MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-25 13:19:13+00:00
This is just another round of a fight that's been happening for over 20yr now.

Offshore wind farms in the Cape Cod, Rhode Island and Long Island area have been a constant political football. Regardless of the pretext of any given action the the way things generally are is that the people who have a view they want to protect, the tourism industry and the hippie/nature/biology types are on the no-wind side and the climate types, green energy people, domestic energy and big business types are on the other. Sometimes one side wins, sometimes another side wins. But nobody ever gets a win streak long enough to bring anything to fruition.

Everyone circle jerking about whatever the political/ideological cause of the minute is is missing the broader trend. This has nothing to do with national security, or Trump, or anything else in the past few years other than that being the pretext for whatever action was taken at this time.

The area is well suited to wind power but the area but it's also chock full of rich people and moneyed interests that can afford to fight it, likely to the long term detriment of the region, but like locusts they will be gone and cashed out by then so they don't care. That's probably when these things will finally get built.
by crazygringo | 2025-08-25 13:19:14+00:00
From the linked tweet from YouTube's head of editorial:

"No GenAI, no upscaling. We're running an experiment on select YouTube Shorts that uses traditional machine learning technology to unblur, denoise, and improve clarity in videos during processing (similar to what a modern smartphone does when you record a video)"

https://x.com/youtubeinsider/status/1958199532363317467?s=46

Considering how aggressive YouTube is with video compression anyways (which smooths your face and makes it blocky), this doesn't seem like a big deal. Maybe it overprocesses in some cases, but it's also an "experiment" they're testing on only a fraction of videos.

I watched the comparisons from the first video and the only difference I see is in resolution -- he compares the guitar video uploaded to YT vs IG, and the YT one is sharper. But for all we know the IG one is lower resolution, that's all it looks like to me.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-25 13:19:46+00:00
To be honest I will avoid AI at all costs :)

But if I had to have AI, it would be on a local PC without an internet connection. Sadly this seems Windows only, which is a no-go for me, plus with Windows 11, can you really run it without an internet connection ?

But to me, I would be more worried about heat, I would think AI would push a Laptop to the limit.
by ofjcihen | 2025-08-25 13:20:18+00:00
Hard to say for a number of reasons but I can tell you what kind of teams we see.

College grads with no seniors or too few senior devs to oversee them tend to be the worst. Surprisingly, it seems that the worst of these is where the team is very enthusiastic about tech in general. I’ve wondered if it’s a desire to be the next Zuckerberg or maybe not having the massive failure everyone has eventually that makes you realize you aren’t bullet proof.

Experienced devs with too much work to do are common. Genuinely feel bad for these guys.

Off shore shops seem to now ship worse crap faster. Not only that but when one app has an issue you can usually assume they all have the same issue.

Also as a side note Tech focused companies are the most common followed by B2C companies. Manufacturing etc. are really rare for us to see and I think that may be something to do with reticence to adopt new patterns or tech.
by mwcampbell | 2025-08-25 13:20:22+00:00
> (outside of very RAM-constrained hardware, at least)

I've spent much of my career working on desktop software, especially on Windows, and especially programs that run continuously in the background. I've become convinced that it's my responsibility to treat my user's machines as RAM-constrained, and, outside of any long-running compute-heavy loops, to value RAM over CPU as long as the program has no noticeable lag. My latest desktop product was Electron-based, and I think it's pretty light as Electron apps go, but I wish I'd had the luxury of writing it all in Rust so it could be as light as possible (at least one background service is in Rust). My next planned desktop project will be in Rust.

A recent anecdote has reinforced my conviction on this. One of my employees has a PC with 16 GB of RAM, and he couldn't run a VMware VM with 4 GB of guest RAM on that machine. My old laptop, also with 16 GB of RAM, had plenty of room for two such VMs. I didn't dig into this with him, but I'm guessing that his machine is infested with crap software, much of which is probably using Electron these days, each program assuming it can use as much RAM as it wants. I want to fight that trend.
by fcpguru | 2025-08-25 13:20:37+00:00
where is the "session fixation" / token hijacking attack graphic? The history of 1.0 and the rush to put out OAuth 1.0a I will always remember. The year was 2008 and us yammer engineers implemented this new best practice auth system. It went live. And then suddenly a few days later someone in the office proved how the hijack was possible.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-25 13:20:39+00:00
I havent tried cursor, but obviously it's sort of the top dog. VS code + roo code or similar plugin are also great options.

Pycharm, i dunno, I have pro. When using the big name cloud it performs well. If that's your intention, than its worth a try.

Local LLM it became very unreliable. No diff capability, had to do full document replaces, which were slow.

Tool calls in ai chat were unreliable at best.

Junie never ever worked properly for me. But I have had a few big patches since all this testing. Not to mention new models to try. Its quite plausible that this is old opinion.

You could check out void ide, but that's another I never had good luck with. It's BETA software, it hasnt been updated in many months. Which is bizarre because the tool itself should feed itself back in on itself and have tons of improvements flowing.
by al_borland | 2025-08-25 13:20:52+00:00
I have a great deal of nostalgia for the tech from the era around 2002-2008. I often want to go back to that era.

That said, when it comes down to it, I can’t be bothered to actually use those things today. I bought a dedicated digital camera during the pandemic, but haven’t used it in years. I bought an old iPod mini a while ago, but also don’t really use it. I have my old G4 iMac in a box that I’ve been meaning to setup (and check the cmos battery), but I’m not sure where I’d put it or what I’d actually use it for… managing the iPod maybe?

I don’t think there is one reason, but rather a combination of a few reasons. Carrying extra devices is bulky, especially when one of this is a phone that keeps growing and has a large screen I don’t want to scratch (so it gets a dedicated pocket). The infrastructure around these things isn’t what it once was, so they require more intentionality to use, which generally involves living on the fringe of supported workflows. At this stage of my life I simply don’t need the things on a regular basis, so I’m not in the habit of carrying them, and don’t really miss them all that much. The world around me has moved on, so going without a smartphone isn’t really possible anymore; my job, bank, some restaurants, etc, etc all pretty much require it. At what point does it become more complex to try to live a simple life?
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-08-25 13:21:00+00:00
If this did happen, you would think this would be better substantiated by now. All the articles I'm finding on it are very clear at the top that it is an 'unverified' report - you'd think they'd be able to find atleast one of the 1200 engineers willing to talk to them.

Perhaps I'm too cynical but I'm not sure I believe this until a credible news source names the exec or has it substantiated by an engineer.
by diggan | 2025-08-25 13:21:22+00:00
Of note:

> Doesn't this undermine the security of Anubis? - It shouldn't do. The idea behind Anubis seems to be that mass scrapers can't be bothered to bypass it, not that they can't. But also, this tool doesn't bypass it - we compute the PoW legitimately!

So basically a tool for offloading the computing of the PoW to somewhere else, not a way of skipping the computation itself.
by lazide | 2025-08-25 13:21:43+00:00
To actually answer both of your rhetorical questions.

“Why per capita?” - many people have an innate desire for ‘fairness’ and assigning some degree of accountability (or expectation of impact of mitigating changes) based 1-1 per person, appeals to that. It also bypasses thinking about the larger overall problem, while giving a degree of apparent control to them as individuals. And let’s them blame other individual for the problem if it doesn’t get fixed.

“Why per country?” - because anyone trying to actually accomplish anything realizes that issues of this scale are not really resolvable through individuals making decisions against their incentives, but at best national policy making - but really international treaties to change incentives. The atmosphere is the largest ‘commons’ we have, except perhaps the oceans.

Perhaps not even then. Since every country has an incentive to avoid actual accountability for their own actions, while pawning off the consequences onto someone else, and managing that type of situation typically requires an overarching authority. And no sovereign (for good reasons!) wants to bend the knee to a foreign power. And any international authority is necessarily going to be foreign to everyone to some extent.

So attempting to assign accountability at the coarsest level of sovereign control on that front feels most actionable.

Really I expect things will get much worse until individual countries start doing emergency geo-engineering to attempt to stop widespread famine, out of control flooding, or lethal heat waves, making it worse for some, better for others but rather randomly.

I’m honestly surprised India hasn’t already started. I’m guessing within the next decade or two.

This will lead to other countries starting wars with them to attempt to control such behavior, until some sort of international accords can be worked out - where the rich countries will prosper, and the poor countries will be fucked. As usual.

But people call me an Optimist. You don’t want to hear what I say when I’m being cynical.
by bengt | 2025-08-25 13:22:09+00:00
My hunch is VSCode or more likely Cursor. I’ve spent some time this summer trying to get IDE independent tooling running and have settled on Ruff + basedpyright. Also switched over to using UV. You may want to look into Astral’s TY or facebook’s rust based Pyrefly if keen to alpha / beta test.

I found getting VSCode properly set up and figuring out what extensions were needed a real pain in the ass and have never found something as good as Pycharm’s Git integration.
Show HN: Vibe Manager – Multi-model planning and fresh docs –> one plan (macOS)
by kiryl_kazlovich | 2025-08-25 13:22:42+00:00
Built Vibe Manager after getting tired of agents drifting in large repos. It finds the right files, pulls current docs, then runs multiple model providers in parallel and merges the plans into one so changes land in the correct places.

What’s different: – Multi-model planning: run several LLMs in parallel; Vibe merges them into a single, reviewable implementation plan. – File selection: surfaces the few files that matter (respects .gitignore, filters large/binary). – Fresh docs: pulls the latest vendor/framework docs into the plan. – Local-first privacy: your repo stays on your machine; you choose what gets sent to providers. – Quick capture: voice notes + optional screen recording to state intent fast.

Would love feedback on: accuracy of file selection on your repo; where the merged plan helps/fails; confusing bits in onboarding.

Try it: macOS download on the landing page; free starter credits. Windows next.
by M95D | 2025-08-25 13:22:57+00:00
Well, I can give you an example where the manufacturer didn't care about the risk:

The Stago STA Compact (Max) automated coagulation analyzer.

The first version of this analyzer ran MS-DOS. It worked fine, but it was a bit difficult to use - it didn't have a mouse. There were some keyboard shortcuts, but mostly I had to use keyboard arrows and Enter/Esc to operate it.

Then there was an updated version (Max) which was basically the same analyzer with new brains: different computer inside, dual-core CPU, Windows XP instead of MS-DOS. It is much, much worse than MS-DOS version.

The database can only hold about 4-5 days worth of results. When it gets almost full, and the sample drawer is open, the internal MCUs timeout while waiting for commands from the main CPU, which gets stuck busy displaying the samples window. And there are race conditions everywhere. If I scroll the results window while the analyzer adds/updates results into it, it gets confused and shows the new results on the wrong table rows, corresponding to other patients - yes, it's that bad.

It's obvious they tried to avoid race conditions as much as possible, for example, it can't print internal control results while the analyzer is running samples, it won't open the samples drawer while running the internal control from the reactives drawer, etc. I would prefer the old MS-DOS system any time.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-25 13:23:01+00:00
You're a couple days late, it already happened: https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/patels-fbi-raids-john-...

But you're spot on -- John Bolton is a long-time Republican war hawk, small name recognition, differing views on many specific policies (came out against Trump during his first impeachment), home raided by FBI under vague implications, boxes taken, computers taken.

What happens next, according to the refugees?
by Aurornis | 2025-08-25 13:23:23+00:00
> Heat loss inside of dirt is so incredibly slow it's hard to wrap your head around. One fact that I find helps is the fact that after an entire winter of extremely cold temperatures, you only need to go down 10 ft or so before you hit the average annual temperature. 4 months of winter buffered by 10 ft of ground!

That’s not entirely insulation. Some of the heat flows upward toward the surface during winter and some warmth flows downward during summer.

> If we could just create hot and cold piles or underground wells or something that we could tap into 4 months later when the temperature has changed, you would have completely solved heating and cooling.

Geothermal heating and cooling already exists. It’s semi-popular in some areas. It can be expensive to install depending on your geology and the energy savings might not compensate for that cost for many years. Modern heat pumps are very efficient even if the other side is exposed to normal outdoor air, so digging deep into the earth and risking leaks in the underground system isn’t an easy win.
by dumbfounder | 2025-08-25 13:23:24+00:00
Agent, I need some vitamin D, can you find me the best deal for some rated in the top 5? Agent deployed. Ok we found a bottle with a 30 day supply of Nature’s Own from a well respected merchant. It can be here in 2 days and it is $12. Should I buy? Yes.

Or you could add some other parameters and tell it to buy now if under $15.

Agent, I need a regular order for my groceries, but I also need to make a pumpkin pie so can you get me what I need for that? Also, let’s double the fruit this time and order from the store that can get it to me today.

Most purchases for me are not enjoyable. Only the big ones are.
by Doxin | 2025-08-25 13:23:48+00:00
The dutch army did something similar in one of their ads. They had a whole series of ads where they showed a short skit illustrating some property they do or don't want in the army. Then the ad shows two checkboxes, "suitable" / "unsuitable", with one of them getting colored in. This[0] specific one from that series is quite explicitly showing they don't want people who like "playing" with guns too much.

There's a compilation here[1] in case anyone wants to see some more. Most of them don't require any language and are decently funny.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-qyjkj7Vj0 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiqFysi883Y
by thyristan | 2025-08-25 13:23:55+00:00
Everything takes longer than ppl want to wait. But when building a house, ppl are more patient and tolerant about the time taken, because they can physically see the progress, the effort, the sweat. Software is intangible and invisible except maybe for beta-testers and developer liaisons. And the visual parts, like the nonfunctional GUI or web UI, are often taken as "most of the work is done", because that is what people see and interact with.
by englishm | 2025-08-25 13:24:35+00:00
Yes, you certainly could use MoQ to send multiple streams (WebRTC simulcast style).

There are implementations of traditional receiver-side adaptive bitrate switching with MoQ already today (mostly switching between tracks at group boundaries). There has been interest in exploring sender-side adaptation as well, but it's not clear what that might require and if it's something worth trying to support in the first version of the spec we take all the way to RFC status. Subgroups are something that can be used today, though less experimentation (at least public experimentation) has been done on fully utilizing subgroups at this point. They could be used for independently decodable tracks, though that wastes bandwidth relative to layered codecs. Even layered codecs have some overhead that may not always be worth it. If RTT is low enough and switching is straightforward, it may be that having the original publisher publish multiple tracks into a relay and allowing the end subscriber to switch between them is sufficient.

We could really use more public experimentation with all of these approaches, so if anyone is looking to do that type of research, definitely let us know how we can help support it!
by guenthert | 2025-08-25 13:24:49+00:00
> For any really bigger color space, you would have to use more than 3 primary colors, which would increase a lot the cost.

Unless you want to make displays for the bees and birds (and the tiny alleged minority of human tetrachromats) that seems rather pointless. People with three color receptors are your customers, so that's driving the market.

I rather predict, future displays will further improve on contrast, including very bright (brilliant) sparks. Imagine an iPhone glittering like gold or diamonds ...
by phkahler | 2025-08-25 13:24:52+00:00
IMHO Let Intel fail. Their fabs can be bought in bankruptcy by other chip companies that may be better run. Granted, a lot of those companies are currently fabless, but how many would change that with equipment bought at a fraction of the cost? TI, Micron, GF all have fabs. Qualcomm strikes me as a fabless that might give it a shot. I'm assuming the people and know-how would come with the fabs of course.
by rollcat | 2025-08-25 13:25:07+00:00
I don't mind the ads as much as all the mandatory meta-baiting. Not the MB itself, but the mechanisms behind it.

Even if you produce interesting videos, you still must MB to get the likes, to stay relevant to the algorithm, to capture a bigger share of the limited resource that is human attention.

The creators are fighting each other for land, our eyeballs are the crops, meanwhile the landlord takes most of the profits.
by rogerara | 2025-08-25 13:25:12+00:00
deboa is a http client for rust, it not only support tokio, but also smol and compio as async runtimes.

Some of his features includes:

* json support * xml support * middleware * bora, a macro for client generation * https and http1 support, http2 in progress * helpers to setup auth * retries * timeout handling

I invite you to suggest features, give feedback, and let your start to encourage our development efforts!

Thanks!
by flanbiscuit | 2025-08-25 13:25:16+00:00
To be fair, he was referring to a post on Alex Schroeder's blog titled with the same name as the term from the Dune books. And that post correctly credits Dune/Herbert. But the post is not about Dune, it's about Spam bots so it's more related to what the original author's post is about.

Speaking of the Butlerian Jihad, Frank Herbert's son (Brian) and another author named Kevin J Anderson co-wrote a few books in the Dune universe and one of them was about the Butlerian Jihad. I read it. It was good, not as good at Frank Herbert's books but I still enjoyed it. One of the authors is not as good as the other because you can kind of tell the writing quality changing per chapter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune:_The_Butlerian_Jihad
by asoneth | 2025-08-25 13:25:35+00:00
Nontechnical folks are fine using a computer until they're not, at which point they need to find someone with more experience or become someone with more experience. Many Windows or Mac users rely on a combination of paid support and friends/family with computer experience. But few people know someone with Linux experience, and fewer still know how to get paid Linux support. That's why every story of a nontechnical person running Linux seems to include a Linux enthusiast friend or family member in the background.

> older people simply aren't interested in or capable of learning new things

I agree that people of all ages can be interested and capable of learning new things, even something as dry as learning how to administer a computer. And Linux is a great option for someone who actually wants to learn more about operating systems.

But the overwhelming majority of people who use a computer use it as a tool to do things, like keep in touch with family members, listen to music, write a book, read the news, look up tutorials, draw, make a webpage, play computer games, etc. Unless you aspire to learn about Linux itself, every second spent dealing with Linux driver issues is a waste that steals time from the actual things you want to do.

In those cases it's absolutely cruel to force someone to dedicate time to learning esoteric technical skills before they're allowed to use their computer. That's why the only people I've evangelized Linux to are people I'm happy to continue to support indefinitely or who are actively interested in learning about Linux itself.
by Bender | 2025-08-25 13:25:44+00:00
Ignore the trolls. Also, if they are upset with you they should focus their vitriol on me. I block nearly all of BRICS especially Brazil as most are hard wired to not follow even the simplest of rules, most data-centers, some VPN's based on MSS, posting from cell phones and much more. I am always happy to give people the satisfaction of down-voting me since I use uBlock to hide karma.

In ublock -> my filters

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by hypeatei | 2025-08-25 13:25:45+00:00
> did not specify what those security concerns are.

Of course not. Just scream "national security!!" and you're allowed to do anything in this country. Trump did this with the tariffs as well.

I don't understand why the U.S. wouldn't want to be a leader in renewable energy and instead let China fill that role. Is it just stupidity + aversion to change?