MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0dayz | 2025-10-14 09:49:22+00:00
What blew my mind and convinced me to only use immutable distros is the immutability of it.

For instance I could create my own login screen for an web service without having to worry about the package manager overriding my code, because I inject it into the container, which is already updated.

I can also forcefully reroute much easier ports or network connections the way I want it.
by fnord123 | 2025-10-14 09:49:37+00:00
> Not my experience. I've used LLMs to write highly specific scientific/niche code and they did great, but obviously I had to feed them the right context (compiled from various websites and books convered to markdown in my case) to understand the problem well enough. That adds additional work on my part, but the net productivity is still very much positive because it's one-time setup cost.

Which language are you using?
by cpursley | 2025-10-14 09:49:57+00:00
You seem obsessed with the “China population collapse” propaganda (which is put out by the usual suspects, btw). Anyways, I hate to break it to you, but this is also the trend throughout the entire Western world. Besides, automation and AI is going offset a lot of those worker losses (which is actually a win). And in 20 years the Chinese will still be giving birth to as many if not more people than the entire combine West.
by lproven | 2025-10-14 09:50:04+00:00
Thanks for that response.

It's a balance. All of life is a balance.

I worked at Red Hat very briefly, and for SUSE for longer than ever before. Both were good workplaces with a good atmosphere: RH is one of the friendliest places ever, and I'm still friends with former colleagues from over a decade ago.

OTOH, installing Fedora 14 was like having a bucket of cold water to the face. I used and reviewed Red Hat Linux in the 1990s and it was a massive PITA. It had no automatic dependency resolution, so complex software installation (e.g. going from KDE 1.x to KDE 2.x) was a huge task involving manually installing hundreds of dependencies.

RH would not bundle KDE (because Qt was not 100% FOSS) -- which is also why Mandrake was founded -- and so the GUIs on RHL were poor.

I switched to SUSE. Good package management, good GUIs, good system-management tools. (YaST was way better than RH's inadequate `linuxconf`.)

RH "fixed" this by... removing Linuxconf.

Trying Fedora a decade later and it was just as bad. All the external bits improved because upstream improved. GNOME was still a mess. KDE had got much more bloated. Xfce was better than ever.

But the RH in-house bits, while having nice visual design, were functionally terrible. The installer was an embarassment.

Over a decade of work since I reviewed RHL 9 and it was worse than ever.

A few years later, go to work at SUSE, and hey, openSUSE was lovely. All the good bits still there and improved. Yeah, a bit bigger and slower and clunkier than Ubuntu.

But there's always a downside.

An older team so less party atmosphere. Fewer "team building" sessions in the pub.

And while I was away, SUSE switched from ReiserFS to Btrfs, and as usual, SUSE of old being fond of experimental bleeding-edge filesystems, it's half-implemented and doesn't work right.

Snapper doesn't prune snapshots thoroughly enough. It fills your disk and because of unimplemented or non-working features it can't tell when this will happen.

Official SUSE answer: give it lots of space. Here, our FS falls over unrepairably when full, so give it all your space so it won't fill up! And you can't repair it so take lots of backups!

Every distro has downsides. Every filesystem has downsides but they are much less obvious.

Btrfs made my openSUSE boxes collapse and crash 2-3 times a year for 4 years. That is intolerable. I put up with that kind of crashy junk in 1997 or so but not 20 years later.
by illiac786 | 2025-10-14 09:50:27+00:00
sorry, my mistake, it’s relevant, but anecdotal. It is not relevant for *decision making*. One should not make decisions based on individual cases and anecdotes, it should be based on data/stats.

Even if building a statistic, including this one case, „let’s not relieve any palestinian prisoners, ever“ is not an option. What about „there could be a future terrorist in the midst of the prisoners, hence let’s let the remaining israeli prisoners die, because keeping that one terrorist will save more than 20 lives“? Do you see how problematic sacrificing people’s lives based on a some hypothetical is? And I am not even mentioning the freedom of all other non-terroristic palestinians…

But I guess, after so much death, so much pain, I don’t expect hate to become less any time soon. Maybe one day. Germany and France killed millions of eachother’s civilians yet managed to make peace one day – the big difference is, both had clear borders and autonomy.
by gabrielgio | 2025-10-14 09:52:11+00:00
> It's actually because China is lowring the requirement/quality for delivery and makes everthing for the comsumer market to degrade rapidly so that the manufacturers has the chance to involve because of the involving needs for newer/better products.

Isn't the requirements set by the company outsourcing to China? Because as far as I can tell in China you can produce with all ranges of quality so it feels a bit too simplistic to blame "planned obsolescence" to China alone as the whole chain profits from it (besides the end-user of-course).
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-10-14 09:52:24+00:00
Well, not surprising, but the latest LLMs really do get the gist of your joke attempt. Here's a plain, unauthenticated chatgpt reply:

That post — “I rearry rove a ripe strawberry” — is a playful way of writing “I really love a ripe strawberry.”

The exaggerated misspelling (“rearrry rove”) mimics the way a stereotyped “Engrish” or “Japanese accent” might sound when pronouncing English words — replacing L sounds with R sounds.

So, the user was most likely joking or being silly, trying to sound cute or imitate a certain meme style. However, it’s worth noting that while this kind of humor can be lighthearted, it can also come across as racially insensitive, since it plays on stereotypes of how East Asian people speak English.

In short:

Literal meaning: They love ripe strawberries.

Tone/intention: Playful or meme-style exaggeration.

Potential issue: It relies on a racialized speech stereotype, so it can be offensive depending on context.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-14 09:52:29+00:00
I find it amazing how sentiment extrapolates. Or maybe different people dominate on different threads.

For ages people took it for granted Starship will succeed - even quoted cost per kg to orbit! Any comment saying it might still fail would be usually ridiculed and downvoted.

Then Starship hit a few failures and the sentiment flipped completely - megalomaniac Musk had his hubris catch up with him.

Now two successful launches later it's all gung ho again and great success.

What I would like to say is that each success increases the overall chance of final success but there's still non trivial hurdles to overcome:

- how well can they reuse the Starship

- how much is the turnaround cost

- how reliable they end up being after N launches

- is the marginal return on building a new Starship positive

A380 for example is a marvel of engineering and a technical success, but overall a commercial failure. I love flying on it, but they're not building them anymore. Similar case for the Concorde.

I wish SpaceX well, I'd wish them even better if Musk wasn't a part of it, and let's see if they can cover the last 20% on this project. It's not a given to me that they will.
by vigouroustester | 2025-10-14 09:52:38+00:00
While I agree with the sentiment of not just letting it run free on the whole codebase and do what it wants, I still have good experience with letting it do small tasks one at a time, guided by me. Coding ability of models has really improved over the last few months itself and I seem to be clearing less and less AI-generated code mess than I was 5 months ago.

It's got a lot to do with problem framing and prompt imo.
by alextingle | 2025-10-14 09:53:12+00:00
Rust's user unfriendly build paradigm puts me off using a lot of these. Ripgrep is fine when I can install it from a package manager. But if I'm on some weird machine and need to build it then first I have to build rustc, and then it wants to download gigabytes of whatever, just to compile a better 'grep'?
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-10-14 09:54:20+00:00
Apps and phones are just so much better for surveillance which I know, duh. Most users simply don't give it any thought and install apps left and right permissions included. The smaller screen real estate is also better for surveillance - smaller number of things on screen equals more granular information on what you're doing precisely.

Extra toe-stubbing wishes for those that are pushing this paradigm into desktop - it's bewildering to me when I hear non-technical folks tell me that an app on desktop needs to come from an app store. Or when web design is being "simplified" and dumbed down really on desktop to facilitate surveillance.

Toe-stubbing-every-morning wishes to a lot of people for contributing to this reality.
by pezezin | 2025-10-14 09:54:21+00:00
> A photon's wavelength at near UV is 400 nanometers, but the transistors in a smartphone are measured at 7 nanometers ish.

Not really, "7 nm" is just a marketing name, the actual transistors are around 50 nm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process
by ehnto | 2025-10-14 09:55:11+00:00
I don't disagree with you on the technology, but mostly my comment is about what the market is expecting. With such a huge capex expenditure it is expecting a huge returns. Given AI has not proven consistent ROI generally for other enterprises (as far as I know), they are hoping for something better than what is right now and they are hoping for it to happen before the money runs out.

I am not saying it's impossible, but there is no evidence that the leap in technology to reach wild profitability (replacing general labour) such investment desires is just around the corner either.
by surgical_fire | 2025-10-14 09:55:40+00:00
Sam Altman is a bullshitter. A liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it. A bullshitter doesn't care if something is true of false, and is just using rhetoric to convince you of something.

I don't doubt that it is true that they lose money on a 200 subscription because the people that pay 200 are probably the same people that will max out usage over time, no matter how wasteful. Sam Altman was framing it in a way to say "it's so useful people are using it more than we expected!", because he is interested in having everyone believe that LLMs are the future. It's all bullshit.

If I had to guess, they probably at least break even on API calls, and might make some money on lower tier subscriptions (i.e.: people that pay for it but use it sparingly on a as-need basis).

But that is boring, and hints at limited usability. Investors won't want to burn hundreds of billions in cash for something that may be sort of useful. They want destructive amounts of money in return.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-14 09:56:00+00:00
Often I'll include a stamped postcard, addressed to my PO Box, because I think there is something important about paying for the privilege to communicate with somebody off-line [the stamp]. It forces your message to be more concise/worthwhile.

There is also something sweet about having a built-in delay for the message to "gestate" — perhaps if politically-related, your point is even further reinforced as "prescient," as the pre-dated postmark attests (upon delayed arrival). Perhaps you're wrong and wasted a stamp.

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Mostly I agree with (I believe) P.G.'s premise that email is nothing more than a to-do list that anybody can add on to. I do not wish to ever be immediately reachable, again, and this is an expensive freedom/lifestyle.

I am simply too angry to have access to a system [email] where I can immediately tell anybody in the world how I feel about something [and did for a quarter-century]. If something really bothers me, it has to be worth a postage stamp (I usually write postcards, but also have thousands of FOREVER Stamps™).
by williamdclt | 2025-10-14 09:56:11+00:00
> For me consumerism seems much worse than free trade. Buying clothes and use it once, change the car each year or other similar behaviors seem unsustainable because nobody cares about the generated garbage or the energy/material requirements.

I don't believe in putting the responsibility on individuals. Billions upon billions of whatever currency are being poured into ads, marketing, influencing, lobbying, propaganda (and whatever other manipulation mechanism I'm not thinking of), employing some of the most brilliant mind of this generation, to ensure that individuals are consumerist. Because that's what will make companies the most money, and "making more money" is the only incentive this society has in place.

Show me the incentive and I show you the outcome: the outcome is enormous externalities. We need to fix the incentives, not expect individuals to somehow act against them en masse.
by zamalek | 2025-10-14 09:57:24+00:00
Transformers aren't it, though. We need a new fundamental architecture and, just like every step forward in AI that came before, when that happens is a completely random event. Some researcher needs to wake up with a brilliant idea.

The explosion of compute and investment could mean that we have more researchers available for that event to happen, but at the same time transformers are sucking up all the air in the room.
by ddoeth | 2025-10-14 09:58:20+00:00
I want to preface this by saying that I use almost only signal, but I do get the appeal. Walking out of the house and switching from wifi to mobile is so smooth, signal always takes a hot minute to reconnect, but with facetime (and for that matter meet and whatsapp video calls) you barely get a stutter. For the most part it really is a "it just works" solution whereas signal sometimes feels a little klunky. I don't mind, but I get that people value that.
by moezd | 2025-10-14 09:58:21+00:00
Obligatory Life of Brian marketplace scene add here.

Not everyone delegates their critical thinking capabilities to AI. And it was never the one and the only attribute that defined what a human being is. It is a post-Industrial Age concern, when they needed educated populace who could follow instructions at the factory floor, and participate in democracy. Today we don't have both obligations anymore. Sure we vote, but we don't really have a say in government affairs anymore, and sure we think and follow instructions to KYC ourselves to the latest crypto exchange, but our thoughts never reach out to engineers or scientists who end up creating the very addictive tools that we use. Just as intended, we are, as collective masses, sliding back to pre-Industrial age way of life.
by ddmf | 2025-10-14 09:59:02+00:00
I'm Audhd, 50, and my experience mirrors yours, although I can fall asleep earlier, but it's a die throw whether I wake around 3am or sleep fully until 7am.

The worst aspect is that I seem to procrastinate fun things now - like gaming, or making music.

Hope you can find something to help you recharge :)
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-14 10:00:16+00:00
Go vertical. Vertical panels take minimal space, can replace fences (everywhere!), nothing to clean (wind cleans it), heat dissipates and increases production, flattens the duck curve and produces energy during peak demand (early evenings), increases the window of time unlimited free energy is available. Vertical panels provide shade (and this can be calibrated for different types of plants)

Vertical panels may even be stacked on top of one another. Considering how big a fan of solar panels this administration is, perhaps the Big Beautiful Border Wall can be built with vertical solar panels.
by Oxodao | 2025-10-14 10:00:35+00:00
Did you get this to work with wireguard though?

As long as my phone is connected to wireguard KDEConnect does NOT see any other computer, apparently because it wont forward ICMP broadcast according to the internet.

I would really like to have a solution to this issue but since its baked in WG i don't think this is possible
by baxtr | 2025-10-14 10:00:51+00:00
After 3 years, I would like to see pathways.

Let say we found a company that already realized 5-10% of savings in the first step. Now, based on this we might be able to map out the path to 25-30% savings in 5% steps for example.

I personally haven’t seen this, but I might have missed it as well.
by hkt | 2025-10-14 10:00:51+00:00
Honestly I've generated some big ISH codebases with AI and have said so and then backed off when asked.. because a) I still want to try to establish more confidence in the codebase and b) my employment contract gleefully states everything I write belongs to my employer. Both of those things make me nervous.

That said, I have no doubt there are also bots setting out to generate FOMO
by phendrenad2 | 2025-10-14 10:01:20+00:00
If anyone's wonder if this guy was really the cause of the Palisade's fire: No, probably not. His reportedly erratic and eccentric behavior tells me he's probably not mentally capable of standing trial. Normally the government would just shrug, call it an act of nature, and move on. But for some reason they're going out of their way to pin this fire on someone.
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by ZelinW | 2025-10-14 10:01:22+00:00
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What you can try (MVP)

Enter a goal (e.g., “401(k) rollover”, “Invest $100k”, “Build a term-life plan”).

Get a concise, step-by-step plan you can refine interactively.

No credit card; minimal friction to test.

Looking for feedback

Is onboarding clear in under 3 minutes?

Does the plan feel trustworthy and specific enough?

Biggest blockers / confusing copy / missing steps?

What would you want to see next?

Join the testers (Nightly Update cadence)

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by basisword | 2025-10-14 10:02:09+00:00
RE: TikTok. I get links sent frequently and I can view on the web. They make it very difficult though! Muted and autoplay by default and hard to find the unmute button under a web of popups. I think the site isn't responsive either so desktop site on mobile. Also - for some videos at least on TikTok you can download the video via the share button! So not always necessary to use a third party tool.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-14 10:02:23+00:00
That there is a bubble is absolutely certain. If for no other reason, than because investors don't understand the technology and don't know which companies are for real and which are essentially scams, they dump money into anything with the veneer of AI and hope some of it sticks. We're replaying the dotcom bubble, a lot of people are going to get burned, a lot of companies will turn out to be crap. But at the end of the dotcom crash we had some survivors standing above the rest and the whole internet thing turned out to have considerable staying power. I think the same will happen with AI, particularly agentic coding tools. The technology is real and will stick with us, even after the bubble and crash.
by basisword | 2025-10-14 10:05:06+00:00
>> For Instagram and similar shit, I could find some nice downloader bots on Telegram. They typically require you to join some spam channels, but you can join and archive those so you never see that they exist.

Why is this better than just joining Instagram with a 'ghost' account only used to view things you've been sent. No following or viewing otherwise. Is it just self-control (which I fully understand if it is)?
by levingsw | 2025-10-14 10:05:48+00:00
Hey HN,

After tracking 97K+ community members across 25 startup ecosystems, we noticed something interesting about co-founder matching.

Traditional advice is "go to events and network," but that's basically YOLOing the most important business decision you'll make. You wouldn't hire an employee based purely on vibes at a networking event.

We found four patterns that actually predict co-founder success:

1. Commitment patterns (2 events/year vs 15 events across multiple communities) 2. Relevant experience (consistently showing up in domain-specific spaces) 3. Ecosystem embeddedness (woven into regional networks, not one-off appearances) 4. Strategic warm intros (shared context vs cold LinkedIn messages)

The approach cuts typical 6-12 month search timelines down to weeks by using actual behavioral data instead of self-reported profiles.

Would love feedback from founders who've found co-founders. What worked? What was a waste of time?

(Full disclosure: I run LocalFoundation, which helps ecosystems track this data. But the principles work whether you build your own system or just approach networking more strategically.)
by baq | 2025-10-14 10:05:59+00:00
the art is in academics and in the hobby space, it was a cool feeling of accomplishment when you finally got something working. LLMs are very helpful here if you use them right - e.g. as a tutor if starting out.

in the business, it was always best to be value and result oriented, which very often has nothing to do with art and composed thought - shipping something that kinda works is priority 1. LLMs can significantly accelerate the already breakneck pace, but you need expertise to keep them in check, and this is where the gap between students and senior swes lies - and it's only getting bigger with every model release.
by cubefox | 2025-10-14 10:07:38+00:00
Strange analog stick fact: According to YouTuber Wulff Den, the first ever game that used an analog stick for third-person camera rotation was only Super Mario Sunshine in 2002. A GameCube game that came out more than two years after the release of the PS2, and several years after the N64 and the PS1 Dual Analog controller.

I guess some ideas seem only obvious in hindsight.
by bko | 2025-10-14 10:07:47+00:00
This may be unpopular opinion, but I'm more or less okay with things like search records and Uber receipts being included as evidence when there's probable cause.

It's no different than the contents of your home. Obviously we don't want police busting in to random homes to search, but if you're the suspect of a crime and police have a warrant, it's entirely reasonable to enter a home and search. I guess it can't necessarily help clear you up like an alibi would, but if the party is guilty is could provide things like more certainty, motivation, timeline of events, etc.

I think people conflate the two. They hold that certain things should remain private under all circumstances, where I believe the risk is a large dragnet of surveillance that affects everyone as opposed to targeted tools to determine guilt or innocence.

Am I wrong?
by bilekas | 2025-10-14 10:08:02+00:00
> I don't understand why Americans require machines to count.

There's actually nothing wrong with machine counting, I believe it was found to be more accurate also overall less prone to fatigue and mistakes. [0]

The real strange thing in the US is the electoral college system for Presidential elections, surely 1 person 1 vote nationwide would make sense. Afterall the President is supposed to represent everyone equally.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128197774/research-finds-han...