MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neilv | 2025-09-16 01:04:35+00:00
This series of posts highlights one of the features of Debian that's occasionally handy: you can usually upgrade between major stable releases in an automated way.

It can be good for workstation laptops, and for pets-not-cattle servers.

Stability for a couple years, then in-place upgrade to newer versions of things all at once. Whenever the timing is good for you (because you can keep using `oldstable` for a long time, with security updates).

Whether this upgrading incrementally keeps working smoothly for decades, I haven't read all of OP's posts to find out. But I've had machines running well after a few major upgrades, and even moving the HDD/SSD between upgraded laptop hardware.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-16 01:04:50+00:00
These are my thoughts exactly. I've seen a bunch of people who don't value thinness or lightness in a phone getting dismissive or outright angry at the existence of the Air, and I want to grab them and shake them until they get it. I don't want the Air at all, and that's exactly why I'm thrilled it exists: it will split the Pro buyers into form-valuers and function-valuers, so the function-valuers like me can get an iPhone with a huge battery and a vapor chamber in it.

If you're one of those people who goes "why can't they make the phone thicker and heavier with more battery life", you should be overjoyed at the Air, because now that those buyers are peeled off to a different SKU, the product line for you doesn't need to find a happy medium with them.
by stock_toaster | 2025-09-16 01:04:53+00:00
Similar story here. Loong time Apple fan, but as they say.. "trust arrives walking, but leaves on a horse". I'm real mad!

I installed tahoe in a virtualbuddy VM to see how it was before running on my main system... and.... I will be definitely be keeping Sequoia for a while (at least a year, probably).

If the situation does not improve in the meantime, I will probably switch to a framework laptop running cosmic desktop or something like that.
by OutOfHere | 2025-09-16 01:05:02+00:00
Do people not realize that something is seriously wrong with Hacker News when all exposes of the bad actions of the Republican Party immediately get flagged? What is dang doing about it? I think article flagging should be removed altogether, replaced by automatic flagging when it has -5 points.

If Michigan's proposal were to become law, it would have extreme repercussions on the tech industry to block off Michigan.
by grishka | 2025-09-16 01:06:13+00:00
I generally agree with you, but if you only care about technical perfection, it can happen that something is "technically perfect", but insufferable to use.

For example, I'm sure many of the common command-line utilities are considered technically perfect by their developers, but outside of some common use cases you've memorized, they are all a pain to use because of how undiscoverable CLI is by its nature. The "wrong input, go read some manuals" style of error messages doesn't help either.

I myself always start from user requirements and work my way down from there.
by haijo2 | 2025-09-16 01:06:52+00:00
Yep and lets not forget, those people are incredibly price sensitive.

Is there enough product differentiation between OAI and Gemini? Not that I can see. And even if it was a low price, thats not the point - people hate paying a penny for something they expect to be free.

By the time OAI has developed anything that enables them to acquire and exercise market power (profitably), they will have ran out of funding (at least on favourable terms). Which could cause key talent to leave to competitors and so on. Essentially a downward spiral to death.
by mythrwy | 2025-09-16 01:07:09+00:00
I did switch over to Vue.

Well not technically switch, I never learned React properly because I didn't like it when it first came out and by the time I gave it a second look there were already a gazillion React devs so I just stuck with Vue.

Vue just seems much more intuitive and sane to me. Sane is relative for front end frameworks of course. Don't get me started on Angular I got PTSD and couldn't code for a couple of months from a large Angular project with an offshore team.

I do get the benefit of using these framework for teams, and they are nifty once you get what is happening, but I still scratch my head when I see all the steps and files to do simple things I used to bang out in a few dozen lines of jQuery.
by efortis | 2025-09-16 01:07:11+00:00
React is fine, React Hooks isn't. It's cryptic, convoluted, and adds noise.

Yes, both have overhead but they let you mutate refs when you need 120fps feedback.

IMO, the best competitor is its legacy API. Want reactive shared state? 70 LoC:

https://github.com/uxtely/js-utils/tree/main/reactive-state
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-16 01:08:12+00:00
> My point is that a discussion of capitalism has an entirely different risk profile than discussing other topics.

Can you provide me with some sort of guide on risk profiles for various topics? Maybe someone composed a list?

> Where you lose me is your follow-on that what they say disallows people from being offended.

People can be offended by anything because offense is a feeling inside persons head.

Why did you ignore my question about "from the river to the sea" chant?
by e_y_ | 2025-09-16 01:09:04+00:00
This seems unlikely. People are creating libraries and they're getting a lot of downloads because they're genuinely useful. It's a lot of work to write and maintain a library just for resume street cred.

I think the ecosystem has more of the opposite problem: engineers create libraries to scratch a particular itch, because they needed to solve a problem for their own project, or maybe it seemed like an interesting solution that they wanted to share with the world. If the person was working for a company, they may even be paid to maintain it for a while.

A bunch of other projects start depending on it, but the original creator/maintainer has moved on. They might not even be using the library for their own projects any more, nor paid to work on it. Now they're stuck maintaining it out of a feeling of obligation, or maybe it's a passion, but at a certain point it becomes unsustainable and the project becomes unmaintained or under-maintained (huge backlog of tickets). Maybe they find new blood to help out, maybe they don't.
by kevinmchugh | 2025-09-16 01:09:40+00:00
I saw this the other day: https://www.reddit.com/r/chicagofood/comments/1na3fer/commen...

So some places are optimizing their fries for delivery.

I've also noticed some restaurants are better at adapting the packaging, like punching out ventilation so fried products don't steam themselves in transit. Lawrence Seafood (which rules) did that for a side of tempura we got this weekend.

But I agree in large part. I wouldn't order fried chicken delivered via door dash in any event. People doing that are optimizing for something other than quality.
by timhigins | 2025-09-16 01:10:25+00:00
It would be really nice to have a tag on HN to filter out LLM-generated, or at least partly AI-generated content like this.

If an article makes it to the front page despite being AI-generated it probably has some interesting points or ideas, but it's unfortunate that people seeem to choose the speed and style of LLM writing over the individual style and choice that made the writing of yesteryear more interesting and unique.
by bsimpson | 2025-09-16 01:11:13+00:00
I'm so bummed that the workarounds to keep a 5k iMac in commission all seem to be really likely to piss off your corporate IT department.

Patching the bootloader in memory seems like a big op-sec no-no.

Last time this came up on Hacker News, someone pointed out that there are new display boards you can buy from China to reuse a 5K's panel as an external display.

I think we're only allowed to run Linux at work on blessed devices. Last I looked, the 5K panel in the iMac was actually presented to the firmware as two smaller displays, which were glued back together in software. Apple does that magic to support its own hardware, but it sounded like Linux doesn't.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-16 01:11:30+00:00
You are completely misrepresenting the concern conveyed in the comment I replied to.

Here is a link to what I was referring to:

https://share.google/OqtzHog4CXqJDqsoU

Also, replacing manual labor with innovation is what makes us human, and we have been doing it at least as long as civilization itself. You wouldn't exist without it. Why would you demonize that?

Also how is it wholesome to keep people doing work they don't want to do and are bad at, while other people who depend on the work being done are having to wait longer than they need to?
by its-kostya | 2025-09-16 01:11:36+00:00
The mobile app ecosystem has outgrown it's original purpose to run software in a constrained env. Phones today are more powerful than my engineering laptop in university 15 years ago. The app ecosystem appeal today is reach, platform lock-in, and great APIs.

For example. I _want_ to run Linux phones even without all the apps & convenience, except Signal messenger. I am unable to use Signal without first registering through a mobile app. I suspect the desktop version will run fine-ish (proton after all). But at the end of the day, adoption will increase if mobile apps had a compatible desktop version on a Linux phone.
by jofzar | 2025-09-16 01:11:55+00:00
> As for the AirPods, and true wireless earbuds in general, I find this product category to be the most wasteful. Unless someone comes up with a type of earbuds that have easily replaceable batteries, I’m not interested in buying something that’s bound to become e‑waste in a relatively short period of time.

I'm not a apple fan (been windows most of my life till moving to a new company that is Mac only, and have been on android for about 13 years at this point) but the airpods pro are maybe apples greatest product in a while (other then the M1 macbooks).

The audio quality+noise cancellation+transparency quality made them a super easy buy and I would buy the app3 as soon as my app2 die that's how much I love them as a android user. This is coming from someone who owns multiple iems and very expensive over the ears.

From everything reported so far, the app3 look like a solid spec bump at the same price, there isn't many products that keep that formula.

Edit: I am disappointed that the OP didn't talk about how all the iPhones now have "pro-motion" aka high refresh rate screens.

This is (personally) one of the biggest step up in quality, I would never buy a baseline iPhone because 60 Hz just looks gross to me now, it's immediately noticeable.
by kennedn | 2025-09-16 01:12:43+00:00
Hello, as I alluded to in my blog post you should use tapo:// as the main stream source to get two-way audio. You can then optionally use rtsp://.../stream2 as a lower resolution sub stream source for detections. Defining both tapo:// and rtsp:// in a single stream is redundant as go2rtc only picks one or the other. My own configuration is here for reference https://github.com/kennedn/frigate/blob/7c56604e819d2cb1da28...
by TomaszZielinski | 2025-09-16 01:12:43+00:00
Usually I just go with the flow, because what else I could do :)?

But somehow the missing App Laucher made me bit sad (well, to the extent software can make one sad :)) - even though I can always switch to Finder to browse apps, App Launcher has some nice visual quality to it that makes it more pleasant to use for me..
by Telemakhos | 2025-09-16 01:13:04+00:00
> 4GB eMMC, 512MB RAM

And, that Snapdragon is 1.4 GHz, I think.

That's enough for a bare-bones WordPress installation.

My first laptop had a 100 MB had drive, 8 MB of RAM, and a 25 MHz processor, and I remember running a web server on it too, in addition to Windows 3.11 and word processors and other software. One of those dongles would have been godlike power back in those days.

I feel like somewhere along the way scripting got out of hand. Stuff like Wordpress is absurdly resource intensive.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-09-16 01:13:04+00:00
Sorry no.

I use Reolink's for outdoor. The Tapo's are all indoor C210/C211 (cheap, but do the job just fine).

Looks like the C402 has two different hardware versions[0] so maybe the old one doesn't work but the new one does? A firmware upgrade might also be worth trying. This reddit page suggests trying ONVIF as the go2RTC connection[1].

Good luck!

[0]: https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tapo-c402/

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/frigate_nvr/comments/1liosei/tapo_c...
by chrisdelrosario | 2025-09-16 01:13:12+00:00
Re: “Sob stories” it’s easy to cynically dismiss this as just another marketing ploy, but I see two other ways to see it.

1. It’s primarily for the people at Apple and their partner manufacturers to realize and be reminded of the value of the work that they do.

2. It’s a message to the broader tech community that if you’re going to copy most of what we do, here’s a few that actually save lives.

Now will it sell more watches… probably. Is it a net positive? I think so.
by avidiax | 2025-09-16 01:13:28+00:00
Apple is a hostage of its own marketing.

A modular iphone that has an easy to replace battery, easy to replace screen and is maybe 2mm thicker to account for it? That would be a sellout.

A convertible Macbook Air with a touch screen? It would be sold out.

Neckband-style airpods with all-day battery life? Might not sell out, but would be popular.

A best-in-class TV powered by Apple TV? Would probably sell well.

But all of these products would cannibalize sales of some other expensive iDevice.
by ytpete | 2025-09-16 01:13:36+00:00
There's a huge difference though between short bursts of intense activity – which are thrilling, and in my experience can forge longlasting team bonds – and an ongoing, constant sense of pressure. The latter you can't maintain excitement about indefinitely, and inevitably the continual stress just leads to burnout. Or apathy: after all, if everything's urgent then nothing feels urgent or special after a while.
by tastyface | 2025-09-16 01:13:50+00:00
And yet you regularly disable flags for tech-irrelevant current events with limited discussion potential (Hulk Hogan death, Venezuela boat strike, etc.) while keeping flags enabled for comprehensively researched articles like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44816165

I am concerned you do not see your own biases in play.
Show HN: Containers for Lean 4 (polynomial functors, with M-types)
by MADEinPARIS | 2025-09-16 01:14:50+00:00
TL;DR: lean-containers is a type-safe, mathematically rigorous container library for Lean 4. It provides container signatures, polynomial functors, W-types (initial algebras), M-types (final coalgebras), and a battery of production-grade operations with lawful functor instances, proofs, and a minimal runtime footprint. Built for people who want correct-by-construction data structures in Lean—both for research and real systems.

Repo: https://github.com/fraware/lean-containers Status: Production Ready | Version: 1.0.0 | Lean: 4.8.0+
by rcleveng | 2025-09-16 01:17:00+00:00
Yes, WSL2 is quite good. WSL1 was even a step up, but WSL2 gives me an environment that I can use quite well and be productive with.

The NTFS speed thing is kinda amazing. I use cursor on MacOS. My friend has a windows laptop which is likely 2-3x more powerful than my Macbook Air. I can install a new cursor in 2-3s tops, on the Windows machine it takes minutes. Wow. It's all file copying speed.
by apigalore | 2025-09-16 01:17:42+00:00
Yes, this is the one thing stopping me from going to Codex completely. Currently, it's kind of annoying that Codex stops often and asks me what to do, and I just reply "continue". Even though I already gave it a checklist.

With GPT‑5-Codex they do write: "During testing, we've seen GPT‑5-Codex work independently for more than 7 hours at a time on large, complex tasks, iterating on its implementation, fixing test failures, and ultimately delivering a successful implementation." https://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/
by chamomeal | 2025-09-16 01:18:00+00:00
I haven’t tried tanstack-start, but I wouldn’t be surprised it becomes the defacto react framework instead of next. Everything by Tanner Linsley is just so well thought out and the DX is amazing. If his framework is the same level of quality, without any major gaps compared to next, it will probably blow next out of the water.

And Tanner is already a huge name in the typescript/react world, so I think there is actually a chance.
by solumos | 2025-09-16 01:18:09+00:00
> The problem isn’t React itself, it’s the React-by-default mindset.

> The loss isn’t just performance, it’s opportunity cost when better-fit alternatives are never evaluated.

> That’s not healthy competition; it’s ecosystem capture by default.

The "It's not <plain old thing>, it's <more complex/controversial characterization of thing for emphasis>" really gives it away.
by epistasis | 2025-09-16 01:19:53+00:00
> A modular iphone that has an easy to replace battery, easy to replace screen and is maybe 2mm thicker to account for it? That would be a sellout.

The number of people who might actually like this is very tiny. Most of them do product reviews. But their audience is not going to care. Think about your older uncle. Your niece in her 20s who loves to paint and read but doesn't want to replace hardware. That's what most people are like.

Those are the people who Jobs focused on impressing and enabling to do things they wouldn't do otherwise. That is the focus that has been lost without Jobs, IMHO, and it's the focus that makes the products better for people who want to get the most out of their products per unit of time invested in learning how to use it.
by gnarlouse | 2025-09-16 01:20:39+00:00
Cool down politics, reject demonization, abandon your jersey, vote for politicians who demonstrate a track-record of putting people first.

There are smart people on both sides of the aisle. The majority of people on either side of the aisle (I'm referring to general citizenry, though I think politicians, to a lesser extent, this also applies) are *good people*, who happen to come from different backgrounds and hence have differing motivations. These people are your neighbors, and we've all been participating in this insane social experiment where the box in the living room, or more contemporarily your hand, tells you about the monsters on the other team. It's precisely why a kid--incapable of the same long-term thinking for which you advocated--just made things a whole lot more distressing for all of us. The news cycles are designed to divide and separate us, and then the politicians play Risk with the political map on "who can we convince, who can we lock into our ideology". Both liberals and conservatives are guilty. Why do you think the republican party--which summarily rejected Trump in 2015--has turned into the MAGA machine it has today? Votes. The way it's fed to us is a sort of perverse culture war: who has the better culture: Bootstrapping Conservative White-nationalist Christians, or Socialist Neoliberal Atheist LGBTQIA+? It's an ill-formed question because first of all it's not remotely posed in good faith, and second of all even if it were in good faith, it's completely subjective in its criterion, so it's unanswerable. The only answer is to "Turn the TV off", as it were.

No surprise then that I sit somewhere in the center, because I'm routinely bugged by good ideas on both sides of the aisle, though the noise. Not just from politicans, but from neighbors and activists. I've tried being hard democrat, I've tried being hard republican. The truth is "being a democrat" and "being a republican" is a stupid fucking jersey to own.

Regarding a strict longterm thinker policy:

Elon is a long-term thinker. Larry Elison is a long-term thinker. Jeff Bezos is a long-term thinker. JD Vance is a long-term thinker. Peter Thiel is a long-term thinker. None were directly voted for (ok, save Vance), and I believe all are invested in America tearing itself apart so they can construct a technofeudalist society post-civil war, and run off to explore the solar system.

Or something.
by jt2190 | 2025-09-16 01:20:43+00:00
There was a very good article about magic [1] where the magicians describe tricks that are too good to perform because people will get angry. Apparently the audience is much more receptive when they believe they can figure out how the trick was achieved.

[1] The New Yorker. “The Real Work: Modern magic and the meaning of life.” by Adam Gopnik July 28, 2008
by 9029 | 2025-09-16 01:21:16+00:00
Fwiw this has been my setup for ~10 years now and I don't really see an issue with it. Screen locker crashing would have been a concern back in the Xorg days but I don't think it's an issue nowadays with the ext-session-lock-v1 Wayland protocol. I value startup speed and simplicity of my setup and have no use for features provided by a DM, so this has always felt like a no-brainer to me.
by erxam | 2025-09-16 01:22:46+00:00
It's funny how people only question who owns an outlet when said outlet has the gall to report the truth.

You never see people question the gaff that garbage like VOA or NPR spit out on a daily basis.

(Also: look up '61% of israeli men'. That's what they're open to voluntarily admitting. You can only imagine how deep the rot goes inside that sick 'society'.)
by STKFLT | 2025-09-16 01:23:55+00:00
The ThinkPad X1 series usually have great linux support and you can option them with 2.8k@120Hz OLED panels, which at 14" lands between the Air and the 14" Pro in terms of PPI. I have a couple generations old X1 Yoga and all of the hardware worked out of the box with Manjaro and Debian, including the touchscreen and active stylus.

People usually buy them for the keyboards and trackpoint, but imo the touchpad is still pretty solid. It is a bit small on account of the trackpoint buttons taking up vertical real estate but its pretty responsive and multi-touch gestures work perfectly in my experience. I believe newer ones have larger trackpads than mine, though still not as large as a similarly sized mac.
by tastyface | 2025-09-16 01:24:12+00:00
"If you turn to violence during this process it will be worse for many more people than the 2% being staked for protection currently."

You should know from history that real human beings won’t cower before this sort of unhinged saber-rattling.

So if that’s the take of your political cohort, you might as well just skip the niceties prepare for the worst. Things will get really, really bad for everyone. Perhaps your kids will get to live in a pleasant country again. Maybe the blood-rendered lesson from our grandparents that didn’t seem to stick to our generation will be able to stick to theirs.

"continued pacification of an increasingly violent 'underserved' social blight"

There is one demographic that is implicated in the vast majority of shootings, comprising far more than the 2% you’re hatefully denigrating.