MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Difwif | 2025-09-10 14:31:18+00:00
(2) Seems like a media narrative rather than truth. I don't think that would be anywhere remotely high on a CEO's priority list unless they were a commercial real estate company.

It's far more likely a mixture of (1) and actual results - in-person/hybrid teams produce better outcomes (even if why that's true hasn't been deeply evaluated or ultimately falls on management)
by nemomarx | 2025-09-10 14:31:26+00:00
If you want to constantly rebuild your house, be my guest, but you're going to have to pay a lot for the nice climate and beach property in that case.

the post war economy was an aberration when the rest of the world was recovering from being bombed to hell, it was never going to last forever. excesses like cheap rebuilding are just not as good of an idea of building to last in safe areas.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-10 14:31:49+00:00
>> How is that possible, if nobody wants to live in a city?

Some do, but many need to for work. As mobility for non-rich average people is reduced, more and more people simply must be in the city for work/services. (That is the only reason I am in a city. I would escape in a heartbeat if my job allowed it.) Where personal transport is cheaper and more available, people flock to suburbs and even "exurbs", which are a big thing now in Texas.

My example: I am often on 1-hour 24/7 recall (military, I don't get to choose my work location). That means I suffer on both ends. I need to be in the city and I must either live/sleep/shop within mile of work or have instant access to a personal vehicle. I guess could setup a cot and sleep beside my desk. That would reduce congestion. But is that a life anyone wants to live?
by simoncion | 2025-09-10 14:31:57+00:00
> Of course, these games happen to be very popular, which gives them an outsized impact.

On the one hand, true. On the other hand, I wonder how BF6's day 1 demand will compare with that of Silksong!

> 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.

Sure, yeah, agreed. And the only thing that's wrong with that is that they can't play the game they want to play.

> Personally, I know that the upcoming Battlefield 6 is making me question if I want to switch to Linux once Windows 10 support dies.

Yeah, BF6 demanding Secure Boot be enabled is fascinating. All that effort and they currently do (and will continue to) have cheaters. Plus, all it takes is one buggy widely-used kernel component to render the whole Secure Boot exercise pointless.

Bear in mind that I'm quite a fan of first-person shooters when reading the following:

It seems to me that the big-name Military-Themed Murder Simulators are all released on both PC and PS5 these days. It seems like many of them support attaching a mouse and keyboard to the console and giving you mouse+keyboard control. Honestly, if I ever get the urge to play one of those flashy-but-not-at-all-good-enough-to-justify-the-price-let-alone-the-invasive-kernel-mode-combination-snoopware-and-backdoors things again, I'll just get a copy for PS5 and attach a mouse and keyboard.

Were I fifteen, I'd be likely to jump through the hoops they're presenting. But, I'm definitely no longer fifteen... and over those years, I've played so many -frequently way better- incarnations of whatever game the big studios are serving up this year. I guess it's a pity for them that years and years of accumulated experience have turned me into something of a low-key snob. ;)
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-10 14:32:07+00:00
Indeed. I, for one, would be in favor of turning hurricane zones into national parks, eminent-domaining those properties for 90% of cost, and federally (or state with federal funding) facilitating moving those families inland.

It won't be painless, but it'll be less painful than letting the market try to solve it and telling them "Good luck selling your stick-pile when everyone knows it's not safe to live here anymore!"
by throw0101d | 2025-09-10 14:32:37+00:00
See perhaps "Active Directory Hardening Series - Part 4 – Enforcing AES for Kerberos":

> Identifying devices limited to RC4 is a critical step but has historically been a tricky problem to solve. However, a recently discovered "feature" in 4768 events can help you identity such devices. […] As a result, 4768 events can be used to identify devices that only support RC4.

* https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/coreinfrastructurea...

Also:

> While DES has long been considered insecure, CVE-2022-37966 accelerates the departure of RC4 for the encryption of Kerberos tickets. If you have not explicitly assigned an algorithm to accounts, then AES will be used in the future. You can use PowerShell to determine which accounts are vulnerable to weak encryption.

* https://blog.sonnes.cloud/find-active-directory-accounts-con...

There are certainly disadvantages to legacy support being 'too good'.
by codegeek | 2025-09-10 14:32:39+00:00
Age is not the main issue. I mean it may make it more difficult but you have a bigger challenge. "Making a move to Software Dev" sounds like you will be entry level in Software world which is really hard right now especially with AI etc.

So the question is "why you if I can hire a 23 year old with possibly more energy, less baggage (most likely they can work longer hours and not have family/kids to worry about etc). That's possibly ageism but when there is a choice b/w an entry level Software Dev who is 23 vs who is 42, who do you think will get priority ?

Now, if you can differentiate yourself where your age becomes a plus and not minus, then we are talking. For example, one can assume you have a lot of real world experience, you have worked in tough conditions with real customers (whatever industry). Can you use that to your advantage and make a better case ? Then you can do it.
by scott_w | 2025-09-10 14:32:40+00:00
Simply untrue in many places. My next-door neighbour rides his bike with his daughter to school then rides to work at the nearby hospital (up a gnarly bank, too). I see many kids walking to school all year round. Kids are more than capable of making their own way to school from the age of 8-10, depending on the distance.

Driving your car is absolutely a choice in many cities, and a poor choice at that.
by graemep | 2025-09-10 14:32:41+00:00
Thanks for clarifying.

Absolutely agree with last para so I do not think we disagree significantly.

I think it is worth adding that, we also get similar behaviour based on other differences: caste in India does not have such obvious physical markers (not to an outsider anyway) but being low caste in India has a history (longer!) very similar to being black in the US. Ethnic splits in other countries might be based on family name, language, religion,.... any identifier that might be even partially inherited.

Edit, to add: This might be a product of living in different countries and cultures, but there are many cases where I cannot tell what "race" people are from their appearance. Light skinned Indians and black Americans, dark skinned Mediterraneans, Central Asians....
by themgt | 2025-09-10 14:32:41+00:00
Were this an academic symposium on lung cancer I would agree. But this is the internet where folks who know how to establish causality and understand research methods and proper citing are uncommon. As a utility monster my appreciation reading about the author's grandma who lived 'til 90 smoking a pack a day more than negates your obsession with medical data.

The irony of this being every discussion of education on HN.
by dinkleberg | 2025-09-10 14:32:46+00:00
I got the self-hosting bug a few years back and have been running a gitea server (among many others) on a mini PC running in my basement that is setup with tailscale so I can connect to it from anywhere, and it has been fantastic. For any OSS projects that I want to be open to the world, I still put it up on GitHub. But for anything else, it is just going on my Gitea instance.
by latexr | 2025-09-10 14:32:48+00:00
> this seems to assume that the only way to feel rewarded / have fun is by comprehensively extracting content from the game.

Not my intention, that is not something I believe. I’m not a completionist (I get those who are, but to me it can get boring or stressful) and I see the appeal in sandbox games (even if I don’t usually play them).
by stetrain | 2025-09-10 14:32:51+00:00
I do have such a social life with real friends in the real world. Cutting out Meta products would reduce how often I see those friends because I would be missing out on communication and planning for those groups.

Ideally they could all switch to a different platform but getting everyone in a group to make that switch is difficult.

My point is that social networks and real-world interaction aren't exclusive. These products facilitate a lot of real-world social interaction as well, and the network effect of most people having an account there makes it hard to move away from.
by mindslight | 2025-09-10 14:33:01+00:00
I'm curious to see how the societal suicide cultists rationalize this directly harmful "enforcement" action versus the supposed goal of rebuilding US manufacturing. Construction workers and engineering expertise are required for building factories. Especially with advanced technologies, we're playing catch up in expertise and thus reliant on foreign engineers to bootstrap our local talent (like what China did for the past two decades). And while the construction workers could be domestic citizens, the rest of the world isn't going to stop and wait for us for the years it takes to reorganize our economy and train them.
by alexandrehtrb | 2025-09-10 14:33:04+00:00
My phone is an iPhone SE 2nd gen. It's much more ergonomic and I can use it with only one hand, typing text included. Previously I had an iPhone 6S, same screen size (4.7″).

Other iPhone models are giant walkie-talkies for me. They need one hand to hold them and another to type text or slide the screen.
by npteljes | 2025-09-10 14:33:19+00:00
I'm one of these "holdouts". My gaming setup is Windows 10 21H2, so EoL is in 2027, I'm good so far. Then I'll either proceed to the IoT version, pushing the EoL into 2031, or upgrade to Win11 LTSC, whichever seems to make sense at that moment.

Windows 11 has no attractive features for me over 10. And the UX is subpar. So I'll upgrade when I'll absolutely have to.
by mmsimanga | 2025-09-10 14:33:34+00:00
Oops I should have kept my mouth shut. It will be interesting how the application developers react. Will Firefox or Brave browser stop supporting Windows 10 in a year's time.

My work issued device is on Windows and I keep a Windows PC at home just to make the switching between work and home simpler but I have no reason not to switch to Linux at home.
Show HN: Ark v0.5.0 – A Minimal, High-Performance Entity Component System for Go
by mlange-42 | 2025-09-10 14:33:57+00:00
I’ve just released Ark v0.5.0, a lightweight Entity Component System (ECS) library for Go, built with a focus on performance and simplicity.

If you're new to Ark: it's a high-performance Go ECS library with a clean API and zero dependencies. Beyond its core ECS functionality, Ark stands out for ultra-fast batch operations and first-class support for entity relationships.

This release brings notable performance improvements to queries via smarter indexing, plus new methods for sampling random entities. The documentation has been expanded with a chapter on design philosophy and limitations, along with new examples covering advanced topics like entity relations, world locking, spatial indexing, and parallel simulations.

If you’re exploring ECS patterns in Go or looking for a an ECS that delivers performance without sacrificing usability, I’d love to hear your feedback. Contributions are welcome.

Changelog: github.com/mlange-42/ark/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
by calvinmorrison | 2025-09-10 14:34:30+00:00
Licensing a repository Public repositories on GitHub are often used to share open source software. For your repository to truly be open source, you'll need to license it so that others are free to use, change, and distribute the software.

In this article Choosing the right license We created choosealicense.com, to help you understand how to license your code. A software license tells others what they can and can't do with your source code, so it's important to make an informed decision.

You're under no obligation to choose a license. However, without a license, the default copyright laws apply, meaning that you retain all rights to your source code and no one may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work.

via https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...
by yepitwas | 2025-09-10 14:34:34+00:00
That's worrisome since I've seen those be for-sure wrong a pretty high percentage of the time.

[EDIT] Incidentally, are there any sites that do actual web search any more, better than Yandex? I'd rather avoid a Russian site if I can, but there are whole topics where it's impossible to find anything useful on heavily "massaged" allegedly-Web-search-but-not-really sites like Google and DDG (Bing), but I can find what I want on page 1 or 2 of a Yandex search. Is Kagi as good as that, or is their index simply ignoring a whole bunch of the Web like so many others? I don't mind paying.
by skydhash | 2025-09-10 14:34:44+00:00
For simple changes, you can just `git diff` it to a file, put that file on a pastebin and share that link with any communication tool (or share the file directly). `git format-patch` is more where you want to share the commits (message and all). And you're not tied to using email. It's just a collection of files that you can share using whatever.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-10 14:34:45+00:00
> At the extremes, a bus (or worse, a train) with one driver and one passenger is obviously worse than one person in a car.

Or driving with no passengers at all, not uncommon for the buses where I live at certain times and routes.

It's sort of a chicken and egg problem. You can optimize equipment usage by running more buses on heavily used routes but you can't encourage new ridership on new routes without running enough buses to make it at least somewhat convenient. If you miss your bus and have to wait an hour or more for the next one, most people don't find that very appealing.

But at some point if you're running a whole bus to move a small number of people, you need to admit it's not worth it and eliminate that route. It would be more economical to just give those people taxi rides.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-09-10 14:34:47+00:00
I believe there would be a market for it, but it wouldn't take off as such. I don't know if this is down to Apple stopping production of it or some other reason, but ipod sales dropped from a peak of nearly 60M sold / year in '08 to a final number of 14.4m sold in '14 according to [0]. The bigger number though is the percentage of Apple's revenue, which peaked in 2006 at 40%, down to just 1% in 2014.

By then, the iphone and associated app revenue had long taken over their revenue. But on the other hand, if they applied the same metrics to Mac they would've discontinued that years ago too, but they need Mac for people to build iPhone apps.

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/10469/apple-ipod-sales/
by epolanski | 2025-09-10 14:34:51+00:00
Subscription are easily ignored as soon as you have watched some other topics for half a day.

Youtube's algorithm has an exxagerated recency bias and it tends to ignore in my case most of the topics I'm subscribed to as soon as I don't watch those topics for few days.

The only thing it gets right, the only one, is sort of figuring out my usage depending on the time and device I'm using. On desktop I use it mostly for music streaming, on tv/phone I use it mostly for other content, that's the only thing it gets right.

But otherwise, it's an utter mess when Spotify or Tik Tok do an infinitely better job with way less information and guidance.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-10 14:34:58+00:00
The only game I've heard of is Rust, and apparently they just need to include a library or something to that effect to make it work under Wine, but refuse to do so because they think people will cheat on Linux. I'm pretty sure people cheating are mostly cheating from Windows. I don't care about the Rust game enough to be bothered.
by coder543 | 2025-09-10 14:34:59+00:00
> Sony Xperia Z2 - 2014 - 172mm x 266mm x 6.4 mm - 439g

Again, not nearly the same screen size, so weight is irrelevant. But also, 439g? Wow! If that number wasn’t completely wrong, that would be impressive.

6.4mm is nowhere near as thin as 5.6mm, but I’m actually seeing 8.2mm for thickness on reliable websites, not 6.4mm: https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z2-6144.php

Did an LLM hallucinate those specs that you quoted? I honestly don’t know how the thickness and weight you quoted could be that far off if you did the research yourself.

But, even if you were right, which you don’t seem to be, it’s all moot. No one is cross-shopping a 2014 phone to a 2025 phone. But even if they were, the real numbers speak for themselves.
Show HN: Internet Plays Chess – one global game, moves by consensus
by wessie | 2025-09-10 14:35:29+00:00
I built a little experiment called Internet Plays Chess.

It’s inspired by “Twitch Plays Pokémon,” but for chess. My goal was to see if the internet can collectively play a coherent game.

I leaned on Cursor (with Agent Mode) to speed up the build process, but I have a lot of experience with these types of apps/games, since I am also one of the creators of https://www.usdoku.com/ (another weird idea I had)
by alphazard | 2025-09-10 14:35:40+00:00
> It might be okay that I was self-taught, because I'm special; but we can't let regular people be doing that sort of thing.

That's an interesting theory. It definitely explains a lot of what we see. I don't know if anyone self-describing as progressive would sign off on it as their own thinking.

Phrased the way you put it, it also seems like a kind of cognitive bias almost like the gambler's fallacy. Assuming that the concrete data you have is not representative, and instead the opposite is more likely to occur. The correct reasoning would be "this definitely worked for me, assume I'm not special and try to make the same path easier for others".

The reason I think it might be a strawman is that the ideology your talking about does want to help others, and that thinking would make them less effective at that goal.
by JohnFen | 2025-09-10 14:35:41+00:00
I completely misinterpreted the question. I thought it was asking "how do you write code, regardless of whether or not you use AI?" and thought it was an incredibly broad, basic, and unanswerable question.

Now I realize it was asking whether or not you use AI to write code. English is fun.

(My answer: I don't use AI to help with writing code, even (ironically?) when I'm working on deep learning systems.)
by elevaet | 2025-09-10 14:35:42+00:00
With my own kids what has worked is setting aside time, before bed where they _have to read_. It can be anything they want, they pick books from library most of the time.

The risk of this approach might be that it could suck the fun out of it making it a chore, but that has not been the case - they both like to read books now.

Creating that space for reading has been essential. It's impossible to compete against all of the other things otherwise.
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-10 14:35:49+00:00
FWIW, we actually do subsidize people living next to active volcanoes. If for no other reason than Hawaii is strategically significant (I think there are good humanitarian reasons also, but I'm pretty sure the US federal government would continue to see it as strategically valuable to help people in Hawaii recover from the occasional eruption regardless). https://recovery.hawaiicounty.gov/resources/recovery-grants/...
by chaostheory | 2025-09-10 14:35:53+00:00
Katrina runs counter to your point. Even Miami itself does without Katrina level disasters

Skipping past all of the other negatives about living in a known disaster prone area, we couldn’t afford to rebuild even back then without endless deficit spending. As I speak, New Orleans is still in the process of rebuilding post-Katrina decades later.

> This is less a signal of "insurance getting smarter" and more of a signal that American excess is coming to an end.

They’re not mutually exclusive.
by bitwize | 2025-09-10 14:36:02+00:00
Java gives me similar feelings to what people say about Go: it may be a little verbose, but you always know exactly what to write and how to write it, and looking at other people's code you get a very good sense of what it does because it follows very familiar patterns.

The "brotha, eugh!" feeling comes from the enterprise frameworks, which tangle all that up in a mess of factories, DI autowiring, and inversion of control. COBOL may have been a lot to type, but its execution model was straightforward, like a BASIC program. Java EE's execution model is NOT straightforward. And it's no wonder why so many attempts to "modernize" old COBOL code using Java EE fail.

In my case it helps that I've been poking at Java since the very beginning, having discovered a bug in the 1.0.1 runtime, and compared to contemporary C++, it was a delight except for the performance problems.

C# doesn't feel too different from Java to me, aside from being more "Microsofty".
by AllegedAlec | 2025-09-10 14:36:05+00:00
I am both unsurprised and extremely disappointed with the amount of people saying "good, they shouldn't be living there".

Good luck telling that to the family trying to live close to their support network, or the old woman who has to sell her home to go into care, only to find her house is now worth so little she's a couple hundred K in debt.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-10 14:36:13+00:00
it's a good thing until it's your house. when we bought 5 years ago there had been exactly one tornado within a hundred miles of us in the entirety of the historical record. Now there's been one each of the last three years and I'm sitting in what was supposed to be the central investment of my lifetime wondering if its asset value is gonna plummet to zero while the cost for me to actually stay here is gonna become entirely unmaintainable, leaving me with no way to hold this position and no exit aside from maybe bankruptcy. Dispassionate analysis of systems is important but remembering that this system is made of actual human beings and involves what for many of them is their life's work is also important. I did everything right, went to school, got the job, built the nest egg, invested in the community (the historically non-disaster-prone community), now it could potentially all disappear out from underneath me and there's nothing I can do to prevent it.
by scott_w | 2025-09-10 14:36:29+00:00
> Prioritising cars actually makes things worse for drivers.

I 100% agree. I live in Newcastle, a city that is fairly car centric, but we have a Metro line and have had pushes to increase bus and bicycle transport (though Labour are generally bad for active travel).

My brother moved to Leeds, one of the largest cities in Europe without a Metro or tram. Driving anywhere in the city is fucking awful. The planners clearly kept trying to add one more lane and the result is congestion everywhere, even at quiet times.

I've also driven round Liverpool and Manchester and found, though they're better as they have Metro lines, the car-centric roads are still really awful to drive on.
by arethuza | 2025-09-10 14:36:39+00:00
"But a car with no traffic is the overall best form of transportation."

Not if you are like me and likely to take a short nap after a long day at work...

Edit: I own a car, I use it all the time. But I also use the train a lot - all depends where I want to go and what I will be doing when I get there.

Edit2: I sometimes even drive to the train station, get out of my car and into a train!