MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by datadrivenangel | 2025-10-02 13:59:50+00:00
My desktop still dual boots windows 10 and ubuntu... 11 is acceptable compared to late 10, but it's a chore that will result in changes, and no benefits to me.

I might just go full linux, but 2-4 times a year this would make some friends sad when I can't play the crazy invasive anti-cheat games.
by Urahandystar | 2025-10-02 13:59:52+00:00
Its interesting that you mention Corbyn when if you look into the data Starmer got much lower voters than he did but the UK system works in strange ways. I should mention I was one of those that refused to vote for Corbyn on the allegations of anti-semitism but those later turned out to be untrue.

One thing I have to ask about the democrats and a fear of Corbynism is shutting down primaries really and effective way to prevent one? Voters aren't stupid and the not being able to freely choose their candidate since Obama isn't going to help.
by duxup | 2025-10-02 14:00:07+00:00
I don't disagree about the structure problems with apps and sites that are free with ads.

I do worry that without that free option users just simply wouldn't ever try anything new and just stay where they are new. If everything costs money to move ... I worry nobody moves and everything stagnates. Facebook and similar, now in an even stronger position.

Users, for worse, like it this way and make free with ads the best route because of their choices. Users with their choices incentivize this system too ...
by ajross | 2025-10-02 14:00:12+00:00
> Objectively there is no bubble. Economic bubble territory is 100-200+ PE ratios.

Not sure I buy that analysis. That was certainly true in 2001. The dot com boom produced huge valuations in brand new companies (like the first three ones in your list!) that were still finding their revenue models. They really weren't making much money yet, but the market expected them to. And... the market was actually correct, for the most part. Those three companies made it big, indeed.

The analysis was not true in 2008, where the bubble was held in real estate and not corporate stock. The companies holding the bag were established banks, presumptively regulated (in practice not, obviously) with P/E numbers in very conventional ranges. And they imploded anyway.

Now seems sort of in the middle. The nature of AI CapEx is that you just can't do it if you aren't already huge. The bubble is concentrated in this handful of existing giants, who can dilute the price effect via their already extremely large and diversified revenue sources.

But a $4T bubble (or whatever) is still a huge, economy-breaking bubble even if you spread it around $12T of market cap.
by wastle | 2025-10-02 14:00:19+00:00
You speak of "all these so-called TERFs", but the article you linked, in the very first sentence, qualifies this with "some":

"Some trans-exclusionary radical feminists have allied with conservative or far-right groups and politicians who oppose legislation that would expand transgender rights in the United States."

As for "TERFs are consistently found to be supporting right-wing candidates", which you claim, the two articles in the citations for the Wikipedia quote above talk about how right-wing groups in the US are listening to feminists on this specific issue. So really it's the opposite way around to what you're saying.
by Bigpet | 2025-10-02 14:00:21+00:00
Don't know if you need to compile, you might want to but I think interpreting might seem reasonable if size/complexity is a concern.

Is the runtime really that large? I know with wasm 2.0 with garbage collection and exceptions is a bit of a beast but wasm 1.0? What's needed (I'm speaking from a place of ignorance here, I haven't implemented a WASM runtime)? Some contiguous memory, a stack machine, IEEE float math and some utf-8 operations. I think you can add some reasonable limitations like only a single module and a handful of available imports relevant to the domain.

I know that feature creep would almost inevitably follow, but if someone cares about minimizing complexity it seems possible.
by potatolicious | 2025-10-02 14:00:28+00:00
Consoles are pretty heterogeneous IRL too, though. You have multiple SKUs (regular and Pro, for example), not to mention most games will also target multiple consoles (PlayStation + Xbox + Switch is a common combo).

So in reality the opportunities to really code against a specific piece of hardware are few and far between...

Heck, then you get into multiple operating modes of the same hardware - the Nintendo Switch has a different perf profile if it's docked vs. not.
Show HN: Tool that splits your Big React component into clean subcomponents
by NabilChiheb | 2025-10-02 14:00:52+00:00
A client once sent me a React project where a single component was 1,800 lines long. It came out of an LLM code generator, and it was basically unmaintainable.

That pain led me to build React Code Splitter an open-source CLI that takes those monster files and helps you break them down into smaller, meaningful components. It uses ASTs under the hood, detects props automatically, and has an interactive mode so you can actually name things properly:

? Extract this component? Yes ? Component name: PaymentSummary

If you’ve ever opened a huge React file and thought “no human should have to read this”, this tool might help.

https://github.com/chihebnabil/react-code-splitter
by ontic | 2025-10-02 14:00:53+00:00
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by delaminator | 2025-10-02 14:01:56+00:00
I am a single Dev in an SME. I have been programming for 45 years.

I look after a mishmash of systems of 30 years of people coming and going.

We have windows batch files, java, python, talend scripts, a delphi database with a subset of SQL (DBISAM), powershell.

We have manual processes all around us - people have this as part of their job "copy this data from this spreadsheet to that spreadsheet and then save it with this specific name".

All typical.

Claude has been a game changer. I can instruct it : look at this {batch file, java, python} and write the C# equivalent. Then make it a Windows Service with a web front end liveboard.

And while it is doing that I can open another instance and move on to the next one.

I didn't even know C# a year ago. I adopted it because one of our suppliers uses it and we needed to know they could step in if something happened to me. I spend 6 months doing it all manually so I'm not just vibing.

I'm building software I simply would not bother doing - C# Avalonia GUI programs - 100s of lines of axaml I just wouldn't begin to take on.

I've done an entire ODBC SQL client for connecting to our data sources and I can customize it to do whatever I need to that one wouldn't put in a general purpose ODBC program like 'if you see a filename.parquet in a duckdb script without a path, prepend p:\parquets\ to it'

I have to use Windows in the workplace. It's like having a proper OS like plan9 at my disposal and doing dev in Acme.

My output is accelerating daily as I learn better prompting techniques and writing scripts to use while doing it.

It has brought back the joy
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 14:02:09+00:00
I'd think the CEO would know, would they not? And the CEO could tell the person updating the website: "Let's go ahead and remove the canary, we don't need it anymore." --> "OMG, did we get secretly subpoena'd?" ---> "No, not yet, but I just don't want to run the warrant canary anymore."
by ajay-b | 2025-10-02 14:02:40+00:00
I can't tell if you're playing devils advocate, but in Texas, many students speak Spanish as their first language, we also have students and other parts of the country whose first language is not English. Some of those make up the majority, if not overwhelming majority, of some of these schools. I think it's naïve to assume that they can be taught the same as the rest of the country. There's also students with attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder, autism, disabilities, and all of that is best handled the local level so they can serve the local students. I get why some people prefer federalism and education, it allows for greater federal control. But clearly it's a disservice to students, or else the testing would show it.
by cxr | 2025-10-02 14:02:46+00:00
So is there a need for it or isn't there?

> That's different. Those are a data structure defining annotations that are meant to be stored externally.

The protocol is a separate standard.

The format is JSON-LD. Putting JSON-LD into HTML isn't a question mark. (There's info at W3C.org about how to do that, too. Not that it's necessary. You can guess what it says.)
by jamesponddotco | 2025-10-02 14:03:33+00:00
The algorithm to decide what to merge is the hardest part, in my opinion, and very basic right now. Eventually, I wanna try doing something with machine learning. Definitely a fun thing to work on, though.

Having a full time job and a baby to take care of make progress slow, but I should have the website ready soon. Shoot me an email and I can let you know when that happens.. email is on my profile.
by ranger_danger | 2025-10-02 14:04:05+00:00
Hard disagree... I think these black-and-white opinions are disingenuous, lack important nuance and are often just incorrect.

I even have customers on $3/mo EC2 instances... the cheapest dedicated server on OVH is still twenty times more expensive than that. I don't think there's any way to "come out on top" with OVH in that scenario, short of maybe claiming that the customer is somehow "doing it wrong" by only paying for what they need.

And yes hetzner/ovh have $3-4 cloud instances too, but now you're just directly competing with AWS and I don't see any benefit to call one any better than the other.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-10-02 14:04:06+00:00
I've hired many people for science and automation software positions at small and large US biotechs. We usually did a phone screen (both technical and HR), then an on-site interview. The overall process wasn't much different for Ph.D. vs. Bachelors/Masters, but of course we asked very different questions depending on the level. Ph.D.-level positions were usually required to give a brief talk (partly to probe their communication skills.)

For certain specific software automation positions, we did end up giving a coding test during the on-site interview. But no homework or multi-round stuff.

The present situation in software is mostly the result of an oversupply of labor. Companies are endlessly picky because they can be. I am old enough to remember other recessions where companies could make ridiculous demands (once had a company demand I come in early Sunday morning for an interview, just to make sure I was truly committed to working 24/7. No thanks!)

Recessions eventually end, although not always in a way that helps specific careers. Good luck!
by l___l | 2025-10-02 14:04:34+00:00
Both before and after. It happened:

1. After talking to the company recruiter.

2. After the interview, not hearing anything back for more than a month.

3. Before the interview process, sending a resume and not getting back an automated email that says we got your email, or an email that says we're no longer hiring for this position, or we hired, or whatever. How am I supposed to write a cover letter that the job post suggests without knowing if the job is a ghost job that doesn't actually hire?
by kbolino | 2025-10-02 14:04:51+00:00
Neither Go nor Rust define an ABI for themselves. They can use dynamically linked C code just fine but cannot link their own language with all (or even a reasonably broad subset) of its own features. This is not as bad in Rust, where you can fall back to the unsafe C ABI while still having safe Rust on either side, whereas Go cannot have two instances of its runtime active in the same process.

Compare this situation with Java/JVM or C#/.NET, both of which define their own ABIs albeit not for native machine code, or especially Swift, which defines its own native-code ABI.
by Y-bar | 2025-10-02 14:05:11+00:00
100% in agreement, but then again I often wish I could strip out like 60% of things in PHP Storm such as the database engine, AI stuff, docker integration, VCS client, or code-with-me which I never use and take up valuable interface and resources. I prefer specialised apps such as Sequel Ace, GitHub Desktop, Docker Desktop and such.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-02 14:05:18+00:00
Yeah, even though I usually tend to like Windows with the warts and all, this is nothing else other than planned obsolescence.

Many of the security features on Windows 11 that require these hardware changes, are already available on Windows 10 as optional.

The reasoning is that they shouldn't be turned off, and this is a way to force OEMs to actually provide the hardware on their motherboards.

What it isn't said is that PC sales have been down for a while and Covid was kind of the exception due to the way everyone needed to work from home.
by Orygin | 2025-10-02 14:05:31+00:00
Does the system respect the project's license?

If not, then JetBrains may be liable immediately when anyone opens project they don't have rights to, or which uses a license incompatible with the model training JetBrains wants to do.

They can't expect every bit of code opened in their editor to be "free" for them to train on, even if they probably say so in their EULA, as they can't be sure the person opening the code has the rights to transfer/distribute it to Jetbrains for them to train on.
by clan | 2025-10-02 14:06:03+00:00
I agree. I am in the same boat.

However it is possible for the more technically minded without too much effort with an adapted "unattend.xml" file during setup. This skips TPM requirements account setup and a number of other annoyances.

See: https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

If you take the effort to do this subsequent installations will be a walk in the park.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-02 14:06:17+00:00
There is massive narrative deception from Israel... wake up world:

>“There is no famine in Gaza. Period,” the [Israeli] official said, adding that “Israel and the IDF are trying to strengthen the humanitarian situation in Gaza with partners.”

If you want to see what Netanyaho looks like when he's covering things up [lying] just watch the 2024 documentary The Bibi Files — about his corruption charges (which features over an hour of Netanyaho lying to investigators about his accepting roses and leaves [wine and cigars]) — complete with his shit-eating-grins galore...
by copelandr | 2025-10-02 14:06:35+00:00
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by thrance | 2025-10-02 14:06:54+00:00
Trump and his wife both did the same thing on day one of his second term. No one cares. At least Milei faced some public outrage, but Trump has a cult that will defend him in literally any circumstances.

EDIT: I'm getting downvoted, as expected. Insane that just calling out the president on his crypto-scamming antics can get you anger from the right. I am yet to hear of a single republican even just acknowledging that Trump did something bad.
by scottydelta | 2025-10-02 14:07:05+00:00
Flock’s surveillance data is being used by ICE. First, as has received wide attention, this system is being used by ICE to help carry out the Trump Administration’s abusive removal program.

> You're thinking Chinese surveillance

> US-based surveillance helps victims and prevents more victims

— Garry Tan, Sept 03, 2025, YC CEO while defending Flock on X.

https://xcancel.com/garrytan/status/1963310592615485955

This aged like milk.
Show HN: InsForge AI, Open-Source Agent Friendly Alternative to Supabase
by tonychang430 | 2025-10-02 14:07:18+00:00
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by lapcat | 2025-10-02 14:08:22+00:00
> those not sequestered in wealthy enclaves notwithstanding

This seems to speak against the existence of a cap.

> As I understand, for myriad reasons, there is no failing kids anymore.

It's not clear to me whether this is true or whether it relates to high school graduation rates. Unfortunately, The Economist article has no analysis of why students don't graduate, whether they are forced out or simply drop out voluntarily, for whatever reason. The article says, "might not have made the grade," which is weasel wording.

I would put any data from 2020-2022 in its own special category due to the pandemic. The most severe drop in SAT scores was indeed during that period.

There's some irony here, though, because The Economist says, "The trend towards weakening standards can be blamed in part on No Child Left Behind, an education-reform law passed in 2002," but that was the policy of Republican George W. Bush (who actually introduced the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expecations").

> grades have little correlation with performance

Citation needed.

This claim is different from the claim of grade inflation.

> Every kid is legally mandated to have access to a potentially expensive Individual Education Plan

Every disabled kid

> no extra money is given to the schools to provide this

That's obviously a problem, but it would seem the obvious solution to unfunded mandates is to, you know, fund the mandates.
by mattashii | 2025-10-02 14:08:52+00:00
Facebook Nederland B.V. is just one of the defendants; the other defendants are Meta Platforms Ireland (based in Ireland), and Meta Platforms Inc. (the main company, based in the USA)

The Dutch subsidiary has been acquitted, as it only managed advertisement income, not the app design.

Meta Platforms Inc. has been acquitted, as it itself doesn't directly provide apps or services in Europe (nor the Netherlands) - legally that's managed by Meta Platforms Ireland and so not Inc.'s responsibility.

Meta Platforms Ireland has been ordered to implement these changes, enforced by the up to 5 million euro fine (see pages 20 and 21 in the verdict)
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-10-02 14:09:21+00:00
I was trying to track down what the 5% failure looks like. The article source is here[1] for the 95% stat, which then references here[2], but I honestly can't find it, [2] refers to "Recent studies reveal that in most of the cases, the prognosis is excellent after surgery, almost 70 to 80%", which refers to here[3], which seems to refer to patient happiness(?), so I haven't the foggiest where that 5% stat comes from.

Ultimately, I have no idea what the 5% failure means or looks like or if it even is a real statistic. Maybe I'm just thick and there's an obvious link or passage I missed.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559253/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539699/ [3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10243645/
by thisisit | 2025-10-02 14:09:32+00:00
> Just think about how much more effective advertisements are going to be when LLMs start to tell you what to buy based on which advertiser gave the most money to the company.

This has been the selling point of ML based recommendation systems as well. This story from 2012: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

But can we really say that advertisements are more effective today?

From what little I know about SEO it seems nowadays high intent keywords are more important than ever. LLMs might not do any better than Google because without the intent to purchase pushing ads are just going to rack up impression costs.
by versteegen | 2025-10-02 14:09:45+00:00
Excellent writeup. I like the interpreter. But I can only assume all these ideas have been widely implemented at all significant labs for years, so I'm surprised to see this written in 2025. This is all about taking things to their logical conclusions, not arcane magic. If you're going to spend billions on GPUs, why wouldn't you spend a little on CUDA programmer hours?
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-02 14:10:07+00:00
Another option is to use the Microsoft Activation Scripts [1] to install Windows 10 LTSC. Good through 2032, it's what all my machines are running - including both the older models and the desktop that can't support the hardware requirements, and the newer (2019) workstation that would if I had any reason to want Windows 11. Gets rid of all the shovelware, ads, and other gunk that comes with a stock consumer Windows installation by default, and replaces it with a sleek, minimal OS that stays out of the way.

At work, I also have a number of industrial machines that have a Windows 10 PC attached, they're all running LTSC as well (sourced a little more legitimately through OnLogic). It's not likely that Microsoft is going to abandon all the kiosks and CNCs and digital signage with whom they have enterprise licensing agreements - at work, we have lawyers and contracts, and they all say we're covered through January 13, 2032.

[1]: https://github.com/massgravel/
by julnarot | 2025-10-02 14:10:19+00:00
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by rightbyte | 2025-10-02 14:10:35+00:00
> Everyone realizes that the ads they're seeing are targeted.

Really? It took me until like 2012-2013 to realize Google searches stalked me to other websites.

Then again much critics at that time of big tech was disregarded as lunatic crackpots. And nowadays your are a crackpot if you claim they are not spying on you. I guess that matters.