MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by badestrand | 2025-09-02 13:18:54+00:00
I agree, I don't understand the hate in this thread.

And I think their paid hosting was actually really good, up until they switched their $20/month plan to a whatever-it-may-cost and we-send-you-10-cryptic-emails-about-your-usage-every-month plan. That's when they lost me, not because it got more expensive but because it became intransparent and unpredictable and annoying instead of carefree.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 13:19:14+00:00
Sounds better in theory than in practice. Making two separate slide decks and then hopping everything makes sense when you share one after people expect the other isn’t good.

If you have to serve both uses, text goes on the slides. If you’re primarily speaking then just include the speaker notes and hope it makes sense. If the slides will be shared primarily, text goes on the slides and you just deal with it while presenting.
by const_cast | 2025-09-02 13:19:26+00:00
That's not what a general computation device is and you know it. Do not play stupid or bullshit me.

For MOST people, a smartphone is their only computational device. Let me say that again. It is their _ONLY_ device.

Could you live your life using only a PS5? How about you throw away your phone and replace it with a washing machine?

The smartphone IS NOT an appliance. It is absolutely a general computational device. I can't believe this is even up for debate, it's actually blowing my mind.
by ofrzeta | 2025-09-02 13:20:11+00:00
The smallest I could find was 128MB (see adjacent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101932) on Aliexpress but you are right, they are comparatively expensive. A source for those obsolete cards would be great. Have they all been shredded by now? Or is there a forgotten shipping container somewhere? :)
by scottydelta_ | 2025-09-02 13:20:19+00:00
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by naikrovek | 2025-09-02 13:20:56+00:00
It renders at 1080p and the dock doesn't get as hot.

Note that the cooling fan inside the dock is for cooling the dock and not the Switch 2 itself. The Switch 2 has its own fan for that.

So while not everyone docks the Switch 2 to a 4K display, the Switch 2 dock must support that.
by aswerty | 2025-09-02 13:22:20+00:00
My personal experience is Remix has all kinds of problems akin to the issues in the blog post, including the mess that is remix -> react router v7. When I worked with Remix a year ago logging and middlewares were also a disaster. For example it didn't have middlewares, and had no way to create a LocalContext from the host (e.g. Express or whatever you use) that first starts handling the request down through the remix app.

I also had the impression they would probably follow the Vercel style, framework as a business model, with it being sold to Shopify.I don't really know where it's all going, but it is not the sort of thing I would tie myself to.
by chauhanbk1551 | 2025-09-02 13:22:34+00:00
Absolutely! DuckDB’s reputation for single-machine speed is well-earned, but seeing Exasol outpace it—without even leveraging a cluster—really highlights how much thought has gone into its engine. It’s cool to see that “big league” architecture pay off, even in the kind of scenarios where DuckDB usually shines.
by soganess | 2025-09-02 13:22:36+00:00
Governments don't have rights. They didn't spring fully formed from the wombs of other governments without a say in the matter.

They have privileges. Provisional privileges derived from the people (or at least that is what some very drunk men in wigs seemed to imply). I don't like it when my government uses dressed-up faux authority (DHS just issues itself administrative "warrants") as the basis for assaulting people. Seems pretty cut-and-dry wrong. And as responses go, really lopsided.

So here I am... making a fuss about it.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 13:22:54+00:00
You’ve never had your fingerprint scanner fail because your hand is dirty?

Or you didn’t press it in the right spot?

Or the battery was dead?

If I’m out in the wild and in a situation where a bear is coming my way (actual situation that requires carrying a gun in certain locations) I do not want a fingerprint scanner deciding if I can or cannot use the gun. This is the kind of idea that only makes sense to people who have no familiarity with the real world use cases.
by marcosdumay | 2025-09-02 13:23:59+00:00
> so edge semantics actually help with latency issues

Hum... You make an entire app in node, load the UI over react, pile layers and more layers of dynamicity on top (IMO, if next.js didn't demonstrate those many layers, I wouldn't believe anybody made them work), eschew the standard CDN usage, and then want distributed execution to solve your latency issues?
by uyzstvqs | 2025-09-02 13:24:39+00:00
I'll try to explain this in a nuanced manner, as someone who dislikes both sides of the narrative.

The Democrats are sort of pro-immigration. Though for some reason, they strongly support illegal immigration, and seek to decriminalize it through so-called "sanctuary cities", rather than starting serious efforts at making permanent legal immigration liberal and approachable for most people.

Illegal immigration comes with major problems. It's an avenue for organized crime, and a recipe for a major humanitarian crisis. It's a driving factor in the Opioid Epidemic. Most people are aware of this, which is part of why the Democrats lost.

So now the Republicans are in charge. They are anti-immigration, and want permanent immigration to be unreachable for 99% of people. They are now running mass-deportations of illegal immigrants. The grievance which opponents have with this is that they're actively looking for illegal immigrants who are otherwise doing nothing wrong, using military-style police, in a system which doesn't allow for easy legal immigration.

Most people are somewhere in the middle, but they have to pick between two extremes. A) unsecured borders which get taken advantage of by criminal gangs, or B) your local contractor Juan getting deported by military police.
by everdrive | 2025-09-02 13:25:10+00:00
I'm genuinely perplexed why people find link previews useful. The page image is too small to really see, and it's not as if rapidly opening and closing a tab actually takes effort. It may be faster than the long click depending how comfortable you are with keyboard controls.

I have other questions as well -- does the link preview ignore your plugins? So if you loaded the web page, would uBlock Origin prevent tracking which is _not_ prevented when loading the preview? If you have a phishing test url with a unique identifier, do you flunk the test even if you don't click through?
by devmor | 2025-09-02 13:25:11+00:00
It annoys me greatly that LLMs are not used primarily for search in this way, but rather search is used to disguise them as something else for the purpose of fooling people into parting with cash.

Even the actual search engines aren't using them this way. Google's "AI Overview" is actively harmful to trying to learn anything you aren't already familiar with.

RAG is one of the coolest things I've ever used with an LLM, and it would be exponentially more helpful to me in the majority of the AI tools marketed to me than the nonsense they do implement.
by stephen_g | 2025-09-02 13:25:16+00:00
Weird how every time Chat Control comes up, people pipe up calling it sensationalised or saying it can never pass, yet the iterations get wider ranging and the push becomes harder and it gets closer to passing…

These are words from people who have a seat at the table in negotiating this attempt at getting chat control through. If they don’t manage it this time, don’t be surprised if the things described are in the next try, and then people will be looking for something else to call sensationalised.
by MHM5000 | 2025-09-02 13:25:22+00:00
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by wiether | 2025-09-02 13:25:29+00:00
> non-native English speakers

As one of them, I can tell that I agree with @NiloCK.

Maybe because I'm French so I had to learn even stronger rules, but to me if someone doesn't capitalize proper nouns in English, I'll first think that I misunderstood what they were writing because of my deficiencies, before coming to the conclusion that they didn't capitalize.

Whereas, in French, I'm confident enough to mentally capitalize without even thinking about it.
by skydhash | 2025-09-02 13:25:38+00:00
> if you're using an LLM you need to think of yourself as an architect guiding a Junior to Mid Level developer.

The thing is coding can (and should) be part of the design process. Many times, I though I have a good idea of what the solution should look like, then while coding, I got exposed more to the libraries and other parts of the code, which led me to a more refined approach. This exposure is what you will miss and it will quickly result in unfamiliar code.
by codazoda | 2025-09-02 13:25:48+00:00
I think Next.js has its place in enterprise software. For the rest of us I think it's time to simplify. I like to do that to the point of absurdity.

Why I'm writing pure HTML and CSS in 2025:

https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-202...
by const_cast | 2025-09-02 13:26:28+00:00
Because we actually use the operating system?

Windows rots. Even a few days without a reboot and things will just stop working or be really slow. No idea why.

But if you don't clean install once every few years you'll just have a ton of shit everywhere. Programs don't clean themselves up.

Also every program has its own update mechanism. Great... now I don't just have to manage windows update, but also a few dozen other esoteric update mechanisms.

iOS and Android are self managing. Windows? Can we be for real? Why get on the internet and lie to people?
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-02 13:27:21+00:00
There’s unverified information that her guide slipped and dragged her down, at which moment she broke her leg. However I won’t trust it, because most news outlets telling this also mix up other facts and don’t mention the source. It just happens there, on one of the most dangerous mountains in the world. There were other deaths this year, the only difference is that she didn’t die within hours and was stuck there for a while.
by asen_not_taken | 2025-09-02 13:27:30+00:00
> The result? A flood of underqualified competitors, stagnant or declining wages, and a profession that has become disposable.

The market didn't suddenly get flooded with juniors because we promoted coding. It was because the demand was astronomical. Companies were desperate for people, so bootcamps emerged to fill the gap. Why would you blame the supply for a problem created by overwhelming demand?
by JCM9 | 2025-09-02 13:27:37+00:00
I generally agree with you, although Amazon is really paranoid about being behind here.

On the last earnings call the CEO gave a long rambling defensive response to an analyst question on why they’re behind. Reports from the inside also say that leaders are in full blown panic mode, pressing teams to come up with AI offerings even though Amazon really doesn’t have any recognized AI leaders in leadership roles and the best talent in tech is increasingly leaving or steering clear of Amazon.

I agree they should just focus on what they’re good at, which is logistics and fundamental “boring” compute infrastructure things. However leadership there though is just all over the map trying to convince folks their not behind vs just focusing on strengths.
by fooker | 2025-09-02 13:27:38+00:00
> compiler will reject programs that use the moved-from value.

Yes, this is something the C++ 'language' is not going to specify other than claiming that it is undefined behavior.

Doesn't prevent compilers from doing it though, clang will happily do this for you right now in most cases.

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-intra-procedural-lifetime-a...
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 13:28:06+00:00
> Cars fail sometimes, so your life can't depend on 100% uptime of your car anyway.

Try using this argument in any engineering context and observe how quickly you become untrusted for any decision making.

Arguing that something doesn’t have 100% reliability and therefore something that makes it less reliable is okay is not real logic that real people use in the real world.
by AaronAPU | 2025-09-02 13:28:40+00:00
I’m considering selling my home in the spring. But if there will be no property taxes, I’ll change my mind. The reason for sale is I’ll be traveling most of the year and the property taxes cut into my burn rate substantially.

From my perspective, it would be great to drop property tax as then I could do both. But the consequence is nobody else will be able to buy my home.
by Mallowram | 2025-09-02 13:28:57+00:00
The problem is that language doesn't produce itself. Re-checking, correcting error is not relevant. Error minimization is not the fount of survival, remaining variable for tasks is. The lossy encyclopedia is neither here nor there, it's a mistaken path:

"Language, Halliday argues, "cannot be equated with 'the set of all grammatical sentences', whether that set is conceived of as finite or infinite". He rejects the use of formal logic in linguistic theories as "irrelevant to the understanding of language" and the use of such approaches as "disastrous for linguistics"."
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-02 13:29:24+00:00
"Deterministic" is overrated.

Computers are deterministic. Most of the time. If you really don't think about all the times they aren't. But if you leave the CPU-land and go out into the real world, you don't have the privilege of working with deterministic systems at all.

Engineering with LLMs is closer to "designing a robust industrial process that's going to be performed by unskilled minimum wage workers" than it is to "writing a software algorithm". It's still an engineering problem - but of the kind that requires an entirely different frame of mind to tackle.
by PinguTS | 2025-09-02 13:29:54+00:00
Actually it is. If you want to build a cheap sensor or actuator, than any additional component is getting expansive. Remember it is not only the external component, it is also the PCB space, is the production, and the testing after production. This adds up all to the costs.

When you use a µC to make it cheap, then you don't want to use additional components.
by nonethewiser | 2025-09-02 13:29:58+00:00
People will complain about Next but there is no perfect solution. The complexity driving the problems with Next materialize in other forms elsewhere. Remix is a competitive option with its own quirks. You can always roll your own with Vite, Tanstack router, etc. but then of course you're manually implementing the same stuff albeit better suited to your needs. Which isn't necessarily bad but it's not the right choice for everyone.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-02 13:30:07+00:00
Yes I know but the way I see sveltekit is that there are adapters for cloudflare etc. and I doubt how sveltekit can drift into such direction without immense blacklash

I don't know much about the nextjs and whether it was open like sveltekit currently is.

To me, nextjs (I think) was always meant to favour vercel but sveltekit has a rich history of managing multiple adapters.

Now, that being said there are still some chances of a rugpull that might happen but if that ever happens, I am staying on the last sveltekit that worked with cf and other cloud providers.
Show HN: StoryMotion, hand-drawn motion graphics editor based on Excalidraw
by chunza2542 | 2025-09-02 13:30:25+00:00
StoryMotion, a hand-drawn motion graphics editor for educational content creators.

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5 months ago, I launched Inscribed.app [1], a tool based on Excalidraw for making step-by-step explanation (like slides) that I can easily embed to explain concepts on my blog.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43078555

as I later expanded into video, I decided to fork the project and create another tool which focus solely on making animation.

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Key features:

- Keynote-liked interfaces with Excalidraw canvas - effects animation library - scene transition animation -- fun fact: you can also do “Magic Move” like you can do on Keynote :) - timeline editor for editing effects timing (with live preview) - use any fonts from Google Fonts

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Try it yourself: https://storymotion.video/editor

I hope you like it. any feedback is appreciated.
by datenwolf | 2025-09-02 13:30:45+00:00
> There are still some people who need to run 32-bit applications that cannot be updated; the solution he has been pushing people toward is to run a 32-bit user space on a 64-bit kernel. This is a good solution for memory-constrained systems; switching to 32-bit halves the memory usage of the system. Since, on most systems, almost all memory is used by user space, running a 64-bit kernel has a relatively small cost. Please, he asked, do not run 32-bit kernels on 64-bit processors.

Ohhh yes!

So, a couple of weeks ago I came across a discussion where some distro (I don't remember which one) contemplated removing 32-bit user space support, suggesting to users to simply run a VM running a 32 bit Linux instead. It was a stupid suggestion then, and this statement is a nice authorative answer from the kernel side, where such suggestions can be shoved to.
by carlnewton | 2025-09-02 13:30:56+00:00
Hey, I hope this comment doesn't bring you down. You asked for feedback with the aim of doing better -- I'm not going to pull my punches.

In my opinion, your game isn't performing well because the gameplay isn't very compelling. In best combo mode, I can see a grid of arrows, I'm informed that clicking one of these arrows will clear more than the others. It says that I should find "creative ways" to clear the grid. I'm not sure that such a thing is possible. At worst, this is a game of guess the 1/25 arrow to click. At best, it's a game of tracking backwards through the arrows. As somebody who enjoys puzzle games, I don't personally find this a fun mechanic.

My initial thought was that the art might be the problem. That perhaps if these were frogs that ate each other in order or if these were bubbles that popped in a satisfying way, this might be more enjoyable, but if you haven't got compelling gameplay, dressing it up isn't going to help. My recommendation is to focus on creating challenging and enjoyable gameplay first.

Perhaps play some other puzzle games and ask yourself what it is you're enjoying about them.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 13:31:04+00:00
Please see his follow up comments years later where he reflects on the situation and agrees that he should not have been hired at that time.

He posted that in the heat of the moment while angry, but they didn’t literally reject him for a single LeetCode problem. He admits that he was just not at a point where being hired into a FAANG job would have been a good move.

That one Tweet has fueled years of internet rage from people who didn’t get the whole story, though.
by jibal | 2025-09-02 13:31:22+00:00
So you have an idiosyncratic definition of compiler that no one else uses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler

"In computing, a compiler is software that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM

"LLVM, also called LLVM Core, is a target-independent optimizer and code generator.[5] It can be used to develop a frontend for any programming language and a backend for any instruction set architecture. LLVM is designed around a language-independent intermediate representation (IR) that serves as a portable, high-level assembly language that can be optimized with a variety of transformations over multiple passes.[6]""

As I correctly said, LLVM is not a compiler, it is a backend target of Rust, C++, etc. compilers. They read source language and generate backend output ... anything from assembly language to C++. Even when Nim uses the C++ backend, C++ is the backend target, even though the generated C++ is fed to a C++ compiler.

End of story and of my participation.
by entropie | 2025-09-02 13:31:27+00:00
I have a nvidia jetson orin nano with llama.ccp/ollama. Gemma3:4b / Gemma3-4b-it is awesome, reasonable fast (even with vision - i think its like 15t/s) and all that on a raspberry sized microcontroller.

Simons llm client tool is on every machine and I use it daily
by scottydelta_ | 2025-09-02 13:31:37+00:00
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by kube-system | 2025-09-02 13:31:37+00:00
No, you definitely don't own Apple's developer portal or any related infrastructure. If you did, then you wouldn't have anything to complain about, you could just fix it.

And of course you don't own iOS -- were you under any impression otherwise?

I don't really understand this culture of buyers remorse. If you don't buy FOSS, you don't get FOSS.