though tbf you probably should use B+ Tree structures chunked to your bulk/cache fetch "line/page" size, and vectorized higher-than-radix-2 search within each node.
by palata | 2025-07-16 11:58:24+00:00
I understand your point, and I genuinely hate when people try to put pressure on distros to essentially look more like Windows.

On the other hand, I think it's great when companies or government try to move to Linux (if you're not a US company or the US government, it makes total sense to try not to depend on US software so much).

But I want to believe that there is space for everybody. I wouldn't use Mint myself, but I convinced a couple friends to use it and it works really well! EU governments moving to european distros like Suse and the likes is great. And I will stay closer to "more advanced" distros like Gentoo or Alpine.

The beauty of Linux is that there is not one Linux; it's about freedom of choice. Because many people move from Windows to Mint doesn't have to mean that it's hurting Gentoo, I think? Hopefully.
by acdha | 2025-07-16 12:01:25+00:00
> Money is not the issue according to this from 4 days ago

The article does not say that. In fact, it notes that money (and correlated housing) are significant, generous incentives have a positive impact, but most importantly they need better data because there are complex trade offs around opportunity cost which are inadequately captured by the available data.

> According to that the issue is culture.

This is a much stronger claim than the article makes, especially given their careful recognition of limits in the data, the global nature of the trend, and especially the interrelated nature of economic constraints and preferences. The speculation in your last paragraph aren’t discussed - they’re talking about things like how much people derive satisfaction from careers or the way people’s choices are influenced by their peers, which again are highly related to economic constraints (e.g. if housing costs are a major barrier, odds are that your friends are also affected and so you’re all having fewer kids later). They mention things like travel in the opportunity cost category, but that needs better data to tease out whether people are not having kids because they want to travel or whether people who have decided to delay/not have kids are making the much smaller financial commitment to have a vacation. There’s a lot of thoughtful discussion in that piece about teasing out the interrelated factors and it really highlights that there isn’t a single magic fix.
by harmonic18374 | 2025-07-16 12:01:51+00:00
People come out to defend their bosses a lot on this site, convincing themselves they know the powerful people best, that they’re “friends”. How can someone be so confident that a founder is authentic, when a large part of their job is to make you believe so (regardless of whether they are), and the employee’s own self image push them to believe it too?
by palata | 2025-07-16 12:02:10+00:00
What bothers me is when projects have a hard dependency on something like systemd or even Ubuntu, because most of the time it is not necessary and it means I can't use it.

But other than that, as long as I can compile the project from source (and if it's done properly I don't need instructions for that), I'm fine.

I would assume that a repo providing instructions for the AUR is already better than one assuming that "Linux == Ubuntu", because the developer knows at least one distro that is not Ubuntu :-).
by gessha | 2025-07-16 12:03:07+00:00
> Putting a man on the Moon is something many view as humanity's greatest achievement, ever.

Because the Americans have such an amazing propaganda department and had to rub it in to the Soviets even after flunking every other “space race”.

As for canceling the space programs, if it wasn’t Nixon, it would’ve been done by any of the politicians following Hayek/Friedman economic policies - basically everyone after Nixon.
by 112233 | 2025-07-16 12:03:45+00:00
I'll bite. What is your preferred way to use serial port console on linux? Kermit? I am really no fan of minicom...

Also, I'd take pterm over modern gpu electron nodejs turtle tower terminals. It has sane requirements and perfomance, behaves in a consistent, predictable manner and handles large scrollback very well.

Why bad?
by alibasharat5 | 2025-07-16 12:04:10+00:00
Thank you so much really appreciate the kind words... You are right.Context loss during incident response is the problem we’re aiming to solve deeply, especially for teams that live in Slack and don’t want to chase dashboards.

Let me try to answer your great questions:

1. Conflicting advice or noisy threads: Right now, RobinRelay summarizes past replies per alert occurrence (thread), then aggregates them across all past occurrences of the same (e.g., “CPU spike on api-server”). If conflicting advice exists (e.g., restart vs scale up), we preserve each cause separately and display them like:

“In the past, this alert was caused by: – autoscaler OOM restart (3x) – DB connection saturation (2x)” We’re working on tagging which ones were “confirmed fixes” vs just investigative noise and will open that to user feedback soon.

Alert variants: We normalize alerts our algorithm similar to finger prints for vector db. We’re exploring multiple ways like fuzzy hashing, LLM's, custom way to detect meaningful variants (e.g., same service, different root cause) and eventually flag them as “related but distinct”.

Trend detection (e.g. precursor alerts): Yes! This is on our roadmap. We want to show timelines like:

If you're seeing these pain points first-hand, I’d love to chat or hear how your team handles it today — this kind of feedback shapes the product every week.

Thanks again for the thoughtful comment
by Fade_Dance | 2025-07-16 12:04:37+00:00
The article is on the US statistic though. If it was a global statistic it wouldn't surprise me at all.

When it comes to laptops, we have a lot of MacBooks out there, and an endless Sea of $400 low quality Lenovos and HPs eternally marching to the garbage bins.

Ultimately my observation is just anecdotal, but I have built a lot of computers for people worked on a lot of family PCS, etc, and have never once worked with a Linux system in that context in 25 years of doing that stuff. I'm not interacting with a tech oriented crowd though (obviously those people would be chatting about tech instead and I would never be touching their system). Perhaps the tech oriented crowd is big enough to hit 5%, or perhaps Linux gaming is moving the needle, but I can't imagine 1 in 20 system is Linux in the US. I just can't.
by al_borland | 2025-07-16 12:04:46+00:00
What do you mean by “great”? It was successful in reproduction. That’s what we’re talking about here. People were having families and raising children that went out to have families and raise children.

Gay couples can’t have children (outside of adoption or surrogacy), so I’m not sure how that is relevant to the topic at hand. Gay couples will not be helping with the next baby boom.

We made a change in the culture, from the standpoint of the species continuing to survive into the future. The change put us on what looks like a worse path. Would it not be wise to question those changes to see where it went wrong and course correct, just like we’d do if this was any other problem in any other domain?
by coldtea | 2025-07-16 12:05:08+00:00
They also didn't contemplates it as something ubearable if they had to live many persons or even extended family in the same small house, including rentals, and if two persons had to work hard. Manual laborers, factory workers, etc, farmers where both father and mother worked, still had many children.

It's not like this only happened in the window between 1940s-1980s where the run-of-the-mill average job let you support your entire family and purchase a big enough house.
by chii | 2025-07-16 12:06:05+00:00
> the quality of the medium degrades.

not necessarily. There's room to have the mass market make breakthroughs in laymen software for linux if there's sufficient demand.

And having the mass market lowest common denominator doesnt remove the good stuff - they still exist and you could still choose to use them. This is esp. true for linux, where as you'd have fewer choice/customizability for windows as it's close sourced.
by ajuc | 2025-07-16 12:06:08+00:00
> This seems a bit of a stretch of a claim to make. In what ways would you say that Russia is a decade behind?

Every country had it's own facebook. The difference was not features but scale.

Russia scales to million of users. Facebook/Google etc. scale to billions of users.

Everybody use Office, Chrome, commercial CADs, etc. Russia has no alternatives in most of these categories, and where it has alternatives - it's usually global (i.e. mostly made by programmers paid by western corporations) open source project they fork and add a russian skin over it.

> And when it comes to hardware, none of us are particularly strong with that.

USA and EU design the top-end chips and make crucial parts of the machines that produce chips (see ASML).

Russia was left behind in 90s and tries to catch up using some open-source alternatives around RISC-V. But they have no capability of designing nor producing chips anywhere near modern desktop CPUs.

Russian Lancet drones use smuggled Nvidia AI chips for example. We do not use smuggled Russian chips :)
by antipurist | 2025-07-16 12:06:35+00:00
It's "macOS" [1] if you really want to be pedantic. However, it's still "Intel Mac OS X" in Safari UA even on M1 MacBook, so why Statcounter data includes both OS X and macOS remains a mystery.

[1] https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia/
by ordu | 2025-07-16 12:06:46+00:00
Ahh... Philosophy...

I can't agree with you. People have got their human mind as a result of ever increasing and self-inflicted costs driven by a competition among males. They developed minds to play politics and they came to a point when 20% of metabolism of human body was devoted to its brain.

The result of such a wasteful way to spend their energy resources? Humans colonized all the Earth, drove to the extinction almost all big animals, and now there are as much humans on the Earth as mosquitos. Looks like a win, doesn't it?

These things go off the rails sometimes. Just today I've found a new example to it:

highlanders who had practiced brutal initiation ceremonies “in which they were forced to drink only partly slaked lime that blistered their mouths and throats, were beaten with stinging nettles, were denied water, had barbed grass pushed up their urethras to cause bleeding, were compelled to swallow bent lengths of cane until vomiting was induced, and were required to fellate older men, who also had anal intercourse with them” gave them up after only minimal contact with outside disapproval. Some later told anthropologists they felt “deeply shamed” by their treatment of their own sons and were relieved to stop.[1]

The waste of resources into useless things doesn't lead to good outcomes each time, but I believe that software engineering will lead to something. I'm not Jesus, I can't predict exactly what the beneficial results will be, but at least I can point to a growing ability of engineers of handling complexity. It lags behind their ability to create complexity, but still it grows.

[1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-arguments-about...
Show HN: Created a Chrome extension to practice typing on any website
by maximcus | 2025-07-16 12:07:17+00:00
This is a small personal project (completely free). The idea is that you practice typing on the real text you want to read.

Please give it a try and comment if you have any feedback for me (good or bad).

If you like it and want to see the development continue consider rating it on the chrome store as well. The more users it will have the more likely I am to invest more time into it.