MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rkomorn | 2025-10-16 10:26:21+00:00
Okay, awesome point.

Meanwhile, in my 25 years of living in the US (NJ, SoCal, and NorCal), I can count on one hand the number of times I've come across them "in the wild".

I started collecting them in 2004 by keeping every one I ran into in person and I now have: 3.
by jpfromlondon | 2025-10-16 10:26:41+00:00
what are the longterm implications of easing the journey of a swarm of insects, does it reduce the attrition, and if so will that have an impact on pollination and predator success at the terminus?

in what less obvious ways does it ease the journey such as energy stowage (in hover flies I presume they depend on their pollen panniers?)
by smaudet | 2025-10-16 10:26:45+00:00
A 1040 form, while intimidating looking, is trivial to fill out. Once you've done it a couple times, it takes about 5 minutes.

The only arcane bit is the law. The tax prep software knows which forms to use for which financial detail.

If the law were written clearly, there would be no need at all for any special software, you could fill out a couple csv files and send an email...

Even without the law, you are right, the actual flow of the tax prep software, for most people, is something a 16 year old could probably cobble together in an afternoon or two... however the problem then becomes how to provide a public service at low cost (to cover hosting/bandwidth costs) while govt funds are explicitly forbade to be used.

To me the solution is obvious - a third party non govt player that receives specific allotment of funding, no questions asked. However, see the rampant issues with lobbyists mentioned in the article...
by happymellon | 2025-10-16 10:27:14+00:00
Ah sorry, knee jerk response.

So many comments about how Linux isn't ready because of some admin task requiring to run a CLI command.

Then Windows apologists tell you that actually all your problems are because you didn't edit your install ISO or pirate a IOT enterprise edition. Because that's normal behaviour.

And it's becoming more common with Macs. I remember Snow Leopard was genuinely amazing, and a massive improvement over everything else. I had high hopes after Mountain Lion that we would get a feature release and then a performance release, because the performance releases just made everything so much better. Alas I just seem to get more whitespace.
by konsnos | 2025-10-16 10:27:32+00:00
Dropping in to add that the Venu 4 is an amazing watch as well. Battery says it'll last 14 days. With Pulse Ox enabled at Sleep, it drops to 11, but I'm happy with the tradeoff. Workouts like running for half an hour drop it even more, but comparing it to an Apple Watch, it's no match. It has a flashlight as well and looks like a normal smartwatch instead of rugged. All in all, if you care more about health features rather than watch<->phone connectivity, a Garmin is worth it.
by marcusb | 2025-10-16 10:27:53+00:00
Sure, every little bit helps. But, keep in mind formal verification isn’t going to prevent configuration errors, and it remains to be seen if, for example, automated verifiers can do anything like the sel4 proof at scale. sel4 is tiny compared to most other software systems. There will still be technical avenues to attack, and if those get closed off nation state actors will just go back to spying the old fashioned way.
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-16 10:28:34+00:00
Think about it this way:

Unless you are using malloc; and/or you don't need to do anything when the pointer is freed, (the pointer doesn't reference anything else that needs to be freed or released,) there's no way that the library written outside of your runtime knows how to free your memory.

Or to put it in a different way: Passing pointers to a native library is a small amount of what your application does and you still benefit from the garbage collector when you are running inside of your own language.
by kasey_junk | 2025-10-16 10:30:08+00:00
Here is Tom Bowman’s (NPR’s lead defense reporter) opinion article where he mentions wandering the halls of the Pentagon

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g-s1-93297/pentagon-reporter-...

If you don’t quote it out of context you’ll see that a) he doesn’t have any problems with not having physical access to parts of the pentagon and b) the quote was part of a broader anecdote where generals contradicted the secretary of defense.

The new pledge would not allow him to report that disagreement. Which is extremely telling.
by eimrine | 2025-10-16 10:30:22+00:00
Your comment is 28 lines long on my monitor, my comment is only 6 lines. I understand that I definitely have not reacted to all of the comment. But why not to notice where have I threw the baby out with the bathwater?

I can not be AI because my comments are nonconformist and I write the foreign language (English) without checking grammar.
by ohdeardear | 2025-10-16 10:30:32+00:00
> Without proper press access how is there any real accountability?

No.

Real accountability is that the people can torture their leaders when they fail, but that just doesn't happen anymore.

Imagine that this was just a big rock and Trump was sitting on top of the rock like with a group of apes. Also, let's assume that Trump had set fire on the entire banana supply. Do you think the apes would not have picked a different leader immediately?

Rational people would understand that if you make people lose billions that there should be consequences, but someone the world population is more stupid than a bunch of apes.
by account42 | 2025-10-16 10:31:09+00:00
The problem with subsidizing a portion of the population based on the chosen line of work is that we will never all agree on what exact work is worth subsidizing. For example, there is a lot of "art" that I think is completely worthless. Why should choosing to go into art mean that your output is not judged by market forces while someone who does the work we all depend on for survival and convenience has to worry about making ends meet?
by easyThrowaway | 2025-10-16 10:31:17+00:00
I just did a brief frontend job for a smart-top device, so take this with a grain of salt, but basically when you're planning to release a cheap mobile phone (It was very common until a few years ago to find weird in-house phone brands in European supermarkets) you mainly license a SoC and some sort of development platform from a foundry and that's it.

Most drivers, radio devices, kernel, android releases are those you get at the beginning, you can't really change a thing due to them being closed source or just one step above from being a firmware blob with a few kernel hooks and once your contract expires your devices die with it.

We investigated if we could at least maintain the software on our own (so to not tell some telco clients their streaming devices were gonna die after 4 years) but it was a big fat no from the licensees. And reverse engineering what we already had was forbidden by contract.

In other words, if you want yo build a free phone, you need to build a free radio, a free storage solution, thousands of weird DACs, graphic cards, screen controllers, sensors and whatnot. Making sure you're not infringing on some patents. It's like starting from ground-up. And it's expensive.

A possible solution would be to invest into building into a raspberry-pi binary compatible base platform (and take advantage of their already open sourced drivers), but it was 100% economically unfeasible for a 100-200€ device.
by tokioyoyo | 2025-10-16 10:32:16+00:00
The election was less than a year ago. As an outsider, my genuine belief is this is what an average American wants. And honestly, it is what it is.

I mentioned this before as well, but this all can be viewed as a side effect of the general population not feeling improvements in their lives and not having optimism. Hard issue to solve, if I’ll be honest.
by janpio | 2025-10-16 10:32:55+00:00
This submission didn't get picked up, but I still wanted to leave a link to this Cline April Fools joke that someone on Twitter/X dug up: https://x.com/cline/status/1907235395018088727

There is also quite a bit of general discussion about Amp Free in the replies and feeds of the Amp related people on Twitter/X that might be interesting to look at.
by jraph | 2025-10-16 10:32:57+00:00
Should probably be called "open source with a two year delay", or "open source in two years".

Or "open source when obsolete" because that's what it is, fundamentally. Of course, it sells less and makes it way more obvious what these delayed open source licenses are at their core: "we'd like to make people believe we respect their freedom, but are not actually convinced with giving them that".
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by ibnzUK | 2025-10-16 10:33:05+00:00
As a solofounder, I just hit 10k registered users, hosting more datasets than Datarade and Snowflake data marketplaces combined, with hundreds of daily queries from both humans and AI agents.

Curious to hear from other solo founders, what kind of traction are you seeing, and how are you growing?
by potato3732842 | 2025-10-16 10:33:15+00:00
Your comment is a slight of hand. Yes it "works" but it is an MVP. Everywhere it's rolled out people say yes it drives, but it drives like a rookie that can follow the rules but doesn't have any of the predictive power that every driver who doesn't suck has some of.

Like for example how traffic will often modulate its spacing or time its lane changes to reduce issues with merging or exiting traffic and certain intersections with most traffic doing the same thing become an efficient repetitive cycle, Waymo doesn't "get it".

So it works, in the same way a newly licensed teenager "works". It's no cabbie.

Edit: It's been over a year since I've ridden in one. Good to hear it's potentially better now.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-10-16 10:33:33+00:00
They could still live side by side. You could still have a system where you have simplified filing where for 99.99% of the people you can just pretty much fill in one or two fields of what you made and something like that and even maybe get this data directly from the employers. That's how it works in Sweden. And then for the people who have complicated business, you could have a more complicated form where you need to hire a lawyer or accountant to do it. This is just assuming you don't care about whether or not there are loopholes for people. Like that's a political decision maybe more, because I guess the people defending them would say that there are good reasons they exist and you know wealth creation and so on. But it makes no sense to make it so complicated for people who have very simple lives where they have one employer who is paying them a salary and that's it.
by codebje | 2025-10-16 10:34:10+00:00
$6/month. It's $3 for the first month (or first months, on longer subscription cycles, but it's first unit of subscription cycle at half price only).

At $6/month it's still pretty reasonable, IMO, and chucking less than $10 at it for three months probably gets you to the next pop-up token retailer offering introductory pricing, so long as the bubble doesn't burst before then.
by freespirt | 2025-10-16 10:34:24+00:00
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by bloomca | 2025-10-16 10:34:28+00:00
> A simple system of, "Here's what we think you owe, based on the information we have on hand - sign and submit if you agree" would work for most people.

They already do that -- if you calculate your taxes wrong, they will send the adjustment (they will do it both ways, pay you back or ask for the remainder). I guess they might not be aware of all the deductions, but standard deduction beats itemized one for the majority, so they can 100% automate this whole process if they decide to. For complex cases and businesses, sure, you are on your own, but at least most W2 should be covered.
by krist0 | 2025-10-16 10:34:53+00:00
I built FitToMB to hit exact file-size caps without trial-and-error. You drop a clip, choose a final size (8/10/25 MB or custom), and it computes the right bitrate from duration, then runs a two-pass encode. No account, no watermark.

What it does (plainly): Compresses any video to an exact size (not “smaller in general”). Presets for common caps (8 MB, 10 MB, 25 MB) + a custom target. No sign-up, no ads, no tracking scripts. Files are deleted automatically from the server 1 hour after processing.

How it works (short version): Bitrate is calculated from (target_bytes * 8 – audio_budget_bits) / duration_s. Two-pass H.264 by default for compatibility; AV1 optional if you want smaller files and can handle newer playback. Live progress comes via Server-Sent Events (SSE) streaming directly from the ffmpeg backend. If you reload the page, the UI re-attaches to your running job and resumes display - no lost progress. For longer clips aiming at small sizes, it suggests downscaling (e.g., 720p) to reduce artifacts.

What’s different from HandBrake/CRF-based flows: It optimizes for target file size first. That avoids the guess-encode-miss loop (e.g., ending at 10.3 MB when you needed 10.0 MB).

Looking for feedback on: Edge cases (VFR, unusual containers, very long screen recordings). Whether AV1 should be surfaced more prominently or stay a toggle. Which “size-limit” presets/pages to add next (WhatsApp 16 MB, Slack, Teams, etc.).

Notes/limitations: AV1 is much slower to encode and some older devices/apps won’t play it; H.264 is the safe default.

Happy to share more technical details or flags if that’s useful.
by fukka42 | 2025-10-16 10:35:26+00:00
They're in no way, shape, or form official and they didn't come up with the term open source.

Like I said above, they're as official as the cheese initiative I just made up.

No government has endorsed them, and open source is not a protected name in any country I am aware of.

They're just some arrogant American organisation that expects the entire world to bend to their whim, as usual.
by kelas | 2025-10-16 10:38:06+00:00
> t=\:t:!x

this is of course obvious first idea, but the recipe from above is actually from the official k4 cookbook. t=t is less innocent than it seems, i'm afraid.

in k7/k9, we can:

10^@[100#0.;11*!10;1.] /just for more lulz

there's also a way to mutate it in place!
by hilbert42 | 2025-10-16 10:38:57+00:00
"It's all about continuous improvements."

Until recently the two greatest and most financial monopolies in history were the Dutch and British East India Companies but their power and wealth were amassed over a period of a hundred or more years not in about a generation as has happened here with Big Tech.

Twenty or so years ago after the Dot-com bubble had burst, opportunistic techies and investors caught everyone off guard by finding ways of not only turning the Internet's debris and discarded detritus into the fastest and largest moneymaking concerns in all of human history but they also managed to monopolize the web to the point where they now essentially control and or influence just about every type of online activity. Nowadays, Big Tech effectively owns the internet.

What they did was unprecedented, they hijacked control of the internet by manipulating its users through psychological means that would have even shocked the likes of Edward Bernays and David Ogilvy, those masters of propaganda and advertising would not have thought such a degree of control at all feasible.

We now have well over five billion people on Social Media (>63% of the world's population) and Google dominates search with just on 90% of the market share with some 5 trillion search results per year—all of which they've achieved in just 20 or so years. These are unrivalled and staggering—in fact terrifying—statistics! Not even that evil but brilliant propagandist Goebbels—who is often touted as the greatest manipulator in history—would ever have dreamed such a huge turnaround would have been possible in such a short time. In a speech to the party faithful on 9 January 1928 he discusses the nature of propaganda and how to bring about change in the worldview of a population with carefully crafted ideas so as to manipulate their minds into believing the propagandist's message but he never extended that to the notion of making 'convenience' so indispensable to the point where addiction takes hold and reason is abandoned. Like a ratchet on a cog, once Big Tech entraps users they find escape or turning back impossible. (In the light of events of recent years, it's well worth reading that speech.)

It truly beats me how you can say "it's all about continuous improvements". In my view Big Tech's unregulated manipulation of human minds on such a monumental scale is one of the most disastrous events in human history.

The strategies that those behind Big Tech concocted were no doubt truly brilliant—so brilliant that even regulators and governments were blinded to both their negative effects on users and to the inevitable monopolies that would form. Their own addiction parasitized their minds against seeing what were blatantly obvious dangers at the outset. For 20 years they thus took no regulatory action.

Reversing the problem is now nigh on impossible.
by epolanski | 2025-10-16 10:39:16+00:00
> This is disconnected from reality. 1080p low/medium, some games are playable but not enjoyable.

Is it? Most people care the game is fun which is unrelated to the settings you use (framerates do impact enjoyability though for fast paced games).

Even visually, the difference between settings hasn't been significant for decades at this point.
by bloomca | 2025-10-16 10:39:31+00:00
Yes, you can download the form 1040 and fill it by yourself, you'd need a few Schedules attached. They all have instructions available online, your work has to send you a copy of everything they paid you and into the IRS (regular jobs always err on the side of overpaying), and while it is not hard, it definitely looks intimidating and takes time to understand, especially the deductions.

You can also just not file your taxes, if you don't owe anything (and as I said, jobs always err on the side of overpaying) they won't bother you, but most people end up eligible for the tax refund, so it is more beneficial to pay for that service.
by mitemte | 2025-10-16 10:41:02+00:00
In Australia, if you work in multiple places and at multiple companies, it’s still trivial to file your own taxes. You log in to the government portal, where the collected amounts of tax from each income source, including bank interest, is listed. It can get more complicated if you have your own business but for the majority of people it’s easy and doesn’t require a third party.
by paulwilsonn | 2025-10-16 10:41:36+00:00
It’s basically a scale problem. Modern smartphones are insanely complex: custom chips, radios, antennas, battery/thermal management, and tight OS-hardware integration. Doing software only is feasible for a small team, but building a full open-source phone from scratch would need hundreds of engineers and billions in investment - which is why almost everyone focuses on OS mods instead.
by sixhobbits | 2025-10-16 10:41:45+00:00
After taking both Uber and Waymo in San Francisco I think I disagree with this. Only caught a few so maybe I didn't see the bad sides, but from what I saw it was able to predict flows and navigate far more smoothly than humans in many situations. Really comfortable and overall safe feeling ride.

It's different than human drivers for sure, but to me at least it's better.

I agree with MVP part, my understanding is that there's still a lot of Wizard of Oz stuff in terms of regularly mapping and remapping its routes and having a lot of human operators remotely checking and maybe controlling the fleet, but I'm impressed personally.
by jsiepkes | 2025-10-16 10:43:49+00:00
Apparently this also poses a problem for OSS projects such as Keycloak since they can't use non-OSS licenses according to the CNCF [1].

I wonder if a project which uses Liquibase can be included in Debian, Fedora, etc.? Since these projects also have requirements on OSS licenses for the software they distribute.

[1] https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/43391
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-16 10:44:48+00:00
> Everywhere it's rolled out people say yes it drives, but it drives like a rookie

When did you last update this hypothesis?

The Waymos I’ve been in creep, honk and modulate their aggressiveness quite naturally. In the cities they operate in, they’re a premium product to cabs.

The part where you’re right is on freeways. But my point is that tends to be ignored when folks gatekeep “real” autonomy. Instead, it’s some random peculiarity of their city which humans traverse at low speeds. Exactly the thing Waymo has mastered.
by entropie | 2025-10-16 10:44:51+00:00
> This is simply not true. Most anti-cheat software does work on linux, but many games choose not to allow linux.

Iam not sure if I care whether the AC software does work (theoretically) on linux. Most of the games with AC cannot be played on linux. (You can see this on the graphic you linked).

I tried it long enough. I played MTG Arena with lutris and every patch day was a frickle.

I don't even play FPS games seriously, let alone competitively, but many of the games I play don't run on Linux. It's that simple. I've been using Linux daily for 25 years, but I have a dual boot with Windows. A week ago, I taught my NixOS to boot with secure boot because the new Battlefield requires it—and other games will follow.
by KaiserPro | 2025-10-16 10:45:27+00:00
about 5 years ago we made an API that took an image and gave you a lat/lon in return (basically like a visual GPS)

The front end was entirely in python AWS lambdas, with a message queue that talked to the (slow) GPU backend.

The "lambda tax" was about 100ms on average. given that an average request was around 4 seconds it seemed ok.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-16 10:46:58+00:00
> before it becomes stable and measurably successful; nobody dies

It’s already there for non-freeway driving. (Nobody dying is a perfectionist metric. It’s better than humans.)

What’s limiting it are capital costs. Once Waymo finds a non-Jaguar form factor it can mass manufacture, I imagine this would get rolled out rapidly. (To the extent Tesla has a shot, it’s in its mass manufacturing expertise.)
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-16 10:47:29+00:00
> Kill me, but I never saw the point over abstract base classes and polymorphic behavior defined in the subclasses.

They're different tools which can fit different situations better or worse. std::variant fits some situations better (e.g., expressing a known closed set of types which may or may not share a common interface - tree nodes, option/result types, state machines, etc.), while interfaces/virtual functions fit some other situations better (e.g., expressing a potentially-open set of types with a shared interface - widget hierarchies, type erasure, etc.).

> Now purists will scream “compile time optimization!”

I actually feel like under most circumstances it's how closely one option or the other matches your problem domain that influences the decision one way or the other, not performance.

In any case, it doesn't really help that std::variant is somewhat neutered in C++ by a rather awkward interface as well as the lack of generalized/ergonomic pattern matching such as that offered by Haskell/ML-likes/Rust.
by mawadev | 2025-10-16 10:47:43+00:00
I had to chuckle, how ironic this is... I worked on a project where they had 6 microservices with about 2-3 endpoints each and some of them would internally call other microservices to sync and join data. That was for 20 users top and managed by 1 team. The cloud bill was exciting to look at!