MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wizee | 2025-08-13 18:34:06+00:00
That’s the thing - old German compact luxury sedans from the 80s had the control feel, balance, and light weight you get from a Porsche, while also being practical family cars. There’s nothing like that made today. They were also decently safe and comfortable and reliable and generally just good.

Also the bigger ones like the W126, while not as light and agile as a Porsche or Lotus, still had similar control feel, very comfortable and spacious interiors, and could glide over the worst most broken and potholed roads better than any modern car I’ve driven. They’re also much simpler than any modern luxury cars, much less to break, and they just keep going and going as long as you take basic care. From personal experience, a much younger used W220 or W221 S class needs far more maintenance and repair than an old W126.

The more powerful but still reliable engines and nicer transmissions of the late W140 or W220 would be nice to have in a W126 though. My problem with the newer S classes is the complexity and fragility of the rest of the car.

Of course, these are 40 year old cars and need more care and maintenance than a new car, but they’re not too bad either as long as you get a good example of the car. They’re pretty reliable once sorted, and can last a very long time and very high mileage as long as they’re at least somewhat cared for.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-13 18:34:27+00:00
I believe divide-by-zero produces an exception. The machine can either be configured to mask that exception, or not.

Personally, I am lazy, so I don’t check the mxcsr register before I start running my programs. Maybe gcc does something by default, I don’t know. IMO legitimate division by zero is rare but not impossible, so if you do it, the onus is on you to make sure the flags are set up right.
by hintymad | 2025-08-13 18:34:29+00:00
> Tech layoffs by year

I was wondering how much was due to over hiring during the crazy 2020-2021. Multiple companies increased their headcount by more than 50%, or even by 100% during the two years. That does not make business or technical sense at all, as tech companies are supposed to scale their services with technology instead of people. Companies add people only if they want to invest in new areas, but exactly how many new areas can we get in merely two years?
by ikskuh | 2025-08-13 18:34:30+00:00
Creator here!

Yes, the OS is highly opinionated, as just making another linux is incredibly boring for me!

The 32-bit only constraint is mainly due to my focus on smaller architectures, especially microcontrollers.

x86_64 and aarch64 both have much more complex initialiastion schemes, and also use much more complex page table setups.

Thus, i wanted to keep that out of the system, considering i'm targeting systems with a tiny fraction of the 4 GiB memory limit.

The co-op multitasking is a part of the OS, and the OS doesn't give you preemptive multitasking. I never said i won't implement sanity safeguards! Just killing off a hanging process that doesnt yield for more than 1-5 secs is totally i scope and increases user friendlyness. but considering the system reboots in 1.2 s on target hw right now, the user will maybe just have hit reset by then :D
by some_random | 2025-08-13 18:34:34+00:00
Is it just me or is the title kinda unclear?

>The patient told doctors that after reading about the negative effects of sodium chloride, or table salt, he consulted ChatGPT about eliminating chloride from his diet and started taking sodium bromide over a three-month period. This was despite reading that “chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning”. Sodium bromide was used as a sedative in the early 20th century.

In any case, I feel like I really need to see the actual conversation itself to judge how badly chatgpt messed up, if there's no extra context assuming that the user is talking about cleaning doesn't seem _that_ unreasonable.
by raphinou | 2025-08-13 18:34:37+00:00
Some years ago I also wanted to make ocaml my primary language, but rapidly encountered problems: difficulty to install (on Linux due to the requirement of a very unusual tool which name and function I forgot), no response from community regarding how to solve that problem, no solid postgresql driver, ....

Wanting to use a functional language I pivoted to fsharp, which was not the expected choice for me as I use Linux exclusively. I have been happy with this choice, it has even become my preferred language. The biggest problem for me was the management of the fsharp community, the second class citizen position of fsharp in the DotNet ecosystem, and Microsoft's action screwing the goodwill of the dev community (eg hot reload episode). I feel this hampered the growth of the fsharp community.

I'm now starting to use rust, and the contrast on these points couldn't be bigger.

Edit: downvoters, caring to share why? I thought sharing my experience would have been appreciated. Would like to know why I was wrong.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-13 18:34:48+00:00
"If someone started reading all the package descriptions and READMEs we're meant to be thoroughly familiar with when Trixie was released a few days ago, they'd still be reading them."

Another option might be to reduce the amount of software one is "blindly"^1 using and relying upon

For example, I have been making own Linux distribution, not following Linux from Scratch (although that is a useful reference)

This is for both learning but also reliability and robustness purposes (where "robustness" includes ability to recover quickly from losing everything)

IME starting from scratch gives a better appreciation for the "inconveniences" that maintainers must endure

"Inconvenience" may be putting it mildly

Certainly, the inconvenience varies depending on the software

Some software builds even on the most deficient/broken installations

Other software is absurdly difficult to compile, often due to minor oversights, sometimes due to obivous carelessness

The wild inconsistencies from one project to another is itself part of the inconvenience

The ease with which software can be compiled by me, and presumably anyone else, on any computer, including underpowered ones, with minimal dependencies, is among the factors I consider when choosing whether to rely on any particular software

1. Here "blindly" means the user has zero curiosity about where it comes from or how it works

No comment on this particular software or the Debian maintainer

I have up on X11 many years ago

I never liked that Debian maintainers make subjective, opinionated changes to other peoples' software, especially since it seems like the majority of Debian users do not compile from source
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-08-13 18:34:49+00:00
Garmins are incredibly expensive and not everyone wants a fitness tracker. Garmin's UX is also very disjointed between devices for how expensive they are. Plus, battery life tends to be garbage for smartwatches. I just sold my Apple Watch for a Coros because I was tired of trading battery life for features I didn't want/use and Garmins also require yet another subscription for some features. As someone who just spent the last month deciding on a new fitness wearable, much of the market is full of bloated devices that don't do everything right, but instead do a handful of things right with a laundry list of caveats.

There's still a strong market for dumb watches too, so a long-lasting "smart" device that does some things but not as much as an Apple Watch, Garmin, Coros, etc while still serving as a general information displaying wearable sounded enticing. Unfortunately Apple's lockdown of the iPhone for the previous Pebbles (which I think might still be a thing) and my need for fitness tracking are what prevented me from buying a Pebble.
by evklein | 2025-08-13 18:34:55+00:00
> Isn't the sector for software that is life-critical really small?

I think it's large. Think about the software that goes into something like air travel - ATC, weather tracking, the actual control software for the aircraft... I am aware that nothing is perfect, but I'd at least like to know that a person wrote those things who could be held accountable.
by user_7832 | 2025-08-13 18:35:02+00:00
(My personal perspective or views below.)

To misquote Bernie, I am once again ~~asking~~ requesting for a single watch to have both heart rate/health tracking, as well as compass and barometer in a single watch.

I had an Amazfit Bip which, just like a Pebble, also had a transflective screen and between 1 to 2.5 months of battery life. However, it did have a compass along with a barometer, alongside HR/activity/sleep tracking.

I was (and still am) sad when my watch broke (screen pops out, known failure mode).

Since then I got a basic Band (7), and very recently, the Amazfit Active 2.

The latter is amazing on many aspects. Every sensor mentioned above of course, but a few nice add ons like continuous barometer readings for storm warnings, a thermometer, and so on.

What it notably does not have, s nither the transflective screen, nor the week to month(s) long battery life.

I searched a good bit for transflective watches, and it seems garmin is the only half-decent brand in town, and they appear to paywall nicer features to their expensive products.

In the absence of much of a budget, my choice was easy. But I really hope Pebble makes something in a single package that makes my next watch purchase a real dilemma if not an outright purchase :)
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-13 18:35:40+00:00
From the OP:

> "There may have been multiple factors contributing to the man’s psychosis, and his exact interaction with ChatGPT remains unverified. The medical team does not have access to the chatbot conversation logs and cannot confirm the exact wording or sequence of messages that led to the decision to consume bromide."

Any legal liability for providing information is wrought with opportunities for abuse, so bigly so that it should never be considered.
by svpk | 2025-08-13 18:35:41+00:00
Switzerland has its act together with public transit as far as I'm aware, so the following doesn't actually apply to them. But something to note is that when trying to increase ridership the two most important things are reduced head times (ie a train shows up every 5 minutes, not every hour) and being consistently on-time. Only after those are sorted should transit look at eliminating fares. As if you eliminate fares first you're cutting into revenue that could be used to reduce head times and increase timeliness.
by neilv | 2025-08-13 18:35:51+00:00
It's from 2007; if someone showed you this today, as what you needed to know as a hire, they'd be scamming you.

This seems like only the "first slide's" worth of what a tech employee needs to know about stock options, and not the most important things.

It's also worded imperfectly in parts, with the effect of being misleading.

If you start by looking at the lede and first paragraph, it's unclear who this is for, and seems more like a child's "book report", with no regard for the reader, nor sufficient understanding of the space that's relevant to the reader.

Perhaps this wasn't garbage in 2007, but I'm flagging it in 2025.
by whimsicalism | 2025-08-13 18:35:57+00:00
the terms of service links to the privacy policy to explain how private repos are treated, the privacy policy is equally binding. from your link:

> Short version: We treat the content of private repositories as confidential, and we only access it as described in our Privacy Statement—for security purposes, to assist the repository owner with a support matter, to maintain the integrity of the Service, to comply with our legal obligations, if we have reason to believe the contents are in violation of the law, or with your consent.
by JonChesterfield | 2025-08-13 18:35:57+00:00
That's definitely possible. The UB if no provenance information is available belief comes from https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cerberus/clarifying-provenan..., in particular

> access via a pointer value with empty provenance is undefined behaviour

I'm annoyed that casting an aligned array of bytes to a pointer to a network packet type is forbidden, and that a pointer to float can't be cast to a pointer to a simd vector of float, and that malloc cant be written in C, but perhaps those aren't provenance either.
by mFixman | 2025-08-13 18:36:46+00:00
The whole mess is a good example why benchmark-driven-development has negative consequences.

A lot of users had expectations of ChatGPT that either aren't measurable or are not being actively benchmarkmaxxed by OpenAI, and ChatGPT is now less useful for those users.

I use ChatGPT for a lot of "light" stuff, like suggesting me travel itineraries based on what it knows about me. I don't care about this version being 8.243% more precise, but I do miss the warmer tone of 4o.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-08-13 18:36:51+00:00
Yeah, the Wawa supercharger is an essential stop. There aren't any chargers in Lake Superior provincial park so you pretty much always have to stop in Wawa when driving the Trans-Canada across Ontario. It'll likely be a longer charge for that reason, so you should check out the Goose statue or cross the road to Timmy's while you wait.
by grepnork | 2025-08-13 18:37:01+00:00
I take it you didn't read your own link, the language used is "services".

If you happen to be running the UK panty wetters forum from your own server, then you have a problem, but grandma Jessie's knitting circle is explicitly not in scope.

YOUR link goes on to say

>the more onerous requirements will fall upon the largest services with the highest reach and/or those services that are particularly high risk.

Even if your forum falls in scope, you're only required to do a risk assessment, if at that stage you are likely to have a lot of underage users, then there might be an issue.

However, if you're not an adult site, you only need to comply by providing the lowest level of self certified check. Handily, most of the big forum software providers have already implemented this and offer a free service integration.

Storm meet teacup.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-13 18:37:04+00:00
I'm happy that people you know got laid in high school but loneliness has become society destroying epidemic and your friends that are getting laid are not doing enough to save the fertility rates.

The strange tone in your writing reminds me of Dinesh from the Silicon Valley series :) I'm sure you are one of the cool ones with the good hairstyle who doesn't need alcohol unlike the lesser people haha.

Alcohol is not about being so drunk that you do degenerate stuff and fuck people you don't like. It's about easing the social anxieties and improving the mood together with a good company and some music.
by kruffalon | 2025-08-13 18:37:49+00:00
> my friends/co-workers/classmates introduced me to izakaya culture - being with friends for 2-6 hours, drinking and snacking and talking. And sometimes going to 2nd, 3rd, or 4th outings.

There must be something I'm not understanding about "izakaya culture", because that just sounds like hanging with friends without a specific activity planned so you just talk shit, have a drink and eat (whether at home or different places around town), maybe someone breaks out a pack of cards?
by wongarsu | 2025-08-13 18:37:54+00:00
That's $2k/3k to get a box with fully assembled hardware delivered to your doorstep or to a DC of your choice.

Space in your basement or the colo rack of a datacenter along with power, data and cooling is an expense on top. But whatever old servers they have are going to take up more space and use more power and cooling. Upgrading servers that are 5+ years old frequently pays for itself because of the reduced operating costs (unless you opt for more processing power at equal operating cost instead)
by bartread | 2025-08-13 18:38:08+00:00
My wife and I were away visiting family over a long weekend when GPT 5 launched, so whilst I was aware of the hype (and the complaints) from occasionally checking the news I didn't have any time to play with it.

Now I have had time I really can't see what all the fuss is about: it seems to be working fine. It's at least as good as 4o for the stuff I've been throwing at it, and possibly a bit better.

On here, sober opinions about GPT 5 seem to prevail. Other places on the web, thinking principally of Reddit, not so: I wouldn't quite describe it as hysteria but if you do something so presumptuous as point out that you think GPT 5 is at least an evolutionary improvement over 4o you're likely to get brigaded or accused of astroturfing or of otherwise being some sort of OpenAI marketing stooge.

I don't really understand why this is happening. Like I say, I think GPT 5 is just fine. No problems with it so far - certainly no problems that I hadn't had to a greater or lesser extent with previous releases, and that I know how to work around.
by Flozzin | 2025-08-13 18:38:13+00:00
The article digs a little deeper after. Saying the chat records are lost, and that when they asked ChatGPT, it didn't give that guidance about cleaning purposely only, and that it never asked why they wanted to know.

Really though, this could have just as easily happened in a google search. It's not ChatGPT's fault as much as this persons fault for using a non-medical professional for medical guidance.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-13 18:38:16+00:00
> People are clicking the buttons just because they are there.

The reasons why they click the buttons are utterly irrelevant to anyone except them.

Let them click the buttons. It's their right.

> But, I still feel like this went too far.

Not far enough. I think data should be a massive liability. It should actively cost you lots of money to know any fact at all about any person anywhere on the planet.

In other words, in an ideal world you would be scrambling to press that button on their behalf the second your business with them was concluded. "Can we please forget everything we know about you please?" and only their explicit affirmative consent would allow you to not delete their data.
by pat-storyborn | 2025-08-13 18:38:26+00:00
First you get a story or create it, you can read it to kid then you can introduce them to characters via Voice Bot with smart matched voice. Parent can put knowledge to the character to lets say mostly focus on explaining emotion controll - super important for kids and caus of a lot of problems. Thing is kids rebell by design, so getting a wizard or princess to casually channel your thougths in is working, tested on live patients :-) Obviously its not to be used all the time for everything but a usefull tool I think
by radu_floricica | 2025-08-13 18:38:41+00:00
I'm probably part of the contingent you're alluding to. I'm not cheering. I am however a lot less likely to be depressed, mostly because whenever I tried to fact check a doom-like piece of news, I found it failing, hard. So now I'm at a "once every three months" rotation - which will of course change the first time I manage to confirm a piece of news.

I am moderately pessimistic about the state of research because I do hear things I don't like, but this is compensated by my belief that US academia has a ridiculous amount of institutional entropy, and I'm perfectly willing with temporary issues if this means at least some of the long term problems will be improved. So overall... cautiously optimistic? Long term at least. Is that cheering?

And since the grandparent also mentioned visas - here at least I have a pretty simple opinion. Congress should step up and reform immigration laws. They've avoided doing this for decades, and it's kinda useless to put the blame anywhere else. (for context I'm not american, and my country just had the visa waiver canceled this year by the current administration, so I'm actually on the other side of the fence).
by roscas | 2025-08-13 18:38:51+00:00
I just had this crazy idea... stay with me... how about... make Windows 11 or 12 or what version is the latest who know what version is by now... make it better by removing the shit, games, idiotic programs like make notepad with AI and just fix all the stupid bugs that cost time to people every single day? How about that?

And why not, make Office and Teams to work properly, and I don't even update my Arch everyday... why does Edge and Teams have 3 updates a day?
by d4mi3n | 2025-08-13 18:39:14+00:00
I think this is putting the cart before the horse. Programs are generally harder to read than they are to write, so optimizing for concise output to benefit the tool at the potential expense of the human isn't a trade I'd personally make.

Granted, this may just be an argument for being more comfortable reading/writing code in a particular style, but even without the advantages of LLMs adoption of functional paradigms and tools has been a struggle.
by 1over137 | 2025-08-13 18:39:23+00:00
>And for some reason a contingent of HN is cheering it on.

Seems easily understood. Only 5% of humanity are USians, for the rest, 'your loss is our gain'. Where cowmix wishes for all the brilliant minds to come to the US, the countries that lose those people call it a 'brain drain', and the reduction of that brain drain is most welcome.
by mgh2 | 2025-08-13 18:39:34+00:00
They are just taking advantage of current administration's policies (ICE) and AI hype.

Their differentiator is gov. contracts (clearance), which is easy to fool - helped by Sam Altman's AI "doom and gloom" warnings to congress.

Look at their competitors and their TAM, all in the red - looks like a short case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuBCk8XMC8&t=1769s
by nis0s | 2025-08-13 18:39:52+00:00
Which Christians, though? America formed precisely because of sectarian tensions and differences. The mindset which hunted the former Anglos to North American shores is that of supremacy and domination, and that mindset always seeks to create in-groups and out-groups because that is how its members understand the world and navigate in it, zero-sum games.

My point being that even if America becomes all Christian and all white, then it will simply start to separate its constituents between the right type of Christian, or the right type of white. All of history has evidence precisely of this behavior because the nature which drives that behavior is still present, and it always will be in one form or another. Maybe the packaging or the politics change, but any ideology based on domination, and supremacy of itself over others will always be subject to purity contests, in-groups/out-groups, and suppressing objective analysis or discourse.

That said, America doesn’t need to be multicultural in the sense that it adheres to or incorporates ideology that goes against its core philosophy laid out by the Founding Fathers. The vision of the Founders helped create a powerful machine for regional and global supremacy, and a lot of that was dependent on the healthy function of democratic institutions.

The problem is that a lot of American democratic institutions caved in to pressures to address global challenges, and some of those challenges may have been outside of their purview, or they took an incorrect approach to address the issues. It’s impossible to save people from themselves. It’s impossible to save bad culture from undoing a nation state, unless its regime is propped up by external pressures, in some way or another.

America is currently propped up by its productivity engine from the 90s and mid-augts, which is why other countries are putting up with tariffs to do business here. The myopic vision of the Christian, white nationalist is going to create something smaller and less effective, which is worrisome because America has alienated almost everyone all over the world.

In truth, all a country has are its people, factories and bombs. America doesn’t have factories to any appreciable degree, and if it loses its people, then all the bombs in its arsenal will not reduce the cumulative prowess of other nations. Some serious reflection needs to be done on the fact that this push-pull of Red/Blue has saved this country from its worst impulses up to now. I only wish that the illegal immigration was addressed sooner, and in a more humane manner.