MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-31 19:54:41+00:00
Competition is good, but they should start from the OS level.

Outside of Windows and MacOS, there is no OS ecosystem that works as well and at scale for an enterprise level deployment.

I don't get the whole "US" aspect, why bring politics into this? We need alternatives and competition regardless of all that. I don't care if Europe, China or India make it, a viable alternative would be a game changer.

For Europe, they're solving the wrong problem. Solve the problem of low pay for developers, and a stifling regulatory atmosphere that inhibits disruptive startups.

If there is a good and viable alternative, why is it just for Europe? It could boost Europe's economy by selling to America and the rest of the world. The tech needs to be good, if the US can do it, why can't Europe?

Replacing office or one app at at time only addresses surface level issues.
by lalitmaganti | 2025-10-31 19:55:34+00:00
Thanks for the nice words! Your tool sounds super neat!

We're look at integrating some sort of similarish things into Perfetto itself where, for a synthetically generated trace, you can say "run this SQL query and add a debug track for it on trace load". See the discussion on https://github.com/google/perfetto/issues/1342 :)
by ineedaj0b | 2025-10-31 19:55:35+00:00
her at her worst is better than 90% of people at their best.

if you get through and into a good med school -match into surgery- you are Peak in a way very few are.

I don’t see this changing unless they reduce the requirements for med school; if they let anyone in who wants in and force that group to work 30hr shifts - you’ll get enough bad outcomes the system will change.

There was a study, I believe on nurses and shift durations. The study found the nurses were happier with shorter shifts - but the patients did worse. Patients come first.

I could see a group of Doctors loudly proclaiming love for Donald Trump (and mentioning very much how great he is) and pleading the case for a change and something happening. He is an interesting president.

I would be interested in hearing a european drs perspective, I heard they work shorter shifts (but no EU dr I met has confirmed, it’s like meeting a unicorn)
by mrob | 2025-10-31 19:55:44+00:00
With the default ext4 filesystem, mounting 'ro' doesn't actually prevent writes to the disk. For that you need 'noload' too, to prevent journal replay. This can result in a broken filesystem if it wasn't unmounted cleanly, although assuming it's 100% read-only it shouldn't do any permanent damage (perhaps enforce read-only access at the block device level to be sure).
by shahbaby | 2025-10-31 19:56:06+00:00
Agreed but it's even more fundamental than that.

We don't even have a universally accepted definition of intelligence.

The only universally agreed on artifact of intelligence that we have is the human brain. And we still don't have a conceptual model of how it works like we do with DNA replication.

Our society incentivizes selling out the mimicry of intelligence rather than actually learning its true nature.

I believe that there exists an element of human intelligence that AI will never be able to mimic due to limitations of silicon vs biological hardware.

I also believe that the people or beings that are truly in control of this world are well aware of this and want us to remain focused on dead-end technologies. Much like politics is focused on the same old dead-end discussions. They want to keep this world in a technological stasis for as long as they can.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-31 19:57:27+00:00
> So you do care about how many rubies you have

No, I care about how many leftover rebuilds I have that I no longer use (typically all of them). Couldn't care less about any individual packages because I leave it to Nix to know what should be installed and what shouldn't.

I don't casually browse through the stores because I have no reason to.

> So you were just arguing for the fun of it based on a superficial theory?

Arguing? That's not what I'm doing, but maybe it's how you feel. Your initial post was a question. I replied to it. I guess your question was rhetorical, based on your responses to my comments.

I was giving you my perspective.

My various dealings with the paths comes from various adventures of debugging why my configs didn't produce what I thought (eg things not in path). It's also probably why I see the relationship as starting with config and ending with path on disk.

I have never gone on fishing expeditions around store paths. When I go out of my homedir and "root" fs, I know what hash I want from looking at a symlink, or some log output.
by alt227 | 2025-10-31 19:57:33+00:00
You have reduced it down to the wrong components. Its not about the price, its about care and effort in development.

If something free gets put behind a paywall because theres genuinely a push for growth in the software thats fair enough. Taking 3 seperately paid products and turning them into 1 freemium app which requires registering an account for is completely different IMO.
by FooBarWidget | 2025-10-31 19:57:58+00:00
I think you're severely underestimating how safe China has become. Nowadays people don't even lock their motorbikes, and can leave their laptops in coffeeshops unattended for half an hour. You definitely can't do either of that in Netherlands. Maybe in some small village where everybody knows everybody else it's still possible.

That is the baseline that Chinese are comparing to nowadays. That's why even many what we call safe places feel unsafe to them.

Also consider that just 15 years ago, China was definitely way unsafer than many European countries. China upgraded from a low public trust to high public trust society in front of people's living memories. This is what you have to consider when considering why Chinese people are happy with their government. All this voting stuff is just theoretical benefit. In Netherlands, our politics have been a mess for more than a decade. Voting certainly didn't solve the problems.
by nekusar | 2025-10-31 19:58:09+00:00
People are also leaving out stuff like Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh, and Magic The Gathering.

All of them also introduce rarities (arbitrary exclusiveness), hidden cards in a pack, and extreme gambling gamification.

The only non-gambling MtG packs are the preconstructed commander decks. All 100 cards are published. But the packs and boxes? Pure gambling, especially for the chase rare cards.

And before anyone asks, yes, my username is based after this $2 card. https://edhrec.com/commanders/nekusar-the-mindrazer
by mrtksn | 2025-10-31 19:58:43+00:00
When you do something in a mature industry, you skip quite a lot of losing bets that those involved in maturing it couldn't.

That's why Google, Samsung and others were able to create smartphones comparable to iPhone without having a Steve Jobs and a Johny Ive right after Apple made one.

Once you know the way forward, the rest is an engineering task and it's matter of working towards it. Very low risk compared to the initial work done by the pioneers.
by logicprog | 2025-10-31 19:58:56+00:00
I can't read your hyperbolically titled paywalled medium post, so idk if it has data I'm not aware of or is just rehashing the same stats about OpenAI & co currently losing money (mostly due to training and free users) but here's a non paywalled blog post that I personally found convincing: https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2025-06-02-llms-are-ch...
by ElijahLynn | 2025-10-31 19:59:22+00:00
I like parts of this. The one part that I would add is that the inter-team communication should all be made available in publicly accessible, observable ways. This way other team members can find results in their own search scope.

Effectively open source when possible, inner source as a fall back. But not every team is their own private channel, restricting knowledge to that team only.
by rvz | 2025-10-31 19:59:44+00:00
> This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?

Even the engineers at these AI companies can't use these LLMs to fix an outage when there is one. Especially SREs.

But if one has to just sit there and "wait" for the outage to subside then perhaps the kitchen timer just went off and declared that these "developers" are cooked.
by Zambyte | 2025-10-31 19:59:48+00:00
I can give a specific example.

for (0..5) |i| { i = i + 1; std.debug.print("foo {}\n", .{i}); }

In this loop in Zig, the reassignment to i fails, because i is a constant. However, i is a new constant bound to a different value each iteration.

To potentially make it clearer that this is not mutation of a constant between iterations, technically &i could change between iterations, and the program would still be correct. This is not true with a c-style for loop using explicit mutation.
by cameldrv | 2025-10-31 20:00:06+00:00
I wish Apple TV did that. It has a global search feature. My kids push the button on the side of the remote and say what they want to watch. Then they get a screen saying you can rent it for $6.99 or whatever, and I'm thinking "didn't you just watch that the other day, and I didn't have to approve any purchase..." Well of course Netflix doesn't appear in the Apple search results. You can search in their app separately, but it's not integrated into the system. Even if you pay all of the services their $15 a month or whatever, you still can't just watch what you want because something something engagement metrics. It's tiresome.
by thelastgallon | 2025-10-31 20:00:15+00:00
> “We need to break down silos between departments and get people to collaborate better” — almost every leader everywhere.

Almost all 'leaders' in corporate are completely clueless. There are gatekeepers who 'manage' access to the leaders. Nobody can meet with the leaders. Every meeting with the leader is controlled by these gatekeepers. They decide who will be allowed in a meeting. And what they will present. The powerpoints will be carefully crafted to make everything a success story, the numbers massaged to show some growth of something desirable, decline of something undesirable and wins and applauds all around. Every failure is a massive success. The small number of people who are allowed in these meetings are handpicked. The gatekeeping org is full of extremely incompetent loyal lackeys who call themselves experts at executive communications, budgeting, forecasting, data analytics, etc; grant themselves high titles, more pay than engineering roles.

The gatekeepers keep exceptionally good relationships with other gatekeeping orgs. Even if there is something incredibly bad in the other org, they craft a narrative and make it sound like a success story and there is something on the roadmap to improve. It is critically important for gatekeepers to keep this 'success' story because gatekeepers hire each other. Nobody else can hire them.

These gatekeepers also create endless bureaucracy, hire LOTS of extreme clueless people who don't understand anything, but make high level decisions on things they don't have any clue about. Think about a dog making decisions on whether to fund cancer research vs more dog treats or chasing cars. Also, they create a LOT of systems and broken process that require their approvals. Broken processes helps empire building and also keeps them in power. Anybody who needs anything done has to reach out to them directly and they escalate within the org to get it done. Then the person owes them a favor. A working process takes power away from them.

The level of cluelessness of leaders is unbelievable. The gatekeepers constantly say we need to dumb things down. This is unfathomable, because the gatekeepers themselves are headless chickens. All the leaders want is pretty ppts (and eliminate trigger works, every leader has a list of trigger words or their own arcane vocabulary that they want to use), some like bento boxes, some like sankey charts and some leaders who have seen other people ppts ask the gatekeepers that they like that specific slide from that meeting, can we have a chart like that?

Source: I am an engineer now working in a gatekeeping org (in a mega corp).
by pverheggen | 2025-10-31 20:01:01+00:00
Usually you would have it appear when it's focused, like this for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/

And yes, this is an acceptable solution according to the W3C:

https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/general/G1

Your solution of focusing the first form element is pretty idiosyncratic. It's better to follow WAI patterns, because patterns have predictable behavior. Otherwise, keyboard users will have to learn how to interact with your website from scratch, instead of just following the same pattern they're used to from other sites.
by bell-cot | 2025-10-31 20:01:13+00:00
Yes-ish? I might have linked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws#Repeal In many ways that repeal was a direct consequence of the Industrial Revolution, and the IR's "new rich" were often eager to acquire the architectural trappings of the old rich, pay staggering sums to marry into them, and other tricks.
by jimbokun | 2025-10-31 20:01:25+00:00
You pass in an array to a function meant to perform a transformation on each item of the array and return the result.

You pass in an array of 10 values.

While the function is executing, some other thread adds two more values to the array.

How many values should the result of the function call have? 10 or 12? How do you guarantee that is the case?
by ElijahLynn | 2025-10-31 20:01:55+00:00
yeah, the Macbook for example, looks pretty, but its sharp aluminum edge cuts into my palm when I use the track pad, so I have black electrical tape on it so that it is functional. Which destroys its beauty. I'd take an aluminum router to it if I could, but it is a work laptop (on lease). And unfortunately I can't use a Linux laptop here otherwise I would...
by neonnoodle | 2025-10-31 20:02:05+00:00
> Wonder how all of the focus seem to happen at the same time

Because this practice was made legal very recently in most places in the US and a concomitant advertising boom has saturated the media. Before the last few years, your average American couldn't bet on sports without visiting a casino sports book in person, or having a bookie (i.e., entering into a risky relationship with organized crime). TV sports coverage now openly refers to how you can use their analysis to make bets.
by hitekker | 2025-10-31 20:02:16+00:00
Related, from https://prachititg.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/the-everyt...

> At a management offsite in the late 1990s, a team of well-intentioned junior executives stood up before the company’s top brass and gave a presentation on a problem indigenous to all large organizations: the difficulty of coordinating far-flung divisions.

> The junior executives recommended a variety of different techniques to foster crossgroup dialogue and afterward seemed proud of their own ingenuity. Then Jeff Bezos, his face red and the blood vessel in his forehead pulsing, spoke up. “I understand what you’re saying, but you are completely wrong,” he said. “Communication is a sign of dysfunction. It means people aren’t working together in a close, organic way. We should be trying to figure out a way for teams to communicate less with each other, not more.”

> That confrontation was widely remembered. “Jeff has these aha moments,” says David Risher. “All the blood in his entire body goes to his face. He’s incredibly passionate. If he was a table pounder, he would be pounding the table." At that meeting and in public speeches afterward, Bezos vowed to run Amazon with an emphasis on decentralization and independent decision-making.
by svnt | 2025-10-31 20:02:27+00:00
It has fallen out of favor based on a lack of evidential support, for sure. It has not really been dismantled publicly scientifically, but mostly quietly, perhaps in order to protect its practitioners, perhaps because the research cannot currently be ethically conducted.

I am not advocating for it, just stating the near total lack of substantive scientific evidence presented either in support or opposed.
by kergonath | 2025-10-31 20:02:34+00:00
> They simply eliminated the matte option without comment, and finally brought it back many years later.

Wasn’t the matte option that disappeared just then removing the glass in front of the screen? I seem to remember that (my MBP from that time was glossy).

The nano textured coating they are using now is quite complex and I am not quite sure it was applicable at such scales cheaply enough back in 2015.
Show HN: I'm tired of reading five different API docs just to accept payments
by devodii | 2025-10-31 20:02:49+00:00
I built Paykit because I got tired of reading a new API doc every time I needed to integrate payments. Stripe, Paddle, PayPal, Polar, they all have slightly different models, webhooks, and dashboards. It’s annoying if you ship a lot of small projects or handle payments across multiple platforms.

Paykit gives you: • One SDK that works with all of them. • One dashboard for revenue, customers, and webhooks. • A clean REST API so you can build your own UI if you want. • Works with shadcn/ui out of the box, feel free to check the docs for copy-paste code snippets to handle full payment integration in minutes.

Coming in V2: invoice builder, MRR screenshot tool (so you can flex your growth), and hosted billing portals for platforms that don’t have one.

It’s still early, but live here: https://usepaykit.dev

Would love feedback, especially from other devs who’ve felt this pain integrating multiple payment platforms.
by dunham | 2025-10-31 20:04:16+00:00
I bought one of those iBooks for Debian linux, but I found the resolution was a bit small for X. At the time, I had a thing for non-intel architectures. Prior to that, I had done a lot of work packaging up Debian for Sparc machines. I had access to a wide variety of Sun workstations at my job as a sysadmin at a university.
by ElijahLynn | 2025-10-31 20:04:24+00:00
Maybe Altman will serve that taste savant role, and they will be a good combo. I'm optimistic they will produce something that: * doesn't have ads, (we are the customer, not the product) * makes our lives more fluid and easy * delivers on the vision for what computers always could be

Jarvis, please make me a sandwich.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-31 20:04:35+00:00
I'd ban all advertisement and put a market cap on these companies before mandatory breakups happens.

None of these companies should be worth a billion dollars.

My big fear is these companies are all getting rich which means they'll be able to buy political influence.

I'm pretty tolerant of a lot of vices. I also don't really have a problem with low levels of gambling. But the way these companies are setup is just sick. It's abusive the the public and erosive to society in general.
by dysoco | 2025-10-31 20:04:47+00:00
I have astigmatism and have not found any issues with glares in white-on-black, I think you should use themes with dark/light grey/blue/etc. anyways and not directly white and black.

However I do find light themes more pleasant, obviously at night I tend to switch to a dark theme but during the day I prefer to keep them light, I find them more pleasant and aesthetic.
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-31 20:04:50+00:00
>Some of us in Europe are ready to drop Russian oil imports whatever the cost.

Translation: "Some of us in Europe are ready to drop drop bread in favor of eating cake, whatever the cost."

Easy for you to write cheques that others have to cash. Be careful with such suicidal empathy, as that has second order effects that back-fire in spectacular fashion. That's why you're supposed to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others.

>It's just russian backed populists are ready to rile the crowds for any price increase whatsoever..

TIL that if you aren't gonna sacrifice yourself for Ukraine and prioritize your family's survival, wanting to have a job, a roof over your head and food on the table, somehow makes you a "Russian populist" now. Interesting logic.

You'd think much differently if you or your family would face unemployment, homelessness or malnourishment due to the economic damages caused by a surge in energy costs across the board. Half my immediate friend circle have lost their jobs in the last ~2 years due to the economic situation, my grandma can't afford her bills from her pension without financial support from us, while access public services like healthcare and childcare has only gotten worse, despite us paying more for everything. Not exactly the environment people feel like gutting themselves even further for a foreign country, whichever that may be.
by dang | 2025-10-31 20:05:01+00:00
That may well be so, but we need you (<-- I don't mean you personally, of course, but everyone here) to follow the rules even when another comment is wrong or bad. Otherwise we end up in a downward spiral. There's actually an interesting reason for that: we all underestimate the provocations in our own posts and overestimate the provocations in other people's posts. If the skew is 10x each way then that's a 100x perception gap. Since more or less all comments suffer from this baseline bias, we need to compensate for it by doing extra work to stay within the guidelines.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by belkinpower | 2025-10-31 20:05:28+00:00
The Pokémon card mania in particular is deeply weird to me. I play Magic at a local card shop a few times a month and it’s always full of people playing Magic, D&D, or various board games. I don’t think I’ve seen a single person playing the Pokémon card game. So who’s buying the valuable singles? What’s keeping the market afloat? It’s bizarre.
by braza | 2025-10-31 20:06:02+00:00
I had some different sort of issue but in the same lines: when you have distinct goals between upstream team X and the downstream team Y.

Most of my experience working in un-siloed team Y communicating only via interfaces (e.g., APIs or database views) was that most of the time we could move very fast, even in Big Co.

The problem started when we had a goal, e.g. saving _n_ amount in the Snowflake account, and at the same time the upstream team X started to push so much data that it not only offset our savings but also sometimes used to make things more expensive.

Since upstream X has all the upper management visibility, they could operate in a more loose way towards the downstream team, and we're basically at the whims of someone to be sensible and attend to some of our requests to ask them to stop duplicating data in our database.

We only had the problem solved when this upstream team X used to share the same goal (even as a partner) in terms of savings.
by sipofwater | 2025-10-31 20:06:07+00:00
"The world without hegemony" "As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come": https://aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us... (aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us-about-a-multipolar-order) via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771497 ; https://archive.ph/wBrLt
by mrtksn | 2025-10-31 20:06:39+00:00
A lot of AAA+ games are European, Linux is European and a lot of other software and services are European, a lot of industrial software is European. The platforms are not European, that's what's lacking.

It's not matter of talent, its matter of investing a few tens billions into it and its not going to happen if US companies can just undercut and wait it out.
by squigz | 2025-10-31 20:06:51+00:00
I think there's a massive difference between card packs - which have been as you describe for decades - and the recent boom in sports betting. Most people don't even know what MTG is, or that there's even a market for those cards. Everyone now knows that you can bet on any sport you want - and if some reports are to be believed, a large percentage of people are participating.

Anyway, this is why I play MTG online - same with 40k, although there's no gambling there. Just too expensive to play either IRL even if I wanted to.