MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Why is Elonmusk so obsessed with sex and genitalia?
by nothrowaways | 2025-09-25 22:01:08+00:00
It is so ugly to see obscene stuff on your front page from someone who should be a moral compass and source of conscience.

69 cuck anal 420 macro hard pegging....

Does he think that it makes him cool?

Can somebody tell him to keep his private affairs to his bedroom? You can't simply block such people, it is very difficult to explain to innocent people and teens such tweets.
by krapp | 2025-09-25 22:01:23+00:00
>The "burn it all down" mentality never takes into account the vast amount of services provided by the government, and simply reducing the size of government won't help that.

People with that mentality tend to believe most services provided by the government are waste by definition (especially any "social" services) and should be privatized. At the extreme end, they believe the only legitimate role of government is violence - war, policing and enforcing contract law. But somehow not taxes.
by palata | 2025-09-25 22:01:50+00:00
> Because it's closed source so you have no idea of what is happening.

Exactly! That's the problem!

It's not killing the encryption, it's not sharing all your communications with the government. Those are invalid arguments. The problem is that whoever controls the proprietary part of ChatControl (and that includes the list of illegal material) can abuse it to e.g. detect political opponents, or whatever they can imagine.

I am just asking that we use the valid arguments against ChatControl. I read a lot of invalid arguments that won't help convincing politicians that it is a bad idea. They need to understand why it is a bad idea, the real reason.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-25 22:01:58+00:00
However a bus driver refusing to refusing/threatening to not provide service to a passenger is illegal, unless in some special cases.

Apple is already somewhat classified as critical infrastructure, like via the DMA. I don't think the electricity provider will be allowed to say 'don't pass that law, or we don't provide your city with energy'. This would result in dispossession.

This might not be encoded in current law. I'm just stating it should pointing to other legal subjects doing comparable things.
by ComputerGuru | 2025-09-25 22:02:07+00:00
I don't like relying on (release-only) llvm optimizations for a number of reasons, but primarily a) they break between releases, more often than you'd think, b) they're part of the reason why debug builds of rust software are so much slower (at runtime) than release builds, c) they're much harder to verify (and very opaque).

For non-performance-sensitive code, sure, go ahead and rely on the rust compiler to compile away the allocation of a whole new vector of a different type to convert from T to AtomicT, but where the performance matters, for my money I would go with the transmute 100% of the time (assuming the underlying type was decorated with #[transparent], though it would be nice if we could statically assert that). It'll perform better in debug mode, it's obvious what you are doing, it's guaranteed not to break in a minor rustc update, and it'll work with &mut [T] instead of an owned Vec<T> (which is a big one).
by Bjorkbat | 2025-09-25 22:02:30+00:00
> I used to make Dragonball Z fan sites...

Based

I'm working on a revamp of my personal site. I do a lot of creative coding, most of them are throwaway experiments, so I thought I'd showcase more of them there. Besides that though, I have some "rare pepes" that I've been meaning to put somewhere. What I like about these is that they're highly polished, animated gifs that imitate the sort of "holographic" effect you'd find in rare collector's cards, but at the same time you can't track down who originally made them, they aren't part of some professional's online portfolio. In that sense they feel like a special piece of internet folk art, made by some complete rando.

Nowadays we have Pinterest and the like, but I really like the idea of creating my own little online space for images I like.
by panick21_ | 2025-09-25 22:03:04+00:00
If you want to learn about the history of VAX chips I very strongly recommend this oral history:

Supnik, Robert oral history

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273826...

If you have any interest in VAX or DEC or chip design in the 80s. This is a must watch.

Later also goes into how Alpha was created in Part 2.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-25 22:03:10+00:00
>Prime ain't what it used to be. Used to be reliably 2nd day delivery

Amazon delivery in LA is incredibly fast, frequently it says "will be delivered by 4am"

I hate Amazon, not encouraging anyone, but LA is a special zone.

apart from the free shipping aspect, do they actually delay shipping non prime orders if you live in a metro area? The whole FedEx business model originally was not "you pay extra for overnight" (which you would) but actually "because we deliver everything overnight, we don't need warehouses and all our rolling stock is empty every day, so it's cheaper for us"
by newyankee | 2025-09-25 22:03:30+00:00
But this indicates lack of incentives to reduce healthcare costs by optimisation. If AI can do something well enough , and AI + humans surpass humans leading to costs reductions/ increased throughput this should be reflected in the workflows.

I feel that human processes have inertia and for lack of a better word, gatekeepers feel that new, novel approaches should be adopted slowly and which is why we are not seeing the impact, yet. Once a country with the right incentive structure (e.g. China ) can show that it can outperform and help improve the overall experience I am sure things will change.

While 10 years progress is a lot in ML, AI , in more traditional fields it probably is a blip to change this institutional inertia which will change generation by generation. All that is needed is an external actor to take the risk and show a step change improvement. Having experienced how healthcare in US I feel people are only scared to take on bold challenges
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-25 22:04:18+00:00
> Software like PGP is easy to use

Criminalize encryption. Oh you're using cryptograhy? Well then clearly you are a child molesting, money laundering, drug trafficking terrorist. No need to actually decrypt anything when cryptography is incriminating evidence unto itself.

Computers are subversive. Cryptography alone can defeat police, judges, governments and militaries, and computers have democratized access to cryptography to the point even common citizens have it. They cannot tolerate it.

It's a politico-technological arms race. They make their silly laws. We make technologies that completely nullify those laws. They need to increase their overall tyranny just to maintain the exact same level of control they had before. The end result is either an uncontrollable, ungovernable, unpoliceable population, or a totalitarian state that surveils, monitors and controls everything. There is no middle ground.

We are rapidly advancing towards this totalitarianism, and we are eventually going to find out if the people have what it takes to resist and become ungovernable.

One day we will need government signatures to run software on "our" computers. All the free software in the world won't help if we can't run it. The only way to resist that is to somehow develop the means to fabricate our own chips at home. Computer hardware fabrication must be made as easy as 3D printing random objects. Anything short of this and we're done for. Everything the word "hacker" stands for will be destroyed. Our privacy will be destroyed. Our freedom will be destroyed. It's over.
by jeltz | 2025-09-25 22:04:32+00:00
I suggest you look into what pg_upgrade actually does because the "code handling upgrading" does not exist other than as pg_upgrade. And writing it would be a ton of work and would likely halt a lot of innovation in PostgreSQL and make it no longer a competitive database unless someone does a major re-architecting of PostgreSQL which likely would break all extensions.

The issue causing it is how PostgreSQL has implemented the system catalog.
by jsbisviewtiful | 2025-09-25 22:04:53+00:00
I would speculate Republicans are wildly happier when "their team is 'winning'" and Democrats would have a boost in happiness with Democrats in power, but nowhere near the swing of Republicans. Democrats, IMO, are more aware of the *real* current and longterm problems the US faces while Republicans listen to whatever Republicans say the "problems" are - "problems" that are too often very outlandish and not based in reality.
by dang | 2025-09-25 22:05:00+00:00
I believe that these self-reported surveys are partly testing the cultural acceptability of complaining—that is, the more unacceptable it is to complain, the happier one comes out in the scoring. How well that corresponds to 'actual' happiness is, of course, a different question.

I base this on experience with some of the 'happy' cultures on the list. However, I would be interested in knowing whether HN members from Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands (to name the top 5) agree with this concept or not.
by troyvit | 2025-09-25 22:05:14+00:00
If I were them I'd go whole-hog on local models and:

* Work with somebody like System76 or Framework to create great hardware systems come with their ecosystem preinstalled.

* Build out a PaaS, perhaps in partnership with an existing provider, that makes it easy for anybody to do what Ollama search does. I'm more than half certain I could convince our cash strapped organization to ditch elastic search for that.

* Partner with Home Assistant, get into home automation and wipe the floor with Echo and its ilk (yeah basically resurrect Mycroft but add whole-house automation to it).

Each of those are half-baked, but it also took me 7 minutes to come up with them, and they seem more in line with what Ollama tries to represent than a pure cloud play using low-power models.
by coolspot | 2025-09-25 22:05:21+00:00
It’s just getting worse with each new iOS release. For example before iOS 18, screen time requests from kids would come as notifications, now they are coming in as iMessages, polluting history of your actual conversations, so you can’t have functional group chat with your kid & parents.

Now in iOS 26 they messed up calculation of how much screen time is spent, so an app can have limit of 3hrs/day and still lock up after just first 9 minutes of screen time spent in that app in a day.

It seems like they have zero QA.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-25 22:05:58+00:00
>They're effectively miniature dictatorships. Normalising removing services because a tenant does something you personally find disagreeable is fine in the moment, but what happens when it's someone you support? Like when they removed Office365 access for a member of the EU parliament.

Not that I necessarily agree with what they did here, but I would like to point out that one alternative which has been employed previously would be to silently forward her e-mails to the NSA or state department. Refusing to offer their services is probably the most ethical thing that MS has ever done on behalf of the US federal government.
by newyankee | 2025-09-25 22:06:02+00:00
Honestly, once a traffic island city (like Singapore) or some other small nation state adopts self driving only within its limits and shows that it is much easier when all are self driving I think the opposition to the change will slowly reduce.

Rain, Snow etc. are still challenges but needs a bold bet in a place that wants to show how futuristic it is. The components are in place (Waymo cars), what is needed is high enough labor cost to justify the adoption.
by gf000 | 2025-09-25 22:06:34+00:00
It's commonly brought up saying, and I don't think it's too far from the truth.

Driving under every condition requires a very deep level of understanding of the word. Sure, you can get to like 60% by a simple robot vacuum logic, and to like 90% with what e.g. Waymo does. But the remaining 10% is crazy complex.

What about a plastic bag floating around on a highway? The car can see it, but is it an obstacle to avoid? Should it slam the brakes? And there are a bunch of other extreme examples (what about a hilly road on a Greek island where people just honk to notify the other side that they are coming, without seeing them?)
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-25 22:07:09+00:00
> But that's reform that sorely needs to happen by the government reigning in those private companies not to the government.

So the government passes regulations that cause private equity asshats to jack up prices, e.g. by making it infeasible to start new companies to compete with them, and then the government overpays to buy things from them, but this is somehow not the government's doing?

Bad regulations passed at the behest of private asshats are still bad regulations and the solution is still to repeal them.

> Some things are mandatory only if you love your neighbor.

And some things aren't mandatory at all, like having the government overpay for stuff which is nevertheless classified as "mandatory" spending.
by Qem | 2025-09-25 22:07:11+00:00
> Knowledge transfer worked in both ways: I learned a lot about the internal details of CPython's JIT, and conversely I shared with them some of the experience, pain points and gut feelings which I got by working many years on PyPy.

Can cross fertilization between PyPy and CPython JIT efforts help already fast PyPy to get even faster? Like, did CPython JIT team try something PyPy developers didn't attempt before?

PyPy is awesome, btw.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-09-25 22:07:18+00:00
I skimmed thru the article, saw "Ubuntu" and aborted. Sorry, but if you're using Ubuntu, your entire argument invalid.

Use a _real_ non-rubbish distro, and I'll read your piece.

Edit: I also notice that they were talking about Ubuntu 22.04 - which is already over three years old - aka considered ancient in the desktop Linux world. Which makes this article even more irrelevant, especially when they're talking about things like how Wayland lacks xyz support (eg the mouse cursor protocol already exists now).
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 22:07:27+00:00
I have an unsubstantiated theory that people in Latin America largely realize their institutions are completely broken or ineffectual, thus they and their local community are on their own in life. Thus it is pointless to be angry about a lot of things people in other places are angry about (corruption, government, immigrants, prices, corporations, etc) because it's a total lost cause, it's not like they could vote it away even if they tried. The end result is their sphere of worries basically are constrained to their immediate family, work, and community all of which are things they not only have control over but actually probably will care about them.
by m000 | 2025-09-25 22:07:31+00:00
In retrospect, I would say that the "blog rush" was kind of a precursor to the rise of influencers. There was even a crowd of "blogging gurus" that would ask a pretty peny for advice on how to advance your blog.

The blogging pressure got so out of hand, that even some EU bureucrat thought it would be a great idea for each FP6 funded project to have a blog besides its static website. At least with the influencing trend they don't ask researchers to do glamour shots with their food.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-25 22:08:11+00:00
The trouble with the CISC vs RISC interpretation is that the x86 was CISC but trashed all other architectures in the 1990s especially RISC architectures including

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

and Intel’s own

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

I think it’s as simple as a mass market architecture that sells more units can justify more investment than anything that sells fewer units. If DEC had been able to steal market share from the 386 with a VAX based product it might have been able to take the 386’s place but from a business perspective they didn’t want to cannabalize sales of higher margin minicomputers. The transition from bipolar to CMOS was also difficult because it did mean a regression in performance, IBM addressed this in the 390 by introducing a clustering solution but it was a bold and risky move.
by kennywinker | 2025-09-25 22:08:20+00:00
Perhaps the actual moral choice isn’t attacking blindly or mass surveillance of an occupied nation - it’s peace?

Regardless, the death toll in gaza (somewhere between 45,000 and 600,000) suggests that this mass surveillance isn’t being used effectively to reduce the death toll. It also doesn’t take mass surveillance to know that bombing hospitals and schools is going to kill innocent people.
by esjeon | 2025-09-25 22:08:57+00:00
What's being described here lines up with what Jurgen Habermas and Hannah Arendt warned about decades ago. Habermas, for instance, wrote about the "colonization of the lifeworld", where large systems eat into the small, everyday spaces in which people actually build meaning and trust. Arendt, likewise, warned about the fragility of such "space of appearance", where people gather, talk, and act together. The result is "alienation, loneliness, and cynicism or pessimism about the ability to influence future events".

(I really recommend reading Arendt especially regarding how these happen.)

This topic - autonomy - may sound unfamiliar, but it is the essence of democracy and should not be treated as separate from it. They are two sides of the same coin: autonomy is natural small-scale democracy, and democracy is institutionalized large-scale autonomy. While the notion of autonomy is nothing new, revitalizing it in the modern IT era is a bit of an emerging topic. At least that's how I see it.
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 22:09:03+00:00
I think they're trying to address your concern by pointing out how their Droids are different

>Every AI coding platform forces you to choose: one IDE, one LLM, one agent, one interface. Subscribing and unsubscribing from plans to try and stay at the cutting edge is now obsolete. Developers deserve a choice. Factory is giving choice back to developers. Droids work with any LLM, in any IDE, in local or remote, and in any interface. You can delegate tasks to Droids from your Terminal, your IDE, Slack, Linear, or on the web. For further customization, you can use headless mode to set up scripts or triggers to run Droids tailored to your team's workflow.

The Factory.ai Droid does rank well in the terminal-bench leaderboard (currently 3 of the top 5)
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-25 22:09:06+00:00
CFs single biggest piece of leverage on L7 DDoS is that once a node in a botnet attacks one of their properties, it usually can’t be used to attack any others for a substantial duration. Botnets rely on being retasked frequently so this dramatically reduces their effectiveness. Volumetric DDoS is even worse: you need to have the peering relationships and hardware to handle Tbps of traffic to an IP you announce. Doing either of these in your own infra is not feasible if you’re much smaller than a hyperscaler.
by viraptor | 2025-09-25 22:10:24+00:00
Because the impact of them keeping potential contributors away may be larger then their positive impact on the project. If you don't care about the leader's views, you won't care if it's someone other than DHH. If you don't want to work in a community accepting racists, you care if it's DHH. Also in general, world where the leaders are not racists and nationalists is a better place - not sure why that's something that needs elaboration.
by quickthrowman | 2025-09-25 22:10:50+00:00
> Finnish people just don’t have high expectations. Every positive development is a welcome surprise.

You’re just covering up the real truth: Finnish happiness is a result of everyone having access to a sauna :)

Mina rakastan löyly, haluan saunassa nyt!

(What I hope I said: ‘I love throwing water on the sauna rocks and the experience of the resulting steam, I want to go into a sauna now’)

———————

On a more serious note, do you think the ever present threat of Russia and obligatory military service affects the expectations of Finnish people? Meaning, there is an actual tangible threat bordering Finland, which last invaded just 86 years ago (and forced Finland to ally with a country we won’t name so they would emerge from WWII independent, only Norway and Finland managed to achieve that, every other European country bordering the USSR was behind the iron curtain)

Do you think that keeps Finnish people’s expectations more grounded? Or is it something else entirely?
by nixosbestos | 2025-09-25 22:11:15+00:00
Still rooting for y'all but did you do any user testing of this? It constantly collapses the filters meaning it's absolutely more thought and clicks every time than just having the favorite button. It would be so, so easy to just not collapse those filters. Or, potentially consider that "duplicative" is not a reason for an unpopular UX change.
by Barrin92 | 2025-09-25 22:11:18+00:00
>While the quality of life really is objectively better with children, the secret to these rankings is probably the calibration inherent in the question.

that's not really a secret or calibration issue though, that gets to the core of what happiness is, a relational property between expectation and reality. It's not an objective measure like income or height.

I don't think the notion of an 'objective' quality of life even makes a lot of sense. Quality of life is always measured against some concrete alternative, not against some abstract scale or points based system. Two people are going to have very different attitudes towards some way of life purely depending on what direction they come from.
by mmgeorgi | 2025-09-25 22:11:30+00:00
Thanks to the 1948 British Nationality Act anyone from the Commonwealth, such as India or Pakistan, could migrate without visa. This caused the first wave of migrants as a response for the huge demand of doctors, nureses and workers (as in other European countries). Now, to explain the delayed effect, chain migration is the factor, the first generation brings their wifes and children, building communities, attracting the next generation to move abroad, and so on, taking place over decades. I've seen it with Turkish communities in Germany, the first generation came for the same reasons as in the UK, now they constitute 3% of the German population, but they deeply assimilated into German culture.
by JackYoustra | 2025-09-25 22:11:41+00:00
Saying "red tribe" is a pretty dead giveaway of, say, a certain way of thinking.

George Soros or Bill Gates will never be able to buy their own department for reasons that the people with the tribalist lens can't seem to grasp: the democratic coalition is FAR more principled and fractured / diverse than the republican coalition. I can already hear people howl for evidence; for evidence, look no farther than the party platforms for the last few electoral cycles.
by illuminator83 | 2025-09-25 22:11:41+00:00
I always tell my engineers to create atomic commits and we usually review commit by commit. Obviously commits like "fixed review comments" or "removed some left-over comments" or "fixed typo" should not be pushed into a PR you asked others to review. I expect people to understand how to clean their commit history - if they don't I teach them. The senior people who are capable of structured work - e.g. are used to contribute open source projects - do it anyway. Because messiness is usually not tolerated by maintainers of important projects.

You find people how aren't able to craft clean commits and PRs usually thrive in environments in which people are either work mostly alone or in which cooperation is enforced by external circumstances (like being in the same team in a company). As soon as developers many are free to choose whom to associate with and whose code they accept - rules are usually made and enforced.