MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by delfinom | 2025-10-14 10:48:02+00:00
No the point is "overhead". You don't disturb working setups because you will cause engineering time to update the setup, that engineering time is added to the cost overhead of a job. Time is literally money, even if the employee(s) are salaried, their time is factored into the cost of a job.

The knowledge is still there, but American labor is expensive as hell compared to overseas competitors and so any shop in the US has to contend balancing their profit margin and costs to remain competitively priced.

When doing machine shop jobs, it's far easier to bury the cost of initial tooling/fixturing in the initial first job as a separate line charge for NRE. It's alot harder to sell to customers that you will charge them that cost on subsequent orders. You can charge customers for "setup overhead" on subsequent orders but that should be the cost of putting any existing tooling into service, not engineering new ones because you decided to change shit on a whim.
by daan-k | 2025-10-14 10:48:27+00:00
Some new information has just emerged in the Dutch press.

According to a just published article by the NRC newspaper [0], the owner wanted to use Nexperia's funds to finance another business (WingSkySemi) which was in financial trouble. He would have done this by making Nexperia place large orders for wafers it did not need. The article mentions Nexperia only requiring $70-80 million in wafers, while Nexperia would have ordered wafers from WingSkySemi with a value of $200 million.

In order to achieve this, the owner is said to have put strawmen without financial experience in place and fire European directors. When other directors raised the alarm about this, they were fired according to the article. This issue was raised to the Dutch government, which then intervened.

Have a look at the original article through google translate, it provides a lot of interesting and important details to this story.

[0] https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/10/14/chinese-topman-gebruikt...
by fragmede | 2025-10-14 10:49:34+00:00
If anyone actually believed those requests to see code were sincere, or if they at least generated interesting discussion, people might actually respond. But the couple of times I've linked to a blog post someone wrote about their vibe-coding experience in the comments, someone invariably responds with an uninteresting shallow dismissal shitting all over the work. It didn't generate any interesting discussion, so I stopped bothering.

https://mitchellh.com/writing/non-trivial-vibing went round here recently, so clearly LLMs are working in some cases.
by squarefoot | 2025-10-14 10:49:56+00:00
I was exploring the idea of using it for personal projects, mostly monitoring of sensors with data coming from network connections (some in raw binary format, not text), control of remote relays and actuators, etc, thus the need for self updating graphic primitives for gauges, indicators, leds, switches, displays, etc. Does Tauri allow that? Asking because although I have had a developer experience on other traditional languages/platforms (C, Delphi, lately some Python) I have none in coding for mobile platforms, web development and Tauri itself.
by osn9363739 | 2025-10-14 10:51:15+00:00
Did AI write all these comments? AI is turning me into a conspiracy theorist? I keep seeing AI is like having a team of 3-4 people, or doing the work of 3-4 people type posts everywhere lately like it's some kind of meme. I don't even know what it means. I don't think you're saying you have 4x'd your productivity? But maybe you are?
by anonymousDan | 2025-10-14 10:52:19+00:00
'Isolated' Chavez is a bit disingenuous here, they full on attempted to mount a coup against a democratically elected president. See this documentary 'the revolution will not be televised: https://youtu.be/GF4peYCrV6Y?si=EAKdElE6cq7js8aL'
by ahmednabi | 2025-10-14 10:53:23+00:00
It's a new space, so everyone is building tools to surface analytics and increase visibility in AI space. One of the hard problems we are solving is tackling contextual bias in querying the LLMs and getting the context as close to the actual searcher as possible. Apart from that, we are also working closely with beta testers to build tools that will help brands not only monitor but also optimize their website performance in the AI search. We are just getting started, and I think no other platform has yet solved the AI visibility problem in the best way possible.
by kode95 | 2025-10-14 10:53:44+00:00
Honestly, I don't get the Electron hate. The majority of developers here on HN probably use VS Code as their editor, and that editor was made with Electron. For a lot of companies who don't have a desktop app as their main product, it simply isn't feasibly to have a dedicated Windows developer, a Mac developer, and a Linux developer, when you can do everything with one codebase.
by rs186 | 2025-10-14 10:53:52+00:00
You can't have expectations of people of how they plan/spend their money, especially the kind of parent who regularly shops at Walmart. The parent may not be look carefully enough about $1/min price tag after the initial 60 minutes (which is way too expensive).

I would rather see this product (and additional minutes) being much cheaper, and honestly, not sold at all. I bet that there is another product that is 5x if not 10x cheaper that sells "taking to Santa" service on a phone which will make plenty of kids happy enough.
by pedrogpimenta | 2025-10-14 10:54:07+00:00
I'm not sure this is the reason or a big reason, but I think this is very difficult to do in Linux, sadly.

What makes Linux great is also its biggest handicap, in my opinion, when it comes to User Experience: the fragmentation of UI frameworks and libraries.

I imagine having this control between Qt, GTK and other UI libraries and electron-type-apps os difficult if not impossible.
by petercooper | 2025-10-14 10:55:18+00:00
I was exposed to some of this as a teenager due to a (now dead) family member being heavily into telecoms. You could receive and process POCSAG (the protocol used by paging systems) to pretty much read the entire stream of unencrypted, plain text pager messages going out over the wire. You could also reprogram a generic pager to receive pages for whatever number you liked. You could also transmit your own POCSAG and send any number a page (only within your transmission range).

SMS was also a bit like this in its early days and you could read them coming off the local cell (also true of calls at a certain time, but I didn't see much of this).

I just did a quick search and apparently many pagers in the UK are still running cleartext POCSAG! https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/1asnchu/are_uk_page...
by PapstJL4U | 2025-10-14 10:55:35+00:00
Thanks KDE - I always liked the Windows-like design (that's what I would call it coming from Windows like many people).

Instead of hiding "power-user" features so well you have to google them to find them, I can interact with the OS on gui or command-line level - really depending mostly on my mood.

Although KDEConnect to easily connect a Windows PC, a Linux laptop and an android phone to share files and control my pc while watching a movie was the "step-up". When they are in the same network and approved, they simply connect.
by setopt | 2025-10-14 10:55:59+00:00
I used Linux for a long time (since ~2002), but for the past years I've been daily-driving a MacBook.

I'm now switching back, and will likely go with either Gnome or KDE. I've used XFCE, i3wm, etc. for years before – and briefly tried Sway too before I switched to Mac – but from what I've read it sounds like the "big" DEs make life easier post-Wayland.

Anyone want to share why you currently choose KDE over Gnome?
by regentbowerbird | 2025-10-14 10:56:14+00:00
> The western companies aren't using the business as a strategic tool to destabilise the host country.

What is your source for this claim? Wouldn't companies destabilize the host country to facilitate their own business?

Western companies have been destabilizing local regimes for centuries at this point. Companies in general are a convenient way to mask state power that pays for itself. Many of these companies were established in former colonies as a direct replacement for explicitly colonial resource extraction.

Searching online for examples I find Glencore, TotalEnergies, ExxonMobil, Chevron (among others) have all recently engaged in bribery or even supported violent political groups abroad to protect their own interests.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-14 10:56:15+00:00
Point. I was mostly speaking to the parts of America which are hostile to solar farms.

OTOH, it sounds like your experience is with solar/farming dual-use. Vs. America seems inclined to a "buy the land, kick off the farmers, put up the panels, and post the No Humans Allowed signs" monoculture model. Which can be all to easy to scale up & do, from a Wall Street point of view.
by mns | 2025-10-14 10:56:16+00:00
I don't think people are blaming China. You can see this from all the extremist movements in Europe. People are blaming politicians and the "elite". They gave away for free all the technological advancements and knowledge to China to make huge profits and become filthy rich, and now they complaining that no one is buying their expensive outdated cars and other goods that people can't afford because they don't have decent jobs any more and the economy is bad. The only goal with outsourcing everything to China was to make as much money as possible for themselves, with no regard for the future and how this will affect our economies in the long run, but that doesn't matter when you are rich, for now.
by dluan | 2025-10-14 10:56:24+00:00
My dad is an immigrant from China who came to America to learn process engineering. After getting his master's, his first job was at a Reynold's aluminum factory in Alabama, and his factory made aluminum stuff and sometimes bottles. 40 years later, after lots of career jumps, he is about to retire this month from Google's AI division.

I don't really know what the lesson here is.
by defrost | 2025-10-14 10:57:07+00:00
Albo Yet to Receive Single Phone Call After Number Leaked Online

~ https://theshovel.com.au/2025/10/14/albo-yet-to-receive-sing...

A crestfallen Anthony Albanese says he hasn’t received a single phone call, text, or even a cheeky meme, after his personal phone number was leaked online this week. “I honestly thought I’d be inundated,” the PM said at a press conference today, staring at his phone’s empty notifications screen. “Not even a scam text pretending to be Australia Post”. Albanese said he’d even logged into a website that requires two factor identification, just so he would receive at least one text message. “But they ended up sending me a code to my email address instead. My phone’s still empty”.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-10-14 10:57:09+00:00
It's logical, and comes down to accuracy and comfort. It's the same reason why mechanical keyboards are best on desktop, not those silly flat Apple butterfly keyboards.

What I'm sad about is the fact that the QWERTY format was completely abandoned to cater to the entertainment-focused users on Android and iOS. Those are also the people who "don't care about privacy" and are fine with walled gardens, as long as their TikTok, Facebook and Netflix work.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-14 10:57:36+00:00
> Similarly, no manufacturer should be able to tell you "oh, but it's a software problem" if your thing doesn't work as expected

Well, they should if they provided you with the hardware and you got the software from someone else. But that's the other problem: They prevent you from doing that, and then if their software is crap or they decide to turn off the servers, what do you do?

Watch for some carmaker to try to say that the car only had a 10 year warranty and then brick them by turning off some servers after they're over 10 years old, or just go out of business with the same result. It's a travesty that people even put up with that for electronics.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-14 10:58:59+00:00
It's been well over a decade (maybe closer to 2 in fact) since I have used KDE, and I'm happy with my more minimalist setup based on Arch+AwesomeWM, but I think KDE is a great project and like to follow its progress. It seems to have a great suite of software - the KDE versions of common applications often seem to be among the best FOSS options out there.
by vintermann | 2025-10-14 10:59:05+00:00
As long as you pick one definition and stick with it, you can define propaganda how you want. But this is not what people do. They juggle two definitions of propaganda: one broad where anything used to convince you of something is propaganda, and one narrow where it by definition is deceptive.

It's the original "no true Scotsman": there the broad definition (Scotsman=person from Scotland) is used to argue for the narrow definition ("real" Scotsman=good and upstanding person from Scotland)
by Lerc | 2025-10-14 10:59:26+00:00
Specifically for simple character level questions, if LLMs did that automatically, we would be inundated with stories about "AI model caught cheating"

They are stuck in a place where the models are expected to do two things simultaneously. People want them to show the peak of pure AI ability while at the same time be the most useful they can be.

Err too much on the side automatic use of tools and people will claim you're just faking it, fail to use tools sufficiently and people will claim that the AI is incapable of operations that any regular algorithm could do.
Show HN: Mindworld.space – A Hallunicationary Wikipedia
by totaa | 2025-10-14 11:00:40+00:00
I've always been super curious how small language models model information and how accurate they really are. So I've created mindworld.space - a Llama-based Wikipedia where there is no search, and content is only traversed from other content.

Unlike most AI tools, hallucinations are encouraged (for fun). The model used is Llama 3.2 1B, which is 8x smaller than English Wikipedia, so it's not going to perfectly recite information.

Keen to hear your thoughts and what entities you can find, and any funny inaccuracies (i.e. Albert Einstein was married to Marie Curie).

Behind the scenes, I built it in a few hours using OpenRouter and SQLite, with no advanced features (such as entity de-duplication). Will open source over the next few days)

Mandatory Warning: It is inaccurate and just for fun.
by allegorick | 2025-10-14 11:00:54+00:00
"quantum" and "biotech" have been wishful thinking based promises for several years now, much like "artificial intelligence"

we need human development, not some shining new blackbox that will deliver us from all suffering

we need to stop seeking redemption and just work on the very real shortcomings of modern society... we don't even have scarcity anymore but the premise is still being upheld for the benefit of the 300 or so billionaire families...
by simgt | 2025-10-14 11:01:13+00:00
How do you end up with 10-15 years? China is almost perfectly vertically integrated from raw materials to highly advanced finished products. Their industrialization started in the 70s. Getting to that level would require a lot of planning as well as the kind of hard constraints imposed on China through embargo.

We're not even getting back to that level, we've never reached iPhone level of manufacturing in the US or Europe.
by udev4096 | 2025-10-14 11:01:34+00:00
I see people like you on /r/homelab all the time. "What's the point of this?" "k8s is not for you". Shut the fuck up man. It's called homelab for a reason. People can design it however they want, even if it's underutilized. And, you can learn a lot by running k8s cluster at home.

Start with k3s, configure ingress/services/deployment, install ingress controller for cluster wide routing, install service meshes (istio, cilium), write a controller, mess around with gateway API. The possibilities are endless. Stop bitching and maybe have a real argument instead of shitting on homelabbers
by benjiro | 2025-10-14 11:01:45+00:00
> China has been moving towards more openness to foreign investment over time

After they lost most of those same foreign investors that got tired of handing over their IP, the "local partnering" (what often resulted in state/court backed judgements against the foreign investors), ...

The disasters "wolf warrior" politics, combined with the above mentioned issues. And the stringent monetary policies limitation on moving money out of China did not help (translation: We want you to put money in, not being able to pull it out).

This has resulted in a reduction of foreign investment by almost 70% (given the 15 year average). What used to be easily be 200 a 250B investments per year, has now dropped to barely 100B, and is still declining.
by rnhmjoj | 2025-10-14 11:02:07+00:00
> - what is a "photon gas"? Is this a state of matter? What is the matter if photons aren't matter?

It's yet another misleading use of the word "photon". A photon gas basically refers to the statistical behaviour of quantised oscillators (typically some atoms/molecules that can vibrate) in the walls of a closed box, called a "cavity". Since the oscillators de-excite by emitting radiation which stays inside the box until it's re-absorbed by the oscillators, you can sort of get away with thinking of it like the distribution of the modes of oscillations of the electromagnetic fields inside the cavity, which is what photons actually are.
by colmmacc | 2025-10-14 11:02:23+00:00
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/22/hank-green-pissing-out-c...

Watching Hank Green's YouTube video where he found out that his cloudy pee was cancer leaving his body, he was surprised that doctors don't tell you to expect it. It can be such a morale boost.
by jlpcsl | 2025-10-14 11:03:29+00:00
I switched from Gnome to KDE Plasma because I find it more stable and more integrated since many of the features I otherwise miss are out of the box in KDE Plasma, and you do not need third party extensions which are quite unstable. Also later found out Plasma is much more configurable and personalizable so I xan really fit it best to my orefered workflow. I also find KDE developers listen to their users much more.
by jstanley | 2025-10-14 11:04:09+00:00
> Buybacks create a tendency toward higher share prices, but only while they continue.

Buybacks increase the share price because you have a company that is worth (for sake of argument) the same as it was worth before, except now there are fewer shares available.

A fixed market cap divided by fewer shares equals a higher share price.

In the limit case imagine buying back all but 1 share. Now that 1 share represents the entire value of the company, so the share price would equal the market cap.
by aurareturn | 2025-10-14 11:05:15+00:00
It isn't that good for local LLM inferencing. It's not designed to be as such.

It's designed to be a local dev machine for Nvidia server products. It has the same software and hardware stack as enterprise Nvidia hardware. That's what it is designed for.

Wait for M5 series Macs for good value local inferencing. I think the M5 Pro/Max are going to be very good values.
by your_fin | 2025-10-14 11:05:59+00:00
> It almost always breaks every possibility to programmatically process or analyze the config. You can't just JSON.parse the file and check it.

Counterpoint: 95% of config-readers are or could be checked in with all the config they ever read.

I have yet to come across a programming language where it is easier to read + parse + type/structure validate a json/whatever file than it is to import a thing. Imports are also /much/ less fragile to e.g. the current working directory. And you get autocomplete! As for checks, you can use unit tests. And types, if you've got them.

I try to frame these guys as "data values" rather than configuration though. People tend to have less funny ideas about making their data 'clean'.

The only time where JSON.parse is actually easier is when you can't use a normal import. This boils down to when users write the data and have practical barriers to checking in to your source code. IME such cases are rare, and most are bad UX.

> Side effects in constructors

Putting such things in configuration files will not save you from people DRYing out the config files indirectly with effectful config processing logic. I recently spent the better part of a month ripping out one such chimera because changing the data model was intractable.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-14 11:06:20+00:00
> So random seeing her mentioned here today. I just discovered her yesterday

I literally came across her on my youtube feed an hour back, and thought it'd be something HN would love.

Still distracted, I opened HN's default news page. Aaaand I saw this thread and your comment. So, no free karma for me lol, but still hope to see good discussions about the software. It feels very hacker-ey in an old-skool kinda fun way!
by elevation | 2025-10-14 11:06:47+00:00
When the US sanctioned Russia by blocking their use of the SWIFT system, China offered their alternative. As more countries come off the dollar standard, the value of Chinese holdings will go up: an investment opportunity!

The problem for foreigners trying to invest in China is that you can never really own something there. Chinese businessmen will accept the money, but a piece of paper saying “a foreigner owns this” isn’t enforceable in a dispute.

The US needs to be on this same footing with China. Why should the US give China a stronger claim to land surrounding our military bases than they would allow US citizens to have to a remote rice paddy?
by pessimizer | 2025-10-14 11:07:01+00:00
> The US spent decades transitioning from a manufacturing economy to a service economy, deliberately.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean other than individual rich people started outsourcing labor to poor countries because they were allowed to import the products of that labor back into the country cheaply.

> Now there's a populist making political hay, throwing out numbers about trade deficits, which ignores revenue from services.

This is just nonsense. The trade deficit includes services, and grows a negative balance of payments that has been growing for 50 years. It would be different if that money were used for investment, but that money was just given to the wealthy. Reversing the trade deficit will not be enough. It's not that the government is debt-ridden, it's that the nation is debt-ridden. We're borrowing foreign cash to buy foreign imports. All we have left is to sell off land, buildings, and exclusive franchises.

But that's populist. As in the population that won't just be able to move to a country that isn't broken.

I mean, every single part of this is wrong, and there's nothing in it that resembles an economic argument. We need to bring manufacturing to the US because we need to produce something in order to be paid. We have no advantage in services, we only pretend to have one because we have wealthy people who import talent and who are themselves immigrants. We are not only not working, but are badly educated. I have no idea why you think that the world will continue to feed America for free, forever. What we're doing is selling the furniture and the fixtures, and pretending like everything is just fine.

And the people who inherited the furniture and the fixtures are like, yup, nothing's wrong.