MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AngryData | 2025-08-24 22:16:22+00:00
I would think the best way to keep SpaceX rockets from exploding is to get Musk as far away as possible from any engineering decisions. I firmly believe that SpaceX has only done as well as it has because the engineering is so far above Musk's knowledge that actual aeronautical engineers can do what they do and throw some technobabble at him to shut him up when he suggests dumb thing.
by r3trohack3r | 2025-08-24 22:16:52+00:00
I suspect this is net good for the EV space at this point in history.

Tesla was a virtue signal brand from day one[1]. Their core insight came from Palo Alto et. al. You’d drive through the suburbs and many driveways had two vehicles: a [insert gas guzzling luxury vehicle] and a Prius. One vehicle to signal wealth/status - the other to signal environmental consciousness. But the eco vehicle was a compromise; compared to the jaguar it sat next to, it was a clunker.

Tesla’s GTM strategy was that you could buy a vehicle, without compromise, from them to signal to your social circles how much you cared about the environment. And it worked.

They broke the oil cartels with a direct to consumer sales strategy and kicked off the EV market.

But now that market’s needs are well met. The eco virtue signal crowd has multiple vendors selling decent products to meet their buying preferences.

There is a fairly large untapped market though that won’t convert off of oil. That demographic overlaps well with the 2025 MAGA coalition. And, with Elon’s involvement in that coalition, Tesla EVs are now a new virtue signal for a new demographic.

You have people buying EVs that were rolling coal as recently as 2 years ago.

[1] The brand being built around eco virtue signaling is well documented in early interviews with original founders - a quick search will turn up many direct quotes talking about them driving through California suburbs doing market research and discovering exactly that.
by breadwinner | 2025-08-24 22:19:36+00:00
No one thought Musk would abuse his ownership of Starlink either, but in 2022 Musk personally ordered the shutdown of Starlink satellite coverage over key parts of Ukraine. Supposedly he was motivated by concerns that a successful Ukrainian advance might provoke a Russian nuclear response. He is not a head of state, but gets to make such decisions? (FWIW he later denied intentionally turning off Ukraine's Starlink terminals).
by breuleux | 2025-08-24 22:19:50+00:00
Interesting. It appears that not many systems have been designed to enable hot reload in a thorough way.

Here's another fun complication: what if I have a decorator that performs a code transform on the source code of the decorated function? If the code is changed, I would like to automatically re-run the transform on the new code. I made a (kind of awkward) protocol for this: https://github.com/breuleux/jurigged?tab=readme-ov-file#cust.... It's a little confusing even for me, so I should probably review it.
by cfu28 | 2025-08-24 22:19:57+00:00
While true, this is slightly overblown. I work at a liver transplant center where we treat patients with end stage liver disease and Tylenol is often the safest choice given these patients comorbidities. Granted, they’re getting their liver labs checked 1-2 times a day and are under close supervision but < 2g acetaminophen a day is considered fine. [I am not your doctor this is not medical advice]
by lemoing | 2025-08-24 22:20:30+00:00
I disabled the text animation for now since I can see how it would be frustrating. Maybe later I’ll go back to a line-by-line reveal since I still like the aesthetic!

Content-wise, some of this stuff I’m still learning about and hope to fix/correct, and some of it just won’t fit into a page, nor do I really want to force too much content into it and risk it not being accessible to noobs like me. Like you said, you have to draw the line somewhere and there was always something more I could have added.
by ryoshu | 2025-08-24 22:20:32+00:00
Humans prefer humans over bots in multiplayer. Even if you dumb down LLM-powered-bots, there's no sense of accomplishment on beating a bot that can be dialed up-or-down. And the social aspect... maybe some amount of gamers want to talk to bots instead of humans in a pvp match. Curious on the numbers there.
by Animats | 2025-08-24 22:23:35+00:00
The phrase "lemon socialism" used to be applied to the UK. The Government had managed to acquire the steel industry, the railroad industry, and the auto industry - all dying industries in the UK. They became British Steel, British Rail, and British Leyland. The end result wasn't good. They turned into jobs programs.

Eventually those were privatized. Now, the railroads are being socialized again.
by kelnos | 2025-08-24 22:23:41+00:00
Hah, I find your setup crazy! I don't need or want that much stuff. To me it would get in the way, and increase my maintenance burden.

I also like having things Just So; and keeping windows and browser tabs and terminals etc. all in the same place on several different machines would drive me nuts.

I have one 3:2 aspect ratio 13" laptop, and I do everything on it. My wife had two large external screens for work that she doesn't use anymore, but I never use them. I like the simplicity of staring at one single rectangle, and not having extraneous stuff around me.

> There are a lot of jobs that should run in a home server running 24/7 instead of abusing your poor laptop.

Not sure I buy that. My laptop has 20 cores and 64GB of RAM, and sure, maybe a full build from scratch will peg all those cores, but for incremental builds (the 99% case), single core perf is what really matters, and a home server isn't going to give me meaningful gains over my laptop there.

And my laptop can very easily handle the "strain" of my code editor with whatever developer-assistance features I've set up.

Sure, CI jobs run elsewhere, but I don't need a home server for that; the VPS that hosts the git repository is fine.
by godelski | 2025-08-24 22:23:46+00:00
> I don’t game, I try but idk just feels like work.

I'm surprised by this. Valve has really made this easy these days. I switched to EndervourOS a few years back and things, for the most part, just works. 2-3 years ago the biggest hurdle was changing Proton version and 90% of the time I could play a game. For the last year (including after a reinstall and having never touched Steam settings) the only problems I've had are post an update and solved by restarting the computer.

> pick the wrong nvidia driver and you’ll have crashes

Same thing here. The only issue I can think of in the last few years was an update where a rollback solved it. The problem was only because Endeavour (Arch based) uses beta nvidia drivers AND the newest kernels. Was a really easy fix. Just two commands to roll back kernel and driver.

> Also Linux always hangs hard if I run it out of ram. Windows never does that.

This sounds like there might be a swap space allocation issue. Did you manually set swap or just go with the default configuration? If the OS runs out of RAM and swap (there's overcommit_memory but you probably don't want to enable it[0]) then yeah, you'll run into trouble. Not sure how Windows is handling that but there's only so much that can be done here. Luckily you can always add more swap space, if you don't want to buy more RAM. But things should never crash just because you ran out of RAM (there are exceptions, like a single program using all the RAM).

> But sometimes I go back to windows and I am taken aback as the sheer completeness of the user experience.

You might like KDE[1]. It has a much more Windows like feel. Or Cutefish[2] for that OSX feel. It is pretty simple to make a switch (given you're comfortable with software I assume calling a few lines from the CLI doesn't scare you). Just some food for though. Personally I hate Gnome. Ugly as hell and unintuitive. I'd rather go headless than use Gnome.

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/606185/how-does-vm-overcom...

[1] https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

[2] https://cutefish-ubuntu.github.io/
by LexiMax | 2025-08-24 22:25:05+00:00
> Linux will not penetrate that market unless it makes it possible to release completely proprietary (even woefully crappy, move fast and break things) software easily.

Underrated point.

Most Linux distros have historically catered to an ecosystem of open source software with the distro repository model, and cross-distro software distribution is probably the biggest papercut still remaining with Linux today.

Thank goodness things are so much better these days with Electron, Steam, Docker, FlatPak and WINE. But there are still gaps that need filling.
by everdrive | 2025-08-24 22:25:16+00:00
Writing with LLM is also not writing. In some abstract sense, it may be plagiarism. In another sense, you're robbing yourself of one of the most crucial parts of writing: improved cognition. Anyone who edits voice transcripts knows just how much a normal person wanders, pauses, misspeaks, etc when talking. The act of writing forces you to refine thoughts you would not have otherwise had.
by sneak | 2025-08-24 22:25:18+00:00
For a film with no narrative it sure does seem sad (and wrong) to claim our modern life is “out of balance”.

Still one of my favorite works of music and cinematography both; I just don’t agree at all with the implicit message. We are destined for the stars.

That end scene with the Atlas missile that you linked is def the best though (and Prophecies is the best song/track too).
by lemoing | 2025-08-24 22:25:46+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! I disabled the text animation for the time being.

There is a note about the star nut if you click on the headset top cap and then explode the headset, and I also mentioned QR vs thru axle briefly when talking about the fork. BB is definitely missing and I should add it. I was also thinking it would be fun to make the wheel explodable too, which would give me a place to talk more about hubs, spokes, rim standards, etc.
by fabian2k | 2025-08-24 22:25:50+00:00
I have no idea what Musk might do, so I'm not excluding anything. But to do anything with a SpaceX rocket he would need co-conspirators, and in the end he would only get a single shot. So the result would be similar to a larger terrorist attack.

I would assume that the risk here is similar to that of many other companies or persons that use large amounts of explosives or other tools that could be weaponized. Musk has a delivery system that is superior to just driving a truck with explosives somewhere, but in many cases that doesn't matter much.

There are some scenarios I could imagine, but they're really more like movie scripts than reality. Musk doesn't have the power to prevent retaliation, and he also couldn't threaten or demand ransom as he couldn't defend his rockets against the US military.
by dbg31415 | 2025-08-24 22:26:45+00:00
What scares me about this is that Tylenol is a drug that's been handed out to everyone, for everything, for decades. And if we could miss how dangerous this one is, what are the odds other drugs aren't just as risky?

Side note, here's a Scrubs clip from 2001 that shows just how ubiquitous Tylenol was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDWj7kZcRc

I know the anti-vax crowd is full of homeopaths, chiropractors, and tarot readers. But they're not wrong about one thing: drug companies make money by selling drugs. If we can't guarantee real oversight before those drugs hit the market, we're in deep trouble.
by aftbit | 2025-08-24 22:26:52+00:00
On the flip side, a lot of those old through-hole memory chips have failed. I'm not sure what the mechanism of action is, but it likely leads back to some kind of (at the time unknown) manufacturing defect. Every new generation requires higher purity and better quality control (because those tiny transistors are less tolerant of defects). If we optimized for longevity rather than flops per dollar or per watt, we would likely keep making the same hardware for a very long time, optimizing the process along the way and learning about the pitfalls. Maybe you can see such things in the military or industrial computing spaces.
by ironmagma | 2025-08-24 22:27:04+00:00
We need to see a move toward the gold standard. People should generally be trading dollars for gold, even if it's virtual gold. Ever since we got off the gold standard, compensation has been lagging behind productivity, and that means that over time everyone's compensation has been slowly shrinking. It may well be true that fiat currency is necessary at some point in a country's history, but that moment isn't right now.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-24 22:27:17+00:00
The first thing that jumps out is that it is impossible to avoid the absurd juxtaposition of a republican led major national corporate stake, after a decade of the auto bailouts being used as a poster child of policy that the current party in charge doesn't agree with.

Moving on from that, you make a good point that it may be the best compromise if the original deal is off the table. That said, in my eyes the implementation could be better. On both a practical and ideological level, I think it would behoove the dealmakers to lay out clear exit conditions. That could look something like anything from signing a covenant with Intel to freeze dividends and corporate buybacks and pay down debt (which is dangerously high for them currently), and then once the corporate balance sheet gets to a safer level, the US gov could run a public auction for the equity once that strike level is hit. I'm sure they could come up with something palatable. What's unexcusable is to apparently enter into a seemingly permanent zone of CCP-style state corporate capitalism without clearly laying out what that means for America going forwards. As an average citizen, I certainly have questions about the precedents being set, and to me it just looks haphazard and off-the-cuff.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-08-24 22:27:46+00:00
To add on, are they talking about access tokens or refresh tokens? It can’t be just one token, because then when it expires you have to update it manually from a portal or go through the same auth process, neither of which is good.

And what time frame is “long-lived”? IME access tokens almost always have a lifetime of one week and refresh tokens anywhere from 6 months to a year.
by efilife | 2025-08-24 22:27:52+00:00
I think about this very often and was thinking to write an article about this for years, and today too. Good that someone beat me to it, now I don't have to.

I was repeatedly told in school that math is a very important skill to possess as a programmer even though the teachers never wrote a line of code in their lives. This would be one of its main points. Where the hell do people get this idea from?
by PhantomHour | 2025-08-24 22:27:58+00:00
The entire point of the funding is the strategic benefit that Intel's fabs in the US provide. That's the thing the US would get out of it.

Also consider: Who is the $10 billion coming from? Because it's not Intel. Intel just prints the shares out of thin air. This is Trump stealing $10 billion directly from Intel's shareholders, who get nothing in return because Trump is legally required to disburse the CHIPS Act money.
by ekropotin | 2025-08-24 22:28:06+00:00
I got annoyed enough with Markdown tooling that I decided to build my own.

Here’s the problem: markdownlint and similar tools do the job, but they’re not exactly fast, and worse — they don’t integrate cleanly into editors because they don’t speak LSP. That means you either run them as one-off CLI tools or settle for half-baked editor plugins.

So I hacked together Quickmark, a Markdown linter written in Rust. It’s: – Fast (because Rust) – Built on the Language Server Protocol, so it plugs into any editor that supports LSP: VSCode, Neovim, JetBrains, etc. – Available as both a CLI tool and an editor integration

Repo: github.com/ekropotin/quickmark

I’m calling it beta because I’m sure there are bugs hiding, and I’d love for other people to try it and break it. Feedback/issues/PRs all welcome.
by rustystump | 2025-08-24 22:28:15+00:00
I understand the “writers block” but once you do have a vision or idea, it is incredibly hard to bring it into reality. Much like building a product you have to cut and cut and cut due to time/skill/money constraints. I think many people get hung up on “originality” part too much.

Most of the comments lamenting the idea stage come from those who have not pushed past that. Once you do have an idea, a vision, that is when the real work begins. It is also the most difficult. For every completed game no matter how bad, there is a graveyard of thousands of incomplete projects that no one sees. People vastly underestimate the effort it takes to make a complete game.

If you do struggle with, “what kind of game”, go play games. Alot of games. Write about the games. Between the likes and didnt likes, is the kind of game only you can make.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-24 22:28:25+00:00
True, but they're doing it on a far lower budget than the Space Shuttle.

A single RS-9 engine -- one of five used in the SLS -- costs more than an entire Falcon 9 launch with payload, taxes, and profit!

Starship is similarly frugal. Its construction is simpler, it is made of cheaper materials, it uses a cheaper fuel, etc, etc...

“Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
by stickfigure | 2025-08-24 22:28:35+00:00
> how often does this actually come up for data interchange

Pretty much anywhere with text-heavy payloads? It's quite a lot, I think, but still dwarfed by the number of cases where system A needs to perform some sort of RPC-like communication with system B.

I just think that there is plenty of room in the world for both approaches.
by godelski | 2025-08-24 22:28:42+00:00
> It’s actually amazing you need to tweak any of it to get sane behavior.

I think this is because for the most part people aren't running out of memory and swap. Makes sense for devs, but devs also usually have more memory (and consequently more swap too). Often an easier solution is just adding more swap or buying more RAM. I mean if you're running out of swap and RAM then you're problem is fundamentally related to trying to do things your system isn't capable of. Though, that doesn't mean it shouldn't fail more gracefully...
by refulgentis | 2025-08-24 22:28:51+00:00
I'm curious, how is AI assistance on an in class exam even possible? I can't picture how AI changed anything from, say, post-iPhone. i.e. I expect there to be holes in security re: bathroom breaks, but even in 2006 they confiscated cell phones during exams.

I guess what I'm asking is, how did AI shift the status quo for in class exams over, say, Safari?
by roscas | 2025-08-24 22:29:11+00:00
"Whatever fight against big tech has to be won on the streets, parliaments and courtrooms.", let me add schools here.

The main problem is that Windows comes on laptops.

So how can we fight this? It might be hard to make this illegal as also Apple creates hardware and put's the software on it.

So the only way is to teach people about their options.
by sunshine-o | 2025-08-24 22:29:48+00:00
> “Cars must include modern life‑saving tech like automatic braking and lane‑keeping.”

My observation and intuition is most accidents are caused by people using their phone, driving under the influence, wrong medicine, being crazy or just too tired or too old.

Unless we are talking about full self driving those assistances only delay an accident at best.

I enjoy those features, they are convenient, but I do not consider them safety features.
by claw-el | 2025-08-24 22:29:56+00:00
> However, a technically-poor product can make it nearly impossible to build an elegant API. That’s because API design usually tracks the “basic resources” of a product (for instance, Jira’s resources would be issues, projects, users and so on). When those resources are set up awkwardly, that makes the API awkward as well.

One issue I have with weird resources are those that feel like unnecessary abstraction. It makes it hard for the human to read and understand intuitively, especially someone new to these set of APIs. Also, it makes it so much harder to troubleshoot during an incident.
by riazrizvi | 2025-08-24 22:31:15+00:00
There’s overlap - I think mostly we harm ourselves, then we harm each other inadvertently, and lastly we harm each other intentionally. So promoting better relationships is a piece of it, but helping each other not harm ourselves (ie reach enlightenment) has the biggest effect. The hard thing is to balance it with our need to make a living, and to also not trigger some landmine of aspirational truth that others are determined to hold onto when we share our perspective.
by vyrti | 2025-08-24 22:31:22+00:00
https://github.com/vuiodev/vuio

Introducing: VuIO - open source UPNP/DLNA server written in Rust With database and folder live changes tracking, and docker images for arm and x86 Native support: Windows (ARM/x86), Mac (ARM/x86), Linux (ARM/x86), Docker (Alpine Linux ARM/x86)

Clients tested VLC/Android, VLC IOS, Sony TV (So basically all android tv should work)

Full docker support

Extreme low RAM and CPU usage comparing to Serviio (Like 4mb instead of 300+) Fun fact: htop consumes more resources than this app with large collection of files :P

License: Apache 2.0 This is Gerbera, MiniDLNA and Serviio replacement
by simonh | 2025-08-24 22:32:48+00:00
Multiple current, and more significantly former SpaceX engineers have confirmed Musk was the driving force behind the engineering decisions that lead to reusability for Falcon 9.

He’s also been very much in the driving seat on engineering for Starship, and we’ve yet to see how well that works out, but the success of F9 is there to see.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-24 22:32:59+00:00
So should the government give bailouts without getting any equity back? Only deal in loans?

Intel is strategically important. As nice as it is to pretend that the whole world plays by the same rules, that the free market exists everywhere and that we'll never to to war, there are bad actors and the US (rest of the collective West as well) need to ensure that we won't be completely crippled if China attacks a single island off their coast...
by aboodman | 2025-08-24 22:34:15+00:00
FYI, Zero uses incremental view maintenance internally as the core of its sync engine:

https://zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/introduction

IVM is what allows the core feature of our DX: that users can just do a fairly large query with sorts and joins, like:

zero.query.posts.where('authorID', 42) .orderBy('created', 'desc') .limit(1000) .related('comments', c => c.orderBy('created', 'desc').limit(10))

... and we sync updates to this query incrementally to the client.

TanStack DB also uses IVM, but only client-side currently.

If you are interested in such things, you can take a poke around the source here: https://github.com/rocicorp/mono/tree/main/packages/zql. Or come find us in Discord: https://discord.rocicorp.dev/
by gruez | 2025-08-24 22:34:24+00:00
It's still strictly worse than the privacy you get with ivp4 + NAT. Even with privacy addresses, a device has its own unique (but rotating) address, so it can be uniquely identified. Contrast this with ipv4 + NAT where all devices share the same address, and the only identifying characteristic is the port, which changes on a per-connection basis. On a typical home networking scenario this is handy, because it means advertisers can distinguish traffic coming from your daughter's phone between traffic coming from your PC. With ipv4 they're mixed under one IP address, and you need to resort to various forms of fingerprinting to distinguish them. On a public VPN server this basically kills privacy, which is probably why all the VPNs I've encountered are ipv4 only.