MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzury | 2025-10-16 06:53:42+00:00
those[1] are the screenshots from the app as I navigate between the tabs. not that I am expert, but to me it is quite similar to the options gambling.

the Spot Trading, the Perpetual Future are easily falling into the gambling category.

See, while a professional trader might use these tools for complex hedging strategies, for the average person, entering the "Perpetuals" market with leverage is a high-risk bet that can lead to rapid and total loss of funds, much like a casino. And let's face it. Vast majority of Coinbase users are most likely not professional traders.

[1] https://photos.app.goo.gl/de7ygKYvpq64p8nm9
by gudzpoz | 2025-10-16 06:53:53+00:00
... That post you linked was from two years ago, discussing JEP 295, which was delivered eight years ago. Graal-based AOT has evolved a lot ever since. And the answer even explicitly recommended using native images:

> I think what you actually want to do, is to compile a native image of your program. This would include all the implications like garbage collection from the JVM into the executable.

And it is this "native image" that all the comments above in this thread have been discussing, not JEP 295. (And Graal-based AOT in native images does remove the need to bundle a whole JRE.)
by justsid | 2025-10-16 06:56:26+00:00
The resources are there in crazy abundance. But we will never get to them, the scale of the universe is unfathomable. Even at the speed of causality, human lifespans are simply not a match to the distances involved. And that implies we can somehow accelerate any real amounts of mass to those kinds of speeds which is already a non starter.

Our species was born on this rock and it will perish on this rock. And it will have no impact on anything even within our star system, let alone this galaxy.

The sentiment that the universe is our home is a nice one, but it’s not true at all. Existential crisis is the only reasonable thing here, at least from the lens of human existence.
by Zababa | 2025-10-16 06:57:09+00:00
> LLMs won’t get much better, but that is okay

> The last releases were unimpressive. Does anyone know a real application where ChatGPT 5 can do something that o3 could not?

Yeah, GPT-5 is way better at coding in codex, especially for longer tasks. Opus 4.1 is pretty good too. Gemini 3 is dropping soon. GPT-5 was more about reducing costs/having a router so when your doctor asks a question to chatgpt he's routed to the thinking version from what I understand.

> The good news is that what we have is enough for most people.

This is true.

Also stop using LMArena as an indicator of anything, it hasn't meant much for more than 6 months.
by robinsui | 2025-10-16 06:58:04+00:00
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by lm28469 | 2025-10-16 06:58:24+00:00
People keep telling they'd sacrifice everyting for an hypothetical silver bullets while doing nothing in their day to day life to mitigate all these disease. Eat clean, exercise, 8 hours of deep good uninterrupted sleep, &c.

3/4th of people are obese or overweight, the average Joe walks like 4k steps a day, people, at large, don't give a shit about health until they get a terminal diagnosis
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-16 06:58:58+00:00
> I can't imagine trying to replace MS word with libreoffice for businesses. I respect the project and the complexity of the task, but it's just not there for even light professional use.

Exactly.

Just work in the finance or insurance industry for a year, and you will see how it is part of the daily workflow to use very obscure, advanced Excel feature combined with VBA. If a proposed Microsoft Office alternative cannot handle this, it's not suitable.

I personally observe that a lot of nerds who barely use Excel in their daily workflow patronising that ... (in particular LibreOffice) is an alternative to Microsoft Office. Better first learn how the actual powerusers' workflows (in particular for Excel in the finance and insurance industry) actually look like.
by noisy_boy | 2025-10-16 06:59:19+00:00
> GIMP was always great and now it's even better.

For adding shapes/colours/annotations etc to photos, I found krita to be more accessible than gimp. E.g. I wanted to do changes to my contractor's realistic concept drawings and I could learn krita (guided by Claude Sonnet) and make the changes in a span of couple of hours.
by encom | 2025-10-16 06:59:33+00:00
Yes, your bank is shit, but this is also Apple's fault to a large degree.

There is absolutely no reason to release a new major version of your OS every year, and there is no reason to arbitrarily drop support for older devices (except extremely contrived ones, that I'm sure will be posted below). I made the mistake of acquiring an Ipad once. Its only job was playing YouTube videos in bed (yes I know), until Apple and Google in unison decided that it should be thrown into a landfill, because its OS was unsupported and the YouTube app, for no reason at all, would no longer work. Was the device suddenly unable to decode H.264 video or playing audio? Nope. But please just throw it in the trash and buy a new one - what are you, poor?!
by jhancock | 2025-10-16 07:00:30+00:00
I have been subscribing to both Claude and ChatGPT for over two years. Spent several months on Claude's $100 plan and couple months on ChatGPT's $200 plan but otherwise using their $20/month plans.

I cancelled Claude two weeks ago. Pure GLM-4.6 now and a tad of codex with my ChatGPT Pro subscription. I sometimes use ChatGPT for extended research stuff and non-tech.
by BatteryMountain | 2025-10-16 07:02:35+00:00
The best path forward for home users and small business for non-technical users:

Install Fedora with KDE.

Install Firefox, Thunderbird and Chrome.

Install uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger.

Install LibreOffice & bookmark Google Docs.

Install multimedia support, h264/h265, VLC/mpv/ffmpeg, enable DRM in browser.

Install Steam if applicable.

If they have a printer, connect it and show them how to print a page.

Configure & tweak KDE to be cleaner & more user friendly (its already near perfect out of the box). Show them how to manage wifi/lan connections.

Stick with Intel & AMD hardware, Nvidia drivers breaks on most kernel updates (and it messes with luks/secureboot/dracut). Intel & AMD, Just Works.

Educate the user on how to do Software Updates, install/remove software, how the file explorer works, maybe some terminal stuff if they seem inclined. Give them a high level overview of the benefits of linux.

With Fedora and KDE you can accomplish 95% of your computering needs, including software development. Only a handful of games & creative softwares don't work.

It will only take 6 months to have them permanently converted.
by sngnomi | 2025-10-16 07:02:52+00:00
Hey HN,

In software architecture, we constantly battle the "what if" trap—over-engineering for a catastrophic scenario that has a near-zero probability. I put together a simple, early-stage decision framework I call the "Architect's Calculator":

Risk Value = Probability of Occurrence x Potential Impact

It's intentionally simple (not a replacement for formal risk assessment) but effective for challenging unnecessary complexity, like debating premature microservices or multi-cloud builds. It forces teams to quantify risk before committing engineering resources.

Example: Database Downtime (80% x 95% = 76%) justifies immediate robust backup. Global Cloud Collapse (5% x 99% = 4.95%) suggests documentation/migration planning over immediate complex infrastructure.

I detail the framework and examples in the full post. I know a simple P x I model is flawed for true risk, but as a quick heuristic, does it help?

Link: https://medium.com/p/architects-calculator-the-simple-math-t...
by mitjam | 2025-10-16 07:03:04+00:00
I've watched quite a few and got many good ideas, but it's taking a lot of time that's sometimes better spent with "deliberate practice". I learned more and faster by attending courses by people I already follow and love taking advice from. Earning money with it gives them the time needed to structure and prepare the material.

For example, I'm currently taking the "Elite AI Assisted Coding" (https://maven.com/kentro/context-engineering-for-coding) course by Eleanor Berger and Isaac Flath and learned a lot from their concise presentations and demos and challenging homework assignments which certainly took a long time to prepare.
by aw1621107 | 2025-10-16 07:03:05+00:00
> They kind of have to portray all soundness issues as "more compiler bugs than something broken in the language itself" [] to keep making that claim.

That's part of the "interesting question" I referred to in my comment. There's probably multiple factors that go into the decision of what to put onto the front page, and the presence/absence of soundness issues is just one of those factors.
by saint_yossarian | 2025-10-16 07:03:19+00:00
"Order of magnitude", so you're saying the neural feedback loop latency is >100ms? That seems obviously wrong.

Also you can absolutely feel the visual difference between 60Hz (~16ms) and 120Hz (~8ms), and for audio it's even more nuanced.

Just because studies don't back this up yet doesn't make it false. I imagine this is really hard to measure accurately, and focusing only on neuron activity seems misguided too. Our bodies are more than just brains.
by WhereIsTheTruth | 2025-10-16 07:03:26+00:00
Microsoft is an oligopoly that monetizes mediocrity:

-unable to execute a clean chip-architecture transition (while Apple shipped three clean ones)

-unable to modernize its operating system consistently (5 layers of different UI/UX and 30 years old DLLs spread all over the place)

-unable to harden its own software

-unable to design its own hardware

-unable to keep users's data secure

I could continue, but the pattern is clear

I will never store personal or government issued documents on a Windows device and I will never use any form of digital ID to login on infrastructure that depends on Azure AD

TPM, Secure Boot, Windows Update stories are the evidence that the more you entrust Microsoft, the worse it gets
by teekert | 2025-10-16 07:04:13+00:00
I've met several people now (normies, forgive me the term) who use LLMs thinking they are just a better Google and never heard of hallucinations.

One person I spoke to used to write Quality Control reports, and now just uses ChatGPT because "It knows every part in our supply chain, just like that!"

Seems like some better warnings are in order here and there.

I only know how lawyers work from "Suits", but it looks like tedious, boring work, mainly searching for information. So an LLM (without knowing about hallucinations) probably feels like a god-send.
by cess11 | 2025-10-16 07:04:30+00:00
If it makes their decision makers fuzzy in the stomach to pay for a suite of office software, consider SoftMaker.

Create a 'showroom', virtual through network screen sharing or physical if possible. Demo machines where you can let customers get a bit of immediate experience with GNOME, Xfce and possibly something more. You can walk them through checking their email, creating a document and doing a bit of web browsing.

Don't front 'Linux', it's a tainted word that is of no use to typical public sector and small to medium business people, preferably don't mention it. Instead talk about your solutions being secure, cheap, enterprise grade, customisable, long term supported, things like that.
by pastage | 2025-10-16 07:04:30+00:00
Doing paper backups is hard I could not store much data on paper when I last tried with QR codes. You need to to multiple QR codes since they are only 2KB each. There are some threads about it on HN, but I have never seen anyone do megabytes per paper

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31149427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24669425 https://hn.algolia.com/?q=paper+backup Cuneiform tables do it in clay.
by dguest | 2025-10-16 07:04:40+00:00
Maybe the AI will create a level playing field and make the tax prep / loophole industry collapse.

Or maybe the free models will start responding with

""" It looks like you're asking for help with tax preparation. I recommend our designated AI tax service [link to service that asks you to upgrade your plan or pay a one-time fee]. """

They are operating free models at a loss now, but at some point they are going to have to turn a profit. At that point tax prep becomes a revenue stream for AI as well.
by friendzis | 2025-10-16 07:05:44+00:00
> It's probably due to the Electron bug[1]. > When I A/B test with Electron apps running vs without, the lag disappears when all the unpatched Electron apps are closed out.

Look, if userspace apps can break system functionality, to the level that simple mouse cursor is not responsive, it suggests that there is something fundamental broken in the OS.

Yes, everyone should blame and shame Electron, but here the bug is firmly in the OS.
by Lio | 2025-10-16 07:05:44+00:00
The boot is a metaphore for the state in 1984.

‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.’

O’Brien says it to Winston after he's through torturing him in Room 101. It represents total surveillance and total control, all of the time, forever.

This is the vision that Ellison, Zuckerberg, CCP, Musk, et al have for us, but not for them. They get the good coffee and they get to turn their "telescreens" off.
by johnnyApplePRNG | 2025-10-16 07:07:40+00:00
Stop treating "wasted wind" like bad luck and start treating it like a budgeting error.

Ring-fence constraint payments and convert them into a build mandate: every £1 spent curtailing in a zone next year becomes £1 of capex allocated to relieving that exact bottleneck (HVDC, transformers, phase shifters).

Pair it with a fast-track permit for projects that follow existing transport corridors and bury through parks/towns only when the cost of delay exceeds the cost premium.

Sweeten the deal locally: automatic bill credits or rooftop/heat-pump grants for residents along the route.

If we’re going to socialise the waste, we should socialise the upgrade-and make the "do nothing" option politically expensive.
by b3lvedere | 2025-10-16 07:08:27+00:00
Once i made a FreeNAS and i lost all the wedding photo's. The significant other was not amused and i vowed to use a lot of backups. I have a lot of old NASes, from NetGear to Qnap to Synology. Perk of the job.

But these days i use a Synology DS2412 in a SHR RAID6 configuration. Only 1 of the 12 drives failed thus far, but maybe this is because most of the time it's powered off and activated using WakeOnLan. For day to day i use an old laptop with 2 SATA 1TB disks in a Debian configuration. Documentation and photo's get frequently backupped to the big nas and the big nas uses Hyperbackup to a Hetzner storage that costs me around $5 a month. So now they're in three systems, two different media and one other different place. It would be a pain to restore when the house burns down, but its doable.

That reminds me.. i should document the restore process somewhere. There is no way the other family members can do this right now.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-16 07:08:59+00:00
I would take this a step further and recommend a Fedora-based immutable distro like Bazzite (for gamers) or Aurora (for everyone else). These come with codecs and even proprietary drivers (nVidia), so you don't need to install anything manually.

Immutable/atomic distros are rock solid and extremely hard to break, the automatic updates/upgrades are a godsend for newbies, and in the rare event something does break, you can boot directly into the previous version right from the boot menu - no command line wizardry required. Immutables also don't suffer from the dependency issues that can sometimes plague regular distros, so I would highly recommend them over a regular distro for most newbies.
by jbstack | 2025-10-16 07:09:50+00:00
The problem is, you're not just writing a large cheque in return for a working treatment. You're writing a large cheque to roll the dice on some research that might (and probably won't, statistically) result in a working treatment. So you need a very large cheque so that you can fund multiple research projects in the hopes that one of them will give you a treatment. Even then, there's the possibility that none of them will work and you've got nothing to show for any of the money spent.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-16 07:11:42+00:00
> Every other OS from MS is garbage. XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 so bad no one remembers it, 10 goodish, 11 horrific.

Rather:

2000: good

XP: decent (after a long series of patches)

Vista: bad

7: good

8: horrific

10: bad (basically all the people hated it because of the surveillance stuff)

11: horrific
by adastra22 | 2025-10-16 07:11:49+00:00
That’s why said “if offered for free.”

And no, I am not allowed to imbibe and consume anything I want (see war on drugs), nor is someone allowed to make a drug for me, even if they give it to me for free.

I am not free to just make a medication on my own. I tried this. The lab I was going to rent backed out when the FDA threatened shutting them down.
by roenxi | 2025-10-16 07:11:56+00:00
Did you know the Netherlands, back in 2019, scored [0] the highest wealth inequality globally according to Wiki? Just saying. It does look like a bit of a fluke but I found that hilarious. Although the wiki article actually specifically cites them for having good statistics so there must be some confidence.

So earlier, when we're talking about blood-soaked capitalists, we're not talking about the Dutch with their history of blood soaked capitalism and their ongoing largely uninterrupted capitalist tradition. But we are talking about the people who don't take very many holidays and lack "workers rights" - where I note that the US has had their ability to negotiate with their corporate overlords eroded so far that they get a median income of maybe 10% higher than the Netherlands [1]? Most workers should really work on chipping away at their rights, it appears to improve their bargaining position! Maybe PPP can give the Dutch an edge, but we're talking about a pretty marginal difference to start talking about one obviously being the more blood-steeped.

I mean, look. We don't really have anything to talk about here but I am going to say I'm not sure you know a capitalist country when you see it. If we're talking about the blood-soaked ones, the Netherlands are capitalist heartland. Not quite as bad as the UK. But bad enough that I suppose I can see why they'd rather rebrand as something other than straight capitalists.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_we...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
by spragl | 2025-10-16 07:12:17+00:00
> There is also a real potential for abusing TPMs or cryptographic co-processors to enforce remote attestation.

Remote attestation can be misused, yes. But why writing it as TPM is the problem? In cases where remote attestation is used for good, TPM improves the setup, if anything.

I dont see the rationale for what you wrote, and am genuinely curious what it is.
by CalRobert | 2025-10-16 07:13:34+00:00
Can you elaborate? The current system says that you can build a house in the countryside, but _only_ if you have strong ties to an area and meet "local needs", which in effect means if your parents live there. This is a de-facto ban on immigrants, since they (by definition) will not have parents from there. It's also a de-facto ban on city people, but everyone I knew in the country hated Dubs for some reason, so they probably wouldn't differentiate much between them and foreigners.

Funny enough, I _did_ build a house in the countryside, and as an immigrant, but only by buying a very old house and refurbishing/extending it. I hardly view this as a claim on the public purse; I imported my job (by working remote for a US company), dumped hundreds of thousands of Euro in to Ireland (half a million just in taxes), then built a house after working with asinine planners and finally sold it at a huge loss. So Ireland got a bunch of money and another house. They're welcome.

As far as Ireland's demography, I don't see how people immigrating (mainly to the cities) changes what I said? Ireland is noteworthy in that it _also_ has a huge problem with emigration; it treats nurses terribly and more or less pushes them out the country, for instance.
by jbstack | 2025-10-16 07:13:37+00:00
Yes, and I agree with that point. I just think you haven't extended it to its natural conclusion which is that if societal structure fails, even physical possession of things you own isn't going to help you if you have gangs of criminals rioting and looting. Consider for example what happened in Haiti in 2018+.

What matters is rule of law, not possession. If you have strong rule of law, you have some protection for whatever you own, possessed or not. If you have zero rule of law, you have no protection for any of it.
by madhurendra | 2025-10-16 07:13:42+00:00
I have been thinking about phishing simulation, how many variety of attack an organization can simulate to match real world attacks - to phish and to train, and the number is huge, no one does it. So, I have built an agent to consider social data and create a phishing attack a person might falls into. It's a very early version of idea but will love to hear thoughts.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-16 07:15:41+00:00
> there's only one expert in any given field and that expert doesn't want to be stuck with old broken stuff.

Oh, my apologies to their expert. I had no idea that my workload was making their job harder, how inconsiderate of me. Anyone could make the mistake of assuming that the Mac supported these workloads when they use their Mac to run 32-bit plugins and games.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-10-16 07:16:33+00:00
I never thought you said Zed was bad. I was genuinely asking since Cursor and Windsurf exclusively advertise AI features, whereas Zed is also a good editor without AI. I never bothered to try them because I inherently distrust AI that I don't control, and find the cloud stuff to be too expensive on top. Just wanted to know if they're any good, or can even be used at all, without AI; since their websites say nothing on the subject.