MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-09-27 15:57:28+00:00
As a light user who bounced around X, BlueSky, Mastodon, and Threads, I completely believe that scientists are weary of X. It’s increasingly toxic and driven by engagement bait posting (“shitposting” as they call it) where the loudest accounts continuously post provocative takes not because they believe it but because they know it will trigger their followers into debating it. Even the levels.io guy that everyone idolizes as the indie hacker hero is now posting a non-stop stream of factually inaccurate claims and taking swipes at contentious issues like burnout because he knows it gets people talking in his replies.

X seems to know this is a problem. They hired Nikita Bier who is posting claims that the algorithm is being improved to favor people sharing best in class knowledge every day, but the current meta appears to be posting controversial hot takes that are easily argued or debunked. Tricking your followers into fact checking you is a game in itself because it generates engagement and therefore extends reach. This is why some accounts are deliberate exaggerating facts or posting known misinformation now.

That said, I have a hard time believing everyone is migrating to BlueSky instead of simply leaving this type of social media. Bluesky feels relatively dead except for the few accounts playing the BlueSky meta game, which is largely about infighting and creating hyper cliques from what I see.

One account I follow went to BlueSky but then returned to X because he couldn’t stand it. He described BlueSky as the place to go if you wanted to be constantly attacked by people who 98% agree with you. My impression is that it’s a smaller pond where the people who were previously small fish on X see it as their opportunity to fight their way to the top of a smaller food chain. It just feels ugly and mean half the time. I’ve had to unfollow a lot of people on BlueSky who I previously enjoyed on X because they got sucked into the BlueSky toxicity competition and now they’re just taking swipes at other people on BlueSky all day instead of posting info I wanted to see.
by Akronymus | 2025-09-27 15:58:18+00:00
I havent experienced that one myself, but I have other problems with the win 11 explorer. Like how when using the keyboard to navigate the right click menu, you cant just navigate into a submenu, but have to navigatw up or down after navigating into it, then the other way, to select the topmost item. And thats one thing I encounter many times a day at work.
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-27 15:58:43+00:00
I’m always amazed at the number of 20-30 year olds driving luxury SUVs and souped up trucks.

Feels like I’m in a bizarro world where logic and math no longer apply.

Even if I could easily afford it, it seems crazy between the purchase cost and the yearly insurance cost.

They could still have a new car and use the money saved to pay down mortgage or invest it.
by cameron_b | 2025-09-27 15:58:50+00:00
Certainly both is the goal of the aquaponic setup. There are about 50 tilapia in it now, and a grow bed with lettuce and bok choi and similar greens. The plan is to add more plant space to accommodate the growth rate of the fish. When they’re small they eat less and support fewer plants, but as they grow I’ll need more plants to clean the water.

The greenhouse supports many other things, growing 100% of our food isn’t a goal, but supporting our food and having seasonal abundance to sell or give to neighbors is. We start more than we can use, and surplus in seasons is the goal.
by nadermx | 2025-09-27 15:59:05+00:00
I feel I must push back on this dang. I was being kind and not snarky, but critisim was earned as I listened to the tracks that where suggested. Had I said these are wonderful no flag. OP stated something that would lead someone to believe they where as good as grandfather comment description. It was in fact not audioly pleasent despite the great visuals.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-27 15:59:27+00:00
Opening an account on Mastodon was a pain even for me, a long-time Internet user and a nerd. I'm confronted with a choice of servers, but if I love cheese and golf, do I open my account on the cheese server or the golf server? What will be the disadvantages of choosing one over the other? Instant blocker right in the sign up process that made me actually give up several times. If it was like that for me, imagine how it could be for an average user.

The Fediverse will only be popular if someone releases a client that makes it as easy to use as X and Bluesky. Not sure if it's technically feasible (I don't know much about the innards of the protocol) but it doesn't seem to have happened at the moment.
by zenmac | 2025-09-27 15:59:41+00:00
Yeah we got those good old network ppl or their corporate (don't knows much about tech) overlord to thank for that.

If you ever using wifi in the airport or even some hotel with work suite unit around the world, you will notice that Apple Mail can't send or receive emails. It is probably some company wide policy to first block port 25 (that is even the case with some hosting providers) all in the name of fighting SPAM. Pretty soon, 143, 587, 993, 995.... are all blocked. Guess 80 and 443 are the only ones that can go through any firewalls now days. It is a shame really. Hopefully v6 will do better.

So there you go. And know EU wants to do ChatControl!!!! Please stop this none-sense, listen to the people who actually knows tech.
by tjwebbnorfolk | 2025-09-27 16:00:11+00:00
Ok but if I'm a radiologist opining about social media, I'm no longer practicing science. I'm just some guy with an opinion.

"Scientists say..." is becoming just another "studies show...". You can always find a scientist or a study or an "expert" to push whatever agenda the media outlet has.

Nothing about this is remotely scientific.
by timschumi | 2025-09-27 16:00:22+00:00
> What's wrong with asking to expedite the removal process, considering the process is detailed in the guidelines?

Asking is one thing, the other thing is not accepting the decision of a maintainer on a topic that is at the maintainers discretion and instead taking it to social media [1] [2] for it to be brigaded.

Addendum: It additionally appears that this was filed before the browser was even launched, if the Wayback Machine and their social media posts are anything to go by.

[1] https://x.com/uwukko/status/1970161297783238905 [2] https://x.com/theo/status/1970266199469810127
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-27 16:00:28+00:00
> Isn't it unfortunate, the absolute degree everything legacy is at least in some way tethered to windows. If only there had been an open alternative, it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely.

Have a look at ReactOS:

> https://reactos.org/

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
by finaard | 2025-09-27 16:00:48+00:00
But that wasn't really a thing that was an issue with SSH.

Host *.internal.example.com

ProxyCommand ssh -q -W %h:%p hop.internal.example.com

in the SSH client config would make everything in that domain hop over that hop server. It's one extra connection - but with everything correctly configured that should be barely noticeable. Auth is also proxied through.
by topaz0 | 2025-09-27 16:01:07+00:00
The programming parts are very tempting, but I find the philosophy of the math mode input simplification to be questionable. E.g. automatically generating fractions from "/", or removing parentheses depending on whether they are redundant with other grouping. Those are all choices that I want explicit control over, and the most readable choice depends strongly on the details of the expressions. After some digging it's clear that all of that can be overridden without too much effort, but it still seems like a poor default for my use cases.
by codedokode | 2025-09-27 16:01:09+00:00
> Take drum and bass. Omni Trio made a few tracks in the early 90s. It was interesting at the time, but it wasn't suddenly a genre. It only became so because other artists copied them, then copied other copies, and more and more kept doing it because they all enjoyed doing so.

Musicians not just copy but everyone adds something new; it's like programmers taking some existing algorithm (like sorting) and improving it. The question is, can Suno user add something new to the drum-and-bass pattern? Or they can just copy? Also as it uses a text prompt, I cannot imagine how do you even edit anything? "Make note number 3 longer by a half"? It must be a pain to edit the melody this way.
by kertoip_1 | 2025-09-27 16:01:15+00:00
> They impose minimal privacy risk.

Absolutely not. Privacy risk depends on how well protected is the weakest point in your network. So if one of the participants' device is compromised then the entire discussion is compromised too.

On closed, proprietary platform you just cut off the weakest point from access to the data when you suspect it is not protected enough, as data it lies on a single server. On mailing list you can't do anything, because data lies on somebody's else's server
by bonsai_spool | 2025-09-27 16:01:17+00:00
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your sentence, but your way of phrasing ("a body of millions") seems to dramatically overstate the impact.

You compared a sovereign nation to an apartment, sorry I was unclear.

> There was a hotly contested election with one side promising abrupt change and the other side promising a maintenance of the status quo.

There's good polling about this sort of thing - Americans don't want to cause the death of other people. You may construe the electioneering to mean otherwise, but I was not alluding to this.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/05/01/majorities-of-...

> Poland shares a border with Ukraine, who is being invaded by a nation that has also been a historical aggressor against Poland. I don't believe this is a good comparison to the US funding healthcare in the DR Congo.

I disagree, because allowing infectious disease to fester slowly allows the development of antibiotic resistance and magnification of problems that could otherwise be contained.

In a sense, we're all closer to infections in the developing world than we recognize - despite the US efforts to dismantle the system that has surveilled these infections up to now.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-27 16:01:24+00:00
I would argue that this case also demonstrates the aforementioned problem. Apparently, an older version of the Windows OS was tolerant to this specific bug, and the game worked just fine. Future users might not be even aware that an updated release of the game fixed this bug, or they might not have access to the update.

You can't blame the user for the fact that the old software contains something that is, technically, an invalid use of the API, meaning the software shouldn't have worked, even in the past. The only way to reliably make the old software work as intended is to have an OS version from that time available.
by yread | 2025-09-27 16:02:10+00:00
Same with the headphones. I got a WH-1000xm3 that all reviews praise for sound quality and it sounds like complete shit, muffled, over emphasizing bass, no clarity. You're supposed to "fix" it using EQ. And you can't even adjust eq if you want to use the bettter audio codecs. If I paid the original list price for this i would be furious
by crossbody | 2025-09-27 16:02:44+00:00
Exactly right. I doubt we can get to causation unless we conduct proper long term experiment instead of just looking at correlations and assuming causation goes one way.

The study says social bonds are associated with lower inflammation. It's well documented that inflammation causes anxiety and depression. How does this affect one's social activity? Negatively, the mechanism is very clear - you don't socialize if you are depressed and anxious. And somehow they assume the reverse casual relationship without explaining the mechanism for it.
by techblueberry | 2025-09-27 16:03:09+00:00
Wait a second, if you’re saying that this is not a feature of good activism, are you implying you are more convinced by activists who practice dogma over objective thinking?

What is a scientist to do when they discover a vaccine or cure for something; say fuck it who cares if we change behavior? Are you saying a good vaccine advocate is someone who ignores the underlying science and acts dogmatically?

It just feels like you want to demonize this action of activism for… why? Just because there are lots of bad activists? There are a lot of bad scientists as well, to be honest the view of “good scientist” and “bad activist” feels dogmatic.
by sigfubar | 2025-09-27 16:03:18+00:00
I get a good chuckle out of these articles. “Here’s another thing I lack that was supposed to make me live longer!”

Speaking of living longer: I’ve had my fill of fast cars already, but how about an airplane? I watched some guys fly Piper Cubs in Alaska. That looked fun as hell. https://youtu.be/XXuIA_b35fs

Perhaps I’ll buy one of those. They aren’t so expensive.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-09-27 16:03:36+00:00
> Many developers have a more idealistic and less pragmatic approach instead of empathizing with their users: "it's the program's fault, why should we deal with it?"

In the retro-games emulation scene there exist quite some people who write binary patches for popular retro games to fix such bugs. Perhaps this approach (and the necessary skills for it) should become more popular outside the retro-games emulation scene.
by mothballed | 2025-09-27 16:04:32+00:00
Federal courts have argued they there isn't even standing to consider the constitutionality of an unenforced law (Knife Rights v Garland).

If the president was bound to enforce the law, how could the court possibly argue the constitutionality can't be considered because no one is in jeopardy?

The court basically decided you can't even challenge the Switchblade Act on 2A constitutional grounds because it's already been nullified by the executive as it's not been enforced in 10 years[].

Nullification of execution/enforcement was something even the founders (Thomas Jefferson) considers legitimate application of the constitution in regards to the unconstitutional Sedition Act.

[] https://kniferights.org/legislative-update/court-opines-feds...
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-27 16:04:51+00:00
The funny thing is there are only a few insurance companies (BCBS, Aetna, United, …) and types of plans (PPO, HMO, EPO).

I could be misinformed but I feel like there are only a few possible combinations of one’s actual coverage.

A simple spreadsheet could easily track everything. The providers even know how much they get from each company, so they know the allowed in-network cost for a patient.

It’s just utter laziness and stupidity.
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-27 16:04:56+00:00
> it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely.

That's a completely backwards take though. Windows is practically the only platform in the world that cares about backwards compatibility. On Windows you can run a 20 year old executable and you've got pretty good chance it runs. With Linux operating systems you have no idea if something compiled on the last LTS release runs on the next one.

This is one of the few issues where having a private company control the entire stack and providing a stable ABI for decades is actually a benefit, to the point where your target if you want to build games on linux is...Win32 (https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/)
by bob1029 | 2025-09-27 16:05:06+00:00
I see a lot of lamentation for high end audio going away but the reality is that it's not that hard to achieve if you are truly interested in its effects.

You can build loudspeaker cabinets yourself without a lot of skills. There are kits everywhere. These will dramatically outperform anything you can buy retail even if you do a mediocre job of assembly. Most aspects of a high quality audio solution involve the room itself, not the equipment inside of it.

Building something that replicates (for instance) the Polk RTI series would take a weekend for a total noob if working from a kit. You can buy pro amplifiers like QSC and Behringer that satisfy whatever topology and power level you desire. Vendors like MiniDSP give you everything you need to build an active crossover solution in an afternoon.

Simply knowing that these things are possible is the first step to achieving them.

DIY: https://www.parts-express.com/speaker-components/speaker-sub...

Pre-built: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=43155

Emotiva is also a very good vendor.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-27 16:05:08+00:00
> Scientists are allowed...

Literally true, perhaps. But have you ever noticed how reluctant non-scientist professionals are to voice opinions in their chosen fields? Lawyers preface everything with "not your lawyer", "not my area of practice...", "I'd have to look into the details of that case...", etc. Accountants similarly. Doctors similarly. Engineers similarly. Vs. it seems to be accepted practice for a nuclear physicist to speak ex cathedra about epidemiology, climatology, etc.
by jiveturkey | 2025-09-27 16:05:11+00:00
Who's forcing? I might have misread TFA I guess. My reading was that the guy attended a conference, enjoyed the storytelling kind of talk (I mean this is a tried and true approach, there are even flash card decks on the story technique), and wrote a blog to capture and crystallize what he liked about it as it applies to his daily activity of writing code. I didn't read anything there claiming it was the one true way and anything else is a bankrupt approach.

If the point is about forcing someone to write commit essays, then yes I did miss it.
by codedokode | 2025-09-27 16:05:58+00:00
Sampling is not just cutting a fragment from a song and calling it a day. Usually (if you look at Prodigy's tracks for example) it includes transformation so that the result doesn't sound much like the original. For example, you can sample a single note and make a melody from it. Or turn a soft violin note into a monster's roar.

As for DJ'ing I would say it is pretty limited form of art and it requires lot of skill to create something new this way.
by conradludgate | 2025-09-27 16:06:00+00:00
It's on top of HTTP CONNECT, which is intended for converting an existing request (QUIC stream) into a transparent byte stream. This removes the need to deal with request/response semantics.

The reasons states to use http3 and not QUIC directly makes sense with littlest downside - you can run it behind any standard http3 reverse proxy, under some subdomain or path of your choosing, without standing out to port scanners. While security through obscurity is not security, there's no doubt that it reduces the CPU overhead that many scanners might incur if they discover your SSH server and try a bunch of login attempts.

Running over HTTP3 has an additional benefit. It becomes harder to block. If your ssh traffic just looks like you're on some website with lots of network traffic, eg google meet, then it becomes a lot harder to block it without blocking all web traffic over http3. Even if you do that, you could likely still get a working but suboptimal emulation over http1 CONNECT
by archagon | 2025-09-27 16:06:02+00:00
> The cdc for example saying it's ok to disregard their previous guidance in order to protest for black lives matter

That’s… not what they said? They said it was probably relatively safe to attend a protest because it was happening outdoors and Covid spread mostly through accumulated aerosols. It turned out to be good guidance: practically no one gets Covid that way unless a sick person is actively coughing on them.
by TheCondor | 2025-09-27 16:06:11+00:00
I suspect it is getting better but I've experienced some breaking changes with Typst. Nothing that was terribly difficult to fix, debugging it wasn't obvious though.

There seems to be a huge amount of folks that want typst to work. I respect TeX and LaTeX, immensely, but it's so vast and byzantine. Maybe I don't know where or what, but some kind of clean LaTeX "distribution" is needed. It seems like you could build it in to containers or something. Just have some way that sort of makes it more of an atomic unit or something. I don't know how many times I've pulled down a template started to build it and something was missing.

It's good to see innovation in this space and people using it.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-09-27 16:06:30+00:00
I see that now the website shows a simpler choice - join mastodon.social or choose another server. I don't think it was like that when I joined (maybe 2 or 3 years ago), you were just given a list of servers or a search and told to choose.

This is an improvement for average user onboarding - although if almost everyone clicks mastodon.social, you kind of lose the value of decentralization, right?
by jonathanstrange | 2025-09-27 16:06:35+00:00
Jordan Peterson comes to my mind. Although I have no respect for his opinions at all, I still think that, in the end, scientists have their political views and should be allowed to talk about them. What they shouldn't be allowed is to insinuate that these views are anything other than their personal views. Hate speech and political extremism should also not be allowed because these damage the reputation of their university.

Other than that, I don't think it's right to tell them not to use their status to influence politics and society towards what they perceive as making the world better. On the contrary, they might have some duty to do just that.
by cowpig | 2025-09-27 16:06:39+00:00
kagi.com is a superior search engine compared with all three, to the point where I pay for a license for everyone in my company to use it.

The kagi assistant is also nice, only responding with AI when you add a question mark to your query, with the option of opening the query in a separate web search RAG w/the LLM of your choice
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 16:06:48+00:00
Ah, I get ya. To me, the hard to believe part is not how individual end users can't solve the problem/pressure Microsoft - it's how enterprise IT teams across the country pay massive licensing/support fees but core parts products like this have regular outstanding hanging bugs of the same family for extended periods over decades. You'd think there would have been enough pressure to make File Explorer more asynchronous by now, given Microsoft are talking about how they still tinker with the low level stuff from decades ago! I know even just mid sized individual companies I've work at have gotten custom patch requests/minor changes in before.

The tough part with (implied) multifaceted comments is nobody can just say things like that, they have to assume what meaning could still make sense to them (which is a dangerous game) or just not engage.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-27 16:07:43+00:00
People here on HN complain about tech companies losing their charm and they're giving up and switching to another OS/phone/whatever, and get very upset because (company) is losing their character and everything that made them unique. It's a funny thing to build an identity around a trillion dollar company.

But yes, people have things they like. They like when things they consider good don't do total overhauls. There's a very good chance you have something you hold dear or would be upset if it changed, and others will happily mock your frustration.