MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xbar | 2025-09-18 13:41:47+00:00
I think if Nvidia wanted to acquire Intel, they would acquire Intel.

Intel has never been so cheap relative to the kinds of IP assets that Nvidia values and probably will not be ever again if this and other investments keep it afloat.

Trump's FTC would not block.

You write with proper case-sensitivity for their titles which suggests some historic knowledge of the two. They have been very close partners on CPU+GPU for decades. This investment is not fundamentally changing that.

The current CEO is more like a CFO--cutting costs and eliminating waste. There are two exits from that: sell off, as you say, and re-investment in the products of most likely future profit. This could be a signal that the latter is the plan and that the competitive aspects of the nVidia-intel partnership will be sidelined for a while.
by gwd | 2025-09-18 13:42:11+00:00
> And I was talking about Jabber, not IRC.

Right, I misunderstood your last line. I initially took you to mean, "We've had IRC since forever and Jabber since the early 00's..." Reading it again, I now understand you to mean, "Before you say 'IRC sucks', which I agree with, better protocols like Jabber have been around since the early 00's."
by bee_rider | 2025-09-18 13:42:32+00:00
Desktop Environments always feel a bit clunky to me. A Window Manager like i3 or something is easier.

I get the idea of a desktop environment offering more consistency. But, my system feels very consistent. It is really easy, because there are only ~4 types of windows: Firefox, Evince, a terminal, or some ephemeral matplotlib graph.

I wouldn’t think of it as missing out on anything. You just become familiar with the ecosystem of mostly terminal utilities.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-09-18 13:42:59+00:00
The browser became an app engine so app developers could escape the Wintel monopoly that was pretty tight in the 90's and 00's when the Internet became a thing. These days, it's so there can be apps outside of app stores.

There's been various attempts to build "Internet operating systems" that are little more than a browser (that's what Chrome OS was intended to be in the beginning I thought) but Windows and it's pre-internet legacies are so entrenched in PCs and corporate life that nothing's ever gonna change there until Microsoft makes the entirety of Windows an app.
by ajross | 2025-09-18 13:43:14+00:00
That's fine. In fact you're right that laptop and desktop power management is generally best done manually by expert users. That how I have things set up too, more often than not.

The use case for wakelocks (a longtime Android feature from which this is conceptually derived) is phones, though. Send a quick snap, throw it in your pocket, and expect (1) you get the notification for the reply when it arrives and (2) the device lasts until it gets back to the charger at bedtime.

That's highly non-trivial and absolutely not amenable to manual power management. Is systemd the right answer? Maybe not, but that's clearly where the feature is aimed.
by wltr | 2025-09-18 13:43:51+00:00
I afraid I nuked my installation already. There were insignificant features, like for their Playbook (or what the name is), where you are offered some extra feature, that goes with the enterprise plan. If I chose my self-hosted instance for some reason, I don’t really need that advertising in my interface all the time. I can understand the reason it’s there, but I don’t like it still.
by dakial1 | 2025-09-18 13:44:26+00:00
He didn't say nor implied that.

He implied that MAGA is trying to exploit the killing to create the image of the "terrorist left/antifa/BLM/immigrants/arab" conspiracy to their audience.

Which they are 100% trying to do, like they did with Trump's shooter, who was a lunatic just like Kirk's murderer (and all the others)
by em-bee | 2025-09-18 13:44:42+00:00
it's really hard to see from the perspective of a company with a massive code base how you could possibly contribute to the ten gajillion dependencies you use, even if you wanted to

counterpoint: you don't need to actively contribute to all upstream projects, but you do need to be prepared to maintain, fix, or replace any dependency you have. if you can't do that, you should pay someone to do it. if you can't do that either then you should not be using the dependency in the first place.

yes, it can happen that you underestimate the resources needed for that, or that a project you use looked very stable and supported, but suddenly you can't find anyone who has the knowledge to fix the issue you have, but then that's simply bad luck. it can happen with company backed projects too. you need to deal with that. have no sympathy if you can't.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl | 2025-09-18 13:44:47+00:00
It's typical in these situations that the price per stock is negotiated, with current SP as a starting point. It's fairly unusual, I think, for the company selling stock to get a price significantly higher than market price. It's more typical that there's a slight discount. At least that's been the case for every stock I owned where dilution has occured. We also don't know yet when exactly this deal was negotiated and approved, so it's hard to actually say. Considering where INTC has been very recently(below $20), $23.28 seems very reasonable to me.

The reason the stock surged up past $30 is the general market's reaction to the news, and subsequent buying pressure, not the stock transaction itself. It seems likely that once the exuberance cools down, the SP will pull back, where to I can't say. Somewhere between $25 and $30 would be my bet, but this is not financial advice, I'm just spitballing here.
by esher | 2025-09-18 13:44:49+00:00
My sympathies! I developed a small CSS frameworks many moons ago [1]. It provided basic styling for elements directly and used the cascading part of CSS a lot. I see the benefits of utility classes and how it fits to web components.

[1] - https://medium.com/teutonic-css/retiring-my-own-little-css-f...
by kccqzy | 2025-09-18 13:45:16+00:00
> Can do part of it in tweaks, which is a separate configuration app, but then some of it requires extensions.

I'm not sure why you think requiring extensions is a bad idea. I have tried out at least 20 GNOME extensions (and kept maybe a third), and I appreciate the flexible underlying architecture to allow extensions to flourish. With extensions, the same GNOME can have Windows XP style taskbars or Mac-style docks or i3-style tiling or anything in between.

Certainly it would be a more refined experience if the core developers took care of every single possible customization users could want under the sun, but at some point it's more effective to outsource that to other developers. Either that or you end up with Apple-style highly uncustomizable experience designed by a UX designer, which is not what I want.

Extensions are a pragmatic choice.
by Theodores | 2025-09-18 13:45:16+00:00
This is what I like to see, however, I think that more can be done with the document structure.

I use a section element to enclose a heading with the paragraphs that immediately follow it, thereby scoping text to a heading.

The advantage to this approach is that you 'gain a class' (okay a section) that can be used for styling.

I am not keen on adding my own make-believe elements, however, I have found that, if you know your HTML elements, you can write surprisingly human readable HTML.

There is no need to be fundamentalist with going 'classless', classes are the way to go for situations such as when an element changes.

I also take heed of the HTML5 spec and the advice regarding the use of 'div'. There really is always a better element to use, and, with 'divs' removed, it is trivial to layout any content with CSS grid.

Scoped CSS is also a game changer, however, you have to pretend Firefox does not exist, which is fine by me for my hobby site. Scoped CSS means that you can keep the CSS simple without bizarre selectors that the next developer will not like.

It all depends on what you are trying to create. If you were to want to do your own version of Gmail then you are in a world of complexity. However, blogs, ecommerce and much else does not need to be a complex mess with a 10000 line 'add to' CSS burden.
by barrkel | 2025-09-18 13:45:17+00:00
I've used Linux laptops for work since 2013. I finally switched to Linux on the desktop earlier this year, after getting a laptop and experiencing Windows 11.

The laptop isn't running Linux yet, I'm not confident the battery lifetime story is great.

But, I settled on KDE as well. Gnome just wasn't configurable enough. There were a number of rough edges that I couldn't find a setting in Gnome to fix, so I switched over.

I'm running zfs on root, so I can have snapshots (every 5 minutes) and incremental backups to my NAS, also running zfs. Using zfsbootmenu. Which was interesting to set up, I learned a lot more about UEFI, framebuffer drivers, kexec kernel handoffs etc. than I ever expected to.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-18 13:45:44+00:00
One reason people think success == true is a good idea is they are (as in C) working with truthiness.

In C "false" is truthy, and so is "" but 0 is falsy

In a language where types aren't a gentle suggestion "false" is a string, so it can't be true or false, which are booleans. In such a language if (success) implies that success is a boolean, so the comparison is redundant. But C is not that language.
by Panzer04 | 2025-09-18 13:45:56+00:00
I recall reading a reddit comment (resounding source, I know) that claimed the reason Intel's e-cores are crushing it is because they actually synthesise them, while the P-cores are a bunch of bespoke circuits bodged together.

One wonders just how bad things must have been internally for that to be the state of one of their core IPs in this day and age...
by mallowdram | 2025-09-18 13:46:28+00:00
The computer is not boring, per se, it's neutral when unplugged. The idea it accelerates binary primarily for prediction purposes in extracting values from the arbitrary, this is not only exciting, it's illusory.

The writer fails to grasp what rabbit hole we've gone down since the 70s/90s when we began applying the principles of prediction to computation, then horizontalized them via web. This was the most exciting time because it added a vast illusory value to the arbitrary, it's a time of massive piracy that posed as corporatocracy.

Once this prediction became automated by AI, yes, now the piracy becomes boring, and in turn reveals what was going on all along.
by jbstack | 2025-09-18 13:47:06+00:00
I think there's some truth to this (utility is overall more important), but also some falsehood (looks matter too). Aesthetics affect your enthusiasm and therefore your productivity. This is why, for example, most people would rather work in a room with large glass windows overlooking a lake than in a room with a small window overlooking a factory even if they are functionally the same.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-18 13:47:11+00:00
> KDE was pushed out to a lot of people who shouldn't have got it.

Yeah, I remember that turmoil, and was really sad for all KDE devs.

> It is safe to say that many other projects have not done beta .0 releases...

This was a brave move by KDE back then, and still a brave move, but with proper communication, it can be done, I guess...

KDE developers and volunteers embody a great trove of wisdom about software development. I learnt how to make proper bug reporting from AmaroK project, and still use the same methodology, even with projects which do not enforce any style. It makes things much easier. ...and everyone needs beta testers. That's true.
by irusensei | 2025-09-18 13:47:30+00:00
My pair of RockPro64s refuse to go to the drawer. Every time they are about to retire something comes up that is the perfect job for those machines.

One is currently running Scripted to integrate my unifi cameras to HomeKit. Zero fans.

I've equipped the other one with 2 beefy 22TB HDDs, Tailscale and Minio. I'll send to my parent's house to act as remote backups.
by sirwhinesalot | 2025-09-18 13:47:40+00:00
We now live in a world where KDE looks nicer, more professional, and more consistent than the latest macOS. I don't know how that happened, and KDE isn't even particularly nice looking, but here we are.

For many years now KDE has focused on polish, bug fixing and "nice-to-have" improvements rather than major redesigns, and it paid off.
by graemep | 2025-09-18 13:47:46+00:00
I agree with that. I really do not care about the inconsistencies - I did not even notice them until other people pointed them out. There are themes that look nice to me.

None of that really matters compared to usability and functionality. Most of the time I have one panel showing and everything else I can see is applications. The applications are a mix of things anyway.
by phkahler | 2025-09-18 13:48:10+00:00
I don't think this is Intel trying to save itself, it's nVidia. Intel GPUs have been in 3rd place for a long time, but their integrated graphics are widely available and come in 2nd place because nVidia can't compete in the x86 space. Intel graphics have been closing the gap with AMD and are now within what? A factor of 2 or less (1.5?)

IMHO we will soon see more small/quiet PCs without a slot for a graphics card, relying on integrated graphics. nVidia has no place in that future. But now, by dropping $5B on Intel they can get into some of these SoCs and not become irrelevant.

The nice thing for Intel is that they might be able to claim graphics superiority in SoC land since they are currently lagging in CPU.
How do solo founders avoid burning out early?
by paulwilsonn | 2025-09-18 13:48:41+00:00
I’ve noticed many solo founders (myself included once) hit a wall not because of funding, but because of isolation and burnout.

Curious what’s worked for you:

Do you rely on communities?

Hire earlier?

Or just push through until traction?

Would love to hear real experiences - both wins and mistakes.
by Squarex | 2025-09-18 13:48:49+00:00
Me too. I have used it in KDE 4 times when I was in high school, but it still seems to miss the design things. It is great for customization and functionality, but the design itself still seems off. This just is not looking good [0] and it is presented as a showcase here.

[0]https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thiagokokada/blog/main/pos...
by vorpalhex | 2025-09-18 13:48:49+00:00
The guy:

+ Went to jail for abusing his kids and wife

+ Got out, was arrested for beating his pregnant wife again

+ Got charged again for beating a kid

+ Showed up at a hospital with a dead kid claiming she fell to death from a bed

The kid who died had detached retinas, bruises and scrapes all over her shoulders and heads, and died of a hit to the head so severe her brain swelled.

The defense and Innonce Projects claim is that this could have been caused by.. the hospital giving aid.

And every court has ruled that this defense is entirely unreasonable and unlikely.

The girl was TWO YEARS old. She was beaten black and blue. She had a history of being beaten black and blue by a man who had a history of beating people.

Sorry, he is no longer fit to live in civilized society. His fellow citizens request he be removed before he can beat yet another person.
by korse | 2025-09-18 13:48:54+00:00
This isn't an attempt to discredit union movements overall. This is a statement that a particular battle waged by a union was only won because corporate interests temporarily align with union goals. I've included my reasoning/narrative below if you're curious.

Uber, and I would assume the competition, have been chasing self driving fleets for years. This is well documented. Despite the market hype some years back, I think most sane executives understood how far off this technology was when the initial investment and subsequent divestment were made.

As you may remember, there were plenty of questions during this tumultuous period regarding the viability of self-driving tech. People wondered if it could even function at all within the foreseeable future.

Since the technology was so questionable, rideshares understandably wanted to increase earnings and lock in their competitive advantage. This required, among other things, fighting unionization tooth and nail.

Now that Waymo has done the hard part and proven that self driving tech actually works as a day-to-day service rideshares can start to rebuild some social capital before the creeping tide of automated taxi services makes any concessions moot. After all, they didn't build the automation and have always believed in a system that puts fairly compensated human drivers first.
by oblio | 2025-09-18 13:48:56+00:00
Oh, that was quarterly: https://canalys.com/newsroom/global-smartphone-market-q2-202...

On a separate note, speaking of the average lifespan of a phone, I'm fairly sure that with how expensive they're becoming, smartphone lifespans are increasing. Especially with:

* hardware performance largely plateauing (not in the absolute sense, that of "this phone can do most of what I need")

* the EU pushing for easy battery and screen replacement and also for 7 years of OS updates

* the vast majority of phones having cases to protect against physical damage
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-09-18 13:49:06+00:00
Who is going to discover it in that time? Not the maintainers, they've already released it. Their window for scrutiny has passed.

There is some sense in giving the early adopters some time to raise the alarm and opting into late adoption, but isn't that better handled by defensive use of semantic versioning?

Consider the xzutils backdoor. It was introduced a month before it was discovered, and it was discovered by a user.

If that user had waited a few days, it would just have been discovered a few days later, during which time it may have been added to an even wider scope of downstream packages. That is, supposing they didn't apply reduced scrutiny due to their perception that it was safe due to the soak period.

Its not nothing, but its susceptible to creating a false sense of security.
by NoNameHaveI | 2025-09-18 13:49:15+00:00
"1. Get a better, quieter fan that produces less noise to begin with.

2. Move the fan farther away. You don't necessarily need to filter the air from the window closest to you. Put it in a farther window. Or go all the way and get a whole house fan that puts the fan in the attic."

This might work for homeowners, but is an ineffective solution to renters like me. Our furnace/air conditioning blower is loud AF. The utility closet is next to the bedroom and it is nearly impossible to hear the TV when it is running. It is so loud that we even have to turn up the TV in the living room, around 25 feet (7m?) away and around two corners. I am CERTAIN that other renters, like myself, would like to know how to actually cancel out this droning nuisance via noise cancellation.
by b112 | 2025-09-18 13:49:27+00:00
Like it or not, tastes change. Both the personal and society's tastes.

If you look back through the past, you can see some horrid design choices. Thus, some designs we think as awesome right now, will be seen as horrid to our descendants.

So if that's true, what if taste is social? And if it's social, then... well, all people have is peer pressure taste.

And your words show the truth in this, to a degree. Pre-curated options, to ensure "good taste" in choice. And how style conveys social status in some capacity, I don't mean "this style means success" but "this style means you have good taste".

Hair styles can be described as "taste", just as a taste in clothing. Yet hair styles suddenly become "ugly" where a decade before they were "tasteful".

Even beauty changes. One century it's skin and bones, the next more corpulent. Sometimes it's muscular, other times slim.

It's all peer pressure, all social status.
by ysavir | 2025-09-18 13:49:54+00:00
It depends a lot on the rate of change of the document.

Documents that experience little change don't need classes because their structure is reliable.

Documents that change often have unreliable structures, and will require frequent updates to the CSS rules to match structure changes. Using classes insulates the CSS from the document structure, mitigating the need to update CSS as the document evolves.

It also depend your development strategy. If using Vue components and writing the CSS in the same file as a dedicated, small-scoped components, it's practical to update the CSS references alongside the document changes. But when there's distance between the HTML and the CSS, or there are components in use who's structures may change unpredictably (such as from 3rd party libraries), classes provide a safer reference.

There's no need to have an ideology of using classes or not using classes. The practical approach is to assess the nature of your work, the rate of change of the documents, and to adopt practices built around those assessments.
by arximboldi | 2025-09-18 13:49:55+00:00
The screenshot in the OP article show already quite a few issues. It takes a trained eye to be able to articulate a lot of the issues. I feel like Gmome is designed by professional designers but KDE mostly by developers. I do share the sentiment that Gnome is often too rigid, but the design is coherent, consistent and aesthetically well articulated. I use Hyprland with mostly Gnome apps (have considered Niri too!)

But I don't mean to trash KDE. Some people don't care about that padding or visual layering or whatever but do care about the extra options and features. At the end of the day, I'm just happy that we're on a platform where all these approaches have their space and people can chose and build commnities that grow tools that adapt to their own sensibilities and needs.

KDE is great, Gnome is great, free software is great. Mac and Windows are hell.
by benjiro | 2025-09-18 13:50:18+00:00
> I want ad-free viewing on any youtube client in my house, and I do not want to maintain infrastructure to allow that.

Firefox + Adblock/uBlock works on mobile, and desktop. If your TV blocks firefox, buy a dongle or mini-pc and use that. And way better for your privacy anyway. And a mini-pc gives you tons more capabilities like emulators etc. You literally buy those intel n100 mini-pcs for like 100 bucks.

If my 70+ years old parents can do that without my help, ... So no, need to maintain a "infrastructure" to blocks ads...

> Some unknown portion of my subscription fee goes towards the monetization of videos that I watch,

> Some unknown portion of my subscription fee goes towards the monetization of videos that I watch, which I definitely want to happen. Ad blockers don't pay people in lieu of ads, and youtube premium does.

You do realize that what Youtube pays out these days is so small amount, that most creators resorted to sponsoring. This is way more profitable for the youtubers involved. The add revenue is more like icing on a cake, not a main source of income.

And ironically, Youtube is one of the best paying platforms for creators. That is saying a lot.

If i remember correctly, for many its barely 1/5 of their actual income. There is a reason why you see those constant creator advertisement for whatever VPS service etc... and merch sales, ... that is where the money is.

Not taking in account the algorithm and its non promoting videos even if your subscribed, the constant DMCA issues where creators lose tons of money on false claims, ...
by VoidWhisperer | 2025-09-18 13:50:21+00:00
I feel like I remember a similar attack related to Entra ID from a while ago, although I can't remember exactly what it was (maybe [0] or [1]?).. I understand that this is a complex system, but I would be concerned with the number of relatively high severity vulnerabilities being found in it.

[0]: https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/i-spy-escalating... [1]: https://www.semperis.com/blog/unoauthorized-privilege-elevat...