MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tsycho | 2025-10-07 15:24:11+00:00
Next year will be even worse.

This was the first year of Trump's new term and most of the anti-immigration executive orders happened in the last few months. By August, most international students had already accepted offers, made travel and stay plans, and likely paid some part of their tuition already, and just continued due to sunk costs and hope that things will stabilize.

However, at this point, I think a lot more people will not even apply to US schools for next year.
by duxup | 2025-10-07 15:24:54+00:00
>Lapsus$ has been inactive since 2022, when Scattered Spider emerged. ShinyHunters first appeared in 2020 and joined forces with Scattered Spider earlier this year. They jointly announced their retirement last month.

I suppose it lends credibility to your hacking group and threats. But it seems like an opsec risk to be announcing a lot publicly ...
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-07 15:25:05+00:00
> A decade or two ago, I'd have told you the companies that are building new technologies (smartphones, streaming services, etc) were creating value.

I feel like I’m getting old saying this, but no, I was there and the entire tech community went hard against smartphones, claiming they would never be better than a Pocket PC or a Palm Pilot and were simply another marketing ploy by Apple.

They claimed that they were inferior to purpose built MP3 players, no one would ever pay hundreds of dollars for a phone, real software developers didn’t write apps, wireless data would never scale, etc. As far as I know all those comments are still preserved for posterity in places like Slashdot.
by heap_perms | 2025-10-07 15:25:08+00:00
Chess.com is fundamentally a scam operation masquerading as a premium service. They've built an empire by paywalking features that should be free - and ARE free elsewhere. Lichess proves every single day that unlimited puzzles, deep analysis, opening exploration, and even advanced features like studies and cloud analysis don't need to cost a dime. They're open-source, ad-free, and completely transparent about their finances.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-10-07 15:25:09+00:00
Well, but you're going to have an "ocracy" no matter what you do. So what kind of "ocracy" do you want?

Incompetentocracy?

Randomocracy?

Celebritocracy?

Nepotocracy?

We're not going back to aristocracy (which essentially was nepotocracy). So what do you have that's better than meritocracy? What's wrong with letting the more talented be the ones who run things?
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-07 15:25:15+00:00
It's funny sure but it also feels very like, off brand? It's giving like, Dell or old IBM ad vibes.

But suppose that's the point, they have no brand in corporate "container con" land, so they've gotta look the look. (I thought initially while watching Container Con was more of an enterprise software like k8s, Docker type thing, which seemed fitting, not some small craft business show... so the question is: who is the target for this? Enterprise 'at work'? or small businesses, who might already be using the Apple ecosystem.)
Show HN: Proxmox-GitOps: IaC Container Automation (+1min to infra stack [video])
by gitopspm | 2025-10-07 15:25:54+00:00
Hello everyone,

I‘d like to share my project Proxmox-GitOps, a self-contained GitOps environment for provisioning and orchestrating Linux Containers (LXC) on Proxmox VE.

Encapsulating infrastructure within an extensible monorepository - recursively resolved from Git submodules at runtime - it provides a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) abstraction for an entire, automated container-based infrastructure.

Repository: https://github.com/stevius10/Proxmox-GitOps

Demo (1min+): https://youtu.be/2oXDgbvFCWY

I started this project several months ago, originally as a personal attempt to bring industry cloud and automation patterns to my private Proxmox home server. When I shared it, I didn't expect much interest. To be honest, the response for such a niche topic has been way more than I could have imagined.

It's a platform architecture for an elegant, self-contained system. It's an attempt to build a generic IaC abstraction that manages its own lifecycle, initially driven by the question of what I wanted my own GitOps home automation to look like.

This is a non-commercial, passion-driven project. I’m looking to collaborate with other engineers who share the excitement of building a self-contained, bootstrappable platform architecture that addresses the question: How do we want our home automation to be?

I‘d love to hear your thoughts!

——

- Recursive self-management: the control plane executes within the managed containers to maximize reproducibility and minimize drift.

- Git as current desired state: operations map to standard Git workflows (commit, merge, rollback) in a stateless management model.

- Convention-based extensibility: add a service by copying a container definition from libs, adding a minimal cookbook and `config.env`; the pipeline handles provisioning, configuration, and validation.

- Loose coupling: containers remain independently replaceable and continue to function without manual follow-up.
by AdrianB1 | 2025-10-07 15:25:56+00:00
The good thing is that 10 years later you need less HDDs of larger capacity to move your data to. And they tend to be cheaper. So every 10 years you move the data to a new set of disks, works good enough for most people. I did it a few weeks ago, it took ~ 8 hours over 10 Gbps Ethernet.

It is not necessarily bad we don't have a very long term storage solution. Imagine you took backups on 360kb FDD 40 years ago, you were drastically limited on how much data you could store and if we assume you had 1 GB of data back then, that is a huge pile of floppy disks to copy at very slow speed. Now imagine you have 10 TB of data today and that will be a tiny fraction of a microSD in 40 years, but reading your 10 TB from HDD will be painfully slow in the year 2065. At the same time if you replace the storage medium every 10 years you keep up better with capacity and performance.
by nunobrito | 2025-10-07 15:26:10+00:00
It is basically the same thing, don't understand either why it would harder.

The only thing is to add the ESP32 module on the addons since it doesn't come enabled by default. Arduino isn't good for projects with more than 5 source code files, it is an awful IDE beyond the basic things you can pack on a single source code file.

Always had so many difficulties handling the IDE defects, basically it can crash when starting and every now and then will just refuse to upload the firmware. The other part are libraries, really difficult to setup all the needed libraries for larger code bases.

On that sense, Visual Code with PlatformIO went far beyond. Just open the project there and the libraries are taken care. The connection to boards is more robust. I'm not so sure how to feel with this sale to Qualcomm, it just feels that it is going there to die.

Quite the difference from the early days where Arduino had such energy and the tools would bring almost anyone into microntrollers with such ease.
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-10-07 15:26:23+00:00
I think it counts. If the most popular airline in the world suddenly started forcing you to commit to a subscription model to travel, one would consider less popular airlines going forward. Sometimes consistency of doing the job without adding hassle is more important than arriving at every destination under the sun. The problem with the Linux Desktop is it that it has a reputation as a scrappy alternative until it hits that random problem that grounds it. It will never replace Windows but it can take bigger and bigger chunks of users out of it.
by fudged71 | 2025-10-07 15:26:42+00:00
Maybe it’s a combination of two things (a perfect storm):

1) APFS's snapshot feature, driven by Time Machine, adds a heavy tax on the massive number of file writes and deletes performed by pnpm and git.

2) macOS's less efficient handling of parallel I/O negates the speed benefits of modern, concurrent tooling, creating a bottleneck that is particularly severe when combined with the overhead from snapshots
by babl-yc | 2025-10-07 15:27:04+00:00
There's still relevance in making it stupidly easy to make an LED blink and make basic apps on circuit boards. Education + weekend hardware hackers might look for something different in a framework than a professional.

But certainly for pro use cases the hardware specific frameworks are way more powerful (but also complex).

I wrote up a bit on Arduino vs ESP-IDF here https://bitclock.io/blog/esp-idf-vscode
by chronic74939 | 2025-10-07 15:27:11+00:00
> All those students, along with their talent and money and connections went _somewhere_ so that’s a shame for USA.

Money? Yes.

Talent and connections? Not necessarily.

Top PhD students are still coming to America.

It’s the money-grabbing 12-month masters programs that are the problem.

Come buy a F-1 student visa for $200k! It’s the Trump silver card.
by compiler-guy | 2025-10-07 15:27:41+00:00
Most of Google's internal development happens on a filesystem that saves absolutely everything in perpetuity. If you save it, the snapshot lives on forever--deleting stuff requires filing a ticket with justification. It is amazingly useful and has saved me many times. Version control is separate, but built on it.

When I eventually move on, I will likely find or implement something similar. It is just so useful.
by seemaze | 2025-10-07 15:28:03+00:00
I recently acquired a new (to me) 2017 vehicle and took it to my independent mechanic who has been working on my cars for years. He is registered with the mfg. and has access to many of their proprietary diagnostics and tools, but warned me that there is very little he can do on the latest models. They are basically 'return to dealer' because of 'software'.
by Neywiny | 2025-10-07 15:28:05+00:00
As the other commentators said, the website just has a sign in link. So, to your points:

- In the current demo you can sign in with Google (untested by me). End of capability.

- right now, the tool is a sign in button

- as a demo, it's a sign in button

That's what we see. Maybe put a video or screenshots or something
by theamk | 2025-10-07 15:28:22+00:00
Very dramatic presentation for something very mundane. Every computer has "remote control" of some sort - if anything, to install security updates. Without security updates, there is a good chance your devices will turn into huge botnet at some point. I believe that EU CRA even requires such backchannel.

I can agree, however, that refusing to work without internet is be too much for the device which can support offline operation.
by jrop | 2025-10-07 15:28:33+00:00
I always wrote Lua off, scoffing at the 1-based indexing, until I was "forced" to learn it thanks to Neovim. What a delightful little language it is. I do wish I could do certain things less verbosely (lambdas would be nice) -- but then again, I defeat myself by suggesting it, because not having all the features makes Lua so approachable.
Show HN: Reorient – Discover nomad events and workations in Asia
by eswat | 2025-10-07 15:28:37+00:00
Hey HN,

I’ve been working on this event aggregator for several weeks now. I’m known as the guy that goes to a lot of conferences and workation programs, specififcally those catered for digital nomads in Asia.

I decided to make an aggregator so a) I didn’t have to keep DMing events to people individually and b) there was no site that had all of these in one spot, and it's rather trivial for me to have a list of these (I know most of the organizers for these events in the region, so they usually let me know when they launch and AI makes it easy to assemble an event listing).

In addition I’m also working on arrival guides for countries. I want to help more remote workers become productive in new environments ASAP. So these guides have the silly tips and tricks I’ve collected for countries on how to get from the airport into a working environment quickly, starting with South Korea.

Appreciate any feedback or recommendations.
by commandersaki | 2025-10-07 15:28:47+00:00
I would just say follow pyserial example if that is something you like; look at their source code docstrings vs the documentation including the API bits.

If that's something you like, then just lift their documentation/ wholesale and tailor it to your needs, which is how I started. I also tweaked the sphinx settings to generate a pdf as well, but that was a special thing for the customer we were delivering the library and documentation to.
by gumby271 | 2025-10-07 15:29:11+00:00
But the Android users are the exact people Apple doesn't want. Just look at how the iOS App Store defenders come out whenever someone suggests that iOS should be more open. The response is, without fail, "just go buy an Android if that's what you want". Meanwhile the success that Apple has with those people has lead Google to realize it's a great idea. What will be the response now? "Just go buy a Linux phone"?
by cloverich | 2025-10-07 15:29:16+00:00
It partially addresses it, specifically addresses one part but not the other.

"Value" to the individual is subjective, and defined by the price people are willing and able to pay. Its "solved" in the sense that modern economics universally accepts it.

The harder part are the second order effects / negative externalities (e.g. cancer from cigarettes). But it’s a constant balancing act between over- and under-regulation. On a more general level this was represented all the way back in Adam Smith's work. i.e. I don't think it unfair to say value and regulation is a conceptually solved problem, irrespective of the constant attempts to undermine it.
by runamok | 2025-10-07 15:29:32+00:00
The data for long term maintenance can be found but for example the government could mandate it be published for car models to give consumers more insight and be a lever to incentivize designing cars to be more easily maintainable (e.g. not have to remove a truck's cab to replace an oil filter gasket!) https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-maintenance/the-cos...
by jacobr1 | 2025-10-07 15:29:56+00:00
>It's hard to be positive about the idea of your skills getting devalued and getting kicked to the curb.

I think it depends where people build their own identities in the value stream. Do you see yourself as a product/hacker type person and writing code just is a blocker on delivering your vision? Building greenfield prototypes is now 100x easier! Do you see yourself as a craftsperson that brings years of experience to hard technical challenges? Some folks see AI as an attack, and some see it as a way to remove some drudgery while they focus on harder problems. It is about mindset.

What skills do you value?
by teiferer | 2025-10-07 15:29:57+00:00
So like Windows then? Cause a free alternative exists?

Or farmers markets? Cause you can just grow all those crops for free yourself.

Or carpenters? Just get some tools, do your home renovations for free.

Or sex workers? Cause you can just go to a bar and get it for free.

Oh, they are differences between the free and the pay options? The occupy different niches in the marketplace? You don't say. Maybe they are not scams after all, just cater to different tastes.

(I also prefer lichess over chess.com but that doesn't mean I think this is a reasonable argument.)
Refrag Explained
by CShorten | 2025-10-07 15:29:58+00:00
REFRAG from Meta Superintelligence Labs is a SUPER exciting breakthrough that may spark the second summer of Vector Databases! REFRAG illustrates how Database Systems are becoming even more integral to LLM inference!

By making clever use of how context vectors are integrated with LLM decoding, REFRAG is able to make TTFT (Time-to-First-Token) 31X faster and TTIT (Time-to-Iterative-Token) 3X faster, overall improving LLM throughput by 7x!! REFRAG is also able to process much longer input contexts than standard LLMs!

How does it work?

Most of the RAG systems today that are built with Vector Databases, such as Weaviate, throw away the associated vector with retrieved search results, only making use of the text content. REFRAG instead passes these vectors to the LLM, instead of the text content!

This is further enhanced with a fine-grained chunk encoding strategy, and a 4-stage training algorithm that includes a selective chunk expansion policy trained with GRPO / PPO.

Here is my review of the paper! I hope you find it useful!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek0tZootK00
by myfonj | 2025-10-07 15:30:01+00:00
> I do think an interesting approach would be a browser extension that lets you override the prefers-color-scheme property on a per-domain basis, similar to the toggle in dev tools.

Presumably, most users wanting flashbang-less browsing experience use Dark Reader extension or similarly radical solutions.

The sad truth is that the user preferences and per-site persistence for stuff like this should always have been browser's responsibility to begin with: just the same way like the font-size/page zoom already is, and likewise some (blatantly limited) security settings. (Bitterly) amusing fact is that there was (and still is) concept of "alternate stylesheets" from the beginning of CSS (still part of the spec [0], no support outside Gecko), that also fade into obsolescence for it's lack of persistence. So to this days, Firefox, for example, has View → Page Style menu, where user can choose alternate stylesheet but the choice is not preserved across navigations, so is pretty useless on its own.

Similarly userstyles: specifications dictate there is like CSS origin level and how they should behave and that all "user agents" are supposed to give user a way to enter the cascade this way, but does not give any official way how to scope individual recipes to concrete origins. That's what the unofficial `@-moz-document` extension was that, and briefly had a chance to be formalised [1]. But I digress.

(Likewise all the "European" cookies banners: tragic example of regulation applied on the wrong level. Instead of putting users in charge with help of their "user agents": implicitly blocking pretty much everything and using permissions system that actually would have a chance to be more than "pinky promise we will not track you if you don't click this toggle inside our banner". But I digress even more, sorry.)

> I'd be curious to know if anybody has found a way to avoid this issue with JS switchers -- ideally without needing to delay the initial paint.

At this point, when browsers do not support per-site user preference for that natively, pragmatic (most robust) way would be to respond with properly set HTML payload straight away. There is even specified HTTP header for this, so once adopted in browsers, we could even ditch HTTP cookies [2] for the persistence, but it seems quite demanding on the server (IIUC negotiating these "Client Hints" takes extra initial request round-trip).

Pragmatically, I guess having early running JS in the HEAD that ensures the proper color-scheme is set on the root not and only proper stylesheets load should pretty much prevent most flashbangs, provided the relevant bit would arrive early enough from the server. I think there does not exist any good no-JS-no-Cookie (or any JS-less persistence) solution that supports navigations, sadly.

[0] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#rel-altern...

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-conditional-20121213/#cha...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...
by catapart | 2025-10-07 15:30:09+00:00
FWIW: I'm moving from my current win10 desktop to linux of some kind. I've been running mint on my laptop, in preparation, and I think I'm pretty comfortable with it (really hoping that the slowness that builds up over time has something to do with old laptop components, rather than the OS).

For me, it's always been the local account and network services. So long as I can run the thing with only a monitor and keyboard, I'm happy. The second I am required to have a net connection, or even a mouse, I will be looking for alternatives. It's 100% that simple.
by intermerda | 2025-10-07 15:30:12+00:00
https://www.commondreams.org/news/alito-2668492585

> Alito replied, “I agree with you,” when Windsor said people who are conservative Christians need “to return our country to a place of godliness.” He said Windsor was “probably right” when she said, “I don’t know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end. I think that it’s a matter of, like, winning.”

> “One side or the other is going to win,” agreed the justice. “I mean, there can be a way of working—a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. It’s not like you can split the difference.”
by zamadatix | 2025-10-07 15:30:23+00:00
> Exposing, if I remember correct : ~40% of the windows market [0]. This seems to me as negligence in their duty to ensure a level of security and quality.

Make no mistake - this is yet another way they just squeeze more out of users and play innocent when they don't cough up cash or switch to 11 to sell them more things/more of their data instead. ESU is available even to consumers for the next year, for a per-pc-fee, and corporate users for at least the next 3.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-07 15:30:35+00:00
Sorry that happened to you. I personally will probably never go to an ER willingly ever again. If you land in an ER without someone that cares about you as an advocate to look over you....IDK I wouldn't want to be in that position.

This thread is filled with terrible people. Self righteous self aggrandizing zero real world experience "Justice warriors" I hope they all need an ER someday to see just how dire it really has become. Maybe that will shove some real world knowledge into their empty heads.

Neither of us is the villain here. The people massively abusing the system are.

I realize my comment is not "nice" but the people on here jumping on villainize my real life experience are terrible people. Both of us were wronged by a system. We did not do the wrong. We just noticed what was a large cause of it because we actually experienced it.
by strenholme | 2025-10-07 15:30:47+00:00
There’s also a Javascript implementation of Lua which allows one to run Lua in a browser:

https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari-web

I don’t know if this can access the DOM in Lua, but considering that Fengari is in Javascript, adding a _DOM global variable should not be too hard (if it hasn’t already been done).
by Krssst | 2025-10-07 15:30:51+00:00
They have a total monopoly on OSes able to run Windows software; this is their strong point: write some random software in 1996, still works today. As a result they can quadruple-dip by having users pay for the OS, show them ads, inflict them unwanted products, and (maybe? if they don't now they surely could without repercussions) sell their data. This is what monopolies do.

The versions that are respectful of users are gated behind "being a company" requirement.

(exception of Windows Server but it's kinda messy to setup for gaming. Though it kinda shows that when they have actual competition on a market they do nice things)
by ilamont | 2025-10-07 15:30:55+00:00
The loss of foreign students is already having an impact on the Boston rental market, with thousands of fewer students coming to the city this year:

“I’ve been doing real estate and technology for 30 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” Demetrios Salpoglou, CEO of Boston Pads, told Boston.com. “It’s very acute. It’s not impacting all neighborhoods … it’s really proximity to a lot of universities that have a heavy reliance on foreign money or foreign enrollment.”

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/08/21/apartments...