MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ignoramous | 2025-10-14 11:26:40+00:00
To re-optimize compiled code blocks isn't without effort. Google has publicly spoken about AutoFDO and Propeller [0], after Meta had open sourced BOLT [1] in 2021.

AutoFDO has since been ported to Android and adopted by Yandex [3].

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/995397/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40868224

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42896716
by saidinesh5 | 2025-10-14 11:27:01+00:00
I'm still surprised at how smooth KDE Plasma + Wayland + Input actions on Arch feels on a fresh install on my new HP AMD laptop.

The Only slightly wonky thing has been the fingerprint reader. Other than that my Linux set up now feels smoother than my office Mac. AND I get way better battery life compared to Windows on the same machine.

Special call outs to: kwin, dolphin, yakuake, kde-connect
by jakub_g | 2025-10-14 11:27:41+00:00
On Android at least, you can toggle "desktop view" in any browser. The UX is crap on some websites, but you can make things work enough to not need the app.

For example I use Opera to browse `facebook.com/messages`. It's a bad UX for writing (somehow it "swallows" some of the written text when you type too fast, or select text and try to overwrite it), but this makes me use it less. Won't ever install FB app on my phone.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-14 11:28:50+00:00
And also rewarded a neoliberal American imperialist stooge trying to overthrow a democratically-elected government. They might as well have given it to Juan Guaidó.

The so-called "peace" prize is awarded by Norwegians who pick recipients by almost arbitrary methods and have a history of regularly giving it to some of the most murderous tyrants.
by ta1243 | 2025-10-14 11:28:52+00:00
When I was 18 I got paid below minimum wage to sit in my car delivering pizzas while listening to the radio. Far better than the higher paid shop job I tried at university.

Today with not just unlimited music (with no adverts), but the vast amounts of audio books you can listen to, it's even more appealing for people with limited financial obligations.
by nvarsj | 2025-10-14 11:28:53+00:00
My experience is kind of the opposite of what you describe (working in big tech). Like, I'm easily hitting 10x levels of output nowadays, and it's purely enabled by agentic coding. I don't really have an answer for why everyone's experience is so different - but we should be careful to not paint in broad strokes our personal experience with AI: "everyone knows AI is bad" - nope!

What I suspect is it _heavily_ depends on the quality of the existing codebase and how easy the language is to parse. Languages like C++ really hurts the agent's ability to do anything, unless you're using a very constrained version of it. Similarly, spaghetti codebases which do stupid stuff like asserting true / false in tests with poor error messages, and that kind of thing, also cause the agents to struggle.

Basically - the simpler your PL and codebase, the better the error and debugging messages, the easier it is to be productive with the AI agents.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-14 11:29:09+00:00
Yea, these are the NFT/Crypto bros of the AI world. They don't really understand anything.

The best of them are rediscovering basic software project management and post about it on every social media site and their substack like they discovered something brand new :)

"Turns out if you plan first, then iterate on the plan and split the plan into manageable chunks, development is a lot smoother!!!11 (subscribe to my AI podcast)"

No shit, Sherlock. I wish they read a book once or twice.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-10-14 11:29:33+00:00
The IP sharing issue has been massively overblown. IP sharing was relatively limited.

The European and American car manufacturers, for example, never lost their considerable competitive edge over their Chinese rivals. In the end, it was an entirely different technology - electric cars - that allowed the Chinese to leap-frog the legacy car manufacturers, and not because of IP sharing, but because of Chinese R&D in battery technology.

> 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.

Foreign investment in China peaked in 2022. The reasons for the decline are cyclical (not just because of China's internal economic situation, but because of international factors like the hike in US Federal Funds Target Rate since 2022), not because China suddenly started demanding IP sharing or suddenly changed its currency rules in 2022 (none of which happened).
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-14 11:30:02+00:00
> Share buybacks allow companies to reward executives directly as their compensation is tied to stock price. If we started not doing that, the priorities might shift, but those executives like things the way they are.

This isn't right but it's adjacent.

Executives don't need buybacks to get whatever compensation. Their compensation is negotiated and you can write the contract to make it whatever.

However, paying dividends is a taxable event, which means shareholders don't like it. You have to pay the tax on the dividend immediately instead of when you sell the shares, even if you just use the money to buy more shares. Buybacks don't work like that unless you're the one who sells your shares in the buyback. Which you can be if you'd rather have the money immediately (and pay the tax) than de facto increase your holdings in the company.

If transferring money to shareholders as dividends forces them to realize taxable gains before they want to then they'd prefer the company keep the money and invest it in something internally instead. Buybacks give them away around that.

But that's not necessarily bad. The shareholders (the ones who sold their shares) get the money instead and then invest it in something else, ideally a different company so that the existing large company doesn't get even bigger.

Also, when the company keeps the money, it doesn't have to use it for R&D at all. Companies often use it to acquire other companies, which is the worst.

You don't really want a tax incentive to make big companies bigger.
by Aachen | 2025-10-14 11:31:10+00:00
N95? As in, the Nokia?

Edit: did some searching, probably you mean the N95 Intel CPU as the basis for a mini pc, not actually a system called N95. That thing is 30% faster than my server's cpu which has <10% occupancy, and about half of it comes from the 1 Windows VM that I need for a legacy application I should really be getting rid of. It's also very recent, you can use way older CPUs from hardware people are throwing away that use similarly little power instead of buying a new product
by yohbho | 2025-10-14 11:31:21+00:00
> Docker was easy to adopt as it did not change very much about how you used software.

What?! Docker images should seperate the program from the data. Something casual image maintainers fail to adhere to. I find docker extreme hard to use for persistent state that is not a remote DB.

It is even less secure than VMs (which seem to be like swiss chess if you try to break out). (Security-wise: rkt failed five years ago, BSD jails could do it better?)

Also, Docker was supposed to solve performance issues of VMs, debloating them. Instead, we got hypervisors or full VMs as hosts for Docker images, just to get the image as a de facto meta package manager to ship software.

So for me, it can be convenient, but I have no idea what I am doing when adding make file like statements to a yml to run full containers just to run e.g. a web server with some dependecies. But the workflow for that was novell to me, who previously fought with ruby and python module installations on host system.
by roryirvine | 2025-10-14 11:31:25+00:00
Yeah, I use a mobile broadband provider for my home internet connection (albeit through a 5g router rather than tethering - but that shouldn't make a difference).

Normal web browsing etc is more or less indistinguishable from fibre or cable. Streaming - including high participant count Zoom meetings for work, as well as 4k Netflix etc - works perfectly well too.

But bittorrent? Nah. The sheer number of connections quickly overload the link, the speed drops to a max of only 1 or 2 Mbps, and it kills off anything else I'm trying to do at the same time.

Pushing / pulling containers has a similar issue - I have to set image_parallel_copies = 3 in /etc/containers/containers.conf as the default of 6 can cause problems, especially if two or containers are being pulled at the same time. I reckon that the comfortable limit for the number of parallel connections on 5g is probably somewhere around 10.

Plus, y'know, range requests have been supported since HTTP/1.1 way back in the mid 90s, so resuming downloads should work just fine with the likes of wget or any normal web browser.

Saying that, the author also mentions that he was WiFi - so why doesn't he just use that rather than tethering? Doesn't matter if it's slow, he could always do something else on the tethered connection while he waits...
by mlrtime | 2025-10-14 11:31:29+00:00
This is good, in means we have checks and balances. I don't have the details of this particular case, but does it mean every action ICE takes is illegal?

If someone breaks the law ICE or otherwise, there should be enforcement and justice.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ208/pdf/PLAW...
by nchmy | 2025-10-14 11:31:35+00:00
Jj is just simple to use - especially if you use it with jjui. It would never occur to someone to hit the nail with the handle.

Conversely, git requires a whole apprenticeship before you can be effective.

Moreover, there's MANY git "masters" who are effusive about how they'll never go back to git after switching to jj.

If it is just easier and better for beginners and experts, maybe it's just better.
by cma256 | 2025-10-14 11:31:45+00:00
You could argue that point but you would need evidence which showed trade with dictatorships resulted in peace in Europe. To that point, my gut reaction is that peace in Europe is a product of internal politics, MAD, American imperialism, and global trade (in that order).

The past fifty years may just be an exceptional footnote. Fifty years is not a significant period of time and the peace we have endured has not been evenly distributed (nor does it appear to be stable).
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-14 11:32:29+00:00
I don't like C++ either, but yes that is also my opinion about Rust. I do already annotate ownership semantics in C, so I don't know why I need a compiler that is opinionated and tells me how I should structure my code. I think Rust would invoke much less resistance, if it weren't so opinionated.

As for jj, JJ and Git are much more close than C and Rust. JJ tends to have slightly less commands, but only because what are flags in JJ are separate commands in Git. The impression I get from these posts, is that it would have been doable with similar effort in Git, but they just never bothered.

Also I prefer refining stuff we already have instead of throwing it all in the bin and stating it's obsolete.
by rzerowan | 2025-10-14 11:33:04+00:00
Update from the Amsterdam Court of appeal[0] , as expected large amount of pressure from the USG as well as some pressure on the CEO after the latest US 50% rule that triggered the RE restictions. - US telling Nexperia to ditch its Chinese leadership if it wants a waiver from the entity list. - The NL gov putting pressure on the CEO to introduce a new supervisory board to make sure there are no links to China.

A lot more corporate shenanigans within the complaint/appeal but the two biggies seem to be the US 50% trigger and NL gov board request.

[0]https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2...
by kace91 | 2025-10-14 11:33:19+00:00
There are projects like kinto that achieve very good results at making Linux behave like macOS on shortcuts (cmd instead of ctrl only when it makes sense, etc).

I’m not sure how they do it, i suspect it’s mostly a manual grind for configuring the most common shortcuts and apps, but there might be some idea there that can be reused for the eMacs setup.
by danielbln | 2025-10-14 11:33:46+00:00
We'd need:

- language/framework

- problem space/domain

- SRE experience level

- LLM (model/version)

- agentic harness (claude code, codex, copilot, etc.)

- observed failure modes or win states

- experience wrangling these systems ("I touched ChatGPT once" vs "I spend 12h/day in Claude Code")

And there's more, is the engineer working on a single codebase for 10 years or do they jump around various projects all the time. Is it more greenfield, or legacy maintenance. Is it some frontier never-before-seen research project or CRUD? And so on.
by grumple | 2025-10-14 11:34:19+00:00
> more than a fifth of the entire S&P 500 market cap is now just three companies — Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple — two of which are basically big bets on AI.

These 3 companies have been heavyweights since long before AI. Before AI, you couldn't get Nvidia cards due to crypto, or gaming. Apple is barely investing in AI. Microsoft has been the most important enterprise tech company for my entire lifetime.
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-14 11:34:37+00:00
> good how?

Good because it is simple both in terms of understanding it and implementing it, and sufficient in a lot of cases.

> seL4 is not the final answer, but something close to it absolutely will be. Capability-based security is an irreducible concept at a mathematical level, meaning you can’t do better than it, at best you can match it, and its certainly not matched by anything else we’ve discovered in this space.

Security is not pure math though, it's systems and people and systems of people.
by watwut | 2025-10-14 11:34:40+00:00
> If they are doing nothing bad they have nothing to fear from electorate.

This is not true. There are quite a few people who love to harassed whoever they see as opposition. That includes harassment of loved ones of the politicians. So, that is why.

> Honest man has nothing to fear as proverb say.

Nonsense. That is true in happy times and completely false in ... times like today.
by IX-103 | 2025-10-14 11:34:41+00:00
Yep, LLMs are basically at the "really smart intern" level. Give them anything complex or that requires experience and they crash and burn. Give them a small, well-specified task with limited scope and they do reasonably well. And like an intern they require constant check-ins to make sure they're on track.

Of course with real interns you end up at the end with trained developers ready for more complicated tasks. This is useful because interns aren't really that productive if you consider the amount of time they take from experienced developers, so the main benefit is producing skilled employees. But LLMs will always be interns, since they don't grow with the experience.
by frameset | 2025-10-14 11:34:46+00:00
I'm absolutely loving KDE since I returned to desktop Linux after a long absence.

What really shocks me is how few of the big distros make KDE a default or "first class" DE choice. If I was a novice user coming from Windows, I'd much prefer KDE, which if you stick to the GUI is very navigable and similar in some ways.
by srkdaniel | 2025-10-14 11:35:45+00:00
For the past few months, I’ve been building Brandiseer, an AI tool that helps businesses instantly generate visuals — ads, social posts, mockups, icons, merch — all perfectly in their brand’s style.

The idea came from noticing that even great startups often look inconsistent: their landing pages, decks, and social visuals all feel like they were made by different people. Brandiseer fixes that by learning your brand (logo, colors, fonts, tone, etc.) and then designing as your brand — not just matching a style.

Right now, I’ve got around 50+ users testing it and a few paying customers. I’ve been focusing mostly on product, but I’m starting to think more about how to grow — whether through content, cold outreach, or video demos.

I’d love to get feedback from the HN community on:

How would you approach growth from this stage?

Any advice on finding distribution channels for design/branding tools?

Do you think tools like this have a place in creative workflows long-term?

Always open to honest thoughts (positive or brutal).
by defrost | 2025-10-14 11:36:07+00:00
TBH if you called me with general complaints et al. I doubt I'd bother replying either.

If there's any actionable issue that you want to raise a better starting place is with whatever minister has the portfolio that's relevant. Also write (and cc the minister) to whatever national reporters are covering that domain.

It's about finding the leverage to raise awareness and response to whatever policing, agricultural, medical, defense, et al. questions or concerns you have.
by kakacik | 2025-10-14 11:36:37+00:00
Not much sympathy for the dumb, whatever it means. Especially when they drag 8 billion people down such path.

It didnt require stellar IQ, private education or university degree to see clearly what was what. Just basic human decency and very basic moral compass. It went way beyond 'grabbing pussies'.

Stupidity in humanity is endless, literally the only correction system out there is punishment for it. If this is left out, stupidity grows over time and thats a proper doom spiral towards systemic collapse.

This ain't even about social system or cohesion or similar, just pure stupidity. Not losing my sleep for them, far from it. The more brutal examples would happen, the better and louder the correcting lesson will be. There is really no other way out of this, unfortunately. Otherwise next election cycle will result in same/worse and these will be viewed as good rosy times.
by christophilus | 2025-10-14 11:36:49+00:00
Whoo. I’ll be the first hyper negative prototypical HN commenter.

I’m glad I don’t work on browser engines for a living. CSS is getting more complex and spaghetti-capable by the day.

> Currently only supported in Chrome 141+. The @function rule is going through the W3C standardization process and will be available in other browsers soon.

Also, pretty tired of Chrome effectively front-running standards as a not-so-subtle means of cramming them through.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-14 11:36:50+00:00
This does not really conflict with my point.

Declining number of workers in farming are also a factor, but I'm thinking more construction/heavy industry.

It used to be extremely economical to import workers and use them to grow local industry: It does not only save you the cost of educating them, but also the productivity loss on the parents side. It was a huge economical boost, and pretty much a win-win situation all around (exact same thing happened in other countries, like Germany).

But the situation changed, and the same influx of workers to build and staff fields and factories is no longer as helpful; the main current/future need has shifted towards nursing/caretaking, and in that sector its much more about meeting demand cost effectively than fueling growth: The median age citizen does not benefit from more/cheaper nurses to the same degree than they did from a growing economy/industry half a century ago.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-14 11:37:00+00:00
> I’m going to demonstrate, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are marching mindlessly towards the end of humanity.

Is that why there are comments in here from 6 new accounts created 1 hour ago (one was half an hour ago I guess) and used this post as their first comment? [meaning they are AI posters, thus "we are marching mindlessly towards the end of humanity"]

*note: atm there are 10 comments including mine
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-10-14 11:37:08+00:00
I don't think "mucking around" is the correct perspective there.

It's hard to argue that most if not all of the recent innovations in manufacturing concern making chains more modulable, and easier and cheaper to modifywhich you could see as bringing manufacturing closer and closer to software engineering and this is probably to be even more true in the year to come.

Large scale automation using mostly wireless technology, easily reconfigurable pick-and-place machine and robot conveyor, cheap additive manufacturing, easy to use and cheap CNC machining with precision which were until recently limited to very expensive models, we are quickly getting to a point where configuring a mostly automated short run is both manageable and cost effective provided you have invested in the tooling and have the engineers able to put it in place efficiently.

I think that when people talk about bringing back manufacturing, most think Ford Model T assembly line in 1900 when the norm is quickly becoming a SpaceX-like pacing. That's basically what you are competing against in South East Asia and it sadly has far less need for an uneducated workforce than many expect.
by lproven | 2025-10-14 11:37:39+00:00
> I hope something like SEL4 can replace Linux for cloud server workloads eventually.

Why not 9front and diskless Linux microVMs, Firecracker/Kata-containers style?

Filesystem and process isolation in one, on an OS that's smaller than K8s?

Keep it simple and Unixy. Keep the existing binaries. Keep plain-text config and repos and images. Just replace the bottom layer of the stack, and migrate stuff to the host OS as and when it's convenient.
by scott_w | 2025-10-14 11:37:45+00:00
> If they are doing nothing bad they have nothing to fear from electorate.

Some possible reasons:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_shootings_of_Minnesota_le...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jo_Cox

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Amess

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi

I tried to choose a range of politicians to make my point.
by famouswaffles | 2025-10-14 11:38:07+00:00
>My point is that for these purposes, users are not fungible. You can't just divide the cost-revenue equation by the amount of users N on both sides.

Again, yes you can if you're simply trying to see the relative level of value you need to extract from your users. It's not a complicated idea. $8 is well below what Google, Meta report. You were wrong. They don't need to reach a high bar. End of story.

>If you add a pile of fictious users to the usercount, the apparent average cost-per-user drops as the fictious users do not use the service and do not add their own costs. This lowers the apparent amount of per-user revenue you need.

As always, nonsensical hypotheticals are just that. Nonsensical.

Not only can the users you're talking about not exist in reality, the numbers being thrown around are literally based on their Weekly active users.
by andsoitis | 2025-10-14 11:38:36+00:00
> What we should be doing isn't going back to trade barriers, it's creating sufficient tax incentives to sustain a domestic industry for strategically important products and then letting other countries do the same and consumers choose which company they want to buy it from.

Trade happens because not a single country has or can produce all the (strategically important) products it wants, without trading with others.
by nunodonato | 2025-10-14 11:38:56+00:00
Thanks for bringing this up, it's a great alternative POV.

I think what is meant is that if the phone is acting not only as an "escape" but also as a way of avoiding dealing with things or even changing them, then it is, in fact, harming you from the possibility of improving your condition.

Not for me to judge who is in that position or not, but I would definitely say many people use it as an avoidance rather than having to deal with hard stuff. Change is hard, always was, even before phones.

Playing the victim card is always easier: my life sucks, there's nothing I can do, at least my phone keeps me happier. In many cases, there is always something you can do if you are willing to put the effort. But then again, not for me to judge. Some people are in really tough places.