MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danpalmer | 2025-09-26 07:57:49+00:00
You could region lock, or just put an address like "hello@..." front and center, that's probably enough. Here is Australia, and in the UK where I'm from, WhatsApp is everywhere, but no payments and it's pretty much exclusively personal use. In the US basically no one has WhatsApp.

Makes sense about payments, good to focus on the product. I think saying "free during beta" is fine – it may put some people off because they don't want to rely on something that will go away or start charging later, but it's honest. You could put a target pricing if you want to set expectations for when you do implement payments.

More info in general on the landing page about how it works, or the sorts of results I can expect, would be good. The page does a good job of telling me what's possible, but I know what digital signage is, how does this particular product help me more than other alternatives?
by Marazan | 2025-09-26 07:58:18+00:00
This is a nice story but just doesn't hold up to the evidence of what was "cut".

The reason people lie it as a story is because it makes everything have a logical sense to it. It brings reason to the disorder, and people hate chaos so cling to this Machivaleian mirage of a plan. An evil plan is better than chaos. Even if it is not true.

However there _is_ an underlying reason to _some_ of the DOGE vandalism, and that is that Elon Musk's personal social media feed is a brain destroying fire hose of far right racism and conspiracy theories. One of the big boogey men of the far right racist conspiracy theories was USAID. So that is why USAID was shut down with the consequent loss of thousands upon thousands of lives. Because Musk believes bullshit he reads on the internet.
by auggierose | 2025-09-26 07:58:32+00:00
Just because two apples are both green doesn't mean that they are equal. In fact, if there are two apples, that means they are definitely not equal, otherwise there would be just one green apple. No, the set is not equal to a set of 3 green apples and 1 red apple, under the assumption that a green apple cannot be a red apple (and vice versa). Any more questions?
by darkamaul | 2025-09-26 07:59:05+00:00
I think the _copy-and-patch_ approach [0] is probably the best compromise here.

You get many of the guarantees of compiled code (strong correctness, reduced mismatch between interpreter vs JIT semantics, etc.), while still being very close to native performance.

In fact, Python is already moving in that direction: the new bytecode-based copy-and-patch JIT in Python 3.13 shows correct results even before heavy performance tuning.

So to me this seems like a very promising road: I wonder how practical this is if the base language is not C/C++ but Rust (or any kind of memory safe language).

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.13127
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-26 07:59:17+00:00
Sometimes doing things because they are hard is a great reason to do them to see if the reasons those things are hard are still valid. Doing a filesystem in Rust potentially mitigates some of those things. Most existing filesystems have gone through a lengthy stabilization phase where using them meant exposing yourself to nasty data corruption bugs, obscure race issues, and other issues that, when you root cause them, have a lot to do with the kinds of things Rust explicitly addresses (memory safety, safe concurrency, etc.). So there's a great argument to just try to leverage those features to make things easier and try to build an awesome file system.

Worst case this doesn't work. Best case, this works amazingly well. I think there's some valid reason for optimism here give other hard things that Rust has been used for in the past few years.
by otikik | 2025-09-26 07:59:24+00:00
> "idiot" excludes them as you've so obviously noted and they should be protected

Ok. Glad that we have some common ground there, then. If not by regulating gambling companies, how do you propose these people should be protected?

I think having some data would help. Here's my first hit from a google the first hit I got:

https://worldmetrics.org/online-gambling-addiction-statistic...

From there, I highlight 2:

- 2% of global population suffers from gambling disorder

- Approximately 25% of online gamblers are classified as problem gamblers based on clinical screening tools

> You not getting mugged has nothing to do with what I'm saying,that's false equivalency.

Why, exactly?

> I have every right to enter a life of addiction and ruin myself, as do you.

Yeah here is the thing. You don't know if I have a mental health disorder. Assuming that I do, gambling companies will use any trick they can to hook me into giving them all my money.

> A right to prevent me from doing something that doesn't affect you

I agree the government doesn't need to "prevent you from anything". What I'm saying is that I want them to prevent gambling companies from doing things to me - a hypothetical gambling addict.

I, as a potential person with compulsive behavior, will have gambling companies showing me ads on the street. Tagging me up and showing me adds in Youtube or any other website that uses ads. Offering customized "free samples" to entice me. I don't want them doing that to me and I can't make them not do that to me - only the government can.

So going back to my first question, which you didn't answer - what do you think the government should get involved with?
by sally_glance | 2025-09-26 08:00:01+00:00
Is that really a fair comparison? I think the amount of people who can memorize each and every configuration item is vanishingly small... even when I was bootstrapping k8s clusters before the dawn of LLMs I had to lookup current documentation and maybe some up to date tutorials.

Knowing the abstract steps and tripwires yes, but details will always have to be looked up. If just not to miss any new developments.
by Y_Y | 2025-09-26 08:00:44+00:00
I found an old edition of Byte from 77 where they advertise a "Vector Graphic Vector 1+":

https://isaac.lsu.edu/byte/issues/197710_Byte_Magazine_Vol_0...

A quick search doesn't find me pictures, but I did find a "Vector 1++”:

https://vintagecomputer.ca/vector-graphic-vector-1/
by wiradikusuma | 2025-09-26 08:01:29+00:00
The controller is a web app (https://admin.signagesync.app), and the app is basically a WebView wrapper. The app has 2 "modes", control (opens the website mentioned earlier) and display.

The app requires internet, but the content can be from local network. Eventually if there's enough demand I'll make everything local.

It doesn't work for RPi yet but soon!
by surajrmal | 2025-09-26 08:01:38+00:00
Performance can be fine for the vast majority of hardware. Some drivers may need to be colocated in the same process for performance, but your average PCI driver doesn't benefit at all from being in the kernel. People also underestimate what you can accomplish with an efficient async first shared memory based ipc can accomplish.

Security benefits of driver's being in user space become limited quickly if you lack an iommu. Additionally if it has to set things like voltage regulators or clocks it can easily put the system into precarious states. That said it's still worthwhile and has lots of other benefits.
by drtgh | 2025-09-26 08:01:38+00:00
> the internet was worse without Cloudflare

Cloudflare acts as a proxy for dynamic content, thereby slowing down the internet.

Their existence (and success) suggests a lack of infrastructure or solutions (ie. DDOS, CDN) from data centers on their own and by default, what is... sad, as if the data centers were falling asleep without adapting to the times.

Soon we may have this picture: User > ISP > VPN (or proxy) > Cloudflare (proxy) > Server.

Intermediaries are slowness... and in the case of Cloudflare sniffing if they want (if they manage the TLS certs).
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-09-26 08:02:54+00:00
You are correct. The Identity Cards Act of 2006 was brought in by Blair’s Labour Government under the guise of preventing terrorism, the hot topic at the time. It was repealed by the incoming Tory/Liberal coalition under the Identity Documents Act 2010. Lobbying for Digital ID cards continued by the “Tony Blair Institute for Global Change” amongst others.
by latexr | 2025-09-26 08:03:32+00:00
Don’t forget that Sam Altman is also the cryptocurrency scammer who wants your biometric information. The goal was and will always be personal wealth and power, not helping others.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
by ensocode | 2025-09-26 08:03:34+00:00
We have a problem with Giant Hogweed and I was thinking about ways to identify hotspots. My guess is that standard satellite imagery, like Google Maps, probably isn’t good enough. To even check if this could work, you’d need high-res imagery (sub-meter), ideally multispectral, and some way to validate it on the ground. What steps should I take to verify if this is possible in a way this was done here?
by broomhall | 2025-09-26 08:03:35+00:00
One of the main differences between the ZX Spectrum and Spectrum+ was the upgraded keyboard. The original had the famous mushy rubber keys but the Spectrum+ had an injection-moulded keyboard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum#ZX_Spectrum

So with a nod to both the 500+ and Spectrum+, it's a pretty apt name.
by Marazan | 2025-09-26 08:03:41+00:00
Another key extract from the article

> The performance of a tool can drop as much as 20 percentage points when it is tested out of sample, on data from other hospitals. In one study, a pneumonia detection model trained on chest X-rays from a single hospital performed substantially worse when tested at a different hospital.

That screams of over fitting to the training data.
by odie5533 | 2025-09-26 08:03:56+00:00
It's $9/mo for 100 MB of ElastiCache Serverless which is HA.

It's $15/mo for 2x cache.t4g.micro nodes for ElastiCache Valkey with multi-az HA and a 1-year commitment. This gives you about 400 MB.

It very much depends on your use case though if you need multiple regions then I think DynamoDB might be better.

I prefer Redis over DynamoDB usually because it's a widely supported standard.
by anal_reactor | 2025-09-26 08:04:19+00:00
The actual number is like half of that because while 800k people came, about 400k people left.

I am an immigrant myself but I start to think that such policies are short-sighted. The end result is often fragmentation of the society, because immigrants rarely truly integrate, and at some point they become the majority, and then you're effectively a minority in your own country. It takes at least two generations for newcomers to become fully integrated, and that assumes things going right.
by GTP | 2025-09-26 08:05:49+00:00
Given Steve Jobs' character, there may be another reason behind it: that year, before the decision to stop supporting Flash, Adobe broke their agreement with Apple by releasing Photoshop for PCs before the version for Mac for the first time. This could sound as a conspiracy teory, and I don't know how much evidence we have that this might have been the reason (or one of the reasons) behind the decision. But, given Jobs' personality, I think this is plausible.

We should also consider that, having Flash support, would have opened the door to non-Apple-approved apps running on iPhones, something that Apple has always strenously opposed. All-in-all, at the time I got the feeling that the technical reasons provided by Jobs weren't the main reasons behind the decision.
by TZubiri | 2025-09-26 08:06:42+00:00
> It's not hard, if you do it in a way that you can't send to like 50% of the recipients.

So it's hard (to do well)

>The problem is that Gmail will bounce any emails from DigitalOcean IP, even if you sit on this IP for years (so no recent spam), even if replying to someone, even if you registered as 'Postmaster' on Google.

>So if you want to selfhost, you'll first need to find an IP that's not blocked to begin with.

I'd say this is just the thing antitrust was made for. Hopefully some incumbent can get them to court.
by Letstalk123 | 2025-09-26 08:06:44+00:00
I’ve noticed something strange: after half an hour of scrolling, my brain feels scattered. But after half an hour of a real conversation, I feel sharper and calmer.

It made me wonder — maybe the issue isn’t technology itself, but the form it takes. Feeds fragment attention. Conversations demand presence.

I started experimenting with this idea through mindfuse.io — a platform for anonymous 1:1 voice conversations. Instead of feeds and likes, it’s just people talking.

Do you think conversations can actually help rebuild focus in a distracted age? Or is our attention too far gone?
by Mindfusefounder | 2025-09-26 08:07:12+00:00
The internet was supposed to break down barriers, but most platforms feel like echo chambers. Algorithms give us more of what we already think, not what helps us grow.

What I’ve found is that real empathy doesn’t come from reading posts or headlines — it comes from conversations. Hearing a stranger’s voice, story, or perspective can shift your worldview more than a thousand articles.

That’s why I’ve been working on mindfuse.io — an experiment in anonymous 1:1 voice conversations.

Curious what you think: Can strangers genuinely connect online in a way that builds trust? Or does true empathy only come from long-term relationships?
by rikafurude21 | 2025-09-26 08:07:51+00:00
Did you just step out of a time machine from 10 years ago? Translation is considered a fully solved problem due to LLMs. If you're bilingual you can find out for yourself, LLMs are able to parse meaning and transfer writing styles perfectly well. You're able to prompt it with the context of what its translating and it understands that it has to return short meaningful text. I know that it might make mistakes, thats obvious, but considering the post we're replying to, an open source developer with a 0 dollar budget wont be able to hire human translators.
by Nursie | 2025-09-26 08:10:04+00:00
I mean I guess this new thing is going to be free?

I also don't live in the UK any more, still a brit and not yet Australian, but I have had to adjust to it being necessary to carry your license here when driving. It means I can't really leave home without my wallet, which is odd. We're getting electronic licenses before long though, hopefully.
by monerozcash | 2025-09-26 08:10:12+00:00
That depends on the actual implementation of the checking. For example despite passports having chips, essentially no passport control is going to deny you entry if your genuine passport has a broken chip.

So currently at least, a good forged passport will work everywhere except on e-gates. Although on the other hand actually procuring for example a decent forged polycarbonate passport (which most new EU passports are) is next to impossible, the printing techniques used require such expensive machinery that criminals simply don't have access to them.

I've held probably thousands of forged passports, never seen a decent polycarbonate one. Perfect EU id cards you can find everywhere, a lot of them still printed on Teslin.
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-26 08:11:09+00:00
> It is extremely important for a civil society not only that predictable laws are put into place, but also that predictable enforcement of those laws exist.

At the moment, this doesn't exist either. Particularly on the low end of offenses, selective enforcement and racial profiling run rampant, and not just in the US.

Any decent developed society takes laws that have gone outdated off the books entirely - the exceptions are the US and the UK, about the only nations in the world that didn't have at least one revolution, war, putsch or peaceful regime change that was used to reboot the entire legal system from scratch and incorporate decades if not centuries of progress.
by arrowsmith | 2025-09-26 08:11:18+00:00
Digital IDs will be used to restrict your internet access.

They'll roll them out gradually. You won't need one at first. You'll still show your passport, driving license etc, until one day you give up because the digital version is convenient and you "might as well". What's your problem? Why do you care? Have you got something to hide?

Then they'll attack the easiest target: porn. We already have age-verification laws, implemented through dodgy third-party providers. But now everyone has digital government ID: we "might as well" unify things so all the porn sites check your age using the centralised government system. What's your problem? Why do you care? Won't you THINK OF THE CHILDREN??? You want to let CHILDREN watch PORN???

Then comes online retail. After all, the Southport killer bought his knife from Amazon — that was the front page headline on every paper, remember how organic and uncoordinated that was? It could all have been avoided with better age verification. And hey, we already have a way to verify age with our digital IDs. We "might as well". What's your problem? Why do you care? You want to let CHILDREN buy KNIVES?

And what about social media? Kids shouldn't use Facebook, it's bad for them. Australia already bans under 16s from social media. We already have age verification for other things. We "might as well". WHY DO YOU CARE????? THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

Oh, that's handy, everyone's social media accounts are now tied to their real identities. That'll come in handy when people say nasty things that the government doesn't like. After all, those riots only happened because of "misinformation". Why do you need to stay anonymous anyway? What's the problem? Why do you care? Got something to hide? You're in favour of HATE SPEECH??

The slippery slope has never been more lubricated.
by monerozcash | 2025-09-26 08:11:37+00:00
> It's presumably harder to forge a cryptographic signature than paper documents

For criminals it is already essentially impossible to forge new polycarbonate documents. Acquiring them by defrauding the application processes remains easy however.

Of course, if the person checking doesn't know what the real document feels like in their hand, whether it's real polycarbonate or a shit laminated TESLIN fake makes little difference.
by gsliepen | 2025-09-26 08:11:55+00:00
The problem of a Linux phone is not the hardware, it's the software. Are you doing to run a desktop OS on it? No. And if you want something like Android but not Android itself, how are you getting enough quality apps made? What about things like banking apps, who is going to port those?

While I would like a pure Linux phone, I think the only reasonable course of action is Android with something like Samsung's DeX on top. Maybe that is something they could do, but I don't see this happening any time soon.
by aa-jv | 2025-09-26 08:12:34+00:00
There may be more to ancient life on Earth than we currently allow for in our academic institutions, and language may be the way we start to open the door to understanding just how far back it goes.

Its the same with the cyclopian architecture that can be found all over the world in places we once considered disconnected.

The point is, there is still a lot more to be discerned.
by latexr | 2025-09-26 08:12:42+00:00
> What problem does this solve.

People not getting sufficiently addicted and dependent on ChatGPT, and then not having enough means to monetise and control you opinion and consumption.

Oh, you meant what problem does this solve for the user? They don’t really care about that, they’ll always do just enough to get you to continue using and defending their product.
by truth_seeker | 2025-09-26 08:13:05+00:00
PostgreSQL Tuning further for this use case

- Reduce Page Size from 8KB to 4KB, great for write heavy operations and indexed reads. Needs to compile source with those flags, cant configure once installation is done.

- Increase Buffer cache

- Table partitioning for UNLOGGED Table which the author is using

- At connection session level, lower the transaction level from SERIALIZABLE

- The new UUID7 in PG 18 as a key might also help as primary indexed KEY type as it also supports range queries on timestamp
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-26 08:13:07+00:00
To harp on avhon's point, ThinkPads have specific lines where most parts are made to be easily replaceable: the RAM, SSD, wi-fi card, fans etc. are user accessible. Not all ThinkPads do, so you need to at least care about the line (X, P, T, E, etc., it's a whole world), and check the repair guides and community reception.

Panasonic also has a stellar reputation in that regard.

Bear in mind they will break and you'll be hunting for parts, it's just a lot easier and viable than some other laptops.
by throw954387543 | 2025-09-26 08:13:13+00:00
I've been in the industry long enough to see the jobs you talk about in the office. Many don't require a "profession" and yes these are up for automation unless there is some other moat (e.g. locality or the personal touch for sales staff for example). The "Software Engineer" is grouped now with such people - general process office workers once their differentiating factor (i.e. skill difficulty) is trivialized by AI. The fact that it is paid more than those general jobs just makes it more enticing as a target.

Most engineers, even accountants, any profession with a title really that required some study usually have the moat of liability and/or locality. SWE's don't really have this in general - a unique job that while requiring a degree for many high tech orgs, will be the first to go. As you said 80% is enough for many domains here. Any other engineering profession (e.g. electrical, civil) has other moats that mean they won't be as disrupted.

Most of the people I talk to w.r.t this issue studied in general professions or trades, physical jobs. i.e. SWE is especially affected especially at the higher end where study was required because for the same "effort" of a CS/Engineering degree you could of been in any other profession where there was more protection from AI (bootcamps aside). AI may have the CS/SWE university pathway be redundant - ironic if most college/uni jobs are still safe except for the industry that birthed the AI in the first place.
by znpy | 2025-09-26 08:13:44+00:00
> It's not basic supply and demand--indeed, most economists are pro immigration. Bryan Caplan went as far as advocating for open border (admittedly he's more libertarian than most).

Classic example of "appeal to authority" fallacy - https://helpfulprofessor.com/appeal-to-authority-fallacy-exa...

> New workers are also new consumers, who create new jobs as well.

New workers with much lower purchasing power will not be consuming as much/as well. Heck, a lot of companies are known to hand out directions on how to get food stamps upon hiring (i think Walmart was one of the notable cases).

Without proper rights may get new consumers but you may also get more pressure on the welfare system (which is already weak in the US).

> If more workers are always bad for other workers, declining birth rate (ie fewer future workers) would be a good thing.

You skip the part where declining birth rate is a very strong in developed countries but not as strong (in some cases, not strong at all) in not-equally developed countries.