MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andreybaskov | 2025-10-24 16:14:30+00:00
I bought a used VisiCalc box on eBay to run it on my restored Apple II and experience what it was like to use it back in a day on original hardware.

The quality of documentation is something I haven’t see in the last decade or two. It comes in a binder, well organized, thought out with good examples and no expectation of prior knowledge. It’s a joy to read. The only documentation I read thats better than this was the original Apple II Basic manual.

And the best part is it’s all keyboard based. Is there something like vim but for spreadsheets?
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-10-24 16:14:50+00:00
The number one thing that AI is lacking is taste, precisely the reason we need designers in the first place. An engineer (most engineers are not designers) alone, or an LLM is not thinking about good design principles and doing the things needed to develop good taste.

It's the reason why LLMs are horrible at writing, and the reason why good design is really hard to get out of an LLM. Figma Make and Claude Code are really just using the out of the box CSS from shadcn that's why everything looks the same.
by tgma | 2025-10-24 16:14:59+00:00
I understand that. That is not the point though. Although, if you believe in that theory, you should reject democracy and aim for some form of aristocracy or monarchy. I don't believe that many political scientists [sic] today publish and advocate disenfranchisement, perhaps because that's not politically correct, but all that is beside the point.

My point specifically is if people are voting for someone, more often than not (at least in the US, perhaps less so elsewhere where they elect the parliament and the parliament by proxy elects the executive which induces some machinations), want that person for whatever reason and consider that person aligned with their interests even if some second-order effects are not so. They did not get "fooled" and bait-and-switched even if they later feel the performance was not great. Proof for that is you are not going to find that many who say they would have switched their votes even after the fact. Those political scientists and the GP have the arrogance and audacity to project their own interests on every single person and conclude they did not vote appropriately.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-10-24 16:15:04+00:00
> it's a much shorter tail when you're playing fish in setups

A lot of rich people know more about poker than middle-income scrubs. You don't want to find out the fish you're chasing was a shark all along. The point here is to turn a game a chance into a profit center, suggesting they just do it legitimately missed the point and assumes the scammers themselves have the time or talent to become good enough to reliably fleece people legitimately. It also means you have to vet the people you invite, rather than confidently turning out the pockets of scrubs and capable players alike.
by philbe77 | 2025-10-24 16:15:12+00:00
I've since learned (from a DuckDB blog) - that DuckDB seems to do better when the XFS filesytem. I used ext4 for this, so I may be able to get another 10 to 15% (maybe!).

DuckDB blog: https://duckdb.org/2025/10/09/benchmark-results-14-lts
Ask HN: Security of Hardware Nano KVM
by WorldDev | 2025-10-24 16:15:23+00:00
Hi all, I am looking at this product: [Sipeed NanoKVM-USB](https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM_USB/development.html).

It would work very well for my need, but the company has a [terrible track-record for security](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJGZQ35Q6I).

So I am trying to approach it from a fully paranoid perspective. Can I use this device and protect myself fully from it?

They provide the source code for the client side. SO that's fine, I can read that code, recompile it, and convince myself it is fully safe (I am only human, but let's assume it's good enough).

I have strong doubts about the firmware side though. I am not familiar with the hardware side, but could there be any security issue there?

The guys making the device are claiming ["there is no firmware code"](https://github.com/sipeed/NanoKVM-USB/issues/5#issuecomment-2785035753). I do not understand that statement. Can anyone more knowledgeable shed some light as to what that means, and how I could verify it?

They point to a link to corroborate that claim, but the link is broken.

Thanks in advance for any insights!
by array_key_first | 2025-10-24 16:15:45+00:00
1. The app store is already mostly spyware.

2. Apps are actively encouraged by Apple and Google to be spyware.

3. An app store cannot prevent spyware.

4. Sandboxing is unrelated to an app store.

5. Most source code is not available on the app store, and Apple and Google are actively hostile to open source apps.

6. There is zero source auditing done on the app store.
by toast0 | 2025-10-24 16:15:51+00:00
> In 99% of applications if you need encryption, authentication and message framing you would be hard-pressed to find a significantly more efficient option.

AFAIK, websockets doesn't do authentication? And the encryption it does is minimal, optional xor with a key disclosed in the handshake. It does do framing.

It's not super common, but if all your messages have a 16-bit length, you can just use TLS framing. I would argue that TLS framing is ineffecient (multiple length terms), but using it by itself is better than adding a redundant framing layer.

But IMHO, there is significant benefit from removing a layer where it'd unneeded.
by mattmaroon | 2025-10-24 16:16:11+00:00
Well, if you’re paying NL against people who don’t know what they’re doing, your win rate should be much higher. But yeah you can only take however much money is on the table so nobody makes a living playing the really low stakes.

Back in my day most cash games were limit hold’em (it’s been awhile) and you could pretty easily get to making $50 an hour beating up an amateurs. That was equivalent to about $90/hr today which is pretty great if you’re a young kid playing a game you enjoy.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-24 16:16:20+00:00
People holding virtual cosmetic items that nominally had some value as collectables doesn't mean the whole thing was actually worth that much to society. If everybody tried to cash out their collection they would have soon found there was nothing close to 3 billion in value. The prices of these things were inflated by gamblers using them for speculation. And generally speaking, anything that teaches gamblers a lesson is good for society in the long run.

As for it collapsing Steam; not a chance. They didn't take away anybody's games, and that's what Steam is for to the overwhelmingly majority of users. The gambling addicts are a small minority and generally an annoyance to everybody else.
by badc0ffee | 2025-10-24 16:16:36+00:00
You can set as many non-repeating alarms as you like, as long as they're within the next 24 hours.

What kind of event are you creating an alarm for that's more than a day away? On Friday, do you create your alarm to wake up on Monday? Does Android have a calendar-like view of your upcoming alarms?

(Sorry for the barrage of questions, but this is interesting to me.)
by mothballed | 2025-10-24 16:17:08+00:00
I would sleep perfectly soundly if it relied on politicians not wanting the plebs they subjugate to have easier access to machine guns, which is what keeps their value up.

As for current NFA items holder, the constitution requires them to be compensated fair value if they are to be confiscated.

The risk is arguably lower than many single stocks, many of which are bought in retirement portfolio.
by xpe | 2025-10-24 16:17:49+00:00
Looking over the comment chain as a whole, I still have some questions. Is it fair to say this is your main point?...

> Also, Claude doesn’t “think” anything, I wish they’d stop with the anthropomorphizations.

Parsing they above leads to some ambiguity: who do you wish would stop? Anthropic? People who write about LLMs?

If the first (meaning you wish Claude was trained/tuned to not speak anthropomorphically and not to refer to itself in human-like ways), can you give an example (some specific language hopefully) of what you think would be better? I suspect there isn't language that is both concise and clear that won't run afoul of your concerns. But I'd be interested to see if I'm missing something.

If the second, can you point to some examples of where researchers or writers do it more to your taste? I'd like to see what that looks like.
by il_nets | 2025-10-24 16:18:30+00:00
Yeah Nintendo 3DS XL was awesome, but even then, you'd have to use that one specific console in order to be able to play that game.

What we're thinking is to enable this technology - as long as there is a camera and a screen - instantly accessible across billions of devices.

That means that the 3D effect would be applicable not only for games built for that specific console - but for any and all games that are already in a 3D environment.
by zsoltkacsandi | 2025-10-24 16:18:30+00:00
Well, it is still much more efficient (consumed energy, outcome, and mental sanity-wise) to fill a form with a textbox and a datepicker to book a flight, than trying to negotiate it with a chatbot.

Everyone assumes that the perfect communication medium is human (or human like) conversation. If that was the case, couple and marriage therapists wouldn't exist.
by lysace | 2025-10-24 16:18:34+00:00
Tangent: Google keeps doing the same with GCP/Firebase/etc. Every year they launch a bunch of really well-crafted services that make it easy to build the most average kind of product in whatever area is trendy that year. Every year I am left intrigued but needing more to actually make use of them. The next year it's something else.

I guess this is primarily a business pattern. Or anti-pattern?
by Aurornis | 2025-10-24 16:18:46+00:00
> just play better poker than them

That's a big "just".

They were using sports celebrities as the draw to the table, not expert poker players.

Cheating at poker also looks less threatening than playing against an expert, counterintuitively. Someone who cheats can pull out some big wins on some bets that look statistically bad. The target can see this and think the other party is playing poorly (betting on non-obvious hands) but simply getting lucky.

Contrast this with a shrewd expert poker player who will be easier to spot.

They want the target to think the celebrity sports figure is just getting lucky on bad bets, not that they're an expert poker shark who's going to take all of their money.

EDIT: Here's a 2 year old YouTube video from before all of this confirming this https://youtu.be/G-TKR5ca5jI?t=1790 (Skip to 29:50)

Having the cheating poker players look bad is a key part of the scam. It tricks the other players into coming back and betting big.
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-10-24 16:19:01+00:00
on the other hand:

> After 2.5 years of insane hype, there’s no evidence that current AI is making the design process faster

I am designing prototypes faster today with LLMs this is just flat out wrong. And it's not really 2.5 years it's more like the last 6 months, GPT5, sonnet 4.0 and 4.5 have made this stuff viable to seriously use.
by Avamander | 2025-10-24 16:19:25+00:00
> Cargo always picks the newest version of a dependency, even if that version is incompatible with the version of Rust you have installed.

> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([libfoo], [libfoo >= 1.2.3])

This also picks the newest version that might be incompatible with your compiler, if the newer version uses a newer language standard.

> You're like "build this please", and it's like "hey I helpfully upgraded this module! oh and you can't build this at all, your compiler is too old granddad"

Also possible in the case of your example.

> What a bunch of shiny-shiny chasing idiots with a brittle build system.

Autoconf as an example of non-brittle build system? Laughable at best.
Show HN: I built a Claude Code wrapper to play minigames while its working
by FerZu | 2025-10-24 16:19:31+00:00
Tired of waiting for claude to finish, I create a shortcut to open a minigame while its running.

To use just install >>> npm run -g claude-arcade

and then run

>>> claude-arc

This will launch claude, with the ability to play minigames while it generates on the same terminal by pressing Ctrl + G. Come back any time to claude code by doing Ctrl+C or Q

here you find a simple leaderboard of the games: https://claude-arcade.lovable.app/

Adding the classic Dinosaur game from chrome soon!
by nickjj | 2025-10-24 16:19:38+00:00
Besides user uploaded content it's pretty easy to accidentally destroy the reputation of your main domain with subdomains.

For example:

1. Add a subdomain to test something out 2. Complete your test and remove the subdomain from your site 3. Forget to remove the DNS entry and now your A record points to an IP address

At this point if someone else on that hosting provider gets that IP address assigned, your subdomain is now hosting their content.

I had this happen to me once with PDF books being served through a subdomain on my site. Of course it's my mistake for not removing the A record (I forgot) but I'll never make that mistake again.

10 years of my domain having a good history may have gotten tainted in an unrepairable way. I don't get warnings visiting my site but traffic has slowly gotten worse over time since around that time, despite me posting more and more content. The correlation isn't guaranteed, especially with AI taking away so much traffic but it's something I do think about.
by ssl-3 | 2025-10-24 16:19:59+00:00
The display probably exists just because soldiers need that stuff, as a practical matter.

When they're required to be in uniform, then that's a requirement.

So if yesterday a uniform got ruined (by whatever mechanism that happens -- shit does happen to clothes sometimes), then today they can scrounge together another one.

Or they put together a spare one.

Or whatever.

(But it certainly is romantic to think that extra uniform parts exist for sale primarily to give as keepsakes to the Betty Whites of the world.)
by judahmeek | 2025-10-24 16:20:04+00:00
I definitely appreciate your measurements, but I think your analysis is off.

The top & bottom quintiles don't cancel out, but rather support the same trend, which is that Republicans have more voting power per capita.

That said, I am surprised that the top & bottom quintiles are nearly balanced. I'll have to look up which bottom quintile states have Democratic senators.
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-24 16:20:09+00:00
It's not trolling. People living paycheck to paycheck, without much in the way of financial literacy, are big consumers of "made to be collectible" widgets because they're desperate for appreciating assets and don't know how to do better when they struggle to save up a few hundred dollars (in no small part, because of their gambling addictions.)

Funko pops, baseball cards, knife skins, it's all used this way.
by verdverm | 2025-10-24 16:20:56+00:00
Careful with this idea, I had someone take a thread we were engaged in and feed it to an LLM, asking it to confirm his feelings about the conversation, only to post it back to the group thread. It was used to attack me personally in a public space.

Fortunately

1. The person was transparent about it, even posting a link to the chat session

2. They had to follow on prompt to really engage the sycophancy

3. The forum admins stepped in to speak to this individual even before I was aware of it

I actually did what you suggested, fed everything back into another LLM, but did so with various prompts to test things out. The responses where... interesting, the positive prompt did return something quite good. A (paraphrased) quote from it

"LLMs are a powerful rhetorical tool. Bringing one to a online discussion is like bringing a gun to a knife fight."

That being said, how you prompt will get you wildly different responses from the same (other) inputs. I was able to get it to sycophant my (not actually) hurt feelings.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-24 16:21:06+00:00
The "old" version didn't have a test for the feature... the "new" version started with the tests for the "old" version... it was an easy thing to miss as a result.

As other threads have mentioned, a more advanced argument parser and detection of parsed, but unused arguments could have caught this. Of course, there's already complaints about the increase in size for the Rust versions of uutils, mostly offset by a merged binary with separate symlinks. It's a mixed bag.

But, I'm sure you'll be reverting back to Xfree86 now.
by kenjackson | 2025-10-24 16:21:21+00:00
In some sense it is happening. But as alluded to in the article its going to be from the bottom up. I use AI designs for my slides and videos. Are they as good as a professional designer? No. Not even close really. Is it better than me? Yes. Not even close really.

The thing is on a computer today is that most design is prepackaged and not customized to what I'm doing. AI gets me a big step closer to that so much so that it is preferable to most of the prepackaged work done by a professional designer. Again, if I had a professional designer next to me to do slides and videos then that would be better, but very few people have that.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-24 16:21:37+00:00
I'm not, because while operating a fleet of systems, you assume some of the parts are so reliable that you don't look into them when problems arise.

These kinds of bugs might not bug end users much, but when it becomes a fleet-wide problem, it becomes crippling.

I'm debugging a problem on a platform since this morning. At the end of the day it turned out to be the platform is sending things to somewhere it's explicitly told not to.

Result? Everything froze, without any errors. System management is hard to begin with. It becomes really hard when the tools you think you can depend breaks.

Also, consider what would be the uproar if the programming language was something else than Rust. The developers would be crucified, burned with flamethrowers, reincarnated, and tortured again until they fed-up and leave computers and start raising chicken at an off-grid location.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-24 16:21:53+00:00
Well it's nice that Tesla cars are uniquely made, but they are very ugly to the average consumer. More traditional cars produced by legacy makers just... look better. To most people.

Legacy makers are producing cars with things consumers actually want. Higher quality interiors, nice exteriors, good ride dynamics, Apple car play, and competitive price points.

I think the reality is that most people actually don't care about Teslas big screen or autopilot. They want a car thats somewhat normal that does car things and does them well. They want good range, comfy seats, and steering wheel stocks.

Kia provides that, Hyundai provide that, pretty much everyone provides that except Tesla. The extra acceleration points doesn't matter. It's never really mattered, that's just a spec sheet bragging point.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-24 16:22:03+00:00
This is likely one part of a larger operation including blackmail opportunities, as others have mentioned.

However, don't overlook the value of $7 million in cash and cryptocurrency. For an organized crime operation that's a lot more valuable than $7 million in revenue from an actual business subject to taxes, business records, and bank tracking. This was an easy way to get millions of hard to trace dollars into accounts they could use.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-10-24 16:22:08+00:00
Reminds me of this classic highbrow techie banger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(joke)

See the datasheet also, I especially like the "insertions vs number of remaining pins" chart:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120316141638/http://www.nation...
by integralid | 2025-10-24 16:22:14+00:00
>some EU countries are still fighting more EU integration

At least this I understand. Foreign powers, especially you-know-which-one have a strong interest in preventing EU from becoming too strong, and unfortunately this is easy to do because:

* it plays on primal human tribal instincts (they want to assimilate us, they will force or enable more immigration, etc)

* the way EU works, you only need to convince some of the countries
by CivBase | 2025-10-24 16:22:17+00:00
> Prior to the most recent update, some Knives, like a Doppler Ruby Butterfly Knife, could fetch around $20,000 on third-party storefronts like CSFloat.

> Now, that Butterfly Knife mentioned above? It's going for around $12,000, as people are essentially dumping their stock, with 15 sold over the past 16 hours at the time of this writing.

Why on earth would anyone think an item in a video game is a good store of real-world value? Who are the people buying these items right now for $12k? How the heck did we get here?
by pavel_lishin | 2025-10-24 16:22:19+00:00
Is that actually true? I've heard of ambulances & police cars having such devices, but they were supposed to be infrared.

The last time I saw the strobe on top of a school bus active, it was when I was a passenger in one, driving down the freeway at night, and it wasn't strobing particularly fast. It's possible that our driver just forgot to turn it off, I suppose - he was that kind of guy.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-24 16:22:22+00:00
sysvinit had no problem being told to mount /usr as soon as network was available, and if you set up an init script to run before /usr was available, but the script needed /usr, that was your own fault.

systemd relies on things in /usr being available, including to decide which scripts to run, and mounting /usr would be one of those scripts, so it has a chicken-and-egg problem.

But ah, it doesn't! Instead the world needs to make sure /usr is mounted before systemd even gets started, so systemd doesn't have to fix its bug.

Personally, I don't mind /usr/bin merging with /bin, the benefit I can see is no more squabbling over whether something should be in /bin or not (i.e. is this tool needed to boot the system, or not?)
by palmotea | 2025-10-24 16:23:08+00:00
>> Debian Policy still cites the FHS, even though the FHS has gone unmaintained for more than a decade.

> What ongoing maintenance would a file system standard require? A successful standard of that type would have to remain static unless there was a serious issue to address. Regular changes are what the standard was intended to combat in the first place.

It's 2025, anything that wants to be considered modern (and everything should want that), needs to be undergoing constant change and delivering regular "improvements."

>>...though there is a slow-moving effort to revive and revise the standard as FHS 4.0, it has not yet produced any results.

> So it is not abandoned then. A slow moving process is exactly what you would want for the maintenance of a file system standard.

The FHS people to get off their butts. There's no excuse for that pace now that we have such well-developed AI assistants. They should be pushing quarterly updates at a minimum, and a breaking change at least every year or two. It's been obvious for decades that "etc" is in urgent need of renaming to "config", "home" to "user", and "usr" to "Program Files" to keep up with modern UX trends.