MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TJSomething | 2025-10-29 07:55:41+00:00
I can get a six pack by doing exercises in my house everyday with some weights and resistance bands for 20 minutes a day and by spending 5 minutes a day tracking my food for a year. I don't think that there is a place I can go to make single payer health care happen, even if I spent 40 hours a week for a decade at a 60% pay cut.
by mrweasel | 2025-10-29 07:56:03+00:00
When the Apple Air, with the M1 chip came out, I upgraded, because the charging port on med 2013 MacBook Pro was failing. It never occurred to me that my old laptop had terrible performance, it felt just fine. The comparison of the two made me not wanting to go back. Monitors feel like much the same, once you had a high DPI monitor, it's hard to go back.

I did look at the website of the local IT refurbishing company yesterday, and you can build a completely workable office/development machine (including monitor) for less than I paid for my current 4K display.

In some sense I am a little sad that I didn't just go down the route of refurbished hardware for 20% of the cost, but my eyes probably appreciates it.
by joshuamorton | 2025-10-29 07:58:35+00:00
I mean, I would agree that it's not a particularly useful thing for consumer-phone-bank usecases, but that doesn't mean the feature is bad (or harmful).

Just to be clear, no one is saying

> banks have to use it to be compliant

nor are they saying

> it only works on our platforms

As far as I know, if systems were to use attestation it would be in a lot of senses more open than what attestation is available today (in the sense that more devices could use it). But also I don't think anyone who works on passkeys is saying banks need to support FIDO attestation to be "compliant".
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-29 08:00:38+00:00
In my mind they're not competing, they complement each other.

Codex is when you want to one-shot something and have got the specs ready. It just keeps puttering away not giving much feedback (Especially the VS Code version is real quiet...)

Claude is more like a pair-programmer, you kinda need to watch what it does most of the time and it will tell you what it's doing (by default) and doesn't mind if you hit Esc and tell it to go another way.

Claude will Get Stuff Done.

Codex will find the subtle bugs and edge cases Claude left in its wake =)
by joshuamorton | 2025-10-29 08:00:45+00:00
> A couple of years back I switched password managers, I didn't go over 1000 sites and changed all my passwords, my password manager exported a plaintext file and I had it imported in the other after a small transformation step.

And, modulo the "plaintext" part, I think this is a reasonable usecase. It's equivalent to the "backup" case. I transfer an encrypted blob between devices and decrypt it locally is reasonable.

> No they don't and if they did they would also understand not to upload their plaintext credentials.

Except that you have already stated that you have done exactly this, and you claim to know what you're doing!
by drekk | 2025-10-29 08:00:53+00:00
43% of all white students at Harvard are legacy, athletes, directly related to faculty, or have family that donated to the university. That number falls to 16% or lower for black, latino, and asian students.

75% of that aforementioned group of white students would not have been admitted had it been based on merit. 70 percent of all legacy applicants are white, compared with 40 percent of all applicants who do not fall under those categories.

Why does the average applicant need to be penalized when their grandparents legally could not attend these institutions? I think it's pretty obvious why people have such reactions to DEI when it's literally just "legacies for people who legally were barred from participating".

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1060361
by basepurpose | 2025-10-29 08:00:55+00:00
tbh, i don't want to keep up now. if it's that special, it will reach me, i'll know about it. the extreme hype around gen ai over the past 3-4 years kind of overdid it for me, it made me tired. i did want to once be at the top, follow twitter threas, newsletters. now i want what works. claude code for work, claude web for general tasks, chatgpt periodically when i want it to do some research. that's it. periodically i get to know a about a new advancement, i give it a try, if it sticks, cool, if it doesn't cool. i keep moving ahead.
by flohofwoe | 2025-10-29 08:01:24+00:00
Tbh, a better strategy would to slim down Windows again would be to remove all the new user-facing stuff which was added over the last two decades. There have been significant improvements in the kernel and DirectX, but on the surface, Windows somehow managed to remove user-facing features while at the same time adding an incredible amount of bloat in layers above the core operating system. From a usability perspective the Windows desktop UI in Win2k was singnificantly better than anything that came after.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-29 08:01:59+00:00
This is really not true. When speaking of high dose testosterone you mean steroids, so that is the term I will use. And steroids mess people up badly. Severe anxiety, poor sleep, mental fog, and then countless effects on your organs and other factors. And as there tend to be drugs taken to reduce the side effects of other drugs you end up taking an obscene amount of drugs, and still suffering side effects.

There's a reason pro body builders generally do not ever recommend them unless somebody is going to compete, where it's a practical necessity. Obviously people can get psychologically addicted to the effects - high energy, easy physique gains, and so on. And when one gets off steroids not only will these generally greatly diminish, but there's a very high probability of one becoming simply fat if they don't dramatically shift their lifestyle. And so that can make it very difficult for people to quit, but they do - because steroids aren't what most people think.

I live in a country where you can legally buy steroids OTC for really cheap - less than $20/month for genuine pharmaceutical steroids. And you can see at the gym a lot of guys have tried this out, and quit, because you wear it for life. They'll be 'huge' but very soft/flabby after quitting the steroids.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-29 08:02:36+00:00
> Ideally we should be able to interact with the SPA router and the various reactivity states of the dashboard from an external script. And this unfortunately is very difficult to be implemented when using a compiler framework like Svelte because we'll have to force on everyone an additional UI Node.js build step when extending PocketBase and I want to avoid that.

Whew, that is a very daunting intimidating constraint, if that's true as it sounds. Feels incredibly unfortunate to have to leave the grid and go back pioneering in the forest, making a new framework, to work around this. I really want to imagine Svelte has some options it might be able to offer here to help this situation.
by kuhsaft | 2025-10-29 08:02:44+00:00
> spared me of the headache of dealing with pirated things

Without any sort of DRM and today's internet speeds, pirating digital media would probably be like Napster

Greenheart Games famously purposely released a different version of Game Dev Tycoon for pirating. You can read the blog post here: https://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when...
by Xixi | 2025-10-29 08:03:00+00:00
I agree with your sentiment, but let's not rewrite history too much. Snow Leopard didn't have any new feature, but under the hood it was a massive undertaking IIRC: it introduced a 64-bit kernel and 64-bit system applications like Finder, Mail, Safari, etc. It also replaced many 32-bit system frameworks. Until Snow Leopard MacOS X was still mostly 32 bits.

When Snow Leopard came out it was very buggy, and many apps simply did not run on it. I've been a Mac user since 1993, and I think it's the only version of macOS I ever downgraded from. Don't get me wrong, it eventually became rock solid, the apps I needed were eventually upgraded, and it became a great OS.

But let's not mistake MacOS 10.6.8 for MacOS 10.6.0. And maybe let's not compare macOS 26.0 to MacOS 10.6.8 either, it's not quite fair. Ever since Snow Leopard I've been waiting at least 6 months before upgrading macOS. I don't intend to change that rule anytime soon...
by TomasBM | 2025-10-29 08:03:13+00:00
Yes, and it's not a sound argument, IMO.

"Grasping concepts" is not the only learning goal in schools or universities. Many classes - including within STEM programmes - want to teach students about writing, argumentation, researching, critical analysis, dealing with feedback, etc.

Oral exams can be more stressful, depending on the student. They also don't check for the student's writing or researching ability. They can be gamed with rhetorical skills. Grading of oral exams tends to be more opaque. And so on.

Then there's the issues I explained above, where you don't want to inadvertently reward cheating. Even if you don't care about the cheaters, you should try your best to detect and reward real effort. Otherwise, it'd be stupid not to cheat and use the class for free credits, at which point, from an educational POV, it's a useless class.

So, all in all, there are still very good reasons for doing take-home written responses and essays, and good reasons for wanting to detect cheating or plagiarism.
by anildash | 2025-10-29 08:03:45+00:00
Also, to be clear, I’m mostly goofing about it CLIs, and — as I mentioned in the piece — I use one every day. But yes, there are four or five billion internet users who don’t and never will. And CLIs are a poor user interface for 99+% of the tasks that people accomplish on computing devices, or with browsers, which is pertinent for the point I was making.

If I’d anticipated breaching containment and heading towards the orange site, I may not have risked the combination of humor and anything that’s not completely literal in its language. Alas.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-29 08:03:53+00:00
This is exactly the point.

The lock is there to keep the honest people out AND leave a trace that someone came in forcibly when they want to do so.

Which is why stuff like bump keying those stupid flat-keyed American locks is so scary because it requires almost zero skill and leaves very little traces.

Unless an expert takes apart the lock investigating for traces, there's no way to tell it was opened without a key.
by threatofrain | 2025-10-29 08:04:09+00:00
Imagine there's a business that can't really enforce whether you walk out without providing compensation. You realize you have the home court advantage on enforcement and guess what, you don't want to pay. It's your browser/wallet and that's your prerogative. But what does that mean about how tempting their goods are? Do we have prerogative to these goods?

Should we live in a world where we only permit business models that require customers pay directly or don't enter at all?
by bean469 | 2025-10-29 08:05:15+00:00
The only thing that is keeping me from switching on my home PC is Duo [1].

It allows my wife to play Stardew Valley on the TV via game streaming, while not disturbing my work at all on the PC. When she launches the game, I don't even notice it on my PC, meanwhile other solutions like Sunshine or Apollo do not let you use your computer while a gaming session is active on a client. Sadly, Duo is Windows only for now, which sucks.

Does anybody know a alternative for Linux that would work this way?

1. https://github.com/DuoStream/Duo
by npteljes | 2025-10-29 08:05:42+00:00
And they do run quite well, out of the box.

On Linux, I've been having a good run for years now. Steam's Proton is fantastic, if the thing doesn't work, I just select another Proton version, and try again. Or look at ProtonDB on how others did it.

I have also tried the Heroic Launcher, which is similarly good, and open source even. Just create an entry for a game or software, select the executable, select the Proton / Wine version, and it's good to go. No need for an account or anything.

I also have a Steam Deck now, which natively runs Linux, and Steam, and Proton. I'm sure my game selection also matters, but my experience is that everything just works. Valve did a tremendous job with integration - standing on the Wine giant's shoulder, of course.

Multiplayer, specifically the nasty anti-cheat software is the last remaining bastion, I think. For that, I reboot into my Windows 10 LTSC.
by picture | 2025-10-29 08:05:42+00:00
> "Corporations," in this context, is just another way to say people.

No, I think its referring more to the systems that describe how the group of people behave. It is an important distinction.

Also, the idea that effective and lasting change requires significant personal sacrifice and enduring hardship is yet another thing that corporations and politicians would like you to believe. It's great for causing inaction through human nature. Its effectiveness can be seen in anti-riot measures like tear gas or less-certainly-lethal munitions, asking people the question of "do you believe enough to endure THIS?" It's a rhetorical question.
by Tade0 | 2025-10-29 08:06:09+00:00
It is that unironically.

1. Users and, more importantly, makers of those tools can't predict their behaviour in a consistent fashion.

2. Requires elaborate procedures that don't guarantee success and their effect and its magnitude is poorly understood.

An LLM is a machine spirit through and through. Good thing we have copious amounts of literature from a canonically unreliable narrator to navigate this problem.
by a_t48 | 2025-10-29 08:06:31+00:00
I used mermaid for https://basisrobotics.tech/2024/11/24/basis-robot-02-softwar... (autogenerated) and it worked out pretty well, but notably I wasn't trying to handle loops. There have to be mermaid to png renderers out there. Beyond that, I view svg/html output as a huge advantage - I can restyle it and it's copyable.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-29 08:06:55+00:00
As mentioned a couple comments up, something like this: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/A-Discri... is way more impactful then some CEO choices.

I can't find the Microsoft thing, but apparently among fortune 500 companies only 1.6% of CEOs are black. Even double that would still be an extremely low number. So unless you think some truly cosmic random odds happened here, that 1.6% is evidence of lots of racism.
by michaelt | 2025-10-29 08:08:19+00:00
Imagine if, hypothetically speaking, the CA had given you a certificate based on a DNS-01 challenge, but when generating and validating the challenge record they'd forgotten to prefix it with an underscore. Which could have lead to a a certificate being issued to the wrong person if your website was a service like dyndns that lets users create custom subdomains.

Except (a) your website doesn't let users create custom subdomains; (b) as the certificate is now in use, you the certificate holder have demonstrated control over the web server as surely as a HTTP-01 challenge would; (c) you have accounts and contracts and payment information all confirming you are who you say you are; and (d) there is no suggestion whatsoever that the certificate was issued to the wrong person.

And you could have gotten a certificate for free from Lets Encrypt, if you had automatic certificate rotation in place - you paid $500 for a 12-month certificate because you don't.

An organisation with common sense policies might not need to revoke such a certificate at all, let alone revoke it with only hours of notice.
by skissane | 2025-10-29 08:08:45+00:00
Cappadocian Greek is Greek heavily mixed with Turkish, to the extent that is arguably better viewed as a distinct Hellenic language rather than just a nonstandard Greek dialect. However, around a century ago, most Greek speakers were expelled from Turkey and deported to Greece (and the same happened in reverse, most Turkish-speakers in Greece were deported to Turkey), including almost all Cappadocian-speakers - and they and their descendants largely switched to standard modern Greek - with the result that it was long believed that Cappadocian had died out in the 1960s, although more recently it has been discovered that there remain small populations of Cappadocians in rural Greece keeping the language alive.
by pndy | 2025-10-29 08:09:36+00:00
I've bought Frame as well because our 10 years old Philips tv got a nasty dead pixels bar mid screen that made watching tv really annoying - prob moisture got inside. I was curious how Samsung's ecosystem looks like in comparison to Apple's and tbh, I didn't expect the main hub app asking for location access way before even looking up for the devices.

But that was a hard no for me. I just left all of that alone - we have a ISP set-top box that comes with FTTH tv and few services so I don't need to log in anywhere else.

Mother has a hearing aid and she wanted to try Bluetooth connection - devices paired without mobile app but she couldn't lower volume down on tv nor on her device, even with aid's own app.

It still wasn't as bad as expected. I read some of the experiences people had where they couldn't even get into the home screen of tv before agreeing for network connection or login to some cloud services.

Fiends got some 4k Samsung for their new house - it comes with some AI features because of course it does. They said that they couldn't easily find picture controls and every show was automatically adjusted on brightness, saturation etc., making anything pain to watch.

They also got washing machine/dryer combo from Samsung as well - weeks after someone posted on our discord server video from Polish store where bunch of guys "hacked" similar smart-enabled machine and launched... youtube with that dancing "6 grams" cow clip. What a time to be alive.
by user_7832 | 2025-10-29 08:09:42+00:00
It's not the semicolons or em dashes but the textual content that struck me as weird.

> The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point.

Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown.

To be clear, I think most of the text in that article was human written. I have absolutely no issues with em dashes or other humane figures of speech that LLMs have unsurprisingly picked up on.

But it was a few paragraphs here and there (like the example I gave) that felt odd and just out of place.
by thecupisblue | 2025-10-29 08:10:10+00:00
Ironically, somewhere around 2014, Google was doing the exact same style "keep Android open" campaign, recruiting developers around the world - including me, to help lobby for keeping Android "open" and tell the horror stories of issues that random OEMs caused by forking Android, breaking compatibility and security.

Made sense to me at the time and they were really into "Android should be open source" vibe, so I supported it.

10 years later, I'm also rugpulled. Their vision has dramatically shifted into trying to build a walled garden on top of Android, but now they are haunted by their open source roots, and the walled garden is just a really tall pile of bricks laid around it.

So many times we've been promised things, only for them to be delivered in a half-baked state with half of the parts open source while other parts were closed only to Google and Google approved apps.

So many times the issue trackers for different parts of the platform ecosystem have changed, that some issues are impossible to debug without using web archive. And just as many times, they have been closed, ignored for years or unnoticed, being ping-ponged among team members until they forget about it.

Yet, even with all of the closed and privatized parts of the ecosystem, they are still not able to deliver on an ecosystem promise.

They control my email, my photos, my cloud, my browser, my phone - yet cannot keep a single thing properly in sync. Still, I download something and I do not know where it went. Still, I cannot Airdrop things without a 3rd party service. Still, I take a photo only for it to appear on the cloud 5 minutes later. Still, I cannot have a "sandbox" account for testing that just works, but have to juggle multiple accounts, causing their auth system to break 80% of the time when testing.

As a developer, I do not plan to support Android anymore. I recently got an iPhone, and am now fully switching to it. Even tho I am long on $GOOG stock, because the money printer go brrr, I will be spending that money in the Apple's ecosystem from now on.
by Veserv | 2025-10-29 08:10:24+00:00
I am aware of how network protocol stacks work. Getting 200 Gb/s of reliable in-order bytestream per core over a unreliable, out-of-order packet-switched network using standard ethernet is not very hard with proper protocol design. If memory copying is not your bottleneck (ignoring encryption), then your protocol is bad.

Hardware crypto acceleration and a hardware memory copy engine do not constitute a RDMA engine. The API I am describing is the receiver programming into a device a (address, length) chunk of data to decrypt and a (src, dst, length) chunk of data to move, respectively. That is a far cry from a whole hardware network protocol.
by devsda | 2025-10-29 08:10:38+00:00
why does having software updates mean giving up control of the device ?

Security Updates - They should be considered as in warranty servicing of faulty software.

Software Updates - These are turning out to be a scam in some ways. The decision to regularly introduce new APIs and forcefully obsolete old APIs/features is theirs. Consumers don't have to pay for it with the control. The cost of it should be baked into the initial purchase cost. A new feature that restricts access is an anti-feature.
by vintermann | 2025-10-29 08:10:41+00:00
Minnesota? Minnesota isn't particularly dark. Minneapolis is apparently on the same latitude as Venice, Italy, and I don't think of Venice as particularly dark or gloomy (to be fair, they probably have better weather).

But yeah. Low vitamin D levels are common even with lily white people in Northern Europe, and at least here in Norway everyone with dark skin knows that they need vitamin D supplements. Traditionally, public health recommendation (for everyone) was to take cod liver oil regularly for every month with an R in it.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-29 08:10:47+00:00
> This is a problem everywhere now, and not just in code. It now takes zero effort to produce something, whether code or a work plan or “deep research” and then lob it over the fence, expecting people to review and act upon it.

Where is the problem? If I don't have the time to review a PR, I simply reject it. Or if I am flooded in PRs, I only take those from people from which I know that their PRs are of high quality. In other words: your assumption "expecting people to review and act upon it" is wrong.

Even though I would bet that for the kind of code that I voluntarily write in my free time, using an LLM to generate lots of code is much less helpful because I use such private projects to try out novel things that are typically not "digested stuff from the internet".

So, the central problem that I rather see is the license uncertainties for AI-generated code.
by jcynix | 2025-10-29 08:10:58+00:00
In most of Europe (which runs a shared grid), not just Germany, it's 230V between any two of the three wires and 400V on each line:

> For example, in countries with nominal 230 V power, the line voltage is 400 V and the phase voltage is 230 V. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power

In the counter integrated induction simply gets connected with all three phases, which are available in-house anyways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous...