MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-16 16:39:18+00:00
Some people don't like the idea of worms and actively avoid them. I'm not one of them but I know several people that are. The idea of chilling on a pristine glacier somewhere and suddenly finding yourself surrounded by thousands of worms is pretty unsettling to the worm avoidant.

Naturally I introduce these people to the existence of the Giant Palouse Earthworm [0], also in the Pacific Northwest, though these are so rare that it would be of scientific interest if you came across one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Palouse_earthworm
by motorest | 2025-09-16 16:40:24+00:00
> 1. It's a solution meant for highly interactive app-like websites, not static-content driven websites like ecommerces. React in this context is just the wrong tool for the problem that will give you a huge array of performance, bugs and ux problems.

Strongly disagree. React is not about interactivity, but reactivity. If you have to consume an API and update your app based on the responses, React does all the heavy lifting for you without requiring full page reloads.

On top of that, and as a nice perk, React also gives you all the tools you will ever need to optimize perceived performance.

Claiming that a tool designed for reactive programming is not suited for the happy flow of reactive programming is simply fundamentally wrong.
by nornij | 2025-09-16 16:40:43+00:00
Interesting. I guess if I spent more time online on social media, maybe I'd feel the same.

I also live in Japan and while there is a lot that I agree is overrated about Japan, especially from the vantage point of those online who don't have actual experience living here, I also choose to stay and live here because there are many facets that I truly do like and are not overrated.

There is a lot thats different, but I've learned to understand that it is just that, different, not necessarily good or bad. Its especially easy to fall into the good or bad type of thinking if I think relative to the standards of the culture of where I'm originally from, understanding that my culture is also what colors my own lens about the world and that it is not as logical as it is imbued from childhood. That type of thinking, because it is relative between cultures, also has a tendency toward perceptions of cultural superiority/inferiority. And that'll tickle a very primitive, tribal, and emotional part of our brains.

If you feel that comments give you mild itches and essentially an emotional reaction, then its probably not healthy for you to constantly search and engage. I personally just avoid things about Japan on English social media because its quite bad. I was curiously browsing this site and stumbled upon some threads about Japan, and it just feels like the same, no matter the more serious crowd on here. The dichotomy of Japan worshippers and Japan naysayers, they are to me, two sides of the same coin. I prefer to engage outside and try and view differences holistically, to try and see the inherent benefits of something that is different.
by DannyBee | 2025-09-16 16:40:51+00:00
The normal answer to this is to request a bill of particulars, which was not requested here (afaict from the docket).

I think there is some slightly down-in-the-weeds confusion here - what does an indictment require vs ...

I think they screwed this up at trial and then tried to argue the indictment was insufficient, but i doubt they will get any appeals court to bite on this.

I posted it elsewhere, but you can listen to the oral argument of the appeal here:

https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/OAarchive/mp3/23-4451-20250912....

It is a very accessible argument (in the sense of not need legal knowledge to usefully process it).

You can hear the judges sort of struggle to understand how this is an indicment opportunity, but really do seem to be trying to understand. They give counsel an opportunity to try to distinguish and explain things. Att around 10 minutes, one of the judges asks counsel for the bset case he has that says he's right, and he can't come up with one at all.

Which is probably the point at which he lost this appeal. :)

As i said elsehwere, i don't blame the lawyer - this seems like it woudl be a very hard case to win because of choices made at the level below. They are essentially arguing things they know will lose because nobody objected to things they should have at the level below.
by aragonite | 2025-09-16 16:40:52+00:00
Please consider making the UI respect the user's custom text scaling settings for accessibility. I'm not referring to DPI scaling but the TextScaleFactor value at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Accessibility (see [1][2]) that users can set in Ease of Access > Display > Make text bigger.

(Failing that, adding basic support for scaling text or UI via ctrl+plus/minus would be a huge improvement!)

With the exception of Chromium/Chrome [3] this's been a persistent issue with Windows desktop apps from Google (most of these also use hard-coded control sizes making the problem worse).

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/input/...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.viewman...

[3] https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40586200
by LeoPanthera | 2025-09-16 16:40:59+00:00
> I think the better solution would be a two-stage handle that initially sends an electrical signal and then engages the mechanical latch if you continue pulling.

This is how Mercedes handles work, for what it's worth. A motor pushes them out or retracts them, but they're held in only with a spring, so you can always physically force them out, at which point pulling on them directly pulls on the release lever.
by Interesco | 2025-09-16 16:41:02+00:00
I cant speak to 2G networks, but 5G (and 4G) are amazingly simple to get started using OpenAirInterface. With a USRP B210 I had a 5G network running from a bare Ubuntu install in under 30 minutes. I used a smartphone and some cheap (blank, user-writable) SIM cards to connect and test it.
by tguvot | 2025-09-16 16:41:14+00:00
you could for example send international force in order to deal with hamas occupation of gaza in a "civilized way, the one that Israel doesn't know how to execute", rescue hostages and to distribute aid to civilians.

but I guess it's easier to just issue proclamations that Israel doesn't do things right. and make "recognition of state of palestine without hamas". where exactly hamas going to go ? evaporate ?
by lefrenchy | 2025-09-16 16:41:22+00:00
I actually got stuck in my parent's Tesla with them in the car on a really hot day. The car battery died and so we were stuck in the car because it was bricked. I understand there are mechanical latches to open the doors in that case, but I didn't know that at the time. In the heat of the moment and the panic, it was really hard to figure that out. We ended up contacting Tesla service, but I can imagine it would have been even more terrifying and risky if we were outside cell service. It's just poor design.
by encom | 2025-09-16 16:41:35+00:00
This is fascinating, thank you. The intricacies of languages is so interesting. I especially love the insane way we danes spell out numbers.

59 == nioghalvtredssindstyve

59 == 9 [ni] + [og] ((3 [treds] - 0,5 [halv]) * [sinds] 20 [tyve])

So 9+2,5*20 == 59

Halvtreds means half third, or halfway to three. There's also halvfjerds and halvfems for 3,5 and 4,5. Exercise: spell out 79.
by keithxm23 | 2025-09-16 16:42:16+00:00
I've owned several Nokia phones in the early 2000s. It was dead simple to replace a battery. My 70 year old aunt who is a tailor by trade knew how to pop out the back, and insert a new battery. There's absolutely no reason a screen replacement can be made as simple. The Fairphone series has already achieved this for screen-replacements (albeit with a bit more difficulty than a simple battery replacement.)

Even if the majority of people are unable to do these part-replacements themselves, it is still a massive improvement to make them easy to perform. The reduction in expertise required to perform these replacements would significantly reduce the cost of these operations while simultaneously reducing e-waste.
by eloisius | 2025-09-16 16:42:39+00:00
I work on computer vision stuff. Most of my time is in the browser, or on the terminal (Alacritty, tmux, neovim). I've actually become more of a GUI user since switching from macOS to Linux. I used to be way more die-hard about CLI-everything, but I love using `git gui` now. I think Dolphin is the superior file manager experience available to mankind. Okular is an excellent PDF reader, but leaves a tiny bit to be missed about Preview.

I'm fairly serious about photography and spend a lot of time editing and post-processing photos. This is a major shortcoming of my desktop and I may end up getting a MacBook just for this purpose. digiKam is just okay for organizing photos, and RawTherapee is barely okay. I don't mind it's ugly UI, but I'm discovering that even aside from UI considerations it just can't produce the results that Adobe can. Things like noise reduction are just not there.
by codyb | 2025-09-16 16:42:41+00:00
That sucks.

I'm happy I moved away from advertising/other tech shit I don't agree with and found a position at a company whose work I respect.

I really enjoy mentoring the younger engineers. And because all tech basically looks the same to me at this point (I.E. it's very rare I encounter a new pattern after 15 years of startups, personal projects, and big cos, and freelance) I spend a ton less time focused on learning and more time focused on creating opportunities for others.

I'm also really thankful to have a mostly remote work style, opportunities to volunteer through work (and other events like game nights, happy hours), and a product people know and like.

It is of course not all roses and sweet teas. Promotions are scarce, the stock's volatile, sometimes people can suck to work with, and the organization can be hard to work in due to complexity and coordination challenges. But that's okay, can't have it all I suppose.

If I felt like you do... I'd... do something else I think, or look for a new gig. (Easier said than done I know). Hope you find some peace friend

Small idea: Have you looked outside of the Tech industry towards other areas where companies need tech workers?
by uoaei | 2025-09-16 16:42:49+00:00
In tech circles there is a naive utopianism which comprises the "good intentions" currently paving the road to hell.

I was just at a talk where they had "AI experts" judge a startup pitch for an AI call center company. None of them could admit that the obvious business model (bill the client based on number of tokens / seconds) would make customer outcomes much worse (by incentivizing the bot to keep the customer on the phone as long as possible and even encourage them to call back). But they refused to admit, or even consider, that business models can be exploitative and full of perverse incentives. These are people at the head of efforts at big-name tech companies and they're too caught up in the dazzle.

They won't accept that they are the ones making an entire industry available to grifters by couching all their language in this hope-and-change idealism. Or maybe we're watching how otherwise well-intentioned people can become grifters when they aren't able to reflect on their goals and their actions.
by cratermoon | 2025-09-16 16:42:50+00:00
At some point, after the dot-com collapse but around the time of the Facebook IPO, SF (and SV) started to attract people who cared more about the money than the tech itself. Creating a software product was seen not as a goal in itself, but as a means to make money. The actual thing, SaaS, social network, shopping, trading, whatever, didn't matter. All that mattered was that it could make money, the more the better.

Of course for now the AI companies are bleeding money, as it costs more per user than they charge, but that will change as soon as they accomplish the necessary lock-in.
by konart | 2025-09-16 16:42:52+00:00
>These are based on atomic Fedora and my experience is that they offer extreme stability

These were my hopes. Up until a new update introduced something that broke my nvidia drivers "integration".

After a few days I decided to try to update the system once more (which killed the oldest snapshot) and I was left with the system that can only be run in 1024 mode. I've tried every suggestion from the web to no avail.
by api | 2025-09-16 16:42:54+00:00
This perception is more a result of humans' powerful negativity bias. Negative news and views get orders of magnitude more engagement and propagation than positive ones.

When someone uses the Internet to do something positive, like learn something or make something or contact an old friend, they typically don't say a thing. Nobody talks about this. Everyone talks about all the negative uses. They capture our attention better.

This bias is something that's probably been selected for through humanity's evolutionary history. There's a saying: "if you mistake a bush for a lion, you're fine, but if you mistake a lion for a bush you're dead." You are the descendent of paranoid people who made the first mistake, not the second. Being hypervigilant about dangers is going to be adaptive on average in most environments.
by rich_sasha | 2025-09-16 16:43:35+00:00
Not really. Protecting by law ones right to withhold information that would incriminate them is one thing. But the incarcerated guy doesn't seem to claim there's anything incriminating him in these files. He simply stated he doesn't want to share it with the cops.

My understanding is, it's not like the FBI got a warrant for this etc, and instead started flinging shit at him - which is clearly bad. But for this narrow argument, that's besides the point, IMHO (IANAL). Because in the first place, the guy simply didn't want to share this information with law enforcement. There is no claim that it incriminates him.

How that stacks up against actual US case law, I have no idea of course, but I don't see how it follows from the right to not self-incriminate.
by thwarted | 2025-09-16 16:44:16+00:00
The tech scene in SF and the Bay Area at large was taking its last breath in 2015. When I arrived in SF in 2007, it was, in retrospect, already on its way out. But you could still walk down Mission in SOMA and overhear people talking about Apache configuration, witness technical team meetings in Yerba Buena Gardens, or run into the same people from another company's engineering team at the rotating schedule of bespoke coffee places (if the online camera someone setup across the alley from Blue Bottle indicated it was to busy, Special Xtra was the closer alternative). In 2015, South Park was waning as a startup office Mecca. Overhearing technical discussions and interviews at coffee shops and bars was replaced with overhearing discussions about pitch decks and VC meetings.

By 2015, the industry was fully infected with finance bros drawn to "easy VC money". This when we got non-viable startups like juicero, flower delivery, or one that would pick up your mail and scan it. Companies like WeWork and Uber being tech companies because they have an "app" made everyone think all you needed was an app to be a tech company, and having an app was defacto required to get VC investment.

The trends have always been evident from the billboards you'd see in the city and along 101. They have become more homogeneous with AI content more recently, but the blockchain/Bitcoin cycle was pretty homogeneous too.

I don't know that's there more far-right. But there is less of the free-spirit hippy branding (which was riding on 60s and 70s nostalgia anyway). Mention going to Burning Man and people say "Really?" rather than "Cool". The people who got rich over a decade ago got older.

The advertising/billboards do reflect/are the zeitgeist. There are conversations about working at an AI startup or how their pitch is based on AI at the coffee shop I frequent, which is outside SOMA/FiDi (and in view of the GGB). I don't think it's more sinister, SF still feels like California, at least in terms of the coastal relaxed attitude and hope if not in terms of being a big tech draw. Thanks to COVID, coming to the Bay Area to work in tech isn't required, or expected, anymore, which makes all the narrowly focused billboards seem odd: who are they advertising to other than other AI startups?
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-09-16 16:44:25+00:00
Actually, save power efficiency, Apple is still behind the curve and has been for decades. Nvidia has reigned uninterrupted for longer than I can remember and regularly beats Apple in raw performance on available hardware, and AMD has regularly topped benchmarks for years.

In fact, AMD and Nvidia have been the de facto high-performance combination for so long, that I can't remember when it was any different. But prior to that, it was Intel and Nvidia. Apple was never a real high quality hardware competitor. The only thing they ever had to offer were products produced by a production process almost no one replicates.

Razer started used CNC unibodies for their laptops 14 years ago, but they're maybe the only company I can think of that does so other than Apple.

And MSI has shipped high performance laptops for so long that even Apple used their laptops for comparison during the M-series chip releases in the MacBook Pro.
by UtopiaPunk | 2025-09-16 16:44:26+00:00
I have a toddler. We never let them play with a smartphone or tablet. Occasionally we show family photos, and rarely we will show them a video. But an adult is always holding the device and in control.

The toddler does have a "Yoto," which is a thing that plays music and little stories for kids. They love it, and I think it's kind of cool. We also let them watch a few shows on TV, but only during the afternoon. It usually gives the adults a chance to do something else, like cook dinner, but if there's an adult available, we try to do something else besides watch TV. Jellyfin has been great for curating a small list of parent-approved shows, with no other shows vying for my kid's attention.

When they get a little older, I would like to introduce video games. It would be either a home console with no online connection, or maybe some kind of Linux box that I've locked down.

We will be avoiding social media and similar platforms for as long as we can. That is where I feel the most worst, brain-warping dangers exist.
by edburns | 2025-09-16 16:45:11+00:00
Hello @thomaswue,

We met a decade ago when you were first advocating for GraalVM at ConFESS 2015 in Vienna https://blog.ehrnhoefer.com/2015-04-14-confess2015-day1/ . What a decade it has been! Out of the JDK, in the JDK, and now out agin.

Donald's post mentioned the long-gestating Project Leyden and its AOT compilation. But as far as I know those don't address questions such as: will the GraalVM Java Docker images at ghcr.io/graalvm/ still be maintained?

Thanks,

Ed
by Sparkle-san | 2025-09-16 16:45:23+00:00
Having freshly heard the NY Times piece on a recent teen suicide stemming from ChatGPT, I don't think it's wrong to assume that it's playing a large role here as what ChatGPT did in this instance was egregious. Feel free to judge for yourself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai...
by squigz | 2025-09-16 16:45:25+00:00
> For these firms, we observe 156,765,776 positions dating back to 2015 and 245,838,118 job postings since 2021, of which 198,773,384 successfully matched with their raw text description."

I'm obviously misreading this somehow. How do you have 156m positions dating back to 2015, but far more than that number in a smaller timeframe?
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-16 16:45:29+00:00
Because that's the way most method-specific laws work, at least in the US.

There's an underlying result crime (eg causing business harm by destroying a database), then the method by which one chose to do it (eg exceeding authorized access to a computer with the intent to cause harm).

The CFAA was originally passed under the erroneous worry that existing laws wouldn't be enforceable against cybercrime, which turned out to generally be false.

When you cause damage, there's almost always a law by which someone can sue you for those damages.

What there wasn't, and what the CFAA created, were extra penalties for computer crimes and an ability to charge people with computer crimes where there were no damages (eg Aaron Swartz).

And why should those things need to exist? Theft is theft. Destruction is destruction.

It was an underspecified law, ripe for prosecutor overreach. See: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/HTML/R47557...

It fit with 'premeditated intent' intensifiers (where penalties escalate if premeditated intent can be proven)... but that wasn't actually how it was written or how it is used. Instead, it's a method-based checkbox that allows prosecutors to tack on additional charges / penalties. If a computer was used to destroy this thing, add X years the sentence.
by mhuffman | 2025-09-16 16:45:32+00:00
>Yay, more unreliable AI that will misclassify users, either letting children access content they shouldn't, or ban adults until they give up their privacy and give their ID to the Big Brother.

Or maybe, deep in the terms and conditions, it will add you to Altman's shitcoin company[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)
by reify | 2025-09-16 16:45:53+00:00
Mozilla Firefox 143.0 adds support for Progressive Web Apps, Copilot on sidebar, Important dates in the address bar

unwanted firefox labs stuff

Firefox will now display a preview of your camera, when a site asks for camera access.

Firefox's address bar will now show you important dates and events such as (e.g. “Mother’s Day”). This feature is available for users in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy.

It's worth noting that the Firefox version that is distributed via the Microsoft Store, does not support pinning web apps. Why isn't this available for Mac or Linux remains a mystery.

Its not a mystery. its shit
by junon | 2025-09-16 16:45:55+00:00
Lock files wouldn't work if they were locking transitive dependencies; otherwise the version solver would not have any work to actually do and you'd have many, many versions of the same package rather than a few versions that satisfy all of the version range constraints.

Lots of good ideas since last week, the one I like most being that published packages, especially those that are high in download count, don't actually go publish for a while until after publishing, allowing security scanners to do their thing.
by ncr100 | 2025-09-16 16:45:59+00:00
When I was in human computer interaction class in the 90s, one self-stated German student was fixated on how German car handles have a ring shape to help with opening car doors in emergencies.

It was kind of shocking because he was just going full zealot, in a class in Oregon United States.

The attitude was really toxic to the class. The student was trying to drum up philosophical support for all or nothing thinking, as I look back. A way to kind of circumvent a more nuanced judgment, which I think the teacher intended to convey as the whole point of the class.

And the teacher did not like it at all, and she kicked him out. It was an educational moment for me, to see clashing philosophies and power all mixed in the same adult circumstance.
by Xiol32 | 2025-09-16 16:46:16+00:00
I have been having this exact same issue across multiple websites recently, most of the time it's monospace fonts that have the issue - Github is a nightmare. It only started after I upgraded to Fedora 42.

Haven't got to the bottom of it yet. I set Victor Mono as my Monospace font in Chrome and that has fixed it for things like the HN comment box, for instance, but Github and such still all look weird.