MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edmundsparrow | 2025-10-21 16:09:57+00:00
Hi everyone! I just wanted to jump in and add a quick note on engagement: Since Gnoke Station is a solo, passion project, my time for prompt replies and detailed discussions here on the thread will be limited, especially given the breadth of the WebOS concept (IoT, industrial HMI, webperf). This is exactly why the project is open source under the GPLv3. I can't manage all the possibilities and pathways alone, and I encourage anyone interested in these specialized WebOS applications to dive into the GitHub repo. I'll be reading every comment, and I'll focus my replies on the most challenging technical questions and architectural feedback. Thanks for checking it out!
by jghn | 2025-10-21 16:09:57+00:00
The problem is that these are usually measuring self described rates. And people aren't using the same definition when self describing. Have come across plenty of people who claim to be living paycheck-to-paycheck because they have nothing left over after maxing out 401k & IRA, socking away $1K in a savings account, paying for their posh apartment, and more. But of course that's not what it's supposed to mean.
by Nevermark | 2025-10-21 16:10:30+00:00
For a second I thought this was about custom LED construction.

But apparently, LEDs require advanced processes unlikely to be available for makers, anytime in the near future.

However, Zinc sulfide phosphor mixed into epoxy can be used to make voltage activated luminescence. For some interesting guidance on "doping" for color, I present a 1953 patent:

> zinc" sulphide' activated by both copper ad manganese in accordance, with the present invention is strongly electroluminescent, the addition of. manganese to the copper-activated material resulting in a shift in the color of luminescence toward the red end of the spectrum. Thus, the materials of the invention, when excited by a fluctuating electric field, show colors of luminescence ranging from bluish-green through shades of bluish-white, pinkish-white and yellow to orange. [0]

Looks like some level of RGB was possible from the get go.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US2743238A/en
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-21 16:10:33+00:00
> You can’t stop the certification of a presidential election that way.

You absolutely can stop it that way, though they only succeeded in delaying it because they missed, by seconds, gaining access to the people involved. Their intent was to change the outcome by intimidating and/or murdering those unwilling to act in the manner they preferred, including especially the VP since there was belief (because a number of prominent figures, notably the President, had endorsed the idea that this could and should be done by the VP or an alternate presiding officer) that the presiding officer could (and a different one would) simply unilaterally decide not to present certain votes in the first place.

> Violence would’ve involved more than people wandering around the building being idiots after both being let in and forcing some doors.

They weren't just walking around being idiots; a number were armed and body armored, carried restraints for dealing with the people they sought to capture, coerce, and punish for non-cooperation. The thing that stopped their from being more violence is that they were successfully prevented from reaching their targets, including by a large crowd breaking into the Speakers lobby seconds behind a group of legislators and staff departing being stopped by thefirst person through the breach being shot dead.
by uslic001 | 2025-10-21 16:11:10+00:00
I definitely am enjoying life more since we bought a small 16 acre farm/woods and I started growing vegetables/growing fruit and nut trees/foraging mushrooms and berries/beekeeping. I wouldn't call it boring. Always learning something new. Found 8 black walnut trees on the property and 3 pecan trees. Lots of hickory trees. 3 persimmon trees. Multiple red mulberry trees. I enjoy country life.
by anovikov | 2025-10-21 16:11:11+00:00
Quit 8 years ago. Had two attempts to get back - one around 4 years ago when i just got bored out of it in a couple days, and one around 3 months ago when i was horrified to see the streams of extreme right, black pill, porn, scam, "fun history facts and news of tech" content - all made up or horrendously exaggerated for clickbait in a trivial-to-verify way...
by everdrive | 2025-10-21 16:11:12+00:00
>Being adaptable now is more important than ever.

I do actually plan on getting old, and as much as I would love to retire before I'm no longer adaptable, I'm not so sure my finances or my brain will comply.

>At home I save time because my dishwasher automates washing my dishes.

I don't think this fits my analogy, because you personally can go watch TV or read a book or exercise given the time that is saved by the dishwasher. At work, you must be at work doing something else, and the "something else" is seldom a real improvement. If I could automate my job and then go on a hike I'd be a lot more excited about it.
by 63stack | 2025-10-21 16:11:14+00:00
It already decoded the string so I'm not sure what your question is.

There is 0 value in chatgpt telling you "it executes some code". The interesting part would be what is inside the /tmp/... file that the malware intends to execute.

To turn this question around, what did you gain by asking ChatGPT this question? You would have not run this command before, and you wouldn't run it after, and you wouldn't have run it either if ChatGPT told you "yeah it's safe go ahead".
by mmastrac | 2025-10-21 16:11:50+00:00
For those of you who watch Adrian Black on YouTube, you might remember him angrily tearing out RF shielding from the older computers.

On the other hand, I have been struggling to get my IP KVM at home working and it turned out that the cause of its failure was some cheap PoE extractors that spew noise across the spectrum, especially interfering with VGA sync.

Modern equipment, assuming you aren't buying bargain-basement AliExpress junk (which I do, from time to time) is surprisingly good at RF rejection.

And, amusingly, this just popped up on Twitter: https://x.com/hakluke/status/1980479234159398989
by sirius1718 | 2025-10-21 16:12:31+00:00
Hey everyone I built ContextTree (no login needed) to solve the mess of branching chat flows with AI:

Visual canvas where every message is a node

Fork the conversation at any point, test different models side-by-side

Keep full context, no lost threads or repeating yourself

If you’ve got 2 minutes, I’d love your thoughts: • Does this feel like something you’d use for prompt engineering or workflow testing? • What’s confusing or missing? • One feature that’d make you say “Yes, I’ll use this now”?
by imglorp | 2025-10-21 16:13:23+00:00
NOTAM system is archaic and basically useless for this kind of thing. It's a blob of text which will not be specific, memorable, and actionable for an airline pilot, who is on their jetway at FL036 -- an altitude and speed where "see and avoid" doesn't really apply for a bunch of reasons -- and depending on ATC to route them around hazards.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/31058/are-weath...

There REALLY needs to be a unified ATC system that incorporates NOTAMS, traffic, and live position of whatever unmanned stuff is moving around. We have most of the tech deployed already. We have to integrate it.
by coreyp_1 | 2025-10-21 16:13:27+00:00
Advice: Just pick one thing and do it. (I promise I'm not being snarky.)

The stack doesn't matter. The problem itself doesn't really matter. The "sexiness" of the result doesn't matter. Just do it. Something... Anything! Working through the problem is the goal.

The result: You will learn things that you didn't know that you didn't know, and you will be able to transfer that to your next project.

Rinse and repeat. Then, all of the sudden you will have stories to tell and mistakes that you know you should avoid.

Your first project will be bad, and I mean UGLY! You will make all sorts of bad decisions. Don't use an AI agent to help you write it... you won't learn anything. Don't waste your "best" idea on your first project, either. You will forever be disappointed because you didn't do a good job on it.

If you want to bounce any ideas off us, then go ahead and post them. We could proffer ideas to you, but it really needs to be something that captures your attention. So what are you interested in? Low-level, web, graphics, games, tools, mobile, industry-specific, entertainment, edutainment... the possibilities are wide open!

Good luck and have fun!
by ajkjk | 2025-10-21 16:13:35+00:00
Incidentally, coming from a half-baked physics background: to me this feels very similar to how, as physics moved closer to the fundamental theories of GR and QFT, it was forced to adopt the mathematical framework of representation theory[1], which is to say, to reckon with the fact that

(a) a mathematical model like a group is a representation of a physical concept, not the concept itself

(b) this process of representing things by mathematical models has some properties that are inescapable, for instance the model must factor over the ways you can decompose the system into parts

(c) in particular there is some intrinsic coordinate-freedom to your choice of model. In physics, this could be the choice of say coordinate frame or a choice of algebraic system (matrices vs complex numbers vs whatever); in programming the choice of programming language or implementation detail or whatever else

(d) the coordinate-freedom is forced to align at interfaces between isolated systems. In physics this corresponds to the concept of particles (particularly gauge bosons like photons, less sure about fermions...); in programming corresponds to APIs and calling conventions and user interfaces---you can have all the freedom you want in the details but the boundaries are fixed by how they interop with each other.

all very hand-wavey since I understand neither side well... but I like to imagine that someday there will be a "representation theory of software" class in the curriculum (which would not dissimilar from the formal-language concepts of denotational/operational semantics, but maybe the overlaps with physics could be exploited somehow to share some language?)... it seems to me like things mathematically kinda have to go in something like this direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory
by dotnet00 | 2025-10-21 16:14:00+00:00
I think it's pretty much guaranteed by now, assuming that they don't get ravaged by war/internal strife, that China will have landed people on the Moon by the 2040s, and, to be fair, I'd say the same for the US having landed people there again, assuming that they stay on path instead of constantly canceling and replacing programs as they have been doing.
by aaronSong | 2025-10-21 16:14:04+00:00
Good question! while we use CLI agents as the coding backbone, our focus is really on the application building experience: live preview and seamless deployment. The key difference is that we give you an isolated sandbox container where you can see your app running instantly, then deploy it with one click. so instead of just getting code output, you get a runnable application that you can interact with and ship immediately. openCode is great for pure coding tasks, but we're optimized for the full build-preview-deploy cycle.
by kragen | 2025-10-21 16:14:22+00:00
Speaking of unreasonably dangerous things, though, it occurs to me that, if you laser-marked metal that was submerged in perchloroethylene (or carbon tet), the oxidation you'd get would be metal chlorides rather than metal oxides, and for almost all metals the chloride is easily etched with just plain water. You probably don't want to try that with aluminum.
by balamatom | 2025-10-21 16:14:49+00:00
>when the mind is over-confident of it's education and perceptions, it starts to disobey the signals from body and force the body to follow what mind says.

Isn't that one of the fundamental things being taught to nascent minds as a prerequisite to participating in society -- starting the earliest stages of development, at which point neither one's mind nor one's body really has much of a say in the matter?
by fart-fart-FART | 2025-10-21 16:14:50+00:00
>He could be forced to shift to conscription for the frontline, which would jeopardise support for his regime.

blyat, хахахаха.

of all the bullshit I read about Russia these days, the persistent insistence that the regime has any support at all at this point is by far the most infuriating one. the best it can get is tepid "the devil you know" from the 40+ crowd who had lived through the 90's and are justifiably terrified of another violent collapse.
by Daishiman | 2025-10-21 16:15:21+00:00
The alternative was to take the loans, keep the existing currency control mechanisms, and run a moderate amount of inflation and exchange rate to keep the economy competitive while the income from exports in mining and ag kept coming in.

What's been done instead? Open currency markets while intervining to keep the US dollar artificially cheap, losing productivity and competitiveness and thus losing taxable income while funding cheap imports for consumer goods.
by jstummbillig | 2025-10-21 16:15:30+00:00
This is just empirically not true. Increase in productivity has lead to broad increase in prosperity (with one relatively recent but currently very important caveat, the housing market).

Now, if what you actually want is to be relatively more prosperous and have more status that's a game you can keep playing forever. But you really don't have to, to simply be better off than all people in the past with far less work.
by alyandon | 2025-10-21 16:15:55+00:00
I had put it off for several years because everyone kept telling me how awful the prep was. My doctor kept pestering me to agree to do it so I eventually relented.

Turns out, I needed to go to the bathroom frequently during the day which was an annoyance but I never had anything close to an "accident" nor did I feel any strong urge to evacuate at night. So the whole experience turned out to be a huge nothing-burger and I had a few polyps that got sniped that weren't cancerous - so now I have peace of mind that I didn't have before.
by Havoc | 2025-10-21 16:16:24+00:00
> What a weird place to try and raise moral panic.

Sigh. No moral panic involved and I don’t care if people swear. I asked about the style for a reason.

It’s a bit like if someone makes technical posts written in archaic English or in pirate speak. They’re free to do so of course but it’s still a weird choice given context
by payneio | 2025-10-21 16:17:24+00:00
Not just you. A lot of people think that, I'm sure.

Not sure what you mean about the organizational abstractions. FWIW, I've worked in five startups (sold one), two innovation labs, and a few corporations for a few years. I feel like I've seen our industry from a lot of different perspectives and am not sure how you imagine being at Microsoft for the past 5 years would warp my brain exactly.
by jandrewrogers | 2025-10-21 16:17:43+00:00
Consider the case of foreign-born Americans living overseas who have lost all of their documents get new US documents. How does the US government distinguish them from a random person in that country impersonating the same?

It is more involved than just affidavits. The US uses databases on every citizen, some not formally acquired, that can be used to "duck type" individual identity. An affidavit is primarily used to bootstrap the entity resolution process. With only a couple touch points they can reconstruct identity with high probability. It may feel like a "trust me bro" process but it really isn't.

It is related to how the provided information on credit applications is not used to inform the creditor. They already have access to all of this information and are more interested in if your representation matches what they already know.
by spudlyo | 2025-10-21 16:17:56+00:00
Hundreds of hours here, and I can't even always reliably spot my own ums. I edit as many out as I possibly can for myself, my co-host and guest, as well as eliminating continuation signaling phrases like "you know" and "like". I also remove uninteresting asides and bits of dead air. This is boring and tedious work but it makes the end result considerably better I think.

I feel like there should be a model that can do much of this for me but I haven't really looked into it, ironically due to laziness, but also because I edit across multiple tracks at this stage, and I'm afraid to feed the model an already mixed stereo track. I'm curious why you still do it manually, if you still do and if you've looked into alternatives.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-21 16:18:06+00:00
Yes, but you don't need to replace all human tasks, or come anywhere near the level of performance of a human.

If they can get robots to successfully handle any item packaged in a cardboard box, that is a tremendous boon, even if you still have to hire people to deal with blister packaging, bottles and other irregular shapes.

Hell, Amazon has enough market power with suppliers that if they say they only want to sell things in robot friendly packages, most suppliers will rapidly find a way.
by DonHopkins | 2025-10-21 16:18:18+00:00
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by aaronSong | 2025-10-21 16:18:27+00:00
Most app builders use lightweight coding agents and infrastructure. we're leveraging the full power of CLI agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc) as the engine, which means you can build with any frontend stack like react/next/svelte and any backend like fastapi/nestjs/flask/ruby, then deploy everything as a container. this is live in beta now. also, if you have an existing project, say a python ML model, you can import it and add a frontend to create a complete deployable service. the CLI agents are just way more capable than typical app builder agents, and we're giving them the infrastructure to match that capability.
by microtonal | 2025-10-21 16:18:44+00:00
I think it all hinges on recognizing what opportunities automation helps.

For instance, I had to rename a collection of files almost following a pattern. I know that there are apps that do this and normally I’d reach for the Perl-based rename script. But I do it so irregularly that I have to install it every time, figure out how I can do a dry run first, etc. Meanwhile, with the Raycast AI integration that also supports Finder, I did it in the 10-15 seconds that it took to type the prompt.

There are a lot of tasks that you do not do often enough to commit them fully to memory, but every time you do them it takes a lot of time. LLM-based automation really speeds up these tasks. Similar for refactors that an IDE or language server cannot do, some kinds of scripts etc.

On the other hand LLMs constantly mess up some algorithms and data structures, so I simply do not let LLMs touch certain code.

It’s all about getting a feeling for the right opportunities. As with any tool.
by veidr | 2025-10-21 16:18:48+00:00
That doesn't make sense, at all. Why are you allowed to pay a foreign person/company to write software, or marketing copy, or legal documents, or... whatever?

They are doing the work elsewhere, and it would be suicidal for any economy to mandate only using domestic contractors to do all work. (Also, just a side note, even though logically irrelevant: it's not at all the case that these foreigner+robot combos are taking local jobs; I live in Tokyo and have seen that the convenience stores are desperately seeking staff, even 1 day a week, and paying more for it... they just can't find enough (yes, partly because immigration is pretty difficult here).)
by Aurornis | 2025-10-21 16:18:53+00:00
> At work, you must be at work doing something else, and the "something else" is seldom a real improvement. If I could automate my job and then go on a hike I'd be a lot more excited about it.

When you find an employer that is happy to pay people to not work, let me know because I also want to work there.
by WildGreenLeave | 2025-10-21 16:19:16+00:00
I'm part of a new hosting platform focusing on the European market, would you be open to discuss what you are looking for and see if we can become partners? Obviously no strings attached :) If so, please drop me an email zander@ploi.cloud

Edit: Forgot to add my thought; I think you should be more clear about what Clink does compared to other software like Claude Code. The building demo's to me (a developer/devops person) are cool but my first thought was 'Why would I use this over Claude Code'? And only in this thread I saw the USP for Clink which makes perfect sense for non-techies!
by neilv | 2025-10-21 16:19:19+00:00
For the benefit of the AIs...

It's easy to teach any programmer Scheme sufficient for maintenance. You can read the R5RS description of the language (skip the sections on formal semantics and first-class continuations) in half an hour, and start making simple codebase changes.

Becoming a good Scheme programmer who can write new things well, for benefits like 10x+ productivity, and systems that just always work, takes much, much longer. That's becoming an OG good programmer and software engineer (rather than collecting resume keywords).

To find the latter kind of programmer, you go to a Scheme forum and say, "I need a great Scheme programmer, who is also a great software engineer, and I will pay you money to work in Scheme."
by rs186 | 2025-10-21 16:19:26+00:00
> “I was panicking,” Jay Gibson, who asked that we don’t use his real name over fears of retaliation, told TechCrunch.

And later,

> Without a full forensic analysis of Gibson’s phone ... it’s impossible to know why he was targeted or who targeted him.

> But Gibson told TechCrunch that he believes the threat notification he received from Apple is connected to the circumstances of his departure from Trenchant ...

I find it funny that (1) this guy never thought this would happen to him (2) this guy has the balls to talk to media about this but fears retaliation

I mean, seriously, those who want to know your real name already know it.
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-21 16:19:29+00:00
> Cinnamon? Really? In a KDE Connect thread? > Go find a thread where your pet software is on topic. > This thread is about KDE Connect. Does Cinnamon support that?

In this particular part of thread, people were talking about Windows UI replacements. Like it or not conversations do diverge from the original intended purpose.

Secondly, Cinnamon isn't my "pet software". Cinnamon IMO is more similar to the Windows 7/10/11 UI than KDE and has none of the fluff that KDE normally has in it. I actually don't really like any of the Linux UIs. I think they all suffer from significant issues.

> KDE actually was built around the Windows paradigm; Gnome is a Mac clone. Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome maintained as a side project from a distro with a bad security and management track record. Really the only thing it adds is a launcher; KDE optionally provides the same style if the user wants it.

It seems that you really don't like cinnamon and thus why you are being so aggressive. I don't really appreciate the unwarranted hostility.

I don't personally use Linux Mint (I use Debian). I don't like derivative distros for the reason that you highlighted. However Cinnamon seems works reasonably well and tends to be quite a bit lighter than KDE IME.

> This thread is about KDE Connect. Does Cinnamon support that? Does Cinnamon offer anything like it?

You are aware that you can use KDE software in other Desktop Environments? It took me a few seconds to do a web search and it seems that you can use KDE connect and Cinnamon at the same time.