MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dh2022 | 2025-09-18 13:50:22+00:00
How does the congregation chip in for new babies? Does the congregation provide cheap daycare? Or cheap college ? Lack of both was the main reason me and my wife have only 1 child.

My religious friends also have 3 kids for each family. College (or vaccination for that matter) is not in the cards for these kids. The wives stay at home to take care of the kids. The families live out in the boonies - the dads have 1 hour commute.and even so they are leveraged to the hilt: they bought their homes with a regular loan + HELOC. The kids are very religious-they shun Halloween and video-games for example (but the girls have their Instagram accounts ). For each his own I guess.
by jfengel | 2025-09-18 13:50:47+00:00
"I will also be strongly recommending that those funding ANTIFA be thoroughly investigated in accordance with the highest legal standards and practices,"

Well, I had wondered when the Niemöller poem was going to reach me. It's sooner than I expected.

I don't recall donating to anything that was specifically anti-fascist, but I'm sure that there's some kind of connection to be made. I've certainly spoken out against what I see as an increasingly fascist set of policies... and I suppose this proves me right.

I'm not particularly wealthy so I don't expect to be on the top of the hit list here. But I'm certainly being told not to make myself any more vulnerable.
by fxtentacle | 2025-09-18 13:50:47+00:00
"The consequences for theft should include that the profit you made off of the theft is taken away."

That seems very reasonable. Otherwise, stealing money, lending it out for interest, and then returning the stolen money while keeping the interest would be a viable way to earn money.

"The cost of building a company on theft should be the company itself."

Also seems reasonable, because it is the same rule applied to AI companies.

I'd say leave 20% for the VCs and split the other 80% of Anthropic stock among the authors of affected books. That would surely discourage similar behavior in the future.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-18 13:50:55+00:00
>Their business model and their belief that there’s an obligation to view ads when consuming content are not our problem.

The problem is that you feel you have an intrinsic right to the content. Like the content is a public good, and youtube shimmied it's way inbetween so it can shove ads in your face.

But that is not what the deal is. The content is made by creators explicity for youtube, and you are the one making a decision to go to youtube to view privately owned content that you have zero right to.
by bruce511 | 2025-09-18 13:50:55+00:00
>> Labeling people who use ad blockers as unethical is hypocritical, to say the least.

If I used an ad blocker you could say I was hypocritical. Since I don't, you can't. You're welcome to disagree on ethics of course, but its not hypocrisy.

>> If content creators want my money, they can choose more ethical business models, which are also likely to be less profitable and more difficult to manage. But, hey, that is the price to pay if you care about ethics, and not participating in machinery that exploits your viewers.

So you want creators to be more ethical, bypassing YT, but in the meantime you'll support Google by watch YT? Which as you point out is tracking you? I'm not sure I follow your argument here...
by vid | 2025-09-18 13:51:08+00:00
That's what I think of, along with favour from their new investment sibling, the US government. AMD doesn't want to be super competitive, they like their margins and being second choice in a hypetastic market. Even though Arc has very low adoption, it was making signs of doing scrappy things, like enabling two 24GB GPUs on one card from third party vendors, which got the hobby/upstart community pretty excited. Ultimately it's not a real market giving the people what they want via competition, it's all contrived by politics and the biggest players.
by TrackerFF | 2025-09-18 13:51:17+00:00
Antifa is an ideology, not an actual organization, AFAIK.

What this will usher through is the persecution of his opponents. Just label anyone you don't like as antifa, and now they're terrorists. Charlie Kirk turned out to be MAGA Horst Wessel, and now they're going to do everything in their power to dismantle their political opponents, in the name of Kirk.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-18 13:51:33+00:00
I've been feeling guilty for not switching to KDE for years now, because I hate fiddling with desktops. I like the defaults to be boring, and basically to be Windows XP. KDE always struck me as annoying, but 1) MATE is bad and buggy, Caja most of all; and 2) as a Redhat and a Gnome hater, I really have no right to still be using it.

Is there an easy way to get the Windows XP/Gnome 2 experience out of KDE?

It would be magic if there were a Debian package called "I don't care about my desktop, it takes me months to change the wallpaper from the default."

I do not care about beauty, I only care about stability (i.e. my desktop from 30 years ago.) If I could get WinXP out of XFCE, I would switch to that, but my attempts have been disappointing ergonomically. All of the webcruft and sparkle in Cinnamon is also very offputting, although I've been happy to recommend it to others who don't have the same irritation triggers as me.
by muzani | 2025-09-18 13:51:49+00:00
I got sick of remote work by 2018. I quit freelancing, took on a full time job in hopes of just spending time with other humans. I wasn't the only one - co-working spaces just boomed and peaked in 2019 with WeWork.

But after lockdown, 4/5 of the co-working spaces in my city shut down. The same people who did co-working spaces started their own businesses and would criticize remote work. Remote work basically went back to 2008 levels, even with new tech like Slack, Zoom, etc. Hybrid is probably best, but people overshot for no reason.

I think with AI, if you were early enough to work with langchain, there's some hints that they tried writing langchain with AI. The architecture was all over the place. Some bits were overengineered. Context windows grew faster than the scaffolding that was designed to handle small context windows.

GPT-5 is the lockdown event. You have the tech now to work fully with AI... it just stops being vibe, and starts being invasive. It's more judgemental. It changes code in a way you don't want it to. We'll probably be in a better place next year, but by then, people have lost their appetite for AI assistants.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-18 13:51:52+00:00
What's special about niri? Asking as a happy user of i3 for... I can't remember how long. It's one of the few pieces of software I don't have to think about, it just gets out of my way.

Actually, the only situations where I think about it is when I'm driving a mac or a win and the window management gets on my nerves, although I'm generally a pretty chill guy.
by CapsAdmin | 2025-09-18 13:51:56+00:00
I've used kde for years, but earlier this year I decided to try xfce.

My goal was to have my own setup without "bloat" I never used. So my own task manager of choice, my search bar of choice, etc.

My initial impression of xfce was that it was much snappier than kde. My main gripe with xfce was the lack of wayland support.

A big personal issue; while my own custom setup was ok, I still had to maintain it, and I found myself trying to make xfce like kde. So might as well use kde I guess.

Another super specifc thing I missed was that its window manager didn't support defining horizontal gradients in the titlebar, so I couldn't rock a true windows classic theme. It could do vertical gradients, but that's not the same.

Now I'm back to using KDE.
by b112 | 2025-09-18 13:52:12+00:00
Or people who turn the brightness up on their monitor to "make the sun look dim in comparison".

My TV has its backlight set to '0' (OLED, and a non-real property to set as no 'backlight', but still a metric). If I set it to 100 my eyes bleed. My current monitor with a real backlight has it set to 5. Yes, 5 out of 100.

I think grey on grey works, if the very walls behind you are being bleached by the intensity of the light coming off the monitor.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-18 13:52:40+00:00
I have wanted to try Chrome for the longest time but I cant justify overspending (you need a lot of memory for the modern web) and not being able to install half the Linux apps I would want OOTB (out of the box is a big deal for me).

I am still shocked Google has not rubbed two brain cells together and built a serious Google ChromeOS version for developers with a real desktop environment and real access to Linux, and keeping the browser as sandboxed as they have. I would spend top dollar on such a laptop. Heck it could come with an easy way to install Android Studio, and native apps for things like Hangouts or whatever they call it now.
by duxup | 2025-09-18 13:52:44+00:00
I think Roblox is a cool platform.

(I get it, there's a lot of articles about it is bad, I've read them, I'm not convinced they're potentially worse than any other platform)

The platform is very fast performance wise. It's available everywhere and plays well on all sorts of devices. The friction to create content / play very low. The ability for the community to iterate through ideas that you wouldn't find anywhere else seems infinite.

Even my older kids who I would have thought aged out of Roblox by now return to it fairly often.

Every other platform just can't match the low friction, variety, and speed of Roblox. There are advantages of other platforms, but the ease of entry on Roblox seems to be the big deal.
by dotancohen | 2025-09-18 13:53:55+00:00
> So that is the state, that thinks, that the land is god given theirs, right?

Though there does exist a small religious minority that does claim the holy land to belong to Jews as it was given by God, I only know one such person. Most Israelis feel that Israel should be a Jewish state because we earned the land in the same fashion as almost every other nation on Earth, and certainly in the same fashion as ever other nation in the Middle East.

But I'll tell you who does think that certain land can only belong to people of a specific race. People who call the holy land "Palestinian land". The invention of that term was, as are many of the anti-Jewish arguments, an inversion of the Jewish use of "God -given land". And just as you reject the idea when it is used by Jews, so would a logical person reject the idea when used by our enemies.
by Theodores | 2025-09-18 13:54:00+00:00
These hark back to a time before franchises took over. Nowadays, anyone wanting a restaurant (and customers) is obligated to make it a McDonalds (or other well known chain). If they don't, then McBigChain comes to town and they have no customers.

What is odd about this state of affairs is that everyone wants Mom and Pop, family owned, unique diners, however, where do people go when the kids in the back want their Happy Meals? You always know what you are going to get in a chain, and that is the magic of franchising.
by saidinesh5 | 2025-09-18 13:54:23+00:00
The window management and dolphin for file management for one. KDE let's you easily pin windows on top, show on all desktops etc .. Dolphin gives you a nice multi tab, split pane file manager along with a terminal that follows you along.

On my work macbook - I can't install third-party software and the default window management is just not there. It has problems restoring windows to correct size when i switch external monitors... The experience just isn't as nice as KDE on my home laptop.

I had to install inputactions to get mac like touchpad gestures on my home kde set up but after that it just feels nicer and smoother than my office mac
by landgenoot | 2025-09-18 13:55:04+00:00
I think there are usecases for this.

Some countries switched to identity apps instead of plastic identity cards. You could make sensitive data non-screenshottable and non-photographable.

A modern variant to the passport anti identity fraud cover: https://merk.anwb.nl/transform/a9b4e52a-9ba1-414b-b199-29085...

The hotel you are checking in doesn't need to know your DOB, length, SSN, birth place, validity and document number. But they will demand a photo of the ID anyway.
by KeplerBoy | 2025-09-18 13:55:33+00:00
Seems Nvidia needs an alternative to MediaTek or wants to pressure MediaTek given the announcement of x86 Intel/Nvidia SoCs and the delay of DGX Spark, GB10 and N1X.

They wanted to launch DGX Spark early summer and it's nowhere to be seen, while strix halo is shipping in over 30+ SKUs from all major manufacturers.
by amlib | 2025-09-18 13:56:16+00:00
I really dislike how people present KDE and Gnome as being "clones" of Windows and MacOS. GNOME specially is so distinct (be it for good and bad reasons) that it deserves to be considered it's own thing. I can't stand MacOS with all it's Macosisms that are ingrained since it's Macintosh days. GNOME being grown for PC usages has none of these issues. Window management is also a breeze and easy to pickup rather than a byzantine mess. The only thing they really share is a nice, sparse look & feel.

KDE does have a lot more similarities to Windows but saying it's a clone might put the wrong idea on peoples mind when they transition from Microsoft's system.
by JoshuaEN | 2025-09-18 13:56:31+00:00
There was an NPM RFC for this feature (though not as focused on supply chain attacks) in 2022, but the main response mirrored some of the other comments in here.

"waiting a length of time doesn’t increase security, and if such a practice became common then it would just delay discovery of vulnerabilities until after that time anyways"

https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/646#issuecomment-12824971...
by sho_hn | 2025-09-18 13:56:45+00:00
Honestly, I'm not too fond of the screenshots in the OP's article either. I'd say it looks all fairly slapdash and too busy.

I will say that the permission editing is (as you can also see in the nav bar there) a few levels down digging into menus, and if you go into those kinds of corners of other systems the UIs often tend to start looking a bit more "developer-y". E.g. check the analogous bits of Android, and also MacOS has a few things like plist editor windows and such where you're suddenly well off the consumer track and into unloved form-shaped things. It's a bit like the backrooms.

But that's not meant as a defense or justification!

In fact blogs like this and lists of warts often help us. If you play fly on the wall in some of our channels (e.g. the promo ones), you will also often see people doing the legwork of parsing reviews and ticketizing criticisms. We try to listen quite actively because if someone dislikes a UI they're most often right.

The most important thing is that what's bad today can in fact be good tomorrow, especially if you don't get defensive about it.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-18 13:56:51+00:00
> On windows you have to click the icon before you can interact with it

Not anymore! This changed in some win11 update I can't remember, but I recall celebrating this improvement.

However, this being windows, of course it's half-assed. This works with the mouse wheel but not by scrolling the touchpad (as of up-to-date 24h2).
by Zak | 2025-09-18 13:57:19+00:00
I've been a happy KDE user for years, but I recently discovered that Gnome is surprisingly good on a tablet. KDE is usable, but feels about as touch-native as Windows does. Gnome is easily as good a tablet experience as an iPad.

There's only one fly in the ointment: Gnome's onscreen keyboard is both terrible and difficult to replace.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-18 13:57:20+00:00
The reason youtube has no competitors is exactly because of this stupid childish reasoning that everyone here has.

It's amazing how you can talk to seemingly intelligent people, and then when you say "Services cost money, and you should either honor your end of the agreement or forgo the service" they somehow get deranged and start with these wordy long dialogues about "well actually it's my computer and I can chose what I want to display on it and, and, and..."

Go read the story of Vid.me, the only serious youtube competitor to come around in a decade. They went bankrupt because it turns out those childish wordy dialogue preachers actually just dont't want to see ads or pay subscriptions. They just want a charity streaming service for their entertainment. Must be such a huge surprise for you to hear that....
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-18 13:57:30+00:00
I honestly think so, but I'm not surprised some losers here at HN down voted my comment.

There's many things to not like with Gnome, but they've got the user interface figured out. Contrast is correct both in light mode and dark mode. Readability is excellent. Margins and paddings are consistent across the board. Buttons, checkboxes and other gizmos look exactly as they should, with subtle shadows and 3D effects. Border radiuses are consistent and not to large.

Icons are not great, but that's the same on all desktop environments now. OS X had great icons, but that age is over.

And since they have all the important basics correct, it is trivial to fix any short comings in the UI. The team deserves praise for what they've achieved.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-09-18 13:58:00+00:00
>So I ask them what quality means. So far, I only get the most basic feedback: it should be in X style, pass Y linter, have N% coverage, have documentation... I'm glad people are thinking about it at least, but let's not pretend like we cared before when it took manual labour

I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that'd accept a PR which introduced untested & undocumented features, in which the code doesn't even pass the company's internal linter.

Those feel like very low bars for your colleagues & clients to set.
by debazel | 2025-09-18 13:58:03+00:00
The maintainers did notice in both of the recent attacks, but it takes time to regain access to your compromised account to take the package down, contact npm, etc.

All recent attacks have also been noticed within hours of release by security companies that automatically scan all newly released packages published to npm.

So as far as I know all recent attacks would have been avoided by adding a short delay.
by Bender | 2025-09-18 13:58:06+00:00
What is the total size of the AUR repo? It's tempting to host a mirror if that's an option just to study the traffic. If not it would be nifty if they could run

tcpdump -i any -p --dont-verify-checksums -NNnnvvv -s0 -B131072 -c10000 proto 6 and port 80 and tcp[13] == 2

assuming its port 80 and then strip out the IP addresses and share what that looks like. Bonus if they could capture a few of the known DDoS IP's and exclude the legit traffic. Curious if one of these things is not like the other. DDoS tools are often written by lazy people and rarely are they maintained.
by ThePyCoder | 2025-09-18 13:58:19+00:00
KDE has been crazy good for me.

It's a very complete package, it has a quick launcher that's good, a good screenshot tool and very very nice window management features.

When combined with libinput gestures, you can get macOS style three finger swipe between desktops. And not just a swap, but a nice swipe animation that pauses when you do on the touchpad.

On a laptop, this is such a big timesaver.

Its bottom bar icon handling is very good, customising is easy, and the settings panel is very clear. Everything is just so polished.

Then there is kde connect as well, it integrates so effertlessly. Kde is truly a software powerhouse, well done.
by jonstewart | 2025-09-18 13:58:25+00:00
I first tried getting specific with Claude Code. I made the Claude.md, I detailed how to do TDD, what steps it should take, the commands it should run. It was imperfect. Then I had it plan (think hard) and write the plan to a file. I’d clear context, have it read the plan, ask me questions, and then have it decompose the plan into a detailed plan of discrete tasks. Have it work its way through that. It would inevitably go sideways halfway through, even clearing context between each task. It wouldn’t run tests, it would commit breakage, it would flip flop between two different broken approaches, it was just awful. Now I’ve just been vibing, writing as little as possible and seeing what happens. That sucks, too.

It’s amazing at reviewing code. It will identify what you fear, the horrors that lie within the codebase, and it’ll bring them out into the sunlight and give you a 7 step plan for fixing them. And the coding model is good, it can write a function. But it can’t follow a plan worth shit. And if I have to be extremely detailed at the function by function level, then I should be in the editor coding. Claude code is an amazing niche tool for code reviews and dialogue and debugging and coping with new technologies and tools, but it is not a productivity enhancement for daily coding.
by belter | 2025-09-18 13:58:26+00:00
NVIDIA is Jensen Huang life, and he is probably the best CEO in the USA. But he should be careful. Possible Shareholders lawsuits come with Discovery. NVIDIA sales to Coreweave for example, a company they have shares on is starting to look a lot like self-dealing.

Also, since this Intel deal makes no sense for NVIDIA, a good observer would notice that lately, he seems to spend more time on Air Force One than with NVIDIA teams. The leak of any evidence, showing this was an investment ordered by the White House, will make his company hostage of future demands from the current corrupt administration. The timing is already incredibly suspicions.

We will know for sure he become a hostage, if the next NVIDIA investment is on World Liberty Financial.

"Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches." - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chi...
by rpdillon | 2025-09-18 13:58:42+00:00
I'm not sure why everyone is so hostile. Your idea has merit, along the lines of a heuristic that you trigger a human review as a follow-up. I'd be surprised if this isn't exactly the direction things go, although I don't think the tools will be given for free, but rather made part of the platform itself, or perhaps as an add-on service.
by matthewaveryusa | 2025-09-18 13:59:07+00:00
I was using element X. I can re-install the stack and see if things have improved. If you want someone to debug with I'll gladly hop on a call to see if I'm doing something wrong. The jist of my setup was postgres, coturn, element web and synapse with traefik in front of it exposed to the web in a docker compose
Show HN: Accountability layer for Pomodoro – join a focus session in under 60s
by chainyo | 2025-09-18 13:59:18+00:00
I kept failing at Pomodoro after week two. Solo sessions are easy to skip.

So I built Pomodobros, a browser-based paired Pomodoro timer.

You can:

- Join a public room or invite a buddy, timers stay in sync (25/5)

- Accountability without chat (silent presence, leave anytime)

- Streaks rank consistency, not hours (to avoid grindy incentives)

From landing to session in <60s

Login is optional (only needed for stats and community features)

Why this might be interesting to you: if timers work for you but you still drift, a second person’s timer on screen is a small commitment that nudges you to finish the block.

What I’d love feedback on:

- onboarding friction / “where do I click first?”

- whether pairing actually helps you finish more sessions than solo.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-18 13:59:39+00:00
The capital murder conviction was based on postmortem findings that were regarded as pathognomonic of shaken baby syndrome and those signs are no longer considered reliable. The detective who led the original investigation now believes the man is innocent of the particular crime for which he faces execution. If the detective, with access to far more particulars in this case than any of us here is willing to say the pause button should be pressed, it’s worth re-examining.