MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by balder1991 | 2025-09-19 19:05:48+00:00
There were also mistakes in using “it’s” instead of “its”.

But these things are ignored by most people anyway. I guess my problem with the article is that it’s a bit confusing. It started talking about people not being curious and using tech they hate, then later he’s annoyed that people like to experiment and tinker with new frameworks. Then later it’s talking about some other thing, and there doesn’t seem to be anything tying all of the author’s complaints. As if it’s just a freestyle rambling instead of trying to get to a point.
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 19:06:08+00:00
That performance is not surprising, Arc seems pretty dope in general.

I hadn't realized that "Arc" and "Integrated" overlapped, I thought that brand and that level of power was only being used on discrete cards.

I do think that integrated Arc will probably be killed by this deal though, not for being bad as it's obviously great, rather for being a way for Intel to cut costs with no downsides for Intel. If they can make RTX iGPUs now, and the Nvidia and RTX brand being the strongest in the gaming space... Intel isn't going to invest the money in continuing to develop Arc, even if Nvidia made it clear that they don't care, it just doesn't make any business sense now.

That is a loss for the cause of gaming competition. Although having Nvidia prop up Intel may prove to be a win for competition in terms of silicon in general versus them being sold off in parts, which could be a real possibility it seems.
by terminalshort | 2025-09-19 19:06:18+00:00
> a Black female employee who claimed a manager at its Fremont, California, plant sometimes greeted workers by saying “welcome to the plantation” or “welcome to the slave house.”

Well that is extremely inappropriate, but it is neither a crime nor was it committed by Elon Musk.

As for your other claim is there ever an instance where Elon Musk claimed to sell fully self driving cars? Because I haven't heard it. When Tesla sells those cars it makes you sign a contract stating specifically that they aren't able to do that, and then on top of that puts in safety features that don't allow the software to even be active if the driver is not attentive.
by mikemcquaid | 2025-09-19 19:06:31+00:00
Posted an update in a thread (or whatever you're meant to call it) on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mikemcquaid.com/post/3lz7klsyue22f

TL;DR: I've been given a lot of private nuance from both sides here but, even just based how the two sides have treated me personally, it's very hard not to put the blame primarily on RubyCentral. I've been a maintainer on Homebrew for 16 years: it's a hard job. If in doubt: I'll side with maintainers.
by simonw | 2025-09-19 19:06:39+00:00
If a website looks like a blog there's a high chance it has a feed and is probably using HTML metadata to advertise it, like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom" href="/atom/everything/">

Most feed readers know how to read that, so you can paste the URL of the blog itself into e.g. NetNewsWire and it will locate that rel="alternate" link and subscribe that way.
by miladyincontrol | 2025-09-19 19:07:18+00:00
> There is also an option to put your website behind a CDN front, such as Cloudflare or Github Pages, and let the CDN provider deal with renewals.

Or they could just use a modern webserver setup? Manually updating certs on webservers in 2025 is just a massive waste of time.

Also of the opinion many a personal site being dynamic is less than ideal. How many outdated php sites I've seen hijacked, ruined when their hosting service updates things behind their back, run into resource related issues, caching bodges that go wrong, etc. Meanwhile the site maybe gets updates like once a week.

At the very least the RSS feed certainly shouldnt need to be generated on every request unless theres good reason.

Well aware my complaints yelling at the void as many just want a prebuilt solution which 'just works', even if it requires a LAMP stack.
Show HN: I built a free AI prompts and rules directory
by kevinlarsson | 2025-09-19 19:07:21+00:00
Got tired of saving my prompts scattered across X, Reddit, and Notion with no good way to organize or share them.

That's why I built CTX, a community collection of prompts and rules. Create, share, and remix – everything's free and community-curated.

Let me know what you think, any feedback is very welcome!
by jimbo808 | 2025-09-19 19:07:47+00:00
I didn't say KDE is the only option for power users, or that there aren't multiple types of power users with different use cases and individual preferences. I'm not sure what I'm gatekeeping.

Is it really gatekeeping to say that KDE is for power users? Setting it up in a way that really meshes with your use case and preferences is a process that you'll spend many hours or days of time on. That's not something that makes sense for grandma's computing workload.

> This is an opinion stated as fact. KDE is mostly for dads that like a mouse oriented Windows/mac like OS but with buttons to customize. Sway, exwm etc are for power users.

So you're saying that prefering a highly customizable GUI means you're be a power user, but instead you're a gasp dad? This isn't Reddit, buddy. Grow up.
by fainpul | 2025-09-19 19:09:12+00:00
There's an excellent series of lectures from Stanford's Robert Sapolsky [1] about Human Behavioral Biology. While not about ants or insects, he brings up various examples from different species to explain the crazy "optimization war" of evolution. It's mind-expanding to learn about the many mechanisms at work - much more than just what can be encoded and passed on with genes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
by throw-the-towel | 2025-09-19 19:09:56+00:00
> I don't have much of a problem with developers getting blocked...

for building an alternative YouTube frontend. Or a torrenting app. Or due to sanctions / trade wars. (If you think these can't happen to you personally, imagine a Mega-Trump who's even Trumpier than Trump getting elected US president.)

What's malware to Google isn't necessarily malware to the user.
by watersb | 2025-09-19 19:11:11+00:00
The 20th Century versions of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) were published by people who really cared about usability.

You can find PDF versions of the old Apple HIG online; I just found a GitHub repo that has them:

https://github.com/gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guid...

It was a design movement, with zealots and influencers.

Was comparable to Jeffrey Zeldman's "Design with Web Standards".

The books go into reasons for the design decisions they made.

As such, it's still worth reading, more concrete than Norman's "Design of Everyday Things".
by mannyv | 2025-09-19 19:11:15+00:00
For two specific groups, aspirin reduces the recurrence of colorectal cancer by around 50%.

Group a: 7.7% with aspirin vs 14.1% recurrence without aspirin.

Group b: 7.7% with aspirin vs 16.8% recurrence without aspirin.

What's nice is that these are real occurrences, not relative risk percentages. They don't need fuzzy numbers to make their results significant.

Of course, there's also the line at the bottom: "Severe adverse events occurred in 16.8% of aspirin recipients and 11.6% of placebo recipients." Ouch. So if you can make it past that increase in severe adverse events you'll be fine.
by tomashertus | 2025-09-19 19:11:26+00:00
It’s too soon to know, but this could make 3-year H-1B renewals hugely problematic. That would be a major blow to the program. I was fortunate to get mine in 2014 without a single problem. There’s no way I’d expect someone to get through this process today. And realistically, most companies aren’t going to pay such a large premium just for a typical software engineer.
by lapcat | 2025-09-19 19:11:28+00:00
The problem here is that you're talking about the comments on the submission, whereas I was not. I'm talking about the upvotes on the submission.

It's entirely expected and unsurprising that Apple's announcement of a major macOS release would receive a ton of upvotes, regardless of how people feel about the release. That's why I think your analogy is irrelevant.

A low quality submission should not receive many upvotes, and as a consequence, it should not receive many comments of any kind, positive or negative, because it won't appear on the front page of HN for people to notice and comment on it.
by xp84 | 2025-09-19 19:11:58+00:00
So if the killer (who we also found out had a transitioning girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever) killed Kirk because he thought Kirk wasn't "accepting" enough of trans people, it still seems pretty nuts to attribute the killing to "MAGA" doesn't it? Especially given the "fascist" bullet casing as well.

Although in the end, the most chilling thing isn't the killer, it's the thousands of progressives who have been openly celebrating the murder[1], just based on the fact that he disagreed with their beliefs.

[1] if you think I'm exaggerating, just watch the supercut of them in Sh0eonhead's latest video. It goes on for a long time.
by nonameiguess | 2025-09-19 19:12:30+00:00
I remember being a kid in the 80s and fascinated by the SDI "Star Wars" project for missile defense. I wanted to learn everything I possibly could about how lasers and particle beams worked, how they were built, how much power they could project, how far, what targeting capabilities were realistic, where you might actually have to place ground stations to fully cover the sky, some raw basics of how spherical geometry and orbital mechanics worked. Most weekends, and definitely every summer for several years, I rode my bike down to the LA County Public Library and checked out the maximum number of books they allowed you to check out, and I did just this. I learned everything I possibly could. I barely remember any of it cause I was like 8 years old, but still, enormous amounts of information have been available to anyone, at least in the US, for a long time. I don't think "printed material" should be a barrier. It takes longer to get to the library than it does to open your laptop or unlock your phone, but the flip side of that is getting outside and riding your bike around incidental to gathering information has quite a few ancillary health benefits you'll never realize if you're tied to a computer all the time.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-09-19 19:12:33+00:00
Are you claiming the copyright holders put them there?

You might want to be specific about which ones were some kind of false flag conspiracy plot (is it just "Rumours"?) because there are thousands and thousands of pirated pieces of media on archive.org. I am behind there being some kind of archive project but as things stand the site was/is just Mega with a veneer of respectability.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-19 19:13:02+00:00
The F-35 is expressly vulnerable, in this scenario. If Russian radars were the only threat, you'd be correct. The MiG-31 has a top-notch IRST system though, they can get a missile lock on the F-35 regardless. "Going dark" is pretty much useless for this scenario.

For a pure interception-style mission profile, an F-15 or even F/A-18 would perform much better. A Rafale or Eurofighter platform would also suffice. The F-35 is a Joint Strike Fighter though, and I think people forget why it was made. It's a bomb dropper, the F-16 will outperform it in a one-circle and two-circle engagement. The F-35 is just not built to dominate air combat, and that's okay. It only becomes an issue when customers don't know what they're buying.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-19 19:13:09+00:00
Yes, I'm perfectly fine with setting up and recruiting volunteers for important software initiatives and no, I'm not going to do that for npm before they fix the mess they themselves created, there are more productive ways to get the job done without using npm. It's good that we have choices.

What I advised doesn't require "thousands of volunteers", you can start with one but that's not going to be me because you might be right - what Linux bistros are doing might be impossible in the npm community given the widespread 'do-first-think-later' attitude. As I said, it's good we have other choices.
by FirmWords | 2025-09-19 19:13:14+00:00
No, it isn't. You need to go back and look at the history of modern computers, especially personal ones. The standard color scheme was light text on a dark background. Many used white text on a dark-blue background, because it was deemed the most legible. Even after Windows dominated, Word had a checkbox in its settings labeled simply, "Blue background, white text." That setting existed well into the 2000s, and it may still be buried somewhere. Edit: Looks like it was finally removed sometime around 2016; here's one of several posts I found complaining about its removal: https://eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=36503

Computer makers and users referred to black text on a white background as inverse video. The Atari 8-bits even had a key to toggle between normal and inverse characters when typing (the Atari-logo key). It's even described in the manual: https://www.atarimania.com/documents/atari-800-computer-owne... To quote the manual: "Inverse video is text being shown in dark letters against a light background."

Then came the "desktop publishing" craze and some attempts to make video screens an analogy for a piece of paper. This fails because paper does not EMIT light. Nor is reading black text off the surface of a glaring light bulb all day a good way to work. Useful for previewing printed output? OK. For all work on a computer? Not so much.

And yet, perhaps in an effort to be "different" from character-based systems, GUIs migrated to inverse color schemes as their default (except for Apple's, which was always inverse and offered no color-scheme management... and still doesn't). Throughout all of this and into the current day, applications that focus on art, photography, and video & visual effects have implemented a so-called "dark" UI. That's not coincidence.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-09-19 19:13:23+00:00
I somehow suspect that the reason you aren't friends any more is because you as much as said he lacks compassion. If I had a friend who said that about me, and then refused to apologize for insulting me in that way, I don't know if I would stay friends with them either. It's especially ironic that you are acting in a very uncompassionate way here, while accusing others of not having compassion.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-19 19:13:36+00:00
This is immensely frustrating to me.

I was an iPhone user from 2009 to 2019. In 2019, when the iTunes backup from my failed iPhone 4S wouldn't restore to an iPhone SE (it made the phone boot loop) I got frustrated and went Android.

I decided to "sideload" all non-stock software on my Android phone. I never have setup a Google Play account. I kept all the APKs for the software I loaded over the years that I used that phone.

I just got a new Android phone a couple of weeks ago. I was able to just load all the software I use day-to-day from APKs (except for a few that are, apparently, processor-specific). I imported my SMS, contacts, and call logs using a nice FOSS app[0]. It felt remarkably like moving to a new PC does. It was nice.

I am really sad Google is ending this moving forward. Jackasses.

[0] https://github.com/tmo1/sms-ie
by labrador | 2025-09-19 19:13:41+00:00
I've seen a lot of amazing robot videos lately that aren't CGI (as was the case a few years ago) and none of them are from Tesla Optimus. The Robotaxi videos have not been encouraging either. Waymo just got a license for the notoriously difficult San Fransisco airport SFO. I can't imagine a Tesla Robotaxi successfully navigating that place based on the videos I've seen.

I understand the faith people have in Musk based on SpaceX, but that doesn't seem to be translating to cars and robots.
by altairprime | 2025-09-19 19:13:52+00:00
I’m not specifically concerned about EVs as I am vehicle mass X tires on road — it’s just that EVs further piled on the problem, and so of course they’re a focus of attention now. doi.org/10.1007/s10098-022-02433-8 estimated 20-40% more road wear for EV vehicles of equivalent passenger capacity as gas vehicles, for example. If someone had started making gas SUVs out of osmium because it’s more crash resistant, I’d be just as annoyed at the loophole exploit of that as I am about that extra untaxed mass-wear on roadways being batteries. (But if you solve the battery mass problem, the flat fee is still unfair in favor of high mileage drivers versus low mileage ones, so a mileage-mass tax will always be the correct outcome.)

However, the real threat to roadways that hasn’t yet been fully realized is EV autopilot tractor-trailers; without gas taxing, without mileage taxing, and without the constrain of having to pay humans to drive them, the state highways are going to get shredded into gravel in a decade.

Both have to be treated; passenger vehicles wear down roadways in residential zones that semi trucks don’t enter, and semi trucks wear down highways vastly more rapidly than any personal vehicle of any weight can.

I participated in two phases of the mileage pilot program described by that ABC article over the past ten years and look forward to its eventual implementation in literally any form whatsoever. I truly hope that their final form ends up being mass-wheel-mileage taxation with a transit credit for public transit and 10+ passenger vehicles, so that lightweight Priuses and buses pay little and heavyweight Rivians and semi trucks pay lots. Whatever their first steps towards that outcome is, I’ll take it, whether it’s gas tax or EV tax or truck tax corrections or any combination thereof. The status quo is unfair in multiple ways and they’ve got their work cut out for them.
by nodesocket | 2025-09-19 19:14:31+00:00
I feel like AI is not the right workload for this. I run a 4x node Kubernetes cluster (1x control and 3x workers) and it’s surprising good. While performance is certainly not state of the art by any stretch of the imagination it works great for HomeLab’in. Portainer, Glance, OpenSpeed Test, Semaphore UI, Uptime Kuma, and Home Assistant. Many small and lightweight containers is where a cluster such as this can shine.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-19 19:15:02+00:00
Since the 6s, iPhones get 6 or 7 versions of iOS (including their release version), which puts them at about 7-8 years of full support less whatever features (like Apple Intelligence) don't get support on some hardware. Before the 6s, it was lower but the hardware was also changing a lot faster (like going from 32-bit to 64-bit ARM).

But for security updates they've pushed it up to 10 years. The 6s, 2015, got a security update this month.

They're actively supporting (at least security updates) iOS 15, 16, 18, and now of course 26. 17 was skipped because no devices lost support with it, everything that could run 17 can run 18.
by leakycap | 2025-09-19 19:15:27+00:00
Hard to care what happens to a company like TicketMaster. As you build your company, ask yourself how they ended up like this.

Do you think the founders had this outcome in mind when they started (everyone hating them and seeing them as an evil money grab)? They probably started with a different ethos.

A good reminder that what we do can change - we need to instill our values into the basics of everything we build, otherwise we'll just be building the next TicketMaster, Oracle, or Meta.

As far as I know, we get one go. Let's build things that matter and make the world a better place. Greed will even ruin concerts otherwise.
by sokoloff | 2025-09-19 19:15:44+00:00
> I think the order here is reversed: If you ask the public for money, it's fair to perform a public service. If you just do something you wanted to do anyways, and probably would have done anyways, then it might be viewed as less-than-charitable to ask others for money to help you achieve your goal for yourself (even if other people might benefit somewhat too).

I don't think it's reversed.

I coach a high school robotics team (volunteer, unpaid) and last season I went into my pocket for an unknown amount of money, but was not less than $5K and probably closer to $7K.

I'm clearly going to do it anyway; is it wrong for me to go out and seek sponsorships for the team so I don't have to dig quite as deep into my own pocket?

I don't think it's even the tiniest bit wrong nor in any way less-than-charitable.
by infecto | 2025-09-19 19:16:15+00:00
What insults and what have I not explained to you? You are arguing with me over a lived experience. You can have a different lived experience than me but I find that open concept kitchens coupled with what is always poor ventilation leads to smelly situations for most types of cooking. I don’t even understand what you are arguing with me about. I gave you data and my own experience. You refute and ignore the data and waffle on the rest. Like I said, maybe the problem is not the analogy here. If that hurts, well then tell me why I am wrong. This is definitely tops as one of the more silly threads I have participated in.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-09-19 19:16:19+00:00
The forthcoming "Block BEARD" act in the U.S. will soon enable rights holders to apply for foreign sites to be blocked (at the IP level I believe) on piracy grounds.

But hosting it there long-term would still have value even if U.S. users couldn't easily get to it. Access would be legal when copyrights expire and everything becomes public domain.

Therefore, above, long-term means long-long-long-term: enough time for all U.S. copyrights to expire under the current law, which would be about 250 years. This of course assumes no U.S. copyright reform, no expansion of the current copyright law, and that U.S. law/authority/power continues to exist in its current form.

Do you think such an archive could be kept alive that long? Here are some potential issues:

- Literal piracy (e.g. pirates coming to shore)

- Storage of data for 250 years (metal rusts, dvds melt/warp, paper is not data dense)

- Climate change

- Undersea cable cuts

- Nuclear war

- Technological evolution (will networking and storage look the same in 50, 100, 200 years)
by ursuscamp | 2025-09-19 19:17:23+00:00
I've been a ruby user for almost 15 years. I've been to several RubyConfs in that time. I have never found that to be true. It's a thin veneer over rampant toxicity and political extremism. Many of the evangelists in the Ruby community garnered a horrible reputation outside of Ruby, then migrated to insular social media applications which no one uses, causing the slow and persistent decline in the popularity of the language.
by necovek | 2025-09-19 19:17:23+00:00
I hear about something that does not seem to really be a problem portrayed as a problem.

China did not stop selling to USA before USA decided to introduce tariffs and stopped selling to China advanced tech like GPUs and NPUs.

In a sense, mutual economic dependency has worked in the past, would work in the present, but "blowing up the government" is leading to one strong-arm play after another — and really, it only leads to everybody being unhappier, and prices being higher for everything, yet the trade will continue very similar to how it did before.

And really, this trade inter-dependency is really the only guarantee (if there is such a thing) of no big military conflict coming out between the two countries. And I am pretty sure that's worse.
by HanClinto | 2025-09-19 19:17:54+00:00
> People with comfortable enough lives sometimes have this attraction to the very romanticized versions of otherwise very hard lives.

The film Sullivan's Travels from 1941 is a film that explores the concept of this romanticization. It's a good movie whose storytelling and comedy still hold up today. I think more people should be aware of it.

Trivia: This is also where the movie O' Brother Where Art Thou got its name.