MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greatgib | 2025-10-07 12:07:10+00:00
How much fun is it compared to do the shooting?

For this game it is hard to say for me because I don't play it, but I still see complaints about that and the game duration:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/169ts34/solution_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/comments/1ekvieo/what_are_...

But generally, for other recent games I have to play, that is a strong complaint that I have. Like BO6 is awful for that for example.

One example I noticed in the past years is with racing games like Burnout. The original game was perfect for a quick relaxing session, you start the game, you play (driving) most of the time. I the last versions of Burnout, you are stuck with hours lost waiting for intro, start and end of race cinematics, that are unskippable. And the whole interface making it painful to have a long session of "really playing" in a row.

Obviously, most often when games are online, despite the fact that there is not a need for a real "loading" phase to reload the same assets 50 times when you play over and over the same game.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-07 12:07:38+00:00
Sure, but many people just want to have a super basic academic site with like 1 or 2 pages ("simple minimalist academic-like website" as it was phrased upthread), and then start to fiddle with a million frameworks and the compilation chain is broken in a few months when you want to add your new publication to the site, and you have to dig through versions and dependencies and environments and CI/CD and whatnot. When you could just type up your site in one afternoon by hand and it will keep working indefinitely.
by latexr | 2025-10-07 12:07:40+00:00
Congrats on the launch! Some tips:

Rename the submission to “Show HN: MyLinux, a minimal and modular linux distro” or something similar. Show HN is explicitly for things you built.

https://news.ycombinator.com/show

See the links at the top of that page for tips.

> community-driven

Seems like the repo is pretty recent. “Community-driven” probably doesn’t apply when the community is small and you’re the only one driving it.

> rigorously tested

Same thing here. How rigorous was the testing, for something just released?

> simple yet effective website

Again here. How do you know the website is “effective”?

It seems you might be following the buzzwords from our industry which are fast becoming meaningless from overuse. My recommendation: Don’t. Don’t write something because you think it should be there, don’t add meaningless adjectives, don’t copy every one else. Focus on what truly is there, on your differentiating goals, on why you’re making that.

> Minimalist core with modular extensions

That is a good example of a specific value proposition and something you could focus on. Expand on that: What exactly does it mean to have modular extensions? How easy are they to add? How does one do that?

Include screenshots. People want to see what something looks like before trying it out. They want to have a feel for the experience.

> Join Discord

The link is broken. Still, I’d recommend you consider something which isn’t closed off to people without an account. Discord is bad for preservation and sharing knowledge with the most people.

Finally, “MyLinux” is quite the generic name. If this takes off you’ll probably regret it and have to change it, so it’s a good idea to start thinking of it now.

Again, congratulations on putting this out there. Don’t be discouraged by any of the above, all of them are suggestions. Ultimately it’s your project and you have the final say.
by devilbunny | 2025-10-07 12:07:43+00:00
It’s not even a weird case. I have to specify, but don’t care if it’s back-to-front or front-to-back. Or where the x-ray is taken (yes, doctors have to specify that). That matters to the radiologist reading it (plain x-rays are like a camera obscura, so things close to the emitter cast a larger shadow), but for my purposes, it doesn’t matter because the level of detail I need is not that.
by vharuck | 2025-10-07 12:07:57+00:00
While reading the article, the now-less-common business of vacuum and TV repair came to mind. I imagine it's easier than ever to repair vacuums, with improved tools and free internet repositories of schematics. But I only know of one store still doing this within 5 miles of my house. I haven't asked former vacuum repairmen, but my guess as to the reasons:

1) Labor costs go up with inflation

2) Rent goes up

3) New vacuum prices go down

At some point in the past, the downward line of vacuum price crossed over the upward line of repair cost. That's when this profession cratered.

Cars may have a while until that price point hits. But the quoted mechanic's suggestion that engineers optimize for simpler repairs instead of simpler production may be something similar. If simpler production makes the price of a new car $X cheaper, but increases the labor cost of repairs over the car's lifetime by $Y, there could be a time when X > Y.
by graycreate | 2025-10-07 12:09:38+00:00
Brutal situation—sorry you’re dealing with it. A playbook that’s worked for folks: assemble “hard” proofs that tie you to the account and ask GitHub Support for human identity review, not automated 2FA reset. Think: old phone number ownership, email at a domain you control, past billing receipts (Sponsors/Actions/Marketplace), SSH public key or GPG signature fingerprints from your commits, WHOIS matching your name, and ecosystem attestations (RubyGems maintainers confirming you own those packages). Put all that in one concise ticket and request escalation.

In parallel, talk to RubyGems support about stewarding the gems if GitHub recovery stalls. They can add/transfer ownership with credible verification, so users aren’t stuck. Worst case, spin up a new GitHub, mirror the repos, and note the account transition in README/changelogs—plus a release on RubyGems pointing to the new home. Not ideal, but it keeps your users safe and the project alive while you push on account recovery.
by netsharc | 2025-10-07 12:09:44+00:00
Interesting idea of offloading yet another mind function to technology... We already take pictures of scenery instead of absorbing it with our eyes and mind (what about concert-goers who press record and get busy watching the video to make sure the framing is right, instead of actually enjoying the concert).

Even critical thinking is now being offloaded to ChatGPT.

A friend of mine loads up a YouTube video of how to tie a necktie every morning...
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-07 12:09:46+00:00
Especially when the teams are bigger, you have some A person who works with 100 teams who pops in when you are really fed up to calm you and who is 'definitely on top of your project' and the rest are all juniors (and now less juniors with AI). One of my clients paid 500k for a project and asked us to vet the quality; they believed they were paying 15 people for the past months; when we went on zoom to talk to the team, after many camera/connection issues, we got the 15 people. So we asked to interview them all. Only one of them knew technical details about the project, the rest did not. The one guy that does know is the tech lead my client originally hired and seems he works part time on the project, or at least reads the tasks. Looking at the vast amounts of (bad) code, our suspicion is that there are 5 or so people using codex/claude code to paste in the tasks, wait for the code, go to some 'fake QA process' and then commit and deploy. This happened before AI definitely, but probably then it would be actually 15 people hammering code, but juniors instead of the seniors you are paying for.
by hopelite | 2025-10-07 12:09:52+00:00
Usually it’s not the amount of work, it’s whether that work is necessary at all and a question of quality because the interests are largely aligned when they should be in tension and some opposition. Bad things happen when the interests of all parties are in one direction, usually due to a lack of real consequences.

In government you have to remember that it’s people playing with other people’s money, thinking all along that it’s their money, i.e., a sense of entitlement. So you end up with many of the same kinds and types of deep problems that you see in things like investment frauds, trust fund babies, spoiled children, and drug addicts. It’s probably not a coincidence that those often heavily overlap, including among bureaucrats and people dependent of government money.

We are talking about a militating of resources and from that comes a whole cascading effect, e.g., the children of someone who has actually produced something well through the effective and productive allocation of resources, resource maxing, so to say; will produce far better progeny than someone whose efforts have never led to anything productive as a bureaucrat that simply brushes one billion dollar failure after another under the rug while coping with ever more vociferously proclamations of how important and good of a job he does.

A good case in point is how America is $38 trillion in realized national debt, all while the “boomer generation” is at the same time declaring how wonderful things are, regardless of the political party. Those two things cannot be reconciled and will not perdure.
by tom_alexander | 2025-10-07 12:09:59+00:00
FWIW you can add a light/dark toggle button without any javascript. You only need javascript if you want to persist that preference in localStorage.

Here is an article that was posted to HN which implements the three-state (auto/light/dark) toggle in HTML and CSS only: https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/
by JCM9 | 2025-10-07 12:10:18+00:00
CEOs keep taking (mostly misguided) about how GenAI will replace their people. The thing they miss, and this highlights, is that customers will also expect to pay far less for GenAI produced workloads, which likely more than eliminates any cost savings.

Congrats clueless CEO… you’re now selling a worse product at lower margins. Success!
by saurik | 2025-10-07 12:10:49+00:00
Ok, I see: it isn't TME-MK that does it alone -- that is covered by the paper, even, as insufficient -- but this extra "cryptographic integrity protection mode", which is separate and yet not given a fancy name.

> Furthermore, TDX adds cryptographic integrity via a 28-bit MAC in ECC bits [19, 47].

> While the logical integrity could be bypassed by aliasing between two different TDs, as demonstrated in Section 5, the cryptographic integrity remains robust against simple aliasing attacks. This is because, while an interposer enables replay of the data bits containing the ciphertext, it cannot be used to replay the ECC bits, which store the cryptographic MAC. Replaying both data and ECC bits, while theoretically possible, would require a full-fledged interposer capable of intercepting and replaying the data contents. Such an interposer poses significantly higher engineering challenges.

Even this is only sort of better, in that it isn't actually secure against a truly evil RAM chip: it just happens to be using a feature of the RAM chip that narrowly defeats this particular form of command address override attack... but, though, that's still pretty reasonable, as the only reason this attack could be so cheap to build is because of its limitations.

Thanks!!
by pjmlp | 2025-10-07 12:11:16+00:00
Easy, extend the list of options

https://vercel.com/docs/functions/runtimes

Go is in beta for years, for a company that depends so much on Rust tooling nowadays, I guess it would be about time that Rust would graduate out of a community runtime.

Also, their containers are based on Amazon Linux 2023, so they could also extend the support there.

https://vercel.com/docs/builds/build-image

For me, I see that as they pivoted from the early days of multiple runtimes, are nowadays focused on nodejs and they kind of still support multiple runtimes, but are not keen on improving what is already there.
by rixed | 2025-10-07 12:11:38+00:00
I wonder why light/dark themes became the norm in a couple of years, but we are still begging for the wide/narrow themes or two or three themes with different font sizes. Those would be very useful as well. And I'm as guilty as the next dev of course.

Yes you can already resize the window or zoom but that oftentimes break the design in some way.

Well, nothing happen in tech before it's a trend, so let's just wait and hope.
by somenameforme | 2025-10-07 12:12:54+00:00
This is definitely not the case. PC ownership is near record highs right now. I cited the stats in a peer comment. [1] The only real hurdle is perceived cost. More than 96% of households earning $150k+ have a desktop/laptop, while only 56% with income less than $25,000 do. The overall average is 81%.

Mobile, and to some degree tablets, just offer a generally poor interface for many aspects of computing from gaming to content creation, and I think that's mostly intractable.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45499483
by sgarland | 2025-10-07 12:13:03+00:00
Thanks for this. I want to clarify something: the “you” in my post was directed at users of a product like this, not you, the creator.

Re: lower friction, you’re probably correct, though that also brings with it concerns like those that I posted. While installing Terraform and Ansible isn’t difficult, it might keep people away who have no interest in any form of systems administration, and so we come full circle again.
by jayflux | 2025-10-07 12:13:25+00:00
Transmission is a real problem and just like Nuclear, we haven’t improved it in the past 30 years.

So both eastern green link projects (offering more capacity) are due to be finished in 2029, “ok” I think “but surely we’re doing some work onshore to improve the existing network in the meantime..”

> Due to ongoing project work for increased power flow from North to South across two Transmission Owner (TO) regions and the interaction of the outage plans, increased capacity across the boundary will be limited and intermittent till 2029

So basically no transmission, onshore or offshore is going to be improved until 2029, but we’re still green lighting wind farms in Scotland. I’m amazed someone has the foresight to increase generation but not transmission until now, how were these green lit in the past knowing full well this bottleneck existed.

Maybe it’s controversial, but id argue for stopping more generation until transmission or storage is sorted, otherwise curtailment is going to be even higher in the next few years.
by bluGill | 2025-10-07 12:14:17+00:00
No point - the universe is too large to think we could get to a better planet even in the best case of it being close to us. Light years are not small and the energy needed to reach them too large. A generational ship is the only hope and we have no reason to think we can make one that will survive the trip.

The above is a consequence of physics and not an opinion. Even if we discover "new physics" it still needs to fit all the data we have and so that is unlikely to help.
by libre-man | 2025-10-07 12:14:53+00:00
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by array_key_first | 2025-10-07 12:15:09+00:00
Linux has been better for a long, long time now.

People use Windows because of the software, not because of the operating system itself. The best thing windows can do is not assert itself and hide as much as possible. As soon as you have to start interacting with any windows systems, it becomes clear how hacky and poorly conceptualized the OS is.

The best versions of Windows were the least annoying.
by rasengan | 2025-10-07 12:15:28+00:00
Yeah, agreed. Most VPNs just move the trust boundary from your ISP to another opaque network and call it privacy. There’s no way to verify what’s running, who controls it, or what happens to your data once it leaves your machine.

We solve this with vp.net, by making the service verifiable. The code can be reviewed, the builds are reproducible, and each node can prove what software it’s running and where your traffic actually goes [1].

It doesn’t turn a VPN into an anonymity tool, but it makes trust measurable instead of blind. That’s the part the industry should have fixed a long time ago.

[1] https://youtu.be/sz7NAe0G1_Y
by mr_toad | 2025-10-07 12:15:40+00:00
Starship launch costs are hypothetical, but pundits are estimating one to two hundred dollars per kg, or about ten million per launch. This would shave a significant amount off the cost of launching something big enough to de-orbit a large target, like an upper stage. Still, even if you spitball a figure like 20 million for each removal that’s still a billion dollars in total.
by DannyBee | 2025-10-07 12:16:03+00:00
That is if you use it to replace the audio functionality, sure. If all your center console/stereo did before was a broken spotify interface, and now has lots of functionality, then yes, carplay is much better.

As i said, that would constitute really shitty integration for rivian, becuase that isn't what their center console was like.

In rivians case you would now have a massive ton of center console functionality and driving display that worked and looked differently from the apps piece (2x differently if they did both carplay and android auto).

If you wanted it to look and act right WRT to the rest of the car you would have to do the carplay ultra thing, and write ios apps for your other functionality so that it actually all felt the same. Do the same for android auto, too.

Its the same with tesla.

Can I just suggest you spend 5 minutes looking at one (you don't have to drive it) and then see if you think replacing 40% of the center console functionality with something that looks and acts very different than the rest of the car would really qualify as "good integration".

None of what i referred to as the cost is the literal technical cost of displaying the video stream (Their UI is built in unreal and they have plenty of gpu power, so this part is trivial for sure), but instead, of building out the apps, functionality, and other pieces necessary to make the car software look and act coherently.

The reason VW threw money at them, other than wanting a hedge against Tesla, is precisely because VW has shitty software that feels and acts like a mess (my wife's car is a VWAG car, but not a VW), and Rivian doesn't. In VW's case, i'm sure all the pieces are written by different suppliers, so i can forgive them a little bit, but still, it's a mess.

It's ironic then to suggest that they didn't do their diligence because you think it's as easy as just displaying the video stream to make it good, when VW is paying rivian for precisely the opposite!

It's also interesting to try to discuss this with folks who have strong opinions but don't appear to have ever used one.

Overall, the best way i could put it is: Imagine you have an ipad, but you have to use a bunch of apps that are only available in android all the time. So 60% of your ipad screen is taken up by an android emulator that runs all the time. The other 40% of the screen is IOS. The two pieces know nothing about each other.

Do you believe this would be a good experience? I don't.

Would it suddenly be good if you could make the android emulator full screen? No, that wouldn't change a lot for me, though it would probably be better in the relative sense.

It would be good when i didn't have to run the android emulator, and all of my apps felt like they aren't fighting each other or ignoring each other :)
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-10-07 12:16:20+00:00
Proton explains this here:

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/prot...

I suppose you're free not to believe them, but I'm unsure what exactly you believe is happening here and what exactly Proton is lying about. Tesonet secretly owns them and has been running a decades-long misinformation campaign to trick you into thinking they don't? To what end? It's not like Tesonet is some nefarious company we should all be afraid of. What would they gain from lying about this if it were true?

And how can they make such an obvious mistake with their certs and then not make another one for the next decade? It's just not plausible.

At some point, you've gotta use some common sense.
by Retric | 2025-10-07 12:16:41+00:00
> ends where mine begins and vice versa

That tipping point isn’t fixed.

> furthermore, does not change over time

Except it does “them’s fighting words” only died out very recently, but it provides a starkly different boundary between my rights and your rights.

Ritualized lethal combat was a thing for very long time, and took an incredibly long time to go away. Trial by combat and dueling grows out of a fundamentally different ethical framework not just a lack of technology. It seems antithetical to Christianity today, but that wasn’t always the case.
by pjc50 | 2025-10-07 12:16:53+00:00
I suspect part of the foresight was exactly to create this situation, where the problem is framed as lack of transmission capacity. Because the alternative - building transmission capacity before it was needed - is even less politically feasible. Public money can only be spent when the need is so blatant it can no longer be ignored, and then everyone sits around and says "well why didn't we do that sooner".
by netsharc | 2025-10-07 12:17:21+00:00
I think grandparent comment means how to deactivate the recording indicator light: it seems it will not turn on if the camera starts recording and sees only black. Maybe to prevent light pollution for dark scenes/accidental recording? So the hack is to cover the camera, start recording, wait a few seconds, and then record normally, the indicator light will remain off (I write from memory, it could be more convoluted than this).

Or maybe the workaround is there like the simple workarounds on DVD players to bypass region-check: because the manufacturer knows info about it will spread and help sell the product.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-07 12:17:56+00:00
The average windows users wants it to run the software they want and not completely fucking shit the bed. Windows is allowed to be designed poorly, and it is.

But, shockingly, despite Windows goals being so small and easily achievable, Microsoft still fucks it up.

Wine is a better Win32 implementation than Win32. And Microsoft just can't help making the OS worse. Every new feature is basically strictly worse than the stuff before.

All they have to do is do nothing and continue making the same things work. But no.
by petecapecod | 2025-10-07 12:18:28+00:00
Hey Sam that's a mighty fine moat you just put up around your castle Or wall if you like that metaphor better.

While Apps do sound and look like the future, I feel like we're headed down the same road as the App and Google Play stores with this. Sooner or later OpenAI is going to use this to take a cut $$ of the payments going through the system. Which they most likely need and deserve, but still any time you close off part of the web it makes the web less open and free.
by npteljes | 2025-10-07 12:18:45+00:00
I think you in this case, you should definitely try the VM route. Non-3d user interfaces, networking, etc should all work with no problems, MSSQL included. Do a prototype as soon as you're able, because that will answer most of your questions, and raise new ones as well.

To your second point, yes, I imagine that MSSQL could be exchanged to something else like Postgres, MariaDB or MySQL. Although, maybe you can get away with SQLite too, depending heavily on the use case of course.

Good luck!