MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wtfwhateven | 2025-10-16 02:48:49+00:00
>Here’s an update on one of those:

You mean a story provided by an unnamed "senior DHS official"? Not buying it. This unnamed "senior DHS official" also refused to substantiate any of the claims they make.

Not sure why you'd take the word of an unnamed "senior DHS official" as gospel and completely ignore the video.

Maybe ICE agents should actually start wearing bodycams, but then again it is more cost effective for them to just fabricate entire stories that serve as justification to brutalize peaceful protestors. After all many people (you included) believe absolutely everything the government says without a second thought despite the video contradicting them.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dhs-downplays-horrific-i...

The government is completely comfortable lying to everyone about everything, incouding easily refutable things caught on video. It is a wonder that people still take their word for it.

>I defend the rights of peaceful protesters.

As explained, you absolutely do not, in fact you do the opposite and go out of your way to defend people who brutalize and throw peaceful protestors in cages.
Building Samoa's Digital Fa'asamoa: Sovereignty Through Bitcoin
by Hamobcdev | 2025-10-16 02:49:18+00:00
New here and making an intro but not sure if this is where t actually do that, so apologies in advance if this is not the place, look forward t any replies and directives from the community.

Focused on securing Samoa's future, I'm driving the national conversation on how the Bitcoin Ethos can champion true economic self-sovereignty and wealth distribution for the Pacific. My work is rooted in fa'asamoa principles—community-first, respect, and stewardship—applying them to modern digital finance.

My focus includes advocating for and building a strategic Bitcoin reserve for Samoa, moving us beyond the volatility of short-term grants and colonial financial systems. We champion a transparent, long-term Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) strategy, ensuring national wealth is preserved and accountable to the people—a crucial element as we lay the foundations of initial Central Bank and World Bank-funded digital programs.

The most immediate, impactful change we are pushing for is the adoption of Bitcoin Lightning for remittances. This isn't just technology; it's a humanitarian and economic mechanism projected to save Samoan families and the wider Pacific diaspora millions in exorbitant transaction fees, redirecting those savings back into our communities for education, empowerment, and genuine, grassroots wealth creation.

My mission is clear: to ensure Samoans build the digital future for Samoa, aligning with the core sovereignty and transparency that only blockchain, correctly applied, can offer.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-16 02:49:32+00:00
You can still run older versions, but anything from 2019 onwards will struggle - and you can completely forget about the latest M365 versions.

Luckily OnlyOffice is a pretty decent alternative with excellent compatibility with MSO formats. And there's also the web versions of office, which is now a decent alternative (unless you're a power user who needs macros/VBA etc).
by Dylan16807 | 2025-10-16 02:50:14+00:00
> your proposed thought experiment of a Kaspar-Hauser-like child

Oh my god this is the most malicious possible reading of "remove all environmental factors".

They're talking about making the environments match, for fuck's sake.

The bulk of your comments are arguing that heritability is very complex, which is completely compatible with the words "highly heritable". And you still haven't explained why the term "eugenics" was relevant to anything anyone else said. If it's something about race, a superficial similarity across millions of people in shifting groups has very little to do with the correlations between child and parent that share 50% of their genes, but even if those were the same the comment still didn't say anything that got anywhere near eugenics!!

> the post I was replying to somehow "clearly" was about the generalized notion of kids being like their parents instead of being very specifically about genetics

I didn't use the word "clearly". You're misquoting now too?

And I still believe they meant the entire complex mess you're talking about, yeah. I think you have zero justification to barge in and say it's a complex issue, and the person making a single sentence comment must have meant the most simple possible version, there's no way they were referring to the entire complex issue already without your help, in a context where the distinction doesn't even matter.

Even if you're done replying I hope you see this: If you were actually talking in good faith you're doing a very bad job at giving anyone the benefit of the doubt for how they word things.
by 20after4 | 2025-10-16 02:50:15+00:00
I can't speak to rust but I think the reason you see CLI tools and Servers written in GO is simply because that is where the language really shines. I don't think it would be very much fun to develop a desktop GUI app in GO.

Go is kind of verbose and just a bit hostile towards fancy structural features and complex abstractions. I think rust is kind of the opposite of GO in a lot of ways, even though they theoretically should be targeting a lot of the same use-cases.
by AgentSphere | 2025-10-16 02:51:00+00:00
Every new Discord bot dev hits the same wall: your bot works locally… until you close your laptop.

VPS costs add up, free PaaS apps sleep, and managing uptime feels like DevOps hell.

This guide walks through deploying your Python Discord bot to a secure micro-sandbox on AgentSphere, running 24/7 for free (or pennies).

#showhn #discord #bots #serverless #ai #devops
by zrobotics | 2025-10-16 02:51:38+00:00
CAD machines are some of the few in our company that are staying windows instead of going to Linux. We're an autodesk shop, I tested fusion under Debian 6 months ago and it didn't work very well. I tried proton and wine, couldn't get either to work great and had issues. It would launch, but opening a medium complexity assembly was laggy, and the CAM module would crash fairly often. I can't speak for other programs from personal experience though.

That said, for home use freecad has gotten a lot better after the ondsel changes were merged, I was using the free liscence of fusion360 for personal projects, and moved over to freecad 6 months ago. I'd originally tried it 7 or 8 years ago, and it was just absolutely awful to use, but modern versions are really very good. There wasn't a huge learning curve, and I haven't run into anything that the program can't do. For hobby CAD, I'm using it for 3d printing, a Cnc mill, and making prints for manual machining. Honestly, I've been less frustrated with freecad than fusion360, it does a better job of getting out of my way and letting me design things. That said, I'm a software dev and IT guy, I don't know if it would work for commercial use. I certainly didn't push for the engineers to change, but their workstations are already running win11 that I had to debloat.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-16 02:51:39+00:00
> One issue I've always had is when updating applications you use every day, one bad library could make the application unusable. Most are a dependency nightmares and there just aren't enough people paid to work on Linux apps to offer good support.

That's not really a problem anymore with immutable/atomic distros. Your entire system is upgraded in one go as a single image, any dependency issues are handled on the server (basically the image won't get built if there are issues). And most of your user apps will be installed via Flatpak or other means (homebrew/Nix etc) so you won't ever have to suffer from dependency issues unlike regular distros.

So if you want to get a distro that "just works", get an immutable+atomic distro (eg Aurora, Bazzite etc). Assuming of course, you've got compatible hardware.
by XelNika | 2025-10-16 02:51:49+00:00
> production 1.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645, 16GB of RAM, and 2TB SSD

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/#footnote-4

So yes, that is compared to a very old 14 nm design, presumably the i7-8557U per Wikipedia.
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 02:52:48+00:00
As a core contributor, Matt has expressed on many occasions he would like to be able to pay us for all the time we've spent on the project, but I've always told him we're doing it as volunteers and not for money (my day job pays me sufficiently) and I think he needs it more since he doesn't have other sources of income. And if he did get enough from sponsorships to pay a second salary, I think he should hire someone not already a volunteer to broaden the skillset of the team. One of our biggest problems at this stage is that the members of the core team don't have expertise in a few specific areas that Caddy is lacking in (e.g. metrics/prometheus stuff)
by waterTanuki | 2025-10-16 02:53:02+00:00
I can empathize with how lazy some developers have gotten with program sizes. I stopped playing CoD because I refused to download their crap 150+ GB games with less content than alot of other titles that are much smaller.

That said, storage is cheap, it's not a mentality but a simple statement of fact. You think zed balloons their file sizes because the developers are lazy. It's not true. It's because the users have become lazy. No one wants to spend time downloading the correct libraries to use software anymore. We've seen a rise in binary sizes in most software because of a rise in static linking, which does increase binary size, but makes using and testing the actual software much less of a pain. Not to mention the benefits in reduced memory overhead.

VSCode and other editors aren't smaller because the developers are somehow better or more clever. They're using dynamic linking to call into libraries on the OS. This linking itself is a small overhead, but overhead none-the-less, and all so they can use electron + javascript, the real culprits which made people switch to neovim + zed in the first place. 400mb is such a cheap price to pay for a piece of software I use on a daily basis.

I'm not here to convince you to use Zed or any editor for that matter. Use what you want. But you're not going to somehow change this trend by dying on this hill, because unless you're working with actual hardware constraints, dynamic linking makes no sense nowadays. There's no such thing as silver bullet in software. Everything is a tradeoff, and the resounding answer has been people are more than happy to trade disk space for lower memory & cpu usage.
by cam_l | 2025-10-16 02:53:39+00:00
I honestly have only come across one company that is app only. That was because I was with them when they changed over, otherwise I would never have signed up.

This was my local gym which sacked their front desk staff and moved to app access only, and with an app infested with trackers at that. Needless to say I don't go to that gym anymore.
by RickJWagner | 2025-10-16 02:53:53+00:00
Just an opinion here. You seem like you might feel you’re owed something. That’s not the case.

Doesn’t matter what you studied. Or where your degree is from. Doesn’t matter what you’ve done before, or what you expect to get paid.

What matters is what you can do for an employer, and what they need. Luck plays a role in the kind of jobs that open up for you. Personality does too, also your networking skills.

Good luck in your searching. Sometimes careers go boom and sometimes they go bust. Only in retrospect can you tell where you’re at.
by Rendello | 2025-10-16 02:54:57+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2002_film)

A crazy watch. Two brothers are making a documentary on rookie firefighters in late 2001. The crew goes out to look at a possible gas leak, a loud plane is heard, the camera pans up, and the North Tower is hit. It was one of three recordings of that hit and the only clear one. The rest of the documentary follows the crew into the towers. No one knows what's going on, the scenes are chaotic but also calm as the firefighters try to figure out what to do. Then the second tower falls while (one of the brothers) is in the first. One of the most incredible things I've ever seen.

I think it was well known when it came out, but it's been overshadowed especially since searching "9/11 documentary" gives a million results. If you want to see one of the craziest human experiences unfold in front of you, there's no other film like this.
by siglesias | 2025-10-16 02:55:00+00:00
As I've argued elsewhere, we should care what the source of the behavior is. The reason expand ethical concern to dogs and birds even though they don't have the capability to use language and why we don't to LLMs, even though they use language very ably, is precisely because we recognize the biological causes of consciousness. The reason we keep getting confused about whether these concerns apply to AI is because we apply a behavioral standard rather than the standard we use everywhere else, which is a biological one. We have higher certainty that dogs are conscious, yes, because of their behavior, but also, and critically, because they share biology with us.
by breadsniffer | 2025-10-16 02:55:02+00:00
I took inspiration from (https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20250812), which mentions: "Demand-Driven Strategies: Expand proven work-based learning models like Registered Apprenticeships and align education programs to career pathways in priority industries to ensure direct connections to employer needs."

I was surprised to find this coming from the current admin for sure...
by jonjacky | 2025-10-16 02:55:03+00:00
Don't the Canon Cat "Leap" keys behave like the ordinary incremental search in Emacs? That is, C-s and C-r for forward and reverse search. Can't you recreate the Canon Cat experience in Emacs by editing in a single big buffer, using C-s and C-r to navigate by searching?

Some of us already do something like this by keeping a big ever-growing notes buffer with the date at the beginning of each day's work.
by edmundsauto | 2025-10-16 02:55:08+00:00
I don’t mean this with snark, but with age. It’s actually totally cool to not upgrade and then you have stability in your tooling.

I bet there is some hella good art being made with Photoshop 6.0 from the 90s right now.

The upgrade path is like the technical hedonistic treadmill. You don’t have to upgrade.
by francislavoie | 2025-10-16 02:56:24+00:00
If you haven't seen the history of this topic outside of this thread then you wouldn't understand how frustrating it's been to handle. I'd just like it to stop being brought up (without also offering help or a solution). Seriously, every time we either post something on HN ourselves regarding Caddy or find a thread posted from someone else, one of the first thoughts is "oh boy, are we gonna have to find issue brought up again?" Lo and behold, it was brought up again today.

If you want another vote for how annoying the trailing dot issue is in general, hear it from no other than the author of Curl, Daniel Stenberg himself https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-...
by jader201 | 2025-10-16 02:57:28+00:00
> Within hours of the first injection, the animal brains showed a nearly 45 percent reduction in clumps of amyloid-beta plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.

> The mice had previously shown signs of cognitive decline, but after all three doses, the animals performed on par with their healthy peers in spatial learning and memory tasks. The benefits lasted at least six months.

1. This is great news… for mice with Alzheimer’s that don’t mind treatments every 6 months.

2. It’s crazy to think about something like this actually curing Alzheimer’s in humans, even if for just 6 months. Even more so if repeated doses have the same effects.

3. As with all of these studies, mice != humans, but it’s nice to have hope.

Side note: the temporary part of #2 makes me think about The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey [1]. It’s hard to fathom having a relative “come back” like that for a short time. Or even permanently.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13820498
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-16 02:59:33+00:00
Thing is, regular Linux distros are most prone to breakage when it comes to updates - especially Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distros[1]. My elderly mum is non-technical and has been a Linux user for the past decade, and she had Xubuntu, Mint and Zorin - all of which ran fine until update broke it (and this is just a bog standard DELL Optiplex desktop with an Intel iGPU). So I switched her to Aurora a couple of years ago and it's been rock solid.

This is why I recommend immutable/atomic distros for newbies, especially if the person installing it doesn't want to be a 24x7 tech support for that user.

[1] https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/05/done-with-ubuntu/
by blooalien | 2025-10-16 02:59:49+00:00
> Others probably saw it coming years or decades earlier.

I saw the signs of the beginnings of it decades ago (shortly following the Reagan era) but I had zero clue that it would (or even could) ever get as completely mad-house outta-control as it has. I've watched the situation devolve year after year for decades now, and all the while I kept foolishly believing "It can't keep getting worse forever. People are gonna wake up any second now." Well, here we are. Not entirely sure how we got here, or how we'll ever get back, but... This is how it is, I guess. :shrug:
by vlovich123 | 2025-10-16 02:59:58+00:00
The reason I dislike this is this is the first thing in the article:

> in nixpkgs that would have allowed us to pwn pretty much the entire nix ecosystem and inject malicious code into nixpkg

OP provided a mechanism to stymie the attack. The counter from your position needs to be how the nix project otherwise solves this problem, not “this isn’t the right approach for hand wavy reasons”. Given the reasonings stated, OP has convinced me that Nix isn’t actually serious about security as this should be treated as an absolutely critical vulnerability that has several hardening layers wrapped to prevent such techniques.
by karthink | 2025-10-16 03:01:01+00:00
> pdf-tools in Emacs is much faster

pdf-tools is quite slow and a memory hog. emacs-reader is a replacement for it (still in development) that already blows every PDF reader I've ever used out of the water in performance:

https://tv.dyne.org/w/wcedffVATJGwLSCqta6pk1
by wrs | 2025-10-16 03:02:05+00:00
Being able to make it and knowing how it works are just not the same thing. I can make bread of consistent quality, and know how to improve certain aspects of it. To know how it works, I’d need to get a doctorate in biochemistry and then still have a fairly patchy understanding. I know plenty of people who can drive a car very successfully but would never claim they know how it works.
by Maxatar | 2025-10-16 03:02:14+00:00
>If anyone ever submitted a diff that required you to know the difference between get<1> and get<2> I would reject it with a polite message that this is extremely unclear, unintuitive, and error prone. Don’t do that.

But that wasn't your argument. If you have a coding standard that prohibits magic numbers then that's great, use a named constant instead just like most coding standards require:

constexpr auto FOO = 1; constexpr auto BAR = 2; std::get<FOO>(my_variant); std::get<BAR>(my_variant) = "hello world";

>If you’re going to scroll my post history you can also read my blog to help decide if I’m a dumbass or not!

I don't think you're a dumbass, I think you repeatedly express very strong opinions without taking just a small amount of time to verify that the argument you're making is correct. That's why I advised to just take like 1 or 2 minutes to quickly perform a sanity check and ensure that what you're claiming is factual.

Heck most people here complain about C++ constantly based on their personal experience with the language, and they have every right to do so. I don't take issue with that.

I take issue when people express very strong statements that would convince people who don't know any better simply on the basis of how confident the opinion is being expressed. Your original claim is simply too strong of a claim to make given that you are not properly informed on this subject.
by baobun | 2025-10-16 03:02:26+00:00
Original reporting yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584343

https://eclypsium.com/blog/bombshell-the-signed-backdoor-hid...

BTW, from all I can tell this should actually be affecting all/most other x86 laptop vendors and nothing really unique to Framework here?

This targeted security reporting curiously coincides with a supposedly unrelated recent and ongoing political PR campaign against Framework...
by Terretta | 2025-10-16 03:02:57+00:00
> I cannot even give it to my kids since I don’t have multiple accounts with it.

You can, but it's not advertised this way:

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/shared-ipad-overv...

There are ways to supervise besides get into a full MDM:

https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/about-device-supe...
by CiaoTool | 2025-10-16 03:03:06+00:00
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by hdjrudni | 2025-10-16 03:03:11+00:00
I was a little sus, so I checked: https://imgur.com/a/AJFQjfL

897MB! But it appears to have installed itself twice for some reason. Maybe one is an 'update' which it didn't clean up...? I'm not sure.

Edit: I just opened it and it cleaned itself up. 408MB now. I guess it was in the process of upgrading.