MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Buuntu | 2025-09-05 18:13:17+00:00
BART is not a typical metro system in that it serves a lot of suburbs that have very little population density, and was mainly built as a commuter service to get people to downtown SF. So it was never going to have the kind of ridership the Tube has without massive upzoning and more infill stations. Comparing it to the Tube which mostly serves the city of London is not an apples to apples comparison. Look at the costs of building new rail infrastructure in London and it's comparable to here.

> If by "America" you mean NYC/SFBA then sure. You can see in your own link there's massive spread across the locales with some being cheaper than UK per km

What you're talking about in that link is the extension to San Jose, not day to day BART operations. That one does deserve criticism as they've made poor decisions like not doing cut/cover because NIMBYs in San Jose don't want any disruption to streets. So instead we are tunneling to the Earth first. Elsewhere in the world municipalities understand that it's worth temporary disruptions to roads to bring down costs, but of course America is unique and we have to learn these lessons ourselves.
by IshKebab | 2025-09-05 18:13:30+00:00
Yeah, because they are both "add more security". I totally understand that they are different. But if you just want "more security" then they are both reasonable options to pick, and it makes sense to compare their performance.

It's like comparing apples and oranges - which I always found to be a weird saying because of course it makes sense to compare apples and oranges.

Edit: looked it up and apparently it was originally "apples and oysters" which makes way more sense

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/132907/114887

Although even then it isn't incorrect to compare them. Perhaps you have to choose a canapé, we could have tiny slices of delicious apples, or succulent oysters. But it's impossible to chose because there's no way to compare them arrrghhh!

I wonder what the "most different" two things are.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-05 18:13:47+00:00
> you'd end up paying $9 a year per developer for the license

It's only 9 bucks a year, its only 5 bucks a month, its less than a dollar a day.

Docker, ide, ticking system, GitHub, jira, sales force, email, office suit, Figma.... all of a sudden your spending 1000 bucks a month per staff member for a small 10 person office.

Meanwhile AWS is charging you .01xxxx for bandwidth, disk space, cpu time, s3 buckets, databases. All so tiencent based AI clients from China hammer your hardware and run up your bill....

The rent seeking has gotten out of hand.
by stryan | 2025-09-05 18:13:49+00:00
Not OP but "podman-systemd.unit.5" used to be the primary Quadlet documentation (a remnant of when it was podman-generate-systemd perhaps?) with every Quadlet file type (.container, .volume, .network, etwc) documented on one page.

The new docs split that out into separate podman-container/volume/etc.unit(5) pages, with quadlet.7 being the index page. So they're still linking to the same documentation, just the organization happened to change underneath them.

If you must see what they linked to originally, the versions docs are still the original organization (i.e. all on one page): https://docs.podman.io/en/v5.6.0/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...
by stale2002 | 2025-09-05 18:13:52+00:00
So then yes, it is in demand, there is a usecase, you just don't like the usecase.

> but what you can't do is suggest throwing them out altogether

Actually, that seems to be exactly whats happening. Bitcoin has been around for 17 years, and it and other blockchain technologies have only become better, more prevalent, more mainstream, and most importantly, more legal.

The freaking president/vice president seem to be pretty pro crypto as well. I've been following bitcoin since 2010, and never in my wildest dreams back then would I have thought that the president would launch his own "Trump coin", for example.

Crypto won. Beyond everyone's most extreme expectations. The "regulators" lost. Its over. You can cry about it, but that doesn't change the fact that it won.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-05 18:13:54+00:00
> Honestly, on this particular case that's on the judge and your current culture, not Khan. Before the 80s, Google would have been forced to separate its two ads divisions, to make some space for new companies and actors.

The case in which the government didn’t get what it wanted was the online search case; the trial in the remedy phase of the ad tech case starts later this month, so talking about the difference between what Google would have gotten in the 1980s for that and what they are actually getting now is premature speculation.
by dsharlet | 2025-09-05 18:14:00+00:00
The problem I've seen is this: in order to get good performance, no matter what language you use, you need to understand the hardware and how to use the instructions you want to use. It's not enough to know that you want to use tensor cores or whatever, you also need to understand the myriad low level requirements they have.

Most people that know this kind of thing don't get much value out of using a high level language to do it, and it's a huge risk because if the language fails to generate something that you want, you're stuck until a compiler team fixes and ships a patch which could take weeks or months. Even extremely fast bug fixes are still extremely slow on the timescales people want to work on.

I've spent a lot of my career trying to make high level languages for performance work well, and I've basically decided that the sweet spot for me is C++ templates: I can get the compiler to generate a lot of good code concisely, and when it fails the escape hatch of just writing some architecture specific intrinsics is right there whenever it is needed.
by triceratops | 2025-09-05 18:14:06+00:00
Why aren't there proposals for online age verification to be exactly like alcohol and tobacco?

You can show ID at a real world store and buy an age verification token. The token is good for exactly one user account on one website for one year. The website is responsible for ensuring no account sharing.

No need to store IDs online and it's still pretty hard for kids to access anything we don't want them to. Just like alcohol and tobacco there will be straw purchasers who re-sell to minors, and we accept that imperfection. We also punish people who re-sell or give alcohol to minors.
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-05 18:14:21+00:00
> I feel like that isn't categorically less money than artists used to make per song listen?

Fundamentally, inflation-adjusted there are 1/2 as many dollars coming in the front end to the US music industry in the 2020s as there were in the 90s peak, per most sources... even though population is 30% higher. So per-capita music spend in inflation adjusted dollars is down like 60-65%. And there's probably far more artists to spread that around to now with the long tail of bedroom producers / part timers / etc all the way up to Swift.

So surely artists are making less than they used to, regardless of how the pie is sliced up because there is a smaller pie. Given the trend in everything else in our economy, I am dubious that the newer streaming arrangements are incrementally more artist-friendly than the old physical media music industry.
by eesmith | 2025-09-05 18:14:31+00:00
If the US government decided to invade Greenland and ordered Amazon to cut off all network connections to Denmark, would this region still operate for Danish users?

If it did, and the US ordered Amazon to shut down the region, would it?

If the region kept on operating, and the US ordered Amazon to stop providing software updates, security updates, new license keys, etc. - how long could the region keep running?
by LudwigNagasena | 2025-09-05 18:14:37+00:00
They sell ads. For people to look at ads they need to grab their attention. So they have an ad network, a social media platform, a microblogging platform, a short-form media sharing platform, a messenger, VR SW, VR HW, smart glasses, LLMs, a marketplace, a dating service, a street imagery service, a fitness service, some B2B stuff and so on.
by linguae | 2025-09-05 18:15:10+00:00
I travel to Japan twice a year for business and for vacation, and coming back to the Bay Area and dealing with its transportation infrastructure is always jarring.

I find the Bay Area very difficult to get around. The roads are jammed with commuters who live far from their workplaces due to the housing situation. There is not enough housing near job centers, which bids up the prices of available housing to very high levels that requires FAANG-level salaries to clear unless one wants to have an army of roommates. Thus, many people have to commute, some from far-flung exurbs and even from Central Valley cities like Stockton and Modesto.

Public transportation in the Bay Area is better than most American cities, but it’s still underpowered for the size of the metro area. Not all residences are served by trains, and bus service is often infrequent and subject to delays. Missing a connection can lead to major inconveniences (such as a long 30-60 minute wait) or even being unable to reach your destination without an über-expensive Uber or Lyft ride. There’s also matters of safety and cleanliness on public transportation; every now and then I smell unpleasant odors like marijuana and urine, and occasionally I see sketchy people.

It’s a major step down from Tokyo, where public transportation is ultra-convenient, reliable in non-emergency situations, impeccably clean, and generally safe.

The sad thing is the reason the Bay Area lacks Tokyo-style transit is not technology, but social and political issues. If it were merely technology, we’d have solutions by now.
by glitchc | 2025-09-05 18:15:28+00:00
Bravo! I don't think it can be put more plainly than that.

> So what are stablecoins really trying to do? Circumvent regulation? Implement something the banks just aren't willing to do themselves?

They allow businesses to act like banks without obtaining a commercial banking license. Initially this circumvents regulation, but over time, it allows entities to outsource solutions for those pesky regulations (compliance, audit, etc.) to third parties.
by BinaryIgor | 2025-09-05 18:15:31+00:00
100% this:

"Yet I suspect that vibe writing will be no more successful than vibe coding, in large measure because reading itself is becoming a lost art. Furthermore, since writing is a form of thinking, if you haven't developed the skill of formalized thinking through writing and reflective reading then your interaction with an AI chatbot will essentially be nothing more than vibe thinking."
by thoroughburro | 2025-09-05 18:15:35+00:00
My bank app asks me to review it every time, and only when, I deposit money. It’s so transparent in its attempted manipulation: you just got some money and are likely to be in a better mood than other times you’re using the app!

Literally every deposit. Eventually, I’ll leave a 1-star nastygram review for treating me like an idiot. (It won’t matter and nothing will change.)
by leptons | 2025-09-05 18:15:50+00:00
If it costs more to produce a result than a customer is willing to pay, then the company will either be unprofitable (sell at a loss) or just close up shop. The cost for running LLMs is much higher than what customers are likely to want to pay, and that has nothing to do with competition from other LLM companies, it's a result of high cost of cutting-edge hardware, infrastructure, and the massive amount of electricity it consumes - so much electricity that tech companies are now building power plants to power them (which are very expensive to build). It's a massive cost, and all for the hope that people will continue to accept AI slop.
by vermaden | 2025-09-05 18:15:57+00:00
I ditched Docker and Podman for FreeBSD Jails :)

More here:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/freebsd-jails-cont...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/11/freebsd-jails-secu...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/are-freebsd-jails-...

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/new-jless-freebsd-...
by Bender | 2025-09-05 18:16:50+00:00
Many would starve but I and many around me would be fine. It would not be easy but it is doable.

I agree that there is far too much dependency on electricity and many of the people that knew how to do without it are long gone. There are books on how to do regenerative farming and homesteading but fewer people read books now. That process needs to be started a few years before the electricity is gone.
by felarof | 2025-09-05 18:17:01+00:00
> It didn't even know what year it was, it's just a gimmick.

I understand. But we are still in early stages of product-market-fit here, AI agent integration with browsers should get lot better.

Thank you! We are adding vertical tabs already, we will look into adding persistent tabs.

Regarding UI, we want to put a fresh coat on top of chromium. But building a new UI layer (like Arc) would involve throwing away a lot of chromium code and I think that comes with its own cost, like sacrificing security updates from Google (which I feel The Browser Company also realized and started to invest when building Dia).
by wyoung2 | 2025-09-05 18:17:12+00:00
Broadly, the claim that Podman is a drop-in replacement for Docker is true only for the simple cases, but people have developed assorted dependencies on Docker implementation details. Examples:

1. People hear about how great rootless is with Podman but then expect to be able to switch directly from rootful Docker to rootless Podman without changing anything. The only way that could work is if there was no difference between rootful and rootless to begin with, but people don't want to hear that. They combine these two selling points in their head and think they can get both a drop-in replacement for Docker and also rootless by default. The proper choice is to either switch from rootful Docker to rootful Podman *or* put in the work to make your container work in rootless, work you would also have had to do with rootless Docker.

2. Docker Compose started out as an external third-party add-on (v1) which was later rewritten as an internal facility (v2) but `podman compose` calls out to either `docker-compose` (i.e. v1) or to its own clone of the same mechanism, `podman-compose`. The upshot is a lot of impedance mismatch. Combine that with the fact that Podman wants you to use Quadlets anyway, resulting in less incentive to work on these corner cases.

3. Docker has always tried to pretend SELinux doesn't exist, either by hosting on Debian and friends or by banging things into place by using their privileged (rootful) position. Podman comes from Red Hat, and until recently they had Mr SELinux on the team. Thus Podman is SELinux-first, all of which combines to confuse transplants who think they can go on ignoring SELinux.

4. On macOS and Windows, both Podman and Docker need a background Linux VM to provide the kernel, without which they cannot do LXC-type things. These VMs are not set up precisely the same way, which produces migration issues when someone is depending on exact details of the underlying VM. One common case is that they differ in how they handle file sharing with the host.
by jjani | 2025-09-05 18:17:22+00:00
Going to pre-empt the comments that always pop up in these topics saying "Google/Meta/Apple will just leave the EU at this rate": Google still has around $20 billion yearly reasons to remain active in the EU. Talking Europe yearly net profit here, post-fine. No, they're not going to say "screw this fine, you can take your $20 billion per year, we're leaving!". The second that happens, shareholders will have Sundar's access revoked within the hour.

There is a number of countries where Google has to deal with large levels of protectionist barriers (not the EU, these fines aren't that) and they still operate there. Korea is just one example. Because there's still a lot of money to be made. China isn't a counterexample: Google stopped operating search in China because at that point there was not a lot of money to be made for them in search there.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-05 18:17:48+00:00
We are already here. As the volume of code/technology increases, it should be clear that systems need strong permission boundaries. It is impossible to meaningfully audit all dependencies and services.

If my desktop music player has an exploit, it should not be possible that it can read my SSH keys. Node supply chain hacks keep occurring where your development environment can leak your private data. Mobile OS have this isolation already, but desktop is sure to slowly follow. I think we might eventually get to a point where even code libraries get assigned capabilities (eg libxml does not have network access).
by SillyUsername | 2025-09-05 18:18:11+00:00
Can somebody please break this down for me so I can see what benefit WB gets from this?

I can only see mostly negatives

- Winning means taking away the ability for fans to spread viral / subliminal advertising for WB via the art they create.

- Anybody who uses Midjourney commercially to create DC characters etc will be sued, BAU, this might be worth more...

- Midjourney might actually be useful for creatives at WB (mockups etc), so shutting it down not in that interest.

- Negative publicity from people who use Midjourney.

The positives

- WB gets a boatload of short term money from Midjourney if they win.

- They exercise enforcement of copyright preventing their characters becoming a public good (yeah this one's flaky, but as I said, I couldn't think of positives).
by JeremyNT | 2025-09-05 18:18:23+00:00
> That’s the sad part of all this that enrages me, we deport a dishwasher or a roofer but the criminals getting rich off of their exploitation get off free in virtually all cases.

It's a sign for how thoroughly defeated (or captured) the "opposition" party is in the United States that they are incapable of adopting a coherent position about this exact situation.

How are we letting the 1% get away with this? They give tacit approval to immigrants to break the law in order to work in the United States, creating an unprivileged underclass that they can abuse. Then, when some kind of enforcement happens, the capital class suffers no consequences and the poor workers are inhumanely rounded up and deported.

Criticizing the wealthy is truly the third rail in American politics. Other than vehement support of Israel, supporting the rich at the expense of the downtrodden is the only assailable, bipartisan political "norm" remaining.
Show HN: Feedable – Make any site with RSS readable without installing an app
by randomor | 2025-09-05 18:18:27+00:00
I was trying to read Daringfireball on my Daylight tablet, but because it's dark only and fonts are small it's a struggle (as Daylight tablets screens are best for light UIs), so I decided to vibecode this. And I'm quite happy with the results.

For those who are looking for a rss reader but not looking to install an app, you can just append my site, e.g.:

https://feedable.doublememory.com/https://news.ycombinator.c...

It will auto-discover the rss feed and load it in a web based RSS reader. It also supports read status tracking, keyboard navigation, font / size customization, and saving feeds. Everything happens on client, except discovering and proxying the RSS feed, which sometimes are CORS protected.

For a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFP-t9Jruc
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-05 18:18:50+00:00
> Why aren't there proposals for online age verification to be exactly like alcohol and tobacco?

> You can show ID at a real world store and buy an age verification token. The token is good for exactly one user account on one website for one year

I don’t know if you’ve ever bought alcohol or tobacco, either in person or online, but the process in either case, in my experience, does not involve showing government ID at a private business separate from the one you are going to purchase the product from in advance to purchase a single-account, single-year token which you then use to prove age when you purchase the good in question.
by flail | 2025-09-05 18:18:54+00:00
My experience correlates with this assessment. The closer we are toward prototyping, the bigger leverage we gain from quickly generated swaths of code. It's simply because we don't need to care about all the quality guardrails. After all, it's a prototype.

With a more complex code base (and a less popular tech stack), the perceived gains quickly diminish. Beyond a certain level of tech debt, AI-generated code is utterly useless. It's no surprise that we see people who vibe-coded their products with no technical knowledge whatsoever, and now they call professional engineers to untangle the mess.

A software agency I know well responded to the rise of AI somewhere between the lines of "Now, we'll have plenty of work to clean all that mess!" Admittedly, they always specialized in complex/rescue engineering gigs.

However, the "development as a bottleneck" discussion was set here in a broader context. It's not only how efficiently we are able to deliver bits of functionality, but primarily whether we should be building these things in the first place.

Equally for early-stage startups and established products alike, so much of features are built because someone said so. At the end of the day, they don't deliver any value (if we're lucky) or are plain harmful (if we're out of luck).

In such cases, it would have been better if developers actually sipped coffee and read Hacker News rather than coded/developed/engineered stuff.
by nrjames | 2025-09-05 18:19:03+00:00
I loaded this same IMDB dataset into a Kuzu DB the other day, just for fun. It was an interesting project but I would agree that this dataset in particular lends itself to a graph database. Kuzu started to choke with > 10M nodes & 10M edges but I was doing a naive insert & probably could fit the entire dataset in without trouble using their direct CSV import.
by nkozyra | 2025-09-05 18:19:05+00:00
> A nation cannot thrive with too many conflicting demographics.

Our most prosperous times came in the wake of great immigration waves. I think the expectation is that "assimilation" is:

- a one-way street and - immediate

Neither is true, of course. German assimilation from the mid 19th century took several generations. Same with Italian assimilation in the late 19th/early 20th century.
by miltonlost | 2025-09-05 18:19:27+00:00
Do you think it's fair to put the recent case on Lisa Khan when a) the Google antitrust lawsuit was started in Trump v1.0 and b) the trial remedy was during Trump 2.0? If anything, that Google was found to have antitrust behavior bolsters her success rate. She's not in charge there anymore, so blaming her is very very suspect.
by declan_roberts | 2025-09-05 18:19:33+00:00
I drove a 2015 Nissan Leaf for almost 10 years before upgrading this year to a Model Y.

When it comes to charging network Tesla is SO MUCH BETTER. It's hard to describe how much of a wild west other charging networks are. You have to download this app or that app, add a credit card here, add one there. De-rated charging handles absolutely everywhere.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-05 18:19:56+00:00
Which will deepen the hole, until we crest over the AI peak of inflated expectations, bottom out in the trough of disillusionment, and start creeping up the slope of enlightenment. The next 12 months should be worsening unemployment, more rate cuts, higher AI stock prices. Once we bottom out in disillusionment (or companies run out of AI capital), the stock will plummet again, AI companies will die off, unemployment reduces, and rates return to previous levels.

That's the "exists-in-a-vacuum" picture anyway. Stimulus, tariffs, a new war, or some other bullshit will change the results.