MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by varispeed | 2025-10-06 23:53:09+00:00
"Market rate" is not neutral. It is a wage‑fixing device that standardises labour pay while letting profits float to shareholders. Treating it as holy writ is how extraction is hidden in plain sight.

Flat salaries do not remove politics. With unequal equity and control, a flat wage simply disciplines workers while investors keep uncapped upside. If money is the poison, start by flattening carry, liquidation preferences and board vetoes. Otherwise you have only flattened one side.

Capping founder pay is class gatekeeping. It selects for people with savings or family safety nets and pushes working‑class founders out. Shaming those who take cash once they create surplus protects investor optics, not fairness.

Equal pay only makes sense when ownership, risk and power are equal. Without that, "equal pay" is theatre.
by toomim | 2025-10-06 23:53:16+00:00
> What exactly do you think he meant here? I can't come up with any "opposite" that even remotely fits with what he said. My interpretation: God says gay people should be killed. You can't love God and deny any part of God's law. "So you love God. So, you must love his law." How else can that possibly be interpreted?

You're leaving out the context of Ms Rachel. Charlie is saying everything in response to her.

Let me go into extra detail here to explain what I think he meant:

"Ms Rachel is saying that she acts like this because God said 'Love your Neighbor,' and is acting as if that law is so important that we should always adopt the preferred pronouns of people around us. However, the best way to love your neighbor is to tell them the truth, and tell them what sex they are, rather than upholding their preferred pronouns, which I see as untrue to their sex. Secondly, one should not take these Mosaic laws from Leviticus as literal rules for modern day Christians to follow. Christ + his Apostles said that these Mosaic laws were applicable to the Jews (the direct descendents of Israel) in a covenant between them and God, which were only necessary before he arrived as Messiah, and now that he is there, he is fulfilling that covenant for all people, and the gentiles who convert to Christianity do not need to follow the Mosaic laws literally, but rather follow their moral intent as he teaches. Thus, if Ms Rachel really wants to take these laws so literally... she should look in the previous chapter where it says that gays should be stoned to death. I don't think that she would agree with stoning gays to death. So it's hypocritical of her to take these laws so literally."

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Christian Context (from AI):

After Jesus’ resurrection, the early church—initially Jewish—grappled with whether Gentile (non-Jewish) converts needed to follow the Mosaic Law. This led to the pivotal Jerusalem Council (Acts 15, ~50 CE), where apostles like Peter and Paul decided:

- Gentiles were not required to follow Levitical laws like circumcision or kosher diets.

- They were asked to follow basic moral guidelines (e.g., avoiding idolatry, sexual immorality) to maintain fellowship with Jewish Christians.

Paul’s letters further clarify this shift:

- In Galatians 3:23-25, he describes the law as a “guardian” until Christ came, after which faith in Jesus supersedes the law’s role.

- In Romans 10:4, he says Christ is the “culmination of the law” for those who believe.

- However, moral principles (e.g., loving your neighbor, Leviticus 19:18) remain binding, as they’re reaffirmed in the New Testament (Romans 13:8-10).

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^ So that's why "Love your neighbor" is still valid in Christianity, but stoning gays is not. This was decided in the Jerusalem Council, which all modern Christian sects inherit from. Charlie was using "stoning gays" as an example of something modern Christians do NOT believe in, even though it was a law of Moses, and is written in Leviticus.
by richardfey | 2025-10-06 23:53:44+00:00
> with Linux Desktop marketshare still slowly, steadily rising over the last 10 months.

Where do you get these figures from? Is there a sensible % increase?

I've been using Linux desktop for a decade now and I am certain it still used by few, and nothing has changed recently. Or you're telling me 2026 is the year of the Linux desktop?
by tracker1 | 2025-10-06 23:53:54+00:00
Kind of my thinking here... the fact that popups are abused for BS doesn't mean that they don't serve a purpose and this is one of those times.

The fact that it was confusing and a second Doctor went ahead and bypassed it altogether that hadn't seen the patient is a bit problematic to me.

Beyond this, as much as I empathize with the family here, people still die... I had two similar ER visits in my life and it's only chance I wasn't sent home both times... when I came down with Guilliam-Barre and when I had ketoacidosis. The former, was about to be sent home when one of the residents recognized my symptoms (sudden onset weakness all over). In the latter, urgent care said it was just a cold/virus etc.. but I couldn't even keep water down, after 4 days I couldn't stand up and called for an ambulance I dropped over 50# of weight in under a week. I remember thinking to myself "if I go back to sleep I won't wake up."
by puppymaster | 2025-10-06 23:53:54+00:00
i dont see dotcom technologies replacing droves of workers and creating panics in /r/screenwriters, /r/3dmodelers etc. The displacement is real and we are not going back. Dotcom tech created fake problems so their 'advance technology solution' can be presented as solution. With AI wave, it's the opposite - business heads are actually thinking 'what other real problems can i solve with AI'. OpenAi and Claude don't even have to do any preaching. That's real value.
by SlickStef11 | 2025-10-06 23:54:09+00:00
I was bored so I vibe coded this small app for something I do every day.

Marc Andreessen once wrote about the best productivity hack, a 4x6 index card.

I read that about five years ago and to this day it’s still my favorite productivity hack.

Top three goals on one side and the anti-todo on the back, a list of everything you actually did.

Curious on feedback for it.
by jacobgkau | 2025-10-06 23:54:25+00:00
> What do you expect them to do?

Figure out what was going on, very obviously. Failing that, be open to observing longer instead of kicking him back out when he was still showing obvious symptoms.

His point in talking about being woken up all night was not that he didn't want to be tested, it was why would you even kick someone out onto the street at the crack of dawn who you know hasn't slept all night because you kept waking them up, let alone doing that if they're also sick? (I know the answer, not enough beds, but your "I don't see a problem here" attitude really doesn't contribute to anything.)
by salzig | 2025-10-06 23:55:09+00:00
So GitHub would be one option. Developers already discover all kind of things there. And each gem can still be provided by its “main repository”, but I don’t mind on whatever domain that repository is located. Somewhat how container images are referenced/distributed already. I think go already does it like that too.

having a decentralized, and maybe sometime unavailable, infrastructure would make more people think about the problem and maybe brings us more stable solutions than we have now.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-06 23:55:39+00:00
Maybe that's true of some drugs for some illnesses, but stimulants absolutely do just straight-up fix most of the issues you struggle with as an ADHD person, pretty much immediately (as in, they take about an hour to kick in, and then boom). As someone who's taken them for a couple years, it really is life changing, and it's obvious it's life changing within about an hour of taking your first dose.
by WalterBright | 2025-10-06 23:55:45+00:00
> less time and money

Caltech has a large course catalog. I could only take a certain number at a time. Other than what was required for the degree, I carefully selected courses I anticipated would have the largest payoff in my desired career. The usual course was 3-0-6, meaning 3 hours of lecture a week, 0 hours lab, 6 hours study.

I don't regard any of it as wasted time and money. Except the economics class.

Here's my class load for one semester in my junior year:

AMA95 Intro Methods Applied Math 12

AM97 Analy Mech Deform Bodies 9

ME5 Design 9

ME19 Fluid Mech & Gas Dynamics 9

CS114 Micro Process Systems 9

BEM106 Business Econ Sem 9

That comes to an estimated 57 hours/week of work. For me, those estimates were pretty accurate. If you want to point out the waste of time and money, have at it!
by michaelt | 2025-10-06 23:55:55+00:00
If I was running an intelligence agency and was given my choice of conscripts,

I wouldn't hand my intelligence secrets to people who resented being forced to be there; or to mouthy people I thought might blab about it after the end of their service; or to people with an anti-authority streak or at risk of a Snowden-style attack of conscience about civil liberties.

I would select for people with a deep love of their country; and a sense of loyalty that would extend well beyond the end of their service. The rest I'd send elsewhere - plenty of other units need tech folks, that drone/radio/printer isn't going to fix itself.
by deepsun | 2025-10-06 23:56:04+00:00
Not "we all want", but especially doctors themselves want less competition (even when they say they are overworked).

There were multiple similar stories on that, e.g. "Thousands of doctors in South Korea took to the streets of Seoul on Sunday to protest the government's plans to increase medical school admissions." from 2024. Similar stories from Nepal and Bangladesh.

The most interesting part of that is that population typically sides with the doctors, not the government, for some reason.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-06 23:56:15+00:00
America has 3rd world standards of healthcare, for the simple fact that something like 1 in 3 people regularly can't afford treatment.

All while still having high taxes.

Crime is also drastically higher in the US. I've been to Europe and Asia. Serious crime is a fraction of what it is here.

Plus you don't need a car in most big cities.

But I guess America has more billionaires ( for now anyway).
by koreth1 | 2025-10-06 23:56:24+00:00
> I've seen people who prefer to say "hey siri set alarm clock for 10 AM" rather than use the UI. Which makes sense, because language is the way people literally have evolved specialized organs for.

I don't think it's necessary to resort to evolutionary-biology explanations for that.

When I use voice to set my alarm, it's usually because my phone isn't in my hand. Maybe it's across the room from me. And speaking to it is more efficient than walking over to it, picking it up, and navigating to the alarm-setting UI. A voice command is a more streamlined UI for that specific task than a GUI is.

I don't think that example says much about chatbots, really, because the value is mostly the hands-free aspect, not the speak-it-in-English aspect.
by marak830 | 2025-10-06 23:57:11+00:00
I am getting so tired of this MS push to have me use their systems. I already purchased windows, if I wanted to use their other stuff - I would buy it.

Seriously considering the move to Linux - I've heard it's getting better, but it would cost me a bit of time getting used to it. The pain is really starting to seem like a lower cost every day.
by leoapagano | 2025-10-06 23:57:16+00:00
> Last time I saw stats Linux desktop marketshare, somebody said it was up to 6%. That's astonishing.

I wouldn't get too excited about that. That might just be because people are moving off of desktops entirely and now only own mobile devices, a market where Linux may as well not exist (excluding Android). The number goes up, because at large, the portion of people who run Linux desktops are less likely to pivot to using only a mobile phone as they tend to be hobbyists/enthusiasts.
by protocolture | 2025-10-06 23:57:31+00:00
>on their EOL page it lists places you can donate your old non-working hardware to. Forcing users to do what? Buy new overpriced hardware when what they have is fine?

Devils advocate. Everyone really should be on Secure Boot / Bitlocker / TPM2.0 in the Windows space. Windows 11 is really there as a checkpoint to force people to upgrade to more secure hardware. If you dont care about security, you probably dont care about security updates, you can remain with Windows 10.

Thats not to say that they went about this in a pro consumer way. Its been bungled. But specifically on the point of hardware upgrades, for your average windows user the hardware isnt really "fine" as you put it.

>Here's the thing, I started up an old iPad last night and the e-mail no longer exists nor can be created, so I can't do a lost password, I can't log in, so I can't install apps, or even format the device without some 'Account Lock'

On the apple front, they get 10x the amount of flak for "enabling" stolen hardware to be reformatted and reused, than they get for bricking people who lose access to an account.

Recovery is expendable in Apple town. Recovery of iCloud accounts enabled identity theft and personal photos of celebs to be released. Recovery of hardware enables theft. Its a losing proposition.

>That ain't the way. Your computer. Your choice.

We really need a hardware path without conflicting priorities.
by snvzz | 2025-10-06 23:57:33+00:00
>(I cheated a bit and used the total size of the binary, as binutils isn't available out of the box in the ubuntu container. But it shouldn't be too different from text+bss+data.)

Please use `size`, it does matter.

It would literally change your conclusion here. RISC-V is denser than amd64; It's not even close.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-06 23:57:34+00:00
In my experience you can do reasonable bots cheaper than sending network updates to a regular player. Thats just straight up, but you can also tick their logic way less than every update if you want. Even more way-less if nobody is near them or spectating them.

Also some stuff you might want to calculate for them to use to make decisions can be shared among all bots.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-06 23:58:30+00:00
The thing is that "€400 100x200cm table, black" is just much faster to input and validate versus a salesperson, be it a chatbot or an actual person.

Also, the chatbot is just not going to have enough context, at least not in it's current state. Why those measurements? Because that's how much room you have, you measured. Why black? Because your couch is black too (bad choice), and you're trying to do a theme.

That's kind of a lot to explain.
by aanet | 2025-10-06 23:58:39+00:00
Another Doug Hofstadter book! This is so cool. Ambigrams have been one of my fav "things" since I saw them in the GEB book ages ago.

FWIW, "Angels and Demons" bestseller thriller (?) has a few ambigram puzzles that the protagonist Robert Langdon solves to get to the mystery of the Rosslyn chapel (my memory may be fading here)

--x--

Thanks for this set of amazing fonts! They look amazing. Very glyph-y. And they tickle my inner geek.
by fragmede | 2025-10-06 23:58:55+00:00
What's different this time is the cost and time to orbit. SpaceX has been able to launch every three days in 2025. Viasat, Iridium, and everyone else who came before didn't have that. I don't have your spreadsheet to plug that bit of data into, and it's balanced by the number of satellites starlink needs, but governments tend to have a lot of money to keep the things they rely on running.
by totallymike | 2025-10-06 23:59:18+00:00
For at least the past year, subtitles under dubs have been horrendous. I’ve watched a handful of Gundam series over this period, and while the subtitles under the Japanese audio are usually fine, the captions that run under the English audio more often than not get every single proper noun completely wrong, and half the dialog in general.

A generous explanation would be that the localized subtitles under the Japanese audio are licensed for use with that audio only, but that’s pure conjecture, and even if that’s the case, there is no excuse for how terrible the captions can be.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-10-06 23:59:32+00:00
I agree with you. I think chat interfaces are really good with voice interfaces while walking, asking for a foreign language lesson, effectively doing a web search while walking by speaking and listening to the answer.

Other app-like interfaces like NotebookLM can be useful, for me one or two real uses a week.

Then there is engineering small open models into larger systems to do structured data extraction, etc.

I am skeptical about the current utility of agentic systems, MCP, etc. - even though I like to experiment.

Someone else said that at least the didn’t go on and on about AGI today - a nice thing. FOMO chasing ASI and AGI will drive us bankrupt, and produce some useful results.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-06 23:59:57+00:00
Can someone with banking / deal-making experience explain to me how this warrant works? My point: If OpenAI exercises the warrant and buys 10% of AMD for 1 penny per share, where does AMD get the shares? Or will they do a secondary offering and dilute existing shares? Or do they take from treasury holdings (of shares)? Or does AMD coordinate a buyback of shares, then deliver to OpenAI?
by wyldberry | 2025-10-07 00:00:11+00:00
It will depend on if gaming studios continue to invest in a Linux Desktop experience. It's common to run your game server on Linux, but MS, partially through DRM support to the big media companies, creates an environment very strongly suited towards shipping your game binary to a hostile environment.

This is partially why major (effective) anti-cheats have migrated to the Kernel. Windows allows the big-budget games, which are often competitive games, to operate with a higher level of game integrity, which leads to more revenue generation.

MacOS is not an attainable gaming support platform in general, as the people who are interested in the AAA games are going to need a Pro series or similar quality device which prices a large part of the current windows gaming audience out.

As an example: it's not too expensive to buy a laptop that runs valorant, and then be funneled into the skin shop. You can get a lot more sales that way than you can through the crowd of people who are on MBP, though perhaps the MBP crew is more likely to be a whale.

note: Valorant is not supported on MacOS due to the anticheat requirement, but the hypothetical still stands.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-07 00:00:40+00:00
> 95% of VPNs sell your data

This is believable.

> It's where they make their money.

I'm much more skeptical of this. I know linus tech tips is not exactly an expert organization, but I believe the discussions they've had about almost starting a VPN and backing out for ethical reasons, and they made it clear that the core VPN product would have huge profit margins. You can always do greedy things to make more money, but for a paid VPN I'd need some solid evidence to believe that data sales are a huge line item or especially that they're the main source of money.

If you're including the swaths of free VPNs then that makes your number a lot harder to use.
Show HN: Cybercafe – Windows PCs for Agents and Automations
by LemayianBrian | 2025-10-07 00:00:54+00:00
Hey, I’m Brian and I want to share a side project I’ve been working on.

I do workflow automation wanted a simple and intuitive way to connect an agent to Windows computers to automate any workflow.

Cybercafe provides two things: Windows VMs and a lightweight SDK that automates the VMs. You can spin up configurable VMs in the cloud and control them using JavaScript or Python.

The SDK exposes the VM’s screen, mouse, keyboard, clipboard, files and PowerShell. You can also use the computer from the browser or just watch as your agent works.

It’s still very early and held together by tape but would love feedback.

I have docs and free VMs for so please feel free to try it out.
by landr0id | 2025-10-07 00:02:10+00:00
From a previous thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23089745

>It's literally in past WebGPU meeting minutes: Apple objected to SPIR-V due to disputes with Khronos. Tint is a compromise, it doesn't matter who proposed it.

>"MS: Apple is not comfortable working under Khronos IP framework, because of dispute between Apple Legal & Khronos which is private. Can’t talk about the substance of this dispute. Can’t make any statement for Apple to agree to Khronos IP framework. So we’re discussing, what if we don’t fork? We can’t say whether we’re (Apple) happy with that. NT: nobody is forced to come into Khronos’ IP framework."

>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F6ns6I3zs-2JL_dT9hOkX_25...
by driverdan | 2025-10-07 00:02:17+00:00
> Wearing the same pair 2 days in a row isn't great for bacteria etc.

Do you have foot health problems? For much of my life I've had a single pair of shoes I wear almost daily and have never had problems with bacteria. The only issue I've found is going sockless. Even then you can put a little foot powder into the shoes once a week and it kills everything in them.
by maxglute | 2025-10-07 00:02:32+00:00
If AI bubble burst... the AI compute (where most of investment/capex going towards) depreciates 1-5 years, specialized data centers a little longer. For reference most of the $$$$$ in capex of dotcom burst went into civil engineering / dumb fiber pipe layout and left US with a fuckload of fiber that lasts 30/40/50+ years. Still using capex from railroad bubble 100 years ago. Both bubbles at least left durable (agnostic networks for future to build off, i.e. upgrade switching and fiber + rail get more efficient utilization. VS specialized LLM data centers with bespoke cooling/power/networking needs - if LLM bubble fails there's a good chance they can't be repurposed economically because their OpEx is probably what broke the model in the first place. I feel like people are failing to grasp how big of a F US will eat if AI bursts relative to past bubbles. I mean it's better than tulip mania since fraction of capex will go towards electrification infra (assumign it gets built), but most of the $$$$$ is going towards fast obsolescent AI hardware also closer to tulips than fiber or rail in terms of stranded depreciated assets.
by johnnyprozac | 2025-10-07 00:02:50+00:00
If the number of providers that you yourself have direct access to is singular or limited to two or three? Yes that's a monopolistic environment. Consider that for most people in many more regions of the US than not will only be able to access the internet with ONE provider. They will only be able to get health care from one provider. They will only be able to get farm equipment from one provider and then not be able to fix said farm equipment. They will only be able to get seeds for food from one provider. And where 1 or 2 platforms are the only way for distribution in the digital space ("cough" app stores) or your logistical choices come down to 1 or 2 with prices fixed...again you may have comeptition on some level but at the macro level monopolistic effects are occuring because the distribution channel is what moves a market not necessarily sub vendors.

the fact that the incentives for shareholder interest has led to consolidation and then to again always end up in a market where there is less providers than more. Look the names may change But since derregulation of much of the M/A activity we have ended up in markets that have monopolistic effects.

So...semantically there may be "competition" in markets" but on the ground and in real life where it matters the effects and actual restrictions that monopoly brings is very much a fact. It's absurd to ignore actual in depth analysis that takes context of actual economics (from the regional facets to actual mechanics of trade) into account and not think that monopolization is not occurring and not have an overwhelming impact. It is very evident that you yourself have not looked to deep into this.