MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-19 16:18:23+00:00
If the US were to engage in long-term thinking, we might come to dangerous conclusions like, "Having a permanent racial underclass of perpetually-exploited and dissatisfied residents is a bad thing, and maybe we should train/pay the ones that are already here, inculcating them the righteousness of the American project, rather than constantly importing workers because their lack of direct experience with our country's institutions as they currently exist makes them easier marks." It would devastate the poverty-retail-financial-service complex.

The funniest part is our current admin's inadvertent exposure of this situation. Tinfoil hats on, but I hear tell of difficulties in the subprime auto-lending space because so many of immigrants who were targeted for those loans either stopped making payments because they're too afraid to go to work, or else self-deported with their cars. Lender bankruptcies are in-process, which is probably not good for all of the derivatives that are about to go to zero in sympathy. So much for consumer strength, and completely avoidable if not for our insistence on squeezing our least for every last cent.
by jstanley | 2025-09-19 16:18:43+00:00
You mean contrary to:

> PM2.5 peaks at 11 ug / m^3 and then comes down once I stop frying.

? Just saying "Contrary" doesn't give away much information.

It doesn't come down when you stop frying? It peaks at a different number? It never goes up at all? It actually goes down when you start frying?
by NemoNobody | 2025-09-19 16:18:48+00:00
This fall will be the first time since Uni that I download all music released the whole year.

I don't even know what I'll do with it - files for music in 25 - on MY DEVICE, I'll prolly just give it all away - I think we should bring back "mixtape" jump drives (wow so much of that is ancient) bc with all the TBs we can fit on like a penny sized drive - pfft, yeah we all could just bring one drive around with us, and be done paying for all the musical media that exists already - forever.

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by KronisLV | 2025-09-19 16:18:50+00:00
Even the Arc B580 GPUs could have been a bigger win if they were actually ever in stock at MSRP, I say that as someone who owns one in my daily driver PC. Yet it seemed oddly close to a paper launch, or nowhere near the demand, to the point where the prices were so far above MSRP that it made the value really bad.

Same as how they messed up the Core Ultra desktop launch, of their own volition - by setting the prices so high that they can’t even compete with their own 13th and 14th gen chips, not even mentioning Ryzen CPUs that are mostly better in both absolute terms and in the price/perf. A sidegrade isn’t the end of the world but a badly overpriced sidegrade is dead on arrival.

Idk what Intel is doing.
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-19 16:19:35+00:00
A beetle allele is dominant white and recessive black. It is found on white sand. This beetle ends up on a black sand beach and proliferates. Birds see the white beetle plain as day and eat them. The allele frequencies of the black recessive beetle on the black beach surge as a result to the point where it is the more frequent allele observed.
by rayiner | 2025-09-19 16:20:07+00:00
The court does not have before it the administration’s policy decision writ large. What it has before it are organizations representing groups of individuals who say their government grants were terminated. Whether or not you had a legal right to be paid money by the government is within the jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Federal...

More generally, in American law, a claim for money is quintessentially something that cannot be the basis for “irreparable harm” to support a preliminary injunction. The law presumes that, where the claim is for money, the injury can virtually always be redressed by a payment of money once the case has been fully decided.
by risho | 2025-09-19 16:20:14+00:00
i will note that their source appears to be moore's law is dead which is a speculative youtube channel that has a long history of being wrong about the death of arc. dude has been predicting the imminent death of arc since the first one released years ago. it wouldn't surprise me if this did lead to the death of arc, but it certainly isn't because this moron predicted it.
by pxc | 2025-09-19 16:20:45+00:00
The proposition for me is whether to take a class or two on this in the course of pursuing a graduate degree in CS. I'm not considering a career in HCI research.

> It's literally one of the trendiest things in design

Ask a person with low vision about how the rollout of "accessible buses" in Chicago affected their transit experience. I'll give you a hint: it made things worse and more difficult. My sister, who is blind, complains about it all the time. When a friend of hers, who is also blind, called in to say that she couldn't read the stops on the displays in the new "accessible buses", the response (after months of silence) was "we asked Chicago Lighthouse how to design the display, and they said standards called for a bold font and contrasting colors, so we're compliant". In fact the display has a much smaller font than the old LED displays. The colors are bright yellow and bright blue, which are "contrasting colors" but have very little luminance contrast, and they're overall harder to distinguish despite the bold font. Why were these colors actually chosen? It has nothing to do with contrast or accessibility— it's because they're the brand colors of the Chicago Transit Authority. And when actual blind people call them to tell them this doesn't in fact work for them, their answer is that they don't give a shit and that they're not interested in changing anything. (Changes would be physically trivial; the new displays are big-ass LCD TVs.)

This is the norm for accessibility initiatives in the real world, because disabled people are rarely directly involved in the design of anything.

If you've lived your whole life in a world in which accessibility concerns are purely theoretical and/or external to you, I suppose it's easy to have faith in "trends". But nobody who has actually navigated the world with disabilities does. Frankly, the only circumstances in which I'd be confident that an HCI class would not be primarily grounded in the primacy of the visual and the assumption of normal vision is (a) if I've reviewed the curriculum of a specific course and the curriculum indicates otherwise or (b) the course is taught by a blind person. Even so, I'm on the fence— maybe I still want to take such a course.

I'm in the early stages of planning to go back to school here, thinking out loud about whether HCI is a corner of computer science worth visiting for me and sharing that question as part of a perspective on "design" and how I relate to it. I don't need help remembering that accessibility research exists, thank you so very much.
by elmerfud | 2025-09-19 16:21:05+00:00
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What evidence do you have that we are 100 years from going post-human or post biological? Technology is fascinating but all of the technology that we have ever created has not even come close to the complexity of the most simple biology. All existing evidence is that biological life is far more complex, and adaptable, than any technological creation that can be made. While scientists understand these biological compounds It has alluded them on how to organize them into even the most simple microbe that we know about.

The far more likely thing is that in the next hundred years we will see our crude technology come to mimic biology.

So you're talking about an unsolved problem that has no evidence pointing to any solution. You're claiming there are different ways to organize life but where is the evidence there is different ways to organize life than what we have seen? That's how you formulate a hypothesis and then you begin to test it. Without that you're simply speaking fantasy. There are definitely unknowns but all the evidence points to life would be like us in the generic sense that it is biological and based upon similar biological compounds. It's form may take different shapes It's perception maybe things that we don't understand yet but there is zero evidence of life being capable organizing itself around a completely foreign system than what we've seen.

I welcome research in that direction to show that life can be organized around fundamentally different things than what we've seen but fantastical ideas from science fantasy stories do not help actual research happen.
by data-ottawa | 2025-09-19 16:21:05+00:00
I’ve been on the beta for a few weeks, now on full iOS26 on iPhone mini 12.

Performance is generally good, but when there are a lot of effects in Safari’s search view it stutters.

Battery drain was higher for over a week, but now it’s mostly normal. My all day battery use is 60-75% daily (you can check this in the updated battery settings tab), low phone use days are 40-60%.

There are battery use landlines though — this morning playing around with depth effect on wallpapers used 50% of my (95% health) battery in 15 minutes. Camera is very heavy as well.
Show HN: RustNet, a network monitoring TUI with process identification
by hubabuba44 | 2025-09-19 16:21:38+00:00
Hi HN! I built RustNet, a Terminal UI based network monitor written in Rust that shows real-time connections with process identification and protocol detection.

What may make it interesting:

• Deep packet inspection for HTTP, HTTPS/TLS (with SNI), DNS, and QUIC protocol detection

• Process identification using eBPF on Linux (experimental) and PKTAP on macOS which does also catch short-lived processes that polling procfs or lsof would miss

• Multi-threaded packet processing with lock-free data structures for the UI

• Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows but process identification so far only on Linux/macOS)

The eBPF implementation was a bit more tricky to implement than using PKTAP, but it was very interesting to learn about how to hook into tcp_connect, udp_sendmsg, etc. in order to catch process info before connections disappear.

I built this as a lightweight Wireshark alternative for quick TUI based network inspection with process identification.

Install: cargo build --release, run with sudo or set capabilities. Homebrew tap also available.

Would love feedback on the project and any ideas for additional protocol detection or any other suggestions. Thanks
by techblueberry | 2025-09-19 16:21:51+00:00
I think one reason the right is fighting so hard on this is the cracks in their own base. The Bulwark has been writing about this, but there are a few on the right that were mad at Charlie Kirk for changing thoughts on Israel, and there's a lot of disagreement on the right about Israel. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/brutal-maga-civil-war-over-char...

Combine that with concerns about Trump's health and the inevitable succession looming, and I think that there's real concern of a breakout of infighting.

Let's say it's a given that Trump's shooter was a leftist, despite that Netanyahu gave a public statement the shooter wasn't Israeli, the Groypers claimed him, Nick Fuentes had to disavow, some on the right are disavowing Nick Fuentes, and there are a growing number of folks (Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, Mike Savage) are questioning the FBI's official narrative.

It almost makes me wonder if the real anger at Kimmel wasn't his influence on the left, but by pointing out the MAGA infighting he might influence the right deeper into it.
by godzillabrennus | 2025-09-19 16:21:52+00:00
Remember when OpenSSL had the Heartbleed bug and there were something like two guys running the project in their spare time with $50k/year in donations (if memory recalls correctly). Well, we are living through a great affordability crisis. Not many people can spend time on a hobby like that to support billionaires anymore. Let the 400 people with half of the wealth in America figure it out. Everyone should monetize their time and explore unionization to counter the new realities of the modern economy.
by DiabloD3 | 2025-09-19 16:21:53+00:00
Are you an LLM? I feel we're talking past each other because you're obsessed with one kind of fatigue, and there many kinds of fatigue.

Your math only gives a 5 cm/2 inch change in focal distance on very large 21:9-or-wider screens, and it is well known that 21:9 or wider monitors cause eye fatigue due several reasons, only one of them is the one you speak of.

21:9 and wider monitors are very niche market, and aren't inherently worth discussing other than mentioning they're a good source of eye fatigue. The fix for them isn't buy curved ones, the fix is to not buy them.
by lifeisstillgood | 2025-09-19 16:22:53+00:00
Nah. Most humans are curious, and devs tend to be more curious than average in my experience.

What dampens the Spirit is same as everyone - a treadmill you cannot get off, punishment for independnat thinking.

Dev culture is not one thing that is found in dozens of companies - dozens of companies have their own culture - and if that is a curious and empowering culture you have curious and empowered devs, and salespeople and operations and chemists and …

Culture is what we make it
by Aurornis | 2025-09-19 16:23:22+00:00
> I can get a Xeon E5-2690V4 with 28 threads and 64GB of RAM for about $150.

If the goal is a lot of RAM and you don’t care about noise, power, or heat then these can be an okay deal.

Don’t underestimate how far CPUs have come, though. That machine will be slower than AMD’s slowest entry-level CPU. Even an AMD 5800X will double its single core performance and even walk away from it on multithreaded tasks despite only having 8 cores. It will use less electricity and be quiet, too. More expensive, but if this is something you plan to leave running 24/7 the electricity costs over a few years might make the power hungry server more expensive over time.
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-19 16:23:37+00:00
For secret answers like this I have Bitwarden generate a set of words that I put in. The words are actual English words, so the 'random gibberish' moniker wouldn't be correct.

But at least the answer doesn't match the question.

I've also learned to store the question, as some websites make you select the question before providing the answer. And my answers don't allude to what the original question was.
by pakeha | 2025-09-19 16:23:41+00:00
As a professional musician, every very few years you sit down and you write new songs and record an album. But then you have to go on tour to make money and engage your fanbase and demonstrate what you've learned and finessed in a way that delivers immediate value to your customers. Touring is not fundamentally creative, but it is enjoyable in it's own right. Or you can be a hobbyist composer (pure creativity). Or a session musician (pure craft). Or play in a covers band (pure work). I don't see this as any different.
by mullingitover | 2025-09-19 16:24:03+00:00
The US is really in the worst of both worlds: it's a petrostate, the world's leading fossil fuel producer. With that comes all the tendencies for corrupt authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. However, we don't get the customary low direct taxes. In fact, the taxes are going up on the populace, significantly, (via tariffs) almost in lockstep with the increasingly brazen corruption.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-09-19 16:24:14+00:00
I typed out the response below but I'm not sure I have a coherent response as to why the secular zeitgeist of death is less intimidating to me than the religious context of it. (Though, I'm not who you're replying to.)

I think it comes down to the sheer amount of pressure I felt within religion to be a certain way while also being told I could never be that way enough to achieve satisfaction in the eyes of god, and outside of religion I'm just another person in a flawed world trying to do my best.

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At the risk of being redundant, death within religion isn't an end, but yet another beginning. Eternal life is the reward for being a diligent disciple, where that means internalizing one's inherent flawed nature and inability to be redeemed but through death in devotion to god... which is a hell of a weight to carry throughout ones' life!

The Christian ethos is woven through with constantly being judged. And forgiven, yes, in theory, but still there is a constant undertone of "you cannot avoid making mistakes, and the mistakes you make are so offensive to god he wouldn't want you anywhere near him, but for magic religion reasons you've been redeemed by god doing something so terribly debased that it outweighs all the awful mistakes you've made."

Death (and "everlasting life") is no reprieve from this, but a form of stick that weighs heavy over you all through your days. You must work to save those around you, or they'll be eternally lost. You must cleave to the teachings of god, or at the very least belief in him, or you'll be eternally lost.

Since I left the church so many things of import that I felt I didn't understand now make much more sense; I struggled to comprehend how god could allow suffering, but now I see that the universe is just absurd and uncaring. While that may seem less comforting, I find the notions of bad things happening randomly less upsetting than there being an all-powerful being who cares about me but chooses to let me suffer for reasons that were never convincing, and as I've grown older sound more and more like an abusive relationship.

Through that lens, death is just a natural consequence of the world. Scary, yes, in the sense that I may not live up to all I want to be before my time is up, but I'm not pre-marked as eternally flawed and only redeemable through processes that do not make sense to me. Instead I know that I can only do my best, and that has to be enough, because I can't possibly do more.
by gtowey | 2025-09-19 16:24:26+00:00
And now you know the entire reason the US is consumed by political chaos.

A rational society would be regulating those corporations to ensure they act in the public best interest at least some of the time. We're seeing the result of what happens when we are 50 years behind on that. And the current administration is generally rolling back regulations all over.

Think of the money at stake and it will become obvious that our current situation isn't mere happenstance. The chaos is a deliberate smoke screen -- perhaps not exactly planned by the current administration, but orchestrated by the oligarchs behind the scenes.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-19 16:24:32+00:00
That’s sorta the point, and the problem. There’s a dependency ratio problem brewing: there are simply not enough working-age people to care for the old people who will need care. No amount of financial instruments can paper over this reality - they will just go bankrupt (eg insurance policies, social security) or steadily drop in value relative to the cost of care (401ks and other financial instruments) until the price of LTC equilibrates to actual capacity. Anyone not in the percentile that actually has eldercare capacity will simply have to go without, much like the price of housing has risen to shut out Millennials that are not in the income percentile needed to get one of the few scarce houses for sale.
by hakunin | 2025-09-19 16:24:40+00:00
This is surprisingly on point for any (esp. backend/fullstack) web devs who have terminal and editor (2 separate windows) maximized side by side in MacOS, where it only natively supports 2 maximized windows at a time. I used to have terminal + editor in one space, and terminal + browser in another. And sometimes I would add another space with editor+browser, in case I was doing something more front-end oriented. Now I can have everything in one space on MacOS.
by tomovo | 2025-09-19 16:25:10+00:00
"more and more push back"

I think it depends on the circles you're in. For example, I see a lot of interest in the "Handmade" way of doing things, largely inspired by Handmade Hero. Almost feels like a comeback of what you consider to be dying. There are people who are interested, but one needs to look for them. I recommend it.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-19 16:25:17+00:00
> The first benchmark I ran was my top500 High Performance Linpack cluster benchmark. This is my favorite cluster benchmark, because it's the traditional benchmark they'd run on massive supercomputers to get on the top500 supercomputer list. […]

> After fixing the thermals, the cluster did not throttle, and used around 130W. At full power, I got 325 Gflops

I was sort of surprised to find that the top500 list on their website only goes back to 1993. I was hoping to find some ancient 70’s version of the list where his ridiculous Pi cluster could sneak on. Oh well, might as well take a look… I’ll pull from the sub-lists of

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/

They give the top 10 immediately.

First list (June 1993):

placement name RPEAK (GFlop/s) 1 CM-5/1024 131.00 10 Y-MP C916/16256 15.24

Last list he wins, I think (June 1996):

1 SR2201/1024 307.20 10 SX-4/32 64.00

First list he’s bumped out of the top 10 (November 1997):

1 ASCI Red 1,830.40 10 T3E 326.40

I think he gets bumped off the full top500 list around 2002-2003. Unfortunately I made the mistake of going by Rpeak here, but they sort by Rmax, and I don’t want to go through the whole list.

Apologies for any transcription errors.

Actually, pretty good showing for such a silly cluster. I think I’ve been primed by stuff like “your watch has more compute power than the Apollo guidance computer” or whatever to expect this sort of thing to go way, way back, instead of just to the 90’s.
by dluan | 2025-09-19 16:25:27+00:00
The maglev is 20 years old, and the Shanghai metro has greatly expanded in that time. It's cost effectiveness has come down since taking the subway directly is only 6rmb compared the 50rmb price of the maglev.

However, the whole point of the maglev when it was built was to be a new model of innovation for transit. 20 years ago HSR didn't really exist in China, and now most of the trains run at nearly the same speeds.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-19 16:25:30+00:00
Most utilities, even if ostensibly privately-owned, are profit-limited and rates must be approved by a regulatory board. Some are organized as non-profits (rural water and electric co-ops, etc.) This is in exchange for the local monopoly.

If your local regulators approved the merger and higher rates, your complaint is with them as much as the utility company.

Not saying that some regulators are not basically rubber stamps or even corrupt.
by afavour | 2025-09-19 16:25:53+00:00
A side effect of the maturation of the industry, sadly. It comes in waves though. I remember when I first started out as a developer (circa 2003 I think?) things felt pretty boring. I ended up doing C# WinForms/WebForms work because that's what people were doing. Then the iPhone and Android came out and a whole new world exploded. There was so much interesting stuff to learn and, crucially, money to be made doing it.

That wave feels definitively over now, making mobile apps in 2025 is much like doing WinForms in 2003. Hopefully something new will come along that shakes things up. In theory that's AI but as a developer I find AI tremendously unsatisfying. It can do interesting things but it's a black box.

For me personally... I'm older and married with kids. My free time is so much more valuable than it was back in the day. I still try to be a curious developer but at the end of the day I need to get my work done and spend time with my family. There's enough of a financial squeeze that if I did find myself with an excess of free time I'd probably try to spend it doing freelance work. So whenever this next wave does arrive I might not be catching it.