MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fokamul | 2025-09-18 15:23:47+00:00
Who cares? Salesforce, as any other corporate are outsourcing to Indian kids, they don't give a...

Only people who can really change something are cybersecurity people, /"pentesters". They should, as any other responsible pentesters holding 0days for big corps, stop reporting them to the companies, instead sell to on grey market to 3rd party. Completely legal, for you it's more money and who cares what they do with it.

True whitehats are cucks, change my mind.
by xyzelement | 2025-09-18 15:23:51+00:00
I agree with you on the western religious tradition, but I think it's less true for the secular west today.

With ample exceptions of course, a stereotypical "secular" person thinks of their ancestors as racist people that lived in an irrelevant time, and doesn't feel some sort of connection to them, or an obligation to continue them. So I think the poster you're replying to is kinda correct from a today point of view.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-18 15:23:59+00:00
Yeah I would wait until RISC-V SBCs have RVA23 and ideally ACPI & Unified Discovery support. Otherwise you're in abandoned software territory.

I'm not sure if any RISC-V boards support ACPI, and Unified Discovery is not even specified yet, so ... yeah probably don't buy this. We'll get there.

https://github.com/riscv/configuration-structure
by dSebastien | 2025-09-18 15:24:06+00:00
The one journaling approach that has worked for me (and still does after multiple years) is interstitial journaling. It's now the very center of my personal organization system. That's how I organize my work, how I capture new things, how I organize my ideas etc. Everything goes through my daily notes (in Obsidian).

Details details: https://www.store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii-journaling-deep-di...
by duxup | 2025-09-18 15:24:11+00:00
I don't mind it. It largely stays out of my way visually and otherwise.

The only catch is that with dark mode and a black background in the upper left and lower right they add a shiny border to app icons that IMO is several settings too intense.

Otherwise I'm never sure how to deal with new phone / UI discussion. I don't mean to dismiss all criticism but:

1. It's the social media age and exaggerated critical comments always get more attention and it seems like the usual cycle is to just complain dramatically and clicks are the end goal. Then a few months from now I'll never hear about it again. This goes for lots of things beyond phones and I ask ... so how bad is it? I can't tell.

2. IMO UI takes a bit to get used to, I'm already not noticing most of glass and it's not getting in my way.

Honestly this goes for a lot of topics on the internet ...
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-18 15:24:25+00:00
KDE is, as its name implies, a desktop environment. And it hasn't been "infected" by the "mobile" virus.

I often wondered why desktop UIs became so terrible somewhere in the 2010s and I don't want to attribute it to laziness, greed, etc... People have been lazy and greedy since people existed, there must have been something else. And I think that mobile is the answer.

UI designers are facing a really hard problem, if not impossible. Most apps nowadays have desktop and mobile variants, and you want some consistency, as you don't want users to relearn everything when switching variants. But mobile platforms, with their small touchscreens are completely different from desktop platforms with their large screens, keyboards and mice. So what do you do?

In addition to mobile, you often need to target the browser too, so: native desktop, native mobile, browser desktop, browser mobile. And then you add commercial consideration like cost, brand identity, and the idea that if you didn't change the UI, you didn't change anything. Commercial considerations have always been a thing, but the multiplication of platforms made it worse, prompting for the idea of running everything in a browser, and having the desktop inferface just being the mobile interface with extra stuff.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-18 15:24:25+00:00
One small example is how holding down Option/Alt modifies behavior in various ways throughout macOS.

Often it functions as a “do this for everything” modifier. So for example, option-clicking the minimize traffic light minimizes all windows from the application the window belongs to, and option-clicking a disclosure triangle in a nested list expands or contracts all child nodes.

There’s tons of little things like that which might sound silly but become significant time and sanity savers after making a habit of using them.
by rostayob | 2025-09-18 15:24:26+00:00
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of TernFS and while we evaluated Ceph I am not intimately familiar with it)

Main factors:

* Ceph stores both metadata and file contents using the same object store (RADOS). TernFS uses a specialized database for metadata which takes advantage of various properties of our datasets (immutable files, few moves between directories, etc.).

* While Ceph is capable of storing PBs, we currently store ~600PBs on a single TernFS deployment. Last time we checked this would be an order of magnitude more than even very large Ceph deployments.

* More generally, we wanted a system that we knew we could easily adapt to our needs and more importantly quickly fix when something went wrong, and we estimated that building out something new rather than adapting Ceph (or some other open source solution) would be less costly overall.
by bobajeff | 2025-09-18 15:24:53+00:00
Xe is the name for Intel's GPU ISA . Which is used for both integrated graphics and their discreet GPUs.

Ryzen is AMD's line of processors. Of which they've carved out a piece of the low-end with their integrated graphics that are very price/performance competitive with Intels.

With this deal Intel will make at least some of their processors with Nvidia graphics in place of their own. Making Ryzen way less competitive to Intel/Nvidia processors. Also puts into question the future for Intel's Xe products. Intel likely already given up on their own discreet GPUs. For integrated graphics Xe might also be at stake as they'd compete with their products that use Nvidias tech. It might make more sense to only focus on their Nvidia based products.
by graemep | 2025-09-18 15:25:16+00:00
It used to be in the west. The Catholic Church discourages the scattering of ashes for just that reason - so that there is somewhere physical where people can be remembered. There was a tradition of memorial services. People still look after the graves of their loved ones.

I also think its not a simple east-west divide. Different cultures have many different ways of dealing with death. The contemporary west does have a problem, although i doubt it is the only culture for which that is true.

My family follows a mix of Christian tradition (e.g. memorial masses) and Sri Lankan (e.g. donations of food in memory of the dead).
by jleahy | 2025-09-18 15:25:19+00:00
It's just not optimised for tiny files. It absolutely would work with no problems at all, and you could definitely use it to store 100 billion 1kB files with zero problems (and that is 100 terabytes of data, probably on flash, so no joke). However you can't use it to store 1 exabyte of 1 kilobyte files (at least not yet).
by embwbam | 2025-09-18 15:25:55+00:00
A lot! Maybe it's obvious, but I've long thought that religion's primary function is to help people process death (and other suffering). Now that life isn't constant suffering, many of us have discarded religion, but then we are blindsided by death.

I was very religious for 30 years, and have a very religious family. I've been athiest for more than a decade now, and it's sad to me that to leave religion behind I had to give up all my family traditions to process death. Those traditions are still there, but I can't relate to them since they are based on a belief I no longer agree with
by pxoe | 2025-09-18 15:25:56+00:00
Looking at a screenshot from KDE home page, it really does not seem like anything has changed with it in terms of design polish that much. It doesn't even seem like it's moving in a direction that's any different. https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/fullscreen_with... The most significant change for the whole look they could make is changing the system font, because that's the biggest and most visible thing, and the one they have looks amateurish and makes it feel slapdash, like it was an afterthought, just picking whatever default font there was and going "whatever", which kind of ends up being the vibe of the whole thing.
by proszkinasenne2 | 2025-09-18 15:26:01+00:00
Seems like... not really.

> Django’s new Tasks framework makes it easy to define and enqueue such work. It does not provide a worker mechanism to run Tasks. The actual execution must be handled by infrastructure outside Django, such as a separate process or service.

You'll likely still need an actual backend, task runner, cache implementation with a backend etc.
by earthnail | 2025-09-18 15:26:10+00:00
I'm not a fan of Liquid Glass at all, but I just tried KDE again and it's certainly not there yet. Breeze has a ton of weird design decisions, rounded corners in things like list selections that don't work, and even basic understanding for padding and fonts still seems lacking in KDE.

It feels exactly like the KDE website itself: https://kde.org/

That being said, KDE is very usable. I just wouldn't claim that it looks more professional than MacOS. I'd love for that to be the case but it just isn't.
by arp242 | 2025-09-18 15:26:10+00:00
> its not clear why, say, Chrome or Firefox wouldn't want to take over XSLT/libxml2 development

Very few people actually like XSLT, presumably including the Chrome and Firefox devs. I know XSLT has its share of supporters and that's fine. I'm not here to argue to merits of XSLT – or lack thereof – but we need to be honest about this. They are the proverbial Black Metal fans; everyone else just thinks it's bloody noise.

In addition, many people have grown towards the idea that importing these large C libraries for little used features is just not a good idea in the first place. And that makes libxml and libxslt a dead end. The entire business with XSLT was kicked off by a bunch of security bugs.

Finally, I think a decent case can be made to slim down the "web platform" a bit. If you want XSLT you can still "bring it yourself", but does every browser need to implement it to be "standards compliant"? Seems like a bad trade-off to me. It's a win for newer browsers like Servo or Ladybird if they don't need to worry about XSLT.

So in short, it's not just a problem of "adding some more people to libxml", although obviously that is a problem.
by tw04 | 2025-09-18 15:26:12+00:00
Yes, as with all well-run businesses, it's common to terminate your flagship products due to one down year without any attempts to fix cost overruns. There's a reason the people at CBS keep leaking that it lost $50m last year but don't tell you how much it lost or made the previous 5 years, they just say "viewership was down since COVID".

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/07/20/wsj-late-night-...
Ask HN: How are you using computer-use agents?
by RamRaghavSharma | 2025-09-18 15:26:21+00:00
I'm trying to understand how people are using computer-use agents in practice. If you are using computer-use agents today, what's your use-case?

To clarify, I'm not looking for folks building these agents. I'd love to hear from you if you are / know of individuals, teams, or companies actually using computer-use agents in their workflows, products, or internal processes.
by veidr | 2025-09-18 15:26:27+00:00
KDE has been the best overall desktop computing experience available on any platform for a few years now. Even later versions of KDE Plasma 5 smoked macOS, GNOME, and Windows.

I'm sad because I am stuck with the requirement that all my computers can be accessed via remote desktop (e.g. RDP) in addition to SSH. And I also have to have 3-4 monitors per machine, so I can only use Wayland.

Thus, I am stuck with GNOME on Linux, because no other desktop environment (including KDE) yet has functional remote desktop on Wayland. (Where by functional, I mean equivalent to Windows/macOS where you can log into the same session that may or may not be already running locally.)

I know only 1-2% of users have my problems (^_^) but I just mention them in the hopes that KDE will keep developing krdp and make it work well enough to compete with GNOME and Windows on that axis...
Show HN: Kortyx – Personal memory layer for every AI agent
by gravez | 2025-09-18 15:26:27+00:00
Hey HN I’m Dima.

I built Kortyx after a failed attempt to find product-market fit with an AI product-analytics startup.

When it was time to pivot i was looking for other ideas and figured that i constantly struggled with getting users to provide "ideal" context to my agents. it resulted in weak prompts, degraded agent performance, etc etc.

So i thought what is instead of asking every user to provide background, Kortyx captured the context directly and then served it at the right time.

Kortyx is a desktop app (Windows + macOS) that quietly sees what you see and builds a private memory layer from your digital life. You can:

Ask Memory – recall anything you’ve read, watched, or discussed with an exact snippet and timestamp.

Memory Boost – superpower your prompts to other AI agents with detailed context about you.

I’m launching today and would love feedback, especially from Mac users and anyone exploring agent ecosystems.
by jlokier | 2025-09-18 15:26:48+00:00
> All sugars have chirality so they would need some enzymes to eat their own mirrored sugars and another set of enzymes to eat normal sugars.

Until mirrored life evolves enzymes to eat non-mirrored sugars, mirrored life will be at a large disadvantage.

But with exposure to our environment, replete with non-mirrored sugars, that sets up strong evolutionary pressure in the direction of finding those enzymes, in addition to the mirrored enzymes they will already have for eating mirrored sugars.

With such evolutionary pressure, it seems plausible mirrored life will evolve those enzymes, even though non-mirrored life appears not to have done so, or at least not retained it. Because there is no equivalent evolutionary pressure for non-mirrored life to eat mirrored sugars.

If mirrored life does evolve those enzymes, due to that asymmetric evolutionary pressure, then instead of being at a disadvantage, the ability to eat both types of sugars might give them a temporary advantage.
by tedggh | 2025-09-18 15:27:35+00:00
I have been through two very painful deaths, first by brother then my father and both had very similar transitions from shock to acceptance to grief and finally to the new normal. Both cases took years to heal. I stopped dreaming about my brother after about 10 years of his death. It has been 5 years since my dad passed and I still have very vivid dreams that upset me very much, but they are much less common now than say two years ago and I know at some point, like the dreams about my brother, they will stop. Everything succumbs to time, including grief.
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-18 15:27:42+00:00
> We also stigmatize mental health care in the west, telling people to “suck it up” or “get over it”.

I think this idea is ~10 years out of date. If anything, we now seem pathologize every behavior and personality quirk into a mental health issue. At least on social media, it's also trendy to have a mental health issue to the point that people will claim to have ADHD because they're easily distracted by their phones. I've also lost count of the number of big "content creators" who casually mention their therapist or going to therapy. If there is a stigma, it's not found among the younger generations.
by jack_pp | 2025-09-18 15:29:06+00:00
> Video is not a single stream, but many smaller chunks daisy chained after each other. Reason for this is that you can then change i.e. quality of video and it will seamlessly change - because it will start daisy chaining higher quality chunks and show them in the player.

Don't think this is correct, if you're on a slower connection you will see it takes a while when changing stream quality, the video "seamlessly" changes because it's still playing the current quality stream while the new quality stream loads. It would make no sense to send more than one quality at the same time because it would incur higher bandwidth costs and they care a LOT about bandwidth costs. I'm a premium user and even though I have higher quality enabled by default they STILL downgrade and not showing the highest quality possible unless I force it on specific videos.

> So what you are describing is already happening, ads are added directly into video stream, problem is that ads need to have access to API, because you don't want to show an ad for menstruation pad to a guy so you also need to know which user is watching and that's what cookies and the whole login is for, so you are effectively hitting a design limitation of the system.

They can do the tracking by user all the same, as long as the user is logged in they know what ads to show on the server already. This is already a problem when the user is using youtube without an account in an incognito window so if the client hacks the tracking side just show them default ads for their region. This is already a solved problem
by moron4hire | 2025-09-18 15:29:07+00:00
> We medicalize grief because we fear it.

I think that's backwards. I think the problem is that we, the general populace, fear medicalization. The medicalization of grief specifically or other emotional issues generally is unrelated.

These sorts of diagnosis criteria are created for a reason. I highly doubt psychiatric medical practitioners are developing them to pack people up into bins so that they can be marginalized. They create these criteria to be able to have a shared language to speak about issues and try to develop treatment regimens.

And it's not their fault that the lay population takes it out of context and screams, "NO NO NO! I'M NOT BROKEN!" It's that reaction that is the problem. That reaction that, "someone who fits this criteria is by-definition broken", with "and broken people are irredemable" followed closely behind. It belies a belief that they feel this way about other people, too.

The truth is, everyone deals with issues that would fit some criteria in the DSM-5. It's just part of the human condition. Some people are able to manage these issues on their own and some people are not, and that doesn't make them broken anymore than the fact that some people can dunk a basketball and some cannot. But, if you're 5'9" and had a job to put a ball in a basket 10 feet off the ground, wouldn't you want to focus on learning to shoot rather than try techniques you've observed 6'9" people use with ease?
by sho_hn | 2025-09-18 15:29:35+00:00
In Konsole's defense, this is the actual default appearance of a Konsole window when you launch it for the first time in the current stable release:

https://mero.ng/i/lWMWazUP.png

The screenshot on the website has all sorts of optional bits enabled, and I would readily agree is not a good showcase.

The reason all those optional bits exist is because you'd be surprised who ends up using a terminal emulator in a general purpose desktop GUI used in many large IT deployments. E.g. a lot of folks who are used to PuTTy on Windows and want a little GUI for SSH connections, and for them this is the game changer.

The "try to show all the goods in your screenshot" mindset is really not a good one though, agree :)
by kstrauser | 2025-09-18 15:29:50+00:00
Was the bug in Perl or its libraries, or in the code written in Perl? There are many valid criticisms of Perl, but I've never heard of the language itself described as insecure, and especially not memory-unsafe. I don't know how I'd write a use-after-free or stack smash in Perl if I were forced to.
by jlokier | 2025-09-18 15:29:51+00:00
> All sugars have chirality so they would need some enzymes to eat their own mirrored sugars and another set of enzymes to eat normal sugars.

Until mirrored life evolves enzymes to eat non-mirrored sugars, mirrored life will be at a large disadvantage.

But with exposure to our environment, replete with non-mirrored sugars, that sets up a large evolutionary pressure in the direction of finding those enzymes, in addition to the mirrored enzymes they will already have for eating mirrored sugars.

With such evolutionary pressure, it seems plausible mirrored life will evolve those enzymes, even though non-mirrored life appears not to have done so, or at least not retained it. Because there has been no equivalent evolutionary pressure for non-mirrored life to eat mirrored sugars.

If mirrored life does evolve those enzymes, due to that asymmetric evolutionary pressure, then instead of being at a disadvantage, it might give them a temporary advantage over non-mirrored life.
by encom | 2025-09-18 15:29:58+00:00
Define Windows-like. Windows 11 is complete insanity and nearly unusable. Windows 2000/XP is more logical and boring (the good kind). In my opinion, yes KDE is "Windows-like", but based in an era before MS devs started self medicating on mushrooms and LSD.

KDE generally functions how you expect. For example, a bunch of FOSS hippies somehow managed to create a control panel (system settings in KDE parlance) that's easy to use and navigate, and Microsoft still haven't accomplished that despite trying for over 10 years at this point.

Also, I can dock my task bar to the side, like God intended.
by sunnybeetroot | 2025-09-18 15:30:01+00:00
It’s likely your face in multiple angles already exists online whether from photos or videos, simply because you were in the background of someone else taking a photo or video. Whilst I align with you in being restrictive in the data we share online, corporations and government with infinite resources likely have everything they need to construct “3D models of your face for even better facial recognition”.
by Lerc | 2025-09-18 15:30:05+00:00
With floats getting smaller and smaller in ML, It's hard to imagine anyone failing to learn this as one of their early experiences in the field.

The focus should not be on the possibility of error, but managing the error to be within acceptable limits. There's a hour long video there, and it's 3am, so I'm not sure how much of this covers management. Anyone familiar with it care to say?
Show HN: Silly SF Tech Billboards
by yuedongze | 2025-09-18 15:30:21+00:00
Everything I drive by one of these new tech billboards, I always wanted to either fully read it but cannot focus, or want to take a photo of it and share but I cannot because I'm driving. So I want to curate them in a place to enjoy them later, and share with friends about how crazy SF is.
by kavout | 2025-09-18 15:30:30+00:00
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