MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bijant | 2025-10-20 12:20:15+00:00
You're wrong about me, I'll defend RMS far beyond the bitter end and I frankly don't see what's wrong with that. About a billion people defend the fact that their prophet Mohammed had sexual intercourse with a 9 year old child. Mohammed did little to advance Freedom or Software and didn't even develop Emacs. So as long as there are people left defending an actual child predator I see no reason not to defend someone exploring theoretical theoretical arguments in favor of what you call pedophilia. I might stop defending him if he was literally Hitler but only because that would contradict everything he stands for and believes in. He believes in radical Freedom and non-coercion and does what is humanly possible to live those values. He also obviously is not neurotypical. I have seen too many brilliant autistic friends be excluded from groups and communities because their behavior towards the other sex was labeled "creepy" or "weird". Living in a patriarchal society sadly means that women tend to feel unsafe around men that do not conform to certain (sometimes utterly ridiculous) rules governing social behavior because they have experienced "crazy" men acting aggressively towards them finding their "unpredictable" behavior dangerous even when there is no rational indication that it poses any threat to them. You obviously fail to account for the possibility that people that advocate certain principles (like Stallman did in those texts that you claim to be his advocacy for the legalization of child pr0n or whatever it is you mean with pedophilia (which is a medical condition and just as "legal" as schizophrenia) probably statutory rape ?! Do so because they believe in these principles and not because they have a personal stake in the specific issues. I will not deny that this is often the case and we saw this in the "freedom of speech vs censorship" debate where on all sides of the political spectrum only the censorship of their own group was called out. RMS is old enough and has been a public figure for long enough that you cannot -in good faith - make that claim with regards to him though. If there had been claims of inappropriate sexual behavior, #metoo events, or rape you (and others) would also have brought them up. Aaron Swartz, RMS, Linus Torvalds and Steve Jobs are no saints, but they changed things and they pushed the human race forward.
by weinzierl | 2025-10-20 12:20:24+00:00
"My son Levi, much to my frustration, has never been a big TV kid. For years, I’d put on an episode of Paw Patrol or a newish Disney movie, but nothing seemed to stick. Either he’d come to me halfway through to report he was bored or he’d be entertained enough to finish but would never request a second viewing or talk about it afterward."

I wonder if in 30 years people will say the same about their kids and social media.

"My son Levi, much to my frustration, has never been a big TikTok kid"

Sounds strange, doesn't it. It is also strange how fast we forget. Forget how TV used to be demonized in a similar fashion than social media is today.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-20 12:20:31+00:00
>Do you care if an article/social media post was AI generated if it was valuable to you? For instance, if you actually learned something insightful .

No, but, there's a bunch of new rules. The first being that it's all hallucinated; or worse fraudulent. Take this link for example, clearly fraudulent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538768

So AI basically cant tell a story. Cant touch of anything subjective.

But this leaves open people who simply rewrite for better grammar and wordage.

>Or do you immediately just stop reading if you even sense it was AI generated?

No, not the article. I'll read something that caught my attention regardless of if they used spell check or another tool like AI.

Much of canadian journalism is AI written now. Papers that I used to like suddenly dropped in quality so much that now i stopped reading.

Very noticable because most AI models cant write Canadian english and get significant things wrong that are true in the usa but not true in canada. That if humans were writing it, they wouldnt make those mistakes.
by asimovDev | 2025-10-20 12:20:46+00:00
I second this. I got a 14in M3 Max with 96GB of RAM (although 512GB storage but not a big deal with NAS and external storage) for the price of a 14in M4 Pro 24gb/1tb back in May from the unsold stock in my country's online store. It's honestly way overkill for what I do and the only time I really use the power is when I load large LLM into the memory once in a while or build a decently sized project (rarity since I mostly work on my own stuff which is much smaller in scale so far). But for the price I would've paid for a "weaker" laptop, it's a banger deal
by chasing0entropy | 2025-10-20 12:20:56+00:00
Spam marketing. Starting at $900 for 256gb hdd 16gb of ram and an M4 is nowhere near the midrange windows laptop price. A Lenovo E16 with a Ryzen 7, 64gb ram and 2tb SSD is $900 right now.

Toss that with the seemingly OBVIOUS throttling due to non-existent forced air cooling that nearly every fanboy bench tester has given a pass for. 15 years ago NO ONE would have tolerated a 40% performance drop after heatsoaking.
by avmich | 2025-10-20 12:20:59+00:00
Space elevator is not something which stands on the ground and grows up. It is something which lives on geostationary orbit and grows down from it to the Earth. If you cut the lower 1 meter of it, the rest will hang...

...that is, until a satellite will hit the cable above. Space elevator is built in the equatorial plane, all satellites cross it, so eventually every satellite is going to collide with the cable. For this reason the space elevator is incompatible with existing spaceflight, that's why even with nanotubes it's unlikely to be built.
by nucleardog | 2025-10-20 12:21:11+00:00
> Planning for an AWS outage is a complete waste of time and energy for most companies. Yes it does happen but very rarely to the tune of a few hours every 5-10 years.

Not only that, but as you're seeing with this and the last few dozen outages... when us-east-1 goes down, a solid chunk of what many consumers consider the "internet" goes down. It's perceived less as "app C is down" and more is "the internet is broken today".
by ryu_zenmaster | 2025-10-20 12:21:58+00:00
I was wasting 2 hours a week copying content into claude or chatgpt, so I built a tool to fix it.

Anyone else find themselves constantly copying website content, documentations, reddit threads, YouTube transcripts, or articles into claude for analysis?

I was doing this 15-20 times a day and it was absolutely killing my productivity:

Find valuable content

Copy text (messy format)

Paste into notes to clean it up

Remove ads, navigation, formatting garbage

Finally paste into claude

Each cycle took about 4 minutes. Do that 20 times a day? That's 80 minutes wasted. Per day.

I got frustrated enough to build something: one keystroke (⌘⇧M) captures any webpage in perfect markdown. YouTube transcripts, Reddit threads with comments, LinkedIn posts, Twitter threads—anything.

Would love feedback from fellow productivity nerds—what am I missing?
by ta1243 | 2025-10-20 12:22:28+00:00
I'm a tech worker, and have been paid by a multi-billion dollar company to be a tech worker since 2003.

Aside from Teams and Outlook Web, I really don't interact with Microsoft at all, haven't done since the days of XP. I'm sure there is integration on our corporate backends with things like active directory, but personally I don't have to deal with that.

Teams is fine for person-person instant messaging and video calls. I find it terrible for most other functions, but fortunately I don't have to use it for anything other than instant messaging and video calls. The linux version of teams still works.

I still hold out a healthy suspicion of them from their behaviour when I started in the industry. I find it amusing the Microsoft fanboys of the 2000s with their "only needs to work in IE6" and "Silverlight is the future" are still having to maintain obsolete machines to access their obsolete systems.

Meanwhile the stuff I wrote to be platform-agnostic 20 years ago is still in daily use, still delivering business benefit, with the only update being a change from "<object" to "<video" on one internal system when flash retired.
by endymion-light | 2025-10-20 12:22:47+00:00
As someone that's been a lifelong windows user, i'm finally switching to a mac this month.

I have a large rig that I run as a dual linux/windows machine, but the quality of windows laptops have been getting poorer and poorer and the OS is increasingly becoming incredibly intrusive while removing core features.

I want to be able to search without it taking 5 mintues. I used to be incredibly pro windows laptops due to aspects like repairability, but i've had a horrific experience with Lenovo just trying to get a keyboard repaired. In the end, if I need to choose between two systems, both of which are unrepairable, i'd much rather have the one that will last me longer.

I don't want to use my singular experience as a data-point, but I'm someone that has never even thought about buying a mac before this, but the poor quality of windows OS has forced me.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-20 12:23:06+00:00
That Macbook Air is 1200 Euros where I live which is way above the price of the most sold Windows laptops according to the public sales data of big retailers here, which seem top hover around the 700-800 Euro pricing.

So no, it isn't cheaper when you look at what people actually buy. It's only cheaper if your data set is full of the unicorn $4k-8k Dell/HP/Lenovo workstations at corpo pricing .
by TimWolla | 2025-10-20 12:23:46+00:00
That image is over one year old: https://github.com/linuxcontainers/debian-slim/pkgs/containe...

Google Container Registry provides a pull-through mirror, though, just prefix `mirror.gcr.io` and use `library` as the user for the Docker Official Images. For example `mirror.gcr.io/library/redis` for https://hub.docker.com/_/redis.
by dijit | 2025-10-20 12:24:41+00:00
I'm also of that perspective.

It's sort of worth noting though that when Microsoft is presented with an option for blocking out Linux installation: they take it.[0]

When Apple are presented with an option for allowing Linux, they take it.[1]

The major difference here is OEMs, and that Apple has no OEMs.

We're essentially giving Microsoft the moral high ground even though they do nothing to earn it.

[0]: https://www.mickaelwalter.fr/linux-on-surface-rt/#:~:text=Al...

[1]: https://asahilinux.org/about/#:~:text=Apple%20allows%20booti...
by rwmj | 2025-10-20 12:25:02+00:00
I think this is the fourth attempt at an NTFS implementation for Linux.

The first was the classic, abandoned NTFS kernel driver. It was removed from the kernel last year, but used to be found in fs/ntfs.

The second is FUSE-based ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs (which is the one which is most reliable). Unfortunately this is basically abandoned upstream.

The third is the fs/ntfs3 kernel driver, which we found in testing to be quite unreliable, although I was hoping it would improve.

Why I'm interested in all this is because reliable NTFS support, including writes, is vital for our virt-v2v product (https://pretalx.com/devconf-cz-2024/talk/SN93LG/)
by ta1243 | 2025-10-20 12:25:32+00:00
It took me so long to realise this is what's important in enterprise. Uptime isn't important, being able to blame someone else is what's important.

If you're down for 5 minutes a year because one of your employees broke something, that's your fault, and the blame passes down through the CTO.

If you're down for 5 hours a year but this affected other companies too, it's not your fault

From AWS to Crowdstrike - system resilience and uptime isn't the goal. Risk mitigation isn't the goal. Affordability isn't the goal.

When the CEO's buddies all suffer at the same time as he does, it's just an "act of god" and nothing can be done, it's such a complex outcome that even the amazing boffins at aws/google/microsoft/cloudflare/etc can't cope.

If the CEO is down at a different time than the CEO's buddies then it's that Dave/Charlie/Bertie/Alice can't cope and it's the CTO's fault for not outsourcing it.

As someone who likes to see things working, it pisses me off no end, but it's the way of the world, and likely has been whenever the owner and CTO are separate.
by criddell | 2025-10-20 12:26:08+00:00
Windows isn't worsening in every regard. Some people don't like the telemetry so for them, that's a major privacy strike.

But the typical person taking home a new laptop from Best Buy doesn't care about installation. UX is the same as it has been for a while now - click on an icon and the application will start. Things like printers and scanners pretty much just work now.

The main market for Windows these days is corporate users and gamers and Microsoft is still doing a pretty good job of serving both of those markets.
by awillen | 2025-10-20 12:26:40+00:00
That's the wrong analogy though. We're not talking about the supplier - I'm sure Amazon is doing its damnedest to make sure that AWS isn't going down.

The right analogy is to imagine if businesses that used electricity took that stance, and they basically all do. If you're a hospital or some other business where a power outage is life or death, you plan by having backup generators. But if you're the overwhelming majority of businesses, you do absolutely nothing to ensure that you have power during a power outage, and it's fine.
by floundy | 2025-10-20 12:26:43+00:00
That was my experience. I switched from Windows to Mac last fall with the incessant popups my PC wasn’t eligible for Win11. My pi-hole is no longer full of blocked requests to Microsoft tracking domains. I get the pleasure of using Win11 on my work laptop and the UI is a hilarious Frankenstein mishmash of mostly the new design, but every so often something is inexplicably skinned the “old” Win10 UI and looks super out of place.

A couple months ago I also switched from Android to iPhone. My overall perception is Apple isn’t perfect, but definitely does privacy better, and their guidelines for user experience in design avoid some of the more egregious things MS and Google have changed recently.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-20 12:26:59+00:00
Broadcom ruined vmware for me.

Seems to me everyone is going to Proxmox, Xen, or hyperv. Honourable mention but technically apples to oranges. Kubernetes and docker.

Redhat openshift? I have never heard of anyone trying to go to it. I like how they try to mix vms and containers... but i dunno it seems to suffer from the standard red hat problem.
by froobius | 2025-10-20 12:27:22+00:00
Ah, that's not correct... That explains why you think it's "trite", (which it isn't).

The distribution is uniform before you get the measurement of time taken already. But once you get that measurement, it's no longer uniform. There's a decaying curve whose shape is defined by the time taken so far. Such that the statement above is correct, and the estimate `time_left=time_so_far` is useful.
by davydog187 | 2025-10-20 12:27:36+00:00
We use Elixir at TV Labs to build our web services, a realtime matching engine, execute sandboxed Lua code, talk to microcontrollers over binary protocols, machine learning, and much more.

It is an excellent general purpose language that succeeds in a lot of domains.

Check out my conversation from Developer Voices for more info

https://youtu.be/_MwXbHADT-A?si=2lRqjwAY9dsODyhW
by pie_flavor | 2025-10-20 12:27:57+00:00
Bloat cannot mean large contributor to the code size, since it's a tiny portion of the binary and dwarfed by the regex, syntax highlighter, and (sigh) command-line parsing. It also cannot mean unwanted feature, since every single time I have ever used it to look at a file I have wanted it paged, and I can't think of a circumstance where I wouldn't want it paged (given that my terminal is already set up to work with pagers, and otherwise I'd be well acquainted with configuring things not to be paged). So I wonder what it could mean in this context. (Myself I am fond of not wasting the same twenty seconds over and over again typing bonus things.)
Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay
by Saltyfishh | 2025-10-20 12:29:00+00:00
Hey HN,

For years, my local development setup has been a fragile mess of tools that never quite played nicely together. On my mac, it was a constant battle with Homebrew services starting (or not starting) on boot, conflicting PHP and Node versions managed by `asdf` or `nvm`, and a collection of `docker-compose.yml` files that I'd copy-paste and tweak for every single project. The cognitive load was just too high.

Setting up SSL was another chore involving `mkcert`. Sharing a quick demo with a colleague meant firing up ngrok. And if I wanted to run two projects that needed different versions of PostgreSQL? Good luck. I’d have to stop one service to start another.

I missed the simplicity of the MAMP/XAMPP era, but I needed something that could handle the diverse stack of a modern developer – not just PHP and MySQL, but Python, Go, Rust, Node.js, and various databases.

That’s why I (along with my small team) built ServBay. It's our attempt to bring back simplicity and speed to local development without sacrificing power. It's a native app for macOS and Windows, not a wrapper around Docker or VMs.

Here's what it does:

One-Click Stacks: You can install and run multiple, isolated versions of languages like Python, Node.js, Go, Java, Rust, Ruby, and .NET. No more path conflicts or environment variable hell.

Databases, Plural: This was a huge one for me. You can run multiple instances of MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB simultaneously. Project A can use Postgres 14 while Project B uses Postgres 16, both running at the same time on different ports.

Automatic SSL: Any host you create gets a valid SSL certificate out of the box. No more browser privacy warnings for `.test` or `.localhost` domains.

Built-in Tunneling: If you need to demo a feature or test a webhook, there's a one-click button to expose your local site to the internet via a secure tunnel.

One-Click Local AI: This is something we're really excited about. We've added a feature to easily download and run models like Llama 3 or Stable Diffusion locally through a simple UI, so you can experiment without worrying about API keys or costs.

Everything Else: It also handles one-click backups, has a clean, non-intrusive UI, and is designed to be as lightweight as possible.

I know what many of you are thinking: "Why not just use Docker?"

And that's a fair question. We use Docker for production and complex, multi-service architectures. But for quickly spinning up a single-service app, testing a new framework, or just general day-to-day development, the overhead of `Dockerfile`s, `docker-compose.yml`, slow file sync on macOS, and resource consumption often feels like overkill. ServBay is for those moments where you just want to get to the code.

The project is still young, and we have a long roadmap ahead. I'm here all day to answer any questions, listen to your (brutally honest) feedback, and hear about what your own development workflows look like.

You can check it out here: https://www.servbay.com

Thanks for reading.
by anonymars | 2025-10-20 12:29:03+00:00
Facebook had a comically bad outage a few years ago wherein the internal sign-in, messaging, and even server keycard access went down

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage#Impact

Somewhat related tip of the day, don't host your status page as a subdomain off the main site. Ideally host it with a different provider entirely
by grayhatter | 2025-10-20 12:29:43+00:00
> My argument is that the UK is within its rights to implement and enforce laws as they see fit, not that the laws are good.

The argument you are making, is that the laws, and the behavior they're enabling is reasonable.

That may not what you meant to convey, but to abuse an analogy, it is fruit from the poisoned tree. You can't defend some action, without by proxy defending the source. Either the law is reasonable, and ofcom is acting reasonably, or the law is unreasonable, and ofcom is acting unreasonably trying to enforce it. Correct or not, or technically legal in the UK or not.

You can defend the actions of ofcom, as not illegal, but that's not what you're doing, and not the context of this thread.
by scott_w | 2025-10-20 12:30:22+00:00
I’m not sure if you’re joking or you’re thinking of a different type of “metric.”

The metrics I think you’re referring to are the ones you collect throughout your product, which I think the article author would advocate you continue to collect and expand.

The “metrics” the article references is more actively tracking and referring to them in your workflow. So, tracking and acting on changes to conversion rate. If you “expire” them, you don’t stop collecting them, you just take them off your dashboard for now.
by cbdevidal | 2025-10-20 12:31:00+00:00
I’ve been a Linux sysadmin for 25 years but always preferred Windows on my desktop. Reason: Software compatibility.

Windows 11 changed that. I have to reinstall it every six months or so due to instability. Last time it happened, multiple monitor capability disabled, audio out to my headphones kept disappearing (reboot to fix), and every few days upon rebooting, boot would fail requiring the Bitlocker PIN. I don’t install any weird drivers/software or visit weird sites, never get malware. It’s just Windows fragility. I really miss Win10.

I’m scheduled for a new laptop in June and I’ve decided it’s getting Ubuntu. I’m done. Windows 11 is just too fragile. I checked and all of the important apps I use now have near-perfect Linux counterparts. So the software compatibility issue is no longer a concern for me.

Bye, Microsoft!
by Jotalea | 2025-10-20 12:31:07+00:00
I follow a Telegram channel with a bot that automatically shows posts with >50 votes. and they're generally interesting articles or stories like this one. and if I'm not interested in any of them, I can just scroll past them. however, the amount of content is overwhelming: as of right now, I have ~300 unread notifications from this channel.

I do appreciate the fact that, generally, this platform provides high-quality or high-effort content.

the one downside I've found is, just like other people mentioned, the gimmicky markdown-like implementation on newlines, having to press enter twice for one to appear. it is kind of annoying, but something I could get used to.
by ho_schi | 2025-10-20 12:31:55+00:00
Keyboard Repair Lenovo ThinkPad:

X13: 60 seconds

X1 and everything from Apple: You’re literally doomed. Complete disassembly required. At least Lenovo documents well how to remove the base cover, battery, mainboard, display…

All of that pain for 1 mm less height and a sharp palmrest.

I surprised how much pain people with Windows can suffer and keep using it. With weird arguments like “I forced to use that application” and “Ans Linux doesn’t do FSR4.1 something”. You decided that you need that?
by sim7c00 | 2025-10-20 12:31:56+00:00
it would be handy to pick atleast a type of role you want to focus on, at first, this might not need to be where you want to end up eventually (can learn from the road).

also for people who might want to recommend jobs it could help to give a lower limit for compensation. what do you need atleast. and work hours.

i think coming from teaching there's a lot of work in research that might be an easy match up but that might not be the type of role you want.

for programming there are also different kinds of programming roles. automations, applications, mobile, desktop/server, embedded etc.

what makes you tick when you think of work or what keeps happy when ur doing it, regarding what you think you wanna do?