MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-09-23 03:53:00+00:00
Daub (Stanford professional commentator) has analyzed his mindset. He explains Thiel's attraction to esotericism:

>Girard’s ideas are another flyby between tech and the academy. The Girardians may lament the marginal status of his theories within the academy; even Thiel may lament it. But secretly, or not so secretly, that marginality is what draws a man like Thiel to Girard. For in Girard you get your own intuitions repackaged as esoteric knowledge. You get a feeling of oppositionality while remaining at the center of things. You get to feel like a victim while having all the power. And this, as we’ll see, may be the most secret of Silicon Valley’s secret desires.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://fabricat...
by degamad | 2025-09-23 03:53:04+00:00
You say "round trip", but you mean "return trip", right?

Because if I understand correctly, you don't queue the requests and then perform a single request/response cycle (a "round trip"), you send a bunch of requests as they happen with no response expected, then when an await happens, you send a message saying "okay, that's all, please send me the result" and get a response.
by heavyset_go | 2025-09-23 03:53:21+00:00
It doesn't, it's just another bootstrapping method that happens to work fine with hibernation.

UKI allows you to extend your chain of trust from the bootloader to ramdisk, instead of just your bootloader and kernel. From there, you can enable kernel lockdown and checking of module signatures if you want to.

I think you can do the same thing without UKI (I forget tbh), but UKI simplifies it with one UEFI executable that doesn't even need a bootloader.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-23 03:55:06+00:00
FWIW, I've been developing on the mac for about twenty years now, and I think they're at worst in the middle of developer experiences. I prefer it to working with eg GTK and JS/HTML/CSS (though, CSS does have its sweet spots). The worst part is that they can be agonizingly slow to fix very obvious bugs. The documentation could certainly be much worse, and there are so many eyes on their tools now it's in many ways much easier now to be productive than it used to be. The debugging and profiling is excellent.

I've never trued developing for windows so I could easily imagine it's better across the board.

It also helps if you don't need to go through their app stores, which is a hell of its own.
by colonial | 2025-09-23 03:55:55+00:00
> if you're popping in and out expansion cards all the time eventually the ports are going to fail which seems like a really weird design choice

Anecdotally, I've developed a bad habit of fidgeting with my expansion cards by popping them in and out. I've probably put them through several hundred cycles like that and they still work fine - I think the fact that the cards are "rail-roaded" into the slots helps a lot, since it makes it very difficult to apply pressure at an angle to the internal USB-C port.
by pkmital | 2025-09-23 03:57:43+00:00
I’ve been building Emergentic.AI, a platform for multi-agent simulation and authoring. In this 1-minute teaser, AI agents program a music synthesizer by writing code via MCP actions.

The idea: instead of the helpful assistant, agents are given personalities, can collaborate, and orchestrate via external apps (Unreal, Blender, Ableton, Notion, etc.) to create emergent creative workflows.

This is just one example showing how agents could co-pilot while you write music live, but imagining the same approach could extend to narrative design, NPCs, and real-time collaborative / generative media / worlds.

I’d love feedback on:

Other tools/workflows you’d like to see creative agents orchestrating.

Where multi-agent systems could save the most time today or how you could imagine using this?
by aidenn0 | 2025-09-23 03:57:48+00:00
I did some digging and found:

1. Arch uses the "flush" mount option by default when using udisks (which is how removable devices are mounted interactively from a DE).

2. Manjaro has a package called "udev-usb-sync" that matches USB devices in udev and limits the write-buffer size. However, it appears to (by default, you can instead specify a constant value) calculate the buffer size based on the USB transfer speed, and given the fact that I have some USB 3.1 devices that cannot maintain 1MB/s of throughput while others that can maintain over 200MB/s of throughput and both report the same transfer speed to Linux, I don't know how effective it is.
by taurath | 2025-09-23 03:59:16+00:00
> born with innate antisocial traits

If this were true, sociability wouldn't be so incredibly overwhelmingly correlated with trauma, and to the extent that trauma & poverty are related, poverty. This is a full and utter complete fact, it is foundational knowledge to social science, psychology and psychiatry.

People. Are. Not. Born. Bad. They're born to traumatized parents raised in a society that squeezes them for all they're worth.

> many said humans will not be re-trainable to be pro-social

The vast, vast majority of people absolutely could be, but they will never receive the resources (time, attention) to be better. It is not that we don't know how to help people, its that its /expensive/ and we /would rather punish them than help them/.
by cloverich | 2025-09-23 04:00:00+00:00
TBH i feel a lot of what is happening was easily predictable in recent years BUT i did not have "US follows Russia path" in so many words because i felt given our more generally liberal society and economic conditions i couldn't imagine such a path in my head. But it really clicked when i went to listen to the last few podcasts of the recently deceased and realized how it felt precisely like Russian propaganda; now here i am second guessing the risk of things i type when only a few short years ago i bragged that being able to yell f** Obama without concern was the quintissential example of how America was still quite different.

The real struggle is i have true believers and apologists in my own family, and its just so... unreal how unreachable they are. For all the talk of what to do about it, i feel for people who havent really explored the depths to which many reasonably intelligent and reasonably kind people have fallen. And just wandering what if anything will shake them out of it.
by willtemperley | 2025-09-23 04:00:05+00:00
Finding high quality libraries that are suitable for desktop / mobile distribution is currently very difficult.

I'd like to use DuckDB to remotely query Parquet. Unfortunately I can't use it in an iOS app because I'd have to work around the dynamic loading of extensions and bundle OpenSSL to support Httpfs in a static build. I'm building my own library instead.

That's just one example. I'd like to use certain LGPL licensed libraries but I can't because the legal risks are too high, as is the cognitive load in dealing with license uncertainty.

Neither of these things are an issue for web-apps.

I think the economics for local-first software could really work out for businesses that use significant compute. Cloud-compute is not cheap and comes with significant financial tail-risk.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-09-23 04:00:50+00:00
Don't worry, This is interesting! AD should work on this example (at all points where the derivative converges) see this desmos graph for a very informal proof that the series converges https://www.desmos.com/calculator/djf8qtilok.

The place where I think we're talking past each other here is that in infinite precision, AD perfectly differentiates your algorithm, but even an algorithm using arbitrary (or even infinite) precision math, that to high accuracy controls the error of a differentialable problem, AD can still do weird things.
by jonahx | 2025-09-23 04:01:19+00:00
You are making all these theoretical points... do you doubt that people are demonstrably lazy and willing to give up their privacy and control for free or cheap or convenient stuff? I don't see how this is even a contentious point to make.

You're bringing up all these theoretical counterpoints that either obviously don't apply, or only apply very partially. There are many local only, FOSS options available for every type of software, right now, many free, for people that care about privacy and control in their computing. They generally have tiny market share. If they were made even more convenient, I don't believe the impact would be substantial. By that I mean stuff like brand recognition, what friends are using, and so on would still be more important decision factors than privacy/control features.

This is a people problem, not a "free market not behaving like its theoretical model" problem. Either people don't fully understand the meaning and importance of their privacy, or their revealed preference of not caring that much is just... sadly... true.
by scarface_74 | 2025-09-23 04:02:53+00:00
Just a note: Overcast is written and maintained by one person - Marco Arment - including server maintenance and has been for over a decade. He also created his own non scammy ad platform that just lets companies buy banner ads based on the category of the podcast.

You get very little extra for the $15/year subscription fee. That’s not a complaint. You get all of the features that most people care about in the Fred version.

It’s available for the iPhones, iPads and the web with full CarPlay support and it syncs podcasts to the Apple Watch.

He did learn from his mistake of making Instapaper a one time payment and sold it.

For those who don’t know, he was the cofounder of Tumblr.
by fenomas | 2025-09-23 04:04:15+00:00
A good specific example of this that isn't widely known is the "muscle pass".

It amounts to holding a coin in a classic palm position (dead center of the palm), then spending several months strengthening the palm muscles and developing a callus, until you can propel the coin a foot or so without noticeably moving your hand.

Random video demonstrating:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sJJNULXJT0Q
by taurath | 2025-09-23 04:05:07+00:00
Scandinavian countries have prison populations in the thousands (1000) and the USA has a prison population in the millions (1000000). The USA has an incarceration rate 10 times that of any Scandinavian country. Recidivism rates might be similar, but I'm certain the fact that so many fewer end up in prison means something important about the USA
by primaprashant | 2025-09-23 04:05:23+00:00
btw, if you want local dictation, speak and get a transcript, not transcribe files, I built a Python tool called hns [1]. It's open source, uses faster-whisper, and you can run it with `uvx hns` or just `hns` after `uv tool install hns`.

[1]: https://github.com/primaprashant/hns
Show HN: Eintercon – A platform to make real global connections in 48 hours
by abilafredkb | 2025-09-23 04:05:38+00:00
I’ve been working on something I personally felt was missing from the internet: a way to build genuine global connections without endless swiping, ghosting, or chasing algorithms. That’s how Eintercon was born.

Eintercon is a social platform built around the idea of time-bound connections. When you connect with someone, you have 48 hours to engage—whether it’s a chat, sharing experiences, or finding common ground. After that, the connection expires unless you both decide to continue.

Why? Because I’ve seen too often how social platforms turn into infinite scrolls, dead inboxes, or connections that don’t go anywhere. By adding urgency and focus, Eintercon encourages people to actually interact instead of collecting names on a list.

A few things about it:

The focus is global friendships, not just local networking.

The 48-hour connection window creates momentum and reduces ghosting.

Simplicity: no endless feeds, just people and conversations.

We’re live on Play Store and App Store . Website: https://eintercon.com .

I’d love feedback from this community:

Do you think time-limited connections help or hurt relationship building?

What are the most frustrating parts of existing “friendship” or social apps for you?

Any thoughts on how to encourage more genuine engagement rather than surface-level interactions?

This is still early, but I’d be grateful for your thoughts, ideas, and critiques. Thanks for checking it out!
by yen223 | 2025-09-23 04:06:02+00:00
There's the additional headaches of a) managing auth in a distributed manner, and b) figuring out how to evolve the data model across all participating clients.

CRDTs are a complicated way to solve a problem that most services don't really have, which is when you want to sync data but don't want to have any one client be the ultimate source of truth.
by moepstar | 2025-09-23 04:06:08+00:00
> Pretty much anything HomeKit supported will last “perpetually” for its smart features.

How so, should Apple ever decide they'll remove it from tvOS/HomepodOS?

And frankly, having to use Homekit for automations (or using it at all) is - compared to Home Assistant - frustrating, especially given their more or less unlimited resources.

And don't even get me started on Siri - compared to what it was when it started on the iPhone 4s i don't feel it made like any progress, at all. Having updated to iOS 26 a few days ago - congratulations, Siri is now failing 100% to "turn off bedside lamp" which worked fine on 18.x and ever before.

No, i don't think Apple is going to keep Homekit's lights on (heh) indefinitely - and wouldn't bet the farm (or house) on it.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-23 04:06:57+00:00
I hope you never hear about free refills that they have in some restaurants.

You're demanding more than a decade of free app updates for a small sum you paid ages ago. Why can't you instead be happy with all the value you got from the app? We aren't born to be small minded and stingy, look up to greater goals and a greater attitude in life. We only have so many years before it is cut from us.
by maxbond | 2025-09-23 04:07:43+00:00
That's interesting and thank you for sharing, but that does still seem like a judgment call and I would guess different companies would have different rubrics. Quantifying things is helpful but doesn't really mean that there isn't interpretation involved. Just that it's communicated more clearly and consistently.

I don't think the beef analogy is appropriate. For one it involves deception, and I don't think that's fair to Obsidian. For another Obsidian presents itself as a personal knowledge base, and is a personal knowledge base. Maybe it's a bad one. But that would make it inferior beef, not dog meat. If you think it lacks necessary features, a.) that would seem to me to be beef that needs some steak sauce and b.) the existence of people who do not use plug-ins would seem to empirically prove those features are not always necessary. Because different people have different needs.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-23 04:08:13+00:00
> Linux's usual advantage of decentralization and wide distro variety with massive customization potential is a disadvantage here.

How so? You need each thing to do its part, but that decentralizes perfectly well because it isn't actually integration at all, it's just a hundred different pieces each doing it right.

And open source has the further advantage that you're not beholden to the maintainer. If Framework notices that piece #37 is wasting power, they have the code and can fix it themselves. If the upstream isn't completely asleep at the switch they'll accept the patch, and even if they are you can still ship it on your own device.

Where this can get messed up is in one of two ways. The first is if something is not open source and then the vendor fails to fix it but also fails to supply anyone else with the capacity to fix it. But this isn't a problem with integration, it's a problem with filthy knuckleheads not keeping their heads on straight and calls for some new competitors to show them how to do it.

The second is something like an actual trade off, e.g. if you want the machine to be able to wake via network packet or pressing a key on the keyboard then you'd need the network controller or USB controller to stay in a low power state instead of being dead off. And then that might cost you half a watt, but you're paying it in order to get something, and then somebody has to decide if Linux users would typically want a default where that feature works or one where the battery can last a month in standby, since it's one or the other.
by NedF | 2025-09-23 04:09:58+00:00
> I wear a Casio watch

I only wear counterfeit Casio watches.

Not a joke... but I see the humor in saying it which is why I did. It's is a loss leader, counterfeits Casios tend not to be as waterproof. YouTube video can help you ensure you buy counterfeits.

> A bunch of people here question

Sucks you have Hacker News talking about you. Just remember they are not real life... of pretend that's true at least.

Cool blog post.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-09-23 04:10:05+00:00
Yep and Charlie Kirk just happened to believe that climate change was Marxism. And Putin coincidentally thinks wind power drives worms mad with vibrations. And Nigel Farage vowing to stop wind and solar. And AfD hating heat pumps.

It's all just random personal dislikes and not the best funded misinformation campaign the world has ever seen.
by taurath | 2025-09-23 04:10:13+00:00
> I don’t think many people in the US care about rehab

I think they exist quite widely among the population. Old, white republicans want more people in jail. Young, non-white democrats think we jail too many people.

50% of the country thinks we jail too many

s) https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/45975-what-americ...
by pfdietz | 2025-09-23 04:12:19+00:00
As I recall this was a book that included the orthodoxy at the time that random testing was the worst kind of testing, to be avoided if possible.

That turned out to be bullshit. Today, with computers many orders of magnitude faster, using randomly generated tests is a very cost effective away of testing, compared to carefully handcrafted tests. Use extremely cheap machine cycles to save increasingly expensive human time.
by evanjrowley | 2025-09-23 04:13:09+00:00
Joplin has met this criteria for me over the past year, but I'm willing to give Notesnook a try. Looks like it's web app is better supported then Joplin's, at least for self-hosters. I'm not sure how this handles encryption but I do like how Joplin does it, where you can share notebooks with each with a unique decryption secret.
by hibikir | 2025-09-23 04:14:14+00:00
He has a youtube channel where he performs most of the tricks in his courses (just not how to do them). After you watch for a while, you realize that he can get great effects out of moves that don't even take significant sleight of hand: He might be doing the most blatant manipulation in the middle of some comedy bits that make it invisible to anyone engrossed in the performance.

Now, that specific Fool Us performance has moves most magicians cannot pull off, but still, a large percentage of the act involves his standard slew of tricks to put a lot of randomness where it doesn't matter, while there is no randomness near the cards that matter.
by chongli | 2025-09-23 04:14:26+00:00
You’re right that it’s “a hundred different pieces each doing it right” but you gloss over the disadvantage of decentralization: getting everybody on board with the project. With a centralized product (such as at Apple) the CEO can say “I want to increase battery life on existing hardware by 20% before next release or you’re fired” and people will work 80 hours a week to get that done. With open source? You’ve got ten thousand different projects, each with their own leadership and their own priorities. You have no leverage at all to get them all to work on power efficiency, so naturally it takes a back seat to them working on their favourite features.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-23 04:14:34+00:00
> The citations are already hyperlinks

Then that's the actual answer to the question they were asking. It's already done before you're given the document.

But I don't know what takes "2 minutes" then? Checking to make sure they actually have hyperlinks?

> But then again I'm not the one wondering if lawyers keep cases stored in "relevant databases" out of what could only be sheer ignorance

That is not what they asked. You only make yourself look bad when you change the question before mocking it.

> otherwise doesn't have a use case unless you're using AI in the first place

Their full post was describing something that has a use case if someone else is using AI.

> The amount of time it takes to do your job? Vs not doing it and just letting AI rip?

No, see previous.
by ciju | 2025-09-23 04:15:25+00:00
We have been building a local-first browser app (PWA) for personal finance, based on double-entry accounting. https://finbodhi.com/

It's not always offline. We do use online services like firebase for auth and subscription, and some service to fetch commodity prices etc, but rest of the data is stored in browser storage (sqlite) and backed to local disk and dropbox. We also syncs data across devices, always encrypting data in transit. We use Evolu for sync.

For most personal applications, this model seems to fit. If you figure out sync, the development model is actually nicer than web apps. There is no need for dealing with calls over network for each action. It does make some things more difficult. Debugging, migrations etc.
by vorpalhex | 2025-09-23 04:15:29+00:00
What is PocketCasts maintaining?

1. A few kb of playlists and accounts 2. Probably a search service 3. Likely artwork caching

It's not free to run this.. but it's not exactly expensive either.

Many users pay and don't use the app very much. I am sure there are some super users who use a lot.

And most apps continue to sell, make enough income to fund a few devs and keep the services on. Even with a one time payment.

It's not like pocketcasts is paying the podcasters or producing content.

The problem is seeing every single dumb thing as some kind of mega-growth M&A deal when it's not. No, your podcast app won't make you hundreds of millions, sorry.
by sedatk | 2025-09-23 04:16:26+00:00
Nothing to argue about arbitrary disdain for backpacks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I don't remember one backpack that I saw and thought "wow that backpack is ostentatious, that guy is a showoff". Not once.

They also mentioned theft deterrence as secondary goals, so my recommendation stands for everyone else who doesn't have random hatred towards backpacks. :)
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-23 04:17:22+00:00
There was also an introductory blog post submitted 4 days ago. 245 points, 108 comments. https://www.xtxmarkets.com/tech/2025-ternfs/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45290245

Some notable constraints: files are immutable, write-once update never. Designed for files at least 2MB in size. Slow at directory creation/deletion. No permissions/access control.
by mattrobenolt | 2025-09-23 04:18:18+00:00
Right, but I think you're kinda missing a lot of the tangible benefits here. This IMO is just reinforcing the idea of "unlimited" IOPS. You can't physically use the totality of IOPS available on the drives.

Even if you can't saturate them, even with low CPU cores, latency is drastically better which is highly important for database performance.

Having low latency is tangibly more important than throughput or number of IOPS once your dataset is larger than RAM no matter how many CPU cores you have.

Chasing down p95s and above really shine with NVMes purely from having whatever order of magnitude less latency.

Less latency also equates to less iowait time. All of this just leads to better CPU time utilization on your database.
by KevinMS | 2025-09-23 04:18:25+00:00
I'm replying to statements like this

> "testing" is not fundamental.

and

> there is no real skill to be learned there

one of the biggest problems that has plagued software is failed projects. There have been a lot of them, and its probably costs hundreds of billions of dollars.

I can guarantee not one of those projects failed because somebody had to take the time to look up the best data structure. But I'll bet a lot of them failed because they didn't follow smart testing practices and collapsed under their own weight of complexity, untestability and inflexibility.