MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mothballed | 2025-10-25 16:29:08+00:00
They're not skeptical, it's just that no one wants to pay $10k to have a $2k unit installed, and new entrants who want to offer anything other than what the entrenched services have to offer have to be abused and hazed for 4 years near minimum wage changing out $5 capacitors for $1000 (to their company, not them) before they can get a trade license, and after that they have to go through an onerous contracting paperwork to open up a business. So we don't get new businesses popping up offering mini split installation.

End result is most of the units that get installed in the US are probably DIYing off-paper and then shutting the fuck up. I live in a place with no inspections for owner-builder and that was the only way I was able to get away with it, and even then I had to pass an EPA 608 license to handle the refrigerants since I did not want to get fined a bazillion dollars if someone found out.
by r-johnv | 2025-10-25 16:29:25+00:00
Love the idea

I found though that yielding just one response per side seemed pretty weak, especially when it's not always picking the best arguments for each side. (And not returning enough of the passage to fully show the argument)

It doesn't sound thorough but rather just like it's picking the first vaguely similar set of lines that it could find.

I wonder if subtle tweaks to your prompts could make it significantly more convincing?
by tyleo | 2025-10-25 16:29:30+00:00
The problem is they are both drugs and productivity devices. I have two iPads and I love them. I use a Mini exclusively for book reading and logging workouts. I use a Pro for video calls and occasionally YouTube videos.

The addiction didn’t get me through them… on the other hand, here I am posting HN comments instead of doing something productive so it did reach me through my phone.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-10-25 16:29:58+00:00
The “Linux demographics” were a bunch of 20-30 year olds who are now 40-50.

Same with the “Free Software” crowd - those 20-30 year olds are now 50-60.

Aging demographics that broadly failed to attract any interest from the next generation. Honestly though, why join? There’s nothing inherently attractive about either community. Hang out with toxic gamers on Discord and join a team, or hang out with toxic old nerds still on IRC for ideological purity. I know which one wins. Even professionally, I’d rather join a model train community.
Show HN: A way to highlight MULTIPLE terms at once in the browser page. FAST
by artemfi | 2025-10-25 16:30:28+00:00
I often end up looking through logs in a browser — no grep, no terminal, just the page. Browser search isn't helping enough: Sometimes I need to see every WARN, sometimes every ERROR, or maybe WARN near /suspiciousPath. Doing that manually gets old fast.

So I wrote a small Chrome extension, very creatively named "Highlighter Extension".

It can highlight multiple terms at once, uses the CSS Highlight API so it doesn’t break layouts of any log stream (or at least it shouldn't), updates when new log lines appear, and lets you jump between matches quickly.

I’d really appreciate it if you’d try it on some of your web-based logs and let me know how it behaves. The goal is for it to work on any messy log viewer — whatever HTML or JavaScript is underneath.

If you already have a tool that does something similar, it'd be very kind of you to share so I could compare. (Yes, asking before writing code would’ve been smarter, but that better later than never I guess .)

P.S. No tracking in the extension, no payment, nothing fancy. Just a small utility that runs entirely in the browser and just highlights text.

Hopefully it saves a few minutes the next time when digging through logs at 3 a.m. happens.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-25 16:30:46+00:00
"Letting them starve" is clearly rhetorical shorthand for not giving their businesses money. It's based on the irony of the power imbalance, none of these people will ever starve if their businesses fail. Nobody thinks they're going to starve, nobody was intended to take away that literal interpretation, how could you possibly think this interpretation was intended or is worth discussing.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-25 16:31:51+00:00
I won't address anything else you've said because you keep abusing "gaslighting". I had a different experience and spoke about, others on the thread echoed my experience. Every mac user i've met so far has had similar experiences. I didn't tell you that your experience is wrong or invalid, i simply stated mine. You're abusing this trendy term as a cheat-code to avoid having to make reasonable arguments.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-10-25 16:32:55+00:00
My older Dell XPS Windows 10 laptop was due for an upgrade, and it was new enough that it supports Windows 11. Microsoft's end-of-life of 10, constant prodding to upgrade and Dell's terrible redesign of the XPS series made me look at my options.

I ended up with an M4 MacBook Air and couldn't be happier.
by cvwright | 2025-10-25 16:33:21+00:00
The contradictions are difficult but wisdom has always been like that. See for example the book of Proverbs, it’s full of contradictory advice.

“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.”

Versus

“Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”

The skill is to understand the truth of both statements, and to discern when to apply each one.
by rainsford | 2025-10-25 16:34:05+00:00
The fact that your heat pump setup is also taking longer to cool suggests there's something fundamentally different between the setup on your different floors, not that there is something bad with heat pumps in general.

A heat pump in cooling mode works exactly like an AC unit, because that's exactly what it is. So if your AC unit on the first floor cools more quickly than you AC unit (i.e. heat pump) on your second floor, it's because A) your floors are different sizes or insulated differently or something else is different about their construction, B) your units are sized differently, or C) your heat pump has some mechanical problem. But the fact that it's a heat pump should make no difference to its cooling performance.
by tefkah | 2025-10-25 16:34:34+00:00
> These aren't edge cases. They're normal problems you hit building moderately complex apps

These aren’t real articles. They’re slopg diatribes generated by people who can’t even be bothered to communicate a thought.

I feel annoying for being this guy, but i think someone should point out the fact that it’s barely written by a human being. What’s the point in engaging with the point the “author” is trying to make when the author is Claude?
by kakacik | 2025-10-25 16:35:25+00:00
TV is still addictive, and it was. I felt it myself in 80s and 90s, good content was rare and I had to set an alarm in the middle of the night to watch some good stuff. And stick around 5 minute block of ads. Active screens, especially ones always in the pocket or on the table, are way more addictive.

It takes some... special mindset to be polite to not see it literally everywhere, the scale and intensity of it, the addiction of kids especially. They have no freakin' defenses and often didn't experience normal life, ever. Ask any child psychologist about their opinion of screens among kids before say 14, and even afterwards.

It can be fought, we are quite successful so far with our kids and we have quite a few parents around us with same mindset, but we have to lead by example.

Easiest is to unplug from active social cancers (fb, instagram, tiktok or whatever kids are addicted to these days). Ignore most of the news, read about topic from source far away from place/country affected. TV can serve some quality content but one has to do some effort, no ads. Computer games are a waste of time and life (I know, I've wasted half of my childhood with them, 100x that for any online gaming), if one is bored then get a sport, passion, read a book, force yourself into some social action, whatever is vastly better. Then comes along junk food, again parents lead by examples.

Life is freakin' short, its pretty sad view to waste it on all above in more than a minimal fashion. Its sort of life success in 'look I am not a homeless person or heroine addict', but just a good fat notch above that. Literally anybody can do better.
by cbm-vic-20 | 2025-10-25 16:35:58+00:00
"Linux on the Desktop" is great. I've been using it since 1994. "Linux on the Laptop" sucks- I just want my laptop to sleep and awake properly, without draining the battery. I'm old enough that I'm done spending time twiddling kernel parameters in an attempt to get all of the onboard devices working, including sleep.
by delecti | 2025-10-25 16:36:01+00:00
Windows used to be software you bought, and could use with a decent amount of control (obviously not at the level of linux). Windows 11 is a front-end to advertise Microsoft's cloud services. There are ads for them (and also other ads) throughout the OS, and you can't really easily escape the nudges to use them. It also needlessly removes a variety of customizability that has existed for decades; the taskbar is locked to the bottom of the screen, for example, while you could move it to the left/right/top of the screen on all Windows versions since 95.

Being forced to use 11 at work convinced me to finally move to Linux at home. And for context, I was an early adopter of Vista, and remain a defender of it.
by lrvick | 2025-10-25 16:36:08+00:00
I do not doubt that LLMs might some day be able to generate something like my work in stagex, but it would only be because someone trained one on my work and that of other people that insist on solving new problems by hand.

Even then, I would never use it, because it would be some proprietary model I have to pay some corpo for either with my privacy, my money, or both... and they could take it away at any time. I do not believe in or use centralized corpotech. Centralized power is always abused eventually. Also is that regurgitated code under an incompatible license? Who knows.

Also, again, I would rob myself of the experience and neural pathway growth and rote memory that come from doing things myself. I need to lift my own weights to build physical strength just as I need to solve my own puzzles to build patience and memory for obscure details that make me better at auditing the code of others and spotting security bugs other humans and machines miss.

I know when I can get away with LTO, and when I cannot, without causing issues with determinism, and how to track down over linking and under linking. Experience like that you only get by experimenting and compiling shit hundreds of times, and that is why stagex is the first Linux distro to ever hit 100% determinism.

Circling back, no, I am not worried about being unemployable because I do not use LLMs.

And hey, if I am totally wrong and LLMs can create perfectly secure projects better than I can in the future, and spot security bugs better than I can, and I am unemployable, then I will go be an artist or something, because there are always people out there that appreciate hard work done by humans by hand, because that is how I am wired.
by hollowturtle | 2025-10-25 16:36:38+00:00
As long as React was the "View" and was marketed as such, being able to express declaratively what ui should render given a combination of state+props, it was great. Then... i don't now what happened with hooks sprecifically, but i still have hard time figuring out why they were needed other than making everything looks "more functional" I often read something like algebraic data types, I was astonished. React.createClass was all we needed, and some optimizations from there was possible. Today they market themselves as "don't use React without a framework" it's stupid
by zippyman55 | 2025-10-25 16:36:40+00:00
I think your conversation with him could be professional, but you just need to point out You’re the leader and they gotta follow your direction and he doesn’t wanna be on board with that then he needs to find some other role which means leave your group and then work with management above you to make that happen but I’m assuming you can do the reviews for him and then penalize in that manner if you don’t have that ability to give them a poor review then something else is structurally wrong and where you are in that organization.
by treyd | 2025-10-25 16:36:40+00:00
That's correct. Flask has a global request context object, so by design it can only safely handle a single request at a time per Python interpreter. If you want to parallelize multiple Flask servers, you spin up multiple interpreters.

Web services in Python that want to handle multiple comcurrent requests in the same interpreter should be using a web framework that is designed around that expectation and don't use a global request context object, such as FastAPI.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-25 16:36:45+00:00
FWIW TPMs have been in computers (processors) FIR years, but they were often disabled by default by motherboard vendors because they couldn't be arsed to test beyond the bare minimum Windows required.

The move to TPM 2.0 made a lot of TPM-capable systems incompatible. Arbitrary CPU support also didn't help; there is no clear reason why some CPUs made the cut and others didn't. Seems like a mix between fTPM 2.0 support and SPECTRE hardware mitigations, but MS never really clarified what their actual reasons were.
by rishi_rt | 2025-10-25 16:37:11+00:00
You might also like Reason and Less by Vinod Goel (MIT Press). He talks about human behavior being an outcome of 4 systems - autonomous, instinctive, associative and reasoning with evolutionary newer systems like reasoning and associative tethered to evolutionary older systems like autonomous (every living organism exhibits some form of autonomous behavior). He describes emotion as some currency that mediates interactions between these systems, and the ultimate selection mechanism for initiating actions.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-25 16:37:11+00:00
Oh come on. Quanta Magazine basically writes for HN. They have very little online footprint elsewhere, but they feature here multiple times a week and I'm sure they know it. The titles are almost always in this mold, implying some profound yet vague discovery. Some real, recent examples:

- "Researchers Discover the Optimal Way to Optimize" - "Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle" - "A simple way to measure knots has come unraveled" - "The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View"

I don't necessarily mind it, even if I don't find the articles very informative. But it's certainly fair game to nitpick this borderline-clickbait style.
by gortok | 2025-10-25 16:39:22+00:00
I use Windows for one reason only: Steam and best performance and compatibility for high resolution gaming.

If I didn’t want that, I wouldn’t be on windows at all.

The issue I have with Linux is that it’s 2025 and every single time I’ve created a Linux system in the past ten years, I have some sort of issue that I spend too much of my time figuring out. I am married, have three school age children, and have hobbies and I volunteer regularly. One of those hobbies is not “figuring out how to make Linux work.”

The downside of open source is you have to have the time to fix it yourself, and that lack of time is what keeps me from pursuing Linux, even though I am absolutely furious at the crap Microsoft is pulling lately, from shutting off ability to create a local account, to forcing OneDrive, to throwing Ads onto the desktop, to the telemetry and marketing spyware that is now standard on Windows 11.
by tim333 | 2025-10-25 16:39:43+00:00
>everyone except the technocratic center now recognizes the current system is finished

It doesn't seem that finished to me. Life isn't perfect but it never has been. I'm betting that flawed democracy will still be with us as it has for the last century.

By the way I slightly object to appropriating the perfectly good term Clash of Civilizations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_Civilizations) for some Thiel dumb stuff.
by vacuity | 2025-10-25 16:40:31+00:00
From what you're saying, it sounds like components in this framework (React?) are not simple at all. A major hurdle in evolving a program is capturing and maintaining simplicity. The proof of whether something is simple lies in its composability, readability, and so on. If someone claims to have found a method of writing simple components, do not believe them if the simplicity is not evident. A truly simple solution would not be so burdened, and a somewhat simpler solution would be less burdened. Of course, simple still doesn't mean easy, because the Fast Fourier Transform may be simple, but I can't teach it to a 5 year old (or anyone, really).

Never religiously cling to statements such as "strictly separate presentation and content". These are all just guidelines to suggest simpler solutions, not hard rules that guarantee simplicity. They will sometimes be excepted.

There are such things as components, which compose strictly by interfaces and externalize separate details, but it is up to the programmers to realize them in their programs. Also, simplicity is a global property of a system. Nothing can be judged on simplicity in a vacuum.

All that being said, I don't have experience in web or UI in particular. Seems like logic is moreso a local thing, whereas presentation is moreso global (but may consider locally defined advice). State can be local or global.
by hakfoo | 2025-10-25 16:41:54+00:00
CSE 419: Resume-driven development. Develop strategies for injecting the latest buzzword tech even though you're performing maintenance for a 1990s PHP or Java 2 codebase that has no business case for it. Term project involves ripping out a reliable, fast server-side rendered app with fourteen megabytes of React that panics when a mosquito flicks its wings.
by notimetorelax | 2025-10-25 16:41:59+00:00
Maybe, but I was taking an immense amount of vitamin C as prescribed by the doc to bootstrap the healing process.

So this reveals to me two issues

1. In general side effects of the contrast agent are not communicated properly. If I knew, I might have asked - hey can you do the analysis without the agent?

2. There’s no recommendation to avoid vitamin C prior and right after the MRI, heightening the risk.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-25 16:42:26+00:00
https://archive.is/Qlm3O

https://archive.is/https://www.hcn.org/issues/57-9/the-messy...

Mentioned in a recent Half as Interesting video, "The Risky Logistics of Alaska’s Food Supply Chain" (7m):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDkTMUcLXE
by dang | 2025-10-25 16:42:52+00:00
Thanks to you both! Macroexpanded:

Rupert's snub cube and other Math Holes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261566 - Sept 2025 (10 comments)

Rupert's Property - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057561 - Aug 2025 (23 comments)
by hungryhobbit | 2025-10-25 16:43:17+00:00
What a terrible article! The author is so very ignorant, but presents themselves as an expert :(

I barely got into the "dunking" on Tailwind when I saw this.

> If you misspell one of these plain strings your editor is not going to tell you.

Ummm ... sure, if you're one of the 1% of devs who refuse to use a linter. Either the author is part of that 1%, or maybe they just weren't aware of Tailwind's linting capabilities (https://tailwindcss.com/blog/introducing-linting-for-tailwin...).

Now, to be fair, they wrote the article in 2025, and Tailwind linting was only released five years prior (in 2020) ... five years is hardly long enough to learn relevant tech for your industry /s

The rest of the article seemed similarly ill-informed, with the author fixating on meaningless byte-size differences in contrived examples. However, he ignores the fact that Tailwind is used on some of the most performant sites on the Internet. He also ignores the fact that (for 99% of sites at least) sacrificing a k or two of bandwidth is well worth it for a major increase in developability.

With Tailwind you completely get rid of stylesheets: that alone is huge! There's a reason why so many devs use Tailwind: they don't worry about minimal file size differences, but they do care about massive savings in development time and complexity reduction.
by JeremyPOsborne | 2025-10-25 16:44:21+00:00
Yep, the cost is in the trip is a big factor but sounds like it was their choice to try to sell you. You did the right thing by asking them do the calcs before they came out. Millions of questions are time consuming and costly but better than someone rushing into and pausing mid project with in-decision.

We (I'm cofounder of Electric Air, HVAC contract) have had people pause on day one of install, and that ends up costing the company $10-20K due to delays. Mostly because there isn't something for the team to do for that day or two while we scramble to line up the next customer.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-25 16:44:31+00:00
I object mostly to Microsoft's pushiness. At every turn, they're trying to nudge/coerce the user to do this and to do that.

Example: "You should make a Microsoft account!" -> "You really need to make a Microsoft account." -> "Here's a full-screen Window begging you to make a Microsoft account, with a tiny skip button." -> "Here's a full-screen Window demanding you to make a Microsoft account, and if you want to skip it, you need to reboot and do this without a network connection." -> "You're going to make a Microsoft account if you want to use your computer. Just do it, asshole. (command line workaround)" -> "OK, fuckface, we tried the easy way, now we punish you with the hard way. Make that fucking Microsoft account whether you want it or not. I'm not fucking around anymore. YOU HAVE TO DO IT."

You can see this progression with basically all of their unwanted features.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-25 16:45:01+00:00
I can see that, but IMO the main difference is that this feels like it's intentionally trying to be an active detriment to your life. TV et. al are fairly neutral generally. Even with the ads.

But with targeted advertisement, it feels a lot more like they're trying to get inside your mind to steal your money.

And with content on social media, it feels specifically engineered to make your life as bad as possible. More fear, more anger, more racism, more sexism. Here's some big boobies, now look at this disgusting immigrant. Isnt Earth awful? Aren't these guys ruining everything?
by tekodu | 2025-10-25 16:45:02+00:00
Just published peer-reviewed research showing 100% success rate generating production code—multi-model orchestration + cryptographic signatures ends the “AI code needs fixing” pain.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17438526 API: https://bauform-beta.fly.dev Verification: https://github.com/tekodu/bauform-evals
by lxe | 2025-10-25 16:45:14+00:00
I'm absolutely struggling to understand what Synadia even does. it's been an infuriating experience navigating through their marketing site. It's been minutes and I still don't understand what it is. What is NATS?

Edit: I had to google what NATS.IO is. The marketing site is infuriatingly useless. Please, can we stop doing this?

Edit: At the bottom on the footer it says compare NATS to Kafka. It took me to a page that requires me to enter my email, name, and a message in order to download the white paper. I flipped over my desk in rage.
by YZF | 2025-10-25 16:45:35+00:00
I had a rock hounding phase in my life ... It was something fun to do with the family and we have a lot of interesting rocks in BC.

I built my own rock tumbler using some wood, hardware store bits, and an old geared DC motor... I also used commercial rock tumblers. Those worked better ;)

It takes a really long time to tumble rocks, you have to go through the grits like a week or two at a time, and they sort of come out without a lot of character. Hand polishing them (with power grinders and polishers) is a lot more satisfying and you can make them into your own. That does require more equipment though.