MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by chao- | 2025-09-17 09:13:55+00:00
I am frequently asked for hardware purchasing advice by family and friends. Starting around 2017 or 2018, if asked to recommend a "gaming" laptop, I have refused. I never had a good experience myself, and more often than not, what I had recommended over the previous years ended up flawed or outright broken. Across every OEM and brand. I tell them to settle for a professional/business SKU with a low-tier dedicated GPU, or give up on laptop gaming entirely. Is it worth the money to pay a "business" premium for a weaker system? No, and I'll tell them that. It's not a good deal in on-paper-dollar-for-performance terms. But at least there's a chance that all of the components function and are supported!

What use is a "good price", when what you get is a quality and support minefield?
by xalava | 2025-09-17 09:13:58+00:00
Thanks for pointing it out. I've tried both as interactive shells for a few minutes. Murex seems to have a more minimalist approach that works well as a drop-in replacement.

However, I have trouble understanding some design decision, such as inventing redundant keywords. And I've spotted bugs in boths (e.g. ls --literal fails in nu, and the completion proposes it twice in Murex).
by adastra22 | 2025-09-17 09:14:21+00:00
Israel isn't a homogenous country. It is majority jewish, but there are large minorities of Arabs, Druze, levant Christians, etc. These minorities--just under 30% of the population--hold full citizenship and have the same civil rights as any other Israeli.

Zionism is a desire to have a majority-jewish state that is strong enough to protect jews from future pogroms. It is not a quest for a homogenous state.
by Defletter | 2025-09-17 09:14:54+00:00
I'm getting the impression that C/C++ cultists love it whenever there's an npm exploit because then they can gleefully point at it and pretend that any first-party package manager for C/C++ would inevitably result in the same, nevermind the other languages that do not have this issue, or have it to a far, far lesser extent. Do these cultists just not use dependencies? Are they just [probably inexpertly] reinventing every wheel? Or do they use system packages like that's any better *cough* AUR exploits *cought*. While dependency hell on nodejs (and even Rust if we're honest) is certainly a concern, it's npm's permissiveness and lack of auditing that's the real problem. That's why Debian is so praised.
by tomhow | 2025-09-17 09:16:51+00:00
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. You've been on HN a long time and we've never had to warn you before, but please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them, especially these ones:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by metalman | 2025-09-17 09:17:06+00:00
I hope Linus is aware that guitar pedals are gateway electronics, and that he is at risk of bieng swallowed whole building analog synthesisers. It is a strange phenominon that appears to operate outside of most other real world activities and considerations,leaving it's main contributors changed into creatures somehow seperate , detached, and impossibly cool to all of the common human mental states, there synths standing as objects of fierce scruteny, the focus of intense debates centered on truely arcane details of theory, construction, and operation.
by ignoramous | 2025-09-17 09:18:31+00:00
> Go read this UNHCR report. All the evidence is just circular references to other bodies who reference each other...

You think Navi Pillay, who was the President on the Rwanda Tribunal (for genocide), is less competent than you & would sign off on mere "circular references"?

> For one thing, Israel doesn't know the name of every militant it kills

Does it at least know who it is raping?

The commission has previously found Israel to be guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, including extermination, torture, rape, sexual violence and other inhumane acts, inhuman treatment, forcible transfer, persecution based on gender and starvation as a method of warfare.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-867600
by dmesg | 2025-09-17 09:18:57+00:00
I read the actual open access paper: https://opg.optica.org/oe/viewmedia.cfm?uri=oe-33-11-22154&s...

Note if you look at the paper, you notice a close but not entirely perfect normal distribution, but nothing you cannot fix with UDNs and Irwin-Hall. For reference how that is done you can read the bottom of this very useful RNG article: https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/RP2040/C...

My overall verdict on the tech in OP is that it is amazingly promising!
by graemep | 2025-09-17 09:19:04+00:00
That was not Reform. It was Tommy Robinson, someone so politically toxic that Reform turned down a huge amount of money (a £80m donation) from Elon Musk because it came with the condition that they allowed him to join the party.

The turnout was boosted by the murder of Charlie Kirk (yet another example of British people getting more involved in American causes than their own), and by some other things too I think, and although very big for a far right protest, it is far smaller than many causes have managed to organise over the years (anti-Iraq war, opposing to the fox hunting ban, both pro and anti Brexit, climate change...).
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-17 09:19:16+00:00
> The vast majority (38/50) of US states have passed some form of anti-BDS legislation.

“Some form of” is doing a lot of work in that sentence, to the point of being dishonest propaganda. E.g., California is counted as one of those states based on AB 2844 of 2016. Which, to be fair, started out [0] as an actual anti-BDS bill (targeting state contracting only, but still an anti-BDS bill.) But the form that actually passed and became law does nothing that actually impacts BDS; it requires that state contractors with contracts of over $100,000 certify under penalty of perjury that (1) they are in compliance with California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act and Fair Employment and Housing Act, and that (2) any policy they have against a “sovereign nation or peoples recognized by the government of the United States of America”, explicitly including but not limited to Israel, is not applied in a way which discriminates in violation of either the Unruh Civil Rights Act or the Fair Employment and Housing Act.

It is not, in any meaningful sense, an anti-BDS law.

[0] Well, “started out” isn’t really true, either, since it was introduced as a technical change the an environmental health law replacing "Department of Health Services” with “Department of Public Health” in one section of law, reflecting a reorganization that had occurred subsequent to the law passing, went through a “gut and amend” switch to become a bill that would add new sampling requirements for drinking water, then went through another “gut and amend” to become an anti-BDS bill focussed on public contracting. But then it went through a number of more regular amendments which stripped out all the anti-BDS parts—both the operative anti-BDS language and the proposed legislative findings and declarations of purpose at the opening, replacing both the operative provisionsn and the findings and declaration portions with anti-discrimination rather than anti-BDS provisions.
by vidarh | 2025-09-17 09:19:30+00:00
> Also, the eligibility criterion of not vaccinating people above certain age is NOT valid. I mean, sooner better. But if you are adult and there is any chance that you ever get a new sexual parter, get a vaccine.

The eligibility criterion has primary been about controlling cost to focus about the groups where the societal effect is greatest.

I expect it may gradually get broadened, but most places you can also get it privately even if you fall outside those ages.

E.g. in the UK, most private providers will vaccinate you up to 45, and at least some private providers will give you the vaccine with no upper age limit (and a lower age limit of 9) at a relatively reasonable cost (~180 pounds per dose - 2 to 3 doses)
by brainwad | 2025-09-17 09:20:22+00:00
I more or less agree with you (if it were a _genocide_, you'd expect Israel to be equally targeting Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel proper), but the report does have some specific examples of things that seem to go beyond "just" urban warfare. For example, Israel denied shipments of baby milk powder, which can serve no legitimate military purpose (except trying to prosecute the war via starvation of babies, which is illegal). When combined with the public statements from Israeli government officials that denigrate the Palestinians in Gaza as animals, I think there's definitely _some_ crimes against humanity being committed by Israel.
by dominicrose | 2025-09-17 09:20:53+00:00
The terrorist attack of 2023 had such magnitude that Israel was allowed to do 50 times worse with no immediate punishment, but this pretence is getting old and they're in too deep: I think that the people who think that it's possible for both parties to live in peace are kidding themselves. There is no good solution to this conflict because enemies cannot suddenly become friends. There are only bad "solutions".
by didroe | 2025-09-17 09:20:58+00:00
>With RL, models no longer just learn what sounds correct based on patterns they've seen. They learn what words to output to be correct. RL is the process of forcing the pre-trained weights to be logically consistent.

How does Reinforcement Learning force the weights to be logically consistent? Isn't it just about training using a coarser/more-fuzzy granularity of fitness?

More generally, is it really solving the task if it's given a large number of attempts and an oracle to say whether it's correct? Humans can answer the questions in one shot and self-check the answer, whereas this is like trial and error with an external expert who tells you to try again.
by jajko | 2025-09-17 09:21:04+00:00
There are no goodies in this conflict, it doesn't matter whether some folks refuse to acknowledge their own tribe or ethnicity is doing or done some absolutely horrible things. No amount of whatabouttism is changing that, rest are details.

When anybody has doubts about how fucked up world and humans are, I just direct them into this medium-term conflict, facts are easy enough to find.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-09-17 09:21:45+00:00
> F4 on my Macbook Pro brings up Spotlight, not Launchpad.

Unless there's some weird setting, that's only in Tahoe. At the very least, it's only enforced in Tahoe; I was using F4 to bring up Launchpad in Sequoia, as I have in every version of MacOS for a long time.
by im3w1l | 2025-09-17 09:23:32+00:00
To me it's as if someone releases a new gun model and people single that gun out and complain that if you shoot someone with it they may die. Like it's a critique of guns as a concept not of that particular one.

In a complete tangent I think that "smart guns" that only let you shoot bullseye targets, animals and designated un-persons are not far off.
by AdrianB1 | 2025-09-17 09:24:49+00:00
All the brand new vaccines with no sufficient testing can be considered unsafe. I like vaccines in general (I am European, we have lots of free and mandatory vaccines as kids), but I don't like to be a test subject for brand new ones. Yes, someone needs to test new vaccines to gather data about safety, but some people are more risk adverse. I am a "take it later" guy.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-17 09:25:22+00:00
This is the best map I could find:

https://cwhong.carto.com/viz/6dfca01c-47e5-11e6-9fd3-0ee66e2...

Weasel words are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. There is a persistent last mile issue even in NYC, even in Manhattan. You're right that in Manhattan most people can use the subway as a last mile solution. However that map hasn't changed much in quite a while. The subway deserts that exist (in Manhattan and the other boroughs) aren't going away anytime soon because building new subways is eyewateringly expensive.

The inflexibility means that even when the subway is a viable last mile solution it may not be the appropriate one. For instance I had to go from Ridgewood to JFK a few years back. I was maybe a five minute walk from the subway. But were I to take the subway from one end of Queens to the other I would've had to go all the way to Midtown and transfer to LIRR.

Hell I've generally had to rely on buses for last mile connectivity even in London which certainly doesn't suffer from a lack of subway service.
by oneeyedpigeon | 2025-09-17 09:26:02+00:00
There's a set of features in the README that you can view if you follow the link:

- Integrated SSH and Telnet client and connection manager

- Integrated serial terminal

- Theming and color schemes

- Fully configurable shortcuts and multi-chord shortcuts

- Split panes

- Remembers your tabs

- PowerShell (and PS Core), WSL, Git-Bash, Cygwin, MSYS2, Cmder and CMD support

- Direct file transfer from/to SSH sessions via Zmodem

- Full Unicode support including double-width characters

- Doesn't choke on fast-flowing outputs

- Proper shell experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink)

- Integrated encrypted container for SSH secrets and configuration

- SSH, SFTP and Telnet client available as a web app (also self-hosted).
by sunrunner | 2025-09-17 09:26:43+00:00
I'm not sure how similar this is but I tried the same quite a while back with a simple 5x5 nonogram (Picross) and had similar difficulties.

I found not only incorrect 'reasoning' but also even after being explicit about why a certain deduction was not correct the same incorrect deduction would then appear later, and this happened over and over.

Also, there's already a complete database of valid answers at [1], so I'm not sure why the correct answer couldn't just come from that, and the 'reasoning' can be 'We solved this here, look...' ;)

[1] The wonderful https://pixelogic.app/every-5x5-nonogram
by lexicality | 2025-09-17 09:28:51+00:00
You only need to use scripts to move focus and provide keyboard controls if you have done something to mess with the focus and break the standard browser keyboard controls.

If you're using HTML/CSS sensibly then it's accessible from the get-go by dint of the browser being accessible.

> Also, when was that semantic HTML rule? You make it sound like ancient history, but semantic HTML has only been a thing since HTML5 (2008).

HTML5 added a million new tags, but HTML4 had plenty of semantic tags that people regularly ignored and replaced with <div>, for example <p>, <em>, <blockquote>...
by david-james-2 | 2025-09-17 09:28:58+00:00
I set "ignore-scripts=true" (https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/using-npm/config#ignore-scrip...) in npmrc(5). This changed the defaults for npm(1).

The Semgrep blog under "Additional NPM Registry Security Advice / Reducing Run Scripts" says "reducing" not "ignoring". I need to check if there are still "run scripts" even with this setting.

Also I need to check if there is the same class of vulnerabilities in other package managers I use, like emacs(1) (M-x package-install), mvn(1) (Maven, Java), clj(1) (deps.edn, Clojure), luarocks(1) (Lua), deps(1) (deps.fnl, Fennel), nbb(1) (deps.edn, Node.js babashka). Although some do not have "run scripts" feature, I need to make sure.
by Semaphor | 2025-09-17 09:29:00+00:00
Terminus 2019, 61 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19988557

Tabby 2021, 107 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29553767

Tabby 2023, 92 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35111397

Tabby 2023, 72 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36607323
by bloqs | 2025-09-17 09:29:31+00:00
gas station vape juice circa 2012 seems like a touch exaggerated. ive extensively researched making my permanent vape setup taste as good, and its down to the amount and type of sweetener used which doesnt seem to be available.

ive even bought the brand of liquid owned by the disposable company with the same branding. it's just not quite there.

you also have to accept the market for them, according to what you have said above shouldnt exist, but it does
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-17 09:30:58+00:00
I wish hardware vendors would just stop trying to write software. The vast majority of them are terrible at it and even within the tiny minority that can ship something that doesn't non-deterministically implode during normal operation, the vast majority of those are a hostile lock-in play.

Hardware vendors: Stop writing software. Instead write and publish hardware documentation sufficient for others to write the code. If you want to publish a reference implementation that's fine, but your assumption should be that its primary purpose is as a form of documentation for the people who are going to make a better one. Focus on making good hardware with good documentation.

Intel had great success for many years by doing that well and have recently stumbled not because the strategy doesn't work but because they stopped fulfilling the "make good hardware" part of it relative to TSMC.
by esperent | 2025-09-17 09:31:19+00:00
I've owned two gaming laptops and never had issues like this.

First one was a Clevo (rebranded as Medion) with a GTX 970m that I bought in 2017. An absolute beast, I lugged it in a backpack around the world for 4 years, including to places you really shouldn't bring a laptop like beaches and rainforests. I passed it my girlfriend's nephew and it is still going strong and being used every day. I repasted once in that time.

My current laptop is an MSI GE66 with an RTX 3070m bought in 2022. It's loud, I've repasted recently because it started overheating. It had some problems with the screen connector which they fixed under warranty fairly quickly. But aside from that it's solid.

One thing about both of these laptops - they are very easy to open and it looks like I could repair/replace pretty much every removable component easily. No glue.

The only thing I consider a real problem is the MSI fan noise. Well, that and the power brick which is the size of a literal brick.
Show HN: TrueType Rasterizer
by s_petrov | 2025-09-17 09:31:41+00:00
Hi. I wrote a (relatively) small TrueType rasterizer. It's not very powerful at this point but it will be expanded with more features in the near future. It has the most needed features and i guess it might be useful to someone. It can properly visualize 99.9% (or something like that) of the western glyphs, no support for left-to-right writing systems for now. I've tested in on a dozen of fonts and it works quite well. It is very slow at this point, and this is the main area for improvement for the next release. Also, it cannot properly render glyphs with self-intersecting contours - fortunatelly such glyphs are very rare. This issue will be fixed soon i hope. Another thing is that the rendering of small-size glyphs (below 14-15px) is not that good (but it's decent) as the rasterizer does not support hinting. The next release, that will come in few months, will probably have gradient-colored glyphs/strings and pre-computed glyphs to improve the drawing performance drastically (among other smaller improvements). More information in the Github page. It is C++ only but conversion to C should be very easy and probably i'll do it when i have some free time.
by gambiting | 2025-09-17 09:32:35+00:00
I think they did - I used to have an MSI gaming laptop years ago with a GTX560M if I remember correctly, and that used to throttle every several seconds, so every game you played stuttered. This one - not a single slowdown, but if you open it it has like 10 heat pipes and two fans that sound like jet engines - but it clearly works.
by close04 | 2025-09-17 09:32:39+00:00
Downvoting moves the comment down the reply tree and greys it out making it harder to read. Flagging comments completely hides them from many users, especially when logged in. And flagging submissions sends them to oblivion.

So these methods are definitely used to suppress topics or opinions, for better or worse. But when it comes to genocide it's obvious that those committing it also have the power to abuse every mechanism available to suppress information and discussions condemning it.
by reify | 2025-09-17 09:33:04+00:00
"Fares Better" sounds unscientific and very much like click bait

In cases where the numbers suggest that the average treated person "Fares better" than barely over 50% of the control group, or when effects are inconsistent, readers may not interpret the effects as profound.

Providing real numbers that are easily understandable, rather than evocative descriptions, allows readers to form their own conclusions about the results.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-17 09:33:10+00:00
My point isn't that the HN guidelines and norms should change, but rather there's a high chance of the norms being forced to change as the US government further puts its thumb on the internet. Again, saying it's a small group of activist legislators is ignoring the greater wave on the horizon. I say this as someone that's in the gaming community primarily which has resulted in significant changes already as a result of the payment processor shenanigans.
by imiric | 2025-09-17 09:33:59+00:00
> "Rewrites should always be avoided" is not a core principle of software engineering.

Why are you misrepresenting what I said? I never claimed that rewrites should always be avoided. But that in most cases they're not a good idea, for various reasons that should be obvious to most developers.

> I don't understand why you're so hung up on the history of this project.

I'm not hung up on this project at all. I have come across it, but I'm not a user. I simply stated an opinion that shouldn't be controversial at all, yet for some reason, I keep having to defend it. So it seems that it struck a nerve with fans of the project who would rather attack me personally than acknowledge the poor decisions made by its author.

> If we were talking about software being used to send people to space I could see your point

It's a very popular project that many projects depend on. Lives don't need to depend on it for it to be managed responsibly.

Anyway, I think we both have better things to do than waste anymore of our time on this discussion, so let's just drop it.
by pmontra | 2025-09-17 09:34:25+00:00
WhatsApp and Telegram are my slow social media. They ring only for the very few people I really care about. Everything else accumulates in their chats.

I get some link to FB and TikTok in my chats and groups but I don't open all of them. I don't have the apps, so if I do I open them in the browser. I'm not logged in. No TikTok account. Links to Instagram are very rare. No account. I check WhatsApp and Telegram when I feel like, no pressure.
by auguzanellato | 2025-09-17 09:34:33+00:00
The author disclosed that

> I used an LLM for wording. The research, traces, and AML decomp are mine. Every claim is verified and reproducible if you follow the steps in the article; logs and commands are in the repo. If you think something's wrong, cite the exact timestamp/method/line. "AI wrote it" is not an argument.
by bijant | 2025-09-17 09:34:39+00:00
No Idea what you mean by "white", are Jews white ? Polish, Russians, Germans ? Hitler killed Millions of "his own people" and I'm very grateful for the "slavic subhumans" and british colonial subjects who liberated Germany. If Britain had not committed the grave crime of colonialism and imposed it's language on the globe people from far flung places might not now be colonizing britain. Let's just hope that the new Hindu/Muslim version of England shall be more tolerant than the previous iteration.