MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Towaway69 | 2025-10-12 08:08:25+00:00
If anyone with time, money and resources wants to revive the ideas of Yahoo! Pipes then I would suggest using Node-RED[^1] as a good starting point.

It has the advantage of being open source, has well defined and stable APIs and a solid backend. Plus 10+ years of constant development with many learnings around how to implement flow based programming visually.

I used the Node-RED frontend to create Browser-Red[^2] which is a Node-RED that solely executes in the browser, no server required. It does not support all Node-RED functionality but gives a good feel for using Node-RED and flow based programming.

The second project with which I am using Node-RED frontend is Erlang-Red[^3] which is Node-RED with an Erlang backend. Erlang is better suited to flow based programming than NodeJS, hence this attempt to demonstrate that!

Node-RED makes slightly different assumptions than Yahoo! Pipes - input ports being the biggest: all nodes in Node-RED have either zero or one input wires, nodes in Yahoo! Pipes had multiple input wires.

A good knowledge of jQuery is required but that makes it simpler to get into the frontend code - would be my argument ;) I am happy to answer questions related to Node-RED, email in bio.

[^1]: https://nodered.org

[^2]: https://cdn.flowhub.org

[^3]: https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red
by lexicality | 2025-10-12 08:08:51+00:00
In absolutely shocking news, it did stop working and then Google went out of their way to fix it.

I genuinely thought all the chromecast audios I owned were useless bricks and was looking around for replacements and then they just started working again from an OTA update. Astounding. I assume someone got fired for taking time away from making search worse to do this.

(edit: https://www.techradar.com/televisions/streaming-devices/goog...)
by Fuzzwah | 2025-10-12 08:10:50+00:00
I loved pipes. I had rss feeds from all the sites where I was sharing content collected up and formatted via pipes into a single rss feed that was pulled into a php blog.

Then all those sites I used to post on stopped supporting rss one by one and finally pipes was killed off.

For a while I used a python library called riko that did the same thing as pipes without the visual editor. I have to thank it for getting me off php and into python.

https://github.com/nerevu/riko
by efreak | 2025-10-12 08:11:20+00:00
Then you would limit the number of times the feature can be turned on, not turned off. Turned off uses less resources, while turned on potentially continues using their resources. Also I doubt if they actually remove data that requires processing to obtain, I wouldn't expect them to delete it until they're actually required to do so, especially considering the metadata obtained is likely insignificant in size compared to the average image.
by stingraycharles | 2025-10-12 08:11:53+00:00
I typically ask it to start with some short, verbatim quotes of sources it found online (if relevant), as this grounds the context into “real” information, rather than hallucinations. It works fairly well in situations where this is relevant (I recently went through a whole session of setting up Cloudflare Zero Trust for our org, this was very much necessary).
by thinkingemote | 2025-10-12 08:12:50+00:00
Positron - Firefox version of Electron. "Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko" https://github.com/mozilla/positron

This would have changed so much. Desktop apps powered by the engine of Firefox not Chrome.

Why? Not enough company buy in, not enough devs worked on it. Maybe developed before a major Firefox re-write?
by Arnavion | 2025-10-12 08:14:23+00:00
Yes, I run Waydroid (LineageOS in a Linux container) in an Ubuntu x86_64 VM on my home PC using their default installation method, plus libhoudini via https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script to be able to run arm64-only apps, and waypipe the UI to my (Linux) phone that is connected to my home LAN via Wireguard.

I used to run Waydroid directly on the phone, but the phone has terrible specs and Waydroid had become frustrating in the last few months, when it updated its LineageOS image to a new Android version. It would frequently crash or pop up an infinite series of "app is not responding" dialog boxes, even though whatever app it was was responding just fine. With my new VM + waypipe setup, Waydroid launches in ~10s instead of ~3 minutes, and everything is reasonably snappy despite now traveling over the network, so I'm happy.
by dijit | 2025-10-12 08:14:24+00:00
What you’re saying doesn’t align with what PC reviewers are stating outright though.

The Legion GO being the most prime example[0].

Some games work better on Linux, some worse, but largely comparable[1].

I don’t believe that reviewers are paid to promote this view.

[0]: https://youtu.be/CJXp3UYj50Q?si=QWx6DRTQqzXnwfPL

[1]: https://www.noobfeed.com/articles/steamos-vs-windows-10-pc-b...
by pndy | 2025-10-12 08:14:38+00:00
If you look at EU and its inaction over Microsoft privacy shenanigans with Win10 and 11. How it spins around Apple and cannot enforce them to fully open their mobile operating system then I sadly have little hopes they can do anything regarding Google and their recent decisions around Play store and 3rd party apps.

I wish something could be done but sadly feels like regular people have to climb mountains to protect themselves while corporations just come in by front door with lucrative deals in order to protect their status-quo
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-12 08:17:11+00:00
What people want is challenging to predict, and that challenge is dramatically multiplied in the realm of software. This is entirely about predictive analysis of behavior.

Software features participants with autism at a substantially higher rate than the population average and autistic person have different perspectives and desires compared to the remaining population. Than means software development peers are a poor predictor of product success in a more general marketplace.
by derriz | 2025-10-12 08:17:43+00:00
In the last 9 months, we’ve seen the destruction of US international soft power on an unimaginable scale. It’s like watching a family fortune - built up over decades - go up in smoke in the hands of an irresponsible young heir.

It will be impossible or difficult for the US to “leverage” its traditional allies in the way it has in the past. NATO and trade were powerful tools to protect US interests but have been devalued considerably by what has happened this year.

Public sentiment towards the US in these countries is at unprecedented historic lows and given these allies were democracies, this means their political class cannot continue to support the US almost unconditionally like they have in the past. This destruction of goodwill will take a generation to repair.
by Fuzzwah | 2025-10-12 08:18:04+00:00
Kuro5hin

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin

I was a hold out on smartphones for a while and I used to print out k5 articles to read while afk... Just such an amazing collection of people sharing ideas and communal moderation, editing and up voting.

I learned about so many wierd and wonderful things from that site.
by imiric | 2025-10-12 08:18:16+00:00
> There was no rug pull! [...] You can keep using your current version! You can even fork at that version. Calling it a rug pull is so entitled.

This is a dishonest perversion of the commonly accepted definition of a "rug pull".

I'll copy what I said in a previous thread:

When Redis changed licenses to SSPL/RSAL, users were also free to continue using the BSD-licensed version. Was that not a rug pull? Same with MongoDB, Elastic, HashiCorp, etc. These are quintessential examples of the "OSS rug pull".

The idea is that users were relying on a functionality to be maintained (the "rug"), and the Datastar developers decided to continue maintaining it behind a paywall (the "pull").

Nobody is claiming that developers physically took the feature away from users, as that would be ridiculous. But users of these features are now forced to either maintain it themselves, wait for someone else from the community to fork and continue maintenance (which has its own set of issues), or pay up.

You can argue how it's "only" a few hundred lines of code; criticize "incapable" developers who can't check out a Git commit or do maintenance work they previously didn't have to; that the features don't require maintenance at all; and come up with other defensive arguments. But none of it matters. The size of the "rug" doesn't matter. It's the principle and precedent it sets for any users who were potentially interested in the project.

To say nothing about putting essential features like a bundler and debugging tool behind a paywall. These are not "Pro" features.
by impossiblefork | 2025-10-12 08:18:26+00:00
Everyone is responsible for the complete consequences of his action and inaction.

"In October 2018, Citizen Lab reported on the use of NSO software to spy on the inner circle of Jamal Khashoggi just before his murder."

If your work indirectly kills people you can't say that it's not your job not to fight this. You are if that is the case among the causes, so you are responsible.
by john_the_writer | 2025-10-12 08:19:10+00:00
Yes.. that.. If you are against oil and plastics, walk your talk. If you are against rare earth, walk your talk. If you have a degree in chem-eng, and you're building low plastic solutions, and you're critical, then you're being honest. Saying "no no no" but doing it on a new cell phone you know was built on rare earth is like a vegan giving a talk while sitting on their new leather couch.
by Pooge | 2025-10-12 08:19:41+00:00
I want to copypaste this answer to so many comments in this thread but instead, let me reply to the post directly.

I'm going to travel to Japan (again) around late November this year. For this trip, I made a point to not return to a city I've been to already — Tokyo is an exception but I need to take my plane back home at some point.

Japan really has a high density when you go to the touristic attractions (most of those are inside Tokyo, Kyoto or Osaka). But when you go out of your way, you won't regret it. Peaceful streets, beautiful gardens. I would even advocate to actively go out of your way. Even if you get lost, Japan is very forgiving. People will try to help you.

Somehow, outside of those cities it kinda looks like the countryside everywhere, but as long as there is a train station it's still convenient to go there.

Also, Japan is cheap. People doubt me when I say this, but Japan is very inexpensive. When you do the "Top 5" on TripAdvisor and eat Kobe Beef every day, yes it sure is expensive but it also is an experience that isn't meant to be lived that many times.

If any of you read this and need help planning a trip or want any humble suggestions, feel free to contact me!
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-10-12 08:20:29+00:00
> It only takes a decade or two if there is zero urgency and you give every rando with an axe to grind, both imaginary and real, veto power over the project.

The issue is the vetoes are layered and entrenched.

Some EPA rules makes it effectively impossible but are to varying extents actually protecting the environment, so you'd want someone who knows what they're doing to rewrite them in a way that can do both things at once. Zoning rules prohibit anyone from operating a mine there or building housing for the workers near the mine and local NIMBYs control the local zoning boards. Various OSHA regulations, state and federal mining rules, transportation rules, etc. are in the same state as the EPA ones.

There isn't any one place you can go to unbotch it all at once but getting them each to do it individually is non-trivial unless your plan is to just vaporize them all simultaneously.
by ssss11 | 2025-10-12 08:20:42+00:00
Flickr - that was the future of photo storage, sharing, discovery.

What was the bookmarks social tool called from 00’s? I loved it and it fell off the earth. You could save your bookmarks, “publish” them to the community, share etc..

What ever happened to those build your own homepage apps like startpage (I think)? I always thought those would take off
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-10-12 08:20:53+00:00
Adobe Flash / Shockwave. After all these decades, I've yet to see a tool that makes it as easy to make games or multimedia as Flash did. One of many reminders recently (many others in politics) that humanity doesn't just inevitably or linearly move forward in any domain, or even 2 steps forward 1 step back. Some things are just lost to time - maybe rediscovered in a century, maybe never.
by zem | 2025-10-12 08:20:57+00:00
iirc folding spacetime was a separate (and unexplained) piece of magic; what the spice did was to let you navigate a ship through folded space, which unenhanced human perception could not do.

but specifics apart, the main point is just because readers accept hyperspace and extrasensory perception as part of your fictional universe, doesn't mean they will not expect the laws of thermodynamics, or planetary ecology, or other related fields, to also be suspended.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-12 08:21:22+00:00
It had been a thing since mobile phones existed.

Pre-paid cards that required paying for unlocking the phone firmware, eventually forbidden on EU countries.

Vodafone famously had their own firmware on Nokia N95 in Germany that disabled tethering,....

It starts by regular people being trained to accept that lack of quality and restrictions are normal in digital world.
by onli | 2025-10-12 08:21:46+00:00
With reasonable ethical you indeed might want to look into the Fairphones. The Fairphone 6 was reviewed as being a nice improvement over the 5. I'd expect LineageOS to land on that device some time in the future, after all the prior three models are supported. You could wait for that, or settle for the 5.

If you want something cheap and easy instead of the Fairphone, the Motorola moto g 5G (2024) looks good. Supported by LineageOS 23.0 and also on the list of calyx devices, https://calyxos.org/docs/guide/device-support/#modern-device..., with vendor security updates till 2027 (though calyx is on pause, that's me only hoping the device list will still apply afterwards, would be an interesting additional option). Not available in my market though, or just hard to find with that name given the other similarly named motorola phones.

OnePlus 12R is one of the newest phones that is supported, and will get vendor updates until 2028. No headphone jack and no sd card slot though.

Ethical does not describe the OnePlus and Motorola phones. But anything used could be judged as such, since you then at least did not add to the garbage pile of unrepairable devices directly - but they are a bit new for that maybe. On the other hand, vendor security updates don't exist for many of the older devices (especially those from Motorola, they churn out new devices by the dozens and almost immediately abandon them), and the new EU regulations that force vendors to provide security updates only apply to new devices.
by immibis | 2025-10-12 08:21:55+00:00
Prices going up is dollar devaluation. One doesn't cause the other - they're already two different words for the same thing.

If potato prices rise but soybean prices fall, then you can say potatoes got more expensive, soybeans got cheaper, and the dollar is worth the same. But if prices go up all across the economy in general, that is dollar devaluation.
by 9dev | 2025-10-12 08:23:42+00:00
Right? These comments are so bewildering. I like the design and UX, and the promise to at least a bit more privacy, but if I had to use android or windows or Ubuntu tomorrow, it’d be another device that I use. How you could even expend so much of your time to think about computers more than necessary to use them, much less worship a brand, is beyond me.
by rolandog | 2025-10-12 08:25:42+00:00
Interesting article. I personally side with the opponents in this regard:

> But opponents argue it's being used as a cheaper alternative to providing adequate social or medical support.

I personally think that all attempts should be made to provide homeless and sick people with treatments, and they shouldn't be pushed in that direction if they do not want it.

If we do not have the capacity to do so, then my view is that we are failing as a society to provide adequate care for all in their time of need.

If a country is able to build dozens of city-sized data centers, then it is clearly choosing not to treat and house a certain part of their population.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-12 08:25:53+00:00
Not only because of price. The 'ecosystem' infrastructure wasn't there, or at least not spread wide enough. The 'mindshare'/thinking of ways how to do, neither. This is more aligned with (live) 'image-based' working environments like early Lisp and Smalltalk systems. Look at where they are now...

A few more thoughts about that, since I happen to have some of the last systems who actually had systems level support for that in their firmware, and early low-capacity optanes designed for that sort of use. It's fascinating to play with these, but they are low capacity, and bound to obsolete operating systems.

Given enough RAM, you can emulate that with working suspend and resume to/and from RAM.

Another avenue are the ever faster and larger SSDs, in practice, with some models it makes almost no difference anymore, since random access times are so fast, and transfer speeds insane. Maybe total and/or daily TBW remains a concern.

Both of these can be combined.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-12 08:26:11+00:00
FWIW I agree with you. I want to go out on my own terms if I get that sort of diagnosis. The only major health-related concern I have is that I'll some day experience a traumatic health event that immediately disables me and stops me from making that decision, whether legally (competency) or extralegally.

I know there are medical directives that can be put in place but they don't cover everything and they can't compel anyone to end my hypothetical misery, the most they can do is withdraw care.
by microtonal | 2025-10-12 08:26:33+00:00
It's worth mentioning that newer Samsung phones and tablets have an eFuse that is blown when you unlock them. This permanently disables some functionality of their separate secure element (IIRC). If you are planning to run LineageOS forever, it would probably not be a big issue, but if you just want to try a third-party OS or ever resell the device, it could be an issue.
by john01dav | 2025-10-12 08:27:17+00:00
It's not "their devices". I recently bought a house and the previous owner kept trying to influence what I did with it, and everyone -- even those in government who ultimately had to help enforce my ownership rights -- agreed with me that that was ridiculous and intolerable. When Apple, Samsung, or whoever else sells something it isn't their's anymore! They have no right to continued involvement in it! That's how selling works!
by defanor | 2025-10-12 08:27:36+00:00
> but what would be the benefit of having more pages fail to render?

I think those benefits are quite similar to having more programs failing to run (due to static and strong typing, other static analysis, and/or elimination of undefined behavior, for instance), or more data failing to be read (due to integrity checks and simply strict parsing): as a user, you get documents closer to valid ones (at least in the rough format), if anything at all, and additionally that discourages developers from shipping a mess. Then parsers (not just those in viewers, but anything that does processing) have a better chance to read and interpret those documents consistently, so even more things work predictably.
Real or Render
by kreivc | 2025-10-12 08:28:17+00:00
Ever wonder how good you are at spotting AI-generated images? I created a Wordle-like daily game called “Real or Render” to find out. Each day, you get 10 rounds to pick the real image from a pair. It’s a fun, quick challenge, but surprisingly tricky. The average accuracy is only around 60%! I’d love for you to try it out and share your feedback https://www.real-or-render.com
by abe312 | 2025-10-12 08:28:52+00:00
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by abe312 | 2025-10-12 08:29:58+00:00
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Need help with migrating to next.js? Looking for a React developer who would be productive from day 1?

Hi. I'm looking for full-time remote roles in a well-funded stable company (I will work in the company's core office hours. 0 issues with timezones. Been working remotely before covid)

Building websites since 2016, working with React since 2018 and have 2 years of production next.js experience

Super comfortable with Next.js, React, Redux (with sagas), tailwind, material ui, styled-components, SEO schemas, AMP, MERN, scalable deployment on GCP/AWS/Vercel, incremental migration and parallel deployment (WordPress blogs, new next.js code and old code working on the same domain)

I value web performance (web vitals) and accessibility and could create high conversion dynamic pages

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by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-12 08:30:28+00:00
But tariffs don’t cause prices to go up all across the economy in general. Domestic products will get more expensive in the short term due to a positive demand discontinuity, but they will fall again in the medium term as domestic producers regain access to the large swaths of the market they lost access to under the old global free market trade policy. If the tariffs continue for a long time (not guaranteed) then domestic labor compensation will also recover (perhaps not fully due to automation, but automation on the high volume stuff would free up workers to work on smaller volume products).

Side question - would you consider the converse, globalization, to be a deflationary force?
by microtonal | 2025-10-12 08:30:51+00:00
Google promises 7 years of support for their newer devices, but most vendors don't.

Unless you have a Pixel 6 and your security update goes missing?

(Didn't get the July security update and the October update is still missing? https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1o2bhur/where_... )