MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivanmontillam | 2025-08-11 21:29:14+00:00
Well, for starters: Linux is of Finnish origin.

Linus Torvalds might be a U.S. citizen today, but during the first years of Linux he was certainly not thinking U.S. values and that someday his biggest userbase would be there.

> Weekly news wrapup: Microsoft claims Linux is un-American:

Yeah, typical Ballmer-era.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-08-11 21:29:15+00:00
> stop annexing foreign territories

Gaza is not a foreign territory. It is part of israel. Israel won it over the course of a series of wars that they won in the last century. Almost all of which were not started by the israelis. If the gazans wanted sovereignty they shouldnt have started and lost so many wars. Losing has consequences.

> there is only one side currently shooting at civilians

The only reason the gazans are not doing this is because they are utterly incompetent, they cant. I dont see how that gives them the moral high ground. As soon as they gain the ability to shoot israeli civilians they will begin to do so again.

Both sides are led by truly despicable governments, no one has any amount of moral high ground in this conflict imo.
by paulorlando | 2025-08-11 21:29:23+00:00
That story is very Chesterton Fence. If Chesterton was working in a canal instead of walking on a country path. There's a balance between preserving memory and maintaining and benefitting from that knowledge and choosing what not to remember.

When Kurt Cobain shot and killed himself in 1994, his widow went on TV to say that what he did was wrong. Cobain’s death then did not result in others’ killing themselves (known as the “Werther effect”). Robin William’s suicide 20 years later, however, did result in more deaths as the story spread widely.

But otherwise, I do agree that we should preserve institutional memory and that putting processes over people can lead to forgetting.
by dathinab | 2025-08-11 21:29:43+00:00
we are EU based and have besides other attorney customers.

Cloud Act and more then just one or two cases of the US engaging in industry espionage against their allies(1) makes it a high legal liability to use more or less any service from a US company even if it's in the EU and a EU daughter company

On GitHub we only have some code, which always anyway goes through additional testing and analysis before hitting production, this is why it's barely okay. No code from GitHub directly goes to production.

The only reason we ever where on GitHub is because we didn't always had sensitive customers and switching CI over is always a pain.

So I don't know if imply them being incompetent for allowing GitHub or for wanting to not allow it, but both point have very good reasons.

(1): And I mean cases before Trump, the US (as in top government, not people) was always a highly egoistic, egocentric ally which never hesitated to screw over their allays when it came to economical benefits. The main difference is that in the past the US cared (quite a bit) about upholding a image of "traditional" values like honesty, integrity and reliability. Especially when it would affect their trade routes.
by pjerem | 2025-08-11 21:29:52+00:00
> You can (for example) de-bloat Windows 11 out from the telemetry and annoying widgets nobody uses, including the invasive Copilot. > After de-bloating, it's a decent OS on its own.

Sure you can. I, as a tech savvy person, can debloat Windows 11. If I dare to do it. If I know I can do it. If I search for information on the internet on how to do it. If I know how to search and follow those instructions. If I follow all the steps (and hope my tutorial covers everything). If Microsoft doesn’t push an update to bloat it again.

And with that, well I still don’t know how to install it without a Microsoft account. It’s so incredibly user hostile that even the insufferable Apple Walled Garden don’t force you into all of this shit.
by csb6 | 2025-08-11 21:30:04+00:00
> The major problem of both human-readable and binary formats is not the serialized form, but the understanding of the schema (structure) of the data, which more often than not, is completely undocumented. Human-readable formats are worse in this regard, because they justify it by "it's obvious what this is".

Exactly - CSV files for instance handle escaping or quoting inconsistently depending on the creator. Even supposedly machine readable text formats like RSS do not always have consistent schemas [0]. Unix programs seem particularly prone to using underspecified text formats as output.

[0] https://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html
by throwup238 | 2025-08-11 21:30:06+00:00
The major news orgs like NYT, WaPo, etc usually have their own critics and they syndicate their content to smaller papers so they’re usually competing with the AP. The smaller papers don't have their own critics at all but most syndicate from the bigger papers and the ones that specialize more in non-factual content like Tribune Content Agency and Creators Syndicate.

I think this is just AP cutting the red headed step child because they don’t produce much other opinion content, instead focusing on analysis and factual reporting, so everyone goes to another source that has more depth in their book reviews.
by integralid | 2025-08-11 21:30:24+00:00
>The whole story of

Is that really the story? I think it was more like "backward compatible solution soon about more pure, theoretically better solution"

There's enormous non-xhtml legacy than nobody wanted to port. And tooling back in the day didn't make it easy to write correct xhtml.

Also like it or not, HTML is still written by humans sometimes, and they don't like parser blowing up because of a minor problem. Especially since such problems are often detected late, and a page which displays slightly wrong is much better outcome than the page blowing up.
by codedokode | 2025-08-11 21:30:39+00:00
In Russia there is a plan to make special SIM cards for children, that would not allow registration in social networks. Isn't it better than UK legislation?

The whole idea that every site or app must do verification is stupid. It would be much easier and better to do verification at the store when buying a laptop, a phone or a SIM card. The verification status can be burned in firmware memory, and the device would allow only using sites and apps from the white list. In this case website operators and app developers wouldn't need to do anything and carry no expenses. This approach is simpler and superior to what UK does. If Apple or Microsoft refuse to implement restricted functionality for non-verified devices, they can be banned and replaced by alternative vendors complying with this proposal. It is much easier to force Apple and Microsoft - two rich companies - to implement children protection measures than thousands of website operators and app developers.
by betteryourweb | 2025-08-11 21:31:18+00:00
You really didn't see that coming at the moment they bought Github? That was their entire intent, to have full access to all of the greatest minds in software... Everyone should have bailed immediately after acquisition... If you don't control the servers that your code is on, it's no longer your code, at the very least, you're sharing with your hosting provider. But, everyone needs to hurry up and jump to market, instead of taking the time to build their own servers, custom development environment, etc. So, because everyone followed the herd, now everyone is lead slaughter... This was a collective choice made out of laziness, convenience, false sense of necessity, greed, etc... We have no to blame but ourselves, because it wouldn't have happen if we didn't choose it...
by tapoxi | 2025-08-11 21:31:27+00:00
Basically, PS5 sales recently reached 80 million. Xbox Series X/S is estimated about 30 million. They lost the generation where digital libraries were built and can't gain the market back.

There's been a lot of rumor lately that Xbox becomes a shell on top of Windows and just runs regular Windows games. The announcement of the Xbox ROG Ally using this same approach gives it a lot of weight.
by lm28469 | 2025-08-11 21:31:50+00:00
How big is the pool of legit economists who post videos AND know enough about "ai" to talk with any kind of authority ?

99% of economists couldn't see any of the big downturns up to 1hr before shit hit the fan. Yet they all retrospectively can upload 12 hours long video on youtube to explain you how the dot com or 2008 crisis were so obvious you'd have to be blind to not have seen them coming...

> and thus people will be freed to do other, more important work.

"freed" is a weird word to employ, given the century+ long race to automation shouldn't we all have been freed by now ? Why do so many people work min wage or other type of precarious jobs ? Why will I retire later than my parents and grand parents ?

And what do you mean by "more important" ? Most jobs are bullshit and workers know it, they don't want important jobs, they want stables jobs that pay enough to live life, and "ai" is going to do anything but improve that
by prinny_ | 2025-08-11 21:32:14+00:00
The thought that I would have to go through the trouble of reading some git repo to run a script that will debloat my OS, no matter how easy or straightforward might be, makes me feel tired. I don't want to fight my OS, I want it to work with me. Between searching and learning stuff for my job and searching and learning stuff for my personal development or hobbies, investing time in tinkering windows of all things doesn't exactly feel me with excitement. I would rather switch to Mac or invest time tinkering a linux distribution that actually respects me.
by yencabulator | 2025-08-11 21:32:42+00:00
You literally said

> these claims are only true of anything pre-Nadella era (part of 2014 and earlier).

in response to parent's

> - creating vendor-locked proprietary extensions to kill open technologies (ActiveX plugins, Silverlight, C++/CLI, MSJVM, etc.)

and VSCode is a perfect example of that happening right now.
by whoknowsidont | 2025-08-11 21:33:35+00:00
>That's not what the original thread comments were discussing. There are ways to mitigate this with proper context and memory management but it is more advanced.

That is what the original article is describing, and what the comments misunderstood or purposefully over-simplified, and extends it to being able to trace these issues across a large amount of calls/invocations at scale.

>MCP has none of this richness. No machine-readable contracts beyond basic JSON schemas means you can’t generate type-safe clients or prove to auditors that AI interactions follow specified contracts.

>MCP ignores this completely. Each language implements MCP independently, guaranteeing inconsistencies. Python’s JSON encoder handles Unicode differently than JavaScript’s JSON encoder. Float representation varies. Error propagation is ad hoc. When frontend JavaScript and backend Python interpret MCP messages differently, you get integration nightmares. Third-party tools using different MCP libraries exhibit subtle incompatibilities only under edge cases. Language-specific bugs require expertise in each implementation, rather than knowledge of the protocol.

>Tool invocations can’t be safely retried or load-balanced without understanding their side effects. You can’t horizontally scale MCP servers without complex session affinity. Every request hits the backend even for identical, repeated queries.

Somehow comments confused a server <-> client interaction which has been a non-issue for decades with making the rest of the "call stack" dependable. What leads to that level of confusion, I can only guess it's inexperience and religious zealotry.

It's also worth noting that certain commenters saying I "should" (I'm using this word on purpose) read the spec is also pretty laughable, considering how vague the "protocol" itself is.

>Clients SHOULD validate structured results against this schema.

Have fun with that one. MCP could have at least copied the XML/SOAP process around this and we'd be better off.

Which again, leads back to the articles ultimate premise. MCP does a lot of talking and not a lot of walking, it's pointless at best and is going to lead to A LOT of integration headaches.
by Ancapistani | 2025-08-11 21:33:51+00:00
At no point did I suggest that it was a primary means of hiring. It’s certainly not “absolutely no one”, though.

> And “a couple” is statistically so close to zero, it might as well be zero.

No, it’s three that got hired (me and two others I hired), with a self-selected sample of one. Certainly not statistically significant, but it’s also far from nothing.

I wouldn’t recommend anyone grind leetcode. There are plenty of jobs that done’t require it, and IMO those are the ones you likely want anyhow.
by skydhash | 2025-08-11 21:33:57+00:00
Agree on the one engineer overpromising. But you can talk about a product without knowing how it’s built in finer details. But what can and can’t be done is the realm of engineering. Then the filtered list can be reduced by product to the ones that are inportant. So it’s actually a spiral: (product) here’s what I would like -> (eng) here’s how it can be done -> (product) let’s go with this one -> (eng) here is the plan -> etc…
by bravesoul2 | 2025-08-11 21:34:04+00:00
Some of this sounds like it could benefit from check-lists (probably you are?).

20 home todos could be wrapped into a single check list that you do once a week.

The master todo says "do 1 hour home checklist".

Then in that hour you analyse what you will prioritise, drop, defer and delegate.

The idea being your mind is then free of "repair the gutter" in general life, but you know you'll visit that on Sunday at 4pm.
by unquietwiki | 2025-08-11 21:34:47+00:00
I think OP is expecting that to be the outcome, given the roughly 2/3rds "Kent is (insert insinuation)" vs the 1/3rd "your stuff works, please stick around".

I worked for a guy that was looking forward to this work five years ago for a business product need. I'm glad to see it's made some headway in that time, but I have to wonder what it'd take to salvage the introduction of it to the Linux public at large. How do you even reset this mess?
by stego-tech | 2025-08-11 21:34:49+00:00
This is one of the biggest consequences of layoffs in corporations. There's this misconception that everything can and is "objectively" quantified, and thus layoffs targeting otherwise well-performing individuals are being done because this will quantifiably save the institution money and resources. Then something inevitably happens where someone they previously let go could've saved the cost of their employment and then some in damages, but the company is often too blind to realize this.

Thing is, I've seen this time and time again. A lot of us have, I suspect, seen this story repeatedly in our own current or prior organizations. Someone who worked for the company for a decade, or who had intricate knowledge of prior M&As, technology stacks, codebases, customers, and/or processes who was thrown out as a line on a spreadsheet.

I do my best to buck the trend in my work by documenting everything (the "bus problem", as I call it) I can and sharing it with my colleagues, but the continuous churn of M&As and software deprecation means that documentation is often discarded with old systems rather than reviewed and preserved, thus further erasing any lingering institutional memory.

To be fair, this issue isn't likely to kill a company outright on its own. Sure, it could lead to a serious problem and cost gobs of money, but it rarely kills a company or project outright in the process. Still, it's preventable harm just by keeping some additional persons around for knowledge or managing an organizational library of content. It's ultimately such a minor cost in the grand scheme of things that shareholders won't really care. $1m a year for a corporate library and a handful of staff to support it is peanuts on a multi-billion dollar enterprise balance sheet, and will almost certainly improve outcomes across the organization as a whole.

Or to put it far more simply: institutional memory is the fat on an animal. Cutting fat down to the bone leaves the animal weaker and vulnerable as a result, as it has no emergency stores of energy (or in this case, knowledge) to pull from and thus must cannibalize itself in times of crisis.
by nativeit | 2025-08-11 21:34:59+00:00
Vogsphere is the home planet of the Vogons, and features an especially fascinating type of flora that can read one’s thoughts, and anytime it detects an original thought, it jumps out of the ground and swiftly smacks said thinker square in the face. It’s a world that punishes novelty and intelligence.

My home wifi network has been named Vogsphere for some time now…
by goosejuice | 2025-08-11 21:35:07+00:00
Continuing to focus on me does nothing to substantiate your position.

> Asinine logic.

Do you want to make an argument, or is your goal just to dunk with these low effort responses and waste my time?

Multiple automakers are making similar marketing claims as Tesla as their level 2 classified technology improves. Tesla is not even remotely alone in any of this. They're just ahead. Meanwhile FTC has done nothing on this front for a decade.

Is a decade not long enough to take action? What's acceptable in your opinion?

> Who is relying?

Everyone that cares about autonomous vehicle safety and thinks Tesla is not doing enough to protect drivers. You'll find plenty of lawyers stating that tort law is the only way to settle ADAS cases right now.

In this particular 2019 crash, the jury found that Tesla had a defect for not disabling autopilot in this area. This is something that NTSB specifically called on the NHTSA to define better in 2017 prior to this fatality. In 2020, after this traffic fatality, the NHTSA responded for the first time saying this would be impractical to impossible to do and doubling down that the driver is responsible, to which the NTSB calls out the NHTSA for not doing enough to prevent these types of fatalities with Tesla.

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/sr-details/H-17-038

So we have a situation where Tesla and every other automaker is operating under the ill defined autonomous safety regulations of the NHTSA, a silent FTC, and a safety review board claiming that NHTSA isn't doing enough prior to and after this accident.

Dunk on Tesla all you want, but that's not going do anything to further road safety. I suspect that Tesla will lean heavily on FTC inaction and NHTSA's 2020 response in their appeal. Rightly so given the jury is contradicting NHTSA's own statement on liability for level 2 system. Hence the use tort law.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-08-11 21:35:23+00:00
Why bother mentioning this model? From what I've seen, it only excels at benchmarks. Qwen3 is sorta where its at right now; Qwen3-Coder is pretty much at "summer intern" level for coding tasks, and its ahead of the rest.

Shame anyone is actually _paying_ for commercial inference, its worse than whatever you can do locally.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-08-11 21:36:06+00:00
Parliamentary democracy has proven absolutely useless in defending alienable rights like freedom of speech.

I have been trying to think what sort of system is ideal to replace them. I think there has to be some kind of strong constitution that guarantees aforementioned rights. But I also think it's instructive to look at America wrt how that can go awry - ie their constitution is routinely ignored, and a lot of the political decision making is done by fifth columnists lobbying for a foreign nation.

Regardless, we need to start having these conversations. It's not a matter of getting different people into Westminster. Westminster is illegitimate. Let's think about what's next and how we can get there peacefully.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-11 21:37:03+00:00
MacOS 8 was not innovative by 1997 standards. I had it running on my PowerMac 6100/60. It was crash prone and Netscape could easily crash the entire OS, cooperative multitasking, you as an end user still had to manually allocate how much memory an app could have.

None of these were issues on Windows 98.
by cnst | 2025-08-11 21:37:27+00:00
The notice at stake is about key agreements (aka KEX aka Key Exchange), not about the keys themselves.

If you look at http://mdoc.su/o/ssh_config.5#KexAlgorithms and http://bxr.su/o/usr.bin/ssh/kex-names.c#kexalgs, `ecdsa-sha2-nistp256` is not a valid option for the setting (although `ecdh-sha2-nistp256` is).
by theothertimcook | 2025-08-11 21:38:12+00:00
They haven’t forced anything, someone from dreamworks wrote a blog post about “inclusive” language and a couple of foundations have adopted it as recommendations.

Part of the “woke” problem is the cycle of performatory outrage in response to performative identity politics.

If you want to make fluffy language in your work do it if you don’t, don’t
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-11 21:38:23+00:00
not sure I get your point. So because a movie producer didn't sign a contract with a pirate it's okay for the pirate to copy the movie without compensation and that's the only difference?

To me, in both cases someone did some work that someone else wants. In both cases they should pay for that work. If they are not willing to pay the price the person who did the work is asking, then they should go get work from someone else. At no point should they just say "well, I never contracted with you so therefore making a copy of the work you did is totally cool"
by ozim | 2025-08-11 21:38:29+00:00
.NET is now cross platform, but only as long as it doesn't hurt VS sales - I think MSFT doesn't care just as they don't care about GUI workloads, because only thing they care now is having developers run their stuff on Azure. You don't need VS for those cloud .NET apps and you don't need front end frameworks like Forms, Xamarin or MAUI. Seems like C++ is also something they would not be interested investing into when they can get people into cloud easier with C#.
by captainkrtek | 2025-08-11 21:38:29+00:00
With the story the other week of some peoples chatgpt threads being indexed by google, I came across a chatgpt thread related to conspiracy theories (in the title of the thread). Thinking it'd be benign I started reading it a bit, it was pretty clear the person chatting had some kind of mental disorder such as schizophrenia. It was a bit scary to see how the responses from chatgpt encouraged and furthered delusions, feeding into their theories and helping them spiral further. The thread was hundreds of messages long and it just went deeper and deeper. This was a situation I hadn't thought of, but given the sycophantic nature of some of these models, it's inevitable that they'll lead people further towards some dangerous tendencies or delusions.
by omnster | 2025-08-11 21:39:51+00:00
You can perhaps use `strftime` instead of `trim(system('date ..))`:

inoremap <Leader>date <C-r>=strftime("%a %B %e, %Y %H:%M:%S %p")<CR> nnoremap <Leader>date :put=strftime("%a %B %e, %Y %H:%M:%S %p")<CR>

I am also not sure if an `<esc>` is really necessary at the end of your normal mode map.
by crooked-v | 2025-08-11 21:40:09+00:00
I think the key difference here is that ChatGPT and its ilk give an unlimited stream of yes-you-are-the-always-correct-genius sycophancy literally designed for engagement. The kind of niche rabbitholes existing from before LLMs are generally either rate-limited by being a limited number of actual people with strongly similar views (doomsday preppers, niche cults, etc), or so huge and chaotic that pure-strain sycophancy won't happen (reddit, 4chan).
by 12345hn6789 | 2025-08-11 21:40:15+00:00
Just days ago ollama devs claimed[0] that ollama no longer relies on ggml / llama.cpp. here is their pull request(+165,966 −47,980) to reimplement (copy) llama.cpp code in their repository.

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/pull/11823

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44802414#44805396