MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drnick1 | 2025-09-24 05:23:19+00:00
It's worth noting that the native Linux version of games is often buggy and a far worse experience than the Windows version running on Proton. Valve itself is infamous for this: the Left 4 Dead 2 native game has multiple very annoying bugs that have been known for 15 years, and that Valve still hasn't fixed. Unfortunately, there is (another) bug that prevents the Windows version running on Proton from connecting to VAC-secure servers or I would have ditched the Linux version long ago.

At this point game devs should just discontinue the native version if they aren't going to properly support it and just make sure the game runs flawlessly on Proton.
by ystvn | 2025-09-24 05:23:40+00:00
> Java is maturing into a syntactically nice language, albeit slowly, and it's the backbone of many medium and large companies.

I've heard about Java initiatives to improve it, but can you point to examples of how how Java "is maturing into a syntactically nice language"?

I'm tempted to learn it, but wonder whether it would really become nice enough to become a 'go-to' language (over TS in my case)
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-24 05:23:45+00:00
I really like kitty. The customisability is off the charts, especially the remote control feature and the kittens feature. You can do almost anything with a combination of those two.

At the same time, it's perfectly usable with opinionates defaults.

Run `kitten` and check out the default kittens, there are some gems in there.
by watwut | 2025-09-24 05:24:41+00:00
Basically, it is ok for bigots like DHH to spread their opinions and to try to push away or harm people they dont like.

But, if you push back or criticise them, that is something wrong. The harm can go only one way - from bigots to the rest of us. But other way round, once you funded bigots you have to continue with it.
by physicsguy | 2025-09-24 05:24:47+00:00
> With compilers, I don't need to crack open a hex editor on every build to check the assembly.

The tooling is better than just cracking open the assembly but in some areas people do effectively do this, usually to check for vectorization of hot loops, since various things can mean a compiler fails to do it. I used to use Intel VTune to do this in the HPC scientific world.
by alex1138 | 2025-09-24 05:25:48+00:00
To further the analogy, Alice and Bob decide on potentially emailing Anna instead but Zuckerberg is such a megalomaniac that he's overriden everybody's email addresses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433

("But that's on Facebook, which Anna doesn't have" - true, but apparently syncing contacts with Facebook - something FB presumably often does automatically - will wipe out email addresses of your contacts)
by themaninthedark | 2025-09-24 05:25:53+00:00
Just to split hairs here, as I do not think that a company should be forced to host content.

Hosting content is not giving someone an audience.

If I take my stool into the main square and stand on it, giving a speech about the evils of canned spinach. People pass by but no-one stops and listens(or not for long), I did not have an audience.

If I record the same thing and put it up on Youtube and the same reaction happens. I only get 5~10 views, Youtube is not giving me an audience. They are hosting the video, just like they do for many other videos that are uploaded everyday.

If Youtube suddenly starts pushing my video onto everyone's "Home", "Recommended " or whatever; then that would be them giving me an audience.

If the Big Spinach Canners find my video and ask Youtube to take it down, that is censorship.
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-09-24 05:26:09+00:00
This reminds me of the internet in 2000. Lots of companies doing .COM stuff but many didn’t understand what they were doing and why they were doing it. But in the end the internet was a huge game changer. I see the same with AI. There will be a lot of money wasted but in the end AI will be huge transformation.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-09-24 05:27:08+00:00
i dont think thats really accurate. its theocratic and authoritarian, but its not a dictatorship and they have democratic elements

the candidates are approved by a religious board, but its got a full set of checks and balances and allows for liberalization. The reality is that given a panel of candidates Iranians have often voted for the conservative candidate

i get there is a large amount of liberally minded people in big cities that feel disenfranchised.. but i wouldnt be surprised if the government is still highly popular with the majority of people

Comparing it to North Korea or China is way to simplistic
by Dwedit | 2025-09-24 05:27:47+00:00
Proof of Concept or GTFO issue 0x14 is a PDF document file that can also be run as a NES ROM. The file will display its own MD5 hash in a PDF viewer, and also displays its own MD5 hash in a NES emulator (only first 40KB+16 bytes are actually loaded there)

https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo#0x14

And yes, documents are not normally supposed to be able to display their own MD5 hash.
by asdff | 2025-09-24 05:28:19+00:00
I don't think the bribe risk is any different as its always been. Sports betting is nothing new in the U.S., people just used to either have to plan a vacation to vegas or find a bookie who would take their action. Wasn't hard to do. I knew a lot of people who had bookies and were betting every weekend. Legalization just meant they didn't have to maintain a relationship with a bookie, kind of like how dispensaries put a bunch of pot dealers out of work.
by yxie | 2025-09-24 05:29:50+00:00
I’ve developed a muscle memory: whenever I need information, I open Chrome, start a new tab, and Google it. Back when Google thrived, this workflow was smooth and efficient. But over time, I got tired of juggling tabs all day. I started wondering: do I really need to stare at dozens of messy tabs? Is there a better way to access information?

That question lingered… until ChatGPT arrived. LLMs can now search, remember, and understand vast amounts of data, ready to compose answers that combine multiple sources. That’s when I realized: it was time to build something new.

*Introducing Concon*

Concon is a new way to access information. Technically, it’s still a browser, but it revolutionizes how you interact with it. You don’t need to be stuck in Chrome or constantly switch tabs to get things done.

Think about it: how many times have you been learning a new software, jumped to Chrome for a tutorial, and hours later found yourself lost in Twitter or Reddit? Concon is designed to prevent these workflow breaks.

*Here’s how it works:*

1. *Delegate queries to LLMs* – they’ve already done the research and can organize multiple resources into coherent answers for you. 2. *Lightweight webview* – opens and closes on the go, never hijacking your workflow like Chrome does.

*Modes:*

- *Quick Mode:* A floating toolbar on top of your OS, ready to serve AI, Notion, and Todo tasks in real time—minimizing Chrome switching.

![r/macapps - I built a ‘Jarvis’ to stop constantly switching Chrome tabs](https://preview.redd.it/i-built-a-jarvis-to-stop-constantly-...)

- *Window Mode:* A larger fallback window for settings, adding ad-hoc AI sites, or customizing Quick Mode style.

![r/macapps - I built a ‘Jarvis’ to stop constantly switching Chrome tabs](https://preview.redd.it/i-built-a-jarvis-to-stop-constantly-...)

I’ve been using Concon for a while, and it genuinely feels like a game changer. Tasks get done faster than ever, sometimes leaving me wondering what to do with the extra time—haha.

It’s so *SATISFYING* to summon Concon using *Ctrl+Ctrl* or the floating window whenever I have a random question or Todo.

I’d love for you to try Concon and share feedback. It’s free and designed to save you time(at least not to waste it)—give it a shot!

Try Concon here: [https://www.concon.pro](https://www.concon.pro/)

*Question for the community:*

How do you currently manage workflow interruptions? Would you try a floating AI hub like Concon?
by riedel | 2025-09-24 05:29:57+00:00
I use podman desktop on Windows for common development stuff as drop in replacement. I switched due to licensing as I guess universities do not fall under the licencing exceptions. I actually also use the docker CLI, particularly docker compose. I was motivated to do the same on one of our Debian vms, because I could more install podmap via standard apt sources, i hoped that it doesn't mess to that much with the IP stack and it is a bit closer to K8s which I still deemed as overkill. However, trying to install e.g. komo.do via podman compose was a total fail. Even after fixing socket locations, etc, I would see weird behavior. So yes, it is a clear 'almost'. However, the critical cases can become easily very frustrating. Again, on my windows laptop with WSL2 it works like a charm, but there I also do not run server deployments that need to work reliably out of the box.
by onion2k | 2025-09-24 05:29:57+00:00
Someone tried to generate a retro hip-hop album cover image with AI, but the text is all nonsense, and humans would have to be hired to clean that AI slop

In about two years we've gone from "AI just generates rubbish where the text should be" to "AI spells things pretty wrong." This is largely down to generating a whole image with a textual element. Using a model like SDXL with a LORA like FOOOCUS to do inpainting and input image with a very rough approximation of the right text (added via MS Paint) you can get a pretty much perfect result. Give it another couple of years and the text generation will be spot on.

So yes, right now we need a human to either use the AI well, or to fix it afterwards. That's how technology always goes - something is invented, it's not perfect, humans need to fix the outputs, but eventually the human input diminishes to nothing.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-09-24 05:31:18+00:00
You know what, let it go through!

If the European people are too stupid to stop it and simply keep on voting for the parties who support this sort of law, then so be it.

The criminals will move on to other means of communication, the privacy minded folks will move to sideloaded Signal-like apps and take their friends and families with them if possible and the rest will just have to learn to live under the new EU-Stasi regime and watch their privacy being stripped a little more day by day.
by mikestorrent | 2025-09-24 05:32:10+00:00
Sometimes it feels like those who would develop the next React should really just try to develop the next web browser. Why spend all this time and effort building what is essentially a massive wad of chewing gum and paperclips to take what is essentially a glorified document reader and make it into an application platform?

We can run other executables on our local. The web itself is the problem and what needs to die to give way to something new.
by int_19h | 2025-09-24 05:32:50+00:00
To remind, the original context was transpiling another language (with semantics that allows irreducible CFGs) to Zig, not just this one specific pattern. Yes, of course, for pretty much all practical code, there is going to be a better equivalent. But the transpiler doesn't get the benefit of only working with practical code - it has to deal with whatever the source language spec says is legal. So you need to come up with a generic solution to the entire class of problems presented. Which does exist - e.g. Relooper (https://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/05/reloop-all-blocks.html) - but the point is that it is very much a non-trivial transformation, to the point where it might actually be easier to transpile to C or something else that has full-fledged goto that you can just use directly.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-24 05:35:44+00:00
> That's how technology always goes

This is not how AI has ever gone. Every approach so far has either been a total dead end, or the underlying concept got pivoted into a simplified, not-AI tech.

This new approach of machine learning content generation will either keep developing, or it will join everything else in the history of AI by hitting a point of diminishing to zero returns.
by dsign | 2025-09-24 05:36:22+00:00
> In that sense life is obviously not a computation: it makes some sense to view DNA as symbolic but it is misleading to do the same for the proteins they encode.

Proteins can also be seen as sequence of symbols: one symbol for each aminoacid. But that's beyond the point. Computational theory uses Turing Machines as a conceptual model. The theories employ some human-imposed conceptual translation to encode what happens in a digital processor or a Lego computer, even if those are not made with a tape and a head. Anybody who actually understands these theories could try to make a rigorous argument of why biological systems are Turning Machines, and I give them very high chances of succeeding.

> These proteins are solving physical problems, not expressing symbolic solutions to symbolic problems

This sentence is self-contradictory. If a protein solves a physical problem and it can only do so because of its particular structure, then its particular structure is an encoding of the solution to the physical problem. How can that encoding be "symbolic" is more of a problem for the beholder (us, humans), but as stated before, using the aminoacid sequence gives one such symbolic encoding. Another symbolic encoding could be the local coordinates of each atom of the protein, up to the precision limits allowed by quantum physics.

The article correctly states that biological computation is full of randomness, but it also explains that computational theories are well furnished with revolving doors between randomness and determinism (Pseudo-random numbers and Hopfield networks are good examples of conduits in either direction).

> ... whatever.

Please don't use this word to finish an argument where there are actual scientists who care about the subject.
by jrecyclebin | 2025-09-24 05:37:02+00:00
Lots of gold in this article. It's like discovering a basket of cheat codes. This will age well.

Great links, BAML is a crazy rabbithole and just found myself nodding along to frequent /compact. These tips are hard-earned and very generously given. Anyone here can take it or leave it. I have theft on my mind, personally. (ʃƪ¬‿¬)
by scuff3d | 2025-09-24 05:37:23+00:00
That line of thinking makes no sense to me honestly.

We are years into this, and while the models have gotten better, the guard rails that have to be put on these things to keep the outputs even semi useful are crazy. Look into the system prompts for Claude sometime. And then we have to layer all these additional workflows on top... Despite the hype I don't see any way we get to this actually being a more productive way to work anytime soon.

And not only are we paying money for the privilege to work slower (in some cases people are shelling out for multiple services) but we're paying with our time. There is no way working this way doesn't degrade your fundamental skills, and (maybe) worse the understanding of how things actually work.

Although I suppose we can all take solice in the fact that our jobs aren't going anywhere soon. If this is what it takes to make these things work.
by Suppafly | 2025-09-24 05:37:37+00:00
>Indian English is not only a perfectly good dialect, it's one of the most popular worldwide.

Sure, but a lot of times it's not really Indian English, it's English vocab mixed and matched with grammar rules from other Indian languages like Hindi or Urdu or Bengali. I've been on conference calls where Indians from different regions were speaking mutually unintelligible versions of English and had to act as a translator from english to english.
by mulmen | 2025-09-24 05:37:51+00:00
> If that's the only "advantage" another service has, I don't care if it has no competitive advantage. If it offers anything else then that's the advantage.

The value proposition of a less censorious YouTube alternative is exactly that it is less censorious. You’re seemingly arguing against free markets.

> Seriously this idea is super weird to me. There are plenty of reasons to avoid too much regulation. But "don't force company X to make their users happier because happy users won't leave" is a terrible reason.

The problem with compelled speech is that the government should not be in the business of deciding what kind of speech makes people happy.

> A big part of the "if" is that people are making their own evaluations.

People should have the freedom to choose the media they consume. Compelled speech takes that choice away from them by putting the government in the position of making that decision for the people. This distorts the marketplace of ideas.

I don’t have time to read every comment or email or watch every video. Private content moderation is a value add and a form of expression. We need competition in that space, not government restriction.

> I am not talking about antitrust. I'm saying that the bigger and more powerful a corporation gets the further it is from a human and human rights.

If your problem with Google is how much influence they have then yes, you are talking about antitrust. That’s the regulatory mechanism by which excessive corporate influence can be restricted.

> In this case, barely at all, and it's the same one we already have for common carriers.

“A little” is still more than nothing which was your previous assertion. You may be comfortable with the rising temperature of our shared pot of water but I say it is a cause for concern.
by the_duke | 2025-09-24 05:38:02+00:00
It absolutely can be, by a huge margin.

You spend a few minutes generating a spec, then agents go off and do their coding, often lasting 10-30 minutes, including running and fixing lints, adding and running tests, ...

Then you come back and review.

But you had 10 of these running at the same time!

You become a manager of AI agents.

For many, this will be a shitty way to spend their time.... But it is very likely the future of this profession.
by nelox | 2025-09-24 05:38:34+00:00
The claim that big US companies “cannot explain the upsides” of AI is misleading. Large firms are cautious in regulatory filings because they must disclose risks, not hype. SEC rules force them to emphasise legal and security issues, so those filings naturally look defensive. Earnings calls, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly positive about AI. The suggestion that companies only adopt AI out of fear of missing out ignores the concrete examples already in place. Huntington Ingalls is using AI in battlefield decision tools, Zoetis in veterinary diagnostics, Caterpillar in energy systems, and Freeport-McMoran in mineral extraction. These are significant operational changes.

It is also wrong to frame limited stock outperformance as proof that AI has no benefit. Stock prices reflect broader market conditions, not just adoption of a single technology. Early deployments rarely transform earnings instantly. The internet looked commercially underwhelming in the mid-1990s too, before business models matured.

The article confuses the immaturity of current generative AI pilots with the broader potential of applied AI. Failures of workplace pilots usually result from integration challenges, not because the technology lacks value. The fact that 374 S&P 500 companies are openly discussing it shows the opposite of “no clear upside” — it shows wide strategic interest.
by annie_muss | 2025-09-24 05:38:59+00:00
Not great. I've been trying to get into a real "career" track software job for the best part of a decade. I study, work on side projects, got to events regularly. And now the job market is even worse. I'm starting to feel like I've missed the boat. I wonder what would've happened if I had managed to get a job with chances to progress, learn and improve 10 years ago. I dream of earning 6 figures, people make it sound like it is so easy. I'll pick up any tech stack, go into any industry, move around the world, whatever it takes.
by Ancapistani | 2025-09-24 05:39:24+00:00
I actually have no problem with communists on the face of it. I can have a friendly discussion with anyone.

My point is that calling out “fascists” in particular is intended as an ad hominem - you’re attacking the person, not the ideas.

Frankly, the specific opinion someone holds is irrelevant here. It’s both wrong and unproductive to label someone and then ignore their concerns because of the label you applied.
by hdjrudni | 2025-09-24 05:39:36+00:00
Is that a question or a statement? I'm running Kubernetes on Docker Desktop. But every few months Docker Desktop either outright craps out and forces me to wipe everything and rebuild my containers or the latest annoyance is that it keeps giving me popups saying something something couldn't start Ubuntu.... but then seems to work perfectly fine after skipping it 10 times.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-24 05:40:14+00:00
Robbery is a crime, so why should people take any measures to protect their things from being stolen? Murder is a crime, so why care about death threats?

New age medicine has been around forever, yes. But the effects are only known to be negligible outside of pandemics. We know from history that people did many irrational things during past pandemics due to fear and social contagion.

It's a tough problem, everyone believes themselves an expert on everything, plus trolls and disinformation campaigns. There's also a significant information asymmetry.

It's funny you mention opioids as I just recently came across a tweet claiming that Indians were responsible for getting Americans addicted to them via prescription. In one of the buried reply chains, the poster admits they have no evidence and are just repeating a claim someone made to them sometime. But how many people will read that initial post and reinforce their racist beliefs vs see that the claim was unsubstantiated? And when that leads to drastic action by a madman, who's going to be the target of the blame? The responsibility is too diffused to target any specific person, the government obviously won't, madmen don't act in a vacuum and so the blame falls on the platform.

Yes, no one should have the power to determine what ideas are and are not allowed to propagate, but on the other hand, you could still go to other platforms and are not entitled to the reach of the major platforms, but then again, these platforms are extremely influential. At the same time there's also the problem that people in part view the platforms as responsible when they spread bad ideas, the platform operators also feel some level of social responsibility, while the platform owners don't want legal responsibility.
by alexanderjchun | 2025-09-24 05:41:11+00:00
I can respect that and I considered whether I was taking in too much social media, but it feels like every Monday there's something new to scratch my head at.

Some of the recent stuff:

- Paul G confronting Palantir on X about respecting the US Constitution

- Developments with Ukraine, Russia, and NATO

- The insane valuations of AI startups and the back and forth in global trade policy

- How poorly positioned the Fed is in the event of stagflation

- Civil unrest in Nepal and several other countries

- Labor economy shift due to ICE and the new visa related legislation

I was trying to keep this less US focused, but it's really all tied together.

Point being, you don't think this time is different and may require planning ahead?

Genuinely curious. I've already come to terms with the possibility that I could be a doomer that has spent too much time on X.
by waysa | 2025-09-24 05:42:26+00:00
This is especially valuable for friends who struggle with depression. They almost never feel like going out because depression sucks out all their energy. But they'll appreciate the invite and that they're not forgotten. It's harder this way for them to isolate and go deeper down the spiral.

One rule that helped me fight my depression was to accept invites no matter what. Go to the loud bar I don't like? I'm in. Cake decorating workshop with annoyingly cheerful Jennifer? Sign me up. Join Joel for his 5am workout? I'm not sleeping anyway.

You get the idea. But it can only work when others take the initiative.