MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smcin | 2025-10-12 20:27:36+00:00
That would just be just reopening decades of debate in the US.

For whatever reasons, the consensus in the US after decades of talking comes down to single payer vs privatized insurance. Congress isn't going to implement single-payer, so the menu reduces to either we choose good or bad regulation of privatized insurance.

We don't have time for yet another decade of debate, since health insurance premiums (net, post-tax-credit) in the US are about to jump this November open enrollment by median 18% overall, or 114% for people on ACA due to the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits [0]. Expect that to feature prominently in the news cycle by Thanksgiving.

(Germany's multi-payer system (government + mandatory statutory contributory insurance + optional private insurance) would in theory be fine if US Congress was ever incentivized to implement such a thing. But it very clearly isn't, since the 1950s - look at the lobbying money trails. Let the good not be the enemy of the perfect. The ACA was the closest the US (briefly) came to mandatory statutory contributory insurance, but the federal mandate was abolished back in calendar 2019 by the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017").

[0]: https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/aca-marketplace-prem...
by kdazzle | 2025-10-12 20:27:40+00:00
Yeah, if you remember to use it properly. SQL injection was pretty rampant before ORMs and web frameworks started being used everywhere.

ORMs let anyone make CRUD apps without needing to worry about that sort of thing. Also helps prevent issues from slipping through on larger teams with more junior developers. Or, frankly, even “senior” developers that don’t really understand web security.
by bitbasher | 2025-10-12 20:27:48+00:00
At this rate, why not use vim? Half of the configuration is re-creating vim inside Helix. Not to mention, Helix has many dependencies (you just don't see them the way you do in neovim). I think I could make a case that my vim setup is more supply chain safe than Helix.

My current vim8 setup is very simple and has served me well for 8+ years. I'm currently using vim8 because it's what is available within my LTS distribution.

I only use one automatically loaded plugin (`vim-tmux-navigator` to simplify moving between vim splits and tmux splits, it's a passive plugin). I have reviewed the code for the plugin and I don't update it.

I only use two "optional" plugins (you can enable them using vim's built in package manager with :packadd!). I use `ale` (lsp, diagnostics and automatic formatting on save) and `vim-fugitive` (git workflow inside vim).

Why use ale? Because it works with vim8 and doesn't require any other dependencies like nodejs or python. I have reviewed the code and I'm happy with it. Install it and use it, don't update it without a reason.

Why vim-fugitive? It's a productivity booster. You install it once and forget about it. Tim Pope is the man.

I don't automatically load plugins (besides tmux-navigator) for a few reasons. Most of the time when I'm using vim it's for quick editing where I don't need the heavy tooling (like git integration or an lsp). If I am working on a project with a long term session I will enable git and lsp.

There's no need to automatically run code unless you need it.
by measurablefunc | 2025-10-12 20:27:50+00:00
That's correct. Writing is not the main source of income for either Tyler or Kevin. Their books are mostly advertising pamphlets for their respective ideological agendas, economic & technological growth & advancement. Both are now on the record about their support of writing books for AIs instead of people b/c they think that the primary way people will get their information in the coming years will be from AIs instead of books so they want their ideas to be part of the AI biases that can then influence whoever is querying the AIs.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-12 20:29:40+00:00
But the browser versions of Office products royally suck. I still actively use the 'open in app' option over the default action of opening a document / spreadsheet in a browser window. I wholly disagree with It's generally flawless for MS products

The Office-in-browser experience is laggy and slow and long-learnt familiarities are gone.

Additional old-man whinge: Outlook keeps wanting to open in a browser window now. I have enough things open in a browser that are difficult enough to manage that I don't need Outlook getting lost in that forest as well. It's convenient having a separate Taskbar icon that will definitely open my Calendar or Email.

When everything's a browser tab, what's the point of the taskbar?

When everything's a browser tab then the browser is the Operating System.

Every day I'm forced to use Microsoft at work, I'm increasingly glad I ditched it at home.
by al_borland | 2025-10-12 20:29:45+00:00
Do you think it looks like a toy just because of how it looks, or because of how it works?

Spotlight got a major update in macOS 26 where it can now perform actions. I can open spotlight and type "run <enter> <some terminal command or script>" and get the output right there, selecting it will put the resulting text into my current window.

16:16 up 23:27, 1 user, load averages: 1.72 1.78 1.90

There is my uptime posted in HN with only Spotlight and my hands never leaving the keyboard.

Spotlight is also context aware... Say I run across some text in another language:

Spiegami come funziona questo coso.

I can highlight, invoke spotlight, type translate, it will recognize I want to translate the selected text, translate it inside of Spotlight, and if arrow down and press enter, it will paste the translated text over the original text, if editable, or copy it to the clipboard. There is also a built-in clipboard history.

I'm not a fan of all the UI choices that have been made, but those will get ironed out over time. Meanwhile, I get some more powerful out of the box features without needing to resort to 3rd party apps.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-12 20:30:22+00:00
In a sense you can do the same thing to yourself. If you self-impose a target and try to meet it while ignoring a lot of things that you're not measuring even though they're still important, you can unintentionally sacrifice those things. But there's a difference.

In that case you have to not notice it, which sets a much lower cap on how messed up things can get. If things are really on fire then you notice right away and you have the agency to do something different.

Whereas if the target is imposed by a far-off hierarchy or regulatory bureaucracy, the people on the ground who notice that things are going wrong have no authority to change it, which means they carry on going wrong.

Or put it this way: The degree to which it's a problem is proportional to the size of the bureaucracy. You can cause some trouble for yourself if you're not paying attention but you're still directly exposed to "hear reason or she'll make you feel her". If it's just you and your boss who you talk to every day, that's not as good but it's still not that bad. But if the people imposing the target aren't even in the same state, you can be filling the morgue with bodies and still not have them notice.
by NegativeK | 2025-10-12 20:30:24+00:00
Are employees aware that they can't trust AI results uncritically, like the article mentions? See: the lawyers who have been disciplined by judges. Or doctors who aren't verifying all conversation transcriptions and medical notes generated by AI.

Does your organization have records retention or legal holds needs that employees must be aware of when using rando AI service?

Will employees be violating NDAs or other compliance requirements (HIPAA, etc) when they ask questions or submit data to an AI service?

For the LLM that has access to the company's documents, did the team rolling it out verify that all user access control restrictions remain in place when a user uses the LLM?

Is the AI service actually equivalent or better or even just good enough compared to the employees laid off or retasked?

This stuff isn't necessarily specific to AI and LLMs, but the hype train is moving so fast that people are having to relearn very hard lessons.
by anonymousiam | 2025-10-12 20:30:41+00:00
Maybe there's some truth to this article, but it doesn't address the history of people creating libelous content elsewhere, and then citing it on Wikipedia as truth. All you need to do to game Wikipedia is to create a few external stories, and then cross-cite them.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/wikipedia-citogenesis-c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1c1uazj/why_did_...
by aeon_ai | 2025-10-12 20:31:02+00:00
I don’t think we’re disagreeing - a reserve currency is a form of capital that provides optionality, but it is not the singular defining unit of “capital”.

People questioning data centers vs real estate are denominating and critiquing returns on investment measured in money.

I am suggesting that they are not adequately considering risk-weighted returns denominated in other forms of capital. Do you disagree on this point?
by Noaidi | 2025-10-12 20:31:03+00:00
do you think I’m a Christian or something? Because I’m not.

And I’m not staying the state owns his life, I’m saying I don’t know who owns it. I’m saying that’s a really difficult philosophical question.

But in the United States, you cannot die by suicide legally. So the state does have control over your life.

But let’s say I own my life. Why would I want to destroy something I own? Who is the I that benefits from that action?

If you own your life then why do you allow your life to suffer? Why don’t you just stop you’re suffering if you own your life by other means then killing yourself?

You see it gets very tricky.
by daemonologist | 2025-10-12 20:31:53+00:00
A nearly all (">90%") plastic bike is interesting, and I guess if you're a plastics company that wants to create a bike it makes sense, but the end product does not seem very compelling to me. 17 kg, 1200 EUR, one size, proprietary parts, and only 50% recycled. A comparable aluminum bike beats it in every metric except maybe fatigue life(?).
by ianbutler | 2025-10-12 20:31:59+00:00
Don't you realize how hostile it is to have a bunch of non contributors demand and entitle themselves to things and burn out OSS organizers at an increasing rate so much so it's been cited as an ongoing critical concern to the entire software supply chain?

Your attitude ignores the real financial and time constraints that OSS has been facing forever and people are rightly starting to get tired of this shit.

We're well past the stage where its little well meaning communities trading cool bits of code with one another OSS is a completely economy defining thing now and people shouldn't settle for being worked to the bone, they should be setting proper safeguards, like Datastar has done here, to ensure their project does not burn them out and they can continue to grow and direct it in a way that accords with their own interests and desires.
by stanac | 2025-10-12 20:32:22+00:00
There was a video on YT (gamers nexus I think) and an excel sheet comparing jumps in performance gains between each new nvidia generation. They are becoming smaller and smaller, probably now driven by AI boom where most of the silicon is used for data centers. Regardless of that, I have a feeling we are approaching the ceiling of chip performance. Just comparing PS3 and PS4 and then PS4 with PS5, performance jump is smaller and size of the hardware has become enormous and GPUs are more and more power hungry. If generational jumps were good enough we wouldn't need more power and cooling and big boxes for desktop PCs that can hold long graphic cards.
by marcosdumay | 2025-10-12 20:32:59+00:00
Unless you are going into a legal definition, where there's a global enumeration of the tasks it does, "engineering" means building stuff. Mostly stuff that is not "art", but sometimes even it.

Building a prompt is "prompt engineering". You could also call it "prompt crafting", or "prompt casting", but any of those would do.

Also, engineering also had a strong connotation of messing with stuff you don't understand until it works reliably. Your idea of it is very new, and doesn't even apply to all areas that are officially named that way.
by dang | 2025-10-12 20:33:10+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732632 - April 2025 (18 comments)

Saving Voyager 1 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42385393 - Dec 2024 (13 comments)

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 from 15B Miles Away - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40155293 - April 2024 (56 comments)

Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38640900 - Dec 2023 (608 comments)
by Ram-ai-physio | 2025-10-12 20:34:27+00:00
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by sam_bristow | 2025-10-12 20:34:57+00:00
Multi-version approaches to developing software aren't as good at reducing common-mode failures as many people expect[1].

[1] J. C. Knight and N. G. Leveson, “An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming,” IIEEE Trans. Software Eng., vol. SE-12, no. 1, pp. 96–109, Jan. 1986, doi: 10.1109/TSE.1986.6312924.
by agcat | 2025-10-12 20:35:34+00:00
If you are starting from scratch getting warm intros need a "prep" phase. The best people to introduce you to investors are founders itself. You should build authentic connections with founders, try to help them.. in terms of your skills, network, hiring etc. Founder community generally works on the principle of giving. So if you are a helpful person who is building something good, other founders will make those warm intros.
by upboundspiral | 2025-10-12 20:35:39+00:00
I don't use it as much nowadays but https://github.com/ublue-os/aurora (kde desktop + automatic updates + baked in nvidia drivers) got me an as painless as possible nvidia experience (on a laptop I got my nvidia gpu to power down while idle which had been a huge time sink trying to figure out how to do on my own). Didn't notice any screen tearing personally, but that's probably something that depends on what applications / workflows one has.

In terms of office compatibility OnlyOffice iirc has the best compatibility. Easy to install via flatpak (I really enjoy this move in desktop linux because now I can easily remove network access from apps / set the permissions I want).

The only thing that seems unsurmountable is probably Adobe, not sure how much of a dealbreaker that is.
by TOGoS | 2025-10-12 20:36:15+00:00
> adding a queen to the Borg destroyed the Borg

Agreed. The Borg used to be scary because they seemed unbeatable. They were like grey goo that could adapt to whatever you threw at them.[1]

Having a queen gives them a single point of failure. Suddenly they are a lot less scary.

[1] I kind of felt the same way about the Boogieman from Ghost Busters when I was a kid. Teleports between closets and the regular ghost trap doodad doesn't work on him! Shit!
by dang | 2025-10-12 20:36:20+00:00
Since this project appears not to have been discussed on HN yet, I think we'll re-up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45380695 instead. It's better for the first thread to be about the project as a whole, not just the latest update. One moment please...

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561672. I've added the other link to the toptext there also.
by vacuity | 2025-10-12 20:36:28+00:00
If everything can be represented as a Foo or as a Bar, then this actually clears up the discussion, allowing the relative merits of each representation to be discussed. If something is a universal paradigm, all the better to compare it to alternatives, because one will likely be settled on (and then mottled with hacks over time; organic abstraction sprawl FTW).
by abathologist | 2025-10-12 20:36:34+00:00
I am so sure because of the self-evidence of my experience, the results of 2 millennia of analysis into the nature of cognition and experience, and consideration of the material composition of our organism (we obviously have lots of critical analog components, which are not selecting tokens, but instead connecting with flows from other continua).

Prediction is obviously involved in certain forms of cognition, but it obviously isn't all there is to the kinds of beings we are.
by seanwilson | 2025-10-12 20:37:29+00:00
I'm working on a tool for creating custom color palettes for web designs that pass WCAG contrast requirements:

https://www.inclusivecolors.com/

- You can precisely tweak every shade/tint so you can incorporate your own brand colors. No AI or auto generation!

- It helps you build palettes that have simple to follow color contrast guarantees by design e.g. all grade 600 colors have 4.5:1 WCAG contrast (for body text) against all grade 50 colors, such as red-600 vs gray-50, or green-600 vs gray-50.

- There's export options for plain CSS, Tailwind, Figma, and Adobe.

- It uses HSLuv for the color picker, which makes it easier to explore accessible color combinations because only the lightness slider impacts the WCAG contrast. A lot of design tools still use HSL, where the WCAG contrast goes everywhere when you change any slider which makes finding contrasting colors much harder.

- Check out the included example open source palettes and what their hue, saturation and lightness curves look like to get some hints on designing your own palettes.

It's probably more for advanced users right now but I'm hoping to simplify it and add more handholding later.

Really open to any feedback, feature requests, and discussing challenges people have with creating accessible designs. :)
by duskwuff | 2025-10-12 20:37:48+00:00
Sure - and I assume that's how Docker for Windows works. But that's a long way from getting Docker for Linux to run on WSL1 - for that to work, WSL1 would need to implement details of the Docker implementation like overlay mounts (to pick an example at random). That suddenly starts looking a lot less like a compatibility layer and more like a reimplementation of parts of Linux.
by al_borland | 2025-10-12 20:37:49+00:00
The big issue with Flash was how overused it was.

When Flash was on its way out one app made at the place I worked still said they needed it, and I couldn't figure out why... it was a Java app. After some digging, I found it, some horizontal dividers on the page. They could have, and should have, just been images. They didn't do anything. Yet someone made them in Flash.

I'd also say all the drop-down menu systems were an overuse. Splash screens on every car company's home page. It was out of hand.

I guess you could call it a victim of it's own success, where once it was time for it to die (due to mobile), very few people were sad to see it go.
by tehdely | 2025-10-12 20:39:21+00:00
TITCR.

Hit ctrl-f and typed Meego as soon as I saw this thread, hoping I'd be the first. Alas.

The N9 was literally a vision from an alternate timeline where a mobile platform from a major manufacturer was somehow hackable, polished, and secure. Favorite phone I've ever owned and I used it until it started to malfunction.

Had a Jolla for a bit, too. It was nice to see them try to keep the basic ideas going but unfortunately it was a pain in the ass to use thanks to their decision to go with a radio that only supported GSM/EDGE in the US. Had to carry around a MiFi just to give it acceptable data service.

I think the idea with Jolla is that if Nokia ever did an about-face, they were ready to be reabsorbed and get things back on the right track. Unfortunately, though we do once again have a "Nokia", it's just another Android white label with no interest in maintaining its own leading-edge smartphone platform.
by alganet | 2025-10-12 20:39:26+00:00
One key difference in all of this is that people were not predicting the dotcom bubble, so there was a surplus left after it popped. It was a surprise.

This AI bubble already has lots of people with their forks and knifes waiting to capitalize on a myriad of possible surpluses after the burst. There's speculation on top of _the next bubble_ and how it will form, even before this one pops.

That is absolutely disgusting, by the way.
by KPGv2 | 2025-10-12 20:39:27+00:00
In what way?

I would really like to hear you explain how they revolutionized supermarkets.

I use them every day, and my shopping experience is served far better by going to a place that is smaller than one that has automated checkout machines. (Smaller means so much faster.)

Hell, if you go to Costco, the automated checkout line moves slower than the ones manned by experienced workers.
by tombert | 2025-10-12 20:39:32+00:00
In my case, I was able to install a vanilla Windows 11 ISO with a flash drive, downloaded directly from Microsoft, so it's not like I was bypassing any CPU checks. All I had to do was muck about a bit in the BIOS/EFI to tell it to boot from the flash drive.

Part of the reason I like Linux, despite its occasional headaches, is how willing they are to keep supporting old computers. There are lots of distros that are lightweight while still being modern. Oh, and it won't automatically install an update and brick the computer, and even if I did I could use a modern filesystem that supports proper snapshots instead and recover, instead of something from 1993 that doesn't have any modern features.

I didn't hate Windows this much until a few weeks ago. I'm very annoyed.
by layer8 | 2025-10-12 20:39:49+00:00
Windows File History doesn’t eliminate the need for an actual backup of important files, but it’s a convenient feature to be able to quickly inspect or restore random files you changed or deleted recently-ish (roughly a year for me). It’s best to point it to a separate drive/partition and configure it to fill that one up and have it delete the oldest files whenever it needs more free space.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-12 20:41:03+00:00
Easy, go hunting their manuals for the compilers that aren't yet another clang fork, still a few around between TI, Microchip and co on embedded.

In general, not for Qt deployment scenarios, also take into consideration the surviving big iron UNIX, mainframes and micros still in business, again the compilers that are yet not clang forks.

The table is a non exaustive overview, however it also paints the picture that for those that care about real portable code, regular visits to the table are required before considering adopting any specific new feature, or the need to enforce style guides like "we use C++20, but feature X, Y, Z are forbidden due to lack of portablity".