MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bibanez | 2025-10-07 02:50:29+00:00
You see innovation in this space a lot in research. For example, Dalorex [1] or Azul [2] for operations on sparse matrices. Currently a more general version of Azul is being developed at MIT with support for arbitrary matrix/graph algorithms with reconfigurable logic.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10071089 [2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10764548
by alienthrowaway | 2025-10-07 02:51:18+00:00
You missed my point entirely. There was real value created during the dotcom boom too: Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Google, etc did not 'create fake problems'. Amidst the pearls of real value, were dozens/hundreds of overvalued, dogshit companies which never get a ROI for their investors, and the even marginally useful companies went under when the market correction hit.

There will be the WebVans of the AI boom era, we just don't know their names yet. There also will be Ciscos and Suns that will never reach their high-water mark ever again, or become obsolete in a few years, and sold for less that what people expect.
by marak830 | 2025-10-07 02:53:56+00:00
That's what I have been hearing. My biggest issue is, unlike most of you guys, I'm self taught and only program when I need to (so mostly c#, python, ruby on rails). C# isn't going to be much use to me on Linux.

But as long as I can continue my local hosted llm and playing around with that, and my son can play his games, I'll probably bite the bullet in a few weeks.
by pkaye | 2025-10-07 02:55:12+00:00
This actually goes even further back to the Obama era in 2011.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/text-of-spe...

> Indeed, if current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not halted and reversed, Future U.S. political leaders– those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America’s investment in NATO worth the cost.
by joser8 | 2025-10-07 02:56:38+00:00
AI is collapsing the gap between content and advertising. Chat interfaces can now sell products directly. Video generation is instant. Targeting is shifting from data to context. And compliance (C2PA, labeling, watermarking) is quietly becoming the new trust layer.

If ads can be created, personalized, and even bought through AI systems in real time… what do they become? Content? Conversation? Commerce?

Curious to hear how others see this evolving. how do you imagine advertising will look in the next 6–12 months?
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 02:58:04+00:00
You named the specialized equipment yourself:

> If you don't bring extra fuel cans, you are gambling big time.

Fuel cans have not been standard traveling equipment for nearly a century, back when gas stations were even rarer than charging stations are now.

It a route has >500 miles between gas stations it's not seeing much traffic.

It should not be odd to see EVs when they meet the needs of >95% of the Alaskan population, and when most households have multiple vehicles anyway.
by llmthrow0827 | 2025-10-07 02:58:20+00:00
I recently bought a Windows laptop, and the first thing I did was figure out how to not create a MS account, and next was to remove all the spyware/bloatware, and then after that configure WSL.

When you get past all the garbage, it's a fine OS to work in. Then again, so is MacOS, many flavors of Linux, etc. As the importance of the OS itself becomes less and less important for general consumers when most people live in the browser for their day-to-day job, Microsoft will find it harder to sell licenses (maybe they already are?), and they will resort to more ways to extract money from users, driving more of them away.

fwiw, I prefer the ergonomics of Windows to any other OS for daily activities and non-dev work, but it's such a weak preference that I wouldn't hesitate to switch if they ever actually force any of this MS account or always-online spyware without recourse.
by 1659447091 | 2025-10-07 02:58:39+00:00
> If being a bookie means feeding your family, you can relax

Am I reading correct that you are saying that in (at least) the Christian religion it is okay to provide gambling services?

Further supporting that the religion does not claim it immoral?

*note: it's stated as such, yet seems to have been ignored, in the linked wiki source above -- maybe your wording, if I understand it correctly, would be suitable for updating the wiki to make it more clear/understood that gambling is not immoral to those who adhere to the Christian bible
by seemaze | 2025-10-07 02:59:03+00:00
It's sooooo bad. I hate it.

It's like the whole interface is covered in corn syrup. The inertia of the swiped elements feels like they don't want to respond to touch input.

Half the time I have to tap twice because I'm not sure if the screen is lagging or if I missed the button.

It's visually incomprehensible. Elements randomly switch between light and dark, depending on local color layering, but it affects the global element rendering.

It stutters. It freezes. I've ceded all the hardware gains of the previous decade to arrogance of someone else's misplaced ideals and poor taste.
by seemaze | 2025-10-07 02:59:38+00:00
It's sooooo bad. I hate it.

It's like the whole interface is covered in corn syrup. The inertia of the swiped elements feels like they don't want to respond to touch input.

Half the time I have to tap twice because I'm not sure if the screen is lagging or if I missed the button.

It's visually incomprehensible. Elements randomly switch between light and dark, depending on local color layering, but it affects the global element rendering.

It stutters. It freezes. I've ceded all the hardware gains of the previous decade to arrogance of someone else's misplaced aspirations and poor taste.
by Marsymars | 2025-10-07 03:00:18+00:00
> Sincerely curious about why do you think it's the best desktop OS and/or where it excels.

Hey, so I'm a different user, and I wouldn't claim it's the best desktop OS, but split between macOS/Windows for desktop use, there are definitely things about Windows I appreciate. Off the top of my head:

* It has pretty approachable "config as code" built-in - with "winget configure" and some yaml files, you can define the apps you want, the Windows config, the registry settings, etc. without the overhead of MDM or something like Ansible.

* UI scaling took a long time to get good, but it's more flexible than macOS now for pixel-perfect output on displays that aren't multiples of 1440p. (e.g. 4K)
by Mistletoe | 2025-10-07 03:00:37+00:00
> But Banerjee, a novice, got stuck. He couldn’t figure out how to navigate the template to make some but not all of the auto-populated orders. “This was my first patient that triggered the sepsis pathway,” he explained, in testimony. So he asked Connor Welsh, a third-year resident, for help.

This is the crux of the whole article. People who make software please take note the importance of what you do.
by Rury | 2025-10-07 03:00:58+00:00
He's right. The very reason free markets don't exist is the same exact reason why communism doesn't work in practice. All markets collapse until there's a few dominant businesses (ie monopolies), just as how society naturally forms governing hierarchies. And this is easy to see how they're opposed. All you have to do is look at how there's only 4 types of governments based on how decision making power is distributed, and that democracy is actually closer to communism on that spectrum rather than dictatorships, and then see how monopolies behave quite like dictatorships.

That said, true dictatorships rarely work in practice but for different reasons as to why communism doesn't work. Which is why, when it comes to organizations, almost all are in fact oligarchies in practice, despite whatever they're called. This is known as the iron law of oligarchy. Notice the term: oligopoly? Go look at every industry and there's near always an oligopoly.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-10-07 03:01:11+00:00
Whether they care about consumer market or not, they know that most of the consumers aren't going to care about this problem. Hardly anyone would bat an eye at using their already existing Microsoft account/email address and internet connection to log on to their PC. They're almost 100% headed to get on the internet to do whatever anyways. These people are connected to the cloud 24/7. In the same way hardly any Apple user cares that they need an Apple account to get into a bunch of things/phone/whatever. This is a nerd/tech-niche problem.
by jaltman | 2025-10-07 03:01:21+00:00
Not everyone ignored it but unlike nfs it didn't come in the box with the operating system, and you had to pay for it. In addition, AFS provided strong cryptographic authentication and wire privacy which meant that it couldn't be licensed in many countries because the U.S. government did not grant appropriate export licenses.

I often wonder how the world would be different if AFS 3.0 could have been freely distributed world wide in 1989 precluding the need for HTTP to be developed at CERN.
by ukFxqnLa2sBSBf6 | 2025-10-07 03:02:46+00:00
I’m not sure how many people there are like me outside of this website but there’s not a single bone in my body that wants to use AI for these things.

Buying plane tickets for example. It’s not even that I don’t trust the AI or that I’m afraid it might make a mistake. I just inherently want to feel like I’m in control of these processes.

It’s the same reason I’m more afraid of flying than driving despite flying being a way safer mode of travel. When I’m flying I don’t feel like I’m in control.
by YouWhy | 2025-10-07 03:02:52+00:00
There's correlation all right, but is there causation?

A lot of folks I know regard mechanical watches as a type of jewelry, a high value item that's not intended for the everyday.

I concur that that popularity of mechanical watches is on the rise, but having a cool mechanical piece on in the evening does not preclude having a digital watch at all other times.
by mastazi | 2025-10-07 03:03:32+00:00
I'm not parent and Windows 11 is my least favourite desktop OS, but there are some things where I prefer Windows to Mac OS, for example multi monitor user experience, or the way full screen windows work (F11) and the ease of maximising windows without having to double click on the title bar. Also I like the way home/end/pgup/pgdown keys work. I much prefer how it renders text on non hidpi screeens. Finally I like how there is only one taskbar and no top bar, which results in more real estate on small displays.

Some Linux DEs also do these things well BTW. In fact I use Linux for most things at home. (I use Mac at work and my only Win device left is used exclusively for gaming).
by balamatom | 2025-10-07 03:03:42+00:00
>In 1998, Kathleen McDermott and Henry Roediger III conducted a similar experiment. Their goal was to intentionally trigger false memories through word lists. They presented subjects with lists to study, all containing a large number of words that were semantically related to another word that was not found on the list. For example, if the word that they were trying to trigger was "river", the list would contain words such as flow, current, water, stream, bend, etc. They would then take the lists away and ask the subjects to recall the words on the lists. Almost every time, the false memory was triggered, and the subjects would end up recalling the target word as part of the list when it was never there. McDermott and Roediger even went as far as informing the subjects of the purpose and details of the experiment, and still the subjects would recall the non-listed target word as part of the word list they had studied.

Neuromorphism: on track
by pu_pu | 2025-10-07 03:04:52+00:00
This really feels like a missed opportunity to build something genuinely new, something that actually plays to the strengths of LLMs, instead of just embedding a fixed set of app screens inside chat.

Ideally, users should be able to describe a task, and the AI would figure out which tools to use, wire them together, and show the result as an editable workflow or inline canvas the user can tweak. Frameworks like LlamaIndex’s Workflow or LangGraph already let you define these directed graphs manually in Python where each node can do something specific, branch, or loop. But the AI should be able to generate those DAGs on the fly, since it’s just code underneath.

And given that LLMs are already quite good at generating UI code and following a design system (see v0.app), there’s not much reason to hardcode screens at all. The model can just create and adapt them as needed.

Really hope Google doesn’t follow OpenAI down this path.
by hopelite | 2025-10-07 03:05:21+00:00
That is a backwards and likely self-serving perspective. You want to not only deprive foreign countries and populations of their doctors so that they can come serve American interests from having mismanaged the supply and the demand for doctors, all while having imported around 60 million foreign nationals in the last 25 years alone, which has only contributed to extra pressures and taxation of the medical field and has contributed to driving up costs for medical services in America.

So again, where do you want to get these doctors from that are in excess in their own countries, in order to bring them to the USA in order to serve American interests, while harming the communities you want to deprive them of?
by Arcterus | 2025-10-07 03:05:25+00:00
DXVK, VKD3D, D3DMetal, etc. are translation layers. You're implying they're far more heavyweight than they actually are. The real reason Windows games don't run as well on Macs is that they're usually built for x86_64 instead of ARM.

As someone who has used both Windows and Linux to game on the same x86_64 device, the performance hit with Proton is pretty much negligible (and sometimes games actually run faster on Linux).
by cookiengineer | 2025-10-07 03:07:02+00:00
I think the issue I have with this argument is that it's not a logical conclusion that's based on technological choice.

It's an argument about affordability and the economics behind it, which puts more burden on the (open source) supply chain which is already stressed to its limit. Maintainers simply don't have the money to keep up with foreign state actors. Heck, they don't even have money for food at this point, and have to work another job to be able to do open source in their free time.

I know there are exceptions, but they are veeeery marginal. The norm is: open source is unpaid, tedious, and hard work to do. It will get harder if you just look at the sheer amount of slopcode pull requests that plague a lot of projects already.

The trend is likely going to be more blocked pull requests by default rather than having to read and evaluate each of them.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-10-07 03:10:42+00:00
I remember a time when I thought we were past the Windows 98/XP popup malware era. Now every single website and application loves to shove popups in my face whenever I'm trying to accomplish a quick task. I don't think I have ever read anything other than the buttons to figure out which ones not to press.

Engagement metrics will be the death of us.
by bigiain | 2025-10-07 03:10:59+00:00
"From time to time I get security reports about Redis. It’s good to get reports, but it’s odd that what I get is usually about things like Lua sandbox escaping, insecure temporary file creation, and similar issues, in a software which is designed (as we explain in our security page here http://redis.io/topics/security) to be totally insecure if exposed to the outside world." -- antirez, 4 Nov 2015, https://antirez.com/news/96
by zephraph | 2025-10-07 03:11:19+00:00
Pretty cool! While I was at Recurse I took a stab at building a library like webview client mentioned in the post. https://github.com/zephraph/webview. Deno was my first target. I really enjoy deno's tooling overall, it's nice to be able to just import a server script as a URL and limit its permissions.
by sert_121 | 2025-10-07 03:11:41+00:00
I agree with the fact that a monopolized web is not friendlier to anyone. But seeing the trajectories of tech companies in the past decade, the unfortunate north star is distribution and the relentless pursuit of it.

Even in that dire circumstance, I wish that the web versions keep up/are maintained, instead of being slowly deprecated, which happened for a lot of mobile-native versions of applications.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-07 03:12:33+00:00
Thanks, friend. Your experience has helped me see the error of my ways. I thought that it was good to be private, but now I see that I was only misguided. I too was convinced to try the Google Maps location sharing feature, and it was super easy to share my location with everyone. My boss thought it was a great idea! Google really is a fantastic company, huh?
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-10-07 03:12:45+00:00
Points (1) and (3) appear to contradict each-other, AFAICT. Surely if you made researchers "waste" less time on the grant process, that would reduce the public's ability to supervise and intervene on what get's funded in an informed way? Much to most of the grant procedures researchers have to follow consist precisely in generating metrics, documentation, and other material meant to demonstrate to a skeptical public where the money is going.

You can trust professionals to do their jobs as they see fit and write them a check, or you can make them "waste" time proving to you they're doing the job you want them to do. You can't have low-trust and low-effort grant administration.
by garfieldnate | 2025-10-07 03:14:15+00:00
I know Korea is a fast-changing place, but while I was there I was taught and often observed that the value of "ppalli ppalli" (hurry hurry) was often applied to mean that a job was better done quickly than right, with predictably shoddy results. Obviously I have no insight into what happened here, but I can easily imagine a group of very hurried engineers feeling the pressure to just be done with their G-Drive tasks and move on to other suddenly urgent things. It's easy to put off preparation for something you don't feel will ever come.

I'm going to check all the smoke detectors in my house tomorrow :D
by hitekker | 2025-10-07 03:14:24+00:00
Your links are off-base. They're from September 2015, which is months after Andre Arko was told to revise the /teams page.

Since no /teams page was archived before March 2015, here's the Github commit of the overly vague team page https://github.com/rubytogether/rubytogether.org/blob/9a03c4.... This page was linked from https://web.archive.org/web/20150425040538/http://RubyTogeth... which stated "We pool funds from corporate and individual members to pay our team[github link]"

Altogether, it demonstrates how Andre misled his audience on who was getting the money. IMO, I see a distinct pattern of him crossing boundaries and then covering it up using his social skills & friend group.
by tomhow | 2025-10-07 03:14:41+00:00
This story is not even close to being close to being in HN's clearly–defined scope, which is content that "gratifies intellectual curiosity". It's as baity and lightweight as stories come: conflating the death of an eminent person with broad dislike of prominent political and business figures.

We had a large discussion [1] about Jane Goodall's passing when it was announced five days ago, which was an appropriately reverential discussion. We don't need to diminish the gravity of her life and passing with this.

Meanwhile, several of your recent comments have been snarky and unsubstantive, and we need that to stop if you want to keep participating here. You may have a different idea than we do about what HN is for, so I'd encourage you to take a moment to read the guidelines [2] and make an effort to observe them in future. HN is not for continual venting about things we find upsetting or objectionable, it's for discussing topics that are interesting and inspiring, and for finding tech projects that may be useful in our work and life, and that might make the world a little bit better. It's not for everyone, but the people who make the best contributions and derive the greatest benefits are the ones who observe the guidelines and make an effort to raise the standards.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441069

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by pbrum | 2025-10-07 03:14:44+00:00
Got a little something to say here because my startup is all about this. Worked at 2 $100b market cap enterprises and saw a lot of friction specifically in B2B. For internal collaboration Slack/Teams is pretty much consolidated, but for critical B2B interactions everybody falls back to email (and only secondarily to things like LinkedIn DMs or WhatsApp messages). And here's where the problems with email pile up:

No read receipts Need to know exact address to write to Trees/branches problem discussed by others (CCd late in the game? Good luck making sense of things and no chance to grab attachments) Highly vulnerable to phishing and social engineering (anyone can email you) Grab bag: important messages and unimportant newsletters or notifications are all mixed together Emails with precious/sensitive data can be forwarded to anyone (and everyone) in the planet with two clicks

I could continue but you get the picture. As an early Internet user I still have a soft spot for email but specifically for B2B work I think there's a lot of work to be done, similar to what Slack did for internal collab. My startup is genevabm.com for those who are interested, go check us out!
by setopt | 2025-10-07 03:14:49+00:00
Personally: Yes, I do. Likely, voice assistants and other AI tools will have a bigger market share in a decade, sure. But I doubt an interface like Alexa can replace a PC-like setup for most of the «real work». Instead, I imagine we’ll just continue the trend of laptops and tablets with AI assistants integrated in better ways, and perhaps a wider adoption of AR/VR in some sectors. Tre The tech that could replace today’s PC setup is a neural interface, but I doubt that NeuraLink et al will be anywhere near mainstream in a decade.
by bigiain | 2025-10-07 03:15:07+00:00
> Do you have your redis exposed without any authentication on the public internet?

I will somewhat ashamedly admit to having had a test/development Redis server running on EC2 exploited because I did that. In my defence, it was purely a development/learning exercise and had no real data on it. And it was about 10 years ago. It was an important learning opportunity for me.
by SirSavary | 2025-10-07 03:15:22+00:00
1. GitHub dominance is a social phenomenon, not a technical requirement. The go.mod file you linked references ~14 different Git hosts other than GitHub. Go's design doesn't create this centralization; it merely reflects where developers choose to host code.

2. You complain about commit hashes while simultaneously noting that tags can be deleted and recreated. Hashes are precisely the solution to mutable tags. The "short hash" concern is a red herring; Git uses sufficient entropy that collisions are not a practical concern for dependency resolution.

As for "secure package distribution," go.sum files verify files verify consistent downloads. What additional security do you believe centralized registries provide?

3. Can you provide a concrete example of an ambiguous import you've encountered? I'm not familiar enough with Go to understand this criticism.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-10-07 03:16:22+00:00
> Did you miss the prior comment? The existing oversight is ineffective. Researchers see it as a hoop to jump through.

All oversight is a hoop to jump through in a low-trust principal-agent system. Adding oversight bureaucracy partially helps in aligning the scientists to the public interests (after all, if they're working on something totally disconnected from funding goals, they won't get funded) but can never really increase public trust in the scientists or the grant-agency bureaucrats.