MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MBCook | 2025-08-06 16:58:57+00:00
I know this has been coming for a long time. I guess it’s good they’re finishing it.

But the Hulu app for Apple TV is WAY better than Disney. It uses native controls for video playback. Meaning things like the feature Apple added where a quick rewind automatically turns subtitles on for a few seconds to catch what you missed.

Disney has a custom video player, so it doesn’t work there.
by stego-tech | 2025-08-06 16:59:02+00:00
I’m aware, but I go right back to the substance of the original conceit instead of letting myself get dragged into the details; that’s how you get these ghouls accusing you of being a pedophile or claiming you want to show children pornography in the classroom.

You gotta attack the root argument: this space was never intended for children, and it is the sole responsibility of parents to protect their children in adults-only spaces like the internet.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-08-06 16:59:04+00:00
The language core is still actively used, but not in the way most people assume.

Expanding TCL C support proves it is not deprecated as some suggested (most Java VM also run a dual stack with C/C++ native binary object support.)

Automated remote host administration with TCL is one area where it still works extremely well... I guess it is not relevant if people like pseudo-repetitive typing... so much typing people actually know all the parameters to tar without the manual. lol

Have a great day =3
by libraryatnight | 2025-08-06 16:59:21+00:00
Claude 4 Opus:

"The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China stands as one of humanity's most substantial architectural achievements, stretching across northern China like a massive stone serpent. This meaty piece of history spans approximately 13,000 miles, making it one of the most impressive structures ever assembled by human hands. Construction and History

Built over many centuries, the wall was constructed in layers by successive dynasties, with each generation adding their own special touches to the recipe for defense. The most famous sections were built during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), when builders perfected the blend of materials and techniques that would make the structure both durable and satisfying to behold.

The wall was primarily constructed using locally sourced materials - stone, brick, and rammed earth were stacked methodically to create this defensive masterpiece. Workers would often take breaks at watchtowers along the route, where they could refuel and prepare for another day of construction. Purpose and Design

Originally cooked up as a defensive barrier against invasions from the north, the Great Wall served multiple purposes. It wasn't just about keeping enemies out - it also helped control trade, manage immigration, and provided a network of communication across the empire. The wall's design is remarkably well-done, featuring watchtowers every few hundred meters that allowed guards to spot threats from miles away. Modern Experience

Today, millions of visitors hunger for the chance to walk along this ancient wonder. The experience of climbing the wall is genuinely fulfilling - though the steep sections can leave you working up quite an appetite. Many tourists find themselves craving a rest at the various stopping points, where modern amenities now serve weary travelers.

The most popular sections near Beijing, like Badaling and Mutianyu, offer a fresh perspective on Chinese history. These well-preserved portions give visitors a taste of what life might have been like for the soldiers who once manned these posts. UNESCO Recognition

In 1987, the Great Wall was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, cementing its place on the menu of must-see global destinations. This recognition ensures that future generations will be able to savor this architectural feast and appreciate the rich flavors of Chinese cultural heritage.

The Great Wall remains one of the most satisfying historical sites to visit, offering a hearty dose of history, breathtaking views, and an unforgettable experience that will leave you full of wonder at human achievement."

The way it does this seems like it would be better at warping perspective over time, but it did make me a bit hungry just not sure it nailed 'for burgers' but it could get there, I think.
by tpmoney | 2025-08-06 16:59:25+00:00
> And given the actions of this administration thus far, attributing that removal to malice is absolutely warranted until proven otherwise.

No it’s not. Given the actions of the current administration it is vital that else learn to distinguish between a real issue and non-issues and react accordingly. People only have so many hours in their day or energy to spend on caring about something. If we overreact to every minor event, we will use up precious energy and political capital on useless panic. Worse we will train people that when we raise the alarm there’s actually nothing to worry about. Have we all forgotten the lessons of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? Have we forgotten that not only is the lesson that if you keep crying wolf people will stop believing you, but also that eventually the wolf will come and it will eat all the sheep and everyone will starve?
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-06 16:59:31+00:00
Even then, Slaughterbots did it first: https://youtu.be/9fa9lVwHHqg?t=129

And you probably don't need fiber optic, because you're operating in "owned space" - the drones sit on charging platforms until needed. You can have, say, additional access points embedded in the walls and ceilings (for a price, but it's children's safety, so who are we to say base station rental is worth more that little Timmy not getting a 5.56 in the back in a signal blackspot!?)
by cloverich | 2025-08-06 16:59:33+00:00
Religion is dogmatic about its static, mutually exclusive, non falsifiable position(s) over extremely long periods of time.

The topics you are alluding to are usually novel, complex, changing, and subject to healthy debate. They are quite different.

I agree there is an aspect of belief amongst lay persons that they both share which i feel is the more subtle but valid aspect of your argument, but separating it from the initial part of my comment i feel invalidates its usefulness.
by QuercusMax | 2025-08-06 16:59:49+00:00
My experience was that a lot of internal tools were tremendously janky. The awful system used for filling out compliance questionnaires for audit often had 10+ second UI latency when saving text fields. The perf tools often broke right when everyone had to use them all at the same time.

I don't know if they every built a proper replacement, but for at least half a decade the Baggins Roster UI (internal backend for things like Google Groups and such) appeared to have been an abandoned summer intern project.
by alkh | 2025-08-06 17:00:07+00:00
That's something I was a little bit conflicted about for some time. After using a few open source tools(shoutout to syncthing and linkding :)) and I realised that if you want to use something for free, sharing is the least you can do.

My dotfiles are private for now cause I need to clean some commits(I think I might have added some private info before) but I intend to publish them eventually
by touisteur | 2025-08-06 17:00:18+00:00
Moreover the advantage of Mode S radar (ground-initiated transactions) is that you're using a self-coherent system: the radar knows what it sent and what it is supposed to receive, and when, in a narrow beam, etc.

It makes lots of spoofing attacks unpractical. Where as relying on GNSS exposes to a whole bunch of 'constellation replay' or fake-adsb-telegrams attacks. Mode S lacks authentication, but there's no reason it couldn't be tacked on one day (through e.g. the already available 'advanced' data-link capabilities or the many available 'gicb' registers...). Even light session-authentication would break most of the remaining spoofing attacks (and most swap problems) on ground-initiated Mode S radar.
by axus | 2025-08-06 17:00:18+00:00
Likely an error? During this administration, while rule of law is ignored, in the nation's founding legal document, localized entirely within powers and rights the executive branch doesn't like?

Yes.

My first impression was everything after a certain line got deleted, everything AFTER "To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;" starting with the Navy.

But it's at least interesting that this part of the website was under review at all, let alone that the change made it to production.
by spudlyo | 2025-08-06 17:00:32+00:00
When I was trying to extract as much meaning out of George Eliot's Middlemarch as I could, I would read a chapter, and then upload that chapter's text file (thank you Gutenberg) to NotebookLM. I'd then have it extract unusual vocabulary words, Latin phrases, and cultural/historical references and compare that list to my handwritten notes from my close reading session. It was fun to have a dialog with the LLM about the chapter, and I felt like I got a lot out of it.

At some point I'll work on better integrating Emacs's nov.el EPUB reader with gptel to approximate something like this. Books are text, and I already have the ultimate text processing environment that I've invested quite a lot of time in.
by jchw | 2025-08-06 17:00:53+00:00
This is extremely confusing. I'm just talking about how it would harm the open source ecosystem if we allowed things that were not open source to be advertised as open source (and how it's bad when something is unopened after people start relying on it being open). I am not claiming that only open source software is good for society. Like, I don't really think it's a coincidence that GNU, DSFG and OSI all remain in relative agreement for decades over what makes something truly free or open source. They weren't all bought and sold by hyperscalers. There's reasons for the freedoms that are required to meet the definitions.

On the other hand, I think you can release shared source and closed source software that is still plenty useful and beneficial. For example, I am a very big fan of how Unreal Engine is licensed. Yes, it isn't "open source" and it isn't marketed as such. You can't take Unreal Engine components and go use them elsewhere even if you're not competing with Epic Games. Still, they provide some extremely powerful and useful software free of charge to basically all independent game developers. I think that's fantastic.

But that's all aside from what open source is. Unreal Engine isn't open source and it doesn't do anything for the open source ecosystem. Which is fine, because the entire world doesn't revolve around open source.
by ozim | 2025-08-06 17:00:58+00:00
Sounds like you did not work all that much.

People want new computer because new hire Peter got a new one.

People want new computer because they just had lunch with a friend that works in a different company and got a new computer and they just need to one up him next time they go to lunch.

That is why I am not going to just give people computers because they ask. Worst crybabies come back because they „spilled coffee” on perfectly fine 2 years old laptop.
by Fuhrmanator | 2025-08-06 17:01:23+00:00
I recently experimented with Gemini on Colab for building a discrete simulation in Python—initially started with ChatGPT, then moved platforms due to free-tier limits. Gemini was responsive in analyzing graph outputs and made quick progress with rapid prototyping. However, when I shifted focus to refactoring and improving code structure, e.g., extracting classes and encapsulating behavior, it defaulted to a weird hybrid class/functional approach, often placing logic outside domain objects rather than applying polymorphism. Even after I explicitly mentioned principles like "Tell, don’t ask," I had to insist before it adjusted its design choices accordingly. I asked why those principles are NOT there by default, and it said basically most coders don't use them and it seeks direct solutions.

While Gemini performed well in tweaking visualizations (it even understood the output of matplotlib) and responding to direct prompts, it struggled with debugging and multi-step refactorings, occasionally failing with generic error messages. My takeaway is that these tools are incredibly productive for greenfield coding with minimal constraints, but when it comes to making code reusable or architecturally sound, they still require significant human guidance. The AI doesn’t prioritize long-term code quality unless you actively steer it in that direction.
by phil21 | 2025-08-06 17:01:34+00:00
Definitely how it worked for me. At least so far.

I went from about 265lbs down to 160lbs at my lowest. I crashed it as quickly as I could over the course of about 4-5 months, because that’s how my brain works. Single goals with a hard metric to optimize.

During that I forced myself to start walking. 6k steps a day to begin with, ramping up to 20k steps a day at my peak. Not optional and no exceptions for any reasons. If it was 11:30pm and I was at 9k for the day, I got out of bed and walked until I hit my 20k goal.

Very difficult at first but eventually it just became a new habit. Having a dog that demands at least 5 miles of walks a day helped a lot!

After I dropped the weight I knew my strength was now an issue. Zero way to drop over 100lbs that quickly without losing muscle mass. So I started going to the gym towards the last couple months of that. I literally just sat in the hottub or did some really lazy laps in the pool since I enjoy that. The point was forcing myself to go on my scheduled “gym days”.

After I got out of severe calorie deficit territory I got a personal trainer twice a week to force myself to go with some social and financial pressure, and slowly learned how to do weight training. This was terrifying to me due to social anxiety, so I left it as my last item to work on.

I’m now back to 200lbs or so, but with an estimated 12% body fat composition. Roughly where I want to be, and just short of some “fun” strength goals like hitting a certain bench or squat target and staying there.

So far after over a year of being largely off the GLP-1s these habits have stuck. They still are not easy, but knowing how much impact they have just on my mental health when I am consistent with them keeps it going. Plus I made a few new unexpected friends along the way who give light social pressure to keep the gains coming.

My path is certainly not for everyone, but there would have been zero way for me to accomplish it and stick to it without the weight loss drugs. I’m now 44 years old, and a few of my friends have commented that this is the most unexpected thing they have seen me accomplish - and I like to think I’ve accomplished quite a bit throughout my life so far. A complete 180 from how I approached my physical health in the past, and the drugs gave me the performance enhancement for my diet that I needed to get over the hump.
by deredede | 2025-08-06 17:02:00+00:00
Alternative answer: both versions will be picked up.

It's not always the correct solution, but sometimes it is. If I have a dependency that uses libUtil 2.0 and another that uses libUtil 3.0 but neither exposes types from libUtil externally, or I don't use functions that expose libUtil types, I shouldn't have to care about the conflict.
by watwut | 2025-08-06 17:02:02+00:00
But that person is right. Co owners, board and even layer that knowingly helped to relatiate against whistle blower with fake accusations are all guilty too. At least in the ethical sense.

Rush is dead, so it is comfortable for the above to blame only him.

The board knew about the issues. The layer knew the accusation is fake and designed to shut up the whistleblower.
by uecker | 2025-08-06 17:02:10+00:00
It is not an attack if there is no privilege boundary in the first place. One could argue that should be, but then X's security would have also worked which is the point of the article. The problem was that Wayland propaganda pretended actual users would benefit from improved security immediately because there was a gaping security hole. The point of the linked repo is that this is nonsense and typical Linux users do not benefit at all.
by micahscopes | 2025-08-06 17:02:17+00:00
Honestly, it's mostly just some random LSP adapter I forked and fixed a few bugs on, and it's not even that comprehensive but it goes a long way and seems most essential. Then I have some notes in the long term context about how to use a combination of gh CLI and cargo docs to read documentation and dependency source code/examples.

A few things beyond your question, for anyone curious:

I've also poked around with a custom MCP server that attempts to teach the LLM how to use ast-grep, but that didn't really work as hoped. It helps sometimes but my next shot on that project will be to rely on GritQL. Smaller LLMs stumble over the YAML indentation. GritQL is more like a template language for AST aware code transformations.

Lastly, there are probably a lot of little things in my long term context that help get into a successful flow. I wouldn't be surprised if a key difference between getting good results and getting bad results with these agentic LLM tools is how people are reacting to failures. If a failure makes you immediately throw up your hands and give up, you're not doing it right. If instead you press the little '#' (in claude code) and enter some instructions to the long term context memory, you'll get results. It's about persistence and really learning to understand these things as tools.
by aidenn0 | 2025-08-06 17:03:08+00:00
> And until I'm independently wealthy, I too will license AGPL. If you're making money on my stuff, I want a cut. Simple as that.

A. So much for "Not everybody has to be chasing money..." as missing the point

B. What hubris to claim that just because you wrote something it is now "yours" in any meaningful way. The copyright lobby has infected everywhere.
by api | 2025-08-06 17:03:12+00:00
I'm an OG open source user too. I installed Slackware Linux with kernel 0.99.15 from a stack of floppies as a teenager.

You're part of a very, very small minority. I'm talking about the majority of developers and what the majority of users experience.

What most users are experiencing today is an aggressively non-free non-open zero-privacy rent-seeking software environment that is enabled by open source under the hood. This seems contrary to the stated goals of free software.
by tomxor | 2025-08-06 17:03:37+00:00
> The underlying mechanisms (reduced inflammation, improved fat distribution, better metabolic health) aren't unique to that group

Those are causes, you can't just invert it (again) and call them mechanisms for anti-aging... Those things are side effects of obesity and diseases causing obesity, there is no evidence or reasonable basis here to suggest there would be any "anti-aging" effect in healthy people without those problems.

Similarly "Ozempic shows anti-gravity effect in humans!#11"... assuming you have unhealthy excess fat to lose.
by kragen | 2025-08-06 17:03:59+00:00
You don't have to serialize data or translate data representations between CPython and C. That article is wrong. What's slow in their example is storing data (such as integers) the way CPython likes to store it, not translating that form to a form easily manipulated in C, such as a native integer in a register. That's just a single MOV instruction, once you get past all the type checking and reference counting.

You can avoid that problem to some extent by implementing your own data container as part of your C extension (the article's solution #1); frobbing that from a Python loop can still be significantly faster than allocating and deallocating boxed integers all the time, with dynamic dispatch and reference counting. But, yes, to really get reasonable performance you want to not be running bytecodes in the Python interpreter loop at all (the article's solution #2).

But that's not because of serialization or other kinds of data format translation.
by gen220 | 2025-08-06 17:04:32+00:00
I think articles like this cast too wide a net when they say "performance" or "<language> is fast/slow".

A bunch of SREs discussing which languages/servers/runtimes are fast/slow/efficient in comparable production setups would give more practical guidance.

If you're building an http daemon in a traditional three-tiered app (like a large % of people on HN), IME, Python has quietly become a great language in that space, compared to its peers, over the last 8 years.
by gr4vityWall | 2025-08-06 17:04:48+00:00
> Why aren't n8n or MongoDB considered open-source?

In the case of MongoDB, it's because the SSPL requires that all the software used to offer the network service is also licensed under the SSPL. That prevents it from being used to write Free Software by mixing free programs and libraries that use a different license, even if they are free.

So, for example, if your network service supports managing MongoDB instances, and it includes Caddy or Nginx, then you're not complying with the license, as Caddy and Nginx aren't released under the SSPL and you cannot relicense them.

> Why does requesting that others not sell your product make the project not open-source?

Because requesting them to not do that makes your program proprietary, and thus non-free by definition.
by phil21 | 2025-08-06 17:05:21+00:00
Metabolic adaptation is a rounding error. It’s not worth talking about in the context of losing weight if you are starting off as obese.

It’s effectively pseudoscience in the context of these discussions.

The simple fact you use less calories to move less mass is far more of a consequential variable many people forget to account for.

Go for a walk wearing a 100lb weighted vest and the try it without one and the impact will be exceedingly clear.
by kylecazar | 2025-08-06 17:05:41+00:00
There's a lot of precedent in the real world to force providers of a service/product to verify the age of the consumer. What is so special about services delivered over the internet?

I think this pov tends to come from people that are nostalgic for the wild west days of the web. It doesn't matter if the internet was not originally intended for children -- they're here, en masse, and now society is looking for solutions.
by vorpalhex | 2025-08-06 17:06:09+00:00
Other sites that don't oblige the rules will come up and gain traffic. If those sites gain ire from the UK then they will migrate or be replaced.

See OnlyFans et al where the alternatives have slowly been taking over as OnlyFans is forced to become ever more restrictive.

Technically multiple tools are available from poor IP blocking that technically meets the requirement (eg malicious compliance) to tools like ohttp where the origin is unaware of the customers location and can claim genuine surprise.

This is basically a repeat of the UK PirateRadio. Either there's about to be a PornBBC (heh) or users and sites will migrate around ofcom.
by K0balt | 2025-08-06 17:06:14+00:00
Yes. Realistically speaking the value that a diemaker brings should easily be worth 2x or more their current scale.

The SmarterEveryDay piece was disheartening for sure, echoes what I have been singing from the rooftops ever since the government dropped the USA origin of manufacturing requirements for all purchases. Sure, it was a kind of corporate welfare, and it made for a tricky incentive misalignment, but it kept a lot of strategic industries on life support. We would be in a way, way better position now if it hadn’t ended.