MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by n8henrie | 2025-10-12 17:38:53+00:00
I do a ton of work on low-power devices over SSH. Helix launches almost instantly; neovim with a similar level of functionality (via plugins) has considerably more startup lag and considerably more maintenance cost (config / plugin updates). I also know enough rust to try to help fix bugs but don't know any C family languages; I have a strong preference to use open-source projects written in languages I know.

EDIT: for context I'm a hobbyist who use n/vim for 12 years or so before switching to helix for the last couple of years. There are several things about nvim behavior that I still miss quite a bit and still feel more natural, but the instant startup of helix vs a second or two for nvim configured to a similar level of functional makes it totally worthwhile for me.
by miroljub | 2025-10-12 17:39:01+00:00
Donating, being against was at the time, and still is, a legitimate political action. It falls under free speech and free association.

And it was his private stance, he never promoted his personal political views as a Mozilla CEO.

But it was obviously too much for a woke politically correctness extremists at Mozilla. They prioritised politics and their own view of morality over technical excellence and vision.

They showed their priorities and I lost trust they would prioritise building technically best browser. And the time showed I was right, since Firefox slowly lost ist magic and is currently just a shadow of what it was.
by cranberryturkey | 2025-10-12 17:40:02+00:00
> In this case, the content is located in eight slide*.xml files (where the asterisk is a sequential number) inside the slide folder within the ppt folder. These folders and files are completely different to those in the XLSX and DOCX files, but information relevant to displaying slides on screen is scattered throughout them. Again, there are no technical reasons for the differences in the XML schemas of the three files other than to make their internal structures more complex. This unnecessary complexity is also reflected in the XML files describing the contents of the presentation.

This is why I absolute hate Microsoft
by vee-kay | 2025-10-12 17:40:23+00:00
Then you'll be glad to know that you can bypass the TPM2.0 (Secure Boot) check that Win11 installation requires.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-re...

https://gist.github.com/asheroto/5087d2a38b311b0c92be2a4f23f...

So you can upgrade to Win11 even on an older PC. No need to pay through the nose for extended Win10 Support.

But in my personal experience, Win10 runs better on older PCs than Win11. I also prefer the Win1o0 start menu, to the Win11 one.
by r1ch | 2025-10-12 17:40:58+00:00
Cloudflare will actually slow down TTFB for small, less popular sites since they don't maintain a keepalive connection to the origin. This means you pay an additional TCP/TLS setup cost from the Cloudflare POP to the origin which is worse than a direct connection. I also tried testing a smart-placed worker and cloudflared, neither of which seemed to help.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-12 17:41:07+00:00
Even though I tend to bash a bit the whole evolution of Linux Desktop, that is more a complaint of where I wish things to be, than being a naysayer.

FOSS stacks seem the only way with current geopolitics, but there is a big but.

For proper freedom it would only work out if we got back the whole infrastructure from hardware, software, compiler toolchains, everything like in the cold war days, throughout the 8 and 16 bit home computers as well, however I doubt we would go back that far.
by rrrrrrrrrrrryan | 2025-10-12 17:41:17+00:00
I work for a medical device manufacturer, and software absolutely can be designed to be just as reliable as physical systems, but the development and testing process looks completely different than a developing a mobile app. Things slow WAY down: if you want to change one line of code, it'll take literally weeks before it makes it to a production environment because of all the testing, documentation, justification, and human approvals. I imagine flight safety systems are subject to a similar level of rigor.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-10-12 17:41:49+00:00
If it's their shop, it is fine. If it's their product, it is fine. Anywhere else, not fine. Even then, it should only be visible as I come close to the place, none of the obnoxiously massive billboards.

It's the same online, you can fill your own website, or your slot on the "yellow/white pages equivalent" alluded to by GP, with whatever crap you want.

> Where should we be drawing the line

Anything without explicit initiation from the user is not allowed. If I walk in front of your shop, cool, show me your ad. If I am 500m away, don't put up a fucking 5x5m billboard 40ft in the air. If I open your website, or scroll past your slot on an aggregator, cool, show me your logo, otherwise, nope. If I s/scroll/stroll past your s/slot/shelf in the s/aggregator/groceryshop then show me your logo, otherwise, nope. There are maaaaybe a few exceptions to the rule, like on highways I'd be fine with seeing $restaurant 8km away, or whatever, but those are rare situations where you benefit from knowing ahead of time, and even this is not necessary with google maps.
by kragen | 2025-10-12 17:42:10+00:00
The US already extends copyright to the output from compilers, on the flimsy basis that it is a "literary work", and enacted a sui generis 20-year "mask works" right for chip layouts, which are generally output from EDA tools. It's hard to predict what politics will do, except in the very general sense that policies that have no constituency will not be enacted.
by kuschku | 2025-10-12 17:42:47+00:00
How does it have feature parity if I have no ability to change the entire configuration programmatically, on reaction to certain changes?

My ISP requires a reconnect every 24h, assigning a new IPv4 and IPv6 prefix after every reconnect. That means after each reconnect I need to update DNS entries via RFC 2136, update the IPv6 range for VPN clients, and reconfigure my DECT basestation with the new IP addresses.

Currently I've got scripts as part of the config bundle that use the vyatta configure CLI to update the configuration after every reconnect, which also run on a crontab timer.

How would I support this use case on UnifiOS?
by osquar | 2025-10-12 17:42:54+00:00
Author here. Continued Apollo's analysis from August. Data: US Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey. It tracks AI usage across 1.2m US businesses every 2 weeks.

- Large enterprises (250+ employees) peaked at 13.4% in July 2025, dropped to 11.7% - Every firm size category declined since July except smallest (1-4 employees) - Smallest firms continued rising: 9.65% → 10.3% - First sustained multi-month decline since tracking began Nov 2023

OG research: https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rate-trending-down...

Why do you think this is?
Show HN: Recallie AI – Duolingo for learning anything
by np_noa | 2025-10-12 17:43:06+00:00
I built an app with a Duolingo-style structured learning system where users can generate full courses from photos, documents, or typed input. Each course includes quizzes, flashcards, and notes, and users can also turn their notes into an AI-generated podcast for audio learning.

It’s designed to help students and anyone who wants to learn a topic study smarter and retain more through interactive lessons, quizzes, and podcasts tailored to their learning style.

Built with React Native Expo.

https://youtu.be/jsRk1vN1xNA?si=iMGZFhj_N2iwBp5n
by xienze | 2025-10-12 17:43:19+00:00
> Perhaps its a reflection of how hard it is to get the medical community to take Long COVID seriously ?

Well let’s think about why. You’ve got an illness (Long COVID) that you can’t detect and manifests itself in a myriad of ways, most of which are very vague and subjective (“brain fog” or “I can’t exercise as much as I used to”) and also not detectable.

Is it any wonder doctors might think of it as today’s fibromyalgia?
by vunderba | 2025-10-12 17:43:20+00:00
> Paine labels kingship "the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry"

Given that this kind of deference to a perceived authority (which manifests in hero worship, tribalism, influencers, religion, celebrity veneration, sports figures, etc) seems to be built into the very genetic fabric of 99% of the general populace I despair at ever seeing it end.

People simply can't wait to anoint their own personal king (be it Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, MrBeast, etc.)
by broken-kebab | 2025-10-12 17:43:22+00:00
On the issue of context I already replied to ben_w. As for the country level: sorry, I cannot agree with the very basis of your statement. Your comment presupposes that sex is some sort of a narrow thing which is so hard to apply to humanity that millions are falling through. There are poststructuralist/postmodernist theories which claim that any dichotomy creates oppressions, and that's why there's a political movement which tries to strawman biological sex by pretending that every individual feature is somehow in contradiction with it. Or that shared features cancel binarity. That's where your millions that "doesn't match" come from. They do match actually. Sex is a consequence of genes expression which literally builds each of Homo Sapiens and affects us in big and small ways. That's true even for majority of pathological cases such as hermaphroditism. That's why for the whole history of mankind we've been using our good ol' binary sex as a category of particular importance for fun and profit. There are probably singular situations cases where application sex category may create confusion but in absolutely absolute majority it reflects important reality of nature. As a result we base plenty of our political, societal, and legal logic on it, and so far all attempts to deny it by political decree created way more confusion than any possible misapplication of sex.
by Alupis | 2025-10-12 17:43:48+00:00
FTA:

> Los Angeles fire officials, already under scrutiny for their failure to pre-deploy engines to the Palisades fire, are now facing questions about why they didn’t fully extinguish the flames from the initial fire before hurricane-force winds blew into the area and fanned an ember buried within the roots of dense vegetation.

Multiple, stacking governmental failures are to blame for the breadth of destruction here.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-08/palisade...
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-12 17:43:52+00:00
> I still don't hear any concrete feedback regarding QML and Qt Quick

Well, evidentially you chose/prefer that stack over Qt Widgets, presumably for some considered reason (unless it was just Nokia pushing that as the future, per their own mobile interests).

There was definitely a change of focus when Nokia bought Trolltech. For me it was a negative one.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-10-12 17:43:56+00:00
Well, my fellow CBT practitioners would disagree.

There are things you don't do but you understand not doing them is hurting you, so you decide to follow CBT (for example - there are other ways, but CBT has decent efficiency although it's expensive). They don't really need to be classified disorders or fobias.

Similarly, there are things you do and you realize not doing them would be beneficial to you. So you try to stop them and you realize it's hard. Again, you can use CBT or another method (or even medication in some cases). Whether you classify these things as "behavioral addictions" or use another term is secondary, the phenomenon itself is very real and I find it baffling anyone would dispute that.
by fogzen | 2025-10-12 17:44:12+00:00
It’s broken because copying all data somewhere else to query isn’t scalable, technically or financially. Especially when all the observability business models are based on charging for data.

The whole observably industry is based on a flawed approach that you can add it in after the fact, ship that data somewhere else, then charge an arm and a leg to access it. That breaks down quickly in any non-trivial distributed system. Even when ignoring issues with sampling, it is cost prohibitive.
by psadauskas | 2025-10-12 17:44:28+00:00
MacOS and Windows might break[1] less often than Linux, but when it does I stand less of a chance of fixing it. Linux is usually more fiddly, but if does something I don't want its usually only a few minutes to find the config file or a plugin for the Desktop Environment to alter the behavior.

[1]: "Break" here meaning "behaves in a way I don't want"
by pixl97 | 2025-10-12 17:45:57+00:00
>File creators have zero incentive to create spec-compliant files, because there's no penalty for creating corrupted files

This depends. If you are a small creator with a unique corruption then you're likely out of luck. The problem with big creators is 'fuck you' I do what I want.

>"Chrome cannot guarantee the safety of your data on this website, as the website is malformed" warning message.

This would appear on pretty much every website. And it would appear on websites that are no longer updated and they'd functionally disappear from any updated browser. In addition the 10-20 year thing just won't work in US companies, simply put if they get too much pressure next quarter on it, it's gone.

>Your mistakes are painfully obvious during development,

Except this isn't how a huge number of websites work. They get html from many sources and possibly libraries. Simply put no one is going to follow your insanity, hence why xhtml never worked in the first place. They'll drop Chrome before they drop the massive amount of existing and potential bugs out there.

>And like it or not, Chrome is big enough that it can act as one for HTML.

And hopefully in a few years between the EU and US someone will bust parts of them up.
by dminuoso | 2025-10-12 17:46:06+00:00
We operate an MSP business for tens of thousands of customers and have our own ASN, but gmail outright refuses all our corporate email. Why? We do not know and gmail refuses to tell us. Their postmaster tools lie, are incomplete, display no data, display errors or contain no useful information. There is no human postmaster to contact, all our attempts have been ignored successfully. It’s downright silly but we have to send our corporate mail via a paid third party relay to be delivered to gmail.

These gmail postmaster tools seems to exist to make antitrust cases difficult, not to enable other MSPs to deal with deliverability issues.

At the same time gmail is emerging as the number one source of spam for our customers. If our spam fighting is too tight we falsely flag important mail as spam, and this is absolutely unacceptable to customers. As a consequence we have to relax our spam classification for gmail senders, which manifests itself in false negatives from the perspective of our customer.

But to the customers this reflects on us, not on gmail.

It’s just gmails best interests to make other MSPs miserable to operate. It drives our users to them.
by doug_durham | 2025-10-12 17:46:08+00:00
I understand your concerns. I had similar concerns. The UIs on bike computers are very glanceable by design. I wouldn't go back. I would be more concerned with physical maps. I know myself and I would be tempted to "cheat" by trying to look at the physical map while moving if I was under time pressure to get to a destination.

Another huge benefit of a bike computer is that you can pair it with a rear facing radar. This has transformed my biking on roads. It absolutely doesn't replace looking over your shoulder, but it increases your awareness. You now know that there are three cars approaching from behind so you know what to expect. There is no way I'd go on a long cross-country ride without a radar.
by gorbypark | 2025-10-12 17:46:15+00:00
Jeep is horrible. I was gifted a 2007 Jeep Commander, which was Jeep's "answer" to the Hummer. This was in like 2017, so it was 10 years old at that point. Anyways, it wouldn't shift into 4x4 mode, and after some internet sleuthing I found out there was a (now second) firmware update the dealership could do to hopefully fix the issue. I don't remember the exact details, but basically there was a hardware flaw in the module controlling the transfer case, and when it failed the vehicle would go into neutral, which obviously could be quite dangerous depending on where you were parked / what you were doing.

Instead of fixing the actual hardware issue, they did a recall that was some sort of black magic with a firmware update to "fix" the issue. According to the internet, this fix temporarily worked, with pretty much all of them failing again, conveniently after the vehicle was out of warranty.

Anyways, there was a second firmware update, that I had done 10 years after the vehicle was made, that more or less actually "fixed" the issue. Apparently the issue (according to Jeep forums, so take with a grain of salt) was due to some traces being undersized on the PCB, so the fix was to drop the voltage and/or current being sent, and then more or less disabling the safety sensors that would complain about low voltage. After the second firmware update, it would shift into 4x4 about 1 out of 4 attempts (otherwise just failing with "couldn't shift into 4x4" on the screen), and that was the final thing that could be done.

It took Jeep about 4 or 5 years to issue that final firmware update, probably to try and avoid a class action lawsuit over 90% of the vehicles 4x4 system failing just outside of the warranty period!
by nightpool | 2025-10-12 17:46:26+00:00
> It’s much closer spiritually to RSS and plain old web

What do you mean by this? ATProto requires a giant indexing database that has access to every post in the network. Mastodon is more like a feed reader—you only get notified about the posts you care about. How is needing a giant database that knows about every RSS feed in the world closer to the plain old web?
by adamauckland | 2025-10-12 17:47:18+00:00
There's a lot of people complaining "Why use knobs?" and a lot more people giving the reason "Because DAWs use them" without explaining why DAWs use them.

First, it's a visual representation of the value, and it's easier to map "Slightly more to the right" than "an extra 0.7"

More importantly, all DAWs can map physical control surfaces to the on-screen knobs, and control surfaces all use knobs and sliders.

For example https://mackie.com/en/products/mixers/onyx-series/Onyx16.htm...

or https://faderfox.de/pc12.html
by 9x39 | 2025-10-12 17:47:19+00:00
Been there - I help a lot of older folks with their business computers.

The desire to make Windows an appliance falls flat when older PCs get on that auto-update treadmill.

For example, Windows now comes OEM with Bitlocker drive encryption enabled. Good in theory - when you toss/donate/sell your old PC, normies don't think about their personal lives and banking details being available, so that's good. However, they almost never get backups working right, and this cripples anyone from rescuing them from a drive failure in a critical PC that has their entire business books on it. This is not uncommon.

I think it's the unfortunate result of different PMs for different features strong-arming things on, but at different paces and maturity levels, and the result is Windows isn't safe to trust for the non-technical user.

My checklist these days when I end up assuming responsibility for someone: Drive encryption off, Passwords into a manager, Backups set, Updates disabled, Remote access installed.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-10-12 17:48:13+00:00
> when macOS provided native support for cloud filesystems

When was that? I haven't regularly used a Mac in a good four years. At the time I had the Google Drive app with a business subscription, and I don't think there was any other option. It was terrible, to the point I completely gave up on it. Just like the other poster says, it would say, "I'm all synced up", but only half my files would be synced. I'd need to restart it to get syncing again. When I would try to get a large amount of files from the cloud to local storage, it would randomly crap out.

Basically, it would stall very often, and this was on wired gigabit ethernet, not some spotty mobile connection from a phone via wifi in a crowded cafe.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-10-12 17:48:21+00:00
> clearly indicate this is not what anybody voted for.

No, this is explicitly what many people voted for. Trump's entire political career started with a speech calling American Hispanics criminals and yelling about building a wall.

There are now counter-protesters showing up to ICE arrests to cheer them.

And you'd have to live under a rock to not have seen Fox news or OAN or whatever spend the last decade (or, wow, is it really two decades now) demanding the imprisonment of their opposition.

This is the Republican party now. Openly.
by imiric | 2025-10-12 17:49:08+00:00
> Nope, at least following a common definition of "rug pull" outside of FOSS.

The current context is within FOSS, however. And it has a widely known definition[1].

> If you're standing on a rug that you didn't pay for in any way, and you're nonetheless surprised and angry when the rug-owner eventually decides it is no longer practical for them to continue maintaining the rug for free, that's just entitlement.

So, let me get this straight. You're saying that because users didn't pay for the software, they're not allowed to be surprised and angry when they're forced to either continue using unmaintained versions, take over maintenance themselves or wait until someone from the community does, or pay up? And you're saying that paying for the software buys you these privileges?

So, essentially, if the author of cURL decided tomorrow that it's no longer "practical" for him to support ancient and obscure protocols like Gopher and Telnet for free, and he decided to put them up behind a paywall, that the people depending on these features don't have any right to be upset about it? And if they are, they're being entitled?

Or, from a social perspective, if the people making meals at a community kitchen decide that it's no longer "practical" for them to supply eating utensils for free, and start selling them at $10 a pop, that the people relying on those meals are being entitled if they're upset about this change, because they're not paying customers?

Don't you realize how hostile this is?

Forget about open source. This has nothing to do with licensing. The libre software philosophy is orthogonal to monetization practices, and every author can choose how they wish to make development sustainable, if at all. As I've said before[2], I'm in favor of F/LOSS projects having commercial tiers or subscriptions, as long as it's done fairly.

What I am arguing for is having basic decency to treat all users of your software with respect. The moment you decide that users not paying for your work are not worth listening to, that they're entitled, etc., and that your attention and respect can only be bought, you've corrupted the entire ideal of why we build freedom-respecting software in the first place.

The sad irony is that I'm 100% sure that most people arguing against this, including Datastar authors, rely on tools like `curl`, `grep`, and other libre software whose authors never have and never will pull these shenanigans. So they're quite happy to "leech off" other people's work, but not happy to let others do the same off theirs. This double standard is what's ruining open source, not entitled users.

I won't bother responding to the other comments, as they boil down to this same point. And I'm really repeating myself here, so feel free to talk amongst yourselves.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536000#45540307
by scottlamb | 2025-10-12 17:49:17+00:00
> And if you need a good fan that’s quiet enough for the CPU, you’re looking at 4U.

Depends on the CPU, I imagine. I'm using one with a 65W TDP. I'm hopeful that I can cool that quietly with air in 2U, without having to nerf it with lower BIOS settings. Many NASs have even lower power CPUs like the Intel N97 and friends.