MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BruceEel | 2025-10-07 12:20:25+00:00
> Or better yet, maybe Microsoft will realize very important parts of Windows are going downhill and remember what made Windows great.

Microsoft have done 180's in the past. I still hope that at some point they'll see the light and what you say here above will suddenly click and become evident to them. Windows, and DOS before that, did not succeed by holding customers as hostages.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-07 12:20:56+00:00
I don't know, I don't buy that this is a use case that matters enough to sway anyone.

That's how I feel about a lot of AI stuff.

Like... It's neat. It's a fun novelty. It makes a good party trick. It's the software equivalent of a knick knack.

Like 90% of the pixel AI features. There's some good ones in there, sure, but most of them you play around with for a day and then forget exist.
by kldg | 2025-10-07 12:21:37+00:00
Every Windows-shipping laptop I review, the very first thing I type up is the process for setting up Windows without setting up a cloud account. It's already a 7-10 step process on existing laptops. If they want to make that a 20-30 step process, I'm A-OK scaring off potential customers writing out a weekend project for them; I don't make money on sales, and people seem to appreciate me taking the time to write this process out.

Do it, bozos!
by jamiecurle | 2025-10-07 12:21:49+00:00
Authenticity nitpick: during this period where Mondrian produced geometrical works, he was emerging from theosophy as a primary influence towards universal truths. A key part of this was never using green. It's my pet peeve when people cite Mondrian based on geometry and then use green.

This is why I don't get invited to many places.
by rasengan | 2025-10-07 12:21:54+00:00
My comment still applies regardless of any level of “explaining” [1]:

1. Either Nord/Teso are loose with keys (horrible)

Or

2. Proton isn’t being truthful.

I don’t think it’s a conspiracy or anything that it is Tesonet/Nord. Rather, the problem is you cannot trust someone with your privacy if they can’t even manage their own keys.

[1] The explanation is poor at best and doesn’t explain why they worked so hard to try to delete all of the evidence (all of which was archived already). Additionally, nothing can explain away the lack of security with key management across these two orgs.
by hunvreus | 2025-10-07 12:21:57+00:00
The main difference is that you're just deploying apps, not containers (although I do plan on adding support for custom Docker images).

Ultimately, I built this because I wanted the Vercel experience for Python apps.

PS: it's built with FastAPI and HTMX (and Basecoat [1] which I created for this project).

[1]: https://basecoatui.com
by harperlee | 2025-10-07 12:22:07+00:00
Less cynically: there is only one partner; the team, if it works, manages to leverage the partner to ~5x - 10x.

And no, you don’t pay partner rates. The client generally knows that to do commercial pressure you need to get info about team size, put it in the contract, and then negotiate on blended rate so it is close to what the market pays for the junior.
by sammorrowdrums | 2025-10-07 12:23:38+00:00
Relatedly, I think that success in post-AI business will be about doing more with the same or more people, not the same with less. Like you say, the AI part reduces the value and increases the availability of anything automated, so competing by trying to fire the most people to do keep doing the same job is simply not the game of anyone wanting their business to survive.

You have to provide scale and quality that was out of reach before and is now table stakes (whenever now is for a given industry).
by throwaway290 | 2025-10-07 12:23:53+00:00
previous:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21994655 6 years ago, 27 comments

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31491709 3 years ago, 17 comments

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40112169 1 year ago, 30 comments

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44317242 4 months ago, 50 comments
by coffeeling | 2025-10-07 12:25:02+00:00
That's uncharitable: Stability matters, and Linux just doesn't give a fuck about breaking the environment since software is of course FOSS and can just be recompiled from sauce, right?

Meanwhile try to launch a proprietary app and have it work after some years? Lol, good luck unless you constantly update it. Windows, you can still run ancient apps because key parts of the system are stable.
by zahlman | 2025-10-07 12:25:56+00:00
That was my first objection.

My second objection is that when I see a title of the form "using X as Y" (especially here, where the audience is technical) I expect the article content to be primarily about how X is useful for Y, and about the specific actions taken to make it fit for purpose. But this one seems to be largely about the consideration and rejection of other tools, and then the rest is basically just celebrating the experience of having made it work.

The main thing I learned about the game, outside of the screenshots and basic description, is that it uses a client-server model. Even though there's no clear reason why that would be necessary or even helpful beyond "it's written in TypeScript and that's what TypeScript devs are accustomed to". Certainly I can hardly fathom that any original implementation of SimCity too such an approach.
by mhb | 2025-10-07 12:26:01+00:00
Before the war erupted in April 2023, Sudan was already experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis that left 15.8 million people in need of humanitarian aid. Two years of war have gravely exacerbated these conditions, displacing over 12 million people and leaving 30.4 million people—more than half of Sudan’s population—in need of humanitarian support.
by nmfccodes | 2025-10-07 12:26:06+00:00
I still remember the night I nearly missed a delivery window because three different carrier portals were timing out on me. By the time I’d retyped the same PRO numbers into each site and refreshed yet another spreadsheet, the truck was already at the dock. That “spreadsheet relay race” is still the norm for a lot of ops and customer success teams, and it’s the reason I built ShipmentTrack. The idea was simple: keep every load in sight without hopping between logins. ShipmentTrack opens with a single carrier picker—ABF, XPO, CEVA, Customco, Forward Air, and a dozen more connectors we wired directly into their public or partner APIs. Drop in whatever tracking numbers you have (comma, space, or line separated); the console cleans the paste job, deduplicates the list, and gets to work. I don’t have to worry about hunting for the right field or wondering whether a pasted space broke the request. Once the numbers are in, the workspace becomes a calm command center. Results slide into one tableau instead of 14 browser tabs. I can flip between “All,” “In transit,” “Delivered,” or the dreaded “No tracking found” to triage the queue quickly. Each shipment expands into the full event timeline—exact carrier status language, timestamps, locations when they exist, even the side-by-side ship-from and deliver-to panels so I can sanity-check addresses without digging into a TMS. There’s a gentle bit of persistence too: when I reopen the tab after lunch, my last carrier and numbers are still there, so I pick up right where I left off. Under the hood, the app fans out real-time calls (no cached screenshots) and throttles them in small batches so the APIs stay happy; when a carrier hiccups, the row just shows an inline retry button instead of forcing me to restart the whole search. On lighter days I keep the Chrome side panel extension open, which lets me peek at updates without leaving email. And because everything is in a single layout with consistent filters, handing context to a colleague—or simply proving that a milestone happened—takes seconds. If you’ve felt that familiar dread of juggling logins while a shipper pings you for updates, take a quiet moment with ShipmentTrack. Select the carrier that gives you the most grief, paste in the numbers you’ve been chasing, and let the workspace show you what it’s like when every load really is in sight.
by firesteelrain | 2025-10-07 12:26:23+00:00
For rocket bodies, no.

In 2022, the FCC adopted a “5-Year Rule” requiring that satellites in low Earth orbit (below ~2,000 km) be disposed of (deorbited or moved to a safe disposal orbit) “as soon as practicable but no later than five years after mission completion.”

It used to be 25 years but less stringent and more of a guideline. This is problematic for CubeSats that are already on tight budgets and some are requiring redesign like AMSAT’s
by piltdownman | 2025-10-07 12:27:30+00:00
He was an articulate, erudite, and wholly original character of the sort we are so badly in need of in current times. Even his sparring with the likes of William F Buckley is akin to the political discourse of a lost civilisation in the lense of contemporary events.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/lost-heart-o...

"Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine."

"We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic."

The incredible universality of his appeal is captured beautifully by Hitchens in 'Hitch 22' in relation to the odious and bellicose Newt Gingrich:

"I was once seated in a television studio with Newt Gingrich, waiting for the debate between us to get going, when the presenter made an off-air remark that was highly disobliging to Gore. The former Republic Speaker abruptly became very prim and disapproving, and said that he would prefer not to listen to any abuse of the author of 'Lincoln' - a novel that he regarded as being above reproach. I conveyed this news to the author himself, who took the tribute as he takes all tributes: as being overdue and well-deserved."

As for the contention re: TikTok, he'd certainly be a regular on Bill Maher in the same vein that Hitchens was in the early 2000s. He was particularly prescient and open in speaking about the separation of sexual acts from the state of being - a thesis more easily digestible now than then.

"There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices."
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-10-07 12:28:05+00:00
This is only true when the dependency structure is not already apparent. Almost all modern languages solve for this in their import statements and/or via their own package manager, at which point pushing everything up into Bazel is indeed redundant.

If anything this highlights the failure of languages solving for this themselves. I'm looking at you, C++.

It's no surprise Bazel is a hard sell for Rust, Go, Node, etc. because for those languages/ecosystems Bazel BUILD files are not the best tool to represent software architecture.
by alistairSH | 2025-10-07 12:28:27+00:00
Book rates are often set by the manufacturer. In theory, they have a mechanic do the job and time it. The real big problem is warranty work is only paid at a fraction of the book rate. So if a job normally takes three hours if you do it under warranty, you only get paid for two hours. It’s a massive disincentive for mechanics to work long-term for a brand-name dealership that sells new cars. They always run the risk of getting shafted by too much warranty work.
by freestingo | 2025-10-07 12:30:37+00:00
I went down the same rabbit hole when designing my own website, and I came out of it feeling like css as a whole is redundant. I also do not agree on not using default font families (not sure what’s wrong with them except for aesthetic reasons, something that I have never looked for in any of the websites I ever visited) or restricting content width (sometimes you may actually want longer lines to adapt to your window). One other thing that I would suggest is to make sure the font size is the same in both portrait and landscape mode on smartphones (landscape text is bigger than portrait text iirc).
by hshdhdhehd | 2025-10-07 12:30:41+00:00
Doing all that on your own server is fun and not too hard IMO. Like if you can learn React this is orders of magnitude easier but perhaps way more boring or beneath people?

I mean for DB I run a prod mariadb on hetzner and it is arguably easier to install and setup than say things most devs use, say vscode. Had to tune a couple of things (number of allowed connections for a user) but lots of good docs out there to help.
by moron4hire | 2025-10-07 12:30:43+00:00
I've been a consultant for most of the last 20 (actually come to think of it, 25) years. Even did a brief stint at Deloitte.

There is a lot of prejudice against consulting. Places like Deloitte, Accenture, are some of the largest companies in the world, so when they fuck up (which they seem previously designed to do, Deloitte was the quest job I've ever had), they fuck up big and very visibly.

But there is a super long tail of consultancies that are basically mom-and-pop businesses offering expertise that other small and medium sized businesses can't afford to keep on staff 100% of the time. It's not just management consulting, there is a lot of consulting for execution in a wide variety of areas. We do our jobs and go away quietly and someone else gets to take the credit. That's pretty much the nature of consulting.

So you never hear about it. You just get the sound bites about McKinsey or whoever charging millions to tell NYC "use garbage cans".
by ceoj | 2025-10-07 12:30:55+00:00
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE - WORLDWIDE

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Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Senior Ruby on Rails, React and AI developer with 15+ years of experience with software development.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvnKGKM6T2yAtkMhShAyxJtS...

Email: skfix@outlook.com

I am Sunil, senior Ruby on Rails, React and AI developer with super happy clients from all over the world. I am open to part-time, and full-time opportunities.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-07 12:31:12+00:00
The B6 boundary: https://www.neso.energy/publications/electricity-ten-year-st...

The power lines follow the two main road links, the A1 and the A74/M6. I suppose that's not surprising from an access point of view. What is surprising is that the solution to NIMBY opposition is to route offshore and underwater, at considerable expense - and still getting opposition at the landing points. Fortunately one of the landing points is Torness, which already has a scenic nuclear reactor and associated transmission infrastructure.

I do understand the argument that the Borders is "unspoilt", but also .. hardly anybody lives there because it's an odd economic dead zone. Run another line of pylons within sight of the existing ones and call it a day.

I also wonder to what extent building more storage on either end would help. That's got to be brought into the equation. Don't say pumped storage because all the suitable geology for that and one of the biggest existing installations is also in Scotland, we need some in the Midlands.

And should probably be asking why new high usage AI datacenters are still happening in London.
by ceoj | 2025-10-07 12:32:19+00:00
SEEKING WORK, REMOTE - WORLDWIDE

Remote: Yes. I have been working remotely with clients from USA, UK/EU, AUS/NZ for last 15+ years.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Senior Ruby on Rails, React and AI developer with 15+ years of experience with software development.

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvnKGKM6T2yAtkMhShAyxJtS...

Email: skfix@outlook.com

I am Sunil, senior Ruby on Rails, React and AI developer with super happy clients from all over the world. I am open to part-time, and full-time opportunities.
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-07 12:32:57+00:00
Many words and few to the point. tldr: This person likes build-tools (Google's Bazel) that can constrain dependencies to be used only by certain packages, and says this documents the project's architecture.

I've always thought of "architecture" as a high-level description of run-time behavior, not a set of compile-time dependency constraints.
by Theodores | 2025-10-07 12:33:06+00:00
Showing a laundry list of logos is not testimonials. Testimonials are more like reviews, a different type of social proof where you get a few words about how the product solved the problem and how the company stepped up with customer service when it was needed.

In reality, these company logos are always going to be deceptive. If one person at (say) IBM used the software for a minute then why not slap the IBM logo on there? Or, if someone with a Gmail address used the software once, then why not slap the Alphabet logo on there too?
by pilchard123 | 2025-10-07 12:33:16+00:00
Some German publishers used to to that for books too, apparently. I've heard at least of cases of it happening to Terry Pratchet and Iain Banks (possibly because they wrote SF/F, which as we all know is not real literature).

https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...
by thenerdhead | 2025-10-07 12:33:17+00:00
what we’re seeing now is that the immune system can go into overdrive, where certain immune cells trigger sepsis-like illness, sometimes in milder or chronic ways. long covid and related conditions seem like part of that same spectrum of immune dysfunction.

there’s some great new research out of the university of virginia looking into this https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq2509

mis-c and the adult versions are rare but real, and there’s early promise with a treatment called larazotide https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.adu4284

the nih recover autopsy studies are also finding viral persistence in multiple organs, with more results coming soon https://recovercovid.org/pathobiology

i work on multiple NIH RECOVER efforts on this topic and post long covid research on x, and honestly the picture is both fascinating and pretty grim https://x.com/atranscendedman
by philipallstar | 2025-10-07 12:33:46+00:00
> But while we haven’t (yet?) seen mass layoffs, the labor market is weirdly frozen, probably because of uncertainty created by Trump’s erratic policies.

It's actually probably because people are thinking AI is going to be more useful than junior hires. The thing "bouying up the economy" is at least in part the thing causing the effects the AI is "masking".
by jtolj | 2025-10-07 12:34:48+00:00
I'm a bit late to this thread, but also wanted to express my thanks to Jeff for mise. I have a lot of different projects in my ~ directory in various languages and with various task runners. Migrating dependency management and wrapping tasks in mise's task runner has removed so much cognitive overhead getting spun back up on projects I haven't touched in a while. Great work!
by abxyz | 2025-10-07 12:34:52+00:00
The trope is that an unpopular decision is made within the organization and then consultants are brought in to execute that unpopular decision and absorb the fallout as if it were the consultants decision.

The reality is that people within a large bureaucratic organization often need a decision to be made that has impacts which extend beyond their narrowly defined responsibilities. Consultants are brought in to make the decision instead, to put space between the employees and the decision. The decision might be unpopular or popular, that’s besides the point.

If you’re an employee with a role doing x, putting your head above the parapet and volunteering to do y, it’s a huge risk, for little reward. Best case, the big corporate you work for gives you a pat on the back and a gift card. Worst case, you’re the sacrificial lamb at the altar of accountability. Much easier to offload everything onto consultants to dodge any risk of being held accountable for a bad outcome.

So, yes, consultants protect employees, but not in the cynical way the trope suggests.
by anonymars | 2025-10-07 12:35:30+00:00
> to debug multiple binaries simultaneously in the same solution requires launching multiple instances of the entire IDE

Eh? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/debu...

> complicated and unmodifiable shortcut keys for common tasks. Killing the proces

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/identifyi...

Debug.TerminateAll is right there in the list

> No you’re just completely ignorant

Forgive my skepticism
by rkomorn | 2025-10-07 12:35:40+00:00
Sorry for the mini rant but... One of the things that annoy me about TV shows is that the pacing on shows that were designed for network TV with ads is so predictable you can know whenever a tense scene is going to have an interesting outcome or not.

Tension somewhere between the usual ad boundaries? Nothing's happening. Tension near the 7 or 10 minute boundaries (depending on 30 or 60 minute shows)? Something's gonna happen.

It makes TV shows predictable even when watched on an ad-free platform.
by arthurofbabylon | 2025-10-07 12:35:48+00:00
I'm reminded of the tiny-home movement from the 00's, and how it evolved in our cultural zeitgeist. Early on, practitioners tried to cram as much as possible into the smallest amount of space; you'd see kitchen/dining/living/TV/office combo rooms. Over time it grew obvious that minimalism is less about the amount of space consumed and more about the human interface. For instance, a space that is easy to clean with limited visual noise would score higher on minimalism than those early little multi-use rooms even if 5-10x the size. Now, a minimalist home is all about how the person inhabits it, even if the structure itself is rather large and feature-rich.

The author seems to partially grasp this notion with a clear intent (focus, spontaneity). However, the emphasis on stuff seems notably anti-minimalist. I suspect the objects in the author's life could have an even smaller role than they do. Some 3/4 of that post was dedicated to the objects; what about walking, or attention, or connecting with locals... aren't these the real challenges/opportunities?

Take for example a mentor of mine who would travel to a new continent and craft a new material life: buying a van (old and used) in the tourism off-season, finding a cheap stove, gathering some padding and bedding, etc etc, continuously replacing and evolving his kit, never attached to any object, willing to forget about the whole thing, spending maximum time in nature and connecting with friends. You almost forgot about this guy's material life because his non-material life was so rich: gregarious, generous, present in nature, skilled in his pursuits. The kit was just a tool so that he could be in the places he wanted to be in, and not the other way around. If he were to blog about his lifestyle, he would probably highlight less the object he found and more the fact that he found it because he had his eyes wide open.

That's a lot of words to say that I believe this author could focus on the spirit of minimalism and drop some of its decorations. Minimalism is not black clothing and small backpacks, but rather a clarity of mind and simplicity in approach. I don't mean to be a total drag – I support and encourage this author.
by lazide | 2025-10-07 12:35:53+00:00
Safety defect: my Tesla has a really distracting giant screen in the drivers field of view. WTF?

Closed: Working as Intended, Elon has us by the balls.

It’s similar to alarm fatigue in the ED. In most, every piece of equipment is alerting on at least one thing at any given moment, if just because the patients pulse-ox sensor is not attached super well.

But they came in because of a diabetic emergency and we’re just waiting to make sure the treatment worked and 99% of the time it does, so no one really cares, but the UX around silencing it isn’t great (and may be a liability if used). Like in this example.

Because maybe this is one of those 1/1000 cases where the insulin didn’t work, and they lost all peripheral circulation and that pulse-ox sensor’s bad reading is warning you that they are about to lose all their fingers.