MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by man8alexd | 2025-10-18 12:25:04+00:00
You switched from

> ease of deployment

to

> running server farms in production is complex

You just confirmed my initial point:

> "Dockerfile is simple", they promised. Now look at the CNCF landscape.

> with debs you need local apt repository

No, you don't need an apt repository. To install a deb file, you need to scp/curl the file and run `dpkg`.

>presumably you were building your deb with build pipeline as well

You don't need to rebuild the app package every time there is a new CVE in a dependency. Security updates for dependencies are applied automatically without any pipeline, you just enable `unattended-updates`, which is present out of the box.

> With debs you only have automatic-updates, which is not sufficient for deployments.

Again, you only need to run `dpkg` to update your app. preinst, postinst scripts and systemd unit configuration included in a deb package should handle everything.

> deb files have the same problems

No, they don't. deb files intended to run as a service have systemd configuration included and every major system now runs systemd.

> but here dockerfiles have an actual advantage: if you run supervisor _inside_ docker, then you can actually debug this locally on your machine!

Running a supervisor inside a container is an anti-pattern. It just masks errors from the orchestrator or external supervisor. Also usually messes with logs.

> No more "we use fancy systemd / ansible setups for prod, but on dev machines here are some junky shell scripts" - you can poke the things locally.

systemd/ansible are not fancy but basic beginner-level tools to manage small-scale infrastructure. That tendency to avoid appropriate but unfamiliar tools and retreat into more comfortable spaces reminds me of the old joke about a drunk guy searching for keys under a lamp post.

> What about deb files? I remember bad old pre-systemd days where each app had to do its own logs, as well as handle rotations - or log directly to third-party collection server.

Everything was out of the box - syslog daemon, syslog function in libc, preconfigured logrotate and logrotate configs included in packages.

There are special people who write their own logs bypassing syslog and they are still with us and they still write logs into files inside containers.

There are already enough rants about journald, so I'll skip that.

> but you no longer have to worry about your entire infra breaking, with no easy revert button, because your upstream released broken package.

Normally, updates are applied in staging/canary environments and tested. If upstream breaks a package - you pin the package to a working version, report the bug to the upstream or fix it locally and live happily ever after.
by latexr | 2025-10-18 12:25:04+00:00
Being struck by lighting may affect your desire to go outside, but it has zero correlation with the sky’s beauty.

Outer space is beautiful, poison dart frogs are beautiful, lava is beautiful. All of them can kill or maim you if you don’t wear protection, but that doesn’t take away from their beauty.

Conversely, boring safe things aren’t automatically beautiful. I see no reasonable reason to believe that finding beauty in the night sky is any sort of “training”.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-18 12:25:54+00:00
That is highly debatable, largely subjective and probably hardware dependent to an extent.

I'm running Linux on five different machines, and two of them are portables: a ThinkPad Z13 and a GPD Win Mini 2024 - and have none of the issues you mentioned. In fact there's literally zero issues at all, I couldn't be any happier to be honest.
by ahartmetz | 2025-10-18 12:26:06+00:00
Sucks if you buy a GTI, but the depreciation is actually kind of positve for German private buyers of "business-compatible" cars. Over 50% of VW cars in Germany have businesses as first owners, mostly due to business car taxation rules, so they enter the private market as used cars. Given how long cars last these days (yes, even VW - mine is from I think 2009), buying used is a no-brainer if money is at all an issue.
by Backslasher | 2025-10-18 12:26:26+00:00
I've been working on this for the couple of last months. I found this project to have multiple tech angles (pcb, electronics, C-level ESP, Python, webui / Javascript, machine vision), an figured it might be an interesting read. I don't think anyone did anything similar to this, and maybe people would like the idea and make their own e-ink poster
by misiek08 | 2025-10-18 12:26:35+00:00
The day EA games will run on Linux will be the day Windows dies IMHO. This will mean full support of all broken graphical APIs and stability of drivers from e.g. nvidia that currently looks like a rollercoaster ride - every other app works stable on different nvidia driver.

As W10 user, W11 denialer I’m waiting for that day!
by Retric | 2025-10-18 12:27:00+00:00
Actually going through a lawsuit is expensive, “bluffing” long enough to send a nasty and credible letter can be relatively inexpensive.

Importantly it’s also getting moderately expensive for the other side which really discourages this kind of behavior. Suiting an arbitrary person you have no connection with invites a counter suit for wasting their money, but that largely goes away with such a one sided provocation.
by re5i5tor | 2025-10-18 12:27:08+00:00
;-) Confirmed by trying. I'm working on an AI-frontend "documents-as-code" tool, and having this as a skill that works across all Claude surfaces would be a huge win. Unfortunately it looks like that's not gonna happen today because ^^ ...

Looks like Claude Desktop and/or Claude Code + a non-big-fat-pig MCP (aka "not GitHub's official version") will be needed.

Here's hoping that Anthropic solves "safe external access / auth from code execution tool" soon.

EDIT - add last sentence
by Rafert | 2025-10-18 12:28:15+00:00
> Using UUIDv7 is generally discouraged for security when the primary key is exposed to end users in external-facing applications or APIs.

I would not call this “generally discouraged” when APIs generally surface a created_at timestamp in their responses. A real life example are Stripe IDs which have similar properties (k-sorted) as UUIDv7: https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/026-ids#ulids
by velcrovan | 2025-10-18 12:28:55+00:00
I think nerds like us are more likely to experiment and make occasional drastic changes to our computing setup. And in my case I grew up during a time when there was a lot of change in the desktop OS landscape, so sticking with one OS from my childhood to adulthood wasn’t really possible (otherwise I’d still be on Microsoft BASIC and OS-9).

Familiarity and “just-workitude” really are by far the most important factors for people picking OSs, and these days it’s possible to stick with one platform for decades.
by The_President | 2025-10-18 12:29:59+00:00
I left because it’s infested with advertising that offensively begins playing loudly the millisecond a video page loads. The site feels janky and the algorithm games the consumers. YouTube still is in the business of feeding drivel to toddlers and shadowbanning normal user accounts from comments. Like Windows, YouTube lost my trust long ago and no amount of blog posting about how good they are will ever fix that. Odysee and Rumble are better experiences, unlike YouTube the sites let you play content in the background on mobile. Mainstream YouTube, an advertising delivery platform with concerns for the user and creator base being deep last.
by PhilippGille | 2025-10-18 12:30:58+00:00
And if it doesn't work, check again with a distro that uses a newer Kernel.

That can often make all the difference, but it's not intuitive for Windows people who are used to install hardware drivers.

Especially for hardware like new Bluetooth or Wifi chips, fingerprint readers, but also when there is a new Intel or AMD CPU generation and chipset.

E.g. instead of Ubuntu or Mint, try Fedora or CachyOS. Or even Nobara or Bazzite for gaming-specific optimizations.
by chrisjj | 2025-10-18 12:31:55+00:00
> Gerlich recently conducted a study, involving 666 people of various ages, and found those who used AI more frequently scored lower on critical thinking. (As he notes, to date his work only provides evidence for a correlation between the two: it’s possible that people with lower critical thinking abilities are more likely to trust AI, for example.)

Key point. The top use case for "Artificial Intelligence" is lack of natural intelligence.

PS Cute choice of sample size.
by sarchertech | 2025-10-18 12:33:58+00:00
I’m not saying he’s saying agents aren’t useful at all. It’s literally in the quotes I provided that he says they are useful for some subset of tasks.

I’m saying that he is answering the question “are agents useful at all”. not “can agents replace humans”.

His answer is mostly not. He generally prefers autocomplete. But they are useful for some limited tasks.
by somewhereoutth | 2025-10-18 12:34:30+00:00
Ah I think what is happening is that a brand new laptop may not have had its drivers added to the latest download/image version of your chosen distro. Hence the need to connect and update to get those drivers.

For me, it was a ThinkPad X1 Gen 11 and Mint 21.2 (MATE) about a year ago.
by rsynnott | 2025-10-18 12:35:53+00:00
... One very odd conception of freedom of speech that some people have is that _they_ should be free to say whatever they want, but that _other people_ must then take their nonsense seriously and may not criticise it.

The story here is fairly simple; stupid guy says something stupid, is humiliated by the people pointing and laughing at the stupid thing he said, backs off.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-18 12:36:24+00:00
You do. And so does your non-technical mother (or a friend of your mother).

The impact of the iPhone and its competitors is felt everywhere, it diffused into every domain of people's lives. Think: the whole of social media was pretty much enabled by smartphones.

Or a more pedestrian, random example: every day I go to the office, I see endless store managers, restaurant managers, etc. walking around their store, making photos to upload to HQ. But this is merely a symptom - the actual consequence is the change in busines structure. It's because smartphones make this easy, that it makes franchise and subcontracted businesses more viable, because it's easier for the HQ to micromanage more semi-independent subordinates.

There are many, many more examples like this everywhere you look. Which is why I'm inclined to agree with Karpathy: computers, iPhones, LLMs, are all the same thing - it's just the more notable manifestations of how we've been staying on 2% growth exponential curve for many hundreds of years now, and why we'll continue to stay on this curve.

But the caveat is: that curve is getting steep enough that the world is starting to transform faster than we can handle.
Launched Proforms, a drop-in back end for HTML and JavaScript forms
by apcodesphere | 2025-10-18 12:37:53+00:00
Launched Proforms, a drop-in backend for HTML & JS forms. No server code needed.

Features we’ve shipped:

AI Form Filter – blocks spam & junk before it hits you

Instant Email Notifications – every submission lands in your inbox

File Upload Support – receive and store attachments easilyq

API Access – pull individual fields or full submissions programmatically

Simple Setup – just post to your unique endpoint

Think of it as a Formspree alternative, but faster and smarter. Try it free: https://proforms.top
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-18 12:38:36+00:00
I get your point, but I confess I have sometimes had to pause for some time to decide if I was holding a recyclable, a compostable or landfill — looking at the little pictures in fact, hoping I can find the thing I am holding.

Yeah, but otherwise, the whole MIT Media Lab thing is increasingly tasting a little bitter, not the glamorous, enviable place it seemed like in decades past.

Rather than looking for the next internet-connected wearable, for some reason, increasingly, I keep thinking about Bruce Dern's character in the film Silent Running.
by Retric | 2025-10-18 12:38:37+00:00
> The term neuroscience wasn’t even coined

The first car wasn’t called a car by the people who built it, but we back date terms. He’s not a neuroscientist because he’s not studied the brain’s physical structures.

> insulated from the normal warm, wet, and noisy environment of the brain

? The tube is made of atoms at the same temperature as what’s outside the tube, there’s no isolation here.

> How does it fail?

It fails in many many ways. Individual neurons are vastly too small for consensus to occur on that scale you need something involving millions of them at body temperature at the very low end. Local quantum effects are obviously going on but they don’t scale.
by ricardobeat | 2025-10-18 12:39:03+00:00
Even if that was true in the past, it has been many years since companies in China can actually do a better job at design than their western counterparts. And engineering, and manufacturing.

They also hired a ton of european designers for their house brands. They have no need to copy anything.

Yes, the west let this happen, and it’s too late to cry about it, action needs to start happening (and I don’t mean import barriers or a trade war) if we don’t want to be dependent.
by bluGill | 2025-10-18 12:39:07+00:00
that is the point. It is easy to buy another 'toy'. It is tedious to practice using what you have. Thus many buy instrunents persuing sucess.

you need something to work with and despite great musicians sounding good on junk quality does sometimes sound better in ways you cannot compensate for. Also even if you can make cheap sound good it may be ergonomically harmful, or otherwise be a struggle. Thus it is sometimes justified to spend money on better.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-18 12:39:32+00:00
Your arbitrary choice of a $3K price ceiling is skewing your interpretation of the data; cars at this price point are essentially scrap. Also, cars don't just get "used up", they get very expensive to maintain and keep operational. You might be able to find an ICE car in your price range that has a lot of things wrong with it but you can keep it going with the minimum, while for EVs basic operation is dependent on only a few, very expensive systems.
by neogodless | 2025-10-18 12:40:07+00:00
Yes. Polestar 2 owner here. According to KBB it has held almost all of the value since I bought it. Used. Before that it lost over half from the new MSRP. I bought it for $5K under KBB.

Will need tires but otherwise no maintenance... and no continuing depreciation because it still provides all the goodness it provided when new.

But I hear a lot of myths about EVs and used EVs that seem hard to shake from the mainstream groupthink. One person tried to argue with me that batteries are only good for 100K, and then you're in for a $20K repair. Others worry if you hit traffic, the battery will quickly drain to 0%.
by toaik | 2025-10-18 12:41:11+00:00
A year after Windows 7 reached EOL, we began running Debian with XFCE for internet facing boxes. They all run uninterrupted with zero issues, and are orders of magnitude more stable than Windows 11. The biggest bonus to me is, Linux/BSD sets up in minutes and you're done; literally done and ready for work/pleasure. Properly setting up Windows using group policy and other privacy controlling mechanisms takes five+ hours. I still use Windows 7 which was the last user friendly OS put out by Redmond; it is still a great OS when kept off the internet.
by dangus | 2025-10-18 12:42:09+00:00
ROCm is making great progress but I’ve had enough hiccups (desktop with RX9070XT) that I’d still recommend those looking for AI capability to continue using an Nvidia or Apple solution for the time being.

Still, I think it’ll be quite equivalent soon.

I think one of the best AI systems in terms of price/performance is still just to build a desktop with dual RTX 3090’s (of course you’ll need an board that supports dual cards) and toss it in a closet.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-10-18 12:42:36+00:00
Cars don't just "stop working" with no residual value, so this isn't how it works. They start to require very expensive repairs and maintenance and it gets tough to determine what you should get done. And why would you give a family member a car that's giving you problems and not good enough for you? "Here, take this EV that's likely to require repairs costing 10x the value of the car."
Running Rust/Go on shared hosting for $5 a month
by andreamancuso | 2025-10-18 12:44:11+00:00
I wanted type safety without managing infrastructure. Here's how I run statically-linked Rust/Go binaries on shared hosting using PHP as a thin wrapper.

https://dev.to/andreamancuso/running-rust-binaries-on-shared-hosting-a-practical-approach-to-type-safety-on-a-budget-jmb
by latexr | 2025-10-18 12:44:50+00:00
The measure for how “powerful” a passport is:

> The Henley Passport Index is the original, authoritative ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa.

https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index

According to the article, the US passport was at the top of the list a decade ago, last year it was in seventh place, and now it’s in twelfth.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-10-18 12:45:59+00:00
Agree.

The simpler solution, I keep coming back to, get a "Faraday bag" and keep your phone in it. Pull the phone out only when you need it.

If you still want PhD levels of complexity then I suppose you can try to be very methodical about where/when you "unbag" your smart phone so as not to reveal too much information about your habits, locale.
by nis0s | 2025-10-18 12:46:22+00:00
Asylum seekers usually start out as illegal immigrants. You’re either innocent or ignorant (which is worse?), but asylum fraud occurs at a non-trivial rate as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/24/nyregion/doubts-cast-on-i...

Other cases mentioned here https://whyy.org/articles/illegal-immigrants-lie-to-get-asyl...

Regarding the sentence which introduces the newspaper, if your reading comprehension is failing you, that’s not my problem.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-18 12:47:30+00:00
I know what you mean, that celebrated epic "1994" really did seem to foretend a dystopian future that could get badly out of hand if people fail to put privacy first above all.

Too bad so few people any more have really experienced the full 1994 cover-to-cover as adults, there just doesn't seem to be the same realization how important privacy can be :\
by simonw | 2025-10-18 12:47:59+00:00
Just in the past two weeks:

I wrote about how good skills are... but pointed out the flaws in MCP at the same time. Anthropic have invested way more in MCP.

I called out Claude Haiku 4.5 as being more expensive than previous Haiku models when the thing I was hoping for was something that was price competitive with GPT-5 Mini/Nano and Gemini Flash Lite.

NVIDIA sent me a review unit of their Spark and I wrote about how hard it was to get CUDA and Arm working together.

OpenAI invited me to DevDay and I published a GPT-5 Pro pelican that took 6 minutes and cost $1.10 cents, plus made fun of their terrible track record for announcing and then failing to ship revenue sharing on a livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/M6paPiur4yQ?si=XXKkIKY2J71QCJKW...

The reason I get invited to stuff is that I'm a trusted independent voice in the space. The labs appear smart enough not to expect me to throw away my credibility for a free event ticket or early preview access to their launches.

More importantly: I don't value early access or event invitations very highly. If a lab stopped inviting me to stuff it really wouldn't affect me much at all. Might even help give me some space to focus on other things!
by cpburns2009 | 2025-10-18 12:49:59+00:00
Have you looked at Corsair's AI Workstation 300 Desktop PC? [1] It's 2000-2700 EURO depending on model, and taking VAT into consideration it's comparable to the 1700-2300 USD pretax prices.

[1]: https://www.corsair.com/eu/en/c/ai-workstations
by manmal | 2025-10-18 12:50:54+00:00
That‘s quite a big leap, and sounds like a philosophical question. But many philosophers like late Wittgenstein or Heidegger disagreed with this idea. On more practical terms, maybe you‘ve experienced the following: You read a manual of a device on how to do something with it; but only actually using it for a few times gives you the intuition on how to use it _well_. Text is just very lossy, because not every aspect of the world, and factors in your personal use, are described. Many people rather watch YouTube videos for eg repairs. But those are very lossy as well - they don’t cover the edge cases usually. And there is often just no video on the repair you need to do.

BTW, have you ever tried ChatGPT for advice on home improvement? It sucks _hard_ sometimes, hallucinating advice that doesn’t make any sense. And making up tools that don’t exist. There‘s no real commonsense to be had from it. Because it’s all just pieces of text that fight with each other for being the next token.

When using Claude Code or codex to write Swift code, I need to be very careful to provide all the APIs that are relevant in context (or let it web search), or garbage will be the result. There is no real understanding of how Swift („the world“) works.
by fmbb | 2025-10-18 12:52:30+00:00
Sure but everything is semantics.

LLMs have no internal secret model, they are the model. And the model is of how different lexemes relate to each other in the source material the model was built from.

Some might choose to call that the world.

If you believe your internal model of the world is no different from a statistical model of the words you have seen, then by all means do that. But I believe a lot of humans see their view of the world differently.

I very much believe my cat’s model of the world has barely anything at all to do with language.

This path to AGI through LLM is nothing but religious dogma some Silicon Valley rich types believe.
by marshfram | 2025-10-18 12:52:58+00:00
Dreaming is a by-product of neurotransmitter cleansing. Any effects we gain from dreams are secondary. This theory is what might be considered a "narrative" or post-hoc causal explanation to make it seem as if a by-product is a function of evolution. This is bad science. For a real explanation

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7916906/

To explain how science tries this retrofitting trick, see Daniel Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will. Science is beset by tricksters like Hoel who find their audiences in technologists.

See Allan Hobson's The Dream Drugstore for a non-psychological explanation (his is a neurobilogical one).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-18 12:54:01+00:00
Also used WSL2, and keep hitting sharp edges. Last issue involved not being able to properly use the GPU through Docker running in WSL2 on a Arch installation, and Windows "helpfully" aliasing .exe's available on the host OS into the guest, confusing a lot of the stack.

A year ago or something, changing the size of the WSL disk via some Powershell command also corrupted the disk after it was done, I had to start from scratch which was a bit annoying.
by linuxftw | 2025-10-18 12:54:07+00:00
The DGX Spark seems to have one intended usecase: local AI model development and testing. The Strix Halo is an amd64 with iGPU, it can be used for any traditional PC workload, and is a reasonable local-ai target device.

For me, the Strix Halo is the first nail in the coffin of discrete GPUs inside laptops for amd64. I think Nvidia knows this, which is why they're partnering with Intel to make an iGPU setup.