MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by oxalorg | 2025-09-08 19:56:33+00:00
Creating signal backups for iPhone users is _really_ hard. The only way to do it is to get a backup from the Signal Desktop app, which is also non-trivial because in recent versions of the desktop the decrypt key is also encrypted and store in keychain.

I had to install sqlcipher, find my encrypted key stored locally, find the decrypt key in apple's keychain, decrypt it using Signal's format, etc. This took a lot of trial and error, and reading a lot of existing source (special thanks to https://github.com/bepaald/get_signal_desktop_key_mac but unfortunately it did not work OOTB for me)
by lbrito | 2025-09-08 19:56:45+00:00
Google Photo's sneakily imposed storage limitations a few years ago, after a long time advertising "unlimited" storage for standard quality photos. The constant bitching that I was almost out of space, and the wasted time in an effort to free up space, were what pushed me to finally look for a self hosted solution.

I've been very pleased using immich for about a year now.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-08 19:56:58+00:00
This is such a nothingburger of a point that gets trotted out every time these discussions happen. No business I have ever worked for in my entire career has given a wet shit about the "regulatory burden" of hiring. We hire the minimum number of people we think can do a given job effectively, and then products end prices are based on those expenses, raw materials, with an amount on top for profit. The regulatory and compliance burden is an expense, sure, but it was an expense the second we hired one person. The work is more for 150 people vs 1, sure. But that's literally why you have an HR department, that's their entire reason to exist.

If your business can't employ people without abusing them you don't belong in business, period, paragraph. Stop bellyaching about the work you have to do to run a business and do your fucking job.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-08 19:57:34+00:00
Openwrt is amazing. I had a wrt54gs, and then latter got a Netgear wgt634u with an astounding USB2 port! Served as a great office shoutcast playing server for the office, a decade before Sonos (for example) existed.

The hardware situation has felt very tenuous for years now. Qualcomm support has felt so so bodged in. It feels perpetually like "this new chipset will finally get us past all the horrible half working hacks of the last barely working chipset" on and on, usually sort of working but only barely. I did finally get my IPQ8074A based router going (rax120) but it took so long, and needs an older wifi firmware (their 2.7) to work. But it feels like maybe slowly it could be getting better, maybe perhaps support will be more mainline less hacked next time.

One very recent example that's lovely to see is Qualcomm starting to mainline their Packet Processing Engine, for the IPQ9574 at least. Link and example hardware below. There have been various forks of openwrt that bundle in cobbled together versions of the software to use hardware offload/accelerators, lots of these. But it's been far from problemfree and are hard to maintain, especially trying to maintain kernel compatibility. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-PPE-Driver-Linux-6.18 https://www.524wifi.com/index.php/embedded-cpu-boards/dual-r... https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ipq806x-nss-build-netgear-r7800-...

It's good to see MediaTek present in openwrt space. One of the only other highly present chipsets available. The price is often quite good for pretty new wifi standard supporting routers. The anec-data I've heard is that driver maturity is not great, but at least there's motion & movement within the kernel, which springs hope eternal.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-09-08 19:57:36+00:00
Your quoted sentence explicitly says "from a business perspective". No human being would prioritize constant growth over harming children. "No" meaning the overwhelming majority of human beings, including those employed at Facebook, ignoring a handful of sociopaths who are going to raise stupid objections like "but I don't have kids" or "but I'm not a kid" or "what if those kids are part of an outgroup to me"/

But Meta/Facebook is not a human being. It is a corporate being, composed mostly of humans with some computers and internal processes and external regulations... but at scale, it is not like a human.

Do not anthropomorphize the corporate being.

Increasingly automated large and (financially) efficient businesses are proving that they are not able to be steered by individuals making personal moral decisions. An individual has some autonomy to direct their own work in a given direction, but at the scale of a 1.9 trillion dollar company, those individual choices are far less important than the legal and fiscal frameworks that create incentives and penalties for various actions.

The corporate being exists to make money. It's a super-organism, with an ecology of power structures and internal competitions that continuously work to improve its ability to make money. Opportunities to raise a moral concern that will cause it to make less money do not survive in this environment. It has a limited capacity for forward planning, looking at an issue like negative PR for harms to child safety and applying pressure to avoid that local minimum, but mostly it optimizes for quarterly ROI.
by gsibble | 2025-09-08 19:57:38+00:00
Last time I applied out in 2023, I probably submitted 700+ applications. I've been CTO of several medium sized organizations, CEO of a startup that exited, and am a great backend coder and software architect.

I got 2 interviews. One wanted me to be CTO to manage a 50 person team for $180k. I made $200k in 2014 managing a smaller team.

I gave up and do consulting now. It's actually easier to find clients and I can collect 3-5 paychecks. Works much better.

edit: I forgot a recruiter was working with me. I asked him what was going on. He said I was "too senior", "looked expensive", and "no one wants to hire white males right now."
by gpm | 2025-09-08 19:57:49+00:00
> The other party has to accept a settlement, not the judge.

Not to defend the absurd statement about a bribe, but with regards to the $1.5 billion dollar settlement this isn't quite true. Because it's a class action the judge will also have to approve the settlement - finding that it was fair and agreed to without collusion. This is done because the incentive structures set up a bit of a conflict of interest between class action lawyers and members of the class... Of course none of the settlement goes to the judge or court, there's no bribing going on. But judges do reject class action settlements sometimes.
by aurareturn | 2025-09-08 19:58:22+00:00
Apple is in this NPU boat because they are optimized for mobile first.

Nvidia does not optimize for mobile first.

AMD and Intel were forced by Microsoft to add NPUs in order to sell “AI PCs”. Turns out the kind of AI that people want to run locally can’t run on an NPU. It’s too weak like you said.

AMD and Intel both have matmul acceleration directly in their GPUs. Only Apple does not.
by crc_ | 2025-09-08 19:58:54+00:00
Supernote hasn't posted anything about the potential future Linux system. I'm personally not expecting this to actually come around.

The standard OS is derived from Android, but has no Google Play services and only supports side loading (which works well via ADB; I've not tried other app stores like FDroid). It doesn't have a lot of standard Android things like a home screen/launcher, no notifications, and no UI for switching between apps other than using the sidebar to bring up the application list and going back that way. There are no speed modes for adjusting refresh rates.

IMO, it's a great eink notepad & sketch book, and makes a good ereader with something like koreader, but it's not good as an Android tablet.
by blibble | 2025-09-08 19:59:01+00:00
> We’re creating a two-tier internet: sites that can be found and accessed through modern tools, and sites that can’t. Guess which tier will thrive?

the former tier will shortly be 100% AI slop, so the latter

personally I'd be willing to sacrifice the internet if it renders generative AI impotent

there are many possible futures that are bleaker than a world without internet
by alfalfasprout | 2025-09-08 19:59:10+00:00
One thing I don't see much research into (maybe I'm wrong) is whether the US has major data quality issues with labor data.

Jobs reports just don't seem at all to square away with the vast anecdotal accounts from both employed and unemployed individuals across a swath of industries.

It's no secret that companies put up job listings they either have no intention of filling or are simply H1B fraud (impossible listings used to justify an eventual H1B hire).

This would make the "true" number of open jobs within a sector far, far worse than reported.

Comparing jobseekers to job openings is also a very imprecise approach. For certain industries, the gap is bound to be far worse than for others. And the same is true when you look at it by level, experience, etc.

The US is thus in a weird position where equity markets look OK... largely boosted by gains in a small selection of companies (in what's perhaps an AI fueled bubble) and the economy looks a tad rough but not horrible. The real impact of tariffs + broader economic policy is being underrepresented in the data.

This can only last so long. Eventually, inventories will be depleted and tariff impacts will rear their head. Eventually, the true unemployment rate will result in increased eviction rates, lower savings rates, and lower median consumption.
by InitialLastName | 2025-09-08 19:59:11+00:00
It's even worse than "what will this look like in a year?". If it takes 4-6 months from when you pay the money to build a product to when you have that product available to sell to a customer, and you don't know how much your parts are going to cost OR how much you're going to have to pay to the federal government when those products finally clear customs (or what legal hoops you're going to need to jump through to get that product clear), how can you operate?
by daemonologist | 2025-09-08 19:59:14+00:00
Does it have the same behavior with other common licenses?

I would not be surprised if there are some guardrails in place specifically to keep licenses from being generated. If a client accidentally re-licensed their entire source-available product because they weren't paying attention to what Claude Code was spitting out, I imagine they'd be pretty upset (I don't know if such an accidental license would hold up in court, but nevertheless).
by mschuster91 | 2025-09-08 19:59:20+00:00
I have a ThinkPad X1 Gen3 Tablet (20KK) here for my Windows needs, my daily driver is a M2 MBA, and my work machine is a 2019 16-inch MBP (although admitted, that beast got an i9...).

Got the Thinkpad for half the ebay value on a hamfest. Made in 2018-ish, i5-8350U CPU... It's a nice thing, the form factor is awesome and so is the built-in LTE modem. The problem is, more than a dozen Chrome tabs and it slows to a crawl. Even the prior work machine, a 2015 MBP, performed better.

And yes you absolutely need a beefy CPU for a news site. Just look at Süddeutsche Zeitung, a reputable newspaper. 178 requests, 1.9 MB, 33 seconds load time. And almost all of that crap is some sort of advertising - and that despite me being an actually subscribed customer with adblock enabled on top of that.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-08 19:59:28+00:00
Yeah, I'm pessimistically sure that there is other stuff, like:

* Checking whether each item scanned has satisfied a logical contract for a discount, some of which may be per-region, per-store, or even per-customer.

* If multiple exclusive coupons or deals are available, resolve the contradiction, preferably in favor of the customer.

* Check if any items or quantities of items require an ID to be shown before proceeding, and record information about the employee authorizing it.

* Update customer "rewards" data and generate any special offers so that you can put it onto their receipt.

And that's not even starting to get into all the other less-customer-synchronous stuff that you still need CPU power somewhere to do. Managing stock levels, orders, deliveries, price changes, anti-"shrinkage", employee shifts, market-research, status and repairs of freezer-units, operational logging and telemetry, every form of reporting/dashboard "strategic insight" stuff beloved by upper management...
by torium | 2025-09-08 19:59:46+00:00
I am also one of those people who "don’t usually do a lot of networking stuff", so here's a question.

The article contains this:

#replace eth0 with the interface open to the internet (e.g might be wlan0 if wifi) PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -A FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -D FORWARD -o %i -j ACCEPT; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

However, I use mullvad and the .conf files that they provide contains none of this, and works just fine. It contains just: interface, private key, address, dns and peer public key, allowed ips, entrypoint.

So, which one is right and why?
by HillRat | 2025-09-08 20:00:04+00:00
One thing is that a lot of economic activity was front-loaded to the first few quarters as businesses scrambled to get inventory on board ahead of tariffs; now we're seeing companies having burned through inventory, so inflationary impacts are going to start working their way through the supply chain now in earnest, and we're going to see a concomitant slowdown in economic activity as that acts as a persistent drag across multiple sectors. In practice you're looking at something equivalent to a 3-4% federal sales tax on all purchases, but keep an eye on where it falls on relatively inelastic goods, which will have an outsize effect on consumer finances.
by monocasa | 2025-09-08 20:00:06+00:00
Adding to what everyone else has said, Japan is known to be a threshold nuclear state (from a weapons perspective). They explicitly stay around just weeks away from being able to perform a nuclear weapons test, and they are commonly referred to being "a screwdriver's turn" away from having a nuclear weapon.

They have massive government investment in not only maintaining that status, but also doing so on a completely domestic supply chain as much as possible.

Therefore they have the same need for supercomputers that the US national labs do (perhaps more so, since they're even more reliant on simulation), and heavily prefer locally sourced pieces of that critical infrastructure.

I wouldn't be surprised if an incredibly large part of the local push for Rapidus is to pull them off of TSMC and the supply chain risk for their nuclear program in case the whole China/Taiwan thing comes to a head.
by like_any_other | 2025-09-08 20:00:23+00:00
The website that's one of the hardest to use anonymously, that won't let you use an account without verifying with a phone number, won't let you even view content when not logged in, is an "oasis for pedos"?

Sorry, but from my point of view, they serve pedos to police on a silver platter. If the police don't take action, that's not Facebook's fault.
by tomhow | 2025-09-08 20:00:48+00:00
All kinds of arguments that are “evidence-based” (i.e., have research studies affirming them) are potentially inflammatory when invoked in a given context.

In this case, someone just posted a link to BlueSky and you set off a mini-flamewar. People who act like that offline find their invitations to dinner parties start to dry up. We need people to think about the effect their comments will have on the mood in the thread when commenting here.
by mihaaly | 2025-09-08 20:00:53+00:00
"their documentation was either vague or out of date. Half the time, I felt like I was cobbling fixes together from obscure forum posts rather than relying on official support"

Jeez! You just summarised my last decade working with software! Most kinds.

It wasn't this hard around the 2000's. Likely my age is a contributing factor, but experience should counteract that. But no. Software seems to go self serving more and more. Self serving the needs of the organization making the software. "Allowing" (more like delegating) users to help each other rather than robust support mostly through up to date and good documentation, in parallel of releasing unintuitive solutions so more training ours could be billed is something making every workin day a misery. Big part of the days are spent on satisfying the needs of the software (trying to figure out what now, mostly from random and outdated and tangentially relevant forum messages), rather than working the other way around.
by westurner | 2025-09-08 20:00:55+00:00
Why does the school need to disincentivize them working together?

Could there be a team project where they must use the groupware suite to solve for learning objectives?

In HS, we had a "students in small groups take a few weeks to prepare a lesson plan and teach one another" (with the instructor to fill in as necessary) that brought understanding.

In MS, there was a shared drive folder called "Ralph Nader _files/" - that looked like the report on politics and Save as HTML report - was full of ROMs and emulators until.

But that was 8th grade. ("Eighth Grade", "Good Boys")

It sounds like you're "good cop, bad coppin'" them. Good, good.

Perhaps there's a way to use social instincts and technology for learning objectives.
by gsibble | 2025-09-08 20:01:00+00:00
I've also been on the hiring side of this. Within an hour of making a job posting on LinkedIN, I'll usually have 150+ applicants.

95%+ are unqualified and wading through the applications is a nightmare.

But the fact such a high percentage are unqualified leads me to believe a big part of all of this is people are reaching for jobs they cannot actually do creating unnecessary noise.
by vid | 2025-09-08 20:01:22+00:00
Exactly. People would be thrilled with a $1200 64GB card with ok processing power and transfer speed. It's a bit of a mystery why it doesn't exist. Intel is enabling vendors to 'glue' two 24GB cards together for a $1200 list price 48GB card, but it's a frankenstein monster and will probably not be available for that price.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-08 20:01:41+00:00
Consider an old school wrist watch, before "smart" everything. Consider a wall mounted clock.

Both display time, neither has a clue what time zone it is in. Calling those use cases "narrow" seems utterly silly; they've been the primary mechanism by which people interacted with time.

Civil time is, by definition, messy. Politics can influence what I mean when I say "the shop opens at 8am".
by FrankWilhoit | 2025-09-08 20:01:55+00:00
I visited this place in ~2008 and am utterly astounded that it is still in business. Not only does it not have a coffee shop, neither does it have an elevator or climate control. It is certainly unique and very much worth seeing -- once -- but to any appearance, only a very tiny fraction of those million books have been touched by hand or eye since they were first shelved.
by carabiner | 2025-09-08 20:02:07+00:00
More likely, we're in a dual economy. Even McDonalds is noticing it: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/mcdonalds-high-pri...

For the next 50 years or so, we have to accept that the US is a housing-anchored gerontocracy, with younger people expected to be the underclass serving the elderly. There are no checks and balances against the elderly in the US government, and of course there never will be.
by danans | 2025-09-08 20:02:07+00:00
> How can a company invest without any idea if the tariffs will be around in a year?

They can invest in methods that will lower costs in a way that will outlast tariffs, like replacing/reducing domestic headcount with the more physical automation (for manufacturing work) and more AI-enhanced workflows (for white-collar work).

In the short term, it could help offset the cost of the tariffs. In the long term, it lowers the need for human labor.
by The_Fox | 2025-09-08 20:02:17+00:00
As someone who previously led development of a commercial VPN system, I assure you, there are about 100 ways for a VPN to go slower than the network hosting it. Unfortunately.

Two cases I can think of are MTU misconfigurations and constrained CPU on either endpoint, where the node CPU can handle non-VPN network demands but can't handle the VPN demand.
by jnxx | 2025-09-08 20:02:18+00:00
> would this scale?

Consider how much space you do need ahead for safe travel as a pedestrian, on a bicycle, on an interstate highway in a car, or on a plane taking off at an airport, and you have the answer.

Cars already require a ridiculous amount of space for safety. I live in Germany and there are cities with 200,000 inhabitants that are smaller in area than a single highway intersection.
by vannevar | 2025-09-08 20:02:19+00:00
"Free market" is an oxymoron. Without regulation, there is no market. Market rules were among the earliest types of law. The chief problem with our current system is that capital is largely unregulated. In capitalism, wealth flows uphill, and will naturally become more and more concentrated, eventually distorting both the markets and the political system. There has to be some active mechanism to oppose this uphill flow. The positive effect of capital regulation like progressive taxation isn't necessarily due to wealth redistribution to the poor (though there may be very valid moral reasons to do it), but rather wealth-decentralization to the less-wealthy. From a systems point of view, it's better to shift opportunity from someone whose chief qualification for it is their wealth, to several others who have less of a wealth advantage and so are more likely to be qualified on merit.
by saghm | 2025-09-08 20:02:53+00:00
Interesting, I've had to use it a number of times over the years despite never really doing much unsafe. At least to me, it seems pretty well-scoped as a workaround from the requirements that the compiler has around needing to use generic type parameters in type definitions, which certainly isn't something you need to be writing unsafe code to run into. I wouldn't be shocked if it used unsafe under the hood, but then again, so does Vec.
by simoncion | 2025-09-08 20:03:16+00:00
> That's why I care so much about differentiating between the shady stuff that they DO and the stuff that they don't.

Ah, good. So you have solid evidence that they're NOT doing shady stuff. Great! Let's have it.

"It's unfair to require me to prove a negative!" you say? Sure, that's a fair objection... but my counter to that is "We'll only get solid evidence of dirty dealings if an insider turns stool pidgeon.". So, given that we're certainly not going to get solid evidence, we must base our evaluation on the behavior of the companies in other big projects.

Over the past few decades, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have not demonstrated that they're dedicated to behaving ethically. (And their behavior has gotten far, far worse over the past few years.) OpenAI's CEO is plainly and obviously a manipulator and savvy political operator. (Remember how he once declared that it was vitally important that he could be fired?) Anthropic's CEO just keeps lying to the press [0] in order to keep fueling AGI hype.

[0] Oh, pardon me. He's "making a large volume of forward-looking statements that -due to ever-evolving market conditions- turn out to be inaccurate". I often get that concept confused with "lying". My bad.