MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vidarh | 2025-10-29 15:25:22+00:00
That so many people remember bare metal as of 20+ years ago is a large part of the problem.

A modern server can be power cycled remotely, can be reinstalled remotely over networked media, can have its console streamed remotely, can have fans etc. checked remotely without access to the OS it's running etc. It's not very different from managing a cloud - any reasonable server hardware has management boards. Even if you rent space in a colo, most of the time you don't need to set foot there other than for an initial setup (and you can rent people to do that too).

But for most people, bare metal will tend to mean renting bare metal servers already configured anyway.

When the first thing you then tend to do is to deploy a container runtime and an orchestrator, you're effectively usually left with something more or less (depending on your needs) like a private cloud.

As for "buying ahead of time", most managed server providers and some colo operators also offer cloud services, so that even if you don't want to deal with a multi-provider setup, you can still generally scale into cloud instances as needed if your provider can't bring new hardware up fast enough (but many managed server providers can do that in less than a day too).

I never think about buying ahead of time. It hasn't been a thing I've had to worry about for a decade or more.
by CloudWiseTeam | 2025-10-29 15:26:08+00:00
I've been building CloudWise (AWS cost optimization) and analyzing spending patterns across $50M in AWS spending.

Key insight: 30% of costs come from underutilized EC2 instances.

Most surprising finding: 45% of companies are paying for unused EBS volumes.

The issue isn't that companies don't care about costs - it's that AWS bills are genuinely hard to understand. Even with Cost Explorer, you need domain knowledge to spot the real waste.

Quick win for HN readers: Regularly review your EC2 and EBS usage; rightsizing can save 20-30% monthly.

What's been your experience with AWS cost optimization? Any tools or approaches that have worked well?
by viktorcode | 2025-10-29 15:26:12+00:00
> Answer: bank/financial apps, enterprise apps, government apps and copyrighted media (music, video, games, books, ...). Those are the players that demand excessive control over end-user devices, and thus the ultimate driver behind the problem we're discussing.

Those work perfectly via a browser, on any platform where the browser can run. As long as a hypothetical open OS has a browser capable with bog standard modern capabilities, it will be fine
by delabay | 2025-10-29 15:26:24+00:00
This number will continue to climb and I am confident before the decade ends, stablecoins broadly will be the largest holder of US debt. The interests are fully aligned between the issuers and US govt - issuers keep the interest, US has a price insensitive buyer of debt.

This is ultimately good for the world, good for democracy, and good for the downtrodden and underprivileged members of corrupt countries such as Nigeria, Venezuela, Lebanon, and Turkey, who have suffered their own currency crises to the great detriment of their citizens. With only an Internet connection, US dollar stablecoins give them property rights which can't be voided through an act of the corrupt ruling class.

Before the tether truthers come out, update your priors. This industry is very different than it was in 2015. It has grown up substantially. The GENIUS act is the largest banking and financial reform of the last 100 years, and the consequences will shape the 21st century and local currencies globally.
by stillworks | 2025-10-29 15:26:39+00:00
At companies where decimation is a given... IME 3 or variations of 3 predominantly are already in play.

The most nefarious kind I saw was to use tenure capital towards influencing peers (above and below) into over-engineering complexity to improve longevity (or simply to flex on the basis of tenure) and this is a game-able closed loop. The longer one has been in a position is in a position to stay even longer via influence and no-one questions.

The up-levels explain this as "trust" which probably is slop/laziness or pure lack of time due to how busy the up-levels are managing up the chain (and working towards their own longevity)

The below-levels probably are afraid to question/oppose strongly due to obvious reasons. This becomes worse if the tenured person in question is already a "celebrated hero" or "10x-er".
by bpt3 | 2025-10-29 15:26:48+00:00
I agree with everything you said, but it doesn't seem to resonate with the masses based on voting patterns here.

They don't need to have a serious conversation to succeed. Their supporters visit their site, get their dopamine hit from being told their viewpoint is correct, and they feel empowered to lash out at any dissent so the cycle continues.

They're the equivalent of a left-wing Fox News, but get very angry when that is pointed out.
by cyanydeez | 2025-10-29 15:27:08+00:00
Well, from storage, if you don't test for it you can't see it, so theres that.

But nuclear plants are releasing into the environment nuclear materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Nuclear_Generating_... https://apnews.com/article/xcel-energy-nuclear-leak-tritium-...

So acting like there's zero danger is stupid. Not caring about the future generations is also how we got here, so theres that.

But you know, if you were a rational person who cared, you'd google this stuff yourself: https://www.yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin/third-hanford-n...
by kace91 | 2025-10-29 15:27:20+00:00
>Cars do have AEB (auto emergency braking) systems, for example, and the NHTSA is requiring all new cars to include it by 2029. If there are clear risks, it's normal to expect basic guardrails.

That's cool, but it is cool because it happens on device.

Analysing your conversations for certain patterns, and either cross referencing between conversations or keeping some sort of strike system, is the exact kind of feature that is a bad turn away from a dystopia.

Hopefully local llm's get good enough that we can avoid this issue altogether.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-10-29 15:27:33+00:00
Up to my eyeballs in trouble. Working two jobs, too, where I can't practice tech skills. Fortunately, I have the peace of Jesus Christ in hopeless situations. He might change them at any time, too.

I still try to squirrel away a little time to learn from and contribute to the tech community. Mostly here and on AI subs like r/mlscaling. The best stuff that I can't work on or even curate right now I'm saving in case time or funding open up in the future. Worst case, I can pass it onto bright minds with the skills to build it. Like before in security.

You were doing neat things with satellites and bootstrapping research last I checked. What interesting jobs or tech are you digging into now?
by alwillis | 2025-10-29 15:28:26+00:00
FWIW, I have zero Rosetta apps on my M1 laptop and I've been a Mac user since the earliest days.

I'm super aware of the issues involved--I oversaw the transition from PPC to Intel at a university back in the day, using OG Rosetta. Even then, we had users who would only stop using their PPC apps when you took them from their cold, dead hands.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-29 15:28:42+00:00
All the liability on what?

Fraud. Banking liability rolls uphill. When a commercial bank fails, who picks up the pieces?

Commercial banks can be easily replaced? How so?

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow

For transaction settlement, commercial banks are really just intermediaries. They swap numbers all day and at the end of the day, they tell the Fed's computers how to settle things among banks.

FedNow let's the Fed's computer settle things directly on the fly, 24/7/365. It's really a CBDC implementation that cuts commercial banks into the mix mainly for the sake of tradition.
by senko | 2025-10-29 15:28:46+00:00
So what. Enough of us do that it just might be feasible.

I've used Linux for a loong time before some business-critical software ran on it. I had to have a Windows VM for years for netbanking, or before that, dual-boot for gaming.

If we're all too spoiled to give a free alternative a chance because it might be slightly inconvenient, we don't deserve the free alternative.
by layer8 | 2025-10-29 15:29:00+00:00
What do you mean by “lack of proper adblocker”? I use Adguard and Ghostery and never see an ad. Ghostery also auto-dismisses cookie popups.

Regarding playing music videos (I guess you’re referring to YouTube), while the playback pauses when you switch away from Safari or lock the phone, you can unpause it via Control Center while in an other app, or on the lock screen.
by linsomniac | 2025-10-29 15:29:13+00:00
Just yesterday I think I reached the breaking point with vim. Been using vi and derivatives for 40 years, but the amount of tweaking to get a usable setup is really annoying me. I've gotten to the point where LSP is a must have.

Yesterday I was trying to switch my Astro VIM setup from using black to using "ruff format", which lead me down the path of installing astro from scratch, re-configuring it for my "must haves", and then trying again to get my formatter switched to ruff. I reinstalled because the docs looked like there may be a new way to do it since my last install 6 months ago.

The documentation for Astro VIM is really incomplete. Claude was fairly helpful, maybe Claude Code would be better, since it'll have the context of my exact configs rather than Claude giving me 3-5 options for making the change.

I've got a helix cheatsheet on my desk that I had Claude make me ~3 months ago. I started my work journal in helix this morning, but the install on that system must be broken because I couldn't even exit insert mode, pressing ESC did nothing.

I'm at the point where I think vim is a great library for building a text editor, but nobody has built a great text editor in it yet. I really liked LunarVim but that got abandoned for reasons I don't fully understand.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-29 15:29:18+00:00
You have not ever been on a large enough jobsite, then.

It is impossible to attack the shackle, due to the recessed nature of the locking mechanisms. A torch might work... blasting out the keyway.

But on IBEW jobsites each lockbox contains around $10,000 of tools, within; most thefts are from other on-site trades, and lock-picking means you can blame it on the electricians since there's no signs of forced entry (I'm sure some of the apprentices do steal, particularly the lowly-compensated first semester "greenies").

But the electricians are still paying for it.
by ownagefool | 2025-10-29 15:29:51+00:00
It's not just Agile but the same applies to DevOps.

DevOps is a culture. It can also be the specific subset of highly skilled individuals who were part of or an outcome of said cultures cross pollination. Today DevOps most often means fairly unskilled person hitting pipelines with hammer.

In the end, the same old people with the same old commercial interests adopted the term in a way that benefited them but changed the meaning of the term because change was not actually something anyone wanted.
by luisml77 | 2025-10-29 15:29:54+00:00
Because everyone in this comment section is arguing that Android should be open-source and detached from Google. I'm saying some things are simply too big to be built by the community.

The developers need to get paid. And the developers only get paid if the system is closed-source such that the revenue can only flow back to Google which is where the developers are hired at. In other words, yes it needs to be centralized, and the reason is the money required to build Android is just too much and therefore needs to be developed under a for-profit capitalist organization like Google.
by submeta | 2025-10-29 15:29:55+00:00
Helix is a beautifully made editor. Looking forward for it to have scriptability and extensibility.

I went from VS Code to NeoVim and can’t be happier. Not saying that VS Code isn‘t a good product. It‘s actually everything you need in an editor/ ide. But it’s way too heavy for my taste. I made the transition to the terminal for my dev workflow. WezTerm, mux and tmux, neovim as editor, lazygit as git client, yazi for file navigation: I absolutely love how streamlined my process is.

Wonderful times with lots of options.
by suriya-ganesh | 2025-10-29 15:29:56+00:00
> The answer lies in recognizing that wages are just one source of income. People also earn income from investments....

I already can see the slant that, this whole article is going to be about. Capital holders are going to be the only people matter. Everyone else is trivial. i.e. the top 5% who hold 80% of all wealth in the world.

>Consider Qatar as a point of comparison. Migrant workers make up roughly 94% of the country’s workforce, yet only Qatari citizens, who make up the remaining 6%, are eligible to receive most government welfare benefits.

My father was one among those 94%. Stayed away from my family for more than a decade, only visiting us for 2 months every 2 years. Leaving with tears in his eyes every time. Qatar shouldn't be a point of comparison for capitalism. With no way for naturalization, a strong monarchy, and Labor oppression. I think it's the opposite of free trade capitalism as preached by the west.

What I got from this article was. More money for me, and none for the peasants, but that's okay because they or their work don't matter anyway.
by sorcercode | 2025-10-29 15:30:03+00:00
> I never had much problem with feeling VSCode was slow (outside of those lockups) but Zed surprised me by feeling actively fast.

well said. this is exactly how I felt too. when other folks ask why zed, and i tell them it's fast - i couldn't quite capture that feeling but this comment nails it.

Zed actively feels faster than VSCode or equivalent editors; but once you get comfortable with Zed's speed, it's hard to go back.
by JackSlateur | 2025-10-29 15:30:05+00:00
In more than 15 years of experiences, in various compagnies, the number of people who can build and run an on-premise infrastructure sanely can be counted on my right hand fingers

These people exist, but we have far more stupid "admins" around here

When you are not in the infrastructure business (I work in retail at the moment), the public cloud is the sane way to go (which is sad, but anyway)
by TheTon | 2025-10-29 15:30:16+00:00
As I said in my first comment, it's at least Cocoa (Foundation + AppKit), AVFoundation, Metal, OpenGL, and then all of the lower level frameworks and libraries those depend on (which may or may not be used directly by individual games). If you want a concrete example from something open source, go look at what SDL depends on, it's everything I listed and then some. It's also not uncommon for games to have launchers or startup windows that contain additional native UI, so assume you really do need all of AppKit, you couldn't get away with cutting out something like NSTableView or whatever.

So my point remains, if Apple has to continue providing Intel builds of all of these frameworks, that means a lot of other apps could also continue to run. But ... Apple says they won't, so how are they going to accomplish this? That's the mystery to me.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-29 15:30:17+00:00
Because we can't install that on phones and even if we did, we need to use Android apps to do basic daily things.

Phones are not like PCs, you can't "just install a different OS". You also can't just build a phone from parts like you can with a PC, it comes locked in with the OS, with proprietary drivers and advanced cryptographic DRM measures.

And even if we did get things to the level of desktop Linux, we can't run any of the apps we need for everyday life. Most of these things on desktop are web-based, so you can use them on Linux, but this isn't the case for mobile and many things only come in mobile. Bank apps, government services, digital identification, mandatory companion apps for other devices...

If nothing else, we need to keep Android as open as possible because it makes it easier to port those things to other platforms and maybe one day have a proper alternative.

Oh, and it's not like we have a good alternative. The current Linux stack is completely inadequate for mobile use. An average phone has something like 50 apps the need to be able to react to any of a few dozen different local or remote events at any moment, yet also need to use approximately zero CPU cycles to do that. We need a brand new app paradigm if we want mobile Linux to succeed and it's not looking like that's going to happen any time soon.
by allknowingfrog | 2025-10-29 15:30:18+00:00
I switched from Qwerty to Dvorak in my 20s, and now from Vim to Helix in my 30s. Both transitions were rough for a couple of weeks, but honestly less difficult than expected. Neither choice turned me into a 10x developer, but neither one has ever caused a problem that I cared about either.

Do you spend a lot of time on systems that you don't control? Dvorak discourages other people from helping themselves to my keyboard, which is honestly worth more to me than being able to go the opposite direction.
by pizlonator | 2025-10-29 15:30:31+00:00
It's poor form to put the word "secure" (or any derivative of it) into a product that aims to provide more security.

Reason: there's no solution to the security problem. Fil-C doesn't solve security. Does it make things more secure? Yes! But there will always be more security issues. So imagine if I had called it "Secure C" (and then had a sexy compiler), and 10 years from now someone finds a comprehensive solution to the string injection problem in Secure C. What do they call their thing? Securer C? Secure C Pro? Secure Secure C?
by Findecanor | 2025-10-29 15:30:49+00:00
I saw another audio project on the same microcontroller (family) posted a few days ago: ModPlayRISCV It plays a tracker MOD. using PWM with a low-pass filter. It resamples/scales all samples at varying rate/volume into a ring buffer which gets fed to the PWM comparator by DMA.

https://github.com/cpldcpu/ModPlayRISCV
by grishka | 2025-10-29 15:30:54+00:00
> You had to take action to receive them.

What did that look like? Remember, back then, developers and users often had no after-sale communications at all. It was a technical impossibility more than anything. There was paper mail. There were telephone networks. That's about it.

I suppose you could occasionally call the developers of every software product you're using to ask if there is an update. I doubt anyone ever did that.
by tobihrbr | 2025-10-29 15:31:35+00:00
It's an honest opinion that I had put into a blog post. It's written by me, though I did use LLMs to review and improve it (no copy pasting). I still feel like the analogy between early browsers and the current state of AI stands. There is in a sense a war being fought out and there are emerging standard and there is lot's of glue around that to make it work.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-29 15:31:54+00:00
it's not stereotyping but its only relevant if you're trying to make a point about that religious background, and if you are then you have to consider that the vast majority of people of that background aren't members of pro-Israel factions that dominate the government so what's the actual point of bringing up the religious background? To muddy the waters, of course, and to try to paint more people with the same broad brush. After all, we don't hold Christendom responsible for everything bad any Christian has ever done.
by Am4TIfIsER0ppos | 2025-10-29 15:32:00+00:00
I believe you can convince people to hit Alt+F4 for the cheat menu in a video game and they will do it. Actually I think I told people that is how to votekick someone in BF1942 when they are being a dick (me). I believe you can tell people to delete system32 and they will do it. I believe you can tell people to do more damaging things and they will. I still think people should be able to say and do those things.
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by LMYahooTFY | 2025-10-29 15:32:29+00:00
That's awful, but it has nothing to do with sideloading or needing locked down phones.

Apparently this idea that security and user control are a trade off has been sold pretty well, and it's bull shit. Nothing about a phone which isn't locked down to the user precludes all the security features you'd want on by default for your mother.

But I doubt you'll catch Apple or Google going out of their way to explain that. They're better off having you believe that the trade off is necessary, and you probably wouldn't miss the freedom anyway.
by speleding | 2025-10-29 15:32:33+00:00
I've done quite a few MySQL setups with replication. I would not call setup "extremely easy", but then, I'm not a full time DB admin. MySQL upgrades and general trouble shooting is so much more painful than AWS aurora where everything just takes a few clicks. And things like blue/green deployment, where you replicate your entire setup to try out a DB upgrade, are really hard to do onprem.
by PeterCorless | 2025-10-29 15:32:41+00:00
Exactly. Just yesterday someone posted how they can do 250k messages/second with Redpanda (Kafka-compatible implementation) on their laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CdM1WcuoLc

Getting even less than that throughput on 3x c7i.24xlarge — a total of 288 vCPUs – is bafflingly wasteful.

Just because you can do something with Postgres doesn't mean you should.

> 1. One camp chases buzzwords.

> 2. The other camp chases common sense

In this case, is "Postgres" just being used as a buzzword?

[Disclosure: I work for Redpanda; we provide a Kafka-compatible service.]