MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teslatree | 2025-10-29 07:39:02+00:00
In Norway this is regulated by Luftfartstilsynets BSL E 2-1, and the blinking white lights on our towers are called "hinderlys", for example category "Høyintensitet, type B".

They are not uncommon in Norway.

If you go to one of our major airports you will see one on the tower. The blinking lights also sit on wind turbines and TV masts, and anything taller than 15 meters in rural areas or 30 meters in populated areas will have some kind of light on it, sometimes blinking, either red or white.
by thastings | 2025-10-29 07:39:24+00:00
Droidian[0] currently supports a relatively new Motorola phone[1]. A Snapdragon 8+ gen 1 device, so the performance isn't bad, and most features seem to work, including Waydroid. I've noticed incoming phone calls causing a glitch where the call can't be answered, but other than that, daily drivable. Just like a PinePhone, only more powerful. In my region it can be had for ~€250 brand new.

[0] https://droidian.org/ [1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPhone-by-Motorola-...
by safety1st | 2025-10-29 07:39:39+00:00
This is the place where I think lawmakers needs to be involved. Bearing in mind that laws aren't engineering specs, being able to pay for things and use a bank are about as close to fundamental rights as anything is for participants in society. If you have to buy a second device to use Netflix, so be it, but we need laws that guarantee people can make digital payments without Apple or Google's permission.

There are societies today (I live in one) where some businesses are starting to accept payment only through a banking or payment app, no cash, no card, nothing else. And these apps will only function in the very narrow circumstances of "I bought a device which runs software from one of two American tech monopolies and follow all their frequently changing rules for using various software that's unrelated to the payment I need to make." This limitation is mostly in place due to the banks believing it will make things more secure. Security is important, but not important enough that you get to start denying innocent people the ability to make payments or exile them from the banking system because they had some kind of dispute with Apple or Google. Governments need to step in with access mandates here, otherwise this problem WILL come to a jurisdiction near you sooner or later.
by aziaziazi | 2025-10-29 07:40:38+00:00
> which forces people to upgrade every year

Perhaps it’s just a language slip, how are people forced to upgrade every year? My experience is the opposite: ios 15 is still supported[0] and my 2016 iPhone let me access the World Wide Web.

The force your talking about comes instead from developers (like me) that implements features and systems always more CPU/GPU hungry.

0 security patched last month https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270108
by surajrmal | 2025-10-29 07:41:56+00:00
Anyone who has lived through the windows PC era knows it's a legitimate problem. Google has tons of data to show malware exists for Android as well. Being able to prevent that malware from affecting the lives of Android users is a moral imperative for Google. I understand why folks are skeptical, but it's worth trying to dig into the fact rather than just react blindly.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-10-29 07:42:27+00:00
If you're in Europe, there's the newly launched DNS4EU project which is free for personal use, and also includes adblocking at the DNS level like NextDNS.

I use it in conjunction with Adguard and secure DNS, but they also publish configuration profiles for iOS.

https://www.joindns4.eu/

https://www.joindns4.eu/dns-guidelines
by pols45 | 2025-10-29 07:43:13+00:00
> Nobody wanted to be the morality police

Why?

Cuz Rationalism and Logic does not produce Morality. [ How does it emerge > https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/ ]

So don't ask for proof. Its a waste of time.

Ask Sam Altman what his source of Morality is.
by npteljes | 2025-10-29 07:43:56+00:00
I'm frankly debating how hurt I am over this. Obviously nothing happened to me because of a sudden some-hour outage, but I organize almost my entire online communication around email, and being without it was freaky. I didn't need them, but some online logins wouldn't have worked, business emails could have bounced, etc. I have never experienced email not working.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-29 07:44:01+00:00
> on ways to put ads

My mistake, you're completely correct, perhaps even more-correct than the wonderful flavor of Mococoa drink, with all-natural cocoa beans from the upper slopes of Mount Nicaragua. No artificial sweeteners!

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKSQrhX7BM&t=0m13s)
by saghm | 2025-10-29 07:44:28+00:00
Since the bar to opening a PR has gotten lower, there's an argument that the bar for closing it might need to be lowered as well. I think right now, we consider the review effort to be asymmetric in part because it's natural to want to give the benefit of the doubt to PR authors rather than making a snap judgement from only a looking briefly at something; the current system seems to place a higher value on not accidentally closing a potentially useful but poorly presented PR than not accidentally wasting time on one that superficially appears like it might be good but isn't. I have to wonder if the best we can do is to just be more willing to close PRs when reviewers aren't sufficiently convinced of the quality after a shorter inspection regardless of whether we're 100% certain about whether that judgment is perfect. If "false positive" PRs that seem reasonable but turn out not to be are better at appearing superficially good, the best option seems like it might just be to be willing to throw out more "false negatives" that would be useful but aren't sufficiently able to distinguish themselves from the ones that aren't.

After a minute (or whatever length of time makes sense for the project), decide whether you're not fully confident that the PR is worth your time to continue reviewing, with the default answer being "no" if you're on the fence. Unless it's a yes, you got a bad vibe; close it and move on. Getting a PR merged will require more effort in making the case that there's value in keeping it open, which restores some of the balance that's been lost in the effort having been pushed to the review side.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-29 07:45:12+00:00
> Right, but that's a choice from manufacturers, not a requirement of building a mobile platform.

IMO, I think Microsoft gave up on running Android apps on Windows because they read the writing on the wall: Google will use Play Integrity/Protect to ensure Android apps only run on Google-approved devices/operating systems and nothing else.

I think this is the ultimate fate for Waydroid, as well.
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by ehnto | 2025-10-29 07:45:32+00:00
What I love about learning a topic thoroughly is that I can then pick apart the "expert wisdom" into what actually matters. That usually results in me getting better but very pragmatic results.

Coffee is a great example, I worked through the whole stack, tried everything I had access to until eventually I weeded out what matters most to me.

Good beans, good milk, and just enough prep. I tried no prep, all the prep, and then just enough prep. Good beans not perfect beans. Good milk but whatever is available.

I do the same with everything, cars, bicycles, sim racing equipment, computers, software etc.
by slg | 2025-10-29 07:45:35+00:00
From the Cambridge Dictionary[1]:

>war criminal

>noun

>someone who commits war crimes:

>- He was a Nazi war criminal.

"Commits" not "convicted". If I had to summarize my point it would be "you're objectively wrong".

[1] - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/war-c...
by rsynnott | 2025-10-29 07:46:08+00:00
Indeed. There was a significant period where they, er, weren't really better than last year's, though. Remember Broadwell? Followed by Skylake, which took about two years to go from "theoretically available" to "actually usable".

And then Skylake's successors, which were broadly the same as Skylake for about four years.
by rafaelmn | 2025-10-29 07:46:44+00:00
100$ a year for a dev in Sweden - that's like money you wouldn't notice if it got lost in your pockets - and I am sure it cuts down on spammers and covers administrative cost.

I have no problem with a store having a small admission fee - that's perfectly reasonable and they do have operational costs. It would be nice if they had some way to waive the fee for popular OSS to garner some god will with the devs.

Taking a 30% cut of revenue on the other hand ... both platforms are guilty of this
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-29 07:46:58+00:00
Multipathing, delay based congestion control, predictable performance under load (even with multi-tenancy!), builtin encryption, loss recovery while maintaining in order behavior even when doing IB Verbs, modular pluggable upper layers to allow apps to use NVMe and RDMA directly, support for smooth operations even with >100k connections, separation of course based management and data flow for rapid iteration / programmable congestion control, ordered and unordered processing, connection type awareness to allow further optimization / taking advantage of unordered wins.

The results sections speaks clearly to their wins. A tiny drop rate or pre-order rate causes enormous goodput losses for RoCE. Falcon hardly notices. P99 latencies go to 7x slowdown over ideal at a 500 connections for RoCE versus 1.5x slowdown for Falcon. Falcon recovers from disruption way faster, whereas RoCE struggles to find goodput. Multipath shows major wins for effective load.

If you don't care about p99, and you don't have many connections, yeah, what we have today is fine. But this is divinely awesome stability when doing absurdly brutal things to the connection. And it all works in hostile/contested multi-tenancy environments. And it exposes friendly fast APIs like NVMe or RDMA directly (covering much of the space that AWS Nitro does).

It is also wildly amazing how they implemented this. Not as its own NIC but by surrounding a Intel E2100 200gbps NIC with their own ASIC.

The related works section makes comparisons versus other best of breed and emerging systems. Worth reading that to see more of what wins were had here.

The NIC's job these days is to keep very expensive very hot accelerators screaming along at their jobs. Wasting with congestion and retransmits and growing p99 latencies costs incredible wastes of capacity, time, and power. Falcon radically improves the ability of traffic to make successful transit. That keeps those many kilowatts of accelerators on track with the data and results they need to keep crunching.
by adastra22 | 2025-10-29 07:47:04+00:00
I think you missed that I'm comparing a single company to the entire market crash in 2000.

What about OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and the other foundation labs that have collectively raised trillions?

What Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta, which would likely survive but maybe lose up to a trillion each in valuation?

What about the very long tail of venture-backed AI companies that will go bust? You might complain that the dotcom number was just public companies, but back in 2000 everything was a public company. A company with thousands of high-earning employees going bust matters to the greater economy whether or not it is Nasdaq listed or not.

If a single company represents the entire dollar amount of the dotcom bust, or half when inflation-adjusted, and that valuation is entirely predicated on that growth continuing at historically unprecedented rates.. yeah we're in a bubble, and the damage when it bursts is going to be big.

That was the point I was making, and I fail to see how forward earnings to share-price ratios has any relevance here. The whole point of a bubble popping is that the market suddenly finds out those forward revenues were a mirage, a house of cards, and are very much made up.
by vladms | 2025-10-29 07:47:16+00:00
Pirating is more of a problem of mismanaged price versus revenues. In the '90 in East Europe everybody was pirating because we couldn't afford any software not because "we wanted to steal". As soon as I got a decent salary I just bought the damn stuff and spared me of the headache of dealing with pirated things.

The people pushing for drastic technical measures to "prevent pirating" are probably accountants, that have no other idea of how to generate value and they imagine all "pirated content" will be converted to paid - which is not the case.
by nirava | 2025-10-29 07:49:22+00:00
anyone working on this space easily gets a +1!

I have struggled with code to diagram tools for a while [mermaid and graphviz], and usually return to figjam when I need the readabilty and aesthetics.

graph-viz is MASSIVE and a binary. mermaid requires the browser's svg rendering system to work. I just need something that builds diagrams from description easily ...
by chii | 2025-10-29 07:49:44+00:00
> fail to see how forward earnings to share-price ratios has any relevance here.

the relevance is that these earnings expectations are lower than when the dotcom bubble happened.

The fact that a single company can have a market cap today that is greater than the losses from the dotcom bust is irrelevant. We have more wealth today than back in 2000, and these market caps reflect that.
by merpkz | 2025-10-29 07:50:40+00:00
I am currently 2/6 done with [1] this 13,2k piece Disney puzzle and this guide will be much helpful once I need to hang it as that has been bothering me a bit since the sheer proportions of the puzzle are starting to appear. That might not be soon though, as I didn't account for lack of sunlight during winter, turns out doing puzzle with artificial lightning is not easy, puzzle reflects some of it and it's strain on the eyes.

1 - https://en.clementoni.com/collections/adult-puzzle/products/...
by Terr_ | 2025-10-29 07:50:44+00:00
I think the charitable interpretation is that the author is referring to particular use-cases which stopped being served by CLIs.

Heck, just look at what's happening at this very moment: I'm using a textarea with a submit button. Even as a developer/power-user, I have zero interest in replacing that with:

echo "I think the..." | post_to_hn --reply-to=45742461
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-29 07:50:48+00:00
It's for MVP prototypes or quick tools you get the idea for on a walk or when you're away from your full setup.

Like this icon tool by @simonw: https://tools.simonwillison.net/icon-editor

Or I had an idea for a learning tool for my kids:

1) take a picture of the word list from the study book, give it with a prompt to an LLM, which produces a JSON Anki-style card set from the words

2) a simple web UI for a basic spaced repetition model that can ingest the JSON generated in step 1

All this went from idea to MVP while we were watching the first Downton Abbey movie.

After the movie was over, I could come to my desktop, open Claude Code with the previous chat and "teleport" it to my local machine to test it.
by ehnto | 2025-10-29 07:50:56+00:00
Are you from the US by chance?

I only ask because specifically for chocolate and coffee, I would consider the US baseline to be exceedingly average, even terrible. Even "okay" chocolate and coffee from other countries better known for food will blow it out of the water.

The US does do excellent coffee, and excellent chocolate, but you have to seek it out. In a country like Italy or Australia the default, okay stuff is better. If an Australian couldn't tell the difference between good and great coffee I'd see why.
by autoexec | 2025-10-29 07:51:35+00:00
> I've thought about that too, but in the end, price always wins - this is why the Amazons and Walmarts of the world have out-competed local small businesses.

The Amazons and Walmarts of the world are only able to offer those cheaper prices because they engage in practices that were, are, and/or should be illegal. Practices like violating the Robinson–Patman Act, collusion, exploiting workers, knowingly selling dangerous goods, and outright bribery are the real reason why they have out-competed local small businesses, and a large part of why so many people are only able to afford goods sold at the cheapest prices in the first place.

Getting rid of Chinese crap wouldn't solve anything. We need strong regulations with very sharp teeth to be consistently enforced in order to give consumers protection and allow small businesses to stand a chance to grow and thrive.
by wtallis | 2025-10-29 07:52:19+00:00
That is more or less what users asking for another Snow Leopard want: a release that doesn't have gratuitous UI churn and superficial changes, doesn't break the end user's muscle memory, but instead focuses on deep-seated and long-standing issues under the hood. If the right thing for the OS in the long term is to replace an entire subsystem instead of applying more band-aid fixes, then take the time to do a proper job of it.

lapcat loves his straw man about OS X 10.6.0 having plenty of bugs, but that misses the point of Snow Leopard. Of course a release that makes changes as fundamental as re-writing the Finder and QuickTime to use the NeXT-derived frameworks rather than the classic Mac OS APIs, and moving most of the built-in apps to 64-bit, is going to introduce or uncover plenty of new bugs. But it fixed a bunch of stubborn bugs and architectural limitations, and the new bugs mostly got ironed out in a reasonable time frame. (Snow Leopard was probably one of the better examples of Apple practicing what they preach: cleaning out legacy code and modernizing the OS and bundled apps the way they usually want third-party developers to do to their own apps.)

Fixing architectural bugs is still fixing bugs—just at a deeper level than a rapid release schedule driven by marketable end-user features easily allows for.
by gethly | 2025-10-29 07:52:52+00:00
They know their time is running out. CEO has been selling shares like they are going out of business the next monday, but nobody talks about it because market could wake up from the dream and crash the entire market as the AI bubble is the only thing holding up the entire USA economy(yes, not just the markets) right now.

https://fintel.io/n/huang-jen-hsun
by frontbackgeek | 2025-10-29 07:52:56+00:00
Microsoft and OpenAI have completed a major restructuring agreement that changes the future of their partnership and the AI industry as a whole. The deal gives Microsoft a 27% ownership stake in OpenAI, now valued at around $135 billion. The restructuring also transforms OpenAI into a public benefit corporation, allowing it to balance commercial growth with its mission-driven goals.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-29 07:53:26+00:00
The simple factor for this is that even on networks like tor / i2p etc., its much more of an paradox

If you use it, then since most people don't use it, you might get caught/suspicious target depending on what the govt. is trying to achieve.

If you don't use it, then you basically give up on any form of privacy which could be even worse

I think that one of the examples I want to point out is edward snowden, I feel like he would be pretty attacked on internet if the american intelligence coudl break it so he's definitely one of the top priorities and his security model can maybe be followed but with extreme caution.

At an extreme level, you might require a librebooted thinkpad with qubes os / with tor which would make deadly slow but I guess it could still work, not sure what or how exactly is the snowden's security model but I am pretty sure it uses qubesOS/ maybe tor even as well not sure about i2p in general
by mrlongroots | 2025-10-29 07:54:12+00:00
> Is this just a cost efficiency thing?

It's not entirely, but even that would be a justifiable reason. Tail behavior of all sorts matters a lot, sophisticated congestion control and load-balancing matters a lot. ML training is all about massive collectives: a single tail latency event in a NCCL collective means all GPUs in that group are idling until the last GPU makes it.

> It only takes like 1 core to terminate 200 Gb/s of reliable bytestream using a software protocol with no hardware offload over regular old 1500-byte MTU ethernet.

The conventional TCP/IP stack is a lot more than just 20GB/s of memcpy's with 200 GbE: there's a DMA into kernel buffers and then a copy into user memory, there's syscalls and interrupts and back and forth, there's segmentation and checksums and reassembly and retransmits, and overall a lot more work. RDMA eliminates all that.

> all you need is a parallel hardware crypto accelerator > all you need is a hardware copy/DMA engine

And when you add these and all the other requirements you get a modern RDMA network :).

The network is what kicks in when Moore's law recedes. Jensen Huang wants you to pretend that your 10,000 GPUs are one massive GPU: that only works if you have Nvlink/Infiniband or something in that league, and even then barely. And GOOG/MSFT/AMZN are too big and the datacenter fabric is too precious to be outsourced.
by jitumaat | 2025-10-29 07:54:23+00:00
>What, of the things I described, have Black Americans experienced more than others?

in a context where an essentially democratic, free society was desired by all, black people were systematically shut out from, (redlining, the gi bill, etc.). Like how you were supposed to trust that stop-and-frisk and the broken window policing policies were not thinly veiled attempts to over-police black neighborhoods because the paper you read or the politician you voted for told you so... but the people that were the victims knew otherwise.
by surajrmal | 2025-10-29 07:54:33+00:00
Security only works if you can control what software is trustworthy. If some software has been proven to be untrustworthy, it is worthwhile to prevent all software that the producer has ever made from working at scale. Adding some nominal process and fee to make it too expensive to create a lot of accounts prevents them from creating hundreds of alternative aliases. There is a lot of precedence for why this is a good idea and works. I think if there was another company involved with performing the audit which folks trusted it might now seem so scary.
by lb1lf | 2025-10-29 07:55:06+00:00
At least the commercial ones I've been using on and off do not have a drying cycle at the end of the program; they just steam the heck out of whatever is inside, then once the cycle is through, you are expected to remove the tray with whatever you were washing and let it air dry on the bench.

This in contrast to the consumer unit at home which heats the interior of the dishwasher for 45 minutes or so after it has done its washing cycle to dry things while still inside the dishwasher.
by npteljes | 2025-10-29 07:55:08+00:00
I like Fastmail as well. Funnily enough, their fast loading website is a positive sign to me.

Do you remember if there was any communication regarding that outage? Posteo's record is similar, from what I can tell. This is the first major outage for 7 years that I have experienced, and if I look at it from an uptime perspective, that's really good. Overall the service was out for 5 hours or so.
by somethingsome | 2025-10-29 07:55:16+00:00
I don't mind either, I have way too few time to write blogposts, but I have some things that I want to share. So I focus on the content extensively, and use the llm to help with the style and the phrasing and grammar..

But I often correct the result and change some wording.

Maybe at the beginning, when I was less experienced with llms, I used more llm style, but now I find it a good compromise to convey what I think without hindering the message behind my awful writing :)