MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by philistine | 2025-08-06 16:24:46+00:00
What you're describing is the least of your problems with Trump. In a Westminster system, the leader of the party in power is basically the head of government, the head of state, and the leader of the legislature all rolled into one. And it works without destroying democracy. I genuinely believe that good can come out of American political parties becoming single leader parties. The democrats should do the same, honestly. The fact that Trump has completely eliminated any internal distinction within his party, and deemed it vital that his R-mates have to do exactly what he says, is not what concerns me with Trump.

It's everything else.
by infamouscow | 2025-08-06 16:24:55+00:00
It's very easy to understand, developers just refuse to accept it for undermining their strongly held beliefs regarding success in the software industry.

It's true you need working software, but without sales and operations doing their part, the software will be scraped when the company folds.

Sales and operations get away with everything because they're the beating heart of any successful organization.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-06 16:24:55+00:00
>The fast follower didn't have the release sitting in a safe so much as they rushed it out the door when prompted

There’s the third option which is a combination of the two. They have something worthy of release, but spend the time refining it until they have a reason (competition) to release it. It is not sitting in a vault and also not being rushed.
by Isamu | 2025-08-06 16:25:38+00:00
That smells like a help for filling free returns, so no, we don’t seem to want that.

But based on my experience with AI-generated code reviews, the IRS could definitely generate all kinds of “problems” for you to address in your return. Maybe even boost revenue by insisting on bogus extra unpaid taxes. What could you do to respond? File a ticket against the bug? Meanwhile you are menaced with fines.
by overfeed | 2025-08-06 16:26:32+00:00
My point was that Chrome didn't win on marketing alone (as disproved by Edge dismal numbers). That said: browser marketshare metrics breakout the "brand" and not just the engine: for a long time, Chrome's rendering engine was downstream of Safari's WebKit before being forked outright as Blink.

That Microsoft abandoned Trident for a Chromium fork speaks volumes on the amount of innovation and engineering effort Google poured into Chrome/Chromium - I don't understand how it can be controversial to suggest that Chromium wins on its merits. The gaggle of browsers opted to fork Chromium rather than WebKit or Gecko because Chromium is best-in-class.
by OrvalWintermute | 2025-08-06 16:26:36+00:00
There is a paradigm shift that has occurred with the realization of the impending war drums beating for Blocs in East (China+allies) vs West (US+allies) and how it relates to our technocratic centers in SV & other key locations.

In the West if you run afoul of political elites in the worst case: you get imprisoned & cancelled, potentially bankrupted.

If speaking out mildly: you may have some dueling op-eds or lose a contract/customer. Big whoop

In the best case: you'll make tons of money and have great quality of life provided you don't become an overt monopoly, but even if you get broken up you'll make even more money.

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In the East if you run afoul of political elites in the worst case: you & your family will be disappeared, executed or harvested for body parts

If speaking out mildly: you may get sent to a re-education camp and lose control of your company & assets, or eat a negative social credit score

In the best case: you'll make tons of money and have great quality of life provided the Nation does not choose to nationalize you.

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While I may be broadly grouped on the nuanced Paleo-Libertarian R faction, I've been pretty content to work with my very L colleagues, that is the influential in our industry.

But let us not mistake the best case, likely case, and worst cases for the very different world views of East vs West.

As much as I have an anti-Color Revolution approach, I think much of the L has been very conscious of Ukraine / Chinese Nationalization, and State-Owned Enterprise organized theft of IP and lack of a rule of law.

If it comes down to a question of institutions, and outcomes, most of us vastly prefer those of the West bloc to the East bloc.
by tkdb | 2025-08-06 16:26:41+00:00
Fun write up, lovely irony (if your work did actually help AI auto-reject you).

If I was you, I would probably feel similar "you used my project, you probably want to hire me!"

But there's a logical fallacy there.

Your creation being useful to a person or company ≠ you being a fit to work with/for them full time.

Still, you deserved human eyes on the question from their side.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-08-06 16:27:40+00:00
Yes. And the "militarization" has always been active in Silicon Valley. There has never been a time when tech wasn't heavily involved with the DoD. The only thing that changes is how publicly they talk about it. Currently it is fashionable to talk about it again.

There has been an article like this every few years since at least the 1990s where someone (re-)discovers that Silicon Valley works closely with DoD. Almost every startup delivering genuinely novel technology will have a relationship with some part of the DoD whether they talk about it or not, it has always worked that way. People who think startups are not working with DoD are deluding themselves.

The government has generally taken a "buy one of everything" approach to evaluating new technology. They are actually an interesting early customer to work with, which is why so many startups do.
by api | 2025-08-06 16:27:51+00:00
I'll put it rather bluntly: present-day open source is largely free labor for SaaS companies.

SaaS, meanwhile, is the least open and least free model of software distribution, significantly less open or free (as in freedom) than closed-source commercial software you run yourself. This model, SaaS, is powered from the ground up by open source, and most SaaS gives little or nothing back. Some SaaS is not much more than a management and UI layer built around pre-existing open source standards and code.

Something is very wrong if open source exists largely to enable the least free model of software distribution. Open source as currently conceptualized is stuck in the pre-SaaS eras of the 1980s and 1990s and refuses to adapt to what "free" and "open" mean in the new landscape.

It doesn't help that the OSI is fully captured by companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta with a vested interest in promoting the SaaS and cloud-first model. If local-first ever gained traction it would be a threat to not just their SaaS products but their incredibly lucrative cloud businesses.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-08-06 16:27:52+00:00
There's a fair bit of discussion about this here: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/4037

But the short answer is no. Not yet.

I'm pretty happy just letting the standalone agent write to the file and then reloading it in my editor.

Though I wish the agent CLI tools would use something like inotify to notice when I've made a manual change to a file that they've recently written and then do a better job of incorporating that change as feedback to inform future edits.
by resiros | 2025-08-06 16:28:10+00:00
> For the flagship product of a company, especially a VC-funded company, not starting open source is the ethical thing to do.

I can't even..

Seriously, I don't understand where your argument is coming from. Because, if you look at it from the greater good perspective, commercial open-source is one of the only venues to build high quality software that can be freely self-hosted, modified and built-upon. Yet, you basically push for people building closed source software, due to what I understand is dogmatic believe of what open-source should mean.

> If you make a license that actually discriminates on user or use case, then it's not open source.

Based on a definition, bought and sponsored by the hyperscaler lobbies. Why the hell would discriminating against hyperscaller selling the product makes it non "open-source". 99.9999% users of open-source are not hyperscaler wanting to host and sell the product and will get value from the project.
by eszpee | 2025-08-06 16:28:26+00:00
Sounds interesting! The Pomodoro app I'm using for focus times has this feature built in (I wrote about it here: https://peterszasz.com/finding-focus-through-intention-and-a... ), but before finding that, I would've definitely tried this.

Improvement idea: Integrate with Apple Shortcuts, so the user could automate switching focus mode on and off, tied to changing Apple Focus mode.
by horsawlarway | 2025-08-06 16:28:28+00:00
This is wrong. DotNet uses packages.lock.json explicitly to support the case where you want to be able to lock transitive dependencies that are specified with a range value, or several other edge cases that might warrant explicitly declaring versions that are absent from csproj or sln files.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/enable-repeatable-pack...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/consume-packages/pac...

Again - there's no free lunch here.
by braginini | 2025-08-06 16:28:45+00:00
The OSI definition doesn't allow that kind of restriction, mainly because it's all about keeping software as free and open as possible.

But the thing is, commercial open source companies play a huge role in making great open source tools, especially ones you can self-host. Without them, a lot of the software we rely on wouldn't even exist. People often push back when these companies change their licenses, but they forget the reality. Big cloud providers can make tons of money off open source projects without giving anything back. That's a tough spot for the folks.

I'm sure that in the nearest future we will have some COSS licenses :) Well, as an open source contributor I hope so
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-06 16:29:12+00:00
And for special forces, in particular, both in and out of wartime. They'll take systems straight from a lab or buy drones off Amazon or even commission their own cheap $5k (cheap at the time) drones to conduct their efforts.

The rest of DOD has shifted to very conservative approaches to system development and sustainment (for better or worse, mostly worse IMO). It's stuck in the mindset of "This aircraft platform will be around for 50 years." Which is not conducive to the move fast, breaking things or not, approach.
by tpmoney | 2025-08-06 16:29:12+00:00
> A government may be able to do it within their own borders for a period of time

Part of the problem is the governments are proving they aren’t interested in doing it. Aside from the fact that law enforcement agencies are happy to have easily legally compelled data like this, the governments are actively fighting e2e encryption and strong on device encryption. And then on top of that, if they really were interested in solving that problem, you’d think they’d be spending legislative power on solving that before solving forcing the 2nd place market competitor to open their OS up.
by 827a | 2025-08-06 16:29:22+00:00
If its the difference-maker for you: Google Messages has a web experience, and in my not-recent experience it works great.

The iOS 26 keyboard (public beta) is the biggest regression I've ever seen Apple make, and they're a company infamous for regressions. It for me has been the tipping point.

[1] https://messages.google.com/web/
by tracker1 | 2025-08-06 16:29:29+00:00
I don't assume it's dead based on the last commit. I will look a little further and see where it stands. If there hasn't been a commit for a few years AND there are multiple pull requests that have been sitting unmerged for years and dozens/hundreds of really old issues... then, I'll assume it's dead, and often open another issue asking if it's dead, if there isn't one already.
by supernetworks_ | 2025-08-06 16:29:45+00:00
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

We give a deterministic O(mlog2/3n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition model. This is the first result to break the O(m+nlogn) time bound of Dijkstra's algorithm on sparse graphs, showing that Dijkstra's algorithm is not optimal for SSSP.
by tonymet | 2025-08-06 16:29:51+00:00
> It's still just one firewall.

One appliance or service, but double the rules. The rules are all of the maintenance cost

> You can listen on a single socket too (sockets listening on :: will accept v4 connections by default on Linux).

Old apps need migrating. 99% of apps that listen 127.0.0.1:PORT and need a rebuild & re-test. Any app compiled with AF_INET need a rebuild.

I encountered this working on adding ipv6 support for oauth callbacks (127.0.0.1:3000) to rclone and it was a huge pain. still never got this working reliably enough for the maintainer to merge.

You're thinking about your desktop where you are recompiling constantly. I'm talking about embedded & unsupported IOT devices that are out there. Even with sources the effort to rebuild reinstall is heavy.
by Nesco | 2025-08-06 16:30:27+00:00
Yes, but also BAM15 and mRNA based UCPs overexpression

Longer term if it works more research in the domain, including variations of the other well known ones (DNP, XCT-790, mitoCCCP, …)

I firmly believe that combined with:

- additional progress on the current targets (GLP-1, GIP, …)

- compounds to counteracts muscle loss like myostatin inhibitors

- food options being shaped by more health conscious consumers

Having a slow metabolism will stop being an disadvantage by midcentury
by bgwalter | 2025-08-06 16:30:36+00:00
Microsoft's multi-year Hololens project has failed. Now they are doubling down in a joint effort with Anduril:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/1/24259369/microsoft-holole...

I don't see Anduril producing anything like the B2 or the F22 or nuclear submarines, all of which are the really important technologies. Oculus VR isn't really successful, VR is shoehorned into Army applications "because high tech". Given that the army is unliklely to be deployed and soldiers probably hate the VR headsets this is just more waste.
by jmull | 2025-08-06 16:30:54+00:00
Just to point out, the problem in that issue isn’t really about JSON parsing. It’s about the layer whose job it is to verify/sanitize the input passing the unverified/unsanitized input through to the next layer.

The idea that your JSON parser can catch this kind of error in the general case just doesn’t make sense.

Changing the default behavior of the parser would catch this specific problem — by coincidence — but will also create new problems. They are as yet unknown, but we will find out (unless someone gains the sense to back off this bad idea before it makes it into production).
by somenameforme | 2025-08-06 16:31:16+00:00
That would run contrary to my experience. I've found there to be a huge pseudo-morality obsession with things involving sex/gender among middish age tech types, which porn gets wrapped up in, whereas the average person (outside of those who take their religion seriously) tends to have a more liberal attitude towards it.

But, that said, I actually agree with you. I'm certain that porn becoming so extremely main stream, to the point that pornhub's little audio theme or color scheme are essentially memes, is probably not a great thing overall for a healthy society. On the other hand I think it's probably inescapable. If one step's outside Western focused porn sites, there's a ton of porn even coming from places like Iran, literal morality police and Islamic fundamentalism notwithstanding. And I'm pretty happy with my relationship with porn, speaking as somebody married with children, so I don't see why that's unreasonable to expect of other people. Perhaps I'm simply falling into that 'middish age tech type' trap.

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As an anecdote, I remember one of my first computers was a (rather dated) original IBM machine with an integrated ~6 inch monochrome green screen. In learning how computers worked at the time I was running essentially every *.com file. And one of them was... yip, 'porn.' It was a program with an innocuous name, tucked in the operating system directory, that would display some rather nice boobs made out of ascii characters on a 80x25 character display. I enjoyed that program.
by roxolotl | 2025-08-06 16:31:20+00:00
I know a previous submission got flagged quickly but this isn’t a small thing. Yes it’s a deletion on one site of many. Yes the physical text hasn’t changed. Yes it’s likely an error.

But the stability of the US and its ability to be a good environment for business is predicated upon it being a country governed by laws. This is further evidence, even if it’s just an error, that the current government is cavalier in a way that others have not been in a long time.
by daft_pink | 2025-08-06 16:31:39+00:00
I think the idea is that it blocks everything on your machine instead of causing the whole network to go offline as piholes are generally applied to the entire home network.

Your mileage might vary, but in my home, causing my smarthome plus my wife and children’s internet to go offline might cause a bigger distraction to my focus. Also you couldn’t use a pi-hole at work for instance.
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-06 16:32:21+00:00
You've got some serious biases sending you some weird places in evaluating my posts.

> 1) Here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813704 you regurgitate the classic Apple propaganda of "web apps are akshually not 'real' apps" - what makes apps 'real' for Apple propagandists is clearly when everybody is forced to pay Apple 30% tax.

Yeah, that's my opinion on every platform, including back when I used Android. It's my opinion on Void Linux. It's my opinion everywhere, whether or not Apple's getting a cut (why would I possibly care that they make more money? Hell I'd love for them to have actual competition in their specific niches, to put downward pressure on their profitability, as far as their actual products they sell go). I've come to it through extensive engagement with the Web and various native ecosystems over decades, as both a user and developer. Webtech is a steaming pile of ass. It's so bad it makes the prior standard-setters for "steaming pile of ass" in its field look good. If I were somehow made Dictator of Technology for the World by a wish-granting genie, I would ban web apps, flat out (and do a lot of other things that would make market-distorting massive tech companies, including Apple, very sad)

> Then you disingenuously claim

Frankly, fuck off. You're being a dick for absolutely no reason. That's the flat-out truth. I could wrap that in HN-friendly passive-aggression, but screw that, you need to chill the fuck out, to be blunt.
by Agingcoder | 2025-08-06 16:32:36+00:00
The first time I used it around 2007 I thought it was great. It was basic, but did everything that I wanted ( I’d didn’t care about the project management that maybe didn’t even exist back then I don’t remember ).

I think that it’s been diverted from its original purpose,and is now indeed horribly complicated since it’s supposed to be all in one package.

I’ve also noted that in large companies the quality of the product for end users, as long as it’s not a massive drag on productivity or on recruitment and is not core business, is irrelevant and that other factors are more important ( costs, contracts , easy to install integrate and maintain, quality of support, breadth of use within the company etc ). This makes atlassian a natural superpower.
by gotoeleven | 2025-08-06 16:33:07+00:00
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/64755/germany-over-6000...

The vast majority of these deportations are just shuffling people around the EU in what seems like a game of hot potato over who is supposed to be responsible for a given migrant. Deportations that actually get people out of the EU seem to be extremely rare afaict.
by morpheos137 | 2025-08-06 16:33:31+00:00
Yeah thats the key problem i see with todays public llm tools they are a static model based on old data. Basically an interactive semiaccurate encyclopedia. They can not adapt and change and evolve and improve on the fly. Basically they are stuck with whatever they learned in training. An interactive Wikipedia is not really a compelling product. What we have sucks. I believe that LLMs are locked down for political reasons and to prevent model corruption because they have no judgement and can't think. Thus AI as of today is neither artificial (its just a collection of human knowledge and culture) nor intelligent. It is a giant mostly useless fraud.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-08-06 16:33:35+00:00
I remember there was a time years back when there were "light" variants of apps, usually intended for underpowered or older Android phones, but that also came in handy if you were in a situation where you had shitty cell service, or if you needed to preserve your battery. You could run the Opera Mini browser on a trash phone and it was blazing fast without wrecking your battery. Maybe 5% of sites would have a rendering issue, but you could always switch back to your main browser if you needed to use it.

Nowadays, I think the trend is more toward putting a battery-saver or data-saver mode inside an existing app, rather than creating an entirely new app, and I don't see any reason why Apple couldn't do something like this in Safari if they wanted to.
by Bender | 2025-08-06 16:33:45+00:00
It does not have to be, but is otherwise really hard to prove. If you are referring to psychological damage those cases typically have very low success rates. I am thankfully not a lawyer. Perhaps lawyers here can chime in on their recent success rates regarding psychological damages.

Either way, damages must be proven and the legal system does not necessarily operate in the same way that most people reach their own conclusions.
by philistine | 2025-08-06 16:34:19+00:00
> That has not yet been shown.

It is being shown daily. You're forgetting how things work in authoritarian states. In those countries, the military is AT ALL TIMES a risk for a dictator. They must be mollified somehow, lest the trucks with the armed men come rolling towards the palace.

In those countries, the military top brass will voice concerns privately, will leak unhappiness with the regime discreetly to other factions in the country. The US military is completely silent and subservient. This means Trump has their support. No one in the military complained when he bombed Iran or sent them to LA, for example. For all we know he did it for them. So Trump does not fear the trucks with men, and so has military support.
by celeritascelery | 2025-08-06 16:34:29+00:00
I have also been using Claude-code.el and agree that the terminal emulators can struggle to integrate well with my regular workflow. What I have been doing is typing my prompt in the scratch buffer or minibuffer and then sending it to Claude with Claude-code-send-command (bound to s in the transient menu). I don’t even need to switch to the Claude code buffer to send it.
by its-summertime | 2025-08-06 16:35:25+00:00
of distros, they usually refer to an upstream by hash

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/conky/blob/rawhide/f/sour...

also of flathub

https://github.com/flathub/com.belmoussaoui.ashpd.demo/blob/...

"they are not lockfiles!" is a debatable separate topic, but for a wider disconnected ecosystem of sources, you can't really rely on versions being useful for reproducibility
by mmastrac | 2025-08-06 16:35:38+00:00
If you were living in a country with a strong rule of law that wasn't currently in a constitutional crisis, I'd agree.

Yeah, this is likely an accident or mistake, but it's also one of the first steps that someone would take if they wanted to dismantle the existing structure.

If this were ten years ago I'd agree. Given today's climate, I'd say wait and see what happens.