MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LogicHound | 2025-10-29 08:11:56+00:00
It really isn't. This is a temporary sugar rush that comes after pretty much every time Microsoft does something awful. After a while the buzz will fizz out and the majority of those PC gamers that looked to switching go back to Windows.

IME a lot developers don't even use Linux on their desktop machine. I've met three developers that use Linux professional IRL. A lot of devs have a hard time even using git bash on Windows.

I am always called up by people at work because I am "the Linux guy" when they have a problem with Linux or Bash.

Sure, there are a lot of people that use Linux indirectly e.g. deploy to a Linux box, use Docker or a VM. But if someone isn't running Windows, 9 times out of 10 they are running a Mac.

More generally the thing that has paid the bills for me is always these huge proprietary tech stacks I've had to deal with. Whether it be Microsoft's old ASP.NET tech stack with SQL Server, AWS, Azure, GCP, what pays the bills is proprietary shite. I hate working with this stuff, but that what you gotta to pay the bills.
The Most Important Thing I Learned After Building 15 Failed Products
by nookeshkarri7 | 2025-10-29 08:12:46+00:00
For two years, I built product after product.

Each one felt like "the one."

Each one made $0.

After my 15th failure, I was exhausted. Frustrated. Ready to quit.

But then something clicked.

The problem wasn't my coding skills.

I could build anything. Fast.

The problem was simple: I was building solutions for problems that didn't exist.

I spent weeks perfecting features nobody asked for.

I obsessed over design details that didn't matter.

I launched without talking to a single potential user.

Then I changed my approach :

→ Spent 30 days researching before writing a single line of code

→ Used Google Trends, keyword tools, forums to find real pain points

→ Built an MVP in just 1 day instead of 1 month

→ Got it in front of people immediately

Product 16 made my first dollar.

Product 17 - QRAnalytica- now serves 1,200+ businesses.

The lesson ?

Fall in love with the problem, not your solution.

Your users don't care how elegant your code is.

They care if you solve their problem.

Talk to people. Validate early. Build fast. Iterate faster.

The best code you'll ever write is the code that solves a real problem.

What's one lesson that changed your approach to building products?

P.S. - If you're building something right now, ask yourself: "Am I solving a real problem, or just building what I think is cool?"
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-29 08:13:57+00:00
You didn't answer my question. What would the CA fixing it look like? Your hosting example had the company fix problems, not ignore them.

And have you seen how many actual security problems CAs have refused to revoke in the last few years? Holding them to their agreements is important, even if a specific mistake isn't a security problem [for specific clients]. Letting them haggle over the security impact of every mistake is much more hassle than it's worth.

> if you had automatic certificate rotation in place - you paid $500 for a 12-month certificate because you don't

Then in this hypothetical I made a mistake and I should fix it for next time.

And I should be pretty mad at my CA for giving me an invalid certificate. Was there an SLA?
by gehsty | 2025-10-29 08:14:14+00:00
A fun thing to do is remember why you liked the low end, for me and coffee it was instant coffee with too much sugar, in a big mug, on a building site. It hits totally different to a fancy coffee. I can still drink that now and enjoy it as it is associated with happy memories (and hot sweet coffee is great).

Another is to look at what the low end are trying to do, with wine it is generally appeal to as many people as possible, buying things like the supermarkets own brand of a variety of you like is a good way to get a great bottle.

If you can’t appreciate why the simple / cheap stuff is loved by the masses I wouldn’t think anyone is a true expert in their field. Feels like a well worn path for chefs.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-29 08:14:42+00:00
I just looked it up and I'm wrong, estate recovery is for anyone at any age who is institutionalized and/or anyone over 55 receiving care. States can additionally choose care and populations from which they do estate recovery for their Medicaid programs.

All I know is a family member would get the Medicaid warnings about their estate each month in the mail.
by Etheryte | 2025-10-29 08:15:48+00:00
This is incorrect. Even steroid creams you use externally for exzema and such are addictive to the point where there's a whole ramp on and ramp off procedure when you get prescribed. Your body will permanently down regulate producing the compound if you're not careful. Steroids are a much wider group of compounds than just testosterone, and your body uses them for a whole host of things.
by jchallis | 2025-10-29 08:16:22+00:00
Classic PE healthcare playbook hitting a wall: governance red flags (board resignations over antitrust violations), Medicaid exposure nobody’s buying their hedge on, and 5x leverage on a home health rollup that can’t get financing done at any price. Market’s saying no for good reason.

When Goldman can’t get your $2.5B home healthcare deal done in this market, and you need to come back with audited financials hoping for better conditions… the market’s already told you everything you need to know.
by supermatt | 2025-10-29 08:16:23+00:00
The problem with passkeys is that device/OS and browser vendors (or more specifically: Apple, Google and Microsoft) are trying to use it as an excuse to lock in users.

There is no reason a passkey can’t be portable - even the so called “device bound” credentials these vendors are claiming prevent export are actually implemented as credentials synchronised throughout their own ecosystems - i.e multi device.

NOTHING in the FIDO2/WebAuthn spec forbids user controlled portability.

It’s just bigtech trying to make it harder to leave their ecosystems - and when passkeys become widely adopted you won’t be able to log into those sites/apps without some form of recovery on a case by case basis should you decide to switch from Apple to android, windows to Mac, etc.
by teekert | 2025-10-29 08:16:38+00:00
It looks like eventually any company will start squeezing customers for what they are worth.

But only once the company is powerful enough. We don't call Google a monopoly, because there is Apple, but taken together they certainly behave as one. Both create expectations, create expected momentum in a certain direction, people build (companies, lives) on those assumptions and boom, you can't get out and now the company changes the deal.

Is it just our assumptions that get us in trouble? Or do we need to do more?

I'm not sure how to regulate this, other than to stimulate open source, as the "for the people by the people" solution. But also that will just lead to poor expensive solutions (the market created some nice FOSS though). So the law it should be... And we're back to the problem of lobbying...

Perhaps there should be contracts: Google advertises Android as open: They should sign a contract: For how long will Android be open? Define "Open". The contract can be enforced. Or perhaps we, the people, sue now, for false advertising, although that will just make them flex their legal and lobbying muscles... And they didn't sign any contracts.
by nl | 2025-10-29 08:17:03+00:00
I have a M1 Max MPB from 2022 with 32G RAM (which I'm grateful for).

More performance (especially for local AI models) is always great, but I'm trying to imagine what I'd want out of a design change!

I think slightly thinner would be nice, but not if it runs hotter or throttles.

Smaller bezels on the screen maybe?

I'm one of those who liked the touchbar (because I think that applications which labelled its shortcuts in the touchbar are awesome) so I think some innovation around things like that would be nice. But not if it compromises the perfect keyboard.

I do think MacOS would be improved with touchscreen support.
by bilekas | 2025-10-29 08:17:07+00:00
> Hospitals may sue you, depending on the state, but that carriers reputational risk

I'm sorry but if I need a hospital, my first thought isnt, "well how is their reputation".

I don't understand why people defend the insurance system in the US when you're already paying taxes. If it's not the responsibility of the government who you pay to take care of their people in an emergency then what are taxes for. It's like people just accept it because that's how it's always been.
by inspiran | 2025-10-29 08:17:16+00:00
I got a lot of data in Strava from running & triathlon. Didn't want all my trainings & pictures to go away at some point in time, I made a service to print all your data in a book.

Data analytics with Python, UI is React/Vite, running on AWS.

https://www.instagram.com/trainingsparkle for some impressions.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-29 08:17:45+00:00
> Listen, invest two hundred dollars in a pair of good headphones Take care of ′em, put 'em in your ears, listen to the music Listen to how it′s supposed to be recorded You're missing, I swear to God, forty to fifty percent Of the music that's in there in the first place So if you wanna go back and listen to The shit that you thought you liked You might even like it more, motherf*er

Chances are the music you listen to was recorded, monitored, and mixed using Beyer Dynamic DT100s. They're those white ones you see everyone with in photos of recording studios.

Try a pair. You'll wonder where all the bass has gone. That's because they're not "optimised" or "enhanced" or "MEGA BASS DOOF DOOF DOOF" headphones. It takes a bit of getting used to, like eating less processed food that's not loaded with salt and sugar.

After a bit, you'll realise you can actually hear detail in the bass.

It was right here all along.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-29 08:17:47+00:00
> 100$ a year for a dev in Sweden - that's like money you wouldn't notice if it got lost in your pockets

For someone who is making money from it, sure, but that's exactly who this isn't about. The way they get screwed is by the 30%.

A fixed fee -- in any amount -- is screwing the people who aren't in it for the money. Because to begin with, it's not just the fee, it's the bureaucracy that comes with the fee.

You're a kid and you want to make your first app, but you don't have a credit card.

You live in a poor country and maybe the amount you can lose without noticing when you're rich isn't the same there. Or even if you can get the money, you may not have a first world bank account and the conglomerate isn't set up to take the local currency.

You're a desktop developer and you're willing to make a simple mobile app and give it away for free as long as it's not a bother. The money is nothing but the paperwork is a bother so you don't do it, and now the million people who would have used that app don't have it and have to suffer the spam-laden trash alternative from someone who is only in it for the money.

And suppose the amount is as trivial as you propose. Then why does a multi-trillion dollar conglomerate need that pittance from a million ordinary people?
by user_7832 | 2025-10-29 08:17:58+00:00
I don't doubt that a bad looking bike isn't the biggest deterent. But it's the combination of factors that's practically helpful.

A tatty bike with 2 (or even 3!) high quality locks is a much lower target than a half decent looking bike with just a single cheap lock.

The more opportunistic the thief, the better your chances of not getting your bike stolen if you have 2 more locks than everyone around you. Heck, I'd argue, due to their unusual nature of being (not) used as a lock, a dozen zip ties might be more effective than a 3rd of 4th lock, simply because no thief is expecting to encounter it. They want a quick getaway, spending 20 seconds per tie * 10 ties is likely much longer than what it's worth for them, especially if your bike isn't that nice.
by chii | 2025-10-29 08:18:02+00:00
cant find the forward earnings chart, but PE is close proximation

https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea...

The dotcom bubble peaked at around 46, while we are currently at 30. Will it grow? Who knows. But the bubble certainly isn't as big as claimed by the grandparent comment.
by kreetx | 2025-10-29 08:18:16+00:00
Right, but EU doesn't fund only research but something that (IMO) should be entirely commercial.

To be clear, I don't oppose publicly funded education (nor immigrant academics, though I don't see how this relates?). What I do oppose EU trying to compete with tech giants as if they could - the incentives are not set up right, they won't succeed and the funds will be wasted.
by a-french-anon | 2025-10-29 08:18:58+00:00
The total opposite, large movements like punks or hippies weren't really deviance, it was choosing another large group to belong to. It's conveniently cellophane-wrapped rebellion for people who need an identity but can't bear to stand alone and truly think for themselves.

"The underground is a lie" was right then and still is: https://www.jimgoad.net/goadabode/issue%202/undergnd.html
by kace91 | 2025-10-29 08:19:29+00:00
Im a millennial dev which happens to have a Gen Z brother who also chose this profession.

Seeing him walk my steps 15 years later has been eye opening for the brutal cultural change.

They’re socially conditioned to assume that anything free is a scam or illegal, that every tool is associated with a corporation, and that learning itself is going through certain hoops (by the uni, the certificator or whatever) so that you get permission to earn money a certain way.

As more doors get closed, I fear this process will solidify.
by thecupisblue | 2025-10-29 08:19:43+00:00
When you say

>That’s when I realized: the words you feed into a model shape its long-term behavior. Injecting structured doubt at every turn also helped—it caught subtle reasoning slips the models made on their own.

Was that not obvious working with LLLM's from the first moment? As someone running their own version of Vending-Bench, I assume you are above-average in working with models. Not trying to insult or anything, just wondering what the mental model you had before was and how it came to be, as my perspective is limited only to my subjective experiences.
by padolsey | 2025-10-29 08:19:45+00:00
> when I got dragged into a project that was sufficiently interesting that I started overworking

This is what bites. I have some really narrow interest areas that I can end up being obsessive about, to my own detriment. We have to be careful.

Glad you didn't lose mobility and speech! I also feel lucky. I met others in neuro-rehab in far worse situations. For three months I couldn't walk and now thankfully do so with a stick and ankle brace. The hard stuff isn't the stuff you can see visually though. People see my floppy leg, and might presume that's the main thing, but nope. The big thing is the epilepsy, this constant monster present in the background. It's the invisible stuff that's often hard.
by mkl | 2025-10-29 08:20:21+00:00
The author did a lot of experiments and research, so I'm probably missing something, but why not do it on then glue it to a big sheet of plywood? My dad does lots of jigsaws (mostly 500-1500 pieces), always on a big flat board so they can be moved around.

Apparently Mod Podge is a brand of craft products and adhesives: https://mod-podge.com/
by Podrod | 2025-10-29 08:20:49+00:00
>nobody talks about it

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/19/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-sell...

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/jensen-huang-selling-nvidia-...

https://www.ft.com/content/36f346ad-c649-42ac-a6b6-1a8cc881e...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/nvi...
by Veserv | 2025-10-29 08:20:57+00:00
All you have said is that RoCE is bad. If it is as you say, then I guess? Not really relevant though.

I am saying that a properly designed and implemented software network protocol gets you similar capabilities to the stated capabilities of Falcon. As such, while the feature set is not bad and the throughput is fine, it is not a very unique feature set or impressive throughput absent some sort of cost or power efficiency of doing it in hardware which I saw no mention of in the paper.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-29 08:21:09+00:00
> This is a temporary sugar rush that comes after pretty much every time Microsoft does something awful.

I think what it fundamentally comes down to is that for consumer-oriented Linux to see widespread adoption, it needs to succeed on its own merits. Right now, and since forever, Linux exists in a space for the majority of consumers who consider it where they think "I might use it, because at least it's not the other guy". A real contender would instead make the general public think "I'll use this because it's genuinely great and a pleasure to experience in its own right". And that's why I have absolutely zero faith in Linux becoming a viable smartphone ecosystem. If it were truly viable, it would have been built out already regardless of what Android was doing. "Sheltering Android refugees" is not a sustainable path to growth any more than "sheltering Windows refugees" is.
by lynx97 | 2025-10-29 08:23:47+00:00
Well, while I can never be sure about my own biases, I submit this particular instance is/was not an "illusion". I truely never heard the word dreck used in english before. Why do I know? I am a german native speaker, and I submit that I would have noticed it if I ever heard it earlier, simply because I know its meaning in my native lang and that would have made spotting it rather easy.

I also believe noticing Baader-meinhof in the 90s is rather unsurprising, since RAF was just "a few years" ago. However, "dreck" as someone else noted is documented since the early 20th century. So I dont think me noticing this just recently isn't a bias, rather a true coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
by drekk | 2025-10-29 08:24:14+00:00
You can already limit speech in america provided the regulation (1) advances a compelling interest (2) through narrowly tailored means and (3) does not excessively burden the expression or action relative to the interest advanced, i.e. be proportional

A good instance where we might draw the line differently despite current first amendment norms is lobbying.

Lobbying, at its core, is just speech. Industry leaders and representatives go to meetings (public or private) to talk to congressmen. Thus lobbying has been affirmed as protected speech in our constitutional law

The problem is money changes access. And sure we can pursue contribution limits (which is generally constitutional) but lobbyists don't actually care about those -- they welcome the ability to save money. The problem is that they are just so well-connected their speech has disproportionate weight

So you could argue limiting their speech advances a compelling interest, but you'd have to think about other factors as well

It is just true that every liberty and right has limits, otherwise they could cut the public interest or other individual rights. This is true even in the US which orients itself as largely pro-speech sovereign relative to other states
by padolsey | 2025-10-29 08:24:17+00:00
Thanks for sharing! I feel the fear of another attack with epilepsy too. It is terrifying. The doom and the walking on thin ice constantly hoping you're not gonna over-step or do the wrong thing. And all that at the same time as trying to live your life fully. Do you have any devices or aid software to help with the not-reading thing? I imagine it's all really fresh still and you're just taking it a day at a time?
by dr-j | 2025-10-29 08:24:39+00:00
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by LogicHound | 2025-10-29 08:25:05+00:00
Of course. However if a developer isn't using Windows typically they are using a Mac.

In corpo-world. Everyone is using Windows. If they are using Linux it would be through a VM or WSL. I guarantee none of those people are using Linux at home.

So for every developer you know that is using Linux, there are many more people using Windows supplied to by their IT department.
by DuperPower | 2025-10-29 08:25:55+00:00
no, the romantic narrative of Life was just a facade used by cynical boomers to club to the top, its true many were earnest in the way they focused on quality of their Jobs (doing that also lead you to money) so its not that now its about money, It always was It just the romantic layers were removed so even if you are passionated about something if you are not cold with money as the hard reality of everything you Will seem deluded
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-29 08:26:30+00:00
> The issue starts, when an LLM's transfers knowledge between languages, even though that knowledge is not correct in that language. I have seen this with e.g. ChatGPT answers regarding laws for example where it refers to US laws when asked in German, which are obviously not relevant.

There is no necessary correlation between language and the correct set of laws to reference. The language of the question (or the answer, if for some reason they are not the same) is an orthogonal issue to the intended scope. There is no reason US laws couldn't be the relevant to a question asked in German (and, conversely, no reason US laws couldn't be wrong for a question asked in English, even if it was specifically and distinguishably US English.)
by croon | 2025-10-29 08:27:43+00:00
I think so, because it's generally a frustratingly frequent point having to be made to people still convinced that the covid vaccine(s, of different varieties) was somehow worse than just getting covid, which we were pretty much all guaranteed to get at one point or another.

If that was not what you were positing, I think the original poster thought you did. But we're veering far into speculation at this point. I'm happy to have explored the topic with someone equally curious at least.
by mrlongroots | 2025-10-29 08:27:50+00:00
> Getting 200 Gb/s of reliable in-order bytestream per core over a unreliable, out-of-order packet-switched network using standard ethernet is not very hard with proper protocol design.

You also suggested that this can be done using a single CPU core. It seems to me that this proposal involves custom APIs (not sockets), and even if viable with a single core in the common case, would blow up in case of loss/recovery/retransmission events. Falcon provides a mostly lossless fabric with loss/retransmits/recovery taken care of by the fabric: the host CPU never handles any of these tail cases.

Ultimately there are two APIs for networks: sockets and verbs. Former is great for simplicity, compatibility, and portability, and the latter is the standard for when you are willing to break compatibility for performance.