MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by catigula | 2025-09-10 13:54:29+00:00
A non-trivial faction of our government has been teasing knowledge of some sort of non-human intelligent lifeform (that word isn't considered precisely accurate) on EARTH.

This isn't some crackpot theory, they've been having congressional hearings about it and congresspeople say it's real. You can think they are or aren't credible or being lied to, but, if congresspeople are part of or victims of some sort of psy-op with vague parameters and goals, our entire system of government is basically forfeit.

I realize this is difficult to deal with but it's a pretty well-established fact at this point.

We don't need to go anywhere for this information.
by hammock | 2025-09-10 13:54:37+00:00
Car-centric does not mean driver-centric.

Even driver-centric is less anti-human than car-centric.

Maybe we need a “People First” movement in this world. I know the climatists and PETA won’t like that, but it’s worth considering as some sort of competing, balancing force in the world vs everything else we have today.
by hylaride | 2025-09-10 13:54:38+00:00
TL;DR Flexibility is all we need.

I'm a big believer in empowerment. 90% of employees will usually do the right thing for themselves and the business IF YOU JUST LET THEM. For example, mandating 5 day RTO only to have your sales engineers take a full meeting room by themselves to sit on sales calls all day is idiotic for everybody.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-10 13:54:38+00:00
LLM coding, if done right, is an extremely involved process, perhaps more involved than coding it yourself. The professional result is that the code can be produced with significantly higher quality than if I were to code it myself.

It takes significant human effort to thoroughly understand, define, and refine specifications to recursively satisfy all important feedback from multiple LLMs. Only then can the coding begin, and the actual coding then takes just a couple of minutes. Following this, the code has to be thoroughly reviewed, perhaps also slightly refactored. Lastly, sometimes some follow-up issues have to be created to improve the feature further before it is shippable.

As with anything else, the quality of the result is proportional to the level of effort you put in.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 13:54:38+00:00
Not to pick on you specifically as I think your comment was fine but I always get a chuckle[1] about the "duality of europe" that you see on the parts of the internet that are dominated by the white collar english speakers.

Depending upon the issue you might reduce europe down to the rich western bits. You might include or exclude the former soviet influenced areas depending upon the context. You might only look at nations on the Mediterranean or only exclude them, etc, etc.

Yet whenever you look at the US you always include the whole thing no exceptions.

[1]just to be clear, by "I get a chuckle" I mean "the way we just accept this behavior is a condemnation of the community and the people who make it up"
by panick21_ | 2025-09-10 13:54:42+00:00
> Public transit requires a certain level of unspoken agreement. "We will all behave in this manner."

That literally all of society.

The American idea that you live in suburban home that is a quasi gated community, drive into a parking garage, then go up to an office, only interact with workmates and then driving back out with no social interaction other then work is just not how most society worked for all of history. And its not how the US worked until the 1960.

The reality is, violence and death on the roads, is far more common then on public transport. There are tons road rage incidents, an absurdly high number. Those lead to all kinds of problems and quite often shootings. You are in more danger then on public transport generally. And yet I almost never hear about that when Americans talk about transport policy.

But yes, there does need to be rules enforcement. But on the other hand its also true that the US often has very user-hostile design principles in pretty much every aspect of their city design and policing policy. And that often invites or re-enforces bad behavior.
by gspencley | 2025-09-10 13:54:49+00:00
> Once you get used to it, you get more solitude in public transit.

That is physically impossible. Again, it's a "me problem", I'm not trying to say that the world needs to accommodate my unique personality, but if other people are within speaking distance of me with no partition, they cannot "melt away."

When I was younger, discovering my mysophonia and autism, my mother would used to say things to me like "just tune out the noise." If only! I mean, how do I develop that super-power? Please, it would change my life so much for the better. I don't know what that means.

The thing that practically defines mysophonia is an inability to do that with trigger sounds.

But for me it's not just noise. I can't relax in the presence of other people. I guess it could be an extreme form of social anxiety. But it's not so much that I feel fear or anxious ... it's that I am hyper-alert when other people are around me. If I can see someone out of the corner of my eye, my brain can't go "just ignore them." It's not wired that way.

One of my trigger sounds, speaking of mysophonia, is actually people talking. I don't like listening to the sound of people speaking amongst each other. I don't know anyone else that has that particular trigger sound. But if I'm minding my own business somewhere and suddenly I hear people having a conversation ... it can send me into an autistic meltdown.

And yeah, you can put on noise cancelling headphones in public. Which I do when I'm in those situations. If it was just the noise alone then it would be a problem that is not insurmountable. Though it would still be a problem.

But reading a book? Impossible for me when there is even a single other person in the room.

Again, it's a me problem. I'm not saying the world should change for me. All I'm saying is please don't take away my car. It's the only thing that enables me to be at all mobile.
by eviks | 2025-09-10 13:54:49+00:00
> And if it were, would it be safe to assume that editors and other collaborators would consent to this standard?

Easy no, only some of them in some instances. There is no uniformity at such a scale / variety of collaboration.

> That’s beside the point because the spec states

It's not, and I've addressed this in the very next semantic line! And you've also ignored the very point in your quoted line as well. Editing "Readme.md in its raw form" with the extra line breaks is still bad regardless of the final rendered output.

> Not .txt files exclusively

I don't need exclusivity, complementarity still works. And again, final output doesn't save you

> If this practice offends you, don’t use it.

If the criticism offends you, practice in the shadows and don't publish the raw misformatted specs/docs!

> How have you been able to manage with hard-wrapped text elsewhere?

Sometimes by batch-replacing those extra newlines in a text editor, sometiems by abandoning reading because the text reflow is too broken, sometimes just by plowing through while cursing the cavemen that force their habits onto the readers with different devices.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-10 13:54:53+00:00
For me the most frustrating thing about linux is that it's distros are universally made by people who love linux, and the linux paradigm.

I have used linux on and off for 20 years now, and every time I end up back on windows, and it's such a relief when I am back. And so upsetting that I cannot escape windows.

Windows solves friction with GUI usability.

Linux solves friction with expectation of CLI mastery.

It's forever damned to the 5% of people who are willing to toil with a CLI (yes, I know your grandma uses it to check her e-mail, unfortunately the -only- thing she does is check email).

Then we have the likes of Android and MacOS, which had product people force engineering to bury all CLI stuff.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-10 13:54:55+00:00
> Batteries that charge fast. Batteries that can support 2-3 days of use. Lighter batteries.

Battery chemistry isn't there yet. Frankly, we are lucky enough phones don't set themselves ablaze every day - it only takes minuscule errors and you get a Galaxy Note.

> Thinner camera.

Hard to beat physics and if you ask me, "AI" slop is already being overused on cameras to hide the fact that good picture quality requires sensor area and distance for the optics.

> Satellite connectivity.

We're already beginning to see that with Starlink LTE.
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-09-10 13:55:06+00:00
>> There would be no reliable way of ensuring you've extracted all the content.

> Sounds frustrating. Ultimately games should be rewarding and fun.

this seems to assume that the only way to feel rewarded / have fun is by comprehensively extracting content from the game. in order to have fun in an "emergent" generative game of this nature, you'd need to let go of that goal.

i do agree with the risks surrounding engineered engagement.
by Shrikrishna_Gad | 2025-09-10 13:55:16+00:00
Really impressive work! I love that you can set this up without touching any existing robot code—just start rosbridge and the MCP server, and the LLM can both control and observe the ROS system. It’s like having a conversational ros2cli. The KUKA arm demo is particularly striking—the LLM can call gripper services in real time, all from natural language. One thing I’m curious about—could this setup handle coordinating multiple robots simultaneously, or is it still limited to a single robot per session?”
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 13:55:17+00:00
> But a car with no traffic is the overall best form of transportation.

I hate driving even when I'm alone on the road. I'm forced to stare at the road when I want to be doing something else. I can't even take a break, since a simple 5 minute nap has high odds of killing me even if I'm the only car on the road.

Plus cars are slower than trains or airplanes. Even on the autobahn with unlimited speed allowed, most people are not going nearly as fast as a high speed train, much less an airplane.
by myfonj | 2025-09-10 13:55:31+00:00
> are not shown to readers.

I also wonder, why conceal bits of information from readers, while they could possibly benefit of them the same way editors and writers do. Admittedly, the outcome then seem like a poetry, but … why not?

To give it a shot on that page, simple way to see these breaks it to run

document.body.insertAdjacentHTML ( 'afterend' ,`<style>p, li { white-space: pre-line; }</style>` )

in devtools console. (Using `pre-wrap` instead of `pre-line` is also interesting: indents "wrapped" lines by the source code indent, what gives it even more clarity.

(By the way, HN comments also preserve line breaks in the source output, but unless revealed by some extra style, they are usually not presented on the surface.)
by graypegg | 2025-09-10 13:56:28+00:00
I wonder why we don't get biennial [S] release years at all anymore. At this point, more of the iPhone's lifetime has been without S releases than with, but they could probably sliped back into that cadence and no one would've complained.

16 -> 16s -> (17 + 16s /w discount) -> 17s -> (18 + 17s /w discount) -> ...

I'd even say that the Pro could be it's own line. The unibody aluminium and tweaked looked would've been a good starting point for "iPhone Pro". (then iPhone Pro 2, 3, 4...) That could free them from having to segment the market for every single iPhone release by "pro" features, since the new pro in theory might only ever need a biennial release.
by flohofwoe | 2025-09-10 13:56:56+00:00
It totally makes sense though. Win11 mainly seems to be a career advancement vehicle for Microsoft's anonymous middle management caste. I bet that if you point at a single bad feature in Win11 it will be very hard to find a single person who would take responsibility.

For good features it will be "I made the decision!", for bad features it will be weasel words like "we heard our users loud and clear" or "we modernized" or "we streamlined", etc... basically as if the bad feature was caused by some external force or by a committee decision.
by bondarchuk | 2025-09-10 13:57:53+00:00
https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TargetStatus

I have one of AIGO EROS Q / EROS K / AGPTek H3 / HIFI WALKER H2 / Surfans F20 with Rockbox and it's great. And the existence of reasonably prices half-terabyte SD cards is obviously a great improvement too.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-10 13:58:05+00:00
Korean companies admit skirting US visas, say they had no choice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198744 - September 2025

Leaked ICE document shows worker detained in Hyundai raid had valid visa - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197599 - September 2025
by knolan | 2025-09-10 13:58:42+00:00
I feel like a bit of a failure when it comes to transport. I tried for many years to cycle to work in Dublin covering 25km on an ebike, but gave up after several nasty incidents that almost resulted in serious injury (for example my head almost going under the wheel of a van). I've experienced so much hatred, verbal and physical violence from drivers — and I'm the kind of cyclist that is fully lit, clad in high-vis and stopping at all traffic lights.

About a year ago I started to take the bus. My commute went from an hour on the bike to over two hours. Spending four hours a day on a bus to travel such a short distance is not a fun experience. The bus meanders through a city choked with traffic. It's often faster if I get off and walk that part of the journey (I've checked). I enjoyed cycling for the most part. It was great for fitness and clearing my head. The parts of my commute away from cars were beautiful but there was a significant risk of death or serious injury every time I got on the bike. More and more drivers are buried in their phones. Cycle or bus and you'll see this.

The bus was slowly killing me. It was hard to work as the crowded bus wobbled around narrow Dublin streets along with various degrees of anti-social behaviour. I got off the bus angry and frustrated and groggy.

I've just bought a small little electric car and I can get to work in around 40 minutes. I don't have to listen to other people's loud voice calls or TikToks that are so loud they penetrate through ANC. I don't have to ask someone to make space on the seat they are occupying all by themselves and their bag and endure the dirty looks for it. I don't have to wait and wait for buses that never show up. I hate the bus. I hate that I hate the bus. I feel like a failure for having to buy a second car but I fucking tried!

I'm happy in my car. It's fun to drive and it makes me happy and guilty. I feel like I have so much more freedom. I'm not tied to the bus schedule which placed very tight limits on my time, and the bus frequently didn't show. Otherwise it would take much longer to get home. I can stop by somewhere on the way home and pick something up. Like the bike, I am by myself in the car and I can decompress. I can sing if I want.

It makes no sense for a 25km commute to take two hours. Its madness. By travelling from one suburb to another via the city centre the bus becomes wholly impractical. A public transport system has to work so that people leave their car at home. London worked for me, I got the tube everywhere. Valencia has an amazing public transport system. Dublin is completely broken.
by oldjim798 | 2025-09-10 13:58:50+00:00
How is driving not emotionally taxing the exact same way? Driving with my kids is fucking terrifying. I have 2 under 6, and I have to lock them into these giant car seats to keep them safe (to be clear I like modern car seats, their designs just remind me how vulnerable kids are). Every time I go through a intersection I worry what happens if someone runs the red and smashes into our side.

I no longer speed when I drive because I want the kids to be safe and the insane rage other drivers send our way because I'm going 40 km/hr on a 40 km/hr road. I've had driver try to force us off the road, tail gate us hard, pass us across double yellow lines, scream at us.

Driving is exhausting.
by placardloop | 2025-09-10 13:58:54+00:00
The pricing isn’t due to AWS. Even if you used standard S3 and paid for data retrieval for your entire backup every single month, tarsnap is over 3x the price of just using S3 yourself. The markup on tarsnap is wild.

Using something like restic or borgbackup+rclone is pretty much the same experience as tarsnap but a fraction of the price.
by RicoElectrico | 2025-09-10 13:58:59+00:00
> What was unique about YouTube is YouTube did not have to pay for content. People made acceptable quality content and uploaded it to YouTube for free.

What if I told you it did?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Original_Channel_Initi...

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/investing-in-future-of-...
by panick21_ | 2025-09-10 13:59:07+00:00
American cities, almost all were also built before the car. At least the city centers. Both US and European cities grew after WW2.

The US just radically and systematically destroyed its own cities, Europe did its fair share of that, but simply not as bad. I think what saved Europe is that they were behind the US in investment, and when they finally wanted to adopt those US polices, people had already figured out how shit it was, and in many cities the worst urban highways were prevented.

In the US, very few cities survived and very few highways were stopped.

European cities are do not have more evolvability, in fact, large US roads actually means you have more op. Its more a matter of the US refusing to evolve. Its political far more then an aspect of the build environment.
by kenmacd | 2025-09-10 13:59:10+00:00
Seems a little sparse on details. If the radios are actually cellular it seems it would be trivial for an entity like the US government to at least determine what SIM (and even data) any of these modules was sending.

Rather than anything malicious I'm thinking it's probably just a common module made for signs that can be updated over-the-air, and that feature just isn't enabled in the US signs.
by dijit | 2025-09-10 13:59:13+00:00
What do you mean, there's all kinds of extremely user focused distributions.

If you need it to feel like Windows there's KDE - but if you're OK with changing your mind then things like ElemeteryOS (https://elementary.io/) put a huge amount of focus on UX, accessibility, beauty and of course: usability.

Aside from Archlinux, the majority of mainstream distributions bend over themselves to offer you GUIs for everything. Yes, the CLI is powerful and you will be better served by not avoiding it: but you can get by totally fine if you never open a single terminal on Ubuntu or Bazzite.

This is written as a power-user lamenting having power, and presuming that non-power users will have to learn to be a power user.. that's just not a thing in linux since at least 2016.
by bluGill | 2025-09-10 13:59:37+00:00
I save a lot of time by taking a parking spot far from the door and just walking. People who drive spend a lot more time than they think looking for a parking spot close to the door. Plus nobody cares if I take up 3 parking spots way out there (so long as I'm not in a lane of course) so I can stop whereever without checking for the lines saving even more time not trying to get perfectly in the parking spot.
by roryirvine | 2025-09-10 14:00:05+00:00
Only the tube is affected by the strike.

Overground, National Rail, DLR, the Elizabeth line, trams and buses are all working. And the few parts of the tube network that don't have any nearby heavy rail services (eg. the Hainault loop on the Central line) are mostly still running.

Sure, the non-tube services are (much!) busier than normal but this situation is actually a great demonstration of one of the most important factors in making public transport useful: route redundancy, so that if one is suspended for whatever reason there are reasonable alternative options for most journeys.
by strnisa | 2025-09-10 14:00:11+00:00
Yes, Small Transfers can be used for pay-per-view or pay-per-minute billing models.

The platform's biggest risk that I see is a customer defaulting after using a merchant's service. The platform currently mitigates that with Stripe Radar, 3-D Secure, and spending caps, but I'm keen to hear anything specific you're thinking about.
by alphazard | 2025-09-10 14:00:56+00:00
> However,the United States, particularly in the last 50 years, seems to have fostered a culture averse to education.

There's good reason for this. Not everyone enjoys learning for the sake of it. The pitch for forced education is that it will help you sustain yourself as an adult. If adults are finding their time in forced public education to be regretted, then they pass that information onto the younger generations. Maybe there are better ways to acquire useful skills.

I'm always a little surprised to see the HN crowd so in favor of education. The median commenter writes programs for a living, and probably acquired that skill mostly on their own. They might enjoy learning for its own sake, but surely they can look at their own situation objectively and realize their marketable skill came more from free time, computer access, and internet access, than an educational institution. If the strategy was to bet on what already worked for oneself, and hope it works for others too, then they would want to pull money out of schools and put it into libraries, computer labs, and internet cafes.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-10 14:01:09+00:00
You can actually move the taskbar to the left, but you can no longer have it vertically :/

> The insistence on packaging programs as "app bundles".

I don't think appx is too bad on its own - the operating system should have a package manager, it provides a means of handling common dependencies (although this was for WinUI3, which is kind of dead), and both MSI and CAB are very old, weird file formats.

The UWP sandboxing .. I can see why they did it, protection against malicious apps, but it completely handicaps desktop apps.

> Then there's the slew of useless always-online garbage, which literally nobody asked for, and which basically amounts to user-hostile spyware.

Yes, this is Bad and the sort of thing the EU should start leaning on.

> MS needs to accept that user interface design mostly peaked about a decade or two ago

The original Windows era had plenty of work put into accessibility and making it clear what was clickable. The modern era swept that away in favor of "looks nice to minimalists", and I think it's a loss.
by stephen_g | 2025-09-10 14:01:12+00:00
I think you are being unnecessarily defeatist. Cities can’t be redesigned from the ground up, but at the same time we’ve seen that investment into roads can’t fix traffic in cities once they reach a certain population and density.

The first thing we should do is target development. For example, planning laws should require new development (suburbs etc.) to be built around some kind of transit (ideally rail). Zoning should always be mixed - for example it should always be permissible to have at least small apartment blocks, groups of townhouses (like row houses), and small shops and cafes in suburbs. The idea of mandating areas be dedicated to only detached single family dwellings should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

There’s just so much like that that can be started right now. But we don’t - we just keep making the same mistakes and things get worse.
by ARandumGuy | 2025-09-10 14:01:13+00:00
You're right, and I realize my post implied that multiplayer was a complete non-starter on Linux, which isn't true. Kernel-level anticheat is mostly found in big, mainstream releases (especially competitive shooters). Of course, these games happen to be very popular, which gives them an outsized impact.

Personally, I know that the upcoming Battlefield 6 is making me question if I want to switch to Linux once Windows 10 support dies. For a lot of people, being able to play 99% of games on Linux doesn't matter if they can't play one specific game they enjoy. It's a situation that just sucks all around, and I don't see it getting fixed anytime soon.