MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orbital-decay | 2025-09-17 05:05:11+00:00
It says it affects all ASUS laptops since 2021, making them stutter at the most basic tasks.

Which I'm ready to believe, knowing the state of most laptops... but this entire thing is pretty clearly generated by Gemini with its over-the-top dramatic style, italics emphasis, and -isms like "It's not just X, it's Y", which was unable to handle the article of this size and started looping over. Not sure I should believe any of it, or at least be sure that it didn't mess up the specifics. Why would one do this in a technical writeup?
by kelvinjps | 2025-09-17 05:06:41+00:00
Now I have been using Whatsapp as my only "social media app" basically as stated in another comment: Whatsapp updates, you can see the updates of your contacts, then you can react or send them a message. And these updates only contain the people who you have as a contact and they have you as a contact, so you only receive the updates of the people you care about and if there is someone you don't want to see their updates you can turn off updates for them.

I hope meta doesn't ruin this feature.

It's Also available in signal I think
by jonypopovv | 2025-09-17 05:06:49+00:00
I built a starter kit for React Native apps, based on Expo. It includes Supabase Auth, RevenueCat subscriptions, push notifications (OneSignal), CI/CD with GitHub Actions or EAS, and full docs.

I originally shared it a month ago (as ExpoLaunch), got a lot of feedback, and now improved it a lot — including SDK 53, new architecture, and better docs.

https://nativelaunch.dev
by rf15 | 2025-09-17 05:08:28+00:00
It is incredibly interesting how the US (and Germany) have put so much into Israel and associated groups they really don't want it to fail (despite the Israeli gov doing their damnest to facilitate just that). In my understanding Israel, in the eyes of the US, is a convenient "wedge" in the Arab space that allows for easier power projection in the area, plus they have a healthy amount of zionists close to money and power at home. I imagine the political calculus of if and how to support it is ridiculously difficult.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-17 05:08:51+00:00
Go look at the report and the org and the people in it.

There is nothing "legitimate" about it.

The head of this alleged body is a staunch anti-Israel activist who is not taken seriously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navi_Pillay#Israel-Gaza_confli...

"On 25 July 2014, the United States Congress published a letter addressed to Pillay by over 100 members in which the signatories asserted that the Human Rights Council "cannot be taken seriously as a human rights organisation" over their handling of the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict "
by taurath | 2025-09-17 05:09:18+00:00
I have one of these, a Zephyrus G15. That it had an AMD CPU and Nvidia GPU should have been a red flag that support would be really poor. Only a year out of warranty, it is a brick on a shelf because the thermals are so atrocious it pretty much burned itself out, and even with a thorough new application of thermal paste through a multi hour process there just isn't any way to get it to perform within spec. Supposedly, if you RMA it through ASUS they will charge you something like $700 and be unlikely to fix it. They have an insane dud rate, and even when it does work the hardware is barely hanging on. Several acquaintances have had similar problems.

It drastically reduced my perception of Asus as a brand - I wanted something I could game with, it promised the moon of portability and performance but they couldn't pull it off.
by fakedang | 2025-09-17 05:10:04+00:00
> Japanese civilians experienced far worse in WW2, and they forgot pretty quickly

Because the vast majority of the Japanese people barely faced any kind of obstacles in the same way Palestinians are facing. Yes, they had food shortages and their wooden homes were bombed constantly to oblivion, and they suffered a couple of nuclear blasts, but that was because their history lessons teach their WW2 as something in which they were the aggressor (with Pearl Harbor, not the invasions of China and Korea). In Palestine's case, it will take much longer to wipe out that resentment. Besides, Palestinians aren't the "radicals" here.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-17 05:10:08+00:00
Okay, granted, but is that applicable on the timescales here?

There has been a very steady march of progress in cars, in safety, efficiency, and comfort since that ad came out. They did lose their tech lead, but I'm not sure it was inevitable in that time frame.

Volvo made a name for itself with safety. Mercedes could have done that. Toyota made a name for itself with hybrid drivetrains. Mercedes could have done that.

They didn't, sure, but your argument seems to hinge on low hanging fruit going away and others catching up. This seems like Mercedes simply opted not to reach for the next piece of fruit.
by aitchnyu | 2025-09-17 05:10:44+00:00
Wish they explicitly introduced Openrouter in the article. Aider (my choice) and Kilocode uses it to connect to any models and switches providers for a given model (for example Sonnet is hosted by Anthropic, Google and AWS and OSS models have even more hosts). I try models 20x cheaper than Sonnet.
by re-thc | 2025-09-17 05:11:47+00:00
> by several large engineering organizations, which made the move

The problem with this type of trend is it's often hype and you never know what actually happens or how does it evolve over time.

I've seen organizations make certain announcements, switch maybe 5%, give up and go in different directions, but only the initial announcement ever hit the news.

> and seduced by the promises of a language simple to learn, build, and deploy

It's always simple if you rip it all up. Nice and shiny toys are always great.
by chem83 | 2025-09-17 05:12:35+00:00
The decency? Classless?

PowerToys is not installed by default and neither is this Google app, obviously. It's absolutely reasonable that Google picks the most intuitive and common shortcut for an app launcher and if the user wants to maintain two or more launchers, it's up to them to configure non-conflicting keyboard shortcuts that are the most intuitive to them.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-09-17 05:12:38+00:00
I'm sorry you had that experience, I can certainly empathize.

Open source isn't working for free, it's working for connections instead of money. I find this way of thinking about it useful: my first order goal is not to fix a bug in the project, it is to do a favor for the human being(s) behind it.

If you're really contributing and aren't getting the reward, by all means, walk away and hack on something else. But it's also important to have some humility, and recognize that most of the time you don't get that reward, it is because you simply aren't being helpful.

The hard truth is that nobody is going to help you figure out how to be useful. They're just going to say no.
by joecool1029 | 2025-09-17 05:13:43+00:00
They don't though (also the 16e has in-house apple modem, I have no idea what the fate of the intel modems was). The majority of other vendors' designs get full qualcomm soc's with dsp, modem, security processor firmwares.

Apple literally has the scale to go to Qualcomm and buy slightly customized variants (the X71, for instance). And those modems are integrated with their custom Apple designed chips. I don't see any other vendor able to do that.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-17 05:14:26+00:00
The thing about Orthodox File Managers when they first came about, that does not occur today, was the amount of time that had to be devoted to explaining that particular features would not work on OS/2, Unices, Linux-based operating systems, or Windows NT because only MS/PC/DR-DOS let programs do things like directly manipulate stuff in some other program's PSP or directly peek/poke video RAM or the keyboard buffer; or that filenames did not necessarily have "extensions"; or that there was more than 1 type of timestamp; or that links and symbolic links existed; or that different people can have different local times on a single machine; or that directories actually have sizes.

Today, the DOS Think is far less prevalent.

Midnight Commander's screenshots would have looked a little off to OFM users with DOS Think. Today, it's the original MS/PC/DR-DOS tools that will appear odd to novices. They did things like have a narrow 8.3 filename column, omit the dots, use graphics in the filename for system files, use glyphs that one could only obtain through poking C0-range codes into video RAM, change UI elements as one pressed and released the Alt key, and so forth.
by pabs3 | 2025-09-17 05:15:08+00:00
This with the "Lynx-like motion" panel option and the "Quick view" enabled is the best way to review a source tree. So much so that the Debian ftp-masters use it and a plugin for doing license review of newly introduced packages.

https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20191228133344.GA4943@...
by nemothekid | 2025-09-17 05:16:28+00:00
>(which would probably be an actual digital privacy framework)

The ban wasn't executed on digital privacy concerns. The intent of the original ban was on digital privacy concerns, and that was shot down.

>The Intel stake is the same - barely thought out. If you haven't noticed, this has been a common theme in many policy decisions lately.

The TikTok ban passed under Biden, and the ball was kicked to Trump so he would deal with the political fallout. But the reason the ban passed the second time around was because China would not censor content about the Gaza genocide. The ban had no legs until October 7th and TikTok frustrated the US/Israel message that Hamas was homicidal terrorist group that spawned from no where.

What seems obvious is that, yes, the new TikTok, will fall in line with other US owned social media companies when it comes to spreading US propoganda.

So while Chinese social networks have "What happened in tiananmen square?", US social networks will have "Is Israel committing a genocide?".
by nickm12 | 2025-09-17 05:16:30+00:00
I can relate, but generally if I avoid updating in the first quarter of the release, I don't find it is too difficult to get my Mac back to a happy state. I did try to move to Linux a couple of years ago, but just couldn't. The keyboard, mouse, window system, and app ecosystem were far and away less usable for me and there was nothing I could find to do that would make the machine work as well for me as Mac, despite what Apple is throwing at us.
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-17 05:16:37+00:00
> I do not tolerate being accused of "lying" for saying things that I sincerely believe to be true and which I actively attempt to evidence.

Your "evidence" being...

> it came across to me that this reflected a belief on Dowd's part that the shooting was reasonable

Uh, that's not evidence. That's you literally making stuff up and using weasel words like "came across" so that you can then accuse people of "misrepresenting" you when they call you out on it.

> This is a plain reading of Dowd's words

You clearly don't know what "plain reading" means. It's the opposite of projection.

> I am not "using a euphemism". I am simply rejecting your framing of the issue. You have no right to compel me to adopt your framing of the issue.

Whether something is a euphemism doesn't depend on whether you agree with me or not. You stated that "there is no rational line of reasoning in which being shot is a natural consequence of supporting the right to bear arms." Supporting the right to bear arms is a euphemism for making deadly weapons widely available. When such weapons are made widely accessible, it's only logical that they'd end up getting used, contradicting your statement. The euphemism serves to obscure that contradiction.

> American gun owners by and large acquire guns by choosing to do so, not by having it forced upon them

This is a straw man.

> I read the article. It does not show Kirk doing anything of the sort.

No, you didn't. Here's the quote from the article:

> Speaking to a television audience a few days after the attack, a grinning Kirk called for the intruder to be sprung from jail.

> “If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out,” he said.

We have a serious problem here if we can't even agree on whether something is literally written in the article or not.

> why the things he said that are claimed to be hateful are in fact not actually hateful

It's hateful to have a "debate" about why groups of people should be persecuted out of existence. That's not up for discussion.

> None of his expression of opinion was ever about a desire to make people angry. People did get angry, because they didn't like the fact that he had the opinions that he had. But he was absolutely entitled to have those opinions, and to express them.

Attacking people simply for existing in this world provokes anger, and they have every right to feel that way. Although to be very clear, turning that anger into violence is unacceptable. Returning to the main point, absolutely no one is "entitled" to deny the existence of others.

> Regardless, people saying hateful things does not justify a violent response.

Again, we're in agreement here.
by Nursie | 2025-09-17 05:16:44+00:00
Back in the 90s it certainly had some features that made it easier to do so, yes. On ext2 file systems (no journaling or other advanced features) it had some method to browse unlinked inodes that were still on disk so you could recover them. They’d then show up in “lost+found”.

If you were quick and unmounted as soon as you had realised what you’d done, and the space had not been re-used for anything, you could often get the file back because rm just unlinked the inodes on ext2 IIRC.

I imagine that the commands it used under the hood were accessible to anyone with the right know-how, but at the time that’s not something I had, and all the guides started with “use midnight commander” so I did :)

(Saying “only way” to recover might be a stretch, it’s true)
by aakresearch | 2025-09-17 05:17:06+00:00
Your take is very sensible and I agree with it 100%, but the reality is that (by my assessment) it is absolutely not present in the wall of ATS filters one's job application is up against. I've sent hundred of CV/cover letters over last ten months, none of them are touched by LLM. Most cover letters I manually tailored to re-frame in line with job ad - where I cared a lot, some I just made with my generic template - still manually - where I couldn't be bothered to care. Invariably I either received no response at all, or for remaining 10% I received a generic rejection email, identically worded and styled in almost all cases.

Here it is, if you are curious:

"Thank you for your interest in the <position> position at <company> in <country>. Unfortunately, we will not be moving forward with your application, but we appreciate your time and interest in <company>."

The Resume I am sending out is just an evolution of one that worked very well for me for 25+ years. The roles, as far as I am able to see, are 80%-95% keyword match, with the non-matched keywords being exceedingly superficial. Yes, I haven't listed "blob storage", but guess what else I have used but haven't listed: "semicolon", "variable declaration" and "for-loops". Yet in this day and age one seems to be punished for not doing so.

I am very principled in not letting any AI anywhere close to my CV, because I think the usefulness of signal it conveys rests solely on it being addressed to and read by human, hence it has to be fully authored and tailored by human too. But these days this idea has completely flipped. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Standing by principles could lead to literal dying. Personally, I made peace with dying, but I cannot allow my family to go homeless. As such, I don't see it below me to go down the path of mass-blasting heavily over-tailored Resumes. If it bumps my chances from 0.05% to 0.2%, that's a four-fold increase that may be the difference between, literally, life and death. The organic job search with my natural skills and authentic ways of presentation I relied on for twenty years is dead.
by aorth | 2025-09-17 05:17:13+00:00
In the story about the Nx compromise a few weeks ago someone posted a neat script that uses bubblewrap on Linux to run tools like npm more safely by confining their filesystem access. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496

I modified the script slightly based on some of the comments in the thread and my own usage patterns:

#!/usr/bin/env bash # # See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45034496 bin=$(basename "$0") echo "===========================" echo "Wrapping $bin in bubblewrap" echo "===========================" exec bwrap \ --bind ~/.cache ~/.cache \ --bind "${PWD}" "${PWD}" \ --dev /dev \ --die-with-parent \ --disable-userns \ --new-session \ --proc /proc \ --ro-bind /etc/ca-certificates /etc/ca-certificates \ --ro-bind /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf \ --ro-bind /etc/ssl /etc/ssl \ --ro-bind /usr /usr \ --setenv PATH /usr/bin \ --symlink /usr/bin /bin \ --symlink /usr/bin /sbin \ --symlink /usr/lib /lib \ --symlink /usr/lib64 /lib64 \ --tmpfs /tmp \ --unshare-all \ --unshare-user \ --share-net \ /usr/bin/env "$bin" "$@"

Put this in `~/.local/bin` and symlink it to `~/.local/bin/npm` and `~/.local/bin/yarn` (and make sure `~/.local/bin` is first in your `$PATH`). I've been using it to wrap npm and yarn successfully in a few projects. This will protect you against some attacks that use postinstall scripts to do nefarious things outside the project.
by mediumdeviation | 2025-09-17 05:18:06+00:00
The news cycle is moving fast enough that shockingly enough this news is already pushed off the frontpage of these news sites, but the article is there if you dig a little.

- BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go

- The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/16/israel-committ...

- NPR: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/g-s1-89014/israel-gaza-genoci...
by sneak | 2025-09-17 05:18:40+00:00
I bought some custom molded earplugs recently and I got 3 sets - two are completely sealed off and are very nice for when I wish for peace and quiet and don’t need to hear or speak.

I also use noise canceling mode on my airpods pro quite often.

The advantage is that it works even when I’m in an environment I can’t control, like an airport or waiting room.
by oneshtein | 2025-09-17 05:18:49+00:00
I have Pixel 6 with Graphene and Pixel 5 with stock OS. Also, I have an old ZTE Nubia, which still works. None of them was rooted.

Nubia was hacked remotely. It received no updates for years, so it was an easy target. I unlocked Nubia and plan to install LineAge OS to it when my Pixel 5 will die.

Pixel 5 was hacked from close distance via WiFi or BT.

Pixel 6 with Graphene is not hacked yet.

Lack of root doesn't protect me.

However, I use SafeDot to monitor phone access to microphone, camera, GPS, so I'm alerted when it starts to beep, which creates problems for spies, so SafeDot is banned by Google at request of СІА. I cannot fix this, because Google controls my phone instead of me. SafeDot still works on Pixel6 GrapheneOS with warning notification about it «unsafety» though.
by adonese | 2025-09-17 05:18:52+00:00
Worth to mention is do reach to your friends and network telling them you were let go of / looking for a job. There's no shame in that, and in fact, it can help a lot.

Another small points: reduce your expenses. Basically plan for the worst in terms of budgeting. Widen your search space. There are other younger markets in global south you can also approach.

Theres this expression i couldn't exactly translate to English. It goes along the lines of loosen up your body (literal translation), but it's more about yielding to the flow and less about physically doing so.
by titanomachy | 2025-09-17 05:19:02+00:00
Thanks for sharing the slowboring blog post. I didn't know that stat came from payday loan companies, which definitely makes it suspect. Encouraging to hear that 55% of Americans have enough cash on hand for 3 months of expenses, and most of them have less liquid resources they could draw on if they needed more.

However, saying that the median American household has ~$200k net worth doesn't necessarily mean that they're doing great. A lot of the burden of funding retirement falls on the individual in the US, meaning if you're 60 and only have $200k of net worth in a M/HCOL city you're still potentially kind of fucked.
by asim | 2025-09-17 05:19:12+00:00
People are basically looking for a standalone Facebook groups that's not owned by a corporation. Or Twitter for small groups but not what mastodon has become. I think honourably some people have tried and many continue to build niche products like micro.blog. Personally I just want a service that is not commercially owned, for profit or by a US corporation. My own attempts/ambitions get in the way of being able to achieve it, so I started working on something that slowly solved my own problems e.g news feed aggregation, videos without shorts or the algorithm, chat with AI based on a model from Qatar. Soon I'll add posting but only because I feel like I need some sort of personalised way to bookmark and share my thoughts within it being about gaining attention or validation from a world of likes and retweets.

There are no good answers, because the reality is the next medium is probably quite different from the last. But yea personalised small group chat, feed, news makes sense.
by joe_the_user | 2025-09-17 05:19:35+00:00
It seems unfair, yeah.

But the main way to know is that companies never call you these days. No company should have and few do have a workflow where an employee will call you "cold" with a problem. Instead, companies email, snail mail or text about a problem and you call them back.

But if someone somehow sounds legit, you ask for the official number and whatever info is need to identify your supposed problem. Then go to the website and verify. Call the number at the website (that you find from your own search, not the caller's info) and then have them verify you.
by whatevaa | 2025-09-17 05:20:23+00:00
UE 5 requires so high specs even 5090 can't meet. It's a turd of an engine.

Nanite is a way to make cheaper but lower performance assets (yes, it performs worse than manual Level Of Detail optimizations and quite significantly).

Lumen requirements are so high that for it to perform good you basically have to render at 720p. So they do and then upscale, and it's all blurry and still runs like shit.
by pimeys | 2025-09-17 05:22:26+00:00
I use it especially when moving files around in my NAS and it is awesome.

For GUI file managers, I have to say you can't get better than Dolphin. It has an integrated shell for the current directory, and you can split the view. It can also directly open ssh and SFTP URLs. For local things the combination of Dolphin and it's shell is unbeatable.