MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kragen | 2025-10-24 23:07:41+00:00
There are always a few trolls who complain about how other people spell their words, wear their hair, format their dates, choose their clothes, etc. Usually on HN these complaints get flagged into oblivion pretty quickly. But most people don't care, preferring to read about things like the interaction between technological development and digital art forms than complaints about whether "aluminum" should actually be spelled "alumium".
by Alupis | 2025-10-24 23:08:06+00:00
The mental gymnastics and contortions you are putting yourself through are quite stunning. You're finding associations that do not exist. I feel I'm staring at a wall strewn with thumb-tacked red yarn, linking all sorts of nonsense together while the creator steps back and exclaims "see, proof!".

Framework makes hardware and software. If you're going to close yourself off to any product or organization that happens to have some users you disagree with - then you're not going to get very far in this world. This is a wild, and frankly unhealthy perspective to hold.
by kvemkon | 2025-10-24 23:08:06+00:00
> Why are you excluding phone-like devices?

Actually not, for me *smart*phones are PC-like devices. Smartphone, especially modern one, is obviously a miniature personal computer.

> It's discriminating against the poor people of any country that also happens to have rich people in it.

I think, poor people are discriminated in every country generally if they need to buy products designed by an international company. While I've mentioned average income, it should be strictly speaking median income.

> Price discrimination

I mean that countries with lower median income deserves cheaper products. So that relatively there should be only minimal difference for poor people to be able to buy such products, regardless of the country of origin.

> International companies aren't "based" anywhere in particular except for on paper,

That's a good question. This "on paper" is crucial for all the legal stuff. US-based companies must obey not only EU rules but also US. Especially problematic is when they'd need to break a EU law to comply with the US law but they are never allowed to do this vice versa. This way I'd define where a company is based.

> anywhere is that the government says

It will be problematic due to multiple governments would be involved (typically US, EU, UK, China).
by bonsai_spool | 2025-10-24 23:08:25+00:00
> Nobody told me gadolinium can be retained before I had it the first couple times.

The reason these publications exist is that this is new knowledge

> Like somebody else mentioned, they swore up and down it's perfectly safe.

I am positive that you were not told that '[gadolinium] is perfectly safe' because there is a well-known complication of gadolinium administration. It's rare, but it's mentioned in every consent form.
by eightysixfour | 2025-10-24 23:09:08+00:00
> Those opponents got at least that right, America should stick to being America

Whatever you think that is, it doesn't and won't exist anymore. In the last ~120 years we have had the most technological change in all of history, our cultural change is faster than ever before, and the people no longer have the same set of values they did.

The Democrats would like it to go back to BAU from the late 2000s and early 2010s. That doesn't exist anymore. The Republicans want us to move to some idealized fantasy of 1950s and 60s, and not only did it never exist, but it can't happen again either. I once asked a Republican candidate what they thought the goal of all of this was and they said "you know, enable the American dream, white picket fence, a couple of kids, nice neighborhoods..." I nearly did a spit take.

Neither present a compelling vision of the future or how we rise to our new challenges.
by ssuds | 2025-10-24 23:09:58+00:00
I wrote an op-ed in the SF Chronicle a few months ago about electricity costs in California holding back electrification, it's a real challenge: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/heat-p...

That said, I've found that in most cases (assuming you're on the right electric rate plan, that's a whole other conversation, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763695), most homeowners in california actually see operating cost parity or a slight decrease, even with super expensive electricity. Silicon Valley Clean Energy recently did a study substantiating this: https://svcleanenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/Bill-Impacts-of...
by insin | 2025-10-24 23:10:14+00:00
I'm starting to run into the other end of this as a reviewer, and I hate it.

Stories full of nonsensical, clearly LLM-generated acceptance requirements containing implementation details which are completely unrelated to how the feature actually needs to work in our product. Fine, I didn't need them anyway.

PRs with those useless, uniformly-formatted LLM-generated descriptions which don't do what a PR description should do, with a half-arsed LLM attempt at summary of the code changes and links to the files in the PR description. It would have been nice if you had told me what your PR is for and what your intent as the author is, and maybe to call out things which were relevant to the implementation I might have "why?" questions about. But fine, I guess, being able to read, understand and evaluate the code is part of my job as a reviewer.

---- < the line

PRs littered with obvious LLM comments you didn't care enough to take out, where something minor and harmless, but _completely pointless_ has been added (as in if you'd read and understood what this code does, you'd have removed it), with an LLM comment left in above it AND at the end of the line, where it feels like I'm the first person to have tried to read and understand the code, and I feel like asking open-ended questions like "Why was this line added?" to get you to actually read and think about what's supposed to be your code, rather than a review comment explaining why it's not needed acting as a direct conduit from me to your LLM's "You're absolutely right!" response.
by fsckboy | 2025-10-24 23:10:47+00:00
does Iceland have large warm blooded mammals (not humans)? an American hunter once told that that for mosquitos to be a problem for humans, there's needs to be a baseline diet for them of large bloody creatures for them to snack on, to generate large numbers of them. So, in North America this generally would mean that if you have lots of deer in the woods, you'll encounter lots of mosquitos.

since I learned that I've noticed it seems to be true.
by ivm | 2025-10-24 23:11:44+00:00
It's not too bad, about 12-15 MB for the runtime on iOS. I'd say the main downside compared to other cross-platform frameworks is the lack of official hot reload (it's possible but really clunky) for building UIs.

Otherwise, I’ve been working with it since 2018, my app now has around 500k installs on both stores, and I’ve encountered very few issues related to the stack itself. Mobile .NET has been steadily improving, and LLMs have made the two-native-UI approach much easier: after building an iOS UI, I ask Claude to repeat it on Android for the same view model and get about 80% done instantly.
by FrankenDino | 2025-10-24 23:13:23+00:00
An over-the-top clickbait headline to promote the author's new book. The important clarification appears in paragraph 9 of the article:

"the challenge system that will be introduced next year, which gives each team two chances per nine innings to ask for an automated second guess"

Someday, fully-automated balls-and-strikes calls may come to Baseball. But the change for next season is nothing more than the home plate equivalent of American football's challenge flag.
by ryeights | 2025-10-24 23:14:22+00:00
I don’t mean to say it’s a showstopper, but it is certainly noticeable to anyone accustomed to using iOS devices. I suspect the situation on Android is better where Google has access to the native platform code.

Flutter has a secondary problem which is (IMO) a dearth of well-made libraries and showcase apps. Most everything feels half-baked.

The Kagi News app, which I have just installed, doesn’t seem to fall into this category. But like most Flutter apps the fully Material design makes it feel very out of place on iOS. Flutter typography is still broken, with characters tracked out way too far. And the scrolling and touch interaction feels, well, Flutter-y. It’s inherent to the platform
by simonw | 2025-10-24 23:14:50+00:00
Because it is massively more productive than when you have to manually approve what it's doing. You can literally leave it running for an hour and come back to a fully baked solution (or an unholy mess depending on how the dice rolls go).

I gave a talk about this earlier this week, slides and notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/living-dangerously-wit... - also discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668118
by starkparker | 2025-10-24 23:15:42+00:00
It's the insulation. While it depends on the location and geography, I'd wager that American homes are probably less well insulated than Swedish homes because they didn't have to be.

That contrasts quite a bit with Swedish home standards, which have long been built more air-tight and with considerably better insulated even if they're of comparable age. This has been true for decades, became even more stark in the 1980s, and likely remains very different on the balance: https://www.aceee.org/files/proceedings/1984/data/papers/SS8...
by Loughla | 2025-10-24 23:16:28+00:00
Our heat pump for HVAC is awesome.

Until it gets under 30. Then you can watch the power meter crank when auxiliary heat kicks on. And we only keep it 65 in the house in the winter.

Luckily I live in the upper Midwest, so it's only that cold for like 4 months. . . Pretty cool. P.r.e.t.t.y. cool
by wtallis | 2025-10-24 23:16:28+00:00
I think what you're missing is that "secure boot" isn't a system-wide on/off thing on a Mac, it's a per-OS thing. And UEFI Secure Boot specifically is something that only exists on a Mac to the extent that Asahi shoehorns it into a system that doesn't natively do anything UEFI-related. It would be very surprising if Asahi Linux didn't still provide a way to skip their UEFI Secure Boot code paths and just plain boot.
by aetherspawn | 2025-10-24 23:16:36+00:00
> Valetudo is a garden

> This project is the hobby of some random guy on the internet. There is no intent to commercialize it, grow it or expand the target audience of it. In fact, there is intent to explicitly not do that.

> Think of Valetudo as a privately-owned public garden. You can visit it any time for free and enjoy it. You can spend time there, and you can bring an infinite amount of friends with you to enjoy it. You can walk the pathways built there. You can sit on some patch of grass and maybe watch a Duck or something. You can leave a tip in the tip jar at the entrance if you really enjoy it and want to support it flourish.

> You can take inspiration from it and bring that home to your own garden, giving it a personal twist and adapting it as needed. You can even make friendly suggestions if you have a really good idea that ties into the vision that is already there.

> But, at the end of the day, you must understand that it is still privately-owned. You’re on someone else’s property over which you have no power at all. You will have to show the necessary respect. And - most importantly - you need to understand that letting you into this garden is a gift and should be treated as such.

> If you don’t like this garden because you don’t like how it’s structured, or you feel like it’s missing something, or maybe I choose the wrong flowers to plant over there that’s fine. It’s just not for you then. You can leave at any time.

>There is simply no ground to stand on to demand change to the garden. It doesn’t matter if it would attract more people or if all the other gardens in town are doing something in a specific way. It doesn’t matter if your idea of what gardens even are differs. This at the end of the day is simply private property with free public access as a gift to everyone.

> When it comes to software development, everyone has access to infinite plots of undeveloped land that they can claim at any time. Therefore, a garden being build with a specific vision does not take away the ability for anyone else to build their own garden with a different vision.

Bravo.
by mort96 | 2025-10-24 23:16:54+00:00
Please explain which associations I'm finding which do not exist.

> If you're going to close yourself off to any product or organization that happens to have some users you disagree with

I do not see where I mentioned Framework users. I care about the actions of the company. I care that they decide to support DHH, financially and through promoting his projects, and I care that they double down on their support in the face of push-back.
by ac29 | 2025-10-24 23:17:19+00:00
I got a new laptop recently and while I didnt need more speed or memory, the fact that it uses less than half the energy as my previous laptop (and correspondingly lasts more than twice as long on battery) is extremely nice.

As an aside - I was under the impression x86 chips were still way behind Apple in battery life, but this doesnt seem to be the case. My new computer has a generation or two old Intel CPU (Meteor Lake) and I am getting 12+ hours out of a ~50Wh battery.
by aeonfox | 2025-10-24 23:17:42+00:00
> Zelnick argues it's really just running a predictive model based on patterns it's already seen

Right conclusion, wrong argument. Brains are also predictive models based on patterns they've already seen. AI isn't human-level yet because brains have several orders of magnitude more weights, constantly train by self-optimising their circuitry, and potentially even use quantum effects to compute. Oh, and they have lifetimes of real training data in a human body. All that on less power than a 20" monitor. Good luck catching up with that.
by kvemkon | 2025-10-24 23:17:48+00:00
E.g. EU companies could replace China 5G. But with US chips. While some new tiny FPGAs appeared recently (using obsolete manufacturing process), huge FPGAs from Xilinx(AMD)/Altera(Intel) cannot be replaced. China can make both US and EU calm down with rare earth materials. US can tame EU with chips and whatever else. And EU... no idea.
by helicone | 2025-10-24 23:18:16+00:00
Thanks again for your feedback!

Just to wrap this back, I suspect there's a way to process these sessions really quickly to figure out what the user trends are in ~real-time. This way you can do the same thing you're already doing, but with much more context.

Adding another two channels, with these channels being: 1. A weighted map of stats for all of the sessions at once. Weighted by heuristics you choose or by good defaults. 2. Reports detailing all the natural problem groups the sessions fall into. With breadcrumb trails available for deep-dives.

Most importantly I think there's a way to do this without having to rely on llms at all; by modeling the whole thing as a set of graph problems.

If this sounds reasonable to you lmk.

Have a good one!
by doctorhandshake | 2025-10-24 23:19:23+00:00
This. I had 12 contractors come out for an estimate. I insisted to each that I would only consider estimates accompanied by a Manual J (aka show your work). I got 4 estimates with a manual J, and one of them the vendor said ‘despite that the math says you need a 4 ton outdoor unit, I’m giving you two,’ and refused to budge on that.

I went with a vendor who did the math and sized accordingly and my system works great - great comfort year round and very low energy usage.
by DazWilkin | 2025-10-24 23:19:24+00:00
I live in a community in the Pacific Northwest that was built in 2018 and (almost) every home (22/23) has (Carrier) heat pumps; for some unknown reason, the other has heated floors.

Many of us are proponents of heat pumps thanks to reduced costs and emissions *but* we've not had a generally good experience possibly (!) as a result of bad installation and definitely due to limited numbers of indoor heads (if I close my main bedroom door, the rest of my upper floor has no heating/cooling).

There's always someone in the community frustrated that their house is too cold/hot, that the condensation drains are blocked and water is running down an interior wall, that an indoor head or the condenser is having problems, or that there's unexplained coolant leak.

People moving into the community are inheriting issues with at least 2 homes having to augment/replace the system. To save breaking into the walls, this often necessitates putting the power, coolant and drainage lines on the outside of the house and then boxing the result.

We're saving money on monthly bills (probably; we don't have a comp) but many of us have spent quite some $$$ on maintenance and replacement equipment.
by GMoromisato | 2025-10-24 23:20:22+00:00
Is another CRUD app any different than another static-force analysis on a house beam? How many engineering decisions are made by software running the math and spitting out numbers?

I agree that there are degrees of invention in both, but my argument (which is, admittedly, emotional in nature) is that there are more unique decisions in software, mostly because if you don't need to decide--if there is already an algorithm for it--then you can just plug in an existing library/app.

You only need a programmer when you can't just run an existing app. Therefore, all programmers create things that don't already exist. That's the definition of invention.

I know I'm exaggerating here, but it's less of an exaggeration than saying that programmers are "poised to wreck the entire world".
by mort96 | 2025-10-24 23:20:53+00:00
I don't see the connection between Asahi and Linux VMs. All the work in Asahi is about making drivers for Apple's hardware and board bring-up, none of that is relevant for VMs. It sounds like you're saying Asahi Linux would get more adoption if it was something completely different which shares nothing at all with what Asahi actually is?
by markfeathers | 2025-10-24 23:21:11+00:00
I do not use books for engineering work and never will, because doing the work of thinking for myself is how I maintain the neural capacity for forming my own original thoughts and ideas no writer has seen before.

If anyone gives me an opinion from a book, they disrespect me and themselves to a point they are dead to me in an engineering capacity. Once someone outsources their brain they are unlikely to keep learning or evolving from that point, and are unlikely to have a future in this industry as they are so easily replaceable.

If this pisses you off, ask yourself why.

(You can replace AI with any resource and it sounds just as silly :P)
by hatthew | 2025-10-24 23:21:16+00:00
Sometimes I wonder how many people die indirectly from specific decisions. Like, large A-pillars in cars definitely sometimes save people when the car rolls over, but how many people die each year because a large A-pillar makes a blind spot and the driver hits a pedestrian? How many people die each year due to traffic slowing down ambulances?

People dying directly due to software bugs (e.g. Therac-25) is pretty rare, but what about an inefficient network that caused congestion and made a heimlich maneuver youtube video load slightly too slowly to save someone from choking to death? I don't think there's any way to measure it, and it's almost certainly important to train surgeons more than software engineers, but I still do wonder.
by cyberax | 2025-10-24 23:21:41+00:00
> Only technically correct because you said "arbitrary": it's well within China's manufacturing capabilities to make a grid that can transmit 3 TW over 40,000 km, with a conductor cross section so thick it only has 1 Ω resistance.

And it'll turn out to cost more than building a nuke in each backyard.

> I have, in fact, done the maths on this.

No.
by solfox | 2025-10-24 23:21:52+00:00
PLEASE do your due diligence before considering Waldorf for your kids.

I'm not saying that kids cannot have a good experience at a Waldorf school, or that all their educational ideas are bad. Just that once you children have been there for a couple of years, you learn some very disturbing truths about the organization. It's not an education institution as much as it is a religious organization - your children WILL be taught hymns about god and angels in class. The teachers will not admit to this. They will be taught from the original lessons of Steiner, who had some rather unconventional pseudo-scientific ideas (even for his day). This is coming from a dad who had his kids at Waldorf for three years, and I'm so glad I finally got them out - even with the difficult academic transition.

There is plenty of information published about their organization online, and growing awareness worldwide.
by jen20 | 2025-10-24 23:21:58+00:00
It is in fact very difficult to buy a professional grade computer of any kind from Best Buy, let alone something like a Thinkpad with reasonable specs. You might luck out and be in a city with a micro center, but you probably won’t.

If I’m on the road and my laptop breaks, I’m buying a new one post haste, and resolving the problem when I get home. It’s like 2-3 hours worth of billing time to do so vs screwing about trying to repair. Simply not worth the time.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-10-24 23:22:25+00:00
> PCR [...] can also be used in some protocols in Nanopore.

Yes... and that is why I said that the presence of PCR does not imply short reads.

> You can sequence a human genome on a MinION - but you need to purchase 5 flow cells to reach 11X (if they are used correctly).. https://nanoporetech.com/news/news-human-genome-minion

THat's why I said that 5/20/30X coverage is possible in the appropriate research setting
by jcalvinowens | 2025-10-24 23:22:38+00:00
> Which includes services like lvm2, dmraid and audio drivers.

I know at least the first two have "ignore the lock" command line flags so you can get out of situations like /run being full. So whether it's a DOS depends on how you define DOS :)

> it just should be coordinated better and communicated better

I mean, that's the thing. I don't disagree it should be fixed. But is it really an important enough problem it justifies breaking users now? Not for me...
by defrost | 2025-10-24 23:23:14+00:00
Great comment, I have little to disagree with; in a non public forum I'd probably get salty about having yet more expansion of US feet on the ground in Western Australia.

This, though:

The Chinese say they have worked out how to use LEO satellites and something like geomagnetic anomoly detection to find big subs at sea, the myth of "it's hidden in the ocean" may be exposed inside the next 10 years.

is worth a comment - I strongly doubt LEO's can use "something like geomagnetic anomoly detection to find big subs at sea". The distances are to great and the signal domain is too noisy.

I spent a decade or so doing the technical backend for geophysical exploration aquisition and processing, and any blip a sub makes in the daily flux of magnetic signal at the surface will be static noise at LEO altitudes.

There's merit in the notion they can be detected via disturbance in magnetic backgrounds, I suspect mention of LEO's might be a misdirect.
by JuniperMesos | 2025-10-24 23:23:45+00:00
I don't think there is one programming language that is best suited for all types of programs. I think that Rust is probably the best language currently in use for specifically implementing Unix coreutils, but I don't think that this implies that (say) Zig or Odin or Go or Haskell would necessarily be terrible choices (although I really would pick Rust rather than any of those).

But my point was that there's no reason to think that the specific package of design decisions that Rust made as a language is the best possible one; and there's no reason why people shouldn't continue to create new programming languages including ones intended to be good at writing basic PC OS utils, and it's certainly possible that one such language might turn out to do enough things better than Rust does that a rewrite is justified.