MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rrgok | 2025-09-12 16:10:46+00:00
> We can get lost in the beauty of a landscape we've never visited before in a novel, which is the crux of the matter, even if it doesn't seem like it.

> You get to embody a particular character or world, which builds your own personal knowledge and empathy.

An aside. I don't like this. At least, IME I don't think this a good thing. If you read a novel - exclude fantasy or obvious reason - of something you never experienced, then that will condition your first experience of that thing. You will be bringing something dead - the words on the book - alive through you. You will lose your genuine expression.
by immibis | 2025-09-12 16:10:48+00:00
I don't know if you noticed, but some things awfully similar to Nazism are currently popular again, worldwide. Mostly not popular enough to actually win elections in most cases, but enough that many people are thinking about how to stop almost-Nazis from winning elections, which of course gets the latter group labelled as almost-Nazis for trying to interfere with elections.

There are many groups with agendas to kill or expel gay people, trans people, Muslims, atheists, etc. It's sadly normal for those groups to exist; it's not normal for them to be anywhere close to power and we need to stop them getting power because we already know what happens if they get power. "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" and all that.
by nunez | 2025-09-12 16:11:08+00:00
kubernetes is where vsphere was circa 2010 or so. wide adoption with loads of room for growth and refining.

the vmware implosion + kubevirt gaining maturity is what will hyper-accelerate this.

nonetheless, it's a bit nuts that a vsphere alternative doesn't really exist for kubernetes. openshift, harvester and foss projects like portainer are close but not really the same thing. vsphere made it stupid easy to orchestrate vms at any scale with any level of experience. your cat could deploy a simple two-node vDC, and you could theoretically click your way through doing very very complicated things with your cluster (though you probably should).

esxi was silly easy to install most of the time also. provisioning kubernetes is finally (as of maybe three years ago?) pretty easy to do, but day two ops are still very command line. great for nerds like you and me; not good for former VIadmins who were suddenly thrown into the k8siverse.

this is even worse on the networking front. anyone who's messed with cilium or calico vs administrating NSX will know what i'm talking about. you can click your way through setting up a whole logical enterprise-grade networking fabric with vSANs, BGP, stateful firewall, the whole nine, all with near-linespeed performance throughout your vDC. cilium and calico, on the other hand, are powerful but have (to my knowledge) no real GUI equivalents.

storage is even worse. there's no vSAN frontend equivalent in the k8s landscape afaik.
by mjr00 | 2025-09-12 16:12:50+00:00
> the point is to understand how the candidate thinks, communicates, and decomposes problems.

100% and it's a shame that over time this has become completely lost knowledge, on both sides of the interview table, and "leetcode" is now seen as an arbitrary rote memorization hurdle/hazing ritual that software engineers have to pass to enter a lucrative FAANG career. Interviewees grind problems until they've memorized every question in the FAANG interview bank, and FAANG interviewers will watch a candidate spit out regurgitated code on a whiteboard in silence, shrug, and say "yep, they used the optimal dynamic programming solution, they pass."
by dismalaf | 2025-09-12 16:12:52+00:00
Recently a man was shot and killed in a home invasion defending his family (also in Ontario). The police first claimed it was a targeted killing (implying the man was a gang member), then when that turned out false, the police said you should comply with home invaders instead of resisting...

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/warmington-top-cop-wa...
by iiyama | 2025-09-12 16:13:14+00:00
They indeed feel way less of a pain than dealing with an app with complicated UI stuffed into a single window on a screen with half the size the app was designed for. Even with the site we're discussing here, once I cranked scaling to 200% it became noticeable harder to read than a regular webpage with some text on it would with the same scaling.

However, I believe there is a better way to approach this: put each significant piece of functionality into a separate window or even executable, and use regular moveable toolbars and well-known hotkeys inside each window. One window for code editor (with working Ctrl+Tab and Window -> Tile Horizontally menu), another for configuration, yet another for terminal and output window (with a Pin on top button). When I write code I don't normally need configuration tool, but if I need it even so often it gets opened alongside the editor and is now one Alt+Tab away, not taking any screen space at all.

I used an engineering tool suite written with this approach and it was much better experience than the single-window monstrosity that came as a replacement, stuffing entirety of functionality into a single app and breaking (not implementing) a lot of small conveniences like aforementioned Ctrl+Tab.
by caminante | 2025-09-12 16:13:16+00:00
I assume English is your second language.

Nobody's arguing that having a synched clock would NOT make them an advantage player.

You left out the part where I asked for proof anyone had exploited it (harm) and to what significance (how much harm). This actually matters in commercial and practical terms. Otherwise, you're really pressed to claim any real damages.

Meanwhile, and for hopefully the last time, it appears you're holding them to this idealist standard -- similar to an Italian reacting to someone snapping spaghetti noodles in half before throwing them into boiling water.
by farooqkz | 2025-09-12 16:15:55+00:00
I've read the abstract of your article. I am not much in the field of decompilers. Let alone deobfuscation. It's even hard for me to type it :))

I think it is probably a safe assumption that the kernel binary found on Android devices is not obfuscated. Tho I probably need more research to confirm this.
Show HN: Lumro – AI agents for customer support, sales, and more
by Ophilip | 2025-09-12 16:16:23+00:00
Hey HN,

We just launched Lumro, a platform that lets you create AI agents that actually do things, not just chat.

With Lumro you can: Handle customer support instantly, 24/7 Capture leads and qualify them Book demos or route tickets automatically

The idea is to take repetitive work off human teams so they can focus on strategy and relationships.

We launched yesterday and so far: 200+ people checked it out 15 signed up Our agent booked 1 demo Our agent captured 2 leads

It’s early days, but we’re excited about the traction.

Would love your feedback especially on what you’d want to see in an AI agent for your business.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-09-12 16:16:46+00:00
It's good advice. Losing a car is much less worse than personal injury or worse. Everybody's a toughguy until a methhead who can't feel pain stabs you 15 times. Should the police crack down? Sure, but they aren't magicians, crime isn't gonna magically dissolve tomorrow. In the mean time, keep yourself safe by not inviting harm.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-12 16:17:05+00:00
Why don’t you read why they did that. Instead you responded with your own reasoning without countering or responding to there reasoning. I actually agree with you but the article has actual points that you didn’t bother to read or reference.

Like this:

Frankly for a site like this efficient use of space and multi tasking isn’t as important for a front page. A front page needs to be optimized to be in your face to understand what posthog is in as little time as possible then give you optional pathways to dig in for more detail. A website that’s like an OS is too busy, it’s optimized for productivity and I still have no idea what posthog does exactly.
by uses | 2025-09-12 16:17:08+00:00
Really? I thought most of the excess cost of healthcare in the US is due to the artificially restricted supply of doctors, causing them to have extremely high salaries compared to similarly demanding work in the US, or to the same work in other countries (although US salaries are super high in general). But the article kind of handwaves and vaguely blames big business or whatever.
by vruiz | 2025-09-12 16:17:26+00:00
Only they know what they are afraid of. But seems obvious that a feature like that should also be available with third-party headphones, the translation happens in the phone, not the AirPods. There is no technical reason other than locking users into their products.

I'm sure Apple would say that the experience would not be the same with other (lesser) headphones, and that damages the user experience, etc. Some people would believe that's the reason, but the EU won't and neither do I.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-12 16:17:46+00:00
Political solutions are often messy and complex. Pragmatic fixes are rarely obvious and overreaches are common. Reforms are ongoing. Conversely, absolutists have no use for nuance.

The war on cash is a good example.

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

https://ij.org/federal-court-rules-in-favor-of-convenience-s...
by johnklos | 2025-09-12 16:18:03+00:00
> They have no problem with X11 coexisting

You have it wrong. Rather than reuse parts of X11, like the compositors that support hardware that nobody will ever be paid to support, Wayland is trying to reinvent the wheel and replace X11, with support for only what's new and/or popular.

> However everyone demanding X11 is really demanding Wayland designers stop their work and go back to X11 - and none of them are paying for that.

Absolutely nobody is demanding that Wayland developers should stop their work and go back to working on X11. Nobody. That's a ridiculous, hyperbolic statement.

What some of us would like to see is Wayland not try to make everything either/or. But, just like systemd, things started with, "you can do both", then went to, "it's harder to do both, but you can", then to, "the old way is dead, so stop writing code that supports it", and eventually to, "let's completely rip out the old way of doing it because "maintenance" and everyone will be forced to use the new way". GNOME is already doing this, even though it's supposed to be open source, platform agnostic and portable.

The fact that you bring up paid work shows you're happy to accept idea that support for things is only worth what people will pay for it. Consider how that fits with corporatization, and consider how that fits with open source in general.

In other words, should all open source project be drivable by some corporation deciding to just throw money at something?

If you think about this for more than 30 seconds, you may finally understand why those of us who aren't fans of the corporatization of Linux and aren't fans of projects that don't interoperate and ultimately end up fragmenting the open source software world are not fans of the eventual consequences of projects like Wayland.

It's not "X11 is great and Wayland sucks" - it's "why is this project fragmenting things rather than interoperating, and why are people so eager to be led by corporations in to supporting corporate interests?"
by rlpb | 2025-09-12 16:18:15+00:00
> Your TZ doesn't change between summer and winter. What changes is the shift

My TZ is GMT in winter and BST in summer. I am not in GMT in summer. GMT continues to exist in summer, doesn't shift but my clock doesn't follow it.

The UTC "shift" changes indeed. When I am DST-shifted, calling me "UTC" is absolutely wrong.

The practical issue is that people still use "UTC" and "GMT" interchangeably, which is roughly correct anyway since they remain the same in practice. But then during summer when someone says GMT I don't know if they actually mean BST (they mean my local time) or UTC (they mean the global point of reference). That ambiguity only arises because Outlook (and you, apparently) conflate GMT and BST. It's far more of a problem for those actually living in a UTC-adjacent time zone (do you?), especially because being only one hour off, usually both options seem equally likely in context.
by itissid | 2025-09-12 16:18:19+00:00
Always good advice for anything. A variation of this is that you should also not answer the negative: that you definitely did not do something, if someone asks you that on a phone call. This is meant to spread harm to others.

I was speaking to a pharmacist yesterday. Apparently certain pharmacy insurance companies in the US have set up call centers that randomly call people and ask.

"We are from the fraud check department. Did you ask for receiving XYZ medication that your insurance paid $$$$$$ for?". The guy who does who's salary is an order of magnitude smaller, immediately panics and denies he ever asked for XYZ, even though they are obviously taking the medication. The purpose is of-course for pharmacy insurance companies to challenge/deny claims for on ALL XYZ orders the pharmacy made.

Of course checking insurance payouts is a hassle so most people reach for panic first and shortly thereafter denial.
by JW_00000 | 2025-09-12 16:19:14+00:00
You must be joking. When I try to log in on Outlook I get redirected to 'microsoftonline.com' (suspicious), when I log in on Wikipedia it sends me to something called 'wikimedia.org' (typo squatter?). How the hell am I supposed to know whether npmjs.help or rustfoundation.dev are _not_ the official domains of those projects?
by Andrew_nenakhov | 2025-09-12 16:19:39+00:00
Ok, since you are waiting, I'll spend a few minutes fetching you easily available quotes.

Obama:

- "If they bring a knife to the fight, we're going to bring a gun." [0]

Biden:

- "If we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him" [1]

- "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye." [2]

- the whole "Darth Biden" event speech was filled with statements framing political opponents as enemies of the country, kinda sinister from the head of the most powerful state in the world, no? ("Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.", etc) [3]

Waltz:

- "When it’s an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the shit out of him back." [4]

- "I tell you that... because we need to whip his butt and put this guy behind us." [5]

Newsome:

- "But right now, with all due respect, we’re walking down a damn different path. We’re fighting fire with fire. And we’re gonna punch these sons of bitches in the mouth." [6] (apologies for the Twitter link, didn't find direct video elsewhere)

Would that be enough?

[0]: https://www.factcheck.org/2011/01/obama-guns-and-the-untouch...

[1]: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/21/politics/Joe-biden-donald...

[2]: https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/biden-defends-bullseye...

[3]: https://www.newsweek.com/read-everything-joe-biden-said-his-...

[4]: https://www.startribune.com/in-key-2028-state-tim-walz-says-...

[5]: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/tim-walz-brea...

[6]: https://x.com/amuse/status/1958827049348407350
by roberdam | 2025-09-12 16:19:39+00:00
Congrats on the idea and launch!

Quick questions:

I can’t find the pricing for any of the plans (am I missing it?).

It would be great to have a GIF or video showing how it works without registering.

It would also be great to show some of your previous winning signals to demonstrate the potential (you could publish them with a delay of a week or more).
by brisky | 2025-09-12 16:19:40+00:00
I think I have it as well. But my theory is that we might have imagination but it is only accessible to subconscious. It is as if it is blocked from consciousness. I have ADHD as well, might be that this is protection mechanism that allows my kind of brain to survive in the world better (otherwise it would be too entertaining to get lost in your own imagination). As a kid I used to daydream a lot.
by cedws | 2025-09-12 16:20:27+00:00
> If you were earning ¥3-4M a year (roughly the average salary in Japan), would you feel the same about Japan?

I can’t answer that question since I haven’t experienced it, but I did qualify I said above by saying that I’m aware I wasn’t getting the full picture working for a London-based employer.

I wasn’t living in Japan so to be there forever, I was living there to have a good 6 months. So what my life would be like as an ‘average salaryman’ isn’t really pertinent. Apples to apples as an average London salaryman (average not anywhere near £90k) vs average Tokyo salaryman I think I would be happier as the latter.

>a £90k-150k salary and live in Chelsea or Belgravia

Last I checked that salary range is not Chelsea or Belgravia money.
by diggan | 2025-09-12 16:20:30+00:00
> Given that Russia produces around 100 heavy drones per day and plan to increase production multiple times NATO countries are essentially defenseless

But given that NATO is both increasing and planning to increase the defenses more, they're essentially equal then? I'm not sure what point there is of discussing potentially future actions of Russia without considering the potentially future actions of others, like NATO will be the same tomorrow as today?
by Insanity | 2025-09-12 16:20:35+00:00
So.. I live in Ontario. And I actually agree with that statement. Why would you resist and risk your life instead of just complying? Material things aren't worth actually getting hurt over.

The implication that "the police say this because they can't stop the crime" is IMO not the right take-away. The correct take-away is that a certain level of crime is unavoidable in practice, and you should prioritize your life over your property.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-09-12 16:21:36+00:00
> The point of these problems is to test your cleverness.

Last round I did at Meta it was clearly to test that you grinded their specific set of problems, over and over again, until you could reproduce them without thinking. It's clear because the interviewers are always a bit surprised when you answer with whatever is not the text-book approach on both leetcode and on the interview guide they studied.

Cleverness is definitely not high on the list of things they're looking for.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-09-12 16:21:46+00:00
This got me thinking, are there any games that have a graphics setting for monitor curvature? Because they should, IIRC the standard is rectilinear rendering, where the perspective comes out correct only if the monitor is flat. But if people can get used to glasses that severely distort the image, I guess this isn't a big deal.

Also, my obligatory rant, ultrawide monitors do not exist, only ultrashort, and 16:10 shouldn't have become a "premium/business/designer/prosumer" option, it should just be the standard. Nobody gets a VR headset and crops off the bottom and top thirds of the image and claims it's more immersive that way.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-12 16:22:16+00:00
Yeah, it tests if the candidate enjoys the programming-adjacent puzzle game of LeetCode, which is a perfectly decent game to play, but it is just a signal.

If somebody grinds LeetCode while hating it, it signals they are really desperate for a job and willing to jump through hoops for you.

If somebody actually enjoys this kind of stuff, that is probably a signal that they are a rare premium nerd and you should hire them. But the probably play Project Euler as well (is that still up?).

If somebody figures out a one-trick to minmax their LeetCode score… I dunno, I guess it means they are aware of the game and want to solve it efficiently. That seems clever to me…
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-09-12 16:22:33+00:00
From what I have heard, forward is still used for games that are developed especially for VR. Unreal docs:

>there are some trade-offs in using the Deferred Renderer that might not be right for all VR experiences. Forward Rendering provides a faster baseline, with faster rendering passes, which may lead to better performance on VR platforms. Not only is Forward Rendering faster, it also provides better anti-aliasing options than the Deferred Renderer, which may lead to better visuals[0]

This page is fairly old now, so I don't know if this is still the case. I think many competitive FPS titles use forward.

>"forward+" methods.

Can you expound on this?

[0] https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
by somenameforme | 2025-09-12 16:22:34+00:00
He's referring to nukes. War between NATO and Russia is a non-starter because there's no viable way it doesn't almost immediately escalate to nukes, especially when all parties would be aware of this creating even more an incentive to be the first to try, and inevitably fail, at a preemptive nuclear strike to completely disable the opposing forces' nuclear options.
by viccis | 2025-09-12 16:22:36+00:00
>The point of these problems is to test your cleverness.

In my experience, interviewers love going to the Leetcode "Top Interview 150" list and using problems in the "Array String" category. I'm not a fan of these problems for the kind of jobs I've interviewed for (backend Python mostly), as they are almost always a "give me a O(n) runtime O(1) memory algorithm over this array" type challenge that really doesn't resemble my day to day work at all. I do not regularly do in-place array algorithms in Python because those problems are almost always handled by other languages (C, Rust, etc.) where performance is critical.

I wish interviewers would go to the "Hashmap" section for interviews in Python, JavaScript, etc., type of languages. They are much less about cleverness and more about whether you can demonstrate using the appropriate tools in your language to solve problems that actually do resemble ones I encounter regularly.

There's also the problem of difficulty tuning on some of these. Problem 169 (Majority Element) being rated "Easy" for getting a O(n) runtime O(1) memory solution is hilarious to me. The algorithm first described in 1981 that does it (Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm) has a Wikipedia page. It's not a difficult to implement or understand algorithm, but its correctness is not obvious until you think about it a bit, at which point you're at sufficient "cleverness" to get a Wikipedia page about an algorithm named after you. Seems excessive for an "Easy" problem.
by nona | 2025-09-12 16:23:45+00:00
This is why Debian users should use apt-listchanges to display the latest NEWS.Debian items on upgrade.

I wouldn't expect to see all the important news of the tens of thousands of packages I don't have installed in the release notes.

I was hit by this using unstable (before they made a NEWS item), but when upgrading my stable machines to trixie I got a proper warning/reminder of this specific thing.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-12 16:24:08+00:00
I used to be a big OpenGL advocate all the way up to Long Peaks, eventually I came to realise it is another committee driven API, and writing a couple of plugin backends was never that much of a deal.

Just see the shading mess as well, with GLSL lagging behind, most devs using HLSL due to its market share, and now Slang, which again was contributed by NVidia.

Also the day LunarG loses out their Vulkan sponsorship, the SDK is gone.