MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nemomarx | 2025-09-08 12:46:37+00:00
Not to NES games, but it might distract from news about it (minor effect on sales) and their emulation catalogue is now up to GameCube games. So the question is whether a five or ten dollar copy of wind Waker could distract from an 80 dollar tears of the kingdom.

They also have more marginal games - captain toad or whatever - sold at the same price as their big titles. Those seem pretty vulnerable imo.
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-09-08 12:47:11+00:00
I don't understand the appeal of drive throughs?s?

In my area there are dozens of people idling for 10-15 minutes in the Starbucks drive through even though we have a municipal "no idling" bylaw to reduce emissions. The line is so long it interferes with traffic on the street. It also seems like sitting in your car inhaling CO from other people's tailpipes for 15 minutes is bad for you?

Many of the local fast food places have also switched to "drive through only" at night, which means they can get away with not having public washrooms (which are required by law when serving food). On a recent road trip my friends and I spent an hour driving place-to-place at 10pm on a Saturday trying to find a place to get a late dinner and use the toilets.

Drive-throughs also create an insane, perverse incentive for customers inside the store. Between online ordering and drive through staff are completely ignoring the actual walk-up counter traffic, because that's the only traffic where corporate doesn't track service time. I've stopped going into a lot of locations on impulse because I know they'll be understaffed and you have to book your shitty lunch 20 minutes in advance with an app. On the flip side these companies are doing promos with free delivery, where a taxi drives a burger to my house for no extra cost.

In short, I understand why companies would like drive throughs - they can have fewer staff and they game laws around the indoor dining area. Their end game is probably drive-thru only ghost kitchens with no indoor dining at all.

On a personal level I don't understand why consumers prefer drive-through (except for the feedback spiral of in-restaurant experiences becoming shit because of drive throughs). And on a policy level I don't understand why municipalities are permitting ever-larger double drive throughs with longer queues and shorter in-restaurant hours? It creates a hollowed-out neighborhood with no walkability that feels miserable.
by nirava | 2025-09-08 12:47:15+00:00
- Local law meant to censor heavily any dissent - several pro corruption measures passed in the last few years - the people have been angry for long - social media just meant people now have to come on the streets

lazily pasting one of my comments from yesterday

"So after sacking the wildly (and deservingly) popular Chairman of the National Electricity Authority, after allowing ministers to set arbitrary and uncapped salaries for themselves and their workers, after obstructing and undermining the wildly (and deservingly) popular mayor of the Capital, and after doing like 15 of these really major, objectively anti-nation things, and getting called out for it in Social Media by the commoners, the 73 year old Prime Minister (in many ways a Trump-like figure; immune to shame or criticism) moves to ban social media in the country. "
by SamoyedFurFluff | 2025-09-08 12:47:29+00:00
I actually don’t know if I agree with the last part. A chunk of the Rwandan genocide was a radio station instigating and advocating for the mass slaughter of a people. Atrocities in Myanmar also were originally advocated for in Facebook. On more personal levels, domestic abuse is also psychological torture and the wearing down of a person with words and it should be in someone’s right to file a restraining order to stop being contacted by their abuser even if the abuser doesn’t perform physical violence.

That is to say I broadly agree with the notion that speech should be relatively unfettered, but I do believe there must be exceptions for speech that actively aims to fetter people. We must limit speech that advocates limiting the freedoms of people to live as independent and equal citizens.
by darepublic | 2025-09-08 12:47:42+00:00
At many companies I work for a recurring problem was people fighting over style in the code. So then we got formatters and linters to help with this. This is good right. And as part of the git push we can apply the house style. So you can format however you want when composing but committed merged code always gets a consistent style. However this simple process has never been implemented properly at myriad places I worked. What usually happens is people instead suggest ide extensions (vs code today in the past it could have been atom or sublime) and that everyone get on the same page with the extensions and ide. And then some clever person uses Vim and although they have macros the formatting doesn't come out the same. I on the other hand don't want to be constrained in the ide I use for what I consider to be unworthy reasons I just want to rely on the git hooks. But when my code doesn't get formatted the same as the people using the extensions they get confused. My code passes all the Ci cd checks but they have unintentionally, by way of their ide extensions, created expectations that were not made explicit in the ci cd process. This is hella stupid of them but their solution to this is then to tell everyone they must use a particular ide with a particular extension. And then sometimes this clashes with the actual ci ci linting and formatting checks they come up with workarounds for this. Ultimately turning a simple good solution (formatting and linting in git pipeline. We can stay consistent without trying!) into a locked down workaround addled nightmare.

All of this is to say I dont trust a group of otherwise smart people to collectively settle on smart solutions. Make invalid states un representable as far as its practical, please for the love of God.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-09-08 12:48:49+00:00
>Trump is in my view neither managed

Bruh.

> Italy where they are in power

Melloni only pretended to be anti establishment to win elections, but isn't. She campaigned on deporting illegals, and then gave them residency and right to work lol. Tell me a bigger rug pull. Trump is the same, he campaigned on a lot of things(Epstein list anyone?), but not actually executed on them or only did it only as a show (DOGE).
by bell-cot | 2025-09-08 12:48:59+00:00
Some similar experiences here, and not just at Starbucks. Counting heads, I've too-often noticed that the busy-looking employees outnumber the customers, and still the service is dead slow.

Maybe that's part of the experience they're selling? - "you're a VIP, just look at the legion of minions rushing to serve you!" - but I find it a distasteful waste of time, and avoid going back.
by IgorPartola | 2025-09-08 12:49:34+00:00
I think there are a couple of things here.

First, RSS has a bit more friction. Smashing the follow button on Twitter et al is faster than adding the feed to your RSS reader of choice unless your OS has support for default RSS app.

Second, discoverability. Just like with any distributed system vs monolithic platform, you need to find what to read yourself. For some niches this works well. If you are a software developer/hacker, you are more familiar with blogs in your area of interest. But if you have a wide range of interests you’d need to find the blogs yourself and hope their RSS feed is well formatted.

Third, the algorithm. A monolithic platform can do more to try to mix in new content based on your interests and intelligently mix up the content from sources you follow. This is of course controversial because feed algorithms can also try to cram bullshit into your feed or hide important stuff from you or create an echo chamber. But in the best case scenario they can also expose you to new sources of content you wouldn’t have found otherwise. An RSS reader would mean it is up to you to do this discovery which is more friction.

And ultimately content creators realized that they get more eyeballs on their stuff by using platforms like Facebook, Medium, Instagram, Twitter, than on blogs especially since blogs tend to be then repackaged by blog spam bots, Google’s AMP, and now LLMs.

So IMO RSS is just too manual and requires too much work. And of course since you can’t effectively advertise through it there is less incentive for creators and platforms to support it.
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by aurareturn | 2025-09-08 12:49:39+00:00
Harris’s unrealized gains tax was to apply only to taxpayers with a net wealth of over $100 million. So it would have had no implications for a typical startup worker hoping for an eventual equity payday.

Which is still dumb. I can incorporate a new company and give myself 100% of the shares. My friend comes along and decides he wants to give me $100,000 for only 0.01% of shares the next day. Suddenly, my company is worth $100m and now I owe the government tens of millions of dollars.

Do you not see how dumb that is? Value can be anything. I can create a $1 trillion company right now out of thin air. All I have to do is give myself 0.000000000001% of shares for $1.
by vmg12 | 2025-09-08 12:49:52+00:00
I dont know why you keep on bringing up soap. Soap, something anyone with knowledge can create in their own home, is not comparable to gpus and ai models which both require massive capital investments and skills to produce and thus are able to command massive margins.

> Spending on AI data centers is so massive that it's taken a bigger chunk of GDP growth than shopping

You havent compared this to previous bubbles like the internet, smart phones and personal computing in general. Your argument isnt convincing.
by the_af | 2025-09-08 12:49:59+00:00
> These are not experts, they are deep state propagandists.

Deep state? I feel like I've stepped into a conspiracy theory. What does the deep state have to do with anything? Deep state from which country? The US? Korea?

> Not exactly. Low birth rate itself is not a problem. What is a problem is the future consequences of low birth rate . And these consequences generally have not yet occurred, i.e. there is no problem yet.

Why "not exactly"? It's understood by everyone that low birth rate is a problem because of its rippling effects, which are not immediate. When I say "a massive problem" I mean "already in the near future".

But apparently it's causing problems for young people today, already.

> And these consequences generally have not yet occurred, i.e. there is no problem yet.

South Korean society is already quite unhealthy, and apparently for younger generations even more so.

To be clear: the numbers alone don't tell the full story. Population density is not the important metric here, but population aging is. There could be lots of Koreans today, but if the distribution is top-heavy, it cannot help them.

Let's do something else: link me a serious (non-conspiracy) study that there is no population decline crisis in South Korea, and I'll read it with an open mind. Be forewarned though, if it's a conspiracy article I'll ignore it.
by x187463 | 2025-09-08 12:50:05+00:00
Not even close. Sure, the cancel-culture of the left twitter-verse has weakened, but that was not a government enforced restriction. Meanwhile, the current administration is literally removing signage and museum exhibits which offend their sensibilities. They are removing funding from institutions, kicking people out of the country, and manufacturing 'investigations' into anybody who opposes them. They took over the damn Kennedy Center for honoring people they don't like. You've lost all manner of sense thinking this is improving free-speech. Listen to the tech bros and any other official sitting at the white house glazing the president to his face and tell me that's due to increased free-speech.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-08 12:50:18+00:00
I disagree - training enormous LLMs is super complex and requires a data centre... But most research is not done at that scale. If you want researchers to use your hardware at scale you also have to make it so they can spend a few grand and do small scale research with one GPU on their desktop.

That's how you get things like good software support in AI frameworks.
by macNchz | 2025-09-08 12:50:28+00:00
I’ve driven a lot in urban places with speed camera programs (which I fully support along with other car reduction and traffic calming designs) and lots of pedestrians and cyclists around, but I’ve never had a camera ticket in 20 years of driving.

Eight years ago I was driving on a genuinely empty back road in a rural part of America, speed limit 55mph. I failed to notice that, for one mile, the speed limit went down to 45mph. The character of the road didn’t change, we weren’t passing through a populated area. I don’t know why it changed. For miles in either direction it was 55. I kept going 55 and put absolutely zero people at risk of anything. That oversight cost me $400, and the cop was a huge asshole about it. So I bought a radar detector.

There are various layers of dysfunction at play in American road design and policing that I’d happily advocate we address. In the meantime I’m doing what I can to avoid any interactions with power drunk people who have the ability to decide my fate on a whim.
by boringg | 2025-09-08 12:51:20+00:00
I want to jump on this as the varia is easily the best safety feature for biking i have used beside helmets and arguably supercedes helmet since this warns you before a car shows up.

Its steep price wise but if you are doing a lot of road cycljng on rural roads and fast traffic where one hit is the end its an easy to justify life insurance product.
by everdrive | 2025-09-08 12:51:29+00:00
That's a really fair point, and frame of reference can skew a lot of conversations about what people _should_ be doing. If you talk about parenting advice and "just letting kids be themselves" the advice lands quite differently if you're speaking to an 1800s German family vs. a hippie commune in the 1960s. One may desperately need the advice, and another might need to be reined in a bit.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-08 12:51:45+00:00
> Social media has proven to be quite an effective tool for mobilizing protests

Gatherings, yes. Effective protest, I’m less convinced.

Effective protests “have clear strategic goals, use protest to broaden coalitions, seek to enlist more powerful individuals in their cause, and connect expressions of discontent to broader political and electoral mobilization” [1].

Social media helps enlist the elite. But it absolutely trashes clarity of goals and coalition broadening, often degrading into no true Scotsman contests. If a protest is well planned, social media can help it organize. But if a movement is developing, social media will as often keep it in a leaderless, undisciplined and thus ineffective state.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-power-of-protest-in-t...
by seer | 2025-09-08 12:51:48+00:00
Um isn't that what Lisp and its children / siblings have been all about. I've written a bit of Closure it has a very clear idea that code is data and data is code. Your code is trivially serializable in your mind and by various tools, and because it is lisp - it all kinda makes sense.

I really wish we lived in a universe where a lisp became the lengua franca of the world instead of javascript, as almost happened with Netscape, but alas ...
by stego-tech | 2025-09-08 12:51:57+00:00
This.

I had to tell CurrentCo that I cannot reinstall their vSphere deployment at a client site because they bought a perpetual license, didn’t migrate it to Broadcom before they cut it off, and now we cannot simply go get the latest patch or appliance for that version number without inviting an audit and a sueball from Broadcom.

“Good thing Microsoft would never do that to us.”

Ha. Hahaha.
by adrian_b | 2025-09-08 12:52:30+00:00
There already exist better solutions for the primary circuit than using steam, e.g. using supercritical carbon dioxide in a closed cycle. This allows the operation of the reactor at higher temperatures, while also increasing the efficiency of the heat transfer in the heat exchangers, which increases the overall energy efficiency. Moreover, this also greatly reduces the size of all components (which however must operate at much higher pressures than with steam, because that is the reason for the great reduction in size).

Making very big heatsinks to radiate all the heat from a nuclear reactor will not be a problem on Mars or Moon, as long as the metal, e.g. aluminum, is extracted locally. One will have no neighbors and no need to buy real estate, so any amount of land area can be used without restrictions.
by invariantjason | 2025-09-08 12:53:20+00:00
We've solved a fundamental problem in computational physics - maintaining exact energy conservation during live neural network topology transitions. The numbers:

Hamiltonian conservation: 5.27e-13 (machine precision) Live topology swaps: Chain→Strong→Ring→Grid with zero drift Deterministic replay: 0.00e+00 error after arbitrary steps Throughput: 336.6 samples/s

Standard RNNs lose 97.6% fidelity. We lose nothing. The system hot-swaps its entire topology mid-computation while preserving the Hamiltonian to 13 decimal places. Momentum automatically rescales [1.00075, 0.93583, 1.06777, 0.95738] to maintain conservation. Even more interesting: the system spontaneously self-organizes (+5.4% coherence gain) while remaining thermodynamically valid. This enables:

Protein folding with perfect energy conservation Climate models that don't drift Legally auditable AI (bit-for-bit reproducible) Defense simulations with physics-grade accuracy

Happy to answer technical questions or provide demo access. Jason Volk / jason@invariant.pro / +1 (469) 476-2122
by M95D | 2025-09-08 12:53:37+00:00
Quote from the musl mailing list:

> The mallocng allocator was designed to favor very low memory overhead, low worst-case fragmentation cost, and strong hardening over performance. This is because it's much easier and safer to opt in to using a performance-oriented allocator for the few applications that are doing ridiculous things with malloc to make it a performance bottleneck than to opt out of trading safety for performance in every basic system utility that doesn't hammer malloc.

[1]https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2025/09/05/3
by Reubachi | 2025-09-08 12:53:53+00:00
That's the point. One problem was "worked on", one isn't and never will be.

What's the fix?

Proper taxation at gas pumps? Get ready for a civil war (for some reason) Subsidized mass building of public transport? Lol. Not in the US anymore. Global Catastrophe? Western countries have proven they will spend 11 dollars on a coffee so I don't think even a massive crisis will stop people driving.
by maxsilver | 2025-09-08 12:55:15+00:00
I think the big problem DoorDash and the like have, is they obfuscate the capacity connection between real restaurants.

In the real world, if you drive up to a McDonalds, and there's a line around the building for drive-thru, you can make a decision. (Is it worth the long wait, or not?). In the real world, if you go to a sit-down restaurant, and they're full, they simply turn you away (often with a buzzer or a text callback or whatever, for the 'next available table') and you can make a decision. (is it worth the long wait, or not?).

DoorDash and the like, knows about (but intentionally hides) whether a restaurant can actually handle your incoming order -- they never admit if a restaurant is busy or falling behind, because then a human might use that information to decide not purchase.

So, DoorDash implies to humans that restaurants are open and ready, orders stack up indefinitely far beyond what a real-world restaurant normally would take, and real-world restaurants have to magically 1.5x to 3x their capacity out of thin air.

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It's not a systems-based issue -- no combination of "moving orders" or "separating orders" or "more apps / AI" could solve it. It's a fundamental capacity issue -- restaurants (especially drive-thru places) don't staff enough people to handle making more than a certain number of orders at a time, and shuffling that capacity from window to counter to drive-thru is just obfuscating that fact.
by techpineapple | 2025-09-08 12:55:25+00:00
Would this scale? I don’t think cars and planes are miserable primarily because of speed. I don’t want crowded roads and I don’t want weather delays.

It’s hard to imagine cars and planes becoming fundamentally that much better because of the problems we have scaling them now, compared to trains which, maybe has problems if you try to convert everyone to them, but are generally speaking a positive experience.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-08 12:56:02+00:00
My beef with K8s (and to be clear, it’s the leanest cut of beef from the deli - so not much substance to it) is that unless you pay someone else to manage the Control Plane for you, you’re not only going to need to upskill your workers on K8s itself but also administering the components of the Control Plane, like HA, etcd, storage, network plane, etc.

Compared to standing up literally any Linux distro and KVM, K8s remains an overly complex PITA to get off the ground and integrated into an org on the cheap/free. In that area, it handily loses to even Microsoft Hyper-V in the “just get us going” category of business adoption/velocity.

I’d really, really like to see K8s more streamlined for initial deployment than it is. It’s getting better, but I generally still have to grudgingly recommend a premium, managed control plane for any serious deployment.