MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renewiltord | 2025-10-11 23:55:31+00:00
Tennessee just seems like not a First Amendment state. Here's another from 2021 https://apnews.com/article/meme-arrest-officer-killed-lawsui...

Douglas Mackey was also convicted of posting fake election stuff like "avoid the line. Vote at home" with a phone number. But it looks like he was later cleared.

So the memeing can get you in trouble and people will either say you were "just memeing" or "posting dangerous misinformation/threats" depending on their political stance.
by mardifoufs | 2025-10-11 23:57:39+00:00
I don't think anyone would be pissed at projects that ask to get paid upfront. When you provide a product for free, then switch the features to a paid model, it's normal that people will talk about it and won't be super happy about the situation. Sure they aren't entitled to anything, but maintainers aren't entitled to a criticism-free discussion of their project just because the project is open source (in part) either.
Show HN: I wrote a (slightly less slow, but still bad) autodiff from scratch
by mebassett | 2025-10-11 23:58:24+00:00
Almost a year ago I shared an autodiff I wrote from scratch and an implementation of LeNet in it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41875358). Another HNer, tightbookkeeper, offered some helpful suggestions.

The actual code is here: https://github.com/mebassett/quixotic-autodiff/blob/master/d...
by gnabgib | 2025-10-11 23:58:26+00:00
Some other discussion:

An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump (11 points, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45542159

Trump administration has killed a massive solar power project in Nevada (15 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540426
by herval | 2025-10-11 23:58:29+00:00
Fascinating write-up. I loved this bit of debugging:

> The first time we played this game, Claude told me that the subagents had gotten a perfect score. After a bit of prodding, I discovered that Claude was quizzing the subagents like they were on a gameshow. This was less than useful. I asked to switch to realistic scenarios that put pressure on the agents, to better simulate what they might actually do.

Also his Claude says shit a lot
by baggy_trough | 2025-10-11 23:58:34+00:00
"I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a “No AI” policy, and has recently been called “aggressively queer” in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that:"

https://mastodon.social/@danirabbit@mastodon.online/11535606...
by Alupis | 2025-10-11 23:59:00+00:00
Been rocking Kinoite for 2 years now - several major Fedora release upgrades, and zero breakage. I do weird stuff in my "pet" containers (using distrobox), and I love how my base system remains indestructible no matter how much I goof around.

Immutable is indeed the future. The moment a user installs something on a traditional mutable OS, it's configuration/environment drifts from the "base", making any system update or application install a potential conflict. After you install something on a traditional mutable OS, there's often no way to get back to the base without a OS reinstall (programs don't clean up after themselves, they change system settings, environment, more/worse).

Immutable operating systems solve this by having an immutable base image. Everyone running, for instance, Kinoite 42.20251011.0 all have exactly the same base. Users then can "layer" applications on top of the base image, sort of like a dockerfile. If something breaks, you just remove that application (layer) and it's like it never happened. Everyone having the same exact base image also means updates can be much more thoroughly tested, and confidently rolled-out to users.

Note, "Immutable" doesn't mean you can't save files or install things - it just means you cannot mutate the base OS image. There's always a "known good configuration" to go back to.

You're also encouraged to use "pet" containers for things like development - where you will install all sorts of weird system packages, libraries, tools, etc. without fear of polluting or breaking your system.

An immutable system + pet containers means your system will always be stable. Really neat.
by jedberg | 2025-10-12 00:01:42+00:00
Pursuing ancillary revenue can still be a moonshot. Look at SpaceX. Musk has specially said his goal is Mars. But they still build ships and sell commercial services to fund continued development.

I've invested in AI companies too, but I'm not taking about that. I'm talking about foundation model companies (namely OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Google, etc.).

I'm sure the pitches for Anthropic and OpenAI show paths to profit, because you'd have to, and I'm sure the internal docs at Google and Amazon show the same thing, but that doesn't mean it's not a moonshot.

You'd have to show that if you want to get funded at all.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-10-12 00:01:57+00:00
also nintendo vision which is "mobile gaming" are

handheld devices like switch,steam deck etc is really the future while phone is also true for some extend but gaming on a phone vs gaming on a handheld is really world of a differences

give it few generations then traditional consoles would obsolete, I mean we are literally have a lot of people enjoy indie game in steam deck right now
by groby_b | 2025-10-12 00:02:36+00:00
It's trivial in the sense that a lot of the work isn't high cognitive load. But... that's exactly the point of LLMs. It takes the noise away so you can focus on high-impact outcomes.

Yes, the core of that pull requests is an hour or two of thinking, the rest is ancillary noise. The LLM took away the need for the noise.

If your definition of trivial is signal/noise ratio, then, sure, relatively little signal in a lot of noise. If your definition of "trivial" hinges on total complexity over time, then this kicks the pants of manual writing.

I'd assume OP did the classic senior engineer stick of "I can understand the core idea quickly, therefore it can't be hard". Whereas Mitchel did the heavy lifting of actually shipping the "not hard" idea - still understanding the core idea quickly, and then not getting bogged down in unnecessary details.

That's the beauty of LLMs - it turns the dream of "I could write that in a weekend" into actually reality, where it before was always empty bluster.
by t_mann | 2025-10-12 00:03:19+00:00
> 90% of the reason I use chat gpt is that it doesn't have ads. Shove them in and usage goes way down.

Don't you think that people would have felt similarly about early Google search?

> any type of automation (the big promise of AI) ads don't matter

I would have thought that ads have no place in an OS, but they proved me wrong on that. How sure are you they won't prove you wrong on automation ("summarize this text for me - here you go, shall I run it through Grammarly now?", "build this app for me - [uses freemium tool instead of equally capable FOSS]",...)? Never underestimate the potential for enshittification.
by teamonkey | 2025-10-12 00:03:27+00:00
I get so sad when I hear people say there’s no new games. There are so many great, innovative games being made today, more than any time in history. There are far more great games on Steam than anyone can play in a lifetime.

Even AAAs aim to create new levels of spectacle (much like blockbuster movies), even if they don’t innovate on gameplay.

The fatigue is real (and I think it’s particularly bad for this generation raised to spend all their gaming time inside the big 3), but there’s something for you out there, the problem is discoverability, not a lack of innovation.
by bsder | 2025-10-12 00:03:33+00:00
No one at the big companies is developing OpenGL anymore and their support for the GLSL compiler has dwindled to nothing.

If you want that extension you're going to have better luck convincing the Zink folks:

https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/zink.html "The Zink driver is a Gallium driver that emits Vulkan API calls instead of targeting a specific GPU architecture. This can be used to get full desktop OpenGL support on devices that only support Vulkan."

However, you're still probably going to have to come off of GLSL and use Slang or HLSL. The features you want are simply not going to get developed in the GLSL compiler at this point.
by truCoat | 2025-10-12 00:03:42+00:00
>.. insultingly brain dead in their targeting especially given how much Amazon knows about me.

Fascinating isn't it? It continues over decades. I cannot recall ever once opening an overt ad among, what, hundreds of thousands? Google `subverts' in search I've opened, but that only layers their more desperate enshittings. Newpipe escaped and saved me from Youtube's thousands of bearskin hoodies, butter and bowel movements, pink salt trick, something about men's erections and a tomato.

These must be smart people who engineer this, this `inverse' offensive ad targeting, it must be for some brilliant objective, but I remain completely lost at what it could possibly be.
by plqbfbv | 2025-10-12 00:05:13+00:00
I have a similar setup, but with AdGuardHome. I used Pi-Hole in the past, but AdGuardHome's UI is from this century at least. That, and the fact that with Pi-Hole it was very difficult have IPv6 working.

I have an instance on my router in my home network for covering all devices by default, and a hosted one to which I connect when outside via mobile network. Split-tunneling with only the DNS routed, so that I don't have to push all traffic through the VPN.
by eth0up | 2025-10-12 00:05:29+00:00
Preface: I'm not interested in debating this topic here. Therefore I'll be concise, abridged and probably glib.

Your term "assault", can legally, imply a prelude to battery. Maybe that's a stupid point.

And I do not wish to dismiss your concerns either.

However, if you endeavor to qualify the transport of potentially fatal materials as violence, such would be a highly abstract interpretation requiring an unprecedented overhaul of the present system.

If someone is caught planning a violent act, e.g. performing internet search queries for "how to do terrible x and accomplish terrible y, the rule of law doesn't permit immediately executing the individual. Traditionally, a trial ensues where possibilities of error and other critical considerations are made in order to ensure greater probabilities of a just outcome, hence Justice. An immediate threat and remote hypothetical threat are treated differently. If Bob knows you plan to kill him on Friday, but he finds you while you're doing laundry and kills you Thursday, while tactically legit, it doesn't work legally. Extrajudicial is what we might call this. But regular folks wouldn't earn the term.

But that's barely the surface. If transport qualifies as violence, then the users that contribute or essentially enable the entire cycle must be included. So now we are killing foreign boaters in the Caribbean and e.g. Hunter Biden on his jetski as he swirls around the Florida Keys high on fentanyl. We'll need to kill his hooker friend too, because she directly supports these transporters.

It gets much sillier from here, all the way until you kill Bill because he spent money at the same pizza parlor as the guy who sold the baggy that overdosed your friend.

And then comes the strange dynamics where you need to kill me because my self-righteous doctor won't prescribe me pain management for my cancer because xyz and I'm looking on the streets for some kind of relief.

But we needn't go that far. We can go back to the top and kill the growers. And their children which might aid and abet them. And certainly a few chemists here and there.

It gets way messier. If you fail to kill me, I might have a grudge. Because I was not trying to hurt anyone. I'm in pain and just want help.

While this all takes place, other artistically inclined persons superimpose their own values upon the law.

But really, a few guys steering a boat full of drugs is not violence. Certainly not an imminent threat especially after they've been identified. It's the potential for violence, but so is our trusty old proverbial hammer.
by hecifato | 2025-10-12 00:05:30+00:00
Elementary was one of the first Linux distros I installed back in 2020. Eventually I moved on to other distros and DE’s. I was hopeful for Elementary eventually becoming THE Linux distro I would recommend people but it hasn’t happened yet, and I don’t know if it ever will.

I remember Elementary being big on UX, design, creating a universal app store for Linux, and providing a sane default type of experience. Pretty much all of that fizzled out over the past 5 years. GNOME and Plasma both leapfrogged Pantheon as a DE. Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Fedora are all far easier recommends over Elementary.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-12 00:06:33+00:00
> Pursuing ancillary revenue can still be a moonshot. Look at SpaceX. Musk has specially said his goal is Mars

SpaceX is profitable. Mars isn't "the only way" SpaceX's investors "get a return on their capital."

> I'm talking about foundation model companies (namely OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Google, etc.)

I am, too. (The private ones, at least.)

> You'd have to show that if you want to get funded at all

Doesn't this undermine the argument that "the people investing in AI companies" expect "the only way they get a return on their capital" is if their horse invents AGI?
by cameronh90 | 2025-10-12 00:06:42+00:00
Like I said, I haven't heard of this project until now, so I don't know the wider context, but it may be that some of the people who are reacting negatively to it have been burnt in the past by the many other projects that have gone down this route: project starts as open source, then it goes open-core, then over time more of the dev effort naturally moves into the proprietary part, then sometimes eventually they change the license for the open part too.

Forking is often impractical in reality as a solo dev or small team rarely has the resources to keep up with security fixes.

I'm entirely happy to pay for things, do pay for many things, as well as donate to the authors of projects I use, and whatever this library is seems reasonably priced. Nevertheless, I'm pretty reluctant now to use open source libraries unless they're backed by a foundation, given how many times I've been badly burnt.
by rovr138 | 2025-10-12 00:07:13+00:00
Same.

I have no problem with paid features. I have no problem with them making money. I have no problem with them monetizing it this way. I have no problem with the 501c3.

I think that moving things from free to paid is them forcing the hand of users to pay, which is sweeping the rug under them. This is more on _how they did it_, more than the fact that it's paid.

I just don't like how they did it and it's not a good argument to justify it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-12 00:09:23+00:00
> Unless you're a monopoly, I don't see how AI will lead to these massive cost savings everyone is hoping for

"If the cost of labor goes down" and "companies...lower their prices," that means cost savings for every one of their customers. If they "increase their investment in other areas," that means lower costs of capital for all of their investments.

You're arguing that the gains from AI don't look likely to be concentrated. That's good! It's not an argument that AI won't be economically revoluationary (and value adding).
by JeremyHerrman | 2025-10-12 00:09:31+00:00
author here - I made this comment elsewhere, but I still think apple made the right call even if it leads to a bit of confusion at first.

As others have pointed out, sliders have limits & knobs don't, so I do think they have their place on touchscreens.

If a digital knob needs to be turned several times (e.g. 1080º, common in DAWs), the "default" way to interact with a knob on a touchscreen - circling again and again - is slow and uncomfortable. Adding "slider" gestures on top of the default behavior is a nice way to perform many turns quickly and easily.

I'm curious - what UI mechanism would you use instead?
by neya | 2025-10-12 00:10:06+00:00
It's insane to me as to why people still choose to use AirBnB in 2025. This is not the first such report and this certainly won't be the last. AirBnB is not a government authority - they can AT BEST get the landlord off of the platform AFTER the fact. And most of the times, they don't do that as well as it affects their bottom line. AirBnB is simply a middleman, no better than a real estate agent in a third world that gets all of the benefits of being a broker without the accountability.

I would rather sit infront of a reception talking to a real person than frantically be in the middle of the road trying to call non-existent support hotlines or email them hoping I get a reply AFTER I've blown my accommodation budget on the provider.

Fuck AirBnb. Book. A. Hotel.
by foresterre | 2025-10-12 00:10:14+00:00
They're a bit verbose, the interfaces are slightly convoluted and some basic operations are missing from the standard library.

It's also a little convoluted to work with different types of data.

For this one, I wish they would have taken a bit more inspiration from other languages and spent the time to make it more readable.

That said, I generally like streams a lot, and they do reduce the amount of branching, and having less possible code execution points makes testing easier too.
by n4bz0r | 2025-10-12 00:10:31+00:00
Isn't the state (apps' data in this case) the biggest problem with updates of any kind? State can't be immutable and is the easiest to break.

I can certainly see how containerizing apps and using "layered" FS solves a class of problems, but I highly doubt this alone would be incentive enough for the major OSes to go that way. I do agree it would be neat to see such developments, though.
by crote | 2025-10-12 00:10:33+00:00
I agree in theory, but the problem is that I have been burned over and over again by proprietary tooling. The interests of the dev tool makers often do not align with my interests as a developer, and that's a problem.

Proprietary tool vendors are just trying to create shareholder value. If that means firing the entire dev team and never doing another release, they will do that. If it means switching from "pay once, use forever" to "pay $20 / month", they will do that. If it means going from $20 / month to $2000 / month, they will do that. If it means putting ads inside my IDE, they will do that. Just look at what Broadcom is doing to VMware to see what this can look like in practice.

OSS developer tooling is usually made by and for the community. The interests of the dev tool makers align with the interests of the developers using it, because they are the same people. There are no incentives to enshittify my developer experience, so I can safely rely on the tooling without worrying about whether it'll still be usable next year. And even if the core team decides they want to make some wildly unpopular changes, the rest of the community can still fork it and continue on their own direction!

I really wish it wasn't the case, but there are very few proprietary tool vendors I'd be willing to believe if they promised they wouldn't ruin my day a few years from now by doing a rug pull. Some small just-started firm I've never heard of? Probably not in that list. I would love to cut them a break, but trust has to be earned.
by subscribed | 2025-10-12 00:11:12+00:00
I especially love it when the entire network is down after I changed the schedule for one WiFi network.

Or after everything, including the gateway trips over itself when I reboot one of the switches.

Or when it decides to run two APs, pretty much next to each other, on the exactly the same channel after a daily scan.

Or when I wake up to the WiFi down because it decided to turn on the automated firmware upgrade.

Yeah, they're almost out of the alpha phase.
by tiku | 2025-10-12 00:11:20+00:00
I've had a full refund because of a non-hidden camera at AirBnB, including a call if I felt unsafe etc.

The home was equipped with some security cam that overviewed the hallway to the bathroom and the entire living room.

I covered the cameras with a basket so there was still audio possible.. I figured if the Airbnb owner would complain I had proof that they watched.

After a month back at home I got a message that I got a full refund (didn't ask for it, just wanted to make them change the listing).
by Aloisius | 2025-10-12 00:11:38+00:00
The most egregious thing for me is that companies aren't disclosing that these devices are used to advertise to you before you purchase them.

Nowhere on the Amazon Echo Show product page is there any mention of advertisements. The product screenshots don't show advertisements nor does the product video.

It absolutely should be illegal for a company to push a software update to an individual's device designed just to enrich themselves - certainly not without informed consent.
by privacyking | 2025-10-12 00:12:30+00:00
Given that their OS requires a pixel phone and google is not releasing a) updated drivers b) updated source code for the latest release

their days are indeed numbered.

As for not being a certified android device and being unaffected. That is not true. There will be chilling effects that result in much less FOSS app development for Android, and whether or not an OS is certified is irrelevant in that regard.
by tingletech | 2025-10-12 00:13:11+00:00
This is a legacy of old apache configurations, the common mime type configuration files used .html to send the straight file, and .shtml to turn on the server side processing instructions. Server side includes could be static files or executable scripts that generated text on STDOUT. If you were using a lot of server side includes, it was cleaner just to turn on server side parsing for the whole site.
by daxfohl | 2025-10-12 00:13:16+00:00
Heroku? I know it's still around, though IDK who uses it, but I miss those days when it was thriving. One language, one deployment platform, one database, a couple plugins to choose from, everything simple and straightforward, no decision fatigue.

I often wonder, if AI had come 15 years earlier, would it have been a ton better because there weren't a billion different ways to do things? Would we have ever bothered to come up with all the different tech, if AI was just chugging through features efficiently, with consistent training data etc.?
by jen20 | 2025-10-12 00:13:21+00:00
If the rug isn’t there, how can it possibly be pulled?

All free licenses make each commit free - forever. If a library does what you need today, use it! If the terms become unacceptable in future, fork it and maintain it yourself, or hope someone else will. Note this can even happen with free software (GPL2 to 3, for example).

No one is entitled to the future work of someone else without paying though. You very definitely are the entitled one here.