MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by keyringlight | 2025-09-27 17:09:16+00:00
Windows containers are definitely a thing, but I think the implementation is at the "how to draw an owl: draw two circles..." stage and needs a lot of "...now draw the rest of the owl" in terms of being usable to the general consumer audience where their eyes are likely to gloss over if you say "go and install docker desktop". Having a simple method to maintain old software as usable would be beneficial, but it's hard to see what organization would want to do work to make it happen.

Legacy compatibility is one of windows biggest strong points, neatly containing 'old windows' and providing the best experience for it would solve the puzzle of why users should stick with windows if MS did want to prune the core OS without giving users reasons to move away.
by netbioserror | 2025-09-27 17:09:30+00:00
I'm becoming acutely aware of the first-mover problem in open source software: Nobody truly knows how the software is going to be used in half a century. And once that time is past, the accumulated tech debt of the first-generation tool should probably just be thrown out entirely, for a new second-generation tool that easily does what people have shown they actually want do with it.

I've been using Typst for work documentation and hobby authorship. It is unreal how powerful it is out of the box, with no plugins. It's a Turing-complete programming language where you can switch between a code context and a document context with a simple change of brackets. Everything you WISH Latex did out of the box, it does. Highly recommend the VSCode plugin with live PDF generation and automatic scrolling.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-27 17:09:43+00:00
Yes, Yes, Yes.

Firstly, I love the satirical name of tempaccount420, I was also just watching memes and this post is literally me (ryan gosling)

As I was also thinking about this thing literally yesterday being a bit delusional on hoping to create a better ssh using http/3 or something or some minor improvement because I made a comment about tor routing and linking it to things like serveo, I was thinking of enhancing that idea or something lol.

Actually, it seems that I have already starred this project but I had forgotten about it, this is primarily the reason why I star github project and this might be where I might have got some inspiration of http/3 in the first place with SSH.

Seems like a really great project (I think)

Now, one question that I have is could SSH be made modular in the sense that we can split the transport layer apart from SSH as this project does, without too much worries?

Like, I want to create a SSH-ish something to lets say something like iroh being the transport layer, are there any libraries or resources which can do something like that? (I won't do it for iroh but I always like mixing and matching and I am thinking of some different ideas like SSH over matrix/xmpp/signal too/ the possibilities could be limitless!)
by k_bx | 2025-09-27 17:10:46+00:00
I personally care because it’s Rust based and that means I’m likely to participate in development and feel comfortable with the tooling.

As a broader picture — it matters since the creator is System76 which sells laptops and desktops and moves towards giving a full Linux on Desktop polished experience. You really can only go so far if you are not deeply involved in the DE yourself.

p.s.: your question is very legit imo, don’t get the downvotes
by ahazred8ta | 2025-09-27 17:10:54+00:00
Part of a series of articles by sociologists complaining about the overuse of p < 0.05 statistical tests. (The articles are not actually about the Earth being round.)

"Sadly, the earth is still round (p < 0.05)" [2012] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209525461...
by kqr | 2025-09-27 17:11:17+00:00
Not really, no. They get stuck extremely easily. They can last longer with hand-holding but they still get stuck.

Humans also get stuck, to be fair, but tend to be more inventive and methodical in trying to get unstuck, and more intelligent in what to pay attention to. LLMs play like a three year old with advanced vocabulary and infinite patience.

LLMs also by nature don't learn from their experiences. Even within the same context window their past mistakes only increase the propensity of generating similar mistakes.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-27 17:11:40+00:00
China is facing a demographic cliff that is potentially catastrophic.

I remember Japan talking about replacing its similar demographic problems with robots.

Didn't happen. Now ai and robotics is apparently progressed... But I'm guessing this will be some grand vision in the CCP to save their country, while at the same time fulfill the CCPs great desire for a totally controlled and subservient workforce.

Much like the Cold war, there's a lot of scare that can be built into that. Which corporations can use to get a whole lot of sweet government and military money.

But almost everything that was held up as an existential threat to democracy in the USSR turned out to be overblown in the best case, an outright fraud or smokescreen frequently.

As we can see from the Ukraine invasion, corruption in the military and control structures follows these authoritarian regimes. China also has this problem.

China was functioning well under reduced Deng Xiaoping rulership, but Xi is a typical purge and control authoritarian, which implies bad things about China's long term economic health.

Between the authoritarianism, demographic cliff, and possibly a massive real estate/finance bomb, China will probably have to become expansionist.

But they have nuclear frenemies all on their borders: Japan (effectively), Russia, Pakistan, India. They can be blockaded from petroleum access with a single us carrier group, which will happen if they invade Taiwan and I don't think they can help themselves.

But what do I know.
by dismalaf | 2025-09-27 17:12:22+00:00
The Trudeau/Carney government is doing that all on their own. Just gonna drop this here:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...

Edit - for those who don't get it, Alberta derives most of its wealth from oil. Successive Liberal governments have both restricted our ability to sell oil while taking significant amounts of money from Alberta in transfer payments. Since Alberta has a border with the US, we have pipelines going south. All the while the Canadian economy has been severely under-performing relative to the US government. The last 2 points naturally push Alberta away from Canada towards the US, without any potential political interference.
by danabramov | 2025-09-27 17:12:47+00:00
See here for how schemas are defined: https://atproto.com/specs/lexicon

I meant specifically that “unions” default to open. Let me give you an example. A Bluesky post may contain different types of attachments. Image, gallery, video, etc. That’s a union of known schemas. However, that union is open. That means that generated type will include “or unknown” as the last possible value. Apps are expected to ignore that case when pattern patching since they wouldn’t know how to interpret it. However, that leaves Bluesky with ability to later officially support other types of attachments. Because more potential types could be added to the union layer (making some previously “unknown” stuff typed).

This has an interesting consequence that third party clients can “recognize” some type before it’s official. Eg some third party Bluesky client could choose to explicitly support a “Leaflet document” attachment to Bluesky posts, governed by Leaflet schema. If this pattern gets popular, Bluesky could be motivated to also support it, and even to reference a Leaflet document as one explicitly noted subtype of that union. Or it could keep ignoring it as one of the “unknown” values.

More on social issues around lexicons here: https://www.pfrazee.com/blog/lexicon-guidance
by gmuslera | 2025-09-27 17:13:13+00:00
In 2023 there was also massive fires in Canada covering a similar area, 2021 Siberia, in 2019/2020 in Australia, 2015 in Indonesia (peat fires, less area but similar emissions)... there is a long list of extended fires with weighty emissions all in the last decade that nullifies and add a big share to every trial of forestation as natural carbon capture method. And things will get worse as that is in part a positive feedback loop.
by jstummbillig | 2025-09-27 17:13:20+00:00
That is a misreading so fantastic, that I hesitate to react at all. I'll rephrase:

If an actor with power changes something with regards to the state of the world – which they obviously should, if they don't what are they doing? — the rational can not be "I think this singular thing is unfair, I will not do this anymore". If everyone did that, the world would collapse.

There is no concept of "fairness" that you can simply presume (and if it mattered at all, which it does not, it would certainly not be the US that draws the short straw). Everything is state and connected. You are not in kindergarten. This is the state of the world you have to work from, if you aim to be a serious and trustworthy actor, and the amount of suffering you willfully cause is not a detail.

(And just so we don't get side tracked, what I was responding to is exactly: "but I do not understand why it would be their responsibility in the first place")
by colonial | 2025-09-27 17:13:24+00:00
Another stamp of approval for Typst here.

It's simple enough that I can easily typeset CS theory homework (with all the fancy notation that entails) without having to subject myself to the insanity of LaTeX or the friction of a standard word processor.

But at the same time, I can also crank out a full paper in a (professor mandated, LaTeX templated) style without raising any eyebrows.

The fact that it's a "real" programming language is also lovely - I have a very simple template (took me an ~hour to write) that ingests TOML descriptions of recipes and marshals them into pretty, standardized PDFs for my recipe binder.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-27 17:13:25+00:00
Not sure what you're saying -- you know that in-ear sealed headphones (like AirPods Pro) have phenomenal bass? There's no leakage path, and no destructive interference issues. All the issues with driving bass in speakers just... don't apply with sealed headphones. It's basically perfect bass.

The only thing you don't get is the full-body shaking sensation that massive speaker bass provides. But that's not even audio. That's more like amusement-park ride stuff. (Not to say it isn't great too.)

I mean, tell me what you think of the frequency response below 200 Hz here:

https://storage.googleapis.com/headphones_com_blog_files/app... (from https://headphones.com/blogs/reviews/apple-airpods-pro-2nd-g...)
by verteu | 2025-09-27 17:13:51+00:00
Agreed. Who in good conscience would use a site where the owner regularly posts hateful, trivially-debunked BS?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1970336290148434391

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1969087195798475263

https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1971546061169987846
by ttfvjktesd | 2025-09-27 17:13:51+00:00
> even though I'm going to have to make a pixel-perfect clone of my university's LaTeX template

I'm not sure if you really mean pixel perfect or if it's just an exaggeration. There are packages in latex which are almost impossible to replicate in a pixel perfect way, one widely used example is microtype, which is especially useful in scientific works.
by seadan83 | 2025-09-27 17:14:30+00:00
> I have yet to observe an activist practice objective thinking

It would be a sampling bias fallacy to draw conclusions based on your lack of observations.

Eg: "mountains, never seen them, they don't exist."

It is funny then for a geologist to be considered an activist when they say the mountains most certainly do exist.

Your first paragraph is unfounded. (Fwiw, The other two I found interesting. )
by rufus_foreman | 2025-09-27 17:14:33+00:00
>> Isn't there something in the constitution about that?

Yes, "The Congress shall have Power...To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions".

One of the ways Congress has done that was to pass the Insurrection Act, which was the legal basis for President Eisenhower to send 1,000 paratroopers from the 101st Airborne in to Little Rock, Arkansas in order to force racial integration of a high school.

The same act was used by JFK 3 times for similar purposes, 3 times by LBJ to suppress riots and civil unrest, by Reagan to suppress a prison riot, and by George H. W. Bush to deal with looting in the Virgin Islands after a hurricane, and to suppress riots in L.A. after the acquittal in the Rodney King beating trial.

There's also the 3rd Amendment quartering of troops restriction, so if you live in Portland, you won't have to let the troops stay at your house unless you want to, unless Trump declares war.
by lollobomb | 2025-09-27 17:15:19+00:00
This and the recent HN entry on "open social" smells to me like an astroturfing campaign from BlueSky.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45388021

Protip: BlueSky is "decentralized" only in name. Don't. With all their drawbacks, ActivityPub and Nostr are way better.
by SoftTalker | 2025-09-27 17:15:32+00:00
Many (or at least some) vinyl record albums were also not just a collection of 10 tracks but were crafted to be a complete experience. You listened to the album not just one song. With streaming being the predominant way music is consumed now, people mostly just listen to one song by one artist before bouncing to something randomly selected to be next in their playlist.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-27 17:15:46+00:00
> The feds know but won't release it.

If there were actual paid rioters paid for by anyone but someone in the MAGA orbit to justify government action, and the feds knew who it was, it is clear from their behavior in other cases that they wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to demonize them as an enemy (heck, they can hardly pass up the opportunity to manufacture such demonization with few or no facts behind it.)

So, if there are paid rioters, and the feds know who is paying them and not telling...
by Kirby64 | 2025-09-27 17:16:05+00:00
And your point? Samsung is likely more adherent to the USB-C spec than cheap Chinese devices. Audio Accessory Mode (the technical term for the analog audio mode in USB-C) was removed as an optionally supported mode from the specification last year. Adoption among flagship phones was basically nil for years. It's basically the worst of all worlds in terms of complexity: you still need a DAC/ADC in the phone AND you need a muxing switch to switch between data pins and analog audio.

For context on why it was removed: it was replaced with a moisture detection functionality, which can be used to monitor and protect the USB-C port against shorts from moisture ingress into the charging port.
by tpm | 2025-09-27 17:16:16+00:00
It won't, you haven't cut any hierarchy, that's not how the EU works (but the UK let themselves get disinformed about that for decades by certain Mr. Johnson and others). A citizen can meet the politician in the supermarket in the same way as before and it does not matter, because the politician lied to him, the citizen believed him and voted for the Brexit and nothing got better. Now the citizen does not believe in democracy in general. Trust is what has been lost.

I can meet my MEP in the supermarket. I can write to him an email and he will reply personally. This is a non-issue.
by paulvnickerson | 2025-09-27 17:16:23+00:00
Most likely this is due to political bias of the group that was surveyed [1]. Liberals in general dislike X because of the owner. It's the same reason that the average Hacker News reader favors Bluesky over X.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01382-3
by kemayo | 2025-09-27 17:16:32+00:00
There was that article a few months ago about an AI code assistant deleting a company's production database: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-d...

There's layers here, of course:

1. The founder shot themselves in the foot by not understanding an AI tool couldn't be trusted, so clearly they really were that oblivious.

2. ...the founder had direct production access hooked up to their regular coding environment. They were always going to shoot themselves in the foot eventually.
Show HN: Blognerd – search posts, blogs and export OPML
by alastairr | 2025-09-27 17:16:41+00:00
I indexed a lot of blogs and posts for another project so thought I'd put together a way to make them searchable and surf-able.

Some things you can do with blognerd - search blogs and posts - surf blogs that are similar to other blogs - find posts similar to other posts - export RSS feeds as OPML, CSV

It's rough around the edges and sometimes a bit janky, but would love feedback / ideas to make it (more) useful! Thanks!
Show HN: I build a desktop tool to convert files & edit PDFs/audio/video offline
by amsaleque | 2025-09-27 17:17:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ConvertFast, a desktop tool for file conversion and utilities that works entirely offline.

The motivation came from being frustrated with online converters — they upload files to unknown servers, have unclear privacy policies, impose file size limits, and are slow when handling multiple files. I wanted something private, fast, and unlimited.

What it does:

Converts files locally, no uploads or internet required

Supports 2,500+ formats (PDFs, images, audio, video, etc.)

Batch processing: convert dozens or hundreds of files at once

PDF toolkit: merge, split, compress, extract pages

Image tools: batch editing, watermarks, EXIF management

Audio/video utilities: trimming, speed control, audio extraction

It’s cross-platform and works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

I’d love feedback on the idea, the implementation, and features that might be missing. Thanks for taking a look!
by hermitcrab | 2025-09-27 17:18:07+00:00
>Are you ok with living in a country where the state has turned a blind eye to widespread grooming gangs?

Don't believe everything Elon Musk says.

I think the authorities were slow to go after some of these groups, perhaps in case they were perceived as being racist. But I'm not sure 'turning a blind eye' is accurate. People have gone to prison.
Ask HN: Is the "AI Boom" a Python Boom?
by dpflan | 2025-09-27 17:18:15+00:00
There was a recent post about top programming languages of 2025. And Python was at the top. We see so much development in the AI space focused on Python projects. Understandably, the ecosystem and AI/ML/CUDA/research ecosystem trends heavily towards Python, but is Python truly serving as the language for this boom? I see some ideas where compiled, "safer", and faster languages with concurrency as a first paradigm along with LLM-assisted programming could make these language better suited for adoption and foundation building for performant AI/ML future. There is just so much Python inertia, it can seem hard to not choose during this time period.

I was wondering what the HN community thinks about this, just musing about how Python is a workhorse language, possibly a junk-drawer language, depends on your perspective.
by lollobomb | 2025-09-27 17:18:21+00:00
As for another data point, opening a Mastodon account for me was as trivial as choosing one random link from a webpage, choosing a username, password, and entering my email. If you get frozen on the choice of instance, that has more to do with your mental process than with an effective difficulty for the average user.

If you really cannot go beyond your inclination, and since you are a a long-time Internet user and a nerd, why not host your own instance?
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-27 17:18:52+00:00
If you’re going to be rude and arrogant, then the level of knowledge you exhibit has to match. SHA-256 decryption would be a front of the world achievement because it would be redefining foundational mathematics since it’s not an encryption algorithm. The words you’d be looking for are either a collision of SHA-256 or breaking encryption algorithms like AES, RSA, ECC etc.

sha-256 is used in the construction of certain encryption algorithms as a primitive but by itself never encrypts anything. If it did you’ve also got middleout compression invented since you could encrypt arbitrary length input into 256 bits of output.
by schrijver | 2025-09-27 17:19:35+00:00
> My Alexa Echo Dot 4 sounds better than my home audio setup from the 90s

I have a hard time believing this… yes today’s small devices sound better than small devices ever did. A lot of work went into that because people appreciate the reduced footprint. Also, those speakers are super cheap in comparison to the budget people would allocate to their stereo setups in the day.

But I’ve never heard a small speaker sound better than a 1970ies or later hifi amp + speakers from a decent brand. With big speakers you can reproduce all these frequencies without physics tricks. The sound is more laid back and the soundstage fills the room.

All the recent engineering has gone into making speakers small, cheap and wireless, like in the 90ies it went into creating multi-channel audio, but I would say stereo sound quality, as used for popular music, already peaked in the 70ies / 80ies.

Of course you can still get those quality hifi components today, or even better than that, but the median household is not listening on that and I’d wager has worse sound today than was the norm in the physical media era.
Show HN: Comparing iTerm2 and Neovim Theme Similarity
by samesense | 2025-09-27 17:20:45+00:00
I compared iTerm2 and Neovim color themes by extracting their palettes from theme files and computing a similarity score. Theme pairings are recommended for users who want a consistent look across their terminal and editor, since their palettes are perceptually similar according to CIELAB-based distance metrics.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-27 17:21:04+00:00
If I'm understanding your broken sentences correctly, you're seemingly trying to parrot the same "insatiable appetite of humanity" that all proponents of Capitalism like to trot out as some sort of defense of the (otherwise) indefensible; same with your misleading comparison of income and cost of living across national boundaries.

The fundamental needs of humanity aren't infinite: a safe home, nutritious food, healthcare, and education are the sum total of human needs. Everything else is superfluous to survival, albeit not self-fulfillment or personal enrichment. We're post-scarcity in the sense that, on a planetary scale, we have enough food, shelter, healthcare, and education for every single inhabitant on Earth, but Capitalism incentivizes the misuse of these surplus resources to create value for existing stakeholders.

This is where I flatly reject any notion of Capitalism being viable, suitable, or acceptable in a post-AGI society, and rail against it in the present day. Its incentives no longer align with human needs or challenges, and in fact harm humanity as a whole by promoting zero-sum wealth extraction rather than a reconciling of the gap between human needs and Capital desires. As much pro-Capitalism content as I consume in an effort to better my perspective, the reality is that it is rapidly outliving its usefulness as a tool like a shambling zombie, wholly divested from human survival and soldiering onward solely as a means to prop up the existing power structures in existence.
by Spastche | 2025-09-27 17:21:31+00:00
for old electronic music - Youtube, honestly. the algorithm is pretty good for finding old electronic music. like if youtube recommends me some random old 7 minute song with nothing but a picture of a record, there's a good chance I'm gonna like it at this point.

I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all.