MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wlesieutre | 2025-10-16 03:34:39+00:00
I suspect being an optionally installable tool for power users gives their team more flexibility to make it a good product in an attempt to keep those users on Windows, if it had big user numbers they’d have to turn it into PowerToys 365 Copilot and make it so opening anything with the launcher tool somehow involved a round-trip through Edge and Bing
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-16 03:34:45+00:00
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f065f4-f5ac-8010-81c1-faf4218e5c...

https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0666a-2bf0-8010-9d35-2ac4bdc870...

This article was dated as being written in 2020

https://chatgpt.com/share/68f06775-c570-8010-af7b-29531a22fd...

Original article

https://www.yourmembership.com/blog/tips-effective-board-mee...

I can’t share links from Gemini or Grok. But they both immediately flagged the first one as AI generated and the second most likely human.

I didn’t actually do anything here except told ChatGPT to rewrite it in the form of an article I found from an old PDF “97 Things a software engineer should know” from 2010, then ask Grok did it sound AI generated (it did), ask Grok to rewrite it to remove tell tale signs (it still kept the em dashes) and then I copied it ba k to ChatGPT.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68f06cec-3a20-8010-8178-a69695db16...

With some human editing to make it sound less douchery or better prompting, do you think you could tell?
Show HN: Open-source sound –> dmx party lighting
by edmack | 2025-10-16 03:35:28+00:00
Hi! I've been creating dance parties in my local town, and wanted a way to turn the music into lighting in a way that left me hands fee to enjoy the party

It's open source, and as well as lighting also does VJ (select videos from a folder and apply effects based on the music)

I'd love to see it get used more, happy to help you get it working
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 03:35:55+00:00
We're perfectly within our rights to express how it makes us feel for it to be brought up, especially with the history we've had around it. It's caused us a lot of grief and we'd just like for it to stop being shoved in our face. That's all. If it was brought up by someone totally unique (not repeated by the same person as before, who we've already answered) then I would have had a different, more tactful response.

I really don't think it's fair for you to make a judgement on me or the project from an interaction like this. At least judge the project on its technical merits. I've been very transparent here. But I can't stop you from having your thoughts. It is what it is.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-10-16 03:36:18+00:00
If you're going to refer to biology, be aware that the relevant subfield that defines the biological standard is in fact called Ethology. To attain rigor, Ethology historically rejected anthropomorphism in favor of strict behavioral evidence, seeing as that is the primary empirically measurable evidence available.

On a side note: it's been a pleasure reading through the debates with you, and possibly we can continue over mail!
by radixdiaboli | 2025-10-16 03:37:25+00:00
> I find it ironic how on HN anyone advocating to push themselves into a position where they have more options (more income) is met with accusations of being "entitled" or outlandish.

> Let's say my skillset isn't as "senior" as I think

The people from the first sentence were trying to get you to understand the content of the second sentence.
by fzwang | 2025-10-16 03:38:09+00:00
It seems like the cashflow situation will rule out some options, at least for the moment, like boostrapping etc. Contracting could be a temporary option, esp for US companies that need in-person support with good language skills. This would blunt some of the competition from abroad.

Regarding learning "out of the tar-pit", it's hard to give out specifics without knowing more details about your experiences. But it might be worthwhile to reach out to other senior engineers in your network, not to ask for a job, but to ask for advice about switching from entrepreneur/founder to employee. It could be a good way to build rapport and identify what you should be learning next.

Your health obviously takes priorty over everything else. Medical problems can really push you into despair if left unaddressed. Money you can always make back later.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-16 03:38:35+00:00
About the worst I can imagine happening (other than the new-found ability to rockroll someone's TV as a prank) is that said friend might take an interest in how I manage my data and want a hand with setting up a similar thing for themselves.

And that's all fine too. I like my friends quite a lot, and we often help eachother do stuff that is useful: Lending tools or an ear to vent at, helping to fix cars and houses, teaching new things or learning them together, helping with backups -- whatever. We've all got our own needs and abilities. It's all good.

Except... oh man: The electric bill! I forgot about that.

A small computer like what I'm thinking would consume an average of less than 10 Watts without optimization. That's up to nearly $16 per year at the average price of power in the US! I should be more cognizant of the favors I request, lest they cause my friends to go bankrupt.

/s, of course, but power can be a concern if "small" is misinterpreted.
Show HN: VO3 – AI video generator powered by Google Veo 3.1
by derek39576 | 2025-10-16 03:39:03+00:00
I built VO3-1ai (vo3-1ai.com), an AI-powered tool that transforms text or images into cinema-quality video clips—complete with native audio, perfect lip-sync, realistic motion, and lifelike human features—without any manual sound design. It leverages Google’s Veo 3.1 model plus extra advanced layers for unmatched realism.
by leakycap | 2025-10-16 03:39:26+00:00
> Having a microwave doesn't force me to eat TV dinners for every meal. But sometimes it's convenient to just microwave food. Just not all the time.

It's hard for me to remember the times I accidentally scrolled two hours on my microwave, or saw a person hand a microwave to their kid in a restaurant to entertain them. It feels like the argument you're making doesn't really fit the problem smartphones have become.
by wackget | 2025-10-16 03:39:40+00:00
This will only work if the customers have a considerable amount of experience with computers already. For the vast majority of people, Linux is going to present insurmountable challenges which will only lead to serious frustration.

I say this as someone who uses Linux daily. It's simply not ready for mass exposure. The second a layman wants to do anything remotely custom with it, they are going to struggle.
by layman51 | 2025-10-16 03:40:32+00:00
I don't think this is accurate. I believe if you go into your privacy settings, you can put yourself into a semi-private or a private mode so that your views aren't shown even when you click to view someone who is a LinkedIn Premium member. However, the big disadvantage is that when you put yourself in a private mode, if you are a non-subscribed user, you will not have access to these analytics for your own profile at all.

This is covered in this help article, especially the bullet points at the end[0].

[0]: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a568195/
by blooalien | 2025-10-16 03:40:42+00:00
> Has a component that you install on your desktop.

This is only if you use Windows (or MacOS, as there's also a KDE Connect compatible Mac app out there somewhere IIRC). If you're on KDE Desktop Linux, you're already good-to-go, as it's a pre-installed component of a typical KDE environment. :)
by loveparade | 2025-10-16 03:41:56+00:00
I wish this didn't have AI in it. I've been looking for a Jupyter alternative that is pure python and can be modified from a regular text editor. Jupytext works okay, but I miss the advanced Jupyter features. But I really don't want to deal with yet another AI assistant, especially not a custom one when I'm already using Claude/etc from the CLI and I want those agents to help me edit the notebooks.

Take out all the AI stuff and I'd give it a try. I use AI coding agents as my daily driver, but I really don't need this AI enshittification in every tool/library I'm using.
by GOD_Over_Djinn | 2025-10-16 03:44:14+00:00
I was hoping that there would be some discussion of what exactly the project is. The author says they have 300k loc so far. That’s a considerable codebase. What kind of react app could this possibly be? I would love to know.

> This post is 100% organic and hand-written. I love AI, I also recognize that some things are just better done the old-fashioned way.

I’m curious why they feel that writing a blog post with a particular tone and writing style is more complex than writing what is apparently a truly massive and complex app
by worik | 2025-10-16 03:46:41+00:00
My comment is quite general.

The difficulties with async/await seem to me to be with the fact that code execution starts and stops using "mysterious magic", and it is very hard for the compiler to know what is in, and what is out, of scope.

I am by no means an expert on async/await, but I have programmed asynchronously for decades. I tried using async/await in Rust, Typescript and Dart. In Typescript and Dart I just forget about memory and I pretend I am programming synchronously. Managed memory, runtimes, money in the bank, who is complaining? Not me.

\digression{start} This is where the first problem I had with async/await cropped up. I do not like things that are one thing, and pretend to be another - personally or professionally - and async/await is all about (it seems to me) making asynchronous programming look synchronous. Not only do I not get the point - why? is asynchronous programming hard? - but I find it offensive. That is a personal quibble and not one I expect many others to find convincing I guess I am complaining.... \digression{end}

In Rust I swiftly found myself jumping through hoops, and having to add lots and lots of "magic incantations" none of which I needed in the other languages. It has been a while, and I have blotted out the details.

Having to keep a piece of memory in scope when the scope itself is not in my control made me dizzy. I have not gone back and used async/await but I have done a lot of asynchronous rust programming since, and I will be doing more.

My push for Rust to bifurcate and become two languages is because async/await has sucked up all the oxygen. Definitely from asynchronous Rust programming, but it has wrecked the culture generally. The first thing I do when I evaluate a new crate is to look for "tokio" in the dependencies - and two out of three times I find it. People are using async/await by default.

That is OK, for another language. But Rust, as it stands, is the wrong choice for most of those things. I am using it for real time audio processing and it is the right choice for that. But (e.g) for the IoT lighting controller [tapo](https://github.com/mihai-dinculescu/tapo) it really is not.

I am resigned to my Cassandra role here. People like your good self (much respect for your fascinating talk, much envy for your exciting job) are going to keep trying to make it work. I think it will fail. It is too hard to manage memory like Rust does with a borrow checker with a runtime that inserts and runs code outside the programmer's control. There is a conflict there, and a lot of water is going under the bridge and money down the drain before people agree with me and do what I say...

Either that or I will be proved wrong

Lastly I have to head off one of the most common, and disturbing, counter (non) arguments: I absolutely do not accept that "so many smart people are using it it must be OK". Many smart people do all sorts of crazy things. I am old enough to have done some really crazy things that I do not like to recall, and anyway, explain Windows - smart people doing stupid things if ever
by JimDabell | 2025-10-16 03:47:53+00:00
> being asked to repeat ourselves again is insulting to us.

> we'd just like for it to stop being shoved in our face.

This is the comment you are referring to:

> There still remains this simple to reproduce bug where the page doesn't load of you use the full domain name of a site.

They aren’t asking you to repeat yourself. They aren’t shoving it in your face. This is an open discussion thread with many participants. They weren’t talking to you directly. This is information anybody here can find interesting and relevant. I did.

> I really don't think it's fair for you to make a judgement on me or the project from an interaction like this. At least judge the project on its technical merits.

How you are reacting to this is far more important to me than the original bug.

Remember when 37signals suffered data loss because they were using GET requests to delete things? When people pointed out they had a bug, they were offended and blamed GWA. What happened next? The same thing happened all over again, users suffered more data loss.

Or how about when Naomi Wu reported a problem with Signal, where the common use case of third-party keyboards for Chinese people was rendering all of their security worthless? They dismissed that as somebody with a grudge and ignored her for a year. What happened next? People found out that Chinese keyboards were compromised; she was 100% right, and Signal users were in danger.

I’ve seen what happens when people have this attitude towards inconvenient people reporting inconvenient bugs. It’s a danger to users, and you are making Caddy seem dangerous with this attitude. I was a happy user of Caddy right up until this thread, and even halfway down this thread – even after reading the mention of the bug – but your reaction has flipped that to the opposite because I can’t trust that there aren’t more bugs you are handling this way.
by m463 | 2025-10-16 03:47:58+00:00
I went to an apple store, saw a vision pro and asked if I could try it on. They said you had to schedule an appointment, then they would take you through a supervised viewing or whatever.

This gave me the impression it wasn't ready for general use, and they would have to control your impression of the thing while selling you on it.

I know that VR is hard, and AR is much harder, but this made me think apple still hasn't cracked it.

As to single app - I figure the thing has to be hard real-time to do things without giving you a headache or nausea/vomiting. that probably doesn't leave room for a lot of sharing of resources.

In the end, I think this is a iphone 1.0 type device, and only continued development with deep pockets will make it viable, eventually.
by tombert | 2025-10-16 03:48:52+00:00
Well that's depressing. My biggest fear, and this isn't a bad setup for a joke, is early-onset Alzheimers. I don't think I'm especially high-risk for it, but I did have a single great-grandfather who got it so technically it does run in my family. It seems so horrible, having your brain sort of deteriorate and losing all your memories, and being a burden to everyone.

Ideally I never get it, but if I do get I hope it's in like my late 90's, or even better by the time I get it they already have a cure, though the fact this might not work for humans makes me a little sad.
by dangus | 2025-10-16 03:49:41+00:00
I really don’t like articles like these because there’s so much FUD in a well-intentioned direction but it takes it too far.

Like, secure boot is not a bad feature, and I use it with Linux to enhance my security posture. It is a good thing. TPM is rather useful for encrypting your disks. Stop telling non-technical people stuff like this. The hypotheticals of a future of corporate control via TPM are completely outweighed by the importance of encrypting your data today. As of right now TPM isn’t enabling some kind of horrendous dystopian present. Maybe it will in the future but I dunno, I haven’t see it yet.

And then a lot of other parts of this article are gross exaggerations of reality, and a lot of those complaints already existed with Windows 10 users anyway. Some of these were actually worse at previous points in time (e.g., it used to be way more difficult to remove OneDrive and now it just uninstalls cleanly).

Windows Recall and Copoilot are entirely optional features that are very easy to disable entirely.

The author is straight up lying about windows recall and the “surveillance state,” Microsoft has directly stated that it is 100% local (doesn’t even work on hardware that lacks AI processing optimizations) and no information from the feature leaves your device. It also comes with a rather extensive list of security controls and sensible defaults if you actually read the documentation. Sure, a pre-release beta version had a security issue, but that was pre-release. If we want to start claiming that Microsoft is just directly lying about things they document very specifically and directly about Windows Recall that’s a really big accusation.

Windows 11 prevents complete uninstallation of features…yeah it’s an operating system, no shit. No they’re not going to let me uninstall File Explorer. Yes I know Linux lets you do that.

And the complaints about edge, sure, it’s true and all, but it is again a one-time issue that goes away once you change your default browser to some other browser that also begs you to make it default. It’s a minor annoyance at worst and judging by the marketshare of chrome everyone pretty much ignored Microsoft’s pathetic pleading. Everyone pretty much sleepwalks into installing chrome anyway.

Look, I say all this as a Linux user myself. There’s no need to exaggerate and lie about Windows just because we prefer Linux. I would still not recommend to most average joe windows 10 users that they should switch over to Linux, but I am recommending to more people than ever before.
by koyote | 2025-10-16 03:50:00+00:00
Some things that any semi-power user will notice and get angry at:

* Needing internet and a microsoft account to install the OS

* Start menu now requiring two clicks to get to programs list

* Right-click requiring two clicks to get to the options you most likely want to use (e.g. 7z unzip or opening in a specific program)

* Task manager being slow and laggy

* Random ads asking you to install a game pop up in the notification area

* ...

And then there's little bugs everywhere that just grind away at you on a daily basis:

* A tab in explorer will sometimes randomly stop accepting clicks (keyboard select works). So I have to close the tab and re-open

* The keyboard layout setting gets corrupted and there's no proper way to reset it (nevermind the fact tha this setting is now burried twenty levels deep in the new settings app)

* The settings app search does not work

* ...

It is by far the worst Windows version (beating Vista and ME to that title) in my opinion. I use linux as my daily but am forced to use Windows at work and they have of course been forced to upgrade us to Windows 11...
by kstrauser | 2025-10-16 03:51:10+00:00
For those on the fence, imagine Nginx, but with all the defaults set to what you’d have them on in the first place.

Here’s a complete configuration file for a Wordpress site with a LetsEncrypt TLS cert, static files, and PHP executed via FastCGI:

example.com { root * /var/www/wordpress php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server }

That’s it. That’s the whole thing. All the other settings are adjustable, but have the default values you’d configure yourself if you wanted to dig in and tweak it.

I appreciate Caddy immensely. It doesn’t do anything Nginx can’t do, as far as I know, but it’s a whole lot more ergonomic while doing it.
by worik | 2025-10-16 03:51:25+00:00
The borrow checker knows nothing about your arena allocations.

That is if we are talking about the same thing!

All the borrow checker knows is there is a chunk of memory (the arena) in scope.

It works, no memory safety in the sense that you must manage your own garbage and you can reference uninitialized parts of the arena

I have found myself using arenas in Rust for managing circular references (networks with cycles) and if I were to do it again I think I would write that bit in C or unsafe Rust.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-16 03:51:52+00:00
I think the vast majority of people use a PC for only basic functionality, like browsing the web and editing documents/spreadsheets, and for these users, Linux works fine. My 70yr old mum is a classic example of this - she used all versions of Windows from 3.1 to 7, and she switched to Linux about a decade ago and has zero issues. If my mum can use Linux, so can the average Joe.

It's the power users, or users who've got specific proprietary software/hardware requirements that usually run into issues: gamers who play games with kernel-level anti-cheat, professionals who're dependent on Adobe/AutoCAD etc.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-16 03:52:02+00:00
I looked at the axioms and one of them was that there is only one absolute being ("A(x)") & then another axiom assumes that another existing entity (they call it "Y(x)") is equivalent to it. I think this is all trivially satisfied w/ the singleton domain so their axioms are essentially describing a set w/ one element.

Seems novel but if you lack the prerequisite mathematical training then you might not notice they're not really saying much.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-16 03:54:01+00:00
Like in other places, Apple does very well in China, and everyone "pirates" MacOS wait...no they don't. Microsoft made/makes money in China, the piracy came from an outdated software model that eventually went away, and WinDev was going down in flames on revenue worldwide even before that.

> The only way to level that playing field is for western nations to do the same: Let their domestic companies freely steal Chinese IP and selectively enforce IP rights, as China does.

China literally just gives it away for free. They are the top supplier of open source LLMs.
by Kirby64 | 2025-10-16 03:54:42+00:00
This seems like a strange decision for MacBooks/laptops in general.

Although USB-C chargers are extremely ubiquitous, the ones capable of charging laptops in a reasonable period of time are not nearly as common. It’s pretty hard to find a charger that is so bad it can’t charge a phone in a few hours (and, most phones are charged overnight anyways). But usage patterns for laptop charging are, in my experience, more opportunistic, so you tend to plug in temporarily and want to get a good charge within the hour (or less) while also using the device.
by dwd | 2025-10-16 03:55:26+00:00
Something else unmentioned is that 70-80% of hospital acquired infections are related to medical devices that are susceptible to the formation of biofilms where the bacteria create a protective layer that antibiotics can't penetrate.

For example antibiotic resistant urinary tract infections caused by the use of catheters. Effective antibiotics simply don't work when they can't reach the infection.
by landl0rd | 2025-10-16 03:56:11+00:00
Her balance was $47,892 when she woke up. By lunch it was $31,019. Her defense AI had done what it could. Morning yawn: emotional labor, damages pain and suffering. Her glance at the barista: rude, damages pain and suffering. Failure to smile at three separate pedestrians. All detected and filed by people's wearables and AI lawyers, arbitrated automatically.

The old courthouse had been converted to server rooms six months ago. The last human lawyer was just telling her so. Then his wearable pinged (unsolicited legal advice, possible tort) and he walked away mid-sentence. That afternoon, she glimpsed her neighbor watering his garden. They hadn't made eye contact since July. The liability was too great.

By evening she was up to $34k. Someone, somewhere, had caused her pain and suffering. She sat on her porch not looking at anything in particular. Her wearable chimed every few seconds.