MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-02 14:33:06+00:00
maybe html can do all of these and it will only cost me the time it takes to build the app, but right now PDF does all of those things for me, here today in my pocket, for $15. Which is nice.

I'd love to see a text to speech engine that pronounces formatting but I think it might be more complicated than learning to pronounce something boldly. Am I yelling? Am I keeping my voice low but adding intensity? Can you automate answering that question in a way that's mostly correct most of the time? If something is in italics am I whispering, stage whispering, emphasizing or merely saying the title of an existing work out loud? It's a fundamental abuse of a text formatting engine to try to use it for speech formatting, you either have to use the existing tags for things they were never intended for or you have to start adding tags like <slywhisper> and <scream emotion="angry"> vs <scream emotion="excited">. That being said, an html-independent form of emotional text annotation might actually be a good idea as the inevitability of synthesized human voices being a part of our daily lives takes hold.

I find PDFs easier to organize than HTML because HTML is any number of files referencing each other across a directory structure that can have any size or shape, and a PDF is a single file. If I'm searching my library for Bob Wilson, I want his books to show up and I want them to have his picture in them if that's how the book was published but I don't want Bob_Wilson.jpeg to show up as a result. I could automate print to PDF from html or use the tool someone else posted in order to condense my saved HTMLs to single files but that's more processing time and effort in order to get what I already have from a PDF

Syncing position across HTML files may be doable, but syncing position across PDFs is done. You're absolutely right that that has nothing to do with the format but the (implied) question I was answering when I brought it up was why I would sometimes want one and other times want the other. That's why.

Finally, and probably the only one that really matters inasmuch as all the other reasons can be coded around but this one cant: the places I get documents distribute them in PDF, mobi and epub but almost never in HTML
by jmcodes | 2025-10-02 14:33:10+00:00
"It sounds like it could be xyz, but let me double check and I'll let you know in a few/hour/day/"

OR

"No clue. Let me do some digging first."

Have literally never had this come up in my ten years working in tech. Big picture advice? Don't overthink small things like this.

You'll just make yourself feel and act more unconfident not less.
by scott_w | 2025-10-02 14:33:20+00:00
The only way the CEO finds out is if they're made privy to the injunction, at which point they become subject to it. Even an oblique hint could be a breach of the injunction.

Be honest: do you think a judge is stupid enough to believe you had the injunction explained to you by your legal counsel then, in a totally unrelated incident, thought "oh, I don't think we need the warrant canary any more."
by gruez | 2025-10-02 14:33:35+00:00
>Perhaps Microsoft should never have advertised that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows, and there won't be a Windows 11; see for example

It really wasn't. Basically all the claims of "Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows" traces back to that quote, but that was basically an offhand comment by a low to mid level salesperson (think account "executive"), and was not substantiated by other communications from microsoft, contrary to what your article claims. "ongoing manner" doesn't mean "forever". Microsoft also had clearly outlined lifecycle policies that certainly did not promise forever support.
by isodev | 2025-10-02 14:33:48+00:00
To be clear, the digital wallet app is just a way to manage your government issued eID. Both the wallet app you link to and eID are based on the EIDAS spec. The wallet doesn't supersede or replace your country's apps unless the country opts for that. For example in Belgium, we have a robust selection of apps and the non-phone approach using a USB card reader.

The use-case for age verification is not a law yet, the EC has only produced a blueprint which means that this will probably not be adopted by everyone before EIDAS is fully implemented.
by wiseowise | 2025-10-02 14:34:06+00:00
Intellij IDEs are notorious memory and CPU hogs. I can't recall a single time where I opened up Intellij and didn't feel any sluggishness or stutter. It's like a huge excavator that does the job, but in such inelegant way that it kills all the joy when you use it.

VSCode/VSCodium with focused extension fly compared to any Intellij IDE.
by blacklion | 2025-10-02 14:34:08+00:00
Immich is good to replace google photos or even Lightroom Library, but it is bad to replace Flickr.

Does anybody know self-hosting solution to have nice site to show off selected photos? No authorization and users for viewers, no "share" links, but photostream, albums, tags, way to see one photo full-screen. With minimal "chrome" like Flickr can do.

It doesn't need to have photo-organization things, object recognition, etc, which is needed to navigate your full library. Only way to show photos your specifically selected to publish.
by hu3 | 2025-10-02 14:34:15+00:00
> Our strategy from now on is to sponsor around five open-source projects and maintainers per year. Each year we’ll select new projects to diversify our support.

I like this! Keeps the community engaged.

Looking at their list, seems solid. I have high expectations for Mago specially. Currently, PHP static analyzers are good/great. But speed can be an issue in large codebases:

1) Saif Eddin Gmati, who’s building a very promising new linter and static analyzer for PHP in Rust: Mago.

2) Markus Staab, who’s involved in tons of existing open-source projects like PHPStan, Rector, and PHPUnit.

3) Kyrian Obikwelu, who’s actively exploring AI and MCP possibilities in PHP.

4) Sjon Hortensius, who’s responsible for 3v4l.org, an online shell for PHP that’s very popular within the PHP community.

+1 spot open
by thisisit | 2025-10-02 14:34:46+00:00
> This friend told me she can't work without ChatGPT anymore

I am curious what kind of work is she using ChatGPT such that she cannot do without it?

> ChatGPT released data showing that programming is just a tiny fraction of queries people do

People are using it as search engine, getting dating advice and everything under the sun. That doesn't mean there is business value - so to speak. If these people had to pay say $20 a month for this access, are they willing to do so?

The poster's point was that coding is an area which is paying consistently for LLM models so much that every model has a coding specific version. But we don't see same sort of specialized models for other areas and the adoption is low to nonexistent.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-02 14:34:52+00:00
I would love an exercise bike that runs doom. Maybe link my movement speed in-game to how fast I pedal, with a joystick on one of the handlebars to move and a couple buttons on the other one to shoot and reload. So far every exercise bike game is just bike race, which I'll admit is a close fit for the existing hardware and probably the first idea I'd have too but it gets boring after a while.
by graemep | 2025-10-02 14:35:27+00:00
The UK is also shortly going to require all children to have a digital identifier to be used across government services. That also clears a path to a digital ID.

The government has also talked about making drivings licences digital (i.e. apps)

People suspect a lot more than it being used in conjunction with the OSA. it can be extended in all sorts of ways. Once available it will be used for more and more.

It is not necessary for employment and housing as there are already documents that can be checked on the rare occasions people rent housing or get a new job. It is only worth doing if it is something people will use daily. Essentially people will be coerced into carrying a Google or Apple smartphone with the ID app on it.
by someothherguyy | 2025-10-02 14:36:22+00:00
> Previous criminality is one of the most reliable indicators of future criminality.

That blanket statement could use some nuance.

Supposedly, a brain is developing until around the mid-20s. That seems to line up with federal recidivism data [1].

1. https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...
by bgwalter | 2025-10-02 14:36:46+00:00
“With today’s tools — including AI — it’s no longer necessary for artists to learn a craft. What matters is the content, the idea. It doesn’t matter what tools you use if you achieve it.”

This article is an "AI" advertisement. Take the worst "artists" who no one has ever heard about and who produce physical slop and thereby excuse "AI" usage and theft.

Not all artists are like that.
by lenerdenator | 2025-10-02 14:36:48+00:00
It went into that good night pretty gently for me. I was only using it for amateur radio use and the occasional gaming session on my old T570. I put Bazzite Linux on it and I'll be damned, the thing launched and retrieved, from Steam, a Skyrim save from back in my college days. Now, it's not the most beautiful rendering of the game ever, but it plays.

I've got a backup of my files of course, but this mismanagement of what Windows 10 was supposed to be (the last Windows) combined with all of the new AI stuff in Win11 just wasn't worth the new hardware spend for an OS I only use occasionally. Most of my use is MacOS.
by tpayet | 2025-10-02 14:37:18+00:00
Meilisearch | 2 senior roles |Full-time | Hybrid (Paris, France) - Remote EU

Platform Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/meili/b2d59837-20d6-470d-899b-8ddc081f...

Senior Software Engineer Rust - https://jobs.lever.co/meili/736ec392-9070-49b9-9a63-7db05a1c...
by everdrive | 2025-10-02 14:37:26+00:00
Every time I've been involved in audits at a company, my boss will tell me "let me tell you how to talk to auditors," which ends up meaning lie by omission, imply that things are in good standing without making strictly false statements, and otherwise just make the auditors go away. It all seems silly, but maybe it should be thought of like the court system? An adversarial process whereby each side is vying for its own interests?
by HankStallone | 2025-10-02 14:37:27+00:00
One option would be org-mode's capture templates. If you had a capture template for structured journal entries, you could keep your daily file open for notes, and then pop open a capture window when you want to start a journal entry.

Or, if you're not sure which a piece of writing is going to be when you start, you could tag the ones you want to save in your "proper journal" with a :JOURNAL: tag, and then refile those once in a while to a separate file.

I do a lot of captures which all go to refile.org, and then I go through that weekly or more often and refile items to other files where they belong. That makes it easy to jot down a thought down quickly, since I don't have to decide where it goes first.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-02 14:37:45+00:00
Yeah, I've got a desktop in the same condition. Works great still, probably has 3 or 4 years of life left depending on various factors. The motherboard and CPU are fine for a lot of day-to-day life but don't meet Windows 11 requirements. Motherboard and CPU replacement is my personal "ship of Theseus" line for "no longer the same computer" and a surgery I personally don't want to do.

I'm thinking I'll probably repave it with Bazzite or something like it. But so far I keep procrastinating that as it stopped being my daily workhorse. It's funny that when I bought that desktop Microsoft was still in the "Windows 10 will last the lifetime of your device" marketing pitch. Such a fascinating broken promise that they could have kept in multiple ways. It sounds like they may let the market talk them into the awful Windows XP life support version of it where they may be offering extended security support for years to come.
by moi2388 | 2025-10-02 14:37:55+00:00
I would like them (or actually the EU) to go one step further:

All people should see the same information, in the same order, with the same metadata such as likes and comments.

Example:

I go to Reddit. I see a list of only the subreddits I subscribed to. This is fine. But within this subreddit, I should see the same information as other users do.

Currently, you don’t even see the same comments and same replies, likes, dislikes on topics. This puts people in bubbles, and makes it impossible to enforce fair reporting, illegal content or manipulation.
by lifestyleguru | 2025-10-02 14:38:08+00:00
> It's also helped create a boom in the cybersecurity industry, and helped build the hiring pipeline most American and Israeli cybersecurity firms are using in the CEE today.

Huge part of my decades long IT career is linked with Polish IT industry and I have no idea what are you talking about. Poland is most likely spending heavy millions on Israeli and American spyware mostly used to consolidate power internally.
by exabrial | 2025-10-02 14:38:13+00:00
Hilarious.

Strava literally only exists because of Garmin [and Apple, others] data. They offer no value, contribute nothing, and pretty much just monetize the fact that Apple and Garmin haven't shared data directly between their platforms. They only exist, because they exist, and their userbase has "chosen" them as the social standard.

And lets be honest, they suck for anything that isn't cycling. Garmin and Apple recognize that the vast majority the users are casual hybrid athletes.

As such, doing anything to jeopardize their position as the "neutral ground" in the non-data-sharing war between Garmin and Apple is pretty stupid. And besides, vibe-coding a Strava replacement would take like all of 7 days.
by trentnix | 2025-10-02 14:38:31+00:00
I used to work for a consulting firm and one of my fellow consultants, a guy who went on to some measure of nerd fame as a DevOps evangelist, used to set up his consultations by saying "I don't know everything but I work for a company that does. If won't have an answer for every question, but I'll get an answer for you if you give me time."

That doesn't match your context perfectly, but I think it does communicate the importance of managing expectations.

I'm pretty good at thinking on my feet, but I'm also not above changing my thoughts once I've examined a situation in detail. So when asked a question on the fly, I'll respond "my gut tells me X, Y, and Z but I'd like to think about it a bit and get back to you". If you do that, it's important that you follow up with some real thought and structure that provide real value. The confidence comes not in how you ask for time to think, but in your audience knowing your followup will be worth their while.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-02 14:38:34+00:00
The criteria for success seems to be "improved visual acuity"[1]. I tried to find what the failures actually looked like, but I hit a dead end[2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559253/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414718#45449810
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-10-02 14:38:45+00:00
Certainly the company like Facebook, even if you're paying them for data security privacy, how can you trust them? That they will respect it?

These companies are filled to the brim with utter sociopaths, Especially Facebook. Companies that internal metrics with them fully aware of the mental health damage they're doing at a massive scale to young children, and buried it.

Companies that did psychological manipulation AB tests.
by mythz | 2025-10-02 14:39:30+00:00
Switched to Linux because of Windows 10 EOL as had no intentions of becoming a spam target for its ad/spyware ridden future.

Was the push I needed to give up on 25 years on Windows which turned out to be a blessing in disguise as Linux ended up being a much better and more productive OS for Developers than Windows, esp. if you do all your deployments to Docker/Linux servers.
by alyandon | 2025-10-02 14:40:04+00:00
For me, I'll be replacing Windows with Linux on any machine that can't run Windows 11 in a supported fashion.

I honestly thought Microsoft would blink on this but I guess their leadership believes everyone is going to run out and buy an entirely new computer just to run Windows 11. My older parents (for example) aren't going to throw away their perfectly functional desktops/laptops and will instead continue to use Windows 10 with the attendant security risks (they won't pay $30 for security updates) unless I convince them to switch to Linux.
by sailingparrot | 2025-10-02 14:40:55+00:00
> they set their hiring bar for engineers too high

Not sure I agree, if you look at the head count growth of companies like OpenAI, Anthropic etc, it is super fast, its already pretty hard to keep everything working smoothly with that rate of employee growth, so going faster than that seems very risky.

Ultimately I think it's mostly caused by the field still being so new. Everything still needs to be optimized and there just aren't that many very good CUDA programmers to start with, then you need to find one that also has deep knowledge of ML and transformers architectures, which further drains the pool. And then when you do find one of them, there is 50 different things they could be working on instead of what's in the article, all equally or more impactful. The architectures being constantly evolving also make it hard/not a great ROI to go super super deep in single digit % optimization when there is new stuff coming out all the time that can be made an order of magnitude faster.

A good example of that is flash attention: it is maybe the most significant/impactful optimization in ML of the last few years. Tl;dr is how do you fuse the entire attention pipeline together to make it much faster and avoid massive tensor materialization. The bottleneck was obvious to anyone that profiled a Transformer-based model, but there was no obvious solution because of how softmax works. Yet the paper that ultimately unblock this was published back in 2019 [1], but it took 3 years for a team to connect the dots. Most people in pure ML engineering didn't know about the paper and don't have good enough CUDA knowledge/ GPU arch understanding, most people with good CUDA knowledge don't understand ML well enough, and even the author of that 2019 paper said "[we] hypothesize that this reduction in memory accesses should improve Softmax performance on actual hardware" but didn't have the technical skills to test this or to see how that could be part of a bigger breakthrough because it requires understanding core concepts in how GPU worked and compute/memory imbalance.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.02867
by reactordev | 2025-10-02 14:40:55+00:00
>”They allegedly found authentication tokens, full database URIs, and other private information in Red Hat code and CERs, which they claimed to use to gain access to downstream customer infrastructure.”

They published CERs somewhere that had access keys and urls. Probably to somewhere that it wasn’t authorized to be published or shared and they got a hold of it. Using that, they got a hold of everything else. More CERs, GitHub repos using access tokens, vpn credentials to all the hottest players. At this point, you’d have to tear down and rebuild to undo the damage. Rotating certs, keys, IP’s, the whole nine yards.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-02 14:41:36+00:00
That Ford CEO is stupid.

There's no "shortage" of workers. Corporations are expecting other people to train their employees past entry level and pay these people with midlevel experience like badly paid unskilled laborers.

Nobody is investing years of their time and large sums of money to get trained up for a shitty job? SURPRISE SURPRISE

If you won't take an average person with no knowledge of your industry and train them to be an expert while on the job, the problem is you, not everybody else.
by ndiddy | 2025-10-02 14:41:36+00:00
Microsoft listed the Windows 10 end-of-life date on their site when the OS was released in 2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151220135519/http://windows.mi...

I think it's more likely that the devrel guy who made that remark was just being overly enthusiastic about the OS getting feature updates over time. For some computers, that policy meant that they didn't even get the promised 10-year support duration, as the footnote on that page mentions:

> Updates are cumulative, with each update built upon all of the updates that preceded it. A device needs to install the latest update to remain supported. Updates may include new features, fixes (security and/or non-security), or a combination of both. Not all features in an update will work on all devices. A device may not be able to receive updates if the device hardware is incompatible, lacking current drivers, or otherwise outside of the Original Equipment Manufacturer’s (“OEM”) support period. Update availability may vary, for example by country, region, network connectivity, mobile operator (e.g., for cellular-capable devices), or hardware capabilities (including, e.g., free disk space).
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 14:41:44+00:00
> Ford’s signature element in its new labor agreement was to get full wages to entry-level workers. But beyond that, he began looking at the labor shortage in trade work, starting with technicians.“Old-timers in our plants were saying, ‘It’s no longer a career, Mr. Farley. Working at Ford is no longer a career.’” He warned that millions of well-paid jobs are going unfilled because they require specialized skills. Putting the salaries for these jobs at $100,000 and above, Farley argued that they require training. “You can’t work on a diesel F-150 if you haven’t been trained for five years, at a minimum five years,” Farley noted. It’s not a demand problem—there’s plenty of work—but a dire shortage of young people choosing and staying in the trades.

I looked into this a bit more, because I wanted to understand how much the Ford CEO's posited solution rested on "you can earn a living if you do a different job!" vs. "You can earn a living at any full-time job at my company".

In 2023, the new agreement Ford made with UAW:

- Increased starting wages by 68%, from $17 to $28 an hour.

- New workers reach the top pay rate in three years, a significant improvement from the previous eight-year progression.

- Top wage increased to over $40 an hour.
by ttoinou | 2025-10-02 14:41:47+00:00
Do you need a measure or a quantification to do anything in life ? I don't wait for others benchmarks or others computing ROI factors to actually start using a technology and see it improves my workflow

how and why?

How : we'll always be able to run smaller models on consumer grade computers

Why : most of the tasks humans need to do that computers couldn't do before, now can be improved with new AI. I fail to see how you can not see applications of this
by topdrops66 | 2025-10-02 14:41:48+00:00
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by tonychang430 | 2025-10-02 14:41:48+00:00
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