MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sjw987 | 2025-10-02 15:26:44+00:00
I really hate Strava. Strava (and anything that replaces it in the same function) exists as a pointless social media layer on top of what Garmin/Suunto/Polar provide.

There is really no reason to use it, and I've seen so many new runners come and go, because they treat Strava the same way people treat social media in general. They see others doing high mileage, and hard intervals, they try to emulate it (from many people) and they end up with stress injuries or burn out.

There's no guidance, and it shows you a display of performances from people of all sorts of ability (I see two literal Olympians on my regular run route) who took time to get where they are. Newcomers can see that and try to emulate it too quickly and injure themselves. There's no warning for somebody going from 10k a week straight to 30k the next week, 40 the week after, 50, so on. But any runner would tell you to follow a 10% rule. Strava doesn't even give a warning.

My local running route is plagued with cyclists causing disturbances and near-misses for the sake of Strava segments (small parts of routes with leaderboards), despite being pedestrian priority.

I just can't think of anything Strava offers besides the utility to like somebody's bike ride or run, which is probably something you could already do elsewhere. It trims tons of the data that Garmin provides, puts up leaderboards (apps with leaderboards almost always incentivise the wrong method of doing something), and they promote competition to people brand new to running, usually in the guise of runners who have built up properly over a longer timespan.
by estebank | 2025-10-02 15:26:49+00:00
There's one reason I could think of for translating from C to Rust without further changes: simplifying the build. If you can remove the need for a build.rs script running make, that's one headache less. At that point you have exactly the same behaviour as wrapping the original C code in a -sys crate, so all of the usual caveats are warranted.
by tamimio | 2025-10-02 15:27:05+00:00
It's not a limit, just from my personal exposure in the overall drone delivery, 3-4hrs would provide enough time with margin for any safe delivery, beyond that is definitely better but probably is too hard to achieve. Keep in mind the actual flight time will be less than that, accounting for payload weight and environment like wind and temperature. In cold weather like Canada, the batteries will consume some of their energy to heat themselves before taking off.
by Amir_A | 2025-10-02 15:27:07+00:00
What I find the most jarring about this on a day-to-day being in tech circles is how some of the smartest people I know are not only unwilling to call out what's happening, they're unwilling to acknowledge it to begin with, and some like the triangle man and Collison brothers even support it.

The more time I spend in tech the more I realize there's a deep moral rot here covered up by noveau-rich wealth
by taylodl | 2025-10-02 15:27:13+00:00
I’m not talking about rhetorical support or diplomatic gestures. I’m talking about real aid - military, logistical, and strategic support in the face of actual Chinese aggression. If Japan and South Korea see that the US will not materially aid Taiwan’s defense, then the credibility of US security assurances collapses. That would effectively cede East Asia to China.

So - the US can't be seen as doing nothing because that has disastrous consequences. At the same time, as you point out, the US can't go all-out in defense of Taiwan for fear of igniting widespread conflict. The US needs to be very careful in how it responds.

Good thing this administration is renowned for subtlety and nuance! :)
by pants2 | 2025-10-02 15:27:53+00:00
I'm in the same boat. Windows 11 was so unbelievably bad that I switched to Mac overnight, after 25 years on MS. Mac isn't perfect but the hardware is top notch and they're not trying to embed ads into the OS.

The only things I miss from Windows now are videogames, ShareX, and Everything. But Raycast and iStat Menus, while different, are awesome in their own way.
by thrance | 2025-10-02 15:27:55+00:00
Wow, you really got me with that "some". Are you seriously now claiming that TERFs aren't mostly found on the right? Ever heard of a left-wing TERF? I won't waste anymore time arguing with someone who refuses basic facts. The truth is, that TERFs have done nothing to further the feminist cause. At best they give ammos to the right, who in this day and age, is acting openly anti-feminist, and amping up rhetoric against an already stigmatized minority who is 4 times as likely to be on the receiving end of violent crimes.
by nonameiguess | 2025-10-02 15:28:07+00:00
I don't know if it's playing sports my whole life and watching a lot of nature documentaries, but it really seems to me that certain types who spend 95% of their waking hours sitting at a desk don't appreciate just how capable, and frankly maybe even "magical," animal bodies really are. Someone is in these comments talking about how their muscle car can accelerate faster than a cheetah. Sure, but can it turn like one, jump onto and off of rocks, stop on a dime, time its acceleration to match the exact moment it needs to pounce on prey to knock it off its own feet while avoiding getting crushed or kicked itself?

Humans have swam across the English channel, have swam from Cuba to Florida, from Alaska to Russia. Humans have run across the Sahara desert. We've scaled 2000 foot vertical rock walls with our hands. We've walked to the summit of every 8k mountain on the planet. We can go places like the top of Everest, the middle of Death Valley in the summer, deep wildnerness in thick forest or jungle, places that are so dangerous in part because rescue vehicles like ATVs, snowmobiles, and helicopters can't get there, but humans on foot can. And yeah, we can also thread nuts onto bolts, handle locked doors, do tre flips and impossibles on skateboards.

Ultimately, we and all other animals are still just machines, and there is no reason in principle that machines built from engineered planned rather than grown from evolved plans can't do all of the exact same things and even more, but it's a harder problem than many seem to appreciate. Even when I was in a tank brigade in the late 2000s, we always went to Afghanistan as infantry, because our trucks and tanks were completely useless in the rocky, steep mountains, but there is no terrain anywhere that a sufficiently well-trained human can't traverse.
by Ken_At_EM | 2025-10-02 15:28:09+00:00
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by a_squirrel | 2025-10-02 15:28:12+00:00
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by reaperducer | 2025-10-02 15:28:36+00:00
Humans do drive when there's tornadoes. I can't count the hundreds of videos I've seen on TV over the decades of people driving home from work and seeing a tornado.

I notice you conveniently left off "foot of snow" from your critique. Something that is perfectly ordinary "condition where humans actually drive."

Many years, millions of Americans evacuate ahead of hurricanes. Does that not count?

I, and hundreds of thousands of other people, have lived in places where sand drifts across roads are a thing. Also, sandstorms, dense fog, snert, ice storms, dust devils, and hundreds of other conditions in which "humans actually can [and do] drive."

FSD is like AI: Picking the low-hanging fruit and calling it a "win."
by albertlsc | 2025-10-02 15:28:58+00:00
I’ve always found the “RLS enabled by default” behavior in Supabase/Postgres to be a double-edged sword: great for security, but brutal for DX when you’re just trying to get an agent or prototype working. The idea of having MCP servers enforce sane defaults automatically feels like a huge win for developer productivity without sacrificing safety.

Also really like that you’re tackling the “manual auth & secret wiring” problem — I’ve seen so many projects stall because the glue code around auth is brittle and error-prone.

Curious on two points:

How does InsForge handle multi-agent coordination? For example, if multiple AI agents are calling APIs concurrently, are there built-in isolation or quota mechanisms?

What’s your roadmap for integrations? (e.g., vector DBs, observability hooks, hosted dashboards)

This feels like it could lower the barrier for agentic apps quite a bit. Kudos on open-sourcing both client & server — looking forward to seeing how the community builds on this
by tobias3 | 2025-10-02 15:29:14+00:00
What I also find amazing is the server software used to run it ( https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS ):

- Re-implements parts of Minecraft

- Runs 512x512 plots in different threads

- Compiles Redstone applying different kind of optimization passes https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS/blob/master/docs/Redpiler.md

- It had Jit backends before, but seems they have been removed
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-02 15:29:36+00:00
> Having a word for it vs being able to describe it. I'd argue the first suggests greater importance.

That's not universal though. Some languages like Japanese, German, & Inuit are synthetic, so a "word" may be more like a compound phrase in an analytic language. So "having a word for it" can be identical to "being able to describe it". In this case it's a particularly short word, so your point is otherwise valid. I'd say that it's probably more "low Kolmogorov complexity vs high Kolmogorov complexity" of the word or phrase that matters. Concepts expressable with lower-complexity words or phrases are likely more common & thus more culturally important than those requiring high-complexity words or phrases.
by michael1999 | 2025-10-02 15:30:12+00:00
You could call that excess capital as easily as a labour shortage. Or a shortage of training pipelines in an irresponsible industry.

When GM realized they needed more mechanical engineers than existed, they built a whole university. These days, capital just whines. If you can spend $100 BILLION on data centers, you have the budget to stand up a proper school.
by thewebguyd | 2025-10-02 15:30:50+00:00
> If you don't like it, don't use instagram.

Even that's not enough with the shadow profiles they build on people without accounts. It's more like "if you don't like it, don't use instagram and also make sure none of your friends, coworkers, family, associates, or anywhere you go doesn't use it either. Also make sure you, nor the others mentioned, visit any website using Meta's pixel."

We definitely need laws when an individual effectively can't opt out because of network effects.
by SkyPuncher | 2025-10-02 15:30:56+00:00
DSM-5 is the current standard for diagnosing and classifying mental health conditions. I don't have the direct quote from the book handy, but I believe this guide from Stanford is accurate: https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/neonatology/document...

Essentially, there's a collection of behaviors you need to exhibit to be considered autistic. Then, the "spectrum" part is the severity of those behaviors.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-02 15:32:10+00:00
I looked at Photo Organizer[0] a few years ago as a possible way to share photos I shoot at events with the public. It didn't seem wholly unreasonable. Having said that, I'm not seeing the full-screen "chromeless" kind of look you're looking for on the maintainer's demo site[1] either.

Edit: A sibling post's reference to the Immich public proxy looks pretty cool. I am anxious to try it out.

[0] https://po.shaftnet.org/

[1] https://www.peachyphotos.com/po/user/slp
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-02 15:32:25+00:00
Windows 11 can be made to work on machines which do not meet those requirements without much - if any - effort. I installed it on a KVM yesterday, running it in 4 GB of memory with 64 GB of storage (42GB free after install, debloat, upgrade to latest and clearing the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download (might have an 's' after it, don't remember, don't care) directory) on a 2016 HP Spectre with an i5 CPU (2 cores, 4 threads with hyperthreading enabled, 8 GB/256 GB). That is not a powerhouse but it runs no worse than Windows 10. It will probably never be used but that's another story. I installed it on that machine for my 20yo daughter who has gone full Linux and did not see the need for it. I only put it there 'just in case' she needs it for her studies (preparatory year for vet college) and 'cause I can.

There's 2 clear signs here from what I can see: if Linux does just fine for my non-technical 20yo daughter it will do fine for most people. Also, she has never really used Windows, only Linux (at home) and Chromebooks (at school and university) and does not feel the urge to start using it 'cause she does not stand to gain anything from it. Microsoft has lost the battle for the personal computer - or should that be 'for general purpose operating systems' - as far as I can see and any breaking change - like this Windows 11 your-hardware-need-not-apply thing - will cause more people to leave the platform.

That Windows 11 VM will probably be removed in a few months time when it becomes clear she does not need it so why keep it around? Bye bye, Windows, we hardly knew you and she did not know you at all but your time has passed. Let's just hope that the passing of Windows does not also lead to the passing of general purpose computing and the further advance of locked-down computing appliances. There's no love lost for Microsoft from me, having been there when it rose to power using all the dirty tricks in the book and then some but they were a strong factor in the commoditisation of general purpose computer hardware - PCs and servers, laptops and notebooks - for which I will grudgingly give them some respect, also because I got to profit from the flotsam and jetsam caused by the ever-increasing hardware demands by repurposing 'old' hardware which then often outperformed the new and shiny only because I ditched Windows and installed Linux on it.
by tehbeard | 2025-10-02 15:32:50+00:00
I've had phpstorm get stuck indexing until I shut the app down, no matter what Stack overflow voodoo I tried to break the cycle.

Vscode and intelephense handled the same project without breaking a sweat.

I've had much better experience with IntelliJ. No matter the maven or gradle project I've thrown at it, it just works.
by tonychang430 | 2025-10-02 15:33:01+00:00
For high-throughput applications, we expect minimal differences compared to Supabase on the hot path, since both ultimately run on native Postgres and rely on the same proven, open-source modules (RLS, replicas, extensions).

Where MCP stands apart is in flexibility and safety: we provide the most secure and scalable setup out of the box, with guardrails for agents and developers, while still letting you drop down into Postgres when you want fine-grained control.
by mothballed | 2025-10-02 15:33:07+00:00
I enjoyed Bastiat's indictment

http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html

The question, and we pose it formally, is whether what you desire for France is the benefit of consumption free of charge or the alleged advantages of onerous production. Make your choice, but be logical; for as long as you ban, as you do, foreign coal, iron, wheat, and textiles, in proportion as their price approaches zero, how inconsistent it would be to admit the light of the sun, whose price is zero all day long!
by whatever1 | 2025-10-02 15:33:27+00:00
My shift button popped off my M1 MacBook. Apple judged it was my fault. Guess the repair price. Yes almost full laptop price.

If that had happened to any other laptop I would be able either replace just the broken keycap, or just the keyboard.

And no, apple care+ that covers accidents is not cheap either at $150/year.
by lorenzo_9696 | 2025-10-02 15:33:38+00:00
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This inspired me to create Forkly, a platform that aims to solve this problem. The goal is to host open-source productivity services and make them perfect for everyone.

Its strength is integration. I'll use the projects' own APIs to ensure that, regardless of which app you choose, the features work in harmony. Every combination you choose will be perfectly integrated.

With this project, I hope to do my part for the open-source ecosystem, giving it greater visibility among a wider audience and donating a portion of the revenue back to the projects we host.

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by greggsy | 2025-10-02 15:34:22+00:00
I disagree. If there is a fundamental architectural issue with the current platform that is getting in the way of progress, the right thing to do is to fix it.

By ‘progress’ I mean compatibility with new innovations like DirectX or some new instruction set that enable dumb things like transparency, or spacial audio, as well genuinely useful things.

You simply can’t bolt that onto an 18 year old system without breaking things irreversibly.

It also means depreciation of insecure ways of doing things. MS’ attempt to get TPMs into every desktop is clumsy, but it serves a greater good.

None of those things require W11 to operate, but I can see why they needed to make it look fancier than W10 to convince people that it’s somehow ‘better’.
by phillytom | 2025-10-02 15:34:24+00:00
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by codingdave | 2025-10-02 15:34:35+00:00
Yeah, their claim that it is the most common procedure is incorrect. There are more colonoscopies performed every year, too. I followed the citations and they are citing a 2007 paper that was meta-analysis regarding cost effectiveness of cataract surgery, so the claim gets more dubious the deeper you dig.

The article is still interesting, but they probably should have left that claim out.
by Twirrim | 2025-10-02 15:34:36+00:00
No, he's still dealing with a flood of crap, even in the last few weeks, off more modern models.

It's primarily from people just throwing source code at an LLM, asking it to find a vulnerability, and reporting it as-read, without having any actual understanding of if it is or isn't a vulnerability.

The difference in this particular case is it's someone who is: 1) Using tools specifically designed for security audits and investigations. 2) Takes the time to read and understand the vulnerability reported, and verifies that it is actually a vulnerability before reporting.

Point 2 is the most significant bar that people are woefully failing to meet and wasting a terrific amount of his time. The one that got shared from a couple of weeks ago https://hackerone.com/reports/3340109 didn't even call curl. It was straight up hallucination.
by qafy | 2025-10-02 15:34:43+00:00
This article does a good job of comparing functionality between codex and claude, but I see very little discussion here or elsewhere about the actual UX of the CLI tools. Codex is absolute garbage when it comes to the look, feel, and overall polish of the CLI experience (no syntax highlighting, no proper diff displays, no vim mode, poor visual differentiation of user vs agent messages, etc). Claude is a tiny bit better. However, both fall flat on their face compared to some open source agentic TUIs like Opencode, Crush, etc.
by hsuduebc2 | 2025-10-02 15:34:51+00:00
Exactly. I’m not worried about this. If Meta leaves, it just opens the door for European alternatives, which means platforms that are easier to oversee. What concerns me more is the AI industry, but business here isn’t backed by private capital, so the willingness to take risks is much lower than in the US, which is a shame.

When it comes to Meta or any other dopamine-driven platform, European society would only gain from their absence. Anyone would do really.
by looping__lui | 2025-10-02 15:34:58+00:00
Fraunhofer’s own math says 2050 electricity demand is ~700–750 TWh (≈80 GW average load), yet they assume 500–750 GW PV + wind — that’s 6–9× average demand and 5–7× today’s installed base (p. 15). On top of that, they still need 100–150 GW gas turbine backup plus major battery storage (p. 17), i.e. almost the whole peak load duplicated in flexible backup. In their model this cuts CO₂ by >95 % vs. 1990 (p. 11), which I accept technically. But given we already see close-call outages in Germany during “Dunkelflauten,” and given that today’s reality is ~40 ct/kWh for households instead of the 7–9 ct/kWh Fraunhofer projects (p. 65 ff.), I find their economic modeling divorced from the trajectory we’re actually on.

Can you follow?