MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _-_-__-_-_- | 2025-09-18 19:23:31+00:00
I lost my facebook account about five years ago--total outright account ban. No recourse at all. It happened to a group of about 10 people that had been administrators of a local non-profit's facebook page and who had managed groups for the organization in the past. Our non-profit was non-denominational and helped local teens with after school type programs. We never knew why our personal accounts were banned. Best we could figure was that we used a tagline in the past in some facebook comments and posts that later got co-opted and spread by a "white power" group in the USA. We were located in Canada.

At the time, some people recommended buying an Occulus device and calling their support because they were able to recover accounts and they had human support. We tried appealing to the company on social media, but we didn't have any luck.

I had to rebuild my social media profile and our organizations profiles and I lost 14 years of Messenger conversations, posts, and photos. These memories were just gone. It sucked. For the non-profit, it meant lost donations and lost connections for our alumni. Keep your own content off-platform.
by seamanrob | 2025-09-18 19:23:39+00:00
As I said in another reply, I cannot guarantee something like this won't ever happen again. We're fallible for sure. But I can guarantee we'll keep trying and improving.

This was the result of an oversight in our billing process, and we are returning Hack Club to its previous nonprofit pricing while we work with them directly to ensure their workspace remains fully accessible. We will be reviewing and modifying as necessary our billing and communications processes to provide nonprofits clearer guidance and adequate grace periods as they grow.
by fnord123 | 2025-09-18 19:23:50+00:00
> Nvidia is actively hostile to drivers on Linux

Nvidia is contributing to Nova, the new Nvidia driver for GSP based hardware.

https://rust-for-linux.com/nova-gpu-driver

Alexandre Courbot, an Nvidia dev, is comaintainer.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOVA-Core-Co-Maintainer
by asadotzler | 2025-09-18 19:23:58+00:00
That's a pretty small fraction of the population.

There are about 50M foldables in use, probably 30X as many in use as the Meta Ray-Bans, and I see one of those every couple of years and the only pair of Meta Ray-Bans I've seen in the wild has been a blind friend who got the first generation early because of its accessibility capabilities.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-18 19:24:02+00:00
One of my favourite things a book (or video games, paintings - every single type of art) can do is: On first read - hint that there are stories hidden under the surface, available only to those who have already experienced the art's end point.

I think this is an act of a generosity. It shows that an artist is not only competent enough to execute something that complex, but also thinking deeply of their audience's time and money. It's hospitable: One of more virtuous virtues, IMO.

The best art should reveal itself to you over years, as you change as a human, and your sense of yourself - and the world you live in - changes. I think that should always be the aim of the artist.

You can't swim the same river twice; the same river can't be swum twice by the same person. Some rivers are much better for swimming :-)
by i_s | 2025-09-18 19:24:16+00:00
KSON looks interesting. Where I work we did a metadata type project in Pkl recently, which is somewhat similar. Unfortunately, developments on the tooling front for Pkl have taken an extremely very long time. Not sure the the tooling/LSPs are anywhere close to what the language offers yet.

I like the language embedding feature in KSON - we would use that. Have you thought about having functions and variables? That is something you get in Pkl and Dhall which are useful.
by holtkam2 | 2025-09-18 19:24:34+00:00
Sounds like this is a great opportunity for competition to enter the market with a fridge that offers the same features, without being online. Its online-required features are all things that it should be able to do offline anyway.

> Another option is to disconnect the fridge from the Internet. Again, though, this would eliminate some core capabilities, like its meal planner, recipes, and shopping list features

…all things that on-device LLMs can already do, for example my MacBook can run Llama 4 (albeit slowly) and it can generate recipes for me.

Samsung will either need to shape up or competitors will enter the market to offer equally fancy but non-annoying fridges. I hope.
by lacy_tinpot | 2025-09-18 19:24:39+00:00
Nvidia's options are fund your competition to keep the market dynamic, or let the government do it by breaking you a part.

So yes. That's how American competition works.

It isn't a zero sum game. We try to create a market environment that is competitive and dynamic.

Monopolies are threat to both the company and a free open dynamic market. If Nvidia feels it could face an antitrust suit, which is reasonable, it is in its best interest to fund the future of Intel.

That's American capitalism.
by xp84 | 2025-09-18 19:24:48+00:00
Agree. Not only would there be no money in it to try to replace Iris graphics or whatever they call them now -- it would be ultra pointless because the only people buying integrated graphics are those where gaming, on-device AI, and cryptocurrency aren't even part of the equation. Now, that is like 80%+ of the PC market, but it's perfectly well served already.

I saw this move more as setting up a worthy competitor to Snapdragon X Elite, and it could also probably crush AMD APUs if these RTX things are powerful.
by rmah | 2025-09-18 19:25:00+00:00
There are herds of wild deer a half hour outside NYC. Deer seem to be able to thrive anywhere as long as there aren't many predators.

The continental US (i.e. excluding alaska) has some 20+ mil wild deer, 200k bison, 1 mil bears, 3-4 mil coyotes, 13,000 wolves, 5 mil alligators, 10k+ mountain lions, etc, etc. Yes, most are in the vast western states. But deer and bears are common even in areas a just a couple hour drive outside of NYC. Thankfully no gators near NYC (except in the sewers, of course :-)
by makz | 2025-09-18 19:25:09+00:00
I’m a Linux user since 2001, I saterted with KDE 2.2 or something. I stopped using it in favor of Gnome, XFCE and recently fluxbox over the years.

A few days ago I decided to give it a try again and I have to say I’m impressed. KDE has reached a level of sophistication I had never seen before in any other Linux desktop environment. For me the experience is almost on par with macOS and slightly above windows.
by realityfactchex | 2025-09-18 19:25:17+00:00
That's an outdated license web page dated 2024, see "Copyright © 2024" at the bottom.

The code was made free in 2025 per X post dated Sep 12, 2025 by Jason Fried [0], screenshot available [1].

A quote from Fried's tweet:

Campfire...it's now 100% free...and open source.

Here's a quote from https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/main/MIT-LICE...

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction...

[0] https://x.com/jasonfried/status/1966559597117964560

[1] https://files.catbox.moe/98t9vx.png
by pavel_lishin | 2025-09-18 19:25:34+00:00
> …all things that on-device LLMs can already do, for example my MacBook can run Llama 4 (albeit slowly) and it can generate recipes for me.

I've run a local LLM, and while I probably didn't do a great job optimizing things, it was crawling. I would absolutely not stand there for 20 minutes while my fridge stutters out a recipe for kotleti, while probably getting some of it wrong and requiring a re-prompt.

Not everything needs to be a genie.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-18 19:26:03+00:00
Fossil started as "not invented here", but it has grown into something I like a lot more than Git. Knowing how to use a version control system should be an incidental skill (akin to simple shell commands like "cp" and "ln"), not something that needs to be mentioned in a job posting's role description.

I also appreciate that the default workflow for undoing bad merges is a whiteout rather than a true "delete".

To each his own, but having worked with CVS, SVN, Perforce, Git, and Fossil, the centralized model is much less work for release engineering and administration most of the time. If I were a maintainer of the Linux kernel of one of the many Linux distros where you have potentially thousands of contributors to one codebase, I would use git because it scales up better.

However, I wouldn't underestimate the value of scaling down well, especially for all the people around here building some startup out of a barndominium. A VCS that includes its own GUI-based admin tool and is simple enough to used by some high school intro to web design class is a good thing in my book.
by falcor84 | 2025-09-18 19:26:38+00:00
> Those who would have become management consultants may need to become applied data scientists; those who would have been people managers may need to become product builders. The new elite pathways are still being forged, but they share a characteristic the old system often lacked: they reward people who can actually do the work, not just coordinate it.

I quite disagree with this and the whole premise. I don't think any knowledge work profession has a moat, and data science (at least in its current form) might be one of the least secure. While I accept the argument that managerial consulting isn't as valuable as it was (and much of that was a mirage to start with), I believe that the ability to maintain situational awareness and to coordinate will become even more crucial.
by d3rockk | 2025-09-18 19:26:48+00:00
Exactly. The real danger is how they turn every wearer into a walking surveillance camera, creating a permanent, searchable record of your life without your consent, simply by being near them.

This fundamentally rewrites the rules of social interaction, creating a panopticon where you have to assume you're always being recorded, forcing self-censorship and destroying the trust essential for any authentic relationship.

And because our antiquated consent laws and pathetic safeguards like a tiny indicator light are completely unprepared for this, you have no real way to opt out of their surveillance network.
by Daunk | 2025-09-18 19:27:23+00:00
I've tried to run KDE Plasma for years, but it's just so unstable and buggy (I also think it looks bad, but that doesn't really matter). I recently had a friend that said "KDE Plasma is great now, give it a go!" so I did, and instantly broke it by installing a theme via the official themes manager, and I had lots of smaller issues, like the Steam notifications appear above the taskbar and the Steam Friends List being slow to open. I told my friend and he said "Oh, that's KDE Plasma and not just Linux being weird?" and he ended up switching desktop, realizing so many minor issues was due to KDE Plasma.
by apwell23 | 2025-09-18 19:27:42+00:00
> The new economy increasingly rewards people who build things, like write code, design products, analyze data, and conduct research, rather than those who manage the people who build things.

I've been hearing about this 'creator economy' , 'the great flattening'and all the for a while. Meanwhile managment is stronger than ever at Meta both in numbers and in power.

I don't think "this time will be different"
by rorylaitila | 2025-09-18 19:27:45+00:00
Thanks! Maybe I'll add some detail. Some of them are in the eye of the beholder, and maybe I take a little liberty :) It's not that they are targeting the gay community directly, but they may have subtle homoerotic wink and a nod... They definitely are not overt and would have gone over the heads of most people at the time.
by actsasbuffoon | 2025-09-18 19:28:03+00:00
Correct, this bill won’t pass. But the weirdos keep introducing these kinds of bills, and they’ve already won in a bunch of states. I consider it to merely be a matter of time before it happens at the federal level.

And once it becomes law, it’s very difficult to get those rights back. Politicians don’t want to be on the record fighting for anonymous access to obscene materials.
by NoSalt | 2025-09-18 19:28:25+00:00
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by dlcarrier | 2025-09-18 19:28:29+00:00
Pine64's claim to fame is that they have really good documentation, surpassing even the Raspberry Pi. That's what creates a good community around their products.

Most customers couldn't port software to an SBC, but for the ones who can, having all of the documentation makes it trivially easy, and having any that share their work makes it available to the whole community.

Check out the Oz64 documentation, (https://pine64.org/documentation/Oz64/_full/) which includes schematics and links to the datasheets for all of the major components. Raspberry Pi products, on the other hand, need some pretty intense reverse engineering to develop on: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/reverse-engineering-a....

For my use case, and most Pine64 customers, I'd rather have the hardware documentation than off-the-shelf official support for a software stack. Raspberry Pi has an entirely different user base.

Orange Pi fills a similar niche, and really anyone releasing RISC-V SBCs at this point does too, as it's too early into the development of the architecture for microprocessor-level products.
by rakeshkakati_47 | 2025-09-18 19:28:49+00:00
I “vibecoded” Worktagg — a simple, AI-driven platform that drops a real case study, expert takeaways and a quick quiz into your inbox every day. The goal is to turn case prep into a small daily habit instead of a giant cram session, and to give anyone the same quality of insights you’d get inside a top consulting firm. LMK if you find it useful or if you think I need to change anything.
by vdupras | 2025-09-18 19:29:14+00:00
HN moderation is routinely put in front of the most interesting dilemmas! Your response is, of course, sensible. Let's hope that if Slack does something similar to another non-profit, then it will rise again on the top of the front page, so that it doesn't end up being a story of "I got my free pass because I was lucky enough that the press talked about me", when others get a similar treatment, without the deserved PR nightmare that comes with it.

I mean, objectively, unless it was an honest mistake, which we can generously assume because this is HN, this was a really cheap shot, worthy of Broadcom and friends.
by xp84 | 2025-09-18 19:29:23+00:00
As an Apple user (and even an Apple investor), I'd rather that Apple went out of business back then. If we could re-roll the invention of the (mainstream) smartphone, maybe we'd get something other than two monopolistic companies controlling everything.

For instance, maybe if there were 4 strong vendors making the devices with diverse operating systems, native apps wouldn't have ever become important, and the Web platform would have gotten better sooner to fill that gap.

Or maybe it'd have ended up the same or worse. But I just don't think Apple being this dominant has been good for the world.
by plasticsoprano | 2025-09-18 19:29:27+00:00
Man you guys are pessimistic and stuck in your bubbles. Asking if box is relevant when they’ve had growth the last two quarters while Dropbox is on the verge of seeing a drop in numbers. Yes ms and Google are seeing more but the product box is putting out is light years ahead of Dropbox, egnyte, and, honesty, most of FAANG, in terms of supporting the average office worker. They aren’t building sexy AI coders but they are making it so Sue Ellen, the EA to the VP of fuckall, can automate things and make life easier for everyone.

I worked at box, albeit for only a year, and saw Aaron’s passion up close. He could step into an executive briefing center meeting and pull out projects the customer was working on a year prior that didn’t directly involve box and ask honest, empathetic questions about it.

He’s a nerd and loves talking about this stuff. Those saying he’s trying to remain relevant or find a new hole for box miss the fact he’s on cnbc and other business channels a few times a year just talking tech. Unless Houston who only shows up when Dropbox has a sad launch to tout.

Aaron is passionate about Box and has been fighting an uphill battle since day one but I’ve held on to my thousands of shares since I left and the value has doubled. I fully expect AI to accelerate their future and lead to a bigger balance sheet.
by borroka | 2025-09-18 19:29:43+00:00
Lately, I've been listening to audiobooks of books I've read in the past, some of them several times. I've found it to be a great pastime and a useful exercise: the content is experienced differently; some parts have a different effect when read than when listened to.

I also noticed that, after listening to an audiobook, I pick up certain expressions that I then, without thinking about it, use in conversation, something that I did not notice doing when reading the book.

There is something that Ugo Pirro, the famous Italian screenwriter, wrote in his book "How to write a movie", about the re-, which can also apply to re-reading books:

"The memories of each of us, after all, are transformed, fade and shatter, are redrawn and combined when they collide with the immediate experience according to the philosophies that are embraced, the experiences and emotions that have carved their own interpretative model of existence. So what strikes us today, tomorrow may hide, perhaps overwhelmed by other data recorded by the imagination, and then reappear unexpectedly in a day, a month, a year. The time of imagination, in short, is always another, it eludes chronologies, it relies on disorder"
by DaveZale | 2025-09-18 19:30:13+00:00
Insightful. My excitement comes when I replace my $100 used iPhone with another $100 used iPhone every few years. Guess what: It's just as exciting, and the price stays pretty much the same over time, despite the improvements. Of course the best phone I had was a Nokia Windows phone about a dozen years ago. Zeiss optics. Now that is a phone that I miss. Has Apple improved the camera optics lately?
by ben7799 | 2025-09-18 19:30:54+00:00
I don't re-read that much "fun" material. But I totally get it, some stuff is so good it will seem like a better option to re-read it compared to trying something new. That is an elite level of book though.

I just started re-reading LOTR for maybe the 4th time in 30 years and probably first time in 10 years. Probably more for the 2nd two reasons in this authors list.

Part of my motivation was I was looking at books in the same genre I had not read and have become mostly tired of it and just kind of thought that I know LOTR is still better than 99% of them, might as well read it again. I am pleasantly surprised by how many small things I had forgotten. It also helps to wash the movies out of my brain and restore the memory of the real story.

Someone mentioned Hitch Hiker's guide to the Galaxy. I just bought a copy of that for my son, it has probably been close to 30 years since I read that, I will be tempted to re-read it again when he is finished.
by dijit | 2025-09-18 19:30:57+00:00
Sun was always fair to me, so much so that I feel like it's unfair to lump them together.

I used Solaris on Sun Fire machines and the support was unmatched, we got massive tome manuals that described in excruciating detail exactly how the system worked in almost all scenarios and a deep programming reference.

They never upselled us on anything, or changed the price.. until Oracle bought them and jacked the support costs up (though, to be perfectly fair, they ought to jack the support costs of old systems up).
by overfeed | 2025-09-18 19:31:10+00:00
I think mixing altruism with work is a mistake, which is the sentiment I read into the (sarcastic) comment. The maintainer has very little leverage for payment if they continue working on the project for free.

The maintainer has to pick a side and commit to it, and deal with the downsides. Alternatively, they may choose not to play.
by nirvdrum | 2025-09-18 19:31:21+00:00
You’re assuming people are self-hosting open source projects on their gut servers. That’s often not the case. Even if it were, GitHub irked a lot of people using their code to train Copilot.

I self-host gitea. It took maybe 5 minutes to set up on TrueNAS and even that was only because I wanted to set up different datasets so I could snapshot independently. I love it. I have privacy. Integrating into a backup strategy is quite easy —- it goes along with the rest of my off-site NAS backup without me needing to retain local clones on my desktop. And my CI runners are substantially faster than what I get through GitHub Actions.

The complexity and maintenance burden of self-hosting is way overblown. The benefits are often understated and the deficiencies of whatever hosted service left unaddressed.
by simoncion | 2025-09-18 19:31:28+00:00
> My issue is the tar-and-feather thing.

From what I can tell the "tar-and-feather thing" is outrage directed at Slack and its CXOs, rather than the poor guy who happens to be reposting a message from the CPO.

Please don't let your moderator's concern for injury to individual people blind you to the fact that the outrage triggered by outrageous conduct is directed at the outrageous company and its officers, rather than at individual folks who aren't in a position with any real power.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-18 19:31:56+00:00
I registered an instagram account to share my art, and was banned entirely, immediately, before I could even upload an avatar, with zero explanation. I emailed several times, did the license scan thing, and even messaged support from my personal account, and I still have never gotten any sort of explanation.

shrug This and that other thread today about Slack just seems to be what happens when you're determined to remove as many humans from your processes as possible.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-09-18 19:32:00+00:00
I have a terribly uninformed question. Ive been using i3wm ever since I learned it exists. Ive always had old machines and used to run Lubuntu, and at some point moved to i3wm. Its super fast and light which is what I care about the most.

I dont feel like Im missing anything, but then again a lot of people dont know theyre missing things which they cant imagine (before cars if youd ask people what they wanted, they wouldve said faster horses, etc etc).

So: What am I missing by using i3wm instead of for example Gnome or KDE? I dont care about pretty and shiny and animations. What else? Surely the whole holabalooba cant all be about pretty drawings and animations...?

(Sure, I probably would be able to find out by myself by trying these things but... since my starting point is the belief that Im not missing something, why would I be looking at these things...?
by p_l | 2025-09-18 19:32:03+00:00
"We can change the terms at our discretion" is a line that gets the book thrown at you in court, at least in EU, and that's the start of the humiliation conga for whoever tries to claim such a clause.

You cannot insist on a clause that lets you change the contract at your discretion and having the resulting amended contract be valid without acceptance by the other party.