MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MPSimmons | 2025-09-12 02:39:47+00:00
It wasn't just about the subscribers. Blogs were incredibly useful as long-form documentation of unique problems and experiences, too. I used to write in my blog (Standalone SysAdmin), and it had over a million hits per year a few times, and the majority of those hits which didn't come from going viral about ashtrays in airplane bathrooms were people searching for the same problems I'd encountered and written about.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-09-12 02:40:12+00:00
> US is the only first world country, together with Russia, in the top 100 intentional homicide list

US is number one or two in immigration from 3rd world countries, and that's just by legal numbers, without considering illegal immigration, in which the US is also estimated to be number one.

This fits right in with the observable data you've shared.

You aren't actually claiming that the guns by themselves are making people murderous, right? That wouldn't be a scientifically sound hypothesis without some evidence to back. But I'll be interested to see if you can come up with something to tie those together.

Let's take Utah (since it's the topic of the thread) as an example to try to apply your argument. It has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, and one of the lowest murder rates in the world.

How does your argument, or any other, explain that?
by spartanatreyu | 2025-09-12 02:40:20+00:00
Wait what?!

There's a file explorer now!

Just tried it now, it's not quite a file tree but it's almost as good.

I have been checking in with helix every 6 months to see if the plugin system was finalised so I could use a real file picker and actually navigate through and explore the files in my project.

That one thing has held me back from using helix. I'll probably give it another go for tiny projects where I don't need any plugins (e.g. in-line error annotations through LSPs, indent rainbow, in-editor color pickers, line sorters, etc...).
by ascagnel_ | 2025-09-12 02:40:29+00:00
I've found that creators and channels I've subscribed to don't always appear in the subscriptions feed. Thankfully, YouTube still posts an RSS feed for every channel, and following a bunch of them in my reader app reliably captures all the output. I'll dip in and out, only watching what I want, and it's harder to do that when a chunk of the feed is silently hidden from view.
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-12 02:41:02+00:00
we may or may not but I don't think this is reflective of it. This is just the fragility of digital societies were one hack or outage can kill entire national payment systems. A few decades ago any store could run three days without power or telecoms.

Here in Germany foreigners often scoff about how prevalent cash is, but to this day nobody has yet invented a payment technology that works without electricity, without transaction costs, and without a third party. As far as I'm concerned cash is still the most futuristic technology we ever invented
by bccdee | 2025-09-12 02:41:36+00:00
> I haven't seen one person accusing him of this stuff actually cite a quote that seemed like hate speech or racism?

You can peruse the "political views" section on his Wikipedia page if you want something comprehensive, but here's an example for you to chew on:

In one podcast interview, Kirk cited Leviticus 20:18 (he paraphrases as "if thou liest with another man, thou shalt be stoned") and called it "God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters." That's a pretty explicit endorsement of the death penalty for sodomy. If that isn't hate speech, what is?

> They [...] don't value the first amendment (or seem to understand it).

I think you're the one misunderstanding it. The first amendment protects people from government censorship, not infamy and disgrace.
by nine_k | 2025-09-12 02:42:00+00:00
In Chinatown on Manhattan, there are areas like that (though I suppose the senior citizens mostly speak Cantonese there). Many of the store signboards are in Chinese only, and inside, the labels may also be only in Chinese; then only the fact that I still remember a bunch of kanji allows me to tell a duck from a chicken, when both are wrapped in impenetrable dark plastic.
by Blikkentrekker | 2025-09-12 02:42:28+00:00
No, KDE does not need its own distro, that's the issue. They don't need their own method to distribute it which benefits no one.

The idea of a distribution for this specific purpose is best left in the hands of some organization with experience with this specific purpose, not KDE whose experience is developing desktop environments.

How exactly is it “awkward” for them and how exactly does distributing this in any way improve the development process of KDE? They can't even dogfood it obviously.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-12 02:42:49+00:00
And it doesn’t even make any sense.

It’s not Gen Z or the Alphas (“future generations”) are thirsting for war. It’s still going to the same organization no matter what we call it.

It’s just a fig leaf argument to justify a colossal waste of money and time.

The DoD has many problems but the name isn’t one of them.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-12 02:42:51+00:00
I realize, my marketing page even puts it front and center (I use the tool to analyze the tool, yay dogfood). I'm compute limited at the moment and I don't have cycles to burn refactoring this code base since it's pretty close to feature complete right now, I need to put all my compute towards finishing up development of a few projects I'm trying to ship this week, and some exhaustive bechmark matrixes.

Regarding that string search, you really have to fight Claude to get it to use tree sitter consistently, I have to do a search through my codebase to build an audit list for this stuff.
by famouswaffles | 2025-09-12 02:43:37+00:00
>Not racist in the slightest. DEI hires are a threat to competency. I want airlines hiring the BEST pilots, not having ethnic quotas. You're a moron to argue that is a racist opinion. He's not saying black people can't be a good pilot, he's saying DEI politics make him question qualifications/priorities of hiring. The left just argues in bad faith.

Oh yeah...all that DEI hiring of pilots...wait what's that ? It doesn't exist and never happened ? If you're out there wondering whether black hires are competent completely unprompted, you're a racist piece of shit sorry.

>Ironic that the crowd with 'COEXIST' stickers on their Subarus is the fascist cult cheering on a murder.

Well it's unsurprising that your reading comprehension is so poor. I clearly said i care less about his death. Nothing there about celebrating it.
by artificialLimbs | 2025-09-12 02:43:54+00:00
Might have read it but clearly didn't understand the point of the sacrifice and the new covenant. You shouldn't be telling young children they're going to burn in hell for eternity any more than you should talk to them about sex.

Murder is wrong.

Every citizen worth a damn should own guns and the idea that they should not be regulated by the government is enshrined in the 2nd amendment to the US constitution. Every gun law created since is an abberation that should be abolished.
by KayEss | 2025-09-12 02:44:09+00:00
You're misinterpreting what I said. I said that your ability to defend yourself and your family with a gun was hypothetical.

I can see that you like to think of yourself as a rational thinker about this, but you're refusing to answer the actual criticism: actual people are being killed every day due to the availability of weapons in your society. There are nearly two mass shootings per day. So far this year that has led to 250 deaths and more than a thousand injuries[1]. These are not hypothetical abstractions, which is all you seem interested in engaging with. These are real people, many of them children, who find themselves victims of gun violence. You are arguing that your feeling of safety is more important than their actual safety. All of your arguments amount to a continuation of your position that you put your own feelings ahead of the actual deaths of people in society around you. This is a very selfish way to engage in your society.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/us/mass-shootings-fast-facts
by glxxyz | 2025-09-12 02:44:37+00:00
Public companies do this sort of thing too, or at least they used to. It's typically grouped under 'Corporate Social Responsibility'. They aren't doing it out of pure altruism:

From https://benevity.com/resources/corporate-social-responsibili... "CSR increases customer retention and loyalty: Research shows that 87% of Americans are more likely to buy a product from a company that they can align their values with, and over half of all consumers are willing to pay extra for a product if they’re buying from a company with a sturdy CSR strategy."
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-12 02:44:48+00:00
> But advocating for the struggles of one group and not another shouldn’t make one bad.

He didn't advocate for but against. He advocated against people who weren't his version of correct. He advocated for suppression, not liberation.

I don't think you're saying he advocated for the struggles of any marginalized group, but your comment could be read as such.

Charlie Kirk was a bigot who wanted his political "enemies" to suffer.
by rimmontrieu | 2025-09-12 02:45:15+00:00
Impressive examples but for GenAI it always comes down to the fact that you have to cherry pick the best result after so many fail attempts. Right now, it feels like they're pushing the narrative that ExpectedOutput = LLM(Prompt, Input) when it's actually ExpectedOutput = LLM(Prompt, Input) * Takes where Takes can vary from 1 to 100 or more
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 02:46:17+00:00
I never said it was applicable to them, in fact I said the opposite:

> Obviously that ship has sailed for you, but I mean in the general sense.

In the general sense, no, you don't need a distributed system. Even if you have billions of dollars worth of revenue - no, you don't need a distributed system. I know, because I've worked on monoliths that service hundreds of thousands of users and generate billions in revenue.

If you're making YouTube, maybe you need a distributed system. Are you making YouTube? Probably not.

You can, of course, choose to make a distributed system anyway. If you want to decrease your development velocity 1000x and introduce unbelievable amounts of complexity and risk.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-12 02:46:36+00:00
> Reading comments like these make me realize how morally bankrupt the left is.

Regardless of how you feel, these types of statements are gross generalizations and against the HN guidelines. If you're going to comment, find a way to express your disappointment without smearing your personal boogeyman.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 02:47:59+00:00
I've often asked how my company could support them. Most I ask don't understand the question. Those that do only point out that I can contribute code changes - which I have but rarely as we pick good projects that meet our needs: there rarely are bugs or features we would care about enough to not do our regular work.

what would be nice is a non profit that would take money and distribute it to the projects we use - likely with some legal checking that they are legal (whatever that means). FSF is the only one I know of that does generic development and they have ideas that companies generally oppose and so are out
by supercanuck | 2025-09-12 02:48:36+00:00
The problem with Palantir is they target gov. agencies.

Most of the time companies who have systems like Palantir, I’m thinking the SAP, Oracle, blah Blah, have to report earnings to the street through a 10k or have to comply with regulations like Sarbanes Oxley.

They will also have in-house IT staff to monitor the logs etc.

The programs installing the Foundry system have an incentive to hide the data from prying eyes and therefore it never leaves the Palantir ecosystem. The government doesn’t hire independent consultants, auditors etc to confirm if it’s being used or not.

They simply have to demonstrate trustworthiness to a security officer and hope an IG doesn’t have an external equivalent of a Forward deployed engineer.

So while the technology is mediocre, it’s the nebulousness or the lack of audit-ability and the are the people writing checks the same people signing them.

So I sympathize with Karp talking about technology being fine it’s the apparatus surrounding it that says “just trust us” that gives pause, especially in today’s culture of conflict.

If I told you that 90% of all transactions get routed through a foreign companies software, you might pause but it’s been like that for years (SAP). The difference is there are controls in place.
by magackame | 2025-09-12 02:50:03+00:00
So windows.sucks and linux.sucks are available and 2000 USD/year, emacs.sucks is 200 USD/year and vi.sucks is already registered (but no website unfortunately)!

On the other hand linux.rocks and windows.rocks are taken (no website), vi.rocks is 200 USD/year and emacs.rocks is just 14 USD/year.

microsoft.sucks redirects to microsoft.com, but microsoft.rocks is just taken :thinking:
by ggm | 2025-09-12 02:51:19+00:00
Always felt Buckley depended on arrogance cowing his opposition. Public intellectuals get used to asserts of their rightness, less used to being publicly rebutted.

James Baldwin was super smart. Also not the humblest man, but certainly not cowed by Buckley, whose main output was critique not creation. Baldwin did both. I think it gave him an advantage.
by nine_k | 2025-09-12 02:51:37+00:00
So, in short, this is because window management under macOS sucks big time (and under Windows, still leaves much to be desired), and because tabs in Chrome become indistinguishable if you open a couple dozen, since they are on top, instead of on the side (Firefox only recently gained an option to put tabs on the side). Watch legacy UI concepts that are so ingrained that people often don't notice how counterproductive they are.

The PostHog interface tries to somehow alleviate that, but still follows the Windows model a bit too faithfully. Also, bookmarking becomes... interesting.
by photonthug | 2025-09-12 02:52:28+00:00
Love the premise and I see several years are posted. I like your philosophy of science section especially, because while most would neglect that area, it's probably got good predictive/foreshadowing juice in general (although not necessarily for any given year).

Skimming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1875_in_science the twin studies and behavioural genetics is interesting. The challenger-deep thing too since it's earlier than I would have guessed, but IMHO it would be more exciting/appropriate to categorize as "exploration" than science. Did they publish a "paper" about stuff like that back then, or just tell the royal society, tell the newspapers and call it good?

A pointless but fun question to think about is, how to decide the most important thing that happened in a given year? Sometimes a discovery, sometimes an idea, sometimes a project, election, or war. But for a slow year.. maybe it's just that someone who will have that idea or start that project later was born.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-12 02:53:24+00:00
Yep. I use ZFS at home, but on business oriented NAS hardware with drives to match (generally). And I don’t go asking it to do odd things or configure it bizarrely. I don’t pass through drives named with Linux names (I prefer WWN to PCI address naming, at least at home). Etc.

But a lot of people out there will slap a bunch of USB 2.0 hard drives on top of an old gaming computer. I’m all for experimenting, and I sympathize that it’s expensive to run ZFS on “ZFS class” platforms and hardware. I don’t begrudge others that.

It would be really nice if there was something like ZFS that was a tad more flexibility and right in the kernel with consistent and concise user space tooling. Not everyone is comfortable with DKMS.
by asukachikaru | 2025-09-12 02:54:23+00:00
Past threads

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021824 May, 2025 (86 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44023088 May, 2025 (0 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44026363 May, 2025 (1 comment)
by tamimio | 2025-09-12 02:54:35+00:00
It's because we understand technology very well and how it can be used to further control or surveil you. The tech itself isn't complicated; at best you would have a unified protocol that seamlessly integrates with all data sources, at worst, that part is done manually, but the rest of the tech isn't new as a concept, so there's really nothing to discuss technology-wise. However, as technical people, we can see how something can be used in a bad way or at least, sometime in the future based on the current trend, and it's necessary to discuss such implications even if it's political. For example, when a messaging app requires a phone number to activate, it's essential to highlight that it could be exploited in a SIM swap attack (thus the user should not trust it) or it could leak that number which will expose this person's real identity. And in this case, having so much information collected and shared and easily accessed by one centralized entity is never a good indicator. It's also ironic that the people who used to (still?) attack China and other countries for being surveillance state Orwellian dystopias while virtue signaling all democracy and freedom values, are now okay with such data collection and processing and potential red flagging for things as simple as social media posts.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-12 02:54:42+00:00
The parent comment isn't celebrating his death. They did however cut off the quote, so I will render it in full here:

"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."

The fact that Charlie Kirk was murdered is reprehensible and sets an ill precedent for democracy. That is plainly apparent to anyone with a vested interest in peaceful political discourse. Washington DC has come together across the aisle to condemn this violence.

The legacy Kirk leaves behind isn't incorrect or worth discarding; some violence is a part of any collective society. But at what point does the deal stop being prudent? How many politicians, schoolkids and religious groups have to be shot up before we reassess our laws? If we never stop, then the cycle is always waiting to start up again. The tinderbox can be lit for any reason, and give any administration just cause for martial law and "emergency powers" abuse.
by csb6 | 2025-09-12 02:55:09+00:00
It says this is a project of Mozilla, but it seems like something that would make sense under IANA. Is there a reason why it is not maintained by a standards organization? Maybe the definition of what is/isn't a public suffix is too fuzzy to standardize?

edit: After reading https://github.com/sleevi/psl-problems maybe the standards organizations just don't think it's a good idea
by const_cast | 2025-09-12 02:56:21+00:00
Granny can absolutely install a backdoor from the appstore, there's lots of backdoors on the app store. You can even install a backdoor just from the web browser, feel free to do some research into Pegasus.

But it doesn't even matter, because ultimately Granny can download the Apple Approved (tm) anydesk app and the hacker can remote control her phone. So.

The appstore is not secure, I don't know who lied to you and told you it is. You think Apple reads the code? Fuck no. They just ask the dev "is this secure?". The dev answers "yes", obviously, and that's the entire review process.

Meta was exfiltrating cookies from your browser to their app using an exploit in Safari. They could've taken your bank session and drained your accounts, if they wanted. Luckily they were very kind and only used their malware to sell you shit.

Facebook is a big app with lots of visibility. Now do the other 100,000 apps on the app store.
by VikingCoder | 2025-09-12 02:57:05+00:00
You specifically mention:

"Server dependence: You need to host or use two different servers (Signaling + STUN/TURN). Can use Google’s STUN, but combining signaling and STUN into one server would be nice."

I'm curious about using Tailscale with this. I don't think you can just do Tailscale Funnel? But maybe you could? Maybe Tailscale Share, and the client has to also be on Tailscale?

I feel like they would go really well together...

Thoughts?
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-12 02:58:47+00:00
The people crying fascist are sometimes correct. The people crying communist genuinely seem to think it applies to Democrats. Democrats are a center-right party by European standards.

There's a side that is genuinely, factually, deliberately misled by their politicians on a routine basis and it plugs into Fox News. This isn't a political statement. It's documented up and down.
by copypaper | 2025-09-12 03:00:17+00:00
I'm curious how well this will do. Marketing websites are extremely important for first impressions (unless you're Berkshire Hathaway [1]). Although this is impressive and unique, it took me a minute to get over the "learning curve".

Reminds me of Jakob's Law, "Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know" [2].

But given your target audience is developers, this might actually do well.

[1] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ [2] https://lawsofux.com/jakobs-law/
by mwkaufma | 2025-09-12 03:01:36+00:00
Define boundary conditions -- how much precision do you need? Then you can compute the min/max distances. If the "world" needs to be larger, then prepare to divide it into sectors, and have separate global/local coordinates (e.g. No Man's Sky works this way).

Really though, games are theater tech, not science. Double-Precision will be more than enough for anything but the most exotic use-case.

The most important thing is just to remember not to add very-big and very-small numbers together.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-12 03:01:51+00:00
> Back in the day an absolutely minuscule portion of humanity read blogs

What I think it comes down to is us, on one level, grasping the benefits of elitist gatekeeping, but, on another level, not wanting to acknowledge that such mechanisms have benefits.

The elitism I speak of isn’t one of wealth, family or schooling. Instead it’s intellectual curiosity. That seems to correlate with the foregoing; hence the discomfort (at least in democratic societies).

Simply: when the internet was peopled by the curious and clever, it was fun. When it had to—or could—cater to a lower common denominator, it did. And that gave us this crap.
by sj26 | 2025-09-12 03:01:59+00:00
I'm Sam, a founding engineer still at Buildkite. I've been quite vocal that this was short term gains for long term pains. We're in the process of fixing this - we're working on a free tier and a more accessible paid plan for start ups and scale ups. I want to build tools for everyone, not a select few. Stay tuned. In the meantime I would be happy to have pricing conversations where our pricing doesn't make sense: sam@buildkite.com.
by therealpygon | 2025-09-12 03:04:15+00:00
No, it isn’t. There is a vast amount of difference between “vibe coding” and prompt driven development.

I’m giving the benefit of the doubt to the author here that it’s very unlikely they consider their example to be an actual representative scenario.

Vibe coding is to allow the AI to make the majority of the decisions. What the author describes is more like a highly complex autocomplete; you establish the fairly detailed outline of what is needed, often using tools/servers/etc tailored to use cases, and expect the AI to design an implementation that is in-line with the human-made decisions that preceded it, which is why I draw the comparison to autocomplete. Vibe coding is more like paying the kid next door to write your school essay…comparatively.