MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by artur_makly | 2025-10-29 11:34:29+00:00
This. Power and Control is only viable at scale when the aforementioned tacts are wielded with precision by "invisible hands" ..

History has proved that keeping society stupid and disenfranchised is essential to control.

Did you know that in the 1600s the King of England banned coffee?

Simple.. fear of evolving propagating better ideas and more intense social fraternity.

"Patrons read and debated the news of the day in coffeehouses, fueled by caffeine; the coffeehouse became a core engine of the new scientific and philosophical thought that characterized the era. Soon there were hundreds of establishments selling coffee."

https://worldhistory.medium.com/why-the-king-of-england-bann...
by wiseowise | 2025-10-29 11:34:38+00:00
* Company is Russian

* Doesn't condemn war (understandable in their position)

* Has dev team in Russia

* Pays taxes to Russia, which directly fuel war

* Does not support UAF or donate to Ukraine (also understandable)

* Keeps selling their software in Russia, which might have links to military and administration

Am I missing something here?
by umjunsik132 | 2025-10-29 11:34:53+00:00
Hi HN, author here.

I've always felt that standard benchmarks focus too much on final accuracy, while the architectural choices that get us there are often treated like a dark art. We celebrate a new SOTA model, but rarely do we have a common language to discuss why a specific operation is efficient or how it contributes to the whole.

That's why I built "The Architect's Arena," a GWO-based benchmark that tries to score the "architectural intelligence" of neural network operations.

The Core Idea (How it Works): Inspired by the "Window is Everything" paper, it breaks down any operation (like a Conv layer) into its fundamental components (Path, Shape, Weight) and calculates a theoretical "Operational Complexity" score. The final efficiency score is a function of this complexity and the model's actual performance.

What's special about this benchmark? We explicitly separate the leaderboard into two parts: 1. Baseline Operations: Individual building blocks like StandardConv. The goal here is to invent new ops with high efficiency scores. 2. Reference Architectures: Complete models like ResNet. This isn't for score competition, but serves as a "performance target" to aim for. The challenge is to use your efficient new ops to build an architecture that can match ResNet's accuracy with lower total complexity.

Check it out here: Live Leaderboard: https://kim-ai-gpu.github.io/gwo-benchmark-leaderboard/ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Kim-Ai-gpu/gwo-benchmark

This is an early version, and I would love to hear your feedback. What do you think of this approach? Are there any crucial baseline models or datasets you think should be added?

Thanks for checking it out!
by MSFT_Edging | 2025-10-29 11:35:03+00:00
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
by marginalia_nu | 2025-10-29 11:35:44+00:00
I think a better critique is that these cold-war political basis vectors don't adequately describe today's political landscape (and neither do the revolution-era idea of the left wing vs the right wing; arguably they didn't back in 1950 either).

Best example of how the communist/fascist/liberal democracy triad completely falls is looking at China, which has facets of all three and none at the same time.

This makes it difficult nigh on impossible to have a real political discussion, as they fail to amount to more than connotative terms to be applied to outgroups, and do not map to political reality in any meaningful sense. Anyone can turn into the fuzzy outline of a nazi if you squint really hard.

Nuances needed to make any sort of sense of 21st century politics, especially its newer entries, are the tensions between cosmopolitarianism vs communitarianism and technocracy vs populism.

The problem with using such an outdated political map is that many of our contemporary problems are missing from it, and go unresolved until enough frustration builds that there is an ill-conceived popular upheaval that forces the issue. Rather than addressing the technocratic European Union's lack of accountability to its citizens, we get Brexit instead, which could likely have been avoided if the political map wasn't so out of touch.
by Rochus | 2025-10-29 11:35:55+00:00
> This is simply not true.

Ok, then try to run a pre-compiled macOS M1 compatible application on your new Sequoia system, such as https://github.com/rochus-keller/oberonsystem3/ or https://github.com/rochus-keller/leancreator/. Requires quite some tricks so that at least some applications run without Apple's benedictions, but the tricks don't work for all such applications; and as it looks, they will also remove the last remaining work-arounds in future.
by visarga | 2025-10-29 11:35:57+00:00
There are 3 parts of the process the AI agent can't do - the start, the middle and the end :) No, really, they need humans to identify tasks worth working on, then guide the model during development and providing iterative feedback, and in the end we incur the outcomes, good or bad. We are the consequence sinks, we take the costs and risks on ourselves. LLMs have no accountability.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-29 11:36:34+00:00
Why is popularity a concern? I'm writing this on a Librem 5 with PureOS that I've been daily driving for the last few years and which gives me a much better experience than Android could. Why would it matter to me as a user whether it's popular or not? The only thing I can think of is availability of native applications, but this would just hide the actual problem with interoperability and pass it down for the next underdog project to worry about.

Popularity is important when we consider whole societies, but it's not particularly relevant for individuals. I don't need a buy in of Samsung to use GNU/Linux on my phone.
by liendolucas | 2025-10-29 11:37:09+00:00
Yes, agree 100%. It's not only Android the problem. It's the cartelization between them and hardware manufacturers. But then that means that we will be doomed to the current duopoly between Google and Apple.

The very first step I believe needs to be taken is to pass strict laws to allow devices to be reflashed with whatever we want. Until we do not have that in place we will always be stucked like this. Once people can truly install from scratch whatever they want then the game should change completely.
by happymellon | 2025-10-29 11:37:30+00:00
> And Steam implements its own DRM

Which is entirely optional. In fact there are plenty of games on there without DRM at all.

> and takes 30% from game publishers.

They could always use other stores. And they do, however their customers use Steam because it is so much easier than other stores, and big picture mode is so much easier than piracy.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-10-29 11:38:49+00:00
Interesting article, i will have to dig around some more.

I want to say though, that the initiative is sponsored by the EU and has privacy preservation as one of it's main objectives, so until proven, i will assume that this is all circumstantial.

For me at least, it solves exactly the use case i was previously using NextDNS for, which was basically DNS level ad blocking, and while i still have a NextDNS subscription, my previous months of testing have proven DNS4EU to be more stable and slightly faster responding than NextDNS (for my usage).
by thw_9a83c | 2025-10-29 11:39:06+00:00
> You don't need flawless to empty a dishwasher

That really depends on how demanding you are. For example, I prefer to thoroughly wipe the dishes after taking them out of the dishwasher (if necessary). This is a fairly demanding task in terms of motor skills. I suppose we all have similar discrepancies from what is considered normal or good enough.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-29 11:39:13+00:00
No. Not having ads is the "normalest" thing. I would never pay. I would use an ad blocker, and if that does not work, I would not use the website at all. This is the "normalest" thing to do, not giving them money for using ads.

You are enabling them and paying them for using ads. How is that the "normalest" or even normal thing to do? How do you expect them to stop showing ads if not only the ads themselves work, but even the ones who don't click ads pay them for having ads (to not show them, but ultimately it is for them having ads)?
by Brendinooo | 2025-10-29 11:39:45+00:00
What you quoted is just the person restating the paradox of tolerance. It's totally nonsensical once you get past "one-dimensonal evil" cases (or perhaps cases like software, a category is more narrowly and cleanly delineated).

He's right that freedom requires restriction. The problem with the paradox of tolerance is that it masquerades as a meaningful principle while leaving the actual restrictions unnamed.

P.S. it also is worth noting that, to the extent that the GPL works, it's precisely because it doesn't rely on vague principles. It's specific about what's restricted, when, and how.
by dguest | 2025-10-29 11:40:59+00:00
There's HarmonyOS [1], which is developed by Huawei, and which has a similar mix of open (OpenHarmony) and proprietary components. I haven't used it, but it's supported by quite a few phones and sort of surprised it wasn't mentioned anywhere on this thread.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS
by ruszki | 2025-10-29 11:41:14+00:00
Yeah, I don’t understand the parent commenter either. Even with my latest laptop, it took days and weeks to make everything work (like audio, my monitors, DPI, VLC/mpv, even networking). And even then I had to turn off some hardware functionality, because it’s so buggy (bye-bye battery life). And this is before introducing Wayland for example…

Also installing is way easier for beginners with Windows. I’m happy that Linux installation now at least reached the level of Windows 98, but I still need to search for things every single time, even when I do it about every other years for several decades now. Just because somebody thought that it’s so important to ask simple users about an implementation detail which almost nobody care about. And this is before bugs… which I encounter quite frequently.

It’s getting better, but by not much. It could be a very stable OS with the right hardware even 20 years ago. That didn’t change, you still need to be very careful if you want a good experience with Linux and a GUI. I had no laptop or PC in the past 30 years on which I could install Linux without serious hiccups if I wanted anything more than terminal. I could almost always make it usable (it was impossible with one laptop), but I always had to give up something, like battery life, game performance, my headset at the time, etc. And of course a ton of time.
by hyghjiyhu | 2025-10-29 11:41:42+00:00
I have a "weakly held strong opinion" on this subject. I think open source has been a disaster for the state of software for normal people. On the one hand exploited developers making peanuts or nothing for their hard work. On the other hand exploited users losing control of their devices and social networks.

The era when people paid an affordable fee for software they could use however they wanted was much better. But it got squeezed out by free software on the one side and serf-ware on the other.

The proof is in the pudding and the pudding is rotten.

Edit: then again maybe it's unfair of me to blame the decline in paid for software on open source.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-29 11:41:59+00:00
Definition of "root server"

Authoritative DNS nameserver that serves root.zone, e.g., the one provided by ICANN, or maybe a customised one

In own case it is served only to me on local network

Many years ago, one of the former ICANN board members mentioned on his personal blog running his own root
by ljm | 2025-10-29 11:42:36+00:00
Add to that list:

- showing focus-stealing modals when loading the page/app, which breaks the quick look functionality on iOS

- interrupting your workflow with tutorial popups (especially multi-step ones that point to different parts the screen) that demo or upsell a new feature, requiring you to dismiss them to continue

- not having an option saying "I'm a power user, stop explaining shit I already know"

To be honest, if the concept of growth hacking was erased from the universe, pretty much none of this crap would exist. Atlassian, Browserstack: I'm looking at you.
by dsego | 2025-10-29 11:42:39+00:00
The server-based MVC pattern adopted in Rails is not the original one described for use in interfaces, it could be considered a misinterpretation.

https://andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/09/rails-is-not-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3035549

A model is supposed to be a domain model, the business logic of the app, not simply a database access layer. Your logic should reside in the model layer, sort of like building a library of classes and functions that you can reuse. That's why in the server-side world people use the term "fat models" to describe this type of use.

> When bending it to apply to React + JSON-apis it kinda applies

There is no bending, the original MVC applied to separating the business logic from rendering views and capturing input events, because this separation promotes code reuse. You can write many different views and controllers in your UI that show and react to user's input but still talk to the same underlying logical model.

I like this github repo to understand how MVC applies to programs with graphical interfaces. It's JS and HTML, so it's easy to follow.

https://github.com/madhadron/mvc_for_the_web/tree/master
by tetha | 2025-10-29 11:45:30+00:00
It's similar for me.

Regarding audio, I have access to very decent headphones and also lower-grade studio monitors, as I've decided to make audio production a hobby of mine. Both of these are absolutely better than my cheaper in-ears for cycling and walking around outside. And sure, you also start to notice how different bluetooth boxes are also on a range of audio quality. And live music on a PA is a whole different ball game and not comparable to studio recordings entirely.

But that's fine. The in-ears are at a decent conjunction between audio quality and a price point I won't be hurt if I lose or break them. And some music from a janky box is better than no music from a janky box. At worst it will be funny how janky it is.

If I encounter something I like, I can ask what it is, break out the better equipment at home, probably sit down on the balcony with some tea or a drink and focus on the music and appreciate it for an hour or so while watching the magpies and crows in our back yard.

It's in fact even fun to me to dive into a song or an album like this to explore what you didn't hear on the other audio system. Sometimes there is an entire instrument you're missing on other systems.
by xtiansimon | 2025-10-29 11:46:02+00:00
> “terminal holds it back”

Presumably the it here is Linux? That’s not what I would have said. The terminal makes maintaining your own systems much easier because it’s all text. Opposed to having to mix screen shots and instructions. Which is to say, I don’t imagine people who can’t handle the terminal (and are on Windoz) are doing any maintenance or configuration beyond a few GRRR items they’ve convinced themselves is ultimately intolerable.

From a small business I’d say what keeps the accounting office on Windoz is software (ie. quickbooks, excel). But a close second would be tighter integration of file management and core office apps (ie email). It’s very easy to rename, move, copy, files on windows. You can perform many of these file management tasks inside an app experience (ie saveas dialog box). Apple has the mindset with their suite of Apple productivity apps, Chromebooks are very easy for general users to get their head around. If Linux could roll up a Chromebook environment with a QB clone into an expert system (e.g. no. We don’t need pictures, videos or games folders), I think our firm would consider the switch. It would certainly have the appearance of stability productivity, and simplicity which is always a plus when your job is not maintaining IT systems. (Now we just need to find new outsource IT for troubleshooting)
by worble | 2025-10-29 11:46:05+00:00
I've not really had a problem with Japanese software, but I mostly stick to old games and the like. You do need to make sure you install cjk fonts, and if your system locale isn't Japanese you need to make sure jp locale is enabled then set it before running with `LANG="ja_JP.UTF8"` (or possibly LC_ALL if that fails) but other than that I've not had any major problems.

What kind of software isn't working?
by tinfoilhatter | 2025-10-29 11:46:16+00:00
The Matrix was inspired by the Gnostic schools of thought. The authors obviously knew loads about esoteric spirituality and the occult sciences. People have been suggesting that we are trapped in a simulacrum / matrix for over two-thousand years. I personally believe The Matrix was somewhat of a documentary. I'm curious - why do you think a concept such as presented in The Matrix, is still far off?
by paulcole | 2025-10-29 11:46:22+00:00
Why is anything supposed to be sustainable for a ~50-year career? That’s a long time! Things change and people change.

It’s not like my great grandparents had a passion for farming in South Dakota and that’s why they did it until they dropped dead. It’s all they knew and what they did to survive.

If you gave them the option to tap on a keyboard in an air-conditioned room for 10 or 20 of those years they would’ve taken it.
by a5c11 | 2025-10-29 11:46:26+00:00
> Watch someone who is not familiar with Linux and how it works attempt to install it and use it.

What a dumb analogy. My mother can use Windows very well, it doesn't mean she could also install it. The same rule applies to most Windows users. That's why it comes preinstalled, and not with an attached bootable USB stick.

UX of recent Windows versions is crap. The bearish tendency started with 8 and have never recovered, with Windows 11 being the cherry on top of the crap. Telling that as a user of almost every Windows version since 3.11. Microsoft completely changes user interface with every recent version, this is an anti-pattern in UX world. How is that I can smoothly switch between Debian and macOS major updates, and when Windows does the same it is a nightmare? "Oh no, where are the network settings again..."
by johnisgood | 2025-10-29 11:46:59+00:00
So what about all these huge codebases you are expected to understand but you have not written? You can definitely understand code without writing it yourself.

> The only two ways I see LLM code generation bring any value to you is if

That is just an opinion.

I have projects I wrote with some help from the LLMs, and I understand ALL parts of it. In fact, it is written the way it is because I wanted it to be that way.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-10-29 11:47:22+00:00
Again:

> but this would just hide the actual problem with interoperability and pass it down for the next underdog project to worry about.

Just consider how this wouldn't happen at all in an environment where no platform dominates in popularity (and it doesn't always happen today either, as lots of things like these are accessible via the Web from any platform regardless).
by Mindwipe | 2025-10-29 11:47:36+00:00
> If you have to buy a second device to use Netflix, so be it, but we need laws that guarantee people can make digital payments without Apple or Google's permission.

The reality is however that if you look at active current projects being able to use digital IDs to access fundamental freedoms like communication without child safety rails in Europe is going to require Apple or Google's permission because politicians like it that way.

You can think things should happen in a way all you like, but they are not going to, because governments have vested interests in the opposite direction.
by clijsters | 2025-10-29 11:47:42+00:00
It is a story I heard way too often. Big Tech creates something which is so convenient, you don't want to miss it. Then Big Tech breaks that something, makes it more expensive or uses any other means of rent-seeking just pissing of its customers. We as consumers are by far the biggest lobbying-group, but nobody really gives an f. I'm trying my way with /e/OS but thats not for everybody. It also shows me how deeply dependencies on google services are woven into the whole ecosystem - even on open source apps.
by chithanh | 2025-10-29 11:48:46+00:00
Win10 IoT LTSC does not cover all use cases though.

When it comes to gaming, for example Windows Mixed Reality is not included and cannot be installed afterwards (but then again, Microsoft dropped it from Windows 11 too, so no loss there).

Only way to keep it is staying with consumer Windows 10 or use 3rd party software like Oasis.
by bazmattaz | 2025-10-29 11:49:23+00:00
I read that if/when Google find out that you’re not actually Albanian they’ll immediately band your entire account. So I wouldn’t recommend doing this trick for your main Google account that has your email and Google drive stuff….etc. you likely want to create a burner account just for this.

Also do you connect to the Albanian VPN all the time? That would mean all the websites you connect to now think your in Albania
by user_7832 | 2025-10-29 11:49:45+00:00
Fwiw, these "tricks" are nice for some, but cause headaches for those who're PWM sensitive (like me). I can easily see the flicker of eg my Pixel 5 screen (which iirc is around 300ish hz?), and it hurts my eyes.

Fortunately, some folks like Philips make bulbs that are very low or zero flicker.
by nik736 | 2025-10-29 11:50:35+00:00
It's an interesting article, thanks for that.

What people forget about the OVH or Hetzner comparison is that for those entry servers they are known for, think the Advance line with OVH or AX with Hetzner. Those boxes come with some drawbacks.

The OVH Advance line for example comes without ECC memory, in a server, that might host databases. It's a disaster waiting to happen. There is no option to add ECC memory with the Advance line, so you have to use Scale or High Grade servers, which are far from "affordable".

Hetzner per default comes with a single PSU, a single uplink. Yes, if nothing happens this is probably fine, but if you need a reliable private network or 10G this will cost extra.
by Lendal | 2025-10-29 11:50:39+00:00
Manufacturing and automation is another big one. Think about a water plant that is air-gapped but needs computer automation software to run. These things are everywhere, in every town that has indoor plumbing and sewer. The specialized software that automates these plants only runs on Windows. It relies on industrial hardware and touchscreens that are designed for use in harsh outdoor environments. All of these types of plants rely on high school educated operators that need to understand what's going on at a simple level. Having an OS that in any way relies on Internet access is a non starter. A Linux based system would be removed within a year of operation. You could get it approved maybe if you really worked at it but it would not be accepted in the long run, after the initial startup. There are physical constraints, technical constraints, and human/political constraints that are all working against Linux.