MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-10-16 03:58:27+00:00
What are the arguments for Office at the small business or individual level, as opposed to Libre Office? For most users, they'll be able to reacclimate in a matter of hours to near 100% competence. And they now are in an ecosystem that won't constantly try to squeeze you for rent.

I think this is even more true in the era of LLMs, because on the rare difference somebody might get hung up on - there's no longer real need for support. LLMs absolutely excel at questions like 'In MS Office I can do [x] to achieve [y]. How do I do that in Libre Office?'
by al_borland | 2025-10-16 03:58:37+00:00
I read the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport a couple years ago. I’m not sure what I was expecting, I think maybe some advice how to organize and maintain my digital world and avoid being a digital hoarder. What I got was a book about the importance having periods of time without any input from outside influences. That could be TV, social media, games, music, or even books and news. Being alone with our own thoughts is much more rare than it once was, some people never do it at all for more than a minute here and there. It’s a thought I come back to often.

What I struggle with is the lack of a good hobby to occupy my hands for longer stretches of time while my mind wanders.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-16 04:00:41+00:00
How about some stuff since then:

The average age of U.S. homebuyers jumps to 56 (2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42048640

Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45340442

Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44554713
by mikeiz404 | 2025-10-16 04:01:12+00:00
Hey "vercel security checkpoint", I'm repeatedly getting a code 99 "Failed to verify your browser" on an iphone with a VPN exits in California and Canada via proton VPN and Firefox Focus.

What gives?

``` sfo1::1760587368-8k6JCK3uO27oMpuTbnS4Hb3X2K9bVsc ```
by malcolmxxx | 2025-10-16 04:02:09+00:00
Maybe he just want to summarize things. I'm writing in Spanish. Of course I won't let AI to write this very post ---even in my bad E. But there are things in my Obsidian written in Spanish, by AI. They're sounds like nothing, sometimes you need something to sound that way: informative, aseptical. But it is good to hear about you anyway, when some people thinks, or fake they think, AI can write, let's say, fiction.
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 04:02:41+00:00
It's the fact they bring it up again when we've made it clear our stance is the problem, not so much the actual words in today's post. It's also off-topic (not relating to project maintainership) and it's on a post I submitted myself to HN.

I know you've already made up your mind, but look at our track record of answering support questions on the forums and tickets on GitHub, and you'll see that the picture you've formed in your mind from this thread is not accurate.

Those comparisons are very straw-man and I won't entertain them. As I've already said, IMO there's more risk in introducing a new security bug in trying to fix this issue than there is leaving it as-is (failing fast and hard).
by caymanjim | 2025-10-16 04:03:33+00:00
Almost all my tooling is years (or decades) old and stable. But the code assistant LLM scene effectively didn't exist in any meaningful way until this year, and it changes almost daily. There is no stability in the tooling, and you're missing out if you don't switch to newer models at least every few weeks right now. Codex (OpenAI/ChatGPT CLI) didn't even exist a month ago, and it's a contender for the best option. Claude Code has only been out for a few months.

I use Neovim in tmux in a terminal and haven't changed my primary dev environment or tooling in any meaningful way since switching from Vim to Neovim years ago.

I'm still changing code AIs as soon as the next big thing comes out, because you're crippling yourself if you don't.
by scythe | 2025-10-16 04:03:56+00:00
> Alternative for Microsoft Office: LibreOffice,

This would seem to require a little elaboration. LibreOffice Calc is supposed to be decent, but I practically never hear about it being used in the professional contexts where Excel typically appears. I'd be willing to bet that it will handle all of the spreadsheets currently used at our firm, but that's a convenient case where only a small number of spreadsheets matter and I know how they all work. For anyone managing a larger ecosystem the switching cost is daunting. Some links to case studies or analyses of when Calc can take over for Excel would probably be pretty helpful, since as far as I can tell Excel is the reason people stick to Microsoft, while Outlook, Teams and Word are mostly just tolerated.
by TheDong | 2025-10-16 04:04:34+00:00
Go and Java are actively hostile to integrating with C libraries, and the easiest way to make clean native UI on all 3 major OSs is to link with C libraries.

There's also something akin to the Python Paradox here: https://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Rust is an interesting and intellectually stimulating language, it lets you use your brain to write clean and pretty code, and rewards you for making clean powerful abstractions.

Java and Go are both anti-intellectual languages that reward you for turning off your brain and writing the most verbose awful code you can think of, and will leave anyone who has ever studied type-theory with a massive migraine for hours after each coding session (go moreso than java).

I think those two factors, C bindings, and whether they respect the programmer's intelligence, are the main reason.
by caymanjim | 2025-10-16 04:05:44+00:00
Unfortunately I already pay for and use both, because on the $20/mo plan, you get cut off after a few hours due to usage limits. Claude resets daily after "5 hours" (I can't determine what runs the clock, but it seems to be wall time (?!)), and Codex cuts you off for multiple days after a long session.
by throwaway127482 | 2025-10-16 04:06:04+00:00
With data intensive Go applications you eventually hit a point where your code has performance bottlenecks that you cannot fix without either requiring insane levels of knowledge on how Go works under the hood, or using CGo and incurring a high cost for each CGo call (last I heard it was something like 90ns), at which point you find yourself regretting you didn't write the program in Rust. If GC in Rust could be made ergonomic enough, I think it could be a better default choice than Go for writing a compiled app with high velocity. You could start off with an ergonomic GC style of Rust, then later drop into manual mode wherever you need performance.
by ineedaj0b | 2025-10-16 04:06:21+00:00
there’s some interesting treatment in china that seems promising. something about unclogging drains in the neck. friend told me it looked ‘possible’.

the whole western field is 15-20 years behind because some researcher lied about plaque data and everyone spent all their time chasing the lead. I think you’ll see useful therapies in 15-20 years from the west, maybe sooner if all the some ai hype pans out.

or the Chinese thing turns out to work! can’t tell myself. there’s probably an American who will try it at some point and publish a case study. Very tough to judge Chinese papers..

here’s an overview: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12121576/
by eclipticplane | 2025-10-16 04:06:26+00:00
Note: Freetaxusa.com has not done a good job with Form 3921 (ISO grant exercises) and AMT carryover. If you have exercised ISO grants or later sold stock purchased in years in which you paid AMT, do not use freetaxusa.com. You will lose more in tax costs vs. finding a real CPA willing to go through your nuanced math.
by m463 | 2025-10-16 04:07:01+00:00
I should mention that ubuntu phones home a lot.

I like the fact that it has done a lot for the linux ecosystem, but there are a few things:

- it has a privacy policy

- it forces updates

- their hardwired package ubuntu-advantage-tools cannot be uninstalled without breaking the os

- motd has telemetry and nags

- can't disable snaps

- whoopsie uploads crashes to canonical

now, this is different from windows because the os is mostly open source, but it is important to know not all linux distros are the same

(note that because the source is generally open, you can probably figure out how to "fix" most of these problems, but not easily and they are moving targets)
by itsme0000 | 2025-10-16 04:07:20+00:00
I’m really glad this article acknowledges that better access to antibiotics is probably the best solution to the problem. I’ve actually heard people argue the opposite.

Many people, even doctors will blame patients for creating antibiotics resistant strains. While it’s true that a resistant strain can develop and spread due to an individual’s actions, those strains will gradually lose their resistance once no longer exposed to antibiotics, so it’s probably better have antibiotics be accessible drugs everywhere to prevent any initial spread and just trust people won’t use them chronically for no reason. Though I’d argue lack of access to antibiotics contributes more to the spread of disease then careless patients stuffing down their mouths, it really depends on what type of bacteria it is. Patients with viruses often misdiagnose themselves as needing antibiotics and that’s another reason it’s not over the counter, that builds resistant bacteria, not inside the patient but in the external environment due to excretion in urine etc.

Doctors will often chide patients for not taking the whole bottle of antibiotics once they stop feeling symptoms as if this gives more opportunity for the resistant strain to spread. It’s true it’s probably safer to totally ensure you are free of disease before stopping a medication, but increasing the overall level of antibiotics in the environment boosts resistance in every case. As people on this thread have pointed out the mass use of antibiotics in cattle farming is going to contribute significantly to resistance because it permanently increases the amount of antibiotics in the environment. Other than stopping that not much can be done to prevent this

It’s kind of a non-issue on an individual level as resistant strains lose resistance over relatively short periods time, once no longer exposed to the antibiotic, people just assume if the bacteria evolved an advantageous trait it will never lose that trait even though it’s no longer advantageous once it’s environment returns to normal.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-16 04:07:30+00:00
Based on the corporate IT emails I receive from time to time, it also sounds like Apple enterprise management controls are weak to non-existent. A few times a year, there is a blast sent out to not upgrade your corporate iphone/mac because of some incompatibility. In the Windows world, IT would just hold back the patch without requiring N users to do the right thing.
by mvdtnz | 2025-10-16 04:07:46+00:00
It has many of the hallmarks of AI prose. It's amazing to me that people can't spot this stuff just by feel alone,

* Not X. Not Y. Just Z.

* The X? A Y. ("The scary part? This attack vector is perfect for developers.", "The attack vector? A fake coding interview from")

* The X was Y. Z. (one-word adjectives here).

* Here's the kicker.

* Bullet points with a bold phrase starting each line.

The weird thing is that before LLMs no one wrote like this. Where did they all get it from?
by paulddraper | 2025-10-16 04:08:00+00:00
> I'd rather the BMI figure be overly cautious than not cautious enough.

I'd rather it be accurate.

> Interesting how one of the measures was to raise the BMI from 30 to 40 as one measure of being Obese.

Because they replace a course/inaccurate definition of obesity with a tighter/accurate one.

The overall effect isn't less conservative -- quite the opposite -- but they deprioritized a low-signal measure.

Any man that builds a decent amount of muscle almost certainly has an "overweight" BMI, unless they have extremely low body fat.

A 5'10" man has to be <174 lbs to not be overweight.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-16 04:08:13+00:00
What exactly did you have to change?

FWIW I'm not trying to interrogate you, I'm just trying to understand your perspective. From mine I just checked their checklist [1] and it's unclear to me what on that list you're suggesting required advanced features in Libre Office to achieve.

[1] - https://www.shunn.net/format/2024/01/a_brief_manuscript_form...
by queenkjuul | 2025-10-16 04:08:32+00:00
I find that i adapt to color schemes pretty quickly and subconsciously. Using the same theme and going from JavaScript to Java, for example, you'll see a lot of different colors on average--lots more class names in Java, for example, so lots more red, in my case. But to me it's less about what color means what, and more about the patterns. If other strings are yellow and mine isn't, problem. If the name I'm using doesn't match the function argument I'm expecting to use, maybe i need a `this.`.

It does seem self evidently bad to use the same color for multiple different things. I feel like bold and italic text can be helpful there, like maybe you reuse a color but change the style depending on context.

Honestly i think when the majority of the content is one color, my brain just writes it off as one big block of stuff to skim over, whereas everything with it's own color actually makes more sense to me.

And yeah, i didn't spot the "retunr", but if i were typing it in real time and the word didn't match my mental map for "return," i probably would still notice.
by sophia_james | 2025-10-16 04:08:55+00:00
I’m not sure if I understood this correctly:

1.Recursion is used to break down the large context and dispatch to different LLM calls to get the useful context.

2.This may lead to longer test-time execution on large contexts (even with parallelism in deep recursion), and the monetary cost may increase rapidly.

I think it’s a different idea from using RAG or manually maintaining a context window

correct me if I'm wrong
by rendaw | 2025-10-16 04:10:13+00:00
> the major blocker with this is the lack of an ability for contributors to sign from mobile devices

Do you mean a significant number of nixpkgs contributors make nixpkgs PRs from their phones... via the github web editor?

That seems weird to me at face value... editing code is hard enough on a phone, but this is also for a linux distro (definitely not a mobile os today), not a web app or something else you could even preview on your phone.

Edit: Per https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-si... the web editor can/does sign commits...
by lynndotpy | 2025-10-16 04:10:49+00:00
If the AVP were cheaper, I think you'd have a lot more people willing to use them together. The social features are useless if nobody owns one or wants to use one.

You'd also have more of a critical mass of people with accessories. A used market for lenses and accessories, people with spare batteries about, etc.

Not to mention an app ecosystem. For every person like me lamenting what could be, there are a dozen people with more mainstream desires, like Instagram 3D or Temple Run 3D or whatnot.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-10-16 04:11:16+00:00
That was tried in the late 20th century in places under oil embargo, and it failed to scale up for several reasons.

Generally, bio-fuels proved more practical using fermented alcohols or fat transesterification into B100. A genetic engineering solution for salt-water tolerant fuel crops or microbes is highly probable.

If I recall correctly, methanol powered vehicles would get significantly lower mileage per tank of fuel, and tended to damage petrol engines. =3
by gitonthescene | 2025-10-16 04:12:05+00:00
Perhaps a more precise question is whether you can write programs as performant as those written in C or Fortran and the answer is it depends on the program (and more likely the programmer). The languages tend to do memory management for you which means giving up some control. Most use “immutable” data structures which force more contraints.

But for the loss of control you get stuff like fancy SIMD implementation for nothing.

All and all there’s a cost/benefit calculation but that ratio can get quite low.
by bix6 | 2025-10-16 04:12:44+00:00
> If hyperscalers paid for 50 percent of the upfront cost of installing heat pumps in homes with electric resistance heating, they could get capacity on the grid at a price of about $344/kW-year — a similar cost to building and operating a new gas power plant, which currently costs about $315/kW-year.13

I feel like I’m missing something. This relies on corporations putting American households ahead of their bottom line which never happens?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-16 04:12:52+00:00
I'm an IC6 SRE and can't afford to live in the SF Bay Area where I grew up. The area around the 100th meridian west is much cheaper. The Bay Area has become a bastion of rich assholes from around the world gentrifying the cost of living and home prices, and old people with Prop 13 who never move while everyone else younger than them languishes paying much more property taxes. Boomers, on average, ruined the world with their selfishness and failed to pay it forward as the Greatest generation did for them.
by godelski | 2025-10-16 04:13:37+00:00
I think you missed my 3rd paragraph (counting the one line).

The problem is the claim doesn't distinguish biased sampling from a biased model. The former is far more likely.

Just ask yourself which is more likely: "my experience is abnormal" or "everyone is experiencing the same thing I am"? In your friend group the latter might be more likely because you're similar locally and culturally. But across the state? Across the country? Across the globe? No, you'd be crazy to think experiences are typical. There's way too many variables at play and even if we were clones we should expect differences.

So no, it doesn't make sense
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-16 04:13:40+00:00
I hate how much I lean into VSCode, but the Python interactive mode gets you a really good live coding environment. Instead of Jupyter cells, you have a regular .py file with chunks of code prefixed with a `# %%`. VSCode gives you a similar experience to a notebook, with the same controls (Run Above Cells, Restart and Run All, etc). So something like

# %% import polars as pl # %% df = pl.DataFrame() df.shape # %% def foobar(): return 1

Since it is a regular .py file all of your existing tooling will work with it. The one thing you lose vs a Jupyter notebook is saved output. I mostly use these .py files, but have a few .ipynb notebook files for when I want to commit the output from some important task.
by JimDabell | 2025-10-16 04:14:35+00:00
> It's the fact they bring it up again when we've made it clear our stance is the problem

You are still locked into this idea that the sole purpose of bringing it up is for your response. This is an open conversation, not a dialogue between only you and them. It doesn’t matter if you have made your stance clear, them bringing it up gives other people a chance to hear about it and discuss it.

> I know you've already made up your mind, but look at our track record of answering support questions on the forums and tickets on GitHub, and you'll see that the picture you've formed in your mind from this thread is not accurate.

To be clear: my mind was made up that Caddy was a good, reliable choice, and it was your behaviour in this thread that changed my mind, it wasn’t my imagination.

> IMO there's more risk in introducing a new security bug in trying to fix this issue than there is leaving it as-is (failing fast and hard).

I believe that, but I also believe your attitude is a bigger threat to security than either.
by kjellsbells | 2025-10-16 04:14:49+00:00
Sadly in small business Microsoft have a lock because no SMB wants to be the awkward outlier whose IT makes them hard to do business with.

For example, to be that supplier that whose documents never quite look quite right or who always struggles with the docusign /PDF /email /spreadsheet /whatever whatever.

For an SMB, fitting in with the de facto IT herd that is represented by your customers and partners is essential for survival. Sure, some SMBs do decide to buck the trend and move over, but it's hard and not for the faint hearted.

Time will tell if this problem solves itself as 365 becomes a pure web app and Windows becomes an RDP-like Cloud PC.

The irony of Bill Gates vision of a Personal computer where you run what you like and not what the mainframe gives your terminal becoming Windows where you consume what you are told to is not lost on me.
by cortesoft | 2025-10-16 04:15:13+00:00
The article didn’t include any numbers on what the general lawyer population is compared to the results.

For example, they make the claim that solo and small firms are the most likely to file AI hallucinations because they represent 50% and 40% of the instances of legal briefs with hallucinations. However, without the base rate for briefs files by solo or small firms compare to larger firms, we don’t know if that is unusual or not. If 50% of briefs were files by solo firms and 40% were filed by small firms, then the data would actually be showing that firm size doesn’t matter.
by khamidou | 2025-10-16 04:15:25+00:00
A lot of it is because platforms need a wedge against AWS/Azure.

Take edge computing for example – most apps are CRUD apps that talk to a single database, but vendors keep pushing for running things on edge servers talking to databases with eventual consistency because hey, at least AWS doesn't offer that! (or it would cost you 10k/month to run that on AWS)
by jimbob45 | 2025-10-16 04:15:47+00:00
Every other OS from MS is garbage. XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 so bad no one remembers it, 10 goodish, 11 horrific.

The hate is hardly unprecedented and indeed well-deserved. MS has shown in the past that they’ll respond to poor OS reception with attempts to win back customers and that’s what I’m hoping for in this case.
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-10-16 04:16:14+00:00
From what I checked, disabling SIP/AMFI/whatever it is now means I can't run iOS applications on macOS. The fact that there are restrictions on what I can run when doing that makes macOS more restrictive.

Also, what if I want to run eBPF on my laptop on bare metal, to escape the hypercall overhead from VMs or whatever? Ultimately, a VM is not the same as a native experience. I might want to take advantage of acceleration for peripherals that aren't available unless I'm bare metal.
by m_sahaf | 2025-10-16 04:17:10+00:00
This is being blown out of proportion. You're discounting an entire project and your experience of the software over a person expressing exasperation over an inconsequential feature (not a bug) that even the author of curl had his run through and frustration. The request was not dismissed, rather it was discussed at length on our issue tracker. The OP knows it was discussed at length because they linked to the discussion thread in the earlier times they brought this up. Moreover, the way they presented it this time is snide, agree or not. To quote Matt's statement of the project being "stable and mature" just to say "except you didn't implement my niche feature" (yes, editorialized) is not criticism nor a feature request. It's veiled instigation hiding behind plausible deniability.

Anyways, on the feature request, Caddy is not the only software who disagrees with it being valid, and curl had their back-and-forth on it. There's no legitimate bug being dismissed, and you can go through the issue tracker to audit it. Equating this discussion with 37signals or Signal is false equivalence.

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