MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jMyles | 2025-10-11 12:59:48+00:00
Heck yeah it runs! :-)

7.3 turbo diesel. This year it's been from my house in St. Pete, FL, to Porcupine Fest in NH, across the US to Oregon, and then down to Cali where I am now.

It's funny that you say you had a friend in Portland with one: I did a significant part of the internal build in Portland. There are so many skoolie projects there.
by Avamander | 2025-10-11 13:00:06+00:00
Yes. E-paper is a specific name/brand used for transreflective LCDs. If I remember correctly, Sharp started calling it so. E-ink and e-paper can be called electronic paper, but e-paper isn't usually e-ink and e-paper usually is LCD.

So, Pebble Time's LCD is indeed e-paper, but is not e-ink.
by joshstrange | 2025-10-11 13:00:09+00:00
The design is not my cup of tea but whatever, my issues are the bugs.

Never in my life using iOS have I seen the animation for a click but have the click not “register”/happen. That’s something I’ve experienced on multiple flavors of Android OS.

Just today I long-pressed on an image in Safari, it brought up the context menu, and I clicked “Save to Images” (or whatever it’s called). There was a glass outline around that option and it looked “pressed” but nothing happened. I clicked again and it worked. I’ve never had such buggy behavior for simple interactions.

And lest anyone blame my hardware, it’s a 17 Pro Max.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-11 13:01:06+00:00
If the screen reader were at fault, then explicitly specifying the implicit role (something that should be a no-op) would not fix the problem. It's the responsibility of web browsers to implement and expose implicit ARIA roles (see https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aam-1.0/#mapping-html-to-accessib...). Screen readers do not (in general) speak HTML, just like computer monitors do not (in general) speak CSS.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-11 13:02:35+00:00
So we've outlined a society where: healthcare providers, lawyers, etc. ("the system") stand to benefit from keeping a person alive and suffering because they can squeeze money out of them in their final years. Assisted suicide is being made available and "family pressure to commit suicide" is brought up as a concern? Sure, valid concern I guess, but it just seems pointless as there are already guardrails around these processes and we're not recognizing the benefits of giving more autonomy to people which means their suffering can be stopped.
by Nikut | 2025-10-11 13:03:52+00:00
More information:

Hello guys! I'm happy to share DebDroid, a free and open-source project that aims to bring a real Debian environment to Android devices. It is not Termux-based, nor a simple proot-based wrapper, but a real, near-native chroot environment running on top of the Android kernel.

The project is built around a heavily modified version of the Kali Nethunter's script I've developed 3 years ago. This new version (DebDroid) brings greatly improved security, isolation and additional compatibility patches. It's a project meant for tinkerers, hobbyists and power users.

Why not Termux?

Unlike Termux or Proot, which run Linux tools via Android-compiled binaries or user-space emulation, DebDroid runs a real Debian chroot directly on Android. It ships its own programs, libraries, patches and links key Android filesystems into the Debian environment, providing near-native Linux functionality and the ability to run almost any Debian-compatible program.

What for?

With DebDroid, you can repurpose an older Android device into an raspberry pi-style lightweight Debian server with near-native performance:

* Run a network-level NAT/adblocker

* Run web servers like `nginx` or `lighttpd`

* Host a small `ssh` or `sftp` service

* Use it for automation with `cron` or shell scripts

* Experiment with Debian packages in a isolated environment

* Run a X11 vnc server (WIP!)

Features:

* glibc-based. * Small and portable. * No external dependencies. * Runs a minimal Debian Linux userland in a isolated chroot environment. * Mounts key Android system paths to provide near-native Linux functionality. * Employs `unshare` to isolate Android mountpoints from the chroot environment. * Supports `/dev` overlayfs, creating a writable layer over device files without modifying the real `/dev`.

Notes:

* Works best on older Android versions (6–12).

* DebDroid is still experimental and intended for exploration, learning, and hobby use.

* GPU acceleration is currently not supported. (and might not even be possible)

Do not run DebDroid on your main (daily driver) phone!

Contributors and testers are always welcome!
by xtiansimon | 2025-10-11 13:04:37+00:00
WTF. As others say, this is prolly fake—

‘The little reading corner I once built, full of soft beanbags and paper stars, was replaced by data charts and “learning metrics.”’

But the rest sounds like a nightmare:

‘… filling out digital reports to protect myself from angry emails or lawsuits. I’ve been yelled at by parents in front of twenty-five children…’

Fiction is good when it conjures a scene or personality. I’m feeling the pain described here.

On a ChatGPT related note—

I was asked to write an online recommendation for someone a few weeks ago. I started by thinking I could just bang it out. Wrote a list, but I struggled imagine a structure in 2-3 paragraphs. So, it sat on my desktop for several weeks. Bonk! Obviously a candidate for chatGPT.

The results included a few unexpectedly good sentences, but most importantly I got the arc of my recommendation. I reworded, cut and trimmed and was happy with the result.

I predict with ChatGPT, whining about writing a recommendation is a thing of the past.
by kstenerud | 2025-10-11 13:05:19+00:00
> The article argues that our very sense of what counts as "better" or "compelling" is shaped by the assumptions baked into C-style hardware.

And this is where I disagree. History is rife with disruptive technologies that blew the existing systems out of the water.

When we do find compelling efficiencies in new designs, we adopt them, such as DSPs and GPUs - which are NOT sequential or imperative - they are functional and internally parallel, and offer massive real-world gains; thus their success in the marketplace.

We also experiment with new ways of computing, such as quantum computers.

There's no shortage of attempts to disrupt the CPU, but none caught on because none were able to show compelling efficiencies over the status-quo, same as for Colemak and DVORAK: they are technically more efficient, but there's not enough of a real-world difference to justify the switching cost.

And that's fine. I don't want to be disruptively changing things at a fundamental level just for a few percent improvement in real-world efficiencies. And neither are the big boys who are actively developing not only their own silicon, but also their own software to go with it.

The article itself reads a lot like a Post hoc ergo propter hoc, in that it only allows for the path of technological progress to exist within the bounds of the C programming language (while also misattributing a number of things to C in the process), but completely discounts the possibility that how CPUs are designed is in fact a very efficient way to do general purpose computing.
by acka | 2025-10-11 13:05:33+00:00
> I was a TA for my uni's Web Engineering and Ethics in CS courses and accessibility never even came up in either course.

That is genuinely baffling to me. How does a university teach web engineering without even mentioning accessibility? It’s not just best practice—it’s often a legal requirement for public-sector sites in many countries. Even outside government work, major companies (FAANG included) publicly invest in accessibility to avoid both reputational and legal fallout. Ignoring it entirely sends the wrong message to students about professional responsibility and real-world standards.
by lazide | 2025-10-11 13:07:51+00:00
There recently has been a race to the bottom, but Fox has been false-outrage-baiting for decades before any of the other outlets did so. Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et al. too.

And really nasty too, at least until Fox and Alex Jones lost their respective lawsuits.

No one is innocent here, but they aren’t equal (as in the same).
by weinzierl | 2025-10-11 13:08:29+00:00
"AFAIK the concepts of the stack and 'subroutine call instructions' existed before C because those concepts are also useful when writing assembly code [..]"

The stack principle was patented in 1957 by Friedrich L. Bauer. It was well known before C but in 1957 it was considered noteworthy enough to justify a patent.
by MarkBagh | 2025-10-11 13:09:01+00:00
After reading NN/g's iOS 26 critique, I'm sitting here staring at my trading app's deliberately boring UI and feeling... vindicated?

ImBuilding a desktop app where users monitor live trades. Originally planned glassmorphic overlays because they look incredible in mockups. Scrapped it after showing a trader friend.

His reaction: "Dude, I need to read a stop-loss alert through this? While watching a $5k position move against me? Make it BORING."

So I did. Solid backgrounds. No animations on critical buttons. Navigation that never moves. Zero transparency effects.

The problem: It photographs terribly. Product Hunt launch will look dated compared to Liquid Glass competitors.

But here's what I'm wondering:

Is Apple's Liquid Glass actually a gift to indie devs?

Hear me out:

Big Tech optimizes for launch day virality (they can afford the retention hit)

Indie devs MUST optimize for retention (we can't afford user acquisition costs)

If users get trained to expect "pretty but frustrating" from Apple...

...suddenly "boring but predictable" becomes our competitive advantage?

My hypothesis: In 6 months, "Works like iOS 25" will be a feature, not a bug.

What would you do?
by ErneX | 2025-10-11 13:09:54+00:00
Manually placed lights and baking not only takes time away from iteration but also takes a lot of disk space for the shadow maps. RT makes development faster for the artists, I think DF even mentioned that doing Doom Eternal without RT would take so much disk space it wouldn’t be possible to ship it.

edit: not Doom Etenral, it’s Doom The Dark Ages, the latest one.
by raffael_de | 2025-10-11 13:10:03+00:00
Maybe at a certain age other instincts strengthen making a choice like this easier? We all have to come to terms. And if you are older than 70 then it is just a fact that every day can be your last without any accident or noteworthy medical complication. And the guy has been probably thinking about this fast and slow for at least two decades then.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-11 13:12:53+00:00
I've wondered about this for my hypothetical future self.

Currently? I'd say that I wouldn't want to live with dementia, but what if my "demented self" (kinda hate the phrasing, sorry) in the future wants to live, or doesn't remember they don't want to live?

Do I have a say over the life of someone who doesn't remember they were me?
by everdrive | 2025-10-11 13:13:25+00:00
Wifi sucks in general. You ever get on a video call and someone has starts talking like a robot? And then, out of pure superstition they start walking around their house hoping to "find" the better reception? And it never really works, but they keep trying it anyhow, and then they either say "maybe I need a better internet" or "but I have full bars." No information is really given to a normal (or in some cases, even technical users) which would allow them to actually correctly diagnose their problem. So like Skinner's pigeons, they just keep playing their ritual even though it has no effect.
by oddthink | 2025-10-11 13:13:44+00:00
I'm sorry, it's a really inefficient format. I don't want to sit and listen for two hours to what's most likely half an hour of content by reading. Just write down what you have to say already!

I guess you could do double-speed, but I find that somehow stressful.

Edit: I just read the paper. It took me 21 minutes. It's not long, only 11 pages.
by PaulHoule | 2025-10-11 13:14:28+00:00
What really matters is the cost.

In the past a game console might launch at a high price point and then after a few years, the price goes down and they can release a new console at a high at a price close to where the last one started.

Blame crypto, AI, COVID but there has been no price drop for the PS5 and if there was gonna be a PS6 that was really better it would probably have to cost upwards of $1000 and you might as well get a PC. Sure there are people who haven’t tried Steam + an XBOX controller and think PV gaming is all unfun and sweaty but they will come around.
by whycome | 2025-10-11 13:15:41+00:00
It’s not absurd to think that you could send a model of your voice to a receiving party and then have your audio call just essentially be encoded text that gets thrown through the voice generator on the local machine.

AI video could mean that essential elements are preserved (actors?) but other elements are generated locally. Hell, digital doubles for actors could also mean only their movements are transmitted. Essentially just sending the mo-cap data. The future is gonna be weird
by weinzierl | 2025-10-11 13:15:56+00:00
The BASICs of the time often had GOSUB which remembered the return address. Also, while the stack not being prominent in the high level language, they very well used one on the assembly level. For example on the C64 (probably other 6502/6510 based systems) it always started at $100 ($ being the old convention of writing hex), right after the zeropage.
by DrewADesign | 2025-10-11 13:16:19+00:00
Well, the chemicals listed in the original comment— fuel and grease— do not have the same acute health impact as the ones they were cited for, and if we’re going to be pedantic about it, I wouldn’t say grout curing accelerator is so common we could assume it would be at most construction sites with heavy equipment. You also don’t need to go any further than your convenience store to buy a bottle of drano, which can cause a lot more damage, a lot more quickly than many of the listed chemicals. It doesn’t matter. The precautions required for production workflows are completely different from home use or small projects. For example: I work in manufacturing. This past Wednesday two of our most experienced workers were applying a caustic glue from a squeeze tube onto a number of parts laid out in a table. One of the workers just happened to be turning his head when there was a small blowout in the crimped end of the other workers tube and it sprayed all over the side of the guy’s head and goggles. It hardened before he could wash it out of his hair, which he had to cut off, revealing a bunch of blisters on his skin where the glue touched. That’s a glue you can buy at Home Depot, but if he wasn’t wearing goggles, he’d have probably had serious eye damage. Two people quickly glueing dozens of things on a table is so much riskier than using that glue yourself for a home project.

These chemicals are being sprayed at high enough pressure to splash them, all day long, in enclosed spaces, in the presence of lots of other people. Even if it was bleach, that would require significant effort to protect the people in that environment from injury. They didn’t do that, the workers are human beings that deserved that, and that shouldn’t be minimized.
by coldtea | 2025-10-11 13:17:56+00:00
>This seems like such an absurd conclusion to this, as though the opinions of other people of you are what matter when you functionally lose your personhood and then die.

They do matter.

Being concerned with how your behavior affects your family or your community, and the opinion they have of you, above your own self-interest, is how good parents, good friends, good citizens, and so on, are made.
by rcxdude | 2025-10-11 13:18:03+00:00
It's not a particularly interesting set of questions, though. If you looked up the features of zfs you would find what it has the ext4 doesn't. There's hundreds of articles, written by humans, on it. There's nothing that someone is going to helpfully put in an HN reply to these questions that you couldn't find faster by literally copy and pasting them into google, ignoring the AI summary.
by CJefferson | 2025-10-11 13:18:43+00:00
This is cool, I hope it gets finished, and Microsoft Can help if required.

I love WSL2, I basically live in it. I need Office, and working laptops, too much to go full time Linux, and I want to be able to play games so I don’t want a Mac (yes I know Mac has some games, but not anything compared to windows).
by schiffern | 2025-10-11 13:18:48+00:00
Traffic dust consists of brake dust (which EVs improve), but also microplastic dust from tire wear, asphalt wear, and road marking paint wear. EVs tend to be heavier which increases these other sources of road particulate pollution.

I'm extremely pro-EV, but when it comes to non-combustion particles I'm forced to honestly acknowledge that our best data says it's a double-edged sword.

Many studies have looked at this (and I encourage you to read widely to explore the consensus), but selecting just one:

https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/gaining-traction-los...

(also, nice username)
by junon | 2025-10-11 13:18:48+00:00
Javascript was not ubiquitous when the term DHTML was last seriously used. And yes, CSS and javascript were extensions at the time, not very widely supported across all browsers.

We had table based layouts and then divs when CSS started to take off, mostly used by artists rather than companies at first.

Javascript had vanishingly limited uses at first, too. I don't remember exactly how long it took us to get XHR but before that we had "Comet frames", before iframe security was given much focus. Javascript couldn't do that for a while. It was also dodgy and considered bad practice for quite a while, too.

I don't remember when the term javascript was even really used in regular vernacular but DHTML was not so much referring to CSS as it was the myriad of weird mechanisms introduced to make pages dynamic. It was never "Div-based HTML" or whatever, the div craze came way later once CSS was Good Enough to eschew table layouts - after which, Dreamweaver died and photoshop's slice tool finally got removed, and we started inching toward where the web sits today.

I also do distinctly recall needing a doctype for DHTML for some browsers.
by sillyfluke | 2025-10-11 13:19:06+00:00
As I mentioned in a another comment, framing it as "how one is remembered" is leading to pointless tangents in this thread.

The important point is this: are you causing emotional, psychological, physical distress in the real world to those you care about when you have this disease? Yes or no. That's what I care about. Whether they are able to remember me well despite that, or poorly because of that should be completely secondary.
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by ignoramous | 2025-10-11 13:19:50+00:00
Kahneman's family & friends who knew beforehand apparently did object.

You should read the piece by Jason Zweig, if you haven't. The decision was deeply personal and was most certainly not an endorsement of euthanasia.

... Kahneman's final email said: "Not surprisingly, some of those who love me would have preferred for me to wait until it is obvious that my life is not worth extending. But I made my decision precisely because I wanted to avoid that state, so it had to appear premature. I am grateful to the few with whom I shared early, who all reluctantly came round to support me." Kahneman's friend Annie Duke, a decision theorist and former professional poker player, published a book in 2022 titled "Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away." In it, she wrote, "Quitting on time will usually feel like quitting too early." She is frustrated by his decision. "There's a big difference between it feeling early and it actually being too early," she says. "You're not terminal, you're fine. Why aren't you taking the outside view? Why aren't you listening to people who will give you good objective advice? Why are you doing this?" Paul Slovic, a psychologist at the University of Oregon who befriended Kahneman more than 50 years ago, says, "Danny was the type of person who would think long and hard about things, so I figured he must have thought about it very slowly and deliberatively. Of course, those of us who spend our lives studying decisions, we think a lot about the reasons for those decisions. But often the reasons aren't reasons. They're feelings."
by rpdillon | 2025-10-11 13:20:54+00:00
You're correct, and I'm generally in favor of the right to die.

I watched a documentary where they interviewed a bunch of people who attempted suicide and talked to them about the entire experience and mental state. Out of the maybe ten that they interviewed, only one said that he wished it had worked. That doesn't mean it's only 10% though... they didn't get to interview the ones that succeeded.
by Twey | 2025-10-11 13:21:18+00:00
> Because everything comes down the same connection brotli/zstd can give you 1000-8000x compression ratios.

Isn't this also the case by default for HTTP/2 (or even just HTTP/1.1 `Connection: keep-alive`)?

> The server is in control. I can batch updates.

That's neat! So you keep a connection open at all times and just push an update down it when something changes?
by jvanderbot | 2025-10-11 13:21:46+00:00
This is so interesting but it reads like satire. I'm sure folks who love persuading and teaching and marshalling groups are going to do very well in SWEng.

According to this, we'll all be reading the feelings journals of our LLM children and scolding them for cheating on our carefully crafted exams instead of, you know, making things. We'll read psychology books, apparently.

I like reading and tinkering directly. If this is real, the field is going to leave that behind.
by ErneX | 2025-10-11 13:22:36+00:00
Returnal is probably one the best 1st party games available and it’s a PS5 exclusive.

Its sequel Saros is coming out next year too.

There’s also Spider-Man 2, Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, Astro Bot, Death Stranding 2, Ghost of Yotei…

Their output hasn’t been worse than the PS4 at all imo.
by Thorrez | 2025-10-11 13:22:41+00:00
I don't think Salesforce itself was hacked. It says "data stolen from the Salesforce instances of multiple companies".

HIBP links to [1], which links to [2], which says

>The FBI last week warned airlines in the US that the group was targeting the aviation sector. In a post on X, the FBI said the group uses social engineering techniques, often impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting access, and bypassing multi-factor authentication.

So it sounds like phishing attacks against the individual airlines. It sounds pretty much the same as [3], which goes into detail of the exact mechanism that phishers can use to steal Salesforce data. It does sound like it is a little bit Salesforce's fault, because Salesforce's UI makes it really easy to grant an attacker access to your database without realizing it. Salesforce needs to improve the permission granting UI so that it's clearer what is going on.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/11/hackers-lea...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/02/qantas-conf...

[3] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voi...