MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-07 22:37:51+00:00
Unfortunately you tried the worst possible distro out of them all - Ubuntu is infamous for being the Windows of the Linux world (for all the wrong reasons), and Canonical is getting worse every year. Still nowhere as bad as Microsoft, but they're getting there.

I would highly recommend using a sane newbie-friendly distro which bundles all relevant drivers, like Aurora[1]- they even have a developer edition which may be of interest to you. If you're a gamer though, Bazzite[2] may be a better option - comes with drivers for all popular game controllers and hardware and includes Steam and other stuff so you can get gaming in no time at all.

My 70yr old mum uses Aurora and she has zero issues. She surfs the web, edits documents, prints and scans, backs up and organised photos etc. Pretty much all your basic PC user stuff. If my mum can use Linux, so can anyone else.

[1] https://getaurora.dev/

[2] https://bazzite.gg/
by iswapna_ | 2025-10-07 22:37:53+00:00
I would suggest reading Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks. I do not agree with everything in it, but it does talk about the common problem of wanting to shift to a life of meaning and connections and possibly giving back. I am not sure if everyone ends up finding a purpose, but some do, myself included. I am deeply thankful for that. Looking at baby pictures is helpful to me, my kids, friends etc. How long a way we have come.
by omneity | 2025-10-07 22:38:34+00:00
This is basically our approach with Herd[0]. We operate agents that develop, test and heal trails[1, 2], which are packaged browser automations that do not require browser use LLMs to run and therefore are much cheaper and reliable. Trail automations are then abstracted as a REST API and MCP[3] which can be used either as simple functions called from your code, or by your own agent, or any combination of such.

You can build your own trails, publish them on our registry, compose them ... You can also run them in a distributed fashion over several Herd clients where we take care of the signaling and communication but you simply call functions. The CLI and npm & python packages [4, 5] might be interesting as well.

Note: The automation stack is entirely home-grown to enable distributed orchestration, and doesn't rely on puppeteer nor playwright but the browser automation API[6] is relatively similar to ease adoption. We also don't use the Chrome Devtools Protocol and therefore have a different tradeoff footprint.

0: https://herd.garden

1: https://herd.garden/trails

2: https://herd.garden/docs/trails-automations

3: https://herd.garden/docs/reference-mcp-server

4: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@monitoro/herd

5: https://pypi.org/project/monitoro-herd/

6: https://herd.garden/docs/reference-page
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-07 22:38:43+00:00
> In the House of Commons last week, Anandasangaree, the public safety minister defended Bill C-8 as a means to crack down on hackers and ransomware fraudsters.

> “Malicious cyber-actors are breaching our country’s IT systems, accessing sensitive information and putting lives in danger,” he said.

> Anandasangaree added that “hostile state actors are stealing information and gaining access to systems that are critical to our national security and public safety.”

... and these hostile state actors are doing this from their checks notes home in Ottawa, using a Rogers internet connection they're paying for?
by logicchains | 2025-10-07 22:39:26+00:00
Americans like to say the first amendment relies on the second amendment, or as Mao Zedong put it, political power grows from the barrel of a gun. When I was younger I thought it was exaggerated, but now it seems like there really are fewer and fewer countries where you can criticise your government online without facing legal repercussions. If things continue at the current rate, in 5-10 years America might be the only English-speaking country with freedom of speech (as long as you don't criticise Israel).
by guywithahat | 2025-10-07 22:39:54+00:00
They definitely shipped some RWD cybertrucks, there was one on the lot when I bought my Y. Frankly I would have got a cybertruck if I could afford it, and the RWD version had more range and was cheaper, making it desirable in my eyes. I see no reason why moving the seat controls to a screen would deter buyers
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-07 22:40:00+00:00
> i hear people online punch down on mississippi all the time, and often they don't know anything about the state except whatever metric they've heard about from a headline. the rest of america isn't very far behind, and if you think the state of mississippi isn't a product of america as a whole then you are extremely mistaken.

Agreed, people usually just say ‘lol MS is full of idiots, they’re bad at school’ instead of taking the time to understand why. It was more isolated than GA and LA (and AL), there was a higher ratio of slaves to freedmen in the antebellum period, the Delta was undeveloped so lots of impoverished people from across the south moved there to try and develop the land, to name a few reasons.

> i grew up there, attended public school all the way through my BA, and then spent significant time as a young adult there. based on the stereotypical assumptions, it might be shocking to somebody on hacker news that somebody on a similar enough intelligence level to be an audience of this website is from mississippi.

I can say that I don’t assume everyone from Mississippi is stupid, but the generalization about Mississippi that you related seems to be more common than it should be. I think a lot of it has to do with a lack of exposure to people from Mississippi or Mississippi itself.

Thanks for taking the time to respond, I appreciate the discussion.
by analog31 | 2025-10-07 22:40:11+00:00
It was an extremely weak mandate, and in normal times (e.g., assuming the concept of limited government), a weak mandate would be a mandate to act with restraint. Thus a "mandate" doesn't justify what's happening.

The Republicans abandoned the economic debate, and shifted focus to social issues. This is what caught the Democrats, including myself, off guard. Rather than stealing our jobs, the immigrants were accused of stealing our cats.

Framing it as an economic issue in hindsight seems like a polite way of "steelmanning" the voting base, but I'm not sure it's really justifiable.
by rtpg | 2025-10-07 22:40:20+00:00
The guy's whole bit is arguing from some sort of vague sociological perspective against gender affirming care. And pretending that (in the United States of America of all places) teens can just walk up to their doctors super easily and get surgery done somehow.

He presents this issue as a sort of parental-rights-ignoring epidemic, but if you dig into the reality of it all there's a hell of a lot of parental consent, a hell of a lot of checks within the medical establishment about whether to do these things, and of course the person themselves being involved.

Singal is a fellow traveler to people who defend conversion therapy, which is a thing where _kids are sent to a camp to be trained into a different sexuality_. This is shit that's basically banned in many places in Europe, because many believe that those camps are basically child abuse.

So you're looking at a person who has a lot of distrust for the medical establishment, falsely presents the reality of the thing to make it sound like people are walking in for free top surgery the moment they get into middle school[0], and this is stuff that is being cited to add restrictions on other things.

There's this deeply personal thing that a very small segment of the population is trying to deal with. There are medical professionals that have some help (including just of the "talking" variety), some degree of acceptance in pockets of society. And this sort of thing means that people can have a little bit of dignity. And the medical establishment is trying to treat people!

Meanwhile this guy is using his voice to just spread fear around all of this, misrepresenting even really basic things. And to what goal? Again, parental rights are part of the equation in reality! And we're not talking about a sports thing here. So who is Singal out there fighting for?

I kind of don't care what this guy's opinion is on, like, taxes and the role of government in the rest of life. He's going out there writing this kind of stuff so consistently that he's known for it. And I have a very hard time understanding who he is the voice for, except for people who are just against trans people existing in public society.

I don't care about him being banned off of bluesky or whatever. I just want people here to have at least some access to medical care (in various forms) if doctors and parents agree. And his stuff is helping to provide ammo to roll this access back at a legislative level. Serious people should know that what he says doesn't hold up on examination. In the same way that people "know" that Trump just says things that sound emotionally right to him in the moment to prove a point.

[0]: I'm exagerating here but again, in the USA access to medical treatment is not easy!
by em-bee | 2025-10-07 22:40:27+00:00
i tried that:

cat .bashrc | highlight --force -O xterm256 | less -SRNI

everything is green, except line numbers are black (which comes from less), but

bat .bashrc

shows actual syntax highlighting.

so apparently, no, it doesn't work.

to be fair, this is how it works:

cat .bashrc | highlight --syntax shellscript -O ansi | less -R

to avoid getting caught by the useless use of cat police, this does too:

highlight --syntax shellscript -O ansi .bashrc | less -R

however, i have to tell it which syntax to use

but to its credit, highlight even has support for pike, which bat doesn't (yet) (fixed that for myself, at least)

so overall, bat wins.
by mopsi | 2025-10-07 22:41:13+00:00
Couldn't be further from the truth. Just look at how NATO countries have tiptoed around supporting Ukraine. Every major step (artillery shells, tanks, rocket artillery, air defense systems, and fighter jets) took ages of largely pointless discussion before the decision was made. Not to mention the very weak response to Russian military intelligence terror cells that have been caught red-handed across Europe in recent years while they were preparing attacks like smuggling incendiary devices onto DHL cargo airplanes. If this isn't an unbelievably unconfrontational reaction to Russia's actions, then what is?
by DaveZale | 2025-10-07 22:41:39+00:00
I scored thousands of high school essay exams in some really good school districts, which covered topics like evolutionary science. The brute fact is that evolution favors adaptation to changes to conditions in the environment, which are by their nature unpredictable. What is favored now may not matter in a decade or a century. So for Silicon Valley, maybe the perspective now is that nerdy proficiency is favored for success. But that doesn't mean they will be in a decade or even next year. Say, for example, that AI does the things that needs are better at now in just a few years. At that point, who knows (and possibly one could hope) - maybe human compassion becomes the favored trait? In which case, nerdy-ness is no longer favored. This is only a brief response, I could write on and on about other examples of traits that work well under one set of circumstances, but don't work so well in other. In other words, evolution favors those who do well under unpredictable future circumstances. Randomness can play an large role in what is favored in the future.
Show HN: Agentic Design Patterns – Python Edition, from the Codex Codebase
by j_juggernaut | 2025-10-07 22:41:48+00:00
While reading Agentic Design Patterns by Antonio Gulli, I wanted to see how these patterns look in real code. I cloned the OpenAI Codex repo (the open-source AI coding assistant that recently trended on HN) — but it was in Rust.

So, I used an Cursor to help me extract and translate 18+ agentic patterns from Codex’s codebase into Python. That small experiment turned into a full open-source guide: GitHub: Codex Agentic Patterns https://github.com/artvandelay/codex-agentic-patterns

Each pattern comes with:

A short explanation and code sample

A runnable exercise and agent snippet

A summary of how Codex used the pattern (e.g., prompt chaining, tool orchestration, reflection loops, sandbox escalation)

One full working Python agent that ties it all together

If you’ve read the agentic design patterns book or explored Codex, this is a bridge between theory and practice — focused on runnable, open examples instead of abstract diagrams.

It’s completely free and open-source. Would love feedback, ideas, or even new patterns from your own agent experiments.
by ethbr1 | 2025-10-07 22:41:55+00:00
> Cash in the bank so you can buy equities at the bottom.

JFC, this is the dumbest possible advice given this thread.

If someone thinks equities are overpriced and one thinks the value of USD is decreasing, then 'cash in the bank' is an equally bad answer to 'buy equities now'.

The correct answer, given those beliefs, is 'buy commodities' (or scarce assets).
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-07 22:42:27+00:00
This is like grasping at a boogeyman web3 straw to make a point.

Concretely, Bluesky has an AppView that takes posts from relays and PDSes, subscribes to moderation labelers, filters posts that have labels which have certain labels, then displays them in the browser. Blacksky is the first independent implementation of relays and other large components of the system.

The default Bluesky AppView subscribes to the Bluesky Moderation labeler which cannot be disabled. No independent AppView has been made which can turn off the Bluesky Moderation labeler. That's all.

I have my concerns over the network, namely DAUs decreasing and community politics, but the tech is largely a matter of time I feel. It's true that the ActivityPub ecosystem has a lot more federation happening but ActivityPub is a much older system (which itself derives from OStatus which originated in 2012-ish.) Mastodon was released in 2016. It's bound to be more federated than Bluesky.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-07 22:42:37+00:00
Which distros have you tried? The new nVidia open drivers work so much more better in Linux these days than the fully proprietary ones (still not as good as AMD, but it's pretty decent).

Also there are distros which handle cutting edge hardware much better than others (like Fedora/based or Arch/based), and some are infamous for always lagging behind (Ubuntu/Debian based). Choosing the right distro can make a huge difference to your Linux experience.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-07 22:44:15+00:00
I think the exponential works in the opposite direction. Let’s say your manufacturing capacity is increasing by 30% per year. That means hypothetically at the end of a 15 year period you’re building fifty times what you were able to install in year one. We don’t know if that will happen for batteries, but for solar PV the rate was about a 37% average yearly increase over the past 20 years.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-07 22:44:22+00:00
Imagine having to regulate this, and what it means of the the advertisers and the streaming services that allow it...

Yet more proof that advertising is psychological assault and advertisers are malicious entities.

Block ads for your data safety, your sanity and your comfort level in your own home. Feel no remorse for a morally-bankrupt industry riddled with scammers and grifters. Anything that would be lost in the absence of advertising was not worth having in the first place.
by jrm4 | 2025-10-07 22:44:42+00:00
Mastodon is the right model. I keep saying this and I keep being surprised that it isn't more obvious to most. It's the right model because it's essentially the same model as email. Yes, there is TONS of "human" work to be done to change people's minds on this, but STRUCTURALLY it's the only one that can handle things correctly.

I always found what Bluesky was "optimizing" for to be a stupid goal, and inherently a bad idea -- namely "the ability to keep your everything permanent."

That's EXACTLY what brings MORE danger to centralization. I get that losing an identity on a thing sucks BUT WE'VE ALREADY DEALT WITH THIS WITH EMAIL, and more over the ability to lose/destroy/start over -- like with email -- is a FEATURE as much as it is a bug.
by bccdee | 2025-10-07 22:45:04+00:00
"Merit" is not a singular monolithic quality. Highly skilled immigrants have many meritorious qualities, like education and professional skills, which are not heritable and which cost money to acquire. Between an affluent child of average intellect and a clever child of modest means, both living in the developing world, the rich kid is much more likely to end up in America than the poor kid is.

Gifted programs seek to screen for childhood intelligence, which is distinct both from being an immigrant and from having a good career. And, as I pointed out, being a smart kid is (in my experience) less of a factor in terms of being admitted to a gifted program than having attentive parents with free time and money.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-07 22:45:20+00:00
No, you have to trust the one company, as well as everyone you were trusting before. You are still using the router, and now you are also trusting the VPN provider, as well as the nodes in between the VPN provider and your original destination.

Also, you are just switching up the "unprotected stretch" between your local wifi, and, say, Google's servers, whereas now that "unprotected stretch" lies between the VPN provider servers in Latvia or British Virgin Islands or Panama, or whatever dubious jurisdiction, and, say, Google. Sure, you added a layer of protection against the random hacker sitting in your Starbucks, but you have added many more vectors.

It becomes the poison because the solution you are introducing brings more issues. And it's schizophrenic because the issue to begin with, was minuscule (a hacker stepping into MacDonalds, breaking the network encryption and then also the application encryption.

Maybe if this were 2010 and websites still used HTTP, or you are using a local email client without TLS configured. But it's 2025, everything has HTTPs and you are using an HTTPs email client.

VPNs to protect corporate networks is sensible. Consumer VPNs are a different thing entirely and they do not provide increased security at best, decrease security at worst, and usually cater to schizoid threat models, where the threat actor is the state, rather than more realistic threat scenarios.
by flutas | 2025-10-07 22:45:26+00:00
which is leaving out the full context, they specificly cited the alt-text of the image, not the image itself.

The email, verbatim read:

> A reply with an image; alt text reads:

> 'Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says "Freedom." A negative consequence follows!

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/aliafonzy.blacksky.app/post/3m2jm7u...
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-10-07 22:45:51+00:00
I definitely have my concerns over the decreasing DAUs on the platform and the crabby, toxic community that has come to really define Bluesky these days but I don't think the tech is the problem. For folks who keep pointing at Mastodon, remember that ActivityPub's predecessor OStatus originates from 2012 and Mastodon itself was kicked off in 2016. Mastodon is 9 years old at this point. Bluesky is only a few years old.

In AP land, for better or for worse microblogging is dominated by the ad-hoc set of standards that Mastodon pioneered, and too much of the community just treats AP as "HTTP+REST JSON APIs for social" and ignores the semantic components that AP can use to interoperate.
by petsfed | 2025-10-07 22:45:56+00:00
This is true up until it really REALLY isn't.

The main strength of microcontroller-based hobby boards (I hesitate to say "bare-metal", but something like that) is that tuning them for long operation on a small pouch cell is pretty straightforward. There is no such easy path to prolong battery life on a Raspberry Pi (not including the RPI Pico). After that, with microcontrollers, you have direct visibility into most interrupts you may need to use. You do not have that in the standard Raspbian linux distro.

They are foundationally different items, and it does not take a tremendously complicated project to reach the boundary between them. Need a robust wifi stack or to run a camera? You need something with at least an RTOS (like an ESP), or an actual operating system. Need to service a rapidly spinning rotary encoder without missing clicks or blocking other operations? You need a microcontroller.

Its certainly true that you can make a Raspberry Pi do everything an arduino can (and mostly vice versa), but in terms of what's accessible to a early-intermediate hobbyist, they are different tools for different tasks.
by shaicoleman | 2025-10-07 22:46:00+00:00
I've self hosted my email forwarding service on my own domain for over a decade, but eventually gave up because of deliverability issues that were out of my control - primarily with Microsoft's email services.

I've switched 3 years ago to a hosted forwarding service forwardemail.net

Pros:

* Allows to switch email providers if needed

* Allows to forward email to multiple providers

* Allows to store backups of emails

* Allows to have emails on multiple domains for different contexts (personal/professional/projects/etc.)

* Allows to have different email addresses per service. If you get spam on that email address you can just stop forwarding emails for it.

* Allows to have reliable mail rules based on the email address

* Allows also to send emails from multiple addressses

* Most spam is filtered before it reaches the inbox

* Open source

* Would be easy to switch to a different email forwarding service if needed (or self host it).

* Excellent track record over 8+ years

Cons:

* They have the potential to snoop on your emails. Any service that's really important would have 2FA enabled, so I accept the risk.

* They have the potential to send emails on your behalf - again, they've earned my trust, so I accept the risk for that.

* Add another point possible failure. So far I haven't noticed any issues with it.

* There's greylisting that delays emails for 5 minutes if they are not on the whitelist, which affects some of less common sending services.

* In very rare cases, some services ban registering with a forwarding email addresses.

* You need to make sure you don't lose your domain. I renew it 5 years before expiry with a reputable domain registrar (NameCheap).

Overall, it's been working great for me.
by spacechild1 | 2025-10-07 22:46:07+00:00
I'm talking about the core language, which I do find very predictable. You can go crazy with any language. Lua is definitely not worse than Python or JS in this regard.

> No static typing to rest your eye on.

That goes for any dynamically typed language. How is that an argument against Lua in particular?

> Have you read large Lua codebases written by others?

No, because I use it as a scripting language, as intended. I totally agree that one shouldn't use dynamically typed languages for building large applications. But again, this is not specific to Lua.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-10-07 22:46:39+00:00
100% it doesn't make any sense to expect different behavior out of the same format just because you make slightly different promises about what the rules will be

Bluesky has been drama central since the beginning, consisting mostly of people who thought Twitter wasn't censoring enough (or censoring the wrong people), the free speech crowd came later and, well, tested the waters and found transphobic speech was in fact not free, and that despite distributed promises, the town wasn't big enough for the two parties to coexist
by bigwheels | 2025-10-07 22:46:44+00:00
As of last week, Google is on-track to discontinue POP-polling functionality. I've been using this for about 20 years, not sure what to do. What a pain.

Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP (support.google.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45439670 - 6 days ago, 372 comments