MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivape | 2025-09-17 06:19:08+00:00
Listen, schedule some time and sit down to meditate on what I’m about tell you:

You have discovered first-hand an undeniable property of the human dynamic. There are elements of the human race that do not operate with integrity, and the sooner you digest this, the better.

It was hard for me to believe when I first saw it happen to me as well.

Humans will copy everything, the career path you take, the side projects you do, the way you dress, the way you talk, the major you pick in college, your style, your values, there is literally nothing beyond theft.

We constantly hear how there is a hiring crunch, but the reality is, people are piling into tech the same way they piled into IT in the late 90s. It’s a copy cat culture at best, unabashed ripoff/theft at worst.

They will copy you, follow you, steal from you. You won’t ever believe it unless you literally experience it first hand.

I may have a million people on HN try to counter what I’m saying, but I know for a fucking fact that, you, OP, will agree with what I’m saying because you just experienced it.

They’ll copy and steal from you, down to the very fucking scraps of a USB-C speed tester app. Down to the fucking scraps. Not undermining your product, but these type of people will copy your own personal diary and pass it off.

People steal. It’s much more common than you think. I lean heavy left, but I know just how much lying lots of Americans do to get government assistance. Thievery is beyond anything we can make sense of, it’s occurring on a grand scale. Entire personalities and looks are wholesale copied, repurposed, and resold all over social media.

There are entire roles at companies that collect money and credit for things no one with any integrity would partake in (project managers, a certain breed of managers, other developers). People cheat through college. People cheat on their spouses.

Thieving has gone so far that it’s second nature. No one even bats an eye at the fact that all of YouTube and TikTok is wholesale theft of each others entire persona, act and style. We actually believe this is normal.

You’ve discovered nothing short of one of the faces of mankind. All people are not just “good” and all people are not just “trying to do the right thing”. Large amounts of people are flawed and corrupt.

Now you know. I’m sorry, truly. Stay safe, keep your ideas to yourself and execute well and try to cover the rat holes these critters crawl through.

And most of all, don’t become a thief yourself.

—-

I actually 100% believe you when you say they even copied the origin story.
by Tor3 | 2025-09-17 06:19:17+00:00
Yes, same here. I've continued to write software all my life, and resisted nearly any kind of management position (except when design was also involved). It's a creative process, and I've also occasionally focused on a personal project during holiday seasons and spent weeks in various cozy cafeteria corners with coffee (later lunch), a notebook and documents, writing code and staying in the flow for hours. Nothing is better for my brain than that (but of course not meaning _only_ doing that).

One point is that I can't see how, even with the most (not yet existing) AI to "write code" this can allow me to enter and stay in the flow, the mental state where nothing else exists than the creative flow in my mind, and hours fly by without me even noticing. If the AI is like a smart co-worker and my job is to sit there and explain.. one, there will be no flow, and two, there will be no fun. I'm not doing that.
by nntwozz | 2025-09-17 06:19:18+00:00
PSA: Turn off "font smoothing" https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16tow2w/psa_turn_off...

macOS applies something called "font smoothing" (image) which is adding a layer of pixels to your text. The effect is that text is made a little more bold—not "bad" but it isn't exactly as the typeface designers intended.

Here's a good example:

The thing about 4K on macOS is that its sharpest setting will be when you make it "look like 1080p" which means its sized like a 1080p monitor but its 2x sharper. If you make it "look like 1440p" which is what you're used to, macOS will draw a 5K image and scale it down to "look like 1440p" but it doesn't fit the pixels on your display 1:1, so there is a slight blur or its not as sharp as native "looks like 1080p"—but it will still be sharper than your 32-inch 1440p display, so I still recommend you move forward if sharp viewing is a priority. The only sharper alternative is to buy Apple's 27-inch 5K display at $1600 (although $1300 refurb) or a 32-inch 6K display (Dell and Apple make them).
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-17 06:19:37+00:00
It has no effect on the lifetime of the object, but it can affect the lifetime of the allocation. The reason is that weak_ptr needs the control block, which make_shared bundles into the same allocation as the object for optimization reasons.

Quoting cppreference [0]:

If any std::weak_ptr references the control block created by std::make_shared after the lifetime of all shared owners ended, the memory occupied by T persists until all weak owners get destroyed as well, which may be undesirable if sizeof(T) is large.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/shared_ptr/make_sha...
by WastedCucumber | 2025-09-17 06:19:50+00:00
> Interspecies mating is known in a few ant species, where the sperm of a queen’s own species can produce larvae that become new queens but not sterile workers. The queens have solved this challenge by also mating with males of another species to produce workers

That's wild, explains the whole point of why the cloning is necessary, and leaves me with unanswered questions. Most of all - why??? That seems like a huge weakness!
by JNRowe | 2025-09-17 06:20:07+00:00
You can, it even ships with two files you can use as examples in mc.{emacs,vim}.keymap. The vim one has my favorite comment in a config file:

[editor] # No remapping, just use vim instead of mcedit

Given that you can specify the bindings config to use at startup with --keymap you can even configure task specific sets of bindings. This combined with extfs and custom menus makes it a great way to make a personal interface to non-file data sources too.
by modeless | 2025-09-17 06:22:29+00:00
I've been testing LLMs on Sokoban-like puzzles (in the style of ARC-AGI-3) and they are completely awful at them. It really highlights how poor their memory is. They can't remember abstract concepts or rules between steps, even if they discover them themselves. They can only be presented with lossy text descriptions of such things which they have to re-read and re-interpret at every step.

LLMs are completely helpless on agentic tasks without a ton of scaffolding. But the scaffolding is inflexible and brittle, unlike the models themselves. Whoever figures out how to reproduce the functions of this type of scaffolding within the models, with some kind of internal test-time-learned memory mechanism, is going to win.
by sschueller | 2025-09-17 06:22:58+00:00
What's with all the up-talk and "filler" that ChatGPT is doing? Also it feels extremely patronizing.

I don't want a buddy, I want the computer from Star Trek. Concise, to the point and asking the right questions.

IMO, having ChatGPT answer like this is what causes certain people to fall into what they call "AI Psychosis".
by stein1946 | 2025-09-17 06:23:11+00:00
God, the fact that everyone and their mother think they need to have an opinion regarding "agentic" wankering is absurd.

There has been no discernible augmentation on a programmer's skills with these "tools". Zero, none, zilch.

Stop it.

You are making noise in a profession which a single mistake takes the "working" to "not working".

I swear the whole West's economic model is hyping bullshit to the uninitiated and make it seem plausible enough to either buy in whatever their selling or just plain self-satisfying "look at me I got a blog and writing code is challenging so here are some random ramblings about architecture springled with startupy vibes".

Petition to block "AI" stuff in this site for - at least - year.
by sans_souse | 2025-09-17 06:23:16+00:00
Plot twist: the author himself, having just purchased SHIELD Insurance and graduating "AR-15 Markmanship FUNdamentals" goes on a "defensive shooting rampage".

Ok, I say this tongue-in-cheek, but it's plausible and that's the point. There's a lot of wrong here in this insurance being allowed to exist, and I'd only add in along with the author's points how this "murder insurance" opens up a can of Murphy's Law that we clearly don't need right now.
by umerf | 2025-09-17 06:23:43+00:00
As AI-powered audio transcription technology becomes more powerful and more cost-effective to run, we are seeing a proliferation of tools making use of this technology across a wide range of use-cases. While many such use-cases are seemingly benign (e.g. transcribing work meetings), others are explicitly adversarial (e.g. cheating on job interviews). In any case where an individual does not explicitly consent to being the subject of an AI-powered transcription, there is the potential for an abuse of that individual's privacy.
by kodarna | 2025-09-17 06:24:09+00:00
They own the past of PC gaming, as well as Call of Duty but that is more popular on consoles than PC nowadays. Those listed are small time compared to Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, League of Legends, Valorant, Roblox, Apex Legends, Marvel Rivals and a number of hard-hitting games every year such as Witcher 3, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3 etc.
by INTPenis | 2025-09-17 06:24:17+00:00
It's not absurd. First of all I've been using immutable Linux for 3 years so running Irssi in a container makes the most sense. Of course I'd probably just run it inside a distrobox container instead. And also I've been using a shell server for irssi for many years so it's not that relevant.

But secondly, containerization, despite its vulnerabilities through the years, does add a layer of security to applications. And we must not forget that irc clients have been exploited in the past. Remember the old adage, never irc as root.
by fredoralive | 2025-09-17 06:25:06+00:00
No? Wall time (that the challenge runs on) is unchanged, game time (Vsync) is running at 83% of full speed (50Hz vs 60Hz), so if something tied to frame rate (animation, walking speed etc.) takes 1 second to do on NTSC, it'll take 1.2 seconds to do on PAL etc.
by TrianguloY | 2025-09-17 06:26:57+00:00
I had the same experience with an android app on play store a few years ago (when LLMs didn't exist yet) so this is nothing new.

As you said, I didn't mind others creating apps with the same idea, the issue is when someone takes your app, decompiles it, injects ads (mine is ad-free) or changes the author name, and publishes it. And I know this was the case because the app was a verbatim copy (except for the ads), bugs included.

At first I sent some DMCA, it usually worked, but not always. If you have time and you are bored do it, but keep in mind that if someone tries to fight back you'll have issues, and at that point you need to consider if your time fighting is worth more than the app itself (on my case the app was free so...no).

What I did learn is that plagiarism is something that some countries accept socially. In these countries taking a successful thing and copying it is seen as a "positive" achievement (like "hey, look, I was able to do the same as this other guy! I'm so smart!"). I understand this mentality, as long as only the idea is copied, but when assets or the whole app is copy/pasted, without giving any credit...yeah that's when you get angry.
by elric | 2025-09-17 06:27:22+00:00
> Women prior to sexual debut were the biggest "bang for the buck" and the obvious first recommendation target.

It was a stupid decision to leave out the boys. I mean hindsight is 20/20, but if heterosexual women were getting cervical cancer from HPV, and HPV is spread by sexual activity, then vaccinating the boys along with the girls would have been the logical thing to do in order to stop the spread.

I assume this wasn't done because they didn't do any studies on boys at first, because they were looking for cervical abnormalities to gauge vaccine effectiveness, and maybe it would have been hard to recruit a bunch of boys for a vaccine study that would probably not benefit them.

With that same hindsight we now know that HPV vaccination also prevents some oral cancers, and that leaving out the boys was a very stupid decision indeed.

These days most places do seem to also vaccinate boys. I got an HPV vaccine at some point in my 30s, and I pretty much had to wrestle my doctor into submission in order to get a prescription.
by djtango | 2025-09-17 06:27:41+00:00
This is how some even older people feel about smartphones :p

Some of this is the lack of a killer app and some of this will be generational. At some point the 10-30yos will be more used to being permanently plugged in than not. (we're probably already there in some senses, but will go through the same adoption cycle again for AR/VR imo)
by avh02 | 2025-09-17 06:28:01+00:00
I've been going down this rabbit hole, there are two alternative options if you're looking for a side project, 1 is "ai on the edge" (Google it it's a pretty cool project), which is basically an esp32 + camera that takes a photo of your meter on a regular basis and OCRs the data, option 2 is (and I'll be trying this this week) to get a magnetometer hooked up to an esp32 to read the little magnetic pulses the impeller (in my case) makes (which is how the meter hardware they have reads it anyway), can have calibration difficulties but will be so cheap, there are also existing esphome projects for this.
by leakycap | 2025-09-17 06:28:20+00:00
Agreed. I've been a Mac fan even through the dark ages of buying Performas at Sears... but Tahoe is a bridge too far for me.

I doubt I'll switch away from iOS for my phone/watch as I'm reliant on some iOS-specific features. But the Mac has excellent competition, so sadly I'll be a non-Mac user for the first time since the 1990s.
by WastedCucumber | 2025-09-17 06:28:38+00:00
That's been my experience with BeReal as well. I seldom see posts from people I'm close with, and so I post less as well, and presumably that contributes to a similar feeling for other friends of mine.

In fact, these days, I only post in it so that I can record the moment, to add it to the record of fotos which are convenient and fun to look back through.
by YZF | 2025-09-17 06:29:21+00:00
Genocide according to the genocide convention which is what we're talking about can occur even when a single person is killed as long as there is "intent". This is why we keep seeing the reference to certain Israeli MK statements as proof of intent. So according to Israel's critics, which seems to be everyone here, because Yoav Gallant said that we'll shut the water to Gaza as a response to the Oct 7th attack the first bomb dropped on Hamas on Oct 8th constitutes genocide. There is no possibility of self defense.

What Israel's critics will add to that is that Israel has no right to self defense because it was occupying Gaza before the Oct 7th attack.

They'll also downplay the Oct 7th attack, claim Israelis killed their own, there was no sexual violence etc.

Then they'll look at the number of casualties as another proof. It's not "proportional". Israel is only allowed to kill a certain number of people in its wars. Otherwise it's clearly not self defense. But only for Israel, for other countries, still self defense.

People see bodies, children, on their social media feeds and destruction and that makes it very clear who the good guys and who the bad guys are.

Israel can't win this argument. Don't look for logic. Days after the Oct 7th attack Israel was already accused of genocide. Nothing Israel can do here is right and the actions western countries have taken (e.g. US post 9/11 or western response to ISIS) are not available to Israel because Israel shouldn't even exist and therefore should definitely not be allowed to defend itself (vs. the Americans and the Canadians who have lived on their land for 10,000 years and definitely didn't just steal it from the natives and kill all of them).

The only thing Israel can win is the actual war on the ground and so the leadership of Israel, while making many mistakes, is determined to win the war on the ground. Not all Israelis agree with that either. Personally I don't know if any other options really exist.

All that said, you can't really argue with the fact the population of Gaza is suffering immensely, many of them have lost everything they've had, many killed and injured, they live in terrible conditions. I mostly blame Hamas. I also blame the west for prolonging this war and not offering any reasonable solutions to Israel. Israel has faults and can and should do better but for the most part its hand is forced and has been forced by Palestinian violence/actions for some time. Maybe Gaza should have been taken immediately after Hamas took over in 2007. Maybe there would have been other courses of actions including post Oct 7. I donno. Oct 7th stunned me, it was an utter failure. Not really seeing anything proposed here at this point in time and don't recall seeing anything productive going back.

So all in all it's terrible. There's human suffering. We need to end it. The only way out I see is for Hamas to surrender. Let's get there and then we can debate what words mean, two states, one state, where do we go from here. This was is not going to end e.g. by the US telling Israel to end it.
by aiwebseo | 2025-09-17 06:29:54+00:00
Setting up a custom waitlist page usually takes hours, tweaking designs, wiring forms, connecting tools, and making it look decent. Time you could spend building your product instead and talk to potential customers.

Features: - Upload your logo, choose colors, add images - Write product descriptions, highlight features, even embed social posts - Connect your own domain or use a free subdomain - Preview and publish instantly (includes a shareable QR code)

I'd love some feedback from HN community And what features would make it even more useful for early-stage launches?
by thrdbndndn | 2025-09-17 06:29:58+00:00
Excellent article.

I do not have the same technical depth to dig this far as the author, but this kind of problem seems pretty common on laptops, especially those with "switchable" iGPU/dGPU setups.

I had an Acer laptop about 7-8 years ago with almost the exact same latency symptoms. In the end I just disabled the dGPU in the BIOS (since I only used it for office work), and that instantly solved the issue.

This kind of thing is very infuriating because not only is it hard to track down the root cause (which I am very grateful the author did), but it is also even harder to get the vendor to actually acknowledge or fix it.
by tmarice | 2025-09-17 06:30:13+00:00
If you're not using Vim or Emacs, and not very proficient at touch typing, you're almost certainly limited by your typing speed.

Coding is an iterative process, regardless of whether you're handcrafting the code or using AI -- you need to move your thoughts / code / prompts from your head to the computer. You have to use the keyboard to do this. You have to do this over and over again, interleaving thinking with typing, and if you're fumbling for the mouse or smashing those arrow keys, your thinking is blocked.
by toast0 | 2025-09-17 06:30:17+00:00
Depends. A UEFI boot is going to put you in graphics mode; I don't think you can get into VGA text mode from an UEFI boot, without some serious dark arts. UEFI has a text mode console API, but it's part of bootservices and those are exited somewhere on the way to starting the Linux kernel.

If you're doing a BIOS boot, you might be using VGA text mode, if you haven't loaded a framebuffer driver. VGA text mode works over BNC, DVI, HDMI, DP, etc, if that was your question, you don't need a VGA connector. EGA text mode might be similar enough to also work, but that's outside my depth.

I'm not sure that Linux uses it, but VGA has nice things to accelerate scrolling. You can set the top of the screen down into the buffer, and then set a line number where it resets to the top of the buffer. If you set the line stride so that it evenly divides the buffer (typically wider than the line width), it makes scrolling and wrapping around the buffer very simple and elegant.

UEFI GOP doesn't provide any mechanism for a buffer larger than what's displayed, so scrolling requires copying. :(
by ncruces | 2025-09-17 06:30:27+00:00
Right. Allowing 500 strangers to push code to our CI infra, or developer laptops, with approximately zero review, sounds similarly ill advised.

That JLR got their factories hacked, rather than customer cars, is less bad for sure. But it's still pretty bad.

Also, before arguing that code generators should get a pass as they don't “end up in the final product”, you really should read “Reflections on trusting trust” by Ken Thompson.
by tomhow | 2025-09-17 06:30:57+00:00
Obviously we moderators are not present in the region, nor are we experts on the topic. That applies to almost every story that appears on HN. The “some interesting new phenomenon” is that – according to the title – ”top UN legal investigators” have made this finding. That's what we call "significant new information" about this topic. It's not for us to judge whether this finding is accurate or not; as I said, we're not there, we're not experts. But the discussion thread allows abybody with any particular knowledge on the topic to share their perspective.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-17 06:31:41+00:00
Why makes you think this is such a hot issue? It's a sporting event.

Two teams of murderous rapists are fighting one another, everyone has their favorite team, and if someone thinks someone else supports a different team they say "how can you support those murderous rapists! Just look what they did to the innocent people on my side!"

It's an opportunity for people to be tribal about something that, for the overwhelming majority of people, will never affect them the slightest bit.
by unwind | 2025-09-17 06:31:53+00:00
I never used MC (not very much into TUIs) but ages ago I wrote a graphical file manager in the same vein. For me the inspiration came from Directory Opus [1] on the Amiga, which was just awesome.

When GTK+ was released in the late 90s, combining my love of C programming with a newfound home in Linux and GTK+'s ability to make complicated graphical interfaces resulted in a dual-pane file manager. It was a great project.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Opus